The
Church of Scientology has attempted to portray Kyle Brennan’s mother, Victoria
Britton, in a very negative light. Here is
a grieving mother, they say, who in her blind grief is flailing wildly about.
She refuses, they say, to believe that her youngest child—Kyle—committed
suicide, and is hell-bent on getting her ex-husband Thomas Brennan charged with
a crime.
Kyle Brennan
died under highly suspicious circumstances on a visit to his Scientologist
father Tom Bternnan in Clearwater, Florida, in February 2007. Kyle died as a 20-year-old
Enemy of the Church of Scientology.
In 2009
Victoria Britton filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Church of
Scientology, Brennan, and his confidant and Scientology celebrity, Denise
Miscavige Gentile, the twin sister of brutal Scientology leader David
Miscavige.
In the suit
the Appelees’ Joint Answer states: “Unsatisfied with the conclusions of the
Clearwater Police Department, Victoria Britton complained to the FBI, the
Florida Attorney General, the Justice Department and the Pinellas County State
Attorney’s office insisting that her Scientologist ex-husband be charged with a
crime. As a result, Doug Berry of the State Attorney’s Office for the Sixth
Judicial Circuit conducted a review of the Clearwater Police Department’s
investigation. He also concluded that Kyle’s death was a suicide with no
criminal activity.”
What is clear is that Victoria Britton could not, and still cannot, understand (especially after looking closely at the Florida Statutes) the following: How could a father—after denying his son access to his much-needed psychotropic medication, and then giving this same son access to a loaded .357 Magnum—not be charged with a crime? What kind of place allows people to do this kind of thing, and then walk away scot-free?
What is clear is that Victoria Britton could not, and still cannot, understand (especially after looking closely at the Florida Statutes) the following: How could a father—after denying his son access to his much-needed psychotropic medication, and then giving this same son access to a loaded .357 Magnum—not be charged with a crime? What kind of place allows people to do this kind of thing, and then walk away scot-free?
The defendants falsely claim that
Victoria Britton has repeatedly stated that her son Kyle was murdered. Not
only is this untrue, but it was the defendants themselves who first
mentioned—in documents—that homicide was possibly the cause of Kyle’s death. In
the Answer and Affirmative Defenses of Defendant Thomas Brennan it
states: “Kyle Brennan’s death was either a suicide or homicide constituting an
intervening act.” [ Doc: 53,page 3 of 4]
Victoria Britton, in the few conversations she had with Detective Stephen Bohling, only wanted to find out the truth and to make sense of the numerous inconsistencies surrounding the death of her son.
Victoria Britton, in the few conversations she had with Detective Stephen Bohling, only wanted to find out the truth and to make sense of the numerous inconsistencies surrounding the death of her son.
As to the Clearwater Police
Department’s investigation, it’s difficult to understand how anyone could think
that it was thorough or well-handled. When Officer Jonathan Yuen—the first
policeman at the crime scene—was asked, for example, to describe his interview
with Thomas Brennan, he stated: “A short, short period of time. Anywhere from
20 to 30 minutes, I would say.” [Exhibit
18, Doc. 123, Page 11, Lines 13–14,
Page ID 1817]
When asked whether he had further
involvement in the investigation, he answered “No.” Asked if he discussed the
matter with Detective Bohling, he said “No.” (Exhibit 18, Doc: 123 page
ID 1818 page 15 lines 18-24)
So, in other words, the public is
supposed to consider it comprehensive and thorough police work when a
responding officer interviews the most important person at the crime scene for
only 20 minutes, never returns to the crime scene, simply hands over his report
to the detective taking over the investigation—a detective who, it must be
said, never visits the crime scene—and then destroys the notes of that first
important interview?( Exhibit 1, Doc:119
Page ID 1542 Page 9 lines 23-25 Page 10 line 1) ( Exhibit 1, Doc: 119 Page ID
1579 Page 158 lines 17-23)
Consider that question along with the
following information:
- · Brennan’s .357 Magnum was found near Kyle’s body, but the police never found the bullet that killed Kyle. (Exhibit 18 Doc: 123 Page Id 1826 page 48 lines 1-6)
- · They did not find the box of ammunition for the .357. (Exhibit1 Doc: 123 Page ID 1563 page 93 lines 25 Page 94 lines 1-8)
- · And they did not find Kyle’s laptop—it had been removed from the apartment before they arrived. (Exhibit 1 Doc: 123, Page ID 1547 page 31 lines 11-16)
- · Kyle’s fingerprints were nowhere to be found on over 12 separate pieces of evidence at the scene including the weapon and 10 rounds of ammunition. (CWPR SEC: 1 Doc: 170-1 Page 83)
- · Forensic Investigator Jennifer McCabe and Medical Investigator Marti Scholl arrived at the scene shortly after Yuen. McCabe swapped Kyle’s hands for a Gun Shot Residue (GSR) test to see if Kyle had pulled the trigger on the .357, but Bohling later blocked processing of the GSR, and lied to Kyle’s family telling them that the GSR test had not been done. (Exhibit 1 Doc:119 Page ID 1590 page 202 lines 1-9)
Without fingerprints, without the
bullet, and without a GSR test it is impossible to determine whether Kyle’s
death was actually a suicide—and yet a suicide is what it was ruled. Without
this important evidence it’s also impossible to determine whether Brennan’s
.357 was used to kill Kyle.
This we are supposed to consider a
well-run police investigation? This is what passes for thorough police work in
the state of Florida?
The defendants’ claim that Victoria
Britton complaints to the Justice Department and the FBI were because she was
unsatisfied with the conclusions of the Clearwater Police Department in
charging Thomas Brennan with a crime have been fabricated by the defendants’ .
The truth is that the complaints were
filed because of concern that the investigation of her son’s death was not
being investigated properly.
In the deposition of Stephen Bohling he stated “There was a
call to the Justice Department, and I believe the FBI to follow up on, that, you know basically that I was not doing my job
and they believed that the case should be turned over to someone else. (Exhibit 1 Doc:119 Page ID 1551 Page 45 lines
15-22)
“ I only wanted to find out the truth
and to make sense of the inconsistencies surrounding the death of my son.
Detective Bohling was not interested.” – Victoria Britton. (Exhibit
11 Doc: 170-11 Page ID 2711)
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