If the matter of whether Flt Lts Tapper and Cook were negligent were to go to a court of law then the comments of Lord Bach would be very different from those made in the Lords this afternoon.
The cavalier attitude of this second rate minister should be compared with the report of the Lords Select Committee and especially its conclusion where the ex Law Lord Jauncey stated in no uncertain terms that the case that the deceased pilots were negligent was no proved.
The views of Bach and Buff Hoon derive from the fact that they fully appreciate that their quaint and self servicing justification is not likely to be tested in a court of law. This knowledge allows them to continue the reprehensible mental torture on the families of the deceased pilots and to come up with comments such as that quoted by PPRune Pop that simply shows the muddled thinking of the ministers concerned.
For the families it is right that the campaign continues to persuade Her Majesty’s Government to do the right thing – something even the original inquiry members wanted to do and to accept that there is no legal justification for the findings of the two air marshals that Flt Lts Tapper and Cook were negligent.
Last edited by slj; 23rd Jul 2002 at 06:13.