Courtney Love Wants Kurt Cobain Death Scene Photos to Remain Unreleased

Today (July 31st) a Seattle judge with hear arguments to whether or not to proceed with a trail that may result in the release of the graphic photos of Kurt Cobain’s death.

Richard Lee, who runs a Seattle public access TV show, sued both the city and the Seattle Police Department for the pictures that he is claiming will prove that Cobain didn’t die of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The city feels that the photos and records should stay private for the family’s sake as they have been through enough.

Now the mother and daughter, who have never seen the images of the singer’s body, have penned letters to the court siding with the police, claiming they have suffered enough.

“Certainly, public disclosure would reopen all my old wounds, and cause me and my family permanent, indeed, endless and needless, pain and suffering, and would be a gross violation of our privacy interests”, Love wrote.

Courtney Love’s declaration reads, “I am routinely called a murderer and receive death threats by conspiracy-theory obsessed individuals who believe I was somehow involved in my husband’s death, and the public release of these images would only exacerbate such activity and further endanger my safety”.

“If in fact Kurt Cobain was murdered, as opposed to having committed suicide, and it was possible to learn that, shame on us for not doing that”.

Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home on April 8, 1994.

The photos show his entire body and the damage to his head from a shotgun blast, according to a declaration filed last week by Cobain’s wife, the musician Courtney Love, seeking to block the release.

Frances Bean Cobain explained that one crazed Nirvana fan had already broken into her California home and waited three days for her to return because he “believed my father’s soul had entered my body”. The other showed the paraphernalia box closed, next to cash, a cigarette pack and a wallet that appeared to show Cobain’s identification.

In 1995, Ms Love got court permission to keep Cobain’s suicide note, and another note used for handwriting analysis, out of the public eye. Lee himself has made two unsuccessful bids for mayor, in 2001 and 2005.

Despite this, Lee remains optimistic and is even acting as his own lawyer in this case. “My understanding is that I will clear this hurdle”.