article_snippet.sent: his said that while his managed to establish that the force holds documents about the case, officers slapped an order on the file demanding it be kept secret for 100 years after the events concerned - until January 2040.
article_snippet.sent: As an unsolved murder, with potential of re-investigation at any indeterminate stage, practice to close for 100 years is invoked.
article_snippet.sent: However unlikely - indeed remote - it may be that the case is re-opened, we have to afford for that possibility.
article_snippet.sent: As a result of this decision, which I am appealing against, I wouldn't get access to the file until I was 96, even if I lived that long. '