OPEN VERDICT IN BEREZOVSKY DEATH

It looks like the coroner was being forced down the suicide route until the Berezovsky family managed to get an expert witness to testify that he believes that Berezovsky was strangled.

There is something very sinister going on in Great Britain regarding Russians in exile.

In late 2006 Alexander Litvinenko was headline news morning, noon and night pointing his radioactive finger at Vladimir Putin. The alleged murderers were Andrei Luguvoi and Dmitri Kovtun. The British government has consistently said that it has the evidence to prove this, but at every opportunity it hides behind national security or protecting international trade agreements or some other bullshit. Last year was a perfect opportunity to reveal to the world the evidence it has in order to persuade/blackmail Putin into dumping Assad, but Prince Bandar bin Sultan was sent to Russia to meet Putin and issue a threat: dump Assad or there will be hell in Syria. Putin rejected the offer. On 21st August there was the false flag attack in Ghouta. This same logic applies to Crimea. The evidence could be revealed to persuade/blackmail Putin to pull out of Crimea. But no. The evidence stays hidden away.

We were told that Litvinenko didn't work for MI6. It turns out he did.

We were told that Luguvoi administered the Polonium 210. But as far as we know he is not an assassin, and definitely not trained in the deadly use of radioactive poison. And if he was guilty he was risking the lives of his family who were in London with him to watch a football match.

Berezovsky had apparently written to Putin requesting a return to Russia. If Litvinenko worked for MI6 then so did Berezovsky. And he had some tales to tell...

And when the forensic team arrived at Berezovsky's house their radiation meters went off!!

When it comes to Berezovsky everything is very, very murky.

He was one dodgy, murky dude.

And it says a lot that the British wanted his death swept quickly under the carpet as a suicide, while his family were sceptical enough to provide an expert witness to say that Bez had been strangled.

A coroner has recorded an open verdict on the death of Boris Berezovsky after hearing conflicting expert evidence about the way the Russian oligarch was found hanged.

Police had said they found no evidence of foul play and the pathologist who conducted a postmortem examination said he could rule out murder.

However, Professor Bern Brinkmann, a German forensic scientist retained by members of the businessman's family, said an examination of autopsy photographs had led him to conclude that Berezovsky had not killed himself.

The Berkshire coroner said on Thursday that after hearing that evidence he was unable to reach a conclusion on how Berezovsky had died.

[source : Boris Berezovsky inquest returns open verdict on death, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/27/boris-berezovsky-inquest-open-verdict-death, 27th March 2014]