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Recent posts eg. 'The Village', 'The Turn Of The Screw' and 'Those Who Are Ready To Serve' have explained how people in Somerset who knew Brown and I before we went to university used their knowledge of what happened to me at the hands of Dafydd et al in north Wales for great personal gain. These people personally knew others involved with Tory and Liberal/SDP politics, including politicians who were concealing the Westminster Paedophile Ring and the activities of Dafydd et al in particular. One of the Somerset contingent became involved with the Dangerous Sports Club in the late 1980s and over the next few years found himself in receipt of a vast amount of money.
The DSC was founded by Oxford graduate and conman David Kirke. Kirke was from an affluent family which included a few prominent lawyers and was a tosser of the highest order. His passport described him as a 'film director', but as far as I could find out, the only work that Kirke ever did was writing articles for soft porn mags such as 'Mayfair' and 'Penthouse'. Kirke travelled around the world setting up meaningless stunts in the name of the DSC and systematically swindled people. His cover story was that he was 'an Oxford professor' – which was what I was told that he was, although it was quite clear to Brown and me that he was no such thing – and after booking into the best hotel in whichever part of the world he was kipping in, Kirke would target trusting people, befriend them and literally do the 'gosh I've lost my chequebook and wallet, they must have been stolen by that fuzzy wuzzy who cleaned my room yesterday', as he checked out of the hotel carefully ensuring that he was checking out at exactly the same time as the folk with whom he had made friends. They would then pay the Oxford professor's bill, believing this eminent academic's word that they would be repaid the minute that he got home. They never saw their money again.
Kirke did this for years before he was finally imprisoned in the 1990s. Nonetheless he got off pretty lightly – most of his numerous swindles did not result in any charges and a Top Doctor's report was produced explaining that Kirke was a harmless 'Walter Mitty' character and manic to boot. No he wasn't, Kirke was a conman and a very accomplished one at that. I wondered at the time why Kirke targeted those in Somerset because I could not see what he was getting out of it. He was an insufferable snob and his usual prey were the rich and famous or bent politicians, not a load of bumpkins in Somerset. Kirke befriended Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame when he heard that Chapman was terminally ill. Kirke observed that this would provide a good opportunity to pick up 'some crumbs from the rich man's table'. When Chapman was at the very end of his life, Kirke tried to persuade a member of the Somerset bunch to go and visit the dying Chapman because Kirke had his mind on that will. Kirke's new friend from Somerset refused to go because he couldn't be arsed with a death-bed visit.
Graham Chapman regularly picked up teenaged boys for sex and 'adopted' a 13 year old boy who had run away from Liverpool, John Tomiczec. Associates of Chapman acknowledged that Chapman's relationship with John was not really 'fatherly'. Chapman told everyone that John was 17 and when a Plod did dare make inquiries, Chapman used his status as a Top Doctor to pull rank on the Plod (see post 'The International Language Of Screaming'). Chapman was a Bart's graduate and used the Bart's network to his advantage. One of the Bart's network was Professor Linford Rees, Dafydd's mate and protector (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). A great many of Dafydd's victims – kids in care, patients from secure hospitals or drug users – came from Liverpool. Liverpool Social Services and Ashworth Hospital supplied Dafydd with vulnerable young people for years. Graham Chapman was a regular visitor to Snowdonia because he was a keen climber. John Tomiczec accompanied Chapman on his trips to Snowdonia and from what I have read, John might have actually been in north Wales when Chapman met him and 'took him in'.
The Somerset contingent met a whole stream of celebs and the offspring of prominent Tories/establishment figures via Kirke, including Tommy Leigh-Pemberton, the son of Sir Robin Leigh-Pemberton, the son of the Governor of the Bank of England. Tommy Leigh-Pemberton was murdered in Kenya as a result of his fuckwittery and the circumstances of his death were concealed (see post 'The Village').
I have recently been told that Kirke's interest in the Somerset clique was solely as a result of their relationship to me and what I had begun to uncover in north Wales and subsequently at St George's Hospital Medical School.
On one occasion, the monies paid to one of those in Somerset was by means of a Coutts cheque. I was not told who had paid by Coutts, but I heard all about it as did half of Somerset, because the person given the Coutts cheque had never seen one before and had to be reassured that it was 'real' – it was explained to him that you didn't get branches of Coutts in Bridgwater or Taunton, because 'it is the Queen's bank'.
Coutts, Bankers to the Wurzels
What fine company you keep Lilibet!
My how I laughed when Kirke's man in Somerset received a phone call from 'City Limits', who had seen the PR surrounding the DSC and explained that they would be an excellent advertising site. As with Coutts, this man had never heard of 'City Limits', so he was sent a copy. He was so horrified by the heavy presence of LGBT articles/adverts that he rang them back and told them that he really didn't want to be associated with a magazine for homosexuals.
David you bloody idiot, you were being given money by that bunch of twats because Brown and me had tripped over an elite paedophile gang who supplied boys to the associates of Leigh-Pemberton et al. Furthermore I imagine that you are now in a great deal of trouble, as is whoever paid you from their Coutts account.
The Coutts cheque was handed over at some point in the late 1980s/early 90s. Sir David Burdett Money-Coutts (yes, that does seem to be his real name) was MD of Coutts & Co from 1970 and Chairman, 1976-93, finally retiring as a non-executive Director in 1996. Money-Coutts was also Chairman of the Coutts Group from 1991, which compromised Coutts & Co in London; Coutts & Co in Zurich; Coutts and Co Trust Holdings Ltd based in the Isle of Man, with other offices around the world.
Sir David was the seventh generation of the Coutts banking family. As a personal banker to the Royal Family, Money-Coutts was appointed KCVO in 1991. 1991 was the year that my career in medical research and the careers of my two friends in the media who knew about the happenings in north Wales were ruined (see post 'The Turn Of The Screw'). In Feb 1991 Lilibet knighted Sir Peter Morrison.
'We found ourselves in this bizarre situation.'
Satirical cartoon protesting against the introduction of paper money, by James Gillray, 1797. The 'Old Lady of Threadneedle St' (the Bank personified) is ravished by Dr Dafydd Alun Jones.
'It's just so.. thingy…um…appalling'
Bottoms Up, Professor Robert Bluglass owns one of the finest art galleries in Europe!
Money-Coutts's other directorships included United States and General Trust Corporation Ltd, 1964-73; the investment group M&G plc, 1987-97, where he was non-executive Chairman, 1991-97; the discount house Gerrard Group plc, 1969-99, where he was Deputy Chairman, 1969-88; Phoenix Assurance; Dun & Bradstreet, 1973-87; and NatWest, 1976-90. Money-Coutts was also Chairman of NatWest's southern regional advisory board, 1989-92.
In 1962 Sir David joined the Board of the Middlesex Hospital, an institution with which Coutts has a long-standing connection. In 1965 Money-Coutts became Chairman of the Middlesex Hospital's Finance Committee. He remained involved with the Middlesex until he retired as a special Trustee in 2000. Gwynne the lobotomist trained at the Middlesex Hospital and the institution and its alumni network protected him until he died and then it protected his memory.
Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain's wife Jocelyn worked at the Middlesex whilst Chamberlain concealed research fraud, the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles and the paedophile ring operating in south London of which Chamberlain's mate Professor Oliver Brooke was a member. In 1991, when I was being denounced as dangerous by Springfield Hospital/St George's, not only did psychiatrists at Springfield/St George's document their knowledge of Dafydd's sexual exploitation of patients, but Springfield and Wandsworth Social Services were in direct contact with Dafydd, Tony Francis and Lucille Hughes (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…').
Money-Coutts was also a member of the Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority and Chairman of the Medical Schools Council. The Medical Schools Council is an organisation that represents the interests and ambitions of the 37 medical schools and one postgraduate school in the UK and the membership is made up of the Deans of the medical schools. Such as the Dean of St George's, Professor Sir William Asscher, who spent most of his career in Cardiff concealing research fraud and the organised abuse of children and vulnerable adults and then relocated to St George's after Oliver Brooke was convicted and continued to do exactly the same thing there (see post 'The White Heat Of This Revolution').
Money-Coutts also played an active role in UCL and UCH. The Belfast paedophile child psychiatrist Dr Morris Fraser whom the GMC allowed to continue to practice after a conviction for child molestation was involved with Kincora Boys' Home and later worked at Springfield and UCH. Sir David was in addition involved with Bloomsbury Health Authority, Mansfied College, Oxford, the Mountbatten Memorial Trust, the Church of St Martin in the Fields and the Institute of Sports and Exercise Medicine.
Sir David was the honorary Treasurer for the National Association of Almshouses, 1960-92 and remained a member of the Advisory Board for the rest of his life. Money-Coutts was a Trustee of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, 1967-2000 and was still President of its Reading branch in 2012. He was Chairman of the Scout Foundation and the Old Etonian Trust, 1976-01.
David Money-Coutts was Chairman, Charities Investment Managers, 1983-2000.
Money-Coutts was educated at Eton and, after National Service with the 1st The Royal Dragoons, read PPE at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1954. So he'll have been one of Lord Alan Bullock's circle at New College, many of whom were recruited by the security services and went into politics, concealing much wrongdoing as they went about their business (see post 'A Study In Tyranny').
Money-Coutts remained in the TA until 1967, serving with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.
The Torygraph's 2012 obituary of Money-Coutts provides some morsels:
'Ably assisted by his cousin and deputy chairman Lord Harrowby, Money-Coutts oversaw a transition of the business into one which kept a sharper watch on cost, profitability and internal efficiency — but also sought to maintain, through personal accessibility and attention to individual customers' circumstances, the "soul" which one of them, the writer Osbert Sitwell, had praised in earlier times.
Tall and angular [shouldn't that be 'bent' – Ed], Money-Coutts bore a distinct resemblance to his ancestor Thomas, whose statue dominated the foyer of the bank's Strand headquarters. He also shared the characteristic of "exactness" for which Thomas was famed.
David Money-Coutts had a reserved manner and was a stickler for exactness: he described himself as "fairly pernickety … people say I ought to have been a schoolmaster". But brusqueness disguised a genuine kindness and concern towards both customers and staff. He was a perfectionist with a practical eye: on his daily round of the bank's departments, he would sometimes pause to repair an out-of-action item of office machinery. He was also notably unstuffy. "We are not snobs," he once observed, "though some of our customers are."
Symbolic of Coutts' willingness to embrace the future during his tenure was the refurbishment of the Strand building. After a long planning battle, the final design by Sir Frederick Gibberd incorporated the first glazed atrium and internal garden in a London office complex within John Nash's triangular scheme from 1831, famous for its "pepper pot" corners. When the Queen came to perform the official opening in 1978, Money-Coutts reminded her that his great-great-great-great-grandfather Thomas had been a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to hers, George III.
"With all those greats on both sides," Her Majesty replied, "I do indeed agree that this is very much a family occasion." She went on to acknowledge the wisdom of Coutts' financial advice to royal customers over the generations, "even if they have not always been grateful for it".
The boom years of the 1980s brought new pressures, both in risk control and in profit performance. Having previously allowed Coutts directors a high degree of autonomy, NatWest began to demand much more from them, and in 1990 a strategy was conceived in which "Coutts & Co" would become the global brand for the group's services for high-net-worth customers.
Money-Coutts declared that this could be achieved "whilst retaining the character of a much smaller private bank". But in the view of many observers, his retirement from the chair in 1993 marked the end of the era of benign and cautious but forward-looking dynastic management which had served Coutts and its customers so well…
David's grandfather and uncle, respectively the 6th and 7th Lords Latymer, were directors of Coutts, but his father Alexander made a career in the Imperial Tobacco Company. David thought of following him until he was invited to join the bank after graduation in 1954. After four years' probation, including a secondment to a City stockbrokers, he became a junior director.
He married, in 1958, Penelope Todd, who in an unguarded interview at the time of his knighthood revealed that he could cook, iron and sew — indeed, do anything domestic "except give birth" — and that although he was the "kindest, nicest man", he had once tipped a bowl of bread and butter pudding over her head in anger. She survives him with their son and two daughters.
Anyone for leading another march through London whilst holding banners with slogans referencing the NHS's commitment to equality? How about it Jezza, I'm sure that Len McCluskey will be delighted to join you.
Here's Sir David Money-Coutts posing in front of wallpaper – unless it's an al fresco – so grand that it would even make Derry Irvine feel deprived:
Money-Coutts was a friend of David Malcolm Tristram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe QC and worshipped at the same church, All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard in Berkshire, where Silsoe served for some years on the Parochial Church Council. Lord David Silsoe was educated at Elm Park Preparatory School, County Armagh, Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1955. In 1963 he married Bridget Min Hart-Davis, daughter of Sir Rupert Hart-Davis and sister of Duff Hart-Davis and Adam Hart-Davis.
Rupert Hart-Davis's first wife was Peggy Ashcroft and although they split up, they remained good friends for the rest of Ashcroft's life. Peggy subsequently married Jeremy Hutchison, the celebrated high camp barrister who was a member of the Bloomsbury Set. Hutchison might have been entertaining in court but he defended some very seedy people, including serial child molesters. The personal conduct of Jeremy and his mates towards the plebs left a lot to be desired, although they spent their careers ripping other people apart in court on the basis of their alleged moral failings (see post 'The Village').
Duff Hart-Davis is a journo who writes for the Indie and is the father of Alice Hart-Davis, who calls herself a 'journalist and a skincare developer'. Does Alice perhaps write about advances in dermatology? Not really. Alice's career highlights have included writing for 'Vogue' and dispensing advice on skin care for teenagers and young women. Who are of course without wrinkles and in possession of undamaged collagen so do not need advice from Alice. Nonetheless Alice has developed a range of skin care products for teenagers and judges other skin care products. So it is Alice who is responsible for those young women who approach me if I linger too long near the skin care counters and say things like 'this repairs your DNA' and then look at me as though I am insane when I reply 'DNA doesn't work like that'. Alice, I like the pots of scented face-grease myself, but please do stop telling people who have no scientific education lies about what the scented grease actually does. It smells nice and that's about it. The 'active liposomes' or the sundry other things within the pots of grease do not 'reverse ageing' or do anything at all to one's DNA. Indeed I would be horrified if they did do something to my DNA and I would steer well clear of them. If I wanted my DNA interfered with, I'd go for a hefty dose of radiation, not a pot of face cream.
Adam Hart-Davies is a BBC TV presenter with a PhD in chemistry. As Alice's uncle and a science educator, surely he should tell Alice that she is spouting rubbish. And ripping off teenagers. Adam Hart-Davis is married to Dr Susan Blackmore, who back in the 1980s used to write such extraordinary stuff for the broadsheets that I am gobsmacked that she retained any academic credibility. Blackmore's bizarre notions came under the umbrella of 'parapsychology', in which she did a PhD at the University of Surrey. Which is seriously weird, because Professor Vincent Marks at Surrey had a great deal to say about pseudoscience, so why he didn't publicly critique the rubbish that Blackmore was spouting I do not know.
Blackmore's experiments with psychokinesis and her baby daughter were mentioned in the book to accompany the TV series Arthur C. Clarke's 'World Of Strange Powers'. Arthur C. Clarke grew up on a farm in Bishop's Lydeard near Taunton and was a high profile old boy of Huish Grammar School, Taunton. Blackmore taught at the University of the West of England until 2001. I can only presume that Susan Blackmore being granted acres of media coverage discussing matters that would have resulted in undergrads failing their degrees if they had done the same and her subsequent academic career was a result of the Strange Powers of Professor Richard Gregory, the neuropsychologist at Bristol University with whom Blackmore's first husband, Tomasz Stanisław Trościanko, worked for many years. Tom held Chairs at different times at Bristol, Essex and Sussex Universities and was enthusiastic about doing pretentious things which caught the attention of the sort of journos who couldn't see through the rubbish that his wife was publishing.
Sound work leading to advances in academic theory? Whoever needs that when Tom is living in the floating harbour at Bristol or hanging out in Amsterdam and do you know, Tom and Susan have a baby daughter who is psychic!!! Yes and when Uri Geller appeared on 'Nationwide', everybody's spoons bent as they lay untouched in the cutlery draw.
Sarah Jenkins from Tregarth near Bethesda did her degree in psychology at Bristol, in the early 1980s. Sarah's mother was Sheila Jenkins, a social worker employed by Gwynedd County Council who abused mental health patients and was a colleague of the paedophile gang. Jenkins was involved in Prof Mark Williams's Mindfulness fraud (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot'). Jenkins's husband was Professor David Jenkins, who worked at UCNW when Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends ran the institution.
After she graduated but before she did postgrad work, Sarah Jenkins was a tenant of Dr D.G.E. Wood, the corrupt GP who was facilitating the trafficking ring in north Wales. Wood was a graduate of the University of Bristol, as was David Hunt, who spent years of his political career in the Welsh Office concealing the trafficking gang which Wood et al were running.
To return to Money-Coutts's friend David Silsoe. He followed a career in planning law and was leading counsel for the proposers in notable public inquiries, beginning with the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant and finishing with the Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 expansion inquiry. Between the two, Silsoe appeared in public inquiries for Heathrow Terminal 4, Gatwick North Terminal and Sizewell B and Hinkley Point C nuclear power stations.
In October 1990, Coutts and NatWest decided to strengthen their representation internationally and thus the Coutts Group was created when subsidiaries already owned by Coutts and NatWest were merged. In 2000, NatWest was purchased by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), in one of the largest corporate transactions in the European banking sector.
Coutts's website names William Waldegrave as being someone who is involved with Coutts & Co. Waldegrave was Secretary of State for Health, 1990-92, which covered the years when I and my friends were under serious attack from the paedophile gang. That was also pretty much when that Coutts cheque found its way into the bank account of the man from Somerset who didn't like poofs but received a great deal of money to keep quiet about what a gang of paedophiles were doing to someone whom he knew.
Waldegrave's sister, Lady Susan Hussey, was married to Marmaduke Hussey, who was Chairman of the BBC when my friends were forced out of their media careers in the early 1990s. Susan Hussey is a Lady-in-Waiting to Lilibet and Godmother to Prince William. See post 'The Turn Of The Screw'.
Coutts & Co's HQ is located in The Strand. Just down the road from the Royal Courts of Justice, where, in 1991, after my career had been ruined and after people in Somerset suddenly found that they had thousands and thousands of pounds on their hands, yet another attempt was made to imprison me by the paedophiles' friends, on that occasion on the basis of the perjury of Drs Tony and Sadie Francis. The Francis's used the MDU lawyers, Hempsons, the particular lawyer employed for the case being Ann Ball. Ann Ball not only knew about the criminality on the part of Francis et al, but she advised the Francis's not to go ahead with the legal action on the grounds that they didn't have the evidence for their allegations. They ignored Ann Ball's advice yet she still represented them.
I was not imprisoned as the Drs Francis demanded and as I left the Royal Courts of Justice, I became tangled up with a demo being staged on behalf of Sara Thorton. Sara was been imprisoned for murdering her husband Malcolm and her appeal was being heard on the day that the associates of a gang of paedophiles tried to have me imprisoned after lying on oath. Sara didn't win her appeal that day, but she was released on appeal at a later date. The Thornton case was a feminist cause celebre at the time and it was one of Helena Kennedy's triumphs. St Helena worked with Professor Nigel Eastman at St George's Hospital and was a member of Took's Court Chambers with Michael Mansfield (see post 'Eve Was Framed – As Were A Lot Of Other People'). I wrote to Mansfield about what was happening to me in north Wales in 1993 and Mansfield sent me a one-line reply.
In those days St Helena was involved with WISH, a charity dedicated to helping women in secure hospitals. Most of those women were in those institutions because they had dared tell people that they had been abused as kids in care or in the mental health system. I am not aware that WISH took one case on behalf of a woman on these grounds and they certainly didn't speak out about these matters. They focused their efforts on women like Sara Thornton, who had been involved in violent domestic incidents or who had been on the receiving end of sexual violence from people other than welfare professionals. WISH knew that Jimmy Savile was sexually assaulting women in Broadmoor – it is thought that two women killed themselves at Broadmoor as a direct consequence of Savile's actions – but they said not a word. See post 'Close Your Eyes And Make A WISH' for further details of this prize bunch of lame hypocrites.
St Helena signing The Convention on Modern Liberty in January 2009.
St Helena has been married to Top Doctor Iain Hutchison since 1986. Iain's Top Doctor colleagues really like St Helena. She is an Honorary Fellow of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Helena was entrusted to Chair the Human Genetics Commission (1998-07) and the Royal Colleges of Pathologists' and of Pædiatrics' Inquiry into Sudden Infant Death. Helena is the President of Medical Aid for Palestinians and Patron of SafeHands for Mothers, a UK-based charity 'whose mission is to improve maternal and newborn health by harnessing the power of the visual, through the production of films'.
Among many other things, St Helena is or was:
President of the Board the Governors of SOAS; Chair, JUSTICE; Chair of the Board of Governors for the United World Colleges of the Atlantic (the paedophiles' friend the Baroness of Ely is involved with this organisation, indeed I expect the Baroness of Ely invited St Helena onto the Board); Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, 1994–01; Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, appointed in 2018; President of the National Children's Bureau, 1998–2005, (Peter Righton, the social work academic who was also a convicted paedophile was involved with the NCB); Member of the World Bank Institute's External Advisory Council; Vice-President of the Haldane Society, which contains all the other Radical Lawyers who have studiously ignored the organised abuse of children and vulnerable adults; Patron, Liberty, which as NCCL campaigned for paedophiles' rights; Patron, UNLOCK, The National Association of Ex-Offenders; Patron, Rights Watch; Chair, Howard League's Commission of Inquiry into Violence in Penal Institutions for Young People (the final report, Banged Up, Beaten Up, Cutting Up, published in 1995); Chair, Reading Borough Council's Commission of Inquiry into the health, environmental and safety aspects of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston (final report Secrecy versus Safety, published in 1994).
St Helena is also Patron, Burma Campaign UK, the London-based group campaigning for human rights and democracy in Burma. I get the impression that a Strong Woman is not listening to St Helena.
Dining at the House of Lords:
St Helena Chaired the Power Commission (November 2005 – March 2006), which examined the problem of democratic disengagement in the UK. St Helena was subsequently Chair of Power 2010, which aimed to carry forward the concepts behind the Power Commission into the UK 2010 General Election.
So St Helena, why did you conclude that such a large proportion of the Great British Public see no point in voting any more? Or are there a few more lunches and Commissions needed before you can answer that particular question?
I'm glad to say that St Helena is following the Top Docs' advice and is getting her Five A Day, thus avoiding working class past-times such as obesity. St Helena won't be Wasting NHS Valuable Resources.
'As part of a programme to increase public engagement with Parliament the House of Commons are pleased to offer the opportunity to dine in the magnificent surroundings of the Palace of Westminster's principal dining rooms, the Members' Dining Room and the Strangers' Dining Room, where seasonal ingredients from across the United Kingdom are paired with sublime presentation and elegance.'
The good fortune enjoyed by so many who knew what was happening to me at the hands of Dafydd et al began in the late 1980s, but by the time that John Major had his feet under the table at Number 10, they really were doing well for themselves. Whilst people tried to set fire to my house. So I'm trying to find out more concerning the backgrounds and activities of those in Gov't at the time, because, after all, having an account at Coutts is a minority sport, not even your average Top Doc stretches to that.
I've nearly finished reading John Major's autobiography and I'm just about to read 'Guilty Men: Conservative Decline and Fall, 1992-97', written by Hywel Williams. Williams is an historian who was John Redwood's Chief of Staff, 1993-97, so his time working for Redwood spanned Redwood's years as Secretary of State for Wales, 27 May, 1993-26 June, 1995. Williams's time as Redwood's Chief of Staff also covered the shenanigans and musical chairs in the Welsh Office over the June/July 1995, when lies were told about Dafydd retiring and the North Wales Hospital Denbigh closing down, the four days in July 1995 which saw the deaths of corrupt Home Office Drugs Branch mandarin Bing Spear who had been so good to Dafydd for so many years (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other') as well as Sir Peter Morrison, days before Brown was forced out of his job at Aston University. Then there was Nicola Davies QC's 2005 review of the police paperwork regarding the abuse of children in north Wales – all the paperwork from 1989 onward was missing – and the subsequent announcement and the beginning of the Waterhouse Inquiry… Not to mention those years when there were serial attempts to have me incarcerated on the basis of no evidence at all, years which coincided with the dead bodies of so many kids in care and mental health patients turning up in north Wales.
I haven't read Hywel's book yet, but a review stated that 'This is the story of an incompetent government, a petulant prime minister and an arrogant political party'. It was also a Gov't which knowingly played an active role in the most serious crime. It was stated that 'Much of the publicity this book attracted…was for its more colourful aspects, such as the Tory whips trying to discover sexual indiscretions…'.
It was mentioned in the review of Williams's book that Peter Lilley had a house in Normandy. In the late 1980s/early 90s there was a trade in houses in Normandy on the part of one estate agent in Bangor. A man called Tony Myers suddenly filled his advertising space with places in Normandy. Myers was the only estate agent in Bangor to do this, everyone else just continued advertising properties in north Wales. Myers was very unpopular in the Bangor area, both among other estate agents and a cross-section of local people. His business practices were said to be so questionable that people were loathe to deal with him. He was ex-Royal Navy and was described to me as being 'very English and very patronising to women' – by a middle-class English person. Myers didn't ever do much work, he sat in his shop puffing on a pipe in the company of a very similar old boy with whom he was friends and they sneered at the world going past. I later found out that one of the few people in Bangor with whom Myers was very friendly was a Lieutenant Col who lived locally.
Myers did manage to sell his Normandy properties. He sold them to the more affluent residents of Gwynedd as second homes – a number of them were flogged off to the paedophiles' friends, including a number of paedophiles' friends who were involved in campaigning against second home ownership in north Wales. It was at this time that Dafydd was holding 'clinics' in France – including in Brittany, not a million miles away from Normandy. John Allen owned a villa in France to which kids in care were taken on 'holidays'.
Peter Lilley was Secretary of State for Social Security, April 1992-May 1997, who at the 1992 Tory Party Conference sung his now famous ditty – an adaption of the Lord High Executioner's 'little list' song from 'The Mikado' by Gilbert and Sullivan – about the people on his own 'little list', whom he was going to shaft. The roll call was the usual one, single mothers, people on benefit etc. At the time even Tories commented that Lilley had left a bad taste in the mouth, because of the growing number of sickness benefit claimants. I knew them Lilley, those allegedly living high on the hog sometimes didn't have enough money for the bus fare into Bangor from Bethesda and were having their lives destroyed by a gang of paedophiles who were causing havoc in north Wales. Which you knew about and concealed.
Some time after Lilley burst into song, during public debate regarding high profile Tory politicians who were gay but refusing to admit it, it was Michael Portillo and Peter Lilley who were named most frequently. Portillo eventually fessed up to being 'bisexual' but Lilley maintained that he was the target of wicked lies and that for him, homosexuality was about as appealing as 'eating cardboard'.
When I lived in Bethesda, I knew a couple of gay men who found north Wales so repressed that they used to head off to gay clubs in Manchester and London. It's OK Peter, they weren't on benefit!! They had family money, like so many members of your own Party who frothed at the mouth at the thought of kids who's youth had been spent being raped and battered in the children's homes of north Wales living it up on benefit in a council flat in Wrexham, which they only secured if they were lucky and had been on a long waiting list. Even then, Mark Humphreys was found hanging from the stairwell after he gave evidence against Superintendent Gordon Anglesea in court. Because he killed himself as a result of 'not being believed'. Not because he was murdered you understand. When I asked the gays from Bethesda who the unidentified gay Tories were, I was told without hesitation, 'Michael Portillo and Peter Lilley'. The two men whom I knew saw Portillo in the clubs that they were frequenting.
When William Hague led the Tory Party, Lilley was Deputy Leader. William who organised the Waterhouse Inquiry, which concealed the bastards who murdered Mark Humphreys.
Hywel Williams observed in his book that politics no longer dealt with the 'great issues' and that 'MPs of all parties were being drawn from a narrower and more homogenous pool of apparatchiks. The outcome, the professionalisation of politics, created a small and isolated political class'. Curiously, Williams believed that 'the one ray of hope had been when Ken Clarke and Redwood joined forces for the leadership. Michael Heseltine, who helped broker this move, hailed "a historic moment in the history of the Conservative Party. It is the end of years of conflict". 'Guardian' columnist Hugo Young noted a 'sighting of the Conservative Party we used to know and fear. Ideas, it turns out, matter less than hatred, calculation and power'. It was not to be. Hague was elevated to the leadership, leading Williams to conclude that 'the Tories in the 1990s mislaid the idea that government was national rather than partisan'.
Redwood, Clarke, Heseltine and Hague were all extensively involved with concealing the wrongdoing in north Wales and at St George's, including that directly related to my own case. My post 'Those Who Are Ready To Serve' describes how Heseltine's support for Westland, a helicopter company in Yeovil, was related to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal and how people known to me benefited. I will be blogging more about Heseltine's activities soon.
However, I will now discuss someone who has so far escaped scrutiny on this blog – David Evans, Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield, 1987-97, who was John Redwood's PPS in 1993.
David Evans was born in Edmonton, London. Edmonton was the home of Deborah Everard, the technician at St George's Hospital Medical School who was a member of MSF and gained knowledge of the serious wrongdoing on the part of senior members of staff and used it to her own advantage. Everard was a Tory Councillor in Edmonton.
Evans came from a working class background and attended Tottenham Technical College. As a youngster Evans showed promise as a footballer and cricketer and played for Aston Villa between 1950 and 1954. He also played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and Warwickshire County Cricket Club.
In 1960 Evans borrowed £500 to found his own industrial cleaning company, Exclusive Office Cleaning, which later became Brengreen Holdings. He sold this for £32 million in 1986. Four years later, in 1990, he formed Broadreach, another industrial cleaning company, of which he was Chairman for 12 years.
From November 1984 to 15 June 1989, David Evans was the Chairman of Luton Town Football Club. The Club played in the Football League First Division during Evans' tenure as Chairman and he presided over a controversial membership-only scheme for fans under which only members were allowed to attend matches at the Club's home ground and away supporters were banned from the stadium. Evans served on the Club's board of Directors from 1976 to 22 May 1990 when he resigned.
Evans was also Chairman of the Lord's Taverners, along with being a member of the Finance and Administration Sub-Committee, 1981–1986 and a member of the General Committee (1985–86) of Middlesex County Cricket Club. As a cricketer, Evans represented Hertfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship between 1967 and 1968, made two Gillette Cup appearances for the team in 1969. He also made two appearances for Club Cricket Conference, the first in 1973 and the second in 1974.
Shortly before losing his seat, in early March 1997 Evans attracted controversy over remarks in an interview by sixth-formers at Stanborough School for a school magazine in which he referred to his opponent as a 'single girl' (she was 42 years old at the time) with 'bastard children' and claimed that the Birmingham Six were guilty and had 'killed hundreds' before being caught, as well as making remarks considered racist, such as asking how the sixth-formers would feel if their daughter was raped by 'some black bastard'. There is no record of Evans asking the students how they would feel if they were abducted by a crazed old psychiatrist and kept in a dungeon because he wanted to have sex with them and then coerce them into sex work with unsavoury but wealthy people, some of whom David Evans knew personally.
The Birmingham Six won substantial damages from Evans in July 1998, who thereafter apologised for what he had said and promised never to repeat it.
After Evans lost his seat in Parliament, he continued to manage his industrial cleaning business, the Broadreach Group, which he sold in May 2002 for around £17 million. David Evans died on 22 October 2008, of pulmonary fibrosis.
The Torygraph's obituary for Evans provided further information, stating that he 'was acknowledged to be one of the most colourful MPs in the House'.
The phrase 'colourful' when applied to MPs usually means that they were even more bigoted, drunk and offensive than the other bigoted, drunk, offensive MPs. Sir Nicholas Fairbairn was 'a colourful character'. Fairbairn was a bisexual alcoholic wife beater who talked about 'tauntresses' being responsible for men being had up on rape charges. One of his many 'lovers' – I suspect that 'shags' might be a more meaningful description – was Esther Rantzen. After Fairbairn died, the daughter of one of his friends claimed that she had been sexually molested by Fairbairn. Another person claimed to be have been raped as a child by him. Esther swore blind that she knew nuzzing, that Nicky was only ever 'kind and charming'. One of Fairbairn's other mistresses attempted to hang herself outside one of his residences, but the reason for this desperate act was never revealed. Once the old bastard was safely dead, his wife admitted that she had been terrified of him and that one of his sources of fun was to get blind drunk and stamp on her fingers in an attempt to break her bones.
Nicholas Fairbairn was Solicitor General for Scotland, 1979-82. Fairbairn was the person who blocked the prosecution of some of the men involved in the notorious Glasgow rape case, on the grounds that the victim would not be a credible witness, having been a psychiatric patient. The 'psychiatry' that she had received was as a result of her distress after the rape. Was she a silly little thing who was too drunk to say no? Not really. She had been accosted by a group of well-known thugs while walking alone, gang raped and slashed to bits with a razor. The gang presumed that she would die from her injuries and buggered off. She survived, her attackers were apprehended and fessed up. Then old Nicky stuck his oar in. No-one was ever charged and the woman developed a serious alcohol problem – just like Nicky, but no-one gave her a job as Solicitor General for Scotland – became destitute and died relatively young.
There is a reason why, when Dafydd and the gang had their eyes on a fresh young target, somehow they would ensure that the target ended up seeing a psychiatrist, no matter how many times the target said 'there is no need for that'. It was so that, when the first Top Doc tried to get their leg over, any complaint would be met with howls of 'but they can't be believed, they're MAD'. I remember the chronology exactly Dr D.G.E. Wood, as does Brown. You were told very firmly, by Brown and I, that we wanted no involvement with psychiatrists of any sort. I was suffering from a depressive illness that it was well within the capabilities of any GP to treat. You flatly refused to do so. When I tried to press for my right to at least TRY common or garden mainstream treatment, you threw me out of your surgery, telling me that you would not see me unless I agreed to see the miracle worker whom, it transpired, was a lobotomist running a trafficking ring. When Brown and I complained about him, we were met with lie after lie after lie, forged documents and threats to our careers. We were told that I 'had misunderstood' and I was sent to another psychiatrist – Tony Francis – who had far better social skills, but whom I found out decades later was facilitating the same trafficking ring. It was Francis who called upon the talents of Dafydd, who abducted and illegally imprisoned me. At that point I became a 'dangerous psychiatric patient'. I was actually a 24 year old postgrad halfway through an MSc.
This was a finely honed machine to entrap young people into a trafficking gang. Furthermore, the gang was networked with other gangs across the UK and even in Europe. No crime was too much to resort to if witnesses had to be silenced.
Now you can fess up, every single one of you, because there were many, many people who, unlike me, did not survive and ended up like the lady in the Glasgow rape case. You have stuck your collective noses into the very deep trough of the state whilst sheltering under the shite that is poured out about the kindness and compassion that flows non-stop from the NHS. Your victims died destitute whilst you lived in the grandest houses in north Wales and drove cars worth more than some people's homes.
