FACSIMILE DOCUMENT LEADER
Consular Division
FORIEGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
FAX NUMBER : 071-2704 1134
Page 1 of 1 Date: 15 Apr 1996
FROM: Jem Convery
TELEPHONE NO: 071 270 4125
TO : Mr. Geoff Williams
CC : Mr. Frank Dobson, Heron & Dobson Solicitors
Dear Mr. Williams
Further to our earlier conversation, I attach a copy of a news article from the Malta Business Weekly as requested.
Miss Heather Drysdale, our Vice-Consul, contacted your lawyer, Dr Christian Farrugia for his opinion. Dr Farraugia commented that there was no indication that a link existed between the aircraft's disappearance and the assassination of Fathi Shqaqi. He believed that the disappearance or the aircraft following the assassination was coincidental.
The Maltese Attorney General told Miss Drysdale that the result of the appeal made by the pilot's family, about the composition of the Public Inquiry Board, should be known by 12 April. We have heard nothing to date. Miss Drysdale will check with the Attorney General’s office again to see lf there are any developments.
I will call you when we hear this result. Please contact me on the above number if I can help further. Also note my new address and telephone number at the top of this page.
Yours Sincerely
Jem Convery
Desk Officer
for Malta