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Readers will probably know that among the numerous other beneficial effects of Mindfulness claimed by its inventor, Dafydd's former colleague Professor Mark Williams, is that it Increases Compassion. That is why the mental health workers who regularly practised Mindfulness, went on Mindfulness retreats and attended/spoke at conferences on Mindfulness facilitated a criminal trafficking gang, oversaw some of the highest rates of suicide in the UK, stood by while their clients became destitute, threatened their clients and perjured themselves in order to secure criminal convictions against their clients.
In recent years, Mark Williams et al have set out to demonstrate that Mindfulness Increases Compassion by the use of brain scans. I'm delighted to report that the research is going well and people have assured me that you can see the Compassion Centre of the brain 'lighting up' in those who practice Mindfulness.
The frontal lobe contains most of the dopamine-delicate neurons in the cerebral cortex. The dopamine system is associated with reward, attention, short-term memory tasks, planning, motivation and, in psychiatrists in north Wales and employees of Gwynedd and Clwyd Social Services, it contains the neurons responsible for people trafficking. Being the Vice Centre of the brain, the frontal lobe is commonly coloured red in textbooks:
Many readers will know that Mark Williams's research fraud was so successful that he duped numerous politicians who had no knowledge of biomedical sciences at all and thus could be fed any old crap into robustly promoting Mindfulness on the grounds that it has the potential to transform society. Mindfulness was invented by Mark Williams while he lived and worked in Gwynedd, which had one of the highest suicide rates in the UK, one of the lowest mean annual average incomes, one of the poorest performing health services and a Social Services which abused and neglected the people whom it was paid to care for. Williams invented Mindfulness in the late 1980s. Gwynedd still has a high suicide rate, a very low mean average annual income and a non-functioning NHS and Social Services, so clearly it is a testament to the transformative powers of Mindfulness.
Chris Ruane, the Labour MP for the Vale of Clwyd, 1997-2015 and from 2017-present, really loves Mindfulness, he wants everyone to have a bit of it and led the Parliamentary Mindfulness charge. Chris's constituency covers the areas of Denbigh and St Asaph/Bodelwyddan. The Denbigh area is still choc full with people who worked at Dafydd's Denbigh Dungeon and Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, a truly lethal hospital managed and staffed by associates of Dafydd et al, is located at Bodelwyddan. St Asaph Cathedral had a member of staff who molested kids for years and one of the organists at St Asaph Cathedral was the son of Geoff, the landlord of the Douglas Arms Hotel in Bethesda. Geoff was a Tory and a believer in law n order. Which will be why some of the police officers in north Wales boasted that they beat up local lads and threw them in Llyn Ogwen and when the victims of these violent assaults appeared in court charged with whatever they had been fitted up for, 'we'd always be OK if Geoff was on the bench'. Some local men were found dead in Llyn Ogwen having 'drowned while swimming when drunk'. See previous posts.
Chris Ruane doesn't have any excuses for supporting Williams's con, Ruane knows north Wales very well and has spent his entire life on the turf of Dafydd's gang. Ruane attended Ysgol Mair Roman Catholic primary school in Rhyl. He then went to the Blessed Edward Jones RC High School (he was three years above Carol Vorderman). Blessed Ted's ended up in very, very serious difficulties which culminated in the removal of the Headmaster in approx 2001 amidst a huge scandal; the school became a no-go area for teachers and pupils, people were fleeing while screaming loudly. Ruane graduated from Aberystwyth University in 1979, when that institution was staffed and managed by the paedophiles' friends. Ruane then obtained an PGCE from Liverpool University in 1980. He was a town Councillor from 1988 and the Chairman of West Clwyd NUT region. Chris Ruane was a primary school teacher from 1982–97 and a Deputy Head from 1991–97.
Chris was elected as a Labour MP five months after the Waterhouse Inquiry opened.
Here's Chris, he knows nuzzing…
Chris Ruane contested Clwyd North West in 1992, but was unsuccessful. So Chris was selected as a candidate when the Windbag was Leader of the Labour Party. The Windbag who knew Dafydd's pal Dr Tony Francis, who was a great promoter of Mindfulness himself.
