Nick Clegg today announced a new independent legal inquiry into the 1994 Mull of Kintyre helicopter disaster that killed 29 people including top intelligence and anti-terrorist officers.
The deputy prime minister said the evidence surrounding the crash in western Scotland, which the RAF initially blamed on the two pilots, would be reviewed by a senior lawyer with no connections to previous reports.
An RAF board of inquiry ruled that the pilots – flight lieutenants Jonathan Tapper and Richard Cook – were guilty of "gross negligence". Their families have since been fighting to clear their names.
Clegg made the announcement in the House of Commons today during prime minister's questions as he was filling in for David Cameron who has flown to France to be with his ill father.
He told the Commons that the legal figure heading up the new investigation would have no links to past inquiries into the Mull of Kintyre accident.
The Guardian
