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Behind The Facade – Service Shenanigans
Thirty Years of the Mental Health Services – Mostly in North Wales
Bio – Dr Sally Baker
Home – The Beginning
Socio-Political Context of the North Wales Mental Health Services in the 1980s
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
British Medical Association
Clwyd Health Authority
Clwyd Social Services
Community Health Councils
Denbighshire Social Services
Donna Ockenden
Flintshire Council
Gwynedd County Council
Gwynedd Health Authority
Gwynedd Hospitals NHS Trust
Gwynedd Social Services
Health Inspectorate Wales
Independent Doctor's Federation
Leicester Child Abuse Scandal
Lord Denning
Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet
Maudsley Hospital
Medical Defence Union
Mental Health Act Commission
Mental Health Charities
North Wales Child Abuse Scandal
North Wales Hospital Denbigh
North Wales Police
North West Wales NHS Trust
Nursing and Midwifery Council
Parkhead Hospital Glasgow
Psychological therapies
Public Service Ombudsman for Wales
Royal College of Nursing
Service User/Carer Involvement
Special Hospitals
Springfield Hospital
St Georges Hospital Medical School
Wales Audit Office
Welsh Assembly Politicians
Welsh Office
MORE HACKING – AND TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES
Normal Service Resumed – News Round-Up, March 8 2017
Counselling, Caring and A Bit of Identity Fraud…
The General Medical Council and Yet Another Forged Document
Another Scam Brought To You By CAIS…
An Opportunist Tweets
And Now – It's The Gallery…
BLOG IN DANGER
News Round-Up, April 13 2017
More On Those Prisons For Folk Who Dared Complain
Police Investigate Historic Abuse Claims Against Psychiatrist and Psychiatric Hospital
I Think That We've Been Here Before
The London Connection
When Showbiz Meets Politics
Correction and Apology
The Mary Wynch Case – Details
It's A Piece Of Cake…
Failings In Care – But Another Narrative Verdict
I Know Nuzzing…
Top Of The Cops
A Stalker's Network
A UK Network
So Who Was It Exactly Who Appointed The Corrupt Old Bastard?
This Is What Happened To Nicola, Niclas, Merfyn, Joan and Kathryn
Tower Hamlets, Paul Boateng And Tessa Jowell
'Ain't Nothing Clean' – Not Even The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists
More Post-Waterhouse Glittering Careers
Don't Be Silly, He's Nice
'A Pretty Classy Piece Of Operation'
'A Future Leader Of The Labour Party'
'One Of The Safest Pairs Of Hands At The Criminal Bar'
One Dangerous Fucker
Ian Brockington's Mischief
Are You Local?
A Top Doctor In The News
Did Glenda Occupy A Key Role In Keeping It All Out Of The Media?
Professor Prestigious And His Associates
The Right Honourable David Jones MP
Computer Says No
News Update And A Few More Accessories
A Prescription For Murder?
Doris Karloff – Honest About Her Expenses But Not Much Else
Yet More Crime And Punishment
A Few More Who Might Be Able To Answer Questions
More Summer Reading!
MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course…
A Peer, More Top Docs and News Round Up
The Great And The Good
News Round Up, August 11 2017
The 'Celtic Iron Lady' And Yet More Recent History
I Want Serious Money Now Please
Corruption Bay Special
A Direct Threat From MIND In Haringey
Close Your Eyes And Make A WISH
It's The Sun Wot Won It
Update On 'Tainted Blood' Scandal – The Culprit
The Poisonous Tentacles Of The Home Office
A Vampire At Glyndwr University!
Running The Country – And All That Jazz
Wheels Within Wheels Or Flies Drawn To The Same Incestuously Corrupt Shithouse?
My How Things Haven't Changed
The Case Of The King's Sperm
News Round-Up, 21 September 2017
He Knows Where The Bodies Are Buried
The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Connection?
So Look Who Won Awards
The Evolution Of A Drugs Baron?
Compare And Contrast – The Case of Two Doctors And The GMC
History Repeats Itself, First As Tragedy, Second As Farce
Ted Heath News
Judge James Pickles
Lord Robert Armstrong
News Round Up, 6 October 2017
A Very COHSE Relationship With Some Very Nasty People
Their Trade Is Fuckwittery
No Ordinary Methods
No Ordinary Methods – Supplementary Post
Little Things Hitting Each Other
Everywoman?
FAO Anti-Slavery Tsar!
'The Reality Is, There Is No Problem'
A Secret And Forbidding Place To Work?
Workers' Play Time
95 Glorious Years!
The Cradle of Filth
A Bit More Paleontology
I Don't Believe It!
The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part I
The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part II
The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III
News From Sicily
A Study In Tyranny
So Who Was Angry About What?
A Trabant That Wants To Be A Ferrari…
Disgusting of Tunbridge Wells And A Few Equally Disgusting Others
The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part IV
The Crème de la Crème
'They Planned To Put Acid In All The Reservoirs…'
Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals
Always On The Side Of The Children
The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part V
The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play
To Raise Winds For The Destruction Of Ships…
'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named…
Is The Party Over Yet?
Security, Security
Additional Security Measures
In Memoriam – Bronwen, Lady Astor
A Galaxy of Talent
Inside Information About A Hergest Unit Death
The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…
He Knew Far, Far Too Much
A Vintage Crop
Another Episode of 'Friends'…
Dogma and Disarray?
A Major Coup – Or A Complete Disaster?
The Battle Of The Cowshed
Yet More Inglorious Bastards
Just A Language Divide?
It Wasn't On Our Radar
Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks…
NOTICE TO READERS – Feb 19th 2018
Message to Tamsin!
These Sharks Are Crap As Well
Oh Lordy, It's CR UK
Mary Turner – An Appreciation
Tuppence And His Fragrant Wife
Possible Discovery Of More Forged Or Amended Documents
Reports Of Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
I Warn You…
The Paedophiles' Friends Of Cardiff North
The Bodies Beneath Canary Wharf
In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen
My Arse – It's Tatifliarious
Old Nick Bites The Dust
People With Energy
A Solicitor's Letter From North East Wales MIND
Cottaging At Castle Gate
Gwlad y Menig Gwynion
The Bloody State We're In
The International Language Of Screaming
Killing Floor – I Know Cos I Was There!
An Appalling Vista
Have The Lambs Stopped Screaming?
The Old Devils
The Defence Of The Realm
Sleeping With The Fishes
E mail Correspondence From A Former Undercover Police Officer
Pets Win Prizes
Mr Thomas Waterhouse – An Apology
Cry, The Beloved Country
Baroness Tessa Jowell – A Tribute
Feet In Chains
What Time's Chaos?
Criminals Are Getting Away With It
The White Heat Of This Revolution
Include Me Out
Today We Have Naming Of Parts
Anthem For Doomed Youth
Dulce et Decorum est
R.I.P. Two Paedophiles' Friends And A Poor Cow
BMA Calling, BMA Calling
Wimmin's Wellbeing – The Fortnum and Mason Connection
They Think It's All Over – It Is Now
Events, Dear Boy, Events
The History, Boys…
More Alan Bennett
They Are MYRIAD, They Are Legion
The Rakes' Progress
In Memoriam – Dr Julian Tudor Hart
Those Who Are Ready To Serve
Upper Class Twit Of The Year – 'Shooting Themselves'
He Got On His Bike And Looked For Work
A Local Boy Made Good?
In Memoriam – Lord Carrington
Life In Cold Blood
What's Left? The Politics of Social Justice
Rab, High Table and the Founding Fathers
Conference At Cold Comfort Farm
Jennifer's Diary
The Great Stink
A Vortex Of Eternal Shame
An Expression Of Their Faith
We've Been Expecting You…
Remember Girls – Never Get Into A Car With A Stranger!
A Legend Lives
No Cuts
Comedies of Menace
Rivers Of Blood
The Cry Of The Lunatic
A Demand From Gwynedd County Council
It's Just Another Gold Digger
I Told You I Was Trouble
R.I.P. Fenella Fielding
More Dogs That Did Not Bark
Tan yn Llyn
I Predict A Riot
Yours Truly, Angry Mob
It's Bachman Turner Overdrive – Not 'Arf
Dr Victoria Winckler Threatens To Sue Dr Sally Baker
And The Lucky Winners Are…
Don't Mess With Daddy
Hey, Hey DAJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?
Holding The Country To Ransom – Part I
Slaves, Perfect Slaves
The Compassion Centre
I Passionately Believe…
How Much Greater Is A Man Than A Sheep?
The Battle For The Labour Party's Soul
Lord Snooty The Third
The Point Is To Change It
Right To Reply
Meet The Gwerin!
On The Occasion Of The 70th Birthday Of HRH Carlo
Only One Died
Britain In Agony
Dr Victoria Winckler v Dr Sally Baker: Update
Yes, There Is Still Green Paint On The Renault…
O Jones, O Jones
The Wind Of No Change
There's Methodism In This Madness
Come, Friendly Bombs
Dr Adrianne Reveley – A Loving Tribute
News Flash – Welsh Labour's New Leader
The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
Hwyl Fawr Carwyn, Croeso Drakeford!
The Vermin Club
Captain Swing And His Crew
A Message Of Peace At Christmas
Bernard Levin And Jonathan Miller Talk Bollocks
Stations of the Crass
The Mrs Mills Experience
The Science of Animal Behaviour
R.I.P Julia Grant and Many More…
The Wrong Set
Uncle Harry's Friends…
The Bitterest Pill
Vested Interests Or Common Pool?
Arthur Dickson Wright – An Appreciation
The Naked Civil Servants
Theatre of the Absurd
Notice To Readers: Possible Threat To The Continued Existence Of This Blog
One Complaint Against This Blog Withdrawn – More Have Been Made!
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Murder In Samarkand
Error Of Judgement?
Too Many Pills
International Women's Day! Let Us Celebrate With Jane…
The Logic Of Medicine
Oliver's Army
A Charming, Uplifting Sound…
A Trail Of Blood
All Inquiries To William Wales Please…
The Old Crowd
Jehova, Jehova, Jehova
A Holy Fool Among A Feast of Fools
Blog Under Attack Once More
Holding The Country To Ransom – Part II
BLOCK ATTACKED AGAIN – APRIL 30 2019
Shurely Shome Mishtake
The Joys Of Propaganda
BLOG UNDER ATTACK, 10 May 2019
The Milk Street and Other Mafias
Notice Re Discussions About This Blog
Politicians Who Resigned On Principle
Cymro 007
FUTURE OF THIS BLOG
Successful Surgery On King George VI!
International Finance, With Grateful Thanks To Gwynne
Sir Brian Leveson – An Apology
Update, 23 June 2019: The Future Of This Blog
The Two Cultures Of Organised Abuse
The Wizard War
Sex, Lies and No Democracy
He Was Looking At I In A Funny Way…
So Absolutely Sane, Clear, Quick, Intelligent and Safe…
Lord Tim Bell
We Shall Remember Them: Clever Hans
The North Wales Police Professional Standards Dept
TEXT GOING MISSING FROM BLOG POSTS
More Antonin Artaud
A Reply From The GMC!
Mr Fawlty, I No Want To Work Here Any More
Our Man In Llandegfan
Lord Gnome, My Distant Relative By Marriage
A Celebration Of Dafydd's Medical Training
This Is A Nightmare For All Of Us
MASSIVE INTERFERENCE ON THE BLOG – APOLOGIES
Devonshire Cream and Fudge
Putting Things Right – Perfick
A Little Something To Which We Can Look Forward
ATTACK ON THE BLOG OVERNIGHT, 21/22 Nov 2019
More Hollywood Gossip
Jonathan Wolfe Miller – In Memoriam
Unacceptable Behaviour!
For Those Battling With British Justice At Present
A Glass Ceiling Has Been Broken!
We Are Not Bloody Well Having It
A Bit Of Fanny Batter
A Reminder To The Amnesiacs Of The UK Police Force And MI5
Ysbyty Gwynedd
Westminster Polticians
Tag: Mahatma Ghandi
Previous posts eg. 'The Vermin Club' and 'Captain Swing And His Crew' discussed the enormous circle of radicals, political activists, high profile literary figures, psychoanalysts etc who spent much time in south Gwynedd – or who were friends with those who did – during the middle decades of the 20th century, as a result of the presence of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis who married into the Bloomsbury Group and Bertrand Russell taking up residence in nearby Penthyndeudraeth. The Welsh Bloomsbury Group knew about the presence of Dafydd's gang in the area – and pre-Dafydd, Gwynne the lobotomist's gang – but Dafydd and Gwynne provided a service for them, not the local people, so they weren't in the least bit worried.
One strong link between with current politicians wielding power and Croesor is via the Hobsbawm family. Eric Hobsbawm kept a second home at Croesor for many years. He left the area in the late 1970s, but connections remained. Eric's daughter Julia spent much of her young life at Croesor, although the family's main home was in Hampstead. Julia's best mate from Camden High School for Girls was Sarah, with whom Hobsbawm established a PR company that worked for the Labour Party and trade unions. While working for Hobsbawm Macaulay Communications, Sarah met Gordon, just when Gordon was in need of a wife, him wanting to be PM one day and they married. For a long time the Hobsbawms had a family friend who was the wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer but they hit the jackpot in 2007 when they found that they were mates with the PM and his wife! It was good news for the Hobsbawms but disastrous for the public services in north Wales because the Hobsbawms were right behind a group of people who had caused very great suffering in north Wales…
Croesor was a place of many tales of derring-do because of the numerous very well-known radicals and bohemians who lived there at some point throughout the middle decades of the 20th century. The Croesor-related story that impresses some people the most is of course The Croesor-George Blake Link, which I briefly mentioned in my post 'O Jones, O Jones'. It was Michael Randle and Pat Pottle, who lived in Croesor for many years, who helped the spy George Blake escape from prison in 1966. In 1991 Randle and Pottle finally stood trial at the Old Bailey for their role in springing Blake from Wormwood Scrubs and smuggling him out of the UK and into the Soviet Union.
George Blake (born George Behar on 11 November 1922) worked as a double agent for the KGB. Blake became a Communist and decided to work for the KGB while a prisoner during the Korean War. Blake's espionage was discovered in 1961 and after a great deal of 'How Very Dare You' from the British establishment, he was sentenced to 42 years in prison after it was alleged that his activities had led to the deaths of many, many agents. George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 and fled to the Soviet Union. Blake was not one of the Cambridge Five – or at least the received wisdom states that he wasn't – although he associated with Donald Maclean and Kim Philby after he arrived in the Soviet Union.
Blake was born in the Netherlands in 1922, the son of a Protestant Dutch mother and an Egyptian Jewish father who was a naturalised British subject. The family lived a comfortable existence in the Netherlands until Blake's father's death in 1936. The 13 year old Blake was sent to live with relatives in Egypt, where he continued his education at the English School in Cairo. When WW II broke out, Blake was back in the Netherlands. In 1940, Germany invaded and quickly defeated the Dutch military. Blake was interned but released because he was only 17. He joined the Dutch resistance as a courier. In 1942, Blake escaped from the Netherlands and he reached London in January 1943. There, he was reunited with his mother and his sisters, who had fled at the start of the war. It was in 1943 that his mother decided to change the family name from Behar to Blake.
Blake joined the Royal Navy as a sub-lieutenant before being recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, in 1944. For the rest of the war, Blake was employed in the Dutch Section. In 1946 Blake was posted to Hamburg and put in charge of the interrogation of German U-boat captains. In 1947 the Navy sent Blake to study at Downing College, Cambridge, where his fellow students included Michael MccGwire.
With a biography like this, George Blake would have been party to huge quantities of sensitive information that the British state are still desperately refusing to come clean about, such as whatever it was that Lord Louis Mountbatten did for so long that sent everyone into a blind funk and caused state agents to do anything at all to ensure that it was never openly admitted, even years after his death. See post 'The Defence Of The Realm'.
MccGwire was a Royal Navy commander who in 1952 joined GCHQ to develop naval intelligence on the Soviet Navy. In 1956-58 MccGwire became a British assistant naval attache in Moscow where he provided military intelligence. As a 'war planner', MccGwire worked in the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) in the US. MccGwire retired from the Navy in 1967 aged 42 and became a student in International Politics and Economics at Aberystwyth University. While at Aber, MccGwire started and ran the Interstate Journal of International Affairs and published on the Soviet Navy for the UK's Institute of Strategic Studies. MccGwire spent a year at Aber teaching postgrads.
For much of the 20th century, Abersytwyth churned out law graduates who spent the rest of their professional lives colluding with the organised abuse and criminality in Wales and elsewhere. The institution was also managed by deeply corrupt people who perpetuated this situation. Goronwy Rees, Principal of Aber, 1953-56, was a friend of Guy Burgess and was named as a double agent himself, although Goronwy's fan club hotly denied that. Goronwy's brother Geraint was a High Court judge in Wales who knew Ronnie Waterhouse and the gang. MccGwire was at Aberystwyth when Carlo was a student there for a brief time learning Welsh. For further details of corrupt people in high places as Aberystwyth University, see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'.
In 1970 MccGowrie became Professor of Maritime and Strategic Studies at Dalhousie University, Canada, staying there until 1979. He then became a Senior Fellow of the think tank in Washington DC, the Brookings Institute. MccGwire semi-retired in 1990, joining Cambridge University as a visiting Professor for three years on their Global Security Programme. At Cambridge, he continued to argue for an end to nuclear deterrents. In 2006 MccGwire participated in the national debate re the replacement of Trident and after that continued publishing and commenting on world affairs. He died in 2016.
Michael MccGwire was married to Helen, formerly an occupational therapist and author of a children's storybook. They lived in Dorset and had five children: the writer and adviser to Labour Party figures, Scarlett MccGwire; author/communication consultant Lucinda Neall; CAB adviser Katrina Higham; business publisher Rory MccGwire; and corporate financier Paddy MccGwire. Scarlett has featured in a previous post on this blog and Lucille Hughes has been involved in the senior management of the CAB for a long while.
After Cambridge University, George Blake was posted to Seoul, South Korea, arriving in November 1948. Under cover as a Vice-Consul, Blake's mission was to gather intelligence on Communist North Korea, Communist China and the Soviet Far East. Blake and the other British diplomats were taken prisoner after the Korean War broke out in 1950. While in Korea, Blake became a Communist and volunteered to work for the KGB.
When Blake was asked, "Is there one incident that triggered your decision to effectively change sides?", he responded, "It was the relentless bombing of small Korean villages by enormous American Flying Fortresses. Women and children and old people, because the young men were in the army. We might have been victims ourselves. It made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technically superior countries fighting against what seemed to me defenceless people. I felt I was on the wrong side … that it would be better for humanity if the Communist system prevailed, that it would put an end to war".
Following his release in 1953, Blake returned to Britain as a hero, landing at RAF Abingdon.
Blake returning from Korea in 1953
In October 1954, Blake married MI6 secretary Gillian Allan in London. In 1955, he was sent by MI6 to work as a case officer in Berlin, where his task was to recruit Soviet officers as double agents. He informed his KGB contacts of the details of British and American operations, including Operation Gold, in which a tunnel into East Berlin was used to tap telephone lines used by the Soviet military. Until Blake's treachery was discovered, this operation had been hailed as a resounding success. It is claimed that in the course of nine years Blake betrayed details of some forty MI6 agents to the KGB, destroying most of MI6's operations in Eastern Europe, although this remains unsubstantiated. Blake later said of this, "I don't know what I handed over because it was so much". In 1959 Blake became aware of a CIA mole inside GRU, the foreign military intelligence agency of the Soviet Army and was thus instrumental in exposing P.S. Popov, who was executed in 1960.
In 1961, Blake fell under suspicion after revelations by Polish defector Michael Goleniewski and others. Blake was summoned back to London from Lebanon where he was enrolled at the Middle East Centre for Aranic Studies (MECAS) and arrested on arrival in London. Blake denied that he was ever tortured or blackmailed by the North Koreans and gave his MI6 interrogators a full confession.
The maximum sentence for any one offence under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 is 14 years, but Blake's activities were divided into five time periods charged as five offences and, in May 1961 after an in camera trial at the Old Bailey, he was sentenced to a total of 42 years imprisonment by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker. It was the longest sentence (excluding life terms) ever handed down by a British court until in 1986 Nezar Hindawi was sentenced to 45 years for the attempted bombing of an El Al jet.
Hubert Lister Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington (28 May 1900 – 15 September 1972) served as Lord Chief Justice, 1958-71. He went to Rugby (in later years he was Chairman of the Governors) and Trinity College, Cambridge. Following that, Parker was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1924. He became a High Court judge in 1950 and by 1954 was promoted to the Court of Appeal, in which Parker served until 1958. Harold Macmillan appointed Parker as Lord Chief Justice in 1958 and Parker remained in the post until 1971.
Parker was criticised when he imprisoned the journalists who refused to reveal their sources during the Vassall Tribunal of 1963, the Public Inquiry undertaken by the British Gov't in the wake of the John Vassall Scandal. Vassall, a civil servant working in the Admiralty, had been revealed in 1962 to be a Soviet spy and considerable criticism had been levelled at the security arrangements that were in place. The Tribunal was established to investigate these claims and determine whether any blame could be laid on officials or ministers. At first, the Inquiry was to be conducted by three senior civil servants. However, before it could begin, letters were discovered in Vassall's possession from Tam Galbraith, who had been Civil Lord of the Admiralty. See previous posts. Vassall had been Galbraith's junior Private Secretary; nevertheless some people suggested that it was odd that a minister would communicate by post with an official of his own department and there was considerable speculation of impropriety in the press. Given Vassall's homosexuality, which had now become known, there were rumours that he and Galbraith were involved with each other and that Galbraith might have shielded him from discovery. The committee of civil servants investigated the correspondence and declared it innocent, but this verdict was not universally accepted. Eventually, the PM, Harold Macmillan, was compelled to open a wider Inquiry, conducted by three jurists. The Inquiry determined that Vassall had not been helped or favoured by any of his seniors.
Like so many other people, John Vassall will have known whatever it was going on in the Royal Navy and the Admiralty at the time that Gov't was so desperate to keep quiet. Vassall was arrested in 1962 and was subsequently sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment; he was released in 1972 after 10 years. Vassall was befriended in prison by the social reformer, Lord Longford, who during all that prison visiting and reforming gathered a great deal of information regarding who was witness to Naughtiness In High Places (see post 'Comedies Of Menace'). Vassall subsequently changed his surname to Phillips, settled in St John's Wood, London and worked as an administrator at the British Records Association and for a firm of solicitors in Gray's Inn. He died after suffering a heart attack on a London bus in November 1996, two months before the Waterhouse Inquiry opened: it was not until nearly three weeks later that the press became aware of Vassall's death. Ronnie Waterhouse lived in St John's Wood, as did a great many lawyers, judges and politicians who were keeping the lid on the Westminster Paedophile Ring.
Lord Parker's judgement with regard to the Vassall Tribunal stated in part that "the citizen's highest duty is to the State". Unfortunately for people like John Vassall who began dropping like flies as the Waterhouse Inquiry loomed and then got underway, the State was complicit with a bunch of vicious gangsters who were forcing kids and vulnerable people into sex work and bumping them off if they told people what was happening to them. Parker was quoted as saying that the Courts "have a positive responsibility to be the handmaiden of administration rather than its governor". So who WAS/IS the Guvnor?
However, Lord Parker was popular among the legal profession as he secured improvements in judicial salaries and pensions. Which was an effective way of ensuring a tame judiciary that is the handmaiden of administration rather than its governor.
Lord Parker was a 'mild reformer' who supported legal aid, tried to modernise some judicial procedures and took an active part in Lords debates. He supported moves to abolish the death penalty.
On 22 October 1966, George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs with the assistance of three men whom he had met in jail: Sean Bourke, Pat Pottle and Michael Randle, the escape being masterminded by Bourke. Sean Bourke was a petty Irish criminal, Pat and Michael were two anti-nuclear activists who had spent years living in Croesor.
In 1989, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle published their book giving an account of Blake's escape, along with their rationale for helping him, 'The Blake Escape: How We Freed George Blake And Why'. When in June 1991 Randle and Pottle stood trial at the Old Bailey for their part in the escape they were no longer living at Croesor. They defended themselves in court, arguing that while they in no way condoned Blake's espionage activities for either side, they were right to help him because the 42 year sentence that he received was inhuman and hypocritical. Despite a virtual direction from the judge to convict, the jury found them not guilty on all counts.
Their trial attracted a great deal of publicity partly because there was such a high degree of farce involved. The crime had taken place many years before and it was unclear why it was suddenly deemed so important for Randle and Pottle to stand trial. What really attracted attention though were the allegations that the security services themselves had helped Bourke, Randle and Pottle spring Blake. It was also claimed by some that CND had been behind the escape. Randle and Pottle were CND activists but always denied that the escape was a CND act and they also denied that they had been assisted by the security services.
Randle and Pottle both served as Secretaries of the Committee of 100, an anti-war group that was set up in 1960 by Bertrand Russell, Ralph Schoenman and the Rev Michael Scott. Pat Pottle was always referred to by people in north Wales as 'Bertrand Russell's Secretary' rather than the 'Secretary of the Committee of 100'. Randle was appointed as Secretary when the Committee of 100 was created, but Pottle took over the following year after Randle was jailed for his involvement in an anti-nuclear demonstration; Pottle himself had recently been released from prison after being jailed for his part in organising the demonstration at Wethersfield, of which more details will be provided later in this post. In 1955, Russell leased Plas Penrhyn in Penrhyndeudraeth, some four or five miles from Croesor and in the following year it became his principal residence.
People around Croesor talked to me about Russell, Pottle, Randle and Schoenman, but no-one ever mentioned Michael Scott. A lot of people involved with the activism took a rather dim view of Schoenman, but never explained why.
The Rev Guthrie Michael Scott, (30 July 1907 – 14 September 1983), was an Anglican priest and an anti-apartheid activist, who became active in anti-apartheid in South Africa in the 1940s. Scott was born in Sussex on 30 July 1907 and educated at King's College, Taunton, Chichester Theological College and St Paul's College, Grahamstown. Scott was ordained by George Bell in 1932, the George Bell who in recent years has been at the centre of a huge row in the Anglican Church regarding allegations that he was a child molester. Scott's career began with curacies in Slaugham and Kensington. He was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Bombay, 1935-37 and then served at St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. In 1943 Scott moved to Johannesburg where he was Chaplain to the St Alban's Mission. In 1952, Scott co-founded the Africa Bureau, "an organisation to advise and support Africans who wished to oppose by constitutional means political decisions affecting their lives and futures imposed by alien governments." He was a leading international promoter of Namibian independence along with Chief Hosea Kutako and Captain Hendrik Samuel Witbooi. For his efforts in the Namibian War of Independence, Scott has a street named after him in Windhoek. He met with Martin Luther King Jr. during Ghana's celebration of independence.
The Committee of 100 was committed to a campaign against nuclear weapons based on non-violent mass civil disobedience. The idea emerged early in 1960 in discussions between Ralph Schoenman, Hugh Brock, April Carter, Uncle Harry's brother-in-law Ralph Miliband and Stuart Hall, some 23 years before Uncle Harry's brother-in-law and Stuart Hall began a campaign of mass civil disobedience with the aim of hampering Brown's career (see previous posts 'eg. Life In Cold Blood').
When Bertrand Russell established the Committee of 100, Dafydd and John Allen hadn't yet gone into business big-style, but there had been organised abuse in north Wales for years; Gwynne the lobotomist ruled supreme and locals who crossed the path of powerful people were destroyed. Bertrand Russell and his mates had nothing to fear, Gwynne and subsequently Dafydd were there to serve the needs of posh powerful people.
Schoenman approached Bertrand Russell, the President of CND, with the idea which led to the Committee of 100. Russell resigned from the Presidency of CND in order to form the Committee of 100, which was launched at a meeting in London on 22 October 1960 with a hundred signatures. Russell was elected as President and Michael Randle was appointed Secretary. Russell explained his reasons for setting up the Committee of 100 in an article in the 'New Statesman' in February 1961.
Many in CND, including some of its founders, supported the Committee of 100's campaign of civil disobedience. In 1958 CND had cautiously accepted direct action as a possible method of campaigning; but, largely under the influence of Canon John Collins, CND Chairman, CND's leadership opposed any sort of unlawful protest. The Committee of 100 was created as a separate organisation partly for that reason and partly because of personal animosity between Collins and Russell. It has been suggested that this separation weakened the campaign against nuclear weapons and research also suggested that during the activities of the Committee of 100, public support for unilateral disarmament decreased, so Bertrand Russell's campaign seemed to be counter-productive. About as effective as Uncle Harry's brother-in-law's and Stuart Hall's efforts to stop Brown getting a PhD and publishing…
DUH!!! Rethink needed!
The Crisis being that from the mid- 1980s onwards, Brown and his friends refused to shut up about the vile old lobotomist and his gang who had for years been supplying kids and young people to provide sexual services for Bertrand's circle…
Bertrand was long dead but there was his legacy and his many friends and family to think about and of course CND and the other Radical Causes with which so many of those who had been and still were involved were also linked to the sexual exploitation of kids and young people, as well as the associated serious organised crime.
Many of the ageing and recently retired social workers of Gwynedd turned out for the Feb 2003 anti-Iraq War march. Never mind the gangsters and the murders of witnesses, there's the world to save, an organic wholefood diet to follow and an angry letter to 'The Guardian' to be written.
While they were Marching For Peace, it was business as usual for the mental health services:
Lessons Have Been Learned!
Which is why this happened a few weeks later:
'There is no key worker available this week. The Team are on A Course.'
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Prof Stuart Hall and his mates found themselves with an even greater Crisis to police in 2003 when Merfyn Jones, the then acting VC of Bangor University, gave me a place to do a PhD. The Crisis worsened when Merfyn's appointment as VC was confirmed in 2004 and then race riots broke out in 2005 when I acquired my PhD. The solution to the serious civil disorder was to Get Merfyn (see post 'Lest We Forget'). As well as Brown and me of course. I mean Merfyn was from Llanfrothen but his dad wasn't Bertrand Russell!!!
'The Brondanw Arms', the pub that Merfyn's parents ran in Llanfrothen as tenants of Eric Hobsbawm's friend Sir Clough Williams-Ellis:
Plas Penrhyn, the humble cott in which Bertrand Russell dwelt:
Information about Plas Penrhyn can be found on the website of 'Humanist Heritage'. Among other things we are told:
Plas Penrhyn was Bertrand Russell's home in Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales. Russell had a fondness for Wales and would live there for most of his later years. The original idea to move to Wales was to provide a suitable place for his grandson's family to live comfortably. John, Russell's grandson, wanted to be a writer and there was little way to support his wife and three children in this manner. Plas Penrhyn was near Duedraeth castle where Russell had stayed before and was near the sea (Penrhyndeudraeth means peninsula with two beaches in Welsh). Percy Bysshe Shelley also had maintained a cottage in the local area.
It was from this regency manor that Russell would telegram both Khrushchev and Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, write his biography and live out his later years. In one passage of his biography he describes his first impressions of the house:
We stopped in North Wales where our friends Rupert and Elizabeth Crawshay-Williams had found a house, Plas Penrhyn, that they thought would make a pleasant holiday house for us and the children. It was small and unpretentious, but had a delightful garden and little orchard and a number of fine beech trees. Above all, it had a most lovely view, south to the sea, west to Portmadoc and the Caernarvon hills, and north up the valley of the Glasslyn to Snowdon. I was captivated by it, and particularly pleased that across the valley could be seen the house where Shelley lived. The owner of Plas Penrhyn agreed to let it to us largely, I think, because he, too, is a lover of Shelley and was much taken by my desire to write an essay on 'Shelley the Tough' (as opposed to the 'ineffectual angel'). Later, I met a man at Tan-y-Ralt, Shelley's house, who said he had been a cannibal…
Nye's humble cott in Belgravia, the Nye who's World Envying Achievement provided 100% protection to ineffectual Angels as well as to downright abusive Angels who were running the trafficking gang in north Wales:
'The greatest ever lion and lioness of Labour': the Windbag on Nye Bevan and Jennie Lee. The Windbag who was a personal friend of some of those in the trafficking gang as were both of his parents-in-law in the previous generation.
Brown and Baker are Damaging The NHS With Their Publications!
'Merfyn Jones is destroying my university, my language and my culture': the phrase spat at me by two other associates of the trafficking gang. Er, was this little slogan possibly doing the rounds amidst the Get Merfyn campaign? Since when did Miranda, Gordon and David Cameron give a damn about Bangor University, the Welsh language or indeed any putative Welsh culture, suckers???
Yma O Hyd!
Nye and Jennie on their way back to their humble cott in Belgravia from Harrods:
The parents of Brown and Baker weren't Bertrand Russell either, indeed our parents weren't even members of the New Left, which must have been why Col Brown was found suddenly and unexpectedly dead during the Waterhouse Inquiry and Mrs Brown was found suddenly and unexpectedly dead just after I finished my PhD, when the SPG were brought in to police the Crisis.
The SPG came into their own after Merfyn was appointed the Chairman of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and the combined forces of the gwerin, the Top Docs et al and the descendants and friends of the New Left organised to allow numerous NHS patients to die in order to cause a scandal and thus force Merfyn to resign and leave public life (see post 'The Point Is To Change It'). Added extras were guns being waved at me as well as someone who provided a witness statement, attempts to run Brown and I off the road at high speed and me being wrongfully arrested repeatedly and unlawfully refused all medical care. Let's hear it for Radical Action!
The Committee of 100's campaign tactic was to organise sit-down demonstrations, which were not to be undertaken without at least 2,000 volunteers pledging to take part. Many eminent people participated in the sit-downs but few of the 100 signatories took part in the Committee's activities. Demonstrators were required to adopt a discipline of non-violence and were recommended to remain limp if arrested and to refuse to co-operate in any way until inside the police station.
While I lived in north Wales I met a few people who had been part of the Committee of 100's demonstrations, some of whom had joined the Committee of 100 at a young age. Merfyn joined while he was still at school and I knew another person who had joined as a school girl who had been arrested and imprisoned as a result of one demo, although she was only 15 yrs old. There was quite a fuss when Holloway discovered that one of their prisoners was a school girl.
I got to know this person better as a result of Brown and me publishing about the problems in the NHS in north Wales. She knew people who were going to England for mental health care because they just could not get any in north Wales and her own father was treated appallingly as a patient in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd. She raised her concerns and was subjected to insults and ridicule from the Angels. This was not a family who could be pathologised as plebs Ignoring Public Health Messages, the elderly man who had the Ysbyty Glan Clwyd Experience was a retired senior Army officer and his daughter was an academic who also worked as a journalist. The family did not publicise what had happened because it was all just so distressing that they wanted to retain their privacy and dignity, which was often why so much gross abuse of patients does not become public. Mark Drakeford knows that most of the families involved in the Tawel Fan scandal at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd never went public on just how bad it all was for the same reason.
The care of the elderly in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd was known to be atrocious and had been for years. It was ignored, even when Prof Clare Wenger, a retired academic from Bangor University and a specialist in the well-being of older people, wrote a report about her own experiences as a patient there and went to the media in 2007. Clare Wenger was denounced by Ysbyty Glan Clwyd as a stuck up old cow and not one person came to her defence in public, although every health and social care specialist at Bangor University, every politician in north Wales and every Top Doctor knew that Clare Wenger was not exaggerating with regard to just how bad the 'care' of elderly patients in that hospital was. See previous posts. Sadly, even Clare herself did not flag it up until she got in the neck…
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.
Look around. There is no-one left to speak out. No-one.
The NHS is the envy of the world and the Top Doctors need more funding. Universal Credit will be Rolled Out to all Empowered Service Users because It Makes Work Pay and makes them Take Responsibility.
Meanwhile in Hampstead:
Roll your sleeves up and get to work or it's Pol Pot for the lot of you…
At first, the Committee of 100 differed from CND only in its methods. Within the Committee, however, there were different ideas about civil disobedience, direct action and non-violence. Bertrand Russell saw mass civil disobedience merely as a way of getting publicity for the unilateralist cause. Some members followed Gandhi and they regarded direct action as a way of creating a non-violent society. Ralph Schoenman and others, including the anarchists who later led the organisation, saw direct action as a sort of insurrection that could force the state to give up nuclear weapons. Once that had been achieved, perhaps they could have done the world an even bigger favour and dealt with Gwynne the lobotomist and Dafydd. Nicolas Walter, a prominent member of the Committee, said later that it had been an anarchist organisation from its inception and that the hundred signatories were, in effect, a front.
The Committee's first act of civil disobedience on 18 February 1961 was a sit-down demonstration at the MoD in Whitehall, London, to coincide with the expected arrival of USS Proteus on the River Clyde. Between 1,000 and 6,000 people took part; there were no arrests. At the next sit-down demonstration, on 29 April 1961 in Parliament Square, the police arrested 826 people. There were also marches and sit-downs against nuclear testing and demonstrations at the US and Soviet embassies in London and at the Polaris submarine base.
On 17 September 1961, Battle of Britain Day, supporters blocked the pierheads at Holy Loch and the approaches to Trafalgar Square. The September demonstration is regarded as the high-water mark of the Committee of 100. A week before the demonstration, the hundred committee members were summoned to court without charge under the Justices of the Peace Act of 1361, because they "incited members of the public to commit breaches of the peace" and were likely to continue to do so. The court bound them to a promise of good behaviour for 12 months; 32, including Bertrand Russell, then aged 89, refused to be bound over and chose to go to prison instead. It is estimated that 12,000 to 15,000 people attended the demonstration despite the invocation of the Public Order Act, which effectively made it illegal to be in the vicinity of central London that day. Several thousand sat down and there were 1,314 arrests, but no violence from demonstrators despite allegations of police brutality.
Can't See Any Protesters Here:
The success of the September demonstration encouraged the Committee to move from symbolic sit-down demonstrations in London to mass direct action at the places where nuclear weapons would be deployed and they planned simultaneous demonstrations on 9 December 1961 to walk on to RAF bases at Wethersfield, Ruislip, Brize Norton and Cardiff to sit on the runways and to prevent planes from taking off and street sit-downs in Bristol, Manchester and York.
The official response to the Committee of 100 had escalated from prosecution for incitement to breach of the peace to prosecution for the much more serious offences of conspiracy and incitement to breach the Official Secrets Act. Six organisers, the "Wethersfield Six", were charged with these offences and five later imprisoned for eighteen months: Ian Dixon, Terry Chandler, Trevor Hatton, Michael Randle, Pat Pottle; and the sixth, Helen Allegranza, to twelve months. Bertrand Russell said that he was equally responsible, but the authorities ignored him and concentrated on the six young, unknown Committee of 100 officers. 3,000 military and civilian police were mobilised at Wethersfield. 5,000 demonstrated there and 850 were arrested. The Wethersfield demonstration was the Committee's last act of large-scale civil disobedience. There were recriminations within the Committee, one internal memorandum saying that its policies had turned it into "a public spectacle, a group isolated from the general body of public opinion and feeling." Herbert Read resigned from the Committee, saying that the action was "strategically foolish". The Committee was weakened by the imprisonment of its officers.
The force used by the police at sit-down demonstrations surprised many of the demonstrators, which, with the Committee's insistence on nonviolence and the use of pre-emptive arrests for conspiracy, discouraged many and support dwindled. The Committee's plan to "fill the jails" by means of mass civil disobedience and thus compel the Gov't to respond to their demands, was frustrated by the authorities imprisoning a few important members and ignoring the rest. Ralph's brother-in-law Uncle Harry and his colleagues subsequently did ensure that the jails were indeed filled, but with Empowered Service Users rather than anti-nuclear activists. The harsh sentences on the Wethersfield Six "brought home to the Committee its inadequacy when faced with the might of the State," and some of the Committee's leaders were not willing to "fill the jails", mounting strenuous appeals against conviction or, in the case of Pat Pottle, going on the run. Pottle went into hiding in December 1961, when he was wanted by the police after the occupation at Wethersfield. It was only in February 1962, when he appeared at a press conference at Kingsway Hall in London, that Pottle was arrested by Special Branch. He defended himself at his trial and attempted to use the trial as a platform for his political beliefs. Pottle, Randle and the four other Wethersfield Six defendants were jailed for 18 months.
These days jails are not for peace activists or even serious criminals, they are for Empowered Service Users, who, should they say one word in protest, even when having been obviously framed, will be told by Caring Angels and Top Doctors that they Should Have Thought Of That Before. Fortunately, when Professor Oliver Brooke of St George's Hospital Medical School Didn't Think before he assisted in the organisation of a pan-European paedophile ring, his Eminent Colleagues realised that a prison sentence caused Great Suffering for a man like Ollie and at Ollie's appeal in May 1987, five months after he was imprisoned, Lord Chief Justice Geoffrey Lane received many testimonials and letters of support for Ollie, declared Ollie's enthusiasm for child porn to be the equivalent of a collection of 'cigarette cards' – did packets of fags still come with cigarette cards in 1987??? – and ordered Ollie's release, although Ollie's conviction was not overturned. See post 'Oliver!'.
