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I understand some, perhaps all, relatives e.g.the same Margaret Aspinall in the Mail video, refused to [buy] the death certificates after the 1991 inquest, after which the deaths were recorded, because they refused to accept the verdict. Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn’t the certificate show the cause of death which in these cases would not be provided on the interim death certificate which is issued to allow a funeral to take place? Does a death certificate issued after an inquest include the verdict? Or does it merely state the cause of death?
Yes, a death certificate issued after an inquest does include the coroner’s verdict at its footer. Reviewing the “Mid-Staffs Scandal” (et al.) – a grisly psyop – this becomes clear. In some cases, an inquest was opened years after the patient’s death. To add a narrative of hospital negligence. Paving the way for the psyop to declare Mid-Staffs Hospital to be unsafe, that its wards must close, and transferring its future patient-base to the new PFI-owned University Hospital North Staffs. I asked the coroner what happens to those original death certificates; before they are replaced by the post-inquest ones with verdict recorded. He said his office didn’t retain the original death certificates. Though they are stored at the GRO, he believed.
One from British shores. Light aircraft crash on the Castle Howard estate, north Yorkshire, England.
GOOD SETTING: Castle Howard, one of Britain’s finest stately homes; still residence of Howard family (Earl of Carlisle).Crash involved single-prop Slingsby T67M Mk II Firefly. Tail number G-BNSO. 6567 total flying hours. Privately owned. Built 1987; used for training and aerobatics (straining airframe and reducing life). Certificate of Airworthiness issued just days earlier (11 April)
Took off from nearby Full Sutton airfield, allegedly. “Two fatalities; two occupants”. Both pilot and passenger “believed to be RAF pilots”.
Let the pictures do the talking.
Time to chat and contemplate. Plenty cops and paramedics. Air Ambulance in attendance, of course.
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2016-04-30/two-die-in-light-aircraft-crash-in-north-yorkshire/
Very isolated road (Mains Lane, Whitwell-on-the-Hill, YO60 7ER). Easy site to seal at both ends. Just south of the Carlisle Memorial Monument; useful point for rendez-vous and navigation.
Google street view: https://goo.gl/maps/fDBDmBwsAeD2
From the Gazette & Herald:
Police officers guarded the scene over night while an investigation into the cause continued. No details have been released about the men.
The crash site
Chief inspector Mark Grange, of North Yorkshire Police, said: “We had a report at 10.40am that a light aircraft had crashed between Castle Howard and the A64.
“A doctor who came to the scene confirmed that two males had deceased.
“Our priority is now to preserve the scene for the Air Accident Investigation Branch. We expect them to be here at the 6pm.
“Our job is to preserve the evidence for them.
Chief Inspector Mark Grange[ Clumsy faux-tograph; Chief Inspector Mark Grange obscuring the moneyshot (crash scene).]
“Police officers will be here throughout the night. We don’t imagine that the aircraft will be removed until tomorrow.
“We have also got crime scene investigators here. They took some photos after the area was made safe by the fire service.
“The cause of the crash will be down to the AAIB to determine. We are not part of that.”
Chief Insp Grange added: “Events like these are not common. We don’t get many light aircraft crashes, but they do happen.
“It’s tragic for the families and our sympathies are with them.”
The plane landed more than 200m away from the nearest houses and was still largely intact.
Chief Insp Grange said: “It looks like it came straight down.
“It looks like an aircraft, with two wings and a tail fin where it should be. It’s in a bad way and it’s obviously come down heavily. It’s sat on its underside so it has not flipped.
“Whether they tried to land like that I don’t know.
“I cannot say where they were going and what they were doing in the air.
“The fire service attended the scene just to make sure the area is safe because of worries about the amount of fuel – they have declared it safe.”
Up to 20 firefighters attended the scene and set up a foam blanket around the aircraft in case it caught fire, a North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said.
The spokesman added: “We sent three appliances and one incident support unit with its own appliance.”
An air ambulance and a land ambulance were also sent to the crash site, a Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokeswoman said.
A road closure remains in place either side of the scene.
Nice sunny day for an outing of the Air Ambulance crew.
By some coincidence, a youtube video of the same (alleged) plane was uploaded earlier. Showing it straining during an (alleged) aerobatic spin; the passenger whooping loudly from the thrill of it.
the Grand National would be a tough race to fix with any degree of certainty, I think. A horse could make a bad mistake, fall or get brought down in that race, quite easily. There would have to be a fair dose of luck involved with any fix in that race.
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I don’t think it was a ‘big establishment fix’ as you seem to suggest Pstyopticon, because in a race of that nature I don’t think it’s possible to do it with any great confidence.Hmm. I remain unconvinced. Yours is a similar argument to the 9/11 Hoax, Tom:
“Can’t believe it was a Controlled Demo — too much to go wrong — too big — too many people to find out.”
Besides, how hard is it to actually keep a horse on course, over a couple dozen fences? Isn’t that what they’re trained to do? Especially if, for most of the race, they’ve all been instructed to hold back?
What are we looking at here, though? The rigging of the winner? Perhaps, from the bookmakers’ perspective, what’s more important is rigging the losers. Ensuring the horses with the most wagered on them all go on to ‘lose’ the race?
Big question: is rigging actually worth it? Well, the runners in this year’s National supposedly had £200 million gambled on them; the largest amount ever. Is that a lot, in the great scheme of things? I honestly don’t know.
How else could the finances of horse-racing pan out? Do we ‘read’ bookmaking as we should do fakery in the insurance industry? Where the swindling – in terms of psyops, dramatic deaths and other disaster hoaxing – is done at a higher (underwriting) level; through re-insurance; and even at the controlling Council level of Lloyd’s of London.
What I’m saying is that when a race is rigged, maybe we shouldn’t be looking at it from the viewpoint of an in-the-know punter – who obviously wants to wager on the winner-to-be.
Instead, look at it from the bookie (like the underwriter) who’s out to fleece everyone with cash in his wallet (whether punters or Names). Enticing as many as possible to back any of the losers.
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While horse-racing is beyond stultifying, at least for me, the personality and background of Mouse Morris remains intriguing.
From his painful TV interview with the ghastly Clare Balding, Morris comes across as something of a bumpkin. How far from the truth. In fact he’s very well connected; very posh, very well bred.
“Mouse” is the second son of the 3rd Lord and Lady Killanin. His dad, the 3rd Lord was Eton and Oxbridge-educated; born in London; career on Fleet Street; peerage inherited from uncle; long military career; MBE. Not particularly Irish at all. Very much an Anglophile.
With pedigree like that, it’s probably a bullshit story about his father (Mouse’s grandfather) being “killed in action near Villers-Cotterêts, France, on 1 September 1914 while commanding the Irish Guards.” (wiki).
And he has an extensive military career (“war-balls”) of his own to boast about. “Even helped plan D-Day and the Battle of Normandy”. Did he now?
Most interesting is that Mouse’s father, also called Michael Morris, was President of the International Olympic Committee. With family like that, Mouse is well placed to know how sport really works, as I said. And trusted to shut-the-fuck-up and make the most of it.
Mouse’s father was also “Honorary Consul-General of Monaco in Ireland from 1961 to 1984.” Which must have opened his eyes to a fair flow of funny-money. Setting the family up well for horse-racing, maybe?
Maybe that’s another slant we should explore. That horse-racing itself is perhaps tertiary to the importance of money-laundering in gambling. The casinos are famous for that. The money actually wagered on the roulette wheels is dwarfed by the dirty-money that floods in from the drug trade and other crime networks. All those used banknotes getting washed and legitimised through the casino accounts.
Aside: I’ve got this working theory – expounded on LRF – that the high street bookies – at least in the UK – are taking almost no real money from gamblers. Except on big events like the National. The rest of the year they’re perpetually empty. Even on Saturday afternoons, once their busiest times. Yet as a kid I can remember them bursting with excitement; literally packed out.
Nowadays though, the punters are all gone. The Andy Capp generation is dead and buried. And younger people mostly aren’t interested in horse-racing. Preferring other forms of gambling, if gambling all. Mainly online, virtual fruit machines and other easily-rigged silliness.
So why are the high street bookmakers still open for business? Now here’s my speculation: they’re continuing to launder dirty money through the branches, albeit where the ‘creative accounting’ is actually done by head office. Keeping the branches open as a cover, or perhaps a concession. Engaged we may be in systemic criminality, at least we’re providing employment?
–Back to Mouse though, and the tragic loss of his son Tiffer, in Argentina, to CO poisoning.
Remember in the articles above, we were told that a neighbour was alerted to Tiffer’s plight, by water leaking out from under his apartment door.
Yet in this article from the Limerick Leader – (which incidentally loves its “missing per” psyops) – the leaking water narrative has vanished.
From http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/news/144193/Mum-s-grief-at-Tiffer-s.html
Instead, we’re told that a friend Michelle just happened to call at Tiffer’s apartment but couldn’t raise an answer. Which alerted her to a problem. No mention of any water leak.
“Michelle [“Fernandez, in whose band Tiffer had performed”]… explained that she had become concerned when she hadn’t heard from either Tiffer or Munra since the concert, so went to the apartment to check on them.
“She knew they were in, as she could hear their phones ringing and could see their wallets on the sitting room table, through the window,” said Shanny [Tiffer’s mother and Mouse’s wife]. Michelle called the police, who arrived promptly, and they broke down the door to discover the tragedy.
No mention of any water. There’s another curiosity, too. We get repeated, if brief, references to Tiffer and his pop band. “He was a percussionist” lamented Mouse. “Played the drums” But we never learn his band’s name; nor even its musical genre. Is that realistic?
And we also get no potted quotes from Tiffer’s friends in Argentina; fellow band members, and so. No one telling us how much they loved and miss him. Yet he’d supposedly been there for two months. Being such a wonderfully popular fella, surely he’d have a big circle of chums?
