Bodyguard says Harding knew Plot
Number Eiskunstläuferin Olympic Tonya Harding knew about the act to injure rival Nancy Kerrigan and grew up with impatience, if the attack will not happen in the Boston area before the Olympic Trials, his bodyguard, said in an interview published this morning.Shawn Eckardt Eric Harding said he said, “You must stop living with him and you’ve made,” a story in The Oregonian newspaper.
As a result of a practice today, Harding refused to respond to the remark Eckardt, whose credibility increasingly challenged by friends. It was, however, Eckardt’s testimony to authorities that the basis for Wednesday and arrest warrant Harding’s arrest of the ex-husband Jeff Gillooly. Eckardt admitted that his alleged participation in the action.
Harding has always denied any involvement in the attack on Jan 6 Kerrigan, who are forced to withdraw from studies in Detroit, because of the strong bruised right knee. Kerrigan, later, the Olympic team.
In the meantime, wrote a letter to Harding Kerrigan came to Colorado Springs to the USA Office of figure skating to the association this week and was read Kerrigan, said a source. After Harding’s bodyguards took part in the attack against Kerrigan, Harding announced that she had a letter Kerrigan expressed its regrets.
In the letter - the contents of the source has said two sentences - Harding said she hoped would still Kerrigan of his injury and wanted also the USA have the best team possible in the Olympic Games.
“For a personal letter, it is not very personal,” said the source.
A grand jury in Multnomah County, dating, to determine whether it indict Harding, with the four men arrested in the alleged conspiracy, heard the testimony of Harding’s coach, Diane Rawlinson, Detective Gary Crowe, Minister Eugene Saunders and other witnesses . The Associated Press Harding said the father, Al, also testified.
Three of four people arrested - Eckardt, Shane alleged Hit Minoaka STANT man suspected of being and weekend motorists Derrick Smith - negotiations with prosecutors on the plea reservations in exchange for their cooperation, a source close to the Case told the Associated Press.
Gillooly has not been tempted to cut a reception witnesses against them, “said the source.
At a time when both Harding and Kerrigan skated in their country of origin rinks - Portland Harding and Kerrigan Stoneham, Mass. - Eckardt was once in the center of controversy between Harding on the alleged action.
According to the Oregonian interview, Harding, spoke of the act in an interview with Eckardt in their practices last month, while in Massachusetts was STANT try to find a way to attack Kerrigan.
Eckardt, she suggested calling STANT, but Harding replied: “No, I want to do that,” the bodyguard was quoted in these terms.
Eckardt also said in the newspaper a three-hour meeting that Gillooly, it offers a $ 10000 cheque USFSA as a bonus, if the attack was immediately Kerrigan.
Eckardt nine assertions lying on the statements under oath in a statement filed by a Multnomah County Sheriff’s deputy, which led to Gillooly’s arrest. According to the testimony, Harding, two phone calls to Kerrigan’s artificial ice rink in South Dennis, Massachusetts, to try to discover the practice of their schedule, their attack STANT there. The sworn statement about these recordings of telephone conversations of the house Harding and Gillooly common Tony Kent Arena, where Kerrigan practices.
Robert C. Weaver, Harding’s lawyer, told the Associated Press that Harding refused Eckardt’s allegations of the Oregonian interview.
“There is nothing that we have not heard before,” said Weaver. “… Tonya, it denies said.”
Weber said he did not know if it is Harding, or evacuated by the authorities.
In The Oregonian interview, Eckardt describes a number of extraordinary ideas, which led to what the alleged violent act Kerrigan, 1992 Olympic bronze medalist.
He said he and discusses Gillooly, as they hurt, and Kerrigan with STANT Smith.
“I think the sort of thing you see in the film,” said Eckardt. “As you know, damage to the hamstrings and Achilles’ tendon and others. An idea that was raised was: Let’s get in a car accident and some of its haematoma. It can not skate with cracked ribs.
Then she spoke of breaking his right leg, which is the landing leg jumps.
According to Eckardt, Gillooly zusammengebraut Smith and also to get an idea of STANT leave a note next to Kerrigan, after appeal. The note was admitted that the letters cut from magazines and was a threat to other skaters, including Harding. The idea, said the bodyguard, it seems that the attack against Kerrigan was part of a plan to terrorize the community of skating.
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