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Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:15 PM May 2020

Sacoolas case: Lawyer accuses UK foreign secretary of 'scandalous attempted cover up'

... Radd Seiger, representing the Dunn family, on Saturday accused Mr Raab of a “cover up” and claimed the foreign office was in breach of a court order by failing to hand over disclosure of documents for their judicial review claim by 4pm on Friday...

“His whole attitude throughout the case so far has been of a school yard bully, making threats to the parents of bankruptcy if they brought the case at all and attempting to harass them at every step along the way refusing to give them the information they are entitled to... He has hired four top barristers to run the case for him and there are numerous lawyers in the government legal department behind him too. Between them all, all they have managed to do so far is to conspire with him to engage in a scandalous attempted cover up of the truth, when the very opposite should be happening. It has been like trying to extract hen’s teeth.”.

The Foreign Office has strongly refuted the claim that there was a court order or deadline...

Mr Seiger also called on the Foreign Office to demand the return of Ms Sacoolas, who is alleged to have been a more senior spy than her husband and to have worked for the CIA...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/harry-dunn-government-cover-up-dominic-raab-anne-sacoolas-judicial-review-a9495916.html
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