By 1962, half of the original 100 signatories to the Committee of 100 had resigned. The Committee was in debt, faced the failure of its mass civil-disobedience campaign and was dissolved. The campaign was decentralised and thirteen regional committees, each with a hundred members, became responsible for organising demonstrations, with a co-ordinating National Committee. Of the regional committees, the London Committee of 100 was the most active and influential. A national magazine was launched by the London Committee in April 1963. Like CND, the Committee of 100 had begun with a self-appointed and unelected leadership and like CND, it faced pressure for greater participation by supporters. This re-organisation was intended to involve more people in decision making and to spread demonstrations throughout the country; Bertrand Russell opposed this. Well of course he did, because they weren't Earl Russell, the Nobel Laureate and Very Clever Philosopher.
In March 1962, Russell addressed a sit-down demonstration in Parliament Square against the sentences on the Wethersfield Six. All the 1,172 protesters were arrested, but there was a growing feeling that such demonstrations were becoming an end in themselves and would not now create a mass movement against nuclear weapons. A sit-down of 7,000 outside the Air Ministry planned for the following September had to be called off because of lack of support.
To underline its opposition to Russian nuclear weapons as well as those of the West, the Committee held a demonstration in Red Square, Moscow, at an international congress of the World Peace Council in the summer of 1962, calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and attacking the Soviet system.
From 1962 onwards, the Committee became increasingly radical and extended its campaigns to issues other than nuclear weapons. Peter Cardogan, an officer of the Committee, said that it was "trying to go in 12 directions at once", including campaigning for civil liberties in Greece, against Harold Wilson's failure to produce a promised Vietnam peace initiative and against siting London's third airport at Stansted. In 1963 Russell resigned, although he was careful not to denigrate it publicly. Following Russell's departure, the public image of the Committee deteriorated, many signatories also resigned and "the Committee of 100 ventured even further into the wilderness of libertarian politics".
Members of the Committee of 100 doubled up as the Spies for Peace and were responsible for the revelations in 1963 regarding the Regional Seats of Gov't, a network of secret Gov't bunkers.
The Committee's interest in Greek politics was sparked by the banning of a march by the Greek "Bertrand Russell Committee of 100" in Easter 1963, by the expulsion of some of the British Committee of 100's members when they attempted to join the march and by the murder of Grigoris Lambrakis, a Greek MP and peace activist. Plans to protest against the London visit by King Paul and Queen Frederika in July 1963 were met by official attempts to prevent the demonstrations and draconian prison sentences on demonstrators. Macmillan's Gov't was criticised in the press for the severity of its treatment of the demonstrators and eventually there were embarrassing climb-downs. Some of the sentences were overturned on appeal and the Home Secretary, Henry Brooke, had to offer financial compensation.
Henry Brooke, as well as members of his family were directly responsible for concealing successive generations of the Westminster Paedophile Ring and of course the crimes of Dafydd's gang. Brooke was married to Barbara Brooke, the daughter of a Welsh Nonconformist Minister, who became Baroness Barbara Brooke and ruled over swathes of the NHS in London; their son was Peter Brooke, the Cabinet Minister in Thatch's and then John Major's Gov'ts. Another son was Sir Henry Brooke, a Lord Justice of Appeal and there were also two daughters who married Top Doctors. See previous posts for details of this unpleasant dynasty.
One of the demonstrators criminalised by Henry Brooke et al proved that an offensive weapon had been planted on him and forced a public inquiry that criticised the police and led to the eventual imprisonment of three officers. However, a nine month sentence on Terry Chandler, Secretary of the London Committee, was upheld on appeal. Diana Shelley said that the imprisonment of Chandler, "the force which had driven" the Committee throughout the summer, had a profoundly damaging effect. Four years after these events, following the 1967 military coup in Greece, a "non-violent invasion" of the Greek embassy resulted in prison sentences of up to fifteen months for Committee of 100 demonstrators.
Previous posts have discussed Patient F who was targeted by Dafydd and the gang repeatedly. Their biggest immediate problem with F was that he found out about the abuse of kids in one of the children's homes in Bangor and challenged the gang about it; he also knew plenty about police corruption and the abuse of psych patients. When younger, F had been a fixture of the art and rock scene in the south east of England and Dafydd was fully aware that F seemed to have info about the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones. F also had a great deal of information on David Hockney, Francis Bacon and Mick Jagger. Dafydd and the gang probably won't have known this, but MI5 would: when F was young, he and his mates travelled extensively, through Afghanistan, Turkey, Morocco etc and they also went to Greece, where they were held at gun point by soldiers. F and his friends had found an empty building to kip in and there were flags rolled up in there, so they unrolled them and hung them up outside. They were the flags of the previous regime in Greece and the Colonels nearly shot F et al for flying the wrong flag…
The Committee of 100 was wound up in October 1968.
Ralph Schoenman (born 1935) is an American left-wing activist who was Personal Secretary to Bertrand Russell and became General Secretary of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. He was involved in a number of projects supported by Russell, but shortly before Russell's death in 1970, Russell publicly broke with Schoenman.
Born in New York, Schoenman was educated at Princeton University, but left the U.S. for Britain in 1958. He became active in the CND after arriving in Britain, which brought him into contact with Russell, for whom Schoenman began working in 1960. Bernard Levin wrote critically of Schoenman's influence on the aged Russell, painting Schoenman as partly responsible for Russell's virulent anti-Americanism, in contrast to his earlier pronouncements against communism. Russell said of Schoenman, "You know he is a rather rash young man, and I have to restrain him."
In 1963, Schoenman participated as Russell's Secretary in attempts to mediate a solution for the Sino-Indian border conflict, after China declared a ceasefire the previous year. Schoenman was an organiser and member of the Russell Tribunal, an International War Crimes Tribunal which visited North Vietnam and Cambodia, 1966-67. After making these visits, Schoenman argued in a hearing of the tribunal that the U.S. had committed genocide in Vietnam. During the course of the tribunal, the U.S. Govt revoked Schoenman's passport because of unauthorised visits to North Vietnam. In November 1967, Schoenman was deported back to the U.S. by Bolivian authorities when he travelled there to attend the trial of Regis Debray. As a result, he was prevented from attending the tribunal's proceedings in Copenhagen later that month because Danish authorities refused to allow him to enter without a passport. This led to a sequence in which Schoenman shuttled between several European countries, none of which would admit him, before illegally entering Britain, where he remained for 10 days until being deported in June 1968.
Russell publicly repudiated his relationship with Schoenman in December 1969 and had him removed from the Board of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. Schoenman then renamed the American branch of the foundation the American Foundation for Social Justice and continued to promote hearings into alleged US atrocities in Vietnam. Later, Schoenman settled in Princeton, but was again able to travel, visiting Iran during the waning days of the Shah's Gov't to raise awareness of the human rights violations of the U.S. backed Gov't. The new Provisional Revolutionary Gov't expelled him in March 1979.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch in Wales:
Jim Callaghan was PM
Sir Peter Morrison was the Tory MP for Chester
George Thomas was Speaker of the House
Ron Davies was leader of Rhymney Valley District Council
Since 2002 Ralph Schoenman has worked with documentary filmmaker, Mya Shone, providing commentary for radio stations in many parts of the United States and Canada and produces the "Taking Aim" radio show, billed as "Uncompromising, fact intensive exposés of the hidden workings of a capitalist system addicted to permanent war".
Ralph, once you have brought down global capitalism and put an end to permanent war, how about a documentary exposing Dafydd et al, whom you knew all about when you were knocking around north Wales for all that time? My friend wanted to do it in the late 1980s, which is why she was driven out of her job at the Royal Television Society and her husband was forced out of the BBC. Part of your expose could include the activities of Dafydd's pals at the Walton Centre, in who's care Merfyn's wife Nerys died in 2008. After Nerys had divorced Orlando Patterson, the US answer to Stuart Hall she returned from the US and married Merfyn.
Ralph Schoenman got busy with those documentaries in the wake of the Waterhouse Report when people just wouldn't stop alleging that there had been a huge cover up, the year before Merfyn Jones was appointed acting VC of Bangor University; Merfyn had been effectively performing that role for a while before it was confirmed.
In 2002 I wasn't an acting VC or anything else, I had been unlawfully forced out of my teaching job by the gwerin and the gang and had been charged with 'threatening to kill Alun Davies' on the basis of the perjury of at least eight people, most of them NHS employees. The charges were withdrawn on the first day of the trial, which was repeatedly adjourned so I was on bail until 2004. I then received a letter from the DES telling me that I was under investigation with a view to striking me off the teaching register as a 'dangerous teacher'. My name was cleared by a junior Minister who was a friend of Merfyn's; he was then named in the media as a Minister who had let a paedophile remain on the teaching register. See previous posts.
Ralph knows the identities of some real paedophiles don't you Ralph?
Paedophiles and Gwerin in Distress, Assistance, Assistance!!
Earl Russell had died years ago, but the Radical Crowd Who Love The NHS still had access to a Famous Thinker.
'The libellous article about Graham Day worked a treat the last time that the gwerin were challenged (see post 'Badlands'), can we have another helping hand?'
Fortunately not all older people are refused medical care or end up in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd:
Uncle Harry's nephew who supports the NHS knew Hobsbawm and paid tribute after Eric died in the Royal Free Hospital, where he was supplied with all the reading material that he requested and ah the doctors they were wonderful!
The Revolution Starts in Savile Row:
Julia gave an interview to 'The Guardian' in 2014 and afterwards it was reported that she 'believes in' social mobility. As well as no doubt Father Christmas, or in Wales, Sion Corn.
Here he is, what has he got in his sack for the Hobsbawms?
It's a Prime Minister's Wife!
The correct spelling is of course 'sac'…
Julia: Your dad was of course working for MI5, so I have no way of knowing if he wasn't quietly working hard to undermine the gang of child abusers with whom he associated for so many years, but if he was, he wasn't very effective. It doesn't take a great deal of Editorial Intelligence to work that out.
Michael Randle and Pat Pottle met George Blake in Wormwood Scrubs after they had been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in 1962 for their part in organising the Committee of 100 demo at the USAF base in Wethersfield. Michael Randle also got to chat with John Vassall while he was in the Scrubs.
Michael Randle (second from left) with Bertrand Russell (centre) leading an anti-nuclear march in London, Feb 1961
Born in England in 1933, Michael Randle spent WW II with relatives in Ireland. Active in the peace movement since registering as a conscientious objector to military service in 1951, Randle was a member of the Aldermaston March Committee which organised the first Aldermaston March against British nuclear weapons at Easter 1958. He was Chairman of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, 1958–61; Secretary of the Committee of 100, 1960–61; and a Council and Executive member of War Resisters' International, 1960–88, including the Chairman, 1966–73.
In 1959–60, Randle spent a year in Ghana, participating in the Sahara Protest Team against French atomic bomb tests in the Algerian Sahara and helping to organise a pan-African conference in Accra which took place in April 1960. In 1962, he was sentenced for his part in the Wethersfield demo; while Randle was serving that sentence his first son, Sean, was born. In October 1967, Randle was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for participating in an occupation of the Greek Embassy in London following the Colonels' coup in April of that year.
During his time in the Scrubs, 1962–3, Randle became friends with George Blake. After he escaped from prison, Blake then stayed at 'safe' houses around London which were mostly friends of Randle's and Pottle's, before he was hidden in a secret compartment in a camper van and Michael Randle drove him to Eastern Europe, with Randle's children sitting on top of the seat that Blake was hidden underneath to put off any customs officers who might look into the van.
Michael Randle took a keen interest in developments in Eastern Europe. In 1956, he undertook a march from Vienna to Budapest with leaflets expressing support for Hungarian passive resistance to the Soviet occupation, though he was prevented from entering Hungary by Austrian border guards. In 1968, Randle jointly co-ordinated for War Resisters' International protests in Moscow, Budapest, Sofia and Warsaw against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. In the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with the Czech dissident, Jan Kavan, then living in London, smuggling literature and equipment to the democratic opposition in Czechoslovakia.
In 1966, Randle graduated from London University and in 1981 completed an M.Phil in Peace Studies at Bradford University and then a PhD in Peace Studies at Bradford in 1994. There was a trafficking gang operating in the Bradford region with links to Dafydd's gang, the guest star of which was of course Jimmy Savile, who by 1994 was the manager of Broadmoor Hospital and sexually assaulting patients there. Previous posts eg. 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', 'The Banality of Evil' and 'Now Then…' have detailed how from the early summer of 1994, Dafydd and the gang were working very hard to have me constructed as 'dangerous' and transferred to an institution like Broadmoor. Their efforts began in earnest immediately after I and Patient F met with two members of the Mental Health Act Commission and raised our concerns about Dafydd sexually exploiting patients and serious complaints about Dafydd and his colleagues not being investigated.
The shenanigans in north Wales were accompanied by a major research fraud committed by two Top Docs at St George's Hospital Medical School in London, Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain and Malcolm Pearce, for whom I had previously worked as a research assistant, which, had they not been caught, would have seen them established as making medical history and any attempt on my part to publish anything about their wrongdoing or their collusion with Dafydd and the gang in north Wales would have resulted in me being cast as a nutter telling porkies about World Famous Top Docs. There was further wriggling after Chamberlain and Pearce were exposed. Chamberlain, the more senior of the two and a man who was friends with Sir George Pinker, the Royal Gynaecologist who delivered William and Harry, as well as celebs such as Cilla Black, blamed everything on Malcolm and later gave evidence against Malcolm at the GMC hearing in 1995. Malcolm was struck off but what wasn't made public was that Malcolm was then given a job as a medical negligence expert no less. When I worked at St George's, 1989-91, I was officially Malcolm's research assistant, although Chamberlain was Head of Dept. So even after it all blew up in their faces, had I gone public, I would have been known as the research assistant of that terrible man who faked his own research and no doubt Chamberlain would have been happy to confirm that I was a wrong 'un, not having been publicly disgraced himself. Malcolm wouldn't have come forward because he had that nice little number as a negligence expert and there'd have been one hell of a row if it had been known.
I don't know who cooked all this up, but it was well beyond the ken of the St George's crowd or indeed the Health Secretaries at the time, Virginia Bottomley, a former psychiatric social worker and then Stephen Dorrell, both of whom concealed the criminality at St George's and in north Wales. See previous posts. The arrangements with regard to Chamberlain and Malcolm involved people at the highest levels of Gov't as well as the security services. However it did all save the face of the man who since 1976 had been Chancellor of Bangor University and who also had a few other links to this heap of crap.
On 9 June 1994, Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, died of an 'unspecified blood disease'. On 13 June, the trial of Peter Howarth, Arnold's long time friend and colleague, for the sexual abuse of boys in his care, opened at Chester Crown Court. Howarth went on trial with Paul Wilson. On 8 July, Howarth was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison; Wilson was acquitted on all charges. Howarth maintained that he'd taken the rap for other abusers who were protected by their Friends in High Places. In April 1997, just after Waterhouse Inquiry had opened, it was briefly suspended because Sir Ronnie suddenly felt like a holiday in Hong Kong, during which time he met up with Derry Irvine, who was either the man who within days would be Lord Chancellor or he was the Lord Chancellor, depending upon the day that Ronnie and Derry bumped into each other. While Ronnie was in Hong Kong, Peter Howarth died in HMP Wakefield from a heart attack. Ronnie had previously worked with Derry and Derry's two junior barristers, Tony and Cherie!
The Courts, lawyers and judges of the Chester and Wales Circuit were and still are endemically corrupt and have colluded with organised abuse on Wales for decades. In 1990 three Gwynedd County Council social workers and their colleague, an Angel, perjured themselves in Chester Court in an attempt to have me imprisoned for breaching a High Court injunction. It became obvious that they had lied on oath and the case fell apart. There was no investigation. I now have copies of documentation relating to that case and the granting of the injunction just weeks previously. Perjury had been involved in obtaining the injunction. The injunction had been applied for and granted by the High Court in Leeds, although I lived in Bethesda in Gwynedd. Sir John Kay granted the injunction. Leeds falls within the Northern Circuit; barristers and judges on the Northern Circuit were colluding with Jimmy Savile and the Yorkshire gang. Until he made his name by acting for Jeremy Thorpe when Thorpe was tried for conspiracy and threats to kill at the Old Bailey in 1979, George Carman QC worked on the Northern Circuit. Carman was a grade A crook who spent years concealing the Westminster Paedophile Ring and the constituent gangs. Cherie Booth worked in Carman's Chambers until 1988 and Miranda had been his pupil. Jimmy Savile was said to have 'held' Carman in reserve lest any media outlet ever named him as an abuser. Greville Janner retained George Carman when he was interviewed by the police re the abuse of children in care in the early 1990s. In his later years, Carman lived in Wimbledon, as did Geoffrey Chamberlain and many other Top Doctors and staff of St George's. John Moore, Thatch's Secretary of State for Social Services, 1987-88 and Secretary of State for Social Security, 1988-89, also lived at Wimbledon and interestingly enough refused to risk his own neck at St George's in Nov 1987 when he became ill himself. Moore was a instead a patient at the private Parkside Hospital in Wimbledon. This was not surprising; Moore was at the top of the DHSS and knew that the Dept itself and the NHS was in chaos; he also knew that serious organised crime had permeated St George's Hospital and that a huge trafficking ring was being facilitated by the staff. Ollie Brooke had been released from prison early in the summer of 1987…
When I first arrived to work at St George's myself in 1989, Parkside Hospital were advertising for part-time lab staff and I showed interest in doing a few hours for them at weekends. When I mentioned this to my new colleagues at St George's, they became incredibly nasty. The senior technician David Hole started shouting at me and stated that he wouldn't give me a reference if I applied for a job at Parkside and I gained the impression that Hole was going to ensure that no-one else did either. I was baffled by the complete hostility but I now know that by that time Hole was fully aware that I was refusing to drop my complaints about Dafydd et al who were linked to the ring that Hole's own colleagues were involved with. Hole was the MSF rep, he was corrupt and he was using his knowledge of the criminal Top Docs to personally benefit. Hole couched his aggression in 'I hate private medicine' – well he was an SDP Councillor – but he was working with NHS consultants who were also running Harley Street practices and raking in the dosh. When I found out about John Moore recently I wondered whether Hole and co had been desperate to keep my away from Parkside lest I bumped into a few of the Rich N Famous in Gov't who were providing the umbrellas for Ollie Brooke et al.
Documents in my possession show that the perjury and even much of the rigging of the court cases involving me, including the perjury at Leeds High Court and subsequently in Chester, was organised by Ron Evans, a lawyer employed by Gwynedd County Council, who was communicating directly with Lucille Hughes and NHS managers and staff in north Wales. Ron forged and altered documents in the process. See previous posts eg. 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena'. Ron's wife taught history at Bangor University and also serves as a magistrate in north Wales and their daughter is a lawyer who entered the civil service and by 2011 was employed as Peter Mandelson's aide.
Gwynedd Social Services came after me – and F – again in 1993. Jackie Brandt, one of the Gwynedd social workers who had perjured herself in 1990, made a statement to the North Wales Police maintaining that I had screamed and yelled at her in Safeways in Bangor, such that she feared imminent attack. I was prosecuted and subsequently tried at Bangor Magistrates Court in the summer of 1993. Brandt got her own name wrong in the witness box, admitted that she had lied to the police and that I hadn't even spoken to her in Safeways and then started crying, after she had explained to the magistrates that she had Plenty Of Experience In Dealing With Dangerous Clients but I was even worse than all the others. I had to cough up £60 for causing Brandt 'alarm and distress'. I subsequently wrote to Michael Mansfield QC about this and the abuse of the law by Gwynedd Social Services to harass and silence complainants; I had previously complained about Brandt when she broke the law and unlawfully detained me in Ysbyty Gwynedd. Michael Mansfield wrote a one line reply in response, although he had just published his book 'Presumed Guilty' about corruption and abuse within the criminal justice system. Mansfield's former Chambers colleague is St Helena Kennedy, who was a guest at a do held by Julia Hobsbawm at the Portmeirion Hotel in Gwynedd some years ago; St Helena is a Wimmin's Champ, but not of those Wimmin who have challenged Dafydd and the gang, probably because she spent years working with Professor Nigel Eastman of St George's Hospital Medical School, who when he 'assessed' me in 1991, just told me to go back to north Wales 'because they know you there'. Eastman's colleague Dr Robin Jacobson had told Eastman in writing that Dafydd was sexually abusing patients and that he suspected Dr Tony Francis was as well. Tony's wife Sadie was a Top Doctor who was also part of the gang in north Wales. Sadie grew up in Yorkshire, where her mum was a Top Doctor – although she preferred to work as an artist – and herself was the daughter of one of the first Wimmin Doctors in Britain.
Here's another daughter of another Early Feminist Hero:
Shirl and the rest of the Gang Of Four colluded with Dafydd and the Westminster Paedophile Ring for their whole careers and used their knowledge of who was doing what in that ring of traffickers to develop their electoral strategy after the SDP was formed and I suspect may even have established the SDP with a view to doing that. See post 'We've Been Expecting You…'
I'll probably find out soon that Dafydd is the secret love child of Mrs Pankhurst. Or Jenni Murray.
While Gwynedd Social Services were in hot pursuit of me throughout much of 1993 – Brandt made her complaint to the North Wales Police in early spring and the trial wasn't held until late summer – two other people deeply involved with the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal died, which will have been a relief to many, what with that police investigation into a possible paedophile ring drawing to an end and the hundreds of complaints that had been made about the abuse of kids but were never acted on by the DPP. The deceased were Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon and his dad Lord Lloyd Kenyon. Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon was known to be sexually abusing at least one boy in the care of the Social Services in north Wales and used the boy for indecent photos. It was recorded upon the boy's social work file that he was in a 'homosexual relationship' with Thomas. In 1978 the two of them spent the night together and Thomas subsequently made a complaint of theft against the boy, stating quite clearly why they had been together all night. The 'theft' was of a number of items including Polaroid porn pics of them both. The boy was sent to a detention centre. Thomas was not charged with any offence.
Lord Kenyon was President of UCNW for nearly 30 years but was deposed in 1982 when the gwerin began fighting in the wake of Jeremy Thorpe and Mary Wynch. See post 'Meet The Gwerin!' Lord Kenyon was a Tory who held numerous public positions, including that of Chair of Clwyd Health Authority; he was a member of the North Wales Health Authority, the most senior Freemason in north Wales, a magistrate, a Flintshire County Councillor, a Director of Lloyd's Bank… See previous posts for full details of the Kenyons.
Lord Kenyon died on 16 May 1993, 'after a long illness'. Jackie Brandt made her statement of lies to the police about me several weeks before the North Wales Police arrived at my house and told me that she had complained. I didn't find out about Brandt's allegations until well into April. I was charged a few days later. Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon died from HIV/AIDS in 1993. Lord Kenyon was a Tory. Those we know and love will have been fully aware that Thomas and his father were on the way out when Brandt's idiocy took place.
On 21 July 1994 after Matt Arnold was safely dead and Peter Howarth had been sent to prison for 10 years, Miranda became Leader of the Labour Party. His predecessor John Smith had died on 12 May 1994 after the Top Docs at Bart's were unable to revive him following a heart attack; Bart's was choc full of Top Docs who had links with Dafydd and the gang and had been protecting them for many years. See previous posts…
After John Smith died, an acting Leader of the Labour Party was appointed, a lady who famously enjoys caravanning – just like Jimmy Savile – who served as the Deputy Leader under John Smith, 1992-94:
Dame Margaret Beckett
Margaret has been the Labour MP for Derby South since 1983 and before that she was the Labour MP for Lincoln, 1974-79. So Margaret reaches back to Harold Wilson's era. There was a paedophile ring in Derbyshire who were on excellent terms with Dafydd's gang; care staff from Derbyshire arrived to work in children's homes in north Wales and north Wales's child abusers popped over to Derbyshire. John Jillings, who Chaired the Jillings Investigation, admitted that very serious abuse of kids in care in north Wales had gone on for many years but refused to give his opinion as to whether a paedophile ring was in operation. Despite his harsh words, it was widely believed that Jillings was playing down the severity of the problem in north Wales. John Jillings was the former Director of Derbyshire Social Services.
The Jillings Report was completely suppressed and made available to no-one except Clwyd County Council's insurers lawyers on the advice of Michael Beloff QC, the legal adviser for the insurers of the Council, Municipal Mutual. Michael Beloff QC is, like St Helena, a member of the Mansfield community and was a colleague of Cherie's. After Miranda got through the door of No 10, Michael Beloff was a visitor to Chequers. Michael Beloff is the son of Lord Max Beloff, who was a pal of Ioan Bowen Rees, the Chief Executive of Gwynedd County Council when kids and psych patients were being abused and his staff were busy perjuring themselves and forging documents in their efforts to have me imprisoned.
Among her other positions, Margaret Beckett was a junior Minister in the Dept of Education and Science, 1976-79, in Callaghan's Gov't under Secretaries of State Fred Mullay and then Shirl. So she knew about the abuse in schools, especially of SEN children and in the schools attached to children's homes, in north Wales and elsewhere. Beckett also knew about the chaos presiding at UCNW and Shirl refusing Dafydd Wigley's 1979 demand for a Public Inquiry into Sir Charles Evans's management of UCNW. Beckett had a go at being Shadow Heath Secretary, serving as yet another safe pair of lame ineffective hands in that role.
Beckett topped off her collusion with serious organised crime when she served as Lord President of the Council and therefore was the visitor for Bangor University, 27 July 1998 – 8 June 2001. Which was during the years of the Waterhouse Inquiry and the publication of the subsequent Report. While Beckett was serving as the University visitor, the Windbags' friend of many decades, Lord Cledwyn, who had been concealing Dafydd's et al crimes since the early 1950s when Cledwyn was elected the Labour MP for Anglesey, was President of UCNW. See previous posts.
Malcolm Pearce was struck off by the GMC in June 1995. On 9 July 1995 Bing Spear, the corrupt Home Office Drugs Branch mandarin who did Dafydd so many favours, died. On 13 July 1995 Sir Peter Morrison was found dead. Brown was forced out of his job at Aston University in July 1995. See previous posts.
Michael Randle was coordinator of the Alternative Defence Committee, 1980-87, contributing to its publications, Defence Without the Bomb (Taylor and Francis, 1983) and The Politics of Alternative Defence (Paladin 1987). He has contributed articles and reviews to 'Peace News', 'New Society' and 'The Guardian', as well as to other newspapers and journals.
'New Society' steadfastly ignored the widespread abuse of children and vulnerable people in the care system throughout its many years of existence. This was hardly surprising as it was a magazine aimed at social workers and its classified's pages carried job adverts for social work managers for local authorities which had been infiltrated by paedophile gangs. John Allen advertised for staff in 'New Society'.
Randle was also the author of several books, including Alternatives in European Security. Randle was coordinator of the Bradford-based Social Defence Project, 1988-90 and later coordinated the Nonviolent Action Research Project, also based in Bradford, the proceedings of which were edited into a book Challenge to Nonviolence. He remains an honorary visiting research fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University. In 2005, he co-edited with April Carter and Howard Clark People Power and Protest since 1945: a bibliography on nonviolent action.
For most of the life of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support (1992–2009, previously Coordinating Committee for Conflict Resolution Training in Europe), Michael Randle was minutes Secretary and also Editor of its bulletin, ultimately titled CCTS Review. He is a long-serving Trustee of the Commonwealth Collection at the J.B. Priestley Library at Bradford University. In March 2003, Randle made an extended appearance on the TV discussion programme 'After Dark'.
Randle married his wife, Anne, in 1962; they have two sons, Sean and Gavin and are grandparents.
Patrick Pottle (8 August 1938 – 1 October 2000) was a founding member of the Committe of 100. He was born in Maida Vale, north London. His mother was from an Irish Catholic family: his father was a Protestant trades union official and a socialist. Pat went to the London College of Printing and during national service, he worked in the hospital at RAF Uxbridge.
Pottle organised his first anti-war demonstration in 1959 and participated in a number of demonstrations, including a sit-in at the Soviet embassy in London. In 1964 Pottle was put on trial in China and deported for "inciting the Chinese people to overthrow the state". Later the same year he was deported from Greece after joining anti-nuclear demonstrations. Months later he was deported from Malta for organising an anti-nuclear demonstration there.
A few months after Blake had escaped in Oct 1966, Pottle met and married Susan Abrahams, the daughter of the Olympic champion Harold Abrahams and his wife, the opera singer Sybil Evers. See post 'O Jones, O Jones'. In 1967, Pottle co-founded the Vietnam Information Group to help US deserters and draft dodgers reach Sweden. A year later, he was arrested in London while demonstrating against the Greek colonels' coup, but escaped from a police van after noticing that the back doors were unlocked. Pottle also organised demonstrations against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Pottles moved to Croesor in 1969, moving back to London in 1979. They were living in London when Pottle and Randle stood trial for springing George Blake. The Pottles then moved back to Gwynedd to retire in 2000.
For most of his working life Pottle was a printer, running his own Stanhope Press in the 1960s, working as printer for the Peace Pledge Union in the early 1990s and running his own Pottle Press in the late 1990s. Most of the printing that Pat did was for anti-nuclear or peace groups.
My previous post 'Captain Swing And His Crew' discussed how I got to know some of those involved in the anti-nuclear and peace groups in Gwynedd during the 1980s – although I didn't meet Pat Pottle – who knew about Dafydd and the gang but would not touch them. Furthermore some of those activists later trained as social workers; their campaigning groups received huge support from people employed in the health and welfare services across north Wales. It was why I became so disillusioned with leftist politics and 'radical' activism, the whole lot of them were complicit. It wasn't just north Wales; it was the same story in Leicester and London. I now know why: the Westminster Paedophile Ring. Their links were everywhere and the Labour-run Councils during the 1970s and 80s were sending hundreds of kids to children's homes in north Wales. Virtually all the Councils, whoever was running the local authority, had a major problem with the abuse of children in care and the gangs were linked up across the UK and into Europe…
If the Brave Campaigners for Peace had said one word, the funding for their campaigns would have been terminated, there'd be no more support from the liberal media or indeed any political party or politician and furthermore the individuals who did speak up would have found that they were hounded out of every job that they ever obtained. As I was and the friends who supported me. One of my mates was murdered and attempts were made to murder Brown and his brother.
Greenham doesn't look quite so heroic now does it Strong Wimmin?
Lying in the road? Er, you'd have brought Thatch down if you'd have piped up about the Westminster Paedophile Ring because she was a personal friend of Sir Peter Morrison and Jimmy Savile, who was procuring the kids… Ooh, I forgot. You needed the Pot of Money and the Funding For The Co-ordinator Of This Project and We Really Can't Criticise A Doctor. I remember it well Strong Wimmin!
The Waverers:
It was Sean Bourke who originated the idea of springing George Blake from the Scrubs. George Blake's escape took place in 1966, three years after Randle and Pottle had been released from Wormwood Scrubs. Sean Bourke originally approached Michael Randle only for financial help with the escape, but Randle became more involved and suggested that they bring Pottle in on the plan as well, as he had suggested springing Blake to Randle in 1962 when they were both still in prison. It was in May 1966 when Bourke approached Randle and Pottle about springing Blake and it was in October 1966 that Blake was helped over the wall using a ladder made of rope and knitting needles. Blake was then hidden in various London flats by Pottle and Randle. In December Blake was smuggled to Berlin in a compartment hidden under the bunk of a camper van driven by Randle; Blake later surfaced in Moscow.
Randle and Pottle's motives for helping Blake to escape were their belief that the 42-year sentence was "inhuman" and their personal liking of Blake.
The outline of the escape which appeared in media reports:
Bourke had smuggled a walkie-talkie into Blake to communicate with him whilst in jail. It was decided that Blake would break a window at the end of the corridor where his cell was located. Then between 6 and 7 pm, whilst most of the other inmates and guards were at the weekly film showing, Blake could climb through the window, slide down a porch and get to the perimeter wall, where Bourke would throw a rope ladder made of knitting needles over the wall so that Blake could climb over and they would then drive off to the safe house. During the escape, Blake fractured his wrist jumping from the perimeter wall, but apart from that it all went according to plan.
After the escape, it became apparent that the safe house Bourke had organised was not suitable, as it was a bedsit that was cleaned by the landlady once a week. Blake then spent several days moving between Randle and Pottle's friends' houses in north London; after this, Blake and Bourke moved in with Pottle, staying with him while preparing to get through customs and escape to East Germany.
Pottle and Randle's book provided further details of the plans made before the escape, the escape itself and events after the escape. For years it was assumed that Blake's escape had been masterminded by the KGB, but in the run-up to their trial Pottle and Randle secured the disclosure of MI5 papers which showed they had been suspected from the beginning. While it was fiercely denied by Pottle and Randle that MI5 themselves had assisted the escape, from the information provided in Pottle and Randle's book, I would suggest that they must have done. Even in 1966, security in the prison system could not have been so lax that no-one would have noticed what went on; it was almost a Laurel and Hardy prison break-out. Or something worthy of Big Vern.
As for events after George Blake had actually got out of the prison via the ladder made of stringy bits and knitting needles which was thrown over the wall, new heights of slapstick were reached, some of which were provided by Top Doctors. Randle and Pottle noticeably didn't name the Top Docs in their book or anywhere else or even provide the slightest clue as to the Top Docs' identity or place of employment. A Top Doctor treated George Blake's fractured wrist. Blake didn't go to A&E, he received home visits and there was a bit of inconvenience and discomfort but it was rather less than the kidney stones and cluster headaches experienced by people who dared complain about the Top Docs and been unlawfully refused all medical care. Or indeed experienced by Labour politicians who keeled over with heart-attacks whom the Top Docs just couldn't revive or the wives of Vice Chancellors who developed brain tumours that proved beyond the powers of the Excellence of the Walton Centre.
Randle and Pottle decided that George Blake needed to be Disguised for the period of time that he was knocking around in safe houses and on his way to East Germany and furthermore they decided that the best disguise would be that of a Foreigner. A real Foreigner, George was already a Foreigner in that he wasn't British, but after getting over the wall, George had to be disguised as a Darkie. So the skills of a Top Doctor were once more enlisted and according to the book, treatment was supplied which affected George's pigmentation and turned him into a Darkie. I imagine that Blake must have resembled Al Jolson, he cannot have really constituted a passable Darkie of the sort that Enoch Powell would demand be refused entry to Britain. Vote Bertrand Russell if you want a Highly Implausible Nigger For A Neighbour. Turning George Blake into a Darkie probably simply have made him even more noticeable, in the way that I reminded F would only highlight the presence of Dafydd when F one day suggested that Dafydd could disguise himself to gain entry to women-only spaces by wearing a burqa.
Not only did Top Doctors treat Blake for a fractured wrist and then turn him into a Darkie, but because the crowd who were concealing Blake were networked into the Radicals of North London, one of the women who lived in one of the safe houses in which Blake stayed was Sharing with her psychiatrist (or analyst) and shared the fact that they were harbouring George Blake. This appeared in media reports years later as well as in Randle and Pottle's book and it was presented as one of those 'The Things Nutters Say' anecdotes but ooh they were telling the truth there and the Doc didn't believe them. Readers I will enlighten you; Nutters usually tell the truth, Nutters are the best people watchers that you will ever encounter, Nutters notice everything and everyone and Nutters have excellent memories. Nutters don't always realise the significance of what they have witnessed, they need to refer to Brown for that, but Nutters have the lowdown. Furthermore, Top Docs know this, or at least Top Docs like Dafydd who need to cover their arses do.
The psychiatrist and analyst circles of north London were, even back in 1966 when George Blake escaped, concealing organised abuse and many of them had links with Dafydd and the gang in north Wales. Dafydd had 'trained' at the Maudsley before taking up a senior role at the North Wales Hospital in 1964 and he worked with Dr Bob Hobson at the Maudsley, who was running an abuse ring in London; the whole of the London medical establishment as well as psychoanalysts were protecting Hobson and they protected Dafydd for the rest of his career as well. See post 'The Mentor'.
Sir Clough Williams-Ellis and Bertrand Russell were friends with many psychoanalysts and Clough's wife Amabel was a member of Strachey family at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group. James Strachey was a huge figure in analysis, as was his wife Alix; they were friends with Freud and translated his works, providing the definitive translation which is still used today (see post 'The Vermin Club'). There were close links between Welsh psychiatrists and analysts such as Wilfred Abse who were directly involved in facilitating organised abuse and the London Big Names (see post 'O Jones, O Jones') and Welsh psychiatrist Ernest Jones was one of Freud's disciples who introduced analysis to the UK (see eg. posts 'The Wind Of No Change' and 'The Vermin Club'). In turn this lot were friends with and often related to Gov't Ministers, politicians, civil servants, diplomats, people close to the Royal Family and writers, journalists, people in theatre and the arts and of course lawyers. See post 'The Vermin Club'. Ernest Jones alone had a son Mervyn who was a good friend of Michael Foot and who wrote Foot's biography. The Croesor crowd contained numerous lefties and radicals with friends in north London and people like Eric Hobsbawm even had their main homes in north London. See post 'Captain Swing And His Crew'.
By 1966 Dafydd was a leading light in MIND. MIND was facilitating organised abuse, including Dafydd's gang. At one point, the Church of Scientology infiltrated MIND – then known as the National Association for Mental Health – maintaining that psychiatrists were committing crimes against children and experimenting on patients. This was completely true, but sadly because the Church of Scientology were a bit bonkers themselves, no-one at all would give them the time of day. The Scientologists and MIND were involved with a libel case which followed from the Church's claims re Dafydd et al; the case was rigged at Gov't level and the Scientologists lost. One of the lawyers who represented those who made the allegations against psychiatry later disappeared off the face of the earth. Ronnie Waterhouse was one of the lawyers who worked to uphold psychiatry's good name.
The National Association for Mental Health and dear old Dafydd and his colleagues were considerably assisted by Sir Kenneth Robinson, Harold Wilson's Minister of Health, 1964-68. The Top Docs loved Robinson, they absolutely loved him. He was the Mark Drakeford of Wilson's Gov't, Robinson gave the Top Docs lots of money, allowed them to do whatever they wanted, he failed to challenge the 'pay beds' scam in the NHS and he sat in a corner and wet himself in the face of the activities of Dafydd and Gwynne. Kenneth was President of the National Association of Mental Health in the 1960s when Dafydd was a high profile figure in the organisation as well. Even today, literature published by To Doc regarding the history of the NHS remembers Robinson's time as Minister of Health fondly and the medical establishment is agreed that Sir Kenneth was the Best Minister Of Health that there has ever been. After pandering to the paedophiles in medicine, Sir Kenneth became the Chair of the Arts Council, distributing Gov't cash to some of those who were using the services of the young sex workers procured by Dafydd et al. See previous posts for details re Sir Kenneth and the dust-up between the Church of Scientology and MIND.
That analyst who's analysand was living in the same house as George Blake knew that George Blake was kipping at his analysand's house and he/she will have known that the trail led to Bertrand Russell and his friends on Dafydd's doorstep. He/she wasn't going to blow the gaffe. There were so many others to think about…
James Strachey in 1952
Now shut up and get in that dungeon at Denbigh. Rich horrible people want to have sex with you and no-one else will ever agree to shag them. Someone wants to be PM!
Here's Footie practising his swing:
As for putative help from the security services with regard to George Blake's escape, some of those involved were the security services. I don't know for certain about Randle and Pottle, but some of their closest friends were definitely working for the security services.
Pottle and his co-conspirator Michael Randle were suspected of helping Blake escape just weeks after it had happened in Oct 1966, but it was alleged that at the time Special Branch advised MI5 not to prosecute on the grounds that it might be seen as "persecution – that the big fish had got away so they were taking it out on the little fish". The failure to prosecute was also attributed to the escape being highly embarrassing for the authorities.
Throughout the early accounts of Randle's and Pottle's lives of being prosecuted – or indeed not prosecuted – for political activism, I noted some very familiar names, names of people who concealed the criminal activities of Dafydd and the gang and the wider Westminster Paedophile Ring. The presiding judge over the 1962 trial of the six members of the Committee of 100 who organised the Wethersfield protest was Mr Justice Havers, ie. Sir Cecil Havers.
Sir Cecil Robert Havers (12 November 1889 – 5 May 1977) was born in Norwich, where his father was a solicitor. He was educated at Norwich Grammar School and then at Corpus Christie College, Cambridge, graduating with an LLB in 1913. Havers fought in WW I and continued to serve in the British Army well beyond that time as well.
