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By Nick Griffin
THE mother of a student found
dead on a German road five years ago will today call on Gordon Brown to order a fresh inve tigation into her son's death. Erica Duggan, from Golders
Green, is to travel to 10 Downing Street today to deliver a letter and petition imploring the Prime Minister to order British police to investigate her son Jeremiah's mysterious death, almost five years to the day since he died. The 22-year-old's body was
found on a desolate stretch of motorway near the German town of Wiesbaden on March 27, 2003. German authorities maintain
he took his own life by running into the path of two speeding cars, but detailed examination of photos of Jeremiah's body by leading forensic experts sug- gested that he may in fact have been attacked. A British coroner also fuelled
speculation over the death when he delivered a narrative verdict - concluding only that Jeremiah died "in a state of terror". The young student was in Wiesbaden attending what he believed was an anti-war rally, but which was in fact a conference |
organised by a shadowy, far-right
political group called the LaRouche Youth Movement. Along with the 800 name peti-
tion, Mrs Duggan will deliver a letter to Gordon Brown in which she says: "Today I appeal to you not only as Prime Minister of our country, but also as a father who knows what it is to lose a child. "A parent has the need to know
the truth about the death of their son or daughter. "I find, no matter what I do, I
am fighting a system that does not help me get what any mother would want - an investigation into the death of her son." In February, The Press reported
on the British Attorney General's refusal to launch a fresh inquest into Jeremiah's death. Mrs Duggan said: "There has
never been an investigation into Jeremiah's death, in this country or abroad. "It is because of the failures in
the British proceedings that I have had to strive day and night for five years to uncover the truth about how my son Jeremiah died." For more information, or to
donate money to Mrs Duggan's campaign, visit www.justiceforjeremiah.com. |
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