New Forensic Evidence In Duggan Case
A Jewish mother, whose son died in suspicious circumstances in German, this week claimed new forensic evidence proved that he’d been murdered and called on the Attorney General to reopen an investigation into his death.
Jeremiah Duggan was killed in March 2003 after accidentally stumbling across a meeting of the notoriously anti-semitic LaRouche Institute in Wiesbaden.
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German officials claimed the 22-year-old was hit by fast moving traffic and ruled that his death was suicide. But his mother, Erica, this week unveiled findings from two independent forensic experts which contradict the official story that he’d thrown himself in front of oncoming cars.
Presenting the evidence at Portcullis House in Westminster this week, she said that analysis of the body showed classic “defence wounds” on her son’s hands and forearms.
The report indicates that he may have been battered to death with a blunt instrument. It also asserts that there were no tyre marks or other signs on either Jeremiah to indicate that a vehicle had come into contact with the body.
Erica said: “It is four years since my son was killed and it has been very hard that, as a mother, I should be left to investigate the death of my own son."
To date, the authorities have resisted her appeals for the case to be reopened. But Erica said: “Now that we have obtained evidence from independent forensic pathologists, I am hoping that the German and the British authorities will conduct a full enquiry.”
The appeal was backed by her solicitor, Frances Swaine from Leigh Day & Co and lawyer Nicholas Becker from Germany, as well as Lord Janner, and Labour MPs Louise Ellman and Dr Rudi Vis.
The legal team are this week submitting their findings to the Attorney General for a new inquest.
Swaine said: “In all my years of work, I have never seen one case where the grounds for a full and frank inquiry into a suspicious death were so compelling. We are therefore asking the Attorney General to use his power to quash the original inquisition and order a new inquest.”
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