Here's Esther with one of her many charming men friends:
All wistful, dreaming of Sir Nicky:
This charming man:
Nicky Fairbairn's boss and umbrella throughout Nicky's time dropping every clanger that would have ensured that someone less 'charming' ended up in the dock was the Lord Advocate, Lord Mackay of Clashfern. James Mackay later became Lord Chancellor, 1987-97, under Thatch and then Major, succeeding paedophiles' friend Lord Michael Havers (see post 'The International Language Of Screaming'). James Mackay carried on Havers's honourable tradition, making the multi-talented Patricia Scotland one of the youngest QCs to have ever stalked the earth. Scotland's advocacy skills were put to good use during the Waterhouse Inquiry, when she acted as Counsel for the Welsh Office, cross-examining the victims of multiple sexual assaults so aggressively that some of them collapsed. Patsy hadn't been intimidating on behalf of the Welsh Office for more than a few months when Blair made her a people's peer. One of the first people's peers appointed! For details of the many abusive, slippery crooks with whom Patsy has hobnobbed, see posts 'Baroness Patricia Scotland QC Was On Board As Well!', 'More On Baroness Patricia Scotland QC – And Her Very Sleazy Friends' and 'Even More About Baroness Patricia Scotland QC'.
On 27 April 2007, the Scottish Executive announced that Lilibet had appointed Lord Mackay as the Lord Clerk Register, replacing the Earl of Wemyss and March aka David Charteris, a flunkey of Lilibet's, who featured in a recent blog post.
The Lord Clerk Register is one of the Commissioners of the Regalia, under a Royal Warrant of 1818, responsible for the Honours of Scotland. In practice this responsibility was delegated to a deputy, then to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer and now to Historic Scotland. In 1996 the Commissioners were given additional responsibility for the Stone of Destiny under another Royal Warrant. The role of Lord Clerk Register is combined with the role of Keeper of the Signet, which was given to the Lord Clerk Register in 1817.
It all sounds a bit Arthurian.
Howard Pyle's 1905 illustration for The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
"Therefore he cried out with a loud voice and seized the enchantress by her long golden hair, and drew her so violently forward that she fell down upon her knees."
Mackay could perhaps be criticised for doing so much to assist murderous sex offenders, but all can be forgiven when one realises how high his standards are generally. Mackay was raised a member of the Free Presbytarian Church of Scotland; as an adult he was an elder of the Church. The Church forbids its members to attend Roman Catholic religious services; nevertheless Mackay attended two Catholic funeral masses for members of the judiciary. Following the second mass Mackay was called before a Church synod where he denied that he had broken the church's prohibition of showing 'support for the doctrine of Roman Catholicism', saying 'I went there purely with the purpose of paying my respects to my dead colleagues.' The Church suspended Mackay as an elder and withdrew his right to take Holy Communion. The synod met again in Glasgow in 1989 to review the decision; the fractious meeting asked Mackay to undertake not to attend further Catholic services, but he announced 'I have no intention of giving any such undertaking as that for which the synod has asked' and later withdrew from the Church. The dispute precipitated a schism, leading to the formation of the Associated Presbytarian Church. Mackay did not, however, initially join the new communion, but now worships with their Inverness congregation.
As a Presbyterian, Mackay was a firm believer in moderation. At a gathering for the Faculty of Advocates, Mackay had laid on a spread of tea and toast, complete with a tiny pot of honey. One of the lawyers in attendance contemplated the pot and remarked, 'I see your Lordship keeps a bee.' Mackay is also the Honorary President of the Scottish Bible Society. He supported the Society's programme to send a bible to every court in Scotland and wrote in support of 'The Bible in Scots Law', a pamphlet it distributed to Scottish lawyers which described the Bible as a 'foundational source book for Scotland's legal system'. Mackay is a strict sabbatarian, refusing to work or travel on a Sunday, or even to give an interview if there is a chance it could be rebroadcast on the sabbath.
Lord Mackay: I understand that it can be argued that there are sound theological and historical reasons for observing the Sabbath, although it is rare these days, but I'm not aware of any theological justification for assisting a gang of paedophiles who murdered witnesses. Feel free to leave a comment on this blog if you'd like to explain your rationale.
Lord Mackay sits as a Conservative in the Lords. He assumed office on 6 July 1979. Jeremy Thorpe and his co-accused were cleared on all charges of conspiracy/incitement to kill Norman Scott on 22 June 1979. See post 'My How Things Haven't Changed'.
Can someone please just find some piece of legislation to remove James Mackay from public office permanently. He has done more than enough damage.
We are told in one of Evans's obituaries that to say 'that the colourful character which was David Evans was a man of strong views would be to understate the case. There was probably no one more contemptuous of the wiles of the spin doctor or of the whispered back-stabbing in the corridors of Westminster…Evans said what he thought, in plain terms, without fear and damn the consequences. 'Do-gooding' liberals, teenage thugs, proselytising homosexuals and those among the unemployed who showed no diligence in looking for work were among those who felt the lash of his tongue.'
But not a bunch of highly paid Top Doctors running a sex abuse gang it would seem and the many other highly paid professional people who assisted them, although David Evans definitely knew of their crimes.
Evans also suggested that the cat-o'-nine-tails should be used on football hooligans. He supported the return of capital punishment and declared that the way to deal with rapists was to castrate them. Evidence from the US demonstrated that when that was done, the castrated sex offenders simply carried out horrifically violent non-sexual crimes instead. However, it is remarkable that for a man with such strong views on sex offenders, David Evans said nothing about Dafydd et al at all. Neither did he utter a word about the layers of people concealing their crimes, which included the gang rape of children.
Evans believed that Britons had become 'more and more lazy since the Second World War'. The kids in care and service users of north Wales hadn't, they were forced to labour for no or very little pay in local businesses in Bangor, which were owned by the friends of the bleeding-heart liberal social workers. One business which benefited from the services of a young learning disabled woman who, in 1994 or thereabouts, was the British Hotel in Bangor. She was forced to do the washing up there for five hours a day for the sum of 30p/hour. I found out about this because I and some friends were sitting near her on the bus one day when she was crying with fear at the thought of going to the British Hotel again. We asked her what was wrong and heard the whole sorry story. Her 'employment' was completely illegal and she feared physical violence from the social worker if she refused. She said that when she felt this bad she would sing to keep her spirits up. So she started singing and one of the people whom I was with started singing with her. The driver of the bus stopped the bus and told us all to shut up or he'd chuck us off the bus.
Yes you did, you just didn't give a fuck.
Cledwyn Williams, Trustee and Vice Chair, CAIS
From 1983 to 1996 Cledwyn was Assistant Director of Social Services, responsible for mentally handicapped services and for the all-Wales strategy for people with learning disabilities. He was responsible for developing services for people with learning disabilities for the education, health & social services group. After this, he became Director of Social Services for Conwy.
The Torygraph's obituary of David Evans tells us that 'he had his heavyweight champions in the party, not only Margaret Thatcher but also Michael Portillo and John Redwood (it was Evans who persuaded Redwood to challenge John Major in the 1995 leadership contest and became his campaign manager)'.
David Evans is dead. John Redwood is not. Do you have any explanation for events in north Wales when you were Welsh Secretary Mr Redwood?
Many of his friends believed that David Evans would have made an excellent minister for sport. As it was, Evans was PPS to the Ministers for Industry, 1990–91, Corporate Affairs, 1991–92 and Local Government, 1992–93, as well as to John Redwood as Secretary of State for Wales in 1993. Who was the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when David Evans was a PPS in that Dept? Peter Lilley. Lilley did such a good job at the DTI that Major then let him loose in the Dept pf Social Security, April 1992-May 1997. Where Lilley ignored all the complaints and evidence regarding the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophile gang. Alison Taylor had contacted Lilley's predecessor Tony Newton herself in 1988, told him that children in care were being abused and described a brutal assault that she had witnessed. But then Alison had told Thatch in Jan 1987 that kids in care in north Wales were being abused. Alison also wrote to Carlo. His office wrote back and said that he could not get involved. Although Carlo was Chancellor of UCNW, where Wood, Dafydd and others were facilitating the trafficking ring.
Evans resigned as Redwood's PPS to win election to the Executive of the 1922 Committee, on which he served, 1993-97. He was also a member of the Select Committee on Deregulation, 1995–97.
Evans's cleaning business, the Broadreach Group, established in 1990, had contracts with high street retailers such as Sainsbury's, Homebase and Comet and was sold to MacLellan in 2002 for around £17 million.
Evans's early interest in cricket never dimmed. As well as being a member of the Council of Lord's Taverners from 1978-96 and its Chairman from 1982-84, he was also a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), historically the governing body of the sport and still the guardian of the laws of the game.
John Major really loved cricket as well, it was one of the few things outside of work in which he really took an interest, so much so that people used to grumble about him disappearing to watch the cricket or to keep up with the results. In 2005 Major was appointed to the committee of the MCC. My post 'Those Who Are Ready To Serve' describes how a farming family who were friendly with those whose fortunes took an inexplicable turn for the better after they got to know members of the Dangerous Sports Club somehow raised a great deal of money to transform their Somerset mixed farm into an equestrian centre. No-one knew how, because the investment could not have been raised just on the security of the land. The farmers concerned had never taken an interest in horses and they had been so luke-warm about the farm which they had inherited that they always employed a manager to run absolutely everything. The owner of the farm, Michael Hill, did enjoy the cricket though. In 1996 he became President of Somerset County Cricket Club. Just in time for the Waterhouse Inquiry. Michael remained as President until 2003. By which time the people still yelling 'Waterhouse was a massive cover-up' were simply ignored.
Jeffrey Archer was a member of the MCC as well, although in Oct 2002, whilst in prison, Archer was suspended from the MCC for seven years. Not that Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, of Mark in the County of Somerset lost his peerage or his many mates in the Tory Party. My post 'Those Who Are Ready To Serve' named Janet Mitchell, with whom I used to play when young, as someone who had done very well out of Michael Heseltine laying down his life for Westland in 1986. Janet lives at Mark in Somerset. She purchased a farmhouse there many years ago when her career took off like a rocket, at the same time as a few others who knew what was happening to me in north Wales became so rich.
My post 'Tuppence And His Fragrant Wife' details the links between Tuppence and Lady Mary and Dafydd and the gang. When I finally received copies of my medical records, I discovered that a letter that I had written in 1987 which contained comments about one of the witnesses who gave evidence against Tuppence at the 1987 libel trial in which Tuppence perjured himself had been read by someone who had carefully underlined every comment that I had made about the person who gave evidence against Tuppence. There was no indication of who had done it, but my correspondence had all been sent to Andrew Park, the crooked lawyer in the Welsh Office, who invoked court action against me on so many occasions yet admitted that there was no evidence for the allegations that were made about me.
Previous posts have detailed the leading role played by Lord David Hunt throughout his long career in assisting Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends. I found a snippet from BBC News Wales Online from 15 March 2017 earlier today that had previously escaped me. In March 2017, David Hunt told his fellow peers whilst giving evidence to a Lords committee on Brexit that when he was Secretary of State for Wales, he tried to have control of policing devolved in the early 1990s, but failed 'despite Cabinet backing'. David Hunt told the Lords that he 'was up against a machine' when he tried to get policing devolved. It's certainly an interesting view for Hunt to take – because the witnesses to Dafydd et al's wrongdoing were up against a killing machine that was substantially orchestrated and kept in motion by Lord David Hunt.
Hunt stated that the then Home Secretary Ken Clarke agreed to hand control of policing to the Welsh Office, but poor little Hunt came up against the machine 'and it never happened'. Hunt explained how, in the days before the Welsh Assembly, he had sought to secure more powers for the UK Gov'ts Welsh Office which he ran under PMs Thatcher and Major, 1990-93. Hunt also returned as Welsh Secretary for a grand total of eight days between 26 June 1995 – 5 July 1995, when those little local difficulties concerning Dafydd's non-retirement and the non-closure of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh were sorted out, but Hunt didn't remind the peers of that. Or of the corpses of Bing Spear and Peter Morrison that were found – to great relief – a few days after Hunt handed over as Welsh Secretary to William Hague. Neither did Hunt mention the letter unlawfully dismissing Brown from his job which arrived a few days after Bing and Morrison were safely found dead. Meanwhile, back at the ranch in north Wales, evidence was planted and untruthful statements about me and my alleged doings were being dutifully collected by the MDU and Hempsons.
Despite Hunt's agreement with Ken Clarke – Home Secretary, April 1992-May 1993 – Hunt said: 'Nothing seemed to happen for six months. I chased Ken and he said 'oh sorry'. Lord Hunt said there was an 'almost automatic reflex action' to say 'far better to leave it where it is'.
At the time, the North Wales Police were riddled with corruption and were in the process of investigating the possibility of a VIP paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire. The Chief Constable of North Wales, David Owen, refused to co-operate and the investigation was stopped in 1993, with the conclusion that there was no evidence of a paedophile ring. However there had been thousands of statements taken and hundreds of complaints of sexual assault and physical violence against social workers, 'carers' and others had been made by residents and former residents of children's homes in north Wales. A file was sent to the CPS but no charges followed.
The North Wales Police were ably assisted in their corrupt practices by other forces, including the West Midlands, South Wales, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, the Met, South Yorkshire, the RUC and others (see post 'Top Of The Cops'). So someone in Westminster was keen to retain control over the North Wales Police rather than hand the management of the force over to the corrupt Welsh Office. Not that the person blocking devolution will have been concerned about the corruption at the Welsh Office, because the North Wales Police and its helpers were all endemically corrupt as well. Policing is the responsibility of the Home Office.
King's Cross, London, Nov 1987. Not Cardiff.
So Ken Clarke, why were you so desperate to retain control over the police force which was fitting me up repeatedly and facilitating a sex trafficking ring, which we were constantly told didn't exist and then when Sir Ronnie Waterhouse admitted that it did, he stressed that it only existed within the confines of north Wales and merely consisted of a few lowly sheep shaggers? Could your barrister's brain possibly find a way of explaining matters? Take your time, you can down a few pints, consume a few curries, smoke some more cigars. I mean scores of people died but they died a very long time ago now, including when you were Health Minister, then Health Secretary, then Home Secretary, as well as during those years when you worked as a barrister. On the Midlands Circuit. It covers Leicester. Greville Janner lived there and his constituency was there as well. Greville the barrister, you might have heard of him. A great many people claimed that he molested them when they were children and he was interviewed under caution in the early 1990s. Nothing came of it, although Greville was accompanied to his interview by his solicitor Sir David Napley who was so sure that Greville would be charged that he retained George Carman QC.
Sir David Napley was Jeremy Thorpe's solicitor and Carman acted for Thorpe at his trial. Obviously a winning team Ken!
Even if Ken and his fine legal brain – which was good enough to persuade tobacco companies to pay him a great deal of money to advise them as to how to escape the consequences of their unethical practices – did somehow fail to notice what was going on in north Wales, the consequences of the region's entire welfare system being rigged to facilitate a huge sex trafficking ring with international connections were so dire that they would have been evident to anyone taking even a brief look at the data sets collected by Gov't.
To those of us at the coal face it was blindingly obvious that something was terribly wrong. There was barely a healthcare system, let alone a mental healthcare system, in north Wales. All the local hospitals were known to be lethal and Top Doctors and their families did not use them themselves. The Angels did, but the Angels avoided certain practitioners like the plague and never said a word against anyone in public for fear of the consequences. The health outcomes in north Wales were terrible on every dimension: sky high mortality rates for every condition; the highest suicide rates in the UK, women completely unable to access legal abortions and being forced to go to private clinics in Chester and vulnerable women and teenagers not having this option simply gave birth to children whom they could not care for; babies dying or sustaining brain damage during botched deliveries again and again; dreadful outcomes for routine surgical procedures. No part of healthcare in north Wales functioned properly.
Then there were the concerns about the schools in Gwynedd. It was always wrapped up in a cloak of the battle between 'Welsh and English', but certain kids were being abandoned, not because of their language or nationality, but because a bloody paedophile gang was in operation, so a highly nepotistic system of cronyism had evolved to protect the more fortunate kids from the gang. Likewise, an informal network of extended family carers had developed, because people would do anything to avoid their children having to go into care if they were unable to look after them.
Thus onto the 'child protection' system in north Wales. Didn't anyone ask why this huge rural region with bugger all infrastructure and dreadful healthcare and a very patchy education service was full of children's homes? There were dozens and dozens of them. They kept closing down and immediately reopening under different names, yet the owners remained the same, as did the staff. A lot of the homes were hidden away in woods and mountains, miles away from anywhere. The kids inside didn't even know where they were, they couldn't pronounce the name of the nearest village and they simply weren't told the name of their place of residence. Hundreds and hundreds of kids, non-Welsh speaking urban children, from Birmingham, from London, from Newcastle, from Liverpool, from Manchester, all disappearing into the hills of north Wales. The locals knew that they were there, but were all told the same thing – it's a 'home for naughty boys', don't speak to them if they come to your house because they'll burgle you. And some of the really bad ones have raped people.' It wasn't true, but it ensured that if the 'naughty boys' tried to run away after being repeatedly buggered and raped, no local would dare speak to them let alone help them.
Even the Waterhouse Report admitted that the North Wales Police records showed hundreds of 'absconsions' from children's homes. These were children running away from rapists. The police took them back. Some of the kids ran to police stations to report assaults on them and were arrested themselves for trivial, trumped up offences.
The same MO applied to the inmates of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. Everyone was told that they were 'dangerous mental patients' so people were too frightened to help them. The vast majority of patients at Denbigh were not in the least bit dangerous, because the Angels and Top Docs were frightened of dangerous patients and refused to treat them. The biggest laugh at Denbigh was the police returning patients who had 'escaped' – we were all held there illegally, so no-one was 'escaping'. The police were simply assisting Dafydd in illegally imprisoning people.
There was no winning with them. If you remained silent about the horrors, you were told that you were happy and 'benefiting' from Dafydd et al. If you complained you were 'ranting', even if the complaint was clearly articulated and in no way a rant. If you systematically – as I did – logged every breach of the law and abuse and who was involved, then that just showed that you were 'obsessed' and a 'vexatious complainant'.
People attempting suicide were never in despair, they only ever did so as a hysterical gesture or out of 'ire' no less. Everyone was described on their medical records as 'aggressive, volatile and excitable' because that was the only way that the huge quantities of liquid coshes uniformly prescribed to everyone before they had even seen the lowliest of a Top Doctor could have been justified. Furthermore, people's 'diagnoses' had been written on their notes before they even entered the hospital building.
Get over it everyone – they were running a ruthless trafficking gang and once you had been identified as fodder, no-one saw you in any other way. Personal records and information on patients was searched to identify anyone likely to ask questions and these people were then neutralised. In my case they were paid huge amounts of money to smear me if I ever went public about what had happened or to remain silent if I was imprisoned or found dead. The close friends of mine who would never have succumbed to such measures came under attack as much as I did. Anne was killed, there were attempts to kill Brown and his brother and other friends were ruined and left without careers or credibility.
Children went to north Wales children's homes and were never seen again and the same happened to patients who were sent to Denbigh.
I mentioned in my post 'Include Me Out' that the 'hospital wing' at Risley Remand Centre provided virtually no treatment for anything, but there was a visiting clap clinic. This was a 'hospital wing' which was run by Dafydd and contained mostly teenagers who had been in care, sometimes teenagers under 15 yrs old. A pox doctor was prioritised above anything else. I know why, it was because the screws didn't want a dose when they had sex with the teenagers and Dafydd and the Angels didn't want to be infected when the inmates were unlawfully transferred back to Denbigh.
If anyone knows who the visiting pox specialist at Risley was, please do tell me. I wonder if it was the celebrity clap doctor who treated Dafydd himself or indeed George Thomas aka Viscount Tonypandy in 1984, when Leo Abse had to tell a pack of lies to the press because George Thomas had contracted a dose and thought that his political career would be over when the news became public (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
My point here is that those holding roles in the UK Statistics Authority would have noticed from numerous angles that something terrible was happening in north Wales. Until I began researching for this blog, I had always presumed that people with responsibilities in the UK Statistics Authority would be statisticians and very competent ones at that. So imagine my surprise when I noticed that a popular move for people who had successfully concealed the activities of Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends was to then join the UK Statistics Authority. I realised immediately why it would be so useful to so many people to have paedophiles' friends sitting on the UK Statistics Authority, but again, being naive I assumed that people occupying such roles would be good enough at stats to use them in complex ways to mislead. I'm delighted to report that in many cases, no-one had ever bothered to go to such lengths. As in the case of Rhiannon and Chris Whitaker, upon who's statistical abilities great swathes of healthcare research at Bangor University has pivoted upon for the last 25 years yet who were happy to announce world shattering miraculous discoveries on samples of three, one of which isn't in the least bit relevant to whatever they are researching anyway (see post 'they Think It's All Over – It Is Now'), one doesn't need to know that much about statistics to sit on the UK Statistics Authority. In fact it's probably an advantage if one doesn't, because one can then be told any old guff by the small number of Gov't appointed and paid statisticians who are working on the data sets and one will not feel obliged to ask questions.
A quick look at the website of the UK Statistics Authority reveals that the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority is Sir David Norgrove, who was appointed by Lilibet in March 2017, 'following open competition, and with parliamentary approval'.
Sir David Norgrove is 'an English businessman and Gov't official'. He was the first Chair of the Pensions Regulator and is the current Chair of PensionsFirst, the Family Justice Board and the Low Pay Commission.
Norgrove was educated at Christ's Hospital School – it's just been at the centre of a sexual abuse scandal – and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he did a history degree. Norgrove then did a diploma in economics at Cambridge University and a Masters in economics at the LSE.
Norgrove started his career as an economist at HM Treasury, 1972–85, where his time included a secondment to the First National Bank of Chicago. Norgrove was Private Secretary to Thatch, 1985-88. So he worked for Thatch when Alison Taylor told her that kids in care were being abused and when Thatch was warned repeatedly that Jimmy Savile's 'private life' was likely to blow up in everyone's faces if he was given a knighthood. Thatch continued to entertain Savile at Chequers at Christmas and lobby for him to be knighted. Norgrove was working for Thatch when she was told that Peter Morrison was holding sex parties with young boys.
In 1988 Sir David joined Marks & Spencer, where he held several positions: From 1988–99 he was Director of Europe; Worldwide franchising; Menswear and Strategy. In September 1999 Norgrove became Chairman of Marks & Spencer's Ventures Division and a year later he was appointed to the executive board as Executive Director for Strategy, International and Ventures. Marks & Spencer have been highly supportive of associates and umbrellas of Dafydd through the years. It was M&S who offered Sir Martin Roth a massive loan in order for Roth to purchase a grandiose building in Belgravia to house the Royal College of Psychiatrists, although the Royal College was penniless, could not possibly afford their palatial residence and ended up moving out at a later point (see post 'The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Connection'). The widow of Lord Sieff was generous in her support of causes close to the paedophiles' friends' hearts.
Norgrove was heavily involved in the early recovery of Marks and Spencer but in Jan 2004 he was fired from his role as Director of Clothing following poor Christmas sales. He continued in his position as Chair of the Trustees of the Marks & Spencer pension fund until later in the year, playing a role in the attempt by Philip Green to acquire the company.
In March 2004 Sir David was appointed to the Board of the British Museum, later becoming Deputy Chairman. In Nov 2009 Norgrove became the Chairman of the British Museum Friends, retiring as a Trustee in 2012.
Norgrove was appointed first Chair of the Pensions Regulator, 2005-10 and subsequently named one of the hundred most influential people in the capital markets by Financial News. In May 2009 Norgrove became Chairman of the Low Pay Commission. He is also a member of the Finance Committee of Amnesty International UK.
David Norgrove Chaired the Family Justice Review in 2011–12. This recommended substantial changes to speed up public law proceedings (cases concerning the protection of children) and to help family justice operate better as a system. In private law (divorce and separation) it recommended changes to help couples avoid the need to undertake court proceedings, for example via increased use of mediation. Most media attention was paid to a recommendation that there should not be legislation to create a presumption around parental involvement in children's lives after separation. This was controversial particularly with Fathers' Groups and has been interpreted by some as a recommendation that fathers should not have equal rights to children.
In 2012, Norgrove was appointed as first Chair of the Family Justice Board, which brings together the main agencies involved in family justice to promote change and reform of the system.
Norgrove is married to Jenny and they have two daughters and a son. He is a millionaire and lives in Islington and Combe [Berkshire].
Norgrove was knighted in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the low paid and the family justice system. Over the last couple of days the Welsh media have published a list of companies which have systematically underpaid their employees to such an extent that the law has been broken. Employees have discovered that they are thousands and thousands of pounds. Now wait for the companies to refuse to pay their staff what is owed and for the staff to be unable to afford legal redress. As for the family justice system which Norgrove reviewed, there are now so many children being taken into care that the system cannot cope with them. It has been demonstrated that in many cases children have been removed from their parents and put up for adoption simply because the parents have become homeless or temporarily too ill to look after them. Children are now being removed as a first response to temporary difficulties rather than as a last resort. As for the care system into which the kids have been placed, virtually every local authority in the UK is now subject to a police investigation into the abuse and trafficking of children in their care. Head teachers in Kent stated last week that they will no longer accept children in care in their schools because the kids are so badly neglected and abused while 'in care' that their difficulties are too great for the schools to deal with.
Nice one Sir David, the misery and suffering is incalculable! Now all kids in care can have the full Bryn Estyn Experience.
Current non-executive members of the UK Statistics Authority are appointed through open competition. The current non-executive members are: Professor Adrian Smith (Deputy Chair); Professor Sir Ian Diamond; Professor David Hand; Professor Jonathan Haskel; Ms Sian Jones;Dr David Levy; Ms Nora Nanayakkara; Professor Anne Trefethen
Professor Adrian Smith is at least a statistician, but he has held senior posts in institutions named on the blog as being endemic with fraud and wrongdoing: Imperial College and the Universities of Nottingham and London. In 2008 Smith was DG for Science and Research at the Dept for Innovation, Universities and Skills. So he worked for Mandy. At that time, one of Mandy's right hand civil servants was the daughter of Ron Evans. Ron was the crooked lawyer employed by Gwynedd County Council during the 1980s and 90s. Ron was Brains behind the paedophile gang and his name is all over my documents relating to the many attempts to fit me up in Court. Ron did favours for the NHS as well, his advice and signature appears on NHS documentation to which he should not have had access. Then there are the forged documents, although Ron's forgeries are of a higher quality than the forgeries by the other paedophiles' friends.
When the shit hit the fan re the paedophile gang and investigations were launched, Ron told everybody that what they had done was so serious and so indefensible that none of them must ever say a word about it to anyone. I know that because I worked with Ron's wife at Bangor University and she told me, not realising that I was one of her husband's targets and at the time I had no idea that her Ron was the Ron who's paw prints were across all of my documents.
Thus to this very day, it has been a case of 'I Know Nuzzing…' on the part of the whole of north Wales.
Not that the paedophiles were at all grateful to Ron for keeping them all out of prison, he later developed cancer and had a nervous breakdown and was left to rot in exactly the same way as if he'd been an Empowered Service User. The ruthless bastards were probably thinking that the sooner he dropped the better, lest a name ever escaped from his lips.
A former Lambeth Borough Councillor:
Sir Ian Diamond, as Chief Exec of the ESRC, was behind sociopath Professor Fergus Lowe's and paedophiles' friend Prof Colin Baker's success at netting research funding for an ESRC centre at Bangor University a few years ago. Fungus built his empire at Bangor by bribing and blackmailing everyone who had been party to Dafydd's wrongdoing. Colin Baker aka Toad did something very similar but he wasn't as successful at it as Fungus. The Diamond Geezer has previously ruled over Southampton and Aberdeen Universities. Southampton in particular was full of Top Docs doing what they should not have been, including a few friends of Dafydd's. See post 'Pets Win Prizes' for the extensive wrongdoing with which the Diamond Geezer colluded.
Professor David Hand is a statistician, but one who has worked at Imperial and at the Institute of Psychiatry with Dafydd's mates. So Prof Hand obviously has much experience at excusing those difficult outliers when he takes a look at the data.
Professor Jonathan Haskel holds a Chair in economics at the Business School at Imperial College. He sits on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
The UK Statistics Authority has three executive members:
John Pullinger, the National Statistician. The National Statistician is a Crown appointment as the Authority's and the Gov'ts principal adviser on official statistics. The National Statistician is Head of the Gov't Statistical Service and is also the Authority's Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary.
Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation. The Director General for Regulation is a statutory post as the the Authority's principal adviser on the assessment and reassessment of official statistics and their compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
One of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Directors General on a rotational basis. This is currently Jonathan Athow (the Deputy National Statistician for Economic Statistics). The others are Ms Heather Savory (Deputy National Statistician for Data Capability) and Mr Ian Bell (Deputy National Statistician for Population and Public Policy).
I haven't had time to research the backgrounds of all of these folk yet, but it's on my To Do list.
Former members of the UK Statistics Authority include a lovely selection of leading paedophiles' friends known to this blog:
Dame Colette Bowe DBE Non-Executive Director 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2018
Dame Moira Gibb DBE Non-Executive Director 1 February 2008 to 31 January 2018
Sir Andrew Dilnot CBE Chair 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2017
Ms Carolyn Fairbairn Non-Executive Director 1 April 2013 to 30 September 2015
Professor David Rhind Deputy Chair (Statistics System) 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2015
Mr Partha Dasgupta Non-Executive Director 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2014
Sir Jon Shortridge Non-Executive Director 1 February 2010 to 30 October 2012
Lord David Rowe-Beddoe Deputy Chair (ONS) 1 April 2008 to 31 August 2012
Sir Michael Scholar KCB Chair 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2012
Professor Sir Roger Jowell CBE Deputy Chair (Statistics System) 11 November 2008 to 26 December 2011
Professor Stephen Nickell CBE FBA Non-Executive Director 1 April 2008 to 31 October 2010
Sir Alan Langlands FRSE Non-Executive Director 1 April 2008 to 12 April 2009
Colette Bowe was central to the Westland skulduggery as detailed in my post 'Those Who Are ready To Serve'.
Sir Jon Shortridge is a paedophiles' friend of many years standing. He was a civil servant in the Welsh Office throughout the paedophile years and climbed higher and higher until he was the most senior mandarin presiding over that particular dung heap. Sir Jon then went to work for Mandy in 2009. The pinnacle of Sir Jon's career was being appointed as the Chancellor of Glyndwr University, an institution governed and substantially staffed by the paedophiles' friends (see post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!'). After years of ignoring scandals and malpractice, Glyndwr hit the buffers not so long ago when it was blocked from accepting overseas students as a result of an immigration fraud which had been ignored in true Glyndwr tradition.
Sir Michael Scholar lurked as a mandarin within the Welsh Office as preparations for the enormous cover-up that was the Waterhouse Inquiry were underway (see post 'So Who Was It Exactly Who Appointed The Corrupt Old Bastard?').
Lord David Rowe-Beddoe played a central role in the development of Cardiff Bay, a scam designed by Nicholas Edwards and his mates, in which millions of pounds of taxpayers' money was transferred into the pockets of a few already very rich people, including Nicholas Edwards and David Rowe-Beddoe (see post 'Corruption Bay Special').
Carolyn Fairbairn has been at the scene of numerous crimes – the World Bank, McKinsey and Co, Lloyds Bank, the BBC, Sky and she did a stint as the DG of the CBI. More importantly for this blog's purposes, in 1995 Carolyn was a member of John Major's Downing Street Policy Unit, where she was responsible for developing health and social services policy. So Carolyn was one of those who told all those lies re the fate of the North Wales Hospital and those within when it didn't close down. Carolyn probably knows that there are still bodies in the grounds out there. Carolyn has also been Chair of Marie-Curie Cancer Care. She and her husband are of course very, very rich.
Moira Gibbs was a social worker in Newham when that Borough sent kids into the arms of Dafydd and the gang. By 1988 Moira had become Deputy Director of Social Services for Kensington and Chelsea and in 1990, she was appointed Director. Between 2003-11, Moira was Chief Executive for Camden Borough Council, the only place in England and Wales which had a higher suicide rate among women than Gwynedd. Moira was rewarded for this achievement with a position as a non-executive Director of NHS England. In 2014, Moira Chaired the Serious Case Review into the sex offending of William Vahey at Chris Woodhead's Southbank International School. Moira also Chaired the Church of England's Independent Review of the case of the sex offending Bishop Peter Ball. These cases do keep happening, thank goodness we've got Moira to Chair the Reviews. Moira is of course a Dame. They'll be keeping a seat warm for her in the Lords as I write, St Helena will soon have a new friend to do lunch with. The Baroness of Ely can join them if she can fit it in between her hectic schedule of patronising and screwing over the general public in Wales.
Sir Andrew Dilnot was born and went to school in Swansea and has enjoyed a successful career in academia at Oxford University. In 2010 he was asked by the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to Chair the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. Dilnot's subsequent Report was welcomed by Cameron as well as by Ed Miliband and cross-party talks began. The talks went nowhere and seven years later people are still unable to leave their houses or even get out of bed at a reasonable time in the morning because no-one can get it together to organise a system of home helps. Although the Top Docs are still discovering cures for various fatal illnesses several times a week, so that's a relief. What would we do without them?
David Rhind is a geographer who is a University of Bristol graduate of a similar vintage to those two paedophiles' friends who are also Bristol graduates, DGE Wood and Lord David Hunt. David Rhind is a member of the Court of the Bank of England.
Partha Dasgupta is an economist who is a Visiting Professor at A.C. Grayling's University for Very Rich People Who Have Been Rejected By Oxbridge, the New College of the Humanities. When he was at Cambridge, Partha was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a student society known for its remarkable ability to churn out members of the security services who end up as double agents. Partha is married to Carol Dasgupta, a psychotherapist…
Stephen Nickell is an economist who has previously worked with Lord Richard Layard. Layard is the man who dreamed up the Happiness Discourse, which is probably even more dangerous than Mindfulness in terms of denying the dreadful experiences people are having at the hands of the nation's abusive and failing welfare services. Layard is married to Baroness Molly Meacher, a former social worker and paedophiles' friend of the highest order who was previously married to Labour leftie Michael Meacher, who early in his political career, realised how dire 'care' for the elderly in hospital was and decided that he wasn't going to go there again. See post 'A Vintage Crop' for info about the Meachers.
Alan Langlands has had a glorious career at the very top of the NHS and has also doubled up as a 'university leader'. Bombs went off underneath Langlands constantly when he ran the NHS, but everyone who spends more than a few weeks working at a senior level in the NHS develops a hide so thick that it is a wonder of zoology, so Langlands was never that worried about the deaths and patient harm. See post 'A Vintage Crop' for the gory biography of Langlands.
Mentioning Alan Langlands brings me nicely onto Virginia Bottomley, Secretary of State for Health, April 1992-July 1995, who was in office as things became seriously crazy in north Wales, as bodies turned up all over the place and when a few people in Somerset became seriously rich after meeting the sort of people whom Virginia knew. For more background on Virginia, a former psychiatric social worker and her immediate family, see post 'The Defence Of The Realm'. Ginny was the Tory MP for south west Surrey, which covered the area where I lived when I worked at the University of Surrey with those who plagiarised my work and who were so close to the President of the BMA when that organisation was busy colluding with the perjurers of north Wales in their efforts to have me banged up. Ginny's constituency also covered many of those whom the Hergest patient F knew and to whom he was related, someone else who's life was systematically destroyed by Dafydd and the gang (see posts 'The Killing Floor – I Know Cos I Was There!' and 'An Appalling Vista').
