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THE mystery woman who was with former Liberal leader Sir Billy Snedden on the night he died, had also been his son's lover.
Drew Snedden said he learned of the link soon after his father's death.
"I think it was a coincidence," Mr Snedden told the Herald Sun from his London home yesterday.
"I didn't know he knew her, apart from the fact I knew she worked in my father's parliamentary or electorate office."
It is 19 years since Sir Billy, 60, was found dead in a Sydney motel.
The identity of the woman who accompanied him to the Rushcutter Travelodge room on that June 26 night has never been revealed.
Drew Snedden, who was 33 at the time of his father's death, said yesterday the woman rang him after Sir Billy's death to say that she had been in his room that night.
"She told me she'd told police or she was going to tell them ... I'm not quite sure," he said.
The Herald Sun knows the woman's identity but chooses not to name her.
At the time of his father's death Drew Snedden, the eldest son, was working in London as a foreign exchange broker.
The woman was travelling in Europe and worked as a secretary. They met through his social circle and became lovers.
Drew Snedden said he could not recall whether her relationship with his father had been "a one-off" or something else.
"He'd had a number of lady friends around Australia and abroad. He got around a lot," he said.
"And on the night he died he'd just been welcomed back into the Liberal fold and he was at his political best.
"It was an adrenalin-filled evening.
"I'm sure the old man went out happy - anyone would be proud to die on the job."
At the time Sir Billy's death was the subject of a police investigation.
It was found the former Liberal leader had died of a heart attack.
