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My post 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s' supplies a few details regarding the mental health system of the wider UK in the 1980s, when the British Gov't was actively colluding with Dafydd and his gang's activities in north Wales, which had by then got completely out of hand and were dominating the whole region. Since I wrote that post I have found out far, far more regarding the reasons why Dafydd et al were allowed to involve themselves in serious organised crime unhindered. It was of course because they were supplying the Westminster Paedophile Ring and were part of an international trafficking network.
They were so many people who protected Dafydd, let alone the wider gang across the UK, that I still have more people to name and events to correlate, but it is very obvious that by the mid-1980s, when Mary Wynch, Alison Taylor and I would not shut up about crimes against vulnerable people in north Wales, Dafydd's mates in high places really pulled out all the stops to save the bacon of the gang.
Jimmy Savile was appointed to the Broadmoor task force in a non-executive role from Jan 1987. Professor Oliver Brooke of St George's Hospital Medical School, a big name in the pan-European ring of which Dafydd et al were a part, pleaded guilty to child porn offences on 18 Dec 1986 at Kingston Crown Court. Savile had of course been involved with 'volunteering' at Broadmoor since 1968, but it was after Ollie was arrested and convicted that the Dept of Health under Secretary of State Norman Fowler and then Ken Clarke gave the man who was known to be a serial sex offender a leading role in the management of Broadmoor, Baroness Jean Trumpington being the genius of a junior Health Minister who actually did the deed (see post '95 Glorious Years!'). Jimmy Savile is known to have procured children for the sexual use of 'VIPs'. Broadmoor housed a great many 'dangerous patients' who had dared complain about being molested in various care settings. The institution was completely lawless and run by the POA, who were not only battering and molesting the patients but were also working massive swindles and embezzling huge quantities of money from the hospital coffers. Thatch's Gov't could not reign the POA in, obviously because those members who staffed Broadmoor – and of course Ashworth and Rampton – knew damn well that scores of their 'dangerous' patients had been banged up simply because they were witnesses to serious crime, including that committed by people at the highest levels of society.
It was on 11 May 1987 that Lord Chief Justice Geoffrey Lane released Oliver Brooke from prison on appeal and compared Ollie's extensive collection of child porn, some of which he had acquired from Amsterdam and Copenhagen, to a collection of cigarette cards. Geoffrey Lane referred to the numerous testimonials to Ollie's good character that he had received, although I have not been able to discover who provided those testimonials or indeed who Ollie's defence team were.
In early 1987, the DHSS mandarin responsible for mental health, Brian McGinnis, left his post. McGinnis was later barred from working with children after concerns about his conduct toward them (see post 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s'). McGinnis was replaced by Cliff Graham, a close friend of Jimmy Savile, who then ensured that Savile was given a leading role in the Broadmoor management team. Cliff Graham was even more successful at ensuring that the UK's mental health system doubled up as a people trafficking organisation than McGinnis had been (see post 'The Old Devils'). It was Cliff Graham who as part of his 'reforms' recommended the establishment of the SHSA (Special Hospital Services Authority). Everything that Graham did served to make Dafydd et al even more untouchable.
It was from 1987 onward that people in Somerset who knew what was happening to me in north Wales found themselves befriended by the rich n famous with links to leading Tories (see posts 'These Who Are Ready To Serve' and 'Upper Class Twit Of The Year – Shooting Themselves') and subsequently in receipt of a great deal of dosh.
After years of chaos and Savile-inspired crime at Broadmoor, in 1994 Cliff Graham was succeeded by Clive Wilson, who remarked on the lack of paperwork relating to previous events at the DHSS/DoH. In rather the same way that in 1995 when Nicola Davies QC was employed to conduct a review of the paperwork of the North Wales Police relating to the abuse of children in care in north Wales, Nicola – now Dame Nicola (see post 'This Is What Happened To Nicola, Niclas, Merfyn, Joan and Kathryn') – discovered that all the paperwork from the last ten years was missing.
The DHSS was a major and crucial Gov't Dept. How exactly did it find itself devoid of paperwork while a gang of paedophiles were given free range within it? Perhaps some could ask former Secretaries of State Norman Fowler, Ken Clarke, William Waldegrave and Virginia Bottomley.
Let's look at a few more of those who were given responsibility for Broadmoor while a gang of sex offenders were allowed to use it as a prison for their victims as well as witnesses to their crimes.
Sheila Drew Smith was the Chair of the Broadmoor Special Health Authority. Sheila was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (the Nolan Committee), 2012-18. In 2015, Sheila Drew Smith was commissioned by Home Secretary Theresa May to conduct an independent review of governance proposals made by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in response to the Triennial Review of the IPCC.
Sheila also served and might still serve as the Chair of the National Approved Letting Scheme from 2013 and as a Committee Member of Safe Agents. Her previous roles have included: Board Member of the Housing Corporation, 2002-08; Board Member of the Audit Commission, 2004-10; Board Member of Infrastructure Planning Commission, 2010-12 and Office of the Regulator of Social Housing (Tenant Services Authority), 2008-12; Member of the Selection Panel, Network Rail, 2010-present; Member of the Appointments Panel, Bar Standards Board, 2010-present.
Sheila has also been a Director of Circles Services Ltd, Circle Anglia Foundation Ltd and the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Sheila's early career was as an accountant with PwC, 1984-95. She was a Board member and then the Chair of Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust, 1999-04 and has been a Board member of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation since 2009. So Sheila knows a great deal about the development of Canary Wharf which involved a number of those Tower Hamlets Councillors who had concealed the trafficking of youngsters between the East End and Dafydd's gang in north Wales, as well as about the efforts of Sir Sam Everington, a Top Doctor and leading light in the BMA and Lord Andrew Mawson in concealing the same heap of crap. See posts 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Bodies Beneath Canary Wharf'.
The junior Minister in the DoH with responsibilities for Broadmoor, 1988-90 – when Savile had free reign and Dafydd and his mates banged their victims up in there – was the Tory Roger Norman Freeman, Baron Freeman, MP for Kettering, 1983-97.
Freeman was born on the Wirral and educated at Whitgift School, Croydon and Balliol College. When he was at Oxford, Freeman was the President of the Oxford University Conservative Association, 1964. Before entering Parliament, Freeman was an accountant for an investment bank.
Freeman was a junior Minister for the Armed Forces (1986–88) and then moved to the DoH to collude with Dafydd and the paedophiles. Between 1990 and 1995, he was Minister of State for Public Transport and in that post he was responsible for steering through the Commons the Railways Bill, providing for the privatisation of British Rail and enacted as the Railways Act 1993.
In Lilibet's 1993 Birthday Honours – by which time the North Wales Police had 'failed to find any evidence' of the paedophile ring which Roger Freeman was concealing, a leading light of which was Sir Peter Morrison, the brother of Dame Mary Morrison, Woman of the Bedchamber to Lilibet – Freeman became a Privy Councillor.
On 26 June 1995, Freeman was brought into the Cabinet by John Major as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and in this role, Freeman made a Ministerial visit to Lancaster Royal Grammar School, who's most famous old boy is probably Cecil Parkinson, who also concealed Dafydd's gang (see previous posts).
Freeman also inaugurated the process of privatisation of HMSO, though as a former Minister for MoD Procurement, one of HMSO's major customers, he could be adjudged to have had a conflict of interest. He misjudged the effect of privatisation on HMSO, which, rather than preserve the business as a whole and protecting jobs, hastened the already-established process of splitting the business into its various parts, resulting in the destruction of some and the sale of others to foreign owners. The loss of jobs was massive and the old office building in Norwich is derelict. The National Audit Office later denounced the whole process as a debacle.
Freeman was narrowly defeated in the 1997 General Election and was rewarded with a peerage, just as Sir Ronald Waterhouse was calling the former kids in care who gave evidence at the Waterhouse Inquiry a pack of liars.
Lord Freeman was the chairman of the charity SkillForce, 2004-16. He is now Patron of SkillForce and the Independent Transport Commission. His wife, Jennifer Freeman, is a former Secretary of the Victorian Society and is a specialist developer of architecturally historic buildings.
The Lord Freeman
Savile's mate Alan Franey, who was appointed General Manager of Broadmoor after Trumpers gave the green light for Savile and his friends to colonise the management of the institution, took early retirement in July 1997, after the depths to which Broadmoor had sunk were so low that it could not be concealed any longer. Jo Sheehan was appointed as an interim manager. Jo had previously been the HR Director at Broadmoor, so she was well-acquainted with the thugs of the POA who violently assaulted the victims of the paedophile gang that were incarcerated in there and also kept schtum about Jimmy Savile sexually assaulting them, although it has now been admitted that two female patients are thought to have killed themselves as a result of Savile. Complain about Dafydd and his mates assaulting you? You'll be banged up in Broadmoor where Savile will then enjoy himself. St Helena Kennedy and the Friends Of The Oppressed Wimmin will not say a word and should you complain everyone will be reminded that you are a Dangerous Mental Patient (see post 'Close Your Eyes And Make A WISH').
After Jo, a new CEO was appointed to Broadmoor – Dr Julie Hollyman. Hollyman had previously worked as a Top Doctor at Springfield Hospital, the mental health unit attached to St George's, when the Top Docs at St George's and Springfield and their social work colleagues in Wandsworth Social Services were colluding with Dafydd et al in north Wales as well as with the paedophile gang on their own doorstep (see posts 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…' and 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III').
When I worked at St George's I had a run-in with Julie Hollyman. I had rung her secretary up with the results of a pregnancy test for a Springfield patient and the secretary had been incredibly rude to me. I challenged the secretary regarding her dreadful manner and then Hollyman rang me, told me that her secretary was never been rude to anyone and then launched an attack on me. So I told Hollyman that her secretary had indeed been very rude and I wasn't going to bandy words with Hollyman who had not heard the exchange. I suspected that Hollyman was going to make a complaint about me, so I told my senior colleagues what had happened. It transpired that they knew Hollyman, I was told that she was a bloody nightmare and Prof Geoffrey Chamberlain quipped that Hollyman should be a patient not a Top Doc. Which was all deeply ironic because the whole lot of them were colluding with Hollyman and her colleagues with regard to concealing organised abuse, although they clearly loathed her.
While Julie Hollyman worked at Springfield, patients and staff were murdered and a number of female patients were sexually assaulted, raped and became pregnant. At Broadmoor, there had been a scandal revolving around a female member of staff having a lesbian relationship with a patient – who had been transferred to Broadmoor from Springfield. The patient was transferred back to Springfield and the relationship with the member of staff from Broadmoor continued.
So Julie Hollyman as well as her Springfield colleagues had a very cosy relationship with Broadmoor before Hollyman was ever appointed CEO. When Hollyman was in post at Broadmoor, public statements were made regarding Hollyman 'turning around' Broadmoor and greatly improving things there. It later became clear that these statements were lies. But then when Hollyman was at Springfield, Springfield was being touted as a centre of excellence. For more information on the awful Hollyman and the many senior roles which she has held in the NHS, see post 'A Pretty Classy Piece Of Operation'.
Thomas Strachan Heppell was another mandarin in the DoH with responsibility for Broadmoor when it was run by a pan-European paedophile gang. Strachan Heppell served in the UK Civil Service, 1958-95 and worked on health and social services policy, as Deputy Secretary in the DHSS, 1986-95. Heppell was subsequently a Visiting Fellow at the LSE; Chair of the Family Fund Trust for Families With Severely Disabled Children, 1997-03; Board member of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission; Chair of the European Institute for Health, 2007. Strachan Heppell also served as a Director of Tor Bryan Residence in Essex.
The concerns regarding patients in special hospitals being subjected to extreme violence by the staff – and occasionally being killed by them – really took off after allegations were made of serious abuse of patients at Rampton in a 1980 Yorkshire Television documentary. People were shocked at what was revealed but there was no awareness at that time that many of those patients were not even 'dangerous criminals', yet alone victims of vicious sex abuse gangs which were being facilitated by the biggest names in British forensic psychiatry, including Prof Robert Bluglass of Birmingham University, Dr Paul Bowden of the Maudsley and Prof Nigel Eastman of St George's/Springfield, all of whom were mates with Dafydd and who feature on my documents.
Dr Paul Bowden and his moustache:
It was Sir John Boynton who was asked in 1980 to Chair the Inquiry into the abuse of patients at Rampton.
John Boynton was born in Carlisle and attended Glasgow Academy and Dulwich College, before taking a degree in law at London University and qualifying as a solicitor in 1939, undertaking his articles with the town clerk of Lambeth. In 1940 he joined the 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment and served in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Boynton served as a military magistrate in Germany after the end of the WWII, before returning to England where he worked as a solicitor for Derbyshire County Council. There was a long-standing paedophile ring in Derbyshire with links to Dafydd et al in north Wales. Boynton then served as Deputy Clerk of the Peace in Berkshire. In 1964 he moved to Cheshire, where he became Clerk of the Council and, after local government reorganisation in 1974, the first Chief Executive of the newly constituted Cheshire County Council, a post he held until 1979.
Dafydd's gang in north Wales extended as far as Cheshire. Cheshire Social Services colluded with the gang in north Wales/Cheshire. Lucille Hughes back in the mists of time had worked as a social worker in Cheshire, as did Margaret Hanson who is currently Vice-Chair of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. Margaret is married to David Hanson, the Labour MP for Delyn, who was appointed as Blair's PPS in 2001, in the aftermath of the Waterhouse Report (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part II').
Both Margaret and David Hanson were Councillors in Cheshire when kids in care of Cheshire County Council were abused. The Chair of the Betsi Board is Dr Peter Higson, who was a clinical psychologist at and then manager of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh when Dafydd was unlawfully imprisoning victims of the paedophile gang in the dungeon there.
Boyton was instrumental in establishing the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE), and became its founding President in 1974. He was also elected President of the Royal Town Planning Institute in 1976 and was a member of the Economic Planning Council for North West England.
Upon Boyton's retirement from local government, he was appointed by the British FCO to oversee new national elections in Rhodesia following the Lancaster Health Agreement, involving the rival guerrilla organisations led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. Despite evidence of intimidation of voters and candidates, Boynton concluded that the elections – which resulted in Mugabe's ZANU-PF party securing a majority of seats – had been 'a reflection of the wishes of the people'.
Boynton's Inquiry found problems relating to Rampton's isolation, lack of leadership and focus on containment rather than therapy. He definitely did not find that a good proportion of the patients were distressed people who had been witnesses to a trafficking gang and who had been fitted up by Top Doctors when they complained about this.
However, Boyton's Report was highly critical of an internal complaints procedure under which not one of 178 complaints regarding Rampton over a four year period had been upheld. Boyton's recommendations led to the formation, in 1983, of the Mental Health Act Commission, to oversee conditions under which mental patients were detained.
Throughout its entire existence, the MHAC was led by a series of people who all colluded with Dafydd and the gang, as detailed in previous posts. In 1987, the MHAC were fully on board with the efforts of Dafydd et al to frame and imprison me for 'attempting to stab a doctor'. The plan unravelled when a nursing officer didn't tell as many lies as required and when a police sergeant at Bangor Police Station refused to take phone calls from Angels who rang up claiming that I had threatened them as well and then stopped Dr D.G.E. Wood from coming into my cell. Dafydd and the MHAC didn't realise that things had gone pear shaped and among my documents are letters from a David Ewart of the MHAC to the mental health services in north Wales confirming that I was now in Risley Remand Centre. See post 'Security, Security'.
In 1994 I and another Hergest Unit patient made representation to the MHAC that Dafydd was behaving improperly with female patients and that complaints about him were not being investigated by the NHS. The MHAC admitted that there had been allegations of this nature against Dafydd stretching back to the 1960s. I heard no more from the MHAC and documents now in my possession show that after I raised concerns with the MHAC, the Chairman and CEO of the Gwynedd Community Health Trust failed to respond to communications from me or indeed the MHAC, but instead consulted lawyers to ask if there was 'anymore that could be done' to prosecute me (see post 'The Banality Of Evil').
Sir John Boynton was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire in 1975 and was knighted in 1979. By that time, Sir Peter Morrison was the Tory MP for Chester and was abusing kids in care in north Wales, Cheshire and elsewhere.
Boyton married first, in 1947, to Gabrielle Stanglmaier, whom he met during his time in Germany. He married secondly, in 1979, to Edith Laane, who came from The Hague.
Boynton's obituary in 'Focus', the newsletter of SOLACE, told us that Boynton 'raised the profile' of SOLACE as a body 'which was respected by senior civil servants' 'to consult on government proposals for legislation and administrative changes'. When questioned by the press on the need to hold the SOLACE Annual Dinner at the Savoy, Boynton replied that 'Claridges was fully booked'. At least Boynton and his mates could catch up with Ronnie Waterhouse at The Savoy, Waterhouse virtually lived at the Garrick and the Savoy.
Baroness Lucy Faithfull was someone who knew a great deal about the young lives of some of those who ended up in the clutches of the secure hospitals. Faithfull was born in South Africa, the daughter of an Angel and an army officer. When her father was killed in WWI in 1916, her mother returned to England. Lucy was educated at Bournemouth and studied then at the Sorbonne, which she financed by work in a nursery in Paris. At some point Faithfull also gained a degree in social sciences from Birmingham University. After her education, Faithfull worked at Birmingham Settlement for three years until 1935 as a social worker, running clubs and acting as a caseworker. She subsequently worked in the Education Dept of the London County Council as a care committee organiser. Child abuse was concealed by the London County Council. During WWII and until 1948, Faithfull served as a regional welfare officer for the evacuee programme. In the following decade Lucy Faithfull became employed as an Inspector in the Children's Dept of the Home Office, which at the time colluded with the abuse of children.
Faithfull joined Oxford City Council in 1958 as one of the first children's officers and she was appointed its Director of Social Services in 1970, retiring in 1974. There was a substantial problem with child abuse in the Oxford area, which was concealed by the Oxford City Council's Social Services, including by Oxford social worker Barbara Kahan and Barbara's husband, child psychiatrist Dr Vladimir Kahan. Barbara Kahan became a social work adviser on children in care to Sir Keith Joseph in Ted Heath's Gov't and remained on hand to advise Gov't and organisations concerned with the welfare of children throughout the 1980s. See post 'Always On The Side Of The Children'.
Lucy Faithfull knew Barbara Kahan as well as Lord Longford, Longford being someone who spent decades colluding with the serious abuse of children, prisoners and psych patients (see post 'Comedies Of Menace').
It was Thatch who offered Lucy Faithfull a seat in the Lords – Faithfull was a Tory, although when she was offered her peerage, people claimed not to know that. Faithfull refused but soon gave in and accepted a peerage when Thatch asked her again. Faithfull was the first social worker to sit in the Lords, so she had obviously been very useful to someone. In the Lords, Faithfull was instrumental in the passing of the Children Act 1989, which seems to have done as little for vulnerable children as every other bit of legislation alleged to 'protect' them has. Faithfull helped to establish and from 1995 Chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children, which has acted as a magnet for the paedophiles' friends in Parliament.
Lucy Faithfull was a 'vociferous opponent' of Home Secretary Michael Howard's Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill of 1994 which proposed the establishment of secure 'training centres' in the grounds of adult prisons for children aged between 12 and 14, arguing that locking up children is ineffective and that the huge cost of these could be better spent intervening with families at an earlier stage. Faithfull remained silent about Michael Howard's ruination of Mary Wynch which had occurred the year previously but became known to Parliament in 1994 (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details'). Faithfull did of course keep schtum throughout all those investigations and inquiries during the 1980s and 90s into the abuse of children in care as well.
Faithfull was Trustee of a number of voluntary organisations, notably the Caldecott Community and Bessels Leigh Schools. She was involved with the NSPCC, was the Vice-President of the National Association of Voluntary Hostels from 1978 and of Barnardo's from 1989. Barnardo's was yet another organisation which colluded with the abuse and trafficking of children in its care. Rhodri Morgan's widow Julie is the former Assistant Director of Barnardo's. Julie and Rhodri kept quiet about organised child abuse throughout their careers and were pals with Jim Callaghan, who along with his wife Audrey also concealed child abuse, Audrey having done so when she served on the London County Council (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country').
Faithfull was one of the founders and President of the NCB (National Children's Bureau), with which Barbara Kahan and the paedophile social work academic Peter Righton were also involved.
In 1993 Faithfull founded the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which works 'as a child protection agency helping sexually abused children and their families'. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation has received much good PR as being 'the only organisation which works with paedophiles who want to change their behaviour'. Interestingly enough, the Lucy Faithfull Foundation does no such thing. Two of my friends were supporting a man who had served a prison sentence for the possession of child porn who was genuinely keen to change his behaviour, after receiving no 'therapy' in prison, although that prison told the world that it did provide therapy for sex offenders. My friends contacted the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, only to be told that they did not offer any sort of counselling or therapy for offenders and could not recommend anyone who did. However the Foundation did subsequently recommend that my friends should purchase two self-help manuals on porn addiction – which wasn't actually the problem of the man whom they were supporting. By this time he was back in prison for breaching his parole conditions. So my friends asked me if I would take the books into him because he did want to read them and the Governor of the prison had given permission for him to read the books in the prison library. I took the books in, only to be told by the prison officers in reception that I was not allowed to give him the books, even if the Governor had given permission and anyway they knew nuzzing. So I visited the man without the books. As far as I know Stafford Prison still has the books. Stafford Prison advertises itself as a prison for sex offenders which helps them address their offending behaviour etc, but then the Lucy Faithful Foundation tells the world that it offers help to sex offenders.
Lucy Faithfull of Tall Stories died unmarried in London in 1996, so didn't live long enough to participate in the cover-up which was the Waterhouse Inquiry.
Baroness Lucy Faithfull knew Baroness Beatrice Serota. Beatrice Serota was brought up in the East End of London, the daughter of Jewish refugees from central Europe. She was educated at John Howard School and at the LSE. Serota joined the Civil Service in 1941 and worked in the crucial Ministry of Fuel and Power throughout WWII until 1946.
Serota became a member of the Hampstead Borough Council immediately after WWII and subsequently served successively on the London County Council as the member for Brixton and the GLC as the member for Lambeth. Investigations into the paedophile ring in Lambeth which during the 1970s, 80s and 90s was linked to Dafydd's gang revealed that organised abuse in Lambeth reached back as far as the 1940s.
Serota chaired the LCC children's committee for seven years and was a member of the Central Training Council for Child Care for at least nine years. The LCC concealed child abuse. Serota became a Chief Whip when she was on the GLC. Serota was Vice-Chair of ILEA, 1964-67. Members of ILEA colluded with organised child abuse for years, even before it became notorious as a bastion of the 'loony left' in the 1970s.
It was Serota's 'distinguished career in local government and the work that she did for children' which in 1967 brought her a seat in the Lords as a 'recognised authority on the subject'. Just like Lucy Faithfull!
Harold Wilson appointed Baroness Serota as a Gov't Whip almost immediately that she was through the door of the Lords and then proposed her for the post of Deputy to Richard Crossman, having refused to promote Fattersley, whom Wilson suspected of disloyalty. Thus Serota was Crossman's Minister of State, first at the Department of Health in 1968 and then in the combined DHSS the following year. Serota knew what Dafydd and Gwynne the lobotomist were getting up to in north Wales in those days and she'll have known that huge swathes of the rest of the mental health system, including the 'flagship' that was the Maudsley, were facilitating the abuse of vulnerable people (see posts 'A Galaxy Of Talent' and 'The Mentor').
Serota's obituary in 'The Guardian' commented that her time as Deputy to Dick Crossman 'proved to be her only period of office as a government minister and yet she spent a lifetime in politics' and that 'Until the end of her life she was devoted to the London suburb of Hampstead, where she lived as an adult and cut her political teeth as a young married woman'. Hampstead housed numerous Top Doctors and members of the political class who were, like Serota, keeping a lid on the organised abuse of children and vulnerable people. 'The Guardian' tells us that Serota 'was widely respected and liked in the Lords as a capable and competent person. She was conscientious, she got on with things and yet, as Dick Crossman identified early on in her political career, she was not going to challenge others because of personal ambition. She perhaps lacked decisiveness, that was what he thought. But this did not prevent her from having a very busy life, involving many decisions about the lives of others.'
What a bloody nightmare – an interfering old bag of a useful idiot who wielded power over The Poor while she lived among the best in Hampsty and looked after their interests.
Hansard, March 1969, records an account of the Lords discussion regarding the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Ely Hospital, Cardiff. The Committee of Inquiry was set up in 1967 by the Welsh Hospital Board at the request of Sir Kenneth Robinson, the then Minister of Health and one of the bestest friends that Dafydd and the paedophiles have ever had (see previous posts), to investigate allegations of severe ill-treatment of patients. The Committee was Chaired by one Geoffrey Howe QC. The Ely Hospital Scandal resulted from a whistleblowing nursing assistant who was discredited and smeared in every way possible, although his allegations that patients were being appallingly abused were found to be true. In its defence, Ely Hospital maintained that matters on their patch weren't as bad as at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. There was no investigation into Denbigh despite this line of defence being used by Ely.
Serota made a statement to the Lords about the Committee of Inquiry into Ely in her capacity as the Minister of State for the DHSS. Even old Howe, who before being elected to the Commons had worked as a barrister on the corrupt Chester and Wales Circuit and had been a close friend of Ronald Waterhouse since they were both at university, had to admit that things at Ely were very, very bad, what with staff grossly abusing their positions, stealing from the hospital and ill-treating patients.
By the time that Howe Chaired that Inquiry, he had been the Tory MP for Bebington on the Wirral, 1964-66, so will have known that the empire of Dafydd et al reached as far as there. Howe was to spend many more years in the Commons and then in the Lords colluding with Dafydd et al and I do wonder if Howe may have had a role in the destruction of F, the north Wales mental health patient who had witnessed very serious crime on the part of professional people, both where he grew up in Surrey – Howe was an MP for a Surrey constituency from 1970-92 – and later when F moved to Bethesda (see previous posts).
Serota fessed up that Howe's Report on Ely made it clear that 'Responsibility for serious deficiencies in standards of medical and nursing services and of administration is attributed to the senior staff of the hospital, to the Hospital Management Committee and to the Welsh Hospital Board. The Committee also criticises the present procedures for dealing with complaints in the hospital service as a whole.'
The poor old Lords was deeply shocked by Howe's Report and there was a great deal of 'never againing', while stressing that it was only CERTAIN WARDS of Ely Hospital which had been roundly condemned and many comments about the need to think long and hard about this Report before anyone made any rash comments or decisions. Many of the Lords reassured themselves that Ely was an isolated case. Within just a few years it became clear that virtually every long-stay hospital had problems as bad as Ely, if not worse.
Lord Brooke of Cumnor told the Lords that 'most of us would agree with what the noble Baroness said about not generalising from this lamentable case, but, instead, extending our support and appreciation to the devoted staff who work in many other long-stay hospitals—sometimes, I am sorry to say, under almost soul-destroying conditions. As to what is wrong, the responsibility of Ministers is involved, as well as of Regional Hospital Boards and hospital management committees. Do the Government recognise that the whole of the hospital service is critically short of money and that, while hospitals for the mentally subnormal are in the greatest need of all if they are to satisfy modern requirements, their needs cannot be rightly made good by simply twisting more tightly still the financial screw on other hospitals?'
Thank God that the staff of Ely weren't a bunch of violent psychopaths, they were simply working in soul-destroying conditions with not enough dosh. As indeed the Angels have been on every occasion on which they have been caught red-handed battering the living daylights out of the vulnerable or helping themselves to NHS funds.
Lord Brooke of Cumnore was Henry Brooke, who survived Harold Macmillan's Night of the Long Knives to become Home Secretary, 1962-64. Brooke is considered by some to have been one of the worst Home Secretary's of the 20th century. Before entering Parliament, Henry Brooke worked in the Conservative Research Dept under the Chairmanship of Neville Chamberlain. Brooke was the Tory MP for Lewisham West, 1938-45, then served on the London County Council, 1946-51, for much of that time as Leader of the Conservatives on the LCC. Brooke also served on Hampstead Borough Council until 1955. Brooke returned to Parliament in 1950, serving in various roles including as Minister for Welsh Affairs in Macmillan's Gov't.
It was Brooke who, as Minister for Welsh Affairs, caused fury throughout north Wales through his crucial support of Liverpool Council's bid to secure Westminster's approval of an Act of Parliament to flood Cwm Tryweryn in Meirionydd to build a reservoir to provide water for Liverpool – drowning the village of Capel Celyn in the process – and thus by-passing Welsh local authority opposition to the scheme. However, largely in response to the protests over Tryweryn, Brooke subsequently attracted investment to Wales, including such projects as the Severn Bridge, the steelworks at Llanwern and the Heads of the Valleys Road. I note that the beneficiaries of Brooke's investment which resulted from the fury over Tryweryn though were those in south Wales. North Wales lost a Welsh-speaking village and a valley and everyone was told to stop bellyaching because the scousers needed water.
Dafydd built up much of his power-base among Plaid supporters as a result of Tryweryn. Dafydd was still a medical student at Liverpool University when the anti-Tryweryn activism was happening and Dafydd travelled to Ireland in order to learn techniques at the knee of Irish republican activists (see post 'A Network Stretching Back Decades…') So after convincing Welsh activists that he was Of Them and would even resort to violent activity to defend Language and Nation, Dafydd busied himself cultivating the company of the corrupt professional classes of Liverpool who's co-operation he would soon put to good use in building up a trafficking ring to supply celebs and politicians of all colours with young people for sex, as Henry Brooke, Baroness Serota et al knew by the time that they were spouting off in the Lords about the caring Angels of Ely Hospital.
Henry Brooke was given a peerage in 1966. He married Barbara Brooke, who was the daughter of a Welsh Minister and was given a peerage in her own right after her loyal service concealing the crimes of Dafydd and other Top Docs. Barbara Brooke was a member of Hampstead Council, a seat she held between 1948 until 1965; she also was a Joint Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1954-64. Barbara was active in a number of health organisations in her lifetime, including being a member of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board from 1954–66; Chair of The Queen's Institute of District Nursing from 1961–71; and the North London Hospital Management Committee from 1963-66.
Baroness Brooke was really impressed with the Seebohm Report (see post 'The Great Stink') and I think that she might have been a member of the Seebohm Committee. Seebohm's recommendations that new personal Social Services Depts should be established within local gov't and take over children's services, as well as the care of the mentally ill and handicapped, were despised by Dick Crossman but nonetheless accepted and were put into action from 1971 onward, by which time Ted Heath was PM. Barbara stated that 'What the Seebohm Committee wants is a family service geared to meeting as many as possible of the needs of the family'. It was the Seebohm Report which led to the dysfunctional Social Services Depts which were run and colonised by paedophiles who then used the role of those Depts as a 'family service' to destroy the families of their victims if they complained about what was happening to their kids.
Here's Babs, ready to dispense advice to the lower orders:
Barbara was both a Dame and a Baroness.
Henry and Babs Brooke had four children:
Peter Brooke was the Tory MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, 1977-2001. Peter Brooke was, among other things, the Chairman of the Tory Party, 1987-89 and Secretary of State for N Ireland, 1989-92. Guess who concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al when Dafydd was in middle age, as well as the Kincora Boys' Home elite paedophile ring? Brooke was rewarded with a peerage in 2001, when the outrage over the cover-up which was the Waterhouse Report had died down a bit.
Henry Brooke was a judge and Lord Justice of Appeal.
Honor Brooke, who married Dr Thomas Nigel Miller
Margaret Brooke, who married Dr James Pulfer.
'We're the paedophiles' friends and you can't get us.'
For more info on the Seebohm Committee and the Brooke clan, see post 'The Great Stink'.
During the Lords debate regarding Ely Hospital, Lord Amulree stated that 'I should like to associate myself with what the noble Lord, Lord Brooke, said about the staff of these hospitals. Like him, I have had considerable experience of the conditions under which they work and of the marvellous work they manage to do under those deplorable conditions. One wants to pay the biggest tribute one can to the devotion to duty which they show…The first comment I would make (possibly it is unwise, but I should like to make it) is that it is the attitude of the senior staff that really lays down the attitude in the whole hospital, from the senior doctor down to the junior member of the ward staff. I am pleased to see that the Minister is to consider some way of changing the form of complaint, and possibly to introduce some form of inspection—I do not mean that in a pejorative way at all, but in a general, friendly and hopeful kind of way…'
Lord Amulree need never have worried about an inspection system which would be in any way 'pejorative', that will absolutely never happen. No matter how serious the crimes of Top Doctors and Angels and how many people they kill, all they ever get is indeed a few words 'in a general, friendly and hopeful kind of way…'
That's why there are bodies buried out at Denbigh which no-one will recover…
Lord Amulree was of course a Top Doctor, Basil Mackenzie, the 2nd Baron Amulree. Furthermore Lord Dr Baz was a 'leading advocate of geriatric medicine' and it was the EMI patients in Ely Hospital who were being abused, so it really should have been Lord Dr Baz who was most condemning rather than wanting a few friendly hopeful words to be had with the patient bashers.
Amulree was born in South Kensington and was educated at Lancing College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Upon graduating Amulree joined the Ministry of Health, initially working on the delivery of cancer services, but left in 1949 to become physician in charge of the geriatric department at UCH. He was Governor and President of a number of organisations including the British Geriatrics Society, the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics and the Association of Occupational Therapists.
Amulree succeeded his father in the barony in 1942. He was a Liberal Peer and Whip between 1955 and 1977 and spoke in the Lords on a variety of issues in relation to the care of the elderly. Lord Amulree died in December 1983, aged 83, unmarried. The barony became extinct on his death. According to the writer and friend of Pablo Picasso, James Lord, around 1948 Amulree was having an affair with the art historian Douglas Cooper; when they parted, Cooper settled with art historian John Richardson.
Douglas Cooper was not eligible for regular military service due to an eye injury, so he chose to join a medical unit in Paris when WWII started, commanded by the art patron Etienne de Beaumont. Cooper received a French Medaille Militaire as a result. Back in Liverpool Cooper was arrested as a spy because of his French uniform, missing papers and improper behaviour. Subsequently, he joined the RAF Intelligence unit and was sent to Cairo as an interrogator, a job at which he was enormously successful in squeezing out secrets from even hard-boiled prisoners, not least due to his "'evil queen' ferocity, penetrating intelligence, and refusal to take no for an answer, as well as his ability to storm, rant, and browbeat in Hochdeutsch, dialect or argot, [which] were just the qualifications that his new job required." Cooper enjoyed the 'social life' there greatly.
After a short interlude in Malta – which was the location for a number of those who have been named as people in high places involved with child abuse or facilitating that abuse including Lord Mountbatten and Sir Alec Bingley (see post 'The Defence Of The Realm') – Cooper was assigned to a unit investigating Nazi looted art. Cooper's detailed research on the Swiss art trade during the war revealed that many dealers and collectors had been involved in trading looted art. Cooper spent the whole month of February 1945 interrogating dealers and collectors having dealt with the Nazis, especially Theodor Fischer of the Fischer Gallery who in 1939 managed the sale of confiscated 'degenerate artworks'.
Cooper was particularly proud to have found and arrested Charles Montag, one of Hitler's art advisers, who had assembled a private art collection of mostly stolen items for the Fuhrer and was involved in the liquidation of the Paris gallery Bernheim-Jeune; surprisingly, Montag was quickly released. Cooper arrested him again immediately, only to see him set free once again, due to Montag's good connections to Winston Churchill, who refused to believe that his longtime friend and teacher 'good old Montag' could have done anything objectionable. After WWII, Cooper returned to England and then moved to southern France, where in 1950 he bought the Château de Castille near Avignon, a suitable place to show his impressive art collection. Chateau de Castille was nearly as good as Bluglass's art gallery, Compton Verney.
Entrance colonnade at the Chateau de Castille, Argilliers:
Picasso was a regular guest at Cooper's home and became a substantial part of life there. Cooper became a substantial promoter of Picasso. In 1950 Cooper became acquainted with art historian John Richardson shared his life with him until in 1960 Richardson left Cooper and moved to New York City.
Douglas Cooper was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, 1957-58 and guest Professor at Bryn Mawr and Courthauld Institute in 1961. He is an important figure among art experts of the 20th century although he was controversial, standing accused not only of plagiarism and inaccuracies in his works, but also of 'flexible ethics' and 'cultivating quarrels as much as friends'. In the 1950s, Cooper attacked the Tate Gallery Director John Rothenstein, mostly for not supporting Modern Art, trying to get him dismissed. He even managed to anger Picasso so much that he excluded him from his circle and surroundings after he pressed Picasso around 1970 to legalize his children.
In 1961, Cooper was found on a road outside Nimes, heavily injured by stab wounds in the stomach. On his way to the post office in Nîmes to send an article about Picasso's birthday to a London newspaper, he had stopped at a notorious quarter and picked up a young Algerian resistance fighter against the French occupation forces who had been interned in an open camp nearby. They drove to a lonely area, where according to Cooper, the boy drew a knife and required Cooper's money or his life. Cooper was stabbed several times, pushed his intestines back in and dragged himself towards the city. Cooper's training as a medic proved very useful; against all odds, his cries for help in that lonely area were finally heard, so he could be saved, although he had lost much blood and his intestines were heavily damaged. When the culprit was arrested he claimed to have been resisting a sexual assault.
In 1974, about 20 small paintings were stolen from Cooper's house; Cooper dismissed his old housekeeper and in consequence lost all respect from the neighbours. Afterwards, he relocated to Monte Carlo, mainly for safety reasons, where he led a rather secluded life. Both incidents were reported by major English and French newspapers.
Cooper died on 1 April 1984 – Fools' Day. He left his art collection to his adopted son William McCarty Cooper, having adopted him according to French law, in order that nobody else would inherit anything, in particular not his family. His written legacy is kept at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Cooper's partner Sir John Patrick Richardson ran Christie's US office for nine years after he left Cooper and France and was in 1995 appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. When he was young Richardson became a friend of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Among Richardson's books were The Sorcerer's Apprentice Picasso, Provence and Douglas Cooper (1999) and Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters: Beaton, Capote, Dalí, Picasso, Freud, Warhol, and More (2001).
The art historian Sir Anthony Blunt lectured at the Courthauld Institute from 1933 and was Director, 1947-74. For 27 years from 1945 Blunt was Surveyor of the King's Pictures and later, after the death of King George VI, the Queen's Pictures, in charge of the Royal Collection, one of the largest and richest collections of art in the world. Blunt's contribution was vital in the expansion of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, which opened in 1962. Blunt was also the National Trust's picture adviser. Notable students who were influenced by Blunt include Nicholas Serota, Baroness Serota's son.
Blunt was a third cousin of the Queen Mum, Gawd Bless 'Er. On occasions, Blunt and his two brothers, Christopher and Wilfrid, took afternoon tea at the Bowes-Lyons' London home at 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, the birthplace of Lilibet.
At Cambridge, Blunt was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. In 1940, when serving with British Army Intelligence Corps, Blunt was recruited by MI5 and was later outed as a double agent working for the KGB. It is acknowledged that some people knew that Blunt was a double agent years before he was publicly named. In 1948, demobilised army officer Philip Hay attended an interview at Buckingham Palace for the post of Private Secretary to the Dowager Duchess of Kent. After passing Blunt in a corridor, Sir Alan Lascelles, the King's Private Secretary, told Hay: 'That's our Russian spy'. The KGB suspected Blunt of being a triple agent.
With the defection of Burgess and Maclean to Moscow in May 1951, Blunt came under suspicion. He and Burgess had been friends since Cambridge. Blunt was interrogated by MI5 in 1952, but gave away little, if anything. Blunt was greatly distressed by Burgess's flight and, on 28 May 1951, confided in his friend Goronwy Rees, who had briefly supplied the Soviets with political information in 1938–39. Goronwy Rees was appointed Principal of Aberystwyth University in 1953, when it was choc full of the paedophiles' friends (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology').
In 1963, MI5 learned of Blunt's espionage from an American, Michael Straight, whom he had recruited. Blunt confessed to MI5 on 23 April 1964, and Lilibet was informed shortly thereafter. Blunt also gave up John Cairncross, Peter Ashby, Brian Symon and Leonard Henry (Leo) Long as spies. Long had also been a member of the Communist Party and an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge. During WWII he served in MI14 military intelligence in the War Office, with responsibility for assessing German offensive plans. Long passed analyses, but not original material, relating to the Eastern Front, to Blunt.
In return for Blunt's full confession, the British Gov't agreed to keep his spying career an official secret for fifteen years and granted him full immunity from prosecution. According to the memoir of MI5 officer Peter Wright, Wright had regular interviews with Blunt from 1964 onward for six years. Prior to that, he had a briefing with Michael Adeane, the Queen's Private Secretary, who told Wright: 'From time to time you may find Blunt referring to an assignment he undertook on behalf of the Palace – a visit to Germany at the end of the war. Please do not pursue this matter. Strictly speaking, it is not relevant to considerations of national security.'
Blunt's life was little affected. In 1966, two years after his secret confession, Noel Annan, then provost of King's College, Cambridge, held a dinner party for Labour Home Secretary Woy, Ann Fleming, widow of author Ian Fleming and Victor Rothschild and his wife Tess. The Rothschilds brought their friend and lodger – Blunt. All had had wartime connections with British Intelligence; Woy at Bletchley Park.
Nerdy readers of this blog will recognise the names of Adeane, Noel Annan, Woy and Ian Fleming as having featured in previous posts and being among those who knew about the activities of Sir Peter Morrison and Dafydd and the paedophiles.
On 15 Nov 1979 in the Commons, Thatch revealed Blunt's wartime role and then in more detail on 21 November. Sir Bernard Ingham, Thatcher's Press Secretary, suggested, 'I believe she did it because she didn't see why the system should cover things up. This was early in her prime ministership. I think she wanted to tell the civil service that the politicians decide policy, not the system. She wanted them to know who was boss'.
Thatch was of course at that time covering up Peter Morrison, Dafydd and the rest of them as well as their very serious crimes and continued covering it all up until the day that the old cow pegged out in the Ritz.
Thatch also covered up whatever was going on at the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast – the British state is still refusing to hold a full and open investigation into Kincora. What is known is that Kincora was used as the basis of a paedophile ring which supplied boys to the elite. Anthony Blunt and Mountbatten have been consistently named as two people who visited Kincora.
In a statement to the media on 20 November 1979, Blunt claimed the decision to grant him immunity from prosecution was taken by the then PM, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
Although Blunt was outwardly calm, the sudden exposure in 1979 shocked him. His former pupil, art critic Brian Sewell, said at the time, 'He was so businesslike about it; he considered the implications for his knighthood and academic honours and what should be resigned and what retained. What he didn't want was a great debate at his clubs, the Athenaeum and the Travellers. He was incredibly calm about it all.'
The Athenaeum is the club favoured by Top Doctors and academics. Jimmy Savile was a member, after being introduced to the club by Cardinal Basil Hume (see post 'Additional Security Measures'). It was over an informal meeting at the Atheneaum involving Savile, Alan Franey and some of Civil Service mandarins named earlier in this post that Savile was offered a senior role in the management of Broadmoor (see post 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s').
Lilibet stripped Blunt of his knighthood. Then a few years later she gave one to Peter Morrison.
Lilibet, do you think that you may perhaps have made a few misjudgements regarding all this business involving gay spies, paedophiles and honours?
MI5 – I do keep telling you, just recruit a load of service users. They will do a far better job than a bunch of greedy old paedophiles with Royal connections. Oh, I forgot – you've allowed the Top Docs to kill most of them.
During the Lords debate on Ely Hospital, Lord Segal admitted that 'These conditions have been known to exist for quite a long time in the past, and have given rise to an enormous amount of uneasiness. Also, may I say how much the statement made by the Minister, that the Government intend to take drastic action in this matter, will be generally welcomed? May I stress also the urgency for some action to be taken to remedy the appalling conditions which she has described? In this connection I would emphasise the need for a special training for nurses who are on the staff of these institutions. Special recognition should be given to the difficult conditions under which they work, and, particularly, some adjustment should be made in the matter of their pay in order to recruit the proper type of nurse for these institutions. Furthermore, may I say how important it is that some proper channel should exist for the laying of complaints, when such complaints are known to exist, to see that they are not brushed aside in the future as they have been, most unfortunately, in the past?'
So not only did Lord Segal know what was going on in such institutions but he also knew that complaints were being ignored and that the 'training' of the Angels was crap.
Dafydd et al in north Wales stressed constantly the 'expertise' of the Top Doctors and the 'trained nurses'. There were some nurses at Denbigh who definitely would have been capable of doing a good job in the right situation and one or two of them were actually very nice, it was the Top Docs who were very obviously the biggest problem. However there were a few Angels – the ones in senior positions – who lied, including on oath and abused their positions as well as the patients. A small number of Angels were uneducated, thick and crude and very obviously inhabited a base, brutal world. The conversations between them would have horrified members of the Lords – crude sexual comments about the rest of the world and the people whom they were paid to care for and a social life which involved drinking vast amounts and not much else. The biggest laugh was that they too were convinced that they'd been 'trained' and would brag about their proud 'training' at every possibility. It didn't register with them that a small number of their patients had postgrad qualifications because most of them weren't interested enough in the patients to even think about that – but if it did sink in they would feel incredibly threatened by a well-educated patient. The liberal elite those Angels were not.
Lord Samuel Segal was another Top Doc and a remarkably honest one, but it would seem only during this Lords debate. Samuel Segal was born in Oxford in 1902 to a scholarly Jewish household and moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1909 with his family. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jesus College, Oxford and Westminster Hospital. He was a casualty Surgeon at Westminster Hospital then a Senior Clinical Assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital and he served on several London County Council Hospital Committees.
Following the start of WWII, Segal joined RAFVR Medical Branch in October 1939. He served in Aden in 1940, Western Desert in 1941, Syrian Campaign in 1941. Segal was attached to the Greek Air Force, 1941; Squadron Leader, 1942; Senior Medical Officer RAF Naval Co-operation Group in Mediterranean, 1942. He was on the Headquarters Staff Middle East, 1943–44 and the Air Ministry Medical Staff, 1944-45.
Segal was a regional medical officer for the Ministry of Health, 1951-62.
At the 1945 General Election, Segal was elected as the Labour MP for Preston. He advised Nye Bevan on the attitudes of Top Doctors to the creation of the NHS in 1948. The Top Doctors were of course nearly all totally opposed to the creation of the NHS and Bevan famously was only able to overcome their resistance by stuffing their mouths with gold (see post 'The History, Boys…'). What is less well-publicised is the shocking medical misconduct that would also be ignored as part of the deal…
Samuel Segal spoke against Gov't policy in Palestine and in favour of the creation of Israel. The Preston constituency was abolished for the 1950 General Election and Segal stood for the new Preston North seat, but lost by 938 votes to the Conservative candidate, Julian Amery.
On 18 December 1964, Segal was created a life peer. In the Lords, he was Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1973-82.
Lord Segal was Chairman of the British Association for the Retarded, the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children (now Mencap). The mentally handicapped residents of Bryn-y-Neuadd, the long-stay hospital in Llanfairfechan were described to me as 'vegetables' by one of the senior managers of Bryn-y-Neuadd who was on the interview panel to appoint an advocate for the vegetables. The vegetables at Bryn-y-Neuadd were helped to explore their 'sexual needs' by Ann Craft, who also 'supported them' in their sexual relationships. Anne later bagged a senior job at Nottingham University and became a recognised authority on Empowering The Vegetables.
Ann Craft was married to Top Doctor Michael Craft. The Crafts conducted research with Dafydd and discovered during that research that there was a very high rate of incest among the forebears of the vegetables. See post 'The Old Devils'. Many of the vegetables in Bryn-y-Neuadd had trouble communicating – the place had such a dreadful reputation that most people who had a vegetable preferred to grow them at home rather than hand them over to the Angels of Bryn-y-Neuadd, so it tended to be the most severely disabled vegetables who ended up there – so how the Crafts and Dafydd discovered the sexual habits of the vegetables' ancestors I'd be interested to know. I haven't been able to find any published outputs regarding the gardening that was undertaken by Dafydd and the Crafts, I suspect that there was none.
However, a helpful reader has sent me extracts from a 1965 book by Dr Michael Craft, entitled 'Ten Studies Into Psychopathic Personality'. Most of the studies of the psychopaths simply describe people who when young children were kept in the hen house or in the attic or who had severely distressed parents who couldn't look after them and shut them in rooms and didn't talk to them etc. These abused and neglected kids had been labelled psychopaths by the age of 10 and had then been handed over to the likes of Dafydd et al. Craft's masterpiece was subtitled 'A Report to the Home Office and the Mental Health Research Fund'. So Craft's idiocy was probably commissioned by the Home Office when Lord of the Rings Henry Brooke was Home Secretary. The Home Secretary who accepted Dr Craft's pearls and presumably used them to formulate policy was one Woy Jenkins, who did a great many favours for Dafydd and the paedophiles, as did Woy's fellow travellers Dr Death, Shirl and Bill Rodgers (see post 'We've Been Expecting You…').
One chapter in Craft's book is entitled 'The Case of Gwyn'. Should that not have been 'The Case Of Gwynne'? Even Michael Craft could not have got to the bottom (so to speak) of The Case Of Dafydd, that would be a source of even more debate and contestation than Freud's Case Of Dora.
Tony Francis had a secretary called Dora Carter who made false allegations about Brown to the police and tried to have him arrested, but that's another story…
I warned you Top Docs, I have lots more documents that have not yet received a mention on this blog.
For further details regarding Michael and Ann Craft and their pioneering efforts to sexually liberate those incarcerated by a gang of sex offenders in north Wales, see post 'The Old Devils'.
Lord Segal was also the Chairman of the Anglo-Irish Association and the Anglo-Israel Archeological Association. He was a governor of the now closed Jewish boarding school Carmel College and life governor of Manchester College.
Lord Segal died in 1985. His legacy lives on… As do his offspring…
Baroness Summerskill was rather braver than the other Lords. In the Ely Hospital debate she commented that 'I am afraid I cannot agree with my noble friend when she suggests that we might receive this Report without comment. I believe that every time an inquiry of this kind is made it is much better for the helpless individuals in these institutions to have people in both Houses of Parliament who are prepared to ask questions again and again…some of us who have been in Parliament for many years have lived through this kind of moment, time after time. It is always suggested that we should read the Report and see what is in it. By the time we have read the Report other things are happening and people forget to ask questions at what I consider to be the relevant moment – now. What I want to ask my noble friend is this: is she aware that what she said just now applies to similar institutions throughout the country, in so far as the staff [whistleblowers] are intimidated? My noble friend said that two members of the staff were dismissed, or left, because they questioned the system: their questioning was unpopular, and therefore they were dismissed.'
