Foreign Office could be sued over Bali travel warnings
Families of those who died in the heinous Bali bombings have said they are contemplating legal action against the British Government over its handling of the tragedy.
Out of the 202 who died in last year’s terrorist attacks in the Muslim country 26 Britons were killed
Yesterday saw the start of the inquest at Hammersmith Town Hall, west London, into how 18 of the Britons, now repatriated, died on October 12, 2002, at the Sari Club and Paddy’s Bar near Kuta Beach in Bali.
The inquest is expected to last two days.
Angered relatives claimed Foreign Office travel warnings ought to have been increased after MI5 obtained new intelligence reports.
And they attacked the Government’s “breathtakingly” poor handling of the atrocity.
They are also demanding compensation for families of the victims. In Australia, relatives received the equivalent of £8,000 each.
Tobias Ellwood, 36, whose brother Jonathan, a teacher, was among those killed said: “MI5 were guilty. They had the information, they should have increased the threat level and, had they done so, my brother would be alive today.”
Indonesian authorities have pinpointed the militant Islamic group, Jemaah Islamiah, closely linked with al-Qaeda leader and Osama bin Laden, as probably responsible for the atrocities.