I am wondering if the effect of Mindfulness on the nation's politicians is now beginning to manifest itself at last, because The Guardian Online is reporting that Lord Alf Dubs is to launch a cross-party 'Compassion in Politics' campaign. Lord Alf's image is that of a kindly old buffer who has Special Insight into matters humanity because of his well-known status as a child from what was then Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis. Alf was one of the mainly Jewish children saved by the English stockbroker Nicholas Winton and others on the Kindertransport (Dubs's father was Jewish). Alf's father had fled to England the day that the Nazis arrived in Czechoslovakia and young Alf was to meet him at Liverpool Street station. Alf later said that he clearly remembered leaving Prague station at age six and not touching the food pack given to him by his mother for the next two days. His mother was initially denied a visa but was able to join him and his father in London shortly afterwards.
Lord Alf's True Story is now so well-known that I had forgotten how it first reached the ears of the world and indeed the ears of Alf himself. I refreshed my memory recently. Alf's True Story was revealed by Esther Rantzen in Feb 1988 in an episode of 'That's Life'.
It was in late 1987 or very early in 1988 when I wrote to Esther Rantzen about Dafydd et al and provided her with details of the horrors of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. Esther didn't ring the gas board and neither did the young men with curly hair on her show. She didn't even read out my letter and make any jokes about deformed root vegetables. Neither did Cyril compose an Odd Ode about Dafydd. Esther did not reply. Why did I write to Esther? Because she had launched a mental health campaign on 'That's Life' and I thought that Esther ought to know what the mental health services in north Wales were actually doing to people.
After Esther launched her mental health campaign, David Scarboro, an actor in East Enders, killed himself in April 1988 and Esther put on her serious face for the TV cameras and maxed out on David's death. David Scarboro had been treated very badly indeed by a section of the press with which Esther usually had a very chummy relationship. David played the part of 'Mark Fowler' and became upset when in 1985, the East Enders storyline dictated that 'Mark Fowler' should become a racist. Things came to a head when the script called for a scene in which 'Mark' was to deliver racist abuse. Scarboro refused to play the scene. After this it was decided that he should leave the show. His character was abruptly written out of the storyline.
In December 1985, Scarboro briefly returned to the series and subsequently for brief stints in 1986 and 1987, but never on a permanent or on-going basis. Scarboro's last appearance in the series was in the episode aired on Christmas Day, 1987.
Elements of the UK tabloid press reported that Scarboro had been fired from the show for turning up late for filming and being unco-operative on set. Away from the series Scarboro initiated libel proceedings after several national papers published inaccurate stories about his private life, but the press continued to pursue him and his family. The 'News of the Screws' discovered that Scarboro was in a psychiatric unit, besieged it and published photographs of the unit. Scarboro subsequently left the unit because the unit could not protect his privacy and he could no longer get adequate treatment. Inaccurate stories about his condition were published, along with some very, very nasty headlines about the psycho David. David was known to have been distraught at the press coverage and at his inability to receive adequate care.
David died on 27 April 1988. His body was found at the bottom of Beachy Head and the coroner returned an open verdict, although David is always spoken of as having killed himself. A documentary on his life, 'My Brother David', was produced by the BBC in 1988, presented by David's brother Simon. David's parents left the country soon after their son's death.
In 1988, Jimmy Savile's sex offending was never mentioned in the media but in spite of all the We Didn't Knows – including from Esther – a lot of people did know what Savile was doing.
In 1988 I was told by two people who had been at Leeds University a few years previously that Savile was known to be sexually assaulting 'young girls'. Two years later someone who's dad knew Savile via Stoke Mandeville Hospital told me that everyone at Stoke Mandeville was of the opinion that Savile was a 'twat' and then in 2000 another person with Stoke Mandeville links told me that Savile was a bloody nightmare and that most of the money 'raised' by Savile was wasted on vanity projects, such as the Jimmy Savile Dining Room.
The tabloid press definitely knew what Savile was doing by 1988. They had been given stories but would not publish for fear of litigation.
In 1989, my friend who's husband worked at the BBC told me that Esther was loathed, the most dreadful workplace bully, ruthless, completely insincere and that ChildLine was widely perceived to be a crude publicity stunt. In those days Esther was being seriously discussed as a potential future DG of the BBC. In 1986 Thatch had personally appointed Marmaduke Hussey as Chairman of the BBC Governors as a result of his close relationship to the Tory Party. Hussey had no previous experience of the BBC and was always seen as Thatcher's henchman. His had followed a long career with Associated Newspapers, becoming MD; eventually Hussey became Chief Executive and MD of Times Newspapers, 1971-80. Hussey gave up several boardroom appointments when he took up his job at the BBC, but he remained Chairman of the Royal Marsden Hospital until 1998.