Baroness Summerskill continued:
'What I should like to know, in view of this Inquiry and of the Statement which has just been made, is what general inquiry is now going to be set afoot by her Department in order to see how far the conditions in this institution apply in others. Unless somebody from outside goes in, questions the management committees and generally makes a fuss, the conditions which she describes now and which have obviously been existing in this institution for years can go on in other institutions of which we have no knowledge. Therefore, my question to her is this- and I have faith in her Department, now that she is in this job, because she is a woman and has compassion. My noble friend at the back groans. I am afraid it is true that women have a little more compassion in these matters than, perhaps, some of the men. May I ask my noble friend whether she will see to it that her Department makes a general inquiry with regard to the administration of homes and institutions which are organised for the old and the sick? Because it is in these places that the patients are completely helpless.'
I cannot agree with Baroness Summerskill that women by their nature have more compassion in such matters than men. Institutions like Ely and Denbigh always employed a few women in senior positions simply in order to reassure everyone that abuse could not be taking place within because there was a woman in charge. Those women were every bit as callous and corrupt as their male colleagues and they knew damn well that their possession of ovaries was being ruthlessly used to give the stamp of approval to very troubled institutions doing terrible things. After all, Lucille Hughes was Director of Gwynedd Social Services…
Women who were not as callous or corrupt but who were simply overwhelmed by the absolute bastards who surrounded them would be wheeled out to meet visiting VIPs or the press to give a good impression. Sister Ella Fisk fulfilled this role at the Hergest Unit and an Angel called Ingrid did it in Bryn Golau Ward at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. Ella was actually very nice and was ignored and trampled over by the most appalling people who were abusing patients, yet if a visiting Councillor or politician turned up to visit, it would be Ella who would be called upon to meet them, because everyone knew that some of the other staff would leave such a terrible impression. Furthermore Ella was the Angel who would be ORDERED by Dafydd, Tony Francis et al to report patients to the police and if necessary lie about the 'danger' that they presented when the Top Docs wanted to fit those patients up. Ella just did not have enough clout in that organisation to challenge the people traffickers with whom she worked. I also suspect that she was very frightened of them. She and her husband Clive both worked at Ysbyty Gwynedd, they'd have been finished if they had resisted. Clive was a senior technician at Ysbyty Gwynedd, he will have known that some of the equipment wasn't working, yet patients would be hooked up to monitors etc and no-one would admit the real situation.
It was Ingrid who, after Dafydd ordered the Angels to take me to a railway station, put me on a train to London and told me that if I ever returned to north Wales again I would be arrested, was one of those who drove me to the station and put me on the train (see post 'Rivers Of Blood'). There were other more junior Angels who came with us as well, but I cannot remember who they were. When I finally managed to get an investigation into my complaint about Dafydd et al – although it was simply one enormous cover-up conducted by Dafydd's mates (see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE') – Ingrid was, I was told, one member of staff who refused to attend the hearing, although according to Bluglass, the 'investigating panel' were desperate to question her. But then they were all a bunch of liars running a trafficking gang so who knows what the truth was.
Baroness Edith Summerskill was a Top Doctor, writer, feminist and Labour politician. Edith Summerskill was educated at King's College London and trained as a Top Doc at Charing Cross. Edith was a genuine pioneer, she was one of the first women to be admitted to medical school. She was one of the founders of the Socialist Health Association, she pressed for equal rights for women in the Home Guard and in 1938 she initiated the Married Women's Association to promote equality in marriage and became its first President.
Summerskill entered politics at the age of 32 when she was asked to fight the Green Lanes ward in Harringay in the Middlesex County Council elections. She then served as a Councillor on Middlesex County Council, 1934-41. Edith became the Labour MP for Fulham West thanks to the working women's vote. She caused some disquiet by taking the seat in her maiden name. When the Fulham West constituency was abolished for the 1955 General Election, she was returned to the Commons as MP for Warrington, a seat that she held until 1961.
Summerskill served in Attlee's Labour Gov't following the election victory in 1945, including in the Ministry of Social and National Insurance, heading the Dept although she was not a Cabinet Minister.
As well as her service in government, Summerskill also served on the Commons Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, 1967 -76.
Summerskill was a member of the Labour Party's NEC, 1944-58 and served as Chair of the Labour Party 1954-55. She left the Commons in 1961 and was given a peerage.
Summerskill was a member of the Fabian Society in the 1940s and as an active feminist, she was instrumental in promoting women's causes throughout that period, starting with the Clean Milk Act in 1949. Later, as the President of the Married Women's Association, she campaigned in and outside of Parliament to assure the equal rights of housewives and of divorced women, which resulted in the Married Women's Property Act in 1964 and the Matrimonial Homes Act in 1967.
I have a great deal more respect for the likes of Edith Summerskill than I do for people like Harriet because Edith Summerskill really did do many things that at the time were usually the preserve of men. However, Edith will have had feet of clay. Not only was there an absence of any sense on her part that she had achieved because she was from a privileged strata of society – she was the daughter of a Top Doctor and as a child accompanied him on his rounds and of course she married a Top Doctor – but she knew that some seriously grim things were happening to less privileged people, including at the hands of her and her colleagues, which she did not challenge. For most posh women of Edith's generation, emancipation was about emancipating other posh women.
Edith was a real hero to many and I suspect that it was partly because when she was younger she looked absolutely wonderful. When compared to the gross old paedophiles who cluttered up Parliament at the time, Edith must have seemed a pretty good advert.
Like Vera Brittain, Edith was a true shatterer of glass ceilings who had a mediocre daughter who cashed in on her mum and gave the old paedophiles of Parliament a great deal of assistance. The mediocre daughters even both had the same name. Edith's notions that women were not simply equal to men but actually superior in every way were famously published as the 1957 volume 'Letters To My Daughter'. I do wonder whether Edith had to revise her ideas on natural female superiority when she later took a long hard look at the daughter to whom those letters were written.
Edith's daughter Shirley Summerskill was also a Labour politician who made much of being a female Top Doctor at a time when that was rather more unusual than it is today, although not the flying pig phenomenon that it was when her mum qualified. Shirley inherited the gene for becoming a big name in the Labour Party and the gene for being a Woman Top Doctor from her mum. Shirley Summerskill was educated at St Paul's School, Somerville College, Oxford, as were many other female breakers of glass ceilings, including Thatch and of course the other delusional Shirley. Here she is, telling the rest of us what is best for us:
Shirley Summerskill trained as a Top Doctor at the medical school for the poshest, Tommy's, through who's hands Dr Death also passed just a few years later. The Tommy's which was facilitating abuse and employing Dafydd's mates as well as the lethal William Sargant who's experiments killed some patients, including during the years when Dr Death was working as his research registrar (see post 'Dr Death') and performing illegal abortions like there was no tomorrow if the patients had the dosh for the backhanders (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other'). Tommy's Top Doctors were pretty liberal with the prescription pad as well if one had the cash.
Summerskill was a member of the Executives of the Socialist Medical Association and the Medical Practitioners' Union. By this time, both of these were organisations that attracted highly paid, privileged Top Docs who very often for reasons of their aspirations to become big names in the Labour Party pretended to Care About The Poor and thus were Committed To The NHS eg. Dr Brian Gibbons, Ed Miliband's Uncle Harry, Dr John Dunwoody and Dr Julian Tudor Spart as well as many others who protected Dafydd who have featured on this blog.
One of the early members of the Socialist Medical Association (which later changed its name to the Socialist Health Association) along with Shirley Summerskill's mum Edith was Sir Richard Doll. Doll famously demonstrated the link between smoking and lung cancer and is the biggest name in 20th century epidemiology.
However the glue which adheres the Top Doctors together really is most impressive. My post 'They Think It's All Over – It Is Now' described a laughable piece of 'cancer research' conducted by the paedophiles' friends of Ysbyty Gwynedd and Bangor University, which was published in 1990, when Dafydd and the gang were sending out distress signals like there was no tomorrow and were in need of good PR. The ground-breaking research received full media coverage on a world-wide scale, but just weeks later a retraction had to be issued when it was admitted that there were 'flaws' in the research. The flaws were enormous – the control sample had numbered three, one of the controls was not someone who was suffering from the type of cancer which was being studied anyway and a number of conclusions had been drawn which could not have been, even if there had been an appropriate control group. Sir Richard Doll had 'advised' on this research. Why Sir Richard Doll wasted his time and energy with this gang of fools who were wheeled out to save the bacon of Dafydd et al I don't know. Not that publishing laughable 'research' which was discredited within weeks did the careers of the 'researchers' any harm. Two of the authors, Chris and Rhiannon Whitaker, – the statisticians who OK'd a control sample of three, one of whom was suffering with a different condition – continued their careers as stats lecturers at Bangor University and Rhiannon ended up leading the North Wales Clinical Trials Unit…
Shirley Summerskill was elected as the Labour MP for Halifax in Jimmy Savile country in the 1964 General Election. After being a Labour Shadow Minister for Health, 1970-74, she served as a junior Minister in the Home Office throughout the 1974–79 Labour Gov't, under two Home Secretaries, Woy and Merlyn Rees. During those years, the Labour Gov't afforded full protection to Dafydd's gang and to the molester George Thomas and ensured that Thomas's friend and protector the bent lawyer and MP Leo Abse saw his baby the Children Act 1974 hit the statute books, thus ensuring that hundreds of children were removed from their families and sent to live with Dafydd's gang as well as other linked gangs (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country').
In 1980 Summerskill was interviewed by BBC's 'Panorama' about Britain's preparations for a nuclear attack. This was a woman who throughout her entire medical and political career was unable to say boo to a Dafydd and certainly not on 'Panorama', because Dafydd's mate from Llangollen, Elwyn Parry Jones, was Deputy Editor of 'Panorama', 1977-85.
When Labour returned to opposition in 1979, Shirley Summerskill became an opposition spokesperson on Home Affairs. She lost her seat in 1983 to the Tory Roy Galley.
Sumerskill married lawyer and future Labour MP John Ryman in 1957; they divorced in 1971. I am very impressed with Shirley in that she married a fine example of a Cad. John Ryman QC was easily as good as the son of Lord Bellamy on 'Upstairs Downstairs' who made one of the servants pregnant.
Ryman was a barrister and an enthusiastic fox-hunter who was elected as Labour MP for Blyth, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Oct 1974. In 1976 Ryman's agent was fined £400 under the Representation of the People Act 1949 and the Perjury Act 1911 for falsifying his election expenses return and overspending, although the election result stood. In 1986, Ryman announced that he was leaving the Labour Party and sat as an Independent until he retired at the 1987 General Election.
On 23 April 1992 Ryman was convicted of defrauding two women of their life savings. He had pretended to be the Director of a Swiss Bank and told the women that they would get 22·5% interest, but in fact paid the money to his ex-wife for maintenance payments. Ryman was given a two and a half year jail sentence.
Ryman and Summerskill had married in 1957 but had divorced by the time he entered Parliament. He was married five times in all. He claimed to have invested some money belonging to his fifth wife Nicola, a wealthy widow, in a high-yield Swiss bank account but in fact squandered the money on a horse, Jaguar car and holidays on the Orient Express. He had previously narrowly escaped being prosecuted by the family of a mistress whose money he had also claimed to have invested in a Swiss account.
When I read about The Cad I presumed that Edith would have had to have revised her theories about women being more intelligent than men, what with her daughter having been taken in. But I suppose that The Cad would have confirmed Edith's low opinion of those in possession of testicles – they're hopeless.
Rhett Butler – 'Frankly My Dear I Don't Give A Damn' (1939):
Dr Dafydd Alun Jones – 'Really My Dear, You're Getting Rather Tiresome' (circa 1993)
Not long after Dafydd did his best Rhett Butler bit, a Hergest patient told Dafydd that he was a 'failure as a sex fiend'.
The saddest element to the adventures of The Cad who married Shirley Summerskill was the means by which he was elected for Blythe in 1974. Blythe had previously been represented by Labour member Eddie Milne, since 1960. Eddie had succeeded the crooked old git Alfred – Lord – Robens, who became Chairman of NCB and was up to his eyes in it re the Aberfan Disaster in 1966. It was Robens who took the hit for Aberfan in order to get a great many other Good Labour Men off the hook, who were as much to blame (see post 'Include Me Out'). Eddie Milne, a trade union official, was selected by the local constituency Labour Party to replace Robens, with the help of USDAW.
During his Parliamentary career, Milne became increasingly concerned about problems of endemic corruption within local government in the north east of England. The scale of these were eventually revealed in the Poulson Affair involving corruption and the leading Labour movement figure T. Dan Smith. Known as 'a difficult man to get on with' – perhaps because he wasn't a crook like the rest of them? – Milne's problems were not restricted to his opponents in the local Labour Party; he twice unsuccessfully reported a local journalist, Jim Harland, to the Press Council over articles he had written.
By 1974 the breach between Milne and the local party was 'irreparable' and he was deselected on the eve of the Feb 1974 General Election. Milne had already made preparations for this eventuality and ran a campaign as an Independent Labour candidate. He overturned the Labour majority and defeated Ivor Richard, who had the official endorsement, by 6,140 votes. However, it was a short-lived victory, as Milne was narrowly defeated in the Oct 1974 General Election by The Cad by 78 votes. Milne's supporters who won seats on the local authority had all been defeated by 1979; when Milne stood again in the 1979 General Election he did badly.
Milne wrote a book entitled No Shining Armour (1976) detailing his travails with the local party, and giving his view on the corruption scandals of the 1970s. It attracted 36 libel writs, and the costs and damages associated with it came close to bankrupting his publishers.
So the constituency of Blythe – now called Blythe Valley – gave an honest MP the boot and ended up with The Cad, who had previously been married to a woman who spent her career concealing a gang of paedophiles. Of course, one of the gangs of paedophiles which Shirley Summerskill concealed was the gang in the north east, which was closely associated with Dafydd et al in north Wales. The year before the year in which The Cad was elected for Blythe, Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth relocated from Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead, where children had been abused, to Bryn Estyn, where they really stoked up the gang run by Dafydd et al… The children's homes of north Wales received hundreds of children in the care of local authorities in the north east of England. See previous posts.
The paedophile gang in the north east was linked to the local authority corruption involving Poulson et al (see post 'So Who Was Angry About What?'), but even Eddie Milne didn't dare mention that.
The MP who succeeded The Cad for Blythe Valley was Labour's Ronnie Cambell, who still holds the seat. I'll be blogging about you soon Ronnie!
Shirley Summerskill's nephew, Ben Summerskill, was Chief Executive of the UK gay equality charity Stonewall, 2003-2014. Stonewall gave the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board an award for being an LGBT-friendly employer some two years ago. Which left me quite surprised because I know one young gay man who did a placement when he was a student nurse at the Hergest Unit who dared raise concerns about the abuse of patients, only to find himself the subject of crude, homophobic bullying.
Lord Shackleton made a brief contribution to the Ely Hospital Lords debate, just to express the view that in discussing the Ely Report the House was becoming 'seriously out of order', because some members had been rather harsh with their words in response to the Report. Lord Edward Shackleton was the son of the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Edward Shackleton arranged the 1932 Oxford University Exploration Club expedition to Sarawak in Borneo. During this trip he was the first to attain the peak of Mount Mulu. In 1934 Shackleton organised the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition. Shackleton accompanied the party as the assistant surveyor. The expedition was eventually responsible for naming Mount Oxford (after the University of Oxford) and the British Empire Range. On leaving university, Shackleton worked for the BBC in N Ireland – an experience that turned him away from the Conservative Party towards Labour.
In 1946, Shackleton was elected as Labour MP for Preston. A boundary change subsequently divided Preston into two seats and Shackleton was elected MP for Preston South on a much reduced majority. Shackleton served as PPS to the Lord President of the Council and Foreign Secretary in Attlee's Gov't, Mandy's grandfather, Herbert Morrison. Shackleton was re-elected in 1951. One duty of the Lord President of the Council is to act as the visitor for the University of Wales.
In 1955, Shackleton was defeated and so Hugh Gaitskell recommended Shackleton to the PM and he was created a life peer. In Wilson's Gov't Shackleton served as Minister of Defence, 1964–67. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1966 and made Deputy Leader of the House of Lords a year later. As Minister without Portfolio 1967–1968 and Paymaster General in 1968 Shackleton had a seat on the cabinet. During the Aden Crisis he was sent on a Special Mission as British Resident to help with the withdrawal.
Shackleton was Leader of the Lords, 1968–70, and subsequently sat as Opposition Leader in the Lords. He was used again on the Wilsonian reforms proposed for the Lords, liaising between committees and sub-committees, designed to reduce the Lords delaying powers from two years to just six months, but the PM dropped the bill in April 1969 to 'concentrate on priorities.' Sitting on the Committee for Civil Service Reform, Shackleton successfully widened access to entry for scientists.
From 1971, Shackleton was President of the Royal Geographical Society. From 1976 until 1992 he was Chairman of the joint-Political Honours and Scrutiny Committee. Lord Shackleton also wrote a Report, commissioned by James Callaghan, which described the economic future of the Falkland Islands, the value of the being British to the islanders and how their lot could be improved. It included the invaluable role eventually played by HMS Endurance.
Between 1988-89, Shackleton Chaired the Lords Science and Technology Committee, which culminated in 1989 when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He also served as Chairman of the East European Trade Council.
Lord Shackleton was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, an institution who's medical school hosted a number of those who were providing a big umbrella for Dafydd et al (see post 'Professor Prestigious And His Associates').
Shackleton acted also as Patron of the British Schools Exploring Society (B.S.E.S.) from 1962 until his death in 1994.
Edward Shackleton will have known Sir Charles Evans, Principal of UCNW, 1957-84 and probably other employees of UCNW as a result of Shackleton's friendships with people involved in exploring, climbing and natural history. Charles Evans was a member of the 1953 Everest expedition and although his first career was as a neurosurgeon in Oxford and then Liverpool, Evans was far more interested in climbing (see previous posts). However, Evans's status as a national hero after the successful Everest ascent – with members of the Everest team who worked for the security services – afforded Dafydd et al who were facilitating their trafficking ring through UCNW complete protection.
Sir Charles Evans – a fantastic mountaineer but a bloody dangerous Top Doctor and University Senior Manager:
Lord Ogmore pointed out to the Lords that he was the only Welshman to speak on the matter of Ely, which primarily concerned Wales and remarked 'may I ask the noble Baroness whether she is aware that this Report will be regarded with the utmost seriousness in Wales, and that Welsh people will want to know that there are no other institutions where the same conditions might already apply? May I also ask her whether, when her right honourable friend has discussed the whole question of Ely Hospital with the Chairman of the Hospital Board, a further report or statement will be made to Parliament, conveying to Members the results of that interview between the two gentlemen concerned?'
Of course there were other institutions in Wales in which conditions as bad as those in Ely prevailed – there was the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, which was far worse. Furthermore Bryn-y-Neuadd at Llanfairfechan and Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff were pretty bad, as well as a few others… It really wasn't any secret.
David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore was born in Bridgend and qualified as a solicitor in 1929. He served in the Welch Regiment and the Royal Artillery and ended WWII as a Lieutenant Colonel. Rees-Williams was elected Labour MP for Croydon South in 1945. In the Gov't he was a Minister in the Colonial Office, travelling to East Asia to consider the movements towards independence. Rees-Williams's seat was redistributed at the end of the Parliament and he narrowly lost the successor seat in 1950, so he received the standard booby prize of a life peerage. He served as Minister of Civil Aviation in 1951 and was made a Privy Councillor the same year. Lord Ogmore was President of the London Welsh Trust, which runs the London Welsh Centre, Gray's Inn Road, 1955-59. The London Welsh Trust was a magnet for those colluding with Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology').
Lord Ogmore joined the Liberal Party in 1959 and served as Liberal Party President, 1963–1964. Lord Ogmore was among those who ignored Jeremy Thorpe's Ugandan activities. Lord Ogmore's constituency was just down the road from Warlingham Park Hospital which had a dreadful reputation and was eventually subject to an Ely-like damning investigation which resulted in staff going to prison for very serious offences against patients. My post 'A Trade In People – Between London And North Wales' details the horrendous abuse and fleecing – by a group of crooked Top Docs and lawyers in London with links to colleagues in Bethesda – of a family who's lives were destroyed by Warlingham Park Hospital after their mum died in suspicious circumstances when an in-patient there and were then sent to live in Bethesda by the crooks who shafted them.
Lord Ogmore was married to Alice Alexandra Constance Wills and had three children. His daughter, Elizabeth Rees-Williams, married the actors Richard Harris and Sir Rex Harrison, the businessman Peter Aitken, and more recently Jonathan Aitken, the former Tory MP and old flame of Carol Thatcher's who later went to prison for perjury. Lord Ogmore's grandsons are actors Jared Harris and Jamie Harris and Director Damian Harris.
Sir Rex Harrison starred in the award winning film 'Dr Dolittle'. Two days a week, no on-call and retirement at 55 yrs old. Duw it's hard.
Lord Silkin found himself in a particularly difficult position in the Lords: 'before we discuss this matter further, we ought to read the Report. I should like to put a question to the noble Baroness, and I put it because I was for many years both chairman and a member of a number of hospital management committees; and it seems to me inconceivable that a hospital management committee should not have known of what had been going on apparently for a long time. Certainly I should like to think that it could not have happened in the case of the hospitals with which I was concerned; and if a management committee is doing its job properly, it ought not to have happened in this case. May I ask the noble Baroness whether, in the Report, there is any reference to the activities of the Hospital Management Committee?'
Bit close to home there Lord Silkin! Of course the Hospital Management Committee at Ely knew, it was they who ignored the complaints and got rid of the whistleblowers.
Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin worked as a solicitor (Lewis Silkin LLP, the London law firm where he practised, still bears his name), before becoming a member of the London County Council in 1925. He Chaired the LCC Town Planning and the Housing and Public Health Committees and was a member of the Central Housing Advisory Committee. Silkin was elected as MP Peckham in 1936. He was Minister of Town and Country Planning in Clement Attlee's Gov't, 1945-50.
Silkin was raised to the peerage in 1950. Of his three sons, his eldest, Arthur, a civil servant, disclaimed the peerage. The other two, Samuel and John, both became Labour MPs, members of the Privy Council and Gov't Ministers. Samuel was MP for Dulwich, 1964-83 and Attorney General for England and Wales as well as N Ireland, 1974-79. You've guessed it, Samuel concealed the crimes of the Top Docs and the paedophiles along with everyone else. Being the principled man that he was, Samuel refused a knighthood as AG. He accepted a life peerage instead in 1985, just as the explosions began in north Wales…
Samuel's son Christopher also disclaimed the hereditary peerage on the death of his uncle Arthur in 2001, the first time a peerage has been disclaimed twice.
John Silkin was Labour MP for Lewisham Deptford, 1963-87. He served in the RNVR, 1942-46, along with the other high profile paedophiles, paedophiles' friends and spies (see post 'The Defence Of The Realm'). At one point John Silkin had hopes of becoming Leader of the Labour Party, but that went pear-shaped among all the internal scrapping. The talents of Footie and the Windbag shone through instead. Of course they did, Footie and the Windbag held seats in south Wales so they had all the best shit on George Thomas, the Silkin family only had superior gen on the kids from south London who were being abused and trafficked by Dafydd's gang and his mates at the Maudsley. See previous posts for further information on the Silkin family.
Baroness Hylton-Foster was firmly on the side of the patient-batterers during the Lords debate: 'My Lords, may I ask the noble Baroness whether Her Majesty's Government do not think that this is the moment to recommend that nurses should be moved around more? Because even with special training it needs superhuman patience to cope with some of the patients with whom they have to deal.'
Those patients really were such absolute bastards. They insisted on standing in the way of the flying fists and kicking boots of the Angels, they grew hair which the Angels felt compelled to grab hold of to drag the patients along the corridor and in addition at Ely those patients tried the patience of the Angels so much that the Angels hosed them down with cold water, the Angels just could not take any more.
Here are the sort of images that appear on NHS promotional material:
A photo of caring hands even used to appear on the leaflet regarding the complaints procedure for NHS Wales. I was sent such a leaflet after I complained about being assaulted and injured by four Angels in the Hergest Unit, a complaint that was never ever investigated.
To make things even harder for the long-suffering staff of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, the attractive younger patients possessed bodies that poor old Dafydd and a few others just couldn't resist having sex with…
Baroness Hylton-Foster obviously wanted to move the Angels around so that the good practice could be shared, in the way that by the late 1970s, the paedophiles employed in children's homes across the UK had all networked together and used to shuttle back and forth between different homes in different regions of the country, forming one big happy family.
Audrey Pellew Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster was the daughter of 1st Viscount Ruffside and Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston. She married Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton-Foster, who had started a distinguished career at the Bar, in 1931; they were not blessed with children.
Born in India, the Baroness was educated at St George's, Ascot and Ivy House, Wimbledon. Both her father and husband served as Speaker of the Commons. Audrey Hylton-Foster first lived at Speaker's House during her father's time there, when she went to recover from measles. While she was convalescing she started working for the British Red Cross and this, apart from politics, became her life's work.
During WWII Audrey was an Angel at St Luke's Hospital, Chelsea. She cycled 'thousands of miles' around London on her Red Cross duties. In 1950 she became Director of the Chelsea division of the British Red Cross. She was at various times President, Chairman and Patron of the London branch. In late 1980 she was acting as consultant at the national HQ.
Audrey's husband began his political career after World War II. By 1950 he was MP for York. He died in office in 1965, after which she was given a peerage. Despite Audrey's prior objections to women politicians, she became an active member of the Lords and for many years served as Convenor of the Crossbench peers. Like others who have been of particularly valuable service to abusers in high places, Audrey was appointed a Dame in 1990, being only a Baroness not being sufficient thanks for her contribution.
Audrey Hylton-Foster lived in a converted Coach House on Leith Hill in Surrey. Each year she opened her gardens to the public, in order to raise money for various charities. One year, with help from actress Virginia McKenna, a substantial amount was raised for the Born Free Foundation. Mandy Leigh, one of the most monstrous members of staff at St George's Hospital Medical School – she who had sex with a Top Doctor in the lab and who participated in 'research' which involved decapitating marmosets for no good reason and who of course kept schtum about the serious wrongdoing and harm to patients – was a good friend of Virginia McKenna's family.
One of Mandy's many pearls of wisdom was that it was often necessary to lie to patients for their own good. Another pearl was that FGM was best done in Harley Street – Mandy told me this when a Top Doc at St George's admitted that his mate in Harley Street was performing FGM and I reminded him that it had been illegal for years…
And if marmosets are to be decapitated it's best done by Mandy Leigh at the London Zoo, after lies have been told to the media about the research having been stopped.
Audrey's Garden Open Day raised funds for a number of good causes including the British Red Cross, Cancer Research, local schools etc. Who knows, perhaps the Institute of Psychiatry benefited as well and funds were raised for a few more primates to be caged while not very useful experiments were carried out on their brains:
Audrey died in 2002, so she was around to help with the fall-out of the Waterhouse Report.
Of course, after the Ely Hospital Scandal, working parties were set up, along with a system of inspections, so that it could never happen again…
I know someone who was a student psych nurse at Ely Hospital at the time of the scandal. He confirmed that the abuse of patients there was terrible and that he was so outraged at seeing an Angel kicking an elderly man down the corridor that he punched the Angel in the face. When he was older this man qualified as a social worker and worked in north Wales, in the field of mental health. He was responsible for, among other things, sectioning people in Denbigh and training the social workers who later worked with the paedophile gang. He was working as a social work lecturer at Coleg Menai in Bangor at the time of the publication of the Waterhouse Report. On the day after publication this lecturer walked into his class and said 'One thing that will not be discussed today and never will be discussed is the Waterhouse Report'.
Oh yes you bloody well did and what's more, that particular man knew about Robert Bluglass and his corruption as well because he discussed it with me. Geoff Lees later left his post at Coleg Menai and became the Director of Vale Of Clwyd MIND.
See my post 'Social Work – Theory' for details of the level of discussion and some of the comments made by the social work students in that class, nearly all of whom qualified and subsequently joined the paedophiles and their friends of north Wales…
Bea Serota was Chair of the Advisory Council on the Penal System and the first Ombudsman for Local Government. She was a member of the Community Relations Commission, the BBC Complaints Commission and a BBC Governor. She served on the Longford Committee on Crime and on the Latey Committee, which led to the lowering of the age of majority to 18. In the Lords, she was appointed Deputy Speaker in 1985 and then the Principal Deputy Chairwoman of Committees. In 1992 Bea became a Dame as well as a Baroness. By 1992 I and three other witnesses to the crimes of Dafydd et al had been hounded out of our jobs. It was in 1992 that five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal were killed by a firebomb (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs').
Throughout her many years in the Lords, Baroness Dame Serota said nothing about Dafydd and the gang or their associates in other parts of the UK. Dick Crossman spotted real talent there.
Baroness Dame Serota married Stanley Serota, a civil engineer and they had two children. Her son Nicholas became Director of the Tate Gallery and her daughter Judith also pursued a career in the arts. When Nicholas Serota was Director of the Tate, Blair's mate Richard Rogers was Chairman. Under Serota, the Tate expanded as a result of the conversion of the former Bankside Power Station into Tate Modern, for which the Tate was given £52 million towards. Nicholas I've been to the Tate Modern a few times and yes I did enjoy it, but I'm not sure that you should have been given £52 million for it. The current generation of the poor sods of the sort that your mother made a good living out of ignoring probably needed it more. As of 2015, Serota was paid a salary of between £165,000 and £169,999 by the Tate. When Serota was Director of the Tate, he encouraged BP to sponsor the Tate which caused quite an embarrassment at the time of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Nicholas Serota is currently Director of Arts Council England.
Previous posts and comments on this blog have mentioned Professor Stuart Stanton, a gynaecologist at St George's Hospital Medical School who specialised in convincing rich, anxious women that they needed pelvic floor surgery. Stanton was reputed to have made a fortune and was hated and feared by even his colleagues who were facilitating child abuse and people trafficking, so I always wondered what is was that Stanton was up to. The corrupt MSF rep David Hole who spent most of his working day trying to dig up dirt or sensitive info on other people which he could then use against them was really busting a gut in his attempts to find out what Stanton was doing but Stanton's secretary – who was very much more normal than most of the people employed at St George's – wasn't giving anything away, although like everyone else who worked with Stanton, she did used to say 'God I'd never let him operate on me'.
Stanton went to Israel on a very frequent basis and had mistresses out there, but I'm sure that Stanton wasn't going all that way just to discuss Uganda. I have received info about Stanton's dreadful treatment of the ladies in his life, but I'm not publishing any of that because they need to be afforded privacy after falling into the jaws of a shark.
This morning someone sent me a few links which mentioned Stuart Stanton. His name appeared on the 2011 list of Trustees of the Jewish Music Institute. Stanton's biography which appears on the website of the Jewish Music Institute describes Stanton as:
Professor and Consultant Urogynaecologist now in private and medico-legal practice in Central London. He is also a visiting Professor at Hadassah Hospital (Jerusalem) where he travels every three months to lecture, see patients and operate. He is a founder member of the South London Israel Forum (SLIF) which meets monthly to hear speakers on Middle East politics and Israel's achievements in the Arts and Sciences, also a Trustee for Hadassah UK and a Patron of the British Friends of Hebrew University.
The Vice-Presidents of the Jewish Music Institute were named as my old mate Michael Grade and dear old Greville Janner.
Stanton also appears on the website of the Jewish Medical Association UK. The section entitled 'Israeli Medical Students' tells us about the 2011 Israeli Student Attachment programme and that 'the past four weeks have been incredible. Dr. Alan Naftalin welcomed us with a lovely dinner at his house and took care of all our needs during our stay. In addition, he made sure we learn a lot about medicine and the way it is practiced in the UK by arranging meetings with well experienced doctors such as Prof. David Katz, Prof. Stuart Stanton and Dr. Mike Peters of the BMA.'
Prof David Katz is an immunologist who used to work at either UCH or the Middlesex, I've forgotten which one – I met him in 1987. He was mates with the fraudsters at Royal Postgraduate Medical School/Hammersmith Hospital (see post 'Interesting Facts').
The same website tells us that in 2010, 'The clinical attachment is at Newham University Hospital NHS Trust. Dr Alan Naftalin, Prof Susan Gelding and the educational team at Newham are responsible for the programme. In addition to Newham Hospital several JMA(UK) give them the opportunity to see other aspects of UK medicine. Thus they have also spent time with Prof Michael Baum (breast disease), Prof Atul Mehta at the Royal Free Hospital (Gaucher's disease and Lysosomal Storage Disease), Prof Anthony Warrens at the Royal London Hospital (paediatric nephrology), and Prof Stuart Stanton (urogynaecology).'
Professor Michael Baum is a cancer surgeon who has a healthy cynicism towards ineffective 'alternative medicines', but Baum has never spoken out about the rampant corruption and research fraud among his colleagues which he undoubtedly knows about.
Now, let me clarify. I too believe that cross-national exchanges between students and academics are valuable and I have taken part in them myself. But Stuart Stanton was a Trustee of an organisation which had as Vice-Presidents Michael Grade, who ignored Jimmy Savile and his activities during Grade's various roles at the BBC and Greville Janner, a man who stood accused of sexually abusing children in care. In the early 1990s, Janner was questioned by police regarding sexual assaults on children and his solicitor Sir David Napley was so certain that Janner would be charged that he retained George Carman. Thus Greville had the same legal team as Jeremy Thorpe did when Thorpe stood trial in 1979 for conspiracy to murder his former gay partner. It has now been admitted that Janner should have been charged and the CPS cannot explain why he wasn't. Years later Janner was due to face a 'trial of the facts' after producing evidence from at least one Top Doctor that he was unfit to stand trial. That trial of the facts took so long to arrive that Janner died before it happened.
Stuart Stanton is a Top Doctor who spent most of his career working at St George's Hospital Medical School, an institution which was concealing at least two paedophile rings, both of which had links to the ring that Janner was part of in Leicester. The Head of the Dept in which Stanton was employed, Prof Geoffrey Chamberlain, was a key figure in concealing organised abuse. Chamberlain was friends with Ollie Brooke, the Prof of Paediatrics at St George's, who in 1986 was jailed for the possession of child porn. Brooke was a key figure in a pan-European paedophile ring.
So what is Stanton doing in Israel?
Someone who is now constructed as a UK expert on old age care knows a lot about the abuses of vulnerable people in north Wale – step forward Professor Vanessa Burholt of the Centre for Innovative Ageing at Swansea University. The spiel about Ness on Swansea's website tells us that:
'After graduating from the Open University in 1994, Vanessa worked as a researcher at Bangor University while she undertook her PhD. After completing her PhD in 1998, Vanessa became Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Policy Research and Development at Bangor University and in 2004 took over as Director. Vanessa was awarded a personal Chair at Bangor in 2007, and shortly after moved to Swansea University, as Director of the Centre for Innovative Ageing. In 2016 Vanessa was also appointed Director of the pan-Wales Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research.
Vanessa holds a public appointment as the research member of the Ministerial Advisory Forum on Ageing and is co-Chair of My Home Life Cymru. Personal awards include Fellow of the Academy of Social Science and Senior Research Leader for Health and Care Research Wales. In 2015 and 2017 she won the College of Human and Health Science outstanding contribution to research award. She is a member of the ESRC DTC Peer Review College. She sits on the ESRC Grants Assessment Panel C and is member of the Board for Health and Care Research Wales. Vanessa sits on the CHHS Senior Management Board, the Social Care Ethics Committee, and the Research Committee.
Vanessa has worked on and led international and national research projects worth approximately £18M, and has supervised 23 post-graduate students. Her research interests include loneliness, support networks, intergenerational relationships, social exclusion, rurality, migration of older people and attachment to place and she has published more than 50 articles and book chapters on these topics.'
This translates as:
Ness worked at Bangor University throughout the Waterhouse Inquiry into the abuse of children in care, about which no-one knew anything, although Ness's colleagues facilitated that abuse and ignored all complaints from witnesses and victims. Ness was involved with the School of Psychology, which was led by Professor Fergus Lowe; Fergus and his mistress Pauline Horne built their entire empire by holding everyone who had colluded with Dafydd and the paedophiles over a barrel. Ness was also involved with IMSCaR, a research institute which was Directed by Prof Mark Williams, a clinical psychologist who worked with the paedophile gang and perpetrated the research fraud which was Mindfulness. Bruce Napier, a clinical psychologist who ran away from the Hergest Unit screaming loudly, was subsequently employed at IMSCaR. One of Ness's mentors in old age care at Bangor University was Professor Bob Woods, the man who ran the clinical psychology programme, which involved students undertaking placements at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh where they witnessed patients being abused and, if they were female students, were sexually harassed and propositioned by Dafydd. Ness knew as well as the rest of north Wales that the care for the elderly in the region, particularly for EMI patients, was so bad that healthcare staff did all they could to find alternative care for their own relatives.
Some 10 years ago, Ness's PhD supervisor Prof Clare Wenger, who had by then retired, had the misfortune to be admitted to a ward for the elderly at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd. Clare Wenger was so appalled by what she witnessed that she compiled an extensive report, sent it over 100 colleagues and healthcare bodies and appeared in the media. She was denounced by Ysbyty Glan Clwyd as a stuck up old cow. Not one of Clare's colleagues or students defended her. Ness bagged her job at Swansea and fucked off out of north Wales to become an international expert on old age care. Which was of course what Clare Wenger was. Some years after Clare Wenger was ignored and then trashed when she refused to shut up, the Tawel Fan Scandal blew up on an EMI ward at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.
Just how fucking stupid are you all?
'First they came for the Service Users, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Service User.'
It was an international trafficking ring. They killed witnesses.
A national emergency has been declared. The National Crime Agency and the Home Secretary Sajid Javid have put out a paedophile alert on the grounds that an estimated 80,000 people constitute an online risk to children – they will leave no stone unturned in their efforts to hunt these people down. Oh don't bother. The people facilitating it all are sitting in Top Docs surgeries, social service depts, counsellors therapy rooms, in police stations, in the Courts and in Parliament and their activities are no secret. It could have all been stopped thirty years ago when hundreds and hundreds of young people were complaining that they were being threatened, assaulted and sexually abused by the welfare services in north Wales. No-one helped us, no-one. Most of the complainants have since been found dead. Fuck off all of you. Why would anyone believe a word that any of you say?
The Labour Party is now in a state of total civil war. Margaret Hodge is demanding Jezza's head on a plate for his alleged anti-Semitism and Gordon has joined in the fray, emphasising that there can be no place for hatred within the Labour Party. Everyone involved in this punch-up concealed Dafydd and the gang for years. However, the hyenas can smell Jezza's blood and so they are circling.
Margaret Hodge will be thinking up her leadership campaign slogan as I write this…
Vote Wisely, Vote Silly – You Know It Makes Nonsense. The Silly Party is committed to: raising unemployment; destroying industry; encouraging naughtiness in high places.
You'll do a job as good as Thatch, Dame M!
Dame Margaret Hodge, former Leader of Islington Borough Council while Islington children's homes were infiltrated by a paedophile gang who murdered some of the witnesses:
Brown, who was the subject of a murder attempt:
A Volkswagon Beetle, of the sort that my friend Anne was driving when she was killed:
I've got a photo of my friend's baby who died shortly after birth at the hands of Robert Fox as well, but that's not publicly available….
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My post 'The Bloody State We're In' detailed the backgrounds of Lord Max Beloff and some of his family. Max was the father of Cherie and Tony's mate Michael Beloff QC, who was the legal advisor for Municipal Mutual, the insurers for Clwyd County Council throughout the years whilst children in the care of Clwyd were severely abused. It was Michael Beloff's advice which resulted in the 1996 Jillings Report into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd being witheld from absolutely everyone but the Council's insurers and lawyers for decades. Even Clwyd County Councillors themselves were not permitted to read the report (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…').
Max Beloff had previously provided a glowing endorsement of a book written by Ioan Bowen Rees, who was Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council whilst the paedophile gang operated in children's homes across Gwynedd and Clwyd. Ioan was the boss of Gwynedd's Director of Social Services, Lucille Hughes – Lucille was Dr Dafydd Alun Jones's mistress.
I decided to do a bit more research into Max Beloff and his contacts because Max was involved with some of the right wing gurus of the 1970s and 80s who influenced and advised Thatcher. In the 1980s someone who was plugged into at least part of that network worked at UCNW (Bangor University), a agricultural economist, Professor Richard Howarth. I met a young relative of Richard Howarth's once – at a bus stop in Menia Bridge, in about 1982 – and she told me that he was having meetings with Thatcher.
Richard Howath worked in the Agriculture Dept, which must have been the most dysfunctional Dept in UCNW. There was a constant supply of students approaching the university authorities requesting to change course. One of the lecturers – Gordon Farley – was the most ridiculous old sexual harasser who could be imagined and had been removed from his post as a warden of a student hall of residence because of the hair-raising stories that were circulating about him. There were frightening anecdotes from former students of having been forced out of the university as a result of vendettas from staff in the Agriculture Dept and the Prof of Agriculture was a complete incompetent called J.B. Owen who very obviously should not have been in his job. I was told many years later that Owen's family had provided the money which had established the Dept and that was the only reason why he was ever given his job. Mary Wynch had worked as a secretary in the Agric Dept before Dafydd unlawfully imprisoned her. Mary became headline news after she won her case against Dafydd, but no-one from that Dept supported her. I have always wondered what Mary found out about JB Owen et al, particularly as I was told repeatedly that he was a deeply unpleasant man and there had been many victims…
For details of the horrors and stupidities of the Agri Dept and JB Owen, see post 'Not Seen Since the 80s – Carwyn'.
One of the UCNW students mentioned in my post 'Just A Language Divide?' who took up a job in the US after graduation – which seemed to have been arranged for her by the corrupt GP in the Student Health Centre, Dr DGE Wood and his wife, who was a senior lecturer in UCNW, after this young woman found out about the corruption in the North Wales Police – also knew about much wrongdoing in the Agri Dept. Unlike some people who were forced abroad by Wood et al into not very desirable jobs, this young woman landed a very good deal in a US university, despite her not having shown much interest in academic work. Her father was an Editor on 'The Daily Telegraph'. The staff of the Student Health Centre knew about this because they made a reference to it one day.
Although I wasn't studying agricultural economics, I took an interest in Richard Howarth's work because I wondered how someone surrounded by the pillocks in the Agri Dept had found himself dining with Thatch. Howarth did actually have academic interests unlike a number of his colleagues – many of whom seemed to be simply mates of JB Owen's – but it was all very standard 1980s Thatcherite stuff, recommending Adam Smith etc.
At one point Howarth looked as though he was going to be very influential. It became known that his group were the only people in the Agri Dept with any life in them and he appeared in the London-based press a few times. A few years after I graduated, I was told that one of Howarth's team, Terry Thomas, was much in demand in high places and was nipping over to Europe as an advisor.
Things then died a death quite suddenly. Howarth disappeared from the University and a piece appeared in 'Private Eye', alleging that he had been driven out of north west Wales by much unpleasantness. The last I heard, Howarth was running a guest house. Years later Terry Thomas made headlines in the local Welsh press after suing the University, alleging that his health and life had been ruined by them.
This may be a coincidence, but it all fell apart after Mary sued Dafydd and at the time that the allegations concerning serious abuse of children in north Wales began surfacing.
My post 'Reports Of Death Were Greatly Exaggerated' mentioned that in 1984-85, Thatcher's henchman from the UGC, Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, planned to close UCNW down but had his arm twisted into allowing the institution to continue to exist by the PVC of UCNW Prof Alwyn Roberts, who was also a big name in the BBC and S4C. Alwyn Roberts knew that UCNW was run by people facilitating the paedophile gang which was supplying children to Dolphin Square as well as to Thatcher's friend and aide Sir Peter Morrison and many others.
During the late 1980s and the first few years of the 1990s, Richard Howarth was involved with various right wing and anti-EU groups – then the trail goes cold. Max Beloff was involved with similar groups and might well have known Howarth.
One of Max Beloff's proudest achievements was the establishment of the University of Buckingham, the UK's first private university.
The University of Buckingham was founded as the University College of Buckingham in 1973 – the first students were admitted in 1976. It was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1983.
The University was closely linked to Margaret Thatcher. As Education Secretary she oversaw the creation of the University College in 1973 and as PM she was instrumental in elevating it to a university in 1983. After retiring from politics in 1992, Thatch became the University's Chancellor, a post she held until 1999.
Lord Hailsham, Quintin Hogg, succeeded Thatch as Chancellor. Hogg was the Tory MP for Oxford, 1938-50 and then for St Marylebone, 1963-70. Hogg was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He migrated back and forth between the Commons and the Lords as a consequence of renouncing an hereditary peerage but then gaining a life peerage under Ted Heath. Hogg came from a long line of Hoggs who were all equally offensive. Hogg was a barrister and a keen mountain climber and his career with the Tory Party stretched back into the Pre-Cambrian era. He was First Lord of the Admiralty under Anthony Eden; Lord Privy Seal, Chair of the Tory Party and Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the Lords and Lord President of the Council under Supermac; Education Secretary under Alec Douglas-Home, Shadow Home Secretary under Heath and Lord Chancellor under Thatch. As Lord Chancellor, Hogg was preceded by paedophiles' friend Lord Elwyn-Jones and succeeded by paedophiles' friend Lord Michael Havers.
Hogg was disgusted by homosexuality at a time when he will have known that many of his colleagues were molesting underaged boys whilst being protected by the Lord Chancellor. It was Hogg who, after the Argies surrendered, joyfully declared that it was God wot won it for us. Only he said it in Latin, Boris-like, so the journos all had to scamper off to look it up. A case of 'sane, paululum linguae latinae dico' ('sure, I speak a little Latin'), a la Manuel on Fawlty Towers when he stood behind the moose's head and said 'I speak English, I learn it from a book' and gave the Major a shock.
Hogg transmitted the inherited trait to become a Tory Minister onto his son Douglas.
Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb followed Hogg as Chancellor, 1999-10. Jacomb was Chairman of Canary Wharf Group. For details of how Canary Wharf was built upon the corpses of the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles, see post 'The Bodies Beneath Canary Wharf'. Jacomb was a Vice-Chairman of Kleinwort Benson Ltd, 1976-85, and a Deputy Chairman of Barclays Bank, 1985-93.
Jacomb was educated at Eton and Worcester College, Oxford. He was a barrister, 1955-68 and then began his career in business. In 1986 Jacomb described insider trading as a 'victimless crime'. Obviously in the same way that no-one was really harmed by Dafydd and the paedophiles, they just made it all up to receive compensation.
According to the University of Buckingham, Jacomb 'is a strong believer in the need for universities to be independent of the government'. He has written that if universities are 'to nurture genuinely free and creative academic research' and 'be the guardians of liberty which a free society needs' they must be independent of Gov't funding. He maintained that Oxford University should become private in order to avoid an authoritarian Gov't imposing restrictions on admissions and that Oxford's academics will only be able to challenge prevailing opinion if they are independent of Gov't funding. Dependence on Gov't funding, Jacomb argues, has had disastrous effects on the HE sector in continental Europe.
I too have deep concerns over the way in which the UK's universities have filled up with not very brave people who daren't publish anything too critical of the state – it is a massive problem in health and social care research. But somehow I don't think that the answer is to ensure that the same people end up being frightened of upsetting international financiers.
Martin Jacomb was succeeded as Chancellor by Lord Tanlaw aka Simon Mackay. Tanlaw takes a particular interest in the Far East, especially Malaysia. He was a Director of the family firm, Inchape plc, with many business interests in the region from 1967 to the mid-1990s, at which point the Mackay family's involvement in the company ceased. Lord Tanlaw currently owns Fandstan Electric Group Ltd, a railway and engineering company.
Tanlaw has served as both President and Treasurer of the Sarawek Association and is a member of the Oriental Club, London and White's. He was a member of the executive committee of the Great Britain-China Centre, 1981-88.
Simon Mackay was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Galloway in 1959, and by the late 1960s was joint Treasurer of the Scottish Liberal Party. So he'll be well acquainted with David Steele and the other Liberals of that era who kept quiet about Jeremy Thorpe and Cyril Smith (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed').
Tanlaw received his peerage in 1971. He sat as a crossbencher for many years, then as a Conservative.
Lord Tanlaw resigned as Chancellor of the University of Buckingham in 2013 but I haven't yet found out why. He was succeeded by Tessa Keswick.
Tessa Keswick aka Lady Tessa Reay is the daughter of an aristocrat. Tessa married another aristocrat, the 14th Lord Reay. Lord Reay owns a substantial country estate in Wiltshire – just like Sir Peter Morrison's father did. Lord Reay also owns an 18,000 acre shooting estate in the Angus Glens area of East Scotland.
Tessa is now married to Sir Henry Keswick. Sir Henry was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge and owned 'The Spectator', 1975-80. Sir Henry is Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd, a company that he joined in 1961. He became a Director in 1967, MD in 1970 and Chairman in 1972. Sir Henry is Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Association and a member of the Council of the National Trust. He was previously Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery and is involved with 'The Tablet'.
During the 2017 General Election, Sir Henry and Tessa donated £100k to the Conservative Party.
Sir Martin Jacomb will be delighted to hear how private universities are free of political bias from authoritarian Gov'ts.
The reason that I have blogged about Tessa's male relatives rather than Tessa is that I can't actually find much info about Tessa. I've found a photo of her but apart from the fact that she is Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, there is not a great deal about her readily available. Which suggests that she might have bagged her job on the strengths of her male relatives.
The University of Buckingham's finances for teaching are derived entirely from direct student fees and endowments: it does not receive state funding, via HEFCE or otherwise. It has formal charity status.
Some of the founding academics migrated from Oxford University, stating that they were disillusioned with 'the late-1960s ethos'.
One of the founders of the University was John W. Paulley, a Top Doctor who enjoyed writing angry letters to 'The Times'. On 27 May 1967, 'The Times' published a letter from Paulley, who wrote:
'Is it now time to examine the possibility of creating at least one university in this country on the pattern of [the] great private foundations in the USA.'
