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The Grand Turk
Turkey Coroner Says UK Backer of Syria White Helmets Died from Fall
2019-12-17
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish coroners say the British ex-soldier who helped found the Syrian White Helmets rescue group died from a fall, state media reported on Monday.

James Le Mesurier was an ex-British Army officer who set up Mayday Rescue which helped train the White Helmets, a volunteer group responding to bombings by Syrian government forces.

He was found dead on November 11 outside the Istanbul apartment building where he lived.

The autopsy report said he died due to "general body trauma linked to a fall from height," state broadcaster TRT Haber said.

No DNA belonging to another person was found.

The four-page report from the Forensic Medicine Institute said Le Mesurier suffered internal bleeding and broken bones, the private DHA news agency added.

Ottoman Turkish police are believed to be treating the death as suicide.

Local media has claimed he sought help for mental health issues and his wife, Emma Hedvig Christina Winberg, reportedly told police he had had suicidal thoughts two weeks before his death.
Posted by:trailing wife

#13  Every single one of you should be ashamed... and me most of all, because not one of those occurred to me when I posted the article.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-12-17 21:54  

#12  Buzzard coroner suspects fowl play, recommends case be re-opened.
Posted by: Thusoter Jereth8889   2019-12-17 20:08  

#11  It's not the fall that kills you, it's the impact with the ground!
Posted by: Raj   2019-12-17 19:33  

#10  Pigeon, duck and raven coroners concur...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-17 14:20  

#9  He died from a fall. Multiple falls. Out a window.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-12-17 09:13  

#8  And I've got a bridge across the Bosporus that I can sell you...
Posted by: ptah   2019-12-17 08:22  

#7  Much like the Venezuelan dissident who fell from a police headquarters window. A regular epidemic of Epsteinia Involans.
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-12-17 07:28  

#6  and who caused his depression?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-12-17 05:56  

#5  At least he wasn't a Qatari mouthpiece Journalist like St. Khashoggi
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-17 05:31  

#4  Turkey Coroner Says UK Backer of Syria White Helmets Died from Fall

"...Repeatedly."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-12-17 05:27  

#3  "Messing with me this way IS suicide" - Vlad Taltos Putin
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-17 05:13  

#2  Founding a [insert noble cause] organization does nothing for your sense of self worth ? How odd.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-17 04:59  

#1  ÐŸÐ¸Ð·Ð´ÐµÑ†
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-17 02:16  

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