And almost no photos to show for his existence either. One from early childhood – of an infant kissing mama [Shanny]. Very easily ‘shopped. Or else showing another child; possibly “brother” Jamie.
Plus a few more on Facebook. One in front of Brighton(?) pier. ‘Shopped again? And a couple from his supposed travels in Argentina. Again, ‘shoppable. Curiously no photos of his life in between then. None of him growing up. Not a single family photo. Nothing of him with beloved dad Mouse, and just that one with brother Jamie, from 25+ years previous.
From Shanny’s FB page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153864092846465&set=ecnf.645041464&type=3&theater
Vanishingly few photos for 30 years of life, is it?
And Facebook takes an even greater role than normal in the narrative. Get this…
Supposedly the Morris family first learned about Tiffer’s death from a posting on Facebook. For Christ’s sake! To hell with diplomatic consuls who routinely handle deaths overseas. And do so with the utmost sympathy and discretion. These are the social media end-times where families now learn of sudden deaths from a random tweet or a facebook post.. huh? wtf? lol!
“He had just performed on stage in Mendoza on the Saturday night. He passed away on the Sunday having come home from the concert. A friend found them,” Shanny explained.
Tiffer was found lying on a bed. Shanny became aware of her son’s passing early on June 2.
“At 6am we were informed that a message was posted on Tiffer’s Facebook page asking for a member of his family to phone Mendoza urgently as there had been an accident,” she recalled.
Really? They were informed of Tiff’s dead via his facebook page? But surely, the cops in Argentina would use “Michelle” to make sympathetic contact with the family. After all “Michelle” knew Tiff. She could formally identify his body. Cops also had ID in the form of the deceased’s mobile phone and the contents of his wallet. So what’s with informing the family via Facebook?
What a load of horse-poop.
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Last thing, flicking through the FB pages of Mouse Morris and mother Shanny Clark, one is immediately struck by:
(a) the absence of any mention at the time of Tiffer’s death. Isn’t that odd?
(b) the number of posts they makes about other psyops and hoaxes. Taunting us? Or finding comfort and reassurance in these? Hoaxers of the world unite, as it were?
https://www.facebook.com/michael.morris.140193
“Michael Morris shared Lucia Dawson-Stanley’s post.
26 March at 12:36 ·
Lucia Dawson-Stanley’s photo.
Lucia Dawson-Stanley
22 March at 22:02 ·*** Please read and share***
As most people know on Sunday the 20th of March, the tragic news of a vehicle slipping off the end of a pier at Buncrana, County Donegal lead to the death of five members of the McGrotty family…..”
(Mouse plugs the San Bernadino Shooting Hoax)Today, Britain just held its most important horse-racing fixture of the year — the Grand National, at Aintree, Liverpool.
And it certainly looked like it was a fix of a fixture, too.
The bulk of the horses stayed close together over the full four miles of the course. Right up until the final straight, when a handful of runners suddenly pulled dramatically ahead. Leaving many clear lengths between each other, and the rest of the pack.
I’m certainly no expert on horse-racing, and find the sport thoroughly boring, but it’s difficult to believe that this race wasn’t rigged.
Though I can only guess how they would actually pull that off. Would every jockey need to be ‘in on it’? Aside those jockeys riding hopeless nags, I would guess the answer is, basically, yes, all the jockeys are in on a fix. Wouldn’t they have to be, by necessity?
What struck me as the biggest giveaways of ‘fixing’ in this race is the lateness of that powering-ahead of the animals, in the very final straight. What sort of beast can naturally muster such extraordinary energy reserves? At such a late stage of a long race? After four grueling miles of running, when there was little to choose between them up until then?
If it wasn’t a fix; a fix in which the rest of the pack was artificially held back, why didn’t the best horses pull ahead much, much earlier? Why leave it so late? Except for the theatre of it?
The actual “winner” is almost irrelevant, but for the record the horse is appropriately named “Rule The World“.
Owned by well-known budget-airline boss, Michael O’Leary of Ryanair. Ridden by 19 year old Irish jockey David Mullins. And trained by Mickey “Mouse” Morris who also trained Rogue Angel, the horse which won the Irish Grand National just a fortnight ago.
The win at the British Grand National today was very much a victory that was ‘Made in Ireland’.
A huge amount of TV and press coverage has been dedicated to trainer Mouse Morris. A man who can scarcely string a coherent sentence together. The press pack focussing, in particular, on the apparent death last year of his son, Christopher “Tiffer” Morris, killed in a freak carbon-monoxide poisoning, we’re told.
The narrative to this apparent tragedy seems to be a well-crafted side show to the horse racing itself.
From the Guardian (28 Mar 2016) — http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/28/rogue-angel-mouse-morris-irish-grand-national-fairyhouse-horse-racing
Mouse Morris’s thoughts were for the son he lost last summer after his Rogue Angel was a battling winner of the Irish Grand National on Monday. “That’s for Tiffer,” the veteran trainer said as he headed for the winner’s enclosure, referring to Christopher, who died in June aged 30 in Argentina from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.
“It’s unbelievable,” Morris said later. “Tiffer was looking down on me today. He helped me there. That’s just special.”
At the time of his alleged monoxide gassing, the Irish Independent reported Morris’s death as below. For whatever reason, obliquely linking the deceased man, by marriage, to a well-known presenter on RTE, the Irish state broadcaster.
I dunno, this whole story just seems flaky. A neighbour sees water trickling from beneath the front door of Tiffer’s apartment. Good grief, that must have been some flooding. The neighbour calls 911. The cops bust down the door. They find Tiffer Morris dead, together with another man in their apartment in the Argentinian city of Las Heras.
Both men presumed poisoned by inhalation of carbon monoxide.
I find that all quite implausible. Most unlikely that two healthy young men – the second man, a “37 year old” friend of Tiffer Morris, who is still unnamed – would both flake out simultaneously.
Wouldn’t one of the two men serve as a ‘Pit Canary’, alerting the other to the supposed gas leak? Especially as they were in different rooms of the apartment.
The unnamed victim was allegedly in the bath. Presumably with the bathroom door closed. While Morris was supposedly found dead on his bed. Does carbon monoxide really wisp its way through apartment rooms like that? Sneaking around closed doors?
There only seems to be one, shockingly poor photograph of Tiffer Morris. Lifted straight from Facebook, naturally. Certainly it’s no tribute to a man described as “beloved” by all who knew him.
Christopher “Tiffer” MorrisSince the Morris family was providing press statements just two days after Tiffer’s alleged death, wouldn’t they also want to hand out a decent photo of their “beloved” son and brother? To pay proper tribute to him.
And what’s with those trite (“eloquent”) family tributes from dad Mouse Morris and brother Jamie? Talking to the press the very next day after Tiffer’s sudden and unexpected death. And yet his closest family exhibit few of the signs of shock or trauma we might expect. Instead, prematurely joking about the apparent tragedy:
Christopher’s father Michael ‘Mouse’ Morris, a well known horse trainer, paid tribute to his deceased son today [the very next day after his son’s apparent death on 1 June 2015]
Michael said: “He was doing what he was happy doing, travelling the world and seeing different places.
“It’s awful news and everybody is being very good and giving us support.
“Christopher had been in Argentina around two months but he had no intention of coming home yet, he was having a ball of a time.
“He was a chef by trade and played music too, he was a percussionist.”
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Christopher’s brother Jamie paid an eloquent tribute to his beloved brother on Facebook:“It is with unimaginable sadness that I have to inform you of the passing away of my beloved brother and best friend.
“He died peacefully due to carbon monoxide poisoning in Argentina. There’s going to one hell of gig in heaven tonight with tiff on the drums and cooking up a feast.
“God must have heard about his cooking skills and taken him from us for himself ! Love you always bro xx”.
Seriously?
From the Irish Independent:
Son of trainer Michael ‘Mouse’ Morris dies of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning while on holiday
By Conor Feehan and Barry Duggan
Published 03/06/2015 | 10:30
A nephew of former RTE presenter Thelma Mansfield has died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Argentina.
Christopher Morris (30) died on Monday night alongside another man in an apartment in the city of Las Heras.
He is the son of legendary Tipperary horse trainer Michael ‘Mouse’ Morris.
The town of Fethard in Tipperary, where Christopher is from, has been left in sadness as news filtered through.
Former Live at Three presenter Thelma Mansfield is Christopher’s aunt through marriage. Ms Mansfield last month attended the funeral of her former co-host Derek Davis.
Christopher was staying in a house in Las Heras, a city in the province of Mendoza, with a friend when the tragedy occurred.
The second man, aged (37), also died in the poisoning tragedy.
Michael ‘Mouse’ Morris, a prominent figure in Irish National Hunt racing for over 30 years, today paid tribute to Christopher.
“He was doing what he was happy doing, travelling the world and seeing different places,” Mr Morris told the Herald.
“It’s awful news and everybody is being very good and giving us support,” he added.
“Christopher had been in Argentina around two months but he had no intention of coming home yet, he was having a ball of a time,” the father explained.
“He was a chef by trade and played music too, he was a percussionist,” he added.
The Morris family are now awaiting his body being repatriated to Ireland after it is released. The Department of Foreign Affairs are providing consular assistance.
Local media reported that the two men were found dead inside an apartment in Las Heras and an investigation was launched to determine if they died by inhaling carbon monoxide.
According to Gustavo Garis, head of the district of Las Heras, “a neighbour called 911 because he noticed water coming out below the door of the apartment.”
“The neighbour knocked on the door but the men did not respond to calls,” he added.
Police entered the home and found the other gentleman in the bath.
Christopher Morris was found lying on a bed. The case is now in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office of Las Heras.