Virginia is like Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh, she has numerous friends and relations and two of them have previously gone under my radar when they should not have, so I'll introduce them now.
Ginny is a relative of Baron Jay of Ewelme, Michael Jay. Michael Jay was educated at Winchester College, Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he is an honorary fellow,and the University of London's SOAS. He served as a VSO teacher in Zambia.
Jay joined the Ministry of Overseas Development in 1969, serving in London, Washington (at the World Bank) in 1973 and as First Secretary (Development) at the British High Commission, New Delhi, in 1978. Jay transferred to the FCO in 1981, serving as Private Secretary to the junior Minister. Lord Carrington was Foreign Secretary at the time, another person who had been centrally involved with concealing organised sexual abuse and the associated wrongdoing in north Wales and elsewhere, including the sex and spy scandals as long ago as those which took place during Macmillan's time in office (see post 'In Memoriam – Bronwen, Lady Astor'). Carrington was First Lord of the Admiralty, 1959-63, so he'll have been involved in concealing the crap detailed in my post 'The Defence Of The Realm' and during his long political career will have become aware of Dafydd's role in the circles of Bertrand Russell and the Welsh Bloomsbury Set, as described in my post 'The Village'.
As Counsellor, Jay served in the European Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, 1985-87. He was posted as Counsellor in the Paris Embassy from 1987-90, returning to the FCO as Director for European Affairs until 1994 under Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, who as Home Secretary had just spent a few years really pushing the boat out to assist Dafydd and the paedophiles (see posts 'Security, Security', 'Additional Security Measures' and 'Include Me Out'). Jay was appointed Director General for European and Economic Affairs 1994-96, following which he became a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford.
So Jay was in the Foreign Office under dear old Douglas – Douglas who worked for the security services – when someone in Somerset found themselves in receipt of a Coutts cheque. The receiver of that cheque barely even used a high street bank Douglas, he had spent his working life being paid in used notes in a small brown pay packet.
Left school at 15 with no qualifications? Worked in manual labouring jobs in Bridgwater for your whole life? Know someone who's been targeted by the Westminster Paedophile Ring? Here, take a cheque from Coutts!
From July 1996 to Sept 2001 Jay was British Ambassador to France. During this tenure, he was the first British spokesman to speak publicly when Diana met a sticky end in that tunnel. In July 2001, Jay was appointed Head of the Diplomatic Service, a post he took up on 14 Jan 2002. In 2005 and 2006, Jay also served as the Prime Minister's Personal Representative (Sherpa) for the G8 summits at Gleneagles and St Petersburg.
Jay was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael & St George in the 1992 Birthday Honours, which coincided nicely with the deaths of the five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal as a result of that firebomb in Brighton (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs'). Then he was promoted to Knight Commander in the 1997 New Year Honours. Anyone for a Public Inquiry which serves as a huge cover-up?
I'm surprised that Sir Ronnie Waterhouse didn't find himself socialising with the plebiscite of Bridgwater just before he Chaired that Inquiry, it was obviously where the action was. Lilibet could have paid a state visit to Stogursey.
Lord Jay was the Chair of Merlin, the British health and medical aid agency, from 2007 until 2013. Now there's interesting for you – one of Brown's relatives worked for Merlin a few years before Michael Jay decided that his future lay with them as well.
Jay has been a non-executive director of Associated British Foods (2006-),Credit Agricole (2007-2011), EDF (2009-), Candover PLC (2008-) and Valeo SA (2007-). He is a Trustee of the Thomson Reuters Founders share company (2013-) and Chairman of the Advisory Council of the British Library (2011 -). Jay was Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission from 2008 until 2013). He has served on sub-committees C, E and F of the House of Lords Select Committee on European Union affairs.
Jay married Sylvia Mylroie in 1975. In 2005 Lady Jay was appointed Vice-Chairman of L'Oreal UK & Ireland, then Chairman from 2011-2013.
A large cheque from Coutts. Because you're worth it!
Sylvia has been a non-executive Director on the Board of Alcatel-Lucent and is non-executive Director of St-Gobain, Lazard and Casino Group. She is Chairman of the Pilgrim Trust and has been a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust and Entente Cordiale Scholarship Scheme.
When the authorities at De Montfort University received that mad poison pen letter telling them that Brown was a 'known paedophile' (see post 'A Nasty, Ludicrous Poison Pen Letter'), it was signed 'Sylvia Grenalda'. Databases were searched but no-one could find Sylvia. I presumed that the author's name was probably Martin Jones or Elfed Roberts, but you never know, those who bank at Coutts have been interested in Brown and me for many years, so the author of the poison pen letter may have just used a false surname.
When that poison pen letter was sent, someone remarked to me that they did not know how Brown and I had withstood the decades of toxic harassment. Well I won't say that it was ever part of our lives' plan, but those doing it do provide us with a great deal of entertainment.
Another relative of Ginny's is Lord Matthew Oakeshott, who was formerly a Lib Dem. Oakeshott was educated at Charterhouse School, before attending University College, Oxford and Nuffield College, Oxford.
Oakeshott worked in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning of Kenya, 1968-70. During 1970 to 1972, Oakeshott undertook postgraduate studies at Nuffield College, Oxford, although he did not complete a graduate degree. He joined the Labour Party and served as a Councillor on Oxford City Council. Where Oakeshott will have found out about the abuse of children which was facilitated and concealed by Dr Vladimir and Barbara Kahan. By the time that Oakeshott was an Oxford Councillor, Babs was an advisor to Keith Joseph re children in care. See post 'Always On The Side Of The Children'.
Oakeshott stood twice, unsuccessfully, for election to the Commons, as the Labour candidate for Horsham and Crawley in 1974 and then for the SDP-Liberal Alliance in Cambridge in 1983. Dr Death personally knew some of the Top Docs trafficking vulnerable people in north Wales and of course David Steel was up to his eyeballs re ignoring the activities of Jeremy Thorpe, Cyril Smith etc.
From 1972 to 1976, Oakeshott was a Parliamentary Assistant to Labour's Woy Jenkins in Opposition, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust. If anyone knew anything about concealing crimes against Little People, then Woy did, who later in his career became Blair's mentor (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part I'). The Joseph Rowntree Trust know a great deal about such matters as well but have never managed to say anything, despite their decades of work dedicated to helping The Poor. Woy, who was originally from south Wales, the son of a miner, led the SDP, 1982-83, whilst Dr Death's mates were busy expanding their business in north Wales. Woy happened to be Chancellor of Oxford University when that institution gave Prof Mark Williams a home, on the basis of his research fraud which was Mindfulness, which he developed in collaboration with the paedophile gang when he worked with Dafydd et al in north Wales. Woy had of course colluded with the criminality of Dafydd and the paedophiles when Woy had been Home Secretary, 1974-76, under Wilson and then Callaghan. Woy was in post when Leo Abse and Dr Death succeeded in passing the Children Act 1975, which really opened the doors to the creation of numerous brothels in north Wales going under the name of children's homes/residential schools.
Oakeshott was involved himself, because when Jenkins became Home Secretary, Oakeshott worked as his Special Advisor. Jenkins charged him with keeping 'an eye on the Common Market 'negotiation' by forging a close relationship with George Thomson's cabinet in Brussels, but also to keep him in touch with Labour party feeling and help write speeches and newspaper articles.' Oakeshott was an instrumental part of the team that wrote the Limehouse Declaration.
The Top Docs and paedophiles of north Wales really loved Europe, not just because it provided them with an excuse to go on holiday, but because of the business opportunities that lay there. Dr Dafydd Alun Jones has links all over Europe and he speaks several European languages! Perhaps he can tell us the Breton for 'mari-jew-ana'.
After learning at the knee of Woy and the gang of four, Oakeshott became a Director of Warburg Investment Management, a post which he held until 1981. He was then investment manager of the Courthaulds pension fund until 1985. Oakeshott was a founder director of OLIM in 1986 and is now Chairman of OLIM Property Limited, which invests in commercial property throughout the UK for pension funds, investment trusts and charities. He is joint investment director of Value and Income Trust plc (VIN).
Oakeshott picked up a life peerage in 2000, three months after the publication of the Waterhouse Report. He served as Lib Dem Treasury spokesman in the Lords, 2001-11 and as Pensions Spokesman from 2002-10. Oakeshott has been a leading enthusiast for Lords reform. As has everyone who is currently dining and slumbering in there.
Oakeshott parted company from the Lib Dems in 2014 after falling out with Cleggy. In an attempt to 'help save our country from a Tory government cringing to Ukip' in Jan 2015 Oakeshott donated £300,000 in total to 15 Labour candidates in the 2015 General Election, £300,000 to 15 Liberal Democrats and £10,000 to the Green Party's sole MP, Caroline Lucas. In Feb 2015, Oakeshott was pictured wearing a red rosette and canvassing for Labour in Thurrock.
In 1976, Oakeshott married Philippa, a Top Doctor. They have two sons, Joseph and Luke and one daughter, Rachel. Oakeshott is related to journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who entertained the nation with her allegations that David Cameron had once placed his penis in the mouth of a dead pig, but had Isabel written about what some leading politicians really did in their efforts to conceal the Westminster Paedophile Ring, she'd have caused a worthwhile sensation. She will know about it, all the journos do. Not that Isabel could have mentioned Dafydd et al in her book, because it was bank rolled by Lord Ashcroft, who is the founder of Crimestoppers. Throughout the 1990s, Crimestoppers colluded with Dafydd and the gang and refused to act on a series of calls from one of Dafydd's victims who rang Crimestoppers and provided them with details of some of Dafydd's crimes, including dates and the names of victims/accessories. In the end Crimestoppers told this person to stop ringing because they would not be taking any action on the basis of any of the information provided.
Isabel could certainly have made herself useful if she'd written a volume about Matthew Oakeshott's wife, Top Doctor Pippa. Pippa Oakeshott is Professor of General Practice in the Population Health Research Institute at St George's Hospital Medical School! She is 'a practising GP in Lambeth, London and her research at St George's focuses mainly on women's health'. So among Pippa's patients will be the former kids in the care of Lambeth who were abused and trafficked, both in Lambeth children's homes and when they were placed in children's homes in north Wales by Lambeth Borough Council.
Professor Oakeshott has a strong background in randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in primary care. This includes six trials in 40 South London general practices, and one (the 'POPI' chlamydia screening trial) in 20 universities and further education colleges. She is co-investigator on a large UK Clinical Research Collaboration eSTI2, a consortium programme grant (a research project which aims to let people self-diagnose sexually transmitted diseases using their mobile phones).
So Pippa is yet another person who's interest is in 'wimmin's health' and who sees a stream of poor, vulnerable, sometimes very young wimmin (girls), who have contracted STIs or are constantly finding themselves with unwanted pregnancies. There will be big chummy wimmin's smiles all around, reassurances about being 'non-judgemental', yet even in the face of very young, terrified, distressed girls, no-one will try to ask 'who is it who has done this to you and are you trapped in a relationship with them when you'd rather not be?'
Wendy Savage became a feminist hero because she campaigned for abortion rights and being Wendy she was happy to perform terminations repeatedly on the same women. I was in a lecture in 1990 when Wendy boasted of terminating one patient more than 20 times. The Top Docs all around me could be heard taking sharp intakes of breath and a few brave souls said to Savage 'you really should not be doing that'. Now I knew that in north Wales at that time, the Top Docs had conspired to make NHS abortions virtually impossible to obtain and I saw the carnage that resulted among women who couldn't afford to go to the private abortion clinic in Chester – which must have been making a fortune out of the High Morals of the Top Docs in north Wales.
However, Wendy Savage practised as a gynaecologist in Tower Hamlets. Tower Hamlets was the poorest Borough in London. It was also one of the Borough's which sent kids in care to children's homes in north Wales and trafficked them back to London to work in the sex trade. I very much suspect that some of Wendy Savage's patients had been forced into sex repeatedly, which was why they kept becoming pregnant when they didn't want to. Wendy did not ask the obvious question. Instead she constructed the situation in the terms that Top Docs do when they are ignoring something terrible – it was all about 'chaotic dysfunctional patients who would not take responsibility for contraception'. A few such people do exist, but I have spent years watching Top Docs, Angels and social workers constructing the victims of a bunch of sex traffickers in such a way, because it is a good deal easier than doing something about your own colleagues when they are involved with serious organised crime.
Wendy Savage was mates with Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain, who was carrying out major research fraud, colluding with Dafydd and the paedophiles in north Wales and with a linked paedophile gang in south London. In the mid 1960s, Chamberlain worked in Washington DC where he carried out experiments on at least one foetus of seven months gestation whom he had delivered by hysterectomy and subsequently killed after the experiments (see post 'Now Then…').
Wendy Savage was a big supporter of the Labour Party and they really loved having that Top Doc on board. A woman! A feminist! Unfortunately yet another Top Doc colluding with the rampant abuse of disadvantaged people. Wendy Savage's battles with her Top Doc colleagues were always constructed by 'The Guardian' and 'New Statesman' as a war between a leftie woman and a bunch of male Tories who liked hi-tech medicine and telling wimmin in labour what to do. It wasn't, they all just hated each other and as ever, the patients suffered in the cross-fire.
Wendy Savage refused to talk about her personal life in media interviews, which I can understand. Very little was known about her. She didn't seem to hang out with other Top Docs and it was frequently commented upon that she married a black jazz musician. Now that would have taken Wendy into some George Mellyish circles of sexploitation of underaged people in a big way.
At St George's I was friendly with one of the few really nice, sane Top Docs. She was a leftie with an interest in sociology and analysis and I used to love chatting to her. When I told her that I'd gone to Wendy Savage's lecture, this Top Doc told me that Wendy Savage did worrying things that did not ever find their way into the press. This Top Doc had been taught by Savage when she was a medical student and she swore blind that she had been in the lecture on breastfeeding given by Wendy Savage, where Wendy Savage had said 'you can even do it when they're as small as these', stripped off her shirt and gave the medical students an eyeful. The Top Doc who related that tale to me, to my knowledge, never told tall stories and she never participated in the tea room bitching and back-stabbing. I witnessed her repeatedly, very discreetly but effectively, protecting patients from Top Docs and Angels whom she knew to be dangerous. On one occasion she rescheduled a Caesarian because she simply told me 'the registrar on duty this evening is off his head and I will not take the risk'.
Professor Oakeshott is also interested in hypertension and stroke. She was co-investigator on a community-based trial of home blood pressure monitoring in 380 hypertensive stroke patients and more recently on a trial of nurse-led blood pressure clinics in primary care. She has also been involved in studying the Cambridge cohort of 117 consecutive patients with treated open spina bifida and has just published the 45 year follow up. Her 180 publications include eight BMJ research papers.
I wonder if we can believe a word of what Prof Oakeshott has published.
Pippa Oakeshott joined St George's in 1991 when she became a lecturer in general practice, combining clinical sessions in general practice with research and teaching. So Pippa was at St George's when Chamberlain and Pearce committed their research fraud, when St George's were colluding with Dafydd et al and when after one scandal too many, the Academic Dept of Obs and Gynae was closed down. Oakeshott is also a GP, so she'll know that the local GP surgeries were colluding with the wrongdoing of the staff of St Georges, Springfield Hospital and Wandsworth Social Services, including crimes involving the distribution of Class A drugs (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). One surgery involved was Trevelyan Road, Tooting, where one of the GPs also held an academic post at St George's. Another partner in the Trevelyan Road practice was Dr James Le Fanu, the medical correspondent for the Torygraph (see post 'The Defence Of The Realm').
Prior to taking up the Chair at St George's, Pippa studied medicine at Cambridge University, did GP training at Barts' and St Thomas' Hospitals, and worked as a part-time GP on the Doctors' Retainer Scheme.
So Pippa knows Dafydd's mates at Barts' and Tommy's and she'll know Ed and David Miliband's Uncle Harry who worked at Tommy's and whose dedication to the NHS moved Ed to tears whenever Ed remembered him. Particularly if Ed was on the campaign trail at the time.
From 2001-12 Professor Oakeshott was an Editorial Adviser to the BMJ. She is currently chair of a NIHR trial steering committee and member of the NIHR London Research for Patient Benefit advisory group.
Pippa arrived at St George's the year that I was forced out of my job there. When all those reprobate children of the idle rich turned up in Somerset and opened their Coutts cheque books.
Virginia Bottomley's cousin is Lord Julian Hunt, the dad of the former Labour MP Tristram hunt's dad. Julian Hunt was Director General and Chief Executive of the British Meteorological Office, 1992-97. Hunt was made a life peer by Blair in 2000. Just after the Waterhouse Report was published. That peerage might have been given in return for forecasting the weather. But if I know anything about the people to whom Blair gave peerages, it could equally well have been because Julian Hunt was the leader on the Labour group of Cambridge City Council in the 1970s, when the dung heap that involved wrongdoing in high places and sexual exploitation was concealed by Trumpers, as well as others (see post '95 Glorious Years!'). It's what propelled Trumpers into the Lords, it could well have worked for Baron Hunt of Chesterton. Furthermore Julian is Ginny's cousin and probably knows about her previous sordid activities at the DoH.
Julian Hunt is Professor of Climate modelling in the Department of Space and Climate Physics and Department of Earth Sciences at UCL. He is Chairman of Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants Ltd.
Julian's son Tristram was famously parachuted into Stoke-on-Trent Central by Blair as the Labour candidate in 2010. Ten years after his dad was given a peerage by Blair. For years Stoke-on-Trent/Staffordshire was the location of serious abuse of children in care which was ignored and concealed by everyone until the Pindown Scandal erupted in the 1980s. Barbara Kahan and Allan Levy co-chaired the Public Inquiry which followed (see post 'Always On The Side Of The Children'). The usual practice was followed and serious abuse of children was admitted, but the extent and severity of the crime, as well as the number of people who knew about it, was left unacknowledged.
The NHS in Staffs was in a very sorry state as well, which was probably related to the presence of a gang in the area. Thousands of people died unnecessarily at Mid-Staffs and it was Blair's Health Secretaries Andy Burnham and Alan Johnson who famously refused 82 requests to hold a public inquiry. Eventually a barrel of shit which almost rivalled north Wales exploded and splattered everyone. There are references in Hansard when John Major was PM to serious problems in the NHS in Staffordshire, but everyone refused to investigate.
Tristram Hunt went to University College School in Hampstead and then to Trinity College, Cambridge. Tristram might have been at University College School when Trumpers' husband Alan Barker was Headmaster there. Tristram is a Fellow of the IPPR, which was established by the Windbag and has acted as a home for the children of Labour big wigs ever since. The best brains have all passed through the job creation scheme which is the IPPR – little Harmans, little Straws, little Milibands and Tristram. One wonders why so little progress has been made.
Tristram has grovelled with the best since graduation in 1995. He was a Labour Party activist and then during the 1997 General Election, Tristram worked for the Labour Party at Millbank. In 2005 he campaigned for Oona King in Bethnal and Bow. Oona is a black female version of Tristram – a privileged relative of Labour Party insiders who constructed herself as oppressed. George Galloway made mincemeat of her. George Galloway is not a pleasant man, but Oona is a lying cow who was asking for that. Oona is now Baroness Oona and has found her true home in the Lords, along with the others who are similarly oppressed.
When Ed deluded himself that he was going to be PM, Tristram was one of those who was causing Labour Party supporters known to me in Wales to seethe. The spectacle of those over-entitled prats who were actually telling journos which Cabinet jobs they would be occupying when Ed became PM inflicted more damage on the Labour Party than they will ever understand.
Tristram, the day that Jezza was voted leader, I sat in a sitting room with a bunch of Labour Party members and supporters and tears of laughter ran down our cheeks as we watched your faces. It was fantastic, Andy Burnham looked as though he could not believe what had just happened and his eyes glazed over in confusion as he tried to process the information, that snotty thin woman was shaking her head and saying 'that's it, I'm out of here' and you looked as though you needed a bucket to throw up in. Then the phone started ringing with people celebrating the news that you lot would now have to just fuck off out of politics. As one of my friends observed, 'they have done nothing, nothing at all, for the people of this country'. Stay at the V&A Tristram, you actually know how to run a museum.
As for people from Somerset suddenly finding themselves rubbing shoulders with Voices of Influence, yesterday somebody reminded me of something that I thought was entirely coincidental but very funny when it happened in 2002. Just when I was in the clutches of the paedophile gang yet again and this time they were going for the complete kill – I was arrested and charged with 'threats to kill' on the perjury of eight or nine Angels and Alun Davies, Davies was telling everyone who would listen that I would be going to prison for seven years and the police said the same. The case circulated around the court for two years before collapsing. By which time I'd lost my home and my job. There was then an attempt by the paedophiles' friends to have me struck off the teaching register. My name was cleared by a junior Minister in Blair's Gov't who was then forced to defend himself in the media against allegations that he'd 'allowed paedophiles to return to teaching'. Er no, he had cleared the name of at least one person who had been the target of a paedophile gang for two decades. I was later told how dreadful this man was – a 'sinister' 'philanderer' no less. Blair denied him a place in the Lords on the grounds that he didn't trust this loose Welsh cannon.
Just how fucking nasty are you all up there in polite society in north Wales? And as for your plans to fit the Minister's friend up for a criminal offence AFTER the paedophiles' friends at the Walton Centre had managed to discover that there was 'no treatment' for his wife's brain tumour, words fail me. Oh and I've been given the name of the suspect who wrote to the DES and requested that I should be struck off the teaching register. I am waiting for corroborating evidence, but if the person who did it is reading this, I am very, very disappointed in you. I respected and trusted you when I was doing PGCE and you KNEW what was happening to me. You also knew about that paedophile gang. Weak? Spineless? Doesn't begin to describe you I'm afraid. You will no doubt be enjoying your very comfortable retirement after a lifetime of ignoring what was happening to disadavantaged kids and others in Gwynedd.
Regular readers will know that after the 'threats to kill' case collapsed against me, the PNC was unlawfully amended and a forged certificate of indictment was found in the possession of Chester Court stating that I had pleaded guilty to a charge of 'violent disorder'. I have never even been charged with violent disorder. Then there was the forged letter found in the possession of the GMC relating to the same period of time, purporting to be from me (see post 'The General Medical Council And Yet Another Forged Document').
In the midst of all this, on Sept 22 2002, one of those in Somerset who had received so much money from somewhere after tripping over the hopeless aristos of England's green and pleasant land as they all suddenly arrived at the Cottage Inn near Fiddington, went on the Countryside March to London. This person had no idea that the Countryside Alliance was bankrolled by the City and I was interested to hear that buses had been laid on from Somerset after local people had been reassured by the filthy rich global capitalists in the City that this march was about 'country people' who were suffering at the hands of that bastard Blair. Which indeed they were, Blair completely ignored rural poverty, he saw the countryside as a place where one had one's country cottage, but I don't think that the Countryside Alliance gave a bugger about rural poverty either.
Anyway, everyone was herded onto the coaches and off they went to London. Where, I was told, that they marched down through – down through where I wasn't sure – only to be greeted by 'office people' hanging out of their windows cheering and waving and telling them that they were right behind their country cousins.
'Ee when I went on an anti-apartheid march, I got shoved by a policeman and Brown was kneed in the knackers by another officer of the law. It just shows, it's one law for a stage managed Countryside March orchestrated by some very rich City financiers and another law for the rest of us.
The excitement didn't end there. The country cousin from Bridgwater bumped into Elinor Goodman and they had a chat! Of all the thousands of people on that march, Elinor Goodman happened to bump into someone who knew me! It's not as if this person popped up to London on a regular basis, they'd probably only been there two or three times in their entire life, but there was Elinor Goodman just waiting for the Bridgwater contingent to get off that coach. The visitor from Bridgwater believed that Goodman was a journo with interests in 'country things'.
Here's Elinor's CV as of 2005:
Career: 2005-present: Chair, Affordable Rural Housing Commission and presenter, BBC Radio 4's A Week in Westminster; 1988-2005: political editor, Channel 4 News; 1982-1988 political correspondent, Channel 4 News; 1978-1982 political correspondent, Financial Times; 1971-78: consumer affairs correspondent, Financial Times.
Public Life: Board member, Hansard Society; former trustee, Wiltshire Community Foundation and Rowntree Reform Trust. Also served on government's Hills Task Force.
More than 10 years after Elinor Chaired the Affordable Rural Housing Commission there is a substantial and growing problem with affordable housing in rural areas.
Elinor Goodman was married to Derek Scott, former economic adviser to Tony Blair.
Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith went on the Countryside March, as did actors Vinnie Jones and Edward Fox, TV presenters Melvyn Bragg (Melvyn is a MIND ambassador) and Anne Robinson (who spends thousands of pounds on lame designer clothes and insulted the Welsh in a way in which she would never have dared insult Jewish, black or Asian people), comic Jim Davidson (Tory supporting alcoholic wife beater), Sir Ranulph Fiennes (brother of a surgeon at St George's) and Earl Spencer. 'Nuff said.
The Countryside Alliance originally campaigned against the proposed ban on hunting. There was of course an inquiry into hunting before the legislation was drawn up – Chaired by Sir Ronnie Waterhouse. It is extraordinary, the paedophiles' friends were even given domain over hunting.
Do you speak Somerset Mr Blair? If so, how would you reply to the traditional Bridgwater greeting of 'Alroight then?' If I ever bump into you – although the only circumstances in which I would wish to do so is if you were in the dock and I was giving evidence against you – I won't know whether to speak Bridgy or Welsh to you. I'm sorry to say that I don't speak Blair.
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My posts 'Pets Win Prizes' and 'Cry, The Beloved Country' detailed some of the influential members of Sir Ronald Waterhouse's network. However, Ronnie's own account as provided in his autobiography 'Child Of Another Century' suggests a network of influence so extensive that I do not have the scope on this blog to provide exhaustive details of Sir Ronnie's numerous friends, relations and colleagues. So I will just use this post to highlight the remainder of those who are most important. I can highly recommend Ronnie's autobiography to readers who want to experience the full horror of Ronnie's mycelia as well as to anyone interested in the discriminatory brand of very rough justice that was handed out by Ronnie and his mates of which I gave a flavour in 'Cry, The Beloved Country'. In one murder trial Ronnie relied on evidence which was given by the deceased to a witness by means of a ouija board – the defendant in that trial was convicted.
Ronnie spent many loyal years toadying to powerful people in politics and law, but he was a man of many social circles and those little suckers on his many tentacles attached themselves to people in many arenas. Ronnie liked a bit of glamour and had many contacts in showbiz and the media.
Ronnie was proud that the actor Emlyn Williams from Mostyn, who achieved stardom in the 1920s and 30s, was an alumnus of Ronnie's school, Holywell County School (from 1945, it was Holywell Grammar). Emlyn starred in 'A Murder Has Been Arranged' and 'Beyond Belief'. Emlyn's mentor Sarah Grace Cooke taught Ronnie French.
There was another early brush with stardom for Ronnie when he went on the Welsh Schoolboy Camps – one of the attending teachers was Phil Burton, mentor of Richard Burton. Ronnie hobnobbed with the greats treading the boards again in the early 1940s when Ann, the daughter of Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson, stayed with the Waterhouse family.
Ronnie knew Guy Neale, the cousin of the actor Robert Morley. Guy was a friend of the famously bisexual George Melly who had sex with Peregrine Worsthorne when they were both at Stowe School (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'). Years later as a man in late middle age, Melly offered a 16 year old boy in Bangor money to have sex with him following Melly's appearance at Theatre Gwynedd. Ronnie observed that George Melly was 'very camp in his manner'. Like so many of the paedophiles' friends, George Melly had served in the Royal Navy (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'). Melly retired to Wales, near Brecon.
Ronnie's colleague Benet Hytner QC was the father of Sir Nicholas Hytner, the Artistic Director of the National Theatre. Sir Nicholas's mother Joyce is a theatrical fundraiser and sat on the Boards of a number of theatres, including the Royal Court Theatre. Ronnie Waterhouse used to hang out at the Royal Court Theatre with the molester Clement Freud.
Throughout the whole of the 1970s and 80s and for the first half of the 1990s Ronnie lived in St John's Wood, which was packed with famous names including a good smattering of luvvies. Ronnie was for a time President of the St John's Wood Society. He won't have missed any toadying opportunities while in that position.
Ronnie was an opera buff and after his wedding he celebrated by going to Glyndebourne with his friend and colleague Emlyn Hooson and his wife. Opera – including Glyndebourne – was a magnet for Ronnie and he turned up to operas with a range of impressive friends. One visit to Glyndebourne in 1978 was with his friend Malcolm Anson, who was at the time the High Sheriff of Avon. Anson was Director – and later the Chairman of – Imperial Tobacco.
The Waterhouse family knew Sir Henry Walford Davies, the English composer, organist, conductor and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music, 1934-41. Walford Davies held Chairs at University College Aberystwyth and the University of London and was musical advisor to the BBC.
Ronnie knew the Welsh tenor David Lloyd who, like Ronnie, came from Flintshire. In 1954 Lloyd had a serious accident whilst working on a programme for the BBC and fractured his spine. David Lloyd subsequently sued the BBC. Ronnie represented Lloyd in 1958 as the junior barrister to William Mars-Jones. Mars-Jones expressed the opinion from the outset that the BBC would win but somehow not only did legal aid for the case continue, but Mars-Jones persisted with the case. The BBC made unsubstantiated allegations that David Lloyd was an alcoholic – the presiding judge was a well-known Liberal Nonconformist who disapproved of drinking – and David Lloyd not only lost the case, but had his reputation damaged as well. It was however just as well for Ronnie and Mars-Jones that their client lost, because in 1956 Ronnie had begun working for the BBC himself and things could have been difficult if David Lloyd had won that case. The case was held at Chester Assizes. Ronnie Waterhouse grew up in a leading Liberal Nonconformist family just down the road from Chester. His family will have known the judge before Ronnie had even begun working on the Chester and Wales Circuit. Mars-Jones was also from a Nonconformist family who were located not a million miles away from Chester and Mars-Jones was an older, more experienced barrister who will have known the judge well. I suspect that Ronnie also knew that his employers were going to accuse David Lloyd of being a piss artist. What I do not know is whether David Lloyd knew that Ronnie was working for the organisation that David was trying to sue. David had been very badly injured and was unable to work for several years. That could have cost the BBC a great deal of money and much bad PR.
David Lloyd-Jones, the musical director of English Opera North, was the son of Ronnie's colleague Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones QC. Vincent Lloyd-Jones was a barrister on the corrupt Chester and Wales Circuit, Recorder of Chester, 1952-58 and Recorder of Cardiff, 1958-60. He was appointed a High Court judge in 1960. Sir Vincent was the brother of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the Welsh Congregationalist Minister and Top Doctor. Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones trained at Barts and after qualifying worked as an assistant to the Royal Physician Lord Thomas Horder, but it was as an Evangelist preacher that Martyn was known.
Ronnie's own taste in Top Docs was quite particular – he didn't use the lethal NHS in north Wales which was run by his friends. When Ronnie was clobbered with appendicitis in 1968 he was operated on at UCH by Sir Ralph Marnham. Marnham trained at St George's Hospital and also worked there for some years. He was Surgeon to the Royal Household of King George VI, 1946 and Surgeon and Serjeant-Surgeon to HM Queen Elizabeth, 1967-1971. In 1964 he operated on the Queen Mum for appendicitis and in 1966 he again operated on her for an abdominal obstruction. So Sir Ralph had gained a bit of experience before Sir Ronnie risked going under his knife – Ronnie wasn't going to risk being operated on by just anyone.
When Ronnie's mother-in-law suffered from cancer, she was treated at the private Wellington Hospital in London between 1982-84. Of course Ronnie's mates who ran the NHS in north Wales at that time maintained that the cancer care that they provided was outstanding, but for some reason Ronnie's mum-in-law didn't catch a train to Ysbyty Gwynedd to experience the global leaders in oncology employed by Gwynedd Health Authority.
Ronnie's wife Sarah was musical as well, at one point she enrolled in the Guildhall School of Music.
Ronnie's best mate from Cambridge Sir Robin Day (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country') gave Ronnie access to reams of media folk, although Day always credited Ronnie with launching Day's media career. It was Ronnie who saw an advert for ITN newscasters and encouraged Day to apply. Another Cambridge friend of Ronnie's was Bob Sloman who worked for 'The Sunday Times' and wrote West End plays as well as material for 'Dr Who'. Ronnie was also friends with Godfrey Smith, a correspondent for 'The Sunday Times'. Sir Ronnie almost certainly knew 'The Sunday Times' journo Marjorie Wallace, a paedophiles' friend of the highest order (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker'). Ronnie knew Huw Thomas, a barrister who became an ITN newscaster and other friends of Ronnie's included Keith Kyle of 'The Economist' and Douglas and Sarah Graham of the 'Express & Star' newspapers.
In 1956 Ronnie began script writing for the BBC. He was friends with Ian McIntyre, the controller of Radio 4, then Radio 3 and the associate Editor of 'The Times'. Ronnie's close friend and former flatmate Ivan Yates worked for the BBC's North American service.
Ronnie got to know Tony Benn – or as he was then, Anthony Wedgwood Benn – through Ronnie's TV work.
Ronnie's media connections continued into the next generation – his nephew Michael Waterhouse is an independent TV producer, director and scriptwriter. Michael states in his online profile that he has produced regularly for BBC 2 and 4, ITV and Channel 4 and has overseen large-scale productions for Sky Atlantic and the History Channel (USA). Michael boasts of working with the presenters Tony Robinson, Nick Crane, Bettany Hughes, Richard Dawkins, Jim Al-Khalili, Michael Buerk, James Dyson, Stephen Hawking, Marcus du Sautoy and 'numerous bishops'. Either Michael Waterhouse has a hotline to bishops or they are touting themselves around for TV work.
Between 1966-69 Ronnie worked as a libel reader for 'Private Eye' after his friend and neighbour Alistair Sampson told Ronnie that the 'Eye', which was at the time owned by Peter Cook, could do with his services after a costly damages settlement. Thus Ronnie got to know Richard Ingrams, Auberon Waugh, Paul Foot, Christopher Booker, John Morgan, Patrick Marnham, Willie Rushton and Barry Fantoni. Whilst the 'Eye' employed Ronnie they received many libel writs, including a number from Lord Hailsham. Auberon Waugh was delighted when in 1978 Ronnie became a High Court judge because Auberon felt that Lord Gnome would have a friend in the judiciary.
Although the 'Eye' did an excellent job of sending up some dreadful people, in that era the 'Eye' was constantly charged with being dominated by former minor public school boys with small c conservative sympathies. Although Peter Cook performed a wonderful parody of Justice Cantley's ludicrous summing up at Jeremy Thorpe's trial and Auberon took the piss by standing against Thorpe in the 1979 General Election as the Dog Lovers candidate in honour of Rinka, Norman Scott's dog who had been shot by the alleged hit man (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed'), Ronnie Waterhouse and many of his family and friends were mates with Jeremy Thorpe. They were fully aware of Norman's allegations many years before the 1975 events on Porlock Hill (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed'). Thorpe was defended at his trial by the crooked barrister George Carman QC (see posts 'No Ordinary Methods' and 'No Ordinary Methods – Supplementary Post'), who was a friend of Ronnie's.
