THE Foreign Office will today (Friday, October 23) be urged to call in the Greek Ambassador to finally end a 14-year controversy over the death of a North-East man.

Kevan Jones, the North Durham MP, will condemn “incompetence, delay and cruel treatment” in the case of 24-year-old Christopher Rochester, from Chester-le-Street.

And he will tell ministers it is time to summon the Greek Ambassador to end the “suppression” of evidence, almost 15 years after Christopher’s death after a balcony fall, on the island of Rhodes.

Since 2000, his parents, Pam and George Cummings, have been locked in battle to bring medics to account for the neglect that an inquest ruled caused his death.

Christopher’s body was returned to Britain minus a kidney, which the family believes was removed to cover up the cause of his death.

Three doctors at Andreas Papandreou hospital were found guilty of manslaughter by neglect, after Christopher survived the initial fall.

An organ was eventually sent over, but was found by a DNA test to belong to someone else – a test the Greek authorities refused to accept.

An independent test in Belgium involved the painful decision to exhume Christopher’s body, in 2011, but the Greek authorities have refused the family a full report.

Today, Mr Jones will tell ministers he has written to the Public Prosecutors’ Office in Rhodes on three occasions this year to demand it, but has received no response.

And an inquiry to the Greek Ambassador in London has been met with the same deafening silence.

Leading today’s debate, Mr Jones is expected to say: “This case has been a litany of incompetence, deliberate delay and the cruellest treatment of a bereaved family.

“We are not dealing here with an underdeveloped, third world nation, but a fellow member of the European Union community.”

The North Durham MP will urge the Foreign Office to raise the controversy face-to-face with the Greek Ambassador to “get some movement”.

The intervention comes after Mr and Mrs Cummings were told they must make an expensive application to the Greek courts, to obtain the full report.