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| − | The family's claim of a cover-up has been backed up by a book "The Valkyrie Operation" on Mr Moyle's death written by Wensley Clark <ref>ISBN 978-1857821970 The Valkyrie Operation - Wensley Clark - Blake Publishing 1998</ref>. The author alleges that Mr Moyle was killed by local hitmen. He further alleges that the hitmen were hired | + | The family's claim of a cover-up has been backed up by a book "The Valkyrie Operation" on Mr Moyle's death written by Wensley Clark <ref>ISBN 978-1857821970 The Valkyrie Operation - Wensley Clark - Blake Publishing 1998</ref>. The author alleges that Mr Moyle was killed by local hitmen. He further alleges that the hitmen were hired to protect a Chilean arms dealer's £300m plan to sell helicopter "gunship kits" to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein just before the Gulf War. The arms dealer, [[Carlos Cardoen]], denies he had anything to do with Mr Moyle's death and has produced his own website proclaiming his innocence. |
The investigation into Jonathan Moyle's death was reopened by the Santiago Court of Appeal in late 1997 following representations from a lawyer representing the family. | The investigation into Jonathan Moyle's death was reopened by the Santiago Court of Appeal in late 1997 following representations from a lawyer representing the family. | ||
Revision as of 12:47, 29 August 2010
Jonathan Moyle, was the 28-year-old editor of the magazine 'Defence Helicopter World', when he was found dead in room 1406 of Santiago's Carrera Hotel in March, 1990. His purpose in Santiago was to attend a Chilean sponsored defence conference. The UK inquest into the death of Mr Moyle, whose family are from East Devon, opened in Exeter in November, 1990. It was adjourned by coroner Richard Van Oppen after a pathologist said his inquiries could not be completed because vital organs had already been removed. In 1998 the reconvened inquest found that he had been unlawfully killed.
Family insist that Johnathan Moyle was murdered
The dead man's father, retired teacher Tony Moyle, has said there is "no question" but that his son was killed because he was about to expose an arms deal between Iraq and a Chilean arms dealer. Mr Moyle, who claimed his son was injected with a fatal dose of poison after first being sedated with drugged coffee, has spent £10,000 in a bid to bring the killers to justice.
The Chilean authorities at first dismissed the death of the former RAF helicopter pilot as suicide. But in December 1991, following pressure from the Moyle family, a Chilean judicial investigation concluded he had been murdered. In 1993, after an identity parade in Chile failed to identify a suspect, the murder hunt was halted.
Too close to the truth
The family's claim of a cover-up has been backed up by a book "The Valkyrie Operation" on Mr Moyle's death written by Wensley Clark [1]. The author alleges that Mr Moyle was killed by local hitmen. He further alleges that the hitmen were hired to protect a Chilean arms dealer's £300m plan to sell helicopter "gunship kits" to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein just before the Gulf War. The arms dealer, Carlos Cardoen, denies he had anything to do with Mr Moyle's death and has produced his own website proclaiming his innocence.
The investigation into Jonathan Moyle's death was reopened by the Santiago Court of Appeal in late 1997 following representations from a lawyer representing the family.
References
- ↑ ISBN 978-1857821970 The Valkyrie Operation - Wensley Clark - Blake Publishing 1998