Of course, if this monoxide poisoning was a hoax, it would make Mouse Morris a very safe pair of hands for “winning” the British and Irish Grand Nationals.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/christopher-morris-son-horse-trainer-5813999
Small world, and a critical functionary.
A Memorial Service for Ed Henty was held in May 1993, at St Bride’s, Fleet Street, the journalists’ church. The congregation was a who’s who of print journalism.
Mr Edward Henty – Memorial services
Times, The (London, England) – May 20, 1993Mr Edward Henty
The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress were present at a service of thanksgiving for the life of Mr Edward Henty held yesterday at St Bride’s, Fleet Street. Canon John Oates officiated. Miss Kathryn Lister read from the works of Canon Henry Scott Holland and Mr David Sadler read from the works of Rudyard Kipling. Mr Ian Bradley, Picture Editor of the News of the World, gave an address. The Hon Peter Brooke, CH, Secretary of State for National Heritage, and the Commissioner of the City of London Police attended. Among others present were:
Mrs Henty (widow), Thomas and Alexandra Henty (children), Mr and Mrs Jonathan Henty (father and stepmother), Mr and Mrs Charles Henty (brother and sister-in-law), Miss Julia Henty (sister), Josephine and Clemency Henty (half-sisters).
Lord Brougham and Vaux, the Hon Henrietta Brougham, Sir Edward Pickering (executive vice-chairman, Times Newspapers and Master of the Guild of St Bride) with Mr David Hopkinson (deputy managing editor, The Times), Mr Ray Wells (acting picture editor, The Sunday Times) and Mr Andy Watts; Miss Patricia Chapman (editor, News of the World) with Mr Paul Connew (deputy editor), Mr Stuart Kuttner (managing editor), Mr Philip Wrack (ombudsman), Mr Alex Marunchak (news editor), Mr Bill Bateson (sports editor), Mr Robert Warren and past and present members of staff; Mr Kelvin MacKenzie (editor, The Sun), with Mr Bill Newman (managing editor), Mr Paul Buttle (picture editor) and Mr Chris Blythe; Mr Richard Stott (editor, Today) with Mr Geoff Webster (picture editor).
Mr Andrew Hutchinson (managing editor, The Daily Telegraph also representing the editor-in-chief) with Mr Anthony Marshall; Mr David Ofield and Mr Jeremy Selwyn (Evening Standard), Mr Tom Smith (Daily Express), Mr James Sutherland (representing the editor, The Daily Star) with Mr Alistair Patrick; Mr David Banks (editor, Daily Mirror) with Mr Bob Powell; Mr Brian Vine (representing the editor, Daily Mail), Mr Michael Spillard (Independent on Sunday), Mr Paul Bennett, Mr Simeon Francis, Mr Russell Bass and Mrs G Hosier (The People), Mr Colin Myler (editor, Sunday Mirror) with Mr Tony Ward and Mr Russell Cox.
Mr Tom Crone (legal manager, News International), Mr Russell Boyce (Reuters), Mr Mark Jordan and Mr Rupert Binsley (London Tonight), Mr J Johnson (London Press Club) and Mrs Johnson, Mr Steve Turner (British Association of Journalists), Mr David Rangecroft (representing the directorate, Public Affairs, Metropolitan Police), Mr Raymond Onslow (Royal Naval Association, Fleet Street branch), Mr Tommy Hindley (Professional Sport), Chancellor R M G Gray, QC, (Central Criminal Court), Mrs Romey Chapman, Mrs E Gibson and Mrs H Coslan (Trinity Hospice, Clapham), Mr Matthew Marsh (representing the chairman and governors, Macaulay School, Clapham).
Judge Dennis Levy, QC, and Mrs Levy, Mr and Mrs I Malton, Mr Richard Reincke, Mrs Frances Reincke, Mr Boyd Milligan, Mr Mark Large, Mr Ray Chapman, Miss Amanda Shrimsley, Mr and Mrs Jason Fraser, Mr Andrew Dunsmore, Mr Martin Mann, QC, Mr Brendan Neiland, Mr Michael King, Mr Duncan Raban, Mr Alan Steinfeld, QC, Mr Alan Baird, Mr Arthur Edwards, Mr Gerry Dalton, Mr Douglas Hamilton, Mr Jim Sutherland, Mr C A Brodie, QC, and Mrs Brodie, Mr Eddie Waters, Mr Stuart White, Mr Mark Turner, Mr Chris Boffey, Mr Frank Hart and Mr Roger Kaye, QC.
Parents: Jonathan Maurice Henty (1933-) and Margaret Louise (Sadler) (1937-1972).
A passenger manifest for August 1956 lists the Hentys’ address at the time as 17 Gerald Road in Belgravia SW1. Coincidentally, that was the home of Noel Coward from 1930 to 1956. The Hentys must have moved in just after Coward moved out.
https://goo.gl/maps/p8kTdbx2VsE2
The house has a history of homing thespians. In recent years, theatre owner and Broadway producer, Jerome Minskoff also lived there.
Ed Henty’s father Jonathan, a barrister; was Commissioner of Social Security and Child Support; appointed 1993, a post he held until 2006.
The City of London Coroner held an astonishingly prompt inquest into Henty’s death. Evidence gathered, jury convened, facts presented, and a verdict (unlawful killing) delivered; all by July 7, 1993. Just over 10 weeks from the date of the bomb (Apr 24). A record?
The Daily Mirror; July 8, 1993
A CHILLING video of the last seconds of IRA bomb victim Edward Henty’s life was shown at an inquest yesterday.
And the security camera film revealed the photographer walked into the blast in Bishopsgate, London, after suddenly changing direction.
News of the World picture editor Ian Bradley, who sent Mr Henty, 34, to the scene, said: ”He was a professional and would not have risked his life.”
The London inquest jury returned an unlawful killing verdict.
The (unnamed) Coroner was presumably Dr David Manuel Paul (1927-1993). Since 1966, HM Coroner for various districts, lately for the City of London. Dr Paul died soon after the Bishopsgate bomb; Paul’s memorial service held Weds, Sept 8, 1993. Described as a “former police surgeon who once shared a billet with Prince Philip, during their naval days in World War II.”
Dr Paul is perhaps best remembered for his inquests into the deaths of — “God’s Banker”, Roberto Calvi; delivering a verdict of suicide; the Vatican’s chief banker found hanging, according to folklore, under London’s Blackfriars bridge; but second inquest called after Dr Paul accused of “misdirecting” earlier jury; the 1992 Baltic Exchange bombing (unlawful killing x 3); and for the 1975 Moorgate Tube Disaster — recently reopened (“was the tube driver suicidal?” 42 unlawfully killed?). Paul was also involved in the Birmingham Six case; presenting forensic evidence used to overturn the convictions of the six men.
THEY found the body of Edward Henty, a photographer working for the News of the World, under rubble at the front of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
One estate agency reckoned that nearly 2 million sq ft of office space – there are 52 million sq ft in the whole of the City – has been affected
Was there not an oversupply of office space there after the early 1990s downturn?
From The Times (Apr 26, 1993)
Half the offices destroyed in Saturday’s explosion were unoccupied because of the property slump
Elsewhere in the same issue of The Times (pg.40):
By chance, as many as half the offices caught in the blast were unoccupied, owing to the slump in the property market.
Both the former Hambros Bank building and the former Standard Chartered building in Bishopsgate were largely empty. Not a single stockbroker said its operations would be disrupted.
The blast also failed to damage three of the City’s most important buildings, the Bank of England, the Stock Exchange and Lloyd’s of London. They all said they would be operating as normal today.
The Baltic Exchange, which was demolished in last year’s blast and is still being rebuilt, said it would operate as normal and has rehoused two large shipbroking firms, the offices of which were wrecked.
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Hongkong [and Shanghai] Bank, the Bishopsgate offices of which took the full force of the bomb, had, fortunately, moved many of its staff out of the building only last week into new London headquarters by the Thames. The Bishopsgate office has suffered heavy structural damage and is likely to be demolished.Derek Wanless, the chief executive [of NatWest] said:
`We are assessing the full extent of the damage [to NatWest Tower] which is substantially worse than last year. The clean-up process has already begun.”The tower lost more than 100 windows in the blast a year ago; this time, hardly a window or a ceiling has remained intact.</blockquote>
From other reports, it sounds like the NatWest tower was, in fact, empty due to ongoing renovation at the time of that second, Bishopsgate Bomb. The bank never re-occupied after the earlier Baltic Exchange bombing in 1992. Despite what NatWest claimed since:Again from <em>The Times</em> (26 Apr, 1993):
<blockquote>NatWest quickly made alternative arrangements for its annual meeting, which was to have been held in the tower tomorrow. The venue has been switched to the Whitbread Brewery, Chiswell Street, half a mile away.</blockquote>
In any event, NatWest bank never returned to the Tower. Apparently “<em>it was never truly fit for purpose</em>. Instead the bank refurbished the Tower, using public money, before selling it on for £225m in 1998.The skyscraper, now known as Tower 42, houses multiple tenants. But remains unloved. The Standard is calling for its demolition – <a href=”http://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/outdated-and-second-best-its-time-for-the-fall-of-tower-42-6459424.html”>Outdated and second best, its time for the fall of Tower 42</a>.
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The City got an extensive rebuild, ultimately thanks to the Provisional I.R.A. But who actually footed the bomb repair bill? The City itself? Insurance underwriters? Or the taxpayer?
The latter, it seems..
Following the 1992 Baltic Exchange blast, the government agreed to underwrite insurance policies covering terrorist attacks, after the insurance industry refused to continue its own cover. Perversely, the legislation that would fund that City rebuild wasn’t yet in force, so the government simply applied the law retrospectively.
That huge public burden was funded through a new Insurance Premium Tax; introduced in that year’s Budget. Set initially at three per cent. The tax is now 9.5 per cent, following the Paris tewwor attacks of 2015.
