Posted by Admin on 11/2/2009 11:10 PM | Comments (7)

Jason has to say goodbye to his 2 little girls and loving wife, then travel alone by train.

Mike has a busy day( running a village pub the locals have become very vocal).  The day starts with an interview and photoshoot with the Bournemouth Daily Echo.  En route, serveral telephone interviews with journalists and a hurried visit to the Southampton BBC studios, where the cameras waiting.

Everyones aware of the time constraints, so, its straight on to Gatwick, where an ITV news crew are waiting to film the handover. This could be a first.  Everyone heads to the Hungarain airlines desk Malev.  Here we meet a very nice lady from Special Branch,  who soon located her opposite number, a very nice lady from Interpol.  All was well until she noticed the T.V. crew - who likened the situation  to something from a James Bond film.

Interpol lady then commented that she didnt realise this was a high profile extradition, so she will have to brief the team.!

The Hungarains appear aggitated and Interpol lady said she did'nt realise there would be T.V. cameras.  She says her team (3 or 4 huge muscley guys who look like a bullet wouldnt penetrate them) are from Hungarain special forces, and if cameras are present they should be wearing their balaclava masks.  The news crew get excited - one says they are not going to stop us filming masks will make good t.v.. they are in Britain now, thats not how we do things.  This is Britain and its Gatwick Airport.  Therefore they forget, everyone and everything is being monitored on T.V.  Within a couple of minutes half a dozen heavily armed police officers, (All with Sussex Police written on their caps and their I.D. numbers clearly visible and no mention of masks) arrive on the scene. 

Things are hotting up, if Mike and Jason were'nt scared enough, this was not reassuring them of the parity that our Politicians had promised and they were still on English soil.

With that the Hungarian Interpol lady says, we must go and in the blink of an eye they are gone behind the screens to the departure area.  Lets hope the parity appears in Budapest.

Comments

Margaret Knight United Kingdom on 11/3/2009 10:49 AM This truly sounds horrific. What a good thing there were tv cameras there!

Jason and Mike seem to be being treated as terrorists!?! This is inhumanity. Couldn't sleep last night worrying about how they are being treated over there.

Lets hope they won't have to wait too long for Hungary to get it's act together and sort things out. Then we can have them home again.

Andy Evans United Kingdom on 11/3/2009 11:54 AM I've just read the eye witness account of Mike and Jason's "handover". I feel shocked,upset and genuinely fearful over what treatment awaits them on Hungarian soil away from the TV camera's! However I am glad that it has been highlighted by the media and with the Michael Shields (Liverpool fan wrongly imprisoned in Istanbul 4 and a half years ago)fiasco still fresh on everyone's minds I feel that this can only help Mike and Jason's cause as the media will keep on highlighting this ridiculous series of events.
Here's hoping common sense prevails...........
Katie and Dave Harris United Kingdom on 11/3/2009 1:36 PM Thank god the cameras were there. I really hope the media starts to pick up on this and the pressure starts building to get them back where they belong xx
michelle marriott United Kingdom on 11/3/2009 2:20 PM This is the reply i've had from my local MP Jim Knight today
Thank you for your e-mail regarding the extradition of Mr Michael Turner. I was notified of the extradition just a few hours before it happened and I understand that Mr Turner had been advised by lawyers not to speak publicly previous to this time. As the extradition was already in motion I have been unable to do anything to stop it however I have faxed a letter to Phil Woolas MP Minister of State and I have asked that this issue be investigated as a matter of urgency


michelle marriott United Kingdom on 11/3/2009 2:27 PM The way these guys have been treated is horrific you would think they were serial killers not just 2 guys that an investment went wrong, warning out there to any1 thinking of investing in a forein country Don't do it as this is the price u will pay if it goes wrong!! I for 1 shall continue to offer my support in any way possible I have known Mike for around 6 months since he starting dating my daughter and he is a lovely geniune guy needless to say we are all feeling his pain its just a hard for those left behind but we need to be strong and fight this all the way, our thoughts and support are with u both x
Dan Evans United Kingdom on 11/3/2009 9:25 PM After reading the 'handover' I am directly e-mailing mine and mike's MPs to halt this proccess. It is wrong on so many fundamental levels to treat people in this way.
We have sent troops to stop such treatment of people in other areas of the world, how can our leaders allow this to happen within the EU?
Best of luck boys.
michelle coomber United Kingdom on 11/3/2009 10:44 PM this is terrible and should never of taken place what our government doing to help these poor guys

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