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Memorial walk held for Harrow student who died mysteriously

Posted by Ian Proctor on Apr 6, 09 05:19 PM in

A MEMORIAL walk was held in a German town to demand further investigations into the death of a young Harrow man there six years ago.
The body of former Quainton Hall School pupil Jeremiah Duggan, 22, was discovered on a dual carriageway on the outskirts of Wiesbaden in 2003, five days after arriving in the west-central state capital.
While local authorities said there were no suspicious circumstances, his parents are adamant the British Jew was beaten to death by members of the LaRouche Schiller Institute, which the they describe as a dangerous anti-Semitic cult.
His mother Erica, of Golders Green, north London, and father Hugo, who still lives in Harrow, believe Jeremiah was "lured" to the town from his studies in Paris under the pretence of attending an anti-war conference.
The Duggans visited Wiesbaden on Friday March 27 to commemorative the sixth anniversary of their son's death by walking the route he allegedly ran in the 20 minutes before he died.
They distributed leaflets and held a public meeting to encourage local residents to expose LaRouche's sinister methods.
Mrs Duggan told the audience: "For six years we have tried to find out about the circumstances in which Jeremiah died.
"The German police closed the case without even a basic investigation and since then so many families have written to our website www.justiceforjeremiah.com telling me about the dangers of the LaRouche youth movement.
"They inform me how the youth  are brought in from all over the world to Hessen to be taught to be followers of this group.
"This is where they train and teach them. This is where my son died. What goes on here? We are here today to break the silence."
The 2003 British inquest returned a narrative verdict and ruled out suicide; the Duggans are still waiting to hear from the Attorney General whether their request for a fresh inquest will be granted.
Furthermore, a ruling is due soon from Germany's constitutional court over whether to uphold an application from the family that there was 'insufficiency of enquiry' by the police force of the state of Hessen.
The Duggans' Wiesbaden trip was documented by a Channel 4 news crew, to whom a local prosecutor stated that they had investigated the Schiller Institute and it had nothing to do with Jeremiah's death.

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