WHO KILLED SIR THOMAS DRAVISTON?
WHO KILLED SIR THOMAS DRAVISTON?Lord Mulberry stared gloomily at the papers that his personal secretary had set out so neatly on his desk. For reason of a strong sense of public duty and a not inconsiderable fee he had agreed to head up the inquiry into the death of Sir Thomas Draviston. He had met Draviston only twice and only once been invited to dinner, but he had known of the judge’s international reputation, his work for the UN Human Rights Commission, his brief period with the European Commission, his membership of the European Court of Human Rights and of course his consultancies with the International Criminal Court. There should be a ban on public men having private life. It would be cheaper that way.
Unfortunately the circumstances of Draviston’s death were such that press attention could not be avoided and the open verdict of the inquest had hardly dampened speculation. In this context the ‘public’, more specifically of course the press apparently had a right to know to search with forensic detail into the family life of one of the most remarkable legal minds in England. Mulberry’s task would be to make sure that the terms of that inquiry were strictly confined within a ‘need to know’ frame of reference. It was therefore essential to know what might have happened in order to decide what, if anything, the public needed to know. This included for example verifying if possible his alleged death-bed acceptance of a rather unlikely proposal of matrimony made to him by his Estonian/Russian ‘pupil’, a mere sixty years his junior.
On Lord Mulberry’s desk were eleven folders each folder enclosing a short statement. These were headed as follows;
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