Stressed-out Hoon's photograph fracas

[Khephra]

Stressed-out Hoon's photograph fracas
By Kim Sengupta
26 July 2003


Geoff Hoon, the Secretary of State for Defence, was accused of threatening and insulting a photographer yesterday as he continued to face unremitting pressure over the death of the weapons expert David Kelly.

Mr Hoon leapt out of his car at a junction, accused the man of harassment, and allegedly called him a "low-life scumbag". The photographer, Doug Mark, said Mr Hoon's Special Branch bodyguard later apologised, saying the minister was " under a lot of stress at the moment".

The confrontation happened near Mr Hoon's home at Brearton, a village in Nottinghamshire, 24 hours after the Defence Secretary was reduced to ashen-faced silence at a Foreign Office press conference by questioning about his role in identifying Dr Kelly. Mr Hoon will be a witness in the judicial inquiry by Lord Hutton into the circumstances that led to the naming of Dr Kelly, the source of the BBC story that Downing Street "sexed up" last September's Iraq weapons dossier.



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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=427640

[SoCalDem]

1. ...".....He appears to have totally lost it......."

hmmmm as in "suicidal"????

[bpilgrim]

2. more people cracking...

i fear we are gonna start seeing this kind of thing more frequently.

i hope they don't do anything rash...
:scared:

peace