Sunday 22 November 2009

Austrian Forensic Method: Burn the Evidence, Quickly!

Austrian Police had to be restrained from destroying what may be the only useful forensic evidence left in the "investigation" into the increasingly suspicious death of the British weapons expert, Dr Timothy Hampton, in Vienna.

If Dr Hampton's body can be returned, intact, to England for burial, the relevant county Coroner (Berkshire, probably) can hold an inquest to review the available (unburnt) evidence before a jury. Coroners exist to determine fact rather than guilt or liability; only an authority frightened by the facts would seek to frustrate such an inquest.

To contact Her Majesty's Coroner for the County of Berkshire:

BERKSHIRE CORONER’S DISTRICT
AREA COMPRISING THE CORONER’S JURISDICTION: The whole county of Berkshire.


P J Bedford
Yeomanry House, 131 Castle Hill
Reading
Berkshire
Telephone: 0118 901 5447


(+44) 118 901 5447 if calling from outside the UK or Channel Islands, of course.

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