DID BOLSHEVIK BOB STEAL BEIJING-BOUND BLACK BOX?

Family and friends of Kremlin-loving Bob Crowe, 52, last night refused to confirm or deny that the late Trotskyite trade union firebrand had the missing flight recorder from doomed Malay MH370 in his North London shed.

According to police insiders, international crash investigators have switched their attention to Red Bob’s Woodford Green outhouse after extensive searches of the South China Sea failed to find any traces of the vanished plane’s 239 passengers and crew.

One senior officer at the scene said: “We have suspected for a long time that hard-left activists in the provisional wing of the RMT were planning an outrage.

“Our intelligence initially suggested plans to picket the former Aldwych station every other Wednesday, weather permitting, but that could easily have been a smoke-screen for their far more sinister Kuala Lumpur operation.”

Outside Crowe’s luxury eight-bedroom dacha-styled home, angry protestors were already beginning to gather late last night. Clearly still stunned by developments, one grieving mother-of-two said: “Comrade Crowe clearly masterminded this whole thing before topping himself to avoid international justice. His pal Putin must be delighted that no-one has written a word about the Ukraine since the tube worker’s chief took down flight MH370 and then took the coward’s way out.”

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