The 'Eye' was one of the publications which in late 1972 refused to print a word about Norman's allegations on the grounds that they were defamatory and unprovable.
In the 1970s Ronnie represented Paul Foot and Stephen Sedley represented the publisher of the 'Socialist Worker' when Sam Silkin the Attorney General tried to have them imprisoned for contempt. Foot had, in an article in 'Socialist Worker', named two prosecution witnesses, one of which was an hereditary peer, in the Janie Jones trial before Alan King-Hamilton QC at the Old Bailey. Jones ran a brothel in Kensington and she was alleged to have blackmailed the two prosecution witnesses who were clients of the brothel. She had been acquitted of the blackmail charges but had been tried earlier by King-Hamilton on charges related to prostitution and brothel keeping as well as attempting to pervert the course of justice.
King-Hamilton had shielded the ID of the witnesses but admitted that he didn't have the power to prevent the press from naming them; he commented that he hoped that the press would not name them if they did discover who they were. The contempt case was heard by Lord Chief Justice Widgery, Justice Milmo and Justice Ackner. Stephen Sedley acted for the publisher of the 'Socialist Worker' and Ronnie for Paul Foot – Michael Lewis (Esyr's brother) was Ronnie's junior. The Treasury solicitor Gordon Slynn acted for the Attorney General. Although it was conceded that King-Hamilton had no jurisdiction over the press, Foot and the publisher were nonetheless fined £250 after the Court stated that Paul Foot had 'acted recklessly' and that naming the two witnesses was an 'affront to the authority of the court and calculated to interfere with the course of justice because it would destroy the confidence of witnesses in future blackmail cases'. Not of course that Janie Jones had been found guilty of blackmailing the witnesses – she was imprisoned after being found guilty of controlling prostitutes.
Janie Jones will have had much dirt on many people. She had worked in cabaret in the 1950s in London, including at the Windmill Theatre where Trumpers's father and his friends were regulars (see post '95 Glorious Years!) and in clubs in Mayfair. Janie did of course run a brothel frequented by people who moved in the circles of the judge who jailed her…
Ronnie's connections knew no limits – his wife Sarah's father was a well-known racehorse breeder so Ronnie took maximum advantage of his father-in-law's contacts too. Other business contacts of Ronnie's included his friend Hamish Maxwell, the son of tobacco controller Sir Alexander Maxwell. Hamish was Chair and CEO of Philip Morris. Ken Clarke received freebies from Philip Morris and had dealings with the tobacco industry from 1982, when as Health Minister he thrashed out a voluntary agreement re tobacco advertising with the industry. Ken Clarke also concealed the wrongdoing of Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends in his roles as Health Minister and Secretary of State for Health (see post 'Running The Country – And All That Jazz'). Hamish Maxwell became Chairman of WPP, the multinational later led by Sir Martin Sorrell. Another mate of Ronnie's was Louis Marshall who became European Legal Director of Colgate Palmolive. He also knew Dennis Lannigan, the Chairman of J. Walter Thompson in Europe. J. Walter Thompson was formerly an advertising agency and is now part of WWP.
David Kinnersley was friends with Ronnie. Kinnersely was the Chief Executive of North West Water Authority in the 1970s. He founded Water Aid in 1981, after attending a meeting in New York in his capacity as senior economic advisor to the National Water Council after the UN declared the 1980s to be the 'international drinking water supply and sanitation decade'. Kinnersley advised Thatcher's Cabinet Minister Nicholas Ridley on the 1989 privatisation programme.
Kinnersley was one of the first Chief Executives of a water authority and though initially uncertain about the Thatcher's privatisation programme, he eventually vowed to make it a success. He was a great fan of water meters, using his background as an economist to object to the principle of water companies raising levies based on the rateable values of users' properties.
After graduating in 1950, Kinnersley joined the National Coal Board as special assistant to Sir James Bowman. He later worked for the UK Atomic Energy Authority before joining the water industry in 1964 as Deputy General Manager of the British Waterways Board. Kinnersley was Director of the Association of River Authorities, 1970-73 and then Chief Executive of the North West Water Authority until 1976. He found himself in trouble at North West Water when it came to light that the Authority – then still nationalised – had invested in personalised number plates for some of its other Directors.
Kinnersley's book 'Troubled Waters: Rivers, Politics and Pollution' (1988) laid into the 'fantasy and rhetoric' and 'administrative fudging' of the Environment Department during water privatisation. In 'Coming Clean: the Politics of Water and the Environment' (1994), Kinnersley pointed out the urgent need for the UK to invest in its crumbling sewerage infrastructure and the Govt's desire to avoid political responsibility for the price increases that would be required to support the new investment, but adroitly pointed out that 'There's no votes in shit.'
There were however a great many votes in concealing a pan-European paedophile gang whose UK arm was run by the NHS and social services.
After retiring from the National Water Council in 1983, Kinnersley took up a research fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford and was later Bursar and a fellow of Mansfield College.
One place that Ronnie Waterhouse used to visit was St Deiniol's Library in Hawarden, Flintshire, now known as the Gladstone Library. St Deiniol's Library is a residential library, with a strong emphasis on theology. It is a favourite haunt of theologians and priests and the comedian Timmy Mallett's father was a clergyman from near Chester who trained at St Deiniol's (see post 'The Banality Of Evil'). A former Bishop of Chester was abusing children.
Ronnie sat on the council of the London Zoological Society, 1972-93. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity that was founded in 1826 devoted to 'the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats'.
The Institute of Zoology is the scientific research division of the ZSL. It is a Gov't funded research institute, which 'specialises in scientific issues relevant to the conservation of species and their habitats'. From the late 1980s the Institute of Zoology was affiliated to the University of London. In 2000 this was replaced with a partnership with the University of Cambridge.
When Ronnie first joined the ZSL, Phil the Greek was President and other council members included the Duke of Northumberland, Thatcher's friend Woodrow Wyatt and Peter Scott. In 1977 Lord Solly Zuckerman – described by Ronnie as a 'charming polymath' – succeeded Phil the Greek as President.
Zuckerman was born and brought up in South Africa, studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and later attended Yale University. He went to London in 1926 to complete his studies at UCH Medical School. Zuckerman began his career at the ZSL in 1928, and worked as a research anatomist until 1932. He taught at the Oxford University, 1934–45.
During WWII, Zuckerman worked on several research projects for the British Gov't, including measuring the effect of bombing on people and buildings and an assessment of the bombardment (Operation Corkscrew) of the Italian island of Pantelleria in 1943. When Zuckerman was Scientific Director of the British Bombing Survey Unit, he suggested that in the lead up to the Normandy landings the Allies should concentrate on disrupting the German-controlled French transportation system through heavy aerial bombing of rail lines and marshalling yards. His plan was privately referred to by its opponents as 'Zuckerman's Folly.' However Zuckerman's Folly was accepted by Supreme Allied Commander US General Dwight D. Eisenhower. A focus of Zuckerman's plan was to target locomotives and the capacity to service them due to a shortage in France prior to the Normandy campaign. This had the effect of pushing rail heads back from the front causing trucks to be diverted from a role of manoeuvre to one of logistics, which resulted in greater petrol consumption.
After leaving the Royal Air Force in 1946, Zuckerman was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Birmingham University where he remained until 1968. He was Chief Scientific Advisor to the MoD, 1960-66 and Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Gov't, 1964-71. Zuckerman taught at the University of East Anglia, 1969-74 and was instrumental in the development of the Environmental Sciences Dept there. He served as Secretary of the ZSL, 1955-77, before he was appointed President.
After Zuckerman retired as President of the ZSL in 1984, Waterhouse explained that severe financial difficulties followed. In May 1988 the Gov't made an endowment payment of £10 million, with an annual payment of £1.3 million for the core funding of the Institute of Zoology.
Zuckerman married Lady Joan Rufus Isaacs, the daughter of Gerald Rufus Isaacs, the 2nd Marquess of Reading, in 1939. Gerald Isaacs was a barrister and a Minister in Winston Churchill's and Anthony Eden's Gov'ts. He was a bencher in Ronnie Waterhouse's Inn of Court, Middle Temple. Ronnie will have made it his business to know him.
Sir William MacGregor Henderson, a veterinarian, succeeded Zuckerman as President of the ZSL.
In 1989 (Nicholas) Avrion Mitchison took over as President and remained in post until 1992. Avrion Mitchison's uncle was the biologist J.B.S. Haldane and his grandfather was the physiologist John Scott Haldane. His son is the cell biologist Professor Tim Mitchison, who has a Chair at Harvard Medical School.
Avrion Mitchison was Professor of Zoology at UCL, worked at the National Institute of Medical Research at Mill Hill and was founding Director of a Rheumatology Institute in Germany. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at UCL.
Whilst I was working at St George's Hospital Medical School, the Zoological Society of London was the subject of much bad publicity when a story was leaked to the media claiming that some rather pointless research was taking place which involved decapitating marmosets. The Zoological Society was unable to justify the research, but a statement was released stressing that they had seen the error of their ways and that the research had now stopped and they would not be going there again.
The Zoological Society of London was telling porkies. How did I know? Because Mandy Leigh, one of the most unpleasant members of staff at St George's, was involved in that research and she sat in the tea room chortling away smugly as she confirmed to the rest of us that of course the chopping off of marmosets heads had not come to an end, that was just a load of guff that the London Zoo had told the press. Within a few days, Mandy had popped off down to the ZSL again to decapitate a few more marmosets.
The business of the marmosets losing their heads and lies being told to placate the plebs happened whilst Avrion Mitchison was President of the Zoological Society of London.
Avrion Mitchison stepped down as President in March 1992 – unless that was a lie that had been given to the media as well – and Field Marshal Sir John Chapple took over as President when he retired as the Chief of General Staff to the British Army. Chapple advised the British Gov't during the Gulf War.
Field Marshal Chapple's son is David Chapple, a consultant orthopaedic and spinal surgeon. David Chapple read medicine at Tommy's and undertook his surgical training at St George's Hospital Medical School. He works at Salisbury District Hospital and at the private New Hall Hospital in Salisbury.
In 2011 David Chapple and his wife Olivia, a GP, had a dreadful experience when their 17 year old son Horatio, a pupil at Eton, was killed by a starving polar bear whilst on a trip to Norway with the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES). Field Marshal Sir John Chapple is a former President of the BSES. The bear that killed Horatio was shot dead by the expedition leader, who suffered serious head and facial injuries. Police later disclosed that the organisers of the expedition had a gun but it failed to fire four times because it was in the 'safe' position. They had not assigned a nightwatchman for the camp.
In Sept 2011 it was announced that a High Court judge, Sir David Steel, would preside over an Inquiry into Horatio's death.
In March 2012 after an enquiry by Norwegian investigators, it was concluded that Horatio's death could have been avoided if the expedition members had stayed in cabins rather than tents, had used guard dogs and had appointed someone on polar bear watch. Because none of these precautions were required by law, the expedition leaders did not face prosecution.
In 2014, an inquest on Horatio by coroner Ian Singleton returned a narrative verdict. Singleton ruled that failures by the expedition's organisers did not lead to Horatio's death, although the group was missing several pieces of crucial equipment, including parts of the trip wire alert system. Singleton stated that a neglect verdict was not appropriate because the expedition leaders failures had not been 'total or complete'.
Returning his verdict, Mr Singleton said Horatio had been in a tent on a snow bridge near the Von Post Glacier on 5 August when the attack happened. Singleton stated that 'A polar bear was able to enter the camp shortly before 7.30 am undetected as the trip wire alarm system around the perimeter of the camp had failed to activate due to a supporting post more likely than not being knocked over by the bear which caused the cartridge to move or fall out of the mine without it detonating. Horatio emerged from his tent and was in the act of standing up when the bear reared up and slammed down on him with its paws pushing Horatio to the ground where the bear then mauled his head, face and neck, causing the injury which lead to Horatio's death.'
Well the expedition leaders didn't actually feed Horatio to the bear…
In 2014 Sir David Steel reported on the substantial failures in the organisation of the expedition, one of which was to use paperclips to repair the broken trip wire alert system. Sir David stated that the invasion of the camp by a polar bear was 'not unforeseeable'.
So a 17 year old Eton pupil was killed on an elite adventure holiday as a result of some very, very basic failures by a society which prides itself on preparing youngsters as future explorers and no-one was prosecuted. What has been the long term outcome? A medical charity of course. Horatio's Top Doc parents established 'Horatio's Garden', which provides 'green spaces' (ie. gardens) in hospital grounds for spinal surgery patients to sit in or at least look at. The biggest n best 'Horatio's Garden' fundraising appeal was held at Jimmy Savile's alma mater Stoke Mandeville.
Horatio's grandfather seems to have caused as many problems during his tenure as President of ZSL as his predecessors Solly and Avrion did. Ronnie Waterhouse's book tells us that in Sept 1992 a vote of no confidence in the council of the ZSL was held in Sir John Chapple's absence. Ronnie very wisely retired from the council of the ZSL after this. Sir John stood down as President in 1994, but he had another really good train set to play with because in 1993 he had been appointed as Governor of Gibralter.
The merry-go-round continued after Sir John vacated the ZSL Presidency in 1994. Sir Martin Holdgate was then President until 2004. Martin Holdgate was Chief Biologist to the British Antarctic Survey, then Research Director of the Nature Conservancy Council and, for eighteen years, Chief Scientist and Head of Research at the Dept of the Environment. Subsequently, Holdgate was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Professor Sir Patrick Bateson was President of ZSL, 2004-14. Sir Patrick Bateson held the Chair of Ethology at Cambridge and his interest was in the ethics of the use of animals for research and the analysis of pain and suffering in animals. The Zoological Society of London with its headless marmosets was the right place for him then.
Professor Sir John Beddignton has been President of ZSL since 2014. Beddington is Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School and was previously Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College. Gordon Brown appointed him as the UK Gov't Chief Scientific Advisor in 2008. He remained in post until 2013.
Beddington was married to Professor Sally Baldwin, who was killed in a particularly horrible accident on an escalator in Italy in 2003. From 1994 Sally Baldwin was the Head of the University of York's Social Policy and Social Work Dept. Sally's research was into the application of evidence based research to social policy. Her other interests were in mental health and before her death she had been working with the NHS research and development programme on service delivery. Sally served as a member of the York Community Health Council and was a non-executive Director of the York NHS Trust. No, Sally never mentioned what Jimmy Savile was getting up to in her region and her promotion of 'evidence based policy' and 'mental health advocacy' did not touch the abuses of psychiatric patients by the mental health services, which continued apace. Neither did Sally say a word about Drs Michael Haslam and William Kerr, the two psychiatrists who raped and sexually abused female psychiatric patients in Yorkshire for decades until they were finally exposed in the late 1990s (see post 'All The Ingredients Of A Scandal').
If Sally Baldwin had been among all the expertise in north Wales, she wouldn't have said a word about Dafydd and the paedophiles. Dafydd used to hold 'clinics' in Yorkshire.
Ronnie was a member of the council at ZSL whilst the unfortunate marmosets were being decapitated by Mandy Leigh et al and lies were told to the media. However Ronnie knew that there were some people who were not to be messed with. Robin Day's son Alexander was seriously injured on a trip to London Zoo – he sustained multiple skull fractures – whilst Ronnie was a council member. London Zoo coughed up substantial damages without quibbling. Ronnie mentioned in his book that Robin Day was a litigious man who was quick to sue newspapers.
Ronnie Waterhouse was involved in the 1970s battle between the Church of Scientology, MIND (then known as the National Association for Mental Health) and the psychiatric establishment. Ronnie defended Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, the Tory MP for East Grinstead – who was a friend of Sir Robin Day – against Church of Scientology. The Church tried to sue Johnson-Smith over claims he made on the BBC that families were being alienated by the Church. Although the Church produced witnesses who spoke highly of it, the jury decided that Johnson-Smith's comments were substantially true and made in good faith.
Ronnie recommended that Sir Elwyn Jones lead for the defence. Sir Elwyn Jones – who later became Lord Elwyn-Jones – ranked high in the pecking order among the paedophiles' friends of north Wales. He grew up in west Wales, passed through University College Aberystwyth and Cambridge and became a barrister on the Chester and Wales Circuit and a Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He served as the Labour MP for Plaistow, West Ham South and Newham. Elwyn Jones was Attorney General under Harold Wilson, 1964-70 and then Lord Chancellor, 1974-79, under Wilson and then Callaghan. It was on his watch as Lord Chancellor that Ronnie was appointed a High Court judge. Elwyn Jones was Shadow Lord Chancellor, 1983-89, under the Windbag.
Elwyn Jones was Lord Chancellor when Mary Wynch was unlawfully arrested and imprisoned by Dr Dafydd Alun Jones et al, as well as during the preceding years when she had come under attack from a ring of crooked solicitors who fleeced her of her inheritance.
Sir Peter Rawlinson was Attorney General at the time of the Geoffrey Johnson-Smith case – Rawlinson was AG throughout the years of Heath's Gov't. He had been Solicitor-General under Macmillan at the time of the John Vassall spy scandal (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'), so Rawlinson knew that there was naughtiness in high places accompanied by much hypocrisy.
Geoffrey Johnson-Smith's appearance on the BBC which sparked the legal case with the Scientologists was the result of a question he'd put to Kenneth Robinson, the Labour Health Minister (a position which evolved into the Secretary of State for the Social Services) in 1968. Robinson did not like the Scientologists. He served as Chairman of National Association for Mental Health (MIND) and in 1969 the Church of Scientology infiltrated the NAMH. Their members were expelled by NAMH and the Scientologists sued in an attempt to have their members reinstated but lost the case (see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course'). The problem that Robinson, the NAMH and the psychiatric establishment all had with the Scientologists was that the Scientologists alleged that psychiatrists were abusing patients, carrying out damaging experiments on them and facilitating sex crime.
It is a great pity that the Church of Scientology is built on such shaky foundations itself, because much of what they have said about psychiatry for years I have found to be true.
The first person whom I met who really hated the Scientologists was Dr DGE Wood, who was helping run Dafydd's sex trafficking business. Did Wood just think that L. Ron Hubbard's writings were a bit outlandish? No. Wood told me that the Scientologists needed a shotgun against their heads. Which was an interesting desire, in the light of the claim by one boy at Bryn Alyn that he was sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
Ronnie's book mentions that in the Geoffrey Johnson-Smith case, the Scientologists were represented by a junior barrister, Ronald Schulman, who later 'disappeared in mysterious circumstances'. Ronnie's story was that Schulman 'behaved oddly' in relation to the will of a man who died in a private plan crash en route to France. Ronnie maintained that Schulman was last seen by Ronnie's barrister friend James Crespi, 'breakfasting at the Great Eastern Hotel'. Ronnie tells us that it was speculated that Schulman ended up in Brazil. After tangling with Ronnie and the gang it was rather more likely that Schulman ended up in the concrete in a flyover.
James Crespi QC was a friend of George Carman's and they used to go out boozing and clubbing together. Crespi married a 'young nightclub hostess' who left him after three weeks of marriage.
A number of children and psychiatric patients in north Wales disappeared, as did children from other areas where organised child abuse gangs were operating, such as Islington. In Islington a social worker disappeared as well, after expressing concerns about what was happening in the Council's children's homes.
Sam Silkin, a member of a family who were Labour Party Royalty (see post 'They Planned To Put Acid In All The Reservoirs…'), was Attorney General when the paedophiles' friends opened fire on Mary Wynch. When Sir Michael Havers succeeded Silkin, the paedophiles' friends continued firing. In 1977, Ronnie was asked by Attorney General Silkin if he'd be interested in being a candidate for the job of DPP to lead the proposed new CPS. Ronnie said yes and subsequently met Silkin in a meeting which was held 'in great secrecy'. Ronnie was unsuccessful and Silkin gave the job to Thomas 'Tony' Hetherington (see post 'A Future Leader Of The Labour Party') instead, whom of course Ronnie knew. Hetherington was DPP, 1977-87. So he was DPP when both Mary Wynch and I were arrested on trumped up charges by Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends.
Hetherington was head of the permanent legal staff of the Law Officers from 1966-76 and became Deputy Treasury Solicitor in 1975. The Treasury Solicitor was one of those involved with unlawfully fleecing Mary Wynch of her property.
Hetherington's father was a Top Doctor and Hetherington served in the British Army, both in the regular Army and the TA. Hetherington lied about his office never having received police reports about Cyril Smith's sex offending.
Ronnie knew Lord John Donaldson and his wife Mary and in 1984 Ronnie attended Lady Donaldson's summer banquet. It was Lord Donaldson who as Master of the Rolls gave the 1985 judgement which made legal history and resulted in Mary successfully suing Dafydd et al (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details'). Ronnie will have definitely noticed and by the time that he was attending Lady Donaldson's summer banquest he will have known that Mary had begun a case against Dafydd et al.
Ronnie had a number of other links with people involved in my own case, as well as his connection with Sir Thomas Hetherington. I mentioned in my post 'Cry, The Beloved Country' that Ronnie was a colleague of Lord Justice John Roch who witnessed four paedophiles' friends perjure themselves in a rigged case in Chester in an attempt to have me imprisoned. Ronnie knew Crispin Masterman when Masterman was a junior and Ronnie praised him in the highest terms. Crispin Masterman represented Gwynedd Health Authority in the High Court in Cardiff in front of Sir Malcolm Pill when Gwynedd Health Authority tried to obtain an injunction against me in 1990 to stop me from even writing to them to follow up my complaints (see post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena'). Crispin Masterman had read all my correspondence to Gwynedd Health Authority which detailed serious crime on the part of NHS and social services staff – he did not say a word about any of it.
Crispin Masterman became a judge. His Honour Crispin Masterman retired about five years ago.
Ronnie was also good friends with his neighbour in St John's Wood, Sir Hugh Park, the former Presiding judge of the Western Circuit. Ronnie conducted his first case as a judge with Park in Bristol with Sir Hugh Park. Sir Hugh presided over the 1978 trial that resulted from the farce that was Operation Julie (see post 'They Planned To Put Acid In All The Reservoirs…'). Sir Hugh Park was a former member of the Special Operations Executive.
I am wondering if Sir Hugh Park was anything to do with Andrew Park, the crooked lawyer who worked for the Welsh Office, who not only concealed the criminality of Dafydd et al but was happy to encourage them to commit perjury. Lawyers and judges often come from families with other lawyers and judges in them.
Ronnie was a lifelong friend of Philip, the son of Justice Owen Stable QC. In 1994 Owen Stable made headlines when he called for the reintroduction of flogging when sentencing three teenagers for joyriding.
Ronnie knew David Seaborne Davies, who briefly served as the Liberal MP for Caernarvon Boroughs following David Lloyd George. Seaborne Davies was born in Pwllheli, attended the local grammar school, went to University College Aberystwyth and then St John's College Oxford. After he served as an MP, Davies took up the post of Chair in the Law Faculty at the University of Liverpool and was also PVC, 1956-60. Davies was a member of the Home Office Criminal Law Revision Commission.
After retirement in 1971, Davies moved to Caernarfon where he indulged his interest in Rugby Union (he had been Life President of Liverpool University Rugby Football Club and Vice President of London Welsh RFC) and was President of Pwllheli Sports Club for ten years. He served as a Magistrate in both Liverpool and Caernarfon, and was High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1967-68. Davies was President of the National Eisteddfod in 1955, 1973 and 1975.
David Seabourne Davies helped Ronnie obtain his place on the law degree at St John's College, Cambridge.
A true paedophiles' friend.
Ronnie's autobiography doesn't mention any direct contact with Thatcher but I would be surprised if he had not encountered her at some point. He certainly would have done her bidding and would never have mentioned that her friend and aide Sir Peter Morrison was abusing children in care in north Wales and elsewhere. A number of good friends of Ronnie were closely associated with Thatcher.
I mentioned in previous posts that Ronnie was a close friend of Geoffrey and Elspeth Howe and enjoyed their hospitality at No 11 Downing Street, Chevening and Dorneywood. Ronnie was a good friend of Lord Patrick Jenkin, who was Thatcher's Secretary of State for Social Services, 1979-81. At the time, one of the biggest rows caused by Jenkin followed his comments in a discussion regarding gender equality – I think in terms of pay. Jenkin stated that if the Lord God had wanted equal pay he wouldn't have created man and woman. I remember at the time that I was seriously worried that such a man was a Cabinet Minister. I didn't realise that Jenkin was concealing the sexual abuse of children and associated serious crime in north Wales – including that being committed by the then MP for Chester and Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, Sir Peter Morrison.
No doubt Jenkin believed that if the Lord God had not wanted children in care to be molested by paedophiles in high places, he wouldn't have created Dafydd and Lucille – or indeed Sir Ronnie Waterhouse to cover it all up.
Patrick Jenkin's son Bernard is a Tory MP and from 1992-95 was an advisor to Legal and General Group – whilst investigations were held into the abuse that his father concealed. Bernard Jenkin is a naturist and an associate of Richard Curtis – it is alleged that the many references to 'Bernard' in Curtis's work is a private joke between them. Richard Curtis is married to Clement Freud's daughter Emma, so perhaps he could write a few supplementary episodes of 'Blackadder' featuring a sex offender called Clement.
Ronnie was also a friend of Norman St John Stevas, whom I was told when I worked at St George's was known to be 'holding spanking parties with little boys'. Sir Ronnie also knew Lord Peter Thorneycroft, a barrister and Tory politician who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Harold Macmillan's Gov't. Thorneycroft had a long career in politics and was Chair of the Conservative Party, 1975-81, by which time Sir Peter Morrison had been elected as an MP and was as busy as St John Stevas was with underaged boys. Ronnie knew Douglas Hurd who held a number of roles in Thatcher's Cabinet and was Home Secretary, 1985-89, when officials in the Home Office were forging documents and conspiring to have those targeted by Dafydd and the paedophiles imprisoned, including me (see post 'Additional Security Measures'). Hurd was a nephew of the botanist Edred Henry Corner, who was known to Prof Grieg-Smith at UCNW who was a colleague of Dr Chris Wood, the wife of the corrupt GP Dr DGE Wood who worked in the Student Health Centre at UCNW and was facilitating the sex trafficking ring in north Wales (see post 'Just A Language Divide?').
Whilst Hurd was Home Secretary, Peter Morrison was a Minister in the DTI, then Deputy Chairman of the Tory Party and then Minister for Energy (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well').
One of Waterhouse's closest friends, the diplomat Sir Percy Cradock, was a political adviser to Thatcher. Cradock joined the Foreign Office in 1954, served mainly in Asia and was the British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1978-83. Between 1982-84, Cradock played the key role in the negotiations in deciding the future of the sovereignty of Hong Kong after 1997. Cradock was accused by many of betraying the people of Hong Kong, but Thatcher's faith in him remained and in 1985 she appointed him as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Cradock's relationship with John Major was much worse than his relationship with Thatcher and in 1992 Major replaced both Cradock and the then Governor of Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson, with his ally Chris Patten as Governor of Hong Kong.
Not that it made any difference to those on the receiving end of Dafydd and the paedophiles – Patten had been concealing their crimes himself for years and after paedophiles' friend Professor Mark Williams established the Oxford Mindfulness Centre on the basis of the research fraud that he carried out with the paedophiles' friends of north Wales (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot'), Patten's wife Lavender became a Patron of Williams's Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
Cradock and Patten had a number of public spats during the final years of British administration in Hong Kong, both blaming each other for the problems in the hand-over agreement.
Cradock was a member of the Reform Club, as was Jeremy Thorpe. Thorpe used the Reform Club as the basis of his election campaign which took place after he had been charged with conspiring to murder Norman Scott. Ronnie Waterhouse was a member of the Garrick, but a lot of his friends were in the Reform and Ronnie attended their knees-ups and dinners there.
Another link between Ronnie and Thatch was Ronnie's pupil master, John Brightman, who later became a Lord of Appeal. By the time that Ronnie was a pupil of Brightman's, Thatcher had only recently been Brightman's pupil. Brightman had served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve…
Brightman bagged a peerage from his former pupil in 1982.
Percy Cradock was not the only friend of Ronnie's in the diplomatic service. Grania Bacon, the bridesmaid at Ronnie's wedding, married the diplomat Sir Alan Munro. Better than that was another friend as close as Cradock, Kenneth James. James was head of the Western European Dept of the Foreign Office – people whom Ronnie knew through Kenneth James included Crispin and Chloe Tickell, Leo de Rothschild, Julian and Margaret Bullard, Dick Stratton and Alistair Horne. In 1953, Ronnie held an 'at home' with Geoffrey Howe, Norman St John Stevas, Philip Goodhart (who was later Minister for N Ireland, 1979-81), opera and theatre director Anthony Besch, the 'Mail' and 'Express' journo Eve Perrick and 'a sprinkling of diplomats whom I had met with and through Kenneth James'.
Ronnie's pal Jack Ashley, the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, 1966-92, also attended the party. Jack Ashley studied at Ruskin College and Cambridge, then worked as a radio producer for the North American Service, the BBC Home Service and as a TV producer for 'Monitor' and 'Panorama'. Jack Ashley gained much admiration for his disability campaigning when that was not a fashionable cause. Sadly Jack kept quiet about the paedophile gang in Staffordshire as well as the lethal hospitals there.
Jack Ashley's daughter is Jackie Ashley, the TV reporter and journalist. Jackie is married to Andrew Marr, the journalist, newspaper editor and TV reporter/political commentator.
Other friends of Ronnie's included Poppy Stanley, the Bursar of Girton College, who married barrister and Cambridge legal academic Professor Tony Jolowicz. Poppy Jolowicz is listed at Companies House as having been a Director of the Arthur Rank Hospice Ltd.
Ronnie's Cambridge Liberal friend Hugh Corrie led the Mirror Group's legal team from the mid-1970s. Corrie's colleagues all remember him as being the best lawyer that the Mirror Group could have had. So Corrie will have known that something irregular was happening with the pension fund.
Ronnie knew Professor Brian Abel-Smith, the economist and Gov't advisor who carefully failed to notice the abuse of vulnerable people by the NHS and welfare services (see post 'The Old Devils') and Bob Boothby. Lord Bob Boothby was a Conservative politician who was bisexual and frequently close to scandal. Boothby was friendly with a number of serious criminals including the Krays and was alleged to have used rent boys.
Another pal of Waterhouse's was the theatre critic and writer Kenneth Tynan. Kenneth Tynan was feted as a society figure and champagne socialist who was a bit outrageous, but when he was older it became clear that he was excessive, or even unsavoury. Tynan was notoriously promiscuous yet demanded fidelity from his wife and he was an enthusiastic sado-masochist but in a way that wasn't at all enjoyable for those he was practising it with. Tynan's daughter Tracy wrote her memoirs recently in which she maintained that her father was a boozing, coke -snorting, violent, sexually exploitative man.
Ronnie also knew Sir Hugh Casson, the architect and his wife Margaret. Casson went to St John's College, Cambridge like Ronnie and was the nephew of the actor Lewis Casson, whose daughter Ronnie also knew. Sir Hugh's architecture is much mocked and he was responsible for treasures such as the Royal Festival Hall and the Elephant House at London Zoo. Casson was a close friend of the Royal Family and taught Prince Charles how to paint in watercolour.
In 1985 Margaret Casson was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy, where her husband was President. Purely on the basis of her talents of course.
Two other colleagues of Ronnie's on the Chester and Wales Circuit whom I did not mention in previous posts were Geraint Rees and of course Tasker Watkins.
Geraint Rees was the brother of Goronwy Rees, paedophiles' friend and Principal of University College Aberystwyth, whilst that college was run by paedophiles' friends and churned out many law graduates who evolved into bent lawyers and judges (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'). Geraint made it big and became a judge at the Old Bailey.
I blogged about paedophiles' friend par excellence Tasker Watkins aka The Greatest Living Welshman in my posts 'Corruption Bay Special' and 'The Battle Of The Cowshed'. Tasker was Presiding judge of the Chester and Wales Circuit, 1975-80 and was appointed Deputy Lord Chief Justice by Lord Chief Justice Geoffrey Lane in 1988. Tasker had numerous other roles, including that of the Chairman of the Mental Health Review Tribunal Wales Region, 1960-71 and President of the Welsh National School of Medicine, 1987-99, whilst senior figures in that institution concealed the serious crime of the Top Docs in north Wales.
Ronnie was Tasker's junior for the prosecution at the 1969 trial of the Free Wales Army who intended to blow Prince Charles sky high during the Investiture.
Ronnie knew that the Bar and judiciary was crawling with so much nepotism that it could not be denied. So he didn't try to. In 'Child Of Another Century', when discussing the friendship between him and Sir Derek Oulton, the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, 1982-89, Ronnie cheerily tells the reader that he 'makes no apology' for the nepotism and exclusivity' involved in appointments. Which is just as well because Ronnie was someone who built his entire career on nepotism and exclusivity.
Sir Derek Oulton was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and then read law at King's College, Cambridge. He was a barrister and a Bencher at Gray's Inn. Oulton joined the Lord Chancellor's Department in 1960 and was Private Secretary to three successive Lord Chancellors – Earl Kilmuir, Viscount Dilhorne and Lord Gardiner. He also served as Secretary to the Beeching Royal Commission on Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 1966–69.
Oulton's civil service position as Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1982–89, under Thatcher was his final one.
Oulton was in post when Mary Wynch and I were targeted by Dafydd and the paedophiles.
Sir Derek was succeeded by Sir Thomas Legg, no doubt as a result of further nepotism and exclusivity. Legg was Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Dept and Clerk to the Crown in Chancery, 1989-98, serving under Thatch, Major and Blair. So Legg's time in office spanned a number of attempts to imprison me on the basis of the perjury of the paedophiles' friends, the ruination of Mary Wynch by Michael Howard as Home Secretary after she had dared win her case against Dafydd et al, the failed investigations into the paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire – which of course didn't exist – and the establishment of the Waterhouse Inquiry and Ronnie's time of taking evidence from witnesses.
Legg was educated at Horace Mann School in New York City and at Frensham Heights School in the UK. After National Service in the Royal Marines, Legg read history and law at Ronnie's alma mater, St John's College, Cambridge.
Legg was called to the Bar in 1960 and was one of the 12 lawyers allocated to the Lord Chancellor's Department from 1962. He worked in that Dept for his entire career, which when he retired was responsible for administration of the UK legal system and its co-ordination with European Union law. This had resulted in the Dept of Constitutional Affairs employing 20,00 staff and having a budget of £2 billion. Somewhere among all that was Jack Straw, who as a young advisor to Barbara Castle had concealed the deaths of a great number of disabled children from London and as Margaret Hodge's gofer in Islington Council had kept very quiet about the paedophile ring at work within the Council's children's homes.
Legg was a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple from 1984.
