Stuart Hyde & the death of Melvin Hodgson

Stuart Hyde has come under more attack from Tony Holland, who has published more documents involving this Chief Constable, suspended from duty following allegations of misconduct. This has been discussed on UK Legal.

Australian Deputy Premier Robert Fordham wrote to the British Home Secretary on Mr Holland's behalf. John Patten was one of the 3 Home Secretaries to be involved in negotiations over his case. Below is one of the letters in correspondence between them:

Letter from John Patten to Robert Fordham p1

Letter from John Patten to Robert Fordham p2

Letter from Robert Fordham to John Patten p1

Letter from Robert Fordham to John Patten p2

Police HMI Sir Colin Sampson was also implicated in advising Chief Constable Peter Nobes about the danger of Tony Holland seeing the Hodgson file:

Letter from Peter Nobes to Sir Colin Sampson

Lord Denning apologises to Tony Holland

Tony Holland's biography is now available here.