‘You Don’t Need To Know…’

The Foreign Office has been accused of handling "disgracefully" the case of a man who leapt from a hotel balcony with his two children, one of whom died.

This is a dreadful case, on all levels. But nothing’s so awful that the bumbling incompetents at the FO can’t make it worse, somehow:

The British ambassador to Greece said Mr Hogan had "absolute" privacy rights.

David Landsman also told BBC News there would be no information forthcoming about exactly when Mr Hogan would return to the UK, because of consular confidentiality.

This has worried the relatives, because he has expressed a desire to see his surviving daughter, and they’d (understandably) like a heads up that he might be out and about.

His daughter, of course, is a British citizen too, so you’d think she’d be as deserving of protection as her father…

However, Mr Chandler, Mr Hogan's former father-in-law, has said he has been infuriated because his family have not been kept informed.

Mr Chandler told the BBC the secrecy was not in the "public interest" and Mr Hogan's movements were a "matter of grave concern" for his step-daughter Natasha Visser and her family.

"There are victims here to support as well as the perpetrator," he added.

Indeed. I guess a little girl who survived a murderous attack by her own deranged father isn’t considered as much of a victim by FO staff…