In April 1980 Ronnie received a phone call from Lord Geoffrey Lane who was about to be sworn in as Lord Chief Justice. Lane invited Ronnie to succeed Tasker as Presiding judge of Chester and Wales Circuit. Ronnie occupied that role for the next five years. Geoffrey Lane was felt to be a major liability during his time as Lord Chief Justice. His time in office was marked by a string of disputed convictions and he refused to allow the appeal of the Birmingham Six in 1988. When they were cleared in 1991, 140 MPs signed a petition demanding that Lane should leave his post.
After he retired, Legg headed the Inquiry into Sandline International, the 'arms to Sierra Leone' Inquiry. Legg's Inquiry cleared the British Gov't of any involvement in Sandline's breach of the international arms embargo.
Since retirement, Legg has held the Chairmanship of the Imperial College Healthcare Trust; served as Chairman of the London Library; and served as consultant to the law firm Clifford Chance. After being co-opted onto the council of Brunel University in 1993, he was Visitor from 2001–06. So Sir Thomas Legg might know something about the extraordinary support that one Peter Beresford received from Brunel and indeed from Blair and Brown's Gov'ts after his metamorphosis from a social worker into a Service Users Champ. Beresford has been very effective at dominating the mental health debate, closing down conversations and silencing concerns regarding the most serious abuses of mental health patients within the mental health system. Whilst Beresford banged on about empowerment, patients died.
It was Geoffrey Lane who as Lord Chief Justice in 1987 – on Sir Derek's Oulton's watch – released Professor Oliver Brooke on appeal, after Brooke was imprisoned for the possession of child porn. Lane likened Brooke's massive collection of child porn to a collection of cigarette cards. Oliver Brooke was the Prof of Paediatrics at St George's Hospital Medical School who had a vast amount of child porn stored in his office at St George's and who was also charged with inciting a photographer to take indecent pictures of a girl of 14. After Lane released him, detectives revealed that Brooke had been a key figure in a pan-European child sex ring.
At the time of Brooke's conviction St George's stressed that he had never behaved in an untoward manner with any of his patients. Not only was that statement probably about as truthful as the claims of the London Zoo to have stopped chopping off marmosets heads, but St George's forgot to mention that many of Brooke's colleagues remained in post concealing the rest of the paedophile ring of which he was a member (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'), as well as the staff who were involved with drugs offences (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent') and furthermore that the staff had links with Dafydd et al in north Wales, knew what Dafydd, Tony Francis (Dr X) and Lucille Hughes were doing and colluded with them (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London').
Oliver Brooke was jailed in Dec 1986. His appeal came before Geoffrey Lane in May 1987 and Brooke was released from prison in June 1987. Dafydd had me unlawfully arrested a matter of days before Brooke pleaded guilty to child porn offences in Kingston Crown Court. The month after Brooke was released from prison, Dafydd et al made a highly co-ordinated attempt to frame and imprison me – with which Risley Remand Centre and the Mental Health Act Commission colluded (see posts 'Workers Play Time', 'Security, Security' and 'Additional Security Measures').
Alison Taylor was suspended from her job with Gwynedd County Council in Dec 1986. Clwyd Health Authority made an admission of negligence with regard to Mary Wynch's case not long after this, but then refused to pay her the damages which they themselves had offered…
It is clear that key figures involved with the abuse of children and young people across the UK could have been stopped in 1986/87, but their criminality was being actively facilitated at the highest levels. The people occupying key roles at the most senior levels of Gov't and the legal system ensured that corrupt people were then appointed to other key roles.
Geoffrey Lane obviously felt that Ronnie Waterhouse was a man who could be relied upon not to rock the boat. The paedophiles' friends must have cracked open the champagne when Ronnie was appointed the Presiding judge of the Chester and Wales Circuit. Ronnie's years as Presiding judge covered the era when cases against child abusers in north Wales were inexplicably not taken forward, were dropped or when they were brought to court resulted in unfathomably lenient sentences.
Sir Michael Havers was Attorney General, 1979-87 and then Lord Chancellor, June 1987-Oct 1987. Havers blocked the prosecution of the diplomat Sir Peter Hayman for child porn offences and shielded his identity. It was on Havers' watch that sex offence cases involving other people such as Cyril Smith were batted into the long grass. Havers was succeeded as AG by Sir Patrick Mayhew – who was yet another paedophiles' friend – and as Lord Chancellor by Lord Mackay of Clashfern, who I will return to later in this post…
Havers was the Tory MP for Wimbledon, 1970-87. Many of the consultants at St George's lived in Havers's constituency. Havers died days before the firebomb in Brighton killed five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal.
Michael Havers's sister was the secretary turned High Court judge Lady Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss who carried out the cover-up into the 1987 Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal. Ronnie's book states that it was Thatch who appointed Butler-Sloss to the Court of Appeal, not the Lord Chancellor. Thatch appointed Butler-Sloss to the Court of Appeal just after Butler-Sloss had so helpfully Chaired the Inquiry into Cleveland (see post 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named').
Another one of Ronnie's colleagues on the Chester and Wales Circuit was Alun Talfan Davies QC. The Talfan Davies dynasty has ruled the roost at the BBC for a very long time now, but it was Alun who was the barrister with a huge practice in west Wales.
A paedophile ring with connections to Dafydd et al in north Wales operated in west Wales throughout the years that Alun Talfan Davies practised as a barrister.
Alun Talfan Davies was born near Swansea, the youngest son of the Calvanistic Methodist Minister William Talfan Davies. He was the brother of Aneurin Talfan Davies. Alun was educated at Gowerton Grammar School and he read law at Aberystwyth and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His daughter Janet married the Welsh Rugby international Barry John. Like Ronnie's mate Sir William Mars-Jones (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'), Talfan Davies was a member of Gray's Inn. He specialised in industrial cases and was retained by the NUM.
Alun Talfan Davies was Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil, 1963-68; Recorder of Swansea, 1969; Recorder of Cardiff, 1969-71; Hon Recorder of Cardiff and Recorder of the Crown Court, 1972-86;
Alun Talfan Davies was Chairman of the Bank of Wales, 1991-95 – the child molester George Thomas was a Director of the Bank of Wales (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Talfan Davies was President of the Court of the National Eisteddfod, 1979-82. Alun Talfan Davies was a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, 1976-85 and was a judge in the Court of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, 1969-83.
Talfan Davies was a member of Plaid in the 1930s but left for the Liberal Party. He unsuccessfully stood for Parliament four times, including for Denbigh in 1966. Talfan Davies was Chairman of the Liberal Party of Wales.
In 1940, with his brother Aneirin, Talfan Davies founded the Welsh language publishing firm Llyfrau'r Dryw. In 1958 they co-published 'Y Geiriadur Mawr', an influential Welsh dictionary. In 1969 they founded the current affairs magazine 'Barn'.
With a group of friends and acquaintances Alun Talfan Davies formed Harlech Television (later HTV). Davies persuaded Lord Harlech to become Chairman of HTV Group while Davies became Vice-Chairman. In terms of unfortunate deaths and personal misfortune, Lord Harlech and his descendants displayed all the signs of having been targeted by the paedophiles' friends (see post '95 Glorious Years!').
In 1980 Talfan Davies co-founded the Welsh Portrait Sculpture Trust which commissioned a series of portrait busts of distinguished Welshmen from the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones. In 1982 he became a Trustee of the Welsh Sculpture Trust which established an outdoor sculpture collection in Margam Country Park.
Lucille Hughes and other paedophiles' friends are involved with the management of the CAB at a senior level. So was Ronnie Waterhouse.
Ronnie was appointed to the management committee of the Greater London CAB in March 1976 and remained until he became a High Court judge in 1978. He met regularly with their legal advisors, including Richard Thomas, who later became Director of Public Policy at Clifford Chance. Thomas was Information Commissioner, 2002-09 and is currently Deputy Chairman of Consumers' Association.
Richard Thomas began his career in 1971 at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in 1974 began working for the CAB in Notting Hill. He went on to occupy positions in the National Consumer Council (from 1979) – where he was involved in the Campaign for Freedom of Information – and the Office of Fair Trading.
A document submitted to the Leveson Inquiry by witness Alec Owens indicates that Richard Thomas refused to prosecute perpetrators of phone hacking, despite receiving a recommendation that 'all parties identified as being involved be jointly prosecuted for conspiracy to breach the Data Protection Act 1998.'
The Campaign for Freedom of Information is yet another body with which I had a bizarre experience when I mentioned the words 'NHS in north Wales'. The Campaign for Freedom of Information was established in 1984 and by the summer of 1985 'The Guardian' was running flattering articles about this organisation that was challenging the shadowy powers who were withholding info on UK citizens. After the mental health services in Wales smugly stated that there was no way that they would ever give me access to my own records – even after I had written to Ministers and found out that there was no legal reason for them withholding such access – and then began threatening me, I went down to London to stay with my friend and we went over to the office of the Campaign for Freedom of Information. That will have been in 1986.
There were a number of staff in the office and no other visitors. When I explained that I had come down from north Wales after encountering problems with the NHS compiling inaccurate documents about me, refusing to amend them and then denying me all further access to my records, my friend and I were met with an astonishing reaction. The staff literally yelled at us that they were a 'campaigning organisation' and not here to help individuals. Presuming that they had misunderstood and thought that I was asking them to take up a case for me, pay legal fees etc, I explained that all I wanted was some info and to draw their attention to what was happening in the NHS. The staff became phenomenally aggressive and actually pushed us out of their office. My friend – who was somewhat sharper than me and worked out that something weird was happening and that things were about to get nasty – observed that we ought to get out of there. As we walked away I remarked that when I got home I'd contact them again and perhaps I'd find someone more helpful than the nutters whom we'd just encountered. My friend observed that somehow she didn't think that the Campaign for Freedom of Information was going to help me. She was quite right, the door was very firmly slammed in my face again when I had another try with them.
Maurice Frankel has been a leading light in the Campaign for Freedom of Information since it was set up and has been its Director since 1987. Frankel was a member of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Group on Implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and of the Commonwealth Group of Experts whose Freedom of Information Principles were adopted by Commonwealth Law Ministers in 1999. He is Deputy Chair of the whistleblowers charity 'Public Concern at Work' and is a cousin of the awful Baroness Ruth Deech.
I am currently in e mail correspondence with someone who has just had the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board mental health experience and is distressed because, among other things, inaccurate records were compiled about her and her attempts to have them rectified are being refused. The Betsi Board have also flouted many legal requirements and good practice guidelines in her case. She has told me that she regrets ever going near the mental health services. I know a number of other patients who maintained that the mental health records compiled about them in north Wales were so inaccurate that they bore very little relation to the truth.
In 1985 I thought that I was being singled out. I was in the end because I took on the paedophiles' friends, but in terms of the arrant nonsense that was written on my records – it took 20 years, a High Court order and a threat by a judge to imprison the Chief Exec of the North West Wales NHS Trust to gain access to the full nonsense – I now realise that it was business as usual for the mental health services.
The nurse who blew the whistle on the Tawel Fan Scandal was sacked by the Betsi Board and struck off by the NMC a few weeks ago.
You're doing a great job Maurice!
It was Ronnie Waterhouse who established a CAB in the Royal Courts of Justice – he identified a need – and it opened in Feb 1978. It was financed for 18 months by the Nuffield Foundation. The Australian lawyer Leonie Kelleher wrote a report which underlined the need that Ronnie's antennae had detected for a CAB in the Royal Courts of Justice. Kelleher's report was published in Dec 1980 and in the same month, a full time organiser for the CAB in the Royal Courts of Justice, Catherine Clarke, began work. The Dept of Trade funded that CAB until the spring of 1985.
On 2 Sept 1985 Leon Brittan was appointed Secretary of State for the Dept of Trade and Industry and Sir Peter Morrison was appointed as his Minister of State.
Until early 1987 the CAB in Bangor employed an excellent local solicitor who represented the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles – he represented me. Dafydd telephoned him without my knowledge yet alone consent and tried to persuade him not to act for me. The solicitor continued to represent me. Some months later the CAB in Bangor 'changed their policy' and stopped employing him or indeed any other solicitors.
In 1986 Catherine Clarke died. Pamela Lloyd-Hart took over her job at the CAB at the Royal Courts of Justice. Records at Companies House inform us that Pamela Lloyd-Hart was a Director of the Royal Courts of Justice and Islington CAB, Nov 1995-Nov 1997. A paedophile ring operated in the children's homes in Islington for many years, as Margaret Hodge, Jeremy Corbyn and many others knew. Pamela Lloyd-Hart resigned as Director of the RCJ and Islington CAB just as the Waterhouse Inquiry finished taking evidence from witnesses.
Ronnie Waterhouse was Chairman of the RCJ CAB's management committee, 1980-92.
In the spring of 1991 I was taken to the Royal Courts of Justice in yet another attempt to have me imprisoned for contempt of court. The case was brought by Hempsons, the solicitors for the MDU, who were acting on the instructions of Dr Tony Francis (Dr X). Ann Ball acted for Hempsons. I now have documents in my possession demonstrating that Ann Ball advised Tony Francis not to pursue litigation against me but he ignored her advice. Ann Ball continued to act for him, although she knew that Francis had perjured himself. Ann Ball also knew the details of the very serious crime that I maintained was being committed by those working for the mental health services in north Wales.
So as the forces of the corrupt British judiciary were mobilised against me, I could have had the benefit of a CAB managed by Ronnie. Except that I didn't know that it existed, its presence certainly wasn't advertised on the day that I attended the Royal Courts of Justice.
The Attorney General who authorised that prosecution of me was Sir Patrick Mayhew. Who in a previous life had been a barrister who acted for the MDU and GMC. Mayhew was counsel at the GMC fitness to practice hearing of Dr Morris Fraser, the Belfast child psychiatrist who was convicted of child sex offences. Fraser was allowed to continue to practice and later worked at Springfield Hospital, the mental health unit attached to St George's.
Companies House tells us that Pamela Lloyd Hart's next venture was as a Director of the Mary Ward Legal Centre, 1998-99. In 1998 the address given for the Mary Ward Legal Centre was in Hampstead. The current address is Great Ormond Street Hospital.
A number of Ronnie's fellow kind hearted colleagues in the judiciary set up an appeal to fund the CAB in the RJC after Thatch's Gov't cut off the supply of dosh. The appeal was Chaired by Mrs Justice Booth – I don't think this was Booth as in Cherie, I presume that it must have been someone else – but didn't reach its target. Lady Justice Arden then took over the appeal.
Lady Justice Mary Arden was born and brought up in Liverpool and educated at Huyton College. Her grandfather, father and brother were all Liverpool solicitors. The family firm was Gamon Arden and Co which merged with Hill Dickinson in 2007. Mary Arden read law at Girton College, Cambridge – where Ronnie's friend Poppy was Bursar – and also took a degree at Harvard. She was appointed as a High Court judge in 1993 and was Chairman of the Law Commission, 1996-99. In 2000 Mary Arden was appointed to the Court of Appeal. She is Head of International Judicial Relations for England and Wales and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.
Lady Justice Arden featured in the 'Women's Hour' 'power list'. 'And tomorrow on 'Woman's Hour', Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey will be holding a discussion about sexual violence with their guest Baroness Helena Kennedy…' The comedian Victor Lewis-Smith once upset a lot of people with a rude rap song about 'Woman's Hour' – the less offensive lines included 'I've got me Jenni Murray and I've got me damson jam'. I thought that the rap was very funny despite the outrage at Victor's piss-taking of the 'Woman's Hour' obsession with gynaecological problems – I didn't realise in those days that a great many of the Strong Wimmin given air time on 'Woman's Hour' are paedophiles' friends.
Mary Arden is married to Jonathan Mance, who also became a High Court judge and a Lord Justice of Appeal. Mary and Jonathan were the first married couple to sit in the High Court and then became the first married couple to sit in the Court of Appeal. A power couple! No wonder Jenni and Jane were impressed.
Lord Jonathan Mance is the Deputy President of the Supreme Court. The President is of course Lady Brenda Hale (see post 'In The Courts), another 'Woman's Hour' favourite, who is a pal of St Helena Kennedy's, who in turn was mates with Professor Nigel Eastman, one of those at St George's who was colluding with Dafydd and the paedophiles. See post 'Eve Was Framed – As Were A Lot Of Other People' for further details of St Helena, who is not as much of a friend to oppressed wimmin as she would have us believe.
St Helena worked in Tooks Court Chambers, with Michael Mansfield. I really do not think that Michael Mansfield could possibly have not known about the Bar and judiciary being log jammed with those who were concealing the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles. It was in 1993 when I wrote to Mr Mansfield about the paedophiles' friends of north Wales – just as a police investigation concluded that there was no evidence of a paedophile ring in north Wales.
Michael Mansfield and St Helena, in the spirit of helping the oppressed, took on a law graduate called Constance Briscoe, who later wrote a misery memoir to trump all misery memoirs. Constance became a barrister, then a part-time judge specialising in child and mental health cases because She Had Been There. It was not a good idea. By then everyone who knew Constance Briscoe considered her quite mad. She had extensive cosmetic surgery for no good reason – not just a nose job or a trout pout, but Constance had the bones of her feet removed and I think that she also had the operation which involves removing bone length from one's legs. Constance flew to America to have all this done.
'The Daily Mail' really loved Constance, they published many features about Constance being a woman who had overcome hardship, which were illustrated by photographs of Constance wearing rather Joan Collinsesque outfits, accompanied by her claims that she had body dysmorphic disorder. Readers were leaving comments like 'I wish you all the best Constance, you are a beautiful clever empowered woman'. Unfortunately Constance was also a lying cow and ended up going to prison after she and her friend Vicky Pryce told porkies to the police in order to fit up Vicky's husband Chris Huhne. Vicky went to prison as well, wrote a prison memoir when she was released and was back working as a Gov't economist and being interviewed on the 'Today' programme within weeks of coming out.
In 2012, the Chancellor of Oxford University, Chris Patten, appointed Mary Arden's husband Lord Mance as High Steward of Oxford University.
Waterhouse's book tells us that the CAB at the RJC was run by Justice Cazalet, 'with the benevolent interest of Derry Irvine'. Sir Edward Cazalet is a High Court judge who was the son of the Queen mum's racehorse trainer and P.G. Wodehouse's stepdaughter. He was educated at Oxford University, where he was Master of the University drag hounds. At Oxford, Sir Edward's friends included Sir Simon Hornby, who married Edward's sister Sheran. Simon Hornby was Chairman of WH Smith, the Royal Horticultural Society and the Design Council. He founded the National Literacy Trust.
Companies House lists Sir Edward Cazalet as being a Director of the RCJ and Islington CAB, 1995-98 and as a Director for the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, 2000-03.
Sir Edward issued guidance which was incorporated into Best Practice Guidelines regarding 'Justice's Reasons In The Family Court Proceedings In Children Act Cases' which were issued by the President of the Family Division in 1997.
Cazalet is a member of The Other Club, a dining club which meets at the Savoy. Members past and present include many of those who this blog knows and loves, such as Paddy Ashdown, Tony Blair, Leon Brittan, Gordon Brown, Sir Robin Butler, Ken Clarke, Robin Day, Fattersley, Woy Jenkins, Tom King, Chris Patten, John Smith, Norman St John Stevas, David Steel, Jeremy Thorpe, William Waldegrave, Prince Charles, Willie Whitelaw, Bob Boothby, Harold Wilson, Woodrow Wyatt. And many, many more old favourites. About the only name that I didn't find was Ronnie Waterhouse, but that was probably because he wasn't grand enough for them to boast about.
Ronnie's volume 'Child Of Another Century' shed more light on the rigging of the Waterhouse Inquiry. It has entered into Celtic legend that the first that Ronnie knew of what became the Waterhouse Inquiry was when he received a phone call telling him that he would be presiding over the Public Inquiry into the abuse of children in care in north Wales since 1974. However Ronnie's autobiography tells us a little more.
Ronnie maintained that he initially received a phone call from the Secretary of the then Lord Chief Justice, Lord Peter Taylor of Gosforth, seeking permission to give Ronnie's phone number to the Welsh Office. Peter Taylor was the prosecuting barrister in the trial of Jeremy Thorpe. My post 'Additional Security Measures' describes how the Report allegedly written by Peter Taylor regarding the Hillsborough Disaster was submitted to the Home Office under Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, unsigned, at an earlier date than Taylor stated that it would be prepared – after Taylor had been told what Douglas Hurd wanted in that Report.
Why the Welsh Office needed Ronnie's phone number I cannot fathom, he was probably having dinner with one of the senior people there or members of their immediate family at least once a week.
After Ronnie had given his permission for his longstanding close friends at the Welsh Office to receive his phone number – couldn't someone have just nipped over to the Garrick to find him? – William Hague spoke to Ronnie from the Tory conference in south Wales. Hague then dined with Ronnie at the Commons the following month.
Ronnie explained in his book that there was 'a great deal of work to do before the Tribunal could begin to hear evidence'. The Tribunal was formally appointed on 30 Aug 1996.
Now Ronnie's book gives a great deal of information about some interesting events before Ronnie received the phone call from the Secretary of Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, asking for permission to give his phone number to some of his oldest friends.
On the 8 Nov 1995 Ronnie had informed the Lord Chancellor, Lord James Mackay of Clashfern that he would retire on 15 April 1996 – therefore Ronnie's last sitting would be on 3 April 1996.
Lord Mackay of Clashfern kept the appallingly sexually abusive behaviour of Esther Rantzen's former bedfellow Sir Nicholas Fairbairn under wraps and was the man who launched the career of Baroness Patricia Scotland – by appointing her as a QC at a very young age – who was given a peerage within a few months of her beginning to act for the Welsh Office at the Waterhouse Tribunal (see posts 'Baroness Patricia Scotland QC Was On Board As Well', More On Baroness Patricia Scotland QC – And Her Very Sleazy Friends' and 'Even More About Baroness Patricia Scotland QC').
Lord Mackay of Clashfern, I think that you have some explaining to do.
Ronnie tells us that he had 'said farewell' to his old Circuit – Chester and Wales – in Nov 1994, in view of his original plans to retire in 1995. But as a result of 'my delay in implementing my original decision to retire in 1995', Ronnie 'enjoyed further stays in Mold and Chester in January and February for part of which I had the agreeable company of the newly appointed Mr Justice (now Lord Chief Justice) Wilson of the Family Division'.
I can find no explanation of WHY Ronnie delayed implementing his original decision to retire in 1995.
So Ronnie originally planned to retire in 1995. That was the year when Dafydd was dragged kicking and screaming into 'retirement' – except that Dafydd didn't 'retire'. Everyone was told that he had, but Dafydd left his NHS post clutching the contract to provide 'substance abuse services' for north Wales and with an agreement that none of the very serious complaints about him would be followed up. Dafydd continued with his extensive private practice and as far as I could see, expanded it considerably during the following years. See post 'The Evolution Of A Drugs Baron'.
In the summer of 1995, the world was told that the North Wales Hospital Denbigh had closed down. It hadn't, part of it remained open – Gwynfryn Ward, a 'mother and baby unit', but no-one seems to have been able to discover for how long for and which patients remained there. The summer of 1995 also saw the most extraordinary shenanigans at the top of the Welsh Office. John Redwood was Secretary of State for Wales until 26 June 1995. Then David Hunt was acting Secretary of State for the days between 26 June and 5 July 1995, then William Hague took over as Secretary of State for Wales on 5 July 1995. David Hunt had been a junior Minister in the Welsh Office back in the 1980s when the lid was kept on the madness prevailing in Gwynedd Health Authority and he was then Secretary of State for Wales, May 1990-May 1993, where the lid continued to be kept on the madness and criminality in the NHS and social services in north Wales (see posts 'A Visit To Gwynedd Archives' and 'The Cradle Of Filth').
My post 'The Banality Of Evil' describes in detail the frantic efforts that Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends made to have me imprisoned or labelled as dangerous and detained in a secure unit from the middle of 1994 and throughout 1995.
On 13 July 1995 Sir Peter Morrison was found dead at his London home. Brown was forced out of his job at Aston University in the same month.
During 1995, John Jillings and his panel were still investigating the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council since 1974. Jillings completed his report Feb 1996, but it wasn't officially submitted until a few weeks later (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…').
So although Waterhouse was originally due to retire in the midst of all this, for some reason he had a change of mind, delayed his retirement and – judging from his book – embarked on a tour of Wales where he met and socialised with many of those who were responsible for facilitating, ignoring or concealing the abuse of children in care, into which he would soon be holding an Inquiry. Not of course that Ronnie had any inkling that his services would be required for such a task. Indeed, in Dec 1995 Nicola Davies QC, after 'reviewing the police paperwork concerning the abuse of children in care in north Wales' – not that Nicola had much to review because all the paperwork from 1989 onward was missing – stated that a judicial inquiry would not be in the public interest. William Hague had a change of heart and announced in the summer of 1996 that a Judicial Inquiry would be held after all.
Those whom Ronnie hobnobbed with during his pre-Inquiry tour of the paedophiles' friends included 'the Bromley-Davenports'. There is only one family of Bromley-Davenports, but the family contains a number of people whom Ronnie may have been referring to.
Lt Col Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport was the Tory MP for Knutsford, 1945-70, after a career in the Army. He was a Conservative junior Whip from 1948-51, but lost his junior Whip position after kicking the Belgium Ambassador down a flight of steps no less. His excuse was that he mistook the Ambassador for a colleague whom he thought had left the Commons before the 10 o'clock vote. Sir Walter was a member of the British Boxing Board of Control from 1953. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire in 1949.
Bromley-Davenport 'was known to have an extraordinarily loud voice'. He 'would startle new Labour MPs when they rose to make a speech by screaming 'Take your hands out of your pockets!' On one occasion he shouted 'Sit down!' at Otho Prior-Palmer, MP for Worthing, which the Minister immediately did, as he attempted to speak at the same time as Davenport. Davenport was known to use his voice outside of Parliament. When he entered an overcrowded train in Crewe, he walked up and down the corridor shouting 'All change!'. When everyone left, he took a seat.
Sir Walter's son was Sir William Bromley-Davenport, who served as High Sheriff of Chester and Lord Lieutenant of Chester. Sir William was Lord Lieutenant of Chester whilst the Waterhouse Inquiry took place. At the Inquiry Ronnie refused to investigate claims that children in care were taken to locations outside of north Wales to be abused, although at least one witness spoke about being taken to a 'big house' near Chester where he was sexually assaulted by several men. Sir William retired as Lord Lieutenant of Chester in 2003, the Waterhouse Report having been safely completed and submitted to the Gov't three years previously.
Nicholas Bromley-Davenport continued the family tradition by serving as High Sheriff of Chester, 2007-08.
The family seat of the Bromley-Davenports is at Macclesfield.
There is a John Bromley-Davenport QC who is a barrister. He has been a legal assessor to the NMC since 2011, a legal assessor to the British Psychoanalytic Council since 2014, a legal assessor to the Construction Industry Council since 2014 and, since 2016, a legal assessor to the General Chiropractic Council.
So John Bromley-Davenport QC will be able to explain why Nicola Kingston, the nurse who blew the whistle on the serious abuse of elderly mentally ill patients at Tawel Fan Ward at the Ablett Unit in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, was struck off on trumped up charges of 'having sex with a patient' a few weeks ago. She was married to the patient in question. He wasn't her patient and she did not have sex with him anywhere inappropriate or when on duty.
During Ronnie's Grand Tour in 1995, the High Sheriff of Cheshire John Pickering gave a dinner party for Nicholas Wilson and Ronnie, which was attended by Lord Leverhulme, 'five circuit judges and old friends'.
There is a lawyer called John Pickering who spent his career working for the personal injury lawyers Irwin Mitchell, but I don't know if this is the John Pickering whom Ronnie dined with in 1995. Irwin Mitchell handle a lot of claims against the NHS, particularly big ones involving catastrophic birth injury. Irwin Mitchell however have as little luck as other lawyers in bringing claims against the mental health services, although I know that some years ago Irwin Mitchell were actively touting for business among patients of North West Wales NHS Trust because they knew how many patients had been harmed. Of course, they didn't show much interest in mental health claims, as ever… Pickering was Group Chief Executive for Irwin Mitchell, 2011-14.
Nicholas Wilson is Lord Wilson and since 2011 has been a Justice of the Supreme Court. Between 2005 and 2011 Wilson was a Lord Justice of Appeal. Wilson has been a specialist in family law throughout his career. Nicholas Wilson's father Roderick Wilson was a naval officer who later taught languages at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. Lord Wilson's wife Margaret is a barrister, a member of Middle Temple along with Ronnie.
When Lord Wilson's son Matthew was at Eton he was editor of the 'Eton Chronicle'. Matthew wanted to interview Bill Wyman, who was a former client of Lord Wilson's, so his dad asked Bill Wyman and Wyman was not only happy to oblige but was happy to do yet another interview a few days later when it transpired that the first one hadn't recorded. Lord Wilson described Wyman's willingness to help as 'wonderful'.
Bill Wyman's former wife Mandy Smith no longer describes Bill Wyman as wonderful. Mandy has given interviews claiming that she was so young when she became involved with Wyman that she had no idea how exploitative the relationship was. Wyman began a relationship with Mandy when she was 13 and they married when she was 16.
I wonder if Nicholas's mate Bill Wyman knows anything about the mental health patient who was in Bethesda for years visibly starving and homeless – after being refused 'services' because she was 'very difficult' and everyone in the mental health services were 'fed up with her' – who swore blind that she used to be a groupie and had sex with Mick Jagger.
Nicholas Wilson owns racehorses. Just like Ronnie's father-in-law.
Lord Leverhulme will have been Philip, the 3rd Viscount Leverhulme. He was a former Senior Steward of the Jockey Club, 1973-76 and Lord Lieutenant of the City and County of Chester from 1949-90. For many years Philip Lever was advisory director of Unilever, the company founded by his grandfather – the company which provided Professor Fergus Lowe with an enormous quantity of dosh to fund the School of Psychology at Bangor University. Fungus built his empire by overthrowing the influence of Dafydd in the University in the late 1980s and then using his knowledge of Dafydd's crimes to hold a gun to the heads of those who had been complicit with Dafydd. Philip Lever continued in the Lever family's philanthropic tradition as a Trustee of the Leverhulme Trust. He was Chancellor of Liverpool University, 1980-93. The Liverpool University which trained Dafydd and trained and employed many of his fellow crooks. Philip Lever was Chancellor in 1987 when Dafydd told me that he was friends with a Professor Richard someone or other and that if I dropped my complaint about him, he would have a word with Professor Richard and I would be guaranteed a place to study medicine at Liverpool. Just like that. I was so gobsmacked that to my eternal regret the surname of the corrupt Professor did not register and I have no idea who he was.
Little wonder that Fungus was able to bag all that dosh from Unilever.
Philip Lever was long associated with the Animal Health Trust, the veterinary research establishment at Lanwades Hall, near Newmarket; by the time he retired as chairman in 1989, he had given 25 years' service. In 1980, Lever had been closely involved in negotiating a surcharge of 25p, for the benefit of the Trust, on every horse entered for a race – some 400,000 a year.
Philip Lever was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge and during the Second World War served in the Middle East with the Cheshire Yeomanry, of which he later became Honorary Colonel. He inherited Thornton Manor, the family seat in the Wirral and estates of 11,000 acres. A keen shot, in 1954 Lever bought the 22,000-acre Badanloch estate, with a deer forest and grouse moors in Sutherland.
Lever was Chairman of the Governors of Bolton School, 1949-90.
Philip Lever was Honorary Air Commodore of two Auxiliary Air Force squadrons, 663 and 610 (County of Chester), and Honorary Colonel of the Queen's Own Yeomanry from 1979-81.
As part of his tour of the paedophiles' friends, Ronnie went on a trip to Cardiff Arms Park – the rugby stadium – as a guest of Henry Lewis. Ronnie's mate Tasker Watkins was a rugby enthusiast and was President of the Welsh Rugby Union, 1993-2004 and also honorary life Vice-Patron.
During his tour of Wales, Ronnie sat with the paedophiles' friend Lord Justice Roch (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country') and Justice Bennett. (In 2008 Justice Bennett presided over the divorce case of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills and declared Mills to be completely bonkers.) During that particular excursion Ronnie also managed to rub noses with the paedophiles' friend Lord Gareth Williams QC (see post 'People With Energy') and John Griffith Williams QC, who was the treasurer of the Chester and Wales Circuit, 1993-95 and then leader of the Circuit, 1996-98. Griffith Williams became a High Court judge in 2007. Ronnie also bumped into Eleanor Lawson QC and Sir Stephen Brown.
Sir Stephen Brown's parents lived in Staffordshire. He was educated at Malvern College and Queen's College, Cambridge. Brown served in the RNVR as a Lieutenant, 1943-46, alongside so many paedophiles' friends. He became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1949 and became Treasurer in 1994. Brown was Deputy Chairman of Staffordshire Quarter Sessions, 1963-97 and Recorder of West Bromwich from 1965-71. He was a Recorder, and Honorary Recorder of West Bromwich from 1972–75, was a High Court judge in the Family Division, 1975–77, and in the Queen's Bench Division, 1977–83. Brown was Presiding Judge of the Midland and Oxford Circuit, 1977-81.
So Brown was working in Staffordshire and the west Midlands whilst the paedophile gang that operated in Staffordshire was busy, whilst the notoriously corrupt West Midlands Serious Crime Squad caused havoc and whilst children from the West Midlands were sent to north Wales children's homes.
Brown was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal (1983–88) and President of the Family Division (1988–99). On 19 Nov 1992, he delivered the landmark ruling that doctors treating Tony Bland, who had been in a persistent vegetative state since suffering serious brain damage in the Hillsborough disaster more than three years earlier, could withdraw the food and treatment which were keeping him alive. Treatment was ultimately withdrawn on 22 Feb 1993, after the Lords rejected an appeal by the Official Solicitor. Mr Bland died on 3 March 1993.
Brown was a member of the Parole Board,1967-71, of the Butler Committee on mentally abnormal offenders, 1972 -75 and of the Advisory Council on Penal System in 1977. He was Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors, 1971-75. He was Chairman of the Council of Malvern College, 1976-94.
In Jan 2009, Stephen Brown became a member of the Advisory Committee of Children's Rights International. He has served as President of Edgbaston High School and the Malvernian Society.
Sir Stephen – a verray parfit gentil knight.
On his Grand Tour, Ronnie shared judge's lodgings in Liverpool with Heather Steel and dear old Brenda Hale, now the President of the Supreme Court.
Ronnie had other opportunities to spend time with yet more people who had links to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal as well, because Ronnie doubled up as President of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, 1993-97. A number of those associated with Clwyd County Council in particular have played key roles in the International Eisteddfod. Ronnie took over the presidency from his own friend and indeed the paedophiles' friend, Lord Emlyn Hooson.
I do not have a problem with the International Eisteddfod, indeed I have attended it myself. It is impressive and international and attracts a lot of interesting people. But there have been a number of scandals regarding the organising of the Eisteddfod in the past – Eisteddfodau on that scale do not come cheap and some people found some unorthodox and creative ways of helping to fund them. Beata Brookes, the former Tory MEP who was at the hub of Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'The Celtic Iron Lady' and Yet More Recent History') found that by donating some of her land for the use of the International Eisteddfod, some of the wheels of her business interests were oiled.
