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May 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The mourners included Mr Monson’s mother Hilary, 58, his 25-year-old sister,
Isabella, and his grandmother, Lady Emma Monson, as well as his closest
friends from Britain, including former classmates from Marlborough College,
where he was a contemporary of Pippa Middleton. Others had flown in from
South Africa, Zimbabwe, the United States and elsewhere.
Speaking to The Telegraph yesterday, Isabella Monson described her
brother as “unfailingly kind”.
“You could be so cross with him about something, anything, and he’d give
you a big smile and big bear hug and that would be it, you’re no longer
cross with him,” she said. “That smile and that hug, I am going to
miss them so much.”
The memorial service began with mourners walking on to the beach and into the
shallow waters at exactly 5.10pm – seven days to the minute since Mr Monson
died, handcuffed to a bed in a hospital less than five miles from his
mother’s house.
He had suffered a massive blood clot on his brain, caused by a blow to the
head, having been taken to hospital from police custody. Kenyan police, who
had arrested Mr Monson outside an open-all-hours bar in Diani on suspicion
of smoking cannabis, have repeatedly denied allegations that one of their
officers assaulted him.
Under intense pressure from the family, and with the Foreign Office and
international and local media all taking a close interest in the case,
Kenyan police yesterday announced an investigation into Mr Monson’s last
hours.
“All aspects” of his death would be examined, including allegations
that he was attacked while in custody, said Ambrose Munyasia, head of CID at
the provincial police headquarters in Mombasa.
“We visited the family yesterday and took a record of what they are
saying. They are still in shock,” he said. “We expect to make an
announcement on this unfortunate case as early as next week.”
The sequence of events that led the only son and heir of the 12th Baron Monson
of Burton from “robust health” and a gilded life on Kenya’s coast
to a sudden death has still not fully been explained.
Kenyan police arrested Mr Monson for possession of cannabis after a night out
last Friday, and detained him until the morning, when he fell sick, then
unconscious and eventually died in hospital 13 hours after his arrest.
He was found with other substances said to be drugs, and police have
repeatedly said that the brain haemorrhage that killed him was caused by
drug use.
Mr Monson’s family do not deny that he may have smoked cannabis that night, or
that he was found with anti-anxiety “downer” pills and a small
vial of ketamine, a recreational drug derived from veterinary
tranquillisers. The fact that Mr Monson had such drugs on him was no
surprise to his friends; Diani Beach, where he lived with his mother, is a
party town.
But, insists Lord Monson, that is “entirely irrelevant to the fact of the
cause of Alexander’s death, which pathologists confirmed was that he was hit
over the head”.
Mr Monson is expected to be cremated later this week in a Hindu-style
ceremony. His body, currently in Mombasa where it was taken for a
post-mortem, will be burnt on a pyre of local timber covered with
bougainvillea and coconut palm fronds.
The Telegraph has been told that Mr Monson may have fallen prey to a
con – common on Kenya’s coast – in which dealers sell drugs to foreigners
and then call the police. Officers then arrest the tourist, giving them the
option of several nights in the cells, or an “on the spot” fine
that is allegedly divided between police and the informant.
It poses the question, however, why Mr Monson, whose mother is the deputy
chairman of the local residents’ association, which has complained about the
con, took such a risk in the first place.
“We simply cannot explain it,” Lord Monson told The Telegraph.
“It was a very, very stupid thing to do, and even more daft was not
simply paying whatever they asked.
“This scam is something that happens all the time here. What doesn’t
happen is that it leads to someone dying.”
All that was put to one side yesterday as, led by Mr Monson’s father, then his
mother, mourners cast wreaths and stems of bougainvillea silently into the
surf.
Some friends hugged one another. Others stood alone and quiet, as, for the
first time since the service began, a gap opened in the clouds and a shaft
of light from the setting sun illuminated the scene.
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