Three London conferences followed which, the wiki entry for the University tells us, 'explored this idea'.
The development of the University of Buckingham was linked to the right wing Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), in particular to Harry Ferns and Lord Ralph Harris, the heads of the Institute. The University's foundation-stone was laid by Thatch.
Harris was General Director of the IEA, 1957-88 and then served as Chairman. He was founding President from 1990 until his death in 2006. Harris served on the Council of the University of Buckingham, 1980-95.
Harris was Secretary of the Mont Pelerin Society from 1967 and its President, 1982-84. He was 'a moving spirit in the Wincott Foundation and the founding of the Social Affairs Unit'. Harris was a founder of the No Turning Back group in 1985. He was Chairman of the Bruges Group, 1989-91. He was a Director of Murdoch's Times Newspapers, 1988-01.
Harris helped set up a fighting fund to support Neil Hamilton's libel actions against the BBC in 1986 and Mohamed Al Fayed in 1999. He was Chairman of Civitas from 2000 and also Chairman and then President of FOREST, the smokers' rights campaigning group.
Max Beloff was the University of Buckingham's first Vice-Chancellor.
Beloff was succeeded by Sir Alan Peacock, 1980-84, an economist and founder of the Economics Dept at the University of York. Peacock also held posts at the University of St Andrews, the LSE, Edinburgh University and Heriot-Watt University. He was Chief Economic Adviser to the DTI, 1973-76 and a Co-founder and the first Executive Director of the David Hume Institute.
Alan Peacock was followed as VC by Lord Richard Luce, 1992-96. Luce was educated at Wellington College and Christ's College, Cambridge. After National Service in Cyprus, 1955–57, Luce briefly joined the Overseas Civil Service. He then worked for Gallaher Ltd as a brand manager (1963–65), before becoming marketing manager for the Spirella Company of Great Britain. In 1968–71 he was Director of the National Innovation Centre. From 1972-79, Luce was Chairman of IFA Consultants Ltd. Luce was also Chair of Selenex Ltd (1973–79) and of Courtenay Stewart International (1975–79).
Luce was first elected to the Commons as the Tory MP for Arundel and Shoreham in 1971. He retired from the Commons at the 1992 General Election. Days before the firebomb in Brighton (22 miles away from Arundel) killed the five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs').
Between 1979-82, Luce held Ministerial posts in the Foreign Office. In 1982, along with Lord Carrington, he resigned over Argentina's invasion of the Falklands.
Luce returned to the Foreign Office in 1983, again as a Minister. In 1985, he was appointed as Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Civil Service. He resigned from that post in 1990.
Between 1997-2000, Luce was appointed Governor of Gibralter. He bagged his peerage in Oct 2000, after the Waterhouse Report had been safely published. In the same year, he became Lord Chamberlain – the Head of the Royal Household – a post he held until 2006. Sir Peter Morrison's sister Dame Mary Morrison spent her whole life as Lady-In-Waiting to HM the Queen Lilibet. During many of those years, Peter Morrison was abusing children, including children in care in north Wales.
In April 2012 Lord Luce was appointed by PM David Cameron as Chair of the Crown Nominations Commission for the See of Canterbury, the commission set up to nominate the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury.
Lord Luce is President of the Voluntary Arts Network, the Royal Overseas League and is High Steward of Westminster Abbey.
Luce is from a family in which many members have reached very senior positions in the Forces, particularly the Royal Navy. Admiral Sir Alec Bingley was a man who had the most impressive of careers in the Royal Navy. He was, among other things, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet during WWI; the Fifth Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Air) in 1954; Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet and NATO Commander, Allied Forces in the Mediterranean in 1959 and then Commander in Chief, Portsmouth. Sir Alec was married to Lady Juliet Bingley, who during her many her years with MIND, concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course'). Sir Alec and Lady Juliet's son William Bingley continued Lady Juliet's good work in concealing the serious crimes, both in his capacity as legal director of MIND and then as CEO of the Mental Health Act Commission (see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course').
It is very likely that Luce knew Sir Alec from Luce's years in the Foreign Office. Luce's uncle was Sir David Luce, First Sea Lord, 1963–66, who would have certainly known Sir Alec. Luce's sister Diana is married to retired Royal Navy Captain David Hart Dyke and his niece is comedian and actress Miranda Hart. The tall one who makes jokes about being desperate to get married and does a face at the camera every five minutes. When she's not telling the jokes about her mother. The BBC know that women like that sort of comedy. And that when they say no they mean yes.
The University of Buckingham's website informs us that Luce's wife Lady Rose Luce sang in the choir of the University of Buckingham Alumni Association at the pre-Christmas do in 2013.
Since Sept 2015, Sir Anthony Seldon has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. Seldon is an historian and a biographer of recent PMs and the former Headmaster of Wellington College. What is less well-known is that prior to that, Seldon was Headmaster of Brighton College, which educated a number of paedophiles' friends, including Keith Best, the former Tory MP for Anglesey, 1979-87 and Welsh Office Minister (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'). Seldon sits on the Advisory Board of another private university, A.C. Grayling's venture, the New College of the Humanities, which seems to attract seriously rich students who have not got into Oxbridge. Seldon is the son of the economist Arthur Seldon, who co-founded the IEA and was Director of Academic Affairs at the IEA for 30 years.
Seldon is a thoughtful man but nonetheless is duped by flaky ideas. His pupils were encouraged to practice Mindfulness as pioneered by paedophiles' friend Professor Mark Williams (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot') and Seldon is Co-founder of Action for Happiness, the con perpetrated by Lord Richard Layard, husband of paedophiles' friend Baroness Molly Meacher (see post 'A Vintage Crop').
The VC prior to Sir Anthony was Prof Terence Kealey, 2001-14, formerly of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge University. Kealey is a Top Doctor who trained at Bart's and did his PhD at Balliol. Kealey opposes the public funding of science and believes that Thatch transformed schools and universities. Which I suppose she did.
A few days after Thatch was driven away from Downing Street wiping tears from her eyes, I was shopping in a supermarket with my friend – whilst we were both living in London and under attack from the paedophiles' friends – and we were doing what those people who turn up on Andrew Neil's TV programmes and make completely inaccurate predictions about the political year ahead describe as 'assessing the legacy of Thatcher'. As we headed towards the checkout in the supermarket in Peckham – which had obviously been transformed by Thatcher as well – my friend observed 'she's ruined everything hasn't she'. And I tried to think of something which had not been ruined by Thatch and I couldn't. So we went back to my mate's flat in Peckham – which had a huge iron portcullis thing on the door, after the door had been kicked in by burglars a few weeks previously – and we discussed the lunatic GP in Peckham whom my friend had seen a few days previously who had prescribed her something that would have caused her serious damage if she had been thick enough to take it.
My mate's local MP was Harriet Harman who fought many an election on the 'NHS is great' ticket. Whilst my friend lived in Peckham she was sacked from her job at the Royal Television Society because she knew what had happened to me at the hands of Dafydd and the paedophiles and wanted to make a documentary about it- the destruction of my friend's career was, I understand, something to do with Sir Paul Fox, one of Thatcher's favourite media executives – and then my friend's husband was driven out of his job at the BBC for the same reason.
Happy days Harriet! Young Labour Party activists' careers ruined because their friend was targeted by those who were supplying Thatcher's mate Sir Peter Morrison with boys.
Terence Kealey is an advocate of the privatisation of HE.
The School of Medicine at the University of Buckingham offers postgraduate programmes for qualified doctors and since 2015 has offered an undergraduate medical qualification at a cost of £35,000 per year. The University of Buckingham Medical School works in partnership with Milton Keynes NHS Trust and Milton Keynes University Hospital.
The Dean of the School of Medicine is none other than Karol Sikora, who was one of those among the crooks and fraudsters who worked at Hammersmith Hospital/Royal Postgraduate Medical School when I was a postgrad there in 1986/87 (see post 'A Cause Close To Our Hearts'), although Sikora subsequently fell out with them in a big way. Sikora's main aim as a Top Doctor seems to be to become even richer than he is already.
Sikora was a Foundation Fellow of Prince Charles's now-defunct alternative medicine lobby group, The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health. The University of Buckingham ran a Diploma course in 'integrated medicine' that was later withdrawn under pressure from David Colquhoun, a campaigner against pseudoscience.
Sikora is Chair of the Faculty of Integrated Medicine, which is unaffiliated to any university but includes Rosy Daniel and Mark Atkinson, who co-ordinated the 'integrated medicine' course at the University of Buckingham. Rosy Daniel has been criticised by David Colquhoun for breaches of the Cancer Act 1939 regarding claims that she made for Carctol, a herbal dietary supplement which is ineffective in treating cancer.
Since the demise of the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Heath, Prince Charles has been involved with the College of Medicine, a lobbying group for alternative medicine, which many suspect is just The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health with a new name on the door. Professor Andrew Miles is on the 'scientific council' of the College of Medicine.
Professor Andrew Miles is Senior Vice-President and Secretary General of the European Society for Person Centred Healthcare. He was formerly Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Social Medicine as well as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He has previously held Chairs at Guy's, King's College London and St. Thomas' Hospitals' Medical School London and at St. Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospitals´ School of Medicine, London.
Andrew Miles trained in the bosom of the paedophiles' friends at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff.
Karol Sikora is also a 'professional member' of the College of Medicine.
The University of Buckingham also awards undergraduate and Masters degrees to students who have studied at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, a private university in Sarajevo.
The University of Buckingham validates courses in medicine at Medipathways College, a private college based in London which operates dentistry and medicine courses. In late 2014 Medipathways was found by the Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency 'to be at serious risks of failure'.
The University of Buckingham Press publishes in the areas of law, education and business. In 2006 the Press relaunched 'The Denning Law Journal'. Presumably the Lord Denning who achieved notoriety for stating 'Be ye ever so high the Law is above you'. But he must have made an exception in the case of the Birmingham Six when he declared that if their appeal was to succeed it would be an admission of corruption so serious and widespread which was such 'an appalling vista' that it was better that they should remain in prison even if they had been fitted up. Lord Denning subsequently stated that if they'd been hung it would have been easier all round because there wouldn't be all this fuss.
And if the paedophiles' friends had succeeded in killing me in one of their arson attempts on my house in the early 1990s, no-one would have to put up with this blog exposing the Top Doctors and their associates.
Good to know that the University of Buckingham named their Law Journal after the finest legal brain that the British judiciary has ever produced.
The University of Buckingham Press publishes other journals, including 'The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics'. It has a co-publishing arrangement with Policy Exchange. The backgrounds of the questionable people involved with Policy Exchange were detailed in my post 'Disgusting of Tunbridge Wells And A Few Equally Disgusting Others'.
Alumni of the University of Buckingham include Brandon Lewis, Tory MP for Great Yarmouth and currently Chairman of the Conservative Party; Mark Lancaster, Tory MP for Milton Keynes North; Graham Roos, appointed in 2011 as the University's first Creative Artist in Residence – who earlier in his career worked with Pete Doherty, which might be something that the University of Buckingham does not want remembered – and James Henderson, the former CEO of Bell Pottinger.
John W. Paulley, the man who's letter to 'The Times' set the University of Buckingham ball rolling, was a Top Doctor in Ipswich. He was the son of another Top Doctor who was also called John Paulley. John W. Paulley was educated at Epsom College and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Following pre-reg and casualty posts, Paulley joined the RAF in 1940. He returned to the Middlesex Hospital after WWII.
Gwynne the lobotomist trained at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain's widow Jocelyn worked at the Middlesex – Chamberlain concealed a paedophile ring whilst he worked at St George's Hospital Medical School and Jocelyn must have known that. The Middlesex has an influential alumni network.
The Royal College of Physicians website 'Lives of The Fellows' section explains that 'frustrated by the inhibitions of an academic unit, [Paulley] was appointed consultant physician to the Ipswich Hospital in the hope, more than amply fulfilled, that he could better practice high quality medicine in the environment of a district general hospital. His medical unit rapidly gained a national reputation'.
The reality is that Paulley was involved in some highly unethical experiments on patients accompanied by a degree of law-breaking and was not supervised or held to account. This blog's correspondent Richard Card has left many comments about Paulley's activities at Ipswich – Richard was one of Paulley's patients as a child.
The Royal College tells us that Paulley's 'studies in ulcerative colitis, first published in 1950, led to a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease and thereafter into psychosomatic relationships in the pathology of disease. These ideas were not confined to inflammatory bowel disease but expanded to include observations of potential contributory psychological factors in asthma, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. These promoted considerable resistance amongst numbers of more traditional physicians but at least in part are now widely accepted'.
The notion held by some Top Docs that many conditions were 'psychosomatic' caused serious problems on the occasions when those Top Docs failed to identify that a condition had an organic basis. Psychological factors play a major role in how people live with their conditions, but much harm was done when Top Doctors stubbornly clung to the belief that seriously ill people were suffering from 'stress' or 'psychosomatic disorders' – many people with gastrointestinal conditions, ulcers, ME/CFS and numerous other conditions failed to receive the appropriate care and treatment because of a touching belief that it was 'all in their mind' and some of those people died.
Paulley's interest in psychosomatic conditions culminated in an 'outstanding textbook' – according to the Royal College of Physicians – written with a fellow general physician, H.E. Pelser, 'Psychological Managements for Psychosomatic Disorders', Berlin/New York, Springer-Verlag, c.1989. We are told by the Royal College that 'those of us who worked with him as he explored patients' attitudes and feelings, very often on his knees at their bedside (as a tall man it was the only way to get down to their level), could not fail to see the potential relationship between mind and body'.
One wonders what the patients thought was going on.
Paulley was of course 'an excellent and devoted teacher and a great inspiration to those working with him, all of whom were encouraged to think 'outside the box'. He developed postgraduate teaching in the hospital and was the first clinical tutor. He ran a weekly journal club requiring team members to present original papers, excluding those in 'The Lancet' or 'BMJ' (all were expected to have read these) or controlled clinical trials (because these rarely contained anything of new scientific interest!). He was one of the first consultants to develop a multidisciplinary team approach, including his own physiotherapist, dietician and dedicated nursing team'.
We can interpret this as 'Paulley was a cult figure who adhered to bizarre notions, rejected science which attempted to be rigorous and led a little gaggle of staff who did exactly as he ordered, no matter how whackey or dangerous'.
Sounds a bit like Dafydd.
Paulley 'regarded himself as always 'on call' for his inpatients, except during his yearly annual holidays. He immediately forged close working relationships with local practitioners, initially inviting them to join ward rounds, promoting seminars and then the establishment of the first vocational training scheme based on a district general hospital, which not only espoused all the principles of holistic care which he himself practised but also provided a curriculum based on weekly group tutorials, using what would now be called a problem-based self learning approach'.
It's Dafydd again – 'always on call' can be a basis for complete domination of a patient and concealing of one's abusive activities rather than dedication. If someone is always on call, that patient will be refused a service by other Top Docs no matter how desperate they are to escape.
Documents in my possession describe how Dafydd was fuming at senior staff in the NHS in north Wales because patients were ringing him up and taking the piss out of him. Dafydd was attending meetings and sending memos around stressing how he had to be available '24 hours a day' for 'certain patients' and that was why he couldn't even install an answerphone to deal with the 'nuisance calls'. This was a man who hardly ever turned up to his NHS clinics and who left sectioned patients to rot for many months in the North Wales Hospital without even visiting them. Who did the idiots running the NHS in north Wales think that Dafydd was receiving calls from at 3 am, calls that could not even be dealt with for a couple of hours by the answerphone? Not that Dafydd always knew who he was speaking to either. I'll remind you Dafydd – 'Is that Anna??? Is that Meri??? Hilary!!!!' It wasn't any of them you daft old bugger, although I'd love to know who they were….
Then there was the fictional Dr Angus McGregor who had been to medical school with Dafydd in Liverpool whom Dafydd remembered well from their student days, which was incredible because the whole scenario was conjured up by a Hergest patient whom Dafydd had unlawfully imprisoned some years previously. Dafydd was a bit suspicious at first, but once Dr McGregor had told Dafydd that he'd heard that Dafydd was Europe's leading forensic psychiatrist and he was proud to have known him, all Dafydd's defences were dropped.
There was a suggestion that a GP called Dr Finlay should give Dafydd a ring, but I don't think even Dafydd would have fallen for that.
How the North Wales Hospital and Ysbyty Gwynedd claimed to 'not know' where Dafydd was when he hadn't turned up to an NHS clinic or when a patient wanted to discuss a complaint I don't know, because we all knew at which private clinic he was. It was either Bryn Heed (next to Safeways in Bangor), the Grosvenor Nuffield in Chester, the North Wales Medical Centre at Llandudno or even the Queen's Hotel in Leeds (one of Jimmy Savile's haunts), or on occasions a venue in Europe.
The Dafydd of Ipswich held an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Buckingham and was Vice-Chairman of their Planning Committee. The University of Buckingham also gave Paulley a DSc. There seems to have been rather a lot of this sort of thing happening at Buckingham – the founders of the University and their relatives were given the most senior academic positions and had honours bestowed upon them (see post 'The Bloody State We're In').
Now where else have I witnessed such practices?
Paulley's wife Deidre was also a Top Doctor and 'developed counselling skills to help those with psychological disturbances'. In other words those who had been abused – probably sexually – by someone who's offending was being concealed. The phrase 'developed counselling skills' suggests that Deirdre made them up as she went along rather than adhering to any known programme/school of thought etc. John W. Paulley supported Deirdre's development of the very successful Stockwell Centre (for counselling) in Colchester, which was founded in 1976.
Deirdre helped those with psychological disturbances in Ipswich. So Deirde will have known who those involved in the paedophile gang in Suffolk were and what the role of Lord Henniker was (see post '95 Glorious Years!'). Peter Righton, the social work academic who was also a paedophile and a founder member of PIE, for a time lived in a cottage on Lord Henniker's estate. Children in the care of Hackney and Islington Councils were taken to Suffolk on trips – including to Henniker's estate – and holidays and some complained of being abused there.
I have not been able to find out very much at all about John Allen before he arrived in north Wales in 1968 and set up the Bryn Alyn Community, but I have been told that he came from Suffolk. Near Ipswich. I would like to know whether Allen set up shop in north Wales because he knew that there were two very helpful psychiatrists working in the North Wales Hospital who would do anything in return for money and privileges, or whether those two psychiatrists joined in the bonanza once John Allen's business got off the ground.
John Allen's arrival in north Wales was followed by the arrival of a whole flurry of people who had found themselves in possession of enough money to buy an isolated old building and convert it into a 'children's home'. Kids were abused in all of these homes, in pretty much the same way by the same people. There was a lot of traffic in terms of staff moving between the homes.
The 'Save The Children' website has some very interesting snippets about the history of children's homes in north Wales. Many of those homes which later became notorious for being the sites of serious abuse in the 1970s and 80s had been established in the late 19th or early 20th century. There seems to have been an awful lot of children's homes in north Wales and a cluster around Wrexham. I'm not sure why – north Wales was not a heavily populated region but it was poor and some industries such as quarrying resulted in the deaths of considerable numbers of men at a young age as a result of industrial accidents. Some cohorts of the quarrymen had a very short lifespan anyway, I think for the lowest ranking group of workers it was about 37 yrs of age. So there might have been a lot of orphans about, or just people who were too poor to look after their children. Or there might be some other explanation…
The Paulleys had four children – Sarah, Robert, Amanda and Julian. Julian completed a law degree at the University of Buckingham. Julian Paulley worked as a solicitor in London, specialising in employment/financial/tax/business/intellectual property/wills and probate law. He died in 2013.
The Royal College tells us that John W. Paulley 'was one of the great general physicians of his generation. A big and somewhat superficially daunting man, he could be somewhat didactic and a powerful defender of his own views, but he listened to others. He was entirely honest, kind and in many ways a gentle man.'
He was a total git but he was hiding his true nature…
My correspondent Richard Card has also mentioned that Suffolk was the base of Leonard Cheshire and Sue Ryder. In the 1960s Leonard Cheshire Homes residents became the subject of group psychiatric research for three years. The research was commissioned by the Dept of Health and was conducted by the Tavistock Institute. The details of this research are not available, under the Attorney General's custodianship rules.
The Tavistock Institute has concealed criminality and abuse for years.
John W. Paulley contributed to a 1965 volume, 'Psychosomatic Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults', which covered the Proceedings of a Conference Held by the Society for Psychosomatic Research at the Royal College of Physicians, London, November 1960′.
The conference considered 'psychosomatic disorders occurring between the ages of 15-25 years and discusses the mental transformation from childhood to adult maturity. This book is organized into eight sessions encompassing 26 chapters. The first two sessions review the concepts of mental health and the psychosexual development in adolescence. The next sessions look into the issues of teenage pregnancy, menstrual disorders, emotional sweating, male sexual disorders, epilepsy in adolescence and psychosomatic aspects of acne vulgaris. These topics are followed by discussions on stress-related disorders, including tuberculosis and acute appendicitis. The remaining sessions describe certain aspects of mental transformation, such as the link between family and emotional maturity and fitness for marriage'.
This was the sort of thing that Dafydd and co were 'trained' in. It is well worth paying a bit of attention to this volume and some of those who contributed.
John Paulley Chaired the session 'Concepts of Mental Health; The Adolescent in industry; The Adolescent in the University'.
Dr Kenneth Soddy Chaired the session 'The Psycho-sexual Development in Adolescence'.
Kenneth Soddy worked as a psychiatrist in London and was at one point the head of the Psychology Department at UCH. So Soddy was overseeing the activities of Marjorie Wallace and the Count et al at UCH (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').Soddy also spent some time working in Devon in the mid-60s. At one point he lived with his family in the grounds of Hellingly Hospital in East Sussex. Kenneth Soddy died in 1986.
Soddy came from a family of Top Doctors, a number of whom emigrated to the US, Australia and South Africa.
Aleck Bourne Chaired the intriguing sounding session on 'Pregnancy in Adolescents; Menstrual Disorders; Observations on Emotional Sweating During the Menstrual Cycle; Sexual Disorders in Males.
I'm disappointed that Dafydd and co never diagnosed 'emotional sweating during the menstrual cycle' in me, I obviously missed out there.
Aleck Bourne was a well-known gynaecologist who became famous as a result of his trial in 1938 for performing an illegal abortion on a 14 year old rape victim. Bourne later became a pro-life activist.
Bourne was educated at Rydal School in Colwyn Bay and at Downing College, Cambridge. He undertook his clinical training at St Mary's Hospital. and served with the British Army in Egypt and France, 1914-1917.
A keen yachtsman, Bourne was a member of several yacht clubs during the 1930s and in 1933 won the Royal Corinthian's Yacht Club's cup for the best cruiser of the year.
In 1938, Bourne was arrested after performing an 'operation without fee' at St Mary's Hospital to terminate the pregnancy at six weeks of a 14 year old girl who had been sexually assaulted by five off-duty British soldiers in the Royal Horse Guards. She had asked for a termination at St Thomas's Hospital but was sent away on the grounds that she 'might be carrying a future PM', a fairly standard line used when Top Docs do not want to perform a termination. No-one ever says to such patients 'you might be carrying the next Hitler/Harold Shipman/Dafydd'. Rosemary's Baby!
Bourne stood trial at the Central Criminal Court in July 1938, but was acquitted on charges of procuring abortion. His actions were later defended by 'The Lancet' as 'an example of disinterested conduct in consonance with the highest traditions of the profession'.
Bourne's defence had been based upon the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1992, under which the only recognised justification for the termination of a pregnancy was if the life of the woman was in danger. Bourne's defence was that the inevitable subsequent emotional and psychological trauma that the girl would experience would be a risk to her life.
If a Top Doctor today gave this reason for performing a termination on a 14 year old victim of multiple sexual assault, no-one would question it. In 1938 attitudes were very different. Yet there are a number of questions that arise from Bourne's case.
Abortion was effectively illegal in 1938, although any woman with a bit of spare money would be able to find a Top Doctor to perform one if she knew who to ask. Women with no money risked their lives or did not have abortions. History tells us that Tommy's turned the girl away. Yet historical accounts from people who worked at that institution confirm that abortions were performed by Top Doctors there and frequently. Perhaps the Top Doctors at Tommy's always demanded payment and the girl didn't have the money?
We are told that Bourne terminated the pregnancy at six weeks. In 1938, there were none of the sort of pregnancy tests which are available at present which can detect a positive test within days of a missed period. In 1938 women waited…and waited…and waited…Sometimes for weeks before anyone took their concerns about a pregnancy seriously. Particularly in a girl as young as 14. Even a Top Doctor, in 1938, would have great difficulty in firmly diagnosing a pregnancy of six weeks. That's pretty embryonic and Bourne won't have had the equipment to detect an embryo.
Sexually assaulted by five soldiers? It sounds horrific, what with soldiers being a bit rough, not like Top Doctors who's only goal in life is to relieve suffering.
If Aleck Bourne had been reported for performing an abortion on someone in 1938 he would be in a great deal of trouble. There was a criminal investigation into his actions which ended up at the Old Bailey. A story involving five soldiers and an embryo was the only thing that was going to keep Bourne out of prison.
I can find no references to any attempts to find the five soldiers and prosecute them, although details about them were given.
During the 1960s, Bourne became a founding member of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, which was organised in opposition to the Abortion Act 1967. In his memoirs Bourne wrote:
Those who plead for an extensive relaxation of the law [against abortion] have no idea of the very many cases where a woman who, during the first three months, makes a most impassioned appeal for her pregnancy to be 'finished,' later, when the baby is born, is thankful indeed that it was not killed while still an embryo. During my long years in practice I have had many a letter of the deepest gratitude for refusing to accede to an early appeal.
This does sometimes happen and there are Top Doctors who have genuine conscientious objections to abortion. However there is a great deal of hypocrisy in some circles regarding abortion. I know of Top Docs and Angels who have taken a hard anti-abortion line in public but who positively demanded that people in their own families have an abortion because the pregnancy was inconvenient to them.
My post 'The BMA And It's Ethics' describes how in north Wales local Top Doctors organised themselves to ensure that NHS abortions were virtually unobtainable until the late 1980s. The Top Docs who took such a high moral tone with disadvantaged local women requesting abortions cheerily sent their more affluent patients in the direction of private abortion clinics in Chester. There was complete collusion with a situation in which disadvantaged women – including the girls who were victims of the paedophile gang – could not obtain abortions, yet the families and friends of the Top Docs and Angels themselves had access to abortion on demand. It wouldn't surprise me if there had been a financial arrangement with the private clinics in Chester, they were making a bomb out of the committed anti-abortionists of north Wales.
There is no explanation of Bourne's drastic change of heart anywhere. I suspect that like so many Top Doctors – particularly of Bourne's generation – he did what he felt like. Including performing an abortion – which might have been for money, we only had Bourne's word that it was 'without fee'. Whatever Top Doctors have been caught doing, they always claim to have been doing it on compassionate grounds, even Harold Shipman used that rationale.
Bourne continued serving as consulting gynaecologist to St Mary's Hospital and to the Samaritan Hospital for Women as well as consulting obstetric surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Hospital before his eventual retirement and death in December 1974, aged 88.
Geoffrey Chamberlain worked as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Queen Charlotte's Hospital whilst Aleck Bourne worked there. Chamberlain spent years concealing the organised abuse of children and towards the end of his career at St George's Hospital Medical School he was caught in a scandal involving the biggest research fraud that had ever been exposed (see post 'I Don't Believe It!')
Geoffrey Chamberlain was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1955-74, ending his career with them as a surgeon commander. So he'll have been plugged into the Gwynne the lobotomist/Sir Alec Bingley network.
Another contributor to the volume of conference proceedings was Dr Emanuel Miller. Miller Chaired the session 'The Family and Emotional Maturity; Fitness for Marriage'.
Emanuel Miller was a 'Regent's Park psychiatrist', a military psychiatrist and one of the founders of child psychiatry who worked at Harley House.
Dr Emanuel Miller was father of an even more famous Top Doc – self-styled polymath Sir Jonathan Miller.
Jonathan Wolfe Miller is a theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist and Top Doctor. He specialised in neurology in the late 1950s and came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in Beyond the Fringe. Miller began directing operas in the 1970s and has since become one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit. He has written/presented more than a dozen BBC documentaries.
Miller grew up in St John's Wood, in a well-connected Jewish family. He was educated at Taunton School and St Paul's School, London. While at St Paul's School, Miller became close friends with future Top Doctor Oliver Sacks and Oliver's best friend Eric Korn – friendships which remained crucial throughout the rest of their lives.
Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who, like Jonathan Miller, found fame as a polymath. Sacks passed through the Middlesex Hospital – he was from a family of Top Doctors, some of who were also associated with the Middlesex – before leaving the UK and building his career in the US. Sacks's writings caught the media's and public's imagination, probably because he gave his books titles like 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat'. In the final years of his life Sacks revealed that he was gay.
Eric Korn was yet another polymath, but unlike his mates Miller and Sacks, Korn wasn't a Top Doctor. Korn was a marine zoologist and taught the subject at Southampton, Toronto and Liverpool.
Another place that was well-known for marine zoology was UCNW.
Eric Korn wrote for 'The Guardian' and was also a regular on Radio 4's 'Round Britain Quiz'.
Miller, Sacks and Korn attracted the observation from fawning people that they 'are quite the cleverest man that I have ever met'. One therefore wonders how Miller and Korn missed Jimmy Savile whilst they were hanging out at the BBC.
Miller studied at St John's College, Cambridge where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. He did his clinical training at UCH. Whilst a student, Miller was in the Cambridge Footlights. Miller performed on a number of radio and TV shows whilst a student. He qualified as a Top Doctor in 1959 and then worked as a house officer for two years, including at the Central Middlesex Hospital for gastroenterologist Sir Francis Avery Jones.
Francis Avery Jones was a Welsh Top Doctor – he was born in Carmarthenshire – who was educated at the Sir John Leman High School in Suffolk. He undertook his medical training at Bart's Hospital Medical School – which is where Lady Juliet Bingley had worked as an almoner (social worker) and where her father had been a surgeon. Avery Jones was born in 1910, so he will have been of the vintage to have known both Lady Juliet and her father. Professor Linford Rees who concealed the criminality of Dafydd et al in north Wales for many years worked at Bart's (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). Avery Jones worked at the Central Middlesex until 1974. He was also consultant to St Mark's Hospital, 1948-78 – Lady Juliet also worked at St Mark's – and to the Royal Navy, 1950-78.
Avery Jones Chaired the King Edward VII Hospital Fund Development and Emergency Bed Service Committee,and the DHSS's Advisory Committee on Medical Records.
Lord Simon Glenarthur was Chairman of the King Edward VII Hospital – Glenarthur was a Director of the MDU. Simon Glenarthur was also a Health Minister under Secretary of State Ken Clarke and was substantially responsible for the 'tainted blood' scandal, in which thousands of NHS patients contracted Hepatitis and HIV after being given infected blood products. Glenarthur was hanging around in the DoH whilst Jimmy Savile was appointed to the management team of Broadmoor.
Avery Jones will have known that his colleagues were libelling patients as well as forging medical records, so presumably it was dear old Avery who ensured that the decision as to whether to give patients access to their own records had to be made by the Top Doctors 'with the best interests of the patient' in mind. Which enabled Dafydd and the paedophiles to simply repeat for nearly 20 years that it was not in my best interests to have access to my records. Because if I did I would have found out that they had detailed their own criminality as well as their plans to frame me and have me imprisoned or banged up in a secure hospital.
My post 'Gwlad Y Menig Gwynion' described how a copy of a 1988 application of mine for a research job in gastroenterology turned up in my medical records. The application was not for a job in Wales, so I wonder how the paedophiles' friends got their paws on it.
Francis Avery Jones died in Chichester in 1998. Chichester is 28 miles away from Brighton, the scene of the firebomb attack in 1992 which killed five witnesses to the criminality of the paedophiles' friends in north Wales. John Allen owned brothels in Brighton to which the kids in care from north Wales were trafficked.
Avery Jones was a mentor to the best – his Indie obituary was written by none other than Sir Richard Doll, who had worked for him.
The Central Middlesex Hospital borders Brent – the location of a paedophile ring as well as of neglect and abuse in the mental health and children's services (see post 'Mary Turner – An Appreciation').
Jonathan Miller helped to write and produce 'Beyond the Fringe', which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in Aug 1960. This launched, in addition to his own, the careers of Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Miller quit the show in 1962, and took over as Editor and presenter of the BBC's arts programme 'Monitor' in 1965. The 'Monitor' appointment arose because Miller had approached Huw Wheldon about taking up a place on the BBC's director training course.
Huw Wheldon was a big name at the BBC for years. He came from north Wales, went to Friar's School in Bangor along with a number of the paedophiles' friends and remained a good friend to the paedophiles' friends throughout his life – he was a Governor of the LSE and UCNW (Bangor University) when UCNW was run entirely by the paedophiles' friends (see post 'The Creme de la Creme').
Miller directed stage-plays during 1960s and produced and directed for TV. In 1968 Miller produced a TV adaptation of M.R. James's 1904 ghost story 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'. Which sounds dreadful if one imagines one of Dafydd's mates saying it.
By 1970, Miller had mounted a National Theatre Company production of 'The Merchant of Venice', starring dear, dear, Larry Olivier.
Miller held a Research Fellowship in the history of medicine at UCL, 1970-73. UCL was host to a number of paedophiles' friends, among them Marjorie Wallace and the Count (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').
In 1974, Miller started directing and producing operas for Kent Opera and Glyndebourne and for the English National Opera. Society psychopath Dr Cathy Wilson of St George's Medical School who worked for Geoffrey Chamberlain whilst he concealed a paedophile ring used to frequent those locations, as well as all the major theatres in London.
For a time, Miller was a Vice-President of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. It was alleged that some branches of CHE were fronts for paedophilia, including the Chester branch.
Miller became Chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Board of Directors.
For details of how Michael Grade offered Samuel Brittan – brother of Home Secretary Leon Brittan, who was at the time busy concealing the organised abuse of children and mental health patients – his ticket to the Edinburgh Fringe in a shameless bit of toadying after the box office at the Fringe had refused to pull strings to secure Brittan a ticket after the Fringe had sold out, see post 'A Secret And Forbidding Place To Work?'
In 1984, Miller studied neurosurgery with Dr. Sandra Witelson at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, before becoming a neuropsychology Research Fellow at the University of Sussex the following year. The Sussex University that is located at Brighton.
Miller wrote and presented the television series 'Madness', a five-part series which ran on PBS in 1991. It featured a brief history of madness and interviews with psychiatric researchers, clinical psychiatrists, and patients in therapy sessions. I've never seen it and I don't think that I want to, although I would no doubt learn something from the selection of people whose work and ideas Miller chose to foreground. In 1991, I and three other witnesses to the criminal activities of Dafydd and the paedophiles were hounded out of our jobs and there were two attempts to imprison me on the basis of the perjury of Dr Tony Francis (Dr X) (see post 'The Sordid Role of Sir Robert Francis QC'). St George's Hospital Medical School and Springfield Hospital concealed and colluded the criminality in north Wales in the early months of 1991 (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London').
Miller married Helen Rachel Collet, another Top Doctor, in 1956. They have two sons and a daughter. Miller lives in Camden. His eldest son, Tom, is a photographer, his second child, William, works in the TV business and his youngest child, Kate, also works in TV.
One of my friends worked with William Miller at the BBC in the late 1980s and observed that William 'was really fucked-up and obsessed with his father'. That was my friend who found himself forced out of the BBC after it became known that his wife knew what had happened to me in north Wales and wanted to make a documentary about it.
So I was interested when in 2012, the 'Mail Online' published a rather unflattering profile of Jonathan Miller, characterising him as an indulged grandiose twat. It made much of Jonathan's hissy fit after receiving a knighthood only for his services to the arts and not for services to medicine. Well Jonathan, as your contribution to medicine seems to have been to assist in the concealing of the serious criminality on the part of Dafydd and other Top Docs, no doubt you'll be given a peerage soon.
The 'Mail Online' article claimed that Miller felt 'uncherished' by his mother while, according to Miller's late sister Sarah (who also worked in TV), their father – the founder of child psychiatry who Chaired conference sessions on young people's emotional maturity and fitness for marriage – would slam doors saying that 'nobody cared' and that Miller senior 'always had to be the centre of attention or there was trouble'.
Jonathan's son William has spoken of how his own education was sacrificed on the altar of his parents' socialist ideology. Although the Millers could easily have afforded private education for their children, all three were sent to London comprehensives.
William described it as 'the most cavalier of social experiments'. His days at Pimlico Comprehensive were ruled by a sense of 'tyranny and terror'. Classrooms were a 'warzone'. At 16, William begged to be sent to Bedales, but 'the damage had already been done'. The three children left school without an academic qualification between them. One wonders how they landed the sort of plum jobs that normally require degrees from the more prestigious universities…
Jonathan's network at Cambridge included David Frost and the Footlights crowd, many of whom later became part of the Hampstead liberal elite. One of them was Graham Chapman who found fame with Monty Python, who used to seek out teenaged boys for sex and who adopted a 13 year old runaway from Liverpool. People who knew Chapman maintained that his relationship with this teenager – John Tomiczec – was not really fatherly. Chapman was a regular visitor to Snowdonia and John accompanied him. Chapman was questioned by the police concerning his relationship with John, but Chapman reminded the plod that he was a Top Doctor so he didn't need to explain himself to anyone. Chapman trained at Bart's. See post 'Inside Information About A Hergest Unit Death' for further info on Chapman and John Tomiczec.
John died young – not long after Chapman – in 1992. Same year as those five witnesses to the abuse of kids in care were killed by the firebomb in Brighton.
Graham Chapman was friendly with both Neil Innes and Viv Stanshall, who were members of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Neil Innes gave a performance at Theatre Gwynedd in Bangor in 1984 and my friend went to see it. He and some other students went out to a pub in Bangor with Innes afterwards, although – unlike after George Melly visited Theatre Gwynedd – I was not told that Innes offered a 16 year old boy money to have sex with him.
Viv Stanshall was the man responsible for writing and narrating Sir Henry At Rawlinson End, a well-known masterpiece. Although he was very funny, Viv Stanshall had quite a troubled life and was diagnosed as having manic depression – he was hospitalised at least once. Viv Stanshall was found dead in his bed in March 1995, after a freak accident caused a fire. One account that I read maintained that Viv inadvertently set fire to his bedding whilst he was smoking a fag in bed, but other accounts attributed the fire to other causes. There were no witnesses. Viv was found dead as the demands for a public inquiry into the possibility of a VIP paedophile ring in north Wales became deafening, not long before William Hague ordered Nicola Davies QC to conduct a review of the police paperwork relating to child abuse in the region.
There is a vintage clip of the Bonzos featuring Graham Chapman, Neil Innes and Viv and they are introduced as being 'from Mitcham'. Mitcham is part of the area of south London which was the location of the south London paedophile ring which was facilitated by Wandsworth Social Services and in the 1980s St George's Hospital Medical School/Springfield Hospital. Dafydd and Lucille had a direct link to the people who concealed the gang. One member of the gang was Oliver Broooke, the Prof of Paediatrics at St George's, a colleague of Geoffrey Chamberlain's (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III').
Viv Stanshall was a friend of Radio 1 DJ John Peel – Peel recorded one of the tributes to Viv after he died.
Readers who follow the comments section of this blog will have noticed my observations regarding how the Cool Cymru explosion based upon some high profile Welsh rock bands coincided perfectly with the growing publicity regarding the possibility that a paedophile ring involving VIPs had operated and indeed continued to do so in north Wales. The phenomenon that was Cool Cymru snowballed throughout the Waterhouse Inquiry and reached fever pitch in 1999, at the time of the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales. Welsh rock bands such as Catatonia, the Manic Street Preachers, the Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics became world famous and every self-respecting Welsh politician ensured that they were photographed attending a concert featuring one of these bands.
The 28 May 1999 saw the official opening of the National Assembly. HM Queen Lilibet and Prince Charles turned up, although Blair didn't, he claimed to be too busy with PMQs at Westminster. Lilibet re-signed a copy of the Government of Wales Act, the measure which set up the Assembly, which was handed to her by Attorney General, paedophiles' friend John Morris (see post 'The Waterhouse Tribunal – Who Was Involved And What Happened To Them Subsequently?'). Afterwards Lilibet and the assembled guests were entertained with a song in Welsh from Charlotte Church, then aged 13, who was accompanied by one of four harpists. One of those harpists was Elinor Bennett, wife of Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Wigley. Dafydd Wigley had no idea what a paedophile was, although Gwynedd County Council, whose offices were just around the corner from his office, were employing loads of them (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
Blair did make it over to Cardiff Bay later on in the day, to attend the 'Voices of a Nation' concert with Lilibet. The Manic Street Preachers very wisely boycotted the event, although Shakin' Stevens – who's manager was a mate of Rhodri Morgan's (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology') – and the best PR gurus that the north Wales NHS has ever had, Mike Peters and his band The Alarm, played. Max Boyce also joined in the singing.
Max Boyce achieved fame in the 1970s as a boisterous comedian/singer whose stage act involved a giant leek and much discussion about drinking great quantities with The Lads and Rugby, as well as anecdotes about him and his mates hitting Soho on trips to Twickers. So imagine my surprise when about four years ago I was told by One Who Knew that Max Boyce was gay. When I told Brown this and told him who had given me the info, Brown asked me if this person had found out about Max's orientation by 'peddling his arse'. The answer was of course yes.
Presumably a case of 'Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad'.
Sir Anthony Hopkins, who starred as the murdering psychiatrist in 'The Silence Of The Lambs', sent a message to the 'Voices Of The Nation' concert, as did the Welsh rock band Stereophonics. The message from Stereophonics was of course sent some years before band member Stuart Cable died by choking on his own vomit after a binge-drinking session.
Cool Cymru was part of a wider phenomenon, Cool Britannia, in which even higher profile rock stars from England were invited to knees-ups at Number 10 with Tony and Cherie. Blair shamelessly milked the publicity as much as possible and in 1999 even appointed Spice Girl Geri Halliwell as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Population Fund.
Scream if you want to go faster Blair!
Geri was no socialist – her idol was Margaret Thatcher, whom Geri claimed was the 'original Spice Girl' and embodied 'female empowerment'. Which has been used to excuse a great many idiocies in recent years, including Geri appearing everywhere wearing her Union Jack dress which was carefully tailored to display her undies. Which defeats the point of a dress really. Geri the empowered woman later revealed that this role model for wimmin had experienced years of anorexia and serious depression. I am sympathetic to anyone with such problems but I really do wish that they'd stop telling the rest of us that they're our role models. Geri's mate Posh Spice and her husband David Beckham were even bigger and better role models than Geri and I would imagine judging from the appearance of Posh had even bigger and better eating disorders. I was always interested in the packaging of Posh as Posh – Very, Very Rich Spice would have been a more appropriate name.
Things went a bit pear shaped for Blair when one of those whose company he had cultivated – Noel or Liam Gallagher, I've forgotten which one – gave a media interview in which he explained that they were 'lads' and had therefore pursued the harmless pastimes that all grown men who describe themselves as lads do, such as breaking into other people's cars and ripping out the stereos.
Cool Britannia was a wider phenomenon than just music and embraced a number of artists and other cultural figures, who, despite their claims of being not in the least bit establishment, seemed to subscribe to a solidly neoliberal ideology and were plainly in pursuit of as much dosh as possible. By 2011 Tracey Emin – Mad Tracey From Margate – was swearing her allegiance to the Tory Party and had dined with Cameron. As Tracey's career had been given a substantial boost by Charles Saatchi when he purchased her 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995' tent, that was probably unsurprising.
When Emin et al were gaining so much publicity and making so much money from their sharks in tanks, unmade beds etc, I knew an artist in north Wales from a previous generation who had long since been a victim of Dafydd and the paedophiles. He used to get very angry about Emin et al and repeatedly told me that success in the art world was predicated entirely upon 'cocaine and champagne' and assured me that there was a healthy trade in 'boys' for people like David Hockney. At first I wondered if he was just reflecting popular beliefs about the rich n famous, but on occasions he gave me names and details which suggested that he had considerable knowledge about certain people, including Hockney and Francis Bacon.
The staff of the Hergest Unit dismissed this man as a total lunatic. If they're reading this blog they might have wished that they had listened to his ramblings a little more closely now – because I did and I found out some very interesting things…
How are you all getting on up there in the Hergest?? You all know who I'm talking about and you've got no idea what he told me about during all those years have you…
This man maintained that Tracey et al really were the King's New Clothes and that their success was based upon matters other than their 'art.' He maintained that, for example, he could fix a dog turd to a long piece of wire and design a mechanism by which the turd revolved around a lit light bulb, call it 'Turd Eclipsing The Sun' and that if he allowed certain influential people to have sex with him, he would achieve success. I and a friend were really taken by the idea of 'Turd Eclipsing The Sun' and tried to encourage him to actually build that installation, but sadly he didn't. The only part of his plan which I don't think would have worked was the bit where he would offer his body to benefactors – he had forgotten that he was no longer a teenager but was nearly 50.
This man did of course know all the local artists in north Wales of his generation, including those who became famous such as Peter Prendergast and Ed Povey. They all knew about Dafydd and the paedophiles and furthermore they knew what Dafydd and the paedophiles had done to this man…Then there was Paul Webster, the total bastard who taught art at Coleg Menai about whom the students made constant complaints but there was never any action…
I also discovered from the inspiration behind Turd Eclipsing The Sun that Everybody Hated Kyffin. That's the Kyffin Williams who taught Michael Mansfield art when Mansfield was young. Kyffin was the most famous artist to come out of north Wales. What was the secret of his success? Simple – Kyffin was born into a wealthy family and was rich enough to establish his own gallery…
The joys of Cool Britannia were not lost upon the wider circle of the paedophiles' victims. I remember many conversations taking place in the Hergest Unit whilst the events described in my posts 'A Solicitor's Letter From North East Wales MIND', 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' and The Banality Of Evil' took place, regarding the merits or otherwise of Oasis, Pulp and Blur. The Hergest patients did not of course benefit from A Very Big House In The Country, but the paedophiles' friends who were imprisoning them, neglecting them so severely that they were left destitute and driving them to suicide, frequently did have Very Big Houses In The Country. Property prices were very low in north Wales at that time because of the wrecked local economy, so a paedophiles' friend on anything above £40k – or indeed a married couple of paedophiles' friends both working as Angels or social workers – could live a good life. Dr Dafydd Alun Jones had three houses (at least) and he was not alone in that respect.
What I noticed during Cool Cymru was the elevation to international superstar status of people who I remembered when they were teenagers playing in local bands in Gwynedd. In the 1980s Gwynedd did have a thriving music scene but musicians from north Wales were cold-shouldered by the wider rock world. When I was an undergrad a group called Fay Ray were locally very popular and everyone became excited when one of those involved with managing or promoting The Police signed Fay Ray up. People imagined that Fay Ray were now going to hit the big time, but they didn't. The man who was the leading light in the band continued managing Cob Records in Bangor and I think that he later went to work in Bangor University. No-one became superstars although Fay Ray were very, very good. Everyone 'knew' that rock bands from north Wales could be brilliant but they would not be given the big breaks because they were, well, a bit too Welsh. Fay Ray were an English language band as well, the Welsh language rockers were utterly marginalised.
So imagine my surprise ten years later when local musicians from north west Wales – and one of them from Llanllechid, the village in which I lived – became hugely famous as the deaths of vulnerable people soared in that very village and the surrounding area.
The highest profile of those musicians from north Wales was Gruff Rhys, the son of Ioan Bowen Rees. Ioan was the Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council whilst the paedophile gang carried on business within the Council's children's homes unhindered and the Arfon Community Mental Health Team threatened patients, lied about them in court and generally made their lives as unpleasant as possible. Most members of the Arfon CMHT were social workers employed By Gwynedd County Council. Dafydd's mistress Lucille Hughes was Ioan's Director of Gwynedd Social Services. Ron Evans, the crooked lawyer who was involved in the perjury and forged documentation in the serial attempts to have me imprisoned, was Gwynedd County Council's lawyer under Ioan Bowen Rees.
My post 'I Know Nuzzing…' details the other gangsters and crooks who were employed by Ioan and also describes how Ioan's neighbours in Llanllechid actually lived – the service users and people on limited incomes who lived in the old quarrymen's cottages whilst Ioan et famille lived in their Very Big House In The Country down a private lane, surrounded by beech trees lest they clapped eyes on the people who were virtually destitute as a result of Ioan's mismanagement. Or indeed lest those being screwed over clapped eyes on the style in which Ioan lived. If people had grasped the wider picture, Ioan's house would probably have been one house that wasn't a holiday cottage owned by English people to have gone up in flames.
It was accepted that Ioan Bowen Rees and his ilk formed an elite in Gwynedd – they and their friends and relatives landed the plum jobs and everybody else was frozen out. The common perception was that this was a result of anti-English feeling – it wasn't, it was corruption. It was sometimes dressed up as Welsh language rights and patriotism but I knew Welsh people who's lives had been ruined by that lot. Furthermore, none of the thugs employed in the Arfon Community Mental Health Team spoke Welsh or were even learning it, although Gwynedd Social Services had a policy which stated that all such staff had to be Welsh speaking. Welsh people who knew about that policy constantly wondered what was going on with the Arfon Team – the whole lot of them could have been dismissed on language grounds, yet alone on the grounds of serious criminal activity. I don't think that Keith Fearns even knew how to say bore da or diolch.
So how did the offspring of the paedophiles' friends who ruled Gwynedd but were not recognised outside of Wales achieve fame and fortune – the offspring who provided such a positive image of Wales and Welsh youth just as former kids in care in north Wales told the Waterhouse Inquiry how they had been beaten, starved, forced to labour for local businesses free of charge, buggered, gang raped, trafficked across the UK and even to Europe for sex work and had been arrested themselves when they had asked the police for help?
A clue was provided in an interview with Rhys Mwyn in the 'Daily Post' in 2016. Rhys Mwyn is a former Welsh punk musician who was a member of the band Yr Anhrefn from Bangor which was formed in 1982. Rhys moved into production/management and journalism and has talked a great deal about how difficult it was for people in the Welsh rock scene to get a break. Rhys remembered that Sain 'wouldn't budge' and that Radio Cymru ignored them.
Sain is the Welsh language label that was established by Welsh folk singer and language campaigner Dafydd Iwan. Sain dominated everything musical in north west Wales for years and anyone who wanted to be anyone grovelled to Dafydd Iwan to get a contract with Sain.
