article_snippet: Then the police come back to court with a ludicrous suggestion which would create huge delays, not only for Des, 66, and Doreen James, 63, Cheryl’s parents, from Carreghofa on the Shropshire-Montgomeryshire border but for all of the families.
article_snippet: ‘You’ve got four kids who die on the same site and the police link the police together, even though two of them died almost seven years apart.
article_snippet: Surrey Police never intended there to be a thorough investigation and Surrey Police are trying to halt the case again.
article_snippet: Surrey Police handed the matter to the Army, which treated it as suicide.
article_snippet: After Liberty threatened legal action, Surrey Police caved in and handed over 44 volumes of statements, notes and photographs in 2012.
article_snippet: But the force has still not handed over 25 per cent of the files on my daughter’s death.
article_snippet: Pte James added: ‘If we can make a case with 75 per cent of the files, one must wonder what else is to come and why exactly it has taken Surrey Police almost ten years to hand it over.
article_snippet: Surrey Police have let us down over and over again.
article_snippet: Surrey Police let us down in 1995 when Surrey Police ignored us daughter’s death by leaving it to the army.
article_snippet: Surrey Police let us down a second time when Surrey Police conducted a sloppy investigation in 2002, which left huge questions… not least of which was
article_snippet: Surrey Police didn’t allow the dignity of those poor kids to have individual investigations.
article_snippet: That it should be Surrey Police that is again standing in the way of – or significantly delaying – justice is disgraceful.
article_snippet: Surrey Police said it was ‘only in Surrey Police interest’, not in the interest of the families, and said Surrey Police
article_snippet: Surrey Police are being obstructive by trying to delay this and Surrey Police have not been there for the family’s.
article_snippet: The concern has always been that they (Surrey Police) were predisposed to find suicide and
article_snippet: It is such an hypocrisy, Surry Police pretending that Surry Police have the families interests at heart when Surry Police have abjectly refused to allow us disclosure for so many years.
article_snippet: An inside source claimed Surrey Police were ‘lumping’ the cases together to ‘soften the blow’ to the force by taking ‘one bad hit at once’, rather than four separate hits.
article_snippet: An inside source added: ‘There is a fear that An inside source is going to be easier to mask the individual failings if the cases are all lumped together.
article_snippet: Mr James added: ‘I can’t understand for the life of Mr James how Surrey police think by dictating the pace of this Surrey police are doing the families a favour.
article_snippet: Surrey Police are holding all of this up, we are ready to go, and the MoD is ready to go.
article_snippet: A Surrey Police spokesman said: ‘Surrey Police is supportive of the view that there should be a thorough inquest into the circumstances in which Private Cheryl James died.
article_snippet: This was raised as a matter for consideration and Surrey Police will fully support the coronial process.