The move comes after nine experts, including Michael Powers, a QC and former coroner, and Julian Blon, a professor of intensive care medicine, called for a full inquest into Kelly's death saying the official finding – haemorrhage from the severed artery – was "extremely unlikely".
"Insufficient blood would have been lost to threaten life," they wrote in a letter published in the Times. (Read More.)
No matter when or where there has been any suspicion of Government culpability in a criminal act, the last Labour regime instigated an investigation but seldom published the remit of the investigating officer. In this case there was an exemption but even then, Lord Hutton immediately announced he would not be interviewing the family.
In a situation like Kelly where his wife was seriously ill, it was a double travesty. Family participation may have given them the time and space to get competent legal representation. As with other cases, the main dilemma is that it is very difficult to get, in a small local region, the kind of expertise from the area’s legal professionals, who would get the equivalent recognition as from the London based Juggernaut companies and firms.
Anyone who has read the official report into the Andy Miller death will instantly understand what is written. In one sentence the Minster of Justice is saying that the bailiff was outside of his jurisdiction in performing his duty the way he did and was open to possible legal sanction, then in the next line he agrees with the Coroner who did a woefully job of investigating the incident that the death had nothing to do with the bailiff in his care and duty. Typical political gobbledegook and it’s about time we stopped it completely.
Why wasn't an inquiry instigated into the death of Roberto Calvi?
ReplyDeleteDubbed God's banker,he was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in 1982.
The Vatican was directly linked to Mr Calvi by Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the Pope's bodyguard, a governor of the Vatican and head of the Vatican bank which has a shareholding in Ambrosiano.
Calvi gave insider knowledge to the Vatican Bank.
When Ambrosiano collapsed with debts of 700 million to 1.5 billion it was found that much of the money had been siphoned off by the Vatican Bank after being tipped off by Calvi.
British police said it was suicide.
Five people were tried in Rome for his murder; but of course they were cleared.
Forensic evidence concluded he was murdered.
Why didn't the outcry over the Calvi case match the crescendo of wailing and wringing of hands for a Kelly inquiry?
Muffled by the cloak of Rome perhaps?