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Family of backpacker appeal for help to end the mystery of how he died
18 Feb 2013 16:36
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Michael Harvey, 34, from Irlam,Manchester was five months into a six-month backpacking holiday when he was found dead in a beach guesthouse in Aswem Beach, Goa, in March 2008
The family of a backpacker found dead in mysterious circumstances in a paradise resort are calling on the government to help end their agonising five-year wait for answers.
Michael Harvey, 34, from Irlam, was five months into a six-month backpacking holiday when he was found dead in a beach guesthouse in Aswem Beach, Goa, in March 2008.
An autopsy in India found Michael died of fluid retention in his brain and lungs but his cause of death has never been fully identified. A post-mortem was carried out in the UK three weeks after his death but because his body had been heavy embalmed, results could not be gained from blood and tissue samples.
Dad Keith, 64, and brother Colin, 40, have fought for five years to obtain samples taken in India before his body was flown home.
Now the family is to petition parliament in a bid to pressure the Indian government into releasing the samples so further tests can be carried out in the UK. Colin, of Ferryhill Road, Irlam, has been contacted by a number of other families facing similar struggles with the Indian authorities and said something needed to be done to help speed up the process for bereaved relatives.
He said: “All we want to know is how Michael died. We know the samples are still held in India but we can’t seem to get any answers over where they are or how we can get them back to the UK.
“It’s not unacceptable that we’ve been in the dark for such an unduly long amount of time and there seems to be no inclination to get anything done about it.
“We’re told by our GP that a number of things could have caused the fluid retention, it could have been the after effects of scuba diving or being at altitude but it’s five years on and we still don’t know.”
Worsley and Eccles South MP Barbara Keeley has written to foreign secretary William Hague to see what help the government can provide in obtaining the samples. The Ministry of Justice has also written to the Indian government on the issue but has not yet received a response
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18 Feb 2013 16:36
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Michael Harvey, 34, from Irlam,Manchester was five months into a six-month backpacking holiday when he was found dead in a beach guesthouse in Aswem Beach, Goa, in March 2008
The family of a backpacker found dead in mysterious circumstances in a paradise resort are calling on the government to help end their agonising five-year wait for answers.
Michael Harvey, 34, from Irlam, was five months into a six-month backpacking holiday when he was found dead in a beach guesthouse in Aswem Beach, Goa, in March 2008.
An autopsy in India found Michael died of fluid retention in his brain and lungs but his cause of death has never been fully identified. A post-mortem was carried out in the UK three weeks after his death but because his body had been heavy embalmed, results could not be gained from blood and tissue samples.
Dad Keith, 64, and brother Colin, 40, have fought for five years to obtain samples taken in India before his body was flown home.
Now the family is to petition parliament in a bid to pressure the Indian government into releasing the samples so further tests can be carried out in the UK. Colin, of Ferryhill Road, Irlam, has been contacted by a number of other families facing similar struggles with the Indian authorities and said something needed to be done to help speed up the process for bereaved relatives.
He said: “All we want to know is how Michael died. We know the samples are still held in India but we can’t seem to get any answers over where they are or how we can get them back to the UK.
“It’s not unacceptable that we’ve been in the dark for such an unduly long amount of time and there seems to be no inclination to get anything done about it.
“We’re told by our GP that a number of things could have caused the fluid retention, it could have been the after effects of scuba diving or being at altitude but it’s five years on and we still don’t know.”
Worsley and Eccles South MP Barbara Keeley has written to foreign secretary William Hague to see what help the government can provide in obtaining the samples. The Ministry of Justice has also written to the Indian government on the issue but has not yet received a response
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