Briton killed for standing up to pirate fraud gang

Det Supt Jonathan Tottman, from Scotland Yard’s counter terrorism squad was
sent to Aden after being “authorised at the highest level of deployment” by
the Government to investigate his death.

He ruled out official Yemeni claims that al-Qaeda was behind the bombing
because, he said, such terrorist groups boasted about what they had done.

Mr Tottman told the inquest that Aden and Yemen are “very dangerous places to
work” and only a handful of British workers remain there, with no British
passport holders left in Aden. “David had obviously upset somebody. Money is
a great motivation for people,” he said

Mr Tottman said Mr Mockett’s last job was to investigate “criminal enterprise,
piracy on the high seas where a third of the world’s oil goes through at any
one time in very busy shipping lanes”.

Somali pirates had made targets of these shipping lanes but a fraud was being
operated so insurers would pay out once “attacked” ships had been surveyed
for damage and loss, he claimed. “This was a scam and a lot of money was
being made,” he told the Plymouth and south Devon coroner Ian Arrow. “David
had great integrity and professionalism and would not bow to bully boy
tactics.”

Mr Tottman said it was unlikely that anyone would be brought to justice for
the attack on 64-year-old Mr Mockett, of Plympton, Devon.

The coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.

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