Whilst Ronnie was President, the Chairman of the International Eisteddfod was retired solicitor H. Gethin Davies. Gethin Davies had been involved with the International Eisteddfod for decades. The cosy relationship between the organisers of the International Eisteddfod and the local authorities was illustrated by Gethin's 2015 account of how the International Eisteddfod's Royal International Pavilion was developed. Until 1992 when the Queen opened the new Royal International Pavilion, the event was held in a huge marquee. Gethin explained: 'In 1958 they bought the fields where the event is held today for £12,000 which was a large sum but it's turned out to be a very good piece of business. They leased part of it to the old Denbighshire Council with the proviso it be available for the Eisteddfod. We raised £500,000 and the Council successfully applied for £3 million of European money which paid for the Royal International Pavilion'.
Gethin's wife, Eulanwy, was in 2009 appointed a lifetime Vice-President of the International Eisteddfod, along with Ronnie, Emlyn Hooson and past International Eisteddfod Chairman Dudley Richards.
When Arwel Hughes became music director in 1977, an administrative base for the music department was needed. Eulanwy was drafted in to set up the department. She was appointed music administrator 10 years later and in 2002 she served as music director for two years. Eulanwy's award was presented by Mervyn Cousins, Eisteddfod Executive Director.
Arwel Hughes was born in Rhosllannerchrugog near Wrexham and was educated at Ruabon Grammar School and the Royal College of Music. Following his studies at the RCM, Hughes became organist at the church of St Philip and St James, Oxford and in 1935 returned to Wales to join the staff of the BBC's music department.
Hughes became Head of Music at BBC Wales in 1965, holding the post until his retirement in 1971. He organised the music for the Investiture of Prince Charles. Hughes was Honorary Music Director of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, 1978-86.
For many years Arwel Hughes conducted performances by the Welsh National Opera and his own two operas were produced by WNO in 1953 and 1960.
Hughes was the father of the Welsh orchestral conductor Owain Arwel Hughes. Owain Arwel Hughes's son Geraint Hughes is the former sports correspondent for BBC News and now works for Sky Sports.
Ronnie was also mates with Roy Bohana, a 'veteran Music Director of the Eisteddfod'. Roy Bohana was the Deputy Director of the Arts Council for Wales and was a close friend of Professor William Mathias, 'one of Wales's greatest composers'. Mathias was Professor and Head of Music at UCNW, 1970-88, when the institution was run by the paedophiles' friends. I was told by a former student of Mathias's that he was sexually exploiting the female students at Bangor.
Praise the Lord, we're a musical nation.
William Mathias was a member of the Arts Council. The big posh one in England, as opposed to the Arts Council for Wales.
Roy Bohana's wife Liliana was killed in a car crash in Bulgaria when she returned there (her home country) on a visit in Aug 2001. I mentioned in my post 'Cry, The Beloved Country' that people who knew Ronnie Waterhouse did have a penchant for dying in unfortunate circumstances whilst he held that Inquiry or just after.
Roy Bohana lives in Llandaff and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Ronnie was no remote President of the International Eisteddfod. Anecdotes from Ronnie's tenure abound of him being seen out and about, pleasing the crowds. He met Prince Charles and Bryn Terfel. Ronnie also managed to get Luciano Pavarotti to the International Eisteddfod which delighted everyone.
Whilst Ronnie was President, one of the turns at the Eisteddfod was the Spanish soprano, Montserrat Caballe. For reasons which Ronnie doesn't explain in his book, she had to be paid 20k in cash before leaving Wales for Hamburg by a privately chartered aeroplane. In order to access the cash, the bank had to had to open on a Sunday. Fortunately that was possible because the manager of the bank concerned was treasurer of the International Eisteddfod. I'm fairly sure that under Sunday trading legislation, banks are not allowed to open on Sunday. Furthermore, as a Congregationalist lay preacher whose family were awarded a certificate for 100 years of abstinence from alcohol, Ronnie would have known all about observing the Lord's day.
Ronnie ensuring that the bank could open on the Sabbath so that Montserrat Caballe could be given 20k in used fivers reminded me of a quip from a Hergest patient when Dafydd was interviewed in a local newspaper and was quoted as saying that 'my children say their prayers every night and I'm rather proud of that'. The Hergest patient commented that 'pride's a sin'.
As Ronnie, is avarice. And indeed lust.
This is a picture of the 1909 painting 'The Worship of Mammon' by Evelyn de Morgan:
Praise the Lord, we're a musical nation…
Ronnie was well-acquainted with the bank and building society managers and insurance agents of north Wales anyway. As a judge he used to be invited to the annual dinners held by the solicitors in Wales, who would also invite the bank and building society managers and the insurance agents.
There are some victims of the paedophiles' friends who have found themselves seriously shafted by banks and their associates. Such events are not historical. I know well a man who is hated by the north Wales mental health services nearly as much as I am. This man ran a business for thirty years and he ran it very well, but some five years ago he had horrific financial difficulties which very nearly bankrupted him. He traced the problem to something illegal that a local bank manager in Gwynedd had done with regard to a business loan which set my friend on the path to near ruination. My friend approached local solicitor after local solicitor, but he found that the mess got worse and worse and each solicitor seemed to advise him very badly. My friend was then contacted by an old university friend of his who had long ago left for another country but was visiting the UK for a while – he was a solicitor. Horrified at finding my friend nearly bankrupt, seriously ill and being refused all NHS care, the lawyer started trawling through the documentation. His conclusion was that everyone involved had broken the law in fundamental ways and had given my friend advice that no sensible lawyer would have. He also concluded that at least some of the people involved were colluding with each other, there was no other explanation.
Every 'professional' involved – except for the visitor from Australia – was from Gwynedd. They were all in late middle age and were employed in well-established Gwynedd businesses. Gwynedd County Council also had a hand in the mess.
There are a few more nuggets in Ronnie's book re the Waterhouse Inquiry. My post 'The Waterhouse Tribunal – Who Was Involved And What Happened To Them Subsequently?' details the backgrounds of many of those involved in the Inquiry, but there are a few further salient facts that I gleaned from Ronnie's book.
Morris le Fleming was a member of Ronnie's Inquiry panel. Le Fleming was the former Chief Executive of Herefordshire County Council. Not only did Herefordshire and Worcestershire Social Services at one time employ high profile paedophiles' friend David Tombs as their Director (see post 'Another Episode Of Friends…'), but since 1985 Ronnie had owned a country house in Herefordshire. Whilst conducting the Inquiry, Ronnie spent the week in judges lodgings in Mold and returned to Herefordshire or Middle Temple at weekends.
Social work academic, advisor and paedophile Peter Righton lived in Herefordshire whilst Ronnie had his country home there.
Le Fleming had 'already sat on a similar (but non-statutory) inquiry in Leicestershire. So that will be the Leicestershire which had a major problem with a paedophile ring over decades, nearly all members of which were never prosecuted – including, it is alleged, barrister and Labour politician Lord Greville Janner. Following the jailing of social worker Frank Beck in Nov 1991 and the subsequent Kirkwood Inquiry, it was admitted that the Leicestershire Police had been inexplicably negligent and that complaints of child abuse had simply been ignored repeatedly. The Leicestershire gang were being concealed by people in Leicester University and in the City Council (see post 'Radical Leicester And Some More Free Radicals') and by the NHS. In 1987, the mental health services in Leicester concealed the wrongdoing of Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'An Expert From England').
The third member of Ronnie's panel was Margaret Clough, 'a highly experienced former social services inspector with roots in Cheshire'. Ah, so that would be the Cheshire which formed an integral part of the Cheshire/north Wales paedophile ring. The Cheshire which had previously employed as social workers Lucille Hughes and Margaret Hanson as well as many other fun people and in which one of John Allen's children's homes was located. The Cheshire which contains Chester, the location of the corrupt solicitors, barristers and judges who concealed the Cheshire/north Wales paedophile ring. The Chester for which Sir Peter Morrison was the Tory MP, 1974-92. The Chester which had a branch of CHE which was alleged to be a front for paedophilia, a member of which was convicted for abusing boys in care in north Wales. The Chester which had a City of Chester Conservative Party Association, the President of which was the Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor. It was Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor's ancestor who bequeathed the land upon which the original St George's Hospital (at Hyde Park Corner) was built.
Fortunately for Margaret Clough – and probably for the Duke of Westminster as well – Cheshire was not part of Ronnie's Inquiry. One of the many reasons for which the Inquiry was criticised was that it only considered the abuse of children in care whilst they were in north Wales. So if children were being taken to other locations to be abused – for example Chester – Ronnie refused to investigate that.
The Waterhouse Inquiry investigated – or indeed failed to investigate – 85 children's homes. That is a great many children's homes to be located in two rural counties where great swathes of the countryside are sparsely populated hills and mountains. Ronnie asked no questions about why the children in care business was so prevalent in north Wales.
Ronnie's Inquiry was given '9,500 unsorted children's files'. Were they perhaps unsorted because as with previous investigations the police and local authorities had refused to co-operate with sorting them? Not that it mattered – nearly all of those files were destroyed in the not-at-all suspicious warehouse fire which occurred shortly after the Waterhouse Inquiry opened. No wonder no-one wasted their time sorting those files. Ronnie was also given 3,500 statements to the police, as well as 'other records of the former County Councils'. 12,000 documents were scanned into the Tribunal's database. Ronnie was provided with a team of 30 paralegals under the supervision of senior solicitors.
Interviews with 400 potential witnesses were conducted by 'persons with appropriate experience' – former police officers from forces outside of North Wales. Presumably other parts of Wales, Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicester, the Met and other forces which had dealings and connections with the North Wales Police and who were known to have colluded with the abuse of children in north Wales.
Not only were the former residents of children's homes in north Wales grilled by aggressive barristers at the Waterhouse Inquiry and then smeared by Ronnie, but so was the whistleblowing social worker from Gwynedd, Alison Taylor, who spent four days in the witness box at the Tribunal.
Waterhouse barely acknowledged Alison's existence until the occasion on which he asked her, for some unfathomable reason, if she was married when her daughter was born. Alison replied that she wasn't. Alison then explained that her daughter 'is adopted'. Alison gave evidence to the Tribunal in Oct 1997.
When Richard Webster wrote his 'New Statesman' article and then his book about Bryn Estyn which trashed Alison (see post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate'), Webster used Alison's comment to suggest that she was an unmarried mother who had experienced great difficulty in establishing any sort of career. Webster also falsely asserted that before working for Gwynedd County Council, Alison had drifted from one short-term part-time job to another. At the time of writing that, Webster had Alison's full employment record, which showed continuous full-time employment from 1969 onwards in social work and probation. In his book, Webster referred again to Alison's daughter in a footnote, claiming that Alison had told Waterhouse that her daughter 'was adopted', thus creating a very different impression…
Webster also stated that Alison's son was born shortly after his father and she married, implying that Alison was pregnant when the marriage took place. Her son was born over two years later.
These sort of techniques are routinely employed to discredit whistleblowers in NHS and social care. Academic analyses of health and welfare scandals have demonstrated that it is absolutely standard practice (see post 'All The Ingredients Of A Scandal?'). Such methods were used to discredit me by every 'independent' opinion and 'expert witness' that I encountered – it was done in their capacity of 'examining a nutter', but of course I was a highly qualified nutter who had made some very, very serious allegations about Dafydd and the paedophiles. Documents in my possession demonstrate that Dafydd et al were involved in even more serious crime than I had alleged and that every 'independent' opinion was fully aware of the scale of that crime and also knew that they were lying about me. Is that not correct Robert Kehoe (see posts 'An Expert In Resistant Service Users' and 'A Very Succinct E Mail From A Reader')?
It is surprising that no-one was prosecuted as a result of Ronnie's Inquiry? Not really – because all witnesses who could have been charged with abuse of children were given legal indemnity, as were all members of the Tribunal.
I really am thick sometimes – I have spent a long time wondering why Lucille Hughes ever co-operated with the Inquiry, as Lucille is not known for her social responsibility. I also wondered why Ronnie ever bothered to name Lucille as someone who knew that a paedophile gang was in operation in north Wales but failed to act. Why were Lucille's many years of loyal service to Dafydd and the paedophiles betrayed thus? Er – perhaps because the one person against whom there was overwhelming evidence was Lucille Hughes? Lucille was given the perfect escape route – all she had to do was turn up to the Inquiry as a witness and she would be granted immunity from prosecution. Then she could 'retire' within hours of the Report being published, Ronnie would have made a token gesture at giving her a spanking and she could go and join Dafydd on the Board of CAIS. Dafydd and CAIS had been given the contract for providing substance abuse services the year before the Waterhouse Inquiry was announced, so it was guaranteed that business would be booming.
Lucille and Dafydd 'retired' over 20 years ago – Dafydd still Chairs CAIS and Lucille is still a Trustee. CAIS is an enormous organisation now and it has expanded into providing 'services' for the homeless, 'work experience', 'services' for addicted Top Docs, 'psychological therapies' and much more.
Ronnie's book states that the 'overall guidance' for the Tribunal was provided by the Treasury solicitor, on the nomination of the Attorney General. During the summer of 1996, before the Tribunal began, Ronnie had 'numerous meetings with solicitors and the legal advisor to the Welsh Office, David Lambert, as well as meetings with the Solicitor General, the Attorney General, the Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary at the Welsh Office Rachel Lomax' (see posts 'So Who Was It Exactly Who Appointed The Corrupt Old Bastard?' and 'Cottaging At Castle Gate' for details about Lomax). The Solicitor General at the time was Sir Derek Spencer and the Attorney General was Sir Nicholas Lyell.
So the fine legal brains who came up with the Cunning Plan to ensure that a bunch of gangsters would never be prosecuted and would remain in business despite retirement and a Judicial Inquiry were, it would seem, David Lambert, Derek Spencer and Nicholas Lyell.
David Lambert is now a Fellow of Cardiff Law School and the Registrar of the Diocese of Llandaff.
Sir Derek Spencer QC was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire and he was educated at Eton and Keble College, Oxford. He served as a lieutenant in the King's Own Regiment from 1954-56. He became a barrister in 1961 and took silk in 1980. Spencer is a Master of the Bench, Gray's Inn.
Spencer was elected as the Tory MP for Leicester South in 1983, by just seven votes. He lost the seat back to the Labour candidate Jim Marshall in 1987 – Marshall had previously held the seat since 1974. Marshall lectured at Leicester Poly (now De Montfort University), 1968-74 and was elected to Leicester City Council in 1971. He became leader of Leicester City Council in 1973. Marshall knew about the paedophile ring in Leicestershire. Marshall's political career began in Leeds City Council, 1965-69. Now then, now then, that sounds to me like a man who probably knew about Sir Jimmy…
Marshall was an assistant whip, 1977-79, in Callaghan's Gov't. In opposition, he was assistant Home Affairs Spokesman, 1982-83 and Deputy Shadow Spokesman on N Ireland, 1987-92. In 1992, he voted for Bryan Gould in the Labour leadership election which followed the resignation of the Windbag. The new Labour leader John Smith dispensed with Marshall's services. Marshall's supported Margaret Beckett in the Labour leadership election which followed John Smith's death. His constituency work on immigration and benefit problems won him strong personal support among local voters. Labour Party Chairman Ian McCartney described Marshall as 'a hard-working and dedicated member of Parliament who spoke up for his Leicester constituents and did a great deal to help to transform their communities and the opportunities open to them'. Unless they were kids in care who were being molested of course.
Sir Derek Spencer – who could hardly have missed the Leicestershire paedophile ring himself – was elected for the marginal Brighton Pavilion seat in 1992, when he was knighted and appointed Solicitor-General by John Major. Days after Spencer won Brighton Pavilion, five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal were burnt to death as a result of a firebomb attack on a building in Brighton (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs').
As Solicitor General Spencer represented the Gov't in several significant cases, including Wingrove v UK (1997) regarding the application of blasphemy law under the Human Rights Act.
Sir Nicholas Lyell was the son of High Court judge Sir Maurice Lyell and sculptor/designer Veronica Luard. Lyell was educated at Wellesley House School in Broadstairs – Ted Heath country – and at Stowe School. His mother died when he was young and his father married the widowed Kitty, Lady Farrar, younger daughter of 1st Viscount Runciman. Lyell went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a member of the Bullingdon Club. After National Service with the Royal Artillary he became a lawyer. Lyell trained his stepmother's family's firm, Walter Runciman and Co, and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1965. He served his pupillage with Gordon Slynn.
Lyell was elected Tory MP for Hemel Hempstead in 1979, then for Mid Bedfordshire from 1983. He moved to North East Bedforshire at the 1997 General Election.
Lyell was Solicitor-General, 1987-92 under Thatcher. Which was whilst all that serious crime in on the part of Dafydd and the paedophiles in north Wales went unchallenged.
As well as being Attorney General for England and Wales under John Major, 1992-97, Lyell was Attorney General for N Ireland for the same period. Lyell was knighted in 1987 – as havoc broke out in north Wales when Mary Wynch, Alison Taylor and I all came forward with evidence which remained uninvestigated.
Sir Nicholas stood down as an MP at the June 2001 General Election. By which time Ronnie had published his cover-up so skilfully engineered by Lyell et al.
Commenting on Lyell's retirement as an MP, Conservative Party Chairman Michael Ancram said:
'Nick Lyell served his country and his party extremely well as Attorney General and in a number of other senior roles in the last Conservative Government and he has been a tireless servant of his constituents during his 21 years in Parliament. His presence will be missed by all at Westminster. I am extremely grateful for all the years of service Nick has put in for the Conservative Party and I wish him well in his retirement.'
As for old Ronnie, after Chairing the Waterhouse Inquiry, although it was indeed a case of retirement – along with Lucille! – he had more to offer. As indeed did Lucille. Ronnie became the Patron of 'Voices From Care (Cymru)' and 'kept in touch' with their CEO Deborah Jones. 'Voices from Care (Cymu)' became embroiled in much scandal when one of the members later helped themselves to the funds. I'm not sure that someone dipping into the coffers was the most monstrous aspect of an organisation run by the paedophiles' friends who invited the biggest paedophiles' friend of all to be their Patron. 'Voices from Care' still has an internet presence and its website mentions its 'partners' which are other organisations such as 'Children in Wales'. 'Children in Wales' also seems to be run by paedophiles' friends, as I expect is every other organisation with which 'Children in Wales' is linked.
Ronnie continued to dispense his wisdom at events such as a training seminar in Kent in 2001 and the Barnardo's national conference in 2007.
Ronnie is not alone in having been a very inappropriate choice for an appointment as a High Court judge in the Family Division. Ronnie's book mentions that Sir John Arnold, the one time Presiding judge of the Family Division experienced embarrassment when his wife 'ran off to Canada', but it was all kept very quiet. One wonder what Lady Arnold ran away from…
Having done such a splendid job in north Wales, after the Waterhouse Inquiry was over, Ronnie's talents were immediately called upon again to Chair the Independent Supervisory Authority on Hunting, hunting being a minefield for Blair's Gov't.
When Ronnie was addressing peers regarding the private members bill opposing hunting he met a face from his past, Lord Benjamin Mancroft. In 1975 Ronnie was hearing a case at Bristol – a Benjamin Mancroft, son of Lord Stormont Mancroft, had been involved in a car crash in which the other driver had been killed. Benjamin was unable to remember a thing about the accident, having suffered a head injury. Lord Mancroft attended the hearing every day and Ronnie remembered that Lord Mancroft glared at him such that Ronnie felt quite intimidated. Ronnie subsequently concluded that the accident was the fault of the deceased and found for the plaintiff, Benjamin Mancroft – who was at the time whipper-in for the Portman Hunt.
Ronnie was delighted to meet up with Benjamin again in the Lords many years later, after Benjamin had succeeded his father's title. Ronnie noticed that Benjamin looked very well and hadn't suffered any long term effects from his head injury.
Benjamin Mancroft was educated at Eton and sits as a Tory in the Lords. He was Director of Phoenix House Housing Association, 199-96 and Vice-Chairman, 1992-96. He was Deputy Chair of the British Field Sports Society, 1992-97, President of the Alliance of Independent Retailers from 1996 -2000 and was Chair of the Drug and Alcohol Foundation, 1994-05. Mancroft was Director of the Countryside Alliance, 1997, Vice-Chair 2005, Chair 2013-15. He has been chair of the Standing Conference on Countryside Sports & Wildlife Management since 2009 and Chair of the Masters of Foxhounds Association since 2014. Mancroft has been President of the Lotteries Council since 2005.
Mancroft was Chair of Inter Lotto (UK) Ltd, 1995-04; Chair of Scratch-n-Win Lotteries, 1995-98; Director of St Martin's Magazines plc, 1995 -05; Director and Vice-Chair of Rok Mobile Ltd, 2003-07; Rok Corporation since 2003 and Vice-President of Rok Mobile Inc, 2007-12. From 2006-09, Mancroft was Chair of New Media Lottery Services PLC. He was Director of DJI Holdings Ltd (PLC 2015) 2008-16, Chair 2008 – 13; Director of BNN Technology PLC, 2015 (Chair 2016-17), Chair PYX Financial Group, 2013 -15 and Chair of Landtrader (UK & Ireland) Ltd from 2017.
In Feb 2008, Mancroft was at the centre of a truly impressive row after he claimed that the NHS Angels who had treated him at the Royal United Hospital in Bath were 'grubby, drunken and promiscuous'. Mancroft claimed to have heard them talking about getting pissed as well as their sex lives whilst he was laid up on their ward. The world was incandescent, politicians insulted Mancroft and much was made of the fact that he had been to Eton, was a peer and had experienced drug problems in the past. Mancroft refused to apologise and maintained that he had witnessed disgraceful standards of nursing. He did however have to retreat from public view as the abuse rained down on him.
I do not know Benjamin Mancroft and I do not know the Royal United Bath Hospital. I suspect that I would not admire some of the things that Mancroft has done in his life and I'm not very impressed with all his business interests in gambling scams which fleece the people who can spare the money least. However, if he saw bad nursing, he has every right to speak about it, regardless of which school he attended or what his title is.
I have witnessed Angels conducting themselves exactly as Lord Mancroft described and on more than one occasion. Not all Angels do so, there are some excellent Angels, but people need to stop deluding themselves that all Angels are as pure as the driven snow. I witnessed Angels doing far worse than Benjamin Mancroft described and in return I was subjected to a character assassination and attempts to imprison me on the grounds of the perjury of Top Docs, Angels and social workers. So Benjamin Mancroft can be ignored and insulted because he's an Eton-educated Tory peer. I, like others I know, was ignored and insulted because I is a service user. So who is going to be listened to when bad nursing is witnessed?
Not only can Ronnie's whitewash of an Inquiry not be attributed to his ignorance of the criminals involved in the abuse of children in north Wales – Ronnie was a personal friend or colleague of many of them, he knew exactly what sort of people they were – but Ronnie was not naive about organised crime. Ronnie had been involved in cases of financial crime – in one such case, two junior barristers called Cherie Booth and Tony Blair were involved – and years previously, in 1972, Ronnie was in Singapore prosecuting corrupt stockbrokers. What did Ronnie do when he dropped into Singapore? He dined with the Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who was an honoury bencher in same Inn of Court as Ronnie, Middle Temple. Ronnie's association with Lee Kuan Tew led to more work in Singapore for Ronnie. Ronnie was also friends with Attorney General Tan Boon Teik, who became the Chairman of Singapore's International Court of Arbritration.
Ronnie was involved in a case in the UK in the early 1970s which occurred as a result of the Mafia targeting gambling clubs in London. Ronnie made it clear in his autobiography that he knew that this was a case involving serious organised crime, but somehow Ronnie and his colleagues weren't quite as effective at dealing with the Mafia as one would hope that they would have been. Ronnie admitted that the Mafia were controlling virtually all the gambling clubs in London. One of the junior barristers working on the case was later found dead in a swimming pool in Singapore when he was working on a case out there with Ronnie.
Ronnie presided over the 1992 libel trial brought by Wafic Said, the arms dealer who founded the Said Business School at Oxford University in 1996. Said was close to Prince Khalid bin Sultan of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family, thus Said played an important role in a number of big arms deals between Saudi Arabia and Britain, including the Al-Yamamah deal in 1985. The defendant was an 'Arab of very small means', Misbah Baki, who had written a letter to Prince Khalid accusing Said of breaking his word. Said maintained that this was highly defamatory and sued him. Baki defended himself at the hearing and wanted to call evidence from the ex-Chairman of another arms dealer regarding the Al-Yamamah agreement signed by Thatch. The ex-Chairman concerned was the man who had given evidence to a Commons select committee that there were inappropriate links between Thatch, Mark Thatcher and Said. Ronnie ruled the evidence inadmissible and smugly explains in his book that 'the public were denied the pleasure of hearing further irrelevant gossip'. If only Ronnie had taken the same view when the barristers defending a gang of paedophiles at the Waterhouse Inquiry smeared every witness who stated that children in north Wales had been horribly abused for decades.
Said won his libel action but Ronnie was shocked at the jury's assessment of £400,000 damages, which was well beyond the plaintiff's means, as were the plaintiff's legal costs. Ronnie states in his book that he didn't know what happened subsequently. Mr Baki was probably kipping in a nightshelter, but at least Thatch didn't have to suffer anymore embarrassment regarding Stinker's business activities with arms dealers which she had facilitated.
At the time of the Waterhouse Inquiry, University of Wales, Bangor (as Bangor University was called at the time) was still dominated by the paedophiles' friends and of course Ronnie's best friend from school, Prof J. Gwynne Williams, held a very senior position there himself (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'). A new Vice-Chancellor had been appointed the year before William Hague announced that a public inquiry would be held into the abuse of children in care in north Wales, but it is obvious from Ronnie's book that the decision to hold that Inquiry and appoint Ronnie to Chair it was taken before Ronnie had a chance to retire in 1995 as originally planned.
The new Vice-Chancellor which Bangor acquired in 1995 was Professor Roy Evans, who remained as VC until ill health forced him to retire in 2004. Roy Evans was very unpopular among many of the University staff and I was told that he toadied to the paedophiles' friends in senior positions in local authorities and other institutions. It made Evans's life easy, but it was considered to have caused great harm to the University. The euphemism that was used by Evans was that he wanted the University to 'work with the community'. Sadly the community was run by the paedophiles' friends and I was told that Evans would not resist their demands in any way.
It was under Roy Evans that the laughable School of Healthcare Sciences was established, which employed as nurse tutors and 'academics' scores of abusive Angels from the north Wales NHS, including some from the North Wales Hospital Denbigh (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'). Standards were dreadful and students were having terrible experiences, but it was all swept under the carpet amidst reassurances that everything and everyone was 'excellent'.
It was also when Roy Evans was VC that Bangor Normal/Coleg Normal, the teacher training college, merged with the University. Bangor Normal was peopled by as many, if not more, paedophiles' friends than the University. When I was doing my PhD I was told that there had been great resentment after the merger because it had been discovered that the former Principal of Bangor Normal had somehow managed to thrash out a deal with the University authorities which left people who had held senior roles at Coleg Normal with very much higher salaries than their peers in the University, despite their lack of research experience. So how did someone who had led an institution full of paedophiles' friends get Roy Evans to agree to that?
It was Roy Evans who provided a home in Bangor University for Meri Huws, who was a bedfellow of many who ended up in the National Assembly for Wales and had also been a community social worker for Gwynedd Social Services – in the community which housed Ty'r Felin, the children's home in Bangor where children were severely abused and trafficked to Dolphin Square in London and other locations (see post 'Are You Local?'). Meri was appointed Head of a Dept in the University, with over one hundred staff, but by the time that she'd finished with the Dept some six years later there was nothing left but a stack of workplace bullying complaints. Meri had previously been employed at Coleg Normal, following her glorious years in Gwynedd Social Services…
Roy Evans came from Ceredigion and was a graduate of Swansea University. He spent 26 years at Cardiff University, where he became Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering. Evans served as Deputy Principal at Cardiff University for four years before his appointment as VC of Bangor. He was a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford for the academic year 1998/9. So Roy Evans was Of The Paedophiles' Friends.
The VC of Bangor before Roy Evans was Professor Eric Sunderland. I mentioned Eric Sunderland in my post 'A Vampire In Glyndwr University!'. Eric took over from paedophiles' friend Sir Charles Evans as VC in 1984. Eric was not aggressive and confrontational like Sir Charles; neither did he make a point of declaring war on Welsh speakers. By the time that Eric Sunderland retired, the official story was that he had been a successful VC, had healed many of the rifts caused by Charles Evans and was a generally well-liked and well-respected man. One of those from the past described Eric to me as 'an officer and a gentleman'. Eric Sunderland took over as VC just before I graduated and I met him again years later at a University function – he was very nice to chat with, he wasn't a rude pompous git like so many.
I was told by a number of people that Eric Sunderland and his wife felt greatly snubbed because Eric wasn't given a knighthood. People at Bangor used to wonder whether Eric had enemies in high places that no-one knew about. In my post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!' I speculated that Eric didn't get a knightood because he wasn't a paedophiles' friend. Sadly I have had to revise my opinion of Professor Sunderland. It would appear that he was fully on board the bandwagon with the paedophiles' friends.
Before Eric retired as VC, he was appointed Chairman of the Local Boundary Commission. He held the role from 1994-01. So Eric was one of those who decided that Clwyd County Council would disappear in a puff of smoke in 1996, days after the Jillings Report into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council since 1974 was submitted (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…'). One of Eric's partners in crime who assisted in this piece of witchcraft was Ronnie's mate John Griffith Williams QC, who was assistant commissioner to the Local Gov't Boundary Commission, 1994-2000.
So Eric was appointed Chairman of the Boundary Commission at a most fortuitous time. He also retired at a most fortuitous time as well, in terms of a key ally of the paedophiles who wanted to continue to look like Mr Clean. No-one ever told me why Eric retired as VC. He remained fit and healthy until shortly before he died in 2010 and he continued in public life and remained deeply involved with Bangor University until his final years. It wasn't as if he was knackered and put out to grass. Furthermore, Eric and his wife continued to live on Anglesey, they didn't move away from north Wales.
Eric clocked up a few other roles in north Wales that are usually only given to paedophiles' friends. He was High Sheriff of Gwynedd, 1998-99 and Lord Lieutenant, 1999-2006. In addition Eric was a member of the Welsh Language Education Development Committee, 1987-94, the British Council, 1990-2001, the Court of Governors of the National Museum of Wales, 1991-94 and the Broadcasting Council for Wales, 1996-2000.
Eric Sunderland was Chairman of the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, Vice-President of the Welsh Music Guild, Patron of Artworks Wales and Chairman of the Gregynog Press in the 1980s.
Eric's obituary in the Indie stated that 'Few who witnessed the results of the referendum on Welsh Devolution late on the night of 18 September 1997 will forget the evident relish with which Professor Eric Sunderland, the Chief Counting Officer, announced that the Yes campaign had won by a slim but sufficient majority of 6,721 votes and that the proposal to establish a National Assembly was therefore approved by the people of Wales…the excitement and historic significance of the occasion, together with the Professor's beaming face, have entered the iconography of recent Welsh politics. It was as if Wales had scored a winning drop-goal in the closing minutes of an international rugby match and the roar was deafening; it gave him special satisfaction that the very last Yes result, which clinched the matter, came from Carmarthenshire, his native county'.
That was the Carmarthenshire which hosted a paedophile ring going back decades which was linked to the gang which dominated public life in north Wales.
Eric was born near Ammanford and went from Amman Valley Grammar School to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth – a college which like Bangor, was run by paedophiles' friends (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'). He then did his PhD at University College, London. After military service, Eric worked for a year as a research scientist with the Coal Board, but took his first academic post in 1958 as a lecturer in the Anthropology department of Durham University, where in due course he was appointed Professor and Head of Department in 1971. Eric also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1979-84.
The paedophiles' friends of north Wales had links with Durham University – particularly the botanists at Durham – and those involved with medicine in Durham/Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. The paedophile ring in the north east of England was swapping personnel with the one in north Wales and enormous numbers of children in care in the north east were sent to children's homes in north Wales (see post 'Another Episode Of Friends'). Blair's constituency was in Durham and many more of his closest political allies had their constituencies in the north east.
Eric's obituary noted that with regard to his position as VC, 'despite some gratifying achievements, Sunderland had to preside over a raft of administrative problems, not least those having to do with funding cuts by the UGC, and some hard choices about whether to maintain teaching in certain disciplines. This he did with sympathy and common sense and always with regard for the human cost involved. Despite his warm engagement with people, he had a tough inner core which stood him in good stead in the piranha pools of academe. That the college survived the troubled years of the 1970s and 1980s and the financial stresses of the 1990s was in large measure due to him and his senior officers.'
I have mentioned before on the blog that Thatcher's henchman of the UGC Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer intended to close Bangor University down in the mid-1980s, but legend has it that after a meeting with PVC Prof Alwyn Roberts, the notoriously intransigent Swinnerton-Dyer uncharacteristically changed his mind. I suspect that Alwyn Roberts reminded Swinnerton-Dyer that the institution was crawling with people who knew about the sex trafficking ring supplying underaged kids to people in high places, including Thatcher's friend and Minister Sir Peter Morrison and that some people employed within, such as those in the Student Health Centre, were part of the trafficking ring.
One person whose empire boomed during Eric Sunderland's tenure was that of Prof Fergus Lowe…
Eric's obituary mentioned that in 1986, he published the volume 'Genetic and Population Studies in Wales' which was co-authored by Peter S. Harper. Prof Harper taught me when I was an undergrad. He was one of the ecologists who made the Plant Biology Dept in Bangor famous for that discipline. Many years later a retired academic from Bangor told me that Harper's work was nearly all plagiarised or lifted directly from his PhD students. Eric may have been a man of many talents, but I'm not aware that he had that much expertise in plant population biology. So I wonder what the story was behind his volume co-authored with Harper. Is there an angry former PhD student out there somewhere who knew that he'd been ripped off by his supervisor and the VC?
Before I left north Wales I was told that it was discovered that Eric was about to be offered a knighthood, but he died before then. The obvious question is why did the Paedophiles' Friends at HQ make Eric wait to so long for his K? The cynical observation is that Eric lived to a ripe old age and someone could well have been holding out knowing that he would be dead before the long expected K would be given. Paedophilia HQ is like that – they don't hesitate to shaft those who have loyally served as paedophiles' friends…
Former members of Bangor University staff who know something about the crimes of the paedophiles' friends who worked in the University in the 1980s include the lecturer Terry Thomas. Terry Thomas worked in the Agriculture Dept under the toxic Prof J.B. Owen (see post 'Not Seen Since The 80s – Carwyn'). Terry Thomas was a member of Prof Richard Howarth's group – the Richard Howarth who somehow found his way into Thatcher's circle as an advisor (see post 'The International Language Of Screaming'). Just when so many of his colleagues were facilitating that trafficking ring which supplied kids to Thatcher's friend Peter Morrison… Then Richard Howarth mysteriously disappeared from view in the 1990s.
Terry Thomas ended up in a spat with Bangor University and won a case of unfair dismissal. The press reports were bizarre. It was conceded that Thomas had been 'bullied', that his name had been 'blackened' and that he had been unfairly dismissed, yet at the same time Thomas admitted that he had a reputation for 'boorish' behaviour, had poured drinks over people's heads in pubs and that most people hated him.
