Lies, threats and paranoia behind ‘murder’ of White Helmet hero James Le Mesurier just days after Russians’ ‘spy’ claim

TO those he saved from bomb-shattered villages, James Le Mesurier was a hero, a “saint”. So his untimely death this week has prompted many tears — but even more questions. The former British Army officer, who dedicated his life to rescuing men, women and children in war-ravaged Syria through the volunteer search-and-rescue group the White Helmets, was found dead in the early hours of Monday. The 48-year-old had apparently fallen from the balcony of his second-floor flat in Istanbul, Turkey.His death came just days after he was branded a spy by Russia. And yesterday it emerged that witnesses have claimed to police that they heard James arguing with a woman just before he died. Reports in the Turkish media say that James’s face had a cut on it and that his feet and hands were broken as if he had tried to break his fall. BBC Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban revealed he had deleted a strand of his tweets about the incident but stated: “There’s a good deal of suspicion it may be murder by a state actor, but others suggest he may have taken his own life.” James’s friend Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, director of non-governmental organisation Doctors Under Fire,… Read full this story

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