At the time of the Baltic Exchange and Bishopsgate blasts, blame for the new insurance premium tax, and the hike in premiums, was natuarlly laid at the door step of the Provisional I.R.A..
From <em>The Times</em> (11 Dec, 1993):
<img src=”http://i.imgur.com/UMKo0xz.jpg” alt=”” >Also from the (Apr 26, 1993) issue of The Times:
<blockquote>The bulk of the cost of the [Bishopsgate] bombing is expected to be met by the government, with only a limited amount falling on the insurance industry. Roy Randall, a Royal Insurance spokesman, said:As far as the companies are concerned there will not be a large impact because the majority of the risks are reinsured.” This is because the insurers have been able to pass on most of the risk of acts of terrorism to the government after its decision last year to act asinsurer of last resort” through a special insurance vehicle.
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These [insurance] premiums are then channelled into the special vehicle, a mutual fund called Pool Re, to provide cover for bomb attacks, with the government providing any shortfall.
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Mr Baker said legislation should be brought forward from its planned mid-May date for the government’s part of the bill to be paid.There is no doubt the amount in Pool Re will be exhausted by the bomb and as a result the government will be significantly involved,” he said.Under the terms of Pool Re, the insurance companies and Lloyd’s syndicates will pay a further 10 per cent of the fund’s total premiums towards the cost and the government will pay the rest. As the funds of Pool Re had been wiped out by the latest attack the government would bear the full cost for any bombings for the rest of the year, Mr Baker added. </blockquote>
These terror psyops are a multi-faceted insurance swindle. According to the Evening Standard (Dec 21, 2015) “THE cost of household insurance cover against damage from a terrorist attack has risen by about 10 per cent in London this year as the perceived threat has grown.”
With it now being “all but obligatory” to take out terrorism cover as part of a policy, this has added “£80 to £90 [to the premium] for a flat in a central London postcode.”
From The Standard (Dec 21, 2015):
<blockquote>Most of the [terrorism] cover is provided by a government-backed mutual reinsurance company called Pool Re, which was set up in 1993 following a series of IRA explosions in the City and Canary Wharf. It has so far paid out £625 million including £262 million for the IRA’s Bishopsgate bomb, which killed one and injured 44 and damaged a huge swathe of the Square Mile.</blockquote>The dead man was found under rubble during a five-hour search of the devastated area. The rescue services worked until late last night searching the debris and damaged buildings for more bodies.
He was not immediately identified, but a News of the World photographer, Edward Henty, 34, had been reported missing after being in the area. A spokesman for the paper said last night that it believed he was dead. Mr Henty is married with two young children.
From the next day’s Sunday Times (April 25, 1993)
ED HENTY, 34, left, the photographer killed in yesterday’s bomb blast, should have been celebrating his 12th wedding anniversary today with his wife Yasmin and two children Tom, 9, and Alice, 7.
Driving to work at the News International plant at Wapping, east London, he headed for Bishopsgate after being phoned by his office and told of a coded warning received only minutes earlier.
Henty, the son of a barrister, attended Hill House school in Knightsbridge, where the Prince of Wales was a pupil. Patsy Chapman, editor of the News of the World, said last night:
He was a real newspaperman, cheery and hardworking.”Ed was “a real newspaperman”? In contrast to an unreal one?
From the Sunday Mirror (April 25, 1993):
Mr Henty, who was due to celebrate his 12th wedding anniversary with wife Jasmin today, was working as a freelance for the News Of The World.
He was believed to have been only yards away when the bomb exploded.
The couple have two children, Tom, nine, and Alice, seven.
That’ll be the late Richard EDWARD J HENTY (b.Kensington; 9 March 1959; mother: SAPLER). [ No record of a HENTY – SAPLER marriage]
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=218002614:2096&d=bmd_1453139839
Rare photo of “Ed Henty” here (The Times, Mon 26 Apr, 1993):
Richard EDWARD J HENTY was married, Q1 1981; Westminster, to [ YASMINE A / YASMINA / JASMIN ] [ MEKKAOUI / MAKKAOUI ].
From that union of HENTY – MEKKAOUI, two offspring:
Note that it is Alexandra, not Alice. Yet the press repeatedly calls her Alice. Chinese whispers? Or a contraction of the name?
Further, there’s no Alice Henty in BMDs, but curiously, we find both an ALEX Henty (Kimber) and an ALICE Henty involved in the media/movies.
ALEX Kimber (née Henty) based in Twickenham; where she is/was a producer for Sky TV. Part of the Murdoch behemoth, like late father Ed Henty, journalist for Murdoch’s News-of-the-World.
Incidentally, on the morning of the bombing, the IRA reportedly telephoned a “coded-warning” to Sky TV which has its news centre in Twickenham. Small world. What with Alice / Alex going on to work for Sky, in Twickenham.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/henty-alex-a190a037
https://www.facebook.com/alex.kimber.16/about
http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/144138/ALEXANDRA-LOUISE-KIMBERWhereas here’s ALICE Henty, lived/educated in Middlesex. Cut her mettle in London, working for Danny Boyle. Later helped produce the publicly-funded film Diameter of the Bomb, about Palestinian suicide bombers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-henty-683a89b
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378296/
http://www.buckthefilm.com/henty.htmWonder which Henty is which..
Older sibling Tom (Thomas Edward J) Henty is possibly this noble fellow:
https://www.justgiving.com/Tom-Henty
Raising cash for charity. Donations from Y Henty (mom Yasmin?) (“rooting for you!”) and Alex Henty (“Get in bruv!!!!”). Surely that’s the same Tom?
Tom stoically just ran a marathon for the Prisoners’ Education Trust; where wife Susannah (ex-journalist/comms officer, Met Police) is now employed as media manager for the PET.
Susannah explains: I was “managing our [the Met’s] [media] response to the summer riots in London 2011.” Those were the riots triggered by the Mark Duggan story.
Looks like a family which remains very much at the epicentre of the media/psyop industry.
Another oops… That particular Reading-Out of the Deceased Names – including Martin Wortley’s name – was in 2012 not 2002. Therefore it was the eleventh, not the first anniversary.
“Are you mixing up Eaton and Wortley at some point?”
Oops; too late to correct.
Is that what is known as “bumping”? If Brophy has genuine pedigree, he passes on and Wortley steps in?
If so, wonder where the hand-over took place? The admissions tutor’s office at Princeton, the Wortley-Brophy alma mater?
Viz the Brophy blog, SmokingGunII suggests another explanation for its title — martinbrophy.blogspot.com — an amalgamation of Brophy’s name, and that of his wife, Sarah Marie Martin. Just as good.
SmokingGunII references sunshine05, whose research also went down the swanny. Sunshine05 apparently discovered Sarah Marie Martin, like her husband, has a prestigious position on Wall Street. A managing director of Credit Suisse, no less:
First Google hit for Sarah Marie Martin discovers she’s very much a family lady. On the eve of 11th Sept (coincidence) she was awarded the Working Mother of the Year Award 2015. And there at the back of the photo, larger than life, is hubby Nick Brophy, of course. Small world!
From http://www.workingmother.com/sarah-marie-martin
And from LinkedIn, here’s Sarah-Marie’s credentials:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-marie-martin-6334555
Yes you’re right, that must be Michael’s step grandmother in sleepy Woolpit, his uncle also Ronald is or was in Wellingborough.
Martin Wortley emigrating to the US, aged just six. And being just step-relatives with Morva, it’s surprising they maintained any sort of relationship. Yet Morva competently handles media affairs on behalf of the whole Wortley family. Conscientious lady.
According to her @scotseye twitter feed, Morva is Scottish; living in Suffolk,England. but remains a passionate correspondent on Scottish independence issues; with her letters published as far away as the Evening Standard in London.
The Scotch-link perhaps explaining why there’s no record of her marriage to Martin’s paternal grandpapa Ronald Wortley? Was it another Gretna Green job, or thereabouts, maybe?
When did Ronald divorce his first wife, Martin’s true paternal grandmother? And who is/was she?
There’s one more family link for Wortley which otherwise draws a blank. Wortley appears in a NYC.GOV list of 911 “Reader Names” for the first 911 anniversary in Sept 2002.
Click to access reader_names.pdf
Apparently this is some sort of morbid annual ritual of reading-out the names of the 9/11 “deceased”. In 2002, a Jake Mackara apparently read-out Wortley’s name; identifying Wortley as his late uncle.
A 1999 obit paints a basic picture of the Mackara family, if it’s the right family. But still no obvious link between the Mackaras and the Wortleys. And if the facebook page below belongs to the same Jake Mackara (Southampton Village / NJ, which geographically makes sense), then Jake has no obvious links today to Wortley’s sister, etc. Still not sure how Jake could be Wortley’s nephew. But maybe just chasing at shadows?
https://www.facebook.com/jake.mackara
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/courierpostonline/obituary.aspx?n=james-mackara&pid=129893076Evil Edna has unearthed an obscure London Evening Standard article about 9/11 Cantor “victim” Robert Eaton, perhaps the most investigated of the UK “victims” by Danielle Gusmaroli , a reporter who now writes for the Daily Mail…
Some of the [2001] article is available here
[ https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1G1-78410207/this-is-how-i-want-to-remember-my-lovely-robert-the ]
Full article here.. http://pastebin.com/4YEqrqU5
Bit of discontinuity perhaps, in the Eaton narrative?
In the article above (London Evening Standard; 19/9/2001) Eaton was supposedly transferred by his employer, bond brokers Garban, to their NYC office. Where he was then headhunted by Cantor Fitzgerald:
From that 2001 article:
Originally from Brighton, Robert sold his one-bedroom bachelor flat in Battersea 10 years ago to pursue his dream in the US.
