UP WEST 'London coroner John Burton is trying to get himself invited as the guest of honour the next time the SPG holds a policemen's ball.
Or at least so This running of the Blair Peach inquest Hamnersmith. Last Friday, in prejudice it showed, Burton interrupted a wi to tell the word that as as he was con. cerned, the pollee had nothing to do with Blair's death.
He informed the jury that the 'police murder theory' was 'unacceptable':
showed which side he was on when he added, have been less sensational explanation' but just who the 'we' were and searching Button didn't es should plain.
The same day the coroner here utese remarks ie cout heard allegation Professor David Bown of Charskull was 'unusually thin'.
Yet evidence already heard would have had little chance of survival however thick his skull Dr Richard Bentail told the he operated on Blair in a vain. attempt to save his life, 'in come across a fracture of this severity. The skull, said Bentall, 'seemed that it was split in The coroner's court has also seen a farcical search for the quest. Professor Bowen said that none of the vast array of the SPG unit which attacked Blair could have been the wes bod.
This is hardly a surprise since even a member of the SPG would have enough sense to dispose of the murder weapon before any search was made.
зас овуоно і te t the inquest is under enormous pressure to whitewash the SPG cumb to this pressure remains to be seen.