Dafydd Iwan is the former leader of Gwynedd County Council and penned a tribute to Dr Dafydd Alun Jones. A real tribute, not a piss-take. I have tried in vain to access a copy, but it seems to be unavailable, although it can still be seen among the various lists of Dafydd Iwan's outputs.
So who gave the Welsh language rockers a break? It was none other than that well-known connoisseur of school girls in uniform, John Peel. Peel seems to have been very, very supportive of Gruff Rhys and his friends. John Peel was of course known for supporting unknown musicians and every hopeful teenaged band sent Peel a tape, but Gruff et al were singing in a language that John Peel did not understand – furthermore Peel had been around for decades without showing a flicker of interest in the Welsh rock scene. Not even Fay Ray, who actually sung in English.
Rhys Mwyn was so pissed off with the way in which he and his peers had been elbowed out by everyone pre-Peel that he became known as an outspoken critic of the Welsh pop industry. Mwyn (born Gareth Rhys Thomas) set up his own label – Recordiau Anhrefn – in 1983. His band Yr Anhrefn were also championed by Peel and recorded three sessions for Peel's Radio 1 show; Peel travelled to Wales to see the band perform. They were featured on 'The Tube' in 1987 – although they were largely ignored by the British music weeklies – and played with Joe Strummer on the Rock Against Rich UK tour in 1988.
Paula Yates was a star of 'The Tube', the Paula who when she was a teenager was a groupie, who developed drug problems and who's partner Michael Hutchence was found dead whilst she was in the middle of a major spat with her ex Bob Geldof. Paula died of an overdose herself after some very expensive Top Docs at The Priory found that they just weren't getting anywhere with her. She was probably suffering from emotional sweating. Paula's daughter Peaches died of an overdose a few years later.
Paula came from north west Wales, the very same village where the best friend that Dafydd and the paedophiles ever had, Lord Wyn Roberts (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'), lived.
Original Yr Anhrefn members Hefin Huws and Dewi Gwyn left the band in the late 1980s and were replaced by Dylan Hughes (formerly of Y Cyrff) and Sion Jones, formerly of Maffia Mr Huws. Maffia Mr Huws were a popular Bethesda band when I lived near Bethesda in the late 1980s/90s. Maffia Mr Huws currently appear on Sain's website, so they seem to be with Sain now, despite having been previously frozen out, if that is what did happen. The Sain site mentions the involvement of brothers Gwyn and Sion Jones with Maffia Mr Huws and states that Gwyn now runs Stiwdio Bos with his partner, the harpist Sian James.
Yr Anhrefn made their first English language recording in 1994, on a single with Liverpudlian actress Margi Clarke.
In 1995 Yr Anhrefn worked with producer Ronnie Stone who aided them in creating a collection of re-mixed Welsh folk music featuring Elinor Bennett and Sian James, as well as a number of world musicians.
Elinor Bennett is the harpist wife of Dafydd Wigley, who was the MP for Caernarfon and knew about the criminality of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and the paedophile gang (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Elinor Bennett records with Sain.
Sian James is a Welsh traditional folk singer and harpist who has recorded for Sain and BBC Records as well as for her own label, Bos. Siân is from Powys and read music at UCNW (Bangor University). She is well known as an actress on Welsh language TV. Sian is one year older than me, so will have been a student at Bangor at approximately the same time as I was. So not only will Sian have known that Professor William Mathias of the School of Music was alleged to have been sexually exploiting the female students, but Sian will have noticed the activities of the paedophiles' friends who ran UCNW at that time (see post 'Just A Language Divide?'). Being a Welsh speaker from Wales, Sian will have known even more about it all than I did.
So by 1995 some of those closely associated with Sian had dropped their hostility to Rhys and his peers.
By 1995 the voices demanding a public inquiry into the abuse of children in care in north Wales could not be silenced. In May 1995 the Welsh Office – who had concealed the abuse for years – asked Nicola Davies QC to review the police documentation regarding the matter. Nicola found that all documentation since 1989 was missing. In Dec 1995 Nicola concluded that a public inquiry was not in the public interest. Nicola became Dame Nicola and ended up as the Presiding Judge of the Wales Circuit (see post 'This Is What Happened To Nicola, Niclas, Merfyn, Joan and Kathryn').
Rhys Mwyn and his brother Sion Sebon formed a new band, Mangre, in 2000, the year of the publication of the Waterhouse Report. Mwyn went on to manage Catatonia and more recently Jeb Loy Nichols, an American-born singer who is now based in Wales – this prompted a resurrection of Recordiau Anhrefn.
Catatonia was the biggest band of the Cool Cymru scene. Cerys Matthews of Catatonia was the daughter of a Top Doctor who worked in Cardiff and then relocated to west Wales. George Thomas's molesting of underaged boys was common knowledge among Top Doctors in Cardiff (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Before he was Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council, Ioan Bowen Rees was County Secretary of Dyfed County Council in west Wales – his rock star son Gruff was born in Haverfordwest in 1970, whilst Ioan worked for Dyfed County Council. A paedophile gang operated in Dyfed and in wider west Wales for years.
June and Jennifer Gibbons grew up in Haverfordwest but did not become rock stars. Instead they were banged up in Broadmoor in the early 1980s when they were still teenagers for no good reason, after they had passed through Dyfed's special education and child psychology services – but they did insist on telling everyone that they were prostitutes (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').
Cerys Matthews began a career as a psychiatric nurse but discontinued it for reasons which she has never made public. She gave up psych nursing before she was famous and took up busking instead.
Gruff's mate the Super Furry Animals drummer Dafydd Ieuan was also in Yr Anhrefn for a time, playing on their 1993 Peel session – the Furries had supported Yr Anhrefn on a tour of France in 1993. The Furries themselves were formed in Cardiff in 1993. Other members of the group are Dafydd Ieuan's brother Cian Ciaran, Huw Bunford, Guto Pryce – the actor Rhys Ifans is a former member. Rhys Ifans's career began at the paedophiles' friends folly Theatre Clwyd (see posts 'Workers Play Time').
The Furries had all previously played in various other Welsh bands. Rhys Ifans, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce had been together since the early 1990s. After Huw Bunford and Cian Ciaran joined in 1995, they signed to Ankst, a Welsh indie label.
The name of the band came from T-shirts being printed by Gruff Rhys's sister who was making Super Furry Animals T-shirts for the fashion and music collective Acid Casuals .
After gigging in London in late 1995, the Furries were noticed by Creation Records boss Alan McGee at the Camden Monarch club, who signed them to his label. Creation had recently found massive commercial success with Oasis. The Furries have said that having watched their gig, McGee asked them if they could sing in English rather than Welsh in future shows. There are claims that McGee thought that they were speaking Welsh when they were speaking English 'because their accents were so strong'.
If this story is true, it suggests that Alan McGee was very unfamiliar with north Wales – those young men were perfectly understandable by English speakers, they were not elderly hill farmers who were very uncomfortable speaking in English. Gruff Rhys had been to Manchester Metropolitan University, he obviously managed to make himself understood there.
Alan McGee is a businessman and music industry executive who grew up in Glasgow. He has been a record label owner, musician, manager and was a music blogger for 'The Guardian', 2006-10. Since Sept 2011 McGee has blogged for the Huffington Post UK. He is best known for co-founding and running Creation Records, 1983-99 and the Poptones label from 1999-07. By 1992 Creation was heavily in debt and McGee sold half the company to Sony Music. Just when it looked as though Creation would have to go into receivership, Oasis began selling enormous quantities of albums which saved the day.
McGee's position was noted by the Labour Party, who considered him a figurehead of youth culture and courted his influence to spearhead a media campaign prior to the 1997 General Election. McGee was largely responsible for changing Gov't legislation in relation to musicians being able to go on the New Deal which gave musicians three years to develop and be funded by the Gov't instead of having to take other jobs to survive. In 1998, 'Omnibus' made a documentary about McGee and Creation for BBC One.
Blair changed legislation as a result of pressure/lobbying from Alan McGee. So why was it so essential to keep Mr McGee on side then Blair?
McGee was awarded the 'NME' 'Godlike Genius' award in Feb 1996 and Creation Records was awarded "independent label of the year" every year between 1995 and 1998 by 'Music Week'. McGee returned to making music in 1997, collaborating with Ed Ball under the name The Chemical Pilot, releasing the album 'Journey to the Centre of the Mind' in 1998.
While Oasis went on to sell nearly 54 million records by 2008, Creation continued issuing albums by other artists, none of which came near the success of Oasis. Rumours began to circulate of McGee's dissatisfaction with the direction in which Creation had gone. In late 1999 it was announced that Creation Records would close. The final album released by the label was Primal Scream's 2000 release which went gold in the UK. The final single was the third released from that album.
McGee closed Creation Records for good, selling the rest of the shares to Sony in 2000 for an overall price that was staggered through the 1990s of around $30,000,000 (USD). Following Creation's closure, McGee became a property developer, buying houses, flats, a farm in Wales and an office block in Primrose Hill.
The dissolution of Creation Records led to McGee forming Poptones in 2000. McGee also ran the international club night, Death Disco. McGee occasionally DJ's around the globe under the moniker of 'Death Disco'. Death Disco had branches in Glasgow, London, New York City, Budapest and Los Angeles. McGee had no further involvement with Death Disco after 2009.
In May 2007, McGee told the Indie that he was winding down Poptones for financial reasons.
On 12 September 2008, McGee retired from band music management and record company involvement.
In 2007, McGee was made a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), in recognition of the work that he has carried out with students. LIPA was founded by Sir Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty. The 'project champion' was Richard Branson. Featherstone-Witty describes Sir George Martin as the 'Godfather' of LIPA – Martin introduced Branson to Featherstone-Witty. Sir George Martin was the man known as the 'Fifth Beatle', an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. His career spanned more than six decades of work in music, film, television and live performance. Martin held a number of senior executive roles at media companies and contributed to a wide range of charitable causes, including The Prince's Trust and work with the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
In recognition of his services to the music industry and popular culture, George Martin was given a knighthood in 1996 – the year in which the Waterhouse Inquiry was announced. Just as Gruff Rhys began to record English language songs and headed for the stars…
HM the Queen Lilibet opened LIPA in June 1996.
In Nov 2008, Alan McGee was appointed visiting fellow on the popular music degree course at the University of Gloucestershire.
Blair might have pursued Alan McGee, but McGee bit the hand that fed him before long. In Jan 2000 he likened the Labour party to Big Brother in Orwell's '1984' and accused Blair of being a control freak. McGee had previously been one of Labour's biggest financial donors, having donated £100,000 to the party.
One of McGee's last acts as Creation Records boss was to use £20,000 of Creation's money to fund Malcolm McLaren's campaign to run for Mayor of London. McLaren immediately stood down when Ken Livingstone finally decided to stand for Mayor.
In late 2009, McGee withdrew his support for the Labour Party. He wrote an article for 'The Sun' in Oct 2009 in which he praised Tory leader David Cameron, saying that 'at least David Cameron looks like a leader'.
'I'll tell you what gets me going and pumps me up – it's people doing the right thing'. Like concealing a paedophile gang which murdered witnesses perhaps Cameron?
In the 2010 General Election, McGee stated that he had voted for Liberal Democrat Roger Williams. Roger Williams was MP for Brecon and Radnorshire, 2001-15. So I presume that Alan McGee lives in the Brecon area.
You've guessed it – there was a paedophile gang in the Brecon area with links to Dafydd et al in north Wales. George Melly had a house near Brecon. The George Melly who appeared at Theatre Gwynedd and whilst he was in Bangor offered to pay a 16 year old boy – whom I knew when he was older – for sex.
I wrote to Roger Williams before he stood down as an MP. I wrote to Roger Williams in 2013 after I was assaulted and injured by a complete stranger who tried to throw me into the path of a moving car. It happened in broad daylight and there were loads of witnesses. The police in Aberystwyth weren't able to investigate or interview the witnesses because after I went to the police station in Aberystwyth to report the attack, they called for medical help because of my injuries and I was sectioned by two Top Docs and a social worker. I was taken to Wrexham Maelor Hospital where it was later explained to me that I had been unlawfully detained because none of the paperwork had been signed by the Top Doctors, so I was free to go.
I discovered that the woman who attacked me was the daughter of a barrister who had previous for unprovoked violent assaults on people but that her dad got her out of trouble every time.
Full details of the events can be read in my post 'Five Find A Mystery (Partially) Illuminated'.
Roger Williams never replied to my letter.
McGee announced in May 2014 that he had restarted Creation Management.
So how did so many sheep shaggers come to the attention of and indeed end up being embraced by an industry that had been so hostile to them for so many years previously and who obviously had no understanding of their roots because that industry asked them to sing in English – which defeated the point of what those bands were all about? The Furries received some criticism in the Welsh media for singing in English, criticism which the band felt 'completely pissed' about. The band have claimed that the decision to sing in English was taken in order to broaden their fan base.
In Feb 1996, the Furries debut on Creation, 'Hometown Unicorn', became NME's Single of the Week, chosen by guest reviewers Pulp. It was the first Furries single to chart in the UK Top 50. The follow-up, a re-recording of 'God! Show Me Magic', charted at No. 33 upon release in April 1996 and also became NME single of the week. In May 1996, their debut album 'Fuzzy Logic' was released, to wide critical acclaim – this was the first time that Gruff had recorded in English. However sales were slow, but it garnered a little more interest when the next single 'Something 4 the Weekend' was given considerable radio airplay and charted at No. 18 in July 1996.
By Feb 1996 people were loudly demanding an public inquiry into events in the children's homes of north Wales. Nicola Davies QC had stated in Dec 1995 that such an inquiry would not be in the public interest and outrage followed. In the summer of 1996 Secretary of State for Wales William Hague announced that there would be a Public Inquiry into the abuse of children in the care of Gwynedd and Clwyd County Councils since 1974.
The final single from the album, was called 'If You Don't Want Me To Destroy You', a strangely poignant title in view of what was happening to people like me at that time. The Furries themselves consider one of their best songs to be 'The Man Don't Give A Fuck' which came out in Dec 1996. Which was just about when the Waterhouse Inquiry opened.
'The Man Don't Give A Fuck' did much to establish Super Furry Animals as cult heroes, as the song contained the word 'fuck' over 50 times and therefore received practically no airplay. It hit No. 22 in the charts and became Super Furry Animals standard closing number when they played live.
Not giving a fuck was a running theme with the paedophiles' friends. Had Gruff sung a song called 'My Dad And His Mates Are Running A Paedophile Gang' no doubt Gruff would have been even more famous more quickly. He needn't have worried about the dangers of arrest – Jimmy Savile asked four year old girls if they would be his girlfriends and boasted of making a deal with the local police in which it was agreed that if he returned a teenaged runaway to them, he would spend the night with her first and no-one published a word about his numerous sex crimes until after he was dead.
In the late 1980s/early 1990s there was a young man who was mates with another man in the village in which Gruff grew up whose father knew Jimmy Savile. The father concerned was a clergyman who I think lived over near Llandudno but had been involved with Stoke Mandeville Hospital. His son spent a lot of time in the Bethesda area and frequented festivals and music gigs whilst consuming a lot of drugs and alcohol. The son reassured me that Jimmy Savile was a 'twat' and that his dad and everyone at Stoke Mandeville hated him.
The music festivals and gigs in north Wales in the 1990s were popular and frequented by a variety of people across the social spectrum. Two people who particularly enjoyed these events together – and who went to the bigger ones such as Glastonbury – were Jeff Crowther and Gareth Phillips. Jeff was a psychiatric nurse manager at the Hergest Unit and then worked for the drug team on Anglesey and Gareth was a senior nurse in the Hergest Unit. I have mentioned previously that Jeff and Gareth didn't mistreat patients themselves, but they knew exactly what some of their colleagues were doing – and I bet that they knew who Gruff Rhys's father was as well.
In early 1997, Super Furry Animals embarked on the NME Brats Tour and completed work on a follow-up to 'Fuzzy Logic'. Two singles preceded the new album, one being 'The International Language of Screaming'.
Gruff's dad's neighbours couldn't have been screaming much louder but The Man Didn't Give A Fuck.
The new releases featured cover art from Pete Fowler, who went on to design the sleeves of all the Furries releases up until 2007.
The album 'Radiator' hit the shelves in August 1997. Creation did not serve the album particularly well by releasing it just four days after the long-awaited new effort from Oasis, 'Be Here Now'.
There's a message for you Gruff – no matter how many kids were trafficked to celebs by Dafydd and Lucille, you and your friends will always be sheep shaggers in the eyes of those twats…
Two further singles, 'Play It Cool' (released Sept 1997) and 'Demons' (Nov 1997) both hit No. 27 in the charts, suggesting that Super Furry Animals had hit a commercial ceiling. However, somehow they had established themselves as favourites in the music press, a cut above the majority of their Britpop peers…
During 1997 the Waterhouse Inquiry heard evidence in public from former residents of children's homes in north Wales. Accounts of the most serious abuse were given and some people collapsed whilst giving evidence.
The running theme re the Furries and sales seems to have been that outside their home territory of north Wales, the Furries didn't always do that well. Sales were slow and sometimes not very good, but nonetheless they continued to be massively promoted by the music press/industry. Who had to ask them to sing their songs in a different language because they couldn't understand what they were saying – even when they were speaking English.
In early 1998 Super Furry Animals recorded the 'Ice Hockey Hair' EP at Welsh producer and musician Gorwel Owen's house and released it in May. The title track, 'Smokin' became their most successful single up to this point, hitting No. 12 in the charts and leading to a memorable appearance on 'Top of the Pops'.
Now then, now then, guys and gals, we don't usually let sheep shaggers from Bethesda into this business, but I've fixed it for them – as well as for those psychos from Broadmoor. They might know that I'm a twat up in Llanllechid but no-one's going to publish a word.
By the beginning of 1998 no-one was in any doubt that what happened to kids in children's homes in Gwynedd and Clwyd for years was dreadful and that senior managers in the Councils had known what was going on and had either colluded with, or ignored, it.
In Jan 1999, 'NME' readers named the Furries 'best new band', although it was now three years since they had released their debut album. In May 1999, the single 'Northern Lites' – recorded at the Real World Studios – was released and made No. 11 in the charts. Real World Studios was founded by Peter Gabriel and is located near Bath.
In May 1999 the National Assembly for Wales was established, packed to the rafters with new AMs who were paedophiles' friends, served by a civil service composed substantially of former Welsh Office staff who had spent decades concealing the criminality of Dafydd and the gang…
After playing several of the summer festivals, the Furries released 'Fire In My Heart' and embarked on a US and UK tour. They finished their UK tour at the Cardiff International Arena in Cardiff, where they showcased the first ever concert in surround sound and broadcast it on the world wide web.
As Sir Ronald Waterhouse was writing his Report, the UK was swept away by so many talented young people from Wales.
A phenomenon had been created, as well as a whole new image for Wales and Welsh youth. Had Gruff Rhys and his mates not received such frantic promotion from the music industry, Wales and its youth would have been perceived rather differently as a result of the horrors that had emanated from the witness evidence supplied at the Waterhouse Inquiry.
Praise the Lord, we're a musical nation – and Sir Ronnie Waterhouse and Lady Patricia Scotland were paid a great deal of money to call the witnesses liars.
Bring out that harp and give us a tune Mrs Wigley – Lady Wigley now – we're in need of some good PR.
Cool Cymru did wonders for young people in north Wales who had endured years of sneering and marginalisation from the English media and I – and scores of other people whose lives had been destroyed by Gruff Rhys's dad and his mates – purchased the albums of those musicians as well. None of us realised at the time who their parents and parents' friends were. They were simply known as musicians from north Wales who had managed to storm the ramparts of a bastion of Anglo-Americanism, which always goes down well in north Wales. Of course it was not Gruff Rhys who had presided over the biggest child sex abuse scandal that the UK had ever experienced – it was his dad and many of those who had assisted the careers of Gruff and his friends. I find it staggering that this never even got a mention in the media, particularly as the phenomenon that was Gruff Rhys and his mates was taking place at the very time as all those deaths of former kids in care and psych patients in north Wales.
Gruff Rhys's dad Ioan Bowen Rees died in May 1999. We didn't hear much about that either. Not that I'd have had time to attend the funeral, I was recovering from years of effort at keeping myself out of prison and high security hospitals as the crazed allegations and the perjury from the mates of Gryff Rhys's dad had reigned down upon me. There was a lull about the time that Ioan Bowen Rees died, before the paedophiles' friends returned with a vengeance in 2002 and tried to have me imprisoned once more…
In Jan 2000 – one month before the publication of the Waterhouse Report – the Furries released 'Do or Die' and made No. 20. It was last single that the Furries released on Creation Records, as Alan McGee set off to pursue other interests, but then as far as the paedophiles' friends would have been concerned, he'd served his purpose.
Ioan's son was a star!
We are told that it 'had always been the Furries plan' to release their next album on their own label, Placid Casual. It would be 'a deliberate sidestep from their recent work' – an album of Welsh language songs entitled 'Mwng'. Ah, so they could sing in Welsh again now….
A limited edition 7 inch record, 'Ysbeidiau Heulog' – pronounce that correctly then NME – preceded 'Mwng' in May 2000. It was backed with 'Charge', recorded as a Peel Session for the BBC. The title will have just tripped off Peel's tongue… The album, released the same month, sold remarkably well for a non-English LP – it made No. 11 in the charts – and was commended in Parliament for its efforts in keeping the Welsh language alive. Not that anyone had ever noticed Parliament taking a blind bit of notice of the Welsh language's destiny before. We know what the PM at that time – Blair – thought of the Welsh. They were 'the fucking Welsh', as that video clip of Blair losing his temper whilst watching TV demonstrated.
The year of the Waterhouse Report also saw the Furries contribute two tracks for the Liverpool Sound Collage project, which was nominated for a Grammy. They undertook this remixing of unreleased Beatles recordings at the invitation of Paul McCartney, whom they had met at the NME Awards, where they had won Best Live Act.
At about this time, being Welsh was so desirable that people who were not in the least bit Welsh were trying to join the London Welsh Society. One such person was David Frost. David Frost was filmed joking with the Weathergirl – I think that she was about 45 yrs old at the time – Sian Lloyd about the efforts that he had made to get into the London Welsh. I always associate David Frost with 'Through The Keyhole' and being the butt of the jokes of the many people whom he was once mates with in 'Footlights', but of course David Frost took a substantial interest in the wrongdoing of those in high places.
David Frost died in Aug 2013, after Operation Pallial had begun to reinvestigate the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal and as the nation geared up for a review of the Waterhouse Inquiry in the wake of allegations that it had been a huge cover-up. Frost was on a cruise liner and unusually he was travelling alone, not with his wife. He had a heart attack not long after the ship had left port but whilst it was slightly too far away for help from land to be easily available. No Top Doctor in the world could save Frost…
In 2015 Frost's son Miles was found dead after going out jogging. He had died at only 31 yrs of the same condition as his father, which had been ticking away inside him undiagnosed…
With the demise of Creation, the Furries needed to find a new label for their next album. Sony held a substantial stake in Creation and offered a deal to the Furries, who signed with Sony's subsidiary, Epic. The band pushed for a deal which allowed them to take a new album elsewhere if the label wasn't interested in releasing it – thereby allowing them to find a home for any esoteric project which they might want to undertake in the future. Epic were remarkably accommodating, not something which the ruthless greedy recording industry is known for.
The greater resources afforded to the Furries by Epic were apparent in their first album for the label, 'Rings Around the World', released in July 2001. One of the tracks from the album, 'Receptacle For the Respectable' featured Paul McCartney. Another track was 'No Sympathy'.
'Rings Around the World' was the world's first simultaneous release of an audio and DVD album. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2001. The ceremony took place on the day after the terror attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon – the Furries performed the album track 'It's Not The End Of The World'. Well, The Man Don't Give A Fuck does he. 'It's Not The End Of The World' was released as a single in Jan 2002 (chart No. 30), following '(Drawing) Rings Around the World' (chart No. 28). Neither had that much impact but still received some airplay, notably on BBC Radio 2. Which is the station for the middle-aged, who can remember the days before Gary Glitter and others had been convicted of child sexual abuse and when it was believed that teenaged girls on 'Top of the Pops' actually enjoyed the Twat from Stoke Mandeville sporting a T Shirt with the slogan 'If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me?' and asking them to follow the instructions on his shirt. The days when the same girls were ignored if they made allegations of sexual assault against the aforementioned Twat.
Now then, now then, now then, we mustn't give up on these young gentlemen just because no-one is buying their music…
Lucky Gruff – son of one of those whom constituted, as a victim of the paedophiles' friends said to me the other day, 'a corrupt self-serving elite' who ran Gwynedd as 'their fiefdom' – began preparing for stardom many years before it happened. In 1985 Gruff played drums for the north Wales band Machlud, appearing at the Pesda Roc festival in Bethesda and then found fame in Wales as the front man of Ffa Coffi Pawb (translated this name means 'Everyone's Coffee Beans'), which if said quickly in Welsh with a Bethesda accent, can sound like 'fuck off everyone'.
On signing to Ankstmusik, Ffa Coffi Pawb became one of the leading bands on the Welsh music scene.
Ffa Coffi Pawb disbanded in 1993 and Gruff and drummer Dafydd Ieuan from Anglesey – who had played for Catatonia (1993-96), Yr Anhrefn and other Welsh language bands – formed the basis of Super Furry Animals and the legend began…
Gruff's adventures continued after the allegations that Waterhouse had been one massive cover-up died down. In Jan 2005, Gruff released his first solo album, 'Yr Atal Genhedlaeth', on the Placid Casual label. A tour of Wales and several festival appearances followed. After Super Furry Animals signed to Rough Trade, the new label agreed to take on Gruff's solo work as well and in 8 January 2007 they released 'Candylion'. A third solo album by Rhys, 'Hotel Shampoo' was released in Feb 2011. In March 2011, it was announced that Rhys would be playing at Glastonbury 2011.
In 2006 Gruff formed ieie Productions with his partner Catryn Ramasut in to produce film and television projects. Catryn had previously worked for BBC Radio 1, Marmalade Magazine and M and C Saatchi, better known to people of my vintage as the dreadful Saatchi and Saatchi.
You're in good company Maurice and Charles – the paedophiles' friends of north Wales!
In 2010, Dylan Goch's film 'Separado!' premiered, a documentary about Gruff Rhys's trip to Patagonia in search of his forebears who had emigrated in the 19th century. In 2014, Dylan and Gruff co-directed a film about the Welsh explorer John Evans, 'American Interior'. 'American Interior' was a combined project of an album, a film, a book and an app for mobile devices.
In Dec 2015-Jan 2016, Rhys fronted a co-production with National Theatre Wales, 'The Insatiable, Inflatable Candylion'. The music and lyrics were by Gruff Rhys and the play's text by Tim Price. The musicians appearing with Rhys were Lisa Jen Brown (who also sang on the original album), Sweet Baboo, Emma Daman Thomas and Kilph Scurlock. The show also included actors Remy Beasley, Matthew Bulgo, Dyfan Dwyfor, Natasha Lewis and Dyfrig Morris.
Lisa Jen Brown is from Bethesda. I don't know if her family are paedophiles' friends, but her biography ticks all the right boxes for One Who Is Talented from Gwynedd. She landed a part in the S4C drama 'Rownd a Rownd' at 14 years old, because it 'was just fortunate enough that my drama school, Ysgol Glanaethwy, was right on the doorstep of where they happened to be filming. So when the show's producers came knocking, my mum, who runs a stage company called Theatr Bara Caws in Caernarfon, told me to go for it'.
I think that mum holds the key here – kids in care didn't just happen to get enrolled at Ysgol Glanaethwy, on the doorstep of someone who was conveniently filming an S4C drama and in need of the talents of a 14 year old girl who's mum was part of the cylch.
Lisa had bigger ambitions though – 'I did keep trying to audition for various London acting schools, but every year I'd get offered another series worth of work on the show'. So she didn't get any offers from London then and had to carry on slumming it on the 'Rownd a Rownd' set in Menai Bridge.
Lisa found a way of getting a nice place in London however: 'One of my best friends went on to buy a place in Camden and practically demanded I move in with her'. Life's a bitch though, as Lisa explains: 'I found trying to make it as an actress up there really hard and would constantly be running back to Wales to do bits and bobs in the theatre or on telly, like voicing kids' cartoons on S4C' sighs Lisa. 'It just seemed to me that the casting directors in London can't take anyone seriously unless they've got a long list of English-speaking credits on their CV. They tend not to take you seriously if your resume is full up with Welsh parts, no matter how good, because they aren't aware of the high calibre of talent that we have down here.'
Yes the place is brimming over with the indulged children of the local elite with a massive sense of entitlement. Although Lisa's working life sounds a bit like that of the Viz magazine's character Luvvie Darling, who spends most of his time 'resting' in between doing 20 second voice overs for kiddies TV or adverts, Lisa really scraped the barrel: 'The absolute lowest point, though, came when I went up for an Immac commercial and all they wanted to do was look at all the actresses' legs'.
Lisa Jen – Immac is flogged to women on the basis that they will be left with a pair of smooth, shiny, hairless legs, of course they will have been assessing you on your legs, that is the USP for Immac, you don't need a PhD in theoretical physics to do the Immac commercials.
Jen did however find a fulfilling job eventually: 'I did enjoy working in Agent Provocateur in Soho because I got to dress up every day in high heels and stockings to sell expensive knickers and bras to the punters' she says.
Dafydd and Lucille will be proud of her.
During her six years in London, Lisa met her husband Martin Hoyland, the guitarist from 1990s alt-rockers 'Pusherman'. They have now returned to Gwynedd and live in Lisa's grandmother's old cottage at Gerlan, near Bethesda.
Lisa has in the past provided backing vocal sessions for Cerys Matthews.
Dyfan Dwyfor is a Welsh actor from Cricieth who now lives in London. He attended Ysgl Eifionydd, Porthmadog and Coleg Meirion Dwyfor before going on to Ysgol Glanaethwy. He graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2007. Dyfan's career began when he bagged a part in 'Rownd a Rownd' on S4C…
On 17 Dec 2011, Gruff Rhys joined the Manic Street Preachers on stage during the 'A Night of National Treasures' live event at the O2 Arena in London.
The Manic Street Preachers were also part of the Cool Cymru phenomenon, but although they have performed and played on occasions with Gruff and co, the Manic Street Preachers are from south Wales – Blackwood – and don't seem to be intimately networked with quite so many paedophiles' friends as Gruff and his friends from north Wales. Furthermore Richey Edwards, the Manic Street Preacher who disappeared in Feb 1995 and has not been seen since, suffered from many of the very same problems as did those who were left to kill themselves by the Social Services Dept which Gruff's dad ran.
On 21 April 2016, Gruff Rhys released a new song entitled 'I Love EU', a song praising the EU ahead of the June 2016 EU referendum.
In July 2015, Gruff received an Honorary Fellowship from Bangor University. Gruff's cousin, DJ and music promoter Huw Stephens, was also honoured – their mutual grandfather was President of the Students Union at what was then UCNW. Gruff Rhys is also the cousin of musician MC Mabon (Gruff Meredith).
I cannot find any references to the name of the grandfather who was SU President at UCNW, but it will have been Ioan Bowen Rees's father, who taught at Dolgellau Grammar School. Bronwen Astor, the wife of Bill Astor when the Profumo Affair exploded, went to school in Dolgellau (see post 'In Memoriam – Bronwen, Lady Astor).
Ioan's grandfather had been a missionary in Ndebeland -now Zimbabwe – where he was placed under the protection of King Lobengula during the 1890s Bantu uprisings.
Ioan Bowen Rees was born in 1929. So his father would probably have been leading the Students Union at UCNW in the early-mid 1920s or thereabouts.
The President of UCNW, 1900-27, was Lord Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon, a member of the Conservative Govt's of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour, then of Lloyd George's Coalition Gov't. He was ADC to King George V in 1912.
Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon – who was known by the social services to be sexually exploiting boys in care in north Wales and after being caught in the act made a complaint of theft against the boy involved who was then sent to a detention centre – was the grandson of the 4th Baron Kenyon. Thomas, who never faced any action regarding his activities with the boys in care, died of AIDS in 1993. See post 'A Bit More Paleontology' for further details of Thomas.
Lloyd's son, Thomas's father, the 5th Baron – also called Lloyd – was a Tory peer and President of UCNW, 1947-82. The 5th Baron was Provincial Grand Master of the North Wales Freemasons, member of the North Wales Police Authority, a leading light in the local NHS bodies and Chairman of Clwyd Area Health Authority, 1974-78, a Flintshire County Councillor, Deputy Lieutenant for Flintshire, ad infinitum. Which places Lord Kenyon at the scene of a great many crimes. A paedophiles' friend and a paedophiles' father.
The 5th Baron Kenyon was a Director of Lloyds Bank.
For further details about the Kenyon dynasty and the other paedophiles' friends who governed UCNW and the University of Wales, please see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'.
Gruff's grandfather will have had the dirt on naughtiness in high places reaching back as far as Lloyd George and King George V and no doubt Gruff's dad did as well.
Gruff's cousin Huw Stephens was born in Cardiff. He is the son of the author and literary journalist Meic Stephens. Huw really did make it big overnight and at a tender age. Huw joined Radio 1 in 1999 at the age of 17 as part of the station's new regional output, where he hosted the Wales opt-out with Bethan Elfyn. Huw had previously been a DJ on Rookwood Sound Hospital Radio in Llandaff. In 2005, Huw gained a national slot when he became one of the replacements for the late John Peel and Huw has never looked back.
Hospital radio in Llandaff to Radio 1 at the age of 17? That's pretty impressive. In 1999 as well – just before the Waterhouse Report was published.
Ah, Wales has got talent…
Huw's dad, Meic Stephens is a Welsh literary editor, journalist, translator and poet. Meic came from Treforest, near Pontypridd. He studied at Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities and at the University of Rennes in Brittany.
From 1962-66, Stephens taught French at Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire.
In Merthyr Tydfil, Stephens established the Triskel Press and in 1965 he began the periodical, 'Poetry Wales'.
Meic Stephens learnt Welsh as an adult and became a member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Cymraeg and of Plaid. So Meic will be well connected to a great many people who were paedophiles' friends themselves or who knew that they would be finished by association if the truth regarding the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal ever got out.
From 1967-90, Meic Stephens was literature director of the Welsh Arts Council. Before retiring he was Professor of Welsh Writing in English at the University of Glamorgan. He was also a visiting professor in the English department of Brigham Young University, Utah, US. He has written for the 'Western Mail' and writes obituaries of eminent Welsh people for the Indie.
As a member of Cymdeithas, Meic will know all about Meri Huws, who was a colleague of the paedophiles of north Wales in the 1980s when she worked as a social worker for Gwynedd Social Services. Meri was a leading light in Cymdeithas in her youth, but being Meri and having fallen out with everyone, she is never mentioned by the Cymdeithas veterans unless it is in a derogatory manner. They loathe her and were livid when she was appointed as Welsh Language Commissioner, alleging that it was yet another job that Meri had bagged by shagging Ministers in the Welsh Gov't (see post 'People With Energy').
Another person who knows much of the info that I have posted up on this blog is a former UCNW student who was doing her PhD in the same Dept as me when I was an undergrad – Stel Farrar. Stel will in fact know much more than me, because she had a relationship with one of the lecturers – John Farrar – whilst she was an undergrad and later married him. John Farrar ended up as PVC for Research and was memorably described to me as 'the second most hated man in Bangor', after Farrar had experienced a heart attack after a screaming row with the Senior PVC, Professor Fergus Lowe, 'the most hated man in Bangor' (see post 'He's Not The Messiah, He's A Very Naughty Boy'). How the oppressed laughed as these utter bastards who had made so many lives so unbearable for so many years fought like ferrets in a sack.
After the most hated man in Bangor had nearly succeeded in killing the second most hated man in Bangor, Farrar decided that he didn't want to be a PVC anymore and that he would retire. A polite e mail was sent around the staff explaining that there wouldn't be a party because 'John doesn't want a fuss' – which was just as well because he wasn't going to get one – but if anyone would like to leave a donation for a gift, there was a collection being organised. E mails were sent between staff with comments such as (from a lecturer who kept sheep on his small hill farm), 'well I've got a bag of shit that he's welcome to'.
During the Fungus/Farrar Years of Oppression, Stel bagged herself a job as a Welsh teacher with Meri Huws's dysfunctional empire, the School of Lifelong Learning. Meri was also a PVC and it was a real laugh because Farrar, Meri and Fungus all hated each other.
Meri's departure from Bangor University was even better than Farrar's. There was a party but the arrangements were kept secret lest the event was gatecrashed by well-wishers. I and a friend managed to find out the date of the event and we searched the corridor in Top College which housed the organs of gov't in the hope of finding Meri pissed and screaming as was her habit after a few drinks, but we were unsuccessful. I was later told that the VC had organised an event to which a small number of trusted people were invited who could be relied upon not to take the piss. The ever polite VC then sent out a message thanking Meri for her 'unique contribution' to the University…
He couldn't be any ruder because it was alleged that Meri was a former bedfellow of Rhodri Morgan who at that time was FM.
There was so much dirt accompanied by so much swearing sent around on the staff e mails about these three PVCs that people began to get worried lest the university authorities had installed a programme to detect terms of abuse relating to the PVCs in staff e mails. Until one Professor reassured everyone with the observation that if such a programme had been installed it would crash from overwork within about five minutes.
Stel and John Farrar have a son – Robin. He's a leading light in Cymdeithas and regularly appears in the media in Wales demanding that Carwyn should show greater commitment to the Welsh language and more importantly should hand over a lot more dosh to Meri et al.
Gruff's fellow Furries band members Dafydd Ieuan and Cian Ciaran run the Cardiff-based label and recording studio Strangetown Records. Dafydd Ieuan released 'The Golden Mile' in 2008, with Rhys Ifans on vocals. In 2013, Dafydd Ieuan recorded with Catatonia's former guitarist Mark Roberts.
Dafydd Ieuan and Cian Ciaran's dad is Top Doctor Carl Clowes! Carl is well-known in north Wales and has been the subject of a number of controversies regarding some of the good works with which he has been involved, controversies which usually seemed to centre around allegations involving the finances of the projects. Carl Clowes is a community champ, a Welsh language campaigner and an anti-nuclear campaigner.
Dr Carl Clowes is a former public health consultant for Gwynedd and is currently a Board member of Public Health Wales. Public Health Wales is a receptacle for those paedophiles' friends who have been sacked by everyone else in north Wales but who have so much dirt on their colleagues that no-one can afford to turn them completely loose. Carl is the Board rep for the Third sector, so if anyone wonders who is responsible for ensuring that MIND and Dafydd's charity CAIS continue to receive millions in taxpayers money, the finger points, partly at least, at Carl.
Carl graduated from Manchester Medical School in the late 1960s. He has said that he particularly loved going to 'Top of the Pops' in the converted chapel in Rusholme, which acted as a studio in the early days of the programme.
Now then, now then…
Carl maintains that Manchester 'remains a city with a human touch'. It was to gay clubs in Manchester that the empowered service users detained under the Mental Health Act in Prestwood Homes were being taken to enable them to meet 'people like them'. Clients were abused at Prestwood and it was very obviously a people trafficking organisation disguised as a chain of care homes. No-one ever managed to find out who owned the considerable business which was Prestwood, but the manager was an associate of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones. See posts 'A Convenient Arrangement With The Private Sector' and 'News Round Up And Crime Report, May 14 2017' for details of the nightmare that was Prestwood Homes.
After graduation, Carl Clowes worked as a junior doctor in Manchester Royal Infirmary, Stepping Hill Hospital and in Llangwyfan Chest Hospital in North Wales returning to Manchester and postgraduate studies in the Christie Hospital.
Dafydd's network reached as far as Manchester University (see posts 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…' and 'The Mentor') as did Dr Tony Francis's (Dr X's) network, (see post 'Ian Brockington's Mischief'). Tony Francis's wife Sadie worked at Manchester with him – I think that Sadie trained at Manchester.
When Carl Clowes left Manchester he moved to Llanaelhaearn on the Llŷn Peninsula to work in a single-handed GP dispensing practice.
Carl has observed that 'Whatever one's talents or interests, medicine offers a unique opportunity for personal development'.
You can even run a pan-European paedophile ring, remain untouchable whilst victims and witnesses are found dead and still the media will spout rubbish about your talents and your compassion and explain that the havoc over which you are presiding will be resolved if only you are given more money. In the event of a police investigation, you can use your influential network to construct your children as musical prodigies.
Carl has said that working on the Llyn 'proved to be a remarkably profitable period of my life, as I came face-to-face with a community in serious decline and facing all the consequential health problems'. As a single-handed GP working in a dispensing practice – and the only GP for miles around as well – Carl will not only have wielded considerable influence in the area, but will have been able to do whatever he wanted without scrutiny. He will have been able to attribute the 'serious decline' in the community and the 'consequential health problems' to any reason convenient for him, rather than explain that there was a sex trafficking gang operating in the region which was facilitated by a network of professional people who were also dipping their hands into the till whenever it suited them.
Carl helped set up Cymdeithas y Pentrefwyr (Villagers' Society) in Llanaelhaearn, where the village school was facing closure as a consequence of severe population decline in the area. This led to Carl 'Chairing Antur Aelhaearn, the first 'community cooperative' in the UK. The villagers became shareholders in their own development 'trust', so revitalising the area; inter alia, they built their own workshops, established an Eisteddfod, a community centre and playground and are currently working on a proposal to ensure Llanaelhaearn becomes a 'green village'. In 2014, Antur celebrated its 40th anniversary. Carl maintains that the rationale was to 'address some of the area's need and restore confidence in the population, to great success'.'
Well I'm staggered to hear that Carl, because after leaving Bethesda I lived a few miles down the road from Llanaelhaearn for a few years. I loved it out there, it is a beautiful place with mountains and sea. But the local people have bugger all. They have worked very hard to keep that community pub of theirs going and I think that their community shop is still in business as well, but the only person who could ever claim that it is not a community in decline enduring serious disadvantage is a Top Doctor called Carl Clowes who does not live on the limited incomes of people in Llanaelhaearn.
There are at present plans to close yet more rural schools in Gwynedd, because the Council cannot afford to maintain them. If I had children I would want them to attend a small Welsh medium school, at least whilst they were of primary age – many of those schools are very good. But even Dafydd Iwan has now appeared in the Welsh media to support the village schools closure programme – because there is no dosh left. There is no dosh left because for decades the paedophiles' friends have gobbled and troughed and grossly mismanaged, whilst feathering their own nests and ruthlessly excluding anyone who looked like they might have known what they were doing. They've had the lot, there is nothing left. And as Dafydd Iwan sung at every gig he did – 'Yma O Hyd' (this translates as 'We're Still Here'). Yes that's the fucking trouble Dafydd, you are still there and so are all the dipsticks who brought north Wales to its knees. The councils are in crisis, there's no dosh, there's no services, the NHS has collapsed and no-one will work for it anyway and young people are leaving at an even greater rate than before. Because the whole bloody region is run by the paedophiles' friends. So who are you going to blame now that crunch point has been reached Dafydd?
Never mind, Gruff and his friends are famous!
Another Top Doctor owned a house near Carl's turf at Llanaelheaern – Tony Francis. He purchased a second home there during the Time Of The Great Panic, in the run up to the Waterhouse Inquiry.
It was all a bit weird – Tony Francis lived on Anglesey and had just acquired a rather grand place at Dwyran as his main home. The alleged purpose of the cottage at Trefor was for him to stay in whilst he was working down on the Llyn – his duties had been redefined and he was given responsibility for the patients down there. By this time Francis was at complete loggerheads with every one of his colleagues and was very obviously cracking up. He was being treated appallingly by all of them, we witnessed it – he was being blatantly insulted by the other Top Docs and Angels were telling patients that he was 'mentally ill'. For his part, Francis made efforts to get patients on his side in his battle with his colleagues – ironically, we did support him. We could see how they were treating him and we all hated them because they had abused us for years anyway – but none of us knew what Francis was trying to do to us without our knowledge.
The reality was that the whole bloody lot of them had concealed the paedophile gang and now that Waterhouse was approaching they were turning on each other – and asking the patients whom they had mistreated to save them.
Francis only owned the cottage at Trefor for about 10 minutes. Matters went inexplicably pear shaped and he decided that he wasn't going to be the consultant for the Llyn after all and he sold his house there.
I am trying to work out why Francis wanted domain over that region as Waterhouse approached. There was a complete can of worms in the Police Station and Magistrates Court at Pwllheli, they were bastions of the paedophiles' friends and were used to fit people up when all other methods had failed. Francis was also involved in concealing questionable matters at the holiday camp at Pwllheli – it was for years a Butlin's, but then it changed its name – which received many young working class people from Merseyside every summer, as staff and visitors. Francis's relocation to the Dwyfor area will definitely have been linked to the Great Cover-Up.
If Carl the Empowerer – who knew Tony Francis – knows what the explanation is, perhaps he could enlighten me.
In 1988, Carl convened and subsequently Chaired Fforwm Iaith Genedlaethol (National Language Forum), which brought together 26 Welsh language organisations to campaign for a new Welsh Language Act. In 1991, also as Chair, Carl was responsible for developing the first ever comprehensive strategy for the future of the Welsh language.
The use of Welsh – even in the language stronghold of Gwynedd – has declined since 1988.
Between 1988-90, Carl 'stepped out of the NHS' to work with the local authority Cyngor Dwyfor and the endemically corrupt WDA to engineer a socio-economic development strategy for the Llŷn Peninsula.
I got to know some of the local young people from the area, because they were the friends of the children of the person whom I shared a house with. One local young man had serious drug problems and was also dealing to fund his own habit. The other young people were so wary of him that they asked their parents to make excuses so that they could avoid him if he called over to their houses.
There is a village called Clynnog Fawr some eight miles from Llanaelhaearn and between 2002-07, I lived nearby. I used to pop into the pub at Clynnog because the children of my friends worked in there – the pub was staffed virtually entirely by local young people who needed casual work as there was no other employment for them in the area.
The pub served the local population and was fairly quiet but did have a steady trade. Then the pub was purchased by someone who lived in Chester and he decided to go upmarket and aim for a complete different market – foodies and tourists. The man who purchased the pub paid for an advertising campaign on the local radio and much was made of the fact that the pub was under new management and now had aspirations to be a bit posh. A new manageress was installed who imposed a regime of terror and the local young people who worked there found the atmosphere so unpleasant that they began leaving as soon as they could.
When winter arrived, the pub was virtually empty. My friend explained to me that the new manageress 'has banned all the old alkies and they're the only customers in the winter'. I used to go in the pub with the old alkies – I'm not sure that they were actually alkies, they were a group of local elderly men who lived nearby, but they definitely weren't foodies. Then someone else I knew who enrolled for a counselling course at Chester University discovered that one of her fellow students was the owner of the pub. He knew nothing about the socio-economic problems of the area – he didn't know how badly the manageress was treating staff either – and didn't realise that most of the local people didn't have enough money to dine in style regularly, so once the tourists had gone home there would be no customers with foodie desires.
Whilst I lived near Clynnog a few other memorable things happened in Carl Clowes's empowered community. A man who used a wheelchair and who had mental health problems was imprisoned for a murderous attack on his elderly mother, after the Top Docs at the Hergest Unit refused to admit him on the grounds that he was 'dangerous' and should be prosecuted. The murderous attack consisted of the man – who had a long standing depressive illness – waving a pair of garden shears at his mother and saying that he wished that he could kill both of them. He then dropped the shears, started crying and his mum rang the doctor. It was the biggest mistake she made. After her middle-aged depressed son was imprisoned, the prison admitted that it did not have the facilities for a man with such severe physical disabilities and also stated that he should be in a mental health unit anyway, such were his problems.
Then another even sadder event happened. One of the young men I knew who had worked in the pub died in freak accident, which wasn't the fault of anyone. His mum had been raped when she was young and had taken to drink. She had not been offered any help from the mental health services at any time. She managed to remain in work and for a while worked in Morrison's supermarket. This lady was also epileptic and when Morrison's found out, she was harassed by the management until she left her job. She ended up living in B&B accommodation for the homeless in Caernarfon – accommodation which was owned by two people who worked in the Housing Dept at Gwynedd County Council who were making a bomb by charging nearly £1000/week for the substandard accommodation. Which was paid for by Gwynedd County Council…
There was a social worker employed by Gwynedd County Council who lived near Clynnog. She told someone I know that she avoided going into the Post Office at Clynnog because the trouble was that she would bump into her clients if she went in there and she really didn't want to have to speak to them. That particular problem resolved itself when the Post Office closed down.
People often laugh at Brown and me and ask us how we discover so much of this sort of thing. The answer is simple. We have been/are friends with so many who have been crapped upon that we know what is really happening to them, so we don't rely on media interviews given by the paedophiles' friends for our information regarding 'the community'. Furthermore, throughout my many years in north Wales, it was an assorted collection of hippies, mental health patients and friendly neighbours who were small businessmen or farmers who were the main source of help for me as the paedophiles' friends did everything possible to see me destitute and in prison. Sadly a number of those who helped me then came under fire from the paedophiles' friends and found themselves accused of child abuse or were inexplicably denied NHS treatment for serious medical conditions.
After empowering everyone in the Clynnog/Llanaelhaearn area, Carl Clowes returned to Powys and become Medical Director – he was previously Director of Planning and a Public Health Consultant in Powys – then retired early in 2000 to 'follow two projects' that he'd led in the 1970s and 1980s.
In recent weeks it has been admitted that the children's services in Powys have been riddled with problems for years and are now no longer functioning. Neither does Powys have a functioning mental health service or indeed many other basic health and social care services. Machynlleth has a vibrant community group who are real stars and they are doing just about everything that in previous years was the job of the NHS or social services. They are also providing food and legal advice for people who have been left destitute after their benefits have been stopped, sometimes unlawfully. Sadly that group are not legally allowed to prescribe opiates for pain relief or carry out root canal treatment – I suspect that if they were, they'd probably do a better job than a hissy fitting member of the BMA.
The first project that Carl became involved with was Nant Gwrtheyrn, a language centre that was part of a wider scheme to develop a former quarrying village in order to improve employment opportunities for the locals. Carl lists Nant Gwrtheyrn as one of his greatest achievements. Carl stated that 'Some 30,000 people have gained from courses at the centre and, at the last count, some 27 countries were represented in the 'mix' of origin of the attendees'.
