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PaulaFarrell Donating Member (840 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 02:20 AM
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Mother whose son died in Iraq serves summons on Blair
TONY BLAIR has been summonsed by a county court to appear as a witness in a case involving the mother of a soldier killed two days after the war in Iraq began in 2003.
The summons has been sent to Downing Street, after the mother of Sergeant Les Hehir, of 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, named the Prime Minister as a witness.



Pat Blackburn, the mother of the 34-year-old soldier who was killed in a helicopter crash south of the Kuwait border on March 21, 2003, is to appear at Weymouth County Court next week charged with non- payment of £15,000 income tax in a case brought by the Inland Revenue. Mrs Blackburn has withheld paying her tax bill in protest over the Iraq war
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She said that any named witness summonsed by a court had to “make an application to the judge not to attend”. Downing Street has refused to make any comment. Mrs Blackburn, from Dorchester, Dorset, said that she had offered Mr Blair £500 to cover his travel expenses and loss of earnings for the day if he turned up for the court hearing. She said: “If Tony Blair can visit Weymouth to campaign before the election he can return to appear in court. I fully expect to be standing in the dock with the Prime Minister in court.”

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1657757,00.html

I know this won't get anywhere, but...
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LightningFlash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:04 AM
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1. Bring the media out....
Alert them the lawsuits are coming.
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oscarmitre Donating Member (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:33 AM
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2. Blair forgot
about the Doctrine of the Separation of Powers. Without it there is no democracy.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:44 AM
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3. You're right, sadly this won't get anywhere
But she'll get some media attention for her story, and possibly a reduction in what she owes the Inland Revenue.

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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 05:08 AM
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4. Good for her. They are very activist over there. I hope she gets
her way. No matter how he answers, if he doesn't come, he's toast. No win for him.
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