“Yet [Mr Amin’s] report states he has absolutely no idea how Alexander
died.”
Monson, a former London City University student, was arrested on suspicion of
using drugs after a night out with friends in Diani, on Kenya’s Indian Ocean
coast, where he lived with his mother, Hilary, 58.
But the toxicology report included in Mr Amin’s investigation states that
Kenyan authorities found “no presence of… any drugs” in his
system during a post-mortem.
“The report concedes and reconfirms… that Alexander was killed by blunt
force trauma,” Lord Monson said.
“We have said from the very beginning that Alexander was brutally killed
in police custody. Mr Amin’s report only serves to reinforce our view. And
yet not a single arrest has been made.”
Mr Amin’s only recommendation was for a public inquest, which the family have
rejected, saying that they will “only be satisfied with a murder
prosecution”.
The Kenyan report, dated June 19, says Monson was “tipsy” when he
was put into the cells at Diani Police Station at 230am on May 19.
“In the morning he was found sleeping across the door of the partition
cells,” it continues.
“At around 930am, police officers… noticed the deceased had a breathing
problem and they opted to bring him out of the cells for fresh air.”
Monson’s friends later found him collapsed in the reception area and
arranged to take him to the nearest hospital, but he never regained
consciousness and died later that afternoon.
“Our investigations did not reveal any police involvement in the death of
the deceased,” the 13-page report concludes.
“We interviewed a total of eight independent prisoners and they all
stated that there was no physical or verbal confrontation between the
officers manning the report office/cells and the deceased.
“Although the pathologists point out that a blunt head injury actually
occasioned the death of the deceased, our investigations could not
specifically establish how and where the said injury was sustained, when it
was sustained and who may have inflicted the injury.” A Kenyan police
spokesman could not be reached for comment last night. Mr Monson’s family
said they were considering their next move.
“This is a setback for us but it is not the end of the road,” Lord
Monson said.
“We’re confident that there are people of integrity and influence in
Kenya who will help us get justice for Alexander.”
There were concerns that the Mr Amin’s report was “laying the groundwork
to shift the blame” onto suggestions he had died from using drugs, a
source close to his family said.
It stated that samples taken from Mr Monson’s body during a post-mortem were
not transferred to laboratories correctly, and blames Dominic Martin, Mr
Monson’s uncle, for “not following protocol”.
“They’re trying to impute that the samples could have been fiddled with,
and that’s nonsense, they’re still clinging onto this ridiculous drugs line,”
the family friend said.
“More importantly, it has no bearing on the report’s confirmation that
Alexander died from a blow to the head that simply cannot be brought on by
smoking a joint, which that same report clearly states he had not even done.”
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