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Thursday April 3 2008
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Mother takes battle
for justice to the PM
                                                                                                              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.
jerry