That is probably true, Nant Gwrtheyrn is a great place if you want to go on a residential Welsh course or want a coffee in the cafe before you walk along the cliff to look at the wild goats and ravens. But Carl knows as well as I do that Nant Gwrtheyrn has done bugger all for people living on its doorstep. It is a visitor attraction for tourists or people with enough dosh and leisure time to hang out down there.
The 'employment opportunities' are low paid jobs – that may only exist during the summer months – staffing the cafe, cleaning the houses etc. Carl boasts that Nant Gwrtheyrn has provided 30 jobs and is the major employer in the area. Which simply demonstrates how dire the employment opportunities are in that part of Gwynedd. Furthermore Nant Gwrtheyrn is at the bottom of a massively steep valley, miles away from anywhere with no public transport. So the folk in those poorly paid part-time jobs will need their own transport to get to work. For those who have got transport, the cost of keeping the car on the road to enable them to get to their jobs in the cafe or doing the cleaning will erode their part-time earnings.
I am very familiar with life in that part of the world and the everyday story of local folk is of people who are spending money keeping old bangers going so they can drive over to clean the holiday cottages for a few hours on two or three days per week because there is no other work for many miles. In the summer there is a bonanza when Hafan y Mor, a holiday park near Pwllheli, opens for business and the caravans and chalets need doing, so everyone heads for the 'employment opportunities' there. That is not a bed of roses though – Hafan y Mor is a totalitarian regime.
One of my friends used to work at Hafan y Mor and related the tale of the elderly man who used to do the gardens there, who, after working his knackers off all morning, sat on a bench to have a drink from his flask. At the time Hafan y Mor had been booked by a 'community group' providing cheap holidays for the disadvantaged and one of the guests saw the gardener on the bench and asked him to do something for her. The gardener said – but not rudely – that he was just on his break but would get onto it as soon as he'd finished. The guest reported him to the management – I was told that Hafan y Mor was plastered in notices encouraging the guests to complain if they were less than 100% satisfied with the service – and the gardener was given a formal warning.
My friend neatly summed it up with the comment 'a service user on a cheap holiday nearly got him the sack'.
Hafan y Mor are in a position to sack people for trivial reasons because the locals are desperate for work, so matter how bum their deal, that there'll always be someone else coming along…
Carl Clowes was never in danger of losing his job as the result of a complaint from a service user.
Carl's second project was Dolen Cymru, which acted as a link between Wales and Lesotho in Africa to 'facilitate educational, health, religious and cultural people exchanges between the two countries'. Carl Chaired Dolen Cymru from its outset in 1985 and is Honorary Consul for Lesotho in Wales. Carl has explained that 'At a personal level, this engagement with sub-Saharan Africa opened up many opportunities for me and, also, health colleagues who have spent time in the country… The challenges of working with minimal resources, few trained staff and enormous clinical problems has helped focus the mind of many a clinician involved in the country.' Carl continues to visit Lesotho annually.
In 2009, King Letsie III made Carl Clowes a Member of the Most Loyal Order of Ramatseatsana for his work in developing the Dolen Cymru link.
No doubt Dolen Cymru was established with the best will in the world, but as with so many things, the Top Docs and paedophiles' friends have colonised it and caused havoc. There have been internal rows and allegations of dishonesty and financial mismanagement – Dr Graham Thomas, a former Hergest Unit doctor who was a neighbour of mine, seemed to be at the centre of the discord. Graham is a leading light in the BMA.
People keep asking me if any of the Top Docs have contacted me with regard to this blog. Only one has- Graham Thomas. Who accused me of libelling him. Graham's comment and my responses, as well as the responses of other readers, can be read in the comments column with follows my post 'Correction and Apology'. I did invite Graham to expand on his accusation but I heard no more. Just to clarify, I have never accused Graham of the sort of abuse or negligence which I witnessed on the part of so many of his colleagues, I only ever heard that Graham was a good consientious doctor in terms of his conduct at work – but Graham most certainly knows about the misconduct and criminality of his colleagues and he has kept schtum.
One service that is provided by Dolen Cymru is excellent PR for the paedophiles' friends working in the Wales NHS.
Carl Clowes gave an interview in which he told young people that if opportunities 'don't arise, create them!'. They don't all have a hot line to the WDA like you Carl, those working at Hafan y Mor are not going to be given a few million to develop a nice but minority interest tourist attraction – they'll be the people who are paid the minimum wage throughout the summer months to serve the coffees and do the cleaning….
Carl maintains that 'Doors seem to have a habit of opening or closing, as the case may be!' Interestingly enough Carl, if you blow the whistle on a sex trafficking ring or you help someone who has, a lot of doors seem to slam shut very firmly and very quickly. Including the cell door behind you in Walton Prison or Broadmoor.
Regarding the NHS in Wales, Carl's pearls include – 'One of the biggest challenges in Wales is to make sure we know what impacts on the public's health and work to get those factors right'.
In 2012, Carl was given an OBE for his work 'in the community in Anglesey. He has also been honoured by the National Eisteddfod and is a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards – as are a number of Dafydd's and Lucille's associates. In 2014 Carl was awarded the Alumni Medal for Social Responsibility by the University of Manchester.
Carl has contributed to the BMA Cymru Wales Community Blog. He explained that as a result of the decline of the community in which he worked as a GP,'a high prevalence of hypertension, diabetes and depression followed and in an attempt to address this, I successfully led the development of the first community cooperative in the UK, Antur Aelhaearn'.
I have seen no evidence that Antur Aelhaearn has made any difference to the rates of hypertension, diabetes and depression in the community, no matter what other benefits the project may have conferred. Carl believes that it 'is that with an empowered community, individuals are also empowered and these wider determinants can have a lasting impact on important health indices'.
I invite readers to pop up and have a look at Llanaelhaearn. There isn't a great deal of empowerment going on. There are decent people doing their best in a region in which they and their children have been priced out of the housing market, because no-one can buy a house from their earnings at Nant Gwertheryn. Indeed it is getting very difficult for people in that position to even rent somewhere. Carl and his children will not face the same problems, although one of Carl's famous sons did mention that he left Anglesey because there were no opportunities for him there. Presumably Carl's son did not relocate to the Llyn to clean the cottages at Nant Gwertheryn. As with so many of the brainwaves that emanate from the paedophiles' friends, those are the jobs that other people's children do.
Carl has also been involved in international public health projects, including the NGO Medical Emergency Relief International's (MERLIN) Tuberculosis programme in Tomsk, Siberia, an HIV programme in Mizoram, India and the restructuring of primary care services in Cambodia with French children's charity 'Enfants et Dévelopment'.
Following Carl's contribution to the BMA blog, 'Anonymous' commented: 'An excellent summary of a rewarding, selfless and committed professional life. An inspirational dedication to empower communities and individuals and to tackle health inequities in disadvantaged population.' Anonymous doesn't live in Carl's empowered community then…
The Newborn Bloodspot Screening Wales website tells us that on Wednesday, 2 December 2015 'Dr Carl Clowes, Non-Executive Director at Public Health Wales, has become the first GP to receive an Honorary Fellowship to the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to health in Wales and overseas'.
Dr DGE Wood, forger of documentation and facilitator of a sex trafficking gang, has held various high offices in the Royal College of GPs for years. Wood has been a leading light in GP training in north Wales, he has had responsibility for inspecting other practices across Wales and he has also been and might well still be the Treasurer for the Royal College. Wood has made so much money out of his crimes that he could probably afford to make regular generous financial contributions to the coffers of the Royal College.
Mansel Aylward, Chairman of Public Health Wales, commented of Carl: 'Carl is a highly valued member of the Public Health Wales Board of Directors and we are extremely proud of his latest achievement.'
Tracey Cooper: "Carl has made a huge contribution to population health across the world and we are privileged that he continues to direct his khappier and f
In Sept 2016, Wales was rocked when the 'Express Online' reported that Carl Clowes had claimed that in the 1970s, Colonel Gaddafi gave Plaid a donation of £25k after Plaid representatives – including Carl – visited Libya. The proposed purpose of the trip was to discuss a trade deal over Welsh lamb and for Plaid politicians to see how Libya had used its oil riches to build schools and hospitals. However, according to Clowes, the 'socialist leader' was more interested in lending his support to Plaid's goals for Welsh independence. Col Gaddafi therefore donated £25,000 to help 'disrupt the status quo in the West'.
Recalling his encounter with Gaddafi in an interview with BBC Radio Wales, Dr Clowes stated: 'This was a man who clearly was concerned to see the capitalist system in the west undermined. In a sense, Plaid Cymru as a socialist party, was something he could identify with'.
Brian Morgan Edwards, who was treasurer of Plaid in that period, said that 'some money had arrived – £25,000 [current worth about £160,000]'.
In the face of Carl's claims, the leadership of Plaid denied receiving dosh from Gaddafi. I'm not sure that Leanne deserved the mud that was thrown at her though – after all Gaddafi became a Blairite and embraced the Third Way…
The man who accompanied Carl to visit Col Gaddafi, Brian Morgan Edwards, was a computer salesman, a prominent supporter of Plaid and a Welsh businessman who sponsored the first Welsh-language recording studio for popular music.
Morgan Edwards was born in Swansea and was a student at the LSE, where he was a joint founder of the Tankard Club, a dining club for LSE graduates. His first job was as a computer salesman with IBM at which he found great success. In 1961 he was appointed lead salesman for the 3000 series, a new computer system which was designed for the smaller business. By spending his weekends driving around the industrial estates of west London and on Monday mornings presenting a list of company names to his secretary, he rapidly built up a strong following of prospective customers.
He met his wife Rona, who like himself was a native of Wales, whilst they were both living in London, and soon after their marriage the pair moved back to Wales, eventually settling in Pwllheli. Morgan Edwards had been an enthusiastic supporter of the Conservative Party, at the time of the McMillan's Gov't and at the 1964 General Election which was won by Wilson. The Sunday after the General Election he took over – by consent – a Communist Party stand at Speaker's Corner at Hyde Park Corner and announced 'Welcome to the first meeting of Hyde Park Tories – we will speak here every Sunday until the Conservatives are returned to power'. Why the Communist Party allowed Morgan Edwards to do this is not explained. The Hyde Park Tories became a leading campaign organisation inside the Conservative Party.
However, 'the combination of marriage to Rona and residence in Wales' soon turned him into a fervent supporter of Welsh Nationalism, a cause which he supported for many years. In 1970 Morgan Edwards stood as the unsuccessful Plaid candidate for Cardiff North, a constituency favoured by the paedophiles' friends and one which it seems it is not possible to win unless one is a paedophiles' friends (see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends of Cardiff North').
In 1969 Morgan Edwards supported the formation of Sain in partnership with Dafydd Iwan and Huw Jones by providing a £500 loan. In Oct 2009 BBC News Wales reported that Sain was celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of its first single, 'Dwr', sung by Huw Jones. It was released on 9 Oct 1969 and was a protest song about the flooding of Tryweryn, near Bala, in 1965 to provide water for Liverpool. The song was produced by Meic Stevens.
Dear old Dr Dafydd Alun Jones was involved with the anti-Treweryn activism whilst he was at medical school. He really wowed the other Welsh activists by linking up with Irish Republicans involved in activities that were never made clear but which I imagine were neither legal or non-violent (see post 'A Network Stretching Back Decades…'). Once Dafydd had qualified however, he was quite happy to use the network of corrupt English professional people whom he had links with in Liverpool to facilitate his sex trafficking gang (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well') which supplied young people to a variety of predators, including Thatcher's personal aide and friend Sir Peter Morrison.
The BBC released a clip of Huw Jones singing 'Dwr', taken from the BBC Wales programme 'The Sixties', first shown in December 1969, in which presenter Vincent Kane looked back on a decade of change in Wales. Dafydd was a regular on the Kane Debates in the mid-1990s, as police investigations into the abuse of children in north Wales were underway and as he fought against efforts to force him to retire (see post 'The Evolution Of A Drugs Baron?').
Huw Jones was appointed Chairman of S4C in 2011. Huw was appointed following the implosion of S4C, after the Chief Executive Ioana Jones departed in a hurry with no-one being able to explain why and the previous Chairman John Walter Jones waved goodbye as well. There was much bad publicity and admissions that things had gone badly wrong at S4C and that the rot was long-standing. The then Wales Office Minister paedophiles' friend David Jones (see post 'The Right Honourable David Jones MP') said that Huw Jones had the leadership qualities needed for S4C in a 'challenging time'.
What was Huw Jones's background? Er – he was the Chief Executive of S4C, 1994-05.
Brian Morgan Edwards was also involved in setting up Cymdeithas Tai Gwynedd, the first rural Housing Association in Wales, a charity providing affordable housing for people in need, especially the elderly and young low-income families.
Morgan Edwards died in Dec 2002, and his wife Rona, President of the Welsh Bridge Union and Chairman of the North Wales Bridge Association, died one month later in Jan 2003. Her obituary appeared in Newsletter 78 (Feb 2003) of the Welsh Bridge Union. Rona Morgan Edwards was a Director of Sain.
Other Super Furries were Guto Pryce and Huw Bunford.
Guto was born in Cardiff and was in the Welsh language band U Thant with his brother Iwan Pryce, Huw Bunford, Owen Powell (later of Catatonia) and others in a changing line-up, 1989-93. He recorded with Catatonia on their first two EPs before Super Furry Animals formed in 1993.
Pryce recorded 'The Golden Mile' with The Peth in 2008, a group which features Rhys Ifans, Dafydd Ieuan, Meilyr Gwynedd, Osian Gwynedd, Mick Hilton, Dic Ben and Kris Jenkins.
In 2010 Pryce played bass for Spectrum on their US and European tours.
Under the band name The Stand, Pryce joined Welsh actor Jonny Owen, Owen Powell and Ryan Richards of Funeral for a Friend to record a fundraising single 'I'll Be There' in 2010. (Stuart Cable of Stereophonics was involved in the project prior to his death.) Proceeds from sales went to a fund to erect a statue of the footballer Fred Keenor on the Cardiff City F.C. grounds. The song was often sung by Cardiff City fans. Pryce had previously shown his support for Cardiff City when the Super Furry Animals signed on as sponsors in 1999 – the the band's name was displayed on team jerseys.
So Cardiff City FC were also involved in providing good PR for the offsping of paedophiles' friends in 1999, just before the Waterhouse Report was published. The fans won't have known what it was all about, but someone in Cardiff City FC will have.
In 2012, Guto Pryce began performing with his partner, Scottish singer and keyboardist Lindsey Leven, under the name Gulp.
Pryce was part of a 2012 concert appearance by English singer-songwriter Mark Fry, along with Nick Franglen of Lemon Jelly, Nick Palmer of The A. Lords, Grasshopper of Mercury Rev and Martin Smith of Tunng.
In 2012, Pryce led music workshops for youth at the charity Grassroots Cardiff Ltd. At Focus Wales 2013, Pryce was a panelist for the Welsh Music Foundation.
Super Furries Huw Bunford was born in Cardiff. Bunford studied at Lanchester Poly (now Coventry University) and worked as a teacher. His last teaching position was as Head of Art at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, near Pontypridd.
The drama teacher and S4C scriptwriter John Owen worked at Ysgol Rhydfelen throughout the 80s and into the 90s. John Owen was molesting his pupils – and other young people – on a massive scale throughout that time. When he was finally charged years later, it was admitted that his conduct had been known by just about everyone who had worked with him, but the school, Mid-Glamorgan Education Authority and the WJEC had concealed his activities and ignored complaints (see post 'Yet More Inglorious Bastards'). Huw Bunford, like the rest of the school, will have heard about John Owen's behaviour with the kids.
Bunford played with Guto Pryce in U Thant, before they both joined Super Furry Animals.
Bunford's first band was the Welsh language school band, Edrych am Jiwlia, which was formed in Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg, Cardiff.
In 2012 Bunford performed with artist Naomi Kashiwagi at the Whitworth Art Gallery of Manchester University.
In 2005, 'NME' described the collection of the friends and relatives of paedophiles' friends that made up the Furries as possibly 'the most important band of the past 15 years'.
Many years ago, during those days when the Hergest patients found Dafydd a source of constant entertainment, after we had discovered yet more of Dafydd's crimes, a man with a sense of humour rang Dafydd up and said 'It's over man, you're finished. You might as well take yourself down to Bangor pier and chuck yourself in'.
Dafydd, a lot of people laughed for a very long time after that telephone call was made, but I think that you and Lucille might soon need to be thinking of heeding that advice.
I marvelled yesterday at the realisation that 20 years ago, a bunch of mental health patients armed with nothing more than a sense of fun, a bit of loose change and a public phone box presented more of a challenge to Mr Big in network of gangsters than the combined forces of the North Wales Police and the security services.
A few days ago the Daily Post Online ran a story about an employee of the DWP in Caernarfon Job Centre who has won a case of disability discrimination against the DWP, after evidence was produced of truly dreadful conduct on the part of the managers of Caernarfon Job Centre. Which will not surprise anyone with knowledge of how Caernarfon Job Centre has conducted business for years.
There is a man who a few years ago was employed by Caernarfon Job Centre – and might well still be – who could a few tales about the paedophiles' friends. The security man there, Dewi. Dewi is a sort of hired thug who is as rude and intimidating as possible to the clients of Caernarfon Job Centre. It must be a retirement job because Dewi will be past 65 now. I remember Dewi really well from his days as a younger hired thug. Dewi used to be the security man in the Students Union when I was a student. I heard a great many anecdotes about Dewi and his enjoyment of using uncalled for excessive force against the male students. I didn't expect to ever have a confrontation with Dewi myself, because I was female and didn't tend to frequent the boozing sessions in the SU – Dewi usually targeted boys who had been in the bar, so that he could use the excuse of drunken students for his excessive force.
However I did encounter Dewi. After I complained about Gwynne the lobotomist, it was Dewi who was called upon to throw me out of the SU building – and unlawfully grab my bag and chuck it outside – repeatedly. Dewi was a personal friend of the nurse employed by the Student Health Centre, Liz Stables – Liz was a mate of Dafydd's.
Dewi used to live on the Maesgeirchan estate, just outside of Bangor. Which was the location of Ty'r Felin, the children's home where the kids were abused and trafficked for sex work, to Dolphin Square as well as to other places (see post 'Are You Local?').
As a hired thug who socialised with other thugs and friends of Dafydd, Dewi will have known a great deal about the paedophile gang whom he was assisting.
If the police want to have a word with Dewi, he's the one in Caernarfon Job Centre who's quite short and muscular with a 1970s walrus moustache and a lot of gold jewellery. Who looks like an ageing henchman for serious criminals.
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I continue to research the backgrounds of those colleagues of Rhodri Morgan's whom he named approvingly in his biography.
Rhodri Morgan was of course unsuccessful in his first attempt at getting himself elected as the leader of the Welsh Labour Party in 1999 and thus as Wales's first FM. Rhodri writes about this campaign in which he stood – unsuccessfully – against Alun Michael.
Rhodri's campaign was given £2 k by Mike McCarthy of Rightacres Properties. Rhodri mentions that McCarthy's solicitor was David Seligman, who was also Rhodri's solicitor. David Seligman has been a big name in the Labour Party in south Wales for decades, he is one of the many who 'couldn't believe' that George Thomas was a child molester, one of the many who couldn't believe/didn't know whilst being close friends with the people who bribed and threatened the victims of George Thomas into silence (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
Rhodri also received, rather inexplicably, £100 for his campaign from Jilly Cooper. I wouldn't have thought that a woman who keeps dogs with ridiculous names (satirised by 'Private Eye' as 'my labrador Parker Bowles') and who has made millions writing books about imaginary upper-class people having extra-marital sex whilst dressed in hunting gear would have much fellow feeling with Rhodri's ambitions to be FM of Wales. Furthermore Jilly Cooper supports the Conservative Party. £100 isn't a great deal of money for Jilly Cooper, but it's still a bit odd that Rhodri Morgan ever even came to her attention.
I haven't ever actually read any of Jilly Cooper's books, not even that one that is on sale everywhere with the front cover featuring a picture of some jodhpur-clad buttocks being groped, but I've read about them. From what I understand, the only thing Welsh in Jilly's writing is a character called Gareth Llewellyn, who is a 'Welsh firebrand'. I expect that he has sex with someone posh, a la Mellors. Who could Jilly have possibly modelled that character on?
Rhodri based the north Wales branch of his leadership campaign in 'the Labour house owned jointly by John Marek and the MEP for north Wales, Joe Wilson'. So Rhodri's north Wales arm was situated at the heart of Paedophilia Central in Wrexham. In the midst of the Waterhouse Inquiry. Rhodri and his Mrs Julie didn't think of popping over to Ewloe to have a word with Sir Ronnie Waterhouse then, even though Julie was a former social worker and Assistant Director of Barnardo's and some of the Barnardo's staff had been involved with the abuse of children in north Wales.
John Marek was the famously peculiar Labour MP, 1983-01 and AM for Wrexham, 1999-07, who ended up forming his own party consisting only of himself. Marek's previous can be read in my post 'My Arse – It's Tatifliarious'. Marek was also associated with Forward Wales, a damp squib which evolved from a John Marek initiative. The other leading light in Forward Wales was Ron Davies – Ron joined up once he'd burnt his boats with the Labour Party after the business with Boogie on Clapham Common (see post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate').
Marek worked as hard as the rest of them not to know about the paedophile gang causing havoc in his constituency.
Joe Wilson was a Labour MEP for north Wales, 1989-99, and was Vice-Chair, Delegation for relations with Canada, 1992-1994. There is very little information available about Joe Wilson – other than that he was born in Birkenhead and is 80 years of age. So he could well be part of the Liverpool branch of Dafydd's empire (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well').
During his campaign, Rhodri won the votes of UNISON and MSF. Two unions who faithfully provided free legal advice and protection for the paedophiles and their friends when they had been caught abusing their positions or indeed their patients/clients (see post 'A Very COHSE Relationship With Some Very Nasty People'). The corrupt reps of MSF used their knowledge of the criminal activity and misconduct at St George's Hospital Medical School for their own gain, not to protect patients.
Rhodri had a cousin in Beddgelert, Nia, who was his hotline to north Wales. So Nia will know about the two Hergest patients who lived in Beddgelert, one who lived in squalor and chaos and who very obviously had been abandoned by the 'services'. The local Church put considerable effort into trying to support him, but such were his difficulties that the havoc and disturbances to the peace of Beddgelert continued and he was eventually forced out of the village by vigilante action. Whilst Julie and Rhodri spouted crap about empowering service users.
The other patient who lived in Beddgelert killed himself by jumping in front of the train after walking out of the Hergest Unit. This man had been a professional football coach in his 20s and was friendly with a friend of mine. My friend watched the mental health services load this man up with anti-psychotics which left him incapable of doing anything other than sleeping for 18 hours a day. He kept telling my friend that the 'medication' had destroyed his life and that he couldn't carry on like this. He made the mistake of expressing this view to the Angels so they gave him even more. The other thing that this man insisted on doing which really upset the Top Doctors and Angels was to tell people how when he was a teenager living in Birmingham he knew about a paedophile gang in the area who were targeting boys. Thus a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was made.
Before he died, this man was hospitalised in the Hergest Unit at the same time as my friend. One morning my friend noticed that the man from Beddgelert was in a dreadful state, having just been forcibly dosed up to an even greater extent – he was frothing at the mouth and was in physical pain. He told my friend that he could not live like this any longer. A few hours later he was found dead on the railway track having been hit by a train. When an Angel broke the news of his death to my friend she told him that the trouble with the dead man was that 'he just wanted to die really'. I wonder why.
There was a great deal of trouble after that young man died. He was a popular figure – the police were furious and neighbours were seething at what they maintained was the serious neglect of a very nice man. His family were distraught and gave an interview to the 'Daily Post'. They did investigate the possibility of legal action against the North West Wales NHS Trust, but as ever they encountered problems when they tried to do this. A complaint to the GMC was made and a Hergest psychiatrist, a Dr Oberholzer, was I think reprimanded.
The deaths of Hergest patients continued and Oberholzer was also the subject of another serious complaint (see post 'A Bit More About Those Very Muddy Waters'). He continued to practice.
Rhodri Morgan was beaten in the 1999 leadership campaign by Alun Michael. It was nearly universally agreed upon in Wales that Blair rigged the election because he was so desperate for Alun Michael to be installed as FM. I don't know WHY Blair was desperate to see Michael as FM rather than Rhodri. Alun Michael was a paedophiles' friend and Blair's puppet, but Rhodri was just as much of a paedophiles' friend. Rhodri was such a wally that he could hardly have led serious opposition to Blair's New Labour regime in Westminster no matter how much he would have liked to.
Rhodri's book mentions that during the first elections to the National Assembly in May 1999, Richard Edwards won for Labour in Preseli Pembrokeshire. So Edwards joined the many other paedophiles' friends as the sun rose on a new dawn for Wales. It was Ron Davies who memorably said on TV after the 'yes' campaign won the devolution vote in Sept 1997, 'Good morning – and it is a very good morning for Wales'. I quite agreed with Ron at the time because I was fed up with Wales being stuffed over by Westminster, but then I didn't realise that the National Assembly was going to function as yet another home for the paedophiles' friends.
So who do you want governing you Wales? A bunch of greedy spineless hypocritical paedophiles' friends in the Senedd with their noses in the trough who have more money and goodies than the rest of you? Or a bunch of greedy spineless hypocritical paedophiles' friends in Westminster with their noses in an even bigger trough who have even more money than the rest of you as well as even more money than the greedy spineless hypocrital paedophiles' friends in the Senedd?
Richard Edwards was born in Llanelli. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, the University of Swansea and the University of Birmingham. Edwards is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a of dear old UNISON.
Richard Edwards was a Local Government Officer in Hounslow, 1979-81; Lecturer and Researcher, Institute of Local Gov't Studies, 1981-85; a Freelance Political Researcher, 1985-87; Agent and Researcher to Alan Williams MP, 1987-95; Freelance Political Researcher and Lecturer, 1995-99. Before he was elected as an AM, Edwards was a Councillor on Carmarthen Town Council and was Mayor of Carmarthen, 1997-98. He stood down at the 2003 election.
No wonder Richard Edwards was snapped up as an AM. He grew up in west Wales whilst a paedophile gang operated there – a gang which had links to the gang in north Wales. He went to Swansea University, an institution run by Rhodri Morgan's friends and relatives (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'). After finishing his PhD, Edwards worked for Hounslow – which borders on Richmond-Upon-Thames, the location of another major paedophile gang which operated through the Council's Social Services at the time (see post 'Another Episode Of Friends…). After returning to west Wales, Edwards worked for Alan Williams – a longstanding paedophiles' friend and in his later years a shameless toady to Blair (see post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks').
Edwards was a local Gov't specialist, a Councillor and a Mayor in west Wales. He will have known about the organised abuse of children which had taken place – and continued to take place – in every place in which Edwards had lived and worked and he probably knew that the gangs doing it were linked and involved Westminster and Whitehall figures.
Whilst in the Assembly, Edwards was Chair of the Local Government and Environment Committee, then the Environment, Planning and Transport Committee from March 2000.
So Richard, why were the teenaged twins June and Jennifer Gibbons from Pembrokeshire banged up in Broadmoor by the paedophiles' friends after a few years during the 1970s and early 80s at the hands of the special education and child psychology services in west Wales when they did no more than commit petty crime and tell people that they were prostitutes? Can you also tell us anything about Jennifer's death 'from her medication' days before she was due to be released from Broadmoor? And why did Marjorie Wallace never tell the truth about who had done what to those girls – or breathe a word about Jimmy Savile, until after he died when of course Marjorie told everyone that she knew how unsuitable he was to be running Broadmoor (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker'). The two patients who committed suicide after Savile abused them must have clean slipped Marjorie's mind for all those years…
I have wondered for years which high profile friend of Marjorie's bedfellow Lord Snowdon everybody feared that the Gibbons twins might name or even write about, what with those girls sending off manuscripts to publishers…
The Gibbons twins stopped writing after they'd been imprisoned in Broadmoor because their 'medication' for their 'paranoid schizophrenia' damaged their eyesight so severely. They did tell Marjorie about this, but a Top Doctor explained to Marj that the Gibbons girls were 'using their knowledge of medication to manipulate her'.
I was an evil cow as well, Robert Bluglass was horrified to learn, during his cover-up of the criminality of Dafydd et al (see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE'), that I read psychiatry journals. I was a medical researcher with access to university libraries so it was hardly bloody surprising was it Bluglass. One thing that I did find out from my subversive academic reading was some of the influential names of those in Bluglass's network which went back as far as his student days at St Andrews.
OOH wicked bitch – and I'd discovered that Dafydd was involved in serious crime to boot…
Richard Edwards will also have known that other longstanding paedophiles' friend, Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli (see post 'The Battle Of The Cowshed').
I don't know why Edwards stood down in 2003, but it might have been because he had not been a good enough friend to the paedophiles – he was replaced by Tamsin Dunwoody, who excelled as a paedophiles' friend and also had the advantage of coming from a whole dynasty of paedophiles' friends (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well').
Someone else mentioned in Rhodri's book was Christine Gwyther. Gwyther was AM for Carmarthenshire West and South Pembrokeshire, 1999-07. Gwyther achieved notoriety whilst she was the Agriculture Minister under FM Alun Michael. The farmers of Wales – who are nearly all livestock farmers, it being rather difficult to do the arable bit on the slopes of mountains with high rainfall – did not feel that Christine had their interests at heart when it was discovered that Gwyther was a vegetarian. I can imagine circumstances in which a veggie could fight for Wales's farmers but it was noticeable that neither Christine Gwyther or Alun Michael managed to win the farmers over.
The farmers have got paedophiles' friend Lesley Griffiths on their side now. In her role as Agriculture Minister Lesley gave them all a bollocking recently and told them that they didn't know how to run their own businesses. As a former medical secretary in one of the most dangerous hospitals in Wales – Wrexham Maelor – who spent years in this capacity as well as in her capacity as a Wrexham Councillor ignoring the paedophile gang on her doorstep (see post 'History Repeats Itself, First As Tragedy, Second As Farce'), Lesley is obviously just the person to tell other people that they are not showing enough 'entrepreneurship'. Unlike John Allen who in 1968 invested in an old building near Wrexham and filled it with youngsters who were in local authority care whilst charging local authorities a great deal of money. The youngsters were then battered and abused by staff and visitors and in their mid-teens were trafficked to gay brothels owned by Allen in London and Brighton. John Allen became a millionaire. If only the hill farmers would show that sort of initiative.
Christine came from west Wales and before she became an AM, she was a Pembrokeshire County Council Development Officer. So like Richard Edwards, Christine Gwyther will know about the paedophiles of west Wales and the rationale behind the destruction of the Gibbons twins. Gwyther will also be able to give us all the lowdown on the corruption in Pembrokeshire County Council, the huge quantities of money and perks enjoyed by the Chief Executive and the subsequent police investigation which did not result in any prosecutions. But then a leading light in Pembrokeshire County Council had for many years sat on the Police Authority (see post ' A Major Coup – Or A Complete Disaster?').
Gwyther was one of two candidates to be nominated for the 2012 election for the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Dyfed Powys Police Region, but mercifully was unsuccessful.
Richard Edwards and Christine Gwyther might also like to tell everyone how Keith Thomson managed to get himself appointed as Chief Executive of the NHS Trust which served west Wales after he resigned as CEO of the North West Wales NHS Trust in 2005, following my lawyer summoning Keith before the High Court in Cardiff where he was told to hand over all my medical records – which he was unlawfully witholding – or face a possible prison sentence for contempt of court (see post 'The Banality Of Evil').
After a series of NHS disasters in west Wales, Keith resigned again. Except that he quietly stayed on as an 'advisor' to the Board. This was a man, who whilst he was CEO in the NW Wales NHS Trust, presided over a regime which boasted the second highest suicide rate among female patients of any region of England and Wales and who also saw a number of his own staff commit suicide. Then there was Keith's purchase of a Trust dinner set, made of the finest china and embossed with the Trust's logo, to be used by members of the Trust Board only – a snip at over £12k. Meanwhile a young epileptic patient ended up in a persistent vegetative state after being admitted to Ysbyty Gwynedd on a Bank Holiday when there were no senior doctors on call and no-one knew how to treat her – she was given the wrong medication. Thomson had refused to waste money employing senior doctors on call at weekends and Bank Holidays. Whilst this happened, the Trust notepaper upon which Thomson wrote insulting letters to me and other patients with serious complaints branding us 'vexatious complainants' and announcing that he would not reply to any more of our correspondence, carried the 'Positive About Disabled People' logo. Yes, Mr Thomson was so positive about disabled people that he created them. There wasn't just the epileptic girl, there was also the Hergest patient who had a leg amputated after contracting a hospital acquired infection – no-one had warned him that the ward was infected, he was a self-harmer with open wounds and whoops, bang went that leg of his…
I am still waiting for a clue as to why this madman was ever given the job as CEO of the NW Wales NHS Trust in the first place, yet alone allowed to remain there and then be smuggled off down to run the NHS in west Wales after he nearly ended up in prison. I suspect that the words 'Dafydd and the paedophiles' will be relevant to the explanation.
Perhaps paedophiles' friend Jane Hutt would like to explain – Hutt was Health Minister whilst Thomson maimed and killed patients in north west Wales. Dr Brian Gibbons could follow up by telling us why Thomson was then given the opportunity to wreak further death and destruction in west Wales – he was Health Minister when Thomson sneaked off down there. By the time that happened, I had written to Gibbons telling him that I had evidence of criminal activity in the North West Wales NHS Trust. Gibbons wrote back to tell me that this correspondence was now at an end.
You revolting stupid old git Gibbons, they were running a crime syndicate and people died because of it.
Here's another name who was in the know – Margaret McDonagh. She was the General Secretary of the Labour Party, 1998-2001, whilst Blair, Alun Michael and Rhodri et al kept the lid on the assaults, crimes and deaths that continued throughout the Waterhouse Inquiry which was of course happening alongside the stupidities of Jane Hutt, Christine Gwythor, Richard Edwards et al.
McDonagh was part of the New Labour leadership inner-circle for the 1997 General Election campaign and was one of the inner-core deciding the official party position on specific issues, including perhaps the NHS policy of 'frame the witnesses to the activities of Dafydd and the paedophiles and have them banged up'. Or even the killing in a hit and run of another witness whilst Blair was getting ready to be PM.
I knew that young man Maggie and the accessories to the crime as named and detailed previously…
When in 1998, McDonagh became General Secretary of the Labour Party, she had served as Deputy General Secretary for the previous year. She was not always popular with the grassroots and parts of the PLP due to her perceived 'control-freakery'. Her 'organisational skills' came to the fore in the delivery of a second landslide victory at the 2001 General Election. McDonagh was criticised for accepting, without consultation, a £100,000 donation from the 'Daily Express' and porn publisher Richard Desmond.
I remember Blair being interviewed by Paxman about that. Paxo recited a list of Dirty Des's titles – things like 'Asian Babes', 'Big Ones' etc – and asked Blair if he knew what was in those magazines. Blair winced and said 'no I don't'. Do you mean Blair that you have never even had a quick flick through the naughty books – particularly as some of those starring were coerced into it whilst they were kids in care and the people forcing them into the porn trade were protected by the colleagues and mates of your wife?
I don't mind if folk like Ben Dover and his wife Linzi want to star in such material, they were consenting adults and made a good living at it. The victims of Dafydd and John Allen weren't and didn't. Lady Patricia Scotland was never paid a fortune to aggressively cross-examine Ben Dover and Linzi and call them lying criminals – but she did do that to those who had been brutalised and forced into crime by Dafydd and the paedophiles. And you Blair gave her a peerage and put her in the Lord Chancellor's Dept as a reward and then Gordon appointed her Attorney General.
Dirty Des also has his Television X channel – one of the offerings on Television X is entitled 'Fill That Crack'.
Another porn baron who goes under the umbrella of being a 'businessman' is David Sullivan. Sullivan spent the first ten years of his life in Cardiff – his dad was in the RAF. Sullivan hit the big time as a pornographer in the 1970s, making a great deal of money from porn mags and movies. I have always wondered whether there was a dreadful side to Sullivan's empire that has been as well-concealed as what was happening in north Wales at that time. Sullivan's girlfriend was porn star Mary Millington. Mary was found dead in Aug 1979.
After Mary's death, Sullivan, ever the sensitive soul, continued to make money from his products starring Mary, ie. 'Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions' (1980) and 'Emmanuelle in Soho' (1981).
In 1982 Sullivan was convicted of living off immoral earnings and after a successful appeal was released after serving 71 days in prison. Sullivan explained that he did not feel embarrassed about the initial source of his early fortunes. 'I've made a lot of people happy' he said. 'If I was an arms manufacturer or a cigarette manufacturer, and my products killed millions of my clients, I'd have a bit of doubt about the whole thing. I was a freedom fighter. I believe in the right of adults to make their own decisions.'
But Sullivan – Mary was dead. And whilst some of your stars and clients were adults making their own decisions, some of them were kids in care who'd been snared by Dafydd and his gang and absolutely no-one would help them at all, no matter how much evidence they had, no matter how many witnesses there were and no matter how many of the victims and witnesses were found dead.
Sullivan owned Birmingham City and West Ham Football Clubs.
Sullivan's investment company, Conegate, owns property in London including Russell & Bromley's flagship shopbuildings in Oxford Street.
Sullivan has been a Patron of Prostate Cancer UK for over 15 years. He is an active supporter of the Teenage Cancer Trust along with several other charities nationwide. Sullivan celebrated West Ham's promotion to the Premier League in May 2012 by donating a five figure sum to a charity for children with autism.
Bechod!
As well as being a porn star, Mary Millington worked as a call girl and in Sullivan's sex shop in Norbury. She then opened her own shop in Tooting. The shop was raided by the police on numerous occasions and Mary claimed the police threatened her and forced her to pay protection money. In the past she had publicly criticised police raids on sex shops and published the addresses and telephone numbers of Scotland Yard, the DPP and MPs in her magazines. Was Mary perhaps sick of the hypocrisy of these people and did she know rather more about them than was made public?
The accounts of Mary's final years could have been written by Dafydd. She had always been prone to 'neurosis and depression', which was 'exacerbated by her cocaine habit'. Her mother's death in 1976 also 'affected her deeply and her behaviour became unpredictable', which led to her breaking up with Sullivan.
Mary encountered serious problems following the police raids on her shop. A few months prior to her death, she had received a large tax bill which she was unable to pay. Her 'kleptomania' became more pronounced in the last year of her life, with arrests for shoplifting in June 1979 and again for stealing a necklace the day before her death.
Millington committed suicide at the age of 33, by taking an overdose of the tricyclic antidepressant anafranil, along with paracetamol and alcohol, at her home in Surrey. Her husband found her dead in her bed on 19 Aug 1979. She left four suicide notes which were found near her body. In one of them she had written, 'The police have framed me yet again. They frighten me so much. I can't face the thought of prison… The Nazi tax man has finished me as well'. In another note, to her solicitor Michael Kaye, Millington wrote 'the police have killed me with their threats…the police have made my life a misery with frame ups. The tax man has hounded me so much- I will be made bankrupt, he mustn't get anything of his £200,000 demands. He is a religious maniac'. In another note, to David Sullivan, she wrote: 'please print in your magazines how much I want porn to be legalised, but the police have beaten me.'
Mary Millington might as well have been living in Bethesda…
The anti-depressant which killed Mary was dispensed to suicidal patients in north Wales. Tricylic anti-depressants are toxic in overdose and you don't have to take many of them to kill you. So Dafydd and Tony Francis (Dr X) ensured that suicidal patients were given plenty of them but no other meaningful help. The patients were then harassed, threatened, assaulted, framed by the police, made homeless etc. All Dafydd and Francis had to do was to stand back and wait for the inevitable. As Tony Francis wrote on my records as he also busied himself trying to have me locked up on the basis of his perjury- along with the MDU, Hempsons, the BMA and the Welsh Office – 'this case can only end in tragedy'.
All together now, to quote Brown – 'it has – for them'.
Dafydd and David Sullivan are still alive and very rich.
There was no evidence found of a criminal conspiracy to conceal widespread sexual abuse of vulnerable people in north Wales. The people who maintained that they were abused could not be believed because they had criminal convictions, drug problems and were mental health patients.
People who knew Mary Millington spoke of what a nice person she was. Just like Jane the porn star who lived in Bethesda and who died of breast cancer during the Waterhouse Inquiry, when the Top Docs were managing to save the lives of so many other women with the same condition.
One of Mary's films was called 'Oh, Nurse!'.
Mary Millington starred in the film the Great Rock N Roll Swindle along with the Sex Pistols. Readers of my vintage will remember Sid Vicious killing himself after murdering his girlfriend Nancy Spungeon. Or at least that's what it was presumed happened. Sid and Nancy both had mental health problems as well as serious drug habits and there seems to have been a great deal of confusion about who did what when. A number of people at the time blamed Malcolm McClaren for the disaster. It was alleged that McClaren was fully aware that he had two unhappy volatile young people on his hands and everything that McClaren did aggravated the situation. McClaren himself freely admitted that the bad publicity surrounding the Sex Pistols and the violence at their gigs did wonders for the marketing and profits. McClaren remained remarkably unconcerned even after Sid and Nancy's deaths.
McClaren is dead but his partner Dame Viv is still with us. Dame Viv is interested in Saving the Planet and Poor People but Dame Viv is not the sharpest knife in the drawer so doesn't sound very convincing when she discusses such matters. 'Private Eye' have run a number of articles detailing Dame Viv's tax dodges and her exploitation of unpaid interns.
Malcolm and Dame Viv's son used to boast of being a pornographer, but latterly he's repackaged his activities as something more arty.
Sid, Nancy and Mary Millington might not be with us any more, but one person who knew much of what was going on around them before they died was Stuart Goddard aka Adam Ant. Adam Ant hasn't done as well out of it all as Dame Viv. In fact poor old Adam Ant developed serious mental health problems, was arrested and prosecuted and ended up in the hands of the Top Doctors in a secure unit. Adam found the whole process very distressing, alleged that false allegations had been made about him and tried to tell John Humphrys on the 'Today' programme about what had happened to him in the secure unit. When Adam began a sentence with 'no-one would believe what happens in those places, just let me tell you…', John Humphrys silenced him.
John – invite Adam/Stuart back on and let him tell us WHAT was going on. Those places do not 'help' people, they are run by Top Doctors who are complicit with serious crime and part of the rationale for banging people up in secure units is to ensure that people like you will dismiss anything that they say.
My suspicions that someone wanted to silence Stuart Goddard were reinforced when I read that a Top Doctor involved in Stuart's 'care' had obtained legal powers over him to stop him embarking on a tour or indeed even talking to the media. This was because Stuart didn't know his own mind and should he be allowed to mouth off to the media he would become so distressed that he would be at risk of suicide. Stuart Goddard has not appeared in the media since.
Now then, now then, guys and gals, let's just sort this out then, let your Uncle Jimmy who is friends with the Royals and Thatcher, corrupt police officers, corrupt lawyers, Top Doctors and God knows who else just fix it for everyone…
Stuart's friends were so horrified at what passed for NHS care that they got him into a private unit. That unit will still have been run by crooks, but the physical environment will have been more pleasant.
Mary Millington died young and in despair, but another colleague of David Sullivan's did very well out of her association with him – Baroness Karen Brady, Cameron's Ambassador for Small Businesses, role model to women everywhere, all round superstar and game show host who raises one eyebrow. Karen began her career with Saatchi & Saatchi and progressed to selling advertising in Sullivan's publications. Karen, being one who breaks glass ceilings, is known as the First Lady of Football.
In 2008, David Sullivan and Karen Brady were arrested by the City of London Police, interviewed and released on bail as part of an investigation into corruption in English football. Karen's male business partners were furious that Karen had been arrested – according to them it was sexism wot was behind it, the police couldn't bear to see a successful woman…
Karen is Patron of the Life After Stroke Awards and an Ambassador for Well Being for Women. She has also been Cosmopolitan's Woman of the Year, was named in the category of Woman Who Has Changed The World, was awarded Britain's Most Inspirational Women by the Breakthrough for Breast Cancer Inspiration Awards and has attended The Queen's lunch for Women Achievers and Business Leaders.
What would we do without you to show us the way Karen?
I'd love to know who wanted Mary Millington dead.
Karen is a Conservative and now that she is in the Lords she is thinking of a career in politics. She has already hobnobbed with George Osborne and Cameron.
Karen's buddy on the gameshow on which she raises one eyebrow is dear old Lord Alan Sugar. Lord Alan gave a great deal of money to the Labour Party and Gordon gave him a peerage. A few years later Lord Alan left the Labour Party. Alan is of course a business champion and an entrepreneur. I do not know whether, like Karen, Alan built his success on a porn business which killed the person who underpinned its success, but I do know that when Lord Sugar has tried to run real businesses, those businesses have gone tits up. What Lord Sugar is very good at is things like property speculation and various other methods of accumulating money which aren't actually predicated on running a business – and of course at blagging away in a Cockney accent, being filmed getting in and out of expensive cars and walking into shiny skyscrapers, telling people why he doesn't like them and pointing at people whilst saying 'you're fired'.
Why does the UK have so many more problems building a successful business culture than many other countries? Probably because we've encouraged a whole generation to view Karen Brady and Alan Sugar as 'role models'.
To return to the lady who took a donation from a pornographer to swell the Labour Party's coffers. After stepping down from the position of General Secretary following the 2001 General Election, Margaret McDonagh undertook a Harvard University business course and became General Manager of Express Newspapers, which I presume were still owned by Dirty Des.
Margaret is Chair of the Standard Life Charitable Trust. She has been a non-executive director of Standard Life, TBI plc and CareCapital Group plc.
CareCapital plc describes itself as 'an investor in and developer of healthcare property in the UK and Germany. It develops healthcare properties, and then lets them to tenants on long term leases providing a cost effective solution to practitioners that is uniquely tailored to their needs. In so doing it captures both the development profit and the long term revenue stream deriving from leasing what then becomes an investment property. CareCapital buys completed properties occasionally in circumstances where there are development opportunities but its main focus is development and then investment. The group's properties are primarily health centres let to GP practices, dental surgeries, and pharmacies. Most of these properties are intended for the broad NHS sector. In Germany the group has created multi-occupancy neighbourhood clinics providing a variety of care facilities. The group is also seeking opportunities to develop intermediate care facilities, such as community hospitals, within the primary care sector'.
Which sounds suspiciously like a con.
In 2004, McDonagh was given a peerage.
In 2013 McDonagh was appointed Chair of the Smart Meter Central Delivery Body, which then became Smart Energy GB, 'an independent organisation that aims to inform consumers about smart meters and their national rollout across Great Britain'.
No, I wouldn't buy a used car from Margaret either.
Margaret's sister is Siobhain McDonagh, MP for Mitcham and Morden – she and Margaret share a house together in Siobhain's constituency. If readers are marvelling at how filthy Margaret's hands are, just take in a few facts about Siobhain:
Siobhain (and Margaret) live in Colliers Wood, just down the road from the Sodom and Gomorrah which is St George's Hospital Medical School. St George's covers their patch. Siobhain has lived in the area for a long time and lived there whilst I worked at St George's, 1989-91 and witnessed their collusion with serious crime (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…' and 'A Galaxy Of Talent').
Siobhain was a clerical officer for the DHSS, 1981–83, a receptionist at the Wandworth Homeless Persons Unit, 1984–86 and a housing adviser from 1986–88. Prior to being elected to Parliament she worked as a Development Manager for Battersea Churches Housing Trust, 1988–97. She served as a councillor on the London Borough of Merton for Colliers Wood, 1982-98, chairing the Housing Committee, 1990-95.
Whilst Siobhan was working for Wandsworth, Wandsworth Social Services – in collaboration with St George's Academic Dept of Psychiatry and the associated mental health unit Springfield Hospital – were colluding with child abuse, the abuse of mental health patients and with serious drug offences (see posts 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…' and 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). St George's and Wandsworth Social Services were directly involved in concealing the wrongdoing of Dafydd and the paedophiles – although they knew that Dafydd was sexually exploiting patients. Wandsworth had direct contact with Lucille Hughes – Dafydd's mistress and Director of Gwynedd Social Services – who was facilitating the paedophile gang.
St George's and Wandsworth Social Services were not only concealing child abuse in north Wales. They were concealing an organised gang in south London as well, one member of which was their Professor of Paediatrics, Oliver Brooke (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'). Oliver was a big player in a pan-European paedophile ring and was imprisoned for the possession of child porn in 1986 – whilst Siobhain was sitting on the local Council. The Director of Education for Wandsworth, Donald Naismith, was also named as being an active participant in a paedophile gang (see post 'Another Episode Of Friends… ').
Siobhain will have definitely have known about all this. There were high profile police raids, arrests and convictions and as an insider, Siobhain will have known damn well that only a few of the guilty were prosecuted. Not only were many people left to conduct business as before, but St George's, Springfield and Wandsworth Council were heaving with their colleagues and mates who had covered up for everyone who hadn't been charged.
Siobhan's fellow Merton Councillor at the time, Theresa May, will have known as much as Siobhain about the cesspool.
I am a bit baffled by the McDonaghs living in Colliers Wood. Of course it may have changed since I lived nearby, but I remember Collier's Wood very well. Partly because there was a truly lovely, good-humoured GP who was based there, who I think must have been the only Top Doc in the area who gave a stuff about his patients. Then I ventured into Colliers Wood myself when I was looking for somewhere to live after responding to an advert and it really blew even my mind in terms of socio-economic disadvantage. Collier's Wood was not a place where St George's staff would ever choose to live. I spent about an hour chatting to the man who had advertised the 'shared house' – not because I had any intention of living there, but because I wanted to find out what was going on.
The man who placed the advert was a man who was probably in his late 20s. The house was a very run down – to the extent of having a number of missing windows – but sizeable house, but was virtually uninhabitable. The young man was entertaining a number of girls of about 12-14 yrs old there. The girls were charging around the house yelling and screaming and when the noise became too much, the young man would stick his head through the door and try and yell louder than them and tell them to shut up. It transpired that the girls had 'run away from home' and the young man explained to me that he 'looked after them'. Then there were the drugs being openly consumed…
I was gobsmacked by the scene, I had never encountered anything like it. I did my 'News Of The World' reporter bit and made my excuses and left. I presumed that the kindly GP whom I had encountered in my work at St George's was the only GP saintly enough to remain in Collier's Wood – there didn't seem to be any others and he worked in a one-doctor practice.