Cecil Havers was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1920 and took silk to become a KC in 1939. Havers served as recorder of Chichester, 1939-51, as a judge in the Gold Coast, 1944-45 and as a Commissioner of Assize in the midlands in 1949. He became a bencher at Inner Temple in 1946 and served as Treasurer in 1971. Havers was elected as an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi in 1975. Havers was appointed as a High Court judge in 1951, being assigned to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division. He was transferred to the King's Bench Division in 1952.
Havers presided over the conviction of Ruth Ellis for murder in 1955, the last woman to be sentenced to death and executed in the UK. In a 2010 television interview his grandson, the actor Nigel Havers, revealed that his grandfather had written to the Home Secretary recommending a reprieve as he regarded it as a crime passionnel, but received a curt refusal. Havers subsequently sent money annually for the upkeep of Ellis's son. I don't know whether it was representations such as this from Cecil Havers which caused Lord Chief Justice Parker to give judges lots of money and stress that their duty was to be handmaidens of the state. Whether Havers was the precipitating factor for Lord Parker's new Terms & Conditions for judges I don't know, but the plan worked a treat. Just in my own case, judge after judge after judge, all the way up to the High Court over many years, doing favours for Dafydd.
Havers retired as a full-time judge in 1967 and became Deputy Dean of the Arches in 1970. He will not have been under those Arches, that is a delight experienced by the Empowered Service Users who have been Helped By Dafydd et al. In fact both Justice Roch and Huw Daniel made a point of telling the Court that Gwynedd Social Services 'were helping people' while I was leading the crime wave up in north Wales.
Cecil Havers married Enid Snelling in 1916. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss and three sons, Tony, David, and Michael Havers. Butler-Sloss and Michael Havers have been regulars on this blog. Michael Havers was Solicitor General, 1972-74; Attorney General, 1979-87 and then briefly Lord Chancellor. Michael Havers was the Tory MP for Wimbledon, 1970-87.
In the 1980s, it was revealed that Michael Havers, in his capacity as Attorney General, had blocked the prosecution of the diplomat and former DG of MI6 Sir Peter Hayman for child porn offences. Sir Peter was a member of PIE. See previous posts. This was one of the first storms regarding the failure to prosecute high profile Gov't figures for child sex offences. Havers was AG throughout the years of serious criminality in north Wales, when complaints of the abuse of children or vulnerable people by Dafydd's gang were ignored yet victims and witnesses were framed or prosecuted for trivial or ludicrous reasons. Havers was AG when Dafydd had me unlawfully arrested and imprisoned in the North Wales Hospital in Dec 1986 after Dafydd did a 'deal' with the corrupt Superintendent Roberts at Bangor Police Station which involved having me arrested for 'attempting to strangle' a junior doctor. After I had been incarcerated in Denbigh the junior doctor withdrew his complaint and the charge was dropped. I was however not released from Denbigh.
Havers was AG throughout the months of 1987 when Dafydd and the gang, in cahoots with the Home Office, Risley Remand Centre and the Mental Health Act Commission, planned to frame me for a serious offence in order to have me imprisoned. Havers stepped down as AG on 13 June 1987 to take up the post of Lord Chancellor. Some three weeks later Dafydd, Tony Francis and the gang tried to fit me up for 'attempting to stab a junior doctor'. The plan fell apart when Sergeant Morgan at Bangor Police Station and Jeff Crowther, a nursing officer at Ysbyty Gwynedd, did not tell as many lies as required. See previous posts eg. 'Workers' Play Time'. Havers was succeeded as AG by Patrick Mayhew, who, while in that role, in 1990 and 1991 authorised three prosecutions against me for contempt of court, my imprisonment being requested on each occasion, on the basis of members of the gang committing perjury. Documentation in my possession demonstrates that the MDU, Hempsons and the barristers acting in the cases knew that perjury was being committed, as did the presiding judges. See eg. posts 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena', 'The Sordid Role Of Sir Robert Francis QC'. So did Mayhew and Havers.
Michael Havers served in the Royal Navy, 1943-47 and then in the RNVR. As did Geoffrey Chamberlain. Gwynne the lobotomist was in the Royal Navy at that time as well. That generation of Naval officers knew about the shenanigans of Lord Louis Mountbatten, John Vassall, the gay spies in the Admiralty and the other events described in my post 'The Defence Of The Realm'. It was the basis of Jim Callaghan's rise to the top as well.
'We're the paedophiles' friends and you can't get us. Lobotomised because you complained about a groper? Illegally imprisoned in a dungeon for refusing to shag Dafydd?? Call Lord Havers for the definitive and final judgement on the matter.'
The Judge's summing up: Ah the doctors they were wonderful!
Cecil Havers' daughter Elizabeth also made a valuable contribution to the protection of Dafydd et al. Butler-Sloss became the first female Lord Justice of Appeal in 1988 and in that year she Chaired the Public Inquiry into the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal, which had resulted from Dafydd's colleagues in the north east of England, who were linked to the gang in north Wales, taking hundreds of children into care after carrying out the notorious Bottom Inspections and accusing many innocent people -usually family members – of having buggered them. Two of the accused men committed suicide and after their deaths it was admitted by everyone that one of them at least had definitely been wrongly accused. No staff were dismissed or prosecuted as a result of the scandal and the Director of the Area Health Authority, Liam Donaldson was subsequently appointed Chief Medical Officer for England by Miranda in 1998, where he remained until 2010. See previous posts, including 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And the Culprits Were Named'. Butler-Sloss never clarified in her Report how many children she believed really had been abused.
At the time of Cleveland, 'The Guardian' in particular waxed lyrical about the feminine charms of Butler-Sloss, who simply by possessing ovaries was kind, compassionate yet firm, good with children and sympathetic to distressed and even wrongly accused people. A rather different sort of publicity came Butler-Sloss's way years later in July 2014 when she was forced to step down six days after being appointed as Chair of IICSA, after it was revealed that her brother Michael had been AG when many of the offences that would be the subject of IICSA had been committed. It was then revealed that Butler-Sloss, a big wig in the Anglican Church, had tried to ensure that the Anglican Church was excluded from IICSA. Which would have been a major omission in the light of what has now become public.
What has received less publicity is that Butler-Sloss was a bit dim when she was at school and although she came from a family where nearly everyone went to Oxbridge, even those without testicles, poor old Butler-Sloss was never going to be accepted for such institutions. So she became a secretary. I have absolutely no problem with people working as secretaries, I have been friends with secretaries, but I have yet to meet, in the flesh, a secretary who then became a High Court judge, let alone a Lord Justice of Appeal, because while working as a secretary she was spotted as High Court judge material and doors were magically opened. Without having to even do a law degree at university like virtually every other High Court judge. Not that this points to a Fiddle and Nepotism Of The Highest Order of course; it is yet another example of the Marvellousness of Lord Butler-Sloss and living proof that Women Are Amazing. In fact Butler-Sloss is so Amazing that her womanly hormones even projected her into Inner Temple, the same Inn of which her father was a member.
Butler-Sloss was rewarded for allowing the Westminster Paedophile Ring to continue business by being appointed the first female President of the Family Division of the High Court in 1999. But then Lizzie B-S had already bagged the job of Lord Justice of Appeal by keeping her mouth shut about Dafydd and the gang and I understand, about me.
Spot The Difference; Clue: One has had a shampoo and set (and one is really a secretary):
Lord Michael Havers' sons are Philip Havers QC – I wonder if he got into the family business via working in a wet fish shop after leaving school at 16 with no GCSEs? – and Nigel Havers, the posh actor who appears on TV talking in cut glass tones about how he isn't at all posh, he just always plays roles in which he is cast as a Posh Man, while the women on TV with him swoon and bang on about him having gone to Eton and his dad being a Lord.
Nigel Havers:
Lord Justice Butler-Sloss:
This lot presided over terrorist trials and legislation which results in some people being locked up for years in solitary confinement. Doesn't it warm the cockles of one's heart?
The big guns were certainly brought out to blast away at Pottle, Randle and the other four members of the Committee of 100 who stood trial in 1962. The AG himself, Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller aka Lord Dilhorne, led for the prosecution. Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne (1 August 1905 – 7 September 1980), known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1954-62 and as The Lord Dilhorne, served as Solicitor-General, 1951-54, AG, 1954-62, then as Lord Chancellor, 1962-64, so someone was obviously pleased with him jailing the Wethersfield Six.
In 1957 Manningham-Buller prosecuted suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams for the murder of two elderly widows. The case was highly controversial with allegations of inappropriate contact between Manningham-Buller and the BMA and GMC, political interference from the Gov't of which Manningham-Buller was a member and evidence disappearing from the DPP's files and then reappearing in the hands of the defence after the trial had begun. Mr Justice Patrick Devlin, the Presiding judge, in his post-trial book accused Manningham-Buller of "an abuse of process". Detective Superintendent Herbert Hannam of Scotland Yard, the chief investigator, suspected political interference from a Gov't which didn't want to see a Top Doctor hang. It was widely believed that Manningham-Buller had deliberately presented a weak case against Bodkin Adams, who was suspected by Home Office pathologist Francis Camps of having killed 163 patients. Harriet Harman's dad Dr John Harman gave expert evidence for the defence, on a matter of which Harman had no first hand clinical experience. But not knowing one's arse from one's elbow has never been a barrier for expert medical witnesses and just look at what Dafydd and Gwynne were doing at the time…See previous posts for more info on the John Bodkin Adams case.
Manningham-Buller as AG also made the decision to mount the prosecution against Penguin Books under the new Obscene Publications Act after the company republished Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960. Bernard Levin criticised the decision in 'The Spectator' which caused Manningham-Buller to suggested prosecuting "the proprietors of The Spectator, the editor and Mr Bernard Levin" once the Chatterley trial itself was over. The Solicitor General Sir Jocelyn Simon convinced him to reconsider.
Manningham-Buller's mother was the granddaughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. The Duke of Westminster has an historical link with St George's Hospital Medical School. When the St George's Hyde Park Corner site was vacated after the institution relocated to the new development in Tooting in 1980, the 6th Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, a close friend of Carlo's, demanded that the Gov't give him the Hyde Park Corner site as a freebie – it was worth millions, being a Posh Expansive Bit of Knightsbridge – because his ancestors had donated the site and founded St George's in the 18th century. Ken Clarke pretended that he and Thatch told Gerald to take a running jump. They didn't, they let him buy the Hyde Park Corner site for £6,000 and it is now the Lanesborough Hotel, about as posh as you can get.
The gift to Gerald was in no way linked to the pan-European trafficking ring which involved Prof Ollie Brooke of St George's, Sir Peter Morrison, Dafydd et al and huge swathes of UCNW, of which Carlo was Chancellor and St George's. Or Gerald being President of the City of Chester Conservative Association when Peter Morrison was the Tory MP for Chester. Or Peter Morrison's sister Dame Mary being Woman-of-the-Bedchamber to Carlo's mum.
Manningham-Buller's daughter, Eliza Manningham-Buller, was Director General of MI5, 2002-07. She was in post when all those NHS staff lied to the police in a desperate attempt to have me convicted of 'threats to kill'… Eliza was awarded a peerage in 2008. Eliza Manningham-Buller was appointed to the Court and Council of Imperial College, London in 2009, becoming Deputy Chairman later that year and named Chairman in July 2011. She became a Governor of the Wellcome Trust in 2008 and the first female Chair of the Trust on 1 October 2015.
Eliza: Next time that you are on duty when Ysbyty Gwynedd's solicitor sends a memo around to the staff requesting 'more nurses down the police station to complain about Sally Baker please' and eight of the Angels then lie to the police about having heard me threaten to kill Alun Davies when at the time I was sitting in a locked ward sporting injuries after having been assaulted by four members of staff, could you please put a stop to it immediately, rather than hanging around for two years while I remain on bail, losing my job and my home in the process, only to find that the charges are withdrawn on the first day of the trial? Then when you hear that the DES have then placed me under investigation anyway for being a 'danger to pupils', perhaps you could investigate immediately and ensure that absolutely everybody involved is dismissed from their jobs, rather than leaving it to Merfyn's friend to clear my name, which causes a backlash from the Top Doctors and the death of Merfyn's wife while she's in their care? Furthermore Eliza, when you are held over a barrel because of the St George's Link, at least avoid being held over a barrel by a bunch of corrupt MSF reps and an insane vindictive lab technician called Deb Everard who doubles up as a Tory Councillor for Edmonton. Thanks Eliza!
PS. There is large scale research fraud taking place at Imperial and by researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust and it has been going on for a good 30 years. Don't move too quickly on this one will you Eliza, it is after all only the reason why the Treatments and Interventions don't work and why the clinical outcomes for patients in the UK are now some of the worst in Europe. Oh and next time that two postgrads use all possible official channels to raise their concerns that a group of Top Docs are running some sort of sex abuse ring, targeting patients and are fitting up and imprisoning those who complain, perhaps you could investigate instead of allowing your workforce to send a thug after Brown and smash his head on a pavement repeatedly. Don't worry about an apology, it will make no difference. You knew that this was happening and you chose to let it continue. You aren't sorry and you never will be.
The Baroness 'Fuck You' Manningham-Buller
Reginald Manningham-Buller died in September 1980, aged 75, and was in turd in the village of Deene, East Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire contains St Andrew's Hospital which was an asylum specialising in the abuse of patients and the accusation of innocent people, but in recent years it has become a Private Unit which houses hundreds of learning disabled people who's placements there are funded by the NHS and social services. There have been numerous allegations of ill-treatment and some patients have died. Complainants have been subjected to Court Orders to prevent them speaking to the media.
At the trial of the Committee of 100, the second prosecutor to Reggie was Mervyn Griffith-Jones, who famously led the prosecution at the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial. His much quoted remark in his opening statement as to whether the novel was something "you would even wish your wife or servants to read" is often cited as representing the extent to which the British 'Establishment' had fallen out of touch with popular opinion at the time. It hadn't, it was just a heap of horse manure for the Court and the press, Mervyn Griffith-Jones knew what Dafydd et al were doing at the time and it was a lot worse than publishing Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Griffith-Jones failed to convince the jury at the Chatterley trial and the publishers were acquitted. Griffith-Jones lived until July 1979, which gave him plenty of time to blow the whistle on Dafydd who was undoubtedly doing things that you wouldn't wish your wife or servants to read about, but he never did.
I note that Bertrand Russell wasn't prosecuted along with the Wethersfield Six; Bertrand the ringleader was ignored. I wonder why?
Griffith-Jones was a member of Middle Temple, as was Ronnie Waterhouse. Their time there overlapped, with Griffith-Jones being an old lag when Ronnie was a whipper snapper. After WW II, Griffith-Jones was one of the British prosecuting Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, as was Lord of the Rings, Lord Elwyn-Jones, who served as the conduit between Dafydd et al, the East End part of the business and the Gov't, Lord Elwyn-Jones being Attorney General.
In 1955, Griffith-Jones was junior Counsel for the prosecution of Ruth Ellis and in 1963 he was the prosecuting Counsel in the trial of Stephen Ward, the fall guy for the Profumo Affair. Ward killed himself with an overdose on the last day of the trial and died after being convicted in his absence. What received less publicity was the big helping hand that Ward received from the Top Doctors with regard to his suicide. See previous posts. No wonder no-one was going to see John Bodkin Adams convicted and executed, wherever would fiends in high places be without the Top Doctors?
Previous posts eg. 'Those Who Are Ready To Serve' have described how Dafydd found out about Naughtiness in High Places before he went to Liverpool Medical School, how he knew that a trade in young people from Wales as sex workers to those in High Society was in existence and he therefore made plans to vastly expand the business and has spent his entire existence since then blackmailing the idiots who did such dreadful things to conceal wrongdoing as long ago as the years of Harold Macmillan's Gov't.
Mervyn Griffith-Jones was a Councillor in Westminster City Council, 1948-54, when the Council was complicit with organised abuse. His son, Robin Griffith-Jones, is the current Reverend and Valiant Master of the Temple.
Pat Pottle defended himself at the 1962 trial of the Wethersfield Six, but his five co-defendants were defended by Jeremy Hutchinson, the famously high camp celebrity barrister who was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Hutchinson had been the defence barrister for George Blake in 1961. Jeremy Hutchinson was entertaining in Court and had everyone rolling in the aisles, but it came at a price. He robustly defended people whom he knew to be guilty including child sex offenders and used anything, anything at all, to win a case; he took the piss, made obscene gestures, anything went if it could put a witness off their stride, particularly an honest one. Hutchison had a rather complicated life outside of the law, indeed literally outside of the law and a network of friends and associates who were involved with sexual exploitation and crime, including people linked to Dafydd and north Wales (see previous posts).
Hutchinson was called to the Bar in the Middle Temple in 1939 – Ronnie Waterhouse arrived in the Middle Temple some years later – and served in the RNVR during WW II. Well, what else would he have done but spent a few years among Royal sailors and gay spies with a taste for boys? Jeremy was a member of the defence team in the Lady Chatterley trial and the year after became a QC. He was a Recorder of Bath and the Crown Court, 1963-88.
There was an elite paedophile ring in the Bath area which involved celebs and Arty people. The Brotherhood of Ruralists were busy in the west country while Jeremy Hutchison was on the turf down there and one of them, Graham Ovenden, was eventually convicted of child sex offences. Ovenden had been controversial for years with concerns expressed regarding the nature of some of his art, which, had it been photography, would definitely have been deemed to be child porn. Ovenden fiercely defended his art in a way that sounded rather like an artist or reviewer dreamt up by a satirist and when his work was seized, former child models of Ovenden spoke in defence of him. I accept their point that they had never felt, or been, abused by Ovenden and neither should we see a sex offender in every artist who draws nudes. However, Ovenden was abusing some children, he did so for a long while and although he was convicted alone, someone knew about it and was helping him. Jeremy Hutchison was one of those who robustly defended Graham Ovenden.
Hutchinson was a member of the Committee on Immigration Appeals and of the Committee on Identification Procedures. Hutchinson was Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and a Professor of Law at the Royal Academy of Arts. He was a Trustee and then Chairman of the Tate Gallery. On 16 May 1978, Hutchinson was created a life peer. Just as Jeremy Thorpe was charged…
Hutchinson was married to the actress Peggy Ashcroft, 1940-1965, with whom he had two children. He had many friends in the world of luvvies as well as law, true Garrick Club stuff. Hutchison later married June Osborn, who died on 26 September 2006. June Osborn and her friend when younger had entertained themselves by each trying to persuade the other one that marrying Ted Heath would be an excellent idea. Why Ted Heath was ever seen as remotely desirable by either of them I cannot fathom.
See previous posts for the escapades of Jeremy and his posh wives, posh friends and the criminals by whom Jeremy was so charmed.
Jeremy Hutchison only died in Nov of last year, so Dafydd had a good friend in the latter day Oscar Wilde until very recently.
Another link between the Croesor crowd and gay swinging spies in higher echelons was Rab Butler serving as the Home Secretary when George Blake was jailed; Butler was followed as Home Secretary by Henry Brooke, who continued concealing the wrongdoing of the same people with whom Rab so ably colluded. Rab Butler was Mr Tory Party for decades and then spent a long incumbency as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In Gov't, Rab concealed mountains of doings on which Dafydd and Gwynne capitalised and he was out to grass at Trinity College in time for Carlo's arrival. Rab was appointed Carlo's personal mentor and counsellor for Carlo's time at Cambridge. Trumpers was running Cambridge at the time and was a friend of Rab. There was an elite abuse ring based at Cambridge and in particular Trinity, decades after the flurry of gay Cambridge double agents in the 1930s.
Rab established and then held influence over the Home Office Research Unit which remained in existence long after Rab had left Gov't, that funded research carried out by academics who were working with young people who had been abused while in various care contexts or in approved schools. Rab's loyal servants did everything they could not to mention what they knew had happened to and in some cases was still happening to the witnesses and victims. Many of those who in their early careers received commissions and funding from Rab's Research Unit later became some of the biggest names in criminology and social work, particularly those who had concealed the crap when Woy's star was in the ascendant. See post 'Rab, High Table and the Founding Fathers'.
When Mr Justice Havers sentenced the Wethersfield Six – I can recommend that everyone quickly reads some of the transcript of the trial, Havers sounds remarkably like Justice Cocklecarrot of 'Private Eye' fame – Harold Macmillan was PM, people known to Captain Swing and his mates were swinging at Cliveden and Henry Brooke was Home Secretary.
At the time of George Blake's escape, Harold Wilson was PM and Woy Jenkins was Home Secretary. Both of them would have been completely compromised when dealing with any case involving people who were at the heart of the Welsh Bloomsbury Group, because Wilson was the first PM who, like Miranda years later, rearranged the entire furniture of Gov't to conceal the Westminster Paedophile Ring and the associated serious crime.
Wilson's proud creation, the Open University, was the plaything of Lord Goodman – Wilson's crooked lawyer friend who got Wilson out of many a hole and was brought back into service when Jeremy Thorpe was arrested and charged – as well as Jennie Lee, Nye Bevan's widow. The advisory committee re the establishment of the OU was jammed with people colluding with organised abuse, including Lord Asa Briggs, the VC of Sussex University, 1967-76, the man who used his links with MI5 to wreak revenge on Merfyn after Merfyn was involved in an anti-Vietnam protest as an undergrad which involved throwing red paint on a visiting US official. See post 'Anthem For Doomed Youth'.
Wilson knew that St George's Hospital, when it was located at Hyde Park Corner in Knightsbridge, was doing favours for very serious criminals who were rich and powerful; they even provided a helping hand to Lord Lucan (see previous posts). Wilson also knew that St George's had established a Dept of Psychiatry which was facilitating organised abuse; that Springfield Hospital in Tooting was also facilitating organised abuse and that a paedophile/trafficking ring was operating from Wandsworth Borough Council. So Wilson decided that London's big flagship teaching hospital and medical school to 'bring healthcare to the people' would be sited at Tooting and that it would involve the relocation of St George's from Hyde Park Corner, with Springfield as the associated psychiatric hospital, the new development being within the Borough of Wandsworth. The result was the most dishonest elitist Top Docs in London who had spent their lives serving titled criminals, dripping with contempt for their patients in downtown Tooting while the existing paedophile ring expanded rapidly and linked up with gangs right across the UK and Europe. Neither was there any shortage of funding, the investment was enormous. See post 'Meet The Gwerin!'.
Woy was himself a bisexual swinger, which as far as consenting adults are concerned is a matter for him and them, but Woy's tentacles spread rather further than consenting adults, which might be why he did nothing to stop the appalling abuse of young people in approved schools and other institutions run by the Home Office or the rampant corruption in the criminal justice system, the police, the prison service etc. He was a member of the Gang Of Four who so clearly based their entire electoral strategy on colluding with the gangs supplying the Westminster Paedophile Ring. See post 'We've Been Expecting You'.
Wilson's Minister of Health, 1964-68, was the superstar Sir Kenneth Robinson.
The degree of fuckwittery on the part of those making decision at the time was clearly illustrated by Home Secretary Woy, in Oct 1966, appointing Lord Louis Mountbatten to lead an Inquiry into prison security in the wake of George Blake's escape. Mountbatten had no pretences at all to knowing anything about prisons or security, he had vast experience as a senior officer in the Royal Navy, but I'm not sure that the notion of 'transferable skills' would apply in that case. What was salient was that Mountbatten was the person who was involved in something that enabled so many people to get away with so much and Woy was one of those who knew the full story.
Brown has reassured me that Dafydd will, like his crooked mate Robert Bluglass, have been appointed to sit on bodies concerned with advising and regulating and of course Dafydd has given Expert Evidence to Parliament. It is only by such strategies that wrongdoing of such proportions can be kept from the general public. The spies who know about Mountbatten are breaking out of prison with the help of MI5! Who will lead the Inquiry? Er, how about Mountbatten, because Dafydd's tied up. So to speak, along with a few friends from the Chester and Wales Circuit.
When Mountbatten's Report was completed, it was 'welcomed' as 'humane' by Tony Smythe, the then General Secretary of the NCCL. Tony Smythe was an anarchist who was described to me as being 'very paedophile friendly'. Smythe had a lot of doings with arty and radical things that liked to believe they were Edgy but were in some cases just worrying. Smythe had links with groups campaigning for paedophiles' rights – the NCCL being one such group – and was CEO of MIND, 1974-82, when Dafydd was rapidly expanding his empire of crime with MIND fully on board. See previous posts for further information on Smythe. Mountbatten's activities were known about by senior figures in MIND, because Lady Juliet Bingley who Chaired MIND for years, was married to Admiral Sir Alec Bingley who served with Mountbatten. The Bingley's son William was Legal Director of MIND, then became CEO of the Mental Health Act Commission, Chaired lethal and scandal ridden NHS Trusts in the North West of England and was given the Chair in Mental Health Law and Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire. See previous posts. William was with Dafydd all the way…
Ted Heath was the Leader of the Opposition at the time of Blake's escape. I stress that I do not have documentary evidence of Ted Heath's involvement with Dafydd et al, but Heath's time as Leader of the Opposition and as PM saw him surrounded by people who by the time that I was doing battle with Dafydd's gang were undoubtedly colluding with Dafydd. Mary Wynch's problems began when Heath was PM, his Gov't was completely flouting the law in every regard in relation to Mary. Keith Joseph, as Heath's Secretary of State for Social Services, appointed Barbara Kahan as his adviser on children's social work; Kahan had been colluding with the abuse of children in her care for years (see post 'Always On The Side Of The Children'). People like Lord Hailsham, Willie Whitelaw, Norman St John Stevas and others were all around Heath and had degrees of involvement in the Westminster Paedophile Ring as well as with Dafydd et al. Charles Morrison, Peter Morrison's brother, was as close to Heath as Peter Morrison was to Thatch. So all shades of the Tory spectrum were covered. One Nation!
In 1970, the year in which Heath became PM, Sean Bourke wrote a book about the George Blake escape in which he thinly disguised the names of Pat and Michael as "Pat Porter" and "Michael Reynolds". There was still no action taken against them. Of course there wasn't, the Captain's Crew and Dafydd were swinging like never before, Bertrand Russell was going and then gone, but there was his Towering Reputation and Legacy to protect.
The event which sparked off further events which eventually led to Randle and Pottle's June 1991 trial occurred in Nov 1986. 'The Observer' published an extract from a book by Philip Knightley's about the George Blake escape. The article prompted letters which appeared in 'The Observer' the following week, including one from Montgomery Hyde, stating that he was working on a biography of George Blake. In spring 1987, Michael Randle, then living in Bradford, received a phone call from someone who had seen the publishers blurb about Hyde's book and told Randle that the book would reveal that the Committee of 100 had been involved in Blake's escape. Randle began worrying about a piece that he wrote in 1967 about the escape, which constituted concrete evidence of his and Pat's role, so he burnt it.
In Aug 1987 Randle received a call from journo friend and Randle said he'd consider reviewing Hyde's book for 'The Guardian' and phoned Pat Pottle in London. Randle reviewed the book but instead the'The Guardian' published a piece by Richard Norton-Taylor which said that the Committee of 100 sprang Blake. An article had also appeared in the 'Irish Independent' in Sept 1987.
In the autumn of 1987, I was living in Leicester with Brown and friends, having narrowly escaped the attempt by Dafydd et al to fit me up for trying to stab a junior doctor. We were under surveillance at the time from MI5 but had no idea. We were on Greville Janner's turf and Uncle Harry's brother-in-law, Stuart Hall and others from the New Left were trying to shaft Brown. The gang in north Wales were in pursuit of me… Being Brown and me, in Leicester we just uncovered more examples of vulnerable people being shafted by professionals paid to help them. I had also been to see William Bingley at MIND, not having any idea that he was mates with Dafydd. Tony Francis acquired a High Court injunction against me on the basis of his perjury. The MDU and their solicitors, Hempsons, knew that Francis had lied in his statement.
The story about George Blake, Randle and Pottle appeared as the lead article in 'The Sunday Times' in Oct 1987. Just before that article appeared, Brown had appeared on Channel 4 criticising the decision of the BBC to screen an offensive contribution to the world by Bernard Manning. I have recently been told that those we know and love saw Brown on TV and panicked.
It was just before all this that that Dafydd told me that if I dropped my complaint about him he'd get me a place at Liverpool Medical School. Brown was listening to the call and subsequently wrote to Gwynedd Health Authority. He did not receive a reply. MI5 had tapped our phone and heard everything.
Substantial media coverage re the George Blake escape followed…
In Sept and Oct 1988, Randle and Pottle were interviewed by officers from Scotland Yard, Randle in the presence of his solicitor Ben Birnberg.
On Nov 8 1988, 'The Sunday Times' alleged that Vanessa Redgrave had put up the money for Blake's escape; Redgrave had been a member of the Committee of 100. Redgrave, Randle and Pottle all denied Redgrave's involvement. Randle and Pottle began writing their book about Blake's escape. In Nov 1988, Michael Randle resigned from his research fellowship in Bradford University's Dept of Peace Studies.
I spent April 1988-April 1989 working in the Cancer Research Campaign team at Surrey University. The team was led by Prof Vincent Marks, the brother of the then President of the BMA, Dr John Marks. I have now been given evidence that John and Vincent were working really hard to screw me over; my work was, without my knowledge, given to another cancer researcher in Newcastle Medical School, Nicola Curtin, of whom I had never heard and Curtin published it with her name on it as well and used it to gain funding; I was told that funding for my post had expired and was made redundant. One of Tony Francis's psychiatrist friends from Manchester, Dr Peter Mcguire, had suddenly decided that he was going to work for the Cancer Research Campaign as well and hey presto he received funding. Sadly for Mcguire, he and his colleagues used the funding to commit a massive research fraud which was exposed in 1990 and resulted in the suicide of their colleague Prof Tim McElwain. Not that it stopped them, they went on to be leaders in cancer research and one took up mental health research. See previous posts…
In Dec 1988, the Tory MP Graham Riddick demanded the prosecution of Randle and Pottle and within days the campaign for their prosecution had escalated. Norris McWhirter, of the far right Freedom Association, threatened to bring a private prosecution against Randle and Pottle. Graham Riddick's Early Day Motion was signed by more than 110 Tory MPs.
On 3 Jan 1989, Randle heard that Sir Allan Green, the DPP, had ordered Scotland Yard to reopen the investigation into George Blake's escape.
In May 1989, after being made redundant by Surrey University, I began a new job at St George's. I have been told that it was a trap, planned well in advance, to wreck my career in medical research and ensure that I would not work in a professional job again…
By this time, a major police investigation was underway in Leicestershire into a child abuse ring which was thought to involve Greville Janner and there were allegations that a VIP paedophile ring was operating in north Wales/Cheshire and demands were being made for a police investigation into that as well.
In July-Aug 1988, Lord Butler-Sloss had concealed the crimes of Dafydd's mates in Cleveland and in July-Aug 1989 Dafydd's mate Bluglass would cover-up Dafydd and the gang's criminality in my own case. Dr James Earp in Leicester had already performed a minor effort in the autumn of 1987 and early spring of 1988, but what with me not going away, Bluglass was called upon… See previous posts.
Throughout their trial, Pottle and Randle insisted that their action was morally justified, and, ignoring a clear direction from the judge to convict, the jury unanimously acquitted them. Pottle and Randle stated that they published their book about the George Blake escape following 'a whispering campaign against them' prompted by Montgomery Hyde's book. "We didn't want needlessly to invite prosecution, but there were stories naming others who weren't involved, accusing us of being communist agents, trying to discredit the anti-nuclear campaign," Pottle said at the time.
The following are extracts from Pat Pottle's address to the jury before his acquittal on June 26 1991:
This prosecution has come about because 110 MPs signed a motion calling for our prosecution, and because of a threat of a private prosecution from the inaptly named Freedom Association . . .
Your task would be a lot easier if this were a simple case of guilt or innocence, but it is not. It is a case of right and wrong. It is a case of politics, a case of how governments lie, cheat and manipulate, and then cover their tracks in a smokescreen of official secrecy…
This is a political trial. A political decision was taken in 1970 not to prosecute. When we were publicly named in 1987, it came as no surprise to the police: they had known since 1970…
The accepted theory about George's escape was that it was organised and carried out by agents at the KGB. That was embarrassing to British intelligence, but at least they could argue that the KGB was a worldwide organisation with limitless resources. What would the revelation that a petty criminal and two peace activists had carried out the escape do to our relations with our allies? It was better that the world continued to believe that the whole thing was organised by the KGB rather than the Lavender Hill Mob.
It was indeed a political trial, but it wasn't nearly so political as the trials that I repeatedly found myself in. Pat and Randle knew people involved with a huge international paedophile/trafficking ring which ran profitable side-lines in class A drugs and porn. Senior politicians and members of the Royal Family were linked with it, as was Bertrand Russell. It was why there was such a reluctance to prosecute anyone for helping Blake escape. They all Knew About Dafydd and the security services were helping Dafydd run his gang.
I didn't help a KGB spy escape from prison, I complained about a fucking lobotomist who was running a paedophile gang. So my friends were targeted for assassination. I REALLY don't get this!! And neither do I understand why anyone ever thought that Brown and me were going to be intimidated into keeping quiet. We had absolutely no respect for a bunch of sex offenders driving Volvos, reading the 'Daily Mail' and propositioning students, when they were in their 70s and wearing trousers with the crotch down by their knees. I took the piss out of them when I was 21 and I'm still doing it. Because they are idiots.
I have been told that Randle and Pottle's prosecution was definitely something to do with me, but I haven't worked out what the rationale might have been yet, there are a few more people involved whom I need to investigate…
I briefly discussed in a previous post 'O Jones, O Jones' how Randle and Pottle stood trial at the Old Bailey for springing George Blake in June 1991, just after the episode in the spring of 1991 when Dafydd's gang made yet another attempt to have me imprisoned for contempt of court, as usual on the basis of perjury that was known to everyone involved in the case. Not only that, but the case was heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand. I was down from Bethesda for the hearing. It was so ludicrous, especially as once more the case against me fell apart, that it must have been noticed by numerous people. No-one said anything or asked any questions, although the North Wales Police had just begun an investigation into a possible paedophile ring operating in north Wales/Chester. Then just weeks after the saga involving me at the Royal Courts of Justice, another bizarre and ridiculous case with strong links to Gwynedd took place at the Old Bailey, but gaining very much more publicity than my case did…
The hierarchy of people involved in the case against Pottle and Randle and in my case were the same: the Attorney General was the corrupt Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Solicitor-General was Sir Nicholas Lyell. Lyell subsequently became AG and in that capacity drew up the ground rules for the Waterhouse inquiry. It was Lyell who granted immunity from prosecution for people who gave evidence at the Waterhouse Inquiry. It is why people like Glanville Owen, Rob Evans and Lucille Hughes who were responsible for managing the children's homes in Gwynedd while the kids inside them were being abused and trafficked, turned up at the Inquiry, gave evidence that clearly demonstrated that they knew what was happening to the kids and just left the kids at the mercy of the gang and can now never be prosecuted for child abuse. Waterhouse even managed to say in his Report that Lucille knew that a paedophile gang was active within the children's homes but she 'failed to respond'. Lucille can never be prosecuted thanks to Sir Nicholas Lyell. See previous posts.
The DPP who at the end of 1988/the beginning of 1989 ordered the prosecution of Randle and Pat Pottle was Sir Allan Green QC. Green, like everybody else, ignored complaints of very serious offences against children and vulnerable adults in north Wales. It didn't matter what evidence people had or how they tried to raise concerns, the police would not even record complaints. The nicer police officers just made excuse after excuse as to why they couldn't do anything, but the notorious ones swore and shouted at the complainants and if they still didn't go away they would arrest them for ridiculous things like breach of the peace or harassment. The Sergeant at Menai Bridge Police Station watched Tony Francis pursue me down a main road yelling insults at me and commenting on my bum. I walked into the Station and said 'have you seen what is going on here?' only to be told to get out or I would be arrested for breach of the peace. Dafydd hit me in front of witnesses. No action. I witnessed the Doberman that Dafydd kept which he used to set on people trap two police officers in their car; the Doberman was going apeshit, the officers locked themselves in and didn't dare come out. This was after all the fuss about Dangerous Dogs. When Dafydd's minions finally hauled the dog off of the police car, I started taking the piss and saying to the police 'there's a dangerous dog here, aren't you going to seize it', one of the officers replied 'we know the law on dangerous dogs thank you very much' and Dafydd told the police officers that this snarling bastard was 'my puppy'. Anyone else would have found themselves in Court.
As for the kids in care, there were hundreds of episodes of them running away, there were serious injuries, there were complaints to the North Wales Police and to the Councils which had placed the kids in the homes and there was still no action. One boy from Southwark was forced to have sex with men at gunpoint in the Bryn Alyn Community yet Southwark Borough Council continued to send kids to Bryn Alyn. See eg. post 'The Battle For the Labour Party's Soul'. Kids in care were sometimes found dead in north Wales, as were psych patients constantly.
The police were deflecting so many complaints that Sir Allan Green will not have known about them, but it was Green who was authorising ludicrous prosecutions against people like me; he knew that something untoward was happening in north Wales.
Allan Green QC was forced to resign as DPP after he was 'caught kerb crawling' but by his own account he 'was talking to some prostitutes' after he'd been to a meeting. No-one reported what the prostitutes said that Sir Allan had been saying to them. Green's wife was then found dead after 'committing suicide', but the circumstances of that suicide were so worrying that it was worthy of one of the suicides that the witnesses to Dafydd's crimes committed. See post 'A Future Leader Of The Labour Party?'
The solicitor who acted for Michael Randle was Ben Birnberg. Birnberg had acted for Mary Wynch when she sued Dafydd and the gang after she was unlawfully arrested and detained for a year. Mary won the case, but the gang simply refused to pay her the agreed compensation unless she enforced payment. Mary won other parts of her case as well, against the Public Trustee. Again, the Home Office just refused to settle. Michael Howard finally completely shafted Mary when he was Home Secretary; she had proven her case, it had taken her years and cost her everything. Howard handed over a bit of loose change as 'full and final settlement' without admitting anything and told her to fuck off. Ben Birnberg knew that this was happening to people in north Wales.
I didn't get as far down the road as Mary, but if I had, the same thing would have happened to me I'm sure. Again and again a tosspot when cornered would admit to me that yes, the 'services' had broken the law; yes, I'd been wrongfully arrested and imprisoned; yes there had been a complete failure to provide care; yes confidence had been breached. On the occasions when such admissions were made to my lawyers, they be followed by a mad letter screaming at us that if we wanted to take this further the NHS would ask for a judicial review or something ridiculous. It was very clear what the thinking was: 'We're the NHS, we have a bottomless pit, we are so fucking bad that people are dying and there'll be no end to this if someone wins a case against us. So fuck off, because we're going to do this until the day that you expire at our hands'.
At their trial at the Old Bailey, Pottle and Randle argued that their motives had been humanitarian and that since the security services had known of their involvement but had done nothing until MPs demanded their prosecution, the trial was political. They were unanimously acquitted by the jury.
Pat and Sue Pottle moved back to Gwynedd from London in 2000 to retire. Pat died very soon after they returned to Wales; he was only 62. No-one expected Pat to die, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died in Oct 2001 very soon after the diagnosis. Pancreatic cancer is not a nice cancer to have, it can kill very quickly after diagnosis. Particularly if Top Doctors somehow don't notice if someone has pancreatic cancer. Someone who worked as Bertrand Russell's Secretary and who knew many of those people involved in the gang in north Wales as well as big wigs in the UK and elsewhere who were never ever named in connection with the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal.
The Waterhouse Report was published in Feb 2001. By Oct 2001, Dafydd's gang were once more embarking on yet another massive conspiracy to lead me into yet another trap and wreck the career in teaching on which I had just embarked, having finished teacher training at Bangor University in May 2001. The crap didn't begin to fly in my direction for another few months, but I have received information that the gwerin were busy from the minute that I began teacher training…
When he was on trial at the Old Bailey in 1991 for helping George Blake escape, Pat Pottle addressed the jury directly and he summed up by saying:
Yes, I helped George Blake escape. I did it for purely humanitarian reasons. I think we were right to do so. I would do it again. I have no apologies to make and no regrets. I will finish by quoting Bertrand Russell: 'Remember your humanity; forget the rest.'
That will have been all the humanity shown by Russell and so many others as they ignored everything that was happening to less privileged people at the hands of Dafydd and the gang.
