The Dan Diamond Interview - The Rettendon Murders - New Evidence.

RETTENDON: THE WITNESS WHO SAYS THE MURDERS HAPPENED AFTER MIDNIGHT “Dan Diamond” is not his real name. His identity is being protected—but his evidence could fundamentally challenge the accepted account of the Rettendon murders. Diamond has provided TM Eye’s Murder and Serious Crime Review Team with a detailed signed witness statement concerning what he says he witnessed while working near South Hanningfield Reservoir during the night of 6–7 December 1995. He describes seeing a dark Range Rover after midnight and hearing a series of gunshots. He also claims to have seen what appeared to be a shotgun thrown into the reservoir before telephoning the police on 999. If accurate, his evidence raises profound questions about the prosecution timeline, which placed the murders of Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe at approximately 7pm. It may also support other evidence suggesting that the victims were alive considerably later and that the Range Rover could have been moved to Workhouse Lane after the killings. Diamond says he told his then wife and fellow doormen about what he had witnessed at the time. He has repeatedly stood by his account, signed a detailed witness statement and confirmed that he is prepared to give evidence before the Court of Appeal. Crucially, his account is potentially capable of independent corroboration through police enquiries, including: locating the original 999 call and identifying the officer who attended; examining contemporary incident logs and police records; tracing the people whom Diamond told at the time; reconstructing the reservoir site as it appeared in December 1995; investigating the location where he says the weapon was discarded; and comparing his account with evidence from other witnesses who reported hearing gunshots later that night. Diamond’s evidence and the supporting lines of enquiry have been submitted to the Criminal Cases Review Commission as part of TM Eye’s detailed investigation and review report. In this exclusive interview, Dan Diamond describes—in his own words—what he says he witnessed on the night of Britain’s most controversial gangland murders. His evidence has not yet been tested before a court. But it cannot simply be ignored. If Dan Diamond is telling the truth, the official Rettendon timeline may be fundamentally wrong—and Michael Steele and Jack Whomes may have been convicted upon a false account of when, where and how the three men were murdered.