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'We deserve better' Jenni Balmer-Hornby, whose father Major Anthony Hornby was among 29 people killed in a Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, told #BBCBreakfast the families are calling on Andy Burnham to order a fresh independent review - after he'd previously spoken out about...

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JUDGE TELLS CHINOOK CRASH FAMILIES THEY GRIEVED TOO SLOWLY FOR JUSTICE In 1994 a Chinook helicopter crashed into the Mull of Kintyre and killed 29 people, including 25 of the UK's top intelligence and counter terrorism experts working in Northern Ireland at the time. The Ministry of Defence Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 blamed the dead pilots for it. It took a 17 year campaign by their families to clear their names in 2011. The actual cause of the crash was never established. Key documents about what really happened have been sealed by the government for 100 years, until 2094, by which point every grieving relative alive today will also be gone. Handy timing. So the families formed the Chinook Justice Campaign Chinook Justice and went to the High Court asking for exactly one thing, an independent investigation into what happened to their fathers, brothers and sons. Their lawyer Mark Stephens Mark Stephens of Howard Kennedy Howard Kennedy argued the MoD is sitting on evidence the aircraft may have been known to be unsafe before it ever took off. Mr Justice Butcher agreed it was a tragedy. Then he threw the case out. His reasoning, the families should have complained sooner, ideally sometime during the 14 years the MoD spent stonewalling them and sealing the paperwork. "No such grounds have been shown" he said, on why they waited too long to sue over documents they were never shown in the first place. Andy Tobias, whose father died in the crash, called the ruling "an absolute travesty of justice." Jenni Balmer-Hornby, whose father Anthony was among the dead, said "all we are asking for is the truth." Mark Stephens summed it up best, justice delayed should not become justice denied. He's now calling on Andy Burnham, tipped to be the next Prime Minister, to fix with a decision what the courts wouldn't touch. If domestic law won't move, the families say they're heading to the European Court of Human Rights, the same road the Hillsborough families walked. 32 years. 29 dead. 100 year lock on the files. And a High Court ruling that the real scandal is the paperwork deadline, not the plane. This is what institutional accountability looks like in Britain in 2026. Bury the evidence, outlast the families, then tell them they missed the window. Sources: The Telegraph ITV News BBC News (UK) STV News and others

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