There's no-one left to speak for any of you suckers…
Detail from front cover of Stations of the Crass, illustrating rock-punk collective Crass's stencilled graffiti:
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I have received an e mail from Andy Wisheart, who is the son of James Wisheart, the Top Doctor who was one of those at the centre of the Bristol Children's Heart Surgery Scandal. Andy is unhappy about my post 'More Alan Bennett' and maintains that it is unfair to his father, 'possibly libellous', but that James Wisheart is not going to sue me because he is now an elderly man. Andy Wisheart states that I have accused his father of being involved with the trafficking ring and makes the point that the Bristol Children's Heart Surgery Scandal was far more complex than my post suggests and has asked me to read the Report of the Public Inquiry into the scandal.
I have e mailed Andy and told him that I have not at any point stated that his dad was involved with the trafficking ring. Some of James Wisheart's colleagues were, but I have no idea whether James Wisheart knew that. James Wisheart was based in Bristol, which was where Dafydd's colleague Dr D.G.E. Wood trained and Wood had friends and colleagues in Bristol who knew that Wood was facilitating a trafficking ring and colluded with him. James Wisheart will have known some of those people, but no, I have never accused Mr Wisheart of being part of the ring. Wood's father was a Top Doctor in Bristol as well, but whether Mr Wisheart knew either of the Top Doctors Wood I have no idea.
I absolutely accept Andy's point that the matter of the Bristol Children's Heart Surgery Scandal was indeed complex; it was particularly complex because many other surgeons who were invited to comment upon or review the work of James Wisheart were challenged by other surgeons who claimed that their results and opinions were open to question as well. The Bristol Children's Heart Surgery Scandal was rather like the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal in that even after a costly Public Inquiry, it wasn't entirely clear how much damage had been done and how many people were culpable. Andy's e mail stated that I maintained that his dad operated beyond his level of competence; indeed I did state that, it was one of the few solid conclusions from the Public Inquiry. The Inquiry also concluded that more children in Bristol died as a result of being operated upon by Mr Wisheart than would have been expected.
I have explained to Andy that I did read the Report of the Inquiry. I intend to read it again, because since I blogged about Andy's dad, I have gained a better idea of what to look for in the Reports of Inquiries into health and social care failures in order to try to work out what really went on.
I have told Andy that if he can detail anything on the blog about his father that is simply not true, I will be happy to edit it. One thing that I did not flag up sufficiently when I blogged about James Wisheart is that in the case of medical scandals, very often a Top Doctor is scapegoated and others equally culpable or even more culpable are not held to account.
After the Chamberlain-Pearce Scandal at St George's in the mid-1990s (see previous posts), the entire blame for the research fraud was placed on Malcolm Pearce. Geoffrey Chamberlain gave evidence against Malcolm and told the GMC that the fraud was all Malcolm's doing. It wasn't, Chamberlain was definitely in on it as well, but Chamberlain was President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was mates with Sir George Pinker the Royal Gynaecologist as well as with Cilla, so no-one was going to suggest that Chamberlain too had made up a load of poppycock and published it. Although Chamberlain's name was on the journal article…
Ooh, nearly forgot! Chamberlain was a mate of Professor Oliver Brooke the Prof of Paediatrics at St George's who was a key figure in a pan-European trafficking ring and after Ollie went to prison, Chamberlain concealed the rest of the ring. Chamberlain also knew what had happened to me… Geoffrey Chamberlain knew where many more bodies were buried than Malcolm did.
If Andy Wisheart or indeed anyone else believes that James Wisheart was left to carry the can for other people's failings, please do let me know and I will be happy to publish it. I am sure that Mr Wisheart did have a very bad time when he was the centre of the media coverage, but patients died and someone was responsible for that.
Merfyn Jones was blamed for patient deaths in north Wales after Top Doctors and others conspired to allow numerous patients to die while Merfyn was Chairman of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in order to force Merfyn out of public life after he had challenged Dafydd's gang. See previous posts. Top Doctors and others who run gangs of paedophiles are not nice people and they will do pretty much anything to stop themselves from being exposed.
Recent posts eg. 'Meet The Gwerin!' and 'The Wind Of No Change' have discussed Alwyn Roberts, a former missionary who later worked as an academic at UCNW. It was Alwyn Roberts who, in his capacity as Vice-Principal of UCNW in 1984, prevented UCNW from being closed down by the UGC under Thatcher's Gov't by reminding them that UCNW was facilitating the trafficking ring that was procuring children for Thatch's friends, Ministers and others and by reassuring the UGC that the small group of friends who had just graduated from Bangor and had raised concerns about the activities of Gwynne the lobotomist and Dr D.G.E. Wood in the Student Health Centre would all be screwed over so that there would be no credible witnesses with professional careers.
Hey Alwyn, you didn't account for:
Alwyn et al only had this lot to help them:
The Rev Alwyn Roberts had served as a missionary and in 1960 he was appointed Principal of Pachhunga University College (PUC). PUC is a constituent college of Mizoram University, a central university established by an Act of Parliament of India. Founded in 1958 as Aijal College, it is the oldest and largest college in Mizoram, by enrolment and campus size.
After Indian independence in 1947, the Mizo people were governed under the Gov't of Assam as Lushai Hills district. By the 1950s, many Mizo people finished secondary education with no further opportunities. PUC was established after J. Malsawma and H.K. Bawichhuaka set up what they called an "Organising Board" at the house of the "most prosperous Mizo businessman" or "the wealthiest man in Mizoram", a Mr Pachhunga, in 1957. In April 1958, Lawrence Singh Ingty became Chairman of the Organising Board, with Bawichhuaka as the Secretary, Malsawma as the Joint Secretary, and Lalhmingthanga (Pachhunga's son) as the Treasurer. Ingty inaugurated Aijal College on 15 August 1958 (Indian Independence Day) at Aijal Theatre Hall (now Vanapa Hall).
Ingty asked Brother Godfrey Danis, who at the time was Headmaster of St. Paul's High School, to become a temporary Principal. The faculty were volunteers and originally comprised a team of Christian missionaries, including John Meirion Lloyd, Helen Lowry, Gwen Rees Roberts (Pi Tei) and Father O'Brien, along with educated natives such as Rita Neihpuii, Sangliana, and Malsawma. Classes officially started on 1 September 1958. Upon the request of the Organising Board, the Welsh Mission Board (Foreign Mission of the Presbyterian Church of Wales) appointed Rev. Alwyn Roberts as the first regular Principal in November 1960. In 1961, the College became Government aided and received affiliation from Gauhati University.
In 1962, the College was renamed Pachhunga Memorial College (PMC) after Mr. Pachhunga as a benefactor of the College since its inception. It was relocated to its permanent campus in June 1965. On 1 July 1965, the Assam Government declared provincialisation (official recognition) and the name was once more changed to Pachhunga Memorial Government College (PMGC). Permanent teachers were appointed only in 1967 under the Assam Public Service Commission.
When Lushai Hills became a separate Union Territory as Mizoram under Assam in 1972, the management of the College was handed over to the Government of Mizoram. The college was renamed Pachhunga Government College in 1977. The affiliation was transferred to a newly established North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), on 19 April 1979.
John Meirion Lloyd was born in Corris (in what is now south Gwynedd) in 1913. The Rev J. Lloyd was a Welsh Presbyterian missionary who was ordained a Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1941 and followed in the tradition of his fellow Welshman in Mizoram, the missionary David Evan Jones. John Meirion Lloyd was head of the team responsible for translating the Bible into the Mizo language in 1955.
David Evan Jones, Mizo name Zosaphluia, was born in Llandderfel, Gwynedd in 1870. Jones was a Welsh missionary who was connected to both the Mizoram Presbytarian Church and the Baptist Church of Mizoram. Jones was educated at Bala Grammar School, then the Liverpool Institute, Bala College and the Presbyterian United Theological College, Aberystwyth. He was Pastor of a church in Bettws, Montgomery, for two years before being formally ordained into the English Baptists in 1897, prior to sailing for India on 26 June 1897. Jones arrived at Aizawl, in the Lushai Hills on 31 August. In 1903 he married Katherine Ellen Williams, at Sylhet, now in Bangladesh.
Jones learnt the Mizo language from Scottish missionaries James Herbert Lorrain and Fred W. Savidge and became a member of a team making Bible translations into the local languages. David Evan Jones retired after 30 years in Mizoram in 1927 and returned to Britain to live at Liverpool and Prestatyn. David died on 10 August 1947 and Katherine died on 20 May 1950.
The Bala College of which David Evan Jones is a notable alumnus, later became known as the Bala-Bangor Theological College. Bala-Bangor was a theological seminary belonging to the Welsh Independents (Undeb yr Annibynwyr Cymraeg), an association of Welsh Congregationalists. It was founded in 1841 at Llanuwchllyn, then moved to a permanent location at Bala in 1842 under the Principal Michael Jones (1787–1853), who was followed by his son Michael D. Jones (1822–1898).
During Michael D. Jones's time as Principal, a row broke out between two rival factions within Welsh Congragationalism over the seminary's constitution – Michael D. Jones and his followers wanted to keep and adhere to the old constitution but Rev. John Thomas of Liverpool and his followers wanted to impose a new constitution upon the seminary. This row lead to a split and for a period the Congregationalists had two seminaries in Bala, Thomas Lewis's seminary at Plasyndre and Michael D. Jones's at Bodiwan. But by 1886 Thomas Lewis's seminary had moved to Bangor. Michael D. Jones retired in 1892 and this paved the way to unite the two seminaries once again and this time at Bangor, thus explaining the seminary's eclectic name: "Bala-Bangor".
The seminary remained in Bangor until its closure in 1989 by which time it was under the Principalship of R. Tudor Jones, the last in the line of Principals to serve the Congregational churches in Wales. The seminary was closed mainly because of lack of demand for two Congregational seminaries in Wales. The Memorial College (having moved from Brecon to Swansea and then to Abersytwyth) offered a more central location for a United College to serve the Congregational churches throughout Wales. Through the 1990s, the United College remained at Aberystwyth, until its closure – now Congregational training is based back in Bangor under the supervision of Rev. Euros Wyn Jones.
The seminary in Bangor was thriving when I was an undergrad. I didn't know anyone there but the theology students at UCNW did. When Dafydd illegally imprisoned me in the North Wales Hospital in the winter of 1986-87, I met a young male patient called Richard. When he heard that I had been a student in Bangor Richard told me that his brother was a Minister who had trained at the seminary in Bangor and asked me if I knew him. Then Richard asked me if I could get in touch with his brother because his brother used to visit him but now he'd stopped the visits; Richard hadn't seen his brother for two years. In fact Richard hadn't seen any member of his family for a very long time, because after Richard was put in Denbigh, none of them ever contacted him again except his brother the Minister. And then he stopped.
I chatted to Richard a lot and he was about 25 or 26 when I met him. He had been in Denbigh since he was 18. Richard had not left the building since the day that he was admitted there. Richard had 'paranoid schizophrenia' like the rest of us and he had been well-dosed up for years. Richard had very clear memories of his life until the day that Dafydd imprisoned him. He lived on the north Wales coast – I think near Llandudno – and he and his mates used to like Ska music. They used to congregate at one of Richard's friend's houses and listen to 'Madness', 'The Specials', 'Selector' etc. So that would have been in 1979/1980. Then Richard was banged up.
The Angels were Very Concerned that Richard and I were Getting Too Close. In the way that the Angels were Very Concerned that Stephen Bagnall and I were Getting Too Close. See post 'Hey, Hey, DAJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?' The Angels raised their fears re Richard and me when they heard Richard talking to me about his brother. That evening Richard was moved to another ward. About a week later, I was walking down the main corridor of the main building of Denbigh flanked by a gang of Angels when I saw Richard. He came over, hugged me and it was more than the poor old Angels could cope with. 'Put Sally down NOW, everyone is going back to their own wards immediately…'
The Angels declared that Stephen and I were Too Close after Stephen had a row with them the night that Angel Stephen Rose dragged me down a corridor and assaulted me.
I have described in previous posts that Stephen Bagnall had been in the children's homes in Wrexham and was in very bad physical condition. He was very underweight, badly scarred and had quite seriously deformed feet because when he was In Care he had jumped out of a window to escape from someone or something and had broken virtually every bone in both feet. No-one took him to a Top Doctor, he was just left and his feet sort of healed but because the bones were never reset Stephen's feet were twisted and deformed. All the patients noticed them and that's how we heard how Stephen had ended up with such feet. His condition was ignored by all Angels and of course by Dafydd.
Richard did not mention being in a children's home, he was from a more middle class Welsh Nonconformist family. Although Richard had been in Denbigh for years, drugged up and chain smoking, he stood out among the other patients because even after all that, Richard was fantastically good looking. He had obviously had very blonde hair when he was younger although it was starting to go grey and he had a pair of seriously impressive blue sparking eyes. Had Richard not been illegally imprisoned in a hell hole, Richard could have secured work as a male model, he really was beautiful.
So who molested Richard then Dafydd and who did Richard tell about this?
Frankie Goes To Hollywood, famously Gay And Revelling In It, were formed in 1980, in Liverpool. Part of Dafydd's empire.
I am beginning to understand why Dafydd completely flew off the handle when a Hergest Unit patient rang him up one day and said 'When I saw the line of your buttocks in your crimplene trousers, I thought there's the man for me…'
Dafydd yelled down the phone 'if ewe make anymore offensive and obscene calls to this house I will call the police'. SLAM.
That'll be the North Wales Police who were ignoring the paedophile ring that Dafydd was running which procured blond blue eyed boys for Gov't Ministers and others.
'Now McDuff's coming down to see you Dafydd. And when he arrives, I want you to answer the door wearing your baby doll nightie and nae panties…'
On another occasion a male patient rang Dafydd up and sang 'I want to be loved by you..' a la Marilyn Monroe. Dafydd complained about this bitterly to his colleagues and a Top Doctor at the Hergest Unit asked the patient in question 'what did you say to Dr Jones on the phone, he's complaining'. So the caller sung the Marilyn song again.
One of the Hergest patients could have entertained themselves by jumping out of a cake wearing nothing but a thong and given Dafydd a smacker on the lips and it would still have been a case of 'We didn't know'.
The missionaries the Rev J. Lloyd and David Evan Jones both came from what was then Meirionethshire and when they came back from India they both settled in Liverpool, within a mile of Allerton; both retired eventually to Prestatyn.
Lloyd was one of six children of a slate quarryman in Corris, near Dolgellau. Lloyd's brother, Rev Dr R. Glynn Lloyd, had a ministry in Utica, New York State.
Lloyd secured qualifications in engineering – before he changed to arts and theology – at the University of Wales, Cardiff and Aberystwyth. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1941, but because of WW II he had to wait before he left for India. Lloyd and his fellow missionary Gwen Rees Roberts sailed late in 1944. By Christmas 1945, Lloyd had been joined in India by his wife, Joan, whom he had left behind in Britain a few days after their marriage.
Lloyd and Joan spent many years in Mizoram and were heavily involved in the setting up of higher education and theological training. Lloyd started the first high school in Aizawl and enjoyed the support of Major Ranald MacDonald of the Assam Rifles Regiment. The Mizos dubbed the hill on which the high school was built the "MacDonald Hill" and MacDonald became the school's first Headmaster.
J. Meirion Lloyd set up a theological school in Aizawl and under him the theological school gained accreditation status and the most able students gained postgraduate scholarships to Boston, Hong Kong and Oxford. Benefactors included the New Testament scholar Dr William Barclay, who had a high regard for Lloyd.
William Barclay was a Scottish author, radio and television presenter and Church of Scotland Minister who was appointed as Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at Glasgow University in 1963. While Professor, William Barclay decided to dedicate his life to "making the best biblical scholarship available to the average reader". The eventual result was the Daily Study Bible, published by Saint Andrew Press, the Church of Scotland's publishing house. The commentaries were fully updated in recent years with the help of William Barclay's son, Ronnie Barclay and they are now known as the New Daily Study Bible series. In 2008 Saint Andrew Press began taking the content of the 'New Daily Study Bibles' and producing pocket-sized thematic titles called Insights. The Insights books are introduced by contemporary authors, broadcasters and scholars, including Nick Baines and Diane-Louise Jordan.
One of William Barclay's many books was 'Ethics in a Permissive Society'. Dafydd advised on that volume. Barclay died in 1978.
Diane-Louise Jordan: Associated With 'Blue Peter', 'Songs of Praise' and er, Dafydd:
'Get Down Shep' – you're needed for filming this afternoon once John Allen gets here with Professor Ollie from St George's.
The Rev Lloyd was a member of the group of translators who completed the first translation of the Mizo Bible in August 1955. Lloyd then set up an arts college in 1960.
In 1964 Lloyd and Joan returned to Liverpool (their three children had all been born during their time in India) and for the next 10 years Lloyd was the Secretary for the Merseyside, Wirral and West Lancashire Bible Society. Then he returned to the pastoral ministry at Rhyl. Lloyd retired in 1978 and he spent the next 12 years producing a history of the church in Mizoram in Welsh, under the title 'Y Bannau Pell' (1989). In 1991, Lloyd published a history of the Church in Mizoram, 'Harvest in the Hills'. Lloyd was fluent in Mizo, Welsh and English and highly competent in Greek and Hebrew.
John Meirion Lloyd died in Prestatyn, Denbighshire in September 1998, after the Waterhouse Inquiry had finished hearing evidence from the former kids in care who were denounced as liars by Alwyn Roberts's friends and associates.
The obituary published by 'The Indie' for the Rev Lloyd was written by D. Ben Rees, the Minister and academic who's area of expertise is the Liverpool Welsh community and pacifism. See previous posts. D. Ben Rees is a man who must have networked with more of Dafydd's associates in the Nonconformist Church than anyone else except for Lord Roger Roberts, a Methodist Minister from Llandudno who was given a peerage after failing to be elected as a Liberal MP despite numerous attempts (see previous posts).
John's Meirion Lloyd's wife Joan died in June 2017 and 'The Daily Post' Online published an article about Joan's time in India, reporting that 'During her time there she met Pandit Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India and a close friend of Ghandi. There is memorable photograph of a laughing Mrs Lloyd standing with her husband, looking on with smiling villagers, as Nehru – who is regarded as the architect of modern India – is seen showing off some of his local dancing skills.
Nehru Prime Minister of India dancing in the Mizo province of India looked on by a laughing Jo Lloyd and her husband Meirion Lloyd. (Image: UGC)
Mrs Lloyd, who was born in Liverpool, married in 1944 but he had to leave five days later (he only found out the day of the wedding) for his mission to India because a boat became free. The couple were not reunited until after the war, a year later, when Mrs Lloyd went to join him in India at the age of 22. Mizoram, located close to Burma, has a high concentration of Christians and the highest literacy rate in India. Ashley Smith, Mrs Lloyd's grandson, said: "This is in due in great part to the institutions the missionaries set up. "My nain was still being visited regularly by 'Mizos', including some less than a week before she died – they obviously thought the world of her." She visited Mizoram for the last time in 2002 at the age of 80.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (Image: Daily Mirror)
After leaving India Mrs Lloyd worked in Pontins in Rhyl for 15 years until the early 1990s. She had three children, six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Mrs Lloyd's funeral takes place today at Nant Hall Presbyterian Church, Prestatyn.
Regular readers will know that Dafydd's gang have run Rhyl and Prestatyn for decades now. It was Dafydd encouraging so many people with addiction problems from Liverpool to use the 'services' which he provides which caused such serious problems with drug use and homelessness in the Rhyl area, which then spread out along the north Wales coast.
It was known that Liverpool City Council were 'dumping' their expensive needy citizens in north Wales and they had a business arrangement with dear old Dafydd and his charidee CAIS. There was much local resentment towards the 'scousers with mental health and drug problems' – they overwhelmed the 'services', including the Ablett Unit at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd – but they were victims of the scam themselves. Many of them had been coerced by social workers and Top Docs in Liverpool into moving to north Wales and more than a few were sent on 'placement' there against their wishes. They didn't know anyone in Wales, they didn't know Wales and many of them didn't like it in Wales but once they were there, they found it very hard to return to Liverpool because they would not be offered accommodation. Furthermore, after the scousers had been resident in Wales for either six months or one year (I've forgotten which), they then became the financial responsibility of the local authority in Wales. Liverpool Social Services walked away from them.
Dafydd lied about the facilities that he would be offering them, everyone knew that Dafydd was lying, but there was en masse collusion. Dafydd and CAIS received millions from the Welsh Gov't, from the DWP and other bodies for providing 'services', so Dafydd was quids in.
Joan Lloyd will have known all about this, living in Rhyl. Furthermore there was a prostitution racket going on at Pontins where she was working and most of the staff involved were young people from Liverpool.
Missionary Position? Probably not if Dafydd and the gang were involved, rather more a matter of 'children filmed while having sex with animals'. Joan, who colluded with a paedophile gang:
Gwen Rees Roberts, the missionary who sailed to India with the Rev J. Meirion Lloyd, died in 2002. Gwen lasted long enough to keep her lips sealed after the Waterhouse Report had been published. A short obituary for Gwen stated:
A FORMER schoolteacher who spent 25 years as a missionary in India has died at the age of 85. Brought up in Criccieth, Gwen Rees Roberts taught at Ysgol Eifionydd (County School), Porthmadog, until 1944. She decided at 14 to give her life to Christ through the influence of the Children's Special Service Mission. A BSc graduate of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1939, she studied at the Carey Hall Women's Missionary Training College in Birmingham. At Mizoram, in North East India, she was head of what was originally the Welsh Mission Girls School, but renamed in 1960 as the Presbyterian Church Girls' School. Back in the UK, from 1968 she worked for 15 years as Liaison Officer to the Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in Bala where she lived following retirement.
Gwen Rees Roberts's papers are stored in the archives at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. The following information about Gwen can be accessed online from the archives at the National Library:
Gwen Rees Roberts (1916-2002) was a Calvinistic Methodist missionary in Mizoram, India, from 1944 until 1968. Born at Morfa Nefyn, Caernarfonshire, in 1916, she attended schools in Cricieth, Porthmadog and
Pwllheli, where she developed a lifelong enthusiasm for Sunday Schools, the Brownies, and other social, educational and religious groups for children. She was drawn towards overseas missionary work whilst in
her teens, and from 1935 to 1939 she studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she gained a BSc. and a Diploma in Education and Certificate in Teaching.
In 1938, the Presbyterian Church of Wales Foreign Mission Committee offered her a teaching post in Mizoram (formerly Lushai), Assam, India, dependent upon her training first at the interdenominational Carey Hall Women's Missionary Training College, Birmingham, in 1939-1940. Prevented by the war
from travelling to Mizoram, she taught at Llandudno for a while and then spent four years teaching in Porthmadog.
She eventually arrived in Aizawl, Mizoram, in 1944, where she became Headmistress of the Welsh Mission Girls' School, which was renamed the Presbyterian Church Girls School in 1960. Like all the missionaries in Mizoram, Gwen Rees Roberts was given a Mizo name – in her case, Pi Teii – and she learned the Mizo language, conducting some of her work through it. Whilst in Aizawl, she worked for the Mission, the Synod Standing Committee and both the British and Indian governments, her duties including teaching (in the high school, a number of colleges, the Aizawl night college, and Sunday Schools) and work with women's groups, which often entailed visiting Mizo villages; she also
wrote a number of school textbooks, for example on the history and geography of Palestine, which she visited in 1963. She remained in Mizoram until 1968, when, after a rare trip home, she was prevented from returning to Mizoram by a Mizo nationalist insurrection.
Although she returned to visit Mizoram in 1974, 1985 and 1994, and never relinquished her close ties there, she lived at Bala, Meirionnydd, from 1968, working as a Liaison Officer to the Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church in Wales until her retirement in 1985. She was an active member of the Mission
Board until 1999, and lived in Bala until her death in 2002. A subscription fund was set up in her memory – the Gwen Rees Roberts Memorial Fund – in the town in 2002 and the proceeds divided between Capel Tegid, Coleg y Bala and the Presbyterian Church of Wales Foreign Mission Committee.
Coleg y Bala is the Presbytarian Church of Wales children and youth centre. The building was built as the Calvinistic Methodist denomination Training College for the ministry. It has had many exchanges in its history, and by the end of its time as a training college, the practical preparation year for the ordained ministry was offered there while most of the theological training course was offered at the United Theological College in Aberystwyth. In 1968 the Rev Dafydd Owen began to turn the building into a youth work centre. Owen's vision was to see a denominational centre that would encourage and offer training in Presbytarianism for youth in Wales. The work grew and was led by a number of youth o5fficers over the years, including by Gwen Rees Roberts after her return from India who included children in the work of the centre.
Throughout the year, the College runs a number of courses at weekends and during the holidays and many churches and youth clubs across Wales send groups there. Annually in August, 15-year-olds are sent on the Souled Out Training Course. This bilingual (Welsh and English) course began during the summer of 1997 at Coleg y Bala for youngsters from the Presbyterian Church of Wales. It has been associated with Andrew Ollerton's ministry over the years and includes youth from a number of Christian traditions and denominations in Wales.
Although the Rev Lloyd and his wife and Gwen Rees Roberts spent many years in India, they all knew Dafydd and the gang, were Of The Gwerin and knew a great deal about the gang's crimes. Many people in the Presbytarian and Methodist Churches were on board with Dafydd. Not all of them; I have two close friends who are active in the Methodist Church in north Wales and when I was still living in north Wales I met some of the visitors from Mizorum who came to stay with my friends. When I first got to know my Methodist friends they were asked by people in their Church how they could bear to be friends with me because they'd 'heard' that I was a dreadful person. My friends were good enough to tell them that they had read for themselves the written plans by Top Doctors and NHS managers to frame me for serious offences and that the nasty rumours had to stop. The nasty rumours did not stop. Perhaps my friends should have added 'the character assassination was deemed necessary because you lot are running a paedophile gang'.
I was told some years ago by someone who grew up in Bangor that Dafydd's original business model involved forcing young female patients from the North Wales Hospital Denbigh into providing sexual services for people involved with the chapels in north Wales. I wasn't sure whether to believe this, but then I remembered that a few years previously a middle aged lady told me that when she was a child, her father and a Minister from her chapel had forced her to have sex with members of their chapel on Anglesey. She tried to kill herself when she was a young woman and ended up in the North Wales Hospital. After she was released she was told that she was no longer welcome in the chapel. This lady remained a mental health patient in north Wales and the Top Doctors and MIND in north Wales knew of her history. She had a bad experience in Ysbyty Gwynedd – the usual thing, breach of confidentiality and insults from Angels and a Top Doctor – and dared complain. She was told by the Angels and the Top Doctor that they were sorry and 'we didn't realise that you felt like that'. From then on she received even worse treatment.
Professor Alexis Jay would no doubt be horrified by what some people in the cold, bleak Methodist and Presbytarian Chapels in north Wales did in previous generations. The legacy would have stopped many years ago had the Top Doctors and Angels in the shiny expensive new hospitals not been colluding every step of the way and subsequently greatly expanded the business.
As a resident of Bala, Gwen Rees Roberts would have known Dafydd Iwan and Alun Ffred, the two sons of a Minister who was involved with the Bala-Bangor Theological College and lived in a village just down the road from Bala. J.E. Daniel, the father of the corrupt judge Huw Daniel, was a lecturer at the Bala-Bangor College and also served as a schools inspector.
Dafydd Iwan, Alun Ffred and Huw Daniel network like there is no tomorrow – one is forced to if one has concealed crime this serious over such a long time – so perhaps they could ask around and find out who Richard my friend in Denbigh was and whom he complained about. Of course they may well already know…
As I explained in my post 'Slaves, Perfect Slaves', throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, Nonconformity dominated Wales. Nonconformity had strong links with the Liberal Party and in north Wales Nonconformist Liberals formed a cultural and political elite. Ronnie Waterhouse was from an influential Liberal Nonconformist family. However the Liberal Nonconformists never formed an economic elite in north Wales, the big Tory Anglicised landowners remained in control of the dosh, which was probably why Dafydd et al hit on the idea of procuring child prostitutes for them in order to wield power over the rest of the plebs in Wales.
There was of course also a strong link between Methodism and the Labour Party. George Thomas was the highest profile Methodist in Britain for decades and a vote puller for Labour in south Wales because the electorate were told that George loved his mum and loved the Lord. No-one told the electorate that George also loved raping 10 year old boys…
Despite their political differences, George Thomas and Thatch were good friends, because, as Thatch explained, they were both Methodists.
It's hardly John Wesley is it. Furthermore Jimmy Savile was a Catholic, so what was Thatch's excuse there?
I don't want to suggest that Dafydd's doings were only a problem because of Nonconformists, so let us now turn to someone else who is richly deserving of space on this blog who, like Jimmy Savile, was a Committed Roman Catholic and more importantly a social worker who subsequently became an MP.
Paul Gerard Goggins was the Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, 1997-2014 and Minister of State at the N Ireland Office, 2007-10. Paul Goggins was born in Manchester and educated at St Bede's College and then studied at the Roman Catholic seminary Ushaw College, 1971-73, although he did not enter the priesthood. Goggins went on to study at Birmingham Poly (now Birmingham City University), receiving a Certificate in Residential Care of Children and Young People in 1976. Later Goggins received a CQSW (Certificate of Qualification in Social Work) from Manchester Poly in 1982.
This CV really does place Paul Goggins at the scene of the crime. Roman Catholic seminaries are not receiving a good press these days what with admissions of industrial scale abuse and Ushaw College is in Durham, the location of the big trafficking ring which was feeding Dafydd's gang staff as well as children. When Goggins acquired his social work qualifications, social work had been completely infiltrated by a European-wide paedophile network of which Dafydd was a key figure. The problem was so severe that even student social workers knew that clients were being abused and many students gave up social work because of this. Children in care in Birmingham were abused both in Birmingham and in children's homes, where they were sent on placement. By the time that Goggins did his CQSW at Manchester, Dafydd's mentor and pal Dr Bob Hobson had relocated to Manchester and established a trafficking ring there. See post 'The Mentor'. In 1982, Dr Tony Francis was working in Manchester with Hobson and his team. The dangerous and insane Dr Tony Roberts was still a medical student at Manchester University in 1982, but just a few short years later Roberts had qualified and joined in the genocide in north Wales.
There is yet more incriminating info on Goggins's CV.
Goggins worked as a child care worker with the Liverpool Catholic Social Services for a year in 1974, before becoming an Officer in Charge at the Wigan Children's Home in 1976. He was appointed as Project Director for the NCH Action for Children in Salford in 1984.
There was rampant abuse of children and young people in homes and institutions run by Liverpool Catholic Social Services during the 1970s and 80s and some of the staff later went to prison. Some people who worked for Liverpool Catholic Social Services went to work in north Wales. Wigan is in Greater Manchester, where there was organised abuse in children's homes, linked to the wider UK network of abusers. NCH (National Children's Home) was an organisation which had been infiltrated by organised gangs as well; George Thomas was the Patron of NCH. See previous posts. Glanville Owen, who in 1984 was appointed as Deputy Director of Gwynedd Social Services and was responsible for children's homes had previously worked for NCH and as a senior social worker to the Assistant Director at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Tameside is a Borough in Greater Manchester. Glanville was a Liverpool University graduate who had 'trained' with Liverpool Corporation after graduating. When Glanville was applying for the Gwynedd position, he was undertaking a course in Advanced Management for Local Government at Birmingham University. See post 'I Know Nuzzing…' After the Waterhouse Inquiry Glanville was appointed as Chief Executive of Gwynedd Community Health Council, in which capacity he failed to investigate my complaint.
After an early career with the paedophiles and traffickers, in 1989, Goggins became the National Director for Church Action on Poverty, a national church-based campaigning organisation, where he remained until his election to Westminster.
Goggins served as a Councillor in the City of Salford, 1990–98. So after working on the ground with the child molesters of Salford, Goggins joined the Councillors who were ignoring their activities.
After this glorious career in organised abuse, a career in New Labour politics was a must for Goggins. Millbank OK'd him as the Labour candidate for a safe seat and in 1997 Goggins was elected to the Commons as part of Miranda's 1997 landslide! Along with so many other Councillors, ex-social workers or lawyers who had ignored organised abuse, many of them running on the Wimmin's Ticket.
This really was not a coincidence was it Miranda? Millbank was notorious for personally vetting and OK'ing Labour candidates and pissed off many local constituencies by blowing their choices out of the water and imposing someone else whom Miranda preferred. The Miranda who's own seat was in DURHAM.
Here's Cherie, a Committed Roman Catholic from Liverpool who just happened to be a barrister who knew so many of those lawyers who ignored the abuse of kids in care and psych patients:
Cherie's dad Tony was a Scouse Git but he was also a luvvie who knew those in the entertainment circles in Liverpool (see post 'My Arse – It's Tatifilarious'):
Goggins was elected for the newly created Wythenshawe and Sale East seat, which was previously Manchester Wythenshawe, held by Labour's Alf Morris who had retired. Goggins held the safe Labour seat with a majority of 15,019 and remained the MP there for almost 17 years. He made his maiden speech on 20 May 1997. In May 1997, the Waterhouse Inquiry was just getting itself together again after Ronnie Waterhouse's sudden quick holiday in Hong Kong, which for some inexplicable reason Ronnie took shortly after the Inquiry opened and began hearing evidence from former kids in care. While Ronnie was in Hong Kong, he met up and dined with Derry Irvine, who just happened to be in Hong Kong at the same time! On 2 May 1997 Miranda appointed Derry Lord Chancellor. Ronnie and Derry will have known that Miranda was going to win the election when they dined together in Hong Kong, there was no question of the Tories winning. Of course Derry, Ronnie, Miranda and Cherie all knew each other from a city corruption case on which they had all worked years previously when Cherie and Miranda were junior barristers working for Derry.
Derry was brought into disrepute because he chose ridiculously expensive wallpaper for his official residence at the Palace of Troughers, knowing that the bill was going to be footed by the tax-payer rather than because he supped and socialised with people who were colluding with a pan-European trafficking gang.
Derry wasn't the only big legal name that Miranda and Cherie worked with when they were young barristers. They both worked with George Carman QC, the crooked barrister who made his name when he acted for Jeremy Thorpe when Thorpe was charged with conspiracy and incitement to kill his former lover Norman Scott. It was Carman's success at securing Thorpe's acquittal that persuaded Carman to relocate to London. Carman had previously been based at a Chambers in Manchester and had lived in the Greater Manchester/Cheshire area for many years Where he socialised with the many corrupt professionals who were concealing child abuse in north Wales and in the north west of England.
Now what was it on Paul Goggins's application to be a Labour candidate that wowed the Labour Party so much?
Miranda certainly spotted Goggins's talents. Upon election to the Commons, Goggins served on the Social Security Select Committee until he was appointed PPS to Minister of State at the Department of Social Security John Denham in 1998, moving with Denham to the Dept of Health in 1999.
At the time Miranda was busy fighting with Rhodri Morgan's supporters in Wales to ensure that Alun Michael became FM in the new National Assembly for Wales, after that business with Ron Davies and Boogie on Clapham Common put paid to Ron's intention to become FM.
'Good morning Wales! And what a very good morning it is in Wales'.
Yes I thought so too at the time because I was sick of Wales being screwed by Westminster and I voted YES in the devolution referendum. Had I known that the Assembly would simply be filled with troughing bastards of paedophiles' friends who had killed my mates and were trying to kill me, I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic about the idea of a Welsh Assembly.
Things can only get better! No they can't, because Miranda systematically identified the biggest friends that a gang of paedophiles had and he appointed them to public office. One of those people being Paul Goggins.
Goggins was with John Denham in the DoH when the death rates were rocketing in Mid-Staffs. No-one breathed a word.
Hush Hush, Whisper Who Dares. Miranda's become PM, people are dying at the hands of the Top Docs and he's building his career on stuffing gold into the mouths of the people responsible…
In 2000 Goggins was appointed PPS to the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, David Blunkett and he remained Blunketts's PPS following the 2001 when Blunkett became Home Secretary.
Readers will remember Blunkett, including from my previous posts. He became increasingly insane as Home Secretary, criminalised numerous innocent mental health patients who'd blown the whistle on the abuses of those we know and love by having them declared to be suffering from 'severe and dangerous personality disorders', until Blunkett shagged Kimberley Quinn, made her pregnant and became embroiled in the scandal which pivoted around the nanny, the passport and the Little Lad. Blunkett, I pissed myself laughing, it was fantastic. But then I was someone who had a Severe and Dangerous Personality Disorder, so what could you expect. That's when I wasn't suffering from Manic Depressive Insanity, or Paranoid Schizophrenia or a Process Psychosis or a Bizarre Personality Disorder or a being a Remarkable Woman or being Attractive and Seductive.
Miranda promoted Goggins to Gov't in 2003, when Goggins was made the junior Minister at the Home Office, specifically Prisons and Probation Minister.
Well bugger me, Paul Goggins was given that job after all those NHS professionals perjured themselves in an attempt to have me imprisoned for 'threatening to kill Alun Davies' and when Alun Davies was telling everyone who would listen that I'd be going to prison for seven years! It all fell apart on the first day of the trial when the 'threats to kill' charge was withdrawn and replaced by the lowest category of Public Order offence, on the grounds that I'd hurt Alun Davies's feelings by telling his secretary that he was a fat idiot.
The corrupt judge Huw Daniel presided over the trial and I received the maximum sentence possible, nearly 200 hours of community service, supervised by the North Wales Probation Service. During which time I witnessed the sheer incompetence and fuckwittery of the probation officers myself. Two other people in the community service team were also psych patients who had been criminalised and one young man had confronted his probation officer with regard to a solicitor in Caernarfon who was known to be sexually abusing underaged boys. Like me, this man found that Huw Daniel had been assigned to preside over his trial and he too ended up with an inexplicably heavy sentence for a trivial offence after Daniel insulted his mother in open Court.
He's A No Nonsense Judge Who's Mates With A Gang Of Paedophiles! As Was His Father.
As Peter Cook once said 'A man with a criminal past – but no criminal future…'
Derry Irvine was Lord Chancellor when I was charged with threatening to kill Alun Davies.
'A man who by his own admission, chews pillows…for kicks…'
'A man who cannot even carry out a simple murder plot without cocking the whole thing up…'
The Probation Service has for many years colluded with the abuse of children and vulnerable people (see post 'Only One Died') and information provided in the Waterhouse Report told us that many of those who were accused of abusing kids in north Wales or ignoring the abuse had previously worked for the Probation Service or went on to work with the Probation Service (see previous posts eg. 'I Know Nuzzing…').
After I had been convicted of the lowest category of Public Order offence in 2004, I received a letter from Miranda's Dept of Education and Science telling me that I was now under investigation as someone who was on the teaching register who was a potential danger to pupils, particularly as I was known to have been Seriously Mentally Ill for 17 years. Which was odd, because I thought that I was a Remarkable Person and Attractive and Seductive for at least some of that time and at other times I was thrown out of hospitals by Angels and Top Docs screaming at me that I was not ill and I was not going to be offered any 'care'…
My name was subsequently cleared by a junior Minister who was then named in the media as having allowed 'a paedophile to remain on the teaching register'.
Er no everybody, that Minister cleared the name of a teacher who had been subjected to 25 years of crap from a gang of paedophiles herself and who is now in hiding after the gang came after her and another witness with a gun. Not content with slandering this man in public, they then decided that one of his friends had to be destroyed. Who was his friend? Merfyn Jones, the VC of Bangor University.
Before I fled Wales, a social worker stood in the main street in Porthmadog, insulted Merfyn and told me that his friend who had cleared my name was a 'philanderer'.
It never stops, it just never fucking stops. A gang of paedophiles hurling insults and smears at anyone who dares confront them.
I might soon take a leaf out of the book of the senior sociologist at Bangor who came under attack from the gang and just ended up saying 'oh fuck off' every time that one of them went after him. This man is the best sociologist of Wales that there is, he has read all of the classics, he is a whizz at social theory, but he knows that all that can be said to this lot is OH FUCK OFF, there is no point wasting breath on them.
So there you are gang, from Graham, me and many others, OH FUCK OFF.
Some two years ago I discovered that just days after the 'threat to kill' charge against me had been dropped, my PNC record had been illegally altered to show crimes against my name for which I had never been charged let alone found guilty. A forged certificate of indictment was found in the possession of Chester Court which stated that I had pleaded guilty to 'violent disorder' at Caernarfon Crown Court. I have never been charged with violent disorder. I wrote to the North Wales Police about these matters two years ago. I have heard nothing.
OH FUCK OFF.
After finding himself Minister responsible for Prisons and Probation when Miranda knew that I had been fitted up by industrial scale perjury and would soon be standing trial for, everyone believed, threats to kill, Goggins subsequently became the junior Minister with responsibility for the voluntary and community sector. He forged links with various community and voluntary sector organisations such as ARVAC (The Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector).
