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[davroslesueur]

Sadly, it seems a murder inquiry is unlikely, despite confirmation of five deaths.
However, Lenny once again pointed out, on Radio 4, the interference and concerns about Jersey's negative publicity from politicians.
A great quote was "they wish it would all go away!"
More here
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/31/jerseyisland.ukcrime?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7534350.stm

[davroslesueur]

Do you trust William Baillache

and this says it all really

Quote from Lenny Harper

"What has made this one significantly different from my perception and from any similar enquiries of this nature that I've been involved in before is the political hostility that it has engendered from amongst politicians who one would normally think would be crawling over themselves to offer support to the inquiry and the victims.

"And with a very few notable exceptions, that hasn't happened here.

"On the contrary the only interventions most of them seem to have made is to criticise the investigation, to make comments about us being out of control - because we're acting as if we think we're a politically independent organisation, which always struck me as the very backbone of proper policing."

[Nobody]

That's actually a very controversial and damning statement - one which if we had a proper media, would be reported so as to put those responsible to shame.

We have major elections in a few months, it would surely be in the public interest for those concerned to be named.

[gagged]

The only problem being we don't have a "proper media". Our media are not in the business of printing or broadcsating public opinion they are in the business of changing or swinging it.