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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2006 
Mexico Promises Justice in Death Of British Pop Singer
 Ioan Grillo - Associated Press
| | U2's lead singer Bono, and guitarist The Edge perform during the Vertigo Tour 2006 at the Tecnologico stadium in Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Villasenor) |
Mexico City The Mexican government promised justice in the death of British pop singer Kirsty MacColl on Monday, a day after the Irish rock band U2 dedicated a song in her memory during a concert in the northern city of Monterrey.
Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox, said that federal investigators will soon resolve the case of MacColl, who was killed by a power boat in December 2000 while scuba diving with her two sons in the Caribbean resort of Cozumel.
The investigation has to offer results, Aguilar said in a news conference. The federal government is following this situation.
Jean MacColl, the mother of the singer, has accused Mexican authorities of protecting Guillermo Gonzalez Nova, a Mexican supermarket magnate who owned the boat that hit her daughter.
Gonzalez's employee Juan Jose Cen Yam testified that he was driving the boat when it hit MacColl, who was 41. He was given a nearly three-year jail sentence that was commuted after he paid an undisclosed fine.
During a five-year campaign, Jean MacColl has pushed for charges against Gonzalez himself.
She claims the boat that killed her daughter was moving at high speeds inside a restricted diving area. Gonzalez says the boat was moving at low speeds outside the restricted area.
In 2004, Mexican authorities reopened the investigation. But Jean MacColl has said that investigators are failing to deliver results.
To date, justice has not been served and impunity from prosecution continues to protect those responsible for her death, she wrote in a letter to Mexican President Vicente Fox in October 2005.
U2 frontman Bono once sung a duet with Kirsty MacColl and has been a strong supporter of Jean MacColl's Justice for Kirsty campaign.
Playing in Monterrey on Sunday, he dedicated to Kirsty MacColl the song I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Aguilar said that Bono has contacted Fox about the case but has not asked for a meeting. U2 will perform in Mexico City on Wednesday and Thursday.
MacColl is most famous for accompanying Shane MacGowan on The Pogues' 1987 hit, A Fairytale of New York, a bitter-sweet boozy ballad of love and regret. The song has been voted Britons' favorite Christmas song by British viewers of music channel VH1 for two years running.
MacColl was born in Croydon, just outside of London, and was the daughter of famous folk singer Ewan MacColl. |
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