He had been selling bonds at brokers Garban in London and transferred for a brief spell to the firm’s New York offices. His talent was recognised and rewarded by the firm but in no time he was headhunted by Cantor Fitzgerald – one of the world’s largest financial companies. He rose rapidly into the higher echelons of New York’s financial world.
While there he met and married Jacqui, an American. The couple, who lived in Long Island, never had children.
Yet on the decade anniversary, The Evening Standard (11/9/2011) ran another story about Wortley. Quoting Shaun Lynn, MD of Cantor as saying: “I hired him, lovely fellow, he worked for me in Frankfurt. Then I sent him to New York.”
From http://www.standard.co.uk/news/cantor-fitzgerald-the-city-firm-that-rose-from-the-911-ashes-6441839.html (copy: http://pastebin.com/2DU0bSAz )
[Shaun] Lynn [Cantor MD] himself, an intensely private man with a reputation as a tough operator who doesn’t do interviews. Today is to prove a watershed. “To this day, I have not dug deep about September 11 because I just don’t want to,” he says.
“It’s too sore, too vast, too endless. It consumes you. When you lose one person, it’s hard enough. When you lose 658 some close friends. It’s, it’s you would spend years going to all the funerals.”
Suddenly Lynn’s lip starts to shake and he excuses himself from the room. “Just give me two minutes.” He returns and says: “I haven’t done that in a while.” But there is no disguising how raw this still is.
When I hand him a copy of the Evening Standard supplement that commemorated the first anniversary of September 11, he scans the gallery of Britons who perished. “Rob Eaton,” he says, pointing at the handsome face of the 37-year-old Cantor’s man. “I hired him, lovely fellow, he worked for me in Frankfurt. Then I sent him to New York.” He falls momentarily silent as the meaning of what he’s said sinks in. “Such a shame.”
Such a shame indeed.
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Trying to make sense of this convoluted narrative for Robert Eaton…So which is it? Wortley was apparently sent to NYC [by his London employer Garban]. Only to be headhunted there by Cantor Fitzgerald. Then Eaton somehow wound-up back in Europe, in Frankfurt, and then he was sent back to NYC by Cantor’s MD Shaun Lynn, where he met his fate on 9/11??
The Frankfurt link seems to be absent in, or contradicted by, the Standard’s earlier story from 2001.
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Another interesting victim who worked for Cantor Fitz – although examined to a lesser degree than other Brit 911 victims – is Martin Wortley
From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25981749
Martin Michael Wortley, b.Q4 1970; Redbridge, Essex. In the narrative, Martin is described as being originally from Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; although his links to the village are tenuous.
Martin emigrated to the US “in 1978” “aged 6”, with parents Mike and Celia (née Stanton; m. Q3 1970; Islington, London).
Difficult to find much linking Martin Wortley to Suffolk. Perhaps all these fleeting local links were engineered or elaborated to spread the victim load across Britain? Aiding the local newsworthiness of the 9/11 hoax?
The only local link seems to be a very elderly paternal grandfather, Ronnie Wortley who would be about 90 now. But at the time living in Woolpit, Suffolk, with his much younger second wife Morva. Morva was described at the time of 911 as being an “insurance executive”. But today is listed as a police liaison officer, neighbour watch coordinator, and general pillar of the community.
In 2011, the local press interviewed Morva Wortley; describing Martin as Morva’s “grandson”, but he would actually be her step-grandson:
Martin Wortley reportedly had two younger siblings – twins Deborah Melanie and Paul Andrew; b. Q1 1975; Epping Forest, Essex.
From: http://www.northjersey.com/story-archives/martin-wortley-park-ridge-1.231714
Martin Wortley was born in Newbury Park, England, a suburb of London. He moved with his family to Ridgewood when he was 6.
He was a member of the swim team at the Ridgewood YMCA and gave swim lessons to young children.
“The young kids trusted him,” Celia Wortley said. “He taught a lot of 2- and 3-year-olds how to swim.”
When Wortley was a high school freshman, he and his family moved to Mahwah. At Mahwah High School, he played football and threw the shot put and discus. He graduated in 1990.
The football team will honor Wortley tonight before its home game against Pascack Valley. The tribute will feature speeches by past and present players and coaches and a presentation to the Wortley family. The ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. at the high school field on Ridge Road.
“He absolutely loved football,” said Celia Wortley. She said her son, who was a lineman, received a partial scholarship to play football at East Stroudsburg, where he earned an economics degree.
She said her son often spent time with her, his father, Mike, and his younger twin siblings, Paul and Debbie. All live in North Jersey or New York State.
This seems to Wortley’s younger sister Deborah — now known as Debbie Wortley-Busto:
From http://www.facebook.com/debbiewortleybusto
Debbie Wortley-Busto
Lives in Charlotte, North Carolina
From Mahwah, New Jersey
Martin’s younger brother, Paul Andrew Wortley, presumably is this gentleman below. He works as a Fixed Income Derivatives Broker, in New York, for Tradition Inc., the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition:
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Paul-Wortley/-2035669610
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The research into Wortley on Cluesforum, and its forerunner the RealityShack forum, took an interesting, if brief, turn back in 2010.
Poster SmokingGunII reckoned that purportedly-not-so-dead 911 victim Martin Wortley has assumed the identity of old school friend and fellow NYC banker Nick Brophy.
https://www.facebook.com/brophy.nick
SmokingGunII based his theory on the striking similarities he claims to have identified in the photographs of Wortley and Brophy.
SmokingGunII writes:
I have looked at 3 photos of “Nick Brophy” and he and Martin Wortley are in my opinion, the same man.
A sincere belief? Or an early instance of DallasGoldBuggery? Or was DallasGoldBug (et. al) – the drawing of tenuous likenesses – invented to discredit and distract from this line of research? Either way, the similarities aren’t that obvious. At least not to me. But maybe let’s not be too hasty in dismissing it, as others have been….
http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?p=1542487#p1542487
http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?p=1581279#p1581279
http://z6.invisionfree.com/Reality_Shack/index.php?showtopic=102&st=720#entry1542487Martin Michael Wortley:
Nick Brophy:
Doppelganger or not, Brophy certainly has maintained close links to the Wortleys.
Brophy is facebook friends with Wortley’s sister, Debbie, and even Brophy’s Facebook profile picture pays overt homage to Wortley; viz his photo of Wortley’s memorial plaque inscription at Ground Zero:
This is presumably the linkedin page of the same Nick Brophy, NYC banker:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nbrophy
Here’s a funny thing. SmokingGunII also found a blog for Nick Brophy. It’s since been deleted; but the wayback machine has kept snapshots dating back to 2011:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111024223059/http://martinbrophy.blogspot.com/
Definitely the same fella; NYC; adopting abandoned African orphans into the American Dream? That’s our chap.
SmokingGunII didn’t remark at the time of his discovery, but the above blog is named martinbrophy.blogspot.com — Martin being the name the Brophys gave to their first adopted orphan. Nick Brophy explains on his blog:
Our [adopted] son’s full name is Martin Ashenafi Brophy, named after our good friend Martin Wortley, who was taken from us five years before Ash’s birth, on 9/11/2001.
Last thing.
Debbie Wortley-Busto (Martin’s sister) gave a facebook thumbs-up to friend Christopher Zimmer. In a touching personal tribute, Christopher from Mahwah, NJ, has been busy with his sewing machine; creating a magnificent patchwork quilt of 911 victims.
Each 9/11 victim, not least Martin M Wortley, is given their own dedicated quilt panel with photo. Very tasteful. I can see these becoming collectible. Like memorabilia from Auschwitz.
Maybe if the quilt goes into large-scale production, Debbie can conjure up a better picture of her late brother? Sadly just three thumbnails of the poor man ever reached public circulation. I suppose, at a pinch, they could always use a photo of Nick Brophy instead? Would Martin have approved? What do others think?
Another give-away:
A spokesman for the group refused to confirm which hotel the group were staying at, but said: ‘We are providing all necessary support for those passengers
As if that would have any bearing on anything. Conclusion – no passengers.
Yes, I saw that. Again illustrating how the employees within the holiday travel group could all be kept in the dark. Ensure the staff at each of the seven hotels is compartmentalised. Isolated from the group’s other hotel sites. Leaving the staff at each hotel presuming the injured guests must be staying elsewhere. Keeping the whole thing under wraps.
Most of these incidents seem pretty suspicious. Take this one in Switzerland from another large fleet…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-34162647
Allegedly shunted from behind, but the damage at the front is much more severe. Note the carefully photographed suitcases, as with most aero psy-ops, to create the impression of a tour in progress.
I guess the “names” will always cough up for these drills.
Yeah, and in personal injury claims on “long-tail” policies, they won’t be immediate settlements. It could be years later before the underwriting Names actually get “sheered like sheep”.
Better still if those future liabilities – arising from the coach crash psyop – are collateralised further and shifted to other syndicates or external re-insurers, in what they appropriately call a “run-off”.
Click to access eirv23n32-19960809_020-the_british_empires_lloyds_of_lo.pdf
The fauxtography in that Swiss coach crash is especially dodgy.
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqNu9YltH3E
And from http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/welsh-tourists-seriously-injured-after-6385854
Presumably the coach is supposed to look like it’s been jacked-up and on rollers? But why would they need to do that? In the faux-to, the coach is just too high at the front-end, and too far towards the kerb.
And the way the nearside front pillar has been severed in two places isn’t plausible. It’s a very important structural component, and surely wouldn’t fail like that. It looks cut rather than broken through impact trauma.
And shouldn’t there be concertina damage from where the (missing) nearside door would have impacted the body panel to its right?
Even the traffic cone looks pasted-in.
Hmm. Not persuaded. Glad I’m not a Name!
