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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Greek officials question Tom Bradby's account of man's death

ITV news anchor claimed officials failed to help 70-year-old man who appeared to kill himself by driving into harbourGreek authorities have questioned Tom Bradby’s account of the death of a man in a Greek port on Sunday, saying several people besides the ITV broadcaster tried to save the pensioner whose car plunged into the water.Bradby, recently appointed the main News at Ten anchor, tweeted that he was “shaking with shock and anger” after watching the man “commit suicide by driving his car off the harbour wall” in Rafina, a busy fishing and ferry port east of Athens where Bradby was on holiday with his family. Just watched an elderly man commit suicide in Greece by driving his car off the harbour wall in Rafina.Of the 9 or 10 customs officials and police on the quay only 1 went in to try and get him out as the car sank. The rest watched. Jesus...Am shaking with shock and anger. So much for the Greek holiday trade being business as usual. Continue reading...


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