Terry Thomas joined Bangor University in 1972. He won his case against the University in 2004.
OK then Terry, what did the former secretary in the Agri Dept – Mary Wynch – find out about that caused her to be targeted by Dafydd and the paedophiles and subsequently ruined by Michael Howard and the Home Office? And what were the reasons behind your difficulties at Bangor? The paedophiles' friends do blacken people's names, they even boast about it, but you and Howarth were a pair of mediocrities who did very, very well for yourselves until the early-mid 1990s. When Peter Morrison left Parliament and was then found dead.
Someone who will know what was behind Terry Thomas's troubles is Dr David Wright, who also spent his career in the Agri Dept. David Wright was not the mad incompetent that some of his colleagues were and it was obvious that he used to despair of them, but he's never blown the whistle on what they were getting up to. David Wright will also have the key to the shenanigans in the University library and why the librarians wielded so much power – at the same time as being as obnoxious and as bloody minded as possible – because he was in a relationship with one of them.
Now for yet another person who knew someone who was destroyed by the paedophiles' friends – step forward Emeritus Professor Peter Field of the School of English in Bangor. Please can you tell us why your colleague Dave Nunn was targeted in the early 1990s and ended up being kicked around and neglected by Dafydd and the Top Doctors, before disappearing off the planet after he read some very incriminating documentation submitted to Liverpool High Court by Dafydd in Nov 1994 in order to obtain a High Court injunction against me (see post 'The Banality Of Evil').
Another person who could illuminate the criminality in north Wales of the 1980s and 90s is Sarah Horton. Sarah Horton was a member of the abusive Arfon Community Mental Health Team. Someone who witnessed some of what happened to me knew Sarah Horton socially and told her that they were watching what was going on and were very concerned. Sarah Horton told them that she couldn't comment because it was 'confidential'. No it wasn't Sarah, I was being lied about in open court by your colleagues, I and my friends were being threatened and furthermore your colleagues were openly gossiping about me in the locality. Before my acquaintance challenged Sara Horton over the Arfon Team's abuse of me, Sarah told them that Jackie Brandt – one of those who perjured herself in an attempt to have me imprisoned (see post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena') – was so damaged herself that she should never have been working in mental health. But I don't think that any of them should have been.
A number of people told me that Sarah Horton was much more competent than her colleagues and was not abusive. Sadly, like so many who were not abusers but worked with abusers, Sarah remained silent.
A reader of this blog has very kindly sent me something for which I have been searching for a while – a recording of Dafydd Iwan's tribute song to Dr Dafydd Alun Jones! At least we think that's what it is – it is a recording of Dafydd Iwan warbling away on a track entitled 'Dr Alan'. I suspect that whoever labelled it couldn't cope with a Welsh name and that it is 'Dr Alun'.
I note that the hit Dr Alun was released in 1991. Which was the year in which Dr Alun colluded with his fellow ENGLISH crooks in St George's Hospital Medical School/Springfield Hospital – who were incredibly anti-Welsh – to sack and then imprison me. It was also the year in which my friend who worked for the ENGLISH Royal Television Society and who wanted to make a documentary about what had happened to me at the hands of Dr Alun was unlawfully dismissed by the ENGLISH people who ran the RTS – the top of the tree being Sir Paul Fox, the ENGLISH media executive who was a big mate of the ENGLISH Thatch.
In 1991, the first police investigation into the presence of a possible paedophile ring in north Wales was launched.
Yma O Hyd! Well Dr Alun is definitely still here, he's running CAIS with Lucille.
It was in the early 1990s that Professor Mark Williams, then a clinical psychologist working with the paedophiles' friends at the Hergest Unit and in the Arfon CMHT, started noticing that Mindfulness was producing stunning results among the mental health patients.
How about another tribute song Dafydd Iwan? Some of the highest suicide rates in the UK were found among cohorts in north Wales, surely that's worth a ballad full of passion.
I mentioned in a recent post that in the wake of all the dreadful publicity regarding Tawel Fan that I was expecting a good news offensive by the paedophiles' friends in the media, some sort of PR piece about the quaint and traditional ways of the folk in Gwynedd. A news report was released claiming that the cancer treatment waiting times in Wales are the best in the UK – the report forgot to mention however that survival rates are far from the best in the UK – and I thought 'oh that's the obligatory PR piece following a paedophiles' friends-related scandal'.
However I was wrong. The cancer waiting times story was just the usual NHS press release designed to detract from the ongoing disasters. The REAL bit of PR was broadcast on Radio 4 late on Saturday evening. It was a programme about Cynghanedd (a type of Welsh verse) featuring Twm Morys and others who have excelled at the National Eisteddfod. Twm won the Chair at the Eisteddfod himself some years ago and is a well-known Welsh writer and musician. Twm is an Aber graduate but was born in Oxford and went to Shrewsbury School.
The Radio 4 programme on Cynghanedd was interesting and Twm did a good job of explaining Cynghanedd and the techniques used in that style of verse. Twm might be an excellent writer and musician but he is no sociologist. Twm went to considerable trouble to explain to the middle class English listeners of Radio 4 that Cynghanedd is an ancient art which is the focus of a lively social scene in Wales and pulls the nation together, as people from all walks of life meet in canolfans and pubs to write Cynghanedd.
Twm knows as well as I do that is one hell of a porkie.
Even in north west Wales where Twm lives which has the highest proportion of people in Wales who speak Welsh, Cynghanedd is a very elite minority sport. Yes there are people who love Cynghanedd, but Cynghanedd, even for those with a high degree of literacy in Welsh, is notoriously hard to write. That is why prizes are awarded for it at the National Eisteddfod. Cynghanedd is not like knitting, it is difficult.
Cynghanedd is difficult for most Welsh speakers, but for Englishers who have learnt Welsh it is damn near impossible. This was brought home to me when I worked at Bangor University and a row broke out regarding the abilities – or lack of them – of an American member of staff who had learnt Welsh as a second language and had then been appointed to a position in the University with responsibility for teaching Welsh writing. This man's conversational Welsh was good, but his Welsh was nowhere near good enough to teach Welsh writing. Another member of staff employed in the same dept was livid and made the point that it is very hard for people who have learnt Welsh as a second language to ever master the art of, for example, Cynghanedd. Who was the person who said this? It was Llion Iwan, son of Dafydd Iwan.
I thought that Llion had a salient point, but the scrap was taking place in a different dept to the one in which I worked so I wasn't involved. However I did know that Llion Iwan had been treated very badly by the obnoxious woman who was at that time Head of School. There was only really one person who defended Llion and who was angry and concerned at the way in which he was being mistreated. That was a Jewish lecturer who has now learnt Welsh but at that time had not…
When Twm Morys says that people across Wales are coming together and writing Cynghanedd, what he means is that a very small number of academics and poets whose first language is Welsh are coming together and writing Cynghanedd… There are very few people doing it, even in Y Fro Gymraeg.
Twm told Radio 4 that he 'even knew of a nurse' who was writing Cynghanedd. It always helps to mention an Angel if one wants to make a point. If Twm really does know an Angel who writes Cynghanedd, he'll have noticed her because she'll be the only Angel doing it among all those Professors of Welsh literature. His use of the word 'even' does rather give the game away… Twm has met a talking platypus.
Readers in England might not know who Twm Morys is. He has a famous mum who is also a very well-known writer – Jan Morris. Jan Morris used to be a man called James Morris. As well as being a famous travel writer, James Morris worked for 'The Times' and was a member of the successful 1953 Everest expedition. Which was of course was led by Sir Charles Evans, Top Doctor and former VC of Bangor University for all those years when the paedophiles' friends ran the place…
Jan Morris is a friend of Dr Christine Evans, a retired surgeon from Ysbyty Gwynedd, who is known to be sympathetic to patients requesting gender realignment surgery. I can understand why Jan Morris admires Dr Chris, but there is another much bigger cohort whom Dr Chris does not give a stuff about – mental health patients. When Dr Chris was head honcho of the Betsi Community Health Council – yes, the 'patients voice' of north Wales was that of a retired surgeon – Dr Chris and her minions ignored the most serious complaints from mental health patients. I know because I wrote some of them, on behalf of myself and others.
Dr Chris doubled up as a Prestatyn Councillor. She was good enough to write a blog in which she fessed up that her reason for taking a leading role in the CHC was to prevent cuts to the vascular surgery service at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, where Dr Chris's friends worked. A very damning report had been compiled by the Royal College of Surgeons which stated that vascular surgery at YGC was poor and that surgeons were prioritising their own interests above those of their patients. As is the habit of the paedophiles' friends.
Yma O Hyd! I can feel a bit of Cynghanedd coming over me…
Other news has been the death of Dennis Nilson, the Muswell Hill Strangler, in prison. I blogged about the case of Dennis Nilson in my post 'An Appalling Vista'. The allegations concerning the sheer number of people allegedly murdered by Dennis Nilson and his methods and reasons for murdering them were almost entirely a result of speculation by 'expert witnesses' who 'assessed' him. Some of them were the very same people who colluded with Dafydd and the paedophiles' when they were called upon to 'assess' me shortly after they 'assessed' Nilson. Dennis Nilson may have been a mass murderer as far as I know. But I do know that the people upon whose evidence he was convicted and sentenced were a bunch of lying crooks who were concealing very serious crime.
Dennis is now dead so the truth about his crimes and comments to those experts will never be known. I doubt that the truth about his death will be either, sex offenders tend to die in prison if someone thinks that someone might be about to ask questions about their crimes. Frank Beck – Greville Janner's friend who was imprisoned for sexually abusing kids in care in Leicestershire – went that way, as did Ralph Morris, the headmaster of Castle Hill School in Ludlow who was imprisoned for abusing his pupils. Castle Hill School was located nearby to establishments which employed a lot of staff who had worked in the Bryn Alyn Community in north Wales.
Unfortunate deaths of key witnesses at a crucial time do not only happen in prisons. Matt Arnold, the headmaster of Bryn Estyn, died of an 'unspecified blood disease' on 9 June 1994. On 12 June 1994 the trial of Arnold's colleague Peter Howarth, along with that of Paul Wilson, for the sexual abuse of boys in care in north Wales opened.
The Mail Online reported that the police are investigating possible sex offences committed in the 1970s and 80s by the son of a former Black Rod, who told the Mail that he 'gave up spanking little boys years ago'. Black Rod's son reminisced in detail about a place in central London known as the 'Meat Rack' where rent boys of 14 and 15 would congregate, whilst punters picked the ones that they liked the look of. Some of those kids will have come from children's homes in north Wales. The police are obviously taking their duties to protect children from abusers seriously – the son of the former Black Rod is now 78 years old…. The police have certainly been quick off the mark there.
BBC New Online reported today that the 'MI5 Chief' Andrew Parker has given a speech to 'security chiefs' in Berlin and told them that 'Russia is trying to undermine European democracies'. Can I remind Mr Parker that one reason why the police are now making a half-hearted attempt to investigate a 78 year old man who gave up spanking little boys years ago was that when that man was doing the spanking, the security services and every other state agency protected that man as well as the people who supplied him with kids in care to spank, rather than the kids in care.
Dafydd and Lucille are still alive and kicking in north Wales Mr Parker, although as with the 78 yr old son of Black Rod, there is not a great deal of point in anyone prosecuting them now. However I really do wish that your officers would get themselves out to the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, excavate the site and retrieve the bodies that are out there.
The Windbag has been in the media, but I didn't waste time following what he said in detail. I think that he is banging on about the shortcomings of Jeremy Corbyn again. Only someone who achieved as much success in the role of Labour Party leader as the Windbag did is in a position to level criticism at other leaders. I saw something about a public sector workers march through London as well, I glimpsed a few photos in the media of huge banners with UNITE and UNISON emblazoned upon them and I realised that it was the paedophiles' friends on the offensive again. They ought to get together with the Windbag like they did in the 1980s and 90s and the Windbag could yell 'Nurses! Nurses!' and 'Save Our NHS' down a megaphone. It was such a successful strategy back then wasn't it…
The Labour Party are scrapping with each other like there's no tomorrow. Baroness Shami Chakrabarti is demanding that Red Ken should be kicked out of the Labour Party. Red Ken did of course know about the kids being supplied to Westminster by Dafydd et al. As did Shami – indeed Shami's predecessors at the NCCL (including you Harriet) campaigned with paedophiles' rights organisations. Jeremy knew too. As did the Windbag. And of course St Tessa, who has just turned her toes up, spent her early career at the heart of the paedophiles and their friends. There will be a tribute to St Tessa of the Inspirational Sex Traffickers posted on the blog soon.
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The title of this post translates as 'The Land of the White Gloves'. This refers to the tradition of the Judge wearing white gloves at the Assize Court, but only if there were no criminal cases before him. There is an account of it in a book called 'Sentenced To Hell', by J. Richard Williams, about people who were transported from north Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries for staggeringly trivial crimes. On 29 July 1865, the 'Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald' proudly reported that the High Sheriff had presented the Judge with a pair of white gloves as a result of there being no criminal cases to try. Everyone 'rejoiced in the purity of the morals of the people of this county'.
Obviously, that was pre-Dafydd and Lucille.
There is a judge in north Wales who until recently still wore white gloves. Not because he donned them when there were no criminal cases before him – the judge in question will never have found himself short of criminal cases to try, he sentenced me to more than 100 hours of community service because I told Alun Davies's secretary over the phone that Davies was a fat idiot and when this judge was still a barrister he prosecuted the Rev Emyr Owen from Tywyn for three sexual offence with corpses that were a physiological impossibility. I am of course talking about Judge Huw Morgan Gruffydd Daniel, previous star of this blog.
Huw Daniel wore white gloves when he used to dress up like General Pinochet in his capacity as Lord Lieutenant of Gwynedd – that particular role was his reward for decades of insanity and injustice on the bench as he sentenced the victims of the paedophiles and their friends. Huw retired from that position recently, so presumably the old fool can no longer make an even bigger idiot of himself in fancy dress.
This post provides the names and details of yet more people who assisted the crimes of the paedophiles' friends in the Land of the White Gloves.
Previous posts such as 'A Solicitor's Letter From North East Wales MIND', 'Cottaging At Castle Gate', 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' and 'The Banality Of Evil' demonstrate just how very serious the criminality in the mental health services in north Wales was over a period of years and how the solution to patients challenging anyone about this was for the mental health services to resort to yet more serious criminality in an attempt to cover their tracks.
I have described how during the 1980s and 90s the MDU and BMA were complicit with the most serious wrongdoing and were happy to supply advice and legal help to Top Doctors whom they knew were committing serious offences.
Previous posts such as 'The Sordid Role Of Sir Robert Francis QC' and 'The Creme de la Creme' have named some of those in the MDU who colluded with the serious crime, including Sir Robert Francis, Ann Ball, Dr Ian Sanderson, Sir Patrick Holmes Sellors and Lord Simon Glenarthur.
My documentation showed that the MDU acted for Tony Francis (Dr X) and Dr Dafydd Alun Jones on numerous occasions between 1986 and 1995 – the MDU probably acted for them at other times as well, unbeknown to me.
Let's look at a few of others involved with MDU during those years whom I have not yet named.
Dr Peter Williams was appointed President of the MDU in 2013 – Williams had been Vice-President for the previous five years and had been involved with the MDU for years previously, as a member of the MDU Board and before then as someone on the MDU Cases and Committee. In an interview when his Presidency was announced, Williams referred to his previous discussions of 'the complex clinical and medico-legal issues of cases involving our members' and explained that what really impressed him about the MDU was 'first, the quality of the people in the MDU, not least their willingness to engage in members' problems and their care and thoroughness in their dealings with members, and second by the extent to which decision-making is driven by providing good service'.
So Dr Williams, in what way were those lofty ambitions consistent with representing Tony Francis and Dafydd whilst they abused patients, facilitated a sex trafficking ring and perjured themselves in an attempt to have me banged up because I had complained about their misconduct and criminality? Neither do I think that the 'problems' which Francis and Dafydd took to you could be described as 'complex clinical and medico-legal issues' – you had a great deal of evidence that they were both involved with crime so serious that you should have reported their activities to the police immediately.
Peter Williams began his career as a zoologist after graduating from Cambridge, so it is entirely possible that he had a north Wales connection – UCNW (Bangor University) had a well-known Zoology Dept throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s and a lot of the academics there were Cambridge graduates of the same vintage as Peter Williams. For some reason which is not explained, Williams retrained as a Top Doctor – he undertook a one year MB at Clare College, Cambridge and then trained at UCH.
Williams subsequently went into general practice and spent six years as partner in the James Wigg Practice in Kentish Town. Kentish Town is in the London Borough of Camden. So as a GP in Kentish Town, Peter Williams will have known about the very high suicide rate in the Borough, the dreadful mental health services and the paedophile gang operating there. He will have known about the fuckwittery of the Camden Councillors. One of those was Tessa Jowell, who worked as a child care officer for Lambeth whilst their children's homes had been infiltrated by paedophiles – in addition Lambeth sent children on placement to the children's homes in north Wales, where they were abused. Tessa also worked as a psychiatric social worker at the Maudsley, where Dafydd 'trained' and where many of the people who concealed his criminality worked. Tony Francis passed through the Institute of Psychiatry, which at the time was attached to the Maudsley. Then there was Tessa's stint as Deputy Director of MIND whilst MIND was concealing the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles, as well as forging links with paedophiles' rights groups. It is likely that Peter Williams will have known Tessa, she was Chair of the Social Services Committee in Camden (see posts 'The London Connection' and 'Tower Hamlets, Paul Boateng And Tessa Jowell'). Williams will have known of the local MP – Frank Dobson, who had previously been a Camden Councillor as well and was later appointed Health Secretary by Blair. The Dobson who also ignored the criminality of the Top Docs on his doorstep (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part IV').
After ignoring the abuses inflicted upon the more vulnerable patients of Kentish Town, Peter Williams moved to Oxford to work as a GP there. Barbara Kahan – a Gov't advisor on children's social work throughout the 1980s – and her spouse Top Doctor Dr Vladimir Kahan worked in Oxford for years whilst they colluded with the abuse of children (see post 'Always On The Side Of The Children'). Williams then worked as a GP course organiser in the Thames Deanery, where he promoted family therapy. Williams had pursued an interest in psychological medicine in general practice for some time.
So Peter Williams undoubtedly knew about the sexual abuse of children by organised gangs and may well have been one of those family therapists who maintained that the abusers of the kids that he was seeing were always the families of the children – which is an awful lot easier than admitting that the NHS is facilitating paedophile gangs.
Williams was approached by a friend who was a clinical negligence defence solicitor who asked if Williams would be interested in writing medico-legal reports. Williams remembered that his 'very first case ended up in court, which is really quite rare'. By the time that Peter Williams was advising Tony Francis and Dafydd, he knew exactly how to keep cases out of court – perjury, forgery, unlawfully imprisoning patients, nothing was off limits to keep Top Doctors out of trouble.
Whether Peter Williams ended up as President of the MDU as a result of his excellent defence of Dafydd and Francis or whether he crawled to the top by silently blackmailing people using his knowledge of the very great wrongdoing of Dafydd, Francis and their associates I do not know.
Peter Williams might like to remind himself of the following which at present appears on the MDU website:
The Medical Defence Union Ltd Anti-slavery and human trafficking statement:
The Modern Slavery Act (2015) (the Act) requires any commercial organisation which supplies goods or services, carries on business in the United Kingdom, and has a total turnover above a specified level, to publish an annual slavery and human trafficking statement.
This statement relates to actions and activities undertaken during the financial year 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 to ensure that modern slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in our business or in our supply chain.
The Medical Defence Union Ltd (MDU) is a not-for-profit mutual company limited by guarantee, based in the UK. Its activities include the discretionary provision, in accordance with its memorandum and articles of association, of indemnity and medico-legal and dento-legal services for its members. The MDU represents members' medico-legal interests by informing and thereby influencing the government and other bodies on matters relating to healthcare law and the regulatory environment with a view to ensuring that any changes in these areas are equitable and fair…
Policies in relation to slavery and human trafficking
The MDU has a zero-tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking in its business and supply chains. It is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all its business dealings and relationships. Whilst working on a stand-alone anti-modern slavery and human trafficking policy, we have long-established procedures to conduct checks to ensure that staff can legally work in the UK. We also have procedures providing appropriate protection for staff reporting concerns about non-compliance with laws, regulations and codes of practice relevant to our business.
Due diligence process in relation to slavery and human trafficking in the MDU business and supply chains, and steps to manage the modern slavery risk
Overall, the MDU's risks related to Modern Slavery Act compliance have been assessed as low. Nevertheless, we have put in place, and begun to apply, a system to identify risk of slavery and human trafficking in the existing supply chain which takes into consideration factors such as sector, geographical location, and materiality. In some cases, we have asked suppliers to provide information about their own employment and supplier management practices. We also seek follow-up information when this appears necessary or justified….
Dr Christine Tomkins
It's splendid isn't it?
In 2016 The Telegraph reported that Dr Christine Tomkins, Chief Executive of the MDU, received remuneration of £926,000 in 2015, including benefits.
Nearly £1 million quid – for keeping Dafydd out of court.
In 2014 the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) paid £786,000 to the then Chief Executive Prof Gordon Dickson. Gordon Dickson is the brother of Niall Dickson who was Chief Exec of the GMC, 2010-16. I wrote to Niall Dickson repeatedly whilst he was in that post, telling him of the extreme threats and harassment that I was receiving from some of the people whom he was paid to 'regulate' and outlining some of their crimes. My correspondence was ignored.
An online MDU article in 2015 featured Professor Parveen Kumar, President of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF), discussing the issues facing 'doctors in distress' and how the MDU and the RMBF can help such Top Doctors. The RMBF is based in Wimbledon, which is a popular residential area for the better paid/senior staff of St George's Hospital Medical School – many of whom for years concealed the abuse of children and mental health patients – including the criminality in north Wales – as well as serious drugs offences (see posts 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…' and 'A Galaxy Of Talent').
Parveen Kumar is Professor of Medicine and Education at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. In 2001 Prof Sir Nicholas Wright was appointed Warden of that institution. Nick Wright presided over misconduct and research fraud at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School/Hammersmith Hospital for many happy years (see posts 'A Cause Close To Our Hearts' and 'I Don't Believe It!'). Kumar worked in the NHS for over 40 years as a consultant gastroenterologist and physician at Barts and the London Hospital and the Homerton University Hospital. Kumar was the President of the BMA in 2006 and was Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians, 2003-05.
Kumar was a founding non-executive Director of National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Chaired the BUPA Foundation Charity for Research until 2013. NICE is a deeply incestuous compromised organisation. My post 'An Expert On The Betsi Board!' mentioned that Professor Jo Rycroft-Malone – who sits on the disaster which is the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board – is Chair of the NICE Implementation Strategy Group. One of the 'interventions' which has been enthusiastically embraced by NICE is MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy), which was based on a research fraud carried out by Professor Mark Williams when he worked in Bangor with the paedophiles' friends in the late 1980s (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot'). Jo Rycroft-Malone has received funding for research into MBCT and has co-authored with members of Williams's network…
Parveen Kumar is a Trustee of British Youth Opera.
The really great thing about being a 'doctor in distress' is that as long as you are not in distress as a result of having had your career wrecked because you have blown the whistle on patient harm, there's plenty of help. If Peter Williams and Parveen Kumar are not sufficient to meet your needs, in north Wales there is the 'sick doctors service', which was – and might still be – run by Dr M. Devakumar, one of the Hergest Unit's self-styled 'BMA psychiatrists' who assisted in the numerous attempts to have me banged up on the basis of rumour and perjury. High points of Devakumar's career included telling me that Dafydd's criminality was not a matter for the police, it was a 'civil matter' – which was why no-one was going to act on my complaints – and rolling up his sleeves in a ward round and telling another patient that he'd fight them whenever they wanted. Presumably that was a civil matter not a criminal one as well.
Devakumar loathed the abusive Arfon Community Mental Health Team and refused to work with them which resulted in him gaining a cult following among the other CMHTs, who all also loathed the Arfon Team. When Devakumar retired some years ago he made a blistering attack on the Arfon Team at his retirement do – some of them were in attendance. Devakumar stated that he 'hated' them and the one good thing about retiring was that he wouldn't have to encounter them again. Devakumar may have despised the bastards but he could have got rid of them if he had really wanted – by blowing the whistle on their abuse of patients. But he didn't dare – because he was mistreating patients as well and had also lied to protect Dafydd and Francis, who were facilitating the same paedophile gang as the Arfon Team were.
Although Devakumar retired, he returned after retirement to do locum work. Furthermore I think that he moved house to live over near Denbigh. At the scene of the crimes as it were. Devakumar wasn't alone in returning after retirement. All the paedophiles' friends returned in some form after retirement. Dafydd just carried on business as usual; Dr Peter Higson retired as CEO of HIW (Health Inspectorate Wales) when it was branded as not being fit for purpose after he'd been CEO for many years and then he turned up as Chair of the Betsi Board; Sadie Francis (Tony Francis's wife) popped up as a member of the Community Health Council ('the patients watchdog/ voice'); Keith Fearns – the leader of the Arfon CMHT – returned, was finally sacked for neglecting patients and then set up in business as a CBT therapist. The only one who retired and didn't return was Tony Francis and that was because he killed himself and even a paedophiles' friend would have difficulty returning to inflict damage after they are dead. Although Dafydd will probably manage it.
Documentation in my possession demonstrates that the BMA were on tap for the Top Doctors in north Wales particularly from 1988 onward. The BMA were fully aware of the level of malpractice and criminality on the part of their members, yet were happy to pressurise the police to take action against me in the absence of any evidence that I had committed the serious offences of which I was being accused and also conspired with the MDU and Welsh Office to pervert the course of justice.
So who were the big wigs in the BMA during those years when a group of serious criminals received the full support of that organisation?
Sir Christopher Booth was President of the BMA, 1986-87. He was brought up in Yorkshire and attended Sedburgh School. Booth served as a frogman in the Royal Navy from 1942. A Navy doctor encouraged him to study medicine, so Booth enrolled at St Andrews upon demobilisation. He graduated in 1951 and served as a houseman at Dundee before moving to RPMS at Hammersmith Hospital, where he was Professor and Director of the Dept of Medicine, 1966-77. Booth was a gastroenterologist and was a founder of Coeliac UK. He was Director of the MRC Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park and was also Research Director at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Booth was President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1988-90.
On one occasion Booth noted that taking the Top Doctors' pay demand to the then PM, Margaret Thatcher, would be not a red rag to a bull, as a colleague suggested, but 'a red rag to an old cow'. Yes Thatch and the Top Docs despised each other, but they were all concealing the same very serious crimes – the abuse of children by Westminster and Whitehall figures as well as by other 'VIPs' – so their battles constantly ended in stalemate.
Whilst at Hammersmith, Booth 'graphically described what he would do with the offer of a knighthood', but had a sudden change of heart in 1983 when he accepted one.
A ward at Hammersmith is named after Booth. Perhaps someone would like to rename that ward now that it has been made public that Booth was directly involved in concealing the crimes of a gang of paedophiles and sex offenders.
Booth married three times. His first marriage was to Dr Lavinia Loughridge, a nephrologist who worked at Hammersmith and then at the Westminster Hospital Medical School. Loughridge was one of the pioneers of kidney transplantation. The Royal College of Physicians 'Lives of the Fellows' website mentions that Loughridge had two children with Christopher Booth 'whom she brought up single-handedly'. Which suggests that Booth dumped her and the kids – although as Loughridge was working as a full time consultant and was busy performing kidney transplants, I suspect that it was probably a nanny or a relative who brought up her children single-handedly. Loughridge was the only female consultant at Westminster Hospital and had to gain entry to the 'men only' consultants dining room by eating her sandwiches outside of the door.
Loughridge helped out doctors in distress as well – she was a Director of the RMBF, 1988-04.
After Booth had divested himself of his first wife and their children, he married Professor Soad Tabaqchali. Soad had worked with Christopher Booth at Hammersmith – that was when the shagging had begun. After they married, Soad was obliged to transfer to another hospital – she went to Barts – but I'm not sure why. Although having witnessed the way in which the lunatics at Hammersmith conducted themselves, it wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of code of conduct which dictated that married couples were advised not to work together because everything must be beyond suspicion and we can't have allegations of nepotism. Not that such concerns will have raised their heads amongst the extra-marital shagfest that was a feature of life in that institution, which was how one of the Hammersmith surgeons, Professor Hugh Bentall, managed to have a long standing affair with his secretary, enabling her to do a first degree and a PhD in anatomy and then bag a lecturing job at Hammersmith.
Hugh Bentall's son Richard is a clinical psychologist who trained at Bangor with Dafydd and the paedophiles, who spent many years working in north Wales and who knew all about the carnage.
Soad Tabaqchali has extensive contacts in Iraq and in 1994 she established the charity Medical Aid for Iraqi Children (MAIC) of which she was Medical Director. In 1998 the Indie reported that since MAIC was founded, Soad had organised the sending of medicines, milk and medical equipment including incubators worth approximately £323,400 to paediatric hospitals all over Iraq. Soad's charity died a death at about the same time as Saddam Hussein.
I'm glad that Soad found acceptance as well as a husband at Hammersmith, because Hammersmith was not always very welcoming to Iraqi doctors. My post 'A Cause Close To Our Hearts' details the naked racism that I witnessed at Hammersmith/RPMS in 1986-87 and also provides an account of the occasion on which Professor Sir Nicholas Wright had a good laugh with his colleagues by terrorising an Iraqi doctor into kissing his shoes and begging forgiveness.
Christopher Booth hung around with Soad long enough for them to have a daughter but Booth was up and off again after that and fell into the arms of Joyce Singleton, who outlasted him – Booth died in 2012.
Booth was President of the BMA not only whilst that organisation supported and protected Top Doctors who were running a paedophile gang, but whilst two of them illegally imprisoned me and whilst Dafydd was locking the victims of the paedophile gang in a dungeon at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. Furthermore Professor Oliver Brooke, the Professor of Paediatrics at St George's Hospital Medical School, was imprisoned for the possession of child porn whilst Booth was President of the BMA – and I bet that Brooke had been a member as well. Brooke was a key figure in a pan-European paedophile ring.
Sir David Innes Williams was President of the BMA, 1988-89 – whilst Tony Francis and other paedophiles' friends were detailing their plans to have me imprisoned in letters to the BMA, as well as having personal meetings with the BMA representative Dr A.H. Chadwick . Tony Francis, Dafydd, Devakumar and Sadie Francis were the 'four BMA psychiatrists' who, during this time, were demanding that 'action be taken' against me. See post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate' for details.
David Innes Williams was educated at Sherborne School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He served in the RAMC, 1945-48. Williams became a paediatric urologist and is regarded as the founder of this field. As is de rigueur with the Top Doctors, I suspect that Williams's early achievements have been exaggerated. His wiki entry tells us that 'In 1948, Williams was a resident in urology at St Peter's [St Peter's Hospital for Stone in London]. A boy was brought to the hospital who was suffering from urinary retention. Williams was shocked to know that not even senior staff in the hospital had any knowledge on how to treat the child. Williams also came to know that there was no literature in the field. Deciding that the field needed to be studied more, he began collaboration for a book with Twistington Higgins, a general surgeon interested in urology.'
If none of Williams's senior colleagues knew how to treat this young patient AND there was no literature in the field, it is highly unlikely that Williams knew how to treat him either. Williams may well have later become an authority in paediatric urology, but he wasn't one when he saw his first case. One wonders what happened to that boy, as he was surrounded by clueless Top Doctors – the outcome was probably not positive but Williams's wiki entry doesn't flag that bit of the story up.
In 1952 David Innes Williams was appointed to the new position of senior genito-urinary surgeon at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, where he worked until 1978. In 1963 Williams founded the Society for Paediatric Urologists, which blossomed into the international organisation which it is today.
David Innes Williams was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1985–87. So he was in post while London University covertly supported Ann Widdecombe and Lady Olga Maitland in their political projects (see post ' Doris Karloff – Honest About Her Expenses But Not Much Else') and he was also in post whilst there was endemic research fraud and misconduct in the University (see post 'A Cause Close To Our Hearts') and whilst St George's employed Oliver Brooke…
David Innes Williams was Chairman of the Council of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1982–91 – he was in post when the ICRF was involved in the 1990 Bristol Cancer Centre/Chilvers Report scandal, which involved a former colleague of Tony Francis and resulted in the suicide of Professor Tim McElwain (see posts 'Reports Of Death Were Greatly Exaggerated' and 'Apocalypse Now').
David Innes Williams was a member of the GMC, 1979-89. During that time, the GMC refused to take any action in response to my complaints about Gwynne the lobotomist and Dafydd. Whilst Williams sat on the GMC, Dafydd illegally imprisoned Mary Wynch for a year and fleeced her of her property (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details'). The GMC took no action against him. There were also at least five other complaints about Dafydd to the GMC during those years, one of which involved a death. The GMC took no action.
So David Innes Williams, one of the world's leading specialists in genito-urinary conditions in children, assisted a group of Top Doctors who were facilitating a paedophile ring in their attempts to have me imprisoned in a high security hospital on the basis of nothing but their lies.
David Innes Williams was the son of a Gwynne Evan Owen Williams, a surgeon at UCH. I cannot help but wonder whether David Innes Williams was a relation of Gwynne the lobotomist. David Innes Williams was born in 1919, so was probably about eight or nine years younger than Gwynne the lobotomist. Gwynne the lobotomist spoke Welsh and had an association with Llandudno, but he trained at the Middlesex Hospital rather than Liverpool, which was the favourite option for Top Doctors from north Wales of his generation. David Williams also liked to be called 'DI' – Dafydd encouraged people to call him 'DA'….
A familial connection between Gwynne the lobotomist and one of the people who protected him and the other paedophiles' friends is not beyond the bounds of possibility…
There is evidence in my documents that Francis had consulted the BMA as soon as I had made my first complaint in the summer of 1985 – furthermore Francis and the other paedophiles' friends had all been fully paid up members of the BMA for years, so I'll provide details of a few of the previous BMA Presidents as well.
Lord John Walton was President of the BMA, 1980-82. Walton featured in my post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other' – he was as good a friend to Dafydd and the paedophiles as Lord Wyn Roberts was (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'), John Walton loyally served them for years. Walton was Mr Medical Establishment in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, which had close links with the paedophile gang in north Wales and provided mental health professionals including Dr Neil Davies and Professor Bob Woods who joined Dafydd's gang in north Wales (see post 'The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Connection?'). Newcastle-Upon-Tyne provided paedophiles to north Wales as well. Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth, the two central figures in the paedophile activity at Bryn Estyn, had previously worked at Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead where boys had been abused (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'). The north east of England was the site of the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal, which provided a very useful distraction when the protests from north Wales were getting worryingly loud (see post 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named').
John Walton was President of the GMC, 1982-89. Throughout those years when Dafydd and Gwynne were getting away with murder. Literally.
Sir Douglas Black was BMA President 1984-85. Black played a key role in the development of the NHS and authored the 1980 Black Report which linked social inequality with ill health, thus enraging Margaret Thatcher. Black was born in Shetland – as was Normal Lamont, a member of Thatcher's Gov't whilst that Gov't concealed the abuse of children by Sir Peter Morrison and others. Lamont's father was a Top Doctor on Shetland. Lamont was Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Orkney Satanic Abuse Scandal (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play'). Black will have known Lamont.