This is 1916, the address 149 London Road South, Kirkley, Lowestoft;The whole district looks pretty derelict. Perhaps it was already condemned, even before being “bombed” by a Zeppelin?
The corner shop further down – 167 London Rd (now Windsor Gallery), has a triangle-shaped punch hole in it.
Yet no sign today of any repairs to the brickwork.
Many of the Newham archive photos look suspiciously staged.
Dunno. Could be wrong, but they look more like photo fakes; if so when could they have been forged? 1940s or much later?
Strone/Monega Roads. War damage. 26/7/44. (3) in the Manor Park area of London, E12.Those timbers lying diagonally in the upstairs window. They don’t look like roof trusses, nor floor joists. And too heavy for roofing battens. At that height in the building, what are they supposed to be?
Plenty to smile about, Wanstead Park Avenue E12, allegedly, except I can’t find any modern images of housing in this road which match the housing stock in the “glass negative”, the source of which seems to be meaner housing stock than in the solid early 1900s middle class dwellings of Wanstead Park Avenue. Conclusion – faked.
Those four people, including two women, standing directly beneath a huge pile of debris, imminently about to collapse! Why not just stand safely on the nice clean footpath? Is it supposed to be their ruined home? As you say, they seem very casual about it all.
And what’s with the trees in those Wanstead Park Avenue bomb pics, of 19/7/44?…
Are they supposed to be intentionally pollarded? In mid-July? Or were all the leaves, twigs and smaller branches, ripped off in their entirety by the blast? Not a likely story.
More bad luck…
In the early hours of 1st February 1945 at 3:03 am, Hitler’s last weapon of terror, a V-2 Rocket, left a trail of death and destruction on the [same] sleeping street.
29 people lost their lives and 15 others were seriously injured. Houses were totally destroyed and the surrounding streets were severely bomb blasted.
“The missile landed in the road at the rear of West Ham Police Station which was on the corner of West Ham Lane and Barnby Street. Officers on duty, under an inspector, went to the scene and turned the headlights of police cars on the devastated houses. Searchlights were also rushed to the spot and Civil Defence rescue workers, aided by dogs, searched among the debris. The C.D. personnel were able to rescue many buried in the ruins. Some were seriously injured and there were others with slight casualties. Apart from a slight injury to a sergeant there were no casualties among the police.” – Stratford Express Newspaper, February 16, 1945.
That local rag isn’t in the British Library’s online archive. Modern-day falsification of news reports from the time? Encourage one war historian to falsify a newspaper reference, with all the others piling in to quote him?
Aside: the Liverpool Daily Post supposedly reported at the time on the 1941 bombing of Liverpool St Luke’s (“The Bombed Out Church”). At least, that’s what the press claims today – quoting what the Post supposedly reported on the bombing back in 1941. Yet couldn’t find a single contemporary reference in any newspaper from the time. There’s a 1983 “reprint” supposedly of a “1943” Daily Post insert (“Bombers Over Merseyside – This was Merseyside’s ‘Finest Hour’“) but nothing back then about the bombing in the Post itself. Earliest reference I could find was 1946 in The London Times.
Searching other local newspapers for that West Ham Lane / Barnby St V2 attack draws a blank as well. Major event – 29 dead – reported, we’re told, in one newspaper, why wouldn’t others report it, too?
Later that morning, Ted Carter, the Chief Warden at Waltham Holy Cross, who was the official photographer for Air Raid Precaution/Civil Defence – Group 7 arrived at West Ham
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The crater was in the middle of the road, with the usual devastation all around. Small houses had vanished in a heap of brick dust and rubble
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CHINNICK James Henry – Fireman NFS at 50 Barnby Street (resident of Dagenham)
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Some reports state that 30 people were killed that night and local legend says that some bodies were never recovered from the ruins, but casualty figures are always tricky. The estimates were made from returns submitted by the Warden for the area. He or she had a list of everyone within his/her designated territory, mostly compiled by simply touring round and knocking on doors and recording what he/she was told. It certainly was the case that the initial report of casualties turned out to be incorrect. Supposedly unaccounted people turned up days’ later. Others reported as ‘with friends or family’ were later found dead in the rubble or simply vanished, presumed dead.Indeed, one of the casualties, James Chinnick, is a bit of a puzzle. The CWGC Roll of Honour states: “Fireman, N.F.S. Husband of M. F. Chinnick, of 56 Brewood Road, Dagenham. Died at 50 Barnby Street”. Was he staying at Barnby Street and killed in the explosion or was he one of the rescue workers and killed whilst on duty at the disaster.
It seems like the fabrication of deaths was as easy as 1,2,3….29 in those times.
In the BMD registers, James Henry Chinnick poorly checks-out. Different initials for his wife (FM instead of MF). And strangely, no record of his birth, either. Should have been born around 1911-12; yet hisbirth not in BMD. Nevertheless, married a Florence M Torr; W.Ham Q3 1933. James H Chinnick died aged 33; W.Ham Q1 1945, apparently in that V2 bombing. Recorded as father of two children. First born Stepney Q4 1933, and second born Stepney Q1 1936.
Where did he go? Reassigned under new identity? Returned to overseas birthplace, maybe? Or simmed from the beginning? As psyop fodder? An intelligence “rent-a-dad”, disguising illegitimacy? And, later, a revenue generator via war widows and orphans pension?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3013638/Five-people-seriously-injured-coach-carrying-elderly-holidaymakers-crashes-Scottish-road-high-winds.html
PUBLISHED: 21:27, 26 March 2015
‘Emergency Services are at the scene. The A83 is closed with local diversions in place.’
Drill par excellence.Great place to stage it. Wonderful scenic background. And on one of the remotest stretches of Britain’s roads. Conveniently. Not a house for miles. With the A83 sealed both ends, not a soul to bear witness, except for the drill perps themselves.
http://binged.it/1lZ0GF1
https://goo.gl/maps/BpfNDJSwfemThe “damage” to the coach is curious. Supposedly it suffered a 360 degree roll as it tumbled towards the loch shore. But as others have remarked, it’s astonishing how little damage there is. Incredible, how its glass-fibre roof stood up to the trauma. Not crushed flat, nor even cracked or dented.
From this photo, it looks like the coach was perhaps gingerly rolled towards the loch, starting from the parking layby. But from other photo angles, even staging it that way looks precarious. Would you really want to risk it?
After all, this is a £250,000 coach, virtually brand new (BT14 DLY registered 02 June 2014)
Perhaps it’s easier, certainly safer, just to ‘shop the coach into position, alongside Loch Restil?
On that point, it’s curious how most of the crash images show a brilliant white coach. Whereas the company’s traditional livery is cream, not white. While older photos of the same vehicle sometimes show it in cream; sometimes in white. Maybe just a trick of the light? Or something else?
Brilliant white coach
Brilliant white coach (with tufts of grass wedged unconvincingly between panels)
Brilliant white coach
Same coach but now cream?
Back to being a white coach?
Cream again.
And now white.Whatever the answer, it’s certainly easier to ‘shop the “damage” onto a white vehicle than it is with a cream one.
And didn’t they do well, what with those grass tufts, the dented panel with warped livery, “broken” windows, loose front grille, and, of course, those curtains flapping loose.
The coach itself (BT14 DLY) is one of five identical tri-axled Volvo B13RT with Jonckheere bodies; all new additions to the company fleet in June 2014.
(From http://www.route-one.net/vehicles/deliveries/lochs-glensvolvo-b13r-jonckheere/ )Complementing a further eight Volvo B13RT, again with identical Jonckheere bodies, acquired just months earlier..
( From http://www.route-one.net/vehicles/deliveries/lochs-glensvolvo-b13r-jonckheere/ and http://www.transportnewsbrief.co.uk/bus-and-coach/lochs-and-glens-upgrade-fleet-with-volvo-and-jonckheere/ — at time of photo, three left-most coaches still unregistered..)The full Volvo fleet list, with chassis numbers is here: http://www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/searchresults.asp?searchown=Lochs%20%26%20Glens,Aberfoyle&Pageno=0
But to the untrained eye, all that distinguishes these thirteen(?) new Volvo coaches, at least externally, are their plate numbers, and their familiar names (e.g. “Glen Garry”) stencilled onto a small removable panel above their front wheels.
Introducing the possibility for confusion on a Titanic/Olympic/Britannic scale?
Last week saw a dramatic crash of an Ulsterbus; the company being part of publicly-owned Translink Corp of Northern Ireland.
The bus apparently crashed through the sea wall, and ended up on the shores of Strangford Lough, near Newtownards, Co Down.
From https://twitter.com/paulcarson321/status/674506387662180352/photo/1
and https://twitter.com/Richard_UTV/status/674531693122994176I dunno.
Difficult to see how it even cleared the sea wall?
Nor how it managed to stay upright and land on its wheels?
Never mind how far it got out into the lough.
Its distance into the lough seems to vary from photo to photo. Dragged back and forth by the tide?
In later images in the sequence, the bus has somehow wiggled itself backwards. Much nearer to the shore, and now running parallel with the wall. Greatly assisting in its recovery..
Notice also how the wall height keeps changing, as does the bus’s position in relation to the sea wall.
At last safely back on dry land. What a to-do!
http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/portaferry-road-closed-crane-prepares-10572297
Unusual accident damage. The glazing bars and body panelling to the damaged(?) off-side are all intact. Greatly limiting internal damage. And yet the passenger seats appear wrenched from their floor fixings. In practice would that happen?
Note how the “crooked” passenger seats have mysteriously righted themselves…
A truly lazy bus-crash-hoaxer would just photoshop this “damage”. I’m guessing there are crash perverts who actually do this for a living? In the course of their business accumulating vast libraries of bus images to work with?
Digitally adding superficial damage to those library images, and letting our imaginations do the rest? Explaining perhaps why the “damaged” side of the coach is so conspicuously hidden from view? Always easier to hide it, than get yourself rumbled for shoddy photoshop work?
