Reply #48: Hmm, this is reminding me of the recent death of Christopher Shales [View All]

He was entirely connected up with Cameron and Murdoch's minions and lived near all of them, then a memo he wrote criticizing Tories is leaked (to of all places the Daily Mail) and he ends up dead in a toilet at a festival in Glastonbury.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/26/senior-tory-glastonbury-christopher-shale

From his passion for Glastonbury to his drive to reform his party's membership, in many ways Shale appeared to be an exemplary modern Conservative.

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A father of three, married to Nikki, 55, who runs a property company, Shale had worked in marketing and management consultancy and lived in a handsome house on a remote lane near the village of Over Worton in the rolling Oxfordshire countryside around Chipping Norton, which has become a weekend powerbase for the Conservatives.

His two sons, who were at Glastonbury with him, were due to return to the family home while his wife was to stay with his body in Somerset.

The family home is six miles from the Camerons' constituency cottage and a short drive from the homes of Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International, Elisabeth Murdoch, a board director of News Corp, and Steve Hilton, Cameron's director of strategy in Downing Street.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/27/christopher-shale-death-at-glastonbury

Much more at link to read, but here are 4 pertinent paragraphs:

11am

- Festival organiser Michael Eavis gives press conference saying he has heard it is "a suicide situation". Glastonbury officials later admit

he was not properly briefed.

- The festival refers all subsequent requests for Eavis to confirm his statement to police who brief that Shale appeared to have died from a heart attack.

8pm

- Police announce that the results of the postmortem, combined with the inquiries conducted into the circumstances surrounding the death, indicate it is not suspicious.
Monday, 27 June 2011

2.30pm

Tony Williams, the coroner for East Somerset, says toxicology and histology tests have been ordered after the coroner's court hears the cause of death was "unascertained". Shale's body is released to his family for burial.