Douglas Black studied at St Andrews and graduated in 1933. In 1946 he began work at Manchester University where he was Professor of Medicine, 1959-77. At Manchester Black worked with Lord Robert Platt, a man who recommended that good doctors should not waste their time practising psychiatry, although Platt's wife was a psychiatrist.
Manchester University was host to a whole group of Top Doctors who protected Dafydd and Tony Francis for years – Francis had worked at Manchester University immediately before taking up his job in north Wales (see post 'Ian Brockington's Mischief') – including Kenneth Rawnsley (see post 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…') and Bob Hobson (see post 'The Mentor').
In 1974 Douglas Black was appointed as the first Chief Scientist at the DHSS, 'a job he hated' and civil service mandarins suppressed his work. Black didn't seem to have much luck with Gov'ts, no matter what their political hue. In 1977 he was commissioned by Callaghan's Secretary of State for the DHSS David Ennals to write what became the Black Report. Ennals knew what Dafydd and the paedophiles were doing in north Wales and concealed it whilst he was a Minister in the Home Office, whilst he worked for MIND and whilst he was Secretary of State. Ennals also knew that Dafydd's mate Dr Jim Birley at the Maudsley was concealing the abuse of children and vulnerable people in Southwark. See posts 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course' and 'A Galaxy Of Talent'.
By the time that the Black Report was completed there had been a change of Gov't and Thatcher was PM – the Report was actively suppressed by her Gov't. The Black Report maintained that poorest had the highest rates of ill health and death and argued that this could not be explained solely by income, education, mobility or life style, but was also caused by a lack of a co-ordinated policy ensuring uniform delivery of services.
Top Docs such as Douglas Black and Professor Sir Michael Marmot who have built careers on their 'interest' in health inequalities do not ever pay much attention to the institutional discrimination which they and the wider routinely NHS practice – the emphasis is always on the plebs eating junk food or boozing or being too fat or indeed being too badly educated to follow the instructions of the Top Docs (see post 'Professor Prestigious And His Associates'). Practices by the NHS such as leaving 'do not resuscitate' notes in the files of learning disabled people or refusing care and treatment to mental health patients or the over-prescribing of medication go unscrutinised. These practices knock many more years of people's life spans than consuming crisps or not going to a gym.
Black's obituary in the Indie observed that Black was noted for his 'social conscience and egalitarianism'. As did every good egalitarian, Black despised Barbara Castle because she forced private patients out of NHS hospitals, thus 'depriving them of facilities and forcing doctors to waste time and energy on finding outside facilities'.
Whilst President of the Royal College of Physicians, Black gave evidence for Dr Leonard Arthur, a paediatrician who stood trial in 1981 at Leicester Crown Court after he had allowed a Down's syndrome baby to die.
Leonard Arthur had ordered nursing staff to provide no care or treatment to the newly born baby with Down's syndrome. Arthur also prescribed doses of dihydrocodeine. Unsurprisingly the baby died. I can remember this case well and although the prosecution was brought by the anti-abortion group LIFE, the only reason why anyone at all got to hear about the baby's death was because a nurse who witnessed what had happened was appalled at the deliberate killing of a disabled, but very much alive, baby. At the time that nurse was constructed as an interfering know nothing who was well above her station. These days she would be called a whistleblower.
Leonard Arthur was successfully defended by George Carman QC, the crooked, violent, alcoholic barrister who was friends with criminals and bent coppers and who knew about the north Wales/Cheshire paedophile ring. One of Carman's pupil barristers at the time was a Tony Blair and another young barrister in his chambers was a Cherie Booth. Cherie spoke of her delight when Arthur was acquitted and stated that 'justice' had been done. Would you have wanted him to have treated one of your kids Cherie?
It was whilst he was staying in Leicester for Leonard Arthur's trial that George Carman had a curious change of mind regarding his future career. He had been getting so fed up with the UK that he was going to take up a position as a judge overseas, but something happened in Leicester that caused him to believe that it would be worthwhile staying in the UK. George's career subsequently blossomed (see post 'No Ordinary Methods').
What could a ruthless crooked barrister who socialised with career criminals and bent lawyers and policeman have possibly found out whilst he kipped in Leicester for a while to make him think that he had a wonderful future in the UK?
When Greville Janner was interviewed by the police in 1991 regarding the sexual abuse of children, Janner's solicitor David Napley was so certain that Janner would be charged that he retained George Carman, who had built up quite a name for himself since that 1981 visit to Leicester. Charges against Janner were dropped, although the DPP recently admitted that there had been enough evidence to charge him.
Black Chaired the 1984 committee which investigated the leukaemia clusters near Windscale and 'found the evidence of causation wanting'. Public disbelief re Black's conclusions were resolved by that time-honoured way of using the scientific principle of changing the name of the thing that has caused such bad PR. Thus Windscale became known as Sellafield. I am only surprised that the same solution was not found to the problem that was Dafydd – the best brains in medicine could have just changed his name to Flopsy Bunny.
Black also investigated healthcare in the Channel Islands and recommended 'changes in the services'. So Black will have known about the serious abuse of children that had happened there over many years and he will also have known the truth or otherwise re the allegations that Ted Heath was involved.
Black held high office in the GMC which consistently refused to take action against Dafydd, Gwynne the lobotomist and others, as well as in the Medical Protection Society, the other body which, like the MDU, protects Top Doctors no matter how serious their offending.
Black was called in to 'adjudicate between rival political groups and to help with tricky decisions'. Perhaps to deal with the minefield which was a lunatic in north Wales who, along with his colleagues, facilitated a vicious paedophile gang who's crimes were so extensive and so serious that a cover-up involving every political party and the highest strata of society was required. One of Black's obituaries tells us that he was 'kindness personified' and 'would find a consolation prize for those whom he felt had been worsted in various dealings'. Unless of course they were the victims of a paedophile ring who had found themselves in prison or in a high security hospital for daring to talk.
Black was a member of the Athenaeum, along with Jimmy Savile. He will have known about the series of dinners and meetings held at the Athenaeum in the 1980s attended by Savile, civil servants and Gov't Ministers at which Savile and his mate Alan Franey were offered jobs managing Broadmoor (see post 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s').
When Diane Blood was refused permission by the HFEA to use her dead husband's sperm because it contravened the rules, Black wrote: 'People banded together are capable of follies and excesses beyond what
the same people, acting as individuals, would perpetrate on other
individuals. Such activities may be termed corporate tyranny…' In a nutshell Douglas.
Black's 'Guardian' obit stated that 'he gave short shrift to fuzzy thought or political correctness. On the matter of gender, he was decisive. 'I abide by the Scottish view that men embrace women', he would declare with a straight face… you might just hear the chuckle as the door closed'. When they say no they mean yes, as Dafydd will testify.
At Black's memorial service in 2003, the paedophiles' friends turned out in force. Guests included Lord John Walton, Sir Donald Acheson (see post 'Professor Prestigious And His Associates' for the appalling wrongdoing that Acheson facilitated), Sir Alexander 'Sandy' Macara, Sir Henry Yellowlees and Sir Christopher Booth.
Henry Yellowlees was the former Chief Medical Officer whom, Ken Clarke maintained, was primarily interested in ensuring that the right Top Doctors were awarded gongs.
Sandy Macara was Chair of the BMA, 1993-98. Even more of a laugh was Sandy's position as Chairman of the BMA's medical ethics committee, 1982-89. So that's who was giving 'the BMA psychiatrists' at Ysbyty Gwynedd advice.
Macara was born in Irvine, Scotland and studied medicine at Glasgow. For most of his career however Macara worked in Bristol. He was initially a local Gov't medical officer in public health; then between 1963-97, Macara worked in the Dept of Public Health at Bristol University as a lecturer, then as consultant, then as Head of Dept. So Macara will have taught the corrupt GP who was assisting Dafydd and the paedophiles, Dr DGE Wood. Macara did a postgraduate qualification at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Could that perhaps explain why an offer of a place to do an MSc in Medical Microbiology at that institution made to me was unlawfully and inexplicably withdrawn after Wood found out about it?
How are you doing Wood? Are you still popping over to Cyprus to hold clinics for rich ex-pats advertising yourself as a 'very friendly' and 'experienced' English doctor? What about warning them all that you're a greedy criminal bastard who'll do anything for money?
Wood's old mucker Sandy was consultant to the World Health Organisation for over 20 years and he was President of the National Heart Forum. He was a member of the GMC – of course he was. Sandy was instrumental in achieving a ban on smoking in public places and called for the MMR vaccine to be made compulsory when too many parents exercised their right not to have their children vaccinated. Sandy knew what was good for them! Sandy knew what was for the best on a few other matters as well. He tangled with Thatcher's Gov't over the need to keep medical records confidential from the police, the right of girls under 16 to receive confidential contraceptive advice and supplies and how to handle the emergent AIDS epidemic. Sandy's stance on these matters made the lives of Dafydd and the paedophiles very much easier.
Sandy only became Chair of the BMA after a coup ousted Jeremy Lee-Potter who's jackboots weren't big enough for the BMA to be suitably impressed. Like many Top Doctors, Sandy left many people with the impression that he was centre-Labour. He wasn't. In his 30s Sandy had been active in the Tory Party and had sat on its national committee. What did Sandy spend his time campaigning for when he became Chairman after elbowing out Lee-Potter? Higher pay for Top Doctors of course! Or, as Sandy explained, Patients Will Suffer. Fings Break, as Sandy's mate Dave Wood will be able to remind us.
One of Sandy's students at Bristol – as well as Wood – was Sir Liam Donaldson who presided over the disaster that was the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal (see post 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named'). Blair subsequently appointed Liam Donaldson as Chief Medical Officer for the duration of those difficult years after the Waterhouse Report was published (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part V') and during his incumbency Liam became noted for his serial cock-ups.
Macara was a Freemason who had connections with the security services.
Sandy picked up his knighthood in 1998, as the Waterhouse Inquiry came to the end of taking evidence from witnesses whilst they were called liars.
Professor Ian Gilmore attended Black's memorial service. Ian Gilmore is a Professor of Hepatology who was educated at Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and who subsequently specialised in gastroenterology. Gilmore spent time at the University of California, San Diego, 1979–1980, as an MRC Travelling Fellow and then assumed a consultant post at Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He was made honorary Professor at Dafydd's alma mater, the University of Liverpool, in 1999. Sir Ian is still at the heart of the Liverpool arm of Dafydd's empire – he is Chair of Liverpool Health Partners.
In 2001 Gilmore chaired a Royal College of Physicians working party that produced the report 'Alcohol – can the NHS afford it?'. Obviously Dafydd and the Top Doctors can, which is why so many of them are alcoholics.
In 2010, Sir Ian said that 'making drugs such as heroin and cocaine legal would 'drastically' cut crime and addicts' health problems'. I'm sure that Dafydd was cheering Gilmore on at the time. Dafydd could sell the stuff legally then instead of distributing it via the 'peer guides' of CAIS.
Professor Allyson Pollock turned up to remember Black too. Allyson Pollock supports absolutely any policy which makes Top Doctors even richer and more powerful whilst maintaining that this will be good for the masses. Allyson has done this for her entire career (see post 'More Summer Reading!').
Professor Roger Williams was someone else who attended Black's memorial service. Roger works at King's College Hospital and was the man who ensured that George Best was prioritised for an NHS liver transplant, although Best continued drinking and broke just about every rule applying to patients on the transplant list. Furthermore, the general public were given the impression that Best had not used the services of the NHS.
Douglas Black's daughter Theresa is a consultant medical psychotherapist. I wondered if perhaps Theresa had rebelled against her father's establishment bigotry and hypocrisy, so I was interested when I discovered a short video of Theresa talking about how she became a psychotherapist. Was Theresa overwhelmed by the desire to help people in distress and attracted to the field by the mysteries of the human psyche? Not exactly. Theresa went to university to study French and Russian and discovered that she couldn't do it. So she went back to mum and dad's and did basically nothing 'for months'. She spoke of a 'crisis of confidence' which might suggest that Theresa was feeling very bad about her life. So a psychiatrist friend of Theresa's told her to get up off her bum and do something – they found her a job at the local psychiatric hospital. Theresa remained in the field and became a psychotherapist.
During her interview, Theresa mentions that as a psychotherapist, you notice the times at which somebody discovers something about themselves. I'm wondering at what point Theresa noticed that her mum and dad and one of their friends decided that the only suitable career for a young woman with personal problems was as a therapist to the nutters down the road and how Theresa's work in this field was no doubt used to keep the lid on the fact that those nutters were being abused and shagged by the Top Doctors who Theresa's dad was protecting.
In later life Douglas Black lived in Shropshire. Which was the location of the family seat of the unfortunate Ormsby-Gore dynasty, members of which so frequently died in suspicious and unfortunate circumstances (see post '95 Glorious Years!'), as well as one of John Allen's children's homes. Whether the poor sods were clients of Theresa is not revealed. Theresa is at present listed as practising in Wolverhampton. So she'll be seeing people who's lives were destroyed by the West Midlands psychiatrists with whom Dafydd and Tony Francis had links and of course people who were framed by the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad. Many children from the West Midlands were sent to children's homes in north Wales where they were abused, whilst Theresa's dad ensured that Dafydd and the paedophiles were allowed to continue abusing them.
Lord David Pitt, BMA President, 1985-86. I first challenged Tony Francis over the conduct of the mental health services in the summer of 1985 and my documentation suggests that he probably went to the BMA immediately. So Lord Pitt could well have been at the top when Francis first sought advice regarding the best way of discrediting and framing me. Whether Francis had approached the BMA or not by that time, 'the BMA psychiatrists' of north Wales were very used to abusing people by the time that Lord Pitt became their President.
Born in Grenada, Pitt won a scholarship to come to Britain in 1933 to study medicine at Edinburgh University, where he was an active member of Edinburgh University Socialist Society. Pitt witnessed the poverty of the working classes in the slums of Edinburgh and saw similarities to the rural poverty that he witnessed as a child. Nicholas Rea, in the BMJ, said of Pitt: 'it was in the slums of Edinburgh as much as in the Caribbean that he became convinced of the links between poverty, disadvantage, and ill health'. In 1936, Pitt joined the Labour movement.
Pitt returned to the Caribbean, founded his own practice and in 1943 married Dorothy Alleyne. His 'passion for social justice continued alongside his medical career'. In 1943, Pitt became a founding member and leader of the West Indian National Party (WINP), a socialist party whose main aim was to deliver political autonomy across the Caribbean. Under Pitt, the party demanded self-government for Trinidad and Tobago. The people of Trinidad and Tobago were granted universal adult suffrage by the British Parliament in 1945. The first elections took place in 1946. WINP and others formed the United Front with Pitt as one of the candidates. He was not successful but he continued his activism and in 1947 led a group of WINP members to Britain to lobby the Attlee Gov't for Commonwealth status for a Federation of the West Indies.
In 1947, Pitt again travelled to Britain and settled in London and opened a medical practice in the Euston area of London.
In 1959 Pitt stood as the Labour Party candidate for Hampstead. Race was an issue in the campaign and Pitt was defeated by the Tory candidate, Henry Brooke. During the course of the campaign, Pitt received death threats, as did his family – despite the racist abuse, he refused to withdraw from the contest. He subsequently founded the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination.
In 1961, Pitt was elected to the London County Council (LCC) as member for Hackney and served on the LCC and its successor, the GLC, until 1975. He was Deputy Chair of the GLC from 1969-70 and in 1974 Pitt was the first black person to become Chair of the GLC.
Members of the LCC and GLC were complicit with the organised abuse of children throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s and by the time that Pitt was Chair of the GLC, many London Councils had been sending kids in their care to children's homes in north Wales for a number of years and had ignored reports that they were being severely abused.
In 1970 Pitt was the Labour candidate for Claphman. This had been seen as a safe Labour seat, yet the Tory Sir William Shelton was elected. During his many years in the Commons, Sir William knew a great deal about the crime and organised child abuse in south London that was being concealed by St George's Hospital Medical School (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'). During the 1970 campaign an anonymous leaflet had been distributed with the slogan 'If you desire a coloured for your neighbour vote Labour. If you are already burdoned [sic] with one vote Tory'.
In 1975, the PM Harold Wilson gave Pitt a peerage. As a member of the Lords, Pitt played a leading role in campaigning for the Race Relations Act and was a leader in the movement against apartheid in South Africa.
Pitt was described as a black radical for suggesting that more ethnic minorities should apply to become police officers, although this angered many in the black community who felt that the police were institutionally racist. Pitt is quoted as having said 'Some black people regard me as an Uncle Tom, while some whites regard me as a Black Power revolutionary. So I imagine I got it about right'.
Pitt described the Presidency of the BMA as his most valued honour. Not having known David Pitt I do not know whether he was an Uncle Tom or whether he knew that his colleagues were endemically racist elitist bastards who grossly mistreated vulnerable people and that if he wanted a career in medicine in the UK he had to tolerate this. I am however saddened that a man who received death threats for being a black Parliamentary candidate felt that it was his most valued honour to lead an organisation who knew that death threats were being sent to people who challenged a paedophile gang facilitated by members of the BMA and who received protection from the BMA whilst Pitt had the honour of being President. For some of the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles, death followed the death threats.
Pitt was a GP in Euston so he will have known all about the destitute mental health patients in that area of London as well as the under-aged sex workers, many of whom were kids in care who had been coerced into that line of business by the people 'looking after' them. Pitt himself lived in Hampstead. Which was where a number of analysts and therapists who were up to their eye-balls in concealing the organised sexual abuse of vulnerable people located themselves. Marjorie Wallace who fought so valiantly for Dafydd and the paedophiles has lived in Hampstead for years (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker').
Dr Jim Birley was a mate of Dafydd's from the Maudsley who was President of the BMA, 1993-94. Birley kept Dafydd and the paedophile gang in north Wales out of trouble for years and Birley also concealed organised crime and child abuse in south London (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent').
Sir Charles George was President of the BMA, 2004-05. According to Birmingham University's website Charles George was 'a true knight of medicine; making a difference to people's lives'. Birmingham University brims over with pride that Sir Charles is a Birmingham medicine graduate. Their website informs us as to 'Why he is outstanding'. Lest anybody ever wondered, it is because Sir Charles' early career – after a series of posts in the West Midlands – included four years at Hammersmith Hospital and then tutoring medicine and clinical pharmacology at RPMS.
After working with that bunch of crooks, in 1973 Sir Charles joined the empire of the paedophiles' friend the future Chief Medical Officer Sir Donald Acheson, at the University of Southampton (see post 'Professor Prestigious And His Associates'), where Charles George became Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine twice. Charles George's career highlights included acting as Chairman of the GMC's Education Committee, 1994-99 and as Chair of the BMA's Board of Science & Education. Sir Charles was Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation (BHF), 1999-04 and was a member of the Gov'ts Scientific Advisory Committee of the Association of Medical Research Charities until 2004. So he knew about the huge research frauds being perpetuated by the CRC, ICRF and CR UK (see posts 'Oh Lordy, It's CR UK', 'Reports Of Death Were Greatly Exaggerated' and 'Apolcalypse Now').
The Birmingham University website explains that Sir Charles was a native Brummie and credits the University of Birmingham with playing a major role in his life. Sir Charles will have known Birmingham University Top Doctors Professor Robert Bluglass and Professor Ian Brockington who both concealed the wrongdoing of Tony Francis, Dafydd and the paedophiles (see posts 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglss CBE' and 'Ian Brockington's Mischief').
Charles George was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Leicester in 2007. The University's website tells us that as Medical Director of BHF, Sir Charles forged strong links with the charity's twenty five research Chairs in British universities, including the one at Leicester, held by Professor Nilesh Samani.
One former academic boasted about by Leicester University is Blair's favourite sociologist and inventor of the Third Way, Anthony Giddens, who used one of his appearances on 'Any Questions' to tell everyone that women looked up to Diana and saw her as a role model no less. Indeed Anthony, why would some of us fill our pretty little heads with matter written by sociologists rather better than you when we can leaf through glossy mags and read about Di's adventures and her clothes and the new hairstyle exactly the same as her last one, or indeed want anything else from life other than an arranged unhappy marriage to a very rich man from a dysfunctional family which ends in a crash in a tunnel?
The Leicester University website also advertises the institution's association with Sir Liam Donaldson.
Dr Kenneth Edwards was Vice-Chancellor of Leicester University, 1987-99 and was also President of the Association of European Universities. Whilst Edwards was VC of Leicester, the institution was keen to do as many favours as possible for the paedophiles' friends. Leicester University had long been staffed by paedophiles' friends who were concealing the gang operating in the area (see post 'Radical Leicester and Some Other Free Radicals), but in the late 1980s everyone started getting very anxious after a number of people named social worker Frank Beck and his associate Greville Janner, the Labour MP for Leicester West, as having molested them when they were kids and a police investigation was launched.
Brown was a PhD student at Leicester University in the late 1980s – he registered for his PhD just before the arrival of Ken Edwards – and was provided with absolutely no facilities at all or indeed supervision, although the ESRC were paying Leicester for these things. Brown didn't even get so much as a shared desk and computer, so he made an office for himself at home and purchased all his own equipment.
Janet Edwards – Ken's wife – was Deputy Director of the Centre for Citizenship Studies in the School of Education at Leicester University and at their farewell party recalled how she and Ken had never looked back after arriving in Leicester from Cambridge, where Ken had been Head of the Genetics Department and Secretary General to the Faculties. Janet's parents lived in Leicester and she and Ken knew the town and University well. In 1999 they retired and returned to Cambridge, although Ken Edwards continued in his role as President of the Association of European Universities.
I cannot help but wonder why a couple of tame paedophiles' friends were appointed to run Leicester University just when people wouldn't shut up about Frank Beck and Greville Janner and who then buggered off back to Cambridge in 1999 after Ronnie Waterhouse had insulted those people who told him at the Inquiry that the paedophile gang in north Wales was a massive one with connections to politicians in Westminster as well as to sex traffickers in Europe.
In the same year in which Ken Edwards was appointed VC of Leicester University, one Keith Vaz was elected as MP for Leicester East. The Keith Vaz who had worked as a solicitor for Islington Council whilst a paedophile ring operated in the council's children's homes, as a solicitor for the Borough of Richmond-Upon-Thames when they had a problem with the kids in their homes being abused by the staff and other people and who then worked as a solicitor in Leicester in a law centre funded by Leicester City Council whilst that Council ignored the abuse of children in care.
Greville Janner's father Barnett Janner had held Greville's seat before him, so Ken's wife Janet, coming from Leicester, would be well acquainted with the First Family of Politics in Leicester.
The Lord Mayor of Leicester, Councillor Phil Swift, was among those who attended the farewell party for Ken.
Those attending the party were reminded of Dr Edwards's achievements at Leicester, including the University's involvement in Common Purpose. Common Purpose is a network of people who make a lot of other people feel rather uncomfortable. The network is rather managerial and is perceived to be associated with Tony Blair and New Labour. Members of Common Purpose tend to pop up in the NHS and universities – Barbara Ghodse runs a Common Purpose group at St George's Hospital Medical School. Barbara was married to Professor Hamid Ghodse, a psychiatrist at St George's who knew Tony Francis and colluded with serious crime (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent').
The other achievement of Ken Edwards during his tenure at Leicester was the creation of the Richard Attenborough Centre, although most bits of Leicester University have now been named after one or the other of the Attenboroughs or indeed both of them. Richard and David Attenborough's dad Frederick was Principal of what was then University College of Leicester, 1932-51 and the University really dines out on that.
David Attenborough is best known for presenting nature programmes – and for Gruff Rhys Jones's claim that Attenborough won't actually go 10 yards away from a luxury hotel or a land rover when he's 'in the wild' – but Attenborough was previously a BBC executive so will have been well acquainted with the name Jimmy Savile. Attenborough has a close association with north Wales, he spent a lot of time on Anglesey as a boy. Bangor University gave Attenborough an honorary degree a few years ago and I went to the ceremony. Not because I wanted to see Attenborough, but because Desmond Tutu was being honoured at the same event and I never thought that I would ever have the chance to see Desmond Tutu so I wasn't going to miss it. Desmond was brilliant, he didn't pompous on about himself in the usual manner, he thanked the cleaners and the caterers and led a sing song. Attenborough however pompoused and furthermore didn't appear to know where he was. He kept referring to 'this wonderful island', obviously thinking that he was on Anglesey – although he must have noticed that he hadn't gone across the bridge. It was rather a case of, as people used to joke to Humphrey Lyttelton on 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', 'the visitors have been'…
I don't know whether Ken Edwards is Welsh or has Welsh connections, but I note that he is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, which is a fairly recently formed collection of people who are mostly paedophiles' friends. Lord K.O. Morgan, the former Principal of Aberystwyth University and VC of the University of Wales whilst those institutions were heaving with paedophiles' friends, is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. Lord Ken was married to the late Jane Morgan, who did her PhD at Leicester University. Jane Morgan came from Wrexham, did her first degree at Aber and worked as a criminologist at Oxford. Jane's expertise was child victims of crime. She certainly knew a great deal about those. Jane was mates with Prof Dick Hobbs, whose own research interest is in serious organised crime, including among professional people. As well as being mates with lots of criminals, Dick Hobbs is mates with Laurie Taylor – whose son Matthew was Head of Blair's Policy Unit. See post 'A Bit More Paleontology' for the details of Lord Ken and Jane's network of middle class friends who were just so fascinated with the activities of the likes of Dafydd and the paedophiles whilst they tried to murder the rest of us.
The Medical School at Leicester University was formed in 1973, in a close partnership with the former Leicestershire Health Authority. During the investigation into Frank Beck's offending and the Leicestershire Child Abuse Scandal it became clear that the local authorities, police, social services and mental health services in Leicester/Leicestershire had all known what was happening throughout the 1970s and 80s, as did many people in Leicester University (see posts ' Radical Leicester and Some Other Free Radicals' and 'Another Episode Of Friends').
The Dean of the Medical School in Leicester, 1975-89, was Sir (Later Lord) Robert Kilpatrick, who was also President of the GMC.
In 1987 Dr James Earp, a forensic psychiatrist in Leicester, ignored and concealed the criminality of Dafydd, Tony Francis, Gwynedd Social Services and the paedophiles (see post 'An Expert From England').
In 1993 James Earp found himself in hot water regarding the case of James Rudman. James Rudman escaped from a secure unit at the Towers Hospital in Leicester two years after being convicted of the manslaughter of his wife.
At his trial Rudman was ordered to receive psychiatric treatment at the Towers under section 37 of the Mental Health Act after a plea of diminished responsibility was accepted. He had stabbed his wife repeatedly during an argument and Leicester Crown Court had heard evidence from five doctors that he was mentally ill. Section 37 stipulates that a patient not showing fresh signs of mental illness for 28 days after the cessation of medical treatment can remain at liberty.
Mr Justice McCullough, who presided over Rudman's trial, had intended to impose a five-year sentence but revised his view on hearing that Rudman would not be released from psychiatric care until deemed fit by a medical team regularly reviewing his case. It was suggested he would be detained for at least 18 months.
Rudman had applied to a Tribunal to be released shortly before he escaped, but had been turned down. He absconded during an unsupervised walk in the hospital grounds.
Rudman was actually found in Ireland 62 minutes before the legal loophole would have meant that he would have legally been a free man.
Before Rudman was captured, James Earp had been trundled out to speak to the media. Earp seemed incredibly complacent about the situation when he was told by reporters that if Rudman wasn't caught soon, it would be legally impossible to return him to the Towers. Earp commented that considering that Rudman had now survived for quite a while after escaping and had successfully evaded the police, he probably didn't need to be in hospital anyway. Which suggests that Earp had a very narrow understanding of mental distress and a rather cavalier attitude to public safety.
The family of Rudman's wife maintained that Rudman was an abusive man who had very skilfully manipulated the legal system. I suspect that Rudman had been actively advised and assisted by the corrupt Top Doctors in Leicester – and probably a few corrupt lawyers as well – who had been happily colluding with a paedophile ring for years.
A local MP who spoke about the case was Keith Vaz. Who was of course deeply concerned.
In 1999 as Ken Edwards waved a fond farewell to Leicester University, a new joint medical school which was formed by a partnership between the Universities of Leicester and Warwick was opened. It was explained that the medical school would benefit the citizens of Coventry in particular. The medical students would be trained at Leicester and at the Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust in Coventry.
The 1989 cover-up of the criminality of Tony Francis, Dafydd and the paedophiles after I made complaint about them was carried out by Professors Robert Owen, Robert Bluglass and Dr Colin Berry. Colin Berry was a psychiatrist at the Walsgrave Hospital. See post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE' for details.
The partnership between Leicester and Warwick Universities was dissolved in 2007. In Oct 2008 a new senior member of staff arrived at Leicester – Professor David Wynford-Thomas. He had previously been the Dean at Cardiff University's School of Medicine. Prof Wynford-Thomas was the new Dean and Head of the College of Medicine, Biological and Psychological Sciences at Leicester University as well as a Pro-Vice Chancellor.
Wynford-Thomas was described as 'a renowned cancer specialist who has built up a large research team studying the molecular basis of cancer and its clinical applications, with long-term funding from CR UK and the Research Councils. He was instrumental in forging closer collaborative links between cancer research groups working in different departments and schools across Cardiff, culminating in the establishment of a 'virtual institute' for cancer research across Wales.' Wynford-Thomas had been involved in the rotten core at Cardiff for many years – by 1992 he was Head of Pathology there…
Professor Kenneth Rawnsley, the Professor of Psychological Medicine at Cardiff, spent decades concealing the criminality of Dafydd, Francis and the paedophiles. Francis had studied at Cardiff and also worked with Rawnsley after he graduated (see post 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…'). Professor Sir William Asscher was also leading light at Cardiff who was concealing the wrongdoing of Dafydd and the paedophiles. In the 1980s Asscher became Dean and then Principal of St George's – where he concealed the criminality there, as well as continuing to assist Dafydd et al (see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends Of Cardiff North').
There were very big problems at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff for many years but it was, as usual, covered up.
Sir Charles George's Presidency of the BMA, 2004-05, was said to have been 'a fitting culmination to a life spent in medicine'. Whilst Sir Charles George was President, the attempt by the Hergest Unit to frame me for 'threatening to kill' collapsed. I was instead prosecuted for telling the secretary of Alun Davies, a corrupt NHS manager, that he was a fat idiot. After my trial I discovered that the PNC had been illegally altered – twice – to record an offence of harassment against my name. Also that a certificate of indictment had been forged and was found in the possession of Chester Court, stating that I had pleaded guilty to 'violent disorder'. See posts 'Interesting Happenings In The Legal System', 'Even More Confusion Regarding Those Legal Conundrums' and 'An Update On Those Legal Conundrums'.
Charles George had already received his knighthood by the time that he was BMA President. Like Sandy Macara, Charles picked it up in 1998 – just as the Waterhouse Inquiry had heard the evidence from witnesses whom the Inquiry dismissed as liars.
Sir Terence English was President of the BMA 1995-96 and a member of the GMC, 1983-89. English is a South African-born British cardiac surgeon. He was consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital and Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, 1973–1995. Terence English was working at Addenbrookes whilst Baroness Jean Trumpington and Lady Mary Archer were involved with that institution (see posts '95 Glorious Years!' and 'Tuppence And His Fragrant Wife').
After starting a career in mining engineering – he completed a degree in that subject in Johannesburg -Terence English studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School in London. He embarked upon a career in cardiac surgery and went on to lead the team that performed Britain's first successful heart transplant in Aug 1979 at Papworth and soon established it as one of Europe's leading heart-lung transplant programmes.
The Dept of Health imposed a moratorium on heart transplants in 1977 and refused to fund Terence English's plans for transplants. However, English obtained permission from the Chairman of Cambridge Health Authority to use his facilities at Papworth for two transplants and after the first failed in January 1979 the second in August 1979 – on patient Keith Castle – was successful. After failing to get funding from the Transplant Advisory Panel, English obtained support for the first two transplants from the Area Health Authority and then funding from the Cambridge millionaire David Robinson. Other sources followed until 1985 when the DoH provided secure funding for both transplant units at Papworth and Harefield Hospital.
I suspect I know how Thatcher's Gov't was persuaded to drop their opposition to English's work and stump up the cash. It will have involved someone whispering the name Dafydd.
I wish I'd known that this was how UK society operated, I too could have knocked on the door of Number 10 and when Thatch answered said 'we need to talk about Dafydd'. I'd be President of the World by now.
Terence English was Director of the British Heart Foundation Transplant Research Unit at Papworth (1980–1998).
English was President of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1989–92, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1993–2000 and a member of the GMC, 1983-89. So English was yet another person who ignored the complaints flooding in re Dafydd and Gwynne.
English was the President of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 1984-85 and Deputy Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire, 1994-2001.
In 1981, English was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons Council and in 1989 he became President. Some of his achievements as President of RCS included:
Re-establishing the College's international programme with visits to Thailand and Malaysia/Singapore and then Pakistan and India.
Playing a key role in avoiding a split between the BMA and the Royal Colleges.
Being responsible for Presidents of the surgical specialist associations becoming invited members of the RCS Council.
Implementing the 'English Clause' during the 1991 New Deal for Junior Doctors Hours, which allowed surgical trainees to work beyond the stipulated 72 hours providing this was voluntary and they were not under pressure to do this.
Involvement in the NHS Reform Bill and resistance to managerial bureaucracy.
Insisted on including the BMA in the Clinical Services Advisory Group (CSAG). Proposals to radically reform the NHS by the Conservative Gov't in 1990 had planned to exclude the BMA. English played a key role by refusing to co-operate with the CSAG unless the Joint Consultants Committee Chairman, Dr Tony Grabham, was a member. Ken Clarke hated Tony Grabham so much that he gave Grabham a special mention in his autobiography.
The Joint Consultants Committee were responsible for appointing the 'independent' investigators under the NHS complaints procedure which was in place when I made complaint about Dafydd and the paedophiles in 1987. It was the Joint Consultants Committee who appointed Bluglass and Berry to 'investigate' my complaint.
Terence English was also a Member of the Audit Commission 1993–1998, Chief Medical Advisor to BUPA, 1992–99 and a Member of Council, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 1995–2009.
Terence English's second wife is Judith – they married in 2002. She became Principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Terence English remained active after retiring and has participated in the trauma care training of doctors in Pakistan and Gaza; regular visits to Gaza on medical projects and assisting with the treatment of Gaza's wounded; and supporting the legalisation of physician assisted dying as Patron for 'Dignity in Dying'.
Terence was knighted in 1991. The year that me and three of my friends who knew what happened to me at the hands of Dafydd and the paedophiles and who were in danger of supplying credible witness accounts had our careers ruined. 1991 was the year in which charges of child sexual abuse against Greville Janner were dropped by the CPS. The DPP subsequently admitted that they could not provide a reason for this in the face of the evidence against him.
David Haslam was President of the BMA, 2011-12. Haslam is another product of Birmingham University and was formerly a G

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