A woman whose Irish husband died in the British Embassy in Kabul four months ago still doesn’t know how he met his death.
And Jennifer Taylor fears she will never know how Mark, a fit and healthy 47-year-old former soldier, passed away.
Mrs Taylor, 44, from Belfast, slammed the UK Foreign Office and Coroner’s Office for compounding her family’s grief by the wall of official silence and obstruction that has met their search for truth.
She said: “At every twist and turn, every agency has been unhelpful and hasn’t given answers and fobbed us off.
“The Foreign Office, even though Mark died in the British Embassy, claimed he didn’t die on British soil.
“When a death happens in a foreign country, the local police must be notified, that is the accepted international protocol, embassy or not.
“Yet the Kabul police were not told for a week. I have repeatedly asked the Foreign Office what its protocol is if a death occurs on its property and was told there isn’t one.”
Sinn Fein MP John Finucane, who has taken up Mrs Taylor’s case, said: “I have been astounded by the lack of compassion from the Foreign Office.”
A spokeswoman for the British Foreign office said: “We continue to support the family of a British man following his death in Kabul in April. Our thoughts are with his family.”