In 1988, the Royal Marsden Hospital, along with a number of other institutions, began perpetrating the cancer research fraud funded by the Cancer Research Campaign and Imperial Cancer Research Fund, which involved Dr Peter Macguire, a former colleague of Dr Tony Francis. The fraud became public in 1990 and resulted in the presumed suicide of one of those involved, Professor Tim McElwain of the Royal Marsden Hospital (see posts 'Reports Of Death Were Greatly Exaggerated' and 'Apocalypse Now'). At the time, I was working for the Cancer Research Campaign myself, at the University of Surrey in a team led by Professor Vincent Marks, the brother of the then President of the BMA, Dr John Marks. John Marks and Ken Clarke were at each others throats at the time. It all ended in stalemate because everyone involved was concealing serious wrongdoing, including that of Dafydd et al, who were procuring children for sex, for, among others, Thatcher's friend and the then Minister of State for Energy with responsibility for oil, Sir Peter Morrison. Unbeknown to me, when I was working for Vincent Marks, the BMA were providing Tony Francis, Dafydd et al with advice as to how to frame me for serious offences.
The Princess of Wales was Patron of the Royal Marsden Hospital and it was one of the beneficiaries of the publicity stunt in New York which involved Di flogging off some of her clothes in June 1997, not long before she died.
Duke Hussey's wife, Lady Susan Hussey, is a Woman of the Bedchamber to Lilibet and godmother to Prince William. Sir Peter Morrison's sister Dame Mary Morrison was also a Woman of the Bedchamber to Lilibet. Susan Hussey is the older sister of William Waldegrave, who in 1988 was a Minister in Thatch's Gov't and served as Secretary of State for Health, 1990-92.
Within three months of becoming Chairman of the BBC, Hussey had forced the DG Alasdair Milne to resign. Milne was replaced by someone more acceptable to Thatch, Michael Checkland.
See previous posts for the full background on Hussey and Checkland.
Jimmy Savile was a friend of Thatch's and spent many weekends at Chequers with her. Savile was also a friend of Carlo's.
Esther knew that if she wanted to reach stratospheric heights at the BBC she couldn't afford to piss Jimmy Savile off. Or indeed Dafydd, who was part of the network which Savile was using to procure young people for sex with VIPs.
Alison Taylor wrote to Carlo in about 1988 telling him that kids in care in north Wales were being abused. She received a letter from Carlo's office stating that he could not become involved. In 1988 Carlo was the Chancellor of UCNW, which was facilitating an arm of Dafydd's trafficking gang. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster and Carlo's close friend, owned an estate in Cheshire which was one of the Duke's main homes. Boys from Bryn Estyn were taken to the Duke's estate for 'work experience' but refused to return again without explaining why.
Jimmy Savile was known to visit Bryn Estyn and one boy maintained that he was raped by a group of men while Savile watched.
In 1988, Savile was one of the senior managers of Broadmoor, along with his pal Alan Franey. Thatcher's mate Baroness Trumpington aka Trumpers was the Health Minister who appointed Savile to the Broadmoor management task force (see posts 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s' and 'A Pretty Classy Piece Of Operation').
At that time, Broadmoor was full of patients who had been abused as kids in care and by the mental health services. Some of those patients were from north Wales, including one person who was mentioned in the Waterhouse Report as having been abused while in care in north Wales. In the late 1980s, Di began making much publicised visits to Broadmoor and Rampton, although the nature of her meetings with the patients and which patients Di met, was kept completely secret for reasons of 'patient confidentiality', a la Di's visits to AIDS wards, among whose patients were rent boys who had been forced into sex work when in care in north Wales (see eg. post 'The Wretched Of The Earth'). I am all for patient confidentiality, I always felt that Savile's much publicised visits to children's wards complete with TV cameras were gross, but the reason for the 'confidentiality' at the secure hospitals and the AIDS wards was because many of the patients were the victims of serious crime. The information black-out was to protect the high profile people who had offended against them.
