Comments on: Congratulations Dear Bill - Deedes marks 75 years in journalism http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/06/19/congratulations-dear-bill-deedes-marks-75-years-in-journalism/ Signposts to journalism's future from Press Gazette Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:01:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: jimbo http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2006/06/19/congratulations-dear-bill-deedes-marks-75-years-in-journalism/#comment-11672 jimbo Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:18:10 +0000 http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/dog/2006/06/19/congratulations-dear-bill-deedes-marks-75-years-in-journalism/#comment-11672 Sir Stelios Knighthood Cover Up Stelios was granted a knighthood but no journalist has stepped up to the plate to investigate whether it was appropriate to grant a knighthood to a Monaco resident tax exile who is extremely controversial. In April 1991 when Stelios Haji-Ioannou, was chief executive of his father's business Troodos Shipping, their tanker Haven blew up off Genoa, killing five crew and disgorging up to 50,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea - arguably the Mediterranean's worst-ever ecological disaster. The Haven was an elderly tanker, formerly the Amoco Haven, sister ship of the ill-starred Amoco Cadiz that foundered in 1978. Stelios was accused of poor maintenance and charged in Italy with manslaughter and intimidating and attempting to bribe witnesses. He faced a lengthy jail sentence and liability for hundreds of millions of pounds compensation. Stelios blamed an error by one of the surviving crew. He was acquitted but the case has dragged on ever since with subsequent appeals and demands for compensation thrown out. This is a news item Joanna Walters Sunday April 21, 2002 The Observer Environmentalists must be appalled that a person who was responsible for an increase in pollution due to his extensive use of elderly ineffiecient aircraft in the early days of easyJet. Is rewarded with a knighthood. Inland Revenue investigators also see the reward as a slap in the face for hard working UK tax payers. When is a journalist going to investigate Stelios thoroughly and expose him? Sir Stelios Knighthood Cover Up
Stelios was granted a knighthood but no journalist has stepped up to the plate to investigate whether it was appropriate to grant a knighthood to a Monaco resident tax exile who is extremely controversial.

In April 1991 when Stelios Haji-Ioannou, was chief executive of his father’s business Troodos Shipping, their tanker Haven blew up off Genoa, killing five crew and disgorging up to 50,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea - arguably the Mediterranean’s worst-ever ecological disaster.

The Haven was an elderly tanker, formerly the Amoco Haven, sister ship of the ill-starred Amoco Cadiz that foundered in 1978. Stelios was accused of poor maintenance and charged in Italy with manslaughter and intimidating and attempting to bribe witnesses. He faced a lengthy jail sentence and liability for hundreds of millions of pounds compensation. Stelios blamed an error by one of the surviving crew. He was acquitted but the case has dragged on ever since with subsequent appeals and demands for compensation thrown out.

This is a news item Joanna Walters
Sunday April 21, 2002
The Observer

Environmentalists must be appalled that a person who was responsible for an increase in pollution due to his extensive use of elderly ineffiecient aircraft in the early days of easyJet. Is rewarded with a knighthood.

Inland Revenue investigators also see the reward as a slap in the face for hard working UK tax payers. When is a journalist going to investigate Stelios thoroughly and expose him?

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