Erkin's
father,
Ramadan Guney, died in Northern Cyprus on 2 November 2006 in
suspicious circumstances. At the time it was suggested he died of a heart
attack, but his family has never believed this was the true cause of death.
Pressure from the family forced Surrey Police to carry out an exhumation in
February 2007 so that a further post mortem could take place in the UK.
Their suspicions
were reinforced by conflicting post mortem reports carried out in
Northern Cyprus and the UK:
How could teetotaller Ramadan Guney
have 222mg of pure ethanol in his bloodstream?
Why did he have several puncture
marks on his hand which are not consistent with insulin
injections for diabetics?
The last person to see Ramadan Guney alive was
Ibrahim Alciner, who alleges he was Ramadan Guney's "oldest and best
friend", yet was unable to explain why he didn't attend Mr Guney's funeral.
It was Mr Alciner who took the dying Ramadan Guney first to a clinic in
Kyrenia, then to the fourth floor of a Nicosia hospital (rather than
straight to its accident & emergency department). He then ordered hospital
staff to stop Mr Guney's family from seeing him while he was barely alive.
Why?
In an interview with Osman Alci (another friend
of Ramdan Guney's, who was with him the night he died), he maintains that
Ramdan Guney was killed for the financial gain of his assailant(s).
Another contact, Ferhat Bulut, claims to have
access to a DVD that was filmed as Ramadan Guney was drugged, assaulted, and
given an injection to ensure his prompt death. The DVD was supposedly to be
used as an extortion tool to encourage local money-lenders to hand over cash
in lieu of the forged cheques that would later be cashed upon Mr Guney's
passing.
A legal representative from the courts in Nicosia
informed Erkin Guney that Diane Holliday
had been in correspondence with the Cypriot lawyers representing those who
demanded that Ramadan Guney's (forged) cheques be cashed posthumously.
The inquest on Ramadan Guney's death has still to take
place in Surrey.
The suspicious circumstances of the death of Ramadan Guney are the
subject of a documentary being produced by
Roberto Gomez-Martin.
or
robertogomezmartin@film-maker.co.uk
You can read a report about the family's concerns
which appeared in
The Woking News & Mail in October 2008.
Further information will be posted here in due course.
