Core Participants

Of course the survivors of the Manchester Arena attack have been denied core participant status in the public inquiry. There needs to be a Coroner’s Inquest, and it needs to hear all the evidence. 

In opposition to the Gaddafi regime to which we were nevertheless deporting people to be tortured weeks before we invaded Libya, and in the service of this county’s poisonous relationship with Saudi Arabia, the Home Office, MI5 and MI6 made Manchester the global centre of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. A public inquiry will not do. There must be a Coroner’s Inquest.

Arising out of my unsuccessful parliamentary candidacy last year, a Chambers and Partners Band 1 legal practice is willing to pursue an action to bring about a Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, an action before the International Criminal Court against those who had brought slavery back to Libya, and an action before the High Court of Justiciary of Scotland inviting it to exercise its declaratory power against Tony Blair and his accomplices in the aggression against Iraq in 2003. 

This case could and should be added to those.