That'll be the laughable 'research' that was conducted by organisations like MIND and the North Wales Race Equality Network. I remember it well, the insults thrown at the academics who had agreed to help, the demands that the research should result in pre-determined outcomes, the money thrown down the drain and in the case of one MIND 'research project' the dosh stolen by one of the Service User Researchers….
In May 2006, Goggins was appointed as a junior Minister at the N Ireland Office and then Minister of State at the N Ireland Office, 2007-10.
Of course he was. Goggins could be relied upon to keep his mouth shut about Kincora. Goggins was at the N Ireland Office under Secretaries of State Peter Hain and Paul Murphy.
Peter Hain knew what was happening to me at the hands of those we know and love because I wrote and told him about it in 2006. I did not receive a reply. Paul Murphy, like Peter Hain, had two goes at being Secretary of State for Wales and it was Murphy who as Secretary of State for Wales took receipt of the Waterhouse Report and told the world that he was delighted to be reassured that there had never been a VIP paedophile ring in north Wales and that the matter had now been extensively and transparently investigated. The Roman Catholic Paul Murphy who never married and has not been blessed with children and who was a mate of Leo Abse, who together with his two Top Doctor brothers, George Thomas and many more, facilitated the Westminster Paedophile Ring, especially the major branch of that ring in north Wales (see post 'O Jones, o Jones')…
'We Didn't Know.'
As for Peter Hain, perhaps he just got so fed up of the attempts to kill him when he lived in South Africa and then the attempts to fit him up for bank robbery when he fled to the UK, that he's given up fighting gangsters and just wants to snooze quietly in the Lords. That's OK by me Lord Hain, Brown and I got used to dealing with these bastards all by ourselves until the Philanderer stepped in and cleared my name and so the gang then went after his mate and killed his wife. Just leave it to Brown Bottle and Cider Woman, we don't need paying, we're not wimps, we don't toady to the Top Doctors and we've never wanted to join the Mafia of Drips.
People keep telling me that these are bad, bad men and they need to stand trial. No, don't bother, the people whom they killed are dead, they died in full view of the whole world while they screamed for help. I don't want any trials even though it would be a real laugh; I want those bodies recovered from the grounds of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh so that everyone can never ever do the 'We didn't know' bit again. Then I want to know why the state was allowed to assassinate people who gained evidence of the involvement of Top Doctors in the Westminster Paedophile Ring. Then someone needs to seize the assets of the BMA, Robert Bluglass, Dafydd, Huw Daniel etc under the proceeds of crime legislation, abolish the GMC and remove all power and responsibility from the medical establishment. Destroy it, it is not a case of 'Ah the doctors they were wonderful', they have killed people who challenged their grip on society.
By the way, WHO were the other girls at UCNW whom this lot went after? They would never have done all this to me and my friends if they had not been used to conducting themselves in this matter. Who were the others and where are they? By 1983, D.G.E. Wood et al were targeting girls at UCNW whom they saw as vulnerable to force into the sex industry, now who did not manage to stand up to them and survive like I did? I don't want to hear any more nonsense about me being the only one, no rational person would have done all this to me, they were a gang and they were doing this regularly. Furthermore why did the British state not manage to protect Brown, me and my friends once Thatcher had been removed as PM? It was known that we were being targeted…
Another case of OH FUCK OFF I think.
Goggins was the co-founder of the All Party Parliamentary Friends of CAFOD group and was Secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Group on poverty.
Goggins opposed same-sex marriage, stating that he would vote against the Government's Bill to introduce same-sex marriage in England and Wales. In the second reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in February 2013 Goggins voted against the legislation, despite the vast majority of Labour MPs voting in favour of it.
How Very, Very Dare You? Just because a man has spent his entire career cheek by bum cheek with a gang of paedophiles targeting pretty young boys…
Paul Goggins married Wyn Bartley in 1977 in Crosby and they had two sons and a daughter.
Crosby. The home town of Cherie and the constituency which was held by Dr Death's mate Shirl, 1981-83.
I've nearly finished reading Shirl's autobiography and gosh did she rub noses with a lot of Dafydd's associates and umbrellas…
Goggins was a season ticket holder at Manchester City F.C. He was also a member of the Christian Socialist Movement who broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 'Thought for the Day' slot on the 'Today' programme. In an interview on BBC Radio Five Live in 2004, Goggins claimed that his family was the inspiration for the "Mrs Goggins" character in the Postman Pat series.
On 30 December 2013, Goggins became seriously ill after collapsing while running, resulting in emergency surgery. He died in Salford Royal Hospital on 7 January 2014 following complications from a brain haemorrhage.
By Jan 2014, Operational Pallial had charged a few more people with historical sex offences against children in north Wales and the Macur Review of the Waterhouse Inquiry was underway…
Goggins may have pegged out anyway, but I don't think that I'd risk my neck at the Royal Salford Hospital; it is on the former territory of Tony Francis and in 2014 a lot of his mates were still around, although he killed himself in 2012.
If the Top Docs did decide to wave Goggins a fond farewell as someone who could have risen up at any point and named names, I will simply remind the rest of the pig pen of the old favourite 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap…'
Now don't you worry my dear, we'll look after you!
OH FUCK OFF Top Doctors.
'The Guardian' published an obituary for Goggins in Jan 2014:
During his 16 years at Westminster, the Labour MP Paul Goggins was well-liked and respected by members of all political parties.
Greville Janner received a round of applause from the troughers when he appeared in the House after being interviewed by the police re sex offences against children…
Admired for his career-long commitment to childcare and social work issues,
Pass a sick bucket and a really big one as well
he rose to become a junior minister in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Of course he fucking did
He has died at the age of 60, a little more than a week after suffering from a suspected brain haemorrhage.
As ye sow…
At the time he was out jogging with one of his adult sons in his Wythenshawe and Sale East constituency.
Get exercising you fat lazy bastards, the Top Docs have been telling you all this for years
Goggins's political life was deeply imbued by his Roman Catholicism and he initially started training for the priesthood.
Cherie's a Committed Catholic. Anyone for a molesting priest?
He was born in Manchester, the son of a medical worker, Rita Goggins,
Why are we not surprised?
and her husband John, a headteacher.
A well-respected man. Where's that cane, Rhodes Boyson has popped over for coffee.
From St Bede's College, a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests,
Er, yes…
and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University, where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
Site of the huge trafficking ring assisted by police corruption, all of it linked to Dafydd et al
He was a child care worker with Liverpool Catholic Social Services before being placed in charge of the local authority children's home in Wigan (1976-84) and serving as project director for the National Children's Homes (NCH) Action for Children charity in Salford (1984-89).
Locations of endemic abuse, linked to Dafydd et al
Before he entered parliament in the Labour electoral landslide in 1997, he was national director of the charity Church Action on Poverty. He served as a local councillor in Salford (1990-98), chaired the Manchester Labour party,
While Bob Hobson was running the trafficking ring and while the Manchester mental health services were in meltdown.
and succeeded the long-serving disability rights campaigner Alf Morris in a redrawn constituency that includes large estates and more affluent Cheshire suburbs as well as part of Manchester Airport. It is a safe Labour seat, though Goggins's majority was reduced to 7,575 in the 2010 general election.
Because most of the electorate had no idea of just what their MP was involved with. They were deliberately kept in the dark and misled. The corrupt professionals in Cheshire knew what Goggins was concealing and it suited them very well.
Within a year of entering the Commons, Goggins was appointed a parliamentary private secretary to John Denham, minister of state at the Department of Social Security. He accompanied Denham to the Department of Health the following year, and then acted as PPS to David Blunkett at the Department of Education and then the Home Office. In 2003 he was made a junior minister in the department with responsibility for prisons and the probation service, and then the voluntary and community sector. In 2006 he was moved to the Northern Ireland Office, and the following year became minister of state there: his work in the province was appreciated on all sides.
Upwards and onwards. Goggins had the shit on everyone, did favours for the powerful and everyone else was shafted. Unfortunately for Goggins et al, Brown and I grasped every opportunity possible when we were on the receiving end of that lot to gather more and more evidence of the endemic criminality of this network of corrupt politicians and professional people.
Following the 2010 election, he served as secretary for the all-party parliamentary group on poverty, and at the time of his death was also a member of the Commons intelligence and security committee.
Jesus Christ. I told everyone that there was a problem…But then Paul Murphy was Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, 2005-08. Brown's mum was found dead in 2005. Just like that.
He campaigned in support of sufferers from cancer through exposure to asbestos and in recent months did a lot of work on amendments to the government's current mesothelioma bill.
Mesothelioma kills and usually kills quite soon after it has been diagnosed. Goggins could afford to campaign for compensation re the asbestos because most of those who were affected had already died. The same notion was applied to the quarrymen in north Wales. The Top Doctors knew what was happening, so everyone kept it quiet until the people affected were quite ill and only had a few years to live. Then delaying tactics were implemented and as most of them were at death's door Big-Hearted Top Politicians Campaigned For Justice!
I expect that Goggins went on a few 'Support The NHS No Cuts' demos as well. With UNISON and the Angels.
In 2012 he welcomed the opening of the Caritas Care adoption and fostering centre in Sale.
Dracula and the blood bank…
As a Catholic, he found himself among the few Labour MPs to vote against the government's bill to legalise gay marriage last year,
How Very Dare You…
and he was a long-standing member of the Christian Socialist movement.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said that "he was a man of deep faith whose commitment and strong values shone through everything he did".
Just like Uncle Harry.
David Cameron, the prime minister, described him as "a kind and brilliant man who believed profoundly in public service".
That's the Cameron who gave millions to a woman with a degree in theatre studies who told Cameron that if she gave teenagers money to buy drugs it would reset their thermostatic emotional regulation mechanisms. I'm waiting for Sarah-Jayne Blakemore to Prove With Brain Scans that the thermostatic emotional regulation mechanisms returned to the norm when the cash for drugs was received.
Goggins was a dedicated supporter of Manchester City Football Club. He married Wyn Bartley in 1977. She and their daughter, Theresa, and two sons, Matthew and Dominic, survive him.
Paul Goggins speaking at a human rights conference in Belfast in 2009.
Previous posts eg. 'Lest We Forget' and 'The Point Is To Change It' have detailed some of the many ways in which the gwerin conspired to make Bangor University unmanageable when Merfyn Jones was the VC. I have discussed the Finance Clerks and Translators Who Said Ni and the Worst Press Officer On Earth, but I haven't yet mentioned Goggins on the blog. Goggins was someone else Who Said Ni. Goggins did have a first name, it was Ruth, but such was the exasperation experienced by I and my friends re Goggins that one just found one saying 'Oh God It's Goggins again' in the face of yet another fuck-up.
Goggins had a grand job title, she was Senior Assistant Registrar. The Registrar at Bangor was a very well-liked man, Dr David Roberts and Dr Roberts was known to be doing his best at defusing the bombs planted by the gwerin, but it was also known that there were gwerin at work under cover and some of them were in the vicinity of Merfyn and Dr Roberts. I have previously blogged about the information that I received telling me that Merfyn's PA Sue Collick had been nobbled and was leaking confidential information to damage Merfyn, but the name Goggins has been given to me as well.
The only occasions on which I actually encountered Goggins were those related to the graduation ceremonies. Because so many of the gwerin and bastards of the parish refused to turn up for graduation ceremonies although it was the students' big day, those of us who actually liked students always tried to attend the ceremony so that there would be a good turn out and plenty of people to chat to the graduates and their parents after the ceremony. My God, Goggins worked hard to try to stop me attending the graduation ceremonies. Then one of my PhD students found that Goggins had a problem with him as well…
Goggins was responsible for sending out the e mails to staff with details of the ceremonies and the deadline for booking gowns and caps. Obviously one e mail would be sent to the entire staff list. But somehow I just never got the e mails. Any of them. I got most other e mails but then I noticed that it was e mails inviting staff to certain public/ceremonial occasions that I systematically did not receive. I followed it up but no-one could understand why I wasn't receiving certain e mails; yes my name was on the staff circulation list…
Then my parking permit failed to be automatically renewed. 'Because your name has been taken off the staff list'. 'Well put it back on the list because I am still a member of staff.' Three months later my name would have been taken off the staff list again and the barrier on the car park would stubbornly refuse to let me in…
I and a friend finally traced the problems to Goggins. Goggins kept telling people that I was not a member of staff at Bangor University. Or that my contract would be expiring in the next few weeks, so no I could not access the car park/be kept informed about public events and graduation ceremonies etc…
I did attend the graduation ceremonies but that was because I just turned up early and bagged one of the small number of spare robes that Ede & Ravenscroft always brought with them.
One of my PhD students encountered as many Goggins-related problems as I did. He had made a witness statement re the threats and harassment to which he had seen me subjected by those we know and love and then Goggins moved in…
Goggins was an enormous woman who could be seen around Bangor University grumbling about Merfyn and claimed, when challenged, that of course the constant cock-ups on her part were all His Fault because He's Putting Us Under So Much Stress. Merfyn's wife was dying at the hands of the Top Doctors at the time but it was of course Goggins who was Under Stress.
Goggins first gained employment at Bangor University in Oct 1995. At the time, Dafydd and the gwerin were even more stressed than Goggins was under the yoke of Merfyn because the Jillings Report would soon be coming and there were all those people yelling for a Public Inquiry into the abuse of children in care north Wales. The North Wales Hospital had closed down – although it hadn't, the 'mother and baby unit' was still imprisoning people but the general public were lied to about that – and Bing Spear, the corrupt Civil Service Home Office mandarin who did Dafydd so many favours and Sir Peter Morrison had been found safely dead back in July, just four days apart. In 1995, the well-camouflaged paedophiles' friend Professor Eric Sunderland resigned as Principal/VC of UCNW, although he was relatively young, in good health and spent the next 20 years busying himself with public duties and UCNW business. A more obvious paedophiles' friend, Professor Roy Evans from Cardiff, took over as Principal/VC of UCNW.
Goggins, what relation are you to the late Paul Goggins, colleague of a vicious paedophile gang, who when you arrived at Bangor was busy working at getting himself nominated for a safe Labour seat? The Paul Goggins who was at the time a Councillor on Tony Francis's former manor, where Francis's mates were still running the Manchester branch of the gang? The Tony Francis who was doing all that he could to ensure that there were no credible witnesses to the crimes of Paul Goggins's friends and colleagues?
It was in 1995 that Dafydd, Tony Francis et al were planting evidence to demonstrate that I was committing crimes and becoming 'increasingly dangerous' and repeatedly referring me to a forensic psychiatrist who repeatedly told Francis that I wasn't dangerous. Francis would then request another opinion from him after Dafydd had made more unsubstantiated allegations against me. The forensic psychiatrist who wouldn't play ball with them – or at least he didn't seem to want to – was a Dr Chris Jones. He later had a nervous breakdown and left north Wales. I chatted to Chris Jones quite frankly about the abuse of psych patients that was happening in north Wales and we discussed Dafydd. Chris was pleasant and chatty and I remember him telling me that the next big scandal would be care of the elderly because the situation was so dire that there would be an eruption and people were planning to blow the whistle.
That eruption re elderly care has now happened but it's taken a lot longer than Chris Jones thought that it would. Someone kept a lid on that when Dr Jones knew that whistleblowers were planning to go public in the mid-1990s. i have mentioned in previous posts how many paedophiles' friends moved from jobs with mental health or children's charities in which they concealed abuse to jobs with charidees like Age Concern. It began happening in the 1990s and I could not fathom it. Readers have e mailed me discussing this as well. Why were people involved with child abuse all cluttering up Age Concern? People have asked me if I think it is about prescription drug abuses or pressurising people into signing wills that their families know nothing about…
I have no idea but that lot definitely moved in on Age Concern etc in the 1990s. Could it be that they knew that whistleblowers were about to go public? After all, Top Doctors often owned those homes, Top Doctors and clinical psychologists such as Prof Bob Woods in Bangor were building their careers on the back of pretending that care was great and their 'therapies' were achieving great things. In reality the elderly were left lying in their own urine and faeces, covered in bedsores.
I know now that the security services had all NHS and university premises wired at that time. They will have heard Chris Jones discuss elder abuse with me. Why was I discussing elder abuse so extensively with Chris Jones? Because I and my friends were working in old people's homes and we saw what was happening… And I told other people what Chris Jones said about elderly care as well…
One abuser who was the Chief Executive of North East Wales Age Concern was Margaret Hanson. She was/is the Vice-Chairman of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. In the 1980s, Hanson was a leader of the family and children's social work team in Cheshire, when Dafydd's gang were busy. Hanson doubled up as a Cheshire Councillor. Hanson was at one point a Labour Party candidate for a seat in Cheshire. She wasn't elected, but her husband David Hanson, who had also been a Cheshire Councillor, was elected as the Labour MP for Delyn in north Wales. Then David Hanson was appointed as Miranda's PPS. Then David Hanson was let loose in the Home Office… And so it continued. See previous posts for more Hansons-related gen.
It is clear that the rot did not start with people called Goggins, they were just deemed suitable to receive the Baton Of The Paedophile Gang. Paul Goggins succeeded the safe Labour seat of Alf Morris, the Disability Champ. Now here's as much entertainment as was provided by the biography of Paul Goggins, the Children's Champ:
Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester, (23 March 1928 –12 August 2012) served as the Labour Co-operative MP for Manchester Wythenshawe, 1964-97. In 1970 Morris successfully introduced the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act, which was the first in the world to recognise and give rights to people with disabilities. In 1974 Morris became the first Minister for the Disabled anywhere in the world. Yes, Harold Wilson, who's Gov't concealed en masse abuse of children and the vulnerable in the welfare services, boasted of creating the world's first Minister for the Disabled. In 1991 Morris introduced a Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill and he led campaigns on Gulf War Syndrome.
Dafydd specialised in identifying Gulf War syndrome and gave evidence to Parliamentary committees regarding this. Dafydd certainly spotted some interesting symptoms, including people with sallow complexions, with a bearing that he had never seen before, some of them walking with sticks. See post 'Feet In Chains'.
Alf Morris who campaigned for Dafydd's bank account was created a life peer as Lord Morris of Manchester in 1997. The year that the Waterhouse Inquiry began to hear evidence. Alf was a life member of the GMB Union. He served as President of the 1995 Co-operative Congress.
Morris, one of the eight children, was raised in poor circumstances in Ancoats, Manchester. In 1935, the family moved to a new housing estate in Newton Heath. Morris was educated at Brookdale Park School Newton Heath along with Harold Evans, who, as Editor of 'The Sunday Times' wrote a leader saying that: "As time ticked away to the 1970 general election, Alf Morris's Bill was the only piece of legislation worth saving."
Harold Evans would have been a very useful contact for a pal of Dafydd's. Dafydd did have a good friend on 'The Sunday Times', the journo Marjorie Wallace, who launched a high profile charidee and campaign dedicated to preventing the asylums from closing when Dafydd realised that Denbigh might be for the chop. What would happen to all those victims of the Westminster Paedophile Ring who were illegally banged up in there? No wonder Marjorie received so much support and dosh for her charidee and campaign from Those In High Places! Marjorie was married to a Top Doctor who was concealing abuse himself and later had a fling with Ma'am Darling's ex-husband, Lord Snowdon. See post 'One Dangerous Fucker' for further details of Marjorie's previous.
Alf Morris, whose father lost an eye and a leg and was gassed while serving in WW I and then suffered a long decline in health and eventual death arising from his injuries, became a campaigner on behalf of those with disabilities. After his father's death, Morris's mother was not entitled to a war widow's pension. Forty years later, Morris himself put the matter right by changing the law affecting armed forces pensions when he became the UK and the World's first Minister for the Disabled.
Previous posts have discussed how Dafydd was said to be the most successful Top Doctor re writing reports to secure people Army pensions. In fact Dafydd was so successful at this that he even managed to secure Army pensions for people who had not been in the Army and as a Hergest patient having a laugh one day discovered, Dafydd promised an Army pension to anyone who wanted one if the magic words 'money is no object Dr Jones' were uttered. Furthermore Dafydd wasn't au fait with the symptoms of Tourette's Syndrome and he made a Colonel cry because Dafydd was rude to him but Dafydd never apologised. MI5 knew all about it, because they had the Rachub phone box bugged which was where the call to Dafydd was made.
Dafydd Iwan thought that it was the phone box in Talysarn which was bugged, well it wasn't, it was the one in Rachub, because that was the one that I and my friends used to ring Dafydd and our friends.
Sir Mansel Aylward knows a great deal about Dafydd's magic touch with regard to applications for Army pensions. See previous posts.
Alf Morris did his national service in the Army, mainly in the Middle East, from 1946–48. He then studied at Ruskin College, 1949–1950, St Catherine's College, Oxford (BA modern history 1953) and the Dept of Education, Manchester University.
Ruskin provided a home for many who colluded with the Westminster Paedophile Ring and in the mid-1960s, Matt Arnold, who later became the Head of Bryn Estyn, taught there and one of his students was Peter Howarth, who later worked at Bryn Estyn and in 1994 was jailed for sexually abusing kids in care in north Wales. Scores of people who later became big names in the unions or Labour Party studied at Ruskin. St Catherine's College also hosted many of those who colluded with Dafydd et al eg. Mandy. Many of the St Catherine's contingent also worked for the security services. The recruiter of the Spies Who Loved Dafydd seems to have been Alan Bullock of New College, Oxford who had fingers in the PIE that was St Catherine's College as well. See post 'A Study Of Tyranny'.
Alf Morris worked as a Manchester schoolteacher and university extension lecturer in social history (1954–1956) and as an Industrial relations officer to the Electrical Supply Industry (1956–1964).
Alf married Irene Jones in 1950. They had two sons and two daughters.
Alf's brother Charles Morris was the Labour MP for Manchester Openshaw, 1963-83. Charles Morris was a postal and telegraph officer and a national executive member of the Union of Post Office Workers, 1959–63. Morris was a Manchester City Councillor, 1954–64.
Morris served as PPS to Harold Wilson and was then appointed as Minister of State at the Dept of the Environment in 1974.
The Torygraph's obituary for Charles Morris published in 2012 told us:
…Charles Morris nevertheless made a valuable contribution as a government whip, minister of state in two departments and front-bench spokesman. He was a political moderate and a faithful lieutenant first to Harold Wilson and later to John Silkin, whom he backed for Labour's deputy leadership in the bitter contest of 1981 in which Denis Healey eventually, and narrowly, defeated Tony Benn…
Morris joined the Labour Party young, and in 1954 was elected to Manchester city council. He chaired its transport committee for three years from 1959…
In 1963 he was chosen for the vacant Manchester Openshaw seat and was elected that December with a majority of 8,962. At the 1964 election he increased his majority despite also campaigning for his brother, who won Manchester Wythenshawe and began to attract more of the limelight.
With Labour in power, Benn (as Postmaster-General) saw Morris as an obvious choice for his PPS.
Wedgie-Benn spent a whole political career colluding with the Westminster Paedophile Ring and Dafydd et al, the process being helped by Wedgie-Benn's cosy relationship with the Top Doctors at Tommy's (see post 'No Cuts').
He had a rocky start, narrowly escaping dismissal for his stance on Vietnam, but in January 1966 was appointed a whip and was himself forced to hold the line against anti-Vietnam War rebels.
Charles soon threw his principles overboard then.
When Labour lost the 1970 election, Morris left the whips' office to become Wilson's joint PPS. Morris spoke up for his former Post Office colleagues when they went on strike early in 1971 and spoke in favour of televising the Commons.
On Labour's unexpected return to power in March 1974, Morris became Minister of State for Urban Affairs in a Department of the Environment headed by Anthony Crosland.
Tony Crosland was a bisexual swinger who among many other things had an affair with Woy Jenkins. That is a matter for those two but they both knew what Dafydd et al were doing and concealed it. Tony Crosland had concealed the abuse of Dafydd's mates Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth in the mid 1960s when Arnold and Howarth worked at Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead. The man who told Crosland that a barrel of crap needed covering up was Ernest Armstrong, who later became the Labour MP for North West Durham, 1964-87. Ernest was most helpful to Miranda when Miranda wanted to bag a Labour seat in the north east. Ernest's daughter Hilary succeeded his seat, 1987-2010 and was a member of Miranda's inner circle. See previous posts.
The Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top
With Wilson lacking a majority and preoccupied by inflation and industrial failure, Morris was able to play himself in without attracting headlines. Seven months later, after Labour's outright, if narrow, re-election, he was moved sideways to the Civil Service Department, under the direct purview of the prime minister…
Morris was made a Privy Councillor in 1978 . After Labour's defeat the following year, he became deputy to Silkin, by then shadow Leader of the House.
That was John Silkin, who came from a family of Labour lawyers, three of whom were MPs and all of whom colluded with organised abuse and Dafydd's gang.
In 1980 Morris landed his deadliest political blow, obtaining a letter from the Conservative Board of Finance urging northern companies that had received government grants to donate to the party. Margaret Thatcher told him the letter "should never have been sent".
By 1980 Dafydd had illegally imprisoned Mary Wynch for a year. Charles Morris never said a word although he'll have known that Dafydd was also supplying children to Thatch's mate Sir Peter Morrison and her other mate George Thomas, as well as to many more. George Thomas had all angles covered, he was good mates with Harold Wilson as well as Thatch. Harold Wilson was a lecturer at New College, Oxford before he entered the Commons.
Morris's constituency disappeared when Manchester's allocation of seats was reduced at the 1983 election . Leaving the Commons, he became chairman of the Oldham-Rochdale Groundwork Trust, a post he held until 1999. In 1985 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Greater Manchester.
Old paedophiles' friends don't go away.
Morris joined the board of Ponti's, the catering company, in 1987 as deputy chairman, taking the chair in 2001.
What did I say.
'The Guardian' provided a few more gems re Charles in their obituary:
Charles Morris… was a former Post Office worker who was sponsored by his trade union as MP for Manchester Openshaw and was a member of the Labour governments from 1966 until 1970, and from 1974 until 1979. When his constituency was abolished in 1983, he returned to work for his union.
Morris beat his younger brother Alf (now Lord Morris of Manchester) into the House of Commons by a few months, winning a byelection in December 1963, on the death of the incumbent Labour MP Bill Williams. It was a constituency where the Union of Post Office Workers held considerable weight – the late MP had been known as "Post Office Williams" – which was Charles's good fortune.
Once Dafydd's gang declared was on me in a serious way – certainly by 1987 – my post was intercepted and read on a number of occasions. This happened constantly during 2011 when I was corresponding with lawyers about the huge problems that I had encountered with the NHS in north Wales. Every letter that I received from my lawyer had been opened before it got to me.
When Labour won the general election a few months later, Tony Benn was made postmaster-general and appointed Charles Morris as his parliamentary private secretary.
One of his two daughters, Estelle (now Baroness Morris of Yardley), became MP For Birmingham Yardley and secretary of state for education, and father and daughter shared the highly unusual political distinction of not making enemies.
It is so unusual that it is worth asking why.
He was, in political terms, "a safe pair of hands" and it ensured him continuous status within the Labour party in the Commons.
Charles kept schtum about the wrongdoing of anyone influential.
He was a government whip from 1966, becoming deputy chief whip, in the last year of that government, under Bob Mellish as they struggled to contain the party rows over Barbara Castle's doomed attempts at trade union reform…
Bob Mellish was the corrupt-as-they-come MP for Bermondsey who ran a personal fiefdom, part of which involved sending numerous kids in the care of the local Council, Southwark, to children's homes in north Wales. Complaints of serious abuse were ignored. It was Peter Tatchell who confronted Mellish's corruption and was subjected to a massive homophobic hate campaign, which involved physical violence, as a result. See post 'The Battle For The Labour Party's Soul'.
Barbara Castle concealed the most appalling corruption and abuse within the NHS and Social Services on a UK-wide basis.
A measure of how well he was regarded was Harold Wilson's decision to appoint him as his PPS in opposition from 1970 until 1974, a post of considerable importance for Morris, who was a go-between for the leader and the parliamentary Labour party. He was rewarded with the job of minister of state at Environment between the two 1974 elections and then given the difficult responsibility of the Civil Service Department, overseeing pay negotiations during the fraught years of incomes policy and restraint. He remained there until the winter of discontent drove the Callaghan government from office in 1979.
Truly a safe pair of hands. 100% reliable for the purposes of a Labour Gov't so embarrassing and so corrupt that they lost power and the electorate didn't dare let them in again until there was no chance of Callaghan, Castle, Healey et al returning to Gov't positions.
He was deputy shadow leader of the house during the party's warring years under Michael Foot's leadership and, having lost out when the Boundary Commission redrew the constituencies in Manchester, tried unsuccessfully to seek selection for three other seats. It was a sorry end to his parliamentary career that, as he had no other role in the forthcoming general election, he then helped run the disastrous 1983 campaign…
Not really much of a record is it?
…Charles served for three years with the Royal Engineers and in the 1950s immersed himself in Labour party and trade union politics. He was a Manchester city councillor for 10 years, president of the local Labour party and a national executive member of his union.
At the heart of the thoroughly rotten core.
So Estelle was Charles's daughter and Alf's niece. Why are we not surprised that Estelle was promoted to the role of Education Secretary, 2001-02, under Blair and had to resign after admitting that she just could not do the job? Estelle was then given the job of Minister for the Arts, so the poor love didn't lose out too much.
Estelle, would you happen to know anything about the lies that were told about me during your period as Education Secretary in order to ensure that I would find it impossible to pursue a career in teaching once I had qualified in 2001? The lies that led to the attempt to frame me for 'threatening to kill' and yet more lies in an attempt to force me out after that case collapsed? Er, the lies which led to the philanderer clearing my name and the subsequent bloodbath in north Wales as the gwerin did everything possible to destroy the Philanderer's friend Merfyn? The names of many more who were involved have been given to me recently Estelle and this is not looking too good for any of you.
The Baroness Morris of Yardley
I will be returning to Estelle in a future post, as well as all the little helpers. It ended in the deaths of scores of patients in north Wales, if I were the gwerin I'd purchase a job lot of nappies now, because when I start naming names and detailing the multiple plots as the gwerin failed to achieve what they wanted to repeatedly and became ever more desperate, there will be a lot of loose bowels around. You really have been incredibly stupid gwerin, Cherie, Miranda and Derry are not going to offer you any protection when they realise that the shit will be hitting them if they do…
Alf Morris and Charles Morris both died in 2012. They'll have been helping keep the dung hill well covered until their final breaths.
Much as I'd like to use this blog to draft a few sociology books, I don't have time, but I will just remind readers that while Wales was a stronghold of Methodism, there were other regions of the UK where Methodism was highly influential as well. Including the north east of England and Yorkshire. Ronnie Waterhouse's family originally came from Yorkshire and although Ronnie's branch had taken root in north Wales, there were plenty of Waterhouse's in the north of England with whom Ronnie was on good terms.
I found an interesting extract of Hansard the other day, precisely the record of the Select Committee's on Health's Second Report on children in local authority care. The record dates from sometime in the late spring/early summer of 1998. It was compiled during the Waterhouse Inquiry shortly after the former kids in care in north Wales were called liars by Ronnie and numerous lawyers as they recounted their experiences, in public, of being beaten and gang raped by Dafydd's gang, which caused some of them such distress that they collapsed while giving evidence:
Select Committee on Health Second Report
CHILDREN LOOKED AFTER BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES
1. Much public concern has been expressed in recent years over the treatment of children "looked after" by local authorities (formerly known as children "in care".This concern has focused chiefly on allegations of physical and sexual abuse. In November 1997 Sir William Utting produced a valuable report on this subject, to which we shall make frequent reference.[2] Our report aims to be complementary to Sir William's rather than simply to replicate his findings. Our inquiry has had a somewhat different scope to his, in that where he deals very comprehensively with the issue of abuse, we have concentrated on other areas where we believe that the interests of looked-after children are neglected and that the care system is currently failing those children. These areas include assessment, planning and review, training of staff, the rights of the child, education, physical and mental health, training of staff and after-care.
2. Our inquiry is a resumption of one begun by our predecessor Committee in the last Parliament. That Committee conducted a major inquiry into health services for children and young people, and produced four reports on this subject at the start of 1997.[3] In February 1997 they began taking evidence on a distinct but related topic, that of services for children looked after. They held four oral evidence sessions, and received written evidence. Shortly before the Dissolution of Parliament, they issued a Special Report urging the Health Committee in the new Parliament to resume this unfinished inquiry, commenting that "we consider that this is an inquiry of major importance, and we have been deeply concerned and troubled by much of what we have heard from our witnesses".
3. The present Committee was nominated in July 1997. At our first meeting we discussed whether to continue our predecessors' work on looked-after children. Despite the fact that there had been a considerable turnover in the membership of the Committee (with a new Chairman, and only two Members out of 11 who had served on the old Committee), we were unanimous in deciding to resume the inquiry.
4. The terms of reference of the original inquiry were as follows:-
"The Committee will review services for children looked after by local authority social services departments in England. The Committee will consider such issues as:
(1) the personal and health needs of children being looked after by local authorities and the extent to which good outcomes are achieved by local authorities, in collaboration with other agencies;
(2) the role that foster care, residential care and other services should play for children being looked after by local authorities;
(3) the management, staffing and organisation of children's residential homes and fostering services; and
(4) follow-up care and training for children after the age of 16."
We re-adopted these terms of reference. In addition to the topics outlined above, as our inquiry progressed we found ourselves devoting much attention to the specific issue of the education of looked-after children.
5. Our predecessor Committee took oral evidence from the Association of County Councils, the Association of Directors of Social Services, the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, the Children's Society, First Key, the Who Cares? Trust, British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, the National Foster Care Association, the British Association of Social Workers, UNISON and the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Health (DoH), Mr Simon Burns MP, with DoH officials.
6. Between November 1997 and January 1998 we held a further six oral evidence sessions, taking evidence from academics (Professor David Berridge, Professor Roger Bullock, Ms Hedy Cleaver, Professor Mike Stein, Dr Harriet Ward and Professor Dorothy Whitaker); social services departments (Birmingham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Shropshire and Wigan); individual foster carers, adoptive parents and young people who had formerly been in care; Sir William Utting CB and two members of his inquiry team; and the present Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the DoH, Mr Paul Boateng MP, with DoH officials.
7. In addition, in February 1998 we held a joint evidence session with the Education Sub-Committee of the Education and Employment Committee, at which evidence was taken from the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP, Secretary of State for Education and Employment. The Sub-Committee participated in this session as part of their inquiry into the education of disaffected children, and their report on this subject contains conclusions relating to the education of looked-after children.[4] We believe that the two committees' co-operation over this issue is an example of the way the select committee system can be flexible in exploring matters with inter-disciplinary and inter-Departmental implications.
8. During the course of the inquiry we visited children's homes in Birmingham, Kensington and Chelsea, Shropshire and Wigan, and met staff and young people at the homes as well as foster carers and others. We also visited a secure unit (St John's, Tiffield, Northamptonshire).
9. We received a large amount of written evidence from organisations and individuals. All the oral evidence taken in this inquiry (both before and after the General Election), and a selection of the written evidence, is published in the companion volume to this report.[5] We are very grateful to all our witnesses.
10. We wish to express particular thanks to our Specialist Advisers. They were Professor Jane Aldgate, Chair of Social Work and Director of the School of Social Work, University of Leicester, Mrs Rosemary Arkley, formerly Inspector in the Social Services Inspectorate, Department of Health, and Mr Chris Davies, Director of Social Services at Somerset County Council.
11. The origins of public provision for deprived children can be traced back to the Elizabethan Poor Law. The modern statutory framework, however, was created following the recommendations of the Curtis Committee, set up in 1944 to inquire into the methods of providing for children deprived of a normal home life.[6] The Committee criticised the way that central government responsibility for such children was diffused among several departments, and found that standards of care were poor, even Dickensian. The Committee proposed a new and unified system which would have the aim of providing substitute care which would equal loving family care as nearly as possible. It also emphasised the importance of training in child care. The Central Training Council in Child Care was set up in 1947.
12. The Curtis Committee's other recommendations were embodied in the Children Act 1948. This imposed on local authorities, under the general direction of the Home Secretary, a duty to provide care for children deprived of a normal home life, as long as this was consistent with their welfare. Each local authority was to set up a Children's Committee and appoint a Children's Officer to take charge of a Children's Department with undivided responsibility for the care of such children. The Act required local authorities to exercise their powers so as to further the child's best interests and afford him or her opportunity for the proper development of his or her character and abilities. The Act emphasised fostering as the preferred form of substitute care, and gave powers to authorities to continue assisting young people after they had left care. It provided no other means of assisting families other than the reception of their children into care.
13. The 1948 Act was concerned with providing care for children with the consent of their parents, or for children who had no parents. Children who were neglected or ill-treated or in "moral danger" could be committed to the care of a local authority under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and other legislation. These two routes into local authority care were unified in the Children and Young Persons Act 1969. The Local Authority Social Services Act 1971 integrated separate local authority departments, including Children's Departments, into Social Services Departments (SSDs) which were intended to serve the needs of the family as a whole, being responsible for the old, handicapped and mentally ill as well for children. Increasing emphasis was placed on support for the family and preventive work (the Children and Young Persons Act 1963 had, for the first time, given local authorities powers to spend money on help and support to families in order to prevent reception into care). Central government responsibility for social service matters rested with the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS).
14. In 1975 Parliament passed a Children Act which contained provisions relating to care proceedings, adoption, custodianship and the treatment of children in care. The provisions of the Act were implemented in stages over the next 10 years. Various measures relating to children in care were consolidated into the Child Care Act 1980.
15. In 1984 our predecessors, the Social Services Committee, produced a detailed report, Children in Care, which examined policy and practice in regard to children looked after by local authorities, voluntary organisations or other bodies other than their families.[7] The report recommended that the DHSS establish a working party on Child Care Law. This recommendation was accepted, and the review which followed led, via a White Paper, to the enactment of the Children Act 1989, which forms the basis of current child care policy and practice.
16. The Children Act radically altered the legislative framework of services for children. The Government's intentions for the Act were set out in their first review of its operations, submitted to Parliament in 1992:
"the Act is a charter for children. Its overriding purpose is to promote and protect children's welfare and in so doing it draws together and simplifies previous legislation to produce a practical and consistent code. … It seeks to strike a balance between the rights of children to express their views on decisions made about their lives, the rights of parents to exercise their responsibilities towards the child, and the duty of the state to intervene where the child's welfare requires it. Central to the philosophy of the Act is the belief that children are best looked after within the family with both parents playing a full part and without resort to legal proceedings."[8]
17. The Act introduced a new responsibility for social services authorities to identify children in need, provide pro-active support and, where possible, prevent them from having to be looked after away from home. Children in need were defined as those with disabilities and those whose health and development were at risk unless services were provided. The Act empowered social services to ask other agencies to help provide those services. It recommended local authorities to draw up jointly produced Children's Services Plans.
18. The Social Services Committee examined the contents of this legislation during its passage through Parliament, and issued a short report broadly welcoming it, and noting that the great majority of the recommendations made by the Committee in 1984 had been accepted and incorporated in the bill.[9] The Children Act came into force in October 1991.
19. Running in parallel with these developments in legislation over the past decade has been a deepening sense of public concern prompted by evidence of widespread physical and sexual abuse in children's homes. Several major public inquiries have taken place. They included inquiries into abuse at the Kincora boys' hostel in East Belfast (1989), the 'Pindown' regime in Staffordshire children's homes (1991), Castle Hill School (1991), Ty Mawr former approved school in Gwent, Feltham Young Offenders' Institution (1993) and Leicestershire children's homes (1993).[10] A tribunal of inquiry is currently investigating allegations of abuse in children's homes in North Wales.
20. Lord Justice Butler-Sloss's recommendations following her judicial inquiry into allegations of child sexual abuse in Cleveland led to the issue of revised Government guidelines on the detection and prevention of child abuse,[11] and the Children Act 1989 strengthened the safeguards for children living away from home. Nonetheless, as the spate of allegations continued, it became apparent that further action was needed. Following the 'Pindown' report in 1991, the Secretary of State for Health commissioned Sir William Utting, who had recently retired from the post of Chief Inspector of Social Services, to examine "the broader context to the management and control of children's homes". Sir William's report, Children in the Public Care, was published later in that year. Following the conviction of Frank Beck on child abuse charges, also in 1991, the Secretary of State set up a Committee of Inquiry, chaired by Mr Norman Warner, to examine, among other issues, the selection and recruitment methods for staff working in children's homes. The Warner Report, entitled Choosing with Care, was published in December 1992.[12] Most of its recommendations were accepted in principle by the Government, although not all have yet been put into practice by local authorities.[13]
21. In June 1996 the Prime Minister announced the setting up of the Review of Safeguards for Children Living Away from Home, conducted by Sir William Utting with a small team of seconded civil servants. The review was commissioned, in Sir William's words, "as a result of continuing revelations of widespread sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children in children's homes over the preceding 20 years".[14] This second Utting Report, People Like Us, was published in November 1997.
