On Friday 11th July a small party of our family,myself and Lee (Gary’s father and mother), Ricky (Gary’s brother),Dave (Gary’s uncle) Ashley (Gary’s fiancee) and Julie (Ashley’s mother) went to 10 Downing Street to hand in our petition of 50,000 signatures which we have been collecting for a very long time and would like to thank every single person who has taken the time to enter their signature also for any donations.    

Arlene McCarthy MEP for the North West and Suzanne Richards (Arlene’s press manager and p/a) met us in London and accompanied us to Downing Street for the petition hand over which was presented by our son Ricky. After a pleasant journey to London (via Walsall to pick up Ricky where he is head chef at Arbor Lights restaurant)) in pretty good time it then took us over 2 hours to drive the last 7 miles to Downing Street due to road works and generally the volume of traffic,it was crazy and not something I would want to do very often.

When we met Arlene and Suzanne in London they told us that Lee, Ashley and myself were invited to a meeting at one of the conference rooms inside no10, it was completely unexpected but a huge step forward in our battle with the Spanish authorities to have Gary’s body returned to the U.K.  Inside we where met by officials who took us to a room for our meeting with a man named Tom Fletcher he is a civil servant and  the personal advisor to the Prime Minister on world and european affairs.  (which ever party is in power)  Mr Fletcher had a fair knowledge of our case and was genuinely concerned about it,we had a long meeting and left with him promising to discuss our case with Gordon Brown directly who we were told would want this resolving sooner rather than later. We can only hope that we get the backing we need from our government and they use the power of what being  British once meant.

We are going to continue with our signature campaign and possibly spread further across the North West in order to keep it in the news and let the government know we will not stop until we get Gary home and if we need to go to the European Court of Human Rights we will do so. We have been asked a lot of questions about what happened immediately after Gary died in Malaga Hospital and one of the reasons we are continuing this campaign is to call for our government to make it a rule that when a British citizen dies abroad it should be the British Consulate of that country who are the first authority to speak to the family of the deceased to offer any help and advice not let it be a funeral company touting for business and promising the best way forward as unfortunately it was in our case.

You can sign on line at                 www.radiocity.co.uk/garydunne                     

You can also leave a message  at          gary-dunne@hotmail.com

You can make a donation at any HSBC to the   GARY DUNNE FUND

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