What little damage we can actually see looks very contrived and insignificant. Those wonky seat angles even looking ‘shopped. Creating that all-important crunched-up interior, to explain all those “serious injuries”. That damaged overhead luggage rack appears digitally “adjusted”, too.
And then a dirty mud-spatter effect applied. Or even real mud patted-on? While the coach is in for routine work? To replace a chipped windscreen perhaps? Taking the opportunity to ease off the front grille, the off-side wing mirror and the wiper-arm. Generally making it look very dishevelled. Kerr-ching, indeed, Felix!
The underside shots probably come from library images. Obtained while that model of coach is on the garage ramp, or over a service-pit. There being very few coach makers and models that the task of collecting underside images is never too onerous.
And bus and coach operators, being highly-regulated and deriving most of their revenues from public sector contracts and subsidies, will always be ones to play ball.
With today’s hoaxes, it’s the duping, smirking “witnesses”, fishy videos and imagery, fanciful back-up stories and changing narratives which give the game away. With the V2, we have much less to go on, but the absence of rocket material at crash sites is the big red flag.
We’ve got a decent offering of dodgy images on that v2rocket.com site. The site attributes its accuracy to a Mr John Pridige:
Many thanks to the continuing efforts of John Pridige of the UK, who has checked and crossed referenced much of the existing info with new data. John has made many corrections and additions, and is responsible for the rapid growth and accuracy of this list.
Unusual name. Presumably he’s this fellow — John Pridige, film director and writer, known for “Zeppelins Over London” (2009) which “tells the story of the World War 1 Zeppelin air raids on London.”
Without wishing to jumble-up our fakery, the Zeppelins – and powered airships in general, including the Hindenburg – are an earlier, candidate hoax. A film director researching Zeppelin airships for a documentary, would find it difficult not to arrive at the same conclusion. Mr Pridige consequently comes out as a safe pair of hands to gatekeep the V2 legend.
As for the imagery on v2rocket.com, much of it feels too modern; Photoshop-era cut-and-pasting.
The focus and depth of field is all wrong in this one, supposedly showing damage from a V2 attack. The plump fellow on the right is reasonably in focus. Yet the brick and block wall to his right – much the same focal distance from the ‘camera’ – is very blurred. How could that focal anomaly occur, if not from cut-and-pasting?
This feels like another fake image, comprised of multiple layers, too. A modern construction, using an actor as the military policeman. Self-conscious, helmet pulled down, head bowed, in an olde uniform borrowed from the local museum?The cop and ‘the contraption’ are very sharply in focus; but not the background. With perhaps only limited efforts at ‘normalising’ the definition levels across the whole image. Leaving unduly higher entropy, or signal energy, in the policeman and in ‘the contraption’. None of that high frequency pixel energy in the scene behind. Most apparent under error level analysis (ELA), particularly around the curled metal protrusion to the left of ‘the contraption’, where there is also a familiar ‘halo’, or ‘hum’ around it.
Perhaps ‘the contraption’ could have benefitted from a ‘morphological erosion’, to smooth its edges, and remove the remaining traces of its previous background, before it was pasted into its new setting?
And those twigs in the foreground – were they pasted on top, lending artificial scale to ‘the contraption’ when it was actually very small, and disguising a composite seam-line?
This one’s odd, too. The debris pile doesn’t seem plausible.
How could all those timbers – presumably structural timbers from the roofs and floors – end up like loose matchsticks, lying on top? There’s no evidence of any heavy lifting gear in use. No cranes, no bulldozers. So how would the debris come to be piled-up in such a heap of that shape and size?
The motor vehicles in the foreground — helpfully lending age and war context to the image — perhaps disguise another composite seam-line to the image? The debris piles behind, another layer, and finally, the housing in the background, and the ‘damage’ added to it through intricate digital photoshop work?
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There is a permanent “cultural exhibition” in Liverpool to the damage the city suffered from enemy bombardment during WWII. In particular, photos of the evocative WWII “incendiary bomb damage” to St Luke’s, the infamous “Bombed Out Church”. A shell of a building, which stands prominently today at the top of Bold St. According to the BBC, one of the city’s “best loved landmarks” (?!) Located on a busy corner of Liverpool city centre; a depressing daily reminder of the city’s long sufferance in those dark war years.
The church left totally unrepaired, lest the city should ever forget. Yet again, though, the contemporary imagery in the photo exhibition has all the hallmarks of modern-day fakery. To disguise perhaps that St Luke’s was arsoned from the ground? Set ablaze (ineffectively) by ‘enemies within’; creating a shrine-like symbol, a powerful focal point, upon which the city folk would rally in anger, and later, mourn in grief?
Also perhaps noteworthy is how the bomb damage was so localised. St Luke’s itself reduced to a burnt-out shell. And yet surrounding homes – some quite exclusive – left completely unscathed. Hmm. Fancy that.
The usual “funny sounds” were reported coming from the chopper before the first “crash”.
Yes, an unidentified farmer described the “funny sounds” as being like an “over-choked petrol car”. Reporting that the noisy chopper barely cleared the roof of his cowshed, where he was working.
I wasn’t aware of the follow up “crash”.
Just one of several aircrashes in that area. By the time of the polo club catastrophe, air-crash procedure in Co. Down was evidently well tested. With many of the same commentators, actors, and eyewitnesses wheeled out for each of the crashes.
From the Daily Mirror; 17 Nov, 2007:
TWO men escaped death yesterday when the light aircraft in which they were travelling smashed into a field.
The microlight plane plummeted near the Corcreaghan Road, Kilkeel, Co Down, just before 3pm.
It crash-landed near an old military base runway often used by light aircraft.
A close relative of passenger Archie Alderdice said the engine had abruptly cut out forcing him and pilot pal Bobby Morris to glide the plane in to land.
But disaster struck when the craft clipped a hedge.
The relative revealed: “They were trying to glide the plane in but it hit the hedge forcing it to nose-dive into the field.
“They are lucky to be alive, it could so easily have gone the other way.
“They are counting their blessings.”
Granddad Mr Alderdice, who is in his 60s, has been a flying fan and pilot for more than 40 years.
Ambulance staff and police treated the injured men at the scene before they were taken to Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry, Co Down.
Their injuries are not thought to be life threatening.
Newry and Mourne councillor Henry Riley (sic) said it was a mystery why the aircraft crashed.
He added: “The weather conditions were fine, there was absolutely no wind.
“No one seems to have heard the plane crash, nobody local, so we assume the engine must have cut out and it glided down and crashed into one of the hedges here.
“It seems pretty catastrophic. The aircraft seems wrote-off from what we can see.”
Having cheated death himself in that air-crash, survivor Archie Alderdice, was soon to become coffin-bearer in the funeral for another victim. Killed in a separate (triple-tragedy) air-crash in 2009. That, too, came down near Kilkeel, Co Down.
From the Belfast Telegraph; 20 June, 2009:
Funeral services for Stephen Annett (25), Hugh McKnight (54) and Andrew Burden (24) were held in Kilkeel and Annalong in what was one of the darkest days for Co Down.
The trio were killed when a light aircraft crashed and burst into flames in a field outside Kilkeel last Friday night [11 June 2009]. The three motorcycle enthusiasts had been returning from a day at the TT races on the Isle of Man.
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Father-of-three Hugh McKnight, who had been piloting the fateful plane, was laid to rest after a service in the tiny Annalong Presbyterian Church in the heart of the village.
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Among those in the congregation were Mr McKnight’s devastated wife Shirley, son James and daughters Linda and Laura. Uniformed PSNI and Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue officers were also in attendance.Medals belonging to the former UDR soldier and RUC man were proudly displayed on top of his coffin alongside two bouquets of coloured flowers. The remains were also flanked by two flags from Kilkeel British Legion.
In his address, Reverend Stuart Finlay said Mr McKnight had fulfiled his lifelong ambition by becoming a pilot in the 1990s.
“He travelled to Florida to undertake an intensive training course with some of the best aviation instructors in America in order to gain his wings.
“Once free to fly solo, nothing gave him greater pleasure than to take someone up with him for a pleasure flight,” he said.
The congregation also heard how motorbike racing was also among his passions.
Added the Minister: “The stars of motorcycling knew Hugh by name and he was a personal friend of the Dunlop brothers and was hugely saddened by their tragic deaths.
“Hugh had helped Joey in his preparations for his numerous mercy missions to Romanian orphanages — a fact not known to many — but not one to surprise those of us who knew him.”
Mr McKnight had been heavily involved in the local community and the Rev Bingham counted him as a personal friend.
“Hugh McKnight will be very much missed by us all, his welcoming smile, his fun-loving ways, his interest and concern for many of us. We don’t know why he was taken from us as he was, but we’re glad we had him with us for the years we did, and glad he accomplished so much through his life,” he concluded.
Among those who carried the coffin to the graveside were Mr McKnight’s flying pals Archie Alderdice and brothers Gregory and Gary Nicholson — who witnessed the horrific scenes last Friday. Mr McKnight’s wife and daughters carried red roses and wept as they made their way towards the grave.
And Kilkeel Councillor Henry Reilly who eyeballed that 2007 “crash site” also gave a touching tribute to the three deceased in the 2009 air crash. The world of aviation is vanishingly in Co Down.
From the Belfast Newsletter; 15 June, 2009:
UK Independence Party councillor Henry Reilly said he visited the homes of the deceased yesterday and “it was so terribly sad”.
“The remains of the deceased are not home yet, but they should be coming on Monday.
“The funerals will he held on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Being in the family homes tonight was absolutely devastating. My heart really goes out to the families. They are all fine decent people.
“I am not sure if their families realise just yet but the community is really rallying round them and really care for them.”
