Planned assassination details follow David Hunt case

Investigations into the David Hunt case have already been covered in The Saturn Herald last year. Now detectives who had evidence on his enterprise, we can tell you, were left in fear for their lives as they tried to crack Hunt who owns a home on the border between Essex and Hertfordshire. Therefore for a relatively embryonic newspaper run through the internet to publish this story hopefully will not put any of our reporters under threat we pray.

David Mckelvey and two of his junior detectives – Darren Guntrip and Paul Clerk were at risk after a story emerged that “the Predator” – one of Britain’s leading hitmen, had been at a meeting on a boat in Spain and offered £1M if he could kill the 3 police officers. After divulging this plan the 3 men found themselves discredited by a branch of the London  Metropolitan Police  led by a corrupt and dishonest detective who had “set out to discredit them”. The Saturn Herald now has to state that this information was garnered from the 030116 copy of The Sunday Times – a respected and longstanding broadsheet owned by Rupert Murdoch for more than 20 years.

McKelvey apparently suffered a nervous breakdown and left the force whilst Guntrip fought with Scotland Yard for eight years and launched a claim for misfeance in a public office, trespass and false imprisonment together with other human rights issues.  Lawyers concluded that two of the detectives had become a “thorn in the side” of organised crime in East London. The legal proceedings and investigations covered gangland killings which had been covered up dating back to the 1980’s.

Within the police force, allegations about the risk to the 3 police officers’ lives previously referred to  were alledged to have been “monkeyed up”, belittling their endangered investigation into police corruption.

In the trial over the David Hunt case a judge had stated “a contract had been taken out to kill them (the investigating officers) and “the three officers had to live their lives understanding that …..and endure a protracted anti-corruption investigation which..resulted in them being entirely exonerated”.

Sir Bernard Hogan Howe – the Met Commissioner refused to comment when asked about McKelvey and Guntrip  persuing litigation when questioned by the home affairs select committee after a libel trial ended.  Both officers involved were given a substantial six figure sum in settlement for their issues. The Met also offered Clark a settlement. The Met’s anti corruption command sent a letter of apology to those involved in the trial.

Both McKelvey and Guntrip  now live under police protection.