This video shared widely on social media raises doubt in the minds of some that the truth surrounding the death of 44 year old Natalie Crichlow is being suppressed by the authorities. The Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith confirmed in a press release no accelerant was detected from the post mortem process and likely cause…
This video shared widely on social media raises doubt in the minds of some that the truth surrounding the death of 44 year old Natalie Crichlow is being suppressed by the authorities. The Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith confirmed in a press release no accelerant was detected from the post mortem process and likely cause of death was as a result of a gas cylinder which exploded.
Further comment is therefore required from the police to clarify the matter.
I have been out of the loop for a while and knew nothing of this case. Just got the details from my best friend. Now I too am very puzzled. Strange case that probably needs some public accounting.
@ P:iece
I have been accused of criticising the local media by David BU. This is far from true. Any intervention on the quality of local journalism on my part is simply, with the best of intentions, with a view to assist in improvement.
Let me talk about my trade: the most important tool in a news editor’s armoury is a diary. It is his/her map as to what is taking place, what we call a diary event.
Barbadian news editors do not seem to have diaries, and if they do, they do not use them effectively. On numerous occasions they publish the beginning of stories but fail to follow through. The case of Natalie Crichlow is just one of the most important.
Occasionally I refer to others: PC Gittens, who shot his neighbour; the woman who claimed she was kidnapped and taken to an ATM; the man who was remanded for ten years; the prison officer facing charges; I can go on. There are numerous political examples.
It appears as if they think their readers should no longer have an interest in the outcomes of those cases.
What is not news is that the quality of local journalism is poor. They print one side of a story. They do not attempt to verify what sources say. They quote one source and care not for the source’s credibility. They do not follow up on stories. There is very little investigation.
That’s why I read the newspapers at the library or online.
And as for the broadcast media – CBC News Night – pure piffle. I no longer watch.
@ Mr Hal Austin
Hal I wrote this earlier but you can understand why it was blocked…
@ Mr Hal Austin
Hal, you might not have seen this article AND SINCE IT IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE PARTIES HERE ASSEMBLED TO FEATURE THIS, they have not.
https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/241252/evidence-intruder
It has become obvious that the parties are reading Barbados Underground as it is obvious that Barbados Underground is keeping the parties up to date.
In addition to “reading” our submissions avidly, in real time heheheheh
However what is central to all this monitoring IS THAT THEY ARE MINDFUL OF THE POWER OF THE FOURTH ESTATE.
It is keeping them on their toes and that is part of what we want IS IT NOT?
Well done WARU, and Mariposa and the Honourable Blogmaster
@ the Honourable Blogmaster
Your assistance please with an item here for Mr Hal Austin thank you kindly
@ Mr Hal Austin
Hal, you might not have seen this article AND SINCE IT IS NOT IN THE INTEREST OF THE PARTIES HERE ASSEMBLED TO FEATURE THIS, they have not.
https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/241252/evidence-intruder
@ Mr Hal Austin
Hal, your observation about them is spot on.
They dont have a clue about what journalism is AND YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT in Barbados, the drivers for journalism is not investigative reporting but sensational headlines.
Here is part 2 to the item that cant get posted heheheheh
It has become obvious that the parties are reading Barbados Underground as it is obvious that Barbados Underground is keeping the parties up to date.
In addition to “reading” our submissions avidly, in real time heheheheh
However what is central to all this monitoring IS THAT THEY ARE MINDFUL OF THE POWER OF THE FOURTH ESTATE.
It is keeping them on their toes and that is part of what we want IS IT NOT?
Well done WARU, and Mariposa and the Honourable Blogmaster
@Piece
I am not a detective, but the forensics seem amateurish. Where is the press?
@ the Honourable Blogmaster
Your assistance please with an item of thanks for you and 2 others for an article that gave Justice to the life of Natalie Critchlow
Well done
If Natalie’s body is now back in the UK, the family and advisers have a moral duty to tell the public. This cannot be a family secret. Is the body back in Britain, yes or no?
The widow of a man who died in Italy in suspicious circumstances says the support she got was “like a jigsaw that had not been put together effectively”.
Trudy Cowan’s husband Russell, 44, from Derbyshire, died of “catastrophic” head injuries during a trip in 2016.
She says her family was “essentially left on our own” by the UK authorities.
Her comments come as a report from the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales called on the government to offer more help in such cases.
Dame Vera Baird said support for the bereaved was “patchy and sometimes inadequate”.
The Foreign Office said it had a team supporting the families of British people killed abroad and would look at implementing the commissioner’s recommendations.
Every year between 60 and 90 UK citizens die in suspicious circumstances overseas.
Ex-RAF officer Russell, from Chesterfield, had been in Menaggio near Lake Como with three friends to take part in a classic car rally for charity.
He phoned his wife, with whom he had two children, on Saturday, 4 June, 2016 to say he was going out for a meal and was leaving his phone in his room.
Trudy received a call on the Sunday morning from one of Russell’s friends telling her that her partner of 25 years had been involved in an accident and had died.
Trudy Cowan (right) says her family were offered no help following her husband’s death
“Our priorities were getting to Italy, finding out what happened, and getting Russell back home,” she says.
“But the support mechanisms that should have been in place for somebody that had lost someone abroad – they weren’t there or available for us.”
She says the Foreign Office emailed to say nobody would be coming to meet them or help them with the local police.
The family were not offered a translator or a family liaison officer, she says, while police in the UK said the incident was out of their jurisdiction.
“Everywhere we turned, we were basically told ‘I’m sorry but we can’t help you’,” she says. “It was like trying to swim in a sea of custard, blindfolded.
“It’s just not a joined-up approach. It’s unwieldy for families that are trying to navigate through a system at a time when you’re expected to make decisions at the worst point in your life, when your mind is like a fog.”
Mr Cowan’s body was found at the bottom of a fence by a private villa (left)
Italian authorities concluded his death was an accident after he fell 8m (26ft) from a fence.
But his family do not believe it was an accident – a UK coroner ruled in 2017 that there may have been third party involvement – and an appeal against the Italian ruling is being heard in Como next month.
‘Uphill struggle’
Trudy’s case was one of those looked at as part of the report published by the Victims’ Commissioner on Wednesday.
Despite the dedicated team the Foreign Office set up four years ago to support people whose loved ones were killed or murdered outside the UK, Dame Vera Baird said it was still an uphill struggle.
Her report cites the case of a bereaved mother who said the Foreign Office would not provide an interpreter for a court hearing in case they made a mistake – the family sued them.
A woman whose partner died in India claimed the Foreign Office advised her to have the body cremated rather than repatriated because it was cheaper.
Dame Vera said families should get the same entitlements as they do in the UK.
Among 17 recommendations, she said families of those murdered abroad should be entitled to financial help under the criminal injuries compensation scheme.
The Ministry of Justice said the proposal would be considered as part of a wider review.
Trudy says she “fully endorses” the recommendations, although she says she would not personally have pursued financial compensation.
“As a family we just want the truth. We want justice for Russell,” she says.
The Lucie Blackman Trust, which supports British nationals in crisis overseas, said it helps UK nationals with some of the issues cited by the report and urged anyone who is facing those problems to contact the charity.
The Foreign Office said it helped more than 22,000 British people overseas last year, including cases involving more than 4,000 deaths.
“We now have a dedicated team to support families of homicide victims, including funding translation where required,” it added in a statement.
“We will look at what more we can do, including implementing many of these recommendations.”
The Foreign Office said it had recently conducted a review of consular services and it would set out proposals shortly.(Quote)
Any update?
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