7/7 survivors launch legal challenge to force independent inquiry

Published: August 31, 2007, 3:50 am

Daily Mail Aug 31, 2007 Survivors and relatives of the 52 commuters killed in the 7/7 London bombings of 2005, have begun legal action to force the government to hold an independent inquiry into the attacks. The group argues official accounts of the suicide bombings on London’s transport system carried out by four young British Islamists have been insufficient, inaccurate and misleading. The 7/7 inquiry group, made up of bereaved relatives and those who escaped the bombings, says the refusal to hold a public inquiry breaches the European Convention on Human Rights and intends to seek a judicial review of that decision. Lawyers for the group said the papers were being served at the High Court on Thursday. “Firstly we say that the decision of the former Home Secretary not to order an inquiry was irrational,” lawyer Cliff Tibber said. “Secondly there is a positive duty under article 2 of the Human Rights Act in these circumstances to order an inquiry.” The

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