My blog “THE GRISLY DEATH OF WEAPONS EXPERT DAVID KELLY AND ITS BIZARRE AFTERMATH” (August 21st) revealed that the late Emperor Bokassa, released after suffering
imprisonment for several murders, and the Late Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Brian
Hutton were so anxious for their soles’ salvation that they both patronised Britain’s most exclusive
shoemakers, Lobb’s of St James.
The discovery of the body of Sir David Kelly with severed wrists was not followed by an autopsy
and Coroner’s Inquest, the normal procedure, but by Lord Hutton’s almost immediate acceptance
of Tony Blair’s request that he look into how the BBC appeared to have understood from Kelly
that Tony Blair’s Press Secretary, Alistair Campbell had been less than pedantically obsessed
with the truth about the level of threat Iraq posed for Britain.
Even THE TIMES, which had given a glowing Obituary to that Lying Blackguard, Lord Widgery,
the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in it’s Obituary of Hutton, catalogued
the latter’s Enquiry and Report as “Cobblers”, never mind Lobb’s of St James.
Back in the 1980s the Labour Lord Tony Gifford, QC wrote a pamphlet -“Death On The Streets
of Derry” which I reviewed for The Irish Democrat in February 1985-
His pamphlet follows visits to Derry where he questioned eye-witnesses to two incidents in April
1981. In them three young civilians, all unarmed, Irish and Catholic, met their deaths.
Fifteen year old Paul Whitters was shot by an RUC man with a plastic bullet after the police had
been attacked with stones. From the evidence Gifford is satisfied as regard the fact that the RUC
was not in danger; that the boy was alone when shot; that the range was at most ten yards; and that
the shot was head high, apparently (against regulations), aimed deliberately. As regards law, he is
certain that a charge of murder should have been brought, and sustained, in Court. No charge whatever was brought against the RUC.
Nineteen year old Gary English and eighteen year old James Brown died after two Land Rovers,
armoured and weighing three-quarters of a ton each, were driven at a speed between fifty and sixty
miles an hour into a crowd. Already felled by one of the vehicles, and probably already dead,
English’s body was run over by one of the vehicles reversing.
From evidence, including that of an experienced BBC journalist, Gifford is convinced that the
direction and speed of the vehicles were deliberate and that charges of murder should have
been brought and sustained against the British soldiers involved. One British soldier was charged
with causing death by careless driving, and another was charged with aiding and abetting him.
They were acquitted by a jury after a trial which prompts Gifford to inform us as to the correct
procedure for a court of justice
For one thing, a judge should direct a jury on the law, particularly on the definition of a crime. For
another, he should remind them of the evidence. Mr. Justice Hutton failed to explain the law, disposed of the evidence in five paragraphs, and in passages covering six pages of transcript spoke for the defence……..
Introducing the booklet, Gifford asks the following questions:- ‘What is the real nature of the ‘minimum force’ policy of the security forces?’ What restraints are there in practice and what faith can the public have in the processes of judicial hearing?’
It is many years since these questions exercised the keenest minds in Derry. Government propaganda, as instanced by Humphrey Atkins in the Daily Mail, includes the three youths amongst those killed by the IRA, whilst THE TIMES numbers them amongst its spurious calculations of Protestant martyrs.”
Hutton were so anxious for their soles’ salvation that they both patronised Britain’s most exclusive
shoemakers, Lobb’s of St James.
The discovery of the body of Sir David Kelly with severed wrists was not followed by an autopsy
and Coroner’s Inquest, the normal procedure, but by Lord Hutton’s almost immediate acceptance
of Tony Blair’s request that he look into how the BBC appeared to have understood from Kelly
that Tony Blair’s Press Secretary, Alistair Campbell had been less than pedantically obsessed
with the truth about the level of threat Iraq posed for Britain.
Even THE TIMES, which had given a glowing Obituary to that Lying Blackguard, Lord Widgery,
the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in it’s Obituary of Hutton, catalogued
the latter’s Enquiry and Report as “Cobblers”, never mind Lobb’s of St James.
Back in the 1980s the Labour Lord Tony Gifford, QC wrote a pamphlet -“Death On The Streets
of Derry” which I reviewed for The Irish Democrat in February 1985-
His pamphlet follows visits to Derry where he questioned eye-witnesses to two incidents in April
1981. In them three young civilians, all unarmed, Irish and Catholic, met their deaths.
Fifteen year old Paul Whitters was shot by an RUC man with a plastic bullet after the police had
been attacked with stones. From the evidence Gifford is satisfied as regard the fact that the RUC
was not in danger; that the boy was alone when shot; that the range was at most ten yards; and that
the shot was head high, apparently (against regulations), aimed deliberately. As regards law, he is
certain that a charge of murder should have been brought, and sustained, in Court. No charge whatever was brought against the RUC.
Nineteen year old Gary English and eighteen year old James Brown died after two Land Rovers,
armoured and weighing three-quarters of a ton each, were driven at a speed between fifty and sixty
miles an hour into a crowd. Already felled by one of the vehicles, and probably already dead,
English’s body was run over by one of the vehicles reversing.
From evidence, including that of an experienced BBC journalist, Gifford is convinced that the
direction and speed of the vehicles were deliberate and that charges of murder should have
been brought and sustained against the British soldiers involved. One British soldier was charged
with causing death by careless driving, and another was charged with aiding and abetting him.
They were acquitted by a jury after a trial which prompts Gifford to inform us as to the correct
procedure for a court of justice
For one thing, a judge should direct a jury on the law, particularly on the definition of a crime. For
another, he should remind them of the evidence. Mr. Justice Hutton failed to explain the law, disposed of the evidence in five paragraphs, and in passages covering six pages of transcript spoke for the defence……..
Introducing the booklet, Gifford asks the following questions:- ‘What is the real nature of the ‘minimum force’ policy of the security forces?’ What restraints are there in practice and what faith can the public have in the processes of judicial hearing?’
It is many years since these questions exercised the keenest minds in Derry. Government propaganda, as instanced by Humphrey Atkins in the Daily Mail, includes the three youths amongst those killed by the IRA, whilst THE TIMES numbers them amongst its spurious calculations of Protestant martyrs.”
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