The next day I told my colleagues at St George's of the extraordinary arrangement that I had witnessed. None of them gave a stuff and cheerily told me that 'no-one' lived in Colliers Wood.
A friendly but odd adult man living in a half derelict house with a group of 12 year old runaway girls and feeding them recreational chemicals? Why on earth would the Top Docs at the 'leading London medical school' next door ever concern themselves with that? That's the leading medical school with it's world class Academic Dept of Psychiatry specialising in young people's problems.
Would you happen to remember the domestic set-up that I inadvertently stumbled upon Siobhain and Margaret?
Siobhain is now Patron of Leap Forward Employment – a community interest company that finds work for adults with mental health issues.
Should Jeremy Corbyn become PM, surely Siobhain will be a dead cert for the job as Secretary of State for Health.
After Margaret McDonagh accepted Dirty Des's dosh, the Labour Party tried to distance themselves and collectively indulged in I Know Nuzzing…. It was stressed by the next General Secretary that even Lord Levy didn't know that the Party had accepted filthy lucre from a porn baron. Lord Levy is best remembered for having been arrested as part of the Cash for Honours police investigation, so poor old Des must have felt rejected. Whom did Blair appoint as the next General Secretary in Sept 2001 in order to pick up the pieces of Labour's shattered reputation? A man called David Triesman.
David Triesman was educated at Stationers' Company School, London; the University of Essex – as was Siobhain McDonagh – and King's College, Cambridge.
Triesman worked as a Research Officer in Addiction at the Institute of Psychiatry, 1970-74. So Triesman worked at that farcical centre of 'expertise in addiction' that was based on laughable research and was run by people who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and many others. When Triesman worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, it was still part of the Maudsley. Dafydd's many protectors were working there (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent') and his mate Bob Hobson was still there as well, having not yet relocated to Manchester (see post 'The Mentor'). Tony Francis passed through the Institute of Psychiatry at some point during the early-mid 1970s and Triesman may well have been working there whilst Francis was. Triesman undoubtedly will have been very well-acquainted with Dafydd's network in south London.
Blair most definitely did not make these appointments of paedophiles' friends accidentally.
Triesman was then a Senior Lecturer at the Polytechnic of South Bank, 1975-84. It was during those years that some of those involved in the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal studied at the South Bank Poly. Triesman was Deputy General Secretary, National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education 1984-93; General Secretary, Association of University Teachers, 1993-2001.
By the time that Triesman was leading unions representing lecturers in FE and HE, not only were the problems that colleges and universities were having dealing with the abuse and horror of what their social work students were witnessing on placement well-known, but a number of lecturing staff were colluding with the abuse of clients by removing or bullying students who were raising concerns. Triesman was Gen Sec of the AUT whilst Blair launched his 'widening participation' policy without consulting any of the sociologists who knew about the subject and who could have told Blair how to implement it in a way which would have resulted in the policy working. Triesman will have known that the universities were buckling under the strain of a marketized mass HE system without the infrastructure needed and he will also have known of the sheer number of troubled students with quite serious mental health problems who had been coerced into 'going on a course' by mental health professionals who could then tick a box marked 'recovered, in education or employment'. That box remained ticked even if the students could not cope, developed even greater problems and then withdrew from their course feeling very bad about themselves. Meanwhile university lecturers struggled to support distressed students with personal difficulties and very little money, who had been completely abandoned by the statutory services.
I did part of my PhD on this subject and I witnessed the mess on the ground whilst Blair, Bill Rammell and other grinning wallies reassured the general public that 'Education, Education, Education' was an unmitigated success and that the nation's universities were full of shiny, happy students from disadvantaged backgrounds who were embarking upon careers as barristers or merchant bankers. Lord Adonis – one of the architects of Blair's HE policy – is now U turning like there is no tomorrow, as the results of Blair's badly thought out nonsense have come home to roost. Nonsense which was only ever designed to pull the wool over the eyes of the nation and disguise the lack of real opportunities for many young people and the gross failures of the welfare services.
Triesman was a member of the Communist Party before he joined Labour. He is a member of the Reform Club.
After the 1997 General Election Rhodri and Julie Morgan lunched with Chris Blackhurst of the Indie. Blackhurst moved on to become Editor of the Indie, 2011-13. Since 2013 Blackhurst has been Group Content Director of the four titles overseen by Evgeny Lebedev – so Blackhurst now works for the same man as George Osborne. Chris Blackhurst is a law graduate who studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. During the 1990s he worked for the 'Sunday Express', The Indie on Sunday and was also the Westminster correspondent for the Indie, which was probably how he ended up having lunch with Rhodri and Julie. So Chris Blackhurst will know the enormity of the crimes that Rhodri and Julie were concealing whilst he noshed with them. Blackhurst seems to be a Conservative and supports various initiatives that are close to the Tories hearts, such as grammar schools. But he still never published anything about all those paedophiles' friends whom Blair appointed to high office.
Rhodri states in his autobiography that the Parliamentary lobby correspondent Michael White of 'The Guardian' was 'more interested' in Wales than other journos. Michael White also wrote a regular column for Health Service Journal, 1977-17. White, when discussing media self-censorship in March 2011, said, 'I have always sensed liberal, middle class ill-ease in going after stories about immigration, legal or otherwise, about welfare fraud or the less attractive tribal habits of the working class, which is more easily ignored altogether…'
So Michael, what kept you from publishing the best scoop that 'The Guardian' would ever have had – a scoop which involved sex, prostitution, drugs and murder among the 'tribal' 'working classes' as part of the biggest welfare fraud that could be imagined? Or did you keep quiet because the beneficiaries of the welfare fraud were the affluent middle classes who were the readers of Health Service Journal?
There is a nice photo of Michael White on his wiki entry, of White 'Chairing a session for the Health Hotel in 2009'. My first response to the photo was 'what the hell is the Health Hotel?', my second was to notice that Michael White looks just like Elfed Roberts, the former Chairman of the NW Wales NHS Trust, who had me arrested for having pink hair and calling his car a penismobile (see post 'And Now – It's The Gallery…').
Another person who gets a mention in Rhodri's book is the paedophiles' friends' associate Rhodri Williams. Rhodri Williams is a former AM, who resigned from the Welsh Gov't after entering a pub smoking a fag, after the Welsh Gov't had outlawed smoking in such places. Rhodri's faux pas caused an impressive row and I always thought that the reaction to his lit cigarette was out of all proportion to the crime committed. The Senedd was choc full of people who had assisted a gang of paedophiles and the extermination of psychiatric patients yet WW III broke out over someone forgetting a newly passed bit of health and safety legislation. In the way that I have always wondered why the BBC hung Frank Bough and his beige cardigan out to dry over the parties with the call girls and coke, yet continued to embrace Jimmy Savile and his funny little ways, I have always wondered what the real reason was for Rhodri Williams being ousted.
Sadly I cannot draw any conclusions at the moment – virtually every reference to Rhodri Williams has disappeared from the internet, as have references to other people who have been at the centre of the shenanigans detailed on this blog. I can remember that Rhodri was a Plaid AM and that he was something in the Welsh Language Board whilst dear old Meri Huws was involved with that organisation. I seem to remember that he also had links to I think the Methodist Church. I do know that Rhodri is at present Director of Ofcom in Wales…
There is however another Rhodri Williams who is advertising his services online who is of as much interest to me as the people mentioned in Rhodri's Morgan's autobiography. That is Rhodri Williams QC of Henderson Chambers, Temple, London.
Rhodri Williams QC specialises in European Union law and local government and administrative law. He is recommended in the areas of local government law (Chambers & Partners), public procurement (Chambers UK) and public and administrative law (Legal 500).
Rhodri specialises in the law of the internal market as it affects the public sector, and, in particular, the EU public procurement regime, but also deals with a wide range of local government issues, including judicial review of post office closures, school re-organisation plans and school transport decisions. He deals with cases involving both local and regional government, including advising the Welsh Assembly Government and other Government Departments and local authorities, in England, Wales and in Northern Ireland. In 2000, he was appointed to the Attorney General's list of approved Counsel and to the list of the Counsel General to the National Assembly for Wales and has represented the United Kingdom Government on several occasions before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxemburg. He was called to the Bar in Northern Ireland in 2009.
So Mr Williams, on what tricky matters have you been advising the Welsh Gov't? Anything related to the legacy of a vicious paedophile ring which has left huge swathes of the Assembly and Wales's public sector compromised and in a permanent state of terror that a survivor of the carnage in north Wales might one day pop up with the evidence of the serious crime which Sir Ronnie Waterhouse and Lady Justice Julia Macur maintained did not exist?
For God's sake, just get into your thick skulls that there are so many skeletons in so many cupboards after decades of Dafydd and Lucille, that you were never going to be able to keep it quiet for ever.
Now begin the excavations at the North Wales Hospital and fess up.
The WLGA (Welsh Local Gov't Association) is an organisation whose members robustly asserted for years that there was no serious problem with organised child abuse either in north Wales or elsewhere (see post 'The Reality Is, There Is No Problem'). The signature of a leading light of the WLGA can be seen on every lame strategy document which has heralded a plan to 'turn the services around' – following yet another disaster resulting in a high profile scandal – alongside the signatures of other leading paedophiles' friends.
Rhodri Morgan's autobiography informs us that the WLGA caused considerable problems for the Welsh Gov't – even the Gov't led by the paedophiles' friend which was Rhodri – because the WLGA took the view that they were the real Gov't of Wales and instructed the Welsh Gov't. Tom Middlehurst was Chairman of the WLGA, 1997-99 – whilst the Waterhouse Inquiry took evidence.
Middlehurst was leader of Flintshire County Council, 1995-99. Flintshire County Council was been created after Clwyd County Council had been dissolved to ensure that no-one could sue in the aftermath of the Jillings Report (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…'). Tom had worked for Clwyd County Council since 1971. Flintshire County Council had as many of Dafydd's mates sitting on it as did Gwynedd County Council – Dafydd's mates on Gwynedd County Council supported Plaid, whilst the paedophiles' friends of Flintshire County Council supported Labour. All of them had kept quiet whilst Dafydd supplied children to Thatcher's Ministers – and others – for sex.
Tom Middlehurst was the saviour of the paedophiles' folly which was Theatre Clwyd (see post 'Workers Play Time') and became the Labour AM for Alyn and Deeside (see post '1999-03').
In a nice bit of recycling, John Jevons, who had presided over the horrors in Clwyd as Director of Social Services (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…' and 'Ain't Nothing Clean – Not Even The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists'), was welcomed with open arms by Julie Morgan, Sue Essex et al on Cardiff City Council as Director of Social Services for Cardiff after the shit bomb exploded in Clwyd in the summer of 1996. Upon John Jevons's arrival in Cardiff, a major police investigation was launched into sexual abuse at the by then closed Taff Vale children's home (see post 'The Banality Of Evil').
Richard Card, a regular correspondent to this blog, recently reminded me to take an interest in the University of Buckingham. Richard has knowledge of some very questionable researchers and theorists associated with the University of Buckingham who I am currently following up.
Max Beloff played a key role in the founding of the University of Buckingham. Max Beloff gave a glowing endorsement to a book written by Ioan Bowen Rees, who was considered to be one of Europe's leading authorities on local gov't. Which is staggering really, because Ioan Bowen Rees was the Chief Executive of Gwynedd County Council for years and before that was County Secretary – whilst Dafydd and Lucille Hughes (Ioan's Director of Social Services) ran a paedophile ring via the children's homes in Gwynedd. Prior to running Gwynedd, Ioan was County Secretary for Dyfed County Council – whilst a paedophile operated on his territory. Ioan undoubtedly knew something about the organised abuse and trafficking of children in care. Furthermore, Ioan knew how terrible the 'services' provided by his Council were – because he used to live in the same village as me and could hardly have missed some of the near destitute people in the village who were being grossly neglected by Ioan's Social Services (see post 'I Know Nuzzing…').
Max's son Michael Beloff QC reared his head in 1996, after the compilation of the Jillings Report, following a major investigation into the abuse of children in care in Clwyd. No-one ever read the Jillings Report in full apart from the Council's insurers and legal advisors. The Report was heavily redacted anyway and on the orders of the insurers was then pulped. The legal advisor for Clwyd's insurers, Municipal Mutual, had advised Clwyd that if the Jillings Report was made available, Municipal Mutual would withdraw the Council's cover and the Councillors would be personally liable for damages (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…'). That legal advisor was Michael Beloff QC.
Michael's dad Max Beloff was an historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979, Beloff was Principal of the University College of Buckingham – now the University of Buckingham.
Beloff was born in Islington, was educated at St Paul's School and then went to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1957 Beloff was appointed Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Oxford.
Beloff was a member of the Liberal Party until 1972 but joined the Conservative Party in 1979 after being attracted by the style of conservatism promoted by Margaret Thatcher and Keith Joseph.
In 1974 Beloff gave up his Oxford Chair in favour of the position of Principal at the new University College at Buckingham, with the founding of which he had been closely concerned.
His dedication to his work in the Lords continued right to the end, even though in the past few years it must have been a great strain for him to come up to London from Brighton every week, to spend two or three nights at the Reform Club.
Max Beloff died in 1999, just before the Waterhouse Report was published.
Ioan Bowen Rees, the author of the book which had received such high praise from Max and Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council, also died in 1999, in May. So anyone who might have been worrying that Ioan might drop a few people in it when Waterhouse blamed everything on the cave-dwellers of north Wales could rest easy once more.
Max was not the only high achiever in his family. His siblings – Michael's aunts and uncles – all ended up in very influential positions as well.
Max's sister Norah Beloff was a journalist and political writer who worked for 'The Observer', 1948-78. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1940, Beloff worked for the British Foreign Office's political intelligence department. She moved to Paris in 1944 to work for the British Embassy, staying in Paris after WW II to work for Reuters. Beloff worked for 'The Economist', 1946–48 and then 'The Observer' as a Paris-based correspondent. She left Paris to cover the Cold War for 'The Observer' from Washington, D.C. 1949–51 and Moscow.
In 1964 Norah Beloff returned to London following her appointment as a political correspondent for 'The Observer'. In this role, she often wrote critical pieces about the Labour Party and Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson unsuccessfully petitioned 'The Observer' to dismiss her. Beloff remained in post until 1976 and then worked as a special correspondent. Beloff left 'The Observer' in 1978 because of disagreements with its new editor, Donald Trelford.
Norah Beloff travelled extensively across Europe in her later career and was arrested in Georgia and expelled from Yugoslavia. She was lampooned in 'Private Eye' and fought two legal actions against the magazine; she won libel damages of £3,000 but lost a breach of copyright action.
Norah Beloff's 1997 Independent obituary mentioned that Beloff was supported by David Astor, the owner and editor of 'The Observer' because she exposed the extreme left of the Labour Party. 'The Observer' was perceived as a left leaning newspaper but supported Ted Heath in his battle against the unions. David Astor had a reputation as a liberal man and a supporter of worthy causes, but accounts of his conduct during the Profumo Affair – which involved his immediate family – suggest that David Astor was capable of some dreadful things if reputations needed to be preserved (see post 'In Memoriam – Bronwen, Lady Astor').
Norah Beloff's obituary observed that she was 'at heart a Conservative'.
In 1977 when she was in her late 50s, Norah Beloff married Clifford Makins, the sports Editor of 'The Observer'. It was noted that Norah was remembered as a 'marvellous aunt' who 'kept various branches of family together'.
Michael Beloff having a close relationship with his aunt with excellent media connections could be yet another reason why the media showed so little interest in the bizarre and macabre happenings in north Wales.
My post 'Two Dangerous Very Dishonest Nurses' details the aggression, misconduct, lies and danger to patients posed by Stephen Gallagher, a senior nurse at Ysbyty Gwynedd. After witness accounts once more demonstrated the danger that Gallagher and two of his colleagues represented to the general public, an extraordinary story featuring Stephen Gallagher found its way into literally the world's media, not just the 'Daily Post'. The story portrayed Gallagher as a life-saving war hero regarding his service with the TA in Afghanistan. It was substantially inaccurate, breached confidence and placed people in danger.
I was used to reading nonsense about the heroes employed in the local NHS in the provincial press, but I was a little surprised that the fairy tale about Gallagher when he was in deep doo doo found its way across the globe. Of course, if someone with links to the paedophiles' friends in north Wales had an aunt who had been a very well known journalist on an international level, that could provide an explanation.
It might also explain why there was so little media coverage of the numerous serious NHS 'adverse incidents' in north Wales, not even during the pre-election debates which provide such wonderful opportunities for journalists, as pioneered by the Jennifer's Ear story in 1992. North Wales can beat Jennifer's Ear hands down. There was the old lady who haemorrhaged to death in a hospital bed in Yysby Gwynedd whilst two Top Doctors refused to treat her because they hated each other so much that they wouldn't speak to each other; the three patients who had participated in a clinical trial at Ysbyty Gwynedd who were taken very seriously ill and then one of them died; there was the patient in A&E in Wrexham Maelor who died whilst waiting to be seen and when his corpse fell onto the floor, the security man on duty picked it up and put it back onto the chair. It was another 20 mins before someone had the heart to tell him that the patient was dead. The response of the security man was to rage at the patients for not helping the man who died. Where the A&E staff were, no-one managed to explain.
No-one gave those stories to Reuters.
Another of Max's siblings was John Beloff, who served in the British Army in WWII. He worked in an architect's office, then studied at London University, graduating in 1952. After a year at the University of Illinois he did a doctorate at Queen's University Belfast, finishing in 1956. He started work at Edinburgh University in 1962 and stayed there until his retirement. Beloff had been interested in parapsychology from an early age and served as president of the Society for Psychical Research, 1974-76. He was an executor of Arthur Koestler's will in 1983 and was instrumental in setting up the first UK Chair of parapsychology, the Koestler Parasychology Unit at Edinburgh in 1985.
A number of universities rejected the offer of the funding from Koestler's will to establish a Chair. By the time that Koestler had died, there had been a number of accounts of his sexual violence towards women – Kostler had violently raped Jill Craigie, Michael Foot's wife, when she was young – and there was also concern that Koestler had coerced his wife Cynthia into committing suicide with him. Cynthia was much younger than Koestler and was in good health, but was completely dominated by him. For further details of Arthur Koestler, see post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks'.
Max's sister Renee Soskin went to the Royal College of Music and trained for the stage. She married Moses G. Soskin and worked as a speech and drama teacher and as a teacher of drama at the Royal Academy of Music. Renee was MD of a City of London finance house and became a Director of two companies. In 1970 she became the new proprietor of Bury Lawn Independent Day School, a coeducational school in Milton Keynes. The school is now called the Webber Independent School.
Renee was a County of London Magistrate and was Chairman of the Hampstead Liberal Association for four years. In 1958 she was first elected a Member of the Liberal Party Council. Renee was Liberal candidate for the Bedfordshire South division at the 1959 General Election. During the 1959 General Election campaign she featured in a televised Liberal Party Election Broadcast. In 1961 Renee was elected Vice-President of the Women's Liberal Federation, serving until 1963 and in 1964 was Vice-Chairman of the Women's Liberal Federation. She was Liberal candidate for the Hampstead division at the 1964 General Election and Liberal candidate again for Hampstead at the 1966 General Election.
Being active in the Liberal Party in the 1960s, Renee almost certainly knew about the activities of Jeremy Thorpe. She probably knew about the activities of a few other people as well, Hampstead was stuffed to the rafters with affluent politicians, Top Docs, analysts, writers and celebs who were all colluding with a great deal of wrongdoing in high places.
Another one of Max's siblings was Anne Beloff-Chain, a British biochemist. Anne graduated from University College London in 1942 and then completed a PhD with at Oxford University. She worked at Harvard Medical School, 1946-48. In 1948 Anne married Ernst Boris Chain, another biochemist who had won a Nobel Prize in 1945. She worked at Imperial College, London, 1964–86 and the University of Buckingham, 1986–1991.
In 1964, Beloff-Chain and her husband were recruited by Imperial. She was given a Chair at Imperial in 1983, but left for the University of Buckingham, along with her research team, in 1985. A £250,000 new laboratory was built and in 1986 she was given a Chair at Buckingham.
At Buckingham, Beloff-Chain received funding from the Clore Foundation to establish and head the Department of Biochemistry, where she worked until her death in Dec 1991 at Camden Town.
Sir Ernst Chain was a lifelong friend of Prof Albert Neuberger, who was the father of Lord David Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, 2012-17.
All three of David Neuberger's brothers are or were Professors: James Neuberger, Professor of Medicine at the Birmingham University; Michael Neuberger, Professor of Molecular Immunology at Cambridge University; Anthony Neuberger, Professor in Finance at Warwick Business School.
David Neuberger was educated at Westminster School and studied at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduation, Neuberger worked at the N.M. Rothschild & Sons, 1970-73. Neuberger then trained as a barrister in 1974 and became a QC in 1987. He was a Recorder, 1990-96. Neuberger was then appointed a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division.
In 2001, David Neuberger was made Supervisory Chancery Judge of Midland, Wales and Chester and of the Western Circuits. He held the post until 12 Jan 2004, when he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal and a Privy Councillor.
So David Neuberger was Supervisory Chancery Judge whilst I was being framed and was experiencing the excesses of Judge Huw Daniel, 2002-04, (see post 'Interesting Happenings In The Legal System').
Since 2005, Neuberger has been Co-chair (with Richard Susskind) of ITAC (Lord Chancellor's Information Technology and Courts Committee).
On 11 Jan 2007, David Neuberger succeeded Lord Nicholls as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was given a peerage in 2007.
In Oct 2009 Neuberger became Master of the Rolls.
Between 2006-07, Neuberger led an investigation for the Bar Council into widening access to the Bar. He also served on the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions, led by paedophiles' friend, former Health Secretary Alan Milburn (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part IV'), which reported in July 2009. Other Panel members included Trevor Phillips, head of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights (see post 'Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals'), Michael Grade, then the Chairman of ITV – a toady to the brother of Home Secretary Leon Brittan, who concealed the organised abuse of children and a great deal of other crime as well – and Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal.
David Neuberger became President of the Supreme Court in Oct 2012 – he retired in 2017.
David Neuberger's sister-in-law is Rabbi Julia Neuberger. Julia has a CV which in terms of being a Top Doctors' and paedophiles' friend would be difficult to beat.
Julia Neuberger was Chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, 1992-97, the site of much carnage and wilful denial of the carnage. The Islington paedophile ring was still very much in business when Julia Chaired that NHS Trust.
From 1997-2004, Julia occupied one of the favourite posts of the apologists for the excesses of the Top Doctors, Chief Executive of the King's Fund.
Julia's volumes 'The Moral State We're In' was published in 2005 and is a study of morality and public policy in modern Britain. As someone who Chaired the NHS Trust which not only covered the site of the Islington Child Abuse Scandal but which also had the honour of presiding over the area with the highest suicide rate among women in England and Wales, Julia will know a great deal about 'morality and public policy', but I'm not convinced that she has published all that she knows on this matter. Whilst Camden boasted the highest suicide rate for women in England and Wales, second prize was awarded to north west Wales.
Perhaps in her capacity as an expert on morality and public policy, Julia might like to suggest why so many women in Camden and Gwynedd were and probably still are killing themselves. Julia knew that Top Doctor who had personal connections to some of those responsible for the slaughter in north Wales, Dr Death. Julia was such a fan of Dr Death that she stood as the SDP candidate for Tooting in 1983. St George's Hospital Medical School is located in Tooting and David Hole, the corrupt MSF rep who concealed much wrongdoing at St George's and used his knowledge for his own advantage, was active in the SDP.
Like Margaret Hodge who was leader of Islington Council whilst the Council's children's homes had been infiltrated by paedophiles (see post 'The London Connection'), Julia is both a Dame and a Baroness.
Julia served as a Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson from 2004-07. In June 2007, Baroness Julia was appointed by the incoming PM Gordon Brown as the Gov't champion of volunteering. She resigned from the Liberal Democrats upon becoming Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue.
In Jan 2013, Julia Neuberger was appointed Chair of an Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway, which after being misunderstood and misused, had resulted in scandal after a number of terminally ill patients had been dosed up and denied water to hasten them on their way. The impartiality of Neuberger's appointment was questioned by some of the bereaved families, because of her previous endorsement of the Liverpool Care Pathway and her support of the Marie Curie Institute – it was John Ellershaw, the Medical Director of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool, who developed the LCP. Ellershaw's Institute is a partnership between Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool and the University of Liverpool, with a satellite unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals.
Prof John Ellershaw has a CV which suggests that he too is an associate of Dafydd and the paedophiles. Ellershaw graduated from the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff in 1984; completed an MA (Wales) 1992; was appointed as the Clinical Director of Palliative Care at Royal Liverpool University Hospital in 1994.
The horrors of the LCP were such that even Top Doctors were involved in the campaign to bring it to an end. I am not suggesting that John Ellershaw ever intended the LCP to be used to wipe out elderly or terminally ill people, but Top Docs themselves alleged that this was happening. Professor Mark Glaser – who was Mo Mowlam's Top Doc – stated that the LCP 'was the most corrupt practice in British medicine' (I'm sorry to tell Prof Glaser that I can think of a few more practices which are as equally corrupt).
Dr Richard Lamerton, a retired Top Doctor who was a pioneer of the Hospice Movement, was a friend of Ellershaw's and a supporter of the LCP until he saw how it was being used. Richard Homerton observed that 'To use our knowledge and methods to kill off patients because the doctor doesn't know how to care for them properly or because the hospital administrator wants the bed cleared is inexcusable. And criminal. I can't help being reminded that Hitler called these patients 'useless eaters'.
Perhaps Dr Homerton's comment could be emblazoned above the entrance of every psych unit in the UK.
In 2013 the results of Neurberger's Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway was submitted to Gov't. The Gov't advised the NHS to no longer use the LCP.
Neurberger was Vice-President of Attend, a charity which 'supports and expands the roles that volunteers play in creating healthy communities', 2006-11.
Neuberger was appointed to the board of Irish health insurers Vhi Healthcare for a five-year period from 2005 by Mary Harney, the Tanaiste and Minister for Health and Children.
Recent posts have described in detail some of the serious wrongdoing in the mental health services in north Wales – the abuse and mistreatment of patients by some truly dreadful doctors, the refusal to investigate serious complaints, the forging of documents to conceal wrongdoing or negligence and the framing for criminal offences of patients who had complained or witnessed wrongdoing.
There were two other Angels employed at Ysbyty Gwynedd who knew that this was how business was conducted whom I have not yet mentioned. They worked on the psychiatric wards in Ysbyty Gwynedd in 1991-93 before the Hergest Unit was built – whilst the mental health services were subjected to a damning report.
One of these Angels was called Sharon. I can't remember her surname but she wasn't local, she was from Manchester. Sharon pioneered something which later became a distinguishing feature of the mental health services – that of the staff ministering to each other in the face of serious patient neglect. This reached its zenith with the abusive Arfon Community Mental Health Team, many of whose members took days off at a time to practice Mindfulness – whilst their patch had one of the highest suicide rates among patients in the UK.
Sharon wasn't just your usual common or garden Angel, Sharon had an added extra – she had trained as a hypnotherapist. A lot of Angels these days have trained in complementary therapies and many of them offer to use these techniques with their patients for very genuine reasons and indeed many patients really appreciate it. However Sharon didn't offer hypnotherapy to patients, Sharon offered it to the other Angels.
Sharon was in great demand as a hypnotherapist for Angels for one main reason – the Angels were nearly all very heavy smokers and were constantly trying to Give Up. Of course if Sharon wished to help her workmates in this, that in itself would not have been a problem. But Sharon was conducting business on the wards, during work hours. Sharon, as the nurse on duty, would sit in the corner of the ward and be visited by various Angels who would have their consultation and hypnotherapy. Whilst patients were ignored. Not just for five minutes, or now and then, but as a matter of routine. Sharon ignored all patients at all times no matter how distressed they were.
It was on Sharon's ward that I witnessed a man – whom I think was one of Dafydd's drug patients – walk up to a teenaged girl who was acutely ill and had been sectioned and punch her in the face with no provocation. She cried for hours afterwards and one of the better male nurses went and sat by her to keep her company. The assault wan't reported to the police and the girl's parents were not told what had happened either. The man who had hit her was not transferred anywhere else, he remained on the ward and continued to intimidate other patients, although I didn't see him actually punch anyone else again.
Whilst Sharon worked on that ward, a number of patients were detained illegally and Dafydd tried to persuade a teenage boy to have sex change surgery because the boy was gay. Another young female patient was pregnant by a junior gynaecologist who had arranged for her to have a termination that she did not want but was being coerced into – one of his mates who was also a junior gynaecologist then made her pregnant again and once more she was coerced into an abortion. All the staff knew about this and only one nurse spent time with the young woman to tell her that she did not have to have terminations if she did not want them. I got to know this young woman well and she was literally being passed around the junior doctors. After the second termination, Tony Francis discharged her on the grounds that she was not 'really' ill. She continued to experience serious problems and her GP referred her back again. The next excuse was that because she was a student who had graduated she was no longer a resident of Bangor and was therefore not entitled to use the local services. I was shown the letters that this young woman had been sent by Francis. One letter recommended that she should return to live with her father in England and seek help there.
This young woman's father had severe chronic mental health problems himself and Francis knew about that. She had a mother who lived apart from her father, because her parents were divorced. Where did her mum live? Anglesey. So much for being 'out of area'.
Someone else knew about this young woman as well – Tony Francis's wife, Dr Sadie Francis. Because for three weeks or so, the young woman was bounced back and forth between Tony and Sadie Francis, as both of them found excuses not to treat her.
Last year I received an e mail from someone who had lived in Bangor in the early 1990s who told me that gay doctors from Ysbyty Gwynedd were paying local teenaged boys in care for sex.
Another patient on the ward on which Sharon worked was a teenaged boy from Holyhead who was about 14. He was on a ward with adult patients with whom he had nothing in common, he was very isolated and was in Ysbyty Gwynedd for a very long time. This boy told me that Sadie Francis had kept him on a section for 6 months. The Angels were very hostile and aggressive towards him on the grounds that he had a criminal record – he had been done for theft and burglary. He was also in the care of Gwynedd County Council.
Another patient on this ward had been sectioned after 'causing a lot of trouble' with his neighbour. This man was furious when he arrived on the ward and was explaining to people quite clearly that he did not understand why he had been taken there by the police. It later transpired that he was a really nice friendly person. Furthermore he was definitely not mentally ill and should never have been sectioned. How did I know? Because I overheard a conversation between two Angels who were discussing how they were going to explain why a perfectly sane man had been arrested and sectioned on the say-so of his neighbour. The solution to the problem was to give him some benign medication – valium – for a couple of days and then tell him that he was 'better' and could go. That was what was done – he was a chatty friendly man but not well educated, so didn't realise that he had been given a near-placebo.
No doubt some medical notes had to be forged to explain it all away.
Some of the horrors described in earlier posts re the psych wards at Ysbyty Gwynedd (see posts 'Another Case Of Not Knowing?' and 'Hospital Hoppers And People Who Are Not Really Ill') detail incidents that took place on the watch of Sharon the Hypnotherapist.
Another Angel who worked on the same ward as Sharon was called Pam. Pam didn't ignore the patients in the way that Sharon did, but Pam seemed to be frequently left alone to run the ward single-handedly and would be very obviously rushed off her feet. I didn't ever see another Angel so much as speak to Pam. The only member of staff whom I ever saw even acknowledge her was Tony Francis. He arrived on the ward one day, when as usual Pam was working her arse off and there was no-one else to be seen and Francis just said 'all on your own again?' and walked off.
I am wondering if Pam had been targeted by the paedophiles' friends for not toeing the party line. Just before I was admitted to Pam and Sharon's ward – Seiriol Ward – Pam told me that she had been 'stabbed by a patient'. I was horrified but then Pam explained that she hadn't been stabbed with a knife, she had been stabbed by a female patient with a pair of scissors. Pam did not need hospital treatment and was not injured. She had been asked by her senior colleagues to press charges against the patient, but had refused. Whilst telling me about it, Pam mysteriously said 'I wish I had prosecuted her now', but didn't explain why. I asked Pam what had happened to the patient who had stabbed her and Pam told me that she had been sent to Bryn Golau Ward in the North Wales Hospital. Bryn Golau was Dafydd's prison for the victims of the paedophiles.
I can only imagine what the truth behind that stabbing of an Angel was and the crap that was being flung at Pam for refusing to perjure herself and frame a patient.
Pam left Ysbyty Gwynedd before the Hergest Unit opened, as did Sharon.
There was one Angel who worked on the neighbouring Dwynwen Ward – who really was very good, a Scottish nurse who lived near me in Llanllechid. She left Ysbyty Gwynedd as well – to work abroad. Before she left north Wales I heard that she had been subjected to a campaign of harassment at home and had been so worried that she had called the police in. I was told that the Bethesda police had stressed to her that she was not being targeted because she wasn't Welsh.
No, like most of the aggro in north Wales, it will have been the paedophiles' friends at work, bugger all to do with 'Welsh extremists'.
It was at this time that Heidi Humphreys, one of the nurses on Seiriol Ward, was killed in a car crash on her way home to Pwllheli one evening (see post 'The Sad Story Of The Heidi Humphreys Unit').
Whilst I was on the ward staffed by Sharon the Hypnotherapist and many others who generally ignored the patients and chatted among themselves I heard a number of interesting things. A common theme was the terrible way in which staff were treated by the Top Docs, particularly by Tony Francis. Patients and staff claimed to have witnessed Francis losing his temper and going absolutely beserk, swearing at them and chucking furniture around. A group of the oppressed entertained each other with the story of a very meek and polite overseas junior doctor whom they alleged had been terrorised by Francis for months. The doctor had arrived at Ysbyty Gwynedd as an SHO and had been promoted. One day Francis was witnessed shouting and swearing at everyone and yelled out 'where's that fucking SHO?', to which a polite meek voice behind him replied 'I have been a registrar for three months now…'
How much more did I witness then paedophiles' friends?? You had no idea that I was gathering the evidence did you…You'll just have to keep following the blog…
Whilst searching for something else recently I came across the 1994 New Year Honours list. There were a number of honours given to people who were closely associated with those we known and love.
A Phyllis Ford who was a fundraiser for the St David's Hospice Appeal Fund was honoured. St David's Hospice is in Llandudno and for years has been run by the paedophiles' friends (see post 'The CEOs Of St David's Hospice'). Phyllis appeared on the episode of 'This Is Your Life' when the subject of the programme was Ken Dodd and revealed that Ken Dodd had raised a great deal of money for St David's Hospice and that Ken's target was to raise £2 million for them. Ken got a round of applause. The audience will have had no idea that St David's Hospice is run by the paedophiles' friends of north Wales. I did suspect that Ken Dodd might have had a link to the paedophiles' friends when I was researching for my post 'My Arse – It's Tatifilarious'. Now it has been confirmed. Which makes the banging up in a secure hospital of Ruth Tagg, Ken's alleged 'stalker', even more worrying than I thought it was.
The paedophiles' friends of St David's Hospice are certainly well connected. A comment after one of my previous posts mentioned how Paul Merton, Marcus Brigstocke and Phil Jupitus all rolled up in north Wales to put on a fundraising comedy gig to raise money for St David's Hospice when the appalling Alun Davies was the CEO, but I didn't mention that Ken Roache aka Ken Barlow of Coronation Street fame was the Patron of St David's Hospice whilst Davies was CEO.
So how did a thick, corrupt, document forging, lying git like Alun Davies (see post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels') gain access to so many high profile celebs?
One of the guests on Ken Dodd's 'This Is Your Life' was Jimmy Tarbuck. When Tarby was the subject of 'This Is Your Life', his bessie mates Cilla Black and her husband and manager Bobby Willis appeared. Cilla was a personal friend of Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain who was my head of dept when I worked at St George's. Chamberlain knew about the paedophile ring operating in south London of which his colleague Professor Oliver Brooke was a member and he knew about Dafydd and the paedophiles. Two years after I left St George's, Chamberlain was involved in a major research fraud but unlike his colleague Malcolm Pearce, Chamberlain wasn't struck off although Chamberlain's name was on the research paper (see post 'I Don't Believe It!'). When Chamberlain retired from St George's, he took up a post lecturing at Swansea University.
After Bobby Willis died, Cilla became a very big mate of Paul O'Grady aka Lily Savage. Cilla went on holiday with Paul O'Grady, as she did with Tarby. Paul O'Grady's autobiography mentions that he was a social worker in Lambeth before he became famous and among other things, he failed to report the death of a client and squatted in her flat and left other vulnerable clients alone at night when he was on duty whilst he got pissed and had knees-ups with rent boys at local gay clubs.
One of Tarby's mates was Cliff Richard. Who, like Tarby, was accused of historic sex offences.
Someone who was investigated for historic sex offences as part of Operation Yewtree and who professed his innocence and subsequently wrote a book about it, 'Under The Yewtree', was Paul Gambaccini. I read Gambaccini's book and like Gambaccini's radio broadcasts it was utter drivel. There was nothing at all about the investigation in there, it wasn't even an account of My Hell. It was literally a list of all the celebs and posh restaurants that Gambaccini had hung out with or in whilst he was under investigation, accompanied by commentary about his many talents and achievements. Such as knowing what Number 6 was in the Billboard chart in 1967, having learned such useful info by rote.
Gambaccini's book was so vain and vacuous that I read bits of it out to one of my friends. One memorable sentence in the book was 'she might not know it, but Joan Collins has been in the same room as me on at least two occasions'. We had a good laugh at Gambaccini's name-dropping and I didn't think any more about it until I researched for my post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'. It was only then that I found out that Prof Linford Rees, the lecherous old Top Doctor who protected Dafydd et al for decades, was the father-in-law of Christopher Cazenove – who starred in 'Dynasty' and was a good friend of Joan Collins….
I have not found any links at all between Cliff and Dafydd and the paedophiles. I watched a clip of Cliff on TV explaining that he had forgiven the person who had accused him and goodness me for all Cliff knew the person might need psychiatric treatment. I think that you'll find Cliff that the 'psychiatric treatment' came first – it was how so many vulnerable young people from north Wales ended up being coerced into having sex with so many not very attractive but rich people.
I am currently doing a bit of research on many of the celebs who squealed furiously when the police pointed the finger at them not so long ago. So far I've found out that all of them had a link with associates of Dafydd. Might the police have noticed that as well?
The appearance of so many people on past episodes of 'This Is Your Life' who might have been in the same room as mates of Dafydd brought to my mind the unlikely subject of a 'This Is Your Life' episode in the mid-late 1990s. I was amazed, because someone I knew appeared on there. It was someone who had taught me when I was an undergrad at Bangor – a man called Tony Jones.
I could not fathom why or indeed how on earth Tony Jones turned up on 'This Is Your Life'. He was an earth scientist, not someone who performed at the London Palladium and no-one who was not an earth scientist, a climber or associated with Bangor University would ever have known who he was. Tony Jones was also a very controversial man because he was nakedly racist and was not above referring to 'niggers' in the presence of black students. He had grown up in apartheid South Africa and was proud of it. I watched the programme because I wanted to see whether Tony Jones could actually restrain himself in front of Aspel and the cameras for 30 mins without causing a major diplomatic incident. Tony Jones managed not to hurl racist insults, but one could see that Aspel felt a little out of his depth.
I always got on OK with Tony Jones, but a lot of people did not. He was the warden of one of the male halls and whereas some of the students maintained that he was great and really liked having him around, others hated him. I know of at least one perfectly nice student who was subjected to a hate campaign by Tony Jones and just ended up moving out of hall despite having paid his fees because there was no way of resolving the situation.
The most worrying Tony Jones anecdote that I ever heard was from another student who maintained that Tony Jones was friends with a number of corrupt police officers and that after falling out with a student, for a laugh Tony Jones had got his corrupt mates to arrest the student and keep him in the cells in Bangor Police Station overnight. The cells in Bangor Police Station were a place where anything could and did happen, particularly as Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends ruled the roost there.
Tony Jones was the subject of a certain amount of speculation because he was constantly surrounded by a clique of young men who pursued rather butch activities with him and he very obviously couldn't cope with women who were not sporty/robust. In about 1998 I was friendly with one of the cleaners in the hall of residence who used to clean Tony Jones's flat. One day she remarked 'he's a bit weird – he likes boys doesn't he'. I wasn't quite sure how to interpret this, but nothing more overt was said so I didn't pursue the matter.
In about 2004 Tony Jones clashed big time with longstanding paedophiles' friend Fran Tate and she tried to force him out of his job as warden. I was completely on Tony Jones's side with regard to that particular battle because Fran Tate had already come gunning for me and had gone after a few other people as well. Fran Tate was responsible for the shambles that was 'disability support' in the Students Union (see post 'Disability Support'). Fran mercifully retired and has now made her allegiances clear by joining Lucille Hughes in the management tier of the CAB.
Tony Jones died a few months ago, so he is not able to tell us why he was constructed as a luvvie at about the time that the Waterhouse Inquiry was launched.
Another person who joined Phyllis Ford in bagging a gong in the 1994 New Years Honours list was Dr John Edward Arthur Kenrick, the Chairman of Gwynedd Family Health Services Authority – someone else who has disappeared without trace. However I have found out that the Kenricks are a Welsh family who are descendants of Hywel Dda, the Prince of South Wales. Although some Kenricks lived in other regions of Wales and occasionally married people from England, the family were from Denbighshire. A lot of them were Top Doctors or Ministers of religion. At least one was a Magistrate in Denbigh and another Kenrick lived just down the road from Wrexham, near Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn. It'll be the old story – Dr John Kenrick's family will have been involved with the abuse and criminality even if he wasn't and they'll have been clinging together like limpets lest the whole lot of them and the reputations of their noble ancestors sink together.
In 1988 when I first began to uncover the seriousness of Dafydd's wrongdoing and I realised that no-one would grass him up although they all loathed him, one of my friends who I'd been at Bangor University with observed that it will be a case of Dafydd saying 'if I go down I'll take the rest of you down with me'. At the time I just thought that Dafydd was shagging the female patients and breaking the law in his attempts to silence them. I didn't realise that he was the key player in a paedophile ring supplying kids to Westminster paedophiles and which had links to Europe.
So there'll be a lot more people going down with Dafydd than just a few Top Docs and social workers in north Wales.
Jean Evans of the Kidney Patients Association of North Wales was awarded an MBE in the 2004 New Years Honours. The Kidney Patient's Association of North Wales evolved from the Kidney Wales organisations that were founded by Professor Sir William Asscher, a paedophiles' friend who served Cardiff loyally for years and then relocated to St George's Hospital Medical School, became Dean and then Principal and continued colluding with paedophiles' friends and serious crime at an even higher level (see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends Of Cardiff North'). Jean is still loyally serving the paedophiles' friends, she is Chairperson of Friends of Renal Care at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd.
Stuart Errington, Chairman, National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, was awarded a CBE. Lucille Hughes has for many years been involved with the senior management of the CAB.
Stuart Grant Errington was born on 23 June 1929.He was the son of Sir Eric Errington and Marjorie Bennett and married Anne Baedeker in June 1954. Stuart Errington died on 16 Nov 2017 at age 88.
Stuart Errington was educated at Rugby and then went to Trinity College, Oxford. He gained the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. Errington was with Ellerman Lines, 1952-59 and was with Astley Industrial Trust between 1959-70. Errington was a JP for Berkshire in 1970. In 1977 he became MD of Mercantile Credit. Errington was a Director of Barclays Merchant Bank, Barclays Bank UK , Kleinwort Overseas Investment Trust, Northern Electric 1989–96, Nationwide Building Society 1989–97; Errington was Chairman and Chief Executive of Mercantile Group, 1988-89. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire in 2000. He lived at Earleywood Lodge in Ascot.
Stuart Errington was also a Director of Municipal Mutual Insurance from 1989. Munipal Mutual Insurance were of course the insurers of Clwyd County Council and employed Michael Beloff QC as their legal advisor – who advised everyone not to make the contents of the Jillings Report available to anyone…Municipal Mutual told Clwyd that if they didn't follow this advice, the Councillors themselves would be personally liable for paying damages if any of the former kids in the care of Clwyd sued. Municipal Mutual also demanded that Councillor Malcolm King – who had been asking questions about the abuse of children for a long while – be sacked if he got hold of the Jillings Report and disclosed the contents. Municipal Mutual were also the insurers of the North Wales Police who refused to co-operate with the first investigation into the abuse of children in north Wales. Please see my post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…' for the full story.
So Dafydd and Lucille, why was Stuart Errington prepared to stick his neck out so far to save your skins then?
Stuart Errington had three children – David, Elizabeth and Charles. David went to Rugby. Elizabeth married Jamie Corke and lives in Dorset. Charles went to Rugby, Goldsmith's and Oxford. He is a derivatives dealer, a designer of a risk analytics software package and a writer. He married Nicole Cauverian, who is a graduate of King's College and is a TV producer.
Gladys Broomfield, Morris Markowe Unit of the League of Friends, Springfield Hospital, Wandsworth, was also honoured in the New Years Honours of 1994. I can't find any trace of Gladys, but the Morris Markowe Unit was an annexe to Springfield Hospital, the mental health unit associated with St George's and was named after the Medical Administrator of Springfield. At the beginning of the 1990s the Wandsworth District Health Authority had the largest deficit in any English Health District and needed to save £9m. It decided on the early closure of the Unit, which by now had only 54 beds. The patients were transferred to Springfield Hospital in 1991.
A number of questions come to mind. How did Wandsworth Health Authority end up with the largest deficit of any HA in England in the early 1990s? There was certainly no money being spent on patient care. As with Gwynedd Health Authority and Clwyd County Council – and at present the Betsi Board – care was appalling and the organisation was being used to facilitate organised crime rather than look after patients/clients. So where did the dosh go? What was Gladys doing with the money that she raised? More importantly, why was Gladys honoured when the organisation was in such an appalling mess?
But then why were ANY of these people – who were all involved with facilitating a paedophile ring – honoured at all? The announcement of the honours to be picked up by this bunch was made at the very end of 1993. The police investigation into the possibility of a paedophile ring with links to 'VIPs' operating in north Wales took place between 1991-1993. It was stated that no evidence of a paedophile ring had been found and the investigation was closed.
Ah – I think that I understand the flurry of honours for people who worked with the associates of the paedophile ring which did not exist.
In 1994 a 'reclusive British bachelor', Alan Angus – a water rates collector who died at the age of 65 from a heart attack – bequeathed almost £1 m to the Morris Marlowe Unit, which had treated one of his relatives ten years previously. 'Living in squalor', Mr Angus was unaware that the Unit had closed in 1991.
So what was the truth behind Mr Angus's enormous donation to a gang of white-collar criminals? £1 million quid was a great deal of money in 1994 and by 1994 the publicity regarding Springfield Hospital was nothing short of dreadful. There had been a number of murders of staff and patients and a string of sexual assaults on women patients. It was all this that led to a public inquiry a few years later where Springfield was absolutely damned and deemed to be dangerous. Even if they had treated his relative well 10 years previously – which I doubt, Springfield had been run by and for gangsters for years – Mr Angus will probably have known how bloody awful the place was even if he was a recluse. He'd have needed a very kind heart indeed to part with £1 m for the benefit of that bunch of crooks whilst he 'lived in squalor'. Is it possible that Mr Angus himself was vulnerable and not coping and perhaps a little birdy from Springfield had been in contact with him and persuaded him to write that will leaving such a generous donation?
Dr Donald Irvine, GMC. Donald bagged an knighthood in the New Year's honours of 1994 and it must have been something to do with successfully ensuring that Dafydd and the paedophiles didn't all end up in the clink. Not that the Top Doctors were particularly grateful. Irvine was forced out of his role as President of the GMC in May 2001. The other Top Docs were spitting blood that Irvine had tried to implement reforms for the regulation of the Top Doctors as the Gov't had asked him to. Irvine's colleagues were adamant that he could fuck off because no-one was going to regulate them. Why the sudden urgency on behalf of Blair and his Health Secretary Alan Milburn to hold the Top Docs to account? It followed the Bristol Heart Surgery Scandal and the Alder Hey Scandal (see post 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen') – and then the icing on the cake was a man called Harold Shipman. Alan Milburn could take no more and told the Top Docs that they had to sort themselves out or the Gov't would. So the Top Docs held a revolution. The Gov't collectively wet themselves and thus Dafydd is still Chairing his charity CAIS today.
Donald Irvine had been faced with attempts to oust him previously. In May 1999 GMC member Wendy Savage challenged Sir Donald's leadership. Savage led the charge against Sir Donald, stating that he had too readily bowed to Gov't in pushing ahead with the reforms. This was the first time in the history of the GMC that anyone had challenged an incumbent President.
In May 1999 Ronnie Waterhouse was in the process of writing up his Report. Wendy Savage was a good friend of Geoffrey Chamberlain – who at that time was still sitting in the middle of the cesspit that was St George's… Wendy Savage's life might have been touched by Dafydd and the paedophiles as well. Wendy Savage became famous in the 1980s when she was suspended after a high profile ding dong with her head of dept. Journalists who knew sod all about what was going on told the world that it was because Wendy Savage was a woman, a feminist, a Top Doctor who promoted natural childbirth, a member of the Labour Party and was married to a black man. People who had personal knowledge of the parties involved knew that it was because Wendy Savage and her boss just really hated each other.
Wendy Savage spent her career working at the London Hospital in Tower Hamlets. Tower Hamlets was one of the boroughs sending kids into the arms of Dafydd and the paedophiles in north Wales (see post 'Tower Hamlets, Paul Boateng and Tessa Jowell'). Wendy Savage was someone who took time to talk and listen to patients who were living in poverty and getting kicked in the teeth. I bet she had found out what Dafydd et al were up to. Wendy was politically active. So as well as having the reputation of the Top Doctors to preserve, she'll also have been mindful that an exposure of Dafydd would lead to the exposure of all those Labour boroughs in London who were knowingly sending kids into the embrace of a paedophile gang in north Wales – and of course those Labour politicians who were abusing kids themselves.
