Convicted RFK assassin says girl manipulated him

[Steve Franklin]

What really amazes me about this case is the coroner's report that placed the fatal gunshot at the back of Kennedy's neck at point blank range. It takes an awful lot of chutzpah to ignore something that obvious.

There are certain coroners and pathologists whose careers reveal that their appointment to particular, signficant, cases is perhaps less than accidental.

London's Metropolitan Police's onetime coroner of choice, Dr Mohmed Saeed Sulema "Freddy" Patel, is a case in point. Freddy was the first pathologist to examine the corpse of Ian Tomlinson, an entirely innocent man, struck by an overly aggressive and uncontrolled copper during London's 2009 G20 protests.

For an introduction to Freddy's, ahem, glorious career, see here.

I wasn't saying that the coroner ignored it. I was saying that everyone else ignored the coroner's report. The coroner, Thomas Noguchi, did a good job, even going so far as to telephone Cyril Wecht about the case.