By John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

This is the first book to expose abuse of power by Australian coroners investigating the cause of death when there is suspicion of medical negligence in the combination of popular prescription drugs – widely used benzodiazepines with treatments for non-life threatening conditions such as vertigo, vestibular migraine, and epilepsy.   

The book records the evidence of the sudden death of Tatiana Vasilievna Turitsyna, my wife, and of the two years which have followed of forensic investigations to uncover the cause, the role of the treating doctor, then the delay, obstruction, and cover-up by the Coroners Court of Victoria.

Throughout the world this court is the only one of its kind to have been investigated and then prosecuted by the state for abuses of power by the coroners in charge – this is corruption in the law.  In 2023 the court was found guilty, sentenced, and fined almost $400,000, but no individual was held culpable. That was the outcome of a plea bargain — a cover-up to keep the evidence secret, the individual coroners blameless, and the penalty paid out of public money from the court budget.  

In a presentation that is unprecedented in the practice of Anglo-American law, in Australia and Canada, this book has become the jury book or brief of the case of suspicious, sudden drug death. It is now a model for the international public debate on corruption by the pharmaceutical companies in cahoots with government regulators, the medical profession, judges, and lawyers.  

This is your summons to serve on the jury.

You, the reader, are called to judge the evidence and the legal argument; and then cast your verdict, not only for the doctor and coroner but also the Supreme Court judge who conducted a trial of his own, dismissing every count of the author’s case, and endorsing the coroner’s decisions without qualification.

This is also a textbook on subversion in our lives and deaths.

This is how the victims of lethal combinations of drugs are blamed for dying of heart attacks that are judged to be “natural causes” when the evidence that they are nothing of the kind is buried according to the “rules-based international order”.  

If you are a survivor of a crime of “natural causes”, here’s how to fight for your right, and the right of the dead, to natural justice.

Click to read the e-book edition:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQCR7JRW 

Click to read the paperback:  https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0GQZ54TWJ 

Click to read the hardcover: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQT5X9P5 

Tania has been at my side in every trial we ran together for thirty years in the courts of Moscow and Washington, DC, over stolen property, attempted murder (of me), and fraud; and also in the cases we fought in the Australian courts over her unlawful exclusion  and then illegal quarantine during the Covid lockdown between 2020 and 2021.  She did much of the financial and technical investigation required in those cases; she made the case-clinching discoveries of documents and witnesses. In the courtroom she would steady my nerve and signal how the advocacy was going. Her assessment of the proceedings in court and her corrections of my mistakes were unfailingly calm and correct. She also taught me to understand the differences between the trial litigation I was running and the theatre performance in which she, a professional Russian actress, had once excelled.

Without Tania, Таничка Моя, by my side to fight, I am lost.

I failed to defend her in life, but in making this case and seeking the jury’s public verdict on the names, words, and actions reported in this book, I will have served her. Her name, Tatiana Vasilievna Turitsyna, shall extinguish their record.

NOTE FOR AUSTRALIAN READERS:  Coroner Paul Lawrie, one of the subjects of this book,  has issued an unprecedented ban order to prevent the book being read in Australia. He has threatened me with a large fine and twelve months in prison. This,  Lawrie has attempted while  apparently unaware that he has already published himself the most sensitive secret in the case. The other documents which Lawrie is attempting to suppress have been openly recorded in a higher court than his; published in the US; and recorded officially in the United Arab Emirates and Russia. The book is now evidence in the Victorian Supreme Court case, Professor John Helmer v The Coroners Court of Victoria, S ECI 2026/01481 (March 2, 2026).  When the trial date is fixed, readers will be invited to attend.  

by Editor - Monday, March 16th, 2026