22. In a statement in the House, the Secretary of State for Health, the Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP, said that People Like Us was "a most serious report and the Government are taking it most seriously", adding that it "presents a woeful tale of failure at all levels to provide a secure and decent childhood for some of the most vulnerable children".[15] He announced that the Government would set up a ministerial task force, headed by himself, and containing also expert advisers from outside the Government, to prepare a detailed Government response to the report, following widespread consultation with outside agencies and the public. This task force would assess the resource implications of the Utting proposals. The Secretary of State promised to put forward a "clear, affordable and enforceable" programme of policy and management changes "to deliver the safer environment to which children living away from home are entitled". A DoH consultation paper on ways of improving inter-agency co-operation in regard to child protection was issued in February 1998.[16] The Ministerial task force met for the first time in March 1998.[17] No formal timescale has been set for the completion of its work.[18] It is not yet clear whether the Social Services White Paper expected in the summer of 1998 will report on the outcome of this activity.
You all knew what was happening in north Wales. You all knew. No-one came to help us during the Waterhouse Inquiry, even as more and more psych patients were found dead.
I put it to you M'Lud that these people just cannot do it. We need to scrap the lot of them and stop wasting our time and money now. As this barrister and judge knows damn well.
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Readers might remember that the Battle For The Labour Party's Soul took place in 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn stood for the leadership against a collection of clapped-out Blairites who had previously been convinced that Ed would have been PM by then and that they would all be Cabinet Ministers. Would Yvette the Strong Woman win the leadership? Or would it be Andy 'I'm From The North Me' Burnham? I was delighted when Jeremy won and then appointed John McDonnell as his Deputy, I'd never had such a laugh. Except after all those phone calls to Dafydd of course. Kim Howells is on record as saying that 'two old Trots' will never lead the Labour Party to victory, but he's got to admit that they are enormously entertaining.
There was however a previous Battle For The Labour Party's Soul which involved an even greater campaign of vilification than that which the mainstream media mounted against Jeremy in 2015, although because the press did not believe that Jezza would ever win the Labour Party leadership, they only mounted their attack on him after he was elected Labour Party leader in Sept 2015.
The first Battle For The Labour Party's Soul took place in 1983, when Peter Tatchell stood as the Labour Party's candidate in the Bermondsey by-election of February of that year. Peter Tatchell was subjected to an all-out character assassination before the by-election; Bermondsey was a safe Labour seat, so a massive hate campaign was launched from multiple angles to ensure that Tatchell didn't win.
Now that Peter Tatchell has attained the status of a National Treasure on account of his Brave Fight For Gay Rights, people who were born by Feb 1983 will find it difficult to believe that to which Tatchell was subjected, by the media, the opposition and by the leadership of his own Party. Tatchell was given a really, really bad time; it was constructed as a battle against the far-left, but most of the insults thrown at Tatchell were slung at him solely because he was gay and a campaigner for gay rights when such past-times were enough to exclude one from polite society.
The press coverage leading up to the 1983 Bermondsey by-election has gone down in history as the most sordid and vindictive coverage of an election campaign that there has ever been. The dirty tricks and abuse included the famous photo of Tatchell which appeared in the tabloids and was doctored to make it look as though he was wearing heavy make-up. There were quips about 'the queen' and references to Tatchell as 'her'. The campaign material of Tatchell's opponents, even of that nice Simon Hughes who stood as the Liberal candidate and stressed that the by-election involved a 'straight choice' – as opposed to a queer choice – was appalling.
Simon Hughes said not one word in condemnation of the homophobic abuse directed towards Tatchell and Hughes subsequently won the by-election. Years later Simon Hughes admitted that he was bisexual and had been in homosexual relationships.
Simon Hughes was the Lib Dem MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark and the preceding constituencies, 1983-2015; President of the Lib Dems, 2005-09; Deputy Leader of the Lib Dems, 2010-14.
Sir Simon Hughes
Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties Dec 2013-May 2015
Before and after the by-election, Peter Tatchell was violently assaulted and received death threats; I always thought him admirable to have withstood it all. Tatchell was remarkably forgiving towards Simon Hughes when Hughes later admitted to having had gay relationships himself and maintained that he 'didn't know' about the abusive campaign material issued in his name.
I have just read Tatchell's 1983 book, 'The Battle for Bermondsey', which provides much detail regarding the Bermondsey by-election campaign, the events leading up to it and the history of the Labour Party in Bermondsey. In his book, Tatchell provided extracts from the hate mail which he received at the time from people who were horrified at the notion of a gay man representing the constituency, but which dwell extensively on the sexual practices that the writers presume that Tatchell indulged in. It reminded me rather of the screaming homophobes of my teenage years, who, when I stated that I didn't really have a problem with consenting gays, would yell at me 'do you know what they do??? They don't just hold hands you know'. I wasn't 100% certain of what they did do, because I didn't consider it any of my business and I'd never have been rude enough to ask them. As I got older I did gain some idea of 'what they do' and I still didn't consider it any of my business… Peter Tatchell's book provided some shining examples of the lurid fantasies of his more rabid correspondents.
One reason why I read up on the Bermondsey by-election and what went before it, is that Bermondsey, Peckham and Dulwich were the areas which came under the domain of Southwark Borough Council. Previous posts have described how Southwark was one of the Councils which sent huge numbers of kids in care to children's homes in north Wales throughout the 1970s and 80s and some of the most serious complaints of abuse, such as children being forced to have sex at gunpoint, were made by children from Southwark. Southwark continued to send kids to children's homes in north Wales in great numbers even after the most serious complaints had been made. Huge amounts of money was being transferred from Southwark Council into the coffers of John Allen et al, so much that numerous people in Southwark Council could not have not noticed this.
Sir Simon Hughes I am sure would tell us that he didn't know about Dafydd and the gang in north Wales. Previous posts have provided details of Simon Hughes's background, but I'll note here that Hughes was educated at the Cathedral School, Llandaff, where he was Dean's Scholar and Head Boy in 1964, then at Christ College, Brecon and Selwyn College, Cambridge where he graduated with a law degree. Hughes subsequently attended the College of Europe in Bruges. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1974.
The Llandaff Cathedral School has long been a favourite seat of learning for the paedophiles' friends and their offspring. Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain went there; when Simon Hughes was contesting and then representing Bermondsey, Chamberlain was concealing the south London branch of the Westminster Paedophile Ring which was operating via St George's Hospital, the associated mental health unit Springfield Hospital and Wandsworth Social Services. Chamberlain's mate Oliver Brooke, the Professor of Paediatrics at St George's, was a key figure in the pan-European paedophile ring of which Dafydd's gang was a part. Ollie was jailed in Dec 1986, but his mates who colluded with him all remained in business at St George's and Wandsworth. See previous posts, including 'Oliver!'.
After the bad PR which accompanied Ollie's imprisonment, St George's symbolically deposed their Dean and in 1988 replaced him with Professor Sir William Asscher. Asscher had spent most of his career in Cardiff, where he had er concealed the crimes of Dafydd's gang in north Wales, the related gangs in south and west Wales and the crimes of George Thomas aka Viscount Tonypandy, the Labour MP for Cardiff Central and then Cardiff West, 1945-83, the Secretary of State for Wales, 1968-70 and the Speaker of the House, 1976-83. See previous posts.
Christ College, Brecon is another favourite establishment of the paedophiles' friends. Plenty of highly influential paedophiles' friends have of course passed through Cambridge University, including Selwyn College, which was one factor which afforded Dafydd et al such protection. As well of course as all those dodgy barristers with Welsh connections.
Simon Hughes first joined the Liberal Party in 1972, when he signed up to Cambridge University Liberal Club as a student. Jeremy Thorpe's penchant for casual sex with a wide variety of men was well-known in the Liberal Party by 1972 and quite a number of them knew that he was hassling and threatening Norman Scott by then as well, including Emlyn Hooson, a barrister practising in Wales and big figure in the Liberal Party, especially in Wales. People in the Liberal Party also knew about Cyril Smith abusing children and even more people knew about it after details appeared in an alternative paper in Rochdale in 1979 and the story was picked up by 'Private Eye'. David Steel was so concerned that it would impact negatively on Jeremy Thorpe's forthcoming trial as well as damage the Liberals that Steel made an arrangement with the crooked much-feared barrister George Carman QC – who acted for Thorpe – to keep the Cyril Smith story out of the mainstream press. Carman knew about Dafydd's gang in north Wales/Chester.
Lord Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is a member of Inner Temple. Butler-Sloss's brother Michael Havers was the Tory MP for Wimbledon, 1970-87 – Geoffrey Chamberlain and many of his colleagues lived in Wimbledon – and while Havers was Attorney General for England and Wales as well as AG for N Ireland, 1979-87, under Thatch, he blocked prosecutions against a number of high profile paedophiles, including the diplomat Sir Peter Hayman.
The Lord Havers QC
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss came into her own in 1988, when she Chaired the Inquiry into the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal and concealed the extent of the havoc caused by the trafficking gang in the North East of England with links to Dafydd's gang (see previous posts eg. 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named…').
Mahatma Ghandi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the PM of India, studied law at the Inner Temple:
The Inn contains several buildings and sets of buildings used to house Chambers, with those rooms above the second floor generally being residential in nature. The sets are Crown Office Row, Dr Johnson's Buildings, Farrar's Building, Francis Taylor Building, Harcourt Buildings, Hare Court, King's Bench Walk, Littleton Building, Mitre Court Buildings, Paper Buildings and the eastern side of Temple.
Simon Hughes became part of the SDP-Liberal Alliance, along with Dr Death – who was personally mates with some of the Top Docs in north Wales who were facilitating Dafydd's gang – the Boy David and Shirl, who also knew all about Dafydd's gang and who, in 1979 when she was Secretary of State for Education, refused to hold a Public Inquiry into UCNW (Bangor University), despite the chaos reigning as a result of the institution being run by Dafydd and the gang. Hughes joined the newly founded Lib Dems in 1988 and was their Spokesman for Education until 1992, during which time teachers in north Wales and elsewhere with links to Dafydd's gang were convicted of offences against children.
Simon Hughes moved to Bermondsey in 1981. There may have been many reasons why Hughes relocated, but in 1981 Dafydd's gang were in need of help, because Mary Wynch had begun legal action against them. Mary alleged serious corruption on the part of legal and medical professionals in north Wales, so she was using Birnberg and Co, based in Camden, as her solicitors.
Simon Hughes will have known about Dafydd and the gang in north Wales by 1981, because Mary's litigation made legal history and caused a stir from the moment that she began it. It was in the aftermath of Mary beginning legal action that reinforcements arrived in north Wales, including in the form of Tony and Sadie Francis, in the early 1980s. Dafydd knew that he could be in very, very deep shit if he didn't call in numerous favours and those being called upon to help out knew that they'd go down with the Titanic as well if assistance wasn't forthcoming.
On 25 Jan 1981, The Gang Of Four broke the mould of politics and made the Limehouse Declaration:
When the Gang Of Four broke the mould of politics, they based their strategy for targeting seats entirely on their knowledge of Dafydd's gang and the Westminster Paedophile Gang (see post 'We've Been Expecting You…').
The strategy led to this:
The Baroness Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
4 May 1979 – 28 November 1990
In 1992 -after the Gang of Four had broken the mould of politics and the Tories had been in Gov't for 13 years – there were proposals that Garth Angharad, a 'hospital for mentally abnormal criminals' near Dolgellau, should be closed down. Elfyn Llwyd, the Plaid MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy and then Dwyfor Meirionnydd, 1992-2010 and a very good friend of Dafydd's gang, tabled an Early Day Motion on 21 May 1992 opposing the closure of Garth Angharad, on the grounds that there were no other 'hospitals' in Wales providing a service like Garth Angharad. What services did Garth Angharad provide? Well it didn't have an A&E or any machines that went ping or indeed even any Top Doctors. Because Garth Angharad was indeed a hospital like no other. It wasn't run by the NHS or even BUPA; Garth Angharad was a remote old building hidden away in Snowdonia which was owned by Paul Hett, a solicitor who was struck off in 2007 for embezzling clients' money. Paul Hett was the proud owner/manager of three children's homes/schools in north Wales where children were abused, some of those schools/children's homes having been located at Garth Angharad. Hett was so flaky and the abuse of kids housed in his institutions so bad that even Ronnie Waterhouse had a few harsh words for Paul Hett and his institutions. Garth Angharad was simply a prison for the victims of Dafydd's gang who were held there illegally. See post 'More On Those Prisons For Folk Who Dared Complain'.
The case conference held about me in 1989 – while I was sitting in a London medical school as a postgrad – which I only found out about four years ago and was Chaired by Dr Chris Hunter, Dafydd's mate who I had never heard of until four years ago and took evidence from numerous other people whom I hadn't heard of which culminated in Hunter declaring that I was extremely dangerous, capable of murder and should be sent to a high security hospital and offering to compile a Court Report even though I wasn't facing any charges at the time (see post 'The Night Of The (Dr Chris) Hunter), was held at Garth Angharad.
Simon Hughes was one of those who signed the EDM opposing the closure of Garth Angharad. See posts 'Further Information on Garth Angharad Hospital' and 'More On Those Who Signed That Early Day Motion'.
When Simon Hughes signed that EDM opposing the closure of a an unregulated private prison owned by a man who had owned and managed schools where children were abused, Simon Hughes had spent four years as the Lib Dems Spokesman on Education.
Peter Tatchell eventually became the Secretary of the Bermondsey Labour Party, but he and his supporters did not become the dominant force there until the early 1980s. The conveyor belt of kids in care from Southwark to north Wales had begun years before Peter arrived in Southwark. Peter had previously lived in Hornsey (north London), yet another area with which Dafydd's gang had excellent diplomatic relations; Peter had been a youth worker. Previous posts have mentioned that as a gay activist in London at the time, Peter must have known about the trade in people between London and north Wales but he has never spoken about it.
I do not however assume that Peter was necessarily involved in abusing youngsters. Previous posts have discussed a good friend of mine who moved to north Wales in 1979 and opened a cafe. He ended up being as much of a target of Dafydd's gang as I did, because he told a few too many people that pre-1979, he was a youth worker in north London and that he withdrew from a social work course after he raised concerns about the abuse and neglect of clients by Haringey and Islington Councils, only to be told by his tutors at the North London Poly that he could not criticise the Councils and that was the end of it. This man also told people in north Wales about the luxurious life-style of one Margaret Hodge that he witnessed and he also knew a well-known 'radical lawyer' and his wife, the radical lawyer's wife in recent years having sat as a member of the GMC. The Top Doctors dripped so much poison into so many ears regarding my friend who owned the cafe that eventually no Top Doc would agree to treat him and it was recorded upon his medical records that he 'destroys therapists'. No, they destroyed him because he was a witness and a whistleblower…
In Bermondsey, much was made of Peter Tatchell being Unemployed. Perhaps Peter Tatchell considered that a better option than working in social work/youth work in London at that time…
Tatchell's book enters into considerable detail regarding the dreadful corruption in the Bermondsey Labour Party and its long history. Tatchell is not simply speculating; the people and events which he describes have been verified but most of it was never reported in the mainstream media.
John O'Grady was the leader of Southwark Borough Council, 1968-82. John Allen opened Bryn Alyn, which received so many kids in care from Southwark, in the late 1960s. O'Grady was a founder member and the Vice-Chair of the Social Democratic Alliance (SDA), which was formed in 1975 by a group of right wing Labour MPs and was a forerunner of the SDP. After much twisting and turning by everyone involved, after the SDP was formed in 1981, the SDA dissolved into it.
Tatchell identifies the Labour MP for Bermondsey, Bob Mellish, as well as his business associates and friends, as being the cause of the toxicity in Bermondsey. Mellish and his mates ran the Constituency Labour Party as a personal fiefdom, lied to everyone and rigged absolutely everything for the benefit of themselves while Mellish made much of being a True Cockney Who Represented The People, particularly against Incomers And Migrants. Bob Mellish sounds as though he was doing exactly the same as Dafydd, but Dafydd did it in north Wales in Welsh. The strategies were identical.
Bob Mellish's business associates included the notorious T. Dan Smith from the North East of England who was notorious for his massive civic corruption, particularly involving local authorities and building contracts, which stretched as far as London. T. Dan Smith was involved with the corrupt Yorkshire-based businessman John Poulson, who in turn was responsible for the end of the career of Reginald Maudling, Heath's Home Secretary who had previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer Under Macmillan and Douglas-Home, Reggie having been caught out in dodgy business deals linked to Poulson. More recently, allegations that John Poulson was involved with the organised abuse of children have surfaced. See previous posts for further information on T. Dan Smith and John Poulson.
Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish served as the Labour MP for Rotherhithe, 1946-50 and then Bermondsey, 1950-82. Mellish was born in Deptford, the thirteenth of fourteen children. His father was a docker. After Mellish left school he worked for the TGWU. He began work at the Stratford office of the newly created TGWU on the evening of the day that he left school. So Mellish was there at the very beginning, which might explain why he was selected as the candidate for Rotherhithe, in the face of candidates which were considered to have a much greater chance and who were more popular across the constituency, after the TGWU dockers' delegates voted for him en bloc. He easily won the constituency in a by-election in 1946 and in 1950 the constituency was expanded and named Bermondsey.
Mellish had fought the Japanese in South-East Asia during WW II, which gave him a great deal of kudos in many circles, the Japs being renowned for their extreme cruelty during the war.
In 1950 Mellish was appointed PPS to George Strauss, Minister of Supply. George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss (18 July 1901 – 5 June 1993) was a Labour MP for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons, 1974-79. Strauss was the son of the Tory (and previously a Liberal Unionist) MP Arthur Strauss (1847–1920), who later joined the Labour Party. George Strauss was educated at Rugby, where the hostile treatment experienced by him and other Jewish boys left him as a vehement supporter of racial equality. Sadly some of that obviously didn't rub off on 'I hate darkies' Mellish, more of which soon. Strauss became a metal merchant and a leading member of the London County Council on which his wife Patricia also served.
Members of the London County Council, including Jim Callaghan's wife Audrey (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'), colluded with the organised abuse of children and vulnerable people.
Strauss gained the seat of Lambeth North in 1929. He lost it in 1931, but regained it in a 1934 by-election. In 1939 Strauss was expelled from the Labour Party for supporting the 'Popular Front' movement of Stafford Cripps, whom he had served as PPS. Strauss was Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Transport, 1945-47 and was the Minister of Supply, 1947-51. After boundary changes, Strauss became MP for Vauxhall in 1950, which he represented until 1979. On 9 July 1979 Strauss was created a life peer as Baron Strauss of Vauxhall in the London Borough of Lambeth.
The investigation into the paedophile ring that operated in the children's homes of Lambeth throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s which had links with Dafydd's gang – kids were abused in Lambeth and sent to north Wales where they were abused – maintained that organised abuse of children in Lambeth dated as least as far back as the 1940s. See previous posts.
In 1951 Bob Mellish was appointed PPS to the Minister for Pensions, George Isaacs. George Isaacs was the MP for Gravesend, 1923-24, then Southwark, 1929-59. George Isaacs was an active trade unionist in the early years of the 20th century and served as General Secretary of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA), 1909-49. This post also took Isaacs onto the General Council of the TUC – he was President of the TUC in 1945 – and he was active in the Labour Party. Isaacs was Minister of Labour and National Service in Attlee's Gov't, 1945-51 and then Minister of Pensions in 1951. Isaacs retired from Parliament in 1959. He had long since moved to East Molesey in Surrey where he served as a Deputy Lieutenant and as a JP. Isaacs was eventually Chairman of the Surrey Bench of Magistrates. Isaacs lived until 1979, so he was around to assist Dafydd and the gang as they built up their empire of child sex workers throughout the 1970s.
Bob Mellish was Chairman of the London Regional Labour Party, 1956-77 and it was through the London Regional Labour Party that Mellish exerted influence during the 1950s and early 1960s, when Labour were in Opposition.
Mellish was appointed as Gov't Chief Whip, 1969-70 and 1974-76, by Harold Wilson and was renowned as a tough Chief Whip. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister for Housing and Local Government, 1964-67, then becoming Minister of Public Building and Works, 1967-69. Mellish became Minister for Housing and Local Government in 1970, under Tony Crosland, Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning. Tony Crosland was a swinging bisexual who concealed the paedophile gang in the North East of England which was linked to Dafydd's gang in north Wales and supplied Dafydd's gang with staff and children from the 1970s onward (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III').
Mellish was a Wilson loyalist and was said to have wept when he heard the news that Wilson had stepped down as PM in 1976. He supported Footie to replace Wilson, but in vain; Callaghan won the leadership ballot. Mellish got on well at a personal level with Foot, despite the great ideological differences between the two men, but disliked Callaghan so much that he resigned from the Cabinet within months of Wilson's own retirement.
It was Foot who in Dec 1981 as Labour Leader made a speech stating that Tatchell would not be endorsed as a Labour candidate and that Foot didn't ever envisage that he would be.
I mentioned previously that Bob Mellish was a racist git and proud of it. At one stage he opened a speech by saying "As I come to this platform, many of you will know that I have never been an anti-racialist". In 1976 Mellish argued that the Malawi Asians expelled by Hastings Banda should not be allowed to live in Britain despite possessing British passports:
We cannot go on like this. I do not care what those on this side of the House, or the Opposition side or anywhere else, say. Problems at local level will become worse and worse for our own people unless something is done. All hon. Members know that people come to their surgeries describing the most distressing conditions – terrifying conditions. People born and bred in their own constituencies have been on the housing waiting list for as long as six years. But, on the points system, one must give immigrants preference…People cannot come here just because they have a British passport – full stop.
Wasn't having a British passport traditionally the essence of the criteria that allowed one to 'come here'?
Tatchell mentioned in his book that a black person was actively blocked from becoming active in the Bermondsey Labour Party when Mellish and his henchmen were in control.
Thatch's Gov't was keen to get a Labour figure to sit on the London Docklands Development Corporation as Vice-Chairman in 1980 but the Labour Party was entirely opposed to the creation of the LDDC and refused to nominate. Mellish offered a way through as he was willing to take the post; as a sitting MP he would lose his seat if the post was paid, so a special provision was made that it would be unpaid until the Vice-Chairman elected to take payment.
Mellish's appointment as Vice-Chairman of the LDDC, a non-elected body, was made directly by Michael Heseltine. Heseltine originated from Swansea and is someone else who knew about Dafydd's gang, their role in the Westminster Paedophile Ring and Heseltine tried to benefit from that knowledge. Sir Anthony Meyer's battle with Beata Brookes, a Tory politician in north Wales who was a former social worker, which resulted in an all-out civil war in the Tory Party in north east Wales (see previous posts) and Meyer's subsequent 'stalking horse' challenge to Thatch's leadership was a plan by Meyer to lever Heseltine in as Tory leader, but for reasons which are not yet clear to me, Heseltine didn't go for it at the time as Meyer expected and hoped.
When I wrote my post 'The Celtic Iron Lady And Yet More Recent History', I presumed that Sir Anthony had gone into battle to prevent Beata Brookes from bagging a Westminster seat because he knew that Brookes was a mate of Dafydd and Lucille and was fully on board with the trafficking ring. I found out later that Anthony Meyer was also fully on board with the trafficking ring and went into battle because he just hated Beata and the Thatcherite wing of the Tory Party. Pretty much an everyday story of north Wales folk – fighting tooth and nail because they hate each other but everyone's on board with Dafydd's gang.
Mellish's wiki entry tells us that his 'acceptance of a post with the LDDC exacerbated the split with the Bermondsey Constituency Labour Party which had elected a slate of left-wing officers at its annual meeting that same year'. That is true, but the wiki entry does not mention the endemic corruption and the business deals with corrupt businessmen that Mellish was involved with which were part of the reason why there was a 'split' between Mellish and the 'left-wing officers' of his CLP. The split was always described as being ideological, but Mellish was involved in matters which no honest activist would ever have been able to defend and support.
Mellish's wiki entry continues with the info that he 'was against the shift to the left in the Labour Party and decided not to stand for election again. Tam Dalyell later said that "Mellish's final years in the Commons were dogged by controversy and beset with troubles in Bermondsey from hard-left 'yuppie' incomers and the Militant tendency, people who were moons apart from the dockers who had selected him four decades earlier".
Tam Dalyell failed to mention that Mellish ensured that his constituents knew all about his dad being a docker and Mellish fighting the Japs during the war which will have gone down very well with many of them, but no-one told those constituents that Mellish and his crew were exporting the most disadvantaged kids in the Borough into the hands of a gang of paedophiles in north Wales and that the reason why Mellish's constituents couldn't get housing wasn't simply because the darkies were jumping the queue, it was because Mellish and his corrupt associates had completely screwed up local authority housing.
You should have socked it to them Mr Tatchell, I know that you were given a dreadful time, but if you had exposed the worst of what was going on and the links between Dafydd's gang and Thatcher's Gov't, then history could not have been rewritten as a fight between yuppies playing at being lefties against a noble working class man who Really Spoke For His Constituents. Likewise had anyone briefed the dockers re some aspects of Enoch Powell and his activities, they might not have been so robust in their (alleged) support of him in 1968.
It was the same old crew who won the biggest prizes as a result of Lord Bob and his mates being The Authentic Voice Of Sahf London:
Documents released from the National Archives relatively recently confirmed that Thatcher did indeed want to extinguish trade union power in the UK. Nice one Lord Bob of the Dockers, you certainly helped there!
Sir Peter Morrison
The Lord St John of Fawsley
So why was Bob Mellish involved with Dafydd and the gang? Probably because of this particular child molester and mate of Dafydd's gang, who was another Labour Party vote-puller of the same vintage as Bob Mellish and was also a friend of Harold Wilson and someone who, like Mellish, hated Jim Callaghan:
The Viscount Tonypandy
Bob Mellish wanted his ally John O'Grady to be selected to succeed him as the constituency MP, but the constituency party selected Tatchell, the Secretary of the Bermondsey CLP. Mellish threatened to resign immediately and force a by-election if Tatchell was endorsed by the Labour Party nationally. Michael Foot, then the Labour Party leader, hung Peter Tatchell out to dry in his Dec 1981 speech – without forewarning Tatchell – in which he stated that Tatchell would never be endorsed "so far as I am concerned". Footie was rude about Thatchell's Gay Lib activism. This was the Footie who shagged anything that moved of both sexes when he was younger and who's wife Jill Craigie told him to satisfy his 'additional needs' with other people but not to bother to provide her with the details. See previous posts. Footie knew about Dafydd and the gang and colluded with them. Footie kept his own sexual shenanigans out of the press by making it clear to them that he had even more dirt on Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook than they did on him and one word about Footie's additional needs in the press and the world would find out about the additional needs of Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook.
Those other men of principle Denis Healey and Fattersley, who also knew about the activities of Dafydd's gang, as well as the activities of George Thomas, Greville Janner, Sir Peter Morrison, Lord St John of Fawsley, Sir Cyril Smith, Jeremy Thorpe, Lord Louis of Mountbatten, Ma'am Darling and Ma'am Darling's husband Lord Snowdon, joined Footie in condemning Peter Tatchell and his gay leftie ways. Merlyn Rees was also Shocked and Disgusted by Tatchell. Merlyn Rees not only colluded with Dafydd and the paedophiles throughout his career, particularly when he was Home Secretary, 1976-79, (see previous posts), but Merlyn Rees was a Director of Municipal Mutual in 1996 (see post 'I Predict A Riot').
Municipal Mutual were the insurers of Clwyd County Council and the North Wales Police. In 1996, when the Jillings Report into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council since 1974 was completed after the Jillings Investigation and it was known that Jillings had concluded that the abuse had been horrific, indefensible and that organised abuse had been taking place in north Wales for decades prior to the 1970s, Michael Beloff QC, the legal adviser to Municipal Mutual, ensured that no-one except for Municipal Mutual's lawyers read the Jillings Report, not even the Clwyd Councillors. Michael Beloff QC ordered that if Malcolm King, the Chair of Clwyd's Social Services Committee – who was feared to be a bit of a loose cannon where the matter of the abuse of kids was concerned – ever managed to see the Report and publicise its contents, then King should be sacked. See post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…'
No-one did ever see the Jillings Report for many, many years because all known copies were pulped; in 2013, someone produced a copy that had been lurking quietly somewhere and it was finally made publicly available. It was so heavily redacted that it was virtually meaningless, even to those of us with a good knowledge of who the culprits were.
When the UK press were throwing everything including the kitchen sink at Peter Tatchell, Dafydd's gang were trying to snare me into a glorious future which would have involved providing sexual services to the vile old grunters who were giving Tatchell such a bad time.
Er, no Dafydd, I wouldn't have even been tempted… Not even if I had known that one of their mates was the thirteenth son of a docker who had fought the Japs.
No rational person would ever have been tempted, which was why Dafydd's gang murdered people who challenged them.
In August 1982, it became clear that Tatchell would be permitted to stand if the CLP selected him again, so Mellish announced his resignation from the Labour Party to sit as an Independent MP. In November 1992, Mellish resigned his seat in Parliament and forced the 1983 by-election in which Mellish campaigned for John O'Grady who stood as a Real Bermondsey Labour candidate. O'Grady's campaign involved him travelling around the constituency in a horse and trap singing a homophobic song about Thatchell.
You should have given me a ring Peter, I'd have popped down to Bermondsey three years later and sung a song about Dafydd, because I'd encountered him by then.
O'Grady performed badly at the Feb 1983 by-election although Mellish did take satisfaction from the heavy defeat of Tatchell by the bisexual Simon Hughes.
In 2003, after Mellish's death, Tatchell claimed that Mellish was secretly bisexual and was "persistent" in propositioning Tatchell but warned Thatchell when he was rebuffed not to publicise it as no one would believe him. It wouldn't actually surprise me if this was true. I'm not someone who believes that a paedophile lurks on every corner, but these mad old sods were so confused and hypocritical about sexuality, including theirs, that some very odd things were happening. Tatchell quietly behaved with a great deal of dignity in the face of these bastards and while I would never suggest that he should ever have conducted himself like them, Tatchell should have dropped the bomb of Dafydd, the Top Docs and the trafficking gang and dealt with them for good. We would have helped you Peter, but the British state were far too busy assisting Dafydd in murdering our friends and wrecking our lives. Even so, had someone even told me that Tatchell had been stung by the London arm of Dafydd's gang I'd have been a most willing worker…
Lord John Walton, President of the BMA, 1980-82; President of the GMC, 1982-89:
Lord Robert Kilpatrick, President of the GMC, 1989-95:
See previous posts for more information on Walton and Kilpatrick.
Bob Mellish later joined Dr Death and the SDP. So the Devil went straight into the arms of Dafydd's own true friends (see posts 'Dr Death' and 'We've Been Expecting You…')
In 1985 the thirteenth son of a docker who didn't like darkies and had also fought the Japs stood down from the LDDC and accepted a peerage on 12 July 1985 as Baron Mellish, of Bermondsey in Greater London, sitting as an independent.
In July 1985, Dr D.G.E. Wood, Tony Francis et al were busying themselves with preparations to wreck the future careers of my friends and I. I had contacted lawyers as well as Keith Best, the Tory MP for Anglesey, re my concerns over the activities of the mental health services in north Wales, unaware that the whole lot of them were colluding with the gang. Mary Wynch's application for leave to sue Dafydd and the gang was heard by the Master of the Rolls on 9 July 1985; Mary was given leave to go ahead and sue Dafydd and the gang. See post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details'.
In August 1985 my best friend from school worked in the box office at the Edinburgh Fringe. When she refused to pull strings to obtain a ticket and accommodation – the event was sold out by the time that she was asked – for Samuel Brittan, a journo on the FT and the brother of Leon Brittan, Home Secretary, June 1983-Sept 1985, Samuel sent a copy of the letter that my friend had sent him, in which she apologised but explained that she could not get him a ticket and an hotel, to his mate Michael Grade, the then Controller of BBC 1. Michael Grade wrote back to Samuel telling Samuel that he was 'appalled' at my friend's 'rudeness' and that he would ensure that Samuel did get a ticket 'even if I have to give you mine'. The Edinburgh Fringe box office went apeshit, presented my friend with copies of Brittan and Grade's correspondence and gave her a bollocking. Just weeks previously my friends' parents, who were both mental health professionals working in the West Country, had given me advice as to how to deal with the horrors then being thrown at me by the north Wales mental health services.
In 1986, my friend and her husband moved to a flat in Bethnal Green when they began their careers in the media. I stayed at their flat for a short time, for the first few weeks of my MSc at Hammersmith Hospital. We were all threatened by some seriously nasty characters. We attributed it to thuggery and possibly fascist activity but I now know that the sex offenders and nasties were gifts from Dafydd's gang. Over the next five years, we all found ourselves on the receiving end of gangsters (see post 'The Turn of The Screw'). In early 1991, just after I was forced out of my job at St George's, my friend was unlawfully sacked from her job with the Royal Television Society. Her husband was soon afterwards forced out of his job at the BBC. Dear old Michael Grade and his pals were terrifically good mates with everyone at the RTS and the BBC… See previous posts.
Leon Brittan was known to have concealed the Westminster Paedophile Ring and there have been allegations that he too abused children and young people.
It was Michael Grade who supported Esther Rantzen in establishing ChildLine, after a conversation between them in 1985. Rantzen has been accused of ignoring calls to ChildLine from kids in care in north Wales and one woman maintains that she told Rantzen about Jimmy Savile but was ignored. In 1988 I wrote to Rantzen about Dafydd and the abuses of mental health patients in north Wales. I did not receive a reply. Rantzen's sister Priscilla Taylor worked as a social worker for Lambeth Borough Council and Priscilla's boss Valerie – later Baroness – Howarth was appointed Chief Exec of ChildLine by Rantzen. See previous posts.
Bob Mellish was a supporter of Millwall Football Club and was President of the Millwall Supporters Club. Wasn't there a sizeable problem with serious violence on the part of Millwall fans at that time? And er, infiltration of the fans by the NF? NF recruiters distributing their leaflets at matches involving Millwall? And links between the organised violence at football matches and serious organised crime?
The tallest building in Milton Keynes, Mellish Court, is named after Bob Mellish. So there's an honour for Milton Keynes, although perhaps someone could explain why a corrupt old bastard from Bermondsey who's business associates were builders and planners involved in municipal corruption across the whole of England should be honoured by a tower block in Milton Keynes…
Tam Dalyell's obituary of Mellish which was published in the Indie gives further insights into the sources of Mellish's power. Dalyell described Mellish as the 'cement that prevented the Labour Party being split asunder' under the entry of Britain into the Common Market and that Mellish achieved that by a 'remarkable feat of political management' which was matched by his 'wheeling and dealing' in Gov't on 'wage limits agreed by Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, the closed shop, the Docklands Labour Scheme and the compulsory introduction of comprehensive schools'.
Dalyell told us that Mellish was far more successful as Wilson's Chief Whip than anyone ever thought that he would be; when Mellish was appointed, it was widely believed that Wilson had made a terrible mistake and that Mellish would be the most dreadful bully, but ooh no, he did a wonderful job. Mellish was appointed Chief Whip in 1969, just after John Allen opened the Bryn Alyn Community and the trade in disadvantaged children between the wider UK – including Southwark – and north Wales began in earnest. George Thomas was Secretary of State for Wales, April 1968-June 1970. When George Thomas was Secretary of State, responsibilities for Health and Social Services in Wales were transferred to the Welsh Office. George was in charge of the kiddies homes and the psychiatric hospitals!!!
Ian Mikardo, Mellish's constituency neighbour and someone who was on the left of the Labour Party, was initially 'quite appalled' at Mellish's appointment as Chief Whip but later stated that Mellish was 'to a perfect degree a round peg in a round hole'. Ian Mikardo was someone who knew that disadvantaged children from his own constituency in the East End were being abused and trafficked by Dafydd's gang but Mikardo said nothing (see previous posts).
Eight of Mellish's 13 siblings died as children from conditions such as meningitis and scarlet fever. According to Dalyell, this resulted in Mellish having a lifelong commitment to healthcare. You've guessed it, Mellish 'devoted his time to the work of the East End hospital Boards throughout his life'. The East End hospital Boards who did not help their disadvantaged patients as much as they pretended to or indeed should or could have; the hospital Boards who removed slum kids from their parents and transported them to Australia knowing that they were going to lives of sexual abuse and slavery or, from the late 1960s onward, sent them into the arms of Dafydd and the paedophile gang.
For details of how, in the mid-1980s, a group of healthcare workers and managers in the East End who had concealed Dafydd's crimes extracted dosh from Ken Clarke at the DoH to reopen the Mildmay Mission Hospital in Shoreditch and transform it into a hospice for terminally ill AIDS patients, many of whom were rent boys who had been abused and trafficked by Dafydd's gang, see post 'Apocalypse Now'.
The Mildmay also looked after a number of high profile celebrity AIDS patients. Their names have never been revealed, being people who were afforded rather more respect and concern than the victims of Dafydd's gang. A number of celebs, including former East Enders stars are supporters of the Mildmay's work.
The Labour MP Peter Shore was someone who assisted in extracting the dosh from the DoH to transform the Mildmay into a hospice for AIDS patients. Peter Shore was one of those who opposed Peter Tatchell standing as the Labour candidate in Bermondsey. Shore was someone else who knew about the activities of Dafydd et al and benefited greatly from keeping his trap shut (see previous posts).
A few other Interesting Facts with regard to Bob Mellish:
Mellish's appointment as PPS to George Isaacs was backed by Mandelson's granddad Herbert Morrison, then the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. George Thomas was first elected in 1945, the year that Mandy's granddad became Deputy PM. Mandy's granddad knew Thomas.
Mandy's granddad was born in and went to school in Lambeth. He was Leader of London County Council, 1934-40; MP for Hackney South, 1935-45 and for Lewisham East and then Lewisham South, 1945-59. In 1959 Herbert Morrison was elevated to the peerage.
Tam Dalyell alleged that Bob Mellish's commitment to improving housing and slum clearance 'created a bond' between Mellish and Dame Evelyn Sharp, who was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Gov't, 1955-66, during which time Mellish served in that Ministry. Sharp was born in Hornsey – now part of Haringey – the daughter of the vicar of Ealing. Sharp's uncles included Richard Harvey, Archdeacon of Halifax, Sir John Harvey, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Sir Ernest Harvey, Chief Cashier to the Bank of England. Evelyn Sharp studied at Somerville College, Oxford and graduated in 1925.
Sharp joined the Civil Service in 1926, served at first in the Board of Trade and then in the Ministry of Health, which at the time was concerned with Housing and Local Gov't and this became Sharp's speciality. When the Ministry of Housing and Local Gov't was formed in 1951, Sharp worked with Harold Macmillan. From 1964, Sharp's Minister was Dick Crossman. Mellish was promoted to Minister of Works in 1967, the year after Sharp retired. Dick Crossman was Lord President of the Council, 1966-68 – Herbert Morrison was Lord President of the Council, 1945-51 – one responsibility which comes with that position is that of the visitor to UCNW.
Evelyn Sharp had some interesting sidelines for the mandarin running the Ministry concerned with Housing and Local Gov't while a corrupt MP with business associates who were notorious for local authority corruption in terms of building and planning worked in her Ministry. After she retired, Sharp was Director of Bovis, the construction company and was President of the London and Quadrant Housing Trust. Sharp served on the Royal Commission on Local Gov't in England, 1966-69 and was a member of the IBA, 1966-73. Sharp's enthusiasm for modernist architecture and urban rebuilding caused it to be said of her that she 'truly did come close to doing as much damage as the Luftwaffe'; Sharp gave her backing to many development of high rise flats. Low income residents of the cities of the UK will have had a bum deal, but Sharp, Bovis, Mellish and their mates will have done very well out of it.
When Mellish was causing havoc in Bermondsey, Mandy was working for LWT and then in 1985 began 'modernising' the Labour party and doing all that he could to make the Windbag electable after the Windbag was appointed Leader of the Labour Party in Oct 1983. The Windbag who knew Tony Francis and who's wife was a school teacher from north Wales and who were both colluding with Dafydd et al.
The biggest light entertainment star on British TV in the early 1990s was Cilla Black; 'Blind Date', the show hosted by Cilla, was so profitable for LWT that it turned it's fortunes around. Cilla was a close friend of Geoffrey Chamberlain at St George's Hospital Medical School, who was colluding with that paedophile ring in south London and Dafydd's gang in north Wales. Mandy was a member of Lambeth Borough Council, 1979-82.
