I worked with Vietnamese boat people arriving in the country. And this would be of benefit to our community.”Mike Lampson, the chairman of the parish council, led a delegation of villagers to the planning inquiry, which has received 69 letters – including one from Mr King and another from the local health authority – concerned about the additional burden on their facilities.”It would be untrue to say there wasn’t an element of racism but it is very small. There is a lot of fear of the unknown and worry about what might happen,” he said “They would have no money, only vouchers. Where would they get the money? Would it be left to thieving? They want to go to the pub – would they be chatting up the girls?”Arthur Barrow, 55, who attended the hearing with his wife, Pauline, said: “I have nothing against the asylum-seekers themselves It’s just the environment they are bringing them into.

They will be two miles from any shop.He added: “It will also affect house prices in the area. I know of two or three properties that had difficulty selling as people wanted to wait until after the inquiry This is a small community There is nothing for them here.”. A mother who has spent seven years trying to prove that her young daughter did not die alone in a women’s refuge has won permission to see confidential files relating to the case. A mother who has spent seven years trying to prove that her young daughter did not die alone in a women’s refuge has won permission to see confidential files relating to the case.
A judge has ordered West Yorkshire Police, Kent Constabulary and the Kent Coroner’s office to hand over fingerprint evidence, a toxicology report and other related documents to Felicia Daniel, who has raised serious doubts about the identity of a woman cremated under her daughter’s name in 1993.Judge Grenfell, sitting in Leeds Combined Court, said there were “many anomalies” in the case that needed to beresolved. The judge confirmed yesterday that he had given the police and the coroner until 26 June to comply with the disclosure order.Mrs Daniel, whose daughter Donna was still claiming benefits a year after she was supposed to have died, has always maintained that the police and the coroner wrongly identified the body.Judge Grenfell expressly referred to the fact that the pathologist’s report made no reference to the woman having had children.

Yet Donna Daniel had given birth to twins two years before the date the coroner gave for her death.Now the family hopes to use the disclosed documents to launch a judicial review of the coroner’s decision.Mrs Daniel, who believes her daughter has since died and that she was probably murdered, says that only a fresh police investigation and a new inquest will solve the mystery of what really happened to her.Donna Daniel left her Bradford home to move to London in 1991 aged 19 after suffering from post-natal depression caused by the death of one of her newborn twins, leaving her other baby with her mother.She kept in contact with her family at first, but the phone calls home ended 18 months later. Her mother eventually contacted the Salvation Army, which told her Donna had been declared dead in March 1993 by the coroner for Gillingham, Kent.At the closing of that inquest, at which no next of kin were present, the coroner, Roger Sykes, was told that there was enough evidence to prove that the body of a young woman found by staff at a refuge in north Kent was that of Donna Daniel. On the evidence before him Mr Sykes recorded a verdict of death by natural causes resulting from acute respiratory failure.However, the identification of the body had been decided by the chief coroner, LionelSkingley and his deputy, Geoffrey Hufton, during the opening of the inquest several months before, when they had also ordered the cremation.Skingley and Hufton, both solicitors, were later suspended while under investigation by the Serious Fraud Squad and Inland Revenue for fraud involving £1.5m of clients’ money. In April 1998 each solicitor was sentenced to a total of six and a half years’ jail at Knightsbridge Crown Court.Mrs Daniel’s search for the truth was further hampered when she discovered that the women’s refuge had closed down from the end of March to November 1993, before opening again under new management.Yesterday Mrs Daniel, who recently met the Attorney General, Lord Williams of Mostyn, to ask him to reopen the inquest, said: “All I want is the truth to come out, because the young girl on that slab seven years ago was not my daughter. There’s another family somewhere who are missing a daughter and they have the right to know how she died.”A spokesman for the attorney general said that an inquest could only be reopened if new evidence came to light. Until he was satisfied such evidence existed the inquest would remain closed..