Kinnock was leader of the Labour Party at the time – and we know that the Windbag really thought that he was in with a chance of becoming PM as long as he could keep that barrel of crap in north Wales nailed firmly shut. The Windbag even headhunted the noxious Sam Galbraith and begged him to join the Labour Party, so desperate was he to have the Top Docs on side (see post 'I Warn You…').
I have previously blogged about John Smith's unfortunate and unexpected death in May 1994, one month before the head of Bryn Estyn Matt Arnold died of an 'unspecified blood disease'. Four days after Arnold's death the trial of Peter Howarth and Paul Wilson began, two members of staff of Bryn Estyn who were charged with sexual and physical assaults on boys (see post 'The Banality Of Evil'). John Smith died when Barts Hospital could not revive him, after he had a heart attack in his flat at the Barbican (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play'). John Smith had his first heart attack on 9 Oct 1988 and was forced to spend three months away from Westminster to recover. On that occasion, he had complained of chest pains the night before and had to be persuaded to cancel a flight to London so that he could go to hospital for a check-up. He was examined at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where an EEG was performed. The Top Doctor who examined him told Smith 'Whatever it is, we don't think it is your heart'. Then Smith suddenly collapsed and was briefly unconscious before coming around. He spent three days in intensive care before leaving hospital on 20 Oct 1988 and made a full recovery.
Smith made modifications to his lifestyle by going on a 1,000-calories per day diet, cutting down on rich foods and fine wines, giving up smoking and taking up climbing Munros. His weight dropped from 15 stone 5 pounds at the time of the first heart attack, to 12 stone 10 pounds when he returned to Parliament on 23 Jan 1989.
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, who absolutely reassured Smith that he did not have heart problems days before he keeled over with a heart attack and ended up in intensive care, employed some questionable people. In 1993 Edinburgh Royal Infirmary gave the former Bay City Roller Derek Longmuir a job as a nurse. Longmuir had begun nurse training in 1990 after carrying out voluntary work at the Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh.
In 2000, Longmuir, 49, was sentenced to 300 hours of community service at Edinburgh Sheriff's Court for possessing child pornography. Longmuir was suspended from his job at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and refused to comment when he left court.
Longmuir had pleaded guilty to having indecent films, videos and photos of children at his Edinburgh home. He also admitted making indecent photos of children at his home in March 1998. Yet his lawyer, Robbie Burnett, told Edinburgh Sheriff Court that Longmuir was 'not a paedophile and was not someone who engages in child sex nor somebody terribly interested in child porn'. Burnett concluded that 'he deplores and disapproves of the exploitation of children for any of these purposes'.
Lothian and Borders Police serious crime squad officers found the material after a raid on Derek Longmuir's home in Sept 1998 following a tip-off. Police seized computers, videos and floppy disks from the house, which were pointed out to the officers by Longmuir. Twenty-two videos and six projector reels were seized which contained child porn. 1,000 images were recovered from the 73 floppy disks confiscated – some of those showed sex involving children. Which is a great deal of child porn to be found in the possession of someone who is not terribly interested in it.
Sheriff Isobel Poole only sentenced Longmuir after receiving psychiatric, social inquiry and community service reports.
Longmuir did have to leave his nursing job after he was convicted, but only because of the fuss that the media made. He was later allowed to continue working as a nurse.
Robbie Burnett, the lawyer who mounted a valiant defence of Derek and his child porn, was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and studied law at Edinburgh University. After leaving University, Robbie became an apprentice at Drummond & Co/Drummond Miller, later becoming assistant and then partner in 1978. Robbie left Drummond Miller in 1993 to establish Burnett Christie, which expanded by taking in McCourts in 2003 to become Burnett Christie Knowles McCourts (BKCM).
Robbie Burnett is a former President of the Edinburgh Bar Association and a member of both the Law Society Criminal Committee and the Scottish Criminal Rules Council. He became a Senior Solicitor Advocate in 2009.
The very understanding Sheriff, Isobel Poole, was awarded an OBE in the 2013 New Year Honours List. The award was for services to justice in Scotland and to the community in Edinburgh. Isobel was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1964 and appointed a Sheriff of Lothian & Borders in 1979. She served full time, principally in Edinburgh, until 2007. After that she continued as a part time Sheriff. Isobel Poole is a member of the Scottish Lawyers' European Group and has also served on the Sheriffs' Council.
As for John Smith's widow Elizabeth, she was educated at Hutchesons' Girls Grammar School and Glasgow University. She is president of Scottish Opera and served as Chairman of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1995-12. She is also a Governor of the English-Speaking Union and a Board member of the Centre for European Reform.
Elizabeth was given a peerage in Feb 1995. The Baroness has claimed more than £600,000 in expenses since 2002, when she asked a written question to the Ministers.
Presumably Elizabeth knows nearly as much as her late husband did about figures in the Labour Party – including the Party's leaders – concealing the organised abuse of children and the associated criminality. Elizabeth's daughter Sarah Smith is a Scottish TV journalist, which might be another reason why we have heard so little about it.
I was listening to the play for voices, 'Under Milk Wood', earlier. Dylan Thomas was inspired to write it after he stayed at New Quay in west Wales, but some of the names and phrases in the poem brought back memories of the everyday story of service user folk in north Wales, so here's a little tribute to Dafydd:
To begin at the beginning…
And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are
sleeping now.
Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers,
the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher,
postman and publican, the undertaker and Lucille the fancy woman,
Slob Ingham the drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, Elfed the corrupt policeman, the webfoot
cocklewomen and the tidy wives…
Look. It is night, dumbly, royally winding through the
Coronation cherry trees; going through the graveyard of
Bethesda with winds gloved and folded, and dew doffed;
tumbling by the Sailors Arms*
Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the
slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night. Only you
can see, in the blinded bedrooms, the coms and petticoats
over the chairs, the jugs and basins, the glasses of teeth,
Thou Shalt Not on the wall, and the yellowing dickybird-watching pictures of the dead. Only you can hear and see, behind the
eyes of the sleepers, the movements and countries and mazes
and colours and dismays and rainbows and tunes and wishes
and flight and fall and despairs and big seas of their dreams.
From where you are, you can hear their dreams.
FIRST DEAD
Remember me, Dafydd?
I'm Mavis – found dead after I walked out of the Hergest Unit and no-one noticed that I'd gone until they found my body…
Remember me Dafydd?
SECOND DEAD
I'm Simon – I was a witness to your wrongdoing who developed meningitis and the Top Docs told me that I had flu…I died in Ysbyty Gwynedd at 17 years old…
Dafydd, Dafydd, remember me?
THIRD DEAD
I'm Wayne – I told a friend that the mental health services had ruined my life and I threw myself under a train… after my death an Angel told a friend that I'd wanted to die and that was that…
I'm rattling my chains as well Dafydd…
FOURTH DEAD
It's Delyth Dafydd – I died shortly after the day centre in the Hergest Unit was closed down when I was sent to a mediocore 'care home' miles away…
The skull at your ear Dafydd is…
FIFTH DEAD
Foxy – found dead after choking to death in another 'care home' where I was observed every twenty minutes but my body wasn't found for more than an hour…
SIXTH DEAD
I'm Ann, killed in a head-on car crash which left my former boyfriend brain damaged, after I witnessed what happened to Sally…
SEVENTH DEAD
Dr Antonio – stabbed myself to death in the heart after months of ill health whilst my colleagues called me a hypochondriac…
EIGHTH DEAD
I'm Richard – killed myself whilst working as a male midwife at Ysbyty Gwynedd and left a suicide note behind saying that no-one could imagine the sort of things that were happening there…
NINTH DEAD
I'm Lil, worked for Professor Fergus Lowe and was married to a Hergest nurse – I was taken ill and could not be saved by Ysbyty Gwynedd…
TENTH DEAD
I'm Bob – a psychiatrist at Hergest who was taken ill and guess what, I died in the care of Ysbyty Gwynedd as well..
ELEVENTH DEAD
My dad was framed for sex offences and I died at Ysbyty Gwynedd a few years later when they switched off my life-support. Because I was as drunk as a deacon – but actually one of my friends still has the suicide note that I left behind…
UNFORTUNATELY I'M STILL ALIVE – Remember me Dafydd, Dr Devakumar, a BMA psychiatrist and your old buddy – Does anybody want a fight???
TWELFTH DEAD
I'm Brian – another witness who was killed in a car crash which didn't involve another vehicle and I was always such a good driver, no-one could explain it…
THIRTEENTH DEAD – AND PROBABLY INFECTED A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE BEFORE HE DIED
The son of Lord Cut-Glass, Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon – I was known to be sexually abusing boys in care in Wrexham but nonetheless I had one such boy arrested for 'theft' and sent to a detention centre – I died of AIDS in 1993…
Oh diolch yn fawr Dafydd bach, we Cut-Glasses are so grateful for all your help…none of us ever went to prison…we came to a bad end…very enjoyable…
FOURTEENTH DEAD
I'm Vince – rang the Hergest Unit late one night and explained that I was suicidal. I was found dead a few hours later.
FIFTEENTH DEAD
I'm Martin – found dead on the road near Bethesda after I'd witnessed Gwynedd Social Services denying a father access to his baby after framing him because he reported the abuse of four children and the guilty family did a deal with the paedophiles' friends…
MURDER!!!
Dafydd, the no good boyo… Cross his palm with silver – and he'll do anything..
Praise the Lord, we're a musical nation – there's Dafydd Iwan singing a tribute to Dafydd the Brave Welsh Psychiatrist and Elinor Bennett playing her harp and Gruff Rhys and the Super Furries, Gruff Rhys who's dad was the Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council whilst the children's homes were full of paedophiles…
Then there's Gossamer Beynon, wife of Leighton Andrews…
And we always think, before we tumble into bed, of all those patients who are dead, dead, dead…
Look mam! – Dafydd is crying, he's got a nose like strawberries …
Oh no he's not crying, we were mistaken…he's pissing himself laughing whilst he counts his money
YCHAFI!
(I could write a version of the song about people giving Gwennie a penny in return for a kiss in Milk Wood, but in view of what Dafydd, Lucille and John Allen were actually doing to the kids in care, it would end up a lot more unpleasant that Thomas's original.)
* There is a Sailors Arms in Beaumaris and in the late 1990s two of the barmen there were student nurses at Ysbyty Gwynedd. One was a student psychiatric nurse called Dave who was thrown off the course for reasons that he would not come clean about, but he continued to work as the manager of a truly dreadful EMI home on Anglesey owned by a business associate of Dafydd's. When on night duty this man would make himself comfortable and sleep throughout the entire shift. I witnessed him pick up an elderly lady who had fallen out of bed and, whilst swearing at her, throw her back onto the bed. On another occasion he described a patient – in front of her – as 'the creature from the swamp'. Dafydd's mate who owned the 'care home' was under police investigation at the time and was forced to sell the business. It didn't hinder Dave – the man who hated patients so much was offered a job as a care home manager in Coventry.
NB. To those Who Care, who might wish to accuse me of insensitivity and may well be gearing up for howls of 'OOOH look what she's said now' – perhaps you could remind me of the occasions on which any of you raised concerns about this nightmare? Or indeed let me know who among you has had to flee Wales after a number of attempts to kill you and is now in hiding?
Gems from the 'Daily Post' over the last few days –
Lawrence Kenwright, the businessman who wants to turn what is left of the North Wales Hospital into a luxury hotel, has explained that he wants a Victorian asylum theme, with guests being greeted by men in white coats no less. None of them wore white coats at Denbigh Lawrence, the Angels wore military style uniforms with pips on their shoulders and Dafydd wore filthy old Al Capone suits which didn't fit him properly. However I am sure that if a VIP had turned up, white coats would have been donned to give the impression that this was actually a hospital.
Various local people have supported Lawrence's idea on the grounds that it will provide jobs for local people. Lawrence may well find himself inundated with applications from staff of the Betsi, who are now forming an exodus.
Lawrence might not know this, but Dafydd's son Deiniol ap Dafydd is a foodie who runs a bistro and deli business in Llanrwst, Blas ar Fwyd. Dafydd will no doubt be looking for opportunities to flog Deiniol's produce, so Lawrence might soon be receiving a phone call. Deiniol's puddings and cakes are a bit too sugary for my taste. I met Deiniol at a food fayre once, he had no idea who I was, but he was very pleasant and friendly and fed me sausages. I spent the whole time thinking 'you don't know me BUT…' What made it even more bizarre was that I was with a friend who had ended up in prison as a result of the paedophiles' friends and who had encountered Dafydd and his 'nursing homes' and he was fed morsels by Deiniol as well, but he had no idea at all who Deiniol's dad was. I had to enlighten him afterwards.
I have another story re an encounter with a different offspring of Dafydd's – it is for a future post.
The 'Daily Post' ran a feature comparing house prices in different parts of north Wales. The most expensive house featured was a cottage in Rhosneigr. Rhosneigr is known for its second homes. In fact Duncan Orme, the Bangor University Welfare Officer in 1984, who was the first person whom I met who wet himself at the thought of challenging Gwynne the lobotomist (see post 'Just A Language Divide?'), has a second home near Rhosneigr. Duncan ended up as Finance Director for an NHS Trust in Staffordshire! Start as you mean to go on Duncan – pursue a whole career ignoring criminality and patient harm and you too can have a second home on Anglesey that none of the locals could afford even as their main residence.
So what was the cheapest home that the Post featured? It was a flat above a shop in Victoria Place, Bethesda. In days gone by, it would have housed a young single person or a service user, but they couldn't afford it now. The flat was next door to what used to be the Bethesda Surgery, where Drs Gareth Jones, Nicky Heinersdorff, Paul Nickson and John Mithan knew about very nearly everything that I have detailed on this blog yet remained completely silent. Whilst they lived in the best houses in the area and drove the most expensive cars. How about a plaque to the fallen a la the plaque to paedophiles' friend Val Feld which has recently been attached to the wall of the Senedd (see post 'Reports Of Death Were Greatly Exaggerated')? The Tomb of the Unknown Service User in the centre of Bethesda might be more appropriate, the retired GPs couldn't miss that as they drive past in their expensive cars on their generous pensions whilst they ignore the local graveyards which are full of their victims.
The Post also reported on the gender pay gap in north Wales. Consistent with Theresa May's bright idea of publishing datasets with absolutely no analysis in her battle against inequality, the 'Daily Post' has mentioned that Cartrefi Cymru has only a gender pay gap of 1% – in favour of women. Women who work for this company earn MORE than men. So what is this business that emerges from Theresa's exercise smelling of roses? Cartrefi Cymru is a chain of homes for people with learning disabilities and severe autism. Some of their clients have physical disabilities as well.
I met one of their managers a couple of years ago, a former Angel from St George's Hospital Medical School no less. She was, incredibly enough, very impressive. Her attitude was spot on and she had some very good ideas with regard as to how to provide care and support to a group of adult whose difficulties are such that most people find it very difficult – and exhausting – to care for them. However she did admit that the pay offered by Cartrefi Cymru was pitiful, particularly in return for such a taxing job. Support workers – which make up nearly all of Cartrefi's staff – are paid the national minimum wage. When I chatted to this lady, the Gov't had just introduced new regulations to ensure that support workers working night shifts were paid much more. In response to this directive, the senior managers at Cartrefi had redefined everybody's shifts and hours to ensure that no-one actually received an increase in pay.
The reason why women at Cartrefi Cymru earn more than men is that most of the home managers are Angels and are thus paid a bit more than the support workers, many of whom are male. But no-one gets very much at Cartrefi, despite the dedication and high standards of the lady whom I met.
The shite pay received by Cartrefi Cymru staff is a result of decisions made by the Directors of Cartrefi. One of whom is a Dr Peter Higson, old mate of Dafydd's and at present Chair of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board…
Peter Higson, although he has now retired from a lifetime of concealing crime in the NHS and is thus in receipt of a fat pension, also receives very generous remuneration for his three days a weeks or whatever Chairing the Betsi – more than most people in north Wales earn in their full time jobs.
The Welsh media are reporting on Rod Liddle insulting the Welsh. As well as suggesting that all sane people would wish to exit Wales as soon as humanly possible, Liddle has made the standard insult about the Welsh language not having any vowels. Paedophiles' friend Hywel Williams sent out a tweet explaining that the English for 'ignorant' has three vowels, whereas the Welsh word for 'ignorant' is 'anwybodus', which has four vowels. Which is the most sensible point that I have ever noticed Hywel Williams make – it beats conjuring up lame excuses for the lethal mental health services or begging for a prison to be built in Caernarfon to fill with the the paedophiles' victims.
Meri Huws has announced that she is now assembling a team to deal with Rod Liddle. Meri, I'm sure that he's quaking in his boots. I think Rod works or did work at 'The Spectator'. In terms of a shagfest, Rod and co make Meri look like an amateur.
Theresa has announced another £75 million for prostate cancer research which 'will save thousands of lives'. There has now been an admission that previous prostrate cancer research was barking up the wrong tree and that the PSI test does not identify men at risk. So Theresa's given another £75 million to the people who persisted with that particular lie although they knew that their results had not lived up to their subsequent claims.
There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the latest outrage regarding the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Yet again western politicians are fuming impotently over the genocidal ambitions of Bashar al-Assad. Bashar is of course a Top Doctor who spent four years undertaking postgrad work at the Western Eye Hospital in London, immediately before returning to Syria in his capacity as heir apparent. The Western Eye Hospital is run by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, who also employ so many of those cancer experts who are going to save thousands of lives with Theresa's £75 million quid.
In 2000 Bashar received 99.7% of the vote in a democratic election. He is as popular as that other Top Doctor Dafydd. In the 1990s when I and another patient constantly challenged the Hergest Unit over the presence of Dafydd there, we were told that 'the patients want to see him, they like him'.
Blair was wheeled out on the 'Today' programme this morning to talk about the Good Friday agreement, which people are now claiming is not quite the solution that Blair told everybody that it was. Blair still isn't fessing up to the role played in the peace process by the deal re the Kincora Boys' Home. There has never been a full investigation into Kincora and it was specifically excluded from the major inquiry into the abuse of children in N Ireland.
Blair's mate Mo Mowlam was credited with much of the success of the N Ireland peace process. Mo was the MP for Redcar. Redcar is in Cleveland. Mo was elected as MP on 11 June 1987. Bang in the middle of the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal (see post 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named'). Mo did not say a word about any of it. Or about the paedophile ring which had been in operation in the area for years and which was working hand in glove with Dafydd.
In 2001 Mo's seat was succeeded by that very good paedophiles' friend, Vera Baird (see post 'Sisters Are Indeed Doing It For Themselves').
I will write more about Mo soon.
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I mentioned in my post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks' that there were more Pathetic Sharks to be named than I could deal with in one post. There are actually so many Pathetic Sharks that I probably couldn't do justice to all of them even if I continued blogging with a whole team of assistants for the next 10 years, thus I am only discussing the most extreme or the more interesting specimens on this blog. As far as north Wales and the Cheshire area was concerned the highest profile figure that the Pathetic Sharks were going to such lengths to protect was Sir Peter Morrison, the MP for Chester and Thatcher's friend and aide.
There have always been allegations that there were actually two Tory MPs who were abusing children in care in north Wales – a number of Tories from Thatcher's era including Edwina Currie, Rod Richards and Gyles Brandreth have admitted that it was widely known that Morrison was abusing children and Thatcher's former bodyguard Barry Strevens maintains that he witnessed Thatcher being told that Morrison was abusing children, but she appointed him as her PPS nonetheless. As for the second Tory alleged to be abusing children – Steve Messham famously named Alistair McAlpine on 'Newsnight'f and people were sued as a result. I have been asked myself on several occasions whether the second Tory was Lord Wyn Roberts. I have never met anyone who told me that Wyn Roberts had molested them, but he definitely knew what was going on and concealed it for years (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'). He also wielded a degree of influence over Thatcher in a way that no other provincial not very senior Minister did, yet he never landed the job as Secretary of State for Wales which people always expected him to.
Someone told me a few weeks ago that Wyn Roberts's brother 'was a judge in Wrexham' – if anyone has any more info I'd like to know. I don't know whether the person who told me this meant that Roberts's brother was a magistrate, a recorder or a Circuit judge. The paedophiles' friends – especially of Wyn Roberts's generation – nearly always had close family members scattered across north Wales in influential positions as a result of those families forming a regional elite. If one wasn't local oneself it was often very difficult to know who was related to who – as every English person who moved to north Wales of course observed 'they're all called Jones'.
To return to the man whom the paedophiles' friends thought that it was worth killing for – Sir Peter Morrison. Although Thatcher seemed to be the most appalling judge of character and have values rather different to most of the rest of the population which caused her to make ludicrous decisions and put people like Morrison and Jimmy Savile in positions of responsibility, she made an even riskier decision than usual with Morrison. On 11 June 1987 Thatcher appointed Morrison Minister for Energy with responsibility for oil – he remained in post until 23 July 1990. The Secretaries of State for Energy during this time were Cecil Parkinson, 13 June 1987-24 July 1989 and John Wakeham, 24 July 1989-11 April 1992. Parkinson and Wakeham both stood down at the General Election of 1992 and were given peerages in 1992. Days later, five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal were killed by the firebomb (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs').
Oil was a key factor in upholding Thatcher's administrations – there were the North Sea Oil revenues which it was accepted were used to keep the nation afloat whilst industry was destroyed and unemployment soared. Even if this had not have been the case, oil would still have been an incredibly important and sensitive responsibility – there were diplomatic problems with the Saudis whom the Gov't felt that they had to maintain good relations with at any cost and then of course there was the privatisation of BP. I can understand why the Pathetic Sharks were going into overdrive when Alison Taylor, Mary Wynch and I were making a lot of noise about the serious criminality in north Wales which was resulting from the efforts that the Pathetic Sharks were making to keep Morrison's activities out of Court and out of the public gaze, but why did even someone taking the risks that Thatcher was taking ever appoint Morrison to such a crucial and sensitive portfolio? I remain puzzled. Furthermore Morrison was appointed to the Dept of Energy AFTER Alison, I and Mary had made the most serious complaints about Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends. By that time, Mary had even won a court case against Dafydd and the Master of the Rolls Lord Donaldson had made harsh comments about Dr Dafydd Alun Jones (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details'). Mary's case had featured in the London-based media, Alison had reported the abuse of children in north Wales to the police and had even written to Thatcher herself – and then I joined the melee. Yet Thatcher still gave Morrison one of the most important roles in Gov't.
By the time that Morrison was given responsibility for oil, Professor Fergus Lowe at UCNW (Bangor University) had overthrown Dafydd's influence in the School of Psychology, but Dafydd hadn't gone – and now everyone had Fungus blackmailing them as well regarding Morrison and friends.
Anyway, let's take a look at Oil at the time.
Thatcher's Gov't began the privatisation of BP in 1979, but it was the sale of shares in 1987 that everyone remembers. In March 1987 the £7.2 billion sale of BP shares was announced, but the deal wasn't due to close until October. Nigel Lawson was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time – and the sale of the BP shares clashed with a massive world stock market crash. Overnight on Black Monday – the night of Oct 19-20 1987 – the London markets fell by more than 20%, leaving underwriters looking at huge losses, with the ongoing BP trade being the biggest contributor. BP's desire to increase North American representation on its shareholder register meant that US and Canadian allocations were substantial and held entirely by the lead banks. Morgan Stanley and other banks were able to sustain the losses but Wood Gundy couldn't and went out of business as a result. A bankers meeting was held at Rothschilds offices on Oct 23 and a discussion was held regarding the triggering of the force majeure clause but no agreement was reached. In the end, the clause was not exercised and the Bank of England agreed to buy partly-paid stock to avoid the apocalyptic events which had been outlined by the US underwriters. The British Gov't maintained that the correct decision had been made.
In Nov 1987 the Kuwait Investment Office purchased a 10.06% interest in BP, becoming the largest institutional shareholder. The following May, the KIO purchased more, bringing their share of BP up to 21.6%, which caused concerns within BP that operations in the US, their main country of operation, would suffer. In Oct 1988 the DTI – the Secretary of State was Cecil Parkinson at the time – required the KOI to reduce it's shares to 9.6% within 12 months.
The Chairman of BP 1981-90 was Peter Walters. In 1987 BP acquired Britoil as well as the remaining publicly traded shares of Standard Oil of Ohio. Walters was replaced by Robert Horton as Chairman in 1989 who then carried out a major corporate downsizing at Head Office, removing tiers of management.
Whilst all this was happening, an executive called John Browne was working at BP. After the BP/Standard merger in 1987, Browne was Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of BP America as well as CEO of Standard Oil Production Co. In 1989 Browne was MD of BP Exploration, based in London.
On 23 July 1990 Morrison was removed from the Dept of Energy and was appointed as Thatcher's PPS.
In Sept 1991 John Browne became BP's MD and on 10 June 1995 he was appointed Group Chief Exec after the British Gov't sold its last remaining stake in the company. On 13 July 1995 Sir Peter Morrison was found dead at his London home at the age of 51.
John Browne continued his upward rise. In Dec 1998 after the merger of BP and Amoco he became Group Chief Exec of the combined group. In 2001 Blair made John Browne one of his 'people's peers'. By 2004 Lord John Browne was one of the UK's most highly paid executives with a remuneration package of £5.7 million.
It was announced on 25 July 2006 that Browne would stand down as Chief Executive of BP in December 2008. There had been press speculation that he had wished to continue beyond this date, but he made it clear that he did not wish to do so. On 6 January 2007, Browne won his first interim injunction against the publication of allegations by his former partner, Jeff Chevalier – Browne later disclosed being 'terrified' that his sexuality would be revealed publicly. One week later it was announced that his retirement date had been brought forward to July 2007 and that Tony Hayward would succeed him. In April 2007, after a court case lasting over four weeks, Browne appealed to the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords. They ruled that Browne could not prevent Associated Newspapers from printing allegations about his sexual relationships and alleged misuse of company funds. Lord Browne resigned from BP on 1 May 2007 and resigned as a non-executive Director of Goldman Sachs on 10 May 2007.
At the time Browne faced allegations that he had supported his partner, Canadian Jeff Chevalier, throughout their four year relationship and that when Chevalier moved back to Toronto at the end of the relationship Browne paid for 12 months of a lease on an apartment. Chevalier was a lot younger than Browne and allegations were made that Browne had used rent boys. Browne says that he felt under pressure to resign due to the Mail on Sunday's revelations about his personal life and relationship with Chevalier. As part of a statement made at the time of his resignation, he commented: 'In my 41 years with BP, I have kept my private life separate from my business life. I have always regarded my sexuality as a personal matter, to be kept private. It is a matter of deep disappointment that a newspaper group has now decided that allegations about my personal life should be made public.'
A Court accepted that Browne had lied over how he met Chevalier. In a deposition to the Court, Browne said that the pair had met in a London park. Browne's associates later acknowledged that he had actually met Chevalier via a website called 'Suited and Booted'. However, Mr Justice Eady, the Presiding judge in the case, said he decided not to refer the matter to the Attorney General, maintaining that disclosure in the judgement of Lord Browne's behaviour was 'probably sufficient punishment', adding that Browne's 'willingness to tell a deliberate lie to the court, persisted in for about two weeks … is relevant in assessing his own credibility and the overall merits. So too is his willingness casually to 'trash' the reputation of Mr Chevalier and to discredit him in the eyes of the Court'.
Private Eye have been very rude about Justice Eady and seem to believe that he prevents the wrongdoing of rich powerful people from being exposed.
BP chairman, Peter Sutherland, stated that claims that company assets and resources had been abused as 'unfounded or insubstantive'.
Lord Browne is Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford; Chairman of the Francis Crick Institute; Chairman of the Courthauld Institute of Art and Executive Chairman of L1 Energy, an oil and gas investment vehicle which acts as a subsidiary of LetterOne Holdings, co-owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman.
Tony Blair gave John Browne his peerage the year after the publication of the Waterhouse Report.
Lord Browne is now a gay icon!
Up in north Wales there has still been no investigation into the many deaths of former children in care or mental health patients throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
One of the many who knew that something grim was happening in north Wales was Eric Heffer. Heffer was Minister of State for Industry, 1974-75 and later a member of Michael Foot's Shadow Cabinet. Heffer was MP for Liverpool Walton from 1964 until his death in 1991 and Chairman of the Labour Party, Oct 1983-Oct 1984. Heffer was a high profile left winger who opposed Kinnock's cleansing of Militant and famously walked off the platform at the 1985 Labour Party conference when Kinnock delivered his rant at Derek Hatton et al who stood in the hall and hurled invective back.
In the part of the world where I grew up Eric Heffer was viewed as the devil incarnate, but when I was in my late teens I was exposed to the other view of Eric Heffer – an autodidact who had a collection of thousands of books, who had in no way been born with a silver spoon in his mouth and who fought fiercely for working people. Eric Heffer was not a problem for the reasons that Tories in Somerset claimed – Heffer was actually a far more malign influence which was not a result of his left wing politics.
Heffer was born in Hertfordshire but settled in Liverpool after WWII and stayed there. Heffer belonged to the Christian Socialist tradition and was brought up in the High Church wing of the Church of England. He joined the Labour Party in 1939 and then the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1941. Heffer met his wife Doris in the Communist Party in Liverpool. Heffer was expelled from the Communist Party in 1948 for leading an unofficial strike that the Communist Party had not endorsed. The Communist Party told Doris to choose between Heffer and the Party, so she told the Communist Party to take running jump.
Heffer rejoined the Labour Party in the 1950s. He sat on the Executive of the Trades Council – a loose association of trade unions – and was the Vice-President in 1958, the President in 1959 and then the President again in 1964. In 1960 Heffer was elected as a Liverpool City Councillor for Pirrie ward in Walton. In 1963 he was selected as the Labour Party candidate to fight Walton at the 1964 General Election. After Heffer's election in 1964, Doris acted as his political secretary at the same time as acting as the political secretary for Norman Buchan, the Labour MP for West Renfrewshire and then Paisley South.
In 1965 Heffer joined the protest outside of the US embassy against the use of napalm and gas in the Vietnam War and he also opposed diplomatic support for the War from Harold Wilson's Gov't. In 1968 Heffer rebelled against Wilson's Gov't when they withdrew British passports from the Kenyan Asians who were fleeing persecution in Kenya. He also spoke out against the regime of the Colonels in Greece. In 1975 Heffer obtained a seat on the Labour Party's NEC.
What was kept very quiet until after both Heffer and Thatcher had died was that they were friends throughout all those years that Thatcher was volubly condemning Liverpool City Council, Militant and was implementing Gov't policies which were wrecking Liverpool. A Liverpool Echo article in Feb 2009 quotes Frank Field saying that Thatcher regularly invited other MPs over to No 10 for a nightcap and that Eric Heffer and Allen Adams, the MP for Paisley, were regular visitors. Field told the Echo that he once saw a 'slightly sozzled' Thatcher plant a 'smacking kiss' on the lips of Eric Heffer, whom she used to describe as 'my favourite socialist'.
Now I know that we only have Frank Field's word for this, but there were more witnesses to other events. Eric Heffer's memorial service in July 1991 was attended by Margaret Thatcher, Neil Hamilton, Jonathan Aitken, Geoffrey Howe, Alan Beith, John Biffen, John Smith and Tony Benn. After Thatcher's death, the Daily Telegraph published an article by Bruce Anderson in April 2013, who waxed lyrical about Thatcher's 'kindness' and 'compassion'. Anderson explained that Thatcher 'respected' Heffer's Christian Socialism and that at Heffer's memorial service, 'she shed tears, embraced Doris and brought her comfort, then and later'. Anderson described this as 'a spontaneous outpouring of warmth'.
Regular readers of this blog will know that the medical establishment in Liverpool played a major role in concealing the wrongdoing of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and the paedophile gang in north Wales/Cheshire. Dafydd was a graduate of Liverpool Medical School and remained friendly with people in that institution, even claiming that they would do favours for people if complaints about Dafydd were dropped. Lucille Hughes, Dafydd's mistress who had ignored the presence of the paedophile gang operating in the children's homes of north Wales whilst she was Director of Gwynedd Social Services, obtained her Certificate in Social Sciences from Liverpool University. Sir Charles Evans, the Principal of UCNW (Bangor University), allowed Dafydd, Gwynne the lobotomist, Dr D.G.E. Wood and members of staff involved with social work and psychology in UCNW to facilitate a sex abuse ring – Evans had been a neurosurgeon in Liverpool before taking up his post at UCNW (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'). In 1988 Professor Robert Owen, a surgeon at Liverpool Medical School who doubled up as the Medical Ombudsman for Wales, co-ordinated a major cover-up of the criminality of Dafydd, Dr Tony Francis (Dr X), Gwynedd Social Services and the North Wales Police (see post 'Enter Professor Bluglass CBE'). Dr Terry Maxwell – who was for many years the Clinical Director of the NHS in its various incarnations in north west Wales – was an alumnus of Liverpool Medical School and was still on such good terms with them in the mid 1980s that they rang him up and offered his daughter Sonia a place to read medicine there although she hadn't even applied for a place (see post 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer').
David Ewart of the Mental Health Act Commission who colluded with Dafydd et al in an attempt to frame me and have me imprisoned (see post 'Security, Security') was based at the MHAC's Liverpool office.
Moss Side and Park Lane Hospitals – which merged to become Ashworth Hospital – were located on Merseyside. For years these hospitals acted as prisons for Dafydd and the paedophiles – their victims were framed for serious offences or sometimes sent there without trial on the grounds of their 'dangerousness'. These institutions had appalling reputations and there were cases of patients being murdered by the staff – many of the 'nurses' were members of the National Front and were running a reign of terror. Two Public Inquiries into Ashworth admitted that the situation was appalling, but blamed the problems on dangerous psychiatric patients rather than the presence of corrupt professionals who were facilitating a paedophile and human trafficking ring – both Inquiries were led by colleagues and friends of Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'Security, Security).
Heffer's constituency was known to be run by Militant. In July 1990, Michael Carr, the MP for Bootle who had fought Militant, was undoubtedly allowed to die by the Top Doctors of Walton Hospital after seeking medical help from that institution – two successive DPPs obstructed investigations into Carr's death (see post 'News From Sicily').
In 1998 the flagship neurological hospital, The Walton Centre, opened in Fazarkerley, Liverpool. This grew out of the Walton Hospital's neurological unit at Walton. Approx 10 years ago the wife of a man in north Wales who had spilt the pints of the paedophiles and who was a good friend of another man who had also spilt their pints died under the care of this world leading institution. She had developed a similar condition to – and at the same time as – a social worker colleague of the paedophiles themselves, who made a full recovery at the hands of The Walton Centre. It was after this that the Health Minister Edwina Hart made a decision that elective neurological patients from north Wales should be treated in south Wales. The Top Doctors of north Wales were seething and maintained that Edwina was simply empire building and shoring up electoral support for herself. She might have been, but I couldn't help wondering if she had twigged that The Walton Centre was slaughtering anyone who had spilt the paedophiles' pints as well as those close to them, so had decided that it was far too dangerous for people from north Wales to be treated there. In response to Edwina's outrage, Professor Robert Owen assisted in leading a campaign to ensure that elective neurology referrals continued to go to Walton. A 'memorandum of 'retired people' in north Wales was submitted to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee in 2008. This document is worth a read – it was signed by virtually every paedophiles' friend in north Wales who was busy in the 1970s and 80s. For details of the Battle of The Walton Euthanasia Centre, see post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!' The only names missing from the memorandum were Dafydd's and Lucille's – but then I was told in the 1980s that Dafydd excelled at keeping his name off incriminating documents. Except of course for my medical records Dafydd!
Eric Heffer will have known about Michael Carr's death and the brutality and corruption at Moss Side, Park Lane and Ashworth Hospitals, it all received wide publicity. Furthermore he will have also known that the problems at Moss Side, Park Lane and Ashworth did not arise from dangerous patients but from dangerous staff and he will have known about the corruption and nepotism at Liverpool Medical School. He'll have known from Doris's contacts if from nowhere else – because before Doris was Heffer's secretary, she was a medical secretary! Doris will have known all about it as well as many of the people involved.
Doris and Eric also knew that Dafydd and the paedophiles were framing people and that those people were ending up in Walton Prison, because Heffer used to receive many letters from prisoners at Walton. The Indie's 2011 obituary of Doris mentions that in 1968 Tam Dalyell paid a late night visit to Heffer and found him signing a stack of letters of reply to prisoners in Walton – Heffer told Dalyell that Doris personally replied to all the letters from Walton and composed the replies herself, then gave them to Heffer to sign. As an illustration of the Heffers' kindliness and dedication, it was noted that most of the prisoners in Walton were not from Heffer's Liverpool constituency but were from right across the north of England. They were from north Wales as well – when Dafydd and the paedophiles stitched someone up, they were sent to Risley Remand Centre or Walton. In more recent years, some of the paedophiles' victims have ended up in HMP Altcourse.
One patient in the North Wales Hospital Denbigh with whom I made friends was an alumnus of the north Wales children's homes and had been in Walton after being imprisoned for a ludicrous, trivial offence only to be transferred back into the arms of Dafydd – from what I could understand the law had been broken during the process. Dafydd subsequently sectioned that man for a year – when I went out to Denbigh in an attempt to get some answers, I bumped into him in a corridor. He was in a terrible state, a far worse state that he had been a few months previously when I had first met him. I assume that he died long ago. It was by processes such as this that the paedophiles' victims were lost without trace.
I knew a Hergest patient who was remanded in Walton in the 1990s after he was arrested when he rang the Hergest Unit and told them that he was so suicidal that he felt like chopping a gas pipe. He did not threaten to do this or attempt to – he was expressing how desperate he felt after having had years of abuse and no appropriate help from the mental health services. He was arrested and remanded on bail in Walton. He was 'assessed' by the Top Doctor in Walton, who after a ten minute conversation told him that was bipolar. Meanwhile, this man's wife had consulted a solicitor in Bangor who told her that the 'best person' for getting people out of Walton was Dafydd. Neither of this couple knew of Dafydd amazingly enough – so they paid good money for Dafydd to see the Hergest patient in prison. Upon being told that his hobby was climbing, Dafydd asked the patient if he'd ever had an accident – the patient said yes and Dafydd told him that he had PTSD. The man in question told Dafydd that he didn't think that he did have PTSD but Dafydd reassured him that he did and that he could offer him a place in his 'nursing home' in Llandudno for people with PTSD. The man was released from Walton immediately and transferred to Dafydd's establishment, Ty Gwyn – which the released prisoner described as a 'mediocre boarding house', for which he and his wife were being charged over £1000 per week. He had to share a room – 'peer support' he was told – and he was then told that Ty Gwyn didn't provide any vegetarian food. He was told to walk into Llandudno to buy takeaways. After a few days he realised that he was being fleeced – he had seen no sign of Dafydd or received any sort of treatment. So he announced his intention to sign himself out – although residing at Ty Gwyn was part of the release conditions from Walton. Dafydd arrived immediately and recommended 'at least another three weeks' at Ty Gwyn. The patient ignored Dafydd and left. He heard no more from Dafydd, Walton or indeed the Courts. He was never charged with any offence.
From the information that this man gave me, it sounded as though his arrest and detention was unlawful which was why I suspect that he heard no more after leaving Ty Gwyn. He did try and obtain papers relating to his case from Walton but the Prison Service refused to release them. I was interested to learn that after being arrested, this man was taken to Pwllheli Police Station and Magistrates Court, despite him living near Bangor and there being many nearer courts sitting. I too was taken to Pwllheli Police Station and Magistrates Court for the first hearing when the Hergest Unit tried to stitch me up in 2002 for 'threatening to kill Alun Davies' (see post 'Interesting Happenings In The Legal System'). It seems to be where those targeted by the paedophiles' friends are taken when the stakes are high and a conviction is desperately needed.
Perhaps Robyn Lewis, the Godfather in terms of Pwllheli lawyers, might like to let us all know what was going on.
More recently, the prison of choice for the paedophiles' friends has been Altcourse in Liverpool. In approx 2005 it was reported that Lee Crabtree, a Hergest patient, had been found dead in Altcourse after he had been remanded in custody for attempting to rob an Angel. The NW Wales NHS Trust stressed that such conduct would not be tolerated, Angels Would Be Protected. I spoke to a close relative of Lee's and was told a number of things that had not been reported anywhere. Lee was a young father of two who had experienced a psychotic breakdown and was sectioned at the Hergest Unit. After a few days in the Hergest Unit he 'escaped' – by walking out of a door. No Angels were threatened let alone attacked. In the Hergest Unit car park, Lee tried the door of an Angel's car, in a confused not very competent escape attempt. The Hergest Unit rang the police and demanded that he be arrested and charged with attempted robbery. The police tried to persuade the Hergest Unit to re-admit him but they refused and insisting on pressing charges. No-one told Lee's wife what was happening.
Lee was taken to Altcourse where he was 'assessed' by a Top Doctor and diagnosed with schizophrenia. He hung himself in his cell shortly after afterwards. He had been in Altcourse just hours.
The first Lee's wife knew of what happened was when the police arrived at the family home and told her that Lee had died in prison. She thought that he was still in Hergest. She rang the prison to ask if she could collect Lee's property and was told that it was at Hergest, he had arrived at Altcourse without even a change of clothes. Lee's wife then rang Hergest where she was told by an Angel that they were far too busy to go looking for people's clothes.
The circumstances of Lee's death were never made public. The viewers of Welsh news believe that a dangerous nutter escaped from the Hergest, robbed an Angel and then died in prison. Lee's wife consulted a solicitor in Llandudno and was told that nothing could be done. Lee and his wife were two young parents who had not received any education after the age of 16. I don't think that Lee's wife had any idea of the degree of criminal negligence to which her husband had been subjected – and she didn't realise that the lawyer had lied to her either.
Eric Heffer will have received stacks of letters from prisoners who will have told him how they had been unlawfully stitched up by Dafydd and the paedophiles – and Doris the former medical secretary composed the replies. No doubt those replies will have been sympathetic and well thought-out – but whatever Doris and Eric were doing they were not managing to get those prisoners released. At no time did I ever hear that Eric Heffer had helped the prisoners. His name was never mentioned as anyone whom it was worthwhile writing to and I never read or heard anything at all suggesting that the Heffers had expressed any concerns about what was happening in Walton, Moss Side, Park Lane, Ashworth or in Liverpool Medical School. I also suspect that Heffer will have received letters from victims of the paedophile ring which operated in the north of England – Savile's domain. It was noted that Doris 'believed in giving kindness and support to the powerless' and that 'she sustained some correspondence long after the men were released'.
What I think is highly likely is that Doris was actually letting her old mates the Top Doctors know who had squealed and who they had named and in the case of the prisoners whom she kept in contact with, where they had gone, what they were up to and who else they might be approaching with their info about Dafydd and the paedophiles. Prisoners don't have votes and politicians are far too frightened of falling out with the Top Doctors to defend prisoners who have ended up in prison as a result of the wrongdoing of the Top Doctors and their associates. Heffer will have noticed what happened to Michael Carr. I also suspect that someone in Walton positively encouraged the prisoners to write to Heffer because they knew that Heffer was a safe pair of hands. Most of the prisoners won't have known one MP from another and they will have been relying entirely upon the advice of others as to which MP to write to. There will have been a 'helpful' legal advisor/Top Doctor/education officer in Walton who pointed the prisoners in the direction of Heffer – we are talking organised crime, Dafydd and the paedophiles will definitely have had someone in there.
A number of people noticed that on many matters Eric Heffer deferred to his wife.
The Heffers will also have known about the abuse of children in the St Vincent's and St Aiden's children's homes in Liverpool which were run by Liverpool Catholic Social Services. This was concealed for years and did not result in police action until the 1990s (see post 'The Mentor'). Those homes were run by the Archdiocese of Liverpool. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool when serious complaints of abuse were made but not acted upon was Derek Worlock. Worlock was a high profile figure and collaborated with other church leaders – in 1990 Worlock's cathedral held the launch of the Council of Churches of Britain and Ireland. Worlock's cathedral hit a high point when it hosted Pope John Paul II when he visited Liverpool in 1982. Worlock worked with the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, David Sheppard – whose cathedral Pope John Paul II also visited. Worlock and Sheppard worked together on poverty issues and also on reconciliation after the 1981 Toxteth riots. Sir Philip Myers, the Chief Constable of North Wales, was delighted to send five coach loads of police officers from north Wales over to Liverpool to add to the violence in Toxteth in 1981 when needed by Kenneth Oxford, the Chief Constable of Merseyside (see post 'Top Of The Cops'). Sir Philip Myers presided over the North Wales Police when the force colluded with Dafydd and the paedophiles and employed officers such as Gordon Anglesea who were abusing children in care themselves. David Sheppard was an outspoken critic of Thatcher and she loathed him. Meanwhile Heffer had a tipple over at hers on a regular basis and kept the lid on the paedophile gang in north Wales and Cheshire, of which Thatcher's friend and aide Sir Peter Morrison was a member.
Little wonder that Thatch extended her kindness to Doris during the years following Heffer's death. Heffer died in 1991 and Peter Morrison wasn't safely pushing up the daisies until July 1995 – and even after that there was the Waterhouse Inquiry to get through. Thatcher wasn't the only one at Heffer's memorial service who knew about Morrison – his abuse of children was openly gossiped about in the Tory Party at the time. Neil Hamilton was the MP for the constituency neighbouring Morrison's and the Hamiltons attended social events with Morrison.
Thatcher of course was delighted that Militant caused such havoc in Liverpool City Council during the 1980s. They provided a serious problem for Kinnock and a great deal of bad publicity for the Labour Party, should anybody have been thinking of voting for them. No wonder Heffer was her favourite socialist – he certainly did her a few favours.
The Heffers had a flat in Dolphin Square – which was where some of the kids from the children's homes of north Wales were taken to provide sexual services.
The Heffers were not blessed with children themselves.
Other people will have known about – to varying degrees – the Heffers' cowardice, hypocrisy and collusion with highly paid criminals from the professional middle classes.
Bob Wareing was Heffer's agent at the 1964 General Election and replaced Heffer as the Councillor for Pirrie ward in Walton when Heffer became an MP – Wareing held the position for 19 years. He was then MP for Liverpool West Derby, 1983-10, representing Labour until he was deselected in 2007 after which he sat as an Independent.
Wareing was born and grew up in Liverpool. He graduated from the University of London and completed his teaching certificate at the Bolton College of Education (now the University of Bolton) in 1957. Wareing worked as a local gov't officer for Liverpool Corporation in the 1940s and 50s. He later worked as an FE lecturer, including at the Liverpool City Institute of FE, 1964-72 and at the Central Liverpool College of FE, 1972-83, as Deputy Head of Adult Education. A CV like that means that Wareing will have heard about the organised abuse of children.
Wareing was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group.
It is an irony that whilst Dafydd was at medical school in Liverpool he was involved in the action against the proposed flooding of Tryweryn which resulted in the drowning of the village of Capel Celyn in order to build a reservoir to supply water for Liverpool, something which resulted in decades of resentment and bad feeling towards Liverpool on the part of many people in north Wales (see post 'A Network Stretching Back Decades…'). Some people in north Wales were – understandably – furious over Tryweryn, particularly as Liverpool City Council showed utter contempt for the objectors from north Wales. Some commentators maintain that it was Tryweryn which resulted in Plaid becoming a strong political force, although that is disputed by some historians. There were ructions at the opening ceremony of the Llyn Celyn reservoir in Oct 1965 – the Free Wales Army turned up to add to the fun.
So whilst he was at university, Dafydd was popping across the water to Ireland to pick up a few tips from Republican activists and then in 1964 he was trying to become a Plaid MP – yet he has spent decades exploiting his links with the corrupt professionals on Merseyside, immersed in dirty deals and crime so serious that politicians from across the whole political spectrum were tied up in concealing it.
Dr David Owen was Chancellor of Liverpool University, 1996-2009. Dr Death has personal connections with some of the paedophiles' friends of north Wales (see post 'Dr Death'). Whilst Dr Death was Chancellor of Liverpool, the Vice-Chancellor was Drummond Bone, famed for his penismobiles. In 2005 the Guardian stated that Drummond was 'bigger than the Beatles'. Whereas Drummond was in actuality in the same corrupt incestuous shithouse as Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends.
In 1995 Bob Wareing held talks with Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic without telling either his constituency party or the national Labour Party of his intentions – Mladic was wanted for war crimes at the time. Wareing was accompanied by Francis Ormsby-Gore, aka Lord Harlech. Francis Ormsby-Gore had a very difficult life with several of his close relatives dying in unfortunate circumstances – Francis also had mental health problems and trouble with the law (see post '95 Glorious Years!'). From what I have read of Francis Ormsby-Gore's misfortunes, they are indicative of someone who was targeted by the paedophiles' friends.
Blair could not find it in his heart to directly criticise Bob Wareing for his hobnobbing with genocidal maniacs.
In 1997 Wareing was suspended from the Labour Party by the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges as a result of his non-disclosure of the interests of his consultancy firm – Wareing had received illicit funds from Serbian firms as a lobbyist. Wareing voted against NATO intervention over Kosovo in 1999. Wareing became known as 'Serbian Bob' or 'the member for Belgrade'.
Between April 2004-July 2009, Wareing booked the Commons dining facilities on 28 occasions to host Russian businessmen.
Wareing's seat was succeeded by Stephen Twigg in 2010, in what Wareing maintained was New Labour skulduggery. Which it probably was, but the scams between Dafydd and his various contacts in Liverpool continued.
John Hamilton was the Leader of Liverpool City Council, 1983-86. Hamilton was not a member of Militant and his wiki page states that he was allowed to remain as a figurehead to disguise the fact that the real power lay with the Militant Councillors, including the Deputy Leader Derek Hatton. Although such situations can occur, a figurehead nearly always has something that makes it worth everyone's while to keep them in position.
Although Hamilton was not a member of Militant, in 1987 along with 48 other Liverpool City Councillors he was banned from office for five years as a consequence of voting to set an illegal budget. However, unlike Hatton, Hamilton wasn't expelled from the Labour Party and he retained many of his positions, including his membership of the Liverpool Racial Equality Council. Soon after he was banned from office John Hamilton became Chairman of Liverpool Broadgreen Constituency Labour Party.
Hamilton was elected to Liverpool City Council in 1958 and became Leader of the Labour Group in 1974. He first led the Council between 1976-78, but because Labour didn't have a majority they were often overturned by the Conservatives and Liberals acting together. Sir Trevor Jones was the Liberal leader of the Council at various different times and was also leader 1979-83 (see post 'He Knows Where The Bodies Are Buried') immediately before Hamilton led the Militant influenced Council in 1983.