Michael Grade was an executive for LWT throughout the 1970s and in the early years of the 80s.
The Lord Morrison of Lambeth
The Lord Mandelson
Tam Dalyell considered Bob Mellish to be the 'authentic voice of working class dockland London' – the authentic voice who was so concerned for his dockland constituents that he helped Thatch out by becoming Vice-Chair of the LDDC, 1981-85.
Mellish's constituents will all have bagged jobs as bankers after the development of London's Docklands:
For further information regarding how those who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang were part of the regeneration of London's Docklands, see post 'The Bodies Beneath Canary Wharf'.
Bob Mellish is on record as saying about Harold Wilson that 'the Prime Minister is a soft and decent man, almost too gentle. Some say it's a weakness. I believe it's a strength. He is very loyal to his friends…I am not a sycophant, but I do respect and admire him.'
Bob Mellish: one crooked old bastard who was Mr Big in the London Labour Party, supporting a whole host of other crooked old bastards, who were all in the pockets of the crooked old bastard who was PM. The entire farce was underpinned by an absolute idiot but a very dangerous idiot:
He doesn't just hold hands you know!
Bob Mellish died in May 1998, during the middle of the Waterhouse Inquiry. Ronnie Waterhouse was on very good terms with Frank Chapple, the General Secretary of the 'moderate' union, the EETPU (Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union), 1966-84 and Ronnie acted for the EETPU on many occasions. Chapple was personally involved in the attempt in Nov 1980 to flood the Bermondsey Labour Party with phoney members – many of whom lived nowhere near Bermondsey – when Tatchell and other members of Bermondsey CLP were challenging Mellish and his mates with regard to their abuses and corruption. The applications to join the Bermondsey CLP were all done using the EETPU as a vehicle, by people using their affiliation to the EETPU as the basis of their application. Two such people were Southwark Councillors Charles Sawyer and Joe Lees. If they are still alive perhaps they would like to explain why they sent so many disadvantaged kids into the hands of a vicious sex abuse gang in north Wales who then trafficked them back down to London to work as rent boys, infecting many of them with HIV in the process.
Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton (8 August 1921 – 19 October 2004) was born in the slum area of Hoxton, east London. There was no bath or running hot water in the Chapple home. A Communist Party member early in his adult life, Chapple left the party after and partly as a result of, the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Thereafter he remained a forceful anti-communist. Frank Chapple will have known many of the members of the Communist Party in the 1950s, including many of the radicals who used to spend their summers at Croesor in north Wales who were friends with Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, his wife Amabel and their friend Bertrand Russell. The crowd who used to visit Croesor knew about Dafydd's gang, which before Dafydd ran the show was led by Gwynne the lobotomist (see post eg. 'The Village').
Hoxton is just down the road from the flat in Bethnal Green in which my friends lived in 1986-87. The Krays grew up in Hoxton and hung around with the more degenerate politicians as well as gangsters and showbiz folk. Lod Bob Boothby used rent boys and was reputed to have had an affair with Ronnie Kray as well as his long-standing relationship with Harold Macmillan's wife Dorothy. I cannot understand why no-one was surprised when many years later it was revealed that Ronnie Kray was being feted and treated like a King in Broadmoor. Broadmoor and indeed the whole mental health system was run by criminals and traffickers which was how Jimmy Savile made his way into it and was given senior managerial responsibilities. See posts 'Socio-Politicial Context of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s', 'A Pretty Classy Piece Of Operation' and 'The Old Devils'.
Chapple served as a member of the General Council of the TUC, 1971-83. Throughout that time the TUC concealed the crimes of Dafydd and associated gangs, sometimes very directly by protecting abusers employed in health and social care who were members of trade unions (see eg. posts 'A Very COHSE Relationship With Some Very Nasty People' and 'Mary Turner – An Appreciation'). Chapple first joined what became the EETPU in 1937 and he had held offices at every level in the union. After his retirement, Frank Chapple was elevated to the Lords. Frank Chapple died in 2004. So he was around well after the publication of the Waterhouse Report to ensure that the truth remained suppressed.
Baron Chapple of Hoxton:
One of Chapple's sons, Barry Chapple, was a regional official of Amicus, which succeeded the EETPU. Amicus was the UK's second largest trade union and the largest private sector union, formed by the merger of MSF and the AEEU, agreed in 2001 and two smaller unions, UNIFI and the GPMU. MSF was the union that represented many professionals in the NHS who were not Top Doctors or Angels and MSF used their knowledge of the wrongdoing of the Top Doctors to wield a great deal of power in the NHS, but did not use their influence to stop the wrongdoing or the abuse of patients. David Hole, who served as one of the MSF reps at St George's Hospital Medical School when I worked there, 1989-91, was along with his colleagues concealing an enormous mountain of crap including crap directly relating to the trafficking gang which was operating in south London at the time and the Westminster Paedophile Ring (see previous posts). Amicus merged with the TGWU in 2007 to become UNITE.
Lest anyone wants further evidence of the wrongdoing in Southwark with Dafydd et al, not only is Southwark on the doorstep of the Maudsley, where Dafydd 'trained' with other Top Doctors who were facilitating organised abuse and who protected Dafydd et al in north Wales for the rest of their careers, but Dafydd's mate Dr Jim Birley (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent') joined the Maudsley as a consultant in 1969. Birley was the Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry, 1971-82, Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatry, 1982-87 and President, 1987-90. He was President of the BMA, 1993-94.
There are plenty of accounts that suggest that Jim Birley was quite mad. He spent time working with William Sargant at Tommy's – as did Dr Death – when Sargant was carrying out such dangerous irresponsible experiments on patients that many of them died. Jim Birley claimed to have seen miraculous recoveries as a consequence of barbarous treatments that even at the time were known not to work. Then Jim Birley had a psychotic breakdown himself but was alleged to have made a full recovery within two days, so he returned to work.
Jim Birley was one of the British psychiatrists who took Soviet psychiatry to task in the late 1980s for abusing psychiatry for political purposes. While his mate Dafydd had the victims of a paedophile gang who had dared complain illegally imprisoned in a dungeon.
Jim Birley didn't confine himself to Top Doctoring in hospitals. He established the Windsor Walk Housing Association which was supported accommodation. At about the same time Birley established the Camberwell Rehabilitation Association, which employed patients to undertake tasks such as making fuse boxes. In 1971 Jim Birley – after meeting David Ennals – founded the Southwark Association for Mental Health.
In 1971 David Ennals was leading a major campaign for MIND and Ennals joined in the long tradition of MIND in concealing the crimes of Dafydd and the gangs associated with him (see previous posts). Ennals later became Chair of MIND and it was whilst Ennals was Chair that Tony Smythe was appointed as Chief Exec of MIND. Tony Smythe had links with paedophiles' rights groups such as PIE. David Ennals was Secretary of State for the DHSS, 1976-79, while Dafydd and the gang ran riot in north Wales. Before he had ever met Jim Birley, Ennals had served as a junior Minister in the Home Office – whilst the Home Office was directly responsible for managing Approved Schools, such as Bryn Estyn and Axwell Park, where there were paedophile gangs in operation.
Lord David Ennals' son Sir Paul Ennals was Chief Executive of the NCB (National Children's Bureau). Peter Righton the social work academic who was a convicted paedophile was involved with the NCB. Paul Ennals was also a member of safeguarding Boards in Haringey, Gateshead, Sunderland and Tyneside. Which would have meant a lot of commuting. All of the locations in which Sir Paul was busy safeguarding had paedophile rings operating in the children's services. Lord Ennals' brother Martin Ennals was Secretary-General of Amnesty International for some years.
See previous posts for further information re David, Paul and Martin Ennals.
Much as I admire Peter Tatchell's resistance in the face of the gangsters which were Bob Mellish and his mates and one can only fall about laughing at the idea that Labour big wigs believed that Tatchell was the Labour Party's problem, Peter and his supporters fell into the usual trap of campaigning on behalf of the Top Docs, their campaign being to keep St Olave's Hospital open, although St Olave's closed in 1985. In the late 1960s, St Olave's operated a Day Hospital for psychiatric patients which St Olave's shared with Cane Hill Hospital. Cane Hill Hospital was used as a dumping ground by the Maudsley for 'chronic' patients who were 'never going to get better'. Those patients will have been in a very sorry state and they will have been drugged up and abandoned. A Top Doctor will not have gone near them for months on end. In the late 1970s, virtually all the 'services' and patients at St Olave's were transferred to Guy's. In 1979, only 40 patients remained at St Olave's and 30 of them were psychogeriatric patients, who were eventually transferred to New Cross Hospital. They too will have been abandoned by the Top Doctors.
I can understand that Peter may have felt that the psych patients of St Olave's had so little that Peter et al were helping by keeping a shite mental health service going. After all, in the latter half of the 1990s, I argued very strongly for keeping the Day Centre in the Hergest Unit open on the grounds that at least it provided patients with a warm meeting place where they could socialise and have a cup of coffee with their friends, many Empowered Service Users being so poor and isolated that if the Day Centre shut they would not even be able to do that. Before the Day Centre died by a thousand cuts, it was a vastly preferable 'service' to that which was the North Wales Hospital Denbigh or the thugs of the Arfon Community Mental Health Team. After the Day Centre closed, patients died and became destitute en masse. See previous posts. However, what Peter and his supporters should really have been aiming for, while admittedly doing what they could to make patients' lives as comfortable as they could under the circumstances, was to smash the racket that the Top Doctors were running, because that was the real problem. Those patients, along with the kids in care, were being abused and neglected, while the Top Docs stuck their noses into every trough available and dictated their own salaries. Every Gov't Minister fell for it, even Battling Barbara Castle who was Going To Stamp Out Private Medicine. She didn't, because the Top Docs told her to fuck off and Battling Babs didn't dare cripple them and their rotten to the core profession. Furthermore Battling Babs 'went private' for fertility treatment herself because it wasn't available on the NHS.
David Ennals and Dr Death were Ministers in the DHSS under Battling Babs.
Jeff Crowther, who for years worked as a nursing officer/manager in the mental health services in north Wales (see previous posts), was considered quite a leftie by his colleagues. Jeff loathed the Royal Family and one day I heard him telling the other Angels that the country fell for the Royals' scams at every Royal Wedding and Royal Baby, but the Royal Family were a bunch of leeches who were bleeding the nation dry. I very much preferred Jeff to many of his colleagues, but he knew what Dafydd and the gang were doing, he admitted to me that Dafydd 'was a corrupt old bastard' and that he knew that Dafydd was sexually abusing patients and when I lost my temper and yelled at Jeff 'why won't any of you stand up to him?', Jeff said 'because we've got jobs to keep and mortgages to pay' and walked off.
Sir Peter Morrison Jeff. One of those whom Dafydd was supplying with boys in care for sex parties. Morrison's sister Dame Mary was Woman-of-the-Bedchamber to HM Queen Lilibet. The Duke of Westminster, one of Carlo's closest friends, was involved in concealing Dafydd's gang. So was Carlo himself, in his capacity as Chancellor of UCNW (Bangor University). Carlo's mate Jimmy Savile was a visitor to Bryn Estyn, where one boy alleged Savile witnessed a gang rape of one boy. Why do you think that Di was making PR visits to AIDS wards where victims of Dafydd's gang were dying, or to Broadmoor where victims of Dafydd's gang were banged up and being assaulted by Savile? You knew all of this, you were not as thick as some of your colleagues and you kept quiet because you wanted a job as an Angel. You still didn't grass the bastards up when they killed your wife and then sent a murderous thug after you.
Looks like you were taken to the cleaners as well Jeff.
Labour Party 'grandees': Do you think that basing your election strategies and indeed Gov'ts on the continued success of a gang of paedophiles in north Wales was a particularly sensible idea? I wouldn't expect anything better to have emanated from the brain of the Windbag, but surely some of you could have worked out what was going to happen? Battle for your soul? You didn't have one, you only had a sole, which I and the others Empowered Service Users experienced as you trod on us for decades, you thick-as-pig-shit-we'd-better-give-the-Top-Docs-everything-that-they-ask-for-because-they-know-about-George-Thomas-and-anyway-we-won't-get-medical-care-ourselves-if-we-piss-them-off utter dipsticks.
For all the mouthing off by Cockney Wanker and his chums about being the Authentic Voice and Committed to the Constituents, areas like Southwark are still on their knees, so somehow Cockney Wanker's constituents didn't reap the rewards throughout the decades that Cockney Wanker et al laid down their lives to fight their corner in the face of the invading gay hordes in the form of Peter Tatchell and co. I note that Cockney Wanker himself ended up in the Lords. Along with Lord Chapple, Lord Owen, Lord Kinnock, Lord Mandelson and the rest of them.
As for the fate of the wider UK after Cockney Wanker had saved us from Mr Tatchell:
Ray Gunter succeeded Bob Mellish's mate George Isaacs as Labour MP for Southwark, 1959-72. Gunter was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA). Gunter was elected as the MP for South East Essex in 1945 and was a backbencher throughout the six-year Labour Gov't of Attlee. In the late 1940s, Gunter's Essex seat was broken up; he was elected for Doncaster in Yorkshire in 1950. He was unseated in 1951 by the Tory Anthony Barber.
Gunter was associated with the right wing of the Labour Party and was a member of the Labour Party's NEC, 1955-66. He was president of TSSA, 1956–64. Gunter was returned to the Commons as a TSSA-sponsored MP in 1959 and became a Shadow Cabinet member.
After Labour won the 1964 General Election, Harold Wilson made Gunter Minister of Labour. The dilemma Gunter faced was his trade unionist's natural view that trade unions should be able to negotiate responsible pay rates for their members through "free collective bargaining" but on the other hand the wildcat strikes in some parts of British industry were often seen as damaging to the economy, and "wage restraint" was the alternative. Soon after Labour's 1966 General Election victory, the seamans' strike saw this conflict came to a head. Gunter took the same tough line as Harold Wilson. He would later describe his stint as Minister of Labour as a "bed of nails". Gunter sought to complete his work by bringing in a new bill drawn from the findings of the Donovan Commission Report on trade union power, but Wilson reshuffled him to Minister of Power in April 1968. Gunter was rumoured to have been linked with negative leaks from Cabinet and resigned from Gov't on 1 July 1968, stating he could no longer work in a Wilson Gov't. Gunter's successor in labour affairs, Barbara Castle, saw her proposals to reduce trade union powers in her 1969 White Paper, 'In Place Of Strife' fail in the teeth of concerted trade union opposition. Gunter resigned from Parliament in 1972.
Gunter died in 1977 and was buried on the Isles of Scilly, where for many years – like Harold Wilson – he had a house, located in Launceston Close, Old Town and called Y Bwythen Bach. Gunter's name lives on in a block of sheltered flats for the elderly built by Southwark Council in Walworth; not that Gunter found himself spending his twilight years in that block of flats.
Ray Gunter was succeeded in his Southwark seat by Harry Lamborn. Lamborn was born in London and also had a background in the union movement, specifically his union USDAW, local government and the London Co-operative movement.
Lamborn was a member of Camberwell Borough Council, 1953-65 and was Mayor in 1963/4. He represented the Dulwich constituency on the London County Council, 1958-65. Lamborn was elected to the successor body, the GLC, in 1964 for the constituency of Southwark and was re-elected in 1967 and 1970. Lamborn was Deputy Chairman of the GLC, 1971/2.
Harry Lamborn was elected for Southwark a by-election in May 1972 and after his constituency was eliminated in boundary changes, he ran in the newly configured Peckham. He was comfortably re-elected in the Feb 1974 General Election and was PPS to Denis Healey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-79. Throughout it all, kids in care from Lamborn's constituency were sent into the arms of Dafydd and the paedophiles.
Lamborn was comfortably re-elected in the Tory landslide of 1979, but with a reduced majority. He died in August 1982 and was succeeded in the Peckham constituency by Harriet Harman, a star of many previous posts on this blog. Harriet did and said nothing either about the kids from her constituency who had been and continued to be sent to children's homes in north Wales where they were abused either, but then Harriet's dad John Harman was a Top Doctor who was mates with many of those facilitating and colluding with Dafydd's gang.
Harry Lamborn's name too lives on in a block of sheltered flats for the elderly built by Southwark Council, on Gervase Street off the Old Kent Road in Peckham. Will Harriet too be immortalised in the name of a block of old people's flats? Well Jane Hutt's mate Val Feld who did more than most wimmin in Wales – except for Jane Hutt herself, Julie Morgan, Lesley Griffiths and Edwina Hart of course – to collude with Dafydd's gang is remembered by a plaque on the wall of the Senedd (see previous posts)…
While reading about Southwark, I noticed something odd. Susan Elan Jones was a Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark, 2006-09 and was Deputy Leader of the Opposition on that Council, 2007-09. Susan Elan Jones is currently the Labour MP for Clwyd South, after being elected in the 2010 General Election, succeeding the paedophiles' friend Martyn Jones (see previous posts). Susan Elan Jones is rather hopeless and invisible as an MP, but she has done a bit of screaming in the direction of the two old Trots who currently lead the Labour Party. Susan was one of those who resigned from Jezza's Shadow Cabinet in June 2016, denouncing Jezza as unelectable and calling on him to stand down.
Part of Susan's statement read: 'When I was re-elected as MP for Clwyd South in May 2015, I made a plea that we should never forget those in our society who are less fortunate…although I shall no longer be a Shadow Minister, I will of course continue to be totally committed to my work in Parliament and my constituency, as well as to the Party of which I have been a member for nearly 31 years'.
Well Susan, some years ago this lot were on the doorstep of your constituency and as someone who grew up near Wrexham during the 1970s and 80s, you'll know that a lot of people are still living with the consequences, so I'm wondering when you're going to remember those who really were a great deal less fortunate than you were:
The milking of the notion of Violent NHS Patients continues. I've been too busy to read all the news stories properly today, but I see that The Torygraph is leading with a report that two patients died in a clinical trial at UCL and it was covered up (this will not be the first time that has happened) and other reports tell us that the NHS 'needs more', the billions and billions extra that they have been promised is still not enough.
Of course the 'Today' programme this morning also led with an NHS story; it is that hoary old chestnut Angels Are Being Attacked By Patients. This one is a favourite as any fule kno and it usually accompanies demands for more dosh. The strategy has a long and glorious history as well; my post 'A Very COHSE Relationship With Some Very Nasty People' used info from a PhD thesis that mapped the scare stories featuring Dangerous Mental Patients with pay claims from asylum attendants in the first half of the 20th century, although there was plenty of evidence to suggest that it was the patients who were usually on the receiving end of neglect and brutality. Matthew Hancock the Health Secretary has stated that the first NHS strategy to tackle Violence Against Staff is being launched.
That's funny Matthew because I clearly remember that happening some years ago. The reason why I remember it so clearly was that I was one of the Violent Patients whom Keith Thomson, the CEO of the NW Wales NHS Trust, proudly told the local press about; one woman had been banned from all NHS premises by the use of a restraining order, it was in all the north Wales papers! That woman was me and I later discovered that the restraining order was legally invalid. It was issued by the corrupt judge Huw Daniel on the day that a court case collapsed against me because at least eight NHS staff were found to have lied to the police. One of those who lied was an occupational therapy student called Mike, who admitted to his line manager that he had been forced to make a statement about me after I rang him up for help and advice, having been banned from all NHS premises by the legally invalid restraining order… The original prosecution was mounted against me for 'threatening to kill' Alun Davies (the mental health services manager) after I made a complaint that an Angel and four healthcare assistants had assaulted and injured me. Alun Davies was sitting in the National Assembly with Jane Hutt and her officials when he repeatedly rang the police maintaining that he was terrified and that I presented a very real risk to him. As I sat, injured, in a locked ward at the other end of Wales…
So where was the prosecution of Alun Davies, at least six NHS workers including the Nurse Manager of the Hergest Unit Lena Henry and at least one police officer for perjury and conspiracy then??? Oh, there wasn't one.
At the same time that Keith Thomson told the local papers about the Violent Patient who had been banned from all NHS premises, the RCN rep for Ysbyty Gwynedd provided the same newspapers with figures for the numerous 'assaults' on NHS workers at Ysbyty Gwynedd which I knew to be grossly exaggerated. The RCN rep knew the reality as well, because he was Gareth Phillips, who until he had health problems and was signed off work sick, was employed as an Angel at the Hergest Unit. Gareth's wife Penny had also worked as an Angel at the Hergest Unit for years. Gareth wangled that job as a RCN rep by keeping schtum about the abuse of patients. Gareth was Jeff Crowther's closest friend and they used to spend their weekends and holidays off in the summer going to festivals where they would indulge, in their own words, in a 'drugs binge'.
Why were the former kids in care from north Wales who alleged that they had been abused by staff told by Ronnie Waterhouse and everyone else that they couldn't be believed? Because they had drug problems and were thought to be after compensation. An Angel who regularly indulges in recreational chemicals, is looking at the end of their career and still wants a good salary? Come this way sir, we have a job as an RCN rep if you agree to keep your mouth shut and tell lies to the media when we fit up one of the witnesses to Dafydd's trafficking gang.
By the time that I was acquitted of 'threats to kill' I'd nearly finished a PhD. After I had the temerity to get my PhD, a campaign of harassment was unleashed upon certain people in Bangor University, including my PhD supervisor and his wife, a number of my friends and even the Vice-Chancellor. See previous posts. Alun Davies subsequently began frequenting the University, a place where he had never previously set foot. Not only that, but Davies began turning up in the Students' Union building when I was in there. Davies was frequenting Bangor University on the pretext of asking students to volunteer for charidee work. Some students had been volunteering at the Hergest Unit, a lovely bunch who volunteered with a group set up by the Hergest whistleblower. Alun Davies ordered that the group should be disbanded because the students Weren't Qualified. No, but they all had an interest in entering the mental health professions and furthermore they noticed that Hergest patients were being abused and neglected. That was when Davies noticed that they Weren't Qualified.
Students of Bangor University: as people who had passed A levels, you were ALL More Qualified than Alun Davies, who had NO qualifications. Davies began his career as the lowliest grade of NHS clerk in south Wales and rose to the top on the basis of his frank corruption. Davies came from the Rhondda, which was the domain of George Thomas and on the doorstep of the Windbag. Geddit???
Here's Baroness Windbag, who's mum and dad gave her boyfriend the Windbag a helping hand with his political career by introducing him to their mate Lord Cledwyn, the Labour MP for Anglesey, 1951-79, who was mates with Jim Callaghan and concealed the molesting ways of George Thomas, who served as a Welsh Officer Minister under Secretary of State Cledwyn and succeeded Cledwyn as Secretary of State for Wales. See posts 'The Cradle Of Filth' and 'How Much Greater Is A Man Than A Sheep?'.
Between 1974 and 96, Gwynedd County Council managed children's homes on Anglesey, including one in Holyhead, where kids were abused by Dafydd's gang. This was the Chancellor of UCNW throughout the decades when that institution was run by Dafydd and the gang:
Glenys and Neil: After I graduated, Dr D.G.E. Wood and your mate Tony Francis hurled at and insulted me and told me to get out of North Wales. When I didn't, they hurled at me a bit more. When I did eventually leave north Wales and go to work in London, their mates down there hurled at and insulted me and told me to got back to north Wales. Could you ask Carlo where exactly he wants me to live, because there seemed to be a lot of indecision. Perhaps Carlo could provide me with a cottage on the Duchy's estate, like he did for Peter Ball, the molesting Bishop?
The Gov'ts latest drive against Violent NHS Patients – believe me, there's been quite a few now, all labelled as the first drive against Violent Patients – has been given a boost by legislation which will Double The Sentences of Violent Patients. The legislation was proposed by Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda. Bryant is a former vicar who some years ago appeared on Gaydar clad only in a rather sad pair of undies, accompanied by a message asking 'Oi mate, do you want a fuck?' I do not know how many offers the Rev Bryant received, but if he'd peddled his bottom in the vicinity of Gwynne, Dafydd and the gang in north Wales in the 1980s, he'd have had plenty of takers. When Thatch was destroying the Rhondda in the 1980s, Chris was a fresh faced Oxford grad who was a staunch supporter and member of the Tory Party (see previous posts). I really do think that someone ought to tell his constituents.
One of the tabloids today – I think it was 'The Sun' – reported that Cops believe that there may be 'another two Saviles' at large ie. celebs who are serially sexually assaulting kids. I would have thought that the world would now be a little suspicious of elderly men who wear nothing but a pair of gold lame shorts and ask 4 yr olds if they'll be his girlfriend when they are invited to 'glittering balls' arranged by the NHS to raise money, but no, the Top Docs don't learn, as they have learned nothing with regard to De-escalation Techniques When Faced With Violent Patients. Vanity, money and the desire for a gong will win the day every time.
BBC News Wales reported today that the Royal College of Psychiatrists has employed a Poet in Residence no less. It is the brother of one of the Manic Street Preachers. I imagine that the Royal College of Psychiatrists will manage to kill anyone's enjoyment of poetry stone dead. The Manic Street Preachers did of course star Richie Edwards, who disappeared many years ago. Richie was very able but had been distressed for years; he was a serious self-harmer and I really don't think that the Top Docs did him much good…
As it is Halloween, here's some pictures of the ghosts that haunt north Wales:
Not That Anyone Ever Knew Anything About This Lot Who Are Haunting The Region Of Course…
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The Guardian online edition has just published the obituary of Bronwen Astor, the third wife of Bill Astor aka William Waldorf, 3rd Viscount Astor – Bronwen died at the age of 87 on Dec 28.
Bronwen married Bill Astor in 1960 and only three years later found herself at the centre of the Profumo Affair, the scandal which brought down Harold Macmillan in Oct 1963. Bronwen and the Astors considered that they suffered very badly as a result of the Profumo Affair – they complained that their reputations had been unfairly tarnished and that friends had deserted them. In 2001 Peter Stanford wrote a biography of Bronwen with which she readily co-operated by making papers and other information available. Bronwen felt that Stanford's biography had gone some way to salvaging her reputation and after its publication she felt able to move back to London to live among those who had previously coldshouldered her. There were however two other people who fared rather more badly than Bronwen or the Astors, as we shall see.
Bronwen was born Janet Bronwen Alun Pugh in London, the third daughter of the Welsh circuit judge Sir Alun Pugh. Although she was raised in Hampstead, Bronwen went to Dr Williams School in Dolgellau, north Wales, as a boarder. After leaving school she trained to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Bronwen didn't actually want to teach and she took up modelling work instead. In 1954 she worked for a while as a BBC TV presenter and then went to Paris where she became a high profile catwalk model. Bronwen retired from the catwalk after she married Bill Astor and dedicated herself to running Cliveden, Astor's country seat. Bill Astor was Tory MP for Fulham East, 1935-45. He served as a naval intelligence officer during WWII and made many contacts. In 1951 Astor was elected as the Tory MP for High Wycombe. He relinquished his seat when he inherited his father's title ten months later.
Cliveden was the centre of a group of aristos known as the Cliveden set – which included Baroness Jean Trumpington – who enjoyed weekend gatherings there. Trumpers's friend Sally Norton was Bill Astor's first wife. Cliveden was to become notorious as a result of a party that was held there on the weekend of 8-9 July 1961. It was at this party that one of the guests, 19 year old Christine Keeler, met another guest, John aka Jack Profumo, who was the Minister for War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. Jack Profumo was very keen on Christine and they started an affair.
Christine was not one of the aristocratic friends of Bill Astor. She had experienced a very difficult life and whilst in her mid-teens had become involved with various unpleasant people, including a violent pimp and a gangster associated with London's jazz scene, Johnny Edgecombe. Christine was also friendly with someone who treated her rather better than Edgecombe did, a society osteopath and portrait artist, Stephen Ward. Ward had met Christine in 1959 when she was 17 and working as a dancer in Soho – her bit of the dancing consisted of her standing on the stage topless but motionless whilst the other dancers did the dancing. Christine moved in with Stephen Ward – his house was in Wimpole Mews – and she also spent time with him at Spring Cottage, a house that Ward rented on the Cliveden estate. Ward was a good friend of Bill Astor and Ward and his guests at Spring Cottage would attend the bashes that Astor was holding at the main house. Another person shared Ward's house with Christine and him – Christine's friend Mandy Rice-Davies.
Stephen Ward was the son of an English vicar, who someone responsible for adding information to his wiki entry tells us was a 'lazy and regular underachiever' at school. Such was Ward's underachieving that he had no other options for a career but osteopathy – which the lazy underachiever was very good at. The lazy underachiever qualified as an osteopath in the US and then in 1944 was posted to India with the Army, where he was allowed to continue with his osteopathy – Mahatma Ghandi was one of his patients. Whilst in India Ward had a 'nervous collapse' and was hospitalised. He returned to England in 1945 and was discharged from the Army on the grounds of disability.
Ward then worked at the Osteopathic Association Clinic at Dorset Square in London, where one of his patients was Duncan Sandys, Churchill's son-in-law, who was sufficiently impressed by the lazy underachiever to recommend him to Churchill. So many other people were wowed by the lazy underachiever that word spread among the members of High Society and Ward opened his own clinic in Cavendish Square, off Harley Street. Ward had become friendly with socialite Arthur Ferrier who invited Ward to his parties. At these gatherings Ward met other lazy underachievers, including Prince Philip of Greece, who at that point was a junior officer in the Navy and hadn't yet married into the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family of German origin which allowed him to hurl racist insults at Johnny Foreigner with impunity. One of Ward's patients was Bill Astor. They became good friends and in 1956 Astor let Spring Cottage to Ward at a nominal rent.
History tells us that Ward introduced the 'shy Bill Astor' into Ward's world of girls and parties . Bill Astor was so shy that he'd managed to get married a couple of times and procreate by the time that he married Bronwen in 1960. I don't think that the parties at Cliveden were solely Ward's idea either.
Ward's laziness and underachieving also led to him studying at the Slade and subsequently establishing a reputation as a painter of portraits. In 1960 he was commissioned by the Illustrated London News to paint a series of portraits including those of Prince Philip and Princess Margaret. Ward wanted to visit the Soviet Union to paint the Soviet leaders, so the editor of the Daily Telegraph Sir Colin Coote arranged for Ward to be introduced to Yevgeny Ivanov, a Russian naval attache at the Soviet Embassy. Ward became good friends with Ivanov – who was known to the British security services as a KGB agent. Ward was used by the Foreign Office in unofficial diplomacy – as a backchannel through Ivanov to the Soviet Union – at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. Christine Keeler began a relationship with Iavanov.
The security services wanted Ivanov to defect and had planned to use Christine as a honey trap. However that plan was complicated after she met Profumo and begun an affair with him as well – Ward had reported to MI5 that they had met at the party. Christine and Profumo definitely had an affair but no-one is quite sure how long for, as so many people told so many lies. It is known that they regularly met at Ward's house in Wimpole Mews. Ward had joked to Christine about her participating in pillow talk with Profumo regarding the possibility of West Germany being provided with nuclear warheads, but MI5 didn't take this seriously. However the story regarding the possibility of a security breach got out.
On 9 Aug 1961 Profumo was warned of the dangers of his friendships with Ward's group by Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook, who had been told by Sir Roger Hollis DG of MI5 that MI5 were unsure of Ward's dependability.
Although there were plenty of rumours circulating about Christine's relationship with Profumo, nothing emerged in the press until Johnny Edgecombe got particularly nasty. Christine – who was described as Edgecombe's 'lover' but seems to have fallen more into the category of a call-girl/battered girlfriend of his – was assaulted by a male acquaintance of both of them. Edgecombe slashed him with a knife causing considerable injury, was arrested and subsequently appeared at the Old Bailey in March 1963. Christine was called as a witness but was so frightened of Edgecombe that she failed to materialise in Court. She had good reason to be frightened – three months previously Edgeware had gone looking for her and had fired a few shots into Ward's door for good measure.
After Christine's non-appearance at the Old Bailey, there was a hoo hah about the 'missing witness' and Christine went public on what had been going on re Profumo and her and tried to sell her story to the press. No-one dared publish anything but the level of rumour was such that on 21 March after Edgecombe's trial Private Eye published a thinly disguised account replacing the names of the people involved with 'Dr Spook', 'Miss Gaye Funloving', 'Mr James Montesi' and 'Vladimir Bolokhov'.
On 22 March 1963 Profumo made a statement to the House denying any 'impropriety' with Christine. Stephen Ward initially supported Profumo's story but was so aggressively targeted by the police and threatened with arrest for living off immoral earnings on the grounds that Christine and Mandy were prostitutes that he revealed all to Profumo's political masters and to the press. Profumo fessed up and resigned from Parliament. The police had interviewed more than 100 people as part of their investigation into Ward and Mandy Rice-Davies was arrested for a driving licence offence and remanded in Holloway until she agreed to testify against him. Two days after Profumo resigned, among growing rumours of many more sex scandals in high places including allegations that senior civil servants were involved in unacceptable sexual practices and that Prince Philip was somehow linked to the Profumo Affair, Ward was arrested and charged with living off immoral earnings and procuring.
Ward's trial in July 1963 caused a sensation. The famous bit was Mandy Rice-Davies's response after being told that Bill Astor had denied having sex with her – she replied 'well he would wouldn't he'. Mandy was sixteen when she lived it up and slept with the Cliveden set. There was a paucity of evidence against Ward. Mandy and Christine had contributed towards household expenses whilst they had lived with him and had repaid money that he'd lent them. Furthermore Ward had a very good income from his osteopathy and painting. Most charges against him were dismissed, but Ward was convicted on two counts of living off immoral earnings.
Ward was made a complete scapegoat because a bunch of aristos and politicians who were mates with the Royal Family had been caught out. His character was completely trashed, first at the committal proceedings on 28 June 1963 at Marylebone Magistrates Court and then again at his Old Bailey trial. None of the rich very well-connected people who had been close friends with Ward for years spoke up for him and MI5 didn't reveal that they had been using him. Towards the end of the trial there was evidence available from another case at the Court of Appeal that Christine had perjured herself in that case and therefore wasn't a sound witness – she was the chief prosecution witness at Ward's trial. The presiding judge at Ward's trial Sir Archie Marshall – who had been active in the Liberal Party since he had been at Cambridge and had previously stood for election as a Liberal candidate on a number of occasions – did not make this evidence known to the jury. The prosecution barrister was Mervyn Griffith-Jones, who had become notorious three years previously at the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial, when he had questioned whether someone would want their 'wife or servants' to read the book. Griffith-Jones ripped Ward apart and stated in Court that Ward represented the 'very depths of lechery and depravity'.
On 30 July Archie Marshall began his summing up. He made such an attack on Ward that Ward overdosed on barbiturates and was taken to hospital where he died three days later. His memorial service was held in the chapel at St Stephen's Hospital, so I presume that is where he died.
Ward was the man who was put on trial but the police had investigated Bill Astor as well and had threatened to charge him with brothel keeping, after they discovered that he had written a cheque to pay the rent on a flat of Christine's and Mandy's.
Another judge knew a great deal about what did or didn't go on at Cliveden but he didn't appear at the Old Bailey – Sir Alun Pugh, Bill Astor's father-in-law. Jeremy Lewis's book 'David Astor' describes how before Ward's trial Alun Pugh met with Bill Astor, David Astor, David and Bill's brother Jakie and Bill Astor's lawyer to discuss whether Bill was going to give evidence. Sir Aun remembered that 'David was breathing fire and talked about the fight for the honour of the Astor family' and was 'begging Bill to go into the witness box'. Bill was advised against this by his 'awful lawyer'.
The Astor family owned the Observer and David was the editor. David went to Eton and then Balliol, whereas both Bill and Jakie went to Eton and then New College, Oxford. Jakie was the Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton, 1951-59. Nancy Astor, the mother of Bill, David and Jakie, had been the Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton, 1919-45. Nancy had a son from her first marriage, Bobby Shaw, who was quite troubled. He had problems with alcohol and in 1931 he was arrested for homosexual offences. Many years later, after his mother's death, Bobby killed himself. Nancy Astor's political views were a bit odd. She was an appeaser who met Nazi officials on a number of occasions and also had a problem with Jewish people and Catholics – such that she dictated that they should not be employed by the Observer, a policy which was still being followed in the 1960s. She took an interest in juvenile justice and was involved in the passing of legislation regarding sex offences against young people.
David Astor was viewed as a socially liberal compassionate man supportive of a number of radical causes. When he was young he had a breakdown and was analysed by Anna Freud. David was very friendly with George Orwell, who was employed by the Observer. David and George Orwell are buried next to each other – David purchased the two burial plots for that purpose. David Astor was one of the founders of Amnesty International in 1961 and was also very supportive of the ANC from the mid-60s. Nelson Mandela publicly paid tribute to David Astor for his support.
However there are a few interesting things tucked away regarding David in Jeremy Lewis's book. Although the Observer condemned Profumo for lying to the House, David was obviously able to wield considerable control over what it published about the Profumo Affair. Jeremy Lewis's biography of David Astor records how at the time of Stephen Ward's trial David was on holiday on Jura and wrote to Bill Astor telling him that he wished that he could control what the Observer was going to say about the trial. Yet David will have known the date of the trial weeks in advance – he didn't HAVE to go on holiday to Jura at that time. David had a friend and an advisor who was notoriously effective at assisting people in high places who were in trouble – Lord Arnold Goodman. Goodman was Harold Wilson's solicitor and also helped Jeremy Thorpe out when he was charged with conspiring to murder Norman Scott (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed'). David Astor is one of the many people who maintained that Ward was 'the victim of an historic injustice'. Astor was on record as saying that the build up of hostility towards Ward before the trial was a 'nightmare' and that he regrets that he didn't say anything about it. Ah well he just had to go on that holiday to Jura when he had absolutely no influence at all over what the paper that his family owned and which he edited was going to publish about the very hot water in which his older brother had landed.
George Orwell wasn't the only employee of the Observer who's name became part of British history. The Observer also employed Kim Philby. After Burgess and Maclean defected, Kim Philby was under suspicion of being the Third Man and was grilled by MI5. He resigned from the service. Malcolm Muggeridge, Philby's war time colleague from MI6, suggested that Philby should try and bag a job on the Observer. Philby wrote to David Astor in Feb 1952 and made a good impression on Astor and Philip Toynbee. Philby subsequently filed a number of reports for the Observer. Two years later in 1955 Philby was officially cleared in the House of the accusation that he was the Third Man. MI6 re-employed him and posted him to Beirut, under the cover of working for the Observer as their middle east correspondent. In 1963 Philby defected to Russia. Ted Heath later told the House that Philby had been the Third Man and had been working for the Soviets. Astor later denied knowing that Philby was working for MI6, although the security services maintain that Astor did know.
The Observer came in for a lot of flak for employing Kim Philby.
John Pringle maintained that thanks to David Astor, 'the Observer behaved with generosity and restraint', which saved the reputation of Cliveden. Bronwen stated that she was 'very touched' by a letter that she'd received from David. David also wrote to Profumo, acknowledging that Profumo blamed Bill Astor for his troubles and that he found it 'difficult to entirely forgive Bill', but urged him to visit Bill who was at the time in the Middlesex Hospital.
The Observer was ailing in the 1960s. The Sunday Times's circulation exceeded that of the Observer – the Sunday Times even managed to employ Lord Snowdon as their photographer – and the launch of the Sunday Telegraph in 1961 provided further competition for the Observer. David Astor, Tristan Jones the MD of the Observer and the Trustees were working flat out to keep the newspaper afloat. Tristan Jones was the son of Tom Jones, the President of Aberystwyth University, 1944-54. Scores of the lawyers and judges who concealed the criminality associated with the Top Doctors and the paedophile gang in north Wales trained at Aberystwyth. Tristan Jones's sister was Baroness Eirene White, who for many years was the Labour MP for Flintshire, who did a great deal to conceal the criminality as well (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology').
After Stephen Ward's trial the Master of the Rolls Lord Denning was appointed by the Gov't to investigate all the rumours that emanated from the Profumo Affair. Denning's Report was published in Sept 1963. He maintained that there had been no security leaks, no evidence to link members of the Gov't with the associated scandals and blamed the 'utterly immoral Ward' for absolutely everything. After Macmillan resigned 'for health reasons', his successor Lord Home resigned his peerage and became Sir Alec Douglas Home. In Oct 1964 Labour won the General Election and Harold Wilson became Prime Minister.
