Anyone described by the Israeli administration as a 'true friend' is likely to be viewed as potentially suspect in some way or form. I started this thread so that was what I was implying. When Baroness Warsi resigned, she said George Osborne was a 'great friend of Israel'. It was never mentioned again in the news.
Mat has claimed to come from a background linked to CCRC and claimed t o be knowledgeable about the case from that kind of perspective. Unless, I have misunderstood, Mat also implied recently, that the silencer evidence is dodgy (something that Caroline has openly expressed). I wonder if Mat has passed on his own concerns to the CCRC, regarding the validity of the silencer? Unless of course, Mat is implying that it's an acceptable situation, to have Bamber incarcerated on the basis of dodgy silencer evidence? That hardly says much for the CCRC though does it?
Getting back to Patel - if like Caroline and Mat, you believe the silencer evidence is dodgy, then surely it must be reaslised that what Patel did, was to intervene on the part of the people who came up with that very evidence.