Hamilton was a school teacher, a Governor of Breckfield Comprehensive School, Chairman of the City's Education Group and was involved with the Duncan Society of Liverpool, an organisation concerned with public housing. Hamilton was a member of CND and Secretary of the National Socialist Educational Association.
Hamilton was Chair of the Governors at Liverpool Polytechnic. Ieuan Wyn Jones – the former MP and AM for Ynys Mon, Leader of Plaid Cymru and the former Deputy First Minister of Wales – stood as the Plaid candidate for Denbigh in 1974 and 1979. Ieuan Wyn Jones worked for many years as a lawyer in Ruthin near Denbigh, in the same practice as David Jones, MP for Clwyd West – they both watched Dafydd and the paedophiles stitch people up and never uttered a word. Ieuan read law at Liverpool Poly. Ieuan was born in Denbigh and grew up there. I don't know who his family were, but Denbigh was a town where virtually everybody worked at the North Wales Hospital. Another Liverpool Poly law graduate is Dee Jones, a colleague of the paedophiles' friends of north Wales who is now successfully flogging her services as an 'executive coach' to the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board despite having left a series of NHS positions under a cloud.
Liverpool Poly became Liverpool John Moores University in 1992. Cheri Booth was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, 1999-06.
John Hamilton was a Quaker. The wonderful work of Dafydd was featured in a Quakers publication a few years ago – at about the same time that one man who was being targeted by the paedophiles' friends in north Wales moved to Cumbria with his new girlfriend, only to find himself being threatened by the local GP, which shocked everyone because the GP was a Quaker. Paul Nickson, one of the GPs in Bethesda who ignored a report of child sexual abuse (see post 'It's All About Protecting Children') as well as much criminality on the part of the paedophiles' friends (see post 'A Trade In People – Between London and North Wales') relocated to Liverpool to work as a Top Doctor there. Paul Nickson is a Quaker.
John Hamilton was described as a 'lifelong bachelor'.
In Jan 2000 Hamilton was seriously injured in a house fire. The Waterhouse Report was published in Feb 2000. Cherie of course had been installed as Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores by then, so it really was a good thing that if there had have been a high profile public figure in Liverpool who was abusing children in north Wales and knew of others involved that they did not pop up at the time of the publication of the Waterhouse Report to denounce it as a massive cover-up. Not that such an event could ever have happened, because of course as Sir Ronald Waterhouse confirmed, the abuse of children in north Wales was carried out entirely by a small number of sheepshagging social workers and teachers from north Wales. I expect that John Hamilton remembered that as he recovered from his injuries.
Derek Hatton the Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council, 1983-87, was expelled from the Labour Party. I used to be friendly with someone who's husband's family were involved with Labour politics in Liverpool and they maintained that Derek Hatton was totally corrupt and a complete thug.
In 1990, entries in Hatton's diary prompted the police to begin Operation Cheetah, a major inquiry into serious local gov't corruption in Liverpool. It culminated in Hatton standing trial with three co-defendants – John Monks (Hatton's tailor) and former Liverpool Labour Councillors John Nelson and Hannah Folan – at Mold Crown Court in 1993 for conspiracy to defraud Liverpool City Council. After an eight week trial – by which time the inquiry had cost more than £10 million – the Presiding judge instructed the jury to find Hatton and Folan not guilty. Alan Rawley QC for the prosecution announced that two other charges against Hatton would be dropped. Hatton's solicitor Peter Quinn demanded that Operation Cheetah be abandoned and John Monks alleged that the police had pursued a vendetta against Hatton.
The Presiding judge was one Sir Ronald Waterhouse. He instructed the jury to find Degsy and Folan not guilty on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Ronnie Waterhouse seemed to have been someone who had trouble locating evidence that other people were waving in front of him.
Whilst Sir Ronnie was acquitting Hatton in a north Wales court for offences allegedly committed by people from Liverpool against Liverpool City Council, I was in the process of being prosecuted for 'staring at a social worker in Safeways'.
After leaving politics the Trotskyite Degsy went on to form a property developing company, which he runs with his son Ben. The company is based in Cyprus – Degsy was living in Cyprus and might still be.
Dr D.G.E. Wood who facilitated the trafficking ring with Dafydd and the paedophiles now works as a GP in Cyprus!
When Wood was posing as my supporter back in the mid 1980s, Wood was a big supporter of Dr Death and we often talked politics – including Degsy and Militant and the havoc that they were causing for the Labour Party. Wood was very rude about Degsy and used to bang on about him being a selfish greedy bastard.
My how things have changed! Christ almighty, Wood used to read the Daily Mail as well. So who introduced you to the delights of Mr Hatton and Cyprus then Wood – was it by any chance a man whose name begins with Dafydd?
'The revolution starts here' as Degsy said when he was elected as Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council all those years ago. Until presumably he succumbed to the call of Dafydd and the paedophiles.
Tony Mulhearn was the President of the District Labour Party in Liverpool – before the national Labour Party dissolved it – from 1980, the body which oversaw the actions of the Liverpool City Councillors. Mulhearn joined the Labour Party in 1963 and was one of the Militant Councillors expelled from the Labour Party in 1986. He was a member of the City Council, 1984-87. In 1985 after Kinnock ranted at them all, Mulhearn stood for the Labour Party candidacy for Knowsley North in an attempt to deselect the sitting MP, Robert Kilroy-Silk.
Dafydd was mates with Kilroy-Silk as well! In the mid 1990s, as the demands for a Public Inquiry into the possibility that a paedophile ring was operating in north Wales got louder and louder and Gwynedd Health Authority tried to persuade Dafydd to retire because he'd become too embarrassing even for them and the closure of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh loomed ever closer, Dafydd started turning up on Kilroy's TV show being presented as an expert on whatever topic was being discussed that morning (see post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks'). I'll say that for Dafydd, he may be completely bonkers and involved with serious organised crime, but he has friends from all parts of society – thugs, addicts, politicians from every party, folk singers, Top Doctors, corrupt police officers and corrupt judges, Hollywood stars whose fathers-in-law live in Purley and know Joan Collins, Dafydd is the glue that holds the corrupt incestuous shithouse together.
After Militant died a death, Tony Mulhearn joined the party which succeeded it, the Socialist Party. In the 1990s, Mulhearn studied part-time for a degree at Liverpool John Moores University – in 1996 he won the prize for being the 'most meritorious mature student'. Whether his old mate John Hamilton was still Chair of Governors there at the time I do not know – but it was before a Pathetic Shark tried to burn Hamilton to death, so Hamilton was probably still in a position of influence at LJMU.
Mulhearn's dissertation was on Leon Trotsky, who was famously assassinated when an ice pick was driven into his head. As opposed to the victims of the paedophiles of north Wales who were finished off in Denbigh by Dafydd and Gwynne via a lobotomy pick through the eye socket.
In 2009 Mulhearn appeared in the Liverpool Echo explaining that he needed heart surgery which had come as quite a shock to him and he was booked into the Liverpool Heart and Chest Centre at Broadgreen but he wasn't worried because his mate Ricky Tomlinson had undergone heart surgery there and they'd done a wonderful job. Of course Ricky survived, he hadn't spilt the paedophiles' pints. Mulhearn was fine as well of course, he's still alive and kicking. The Liverpool Heart and Chest Centre was one of the institutions mentioned in the paedophiles' friends memorandum which was sent to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee – the paedophiles' friends were most insistent that people from north Wales should still be referred to Broadgreen. The 2009 Echo article explained that Mulhearn was working as an IT co-ordinator for the DWP in Warrington and also helped out with his son Joe on a community project in the Netherley/Belle Vue area which provides facilities for football coaching for children.
The highest drama in Liverpool with Militant occurred between 1983 and Sept 1986, when the Labour Party conference approved the expulsion of eight members of Militant, including Derek Hatton and Tony Mulhearn, but the aftermath lasted a long while.
Dafydd and the paedophiles had numerous connections to Liverpool. For years Liverpool was known as 'the capital of north Wales' – it is a lot easier for people from north Wales to travel to Liverpool than it is for them to travel to Cardiff. People from north Wales have a tradition of going to Liverpool University, particularly those who want to study medicine. A look at the biographies of those who worked in north Wales and ignored or facilitated the paedophile ring reveals again and again people who spent part of their lives living and studying or working in Liverpool. North Wales was a region which in a previous era produced many teachers and preachers and many of them went to work in Liverpool. The 'Liverpool Welsh' community was identifiable and well-known and has been the subject of historical study, as have the 'Welsh chapels' in Liverpool.
In 1994 Liverpool Personal Services Society opened a branch in Ruthin – near Denbigh – when the Jillings Investigation into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council was underway and as attempts were being made to finally close down the North Wales Hospital, Denbigh (see post 'The Mentor'). Liverpool Personal Services dispensed advice to people employed in children's homes in Liverpool who were charged with child abuse. I accept that everyone is entitled to legal advice and support, but there was very much more of that available for those involved with the abuse of children and psychiatric patients than there was for those being abused.
I mentioned in a previous post that during the mid 1990s, Dafydd served a High Court injunction on me which contained an affidavit sworn by Dafydd so ludicrous that the injunction was passed around the Hergest Unit day centre for the entertainment of everyone and that plans by the Top Doctors to section one patient were abandoned when he quoted the contents of the injunction in his 'assessment'.
This injunction was issued in the High Court in Liverpool against me – whilst I was living in Bethesda in Snowdonia – in the midst of media reports that a paedophile ring was operating in north Wales and that numerous former children in care had been found dead, often after having developed mental health problems. At the same time, the suicide rate in north Wales was so high that it formed a statistical outlier. Did no-one in Liverpool High Court really not notice what was going on? Particularly as nearly every one of Dafydd's allegations in the High Court were actually detailing the actions of another patient – who was taking the piss out of Dafyd like there was no tomorrow, which must have been quite obvious to everyone in Court. This patient had become so angry that he had said to Dafydd 'why don't you bend over whilst I stick a hand-grenade up your bum and then you can take a deep breath and wait for it to explode?' Dafydd had created a whole 'dangerous incident' out of this comment and had explained at length in his affidavit how he had been ordered to bend over whilst 'a device was inserted into my anus' and 'I was ordered to take a deep breath and to wait for that device to explode'. Furthermore, it was my fault that this comment had been made.
Another incident detailed in the affidavit – which once again just showed how dangerous I was – involved another patient ringing Dafydd up and blowing a raspberry (or in Dafydd's terminology 'impersonating the sound of a flatus') down the phone.
How did Dafydd manage to talk about his anus in the High Court in Liverpool and actually be taken seriously by the Judge and Counsel? It was ridiculous. When the injunction was served on me, the official who served it was laughing because he had read it, I was later told that passages from Dafydd's affidavit had been passed onto the police in Bangor because it was considered so entertaining, the Hergest patients thought that it was hilarious – yet it was discussed in the High Court in Liverpool as though there really was going to be an attempt to blow Dafydd sky-high using a rectal method at any minute and that it would be me who would do it.
Dafydd stated in his affidavit that he saw his role as a 'lightening conductor' no less, in that he 'deflected' my murderous attentions away from the other poor, harassed Top Doctors.
Dafydd – a lightening conductor is not a safe thing to be when lightening strikes…
Norman Buchan, MP for West Renfrewshire (which evolved into Paisley South), 1983-90, was the MP for whom Doris Heffer worked as a secretary at the same time as shafting the paedophiles' victims in HMP Walton when they sought help from her husband. Buchan was a schoolteacher who was married to Janey Buchan, Labour MEP for Glasgow, 1979-94.
Janey's 2012 Guardian obituary described her as a 'cultural and political activist in the fiercest tradition of Glasgow's working class'. Janey was on first name terms with Pete Seegar, Ewan McColl, Billy Connolly – he used to fly over from California to visit her on the grounds of working class solidarity – Willy Brandt and Nelson Mandela. The Guardian told us that Janey 'unleashed her ferocious tongue' on 'backsliding officials and councillors' – but not it would seem on the gang of paedophiles whom her husband's secretary was quietly assisting. Janey used to joke that her memoirs would be called 'Shits I Have Known'. I think that I might have beaten her to it with this blog.
Janey Buchan was a Strathclyde Councillor, 1974-79. So she will have known about the abuse of kids in care and the chaos in Strathclyde Regional Authority – which many years ago employed Chris Jay as Deputy Director of Social Work. Chris then employed his much younger newly qualified partner Alexis, who is now Professor Alexis Jay and currently presiding over the imploding IICSA (Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse) (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play').
Janey will also have known about the appalling mental health services in parts of Glasgow.
Janey was given to 'great acts of kindness or generosity' 'to those in need of help'. Unless of course those in need of help were being targeted by organised crime facilitated through the UK's welfare services. Janey was a member of CND and an early supporter of gay rights in an 'unsympathetic city'. A lot of early supporters of gay rights did not realise that organisations like PIE had infiltrated the gay rights movement – others did know but failed to say anything.
Janey was 'a pillar of the Scottish Arts Council' and she and Norman helped finance the West Highland Free Press.
Another mate of Janey's was Gus Macdonald. Gus was appointed circulation manager of Tribune by Michael Foot in the 1960s – so Gus would have had all the dirt on Footie and his mates (see post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks'). Gus then worked as a journo for the Scotsman and the Sunday Times – where he will have known the sex offending Top Doctors' greatest friend Marjorie Wallace (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker'). He worked for Granada Television, 1967-86 and was joint editor of World In Action with Mandelson's mate John Birt. Macdonald was associated with World In Action for many years. Macdonald then became a TV executive. In 1998 Blair gave him a peerage and Macdonald was Minister of the Cabinet Office, 2001-03.
Not a word by Janey or Gus was uttered about Dafydd and the paedophiles throughout all those years – instead Blair appointed old Gus to the Cabinet Office just after the publication of the Waterhouse Report, at the same time that he appointed paedophiles' friend David Hanson as his PPS (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part II').
Janey was also mates with Paul Foot, the investigative journo. Paul Foot used to write for Private Eye and the Eye has published material about the abuse of children in care and psychiatric patients, including the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal. However considering that Janey had a hotline to Doris and Eric Heffer, a great deal more could have been published. Including about those sex parties with children in Dolphin Square – the Heffers had a flat there, so they were obviously where the action was.
When she was older Janey retired to Brighton, where her family lived. Which was where John Allen owned the brothels to which he trafficked the kids from Bryn Alyn. Janey's mate Gus was on the Council and the Court of Sussex University…
Allen Adams was the other person on the left with whom Frank Field claimed Thatcher had secret night caps. Adams was the Labour MP for Paisley and then Paisley North, 1979-90 and before that had been a Strathclyde Regional Councillor. When Adams died in 1990, his widow Irene succeeded his seat. Irene had previously succeeded him on Strathclyde Regional Council was he was elected to the Commons and she served as his Secretary when he was an MP. Irene began her political career in 1970 when she became a Paisley Town Councillor. In 1972 she became a JP and in 1974 she became a Councillor on Renfrewshire District Council.
So what is this lady from Scotland who helped her husband out and once sat on the Magistrates bench in a small town in Scotland doing now? She's in the Lords of course. I don't know what dirt Irene has on who, but it must be News of the World stuff of the highest order.
The precise mechanism by which Irene found herself in the Upper House is just as intriguing. She was offered a peerage if she agreed to stand down from the Commons in 2005 in order to allow the sitting Labour MP for West Renfrewshire Jim Sheridan to be selected to fight the General Election of that year. Jim isn't much more impressive than Irene. Before entering politics, like many men in that part of the world he worked in the shipyards and then as a printer. He was a convenor for the TGWU, 1984-2000. Sheridan was a strong supporter of the Speaker of the House Michael Martin when Gorbals Mick came under fire for his massive expenses claims.
In 2014, the Sunday Post reported that Irene claimed £53k in expenses during a period when she didn't speak or submit any written questions.
Perhaps the admirable Mhairi Black, the SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, could tell us all what exactly has been going on in the Labour Party up there. They are obviously working some sort of major scam that no-one can risk being made public – can it possibly be traced back to those late night boozing sessions with Thatch in which Irene's husband participated many years ago?
The other odd thing is that both Allen Adams and Norman Buchan -who occupied neighbouring constituencies- both died in 1990. Adams was only 44 years old.
As is so often the case, in the face of all the turf wars, in-fighting and the individuals who were desperately expanding their empire or even just hanging on for dear life, the victims of a gang of paedophiles who were abused, wrongly institutionalised or imprisoned and who were often found dead, were at best forgotten about and at worst deliberately buried.
One person who undoubtedly knew a great deal about Dafydd and the paedophiles was Gwyneth Dunwoody, the Labour MP for Exeter, 1966-70 and Crewe (and then Crewe and Nantwich), 1974-08. After she died it was stressed that Dunwoody was someone who was 'independent'. She was actually a woman who was loathed by many and who bounced back in a most unlikely way from near bankruptcy and ruination when she was in middle age. Readers of this blog might like to speculate on how she did this when they have reached the end of this post.
Gwyneth Dunwoody was unbeatable in terms of Labour Party Royalty. Her father was Morgan Phillips, a Labour Parliamentary agent and General Secretary of the Labour Party, 1944-62. Morgan went to the Labour college in Earls Court with Nye Bevan and Ness Edwards. Ness Edwards's daughter Llinos (Llin) became an NHS radiographer who married John Golding, the MP for Newcastle-Under-Lyme, a very powerful person in the Labour Party who also had the dirt on everyone. Robert Kilroy-Silk, whilst he was the Labour MP for Ormskirk and then Knowsley North, used to beat a path to Golding's door for 'advice'. Golding stepped down in 1983 and Llin took over his seat! Llin is now Baroness Llin – she received her peerage in 2001, after the publication of the Waterhouse Report. John Golding and the Baroness spent years as MPs for a Staffordshire constituency whilst children in care in Staffordshire were being abused and whilst the local NHS was exterminating people. They did not raise any concerns. For the lowdown on John and Llin Golding and their network, see post 'News From Sicily'.
Gwyneth's mother was Norah Phillips, a former member of Croydon Council who was given a peerage in 1964 and then became a Gov't Whip in the Lords. Norah Phillips was Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, 1978-86. Both of Gwyneth Dunwoody's grandmothers were suffragettes and all four of her grandparents were Labour loyalists.
As a girl and teenager Dunwoody's parents took her with them to Labour Party events and conferences. She went boating with Nye Bevan and discussed politics with Hugh Gaitskill. It was claimed that Dunwoody's parents did not pressurise her to enter politics – they wouldn't have needed to, it will have just been a given that she would.
Dunwoody left school at 16 and worked on the local paper in Fulham. She joined the Labour Party in 1947 and spoke at the Labour Party conference in 1948. She worked as an actress in repertory and then as a journalist in the Netherlands. In 1954 Gwyneth married John Dunwoody, a newly qualified Top Doctor from a medical family who met Gwyneth after he began boozing with her father when John 'became angry at the Conservatives underfunding of the NHS after they returned to power in 1951'. An angry Top Doctor approaching a Labour politician because he wants more dosh – my how things haven't changed. The Top Doctors haven't changed the song since 1951 – three years after the NHS was established.
John Dunwoody had been to St Paul's School, then to King's College London and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He joined the Labour Party when he was 21 and also the Socialist Medical Association (now called the Socialist Health Association) and Medical Practitioners Union when he was newly qualified. John Dunwoody became a very influential figure in the Socialist Medical Association.
Gwyneth and John moved to Devon, where John worked as a surgeon at Newton Abbott Hospital, 1955-56 and then as a GP and a Top Doctor at Totnes Disctrict Hospital, 1956-66. John stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate for Tiverton in 1959 and for Plymouth Sutton in 1964. Gwynedd was a Councillor on Totnes Borough Council, 1963-66. In 1966 both John and Gwyneth were elected as Labour MPs, John for Falmouth and Cambourne, Gwyneth for Exeter.
John Dunwoody was a junior Minister in the DHSS, 1969-70. Dunwoody was appointed after he wowed Richard Crossman, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, when Dunwoody escorted Crossman on a visit to Cornwall. Crossman and many people in the 1960s Labour Party really loved John Dunwoody and he was touted as a future Labour Party leader. They were desperate to have someone who could hold their own with the Top Doctors and Dunwoody dealt with the 'very difficult problem' of the pay of nurses and hospital pharmacists and the 'sticky issue of Gov't policy towards the Pill'. Richard Crossman's diaries revealed that in Feb 1970 Crossman discussed Ted Heath's performance on Panorama with John Dunwoody and Dr David Stark Murray, the Secretary of the Socialist Medical Association. They were all unimpressed with Heath – although of course Heath won the General Election in June 1970. Stark Murray was a key figure in the Social Medical Association and virtually everyone in the Association knew him. Stark Murray was the son of Scottish pathologist Robin Murray, who had been the Labour and Co-operative MP for West Renfrewshire in the 1920s. Stark Murray graduated from Glasgow University and then went to London to work as a pathologist in Lambeth Hospital. He later worked in Richmond and Kingston in Surrey and was the Chairman of the Blood Transfusion Service of the South Western Metropolitan Region of the NHS. Stark Murray was also the President of the Surrey Branch of the BMA. Stark Murray was one of the Top Doctors who campaigned for the establishment of the NHS. He retired in 1965 but remained very influential and continued to advise Gov't.
David Stark Murray will have definitely known Professor Harry Keen, Ed Miliband's Uncle Harry, whose very memory reduces Ed to tears of compassion for the dear old NHS. The Uncle Harry who worked with the filthy rich Top Doctors at Guy's and St Thomas's, at least one of whom was a mate of Dafydd's (see post 'Inside Information About A Hergest Unit Death').
In 1978 a memorial meeting to Stark Murray was held in the Commons and was attended by Richard Clements, editor of Tribune, 1961-82. Clements was a big mate of the First Family of Troughing, the Kinnocks. In 1975 Clements chose Neil Kinnock to give a speech at the Tribune rally, appealing for funds – this is considered to have been an important moment in Kinnock's political career. In 1979 Jim Callaghan offered Clements the chance of a safe London seat in the East End, but Clements declined, insisting on a selection ballot which he lost. Clements left Tribune in 1982 and became Michael Foot's office manager. After Foot resigned as leader, Clements fulfilled a very similar role for Kinnock, but went under the title of 'Executive Officer'. Clements was Kinnock's closest ally and a shaper of Labour's strategies, although he retired from that role in 1987. So Clements would know all about the mountain of dirt – including the activities of Dafydd and the paedophiles – which both Foot and Kinnock hid (see post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks'.
It is also very likely that this bunch of tossers toadying to the Socialist Medical Association provided yet another rich source of material for Professor Fergus Lowe of Bangor University's School of Psychology to blackmail people with. When Fungus was young he was involved with left politics and being Fungus every contact and bit of info will have been put to good use.
In 1999 Clements was named by the Sunday Times as a KGB agent. Clements admitted meeting Russian officials but denied being a spy.
Richard Crossman noted that Dunwoody 'was the one Minister' who could 'hold his own' with the 'formidable Chief Medical Officer…Sir George Godber'. Godber was yet someone else who concealed the abuses of Dafydd and Gwynne at the North Wales Hospital (see post 'The Creme de la Creme').
Presumably the nurses and hospital pharmacists were stuffed over by John Dunwoody's 'negotiations', because their wages remained low until the 1980s when nurses pay was greatly improved. I bet that Dunwoody heard a lot about Dafydd and Gwynne whilst he was at the DHSS as well.
In 1970 both John and Gwyneth Dunwoody lost their seats. By this time their marriage was in trouble and there are reports of them having serious bust-ups in public in the Commons. However, I'm puzzled as to why John Dunwoody didn't make a political comeback after 1970 – instead he gave up politics and returned to medicine, working as a part-time GP in his brother's surgery in Clapham.
Gwyneth landed the post of Director of the Film Producers Association of GB and as a consultant to the Association of Independent Cinemas. Martin Shipton's biography of George Thomas 'Political Chameleon' mentions that George Thomas was known to frequent a well-known Independent Cinema for casual sexual encounters with other men.
In Feb 1974 Gwyneth returned to the Commons as the Labour MP for Crewe – she was sponsored by the National Union of Railwaymen. She was endorsed as the Labour candidate for Crewe by the retiring member Sydney Scholefield Allen QC – a barrister who was an alumnus of Liverpool University – and his son John Allen (not THE John Allen who was a leading light in the paedophile gang in north Wales), who was an adviser to Harold Wilson.
Gwyneth and John divorced in 1975. Gwyneth became an MEP in 1975 and remained an MEP until 1979.
John Dunwoody was Director of the anti-smoking group ASH, 1974-77 and was then Chairman of Kingston, Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority, 1977-82. He was Chairman of the FPA (Family Planning Association), 1981-87 and Chairman of Bloomsbury District Health Authority, 1982-90, until it amalgamated with Islington. John Dunwoody was then Vice-Chairman of Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Local Medical Committee, 1996-06.
Top Doctors who work in what is euphemistically called 'family planning' know about the sexual exploitation/abuse of young people. Dunwoody would also have had a great deal of knowledge about this as well as of the associated abuse of psychiatric patients from his Chairmanship of those two Health Authorities. Merton, Sutton and Wandwsorth fell within the area covered by St George's Hospital Medical School, so Dunwoody would have known about the paedophile ring that was being facilitated by St George's, as well as the serious drugs offences and the research fraud and misconduct taking place in the hospital/medical school. St George's had links with Dafydd and the paedophiles of north Wales/Cheshire and were colluding with them – Gwyneth Dunwoody's constituency was in Cheshire.
John Dunwoody was given a CBE in 1986 supposedly for his work with Kingston, Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority. He received that gong years before he did everyone at St George's favours, so one wonders what assistance he provided for corrupt people in high places in order to bag that CBE.
Gwyneth of course will have known about the paedophile gang which was operating on her own turf in Cheshire – she could well have known about it before she was selected for the seat, because many other people in the Labour Party certainly did, including Harold Wilson.
In 1974 Gwyneth was elected for the constituency of Crewe – 25 miles away from Chester, where Sir Peter Morrison was elected in the same year.
Gwyneth was Shadow Secretary of State for Health in Michael Foot's Shadow Cabinet, Dec 1980-Oct 1983. She was appointed to that position as the shit hit the fan regarding Mary Wynch's case. Gwyneth sat on the Labour Party's NEC between 1981-88 – as the trouble that Dafydd and the paedophiles caused grew and grew and whilst Alison Taylor, Mary Wynch and I repeatedly raised concerns about criminal conduct in north Wales. Gwyneth 'collaborated closely' with Betty Boothroyd on the NEC. It was Betty Boothroyd who in her capacity as Speaker silenced Ann Clwyd when Ann tried to speak about the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal in the Commons in the early 1990s.
After her death Gwyneth Dunwoody was praised for resisting Militant in her constituency. One wonders how she won that battle, because Gwyneth was very, very unpopular among much of the electorate. In 1983 boundary changes resulted in Gwyneth's constituency taking in Nantwich and becoming Crewe and Nantwich. The Tories of Nantwich hated her and she only won the 1983 General Election with a majority of 290. However in 1997 Gwyneth's bacon was saved when further boundary changes resulted in her majority increasing substantially.
In 1957 Morgan Phillips – Gwyneth's father – perjured himself in a libel action against the Spectator, an action which had resulted in the Spectator paying Phillips, Nye Bevan and Richard Crossman damages. The perjury was only revealed when Crossman's diaries were published. Dunwoody attempted to pass legislation in 1978 to protect people from libel posthumously for 50 years. Had Dunwoody's Bill become law, it would have prevented the truth about her father's perjury being known.
In the late 1980s Gwyneth Dunwoody encountered serious financial problems. The house in her constituency was repossessed due to mortgage arrears and she was threatened with eviction from her flat in the Barbican over unpaid rent. Her furniture was seized by bailiffs and she was sued by Barclays Bank over an unpaid loan. Dunwoody was also £1000k in debt to a House of Commons restaurant. How Dunwoody ever found herself with such money problems was never explained. She had spent her whole life as a member of the affluent middle classes and there weren't any obvious disasters which had hit her to cause massive financial outgoings.
She infuriated many of her constituents by accepting a retainer from the Fur Trading Association which resulted in her defending leg clamping animal traps, on the grounds that she 'needed the money'.
Gwyneth wowed everyone by 'turning her fortunes around', even though she worked outside the New Labour circle. Dunwoody made it clear that she hated New Labour and she successfully resisted Blair's attempts in 2002 to oust her from the Select Transport Committee.
So how ever did this unscrupulous old bat who would do anything to protect her own interests, who had close connections with a Top Doctor and his network and who sat on the NEC with Eric Heffer – Doris the medical secretary's husband – manage to hang on and thrive whilst Dafydd and the paedophiles were busy on her manor???
Like a number of folk who concealed child molesters, Gwyneth voted against lowering the age of consent for homosexual acts from 18 to 16.
After she died in 2008 the Guardian described Gwyneth as a 'champion of public interest' and the BBC referred to the 'kindly rebel' and her 'compassion'.
Gwyneth and John Dunwoody would have both known Dr Death and they'd have known a great deal about Jeremy Thorpe as well, both being MPs in Devon whilst Jeremy was telling people that the best way of dealing with Norman Scott would be to kill him (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed').
One of the Dunwoodys offspring inherited both the gene for becoming a Labour politician and the gene for working in the NHS – Tamsin! Tamsin was born in Devon – whilst her parents were down there keeping schtum about Jeremy Thorpe – went to the Grey Coat Hospital Church of England School in Westminster and to the Universities of Kent and the South Bank. Tamsin's profiles all mention that she worked in London hospitals in the NHS for nearly 15 years, but there is never any indication of what Tamsin worked at in London hospitals. Tamsin's definitely not a Top Doctor and if she was a nurse that would have been mentioned in capitals – with a photo of her cuddling a child or holding a patient's hand – on every website profile of her.
In 2003 Tamsin was elected as the Labour AM for Preseli Pembrokeshire in the National Assembly for Wales and in 2005 she was appointed to two Deputy Ministerial roles. So Tamsin arrived in the Welsh Assembly once the Waterhouse Report was safely out of the way and the bellyaching had died down and after Ron Davies with his moments of madness had left the Assembly as well as the Commons. In north Wales I had lost yet another job after the Arfon Community Mental Health Team had threatened my employer – my employer's wife was in tears after the visit from Keith Fearns and even after I resigned in an attempt to prevent them being targeted by the paedophiles' friends, they came under attack shortly after. My former employer and his wife were subjected to a whispering campaign and then someone attempted to sue them for something that was actually the fault of the Merseyside NHS in Alder Hey Hospital – they won their Court Appeal, but their health had suffered as had their reputation and eventually they wound their business up. Two more completely innocent victims of the paedophiles' friends. By the time that Tamsin was sitting in the Assembly, I had been charged with 'threatening to kill Alun Davies' after I had told his secretary that he was a fat idiot and numerous staff from the mental health services lied on oath – Alun Davies was busy telling everyone that I would be receiving seven years in prison. All loose ends tied up ready for Tamsin's career in politics!
Tamsin's mum was firmly wedged in her Commons seat and resisting Blair, having found her feet again after the financial disaster in the late 1980s – what principled bravery and what a comeback! – and Tamsin's dad was down in south London keeping the lid on the barrel of crap that was St George's and Wandsworth. Let's hear it for Uncle Harry and the Socialist Health Association – of which Dr Brian Gibbons, AM for Aberavon, 1999-10 and Health Minister in the Welsh Gov't, 2005-07, was also a member. The Brian Gibbons who, whilst Tamsin had her nose stuck deep into the trough of the Bay of Plenty with her two Deputy Ministerial jobs, wrote me a letter stating that 'this correspondence is closed' when I told him that I had evidence of criminal activity in the mental health services in north Wales.
Tamsin lives near Haverfordwest. Not only was that the location of a paedophile ring and a separate scandal involving cruelty to children in the care of Pembrokeshire Social Services (see post 'The Reality Is, There's No Problem'), but after Keith Thomson the CEO of the NW Wales NHS Trust resigned following his appearance in front of the High Court in Cardiff where he was ordered to hand over all files relating to me or face imprisonment for contempt of Court, Keith resurfaced as CEO of the Trust in Tamsin's neck of the woods a few months later!
Haverfordwest was of course the home area of June and Jennifer Gibbons who were banged up in Broadmoor by the paedophiles' friends without limit of time in the 1980s when they were teenagers (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker'). The main problem that the paedophiles' friends had with the Gibbons' girls was that they didn't like talking to anyone but each other. Then they started declaring that they were prostitutes and they were in Broadmoor within months. As Brown quipped 'Prostitutes? Who are your customers then?' 'Well, there's Professor Prestigious and the Chief Constable and that Judge who presided over the trial of that child abusing social worker the other day and acquitted him…'
Come on then Tamsin, what disgusting deal was done with whom and why to land those twins in Broadmoor? One of them died 'from the effects of her medication' shortly before she was released – the one whom the Top Doctors declared was the 'ringleader' who 'dominated' her sister…
Tamsin hit the buffers in 2007 when she lost her seat to a Tory. Then her mum died. In the wake of Gwyneth's death, Tamsin gave an interview explaining how her mum had been such a wonderful mother, 'really cuddly', who had a home full of 'stuffed teddies'. Thanks to your mum and dad Tamsin, it wasn't only teddies that were stuffed.
Tamsin didn't waste time grieving for the cuddly Gwyneth for long. Because her mum had died, a by-election was called in Gwyneth's former seat – and Tamsin put her name forward as a candidate for selection. There were 60 other applications – and Tamsin was the lucky winner! The prospect of another worthless turd in Parliament who had concealed a paedophile gang who murdered witnesses? It's just what Gwyneth would have wanted.
There was a great deal of unhappiness when Tamsin was selected. She maintained that she had never met Gordon Brown who was by then PM, although Tamsin did admit that Gordon held frequent long phone calls with her, but that was just because he wanted to keep up with the campaign.
Whoever advised Tamsin and Gordon on the campaign was clearly a Conservative who was having a laugh. The campaign was a disaster. Tamsin described herself as a single parent with five children and in response people squealed with laughter and publicised the fact that her grandmother was a Baroness. Then Tamsin told the world that a Dunwoody could be relied upon to do a good job and the Telegraph drew a parallel with the Plantagenets. Tamsin them hurled shit at Edward Timpson the Tory candidate, describing him as 'one of THEM – a Tory boy who is used to being waited on, not serving other people' and provided photos of his '1.5 million mansion in the Cheshire countryside'. This was not a good idea – Edward Timpson's family are well-known for their philanthropy. The family company runs an employment scheme for former prisoners – the Timpsons' give them worthwhile jobs as well with good promotion prospects, not some ludicrous short term 'opportunity' which leads nowhere but does provide well paid employment for the former social workers and teachers supervising the 'scheme'. The Timpsons had also fostered many children and unlike the 'carers' that were deemed appropriate to look after children by people whom the Dunwoodys were mates with, the Timpsons do not seem to have beaten/raped/trafficked the children in their care.
Edward Timpson won the by-election with a huge majority. I have never voted Conservative but I felt like cracking open the champagne when I heard that Tamsin had fallen flat on her face.
In 2011 Tamsin appeared in the Welsh media after the police were called to her house and she was arrested. It transpired that she'd had a big row with two of her teenaged children and they'd phoned the police and reported her for assault. Tamsin has obviously failed as a mother on the teddies and cuddles front. The charges were subsequently withdrawn so Tamsin has not had the experience of appearing in Court as so many of the victims of those whom her family spent years protecting have.
One of Gwyneth's colleagues in Michael Foot's Shadow Cabinet was Baroness Llewelyn-Davies.
Baroness Annie Llewelyn-Davies was born in Birkenhead and went to Wallasey High School, Birkenhead High School, Liverpool College, Huyton and Girton College, Cambridge. In 1934 she married Alexander Smith, a research physiologist. After this marriage was dissolved, in 1943 she married Richard Llewelyn Davies. Richard was elevated to the peerage as Lord Llewelyn-Davies.
Annie Llewelyn-Davies was a civil servant who was never elected to the Commons, although she stood as a Labour candidate a number of times. She was a close friend of Richard Crossman who described her in his diaries as 'the real politician' when her husband was elevated to the peerage. Annie received a peerage herself in 1967. Annie Llewelyn-Davies served as a Government whip in the Lords, 1969 -70. In 1973 she was elected Chief Whip. On the return of the Labour Party to government in 1974 she became Government Chief Whip. In 1975, she became a Privy Counsellor. Annie was Opposition Chief Whip again, 1979-82. She was Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, 1982-87, an office carrying with it the role of Chairman of the European Communities Committee.
So Annie Llewelyn-Davies was another person who was given a peerage and many senior roles before ever seemingly achieving very much. She died in Nov 1997 at the home of the former Conservative Minister Lord Alport. They had been in a secret relationship with each other – after Annie's death the explanation given for them keeping the relationship secret was that Annie feared that if they married it might damage Lord Alport politically.
Lord Alport was an assistant secretary for the Conservative Party Education Department, 1937 -39 and Director of the Conservative Political Centre, 1945 -50. He was Tory MP for Colchester, 1950-61. In 1961 he was given a peerage.
Alport was a junior Minister in the Commonwealth Relations Office, 1959- 61 and became a Privy Councillor in 1960. He held the office of British High Commissioner to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1961 -63. Alport was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 1974.
In 1945 he married Rachel, the great-grandaughter of George Bingham, the 4th Earl of Lucan. THE Lord Lucan was the 7th Earl – so Annie Llewellyn-Davies was in a relationship with one of Lord Lucan's relatives, but I haven't been able to find out who Rachel was exactly.
Another of Gwyneth's colleagues was Stan Orme, Labour MP for Salford West, 1964-83 and Salford East, 1983-97. Orme was Health and Social Security Spokesman, 1979-80, in Foot's Shadow Cabinet, preceding Gwyneth Dunwoody in this post.
Orme joined the Labour Party in 1944 and became a Sale Borough Councillor in 1958. Orme was a Bevanite who embraced many left wing causes, including the Movement for Colonial Freedom and CND.
In Feb 1974 Orme was appointed as Minister of State For N Ireland during which time he would have found out what was happening at the Kincora Boy's Home in Belfast. In 1976, Jim Callaghan moved Orme to the DHSS where he worked alongside David Ennals, the Secretary of State, until 1979. Ennals and Orme were working in the DHSS when Dafydd unlawfully arrested and imprisoned Mary Wynch, fleecing her of her money and property (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details').
David Ennals had been a junior Minister in the Home Office, 1967-69, when the Home Office directly managed Bryn Estyn. In 1971 Ennals got to know Dafydd's eccentic mate from the Maudsley Jim Birley, one time President of the BMA and one of the many Top Doctors who concealed the wrongdoing of Dafydd's and the paedophiles (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). Ennals worked as campaign manager for MIND, 1970-73 whilst Dafydd was involved with MIND and was Chair of MIND, 1984-89, whilst MIND concealed Dafydd's criminal activities. Ennals was involved with MIND when MIND was involved with people who were campaigning for paedophiles' rights. Ennals lost his seat in 1983 and was given a peerage. In 1983 Ron Davies was elected as the Labour MP for Caerphilly. For further details on David Ennals and his son Sir Paul Ennals, who was Chief Exec of the NCB and has been involved with safeguarding, please see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course'.
Orme was Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1987-92.
Dr Tony Francis lived and worked in Salford immediately before he joined Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends in north Wales. Dafydd's mate Dr Bob Hobson moved to Manchester University from the Maudsley in 1974 to build an outpost of his empire there (see post 'The Mentor') and Manchester University had also provided a home for Professor Kenneth Rawnsley, yet another person who provided much care and support for Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy').
Orme was given a peerage in 1997, as the Waterhouse Inquiry began taking evidence from witnesses.
Lord Orme died in 2005. A memorial service was held in the Lords with speeches from Kinnock and Foot. A very rare exception was made by the Lord Chancellor in that any Divisions were suspended during this evening service.
For a long while, I wondered why a man who lives in Llandudno who was never elected to Parliament and was largely unknown within north Wales yet alone outside of the region was given a peerage by Blair. I now understand it was because he was an outstanding example of a Pathetic Shark – let me introduce Lord Roger Roberts.
Roger Roberts was born and bred in north Wales and has spent his life in the bosom of the paedophiles' friends. He went to John Bright Grammar School in Llandudno, then to UCNW (Bangor University) and then to Handsworth Methodist College, Birmingham.
In 1957, Roberts became a Methodist Minister and was the Superintendent Methodist Minister at Llandudno for 20 years before serving as Minister at the Dewi Sant (Welsh United) Church, Toronto. He is an active Supernumerary Minister in North Wales.
So not only will Lord Roberts have known Gwynne the lobotomist who also came from and grew up in Llandudno, but Lord Roberts was a leading figure in the Methodist Church in north Wales when Dafydd was friends with them all, giving talks to Methodist groups and when he was alleged to be prostituting female psychiatric patients around the chapels in north Wales. Lord Roberts will also have known Mervyn Phillips, who was Chief Exec of Clwyd County Council, 1977-92 and Mervyn's mates in the Methodist Church. Not only did Mervyn preside over Clwyd County Council when the most serious abuse of children in the care of Clwyd was happening, but Mervyn was also very successful at raising many millions for charitable projects with which other paedophiles' friends were involved at a time when the coffers of Clwyd County Council were inexplicably empty (see post 'Ain't Nothing Clean – Not Even The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists'). Mervyn was a solicitor who was a law graduate of Liverpool University.
When Gordon Anglesea died in prison after being convicted of abusing children in care in north Wales, there was a massive turn-out at his funeral which included his many friends in the Police Federation and the Methodist Church.
Roberts was a councillor and a leader of the Liberal Democrats on Aberconwy Borough Council for a number of years and stood as a candidate for the Parliamentary seat of Conwy five times. Conwy is a highly marginal seat and not one of the candidates who contested Conwy ever mentioned what was happening to vulnerable people in north Wales. None of them exposed Wyn Roberts, the Tory MP for Conwy, 1970-97, who was concealing very serious crime.
Roger Roberts is Vice-President of Llangollen International Eisteddfod. Sir Ronald Waterhouse was President of Llangollen International Eisteddfod.
Lord Roberts will have known another leading light in the Methodist Church in Wales, the child molester George Thomas aka Lord Tonypandy (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
As would be expected for a paedophiles' friend, Lord Roberts is not a man who bothers to acquaint himself with people before he attempts to rope them into supporting him. One of my friends told me a few years ago that at one point Lord Roberts was bombarding her with messages and requests for her to put herself forward as a Liberal Democrat candidate in a north Wales constituency. She wasn't a member of the Liberal Democrats but she lived in Llandudno, was involved in community work and felt strongly about what was happening to the more disadvantaged people in north Wales. She had just graduated from Bangor University and was in her mid 20s. In the end I asked her why Lord Roberts was so desperate for her to stand for the Lib Dems when she hadn't shown any interest in doing this and wasn't even a Lib Dem. She replied 'it's because I'm a woman and they're desperate to get more women involved'.
Well it would certainly make a difference to the involvement of paedophiles, but you need to understand Lord Roberts that the young woman in question – like me and so many others – walked away from politics because of the silence of you and so many others on the plight of people who are being screwed over.
Roger Roberts's son Gareth Roberts also stood for the Lib Dems in Conwy in 2005. Roberts's daughters, Rhian Roberts and Sian Roberts, work for the BBC and the Electoral Reform Services respectively. The number of friends and relatives of the paedophiles' friends who work in the media is one reason why there was so little publicity given to what was happening to victims of the paedophile gang and why on the rare occasions when it was discussed there was so much emphasis on them being criminals or dangerous psychiatric patients.
There is another Gareth Roberts in north Wales whom I suspect knows much about the paedophiles and their friends – Professor Gareth Roberts, who for many years was Principal of Bangor Normal College (the teacher training college) and then Professor of Education at Bangor Univerrsity – who for years worked with the lady who was Vice-Principal of the Normal College who in retirement was involved with the UNA and invited Dafydd to a conference as a keynote speaker. Gareth Roberts worked as either an inspector or an advisor for Gwynedd Education Authority when that paedophile ring was on the loose. I never had a problem with Gareth Roberts until just before I left Bangor when the threats and the harassment from the paedophiles' friends were raining down in my direction and Professor Roberts became very frosty towards me.
Yesterday the Daily Post Online ran a feature remembering the Friction Dynamics strike at Caernarfon, which was precipitated when 86 workers were sacked by the American owner of the company, Craig Smith, in May 2001. This was a long running strike when such things had become unusual and the strikers received a great deal of support locally and from politicians outside of the region as well. Craig Smith behaved appallingly and very few people were prepared to defend him. The workers were all members of the Transport & General Workers Union and had gone on strike over terms and conditions. The Post mentioned that Bill Morris from the TGWU turned up to support the strikers. The strikers later won their claim for wrongful dismissal at an employment tribunal and expected compensation. But Friction Dynamics went into administration in August 2003, and a new company – Dynamex Friction – began production just two weeks later. Dynamex Friction was remarkably similar to Friction Dynamics and was also owned by Craig Smith. The former workers continued their battle for compensation until August 2004, when they finally gave up. They had been shafted by a complete git – a git who had ignored court rulings in their favour but was never held to account.
So whatever Bill Morris's support involved, it wasn't very effective. Bill Morris has done OK out of providing support for those who are being shafted though. In 2006 he became Lord Bill Morris.
Bill Morris joined the TGWU in 1958 and became a shop steward in 1962. After serving on the TGWU General Executive Council from 1972 to 1973, Morris joined the union as a full-time official. He served as District Officer of the Nottingham District, 1973 -76 and District Secretary of Northampton District, 1976 -79. In 1979, he became National Secretary of the Passenger Services Trade Group, responsible for staff working for bus and coach companies. He was elected Deputy General Secretary in 1986, working under General Secretary Ron Todd.
Morris was elected General Secretary when Ron Todd retired in 1992. He was re-elected in 1995. He remained in post until Oct 2003, when he was succeeded as general secretary by Tony Woodley.
Morris was a member of the TUC General Council and Executive Committee, 1988-2003. He was appointed a non-executive Director of the Bank of England in 1998 and was a member of the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords, 1999-2000. He is a member of the Board of Governors of London South Bank University, a Trustee of the Open University Foundation and a member of the Courts of the University of Northampton and the University of Bedfordshire. He was appointed as the first Chancellor of the University of Technology, Jamaica in 1999 and as Chancellor of Staffordshire University in 2004. He has been a member of the advisory councils of the BBC and IBA and a member of the Commission for Racial Equality. He Chaired the Morris Inquiry into professional standards in the Metropolitan Police in 2004. He sits as a member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Morris is also a patron of the Refugee Council.
The Friction Dynamics dispute took place soon after the Waterhouse Report had been published. Bill Morris and the other trade union leaders mentioned in this post led unions which represented many of the people who abused kids in care and mental health patients in north Wales and elsewhere. The plight of those kids and patients was ignored by all of those union leaders.
There is a report in the Lancet which has received much publicity today maintaining that a team from Oxford have demonstrated beyond all doubt that anti-depressants 'work' and that at least another million people should be prescribed them. Lists of the anti-depressants reviewed have been appearing online. I recognised many of them – they were dished out for years to me and many other people whom I knew in north Wales. Did they work? Not really. Because we were systematically having our lived destroyed by a bunch of people who were running a paedophile gang. Professor Mark Williams and Professor Tom Burns are two people who knew what Dafydd and the paedophiles were doing – Williams and Burns both ended up with Chairs in the Dept of Psychiatry at Oxford University.
I received a nice e mail of support yesterday from someone asking me what my diagnosis was, whether any treatments had actually worked and saying that they hope that one day I am vindicated and my name cleared.
I actually developed a severe mood disorder in my late teens. It was classic, stereotypical, with obvious symptoms and it should have been quite easy to treat. If that had happened I probably would have lost about two years of my life because I was clobbered quite badly. But sadly I fell into the hands of a bunch of people who were running a sex trafficking ring. I was given numerous ludicrous, different diagnoses – as was nearly everyone I knew in north Wales. Even if those diagnoses had have been accurate, none of us were being given the correct treatment anyway. People didn't get better – they died in very great numbers, which was inevitable in the face of what was being done to them.
So how can the researchers at Oxford draw any conclusions when psychiatry does this to people? Because the process of psychiatric diagnosis is so utterly flawed and the care usually so bad anyway, even if the people who wrote that paper have done their analysis properly, the raw data cannot be relied upon. It was not just in north Wales that neglect and chaos reigned – the mental health services in north Wales certainly were and are dreadful, but so were the 'world leading' services at St George's, who were colluding with serious crime themselves. Mark Williams perpetrated the huge fraud which was 'Mindfulness' with those who facilitated the paedophile gang in north Wales (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot') and bagged a Chair at Oxford on the strength of it. When I moved away from north Wales, every single Top Doctor who I consulted colluded with Dafydd and the paedophile gang.
As for being vindicated and having my name cleared – I was stitched up repeatedly by the Pathetic Sharks and when one fit-up failed and the serious charges were dropped, someone in Chester Court forged a certificate of indictment stating that I'd pleaded guilty to 'violent disorder'. The PNC record was also illegally amended. This is known, the documentation is there to demonstrate it and I wrote to the North Wales Police, the DBS and Chester Court about it nearly a year ago. I have heard nothing.
I'm not even that bothered about clearing my name – what can one do in the face of such endemic corruption? These people were a bunch of gangsters and I'm one of the few people who survived their attentions. They abused and killed people for decades whilst the police, the security services, the law and the medical establishment looked on and allowed them to continue. Many of these serious criminals are now dead, having lived out their lives on public service salaries and comfortable pensions. There'd be no point prosecuting Dafydd and Lucille now anyway – they are well into their 80s, the crimes have been committed and most of their victims have died. It would be immensely entertaining to watch Dafydd in the dock uttering stupidities, but that would be about the only reason for prosecuting him.
I am not like Alan Turing's fan club – I do not want the stamp of approval from an endemically corrupt state. Furthermore, if the dear old NHS ever tells me that they are sorry I'll tell them to stop telling lies. None of them are sorry – they were serious criminals who did not do all this as a mistake.
The one thing though that should be undertaken is an excavation of the North Wales Hospital – the bodies need to be recovered. Because there are bodies out there aren't there Dafydd?
I'll continue blogging – there are more people to be named…
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