It was John Hunt who in his capacity as Cabinet Secretary to Harold Wilson's Gov't advised Wilson to appoint Sir Kenneth Stowe as the Principal Private Secretary to the PM. John Hunt – who served as Cabinet Secretary, 1973-79 ie. to the Gov'ts of Heath, Wilson, Callaghan and Thatcher – had been Sir Norman Brook's Private Secretary, 1956-58 – the Norman Brook who had warned Profumo about Stephen Ward's crowd. John Hunt and Kenneth Stowe became incredibly powerful people and Stowe spent many enjoyable years as the Principal Private Secretary to Wilson and Callaghan and then as the mandarin who concealed all the crap in the NHS, including the activities of the lobotomist Gwynne Williams, Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and the paedophile ring (see post 'Additional Security Measures') In 1989 Sir Kenneth Stowe published a book called 'On Caring for the National Health'. Stowe certainly cared for the health of society's elites and for the Top Doctors who served them but unfortunately not for patients who were the targets of the Top Doctors who were involved in serious crime. Gwynne the lobotomist and facilitator of the paedophile ring became Medical Superintendent of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh in 1963. Dafydd followed hot on his heels. Dafydd and Gwynne also were involved in the sexual exploitation of young attractive female patients who like Christine Keeler had come from difficult backgrounds and had no-one to look out for them. Christine Keeler had been in the hands of the welfare agencies herself as a teenager.
The account written of the Profumo Affair by Anthony Summers and Stephen Dorril maintains that a former MI6 operative admitted that Stephen Ward had been murdered by an MI6 agent, because of the potential for him to cause embarrassment to the Gov't and the Royal Family. Jean Trumpington mentions in her biography 'Coming Up Trumps' that when HM the Queen visited Cliveden, the less reputable guests would be hidden (see post '95 Glorious Years!'). The alleged method of killing Steven Ward was to encourage him to take increasing doses of barbiturates until a fatal dose had been ingested. Which would be a very easy thing to achieve if you were, for example, a Top Doctor treating a very distressed Stephen Ward who was being fitted up in Court. In fact that is exactly what very nearly happened to me at the hands of the mental health services in north Wales (see post 'An Attempt To Frame Me – Witnessed').
In 1982 Ward's MI5 role whilst he was friendly with Ivanov was confirmed by the Sunday Times, who located his former contact.
Christine Keeler died recently and maintained to the end that the truth about the Profumo Affair had never ever been revealed. Although in one of her accounts Keeler stated that Ward was a spy she always maintained that he was a gentleman and that their relationship had never been sexual . Mandy Rice-Davies weathered the Profumo Affair rather better than Christine did and became a successful businesswoman. Christine went to prison for perjury – but not at Stephen Ward's trial – and spent most of the rest of her life being called a slapper.
Jack Profumo rehabilitated himself completely through Good Works with the disadvantaged and dispossessed at Toynbee Hall in the East End. Toynbee Hall has featured previously on this blog. Some of those involved with Toynbee Hall have concealed the sexual abuse and exploitation of disadvantaged young people.
Bronwen was frozen out of high society post-Profumo and was miffed to be accused of being another one of Ward's girls who was trained to bag a rich husband. Bronwen maintained that she only met Ward after her marriage to Bill Astor and took an 'instant dislike' to him. As of course did everyone else once the scandal became public – after they'd been mates with him for years, invited him to their knees-ups, had their portraits painted and had their muscles and bones manipulated by him. And of course asked him to supply them with girls for their parties.
In 1966 Bill Astor died in the Bahamas.
Bronwen moved from Cliveden and founded an ecumenical religious community at Tuesley Manor in Godalming in Surrey. The community collapsed in 1974 – in 1986 Bronwen qualified as a psychotherapist and ran a practice for over 20 years. She was regarded as something of an authority on the link between religious experiences and the mind and Chaired the Alester Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre at Oxford – which is now located at Trinity St David's University in Wales.
Those who were involved with Cliveden are nearly all dead now. So perhaps Trumpers would like to let us know exactly who did what because I don't suppose that the Queen and Prince Philip are going to be giving any interviews about their time at parties with the Cliveden set.
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Baroness Jean Trumpington retired from the House of Lords at the end of last month at the age of 95 and what a fuss in the media there was. Trumpers – as she likes to be known – was interviewed and featured everywhere, in a consistently positive way. Much was made of the fact that Trumpers virtually single-handedly defended Hitler, that she gave Thatcher a few good bollockings and that she 'dealt with' Lloyd George as a young woman. Trumpers was even named in a 'Guardian' article as a feminist icon and the nation remembered her stellar performances on 'Have I Got News For You' and other light entertainment programmes.
A few weeks before she announced her retirement, this blog revealed that Trumpers had actually been the Minister in the DHSS responsible for appointing Jimmy Savile general manager of Broadmoor – where he sexually assaulted and raped a number of women patients, two of whom are thought to have killed themselves as a result. When I wrote that – it was just a bit of information that I supplied in a comment following my 'Wheels Within Wheels Or Flies Drawn To The Same Incestuously Corrupt Shithouse?' post – I'd barely heard of Trumpers, although I had seen her on 'Have I got News For You'. I was fascinated to hear that it was she who appointed Savile whilst she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State – not just because it was a stupid monstrous thing to do, but because Edwina Currie took the flak for that. Indeed, this blog gave Edwina Currie flak for it – Currie was also a Minister in the DHSS, working under Ken Clarke as Secretary of State, who after Savile's death held her hands up to appointing him. Currie admitted attending dinners in the Athenaeum with Savile, corrupt civil servants and Savile's former NHS manager mate from Leeds, Alan Franey (see post 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s'). Yet it was Trumpers who did the dirty deed – I suspect that Trumpers attended a few knees ups in the Athenaeum along with the rest of them.
So why did Edwina – and to a lesser extent Ken Clarke – cover Trumpers' arse? Edwina was having to defend herself repeatedly in public while furious people demanded to know how she could ever have been so foolish as to appoint a serial sex offender to such a position. A public inquiry into Savile was taking place, the BBC was under fire, monuments to Savile were being taken down and even the over-the-top headstone from his grave was removed – throughout it all, no-one mentioned Trumpers. Edwina is no shrinking violent – did she perhaps have such a good relationship with Trumpers that she was happy to protect a friend who had been guilty of a huge misjudgement but was basically a decent person? Unlikely, based on an interview that Trumpers herself gave to the 'Guardian' in 2004 – Trumpers stated that Edwina was a 'bitch', was 'dreadful', talked far too much and that Trumpers was always having to clean up after her. Trumpers mentioned the eggs business as an example. The eggs business was interesting – Edwina had to resign because she pissed off some very wealthy factory farmers who stood to go bankrupt. Edwina had made public comment stating that 'most of our egg production' was infected with salmonella – which at that time was true. Not every egg was infected with salmonella, but just about every intensive egg farm in the UK was infected with salmonella. Edwina had already been rude to the elderly who had suffered from hypothermia, she'd made misleading comments about the effectiveness of the UK's cervical screening programme – but she was out on her ear when she told the truth about a highly profitable sector of the country's intensive agriculture sector.
What Edwina didn't do all by herself though was appoint a serial sex offender to a senior job in a secure hospital housing sex offenders as well as the victims of sex offenders. (Yes, the dear old NHS still does that. There have been cases where women who have been raped found themselves in the same hospital as the man who raped them. I shared a ward at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh with a rapist and a man who had killed his wife and at Springfield Hospital I shared a ward with yet another man who had murdered his wife. I do not believe that this should result in a policy of single sex wards as dear old MIND have been trying to implement, but I do think that sex offenders or men with a track record of violence towards women should not be placed in wards with women.)
Not only did Trumpers appoint Savile and then when it was revealed years later enjoy full protection from the scrutiny of the media, but presumably at the time no-one told Trumpers that it was a ridiculous and dangerous appointment. Some of the civil servants themselves were fully on board and were partners in crime with Savile and it is quite clear from his autobiography that in his capacity as Secretary of State for Health Ken Clarke didn't really give a stuff about the chaos that presided in his dept. Ken was never in any danger of over-working and he delegated most things to other people and got on with getting pissed with his mates in the Commons dining clubs, eating curries and going to jazz clubs (see post 'Running The Country – And All That Jazz'). Presumably Edwina felt unable to stop Savile's appointment – although she did admit that she admired Savile's threats to screw the POA using unlawful methods, so perhaps appointing Savile was one thing that she and Trumpers did not fall out over.
After finding out that it was Trumpers who had made the Savile appointment but no-one dared fess up to that in public, I thought that I'd better find out a few more things about Trumpers. I then discovered that Trumpers was given a peerage in 1980 by Thatcher BEFORE Trumpers had entered Gov't – or in fact before Trumpers had achieved anything very much at all beyond being Mayor of Cambridge. Que?? So I began digging and from what I have read, the myths that surround Trumpers are myths as big as the myths that surrounded Savile. As with Savile, there is much evidence that many people knew about Trumpers' feet of clay…
Trumpers published an autobiography in 2011, 'Coming Up Trumps'. It is illuminating.
Trumpers was born into immense privilege. Her mother Doris was American, the daughter of an immensely wealthy business family. Her father Arthur Campbell-Harris had been the aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India, Lord Reading aka Rufus Isaacs. Lord Reading was a Liberal and a barrister who had been Solicitor General and Attorney General in Asquith's Gov't. He was then Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald's National Gov't and then Lord Chief Justice. In 1913 Reading had been named in the Marconi financial corruption scandal, which also implicated other members of the Liberal Gov't, including Lloyd George. Reading's other claim to fame was that he imprisoned Mahatma Gandhi in 1922. Trumpers' mother was a good friend of Lady Reading, Alice. Alice was what in those days was called an invalid and concerned herself with charitable causes, such as establishing hospitals in India. After Alice died, Reading married his secretary Stella Charnaud, who founded the Women's Voluntary Service. After Reading's death, Stella was given a peerage in 1958 and became Baroness Swanborough, the first woman to sit in the Lords in her own right.
Lord and Lady Reading weren't the only grand friends that Trumpers and her family had. They mixed with the best. As a child, Trumpers shared a dance teacher with Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. The family lived in Cumberland Place in Marylebone and even Trumpers herself realises that they were fabulously wealthy and led the life of Riley. Other friends of the family included John Thorpe, a Tory MP and his wife Ursula. The Thorpe's had a son called Jeremy whom Trumpers used to play with, although in her book Trumpers maintained that she found Jeremy foul. I suspect that she may have decided that at a later stage in her life, perhaps after Thorpe's career ended in scandal and he no longer had a chance of becoming PM – because as we shall see, if somebody was rich, titled and important, Trumpers could be most forgiving of unpleasant personality traits.
The family that Trumpers' own family were bestest mates with however were the Lloyd Georges. Trumpers' grandparents had been big buddies with Lloyd George and his wife Dame Margaret and Trumpers' mother was close friends with Lady Olwen Carey Evans, Lloyd George's daughter. Margie Carey Evans, one of Lloyd George's granddaughters, had been a bridesmaid at Trumpers' parents wedding and Robin Carey Evans was Trumpers' first boyfriend. Robin Carey Evans is still alive and lives in Australia – he is the godfather of Richard Branson.
Lloyd George's family are of course from Cricieth in Gwynedd. There are a lot of Lloyd George's, or as one branch of the family is called, Carey Evans's. It was the Carey Evans's with whom Trumpers and her family was friendly.
There are still Carey Evans's living near Cricieth – I mentioned two of them on this blog a few months ago, but when I came across their names I didn't actually realise who they were. I found the names of D.B. Carey Evans and Annwen Carey Evans on a 'memorandum' of furious indignant protest that had been submitted to Parliament's Welsh Affairs Committee in 2008. This 'memorandum' had been part of the co-ordinated attempt by the paedophiles' friends to bring down Edwina Hart, the Welsh Health Minister who had dared confront the Top Doctors and the paedophiles' friends. It was signed by many disgraced people and paedophiles' friends, as well as the two Carey Evans's. Full details can be read in my post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!'. I do not know D.B. Carey Evans or Annwen Carey Evans – there is a David Carey Evans who runs businesses near Cricieth including a trout farm or something similar and on the memorandum Annwen Carey Evans noted that she was formerly the High Sheriff of Gwynedd – but they will undoubtedly be members of the Lloyd George clan. The Carey Evans's will have known the backgrounds of some of those who signed the memorandum along with them, some of those signatories were infamous – one couldn't live in north Wales and have not known about them. As for the relationship between the locals around Cricieth and the Llord Georges – whilst local people would speak admiringly of Lloyd George, what with him coming from Llanstumdwy and ending up as PM, there was a sense that the descendants of Lloyd George lorded it over everyone else. They were thought to be important and no doubt considered themselves important as well – which is why two of them ended up putting their names to a memorandum cooked up by a bunch of crooks designed to remove a Health Minister, despite them holding no positions in the NHS or related services at all.
Another name popped up in connection with the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal which was linked with the Lloyd Georges – that of Alistair McAlpine. McAlpine was named on Newsnight in 2012 as being one of the people who abused boys at Bryn Estyn and a huge row ensued after the man who named McAlpine subsequently said that he thought that he had been mistaken. Some people – including Sally Bercow – had been daft enough to repeat the allegation online and McAlpine successfully sued them. No-one mentioned at the time that although McAlpine may have been wrongly named, some of McAlpine's colleagues in the Tory Party, such as Sir Peter Morrison, MP for Chester, had been abusing boys from children's homes in north Wales. McAlpine was Tory Party Treasurer from the mid 1970s until 1990 and he was also an advisor to Thatcher. Morrison was Thatcher's PPS and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.
The mother of Owen Lloyd George, the 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ie. Lloyd George's grandson – was Roberta McAlpine, Robert McAlpine's daughter. (Alistair McAlpine was Robert McAlpine's great-grandson.) Roberta married Lloyd George's son Richard. Owen Lloyd George sat in the Lords as a cross bencher – he did not live in Wales until he was 63, when he purchased a house in Pembrokeshire. Owen married Ruth Coit, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. After that marriage was dissolved, he married Jo, daughter of Sir Alexander Gordon- Cumming and Elizabeth, Countess of Cawdor. Just to confuse things even further, Jo had been previously married to the Earl of Woolton and to Lord Ferres. For further details of these rather complex relationships and their connections to present day media barons, please see post 'Did Glenda Occupy A Key Role In Keeping It All Out Of The Media?'
Owen's eldest son succeeded him as the 4th Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor.
Other member of the Lloyd George family whom Trumpers' and her parents knew included Gwilym Lloyd George aka Viscount Tenby, who was the brother of Olwen Carey Evans. Gwilym was an MP (for Pembrokeshire, 1922-24 and again between 1929-50; then for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1951-57). He was Home Secretary 1954-57 – Gwilym was the Home Secretary who refused to commute Ruth Ellis's death sentence. Gwilym became Viscount Tenby in 1957. Gwilym had two children – David, the 2nd Viscount Tenby who died unmarried and William, later Lord Tenby, who sat as a cross bench peer. William was one of the 90 hereditary peers who retained his seat in the Lords after Blair's 'reform' of the Lords in 1999. Gwilym married Edna Gwenfron from Denbigh. Timothy, the son of William studied at Aberystwyth and later went to Australia. Gwilym's sister Megan Lloyd George also had a long career in politics.
Olwen Carey Evans married Sir Thomas Carey Evans – a Top Doctor who was surgeon to one Lord Reading, the Viceroy of India… Thomas Carey Evans was the son of Dr Robert Davies Evans, a GP in Blaenau Ffestiniog, who was also High Sheriff of Merionethshire. Evans's wife was the sister of Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, a notable Welsh physician and psychiatrist, who studied at what is now Bangor University and then St Barts Hospital, London. Armstrong-Jones then lectured at Barts, was a consulting physician to the military at London and Aldershot before WWI and during that war, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1929 he was High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire. Throughout much of this time Armstrong-Jones was also Superintendent of the London County Council's Claybury Asylum – he remained associated with Claybury until his death at the age of 85. When he was younger, Armstrong-Jones worked at Colney Hatch Asylum. Armstrong-Jones's son Ronald was a barrister – who's own son was the drug imbibing bisexual notoriously promiscuous Anthony Armstrong-Jones aka Lord Snowdon, past star of this blog, as is his wife, Princess Margaret! The Snowdons were patients of Dr Peter and Ann Dally, drug dealers to high society (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other)…
Sir Thomas Carey Evans was educated at University College Cardiff, then did his medical training at the University of Glasgow and at Barts. He served in the military in India and later settled in London, living at Wimpole Street. In 1936 Carey Evans was appointed the first medical superintendent of Hammersmith Hospital. Carey Evans was medical superintendent at Hammersmith when the Royal Postgraduate Medical School was established there and he remained there for approx ten years. For details of the long-standing research fraud, cronyism and misconduct that I witnessed and was told about whilst I was doing my MSc at Hammersmith Hospital/RPMS in 1986-87, please see post 'A Cause Close To Our Hearts'. Thomas Carey Evans retired to north Wales in 1945 where, according to his obituary, he immersed himself in his love of the language and culture – whilst his extended family and then his descendants completely shafted the region. Thomas Carey Evans died in 1948, but Olwen lived until 1990.
Thomas and Olwen had four children – Margaret, Eluned, Robert and David. Eluned is the mother of Thomas MacMillan and Margaret MacMillan. Margaret is the historian and warden of St Antony's College Oxford. Margaret's sister Ann is manager of the London Bureau of CBC and is married to the journalist Peter Snow. Their son is BBC regular and star of 'The One Show', Dan Snow! That's 'The One Show' which features the lame and hopeless Alex Jones, who went to Aberystwyth University and soon inexplicably became an over-paid star at the notoriously Oxbridge-dominated BBC – some of us are wondering how she managed to do that. Dan Snow therefore is the great-grandson of Olwen. In one interview Dan remembers visiting north Wales as a little boy and witnessing much cap-doffing towards Olwen…
Dan is a friend of Prince William!
But wait until you hear about Thomas MacMillan. He hasn't wasted his time being a Top Doctor or even signing arsey memorandums in a desperate attempt to protect the jobs and pensions of people who should never have been appointed to their jobs in the first place. He's not on 'The One Show' either. Thomas is Mr Big Bucks himself. He has been, variously, Chair of CIBC Mellon Canada; President and CEO of CIBC Mellon; Executive Vice-President of Corporate Services at the Montreal Trust; Vice-President, President and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank of Canada. In 2012 Thomas MacMillan was appointed Chair of Blair Franklin Asset Management.
Howz about that then as Trumpers' friend Jimmy would no doubt have observed.
New visitors to this blog unacquainted with the ways of the Top Doctors and paedophiles' friends might well accuse me of being on the Grassy Knoll when I take the trouble to map out these connections and networks. I too used to believe that people who carry on in the way that I do were on the Grassy Knoll. We are not. People like Trumpers learnt at a very young age that having friends in Very High Places – preferably places like Buck House – can be very useful, especially if you or your friends and associates are doing things that they shouldn't be. Trumpers' book is quite explicit about this – not only does she actually admit that she ruthlessly used her rich and powerful friends to get what she wanted, but she is finely attuned as to who's title is the most prestigious, which families have the highest number of members who are dukes and exactly who owns which stately home. Trumpers is rude about gongs like MBEs and states that she doesn't care much for 'baubles' – that's because the only thing that matters in her eyes is a peerage, particularly if it's an hereditary one. She's taken a leaf out of the book of Michael Winner and very obviously thinks that an OBE is just for those who have worked as a dinner lady for 40 years. A dinner lady for the working classes that is – serving at a banquet at Buck House is a different kettle of fish entirely, as Trumpers explains in her book when she tells us that she had always wanted to serve at a state banquet but that is usually a male preserve (a bit like inheriting the title and the family seat, or until very recently the Crown).
Trumpers' family hit a major trauma in 1929 with the Wall Street crash – they 'lost everything'. Well, by Trumpers' standards it was 'everything'. It was quite a lot – millions – but they had so much anyway that they did not have to claim benefits or go on the parish or whatever one did in 1929 when you were sharing a dance teacher with Lilibet and Margaret Rose. They moved out of their palatial residence at Cumberland Place into a 'cottage' in Kent called Rowlings. Trumpers' has been good enough to supply a photo in her book of the 'cottage' to which they decamped when they were destitute, I can recommend looking at that photo – readers will gain some idea of the planet that Trumpers' lives on. The cottage came with servants as well and land. I'm glad to say that Trumpers' parents friends were also willing to slum it at the cottage, so Prime Ministers and their friends continued to visit.
According to Trumpers, Rowlings was managed by the Lunacy Commission because the man who owned it had 'gone mad' and couldn't manage his own affairs. I know that this can happen to people if they become sufficiently distressed, but I also know that Dr Dafydd Alun Jones said this of Mary Wynch and relieved her of her property – she successfully sued him and demonstrated that he was a corrupt old bastard who had illegally had her arrested and banged her up in the North Wales Hospital Denbigh for a year. However when Michael Howard at the Home Office finally spat Mary out in 1995, her property was not returned to her. Unlike Trumpers, Mary really did lose everything – at the hands of some of those who signed that 'memorandum' along with the Carey Evans's… Brown and me also got to hear about an aristocrat in north Wales who did not inherit because he was deemed to be mentally incompetent. 'Now there's a job for D.A. Jones' observed Brown when we were told of this very worrying case. I wouldn't be at all surprised if indeed Dafydd had been involved. Trumpers maintains that because Rowlings was managed by the Lunacy Commission they were not allowed to buy it, they could only rent. Yet further on in the book Trumpers mentions that her mother was given the option to buy – it was the Lunacy Commission who seemed to be making this offer, not the man who had 'gone mad'. Er – what was going on Trumpers? Had the owner of Rowlings recovered – and if so why were you still dealing with the Lunacy Commission? If he hadn't recovered, why were they trying to flog your mother his house? Rather than buy Rowlings, Trumpers' mother opted for the purchase of another little bolt hole, this time one with ten bedrooms. At one point Trumpers mentions that the family had miraculously come into a great deal of money again, but she doesn't explain quite how. Until they received that windfall, Trumpers et famille effectively lived off the generosity of their very rich friends – and I mean rich. Trumpers' et al were the poor relations because they didn't own half of Scotland.
Trumpers' account of her young life names others whom she and her parents hung out with – including the Prince of Wales and Mrs Simpson in Biarritz. Trumpers' dad was a womaniser which caused Trumpers a bit of embarrassment when she was a young woman – she'd turn up to swanky clubs with her own beau, only to find her dad in there with one of his mistresses. A scene occurred at the wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina in 1934 when one of Trumpers' dad's girlfriends arrived.
A major part of the Trumpers' biography as sold to the nation by the media was Trumpers' time as a landgirl, doing her bit for the war effort. Trumpers was famously a landgirl in Churt, on Lloyd George's farm. Whilst at Churt, Trumpers shared the cottage in which Lloyd George's mistress Frances Stevenson lived. Upon Trumpers' retirement, the BBC and 'Guardian' made much of Trumpers' success as a teenager in fighting off the lecherous old Lloyd George. A different story emerges from Trumpers' books and earlier interviews. Lloyd George used to turn up to the house where Frances and Trumpers were living and measure Trumpers' vital statistics. Trumpers' did not fight him off, she thought it was a bit weird, but as she said in one interview 'he was the grandfather of all my friends'. She'd known him since she was in the womb, he was almost as well-known to her as her own parents were and she'll have known exactly what he was like – she was his mistress's flat-mate. As for Trumpers' contribution to the war effort – her book states quite clearly that she was the only landgirl at Churt and she was sent there because it would imply that Lloyd George was making a contribution to the war effort himself. Trumpers' also admits that the famous photo of her, the farm manager and Lloyd George at work on the farm was posed especially for the newspapers. None of this is unusual – but it has all helped build up a public image of someone whom Trumpers was most definitely not. The produce from Lloyd George's farm – honey and mead – was sold by Fortnum and Mason who made the identity of the farm's owner a selling point.
This brings me to next part of the Trumpers' myth – Hitler and Trumpers' part in his downfall. When Trumpers stepped down from the Lords, everybody banged on about her having worked at Bletchley Park WITH ALAN TURING.
Trumpers' received virtually no formal education. She did speak French well – because as a child she had a French governess. Trumpers had learnt French, she had learnt ballet and she had learnt the correct way to curtsy at Court, but she had not learnt much else. She was very weak at maths – even by her standards – and she expressed quite a contempt for education anyway. She didn't need it and couldn't see the point of it and what formal education she had ended when she was 15. She was then sent to a finishing school in Switzerland where two batty old ladies with Royal connections taught her things that probably even Trumpers didn't need to know. Trumpers did however subsequently pursue a secretarial course, a very basic bog standard one.
When Trumpers hit 18 in 1940 she didn't know what to do with herself and no-one else knew what to do with her either. Her father had a friend who was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy who knew someone who was working at Bletchley. Trumpers was told to go along to Lyons Corner House where she was 'interviewed' by a Frank Birch. She was then given a ticket to enable her to go to Bletchley Park the very next day. So they obviously weren't waiting to receive her references. Trumpers explains in her book that there was 'no vetting' because 'they were snobs' – she maintains that if you spoke the Queen's English and had been to the right school you were alright. Or indeed if you had a dad who had a mate at Bletchley Park and you'd been groped by Lloyd George whilst dossing down with his mistress and had connections to Royalty.
By Trumpers' own account, her work at Bletchley was very menial – it had to have been, Trumpers couldn't have done anything else, she was eighteen and innumerate – and she was mind-numbingly bored as were all the other young women who worked with her. They had no idea at all – understandably – what the work taking place at Bletchley Park was. They were a group of young women all much like Trumpers ie. aristocratic but with no education other than language skills from European governess's and they had bugger all interest in what was going on at Bletchley either. What did they do? They literally pissed about all day. They ski-ived off work, they hid each other in filing cabinets, they ran up and down corridors and they dressed up in ridiculous outfits to entertain each other. The media reports of Trumpers' days off from Bletchley maintain that she and her friends would go to London 'and dance all night' a la Barbara Cartland. Trumpers' own account suggests that they got absolutely rat-arsed with numerous young men, some of whom they didn't actually know. I'm not suggesting that Trumpers and her friends shouldn't have done this – it is what teenagers tend to do, Trumpers et al were just doing it in a rather more privileged way – but fighting Hitler they were not. However some of the young men in their circle did risk their necks because they were in the Forces. Trumpers did meet Alan Turning – once. Or she thinks that she did. She was ordered to take a message over to a man in a room in another part of Bletchley Park – she didn't know her way around because she and her mates were all confined to one hut and had to stay in there virtually all the time – but she eventually arrived at the office and gave the message to the man inside, who did not say thank you. Who she thinks might have been Alan Turing. If he'd been the Duke of fucking Rutland she'd have known exactly who he was, how many thousands of acres he owned and how long the castle had been in the family, but Trumpers was not particularly interested in code-breaking or quiet gay mathematical geniuses.
Trumpers only had a rather woolly grasp of what was going on at Bletchley Park, but she was on the ball with regard to a few other things. Such as the nature of the people with whom she was 'billeted'. Not that Trumpers stood on a train station with a label on her waiting to be taken to someone's spare bedroom – no, Trumpers was billeted at Passenham Manor, 'the house of a very rich banker', George Ansley. Furthermore Trumpers made friends 'with a girl who later married an ambassador', 'which came in handy later on'.
One of Trumpers' closest friends at Bletchley was Sarah 'Sally' Norton, the daughter of the 6th Lord Grantley (Trumpers actually knows the numbers of the Lords, Earls and Viscounts that she hangs out with). Sally later married Bill Astor of Profumo fame – of which I will write more later on in this post. Trumpers was where the action was re Profumo, but as with Savile her name seems to have been kept out of it all.
Sally Norton introduced Trumpers to Max Aitken aka Lord Beaverbrook, the Fleet Street baron – Sally's mother was Beaverbrook's mistress and kept a cottage at his country house near Leatherhead. Jean Norton and Beaverbrook later married. Trumpers became well acquainted with Beaverbrook, visited him regularly and spent weekends at his place where she met 'absolutely everybody'. Beaverbrook's friends included Asquith, Lloyd George, Churchill, Duff and Diana Cooper and H.G. Wells. Trumpers herself believes that Beaverbrook cultivated her friendship because of her family connections to the Lloyd Georges – Beaverbrook was given his peerage by the Coalition Gov't when Lloyd George was PM. Trumpers' book relates anecdotes in which she toadies to Beaverbrook and writes and sings songs to him concerning his greatness. Years later Beaverbrook asked Trumpers to spend Christmas with him – she said that she couldn't because she was spending it with her family. So Beaverbrook told her to bring them. She responded by saying that she didn't think that they'd be very happy about that. Beaverbrook never spoke to her again.
What Trumpers' relationship with Beaverbrook actually was I can't quite work out – he was known to be a womaniser who treated women very badly when he'd finished using them and the impression one gains from Trumpers' book is that she was either sexually involved with him or gave him the message that she was available for such activities. But Trumpers seems to have given that message out to an awful lot of men around her. She stresses repeatedly that she was 'pure', but I think that it would be quite difficult to stay as the driven snow if you carried on like Trumpers. She spent her whole time ingratiating herself to people who seemed to shag anything that moved, she was often well-bladdered and participated in games of strip poker with groups of soldiers. Part of Trumpers' media appeal was her constant little jokes about being 'rather naughty', doing things that she shouldn't and 'not being caught'. It was all wrapped up in terms of an elderly lady smoking in places where smoking was banned or swearing in the Lords, but I suspect that old Trumpers did a few things that would have got other people arrested and up in Court…
One of the soldiers with whom Trumpers got pissed and played strip poker was Patrick Telfour Smollett – he was good friends with David Niven. Smollett married Georgina Fox, the daughter of Sir Gifford Fox, MP for Henley. Patrick Smollett stood as a Conservative candidate for Parliament twice but was not elected. He later became Deputy Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire.
Trumpers' other very good friend at Bletchley was Osla Benning, who was Prince Philip's first girlfriend. Osla was the goddaughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten. Osla married John Henniker-Major, who later became Lord Henniker.
Readers who follow the comments section of this blog might remember that one of my correspondents has mentioned Lord Henniker a lot. Henniker owned a country estate in Suffolk where in the 1980s children in the care of Islington County Council – which had a paedophile gang operating within it's children's homes – were taken on holidays. Peter Righton, a convicted paedophile who was a founding member of PIE and Director of Education at the National Institute for Social Work, lived in a cottage on Henniker's estate and there were complaints that Righton had abused children there.
For two years Henniker was Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin in Clement Atlee's post-WWII Labour Gov't and Henniker then worked in the Personnel Dept of the Foreign Office. The Foreign Office was still reeling from the defections of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean and was then clobbered by the Suez Crisis in 1956. Relationships between people in the Foreign Office were fraught and there were internal battles taking place. In the 60s Henniker was appointed Ambassador to Jordan and then to Denmark. After this it was suggested that he might become Private Secretary to HM the Queen, but instead in 1968 the Chair of the British Council Lord Bridges appointed Henniker Director of the British Council via 'an informal mechanism'. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth because the staff at the British Council viewed Henniker as having been imposed upon them by the Foreign Office. Lord Fulton took over as Chair of the British Council and in 1972 forced Henniker to resign. Henniker 'retired'. Osla was by now very ill and she died in 1974.
Henniker remarried Julia Poland in 1976; in 1980 his father died and Henniker inherited his title and the Suffolk estate. For a while in the late 1980s Henniker was the Lib Dem spokesperson in the Lords. Henniker and Julia revamped the estate in Suffolk, Thornham Magna, in the 80s, turning it into an 'asset for the community'. In 1985 a field study centre was built there to enable children to study ecology… Henniker received funding for the improvements to the estate from Mid-Suffolk District Council and the Countryside Commission.
After his retirement Henniker was: Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk; Chair of Suffolk Rural Housing Association; honorary lay Canon, Edmondsbury Cathedral; a member of the Mental Health Tribunal; a member of the Parole Board; a member of, and between 1982-86, Deputy Chair of Toynbee Hall. Lady Julia Henniker sits as a Magistrate in Ipswich and is a churchwarden in Thornham Magna.
Toynbee Hall is a building in Tower Hamlets which was established as a hub of radical social causes by an ancestor of the 'Guardian' columnist Polly Toynbee. The aim of the Toynbee Hall projects was to bridge the gap between people of 'all social and financial backgrounds'. I am sure that Toynbee Hall was established with the best of intentions, but as with so many other things set up generations ago that revolve around influential well-off people working with powerless dispossessed ones, there is potential for exploitation. John Profumo dedicated much of his time to Toynbee Hall after he stepped down from political life. In 1965 the Child Poverty Action Group was founded at a meeting in Toynbee Hall. Sir Nicolas Bratza volunteered at Toynbee Hall's Free Legal Advice Centre in the 1970s. This blog has already explained how the 1970s and 80s community legal advice centres didn't touch cases involving organised child sexual abuse or the abuse of mental health patients. Bratzer was President of the European Court of Human Rights, 2011-12. Henniker was heavily involved with Toynbee Hall in the 1980s. Toynbee Hall was the scene of my unfortunate encounter with Lisa Nandy and the Compass Group (see post 'He Knows Where The Bodies Are Buried').
Lord Henniker's son Mark is now Lord Henniker – he married Lesley Antoinette Foskett. In 2005 the Henniker's 21 year old son Freddy was found dead in the woods of the estate. Newspaper reports at the time implied that Freddy had been in considerable distress for a while, but no-one suggested why. Freddy's mother is a former Chair of Suffolk County Council and a former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate.
Some years ago, one boy in the care of Suffolk County Council claimed to have been taken to Wrexham and Islington by his carer where he was abused. Complaints were made to the Suffolk Police and Suffolk County Council but no action was taken.
In Oct 2009 Ofsted appointed John Goldup as their Social Care Director. In the 1980s and 90s, Goldup was a senior figure in the children's dept of Islington Council. Derek Sawyer was the leader of Islington Council in 1992 and was later Chair of the London Regional Courts Board. Sawyer sat on many committees concerning the probation service and criminal justice system in London. Sawyer set up International British Educational Projects with Derek Slade. In 2010 Slade received a 21 year jail sentence for abusing boys between 1978-83 at St George's School, Suffolk. With the help of Sawyer, Slade established a new ID via the use of a fake passport although Sawyer denied knowingly assisting Slade.
Another friend of Trumpers' was Jean Graham – Trumpers doesn't tell us anything about Jean Graham other than that 'everybody in her family was a Duke'.
Although as a child Trumpers' was led to expect that she would 'come out' – not as gay, but at Court and not the sort of Court that those of us who complained about the paedophiles' friends found ourselves in so often either – Trumpers was just a tiny bit too young to have enjoyed this, although many of Trumpers' mates came out. Trumpers did have her five minutes though – by the time that Trumpers hit whatever stage in the life-cycle it was when one came out, Trumpers participated in the 'new style' coming out, Queen Charlotte's Ball, which when Trumpers attended in 1941 was held in Grosvenor House, Park Lane.
Trumpers was mates with Al Friendly who became the Editor of the 'Washington Post' but sadly shot himself dead many years later when he was in the final stages of cancer. Al Friendly was the highest ranking American officer at Bletchley Park – so she palled up with him whilst she was stopping Hitler in his tracks.
During World War II Trumpers' father was the commanding officer of the Marylebone Home Guard. It must have been the most elite Home Guard in Britain – it took in most of the BBC, as well as Harley Street. Trumpers' dad had a lot of trouble with the Top Doctors when they joined up – in Trumpers' words 'any form of togetherness was anathema to them', because they were 'used to being the king of their own little world'. So some of us have noticed Trumpers – and if you accidentally discover that they are facilitating a paedophile gang which is supplying boys to Thatcher's friends and colleagues, they'll do all that they can to shaft you. Including using unscrupulous people in the Lords…
Trumpers had connections in the world of entertainment. Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen were also members of the Marylebone Home Guard, as was Vivian Van Damm, the manager of the Windmill Theatre. The Windmill was notorious because it was the only place in town to put on shows involving stark naked young women. Of course Trumpers bends over backwards to emphasise that they may have all been starkers, but absolutely nothing beyond an innocent British saucy giggle went on. However Trumpers admits that the Windmill put on a 'private show' for the members of Trumpers' dad's Home Guard during which things got a little out of hand and ended with rampant males fighting each other as they scrambled over the seats to gain access to the naked women on stage. Trumpers assures us that she herself did not witness anything untoward.
Some years ago Brown and I along with a senior colleague wrote a paper about the construction of respectability in rural Wales in the mid-twentieth century. Something very noticeable was that when we interviewed older people about their memories of life when they were young, they all knew that some appalling things had happened, but they all claimed that it didn't happen in their time or on their patch. It was always in another chapel, or in a previous generation, or in another school, or another town. This is almost a necessary strategy if one is living in a small rural community and one will spend one's whole life there. There has to be ways of negotiating with one's neighbours and extended family to live with regrettable incidents in ways that enable the community to continue to function.
Likewise Trumpers spent most of her life in situations in which people close to her and indeed all around her were doing things that certainly in that era were considered completely unacceptable. She knew this, she couldn't have missed it. There was groping and shagging, heavy drinking rendering people vulnerable and incapable, a very high number of her friends were divorced at a time when indeed only the aristocracy were able to get divorced – and everybody had a mistress. Sometimes quite a few at the same time. Amidst all this Trumpers maintains that her undies remained very firmly in place. Trumpers – I don't believe you and I challenge anyone to read your book and not draw the same conclusion as me. Trumpers' set weren't merely progressive, it was one enormous Ugandan discussion.
However I don't think that Trumpers' protestations regarding respectability were done for the same reasons that people in a disadvantaged rural Welsh community made the same type of protestations two generations ago. Trumpers' lot were telling everyone else what to do and were making and implementing legislation that they certainly didn't abide by themselves. They did exactly what they wanted – and if the plebs had found out there would have been outrage. In the same way that there would have been if it had become public knowledge that some of Thatcher's aides were molesting kids who had been trafficked from children's homes. Or indeed if it became public knowledge that the decision to appoint one of the country's most serious sex offenders as the manager of a secure hospital had been made by an unelected uneducated aristocrat who was never in danger of encountering a Top Doctor working for the NHS herself, but who nevertheless had been given a Ministerial position in the DHSS because she fancied going into politics. No wonder Edwina took the blame – Edwina had long since left politics and was occupying herself writing bonkbusters and appearing on TV. Trumpers was still sitting in the Lords, among a bunch of others who'd facilitated or concealed paedophilia and the abuse of vulnerable people.
I don't mind one bit if Trumpers and her mates occupied themselves bedhopping and boozing – but as the Savile appointment and the presence of people like Sir Peter Morrison in Parliament demonstrated, Trumpers et al were making dreadful decisions. Their own circle didn't escape unscathed. Trumpers mentions a number of suicides – one of which was of a young man who 'was her dance partner one night', then turned up to see her the next day and hours later shot himself dead in the Cavalry Club in Piccadilly, of which Trumper's father was Chairman. WTF???
One of Trumpers' dad's friends and a member of his Home Guard was Rowland Baring, the 2nd Earl of Cromer. He was a member of the Baring banking family and was Lord Chamberlain to the Household, 1922-37. (Baring was portrayed in the 2013 'Downton Abbey' Christmas Special.) Rowland Baring's father, the 1st Earl of Cromer, Evelyn Baring, was quite something. He was the British Counsel General of Egypt during the late 19th century and his policies were representative of the 'white man's burden' school of thought. He was a founding member and President of the League for Opposing Women's Suffrage. English Heritage have put up a nice blue plaque in Wimpole Street to commemorate his presence on the earth.
The 1st Earl of Cromer's other son – also called Evelyn – the 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, had a CV as good as his dad's: he was the Governor of Southern Rhodesia, 1942-44; High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1944-51; Governor of Kenya, 1952-59. Baring's time as Governor of Kenya was marked by the Mau Mau uprising. Files only recently released show that in June 1959, Baring passed on a secret memo to Alan Lennox-Boyd, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, written by the Attorney General of Kenya, Eric Griffiths-Jones. The memo had been written for the sight of Baring and it described the abuse of Mau Mau detainees. It is alleged that Baring supplied a covering letter which asserted that inflicting 'violent shock' was the only way of dealing with the Mau Mau insurgents. What sort of 'violent shock' did Baring have in mind? Well the Imperial forces certainly pushed the boat out – the Mau Mau were castrated, had their nails yanked out, had pins shoved into them, had injuries inflicted upon their genitals, were raped and buggered and at least one of them was roasted alive.
Meanwhile Trumpers danced all night…
There is a nice photo on the web of the Baring whom Trumpers knew with A.L.Rowse and Roger Makins. The photo was taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell – who was alleged to have had a sado-masochistic relationship with Bertrand Russell. The Bertrand Russell who somehow found his way into the asylum in which T.S. Eliot had his wife incarcerated because she was seriously pissing him and his friends off (Virginia Woolf described her as the bag of ferrets around Eliot's neck) in order to have sex with her. The only surprise is that this wasn't all going on in the North Wales Hospital Denbig