The Death Of Christopher Shale

While Mr. Shale's family have my condolences for their loss, and without wishing either to add to their grief or speculate on the cause of his death, I find myself asking questions about the reporting of the circumstances in which his remains were discovered.

How frequently were the portable toilets in the VIP area at Glastonbury being checked? It's been many years since I stepped inside a nightclub, but even then the goons would make an ostentatious display of searching the toilets for signs of drug abuse. Were these toilets being checked in the same way? And if not, why not? If they were checked more frequently, then from the little that I have read, itself always bound to be incomplete at such an early stage as this, perhaps Mr. Shale's remains might have been discovered a little more quickly.

I am not suggesting for a second that either the organisers of the Glastonbury Festival, or their security contractors, or the local police service might have been turning a blind eye to the possibility of VIPs abusing drugs on site. In addition to being contrary to both law and policy, it would also be monstrously negligent of all their public duties and private duties of care.