Dear Mr McGinty,
Further to my email of Monday of this week, I would have thought it a matter of common courtesy to thank me for taking the trouble to provide you with the medical report which you had requested in an earlier email.
In our telephone conversation last Friday, 23 July 2010, you told me that the Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor would be meeting this last Monday 26 July 2010 and that a letter would be sent to our lawyers, Leigh Day & Co., on Tuesday 27 July 2010. I have heard nothing from our lawyers. Would you be so good as to inform me whether the letter was written and sent as promised, and if not why not?
We have patiently waited for a response to a number of approaches from our lawyers, being especially anxious not to put pressure on the incoming coalition government, but our goodwill it seems has not been reciprocated for, to date, our lawyers have not received a single communication from the Lord Chancellor's office or the Attorney General's office since the General Election.
Given that it is now over six months since the Coroner passed to us the astounding information that Lord Hutton had SECRETLY classified for 70 years the medical documents relating to Dr Kelly's death, and given that Lord Hutton waited only two days following publication of that revelation before letting it be publicly known that he had no objection to the doctors seeing the medical records, and given that the Ministry of Justice has consistently been unable to explain the legal basis under which the documents were held following Lord Hutton's SECRET request for a 70 years embargo (you will be aware that the Hutton Inquiry was an ad hoc judicial inquiry NOT governed by the provisions of the Public Inquiries Act 1921), nor indeed to explain the legal basis under which the said documents continue to be hidden from public scrutiny, I and many other British citizens find it astonishing that the documents continue to be shrouded in such secrecy.
In these extraordinary circumstances, I think it is perfectly reasonable for British citizens to ask what is so important to hide in the documents that the new Government is prepared to risk its reputation for a refreshing and much longed for openness.
Further, put simply, it is my understanding that Dominic Grieve is waiting for evidence, and Ken Clarke is withholding the very same evidence. The irony of this farcical situation cannot be lost on you. If Dr David Kelly committed suicide as claimed, why the continuing secrecy and obfuscation, especially when Dominic Grieve has indicated that there has been an insufficiency of inquiry into Dr David Kelly's death, both immediately prior to the recent General Election while in Opposition, and since being appointed Attorney General.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Frost
Further to my email of Monday of this week, I would have thought it a matter of common courtesy to thank me for taking the trouble to provide you with the medical report which you had requested in an earlier email.
In our telephone conversation last Friday, 23 July 2010, you told me that the Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor would be meeting this last Monday 26 July 2010 and that a letter would be sent to our lawyers, Leigh Day & Co., on Tuesday 27 July 2010. I have heard nothing from our lawyers. Would you be so good as to inform me whether the letter was written and sent as promised, and if not why not?
We have patiently waited for a response to a number of approaches from our lawyers, being especially anxious not to put pressure on the incoming coalition government, but our goodwill it seems has not been reciprocated for, to date, our lawyers have not received a single communication from the Lord Chancellor's office or the Attorney General's office since the General Election.
Given that it is now over six months since the Coroner passed to us the astounding information that Lord Hutton had SECRETLY classified for 70 years the medical documents relating to Dr Kelly's death, and given that Lord Hutton waited only two days following publication of that revelation before letting it be publicly known that he had no objection to the doctors seeing the medical records, and given that the Ministry of Justice has consistently been unable to explain the legal basis under which the documents were held following Lord Hutton's SECRET request for a 70 years embargo (you will be aware that the Hutton Inquiry was an ad hoc judicial inquiry NOT governed by the provisions of the Public Inquiries Act 1921), nor indeed to explain the legal basis under which the said documents continue to be hidden from public scrutiny, I and many other British citizens find it astonishing that the documents continue to be shrouded in such secrecy.
In these extraordinary circumstances, I think it is perfectly reasonable for British citizens to ask what is so important to hide in the documents that the new Government is prepared to risk its reputation for a refreshing and much longed for openness.
Further, put simply, it is my understanding that Dominic Grieve is waiting for evidence, and Ken Clarke is withholding the very same evidence. The irony of this farcical situation cannot be lost on you. If Dr David Kelly committed suicide as claimed, why the continuing secrecy and obfuscation, especially when Dominic Grieve has indicated that there has been an insufficiency of inquiry into Dr David Kelly's death, both immediately prior to the recent General Election while in Opposition, and since being appointed Attorney General.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Stephen Frost
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