By the time of the AIIB investigation into that 2009 Kilkeel crash, UKIP Councillor Reilly was by now a competent air-crash authority himself:
This from the Belfast Newsletter; 9 April, 2010:
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch report said that pilot Hugh McKnight may have felt under pressure to land quickly and that it was not clear whether he had seen the weather forecast.
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Mr McKnight, a 53-year-old former police officer, was returning from the TT races in the Isle of Man with passengers Stephen Annett and Andrew Burden, both 24, when they crashed into a field in Kilkeel on June 12.The report said that deteriorating weather meant the pilot was unable to land at his destination, so he diverted to a nearby airfield.
Mr McKnight turned his aircraft to align it with the runway, but during the turn the nose dropped, probably as a result of a stall, and the aircraft dived into the ground. The occupants were fatally injured and the aircraft was destroyed in the fire that followed.
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Evidence from the wreckage showed that the engine was still delivering power at impact. The report found that the reduction in airflow over the wings during the turn was sufficient to cause the stall.However, Kilkeel councillor Henry Reilly said he still felt engine failure was to blame.
“Hugh was a very experienced pilot who would not have taken risks in order to get a quick landing,” he said.
The air crash was the second in the area in a fortnight. Two men survived the previous crash.
Picture below, UKIP Councillor Henry Reilly with party leader Nigel Farage. Who is of course remembered for his own air-crash catastrophe, just weeks later on election day, 6 May 2010.
I think that seals it.
And if that doesn’t seal it, then maybe this will? From the Sunday Times; Oct 31, 2010:
Those who died were Charles Stisted, 47, chief executive of the Guards Polo Club in Windsor, where Prince Charles and his sons, William and Harry, are members; Ian Wooldridge, 51, a construction company boss, member of the club and friend of Prince Philip, its president; and Anthony “A J” Smith, 59, a former RAF instructor who was flying Wooldridge’s £3m (*3.45m) aircraft.
Stisted, a former officer in the Scots Guards who lived with his wife Melissa and two children in a £1.1m house in Fulham, southwest London, is credited with turning his club’s polo matches on Smith’s Lawn at Windsor into a highlight of the social season. It is now the largest polo club in Europe, costing £17,500 to join.
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The eight-seater Augusta A109A Mark II helicopter was one of several taking off at 15-minute intervals to fly the shooting party back to the British mainland on Saturday, October 23.At the controls was [A J] Smith, a pilot with almost 40 years’ experience who had flown everything from RAF Pumas to a JetRanger owned by Sir Ian Botham, the cricketer.
Smith was described as a “legend” by former colleagues last week. Once, when he was transferring a premature baby from Northern Ireland to a specialist care unit in Dublin during the IRA troubles, he was airborne with the baby in an incubator and a full medical team when he received a radio message saying clearance to cross the Irish border had been refused and he was to return north.
There was a few seconds’ pause and then Smith replied: “Difficult. Will contact by landline from destination. Out.” His Augusta is not the only aircraft to come to grief in the Mournes in recent days.
The pilot “a legend”, no less. And a double-entendre, to be sure.
From the Daily Mirror; Oct 25, 2010:
Investigators from the Air Accident Investigation Branch in London flew up to the two cordoned-off crash sites yesterday to begin to piece together what caused the triple tragedy.
An exclusion zone of four miles was in place around the mountain-top crash and unauthorised aircraft were banned from flying near the scene.
Which kept the nosey-parkers safely at bay from the crash-free crash site. But alas, more air-terror was in store for the Mountains of Mourne. And just five days later. From The Guardian; 29 Oct 2010:
A helicopter hired by police to investigate the scene of an earlier crash on Northern Ireland’s Mourne mountains flipped over and plunged to the ground yesterday.
Four people were taken to hospital. Their injuries were not life-threatening, and police said they had been able to stumble away from the aircraft.
The team had been investigating a helicopter crash that killed three people near Hilltown, County Down, last weekend.
The helicopter involved in the latest incident was a Eurocopter Squirrel that was on lease to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). It had been attempting to land when it crashed.
It was carrying a pilot, photographer, observer and an officer from the police emergency team. Two of them were carried off the mountains by stretcher. The weather at the time was poor, with low cloud, heavy rain and strong winds.
The Air Accident Investigation Board was called in to investigate the latest accident.
From The Times; 25 Oct, 2010:
The [Agusta] helicopter is believed to have been flown by Mr Wooldridge’s personal pilot, a former military pilot who had served in Northern Ireland and later worked for a number of City figures.
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[Deceased passenger] Mr Stisted, 47, became one of world’s most influential polo figures after his appointment as events manager at the Guards Club in 1990. He was promoted to secretary in 1995 and oversaw its conversion from military control to a civilian administration.The club has about 1,000 non-playing members and about 160 playing members, among whom are some of the highest-rated players in the world Mr Stisted was educated at Fettes and Westminster University before entering Sandhurst.
Fettes and Westminster University? Back then, when Stisted would have been an undergrad, it was just plain old Polytechnic of Central London. Unusual combination. Elite boarding school followed by inner-city poly?
[second deceased passenger] Mr Wooldridge, 51, was the head of the Surrey-based Wooldridge Group.
The family-owned company, which has a £40 million turnover and 300 employees, includes construction, demolition, plant hire and recycling. It is currently working for the Guards Club on creating two full size pitches and a practice ground in Windsor Great Park.
Mr Wooldridge bought the Agusta helicopter about two years ago. The helicopter was based at the Redhill aerodrome, in Surrey, but is believed to have been scheduled to land at Caernarfon airport, in North Wales, on Saturday afternoon.
Redhill aerodrome denied any such link to the crashed chopper. From the Redhill And Reigate Life; 26 Oct, 2010:
Phil Wright, manager of Redhill Aerodrome, said the aerodrome was “not involved in any way whatsoever” in the investigation into the crash.
He said: “The helicopter was not based at Redhill. It only came to Redhill for maintenance.
“It was based on the owner’s estate up at Sunningdale, near Virginia Water.”
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The privately-owned Agusta helicopter, which was American-registered, was based at the owner’s estate near Virginia Water, but went to Redhill Aerodrome for maintenance work.This was carried out by EBG Sales and Maintenance, one of two helicopter maintenance companies based at the aerodrome.
They confirmed they looked after the Agusta, a medium-sized helicopter capable of carrying up to eight people, and it had last been there on October 15.
But a staff member said yesterday: “We’ve decided to make no comment. It’s completely in the hands of the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB).
“There’s no comment or statement from our company.”
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[Mr Wright; aerodrome manager] said EBG Sales and Maintenance had been at the aerodrome many years and had a couple of hangars there.He said a lot of helicopters came to the aerodrome as their maintenance was the prime business of EBG Sales and Maintenance, and the other company there, London Helicopter Centre.
And, of course, no air-crash psyop would be complete without stories of the ones who ‘got away’. Those who defied death; cancelling their travel plans at the last hour..
From The Sunday Times; 31 Oct, 2010His [Charles Stisted’s] wife Melissa was going to join them but instead took their son Freddie, 13, and daughter Allegra, 10, to Dubai for a half-term break.
And from the Daily Telegraph; 4 Oct, 2011:
It was disclosed by the coroner that one man who was in the shooting party at Baronscourt and was the last to see the three men alive, declined to take a lift back to England as he had a social engagement in Co Donegal in the Irish Republic.
Staying with the inquest, it was a full inquest with jury held in Feb 2012 by John Leckey, Belfast’s senior coroner. The blood and gore courtesy of the Daily Mirror, 21 Feb, 2012:
THE tearful widow of a pilot who died in a helicopter crash heard the details yesterday of how his body parts were recovered.
Anthony Smith, 63, died along with his passengers Charles Stisted and Ian Wooldridge on October 23, 2010.
The Agusta A109A helicopter they were travelling in, co-owned by Mr Wooldridge, crashed into Shanlieve Mountain in Co Down on a journey to Wales from a shooting trip in Co Tyrone.
Mr Stisted, 47, was chief executive of the Guards Polo Club at Windsor and a personal friend of the Princes Charles, William and Harry.
Mr Wooldridge, 52, was a senior figure in Dublin-based Harcourt Developments, the company involved in the development of Belfast’s Titanic Quarter.
Dr James Lyness, assistant state pathologist for Northern Ireland, told Belfast Coroners Court yesterday the men had died from multiple injuries.
He said it had been not possible to do a full postmortem on each of the men’s organs because of their injuries.
Senior coroner John Leckey praised four hillwalkers who discovered the crash site and the emergency services for what they achieved in “difficult circumstances”.
PE teacher Sean Featherstone said he smelt burning and knew by the look on his friend’s face something was badly wrong.
He added: “The engine looked like a burnt-out car. I saw flesh and parts of bodies on the ground.”
To end on a happier note, it’s impressive to watch the politicos of Northern Ireland from all sides of the political ‘divide’; setting aside their differences; and expressing heartfelt sympathies for those involved in the chopper tragedy.
Tributes flooding in for the Windsors’ elite polo club executives from leaders of the UUP, DUP, Alliance Party, SDLP and, not least, Sinn Fein.
Final word to Michelle Gildernew, the Sinn Fein MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone which covers Enniskillen [who subsequently lost her seat in the faux 2015 election] said: “This is a shocking and tragic accident and my sympathies go out at this time to the families of those who have lost their lives.”
‘Spiv’ speculates that the Glasgow Bin Lorry hoax was a precursor to introducing stringent new medical rules for drivers; announced this week. In plans proposed by the General Medical Council – notably not by the government – GPs will be expected to override patient-doctor confidentiality and inform the UK driving authorities (DVLA) if they believe a patient should not be on the road.
Plausible enough; although would that alone warrant all the effort in running the psyop? Did it need a huge hoax to bring about that change?
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