Jimmy Savile also wandered at will at Ashworth Hospital. Ashworth Hospital was part of Dafydd's domain, was run by Dafydd's friends and had a dreadful reputation, easily as bad as Broadmoor. See eg. post 'Security, Security'. One patient was battered to death by the staff at Ashworth – the murder was investigated by Dafydd's mate and umbrella Professor Robert Bluglass. There were two major inquiries at Ashworth and although it was admitted that the prevailing situation there was horrific, the problems were blamed on Dangerous Mental Patients, not the fact that the institution was run by a trafficking ring and that many of the inmates were victims of that ring.
Esther's sister Priscilla was a social worker for Lambeth Borough Council. Lambeth had a massive problem with their children's homes being infiltrated by paedophiles and kids in the care of Lambeth were sent to children's homes in north Wales, where they were abused and then trafficked back down to London or Brighton. Priscilla's boss was Valerie – now Baroness – Howarth, whom Esther appointed as CEO of ChildLine. ChildLine ignored phone calls from children in north Wales. One woman also maintains that she told Esther that Savile was abusing children. Esther claims to have no memory of this.
Savile and Esther were involved with the NSPCC. The Duke of Westminster was the Life Vice-President of the NSPCC from 1988 until his death in 2016. Here's Jimmy with another supporter of the NSPCC:
In north Wales, when the former kids in care were giving evidence regarding the abuse that they had experienced previously, support for them was offered via a Helpline run by the NSPCC, although the witnesses were by then adults. The managers of the NSPCC Helpline were the social workers who had facilitated the trafficking gang. One man who was rash enough to accept support from the NSPCC Helpline was found dead. The Helpline managers reassured themselves that they were covered by their insurance for such an eventually. Not only was the NSPCC Helpline run by the traffickers, but the North Wales Police were given the job of driving the witnesses to the venue where they gave evidence. The North Wales Police who had for years ignored all complaints about the abuse of kids in care and who had arrested the kids themselves if they persisted in complaining and who employed a number of officers who were abusing the kids.
I read the other day that Childline was set up after a conversation between Esther and Michael Grade in 1985. In the account that I read, it was claimed that Michael Grade had put the idea to Esther. In the summer of 1985, my friend worked in the box office at the Edinburgh Fringe. She ended up in hot water with her bosses when she refused to pull strings after Samuel Brittan, a journo with the FT and the brother of Leon Brittan, the then Home Secretary, demanded that she arrange tickets and accommodation for him to visit the Fringe, although everything had sold out weeks ago. Samuel was so irate that he wrote to his Big Mate Michael Grade, who wrote a wonderful letter to Samuel, telling him that he was 'appalled' at my friend's 'rudeness' and that Grade would definitely get Samuel tickets 'even if I have to give you my own'.
You SHALL go to the ball Samuel!
The Fairy Godmother himself:
When Leon Brittan was Home Secretary, he was handed a dossier compiled by the Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens which named a number of people, including Westminster figures, who were alleged to be abusing children. Brittan later claimed that he couldn't remember receiving the dossier. Then Brittan did remember receiving it but couldn't remember where he had put the dossier. Leon Brittan has been named as one Westminster figure who was possibly children himself. While Brittan was Home Secretary, numerous files relating to organised child abuse went missing from the Home Office. Meanwhile, the criminal activities of Dafydd et al continued unhindered in north Wales. See previous posts.
Every teenagers dream date:
A few scenes from life in Britain when Brittan was Home Secretary:
The friend of mine who so angered Samuel Brittan was my best friend from school, who knew what had been happening to me in north Wales. Her mum was a clinical psychologist and her dad was a social worker and they had advised me after Francis began threatening me in the spring of 1985. My friend's family lived in Somerset, just down the road from my family and Brown's family. I now know that I and my friends were under surveillance by the security services by then.
I have mentioned in previous posts that members of my family knew/were known by Somerset MPs Tom King, John Biffen and Edward du Cann (see previous posts). King and Biffen were members of Thatcher's Cabinet and Peter Morrison was a Minister, 1983-85, under Tom King, when King was Secretary of State for Employment. Other west country MPs who knew people who knew relatives of mine were the Tory Jerry Wiggin and Liberals Paddy Ashdown and John Pardoe (see previous posts).
William Waldegrave's family seat was and still is at Chewton Mendip in Somerset. Previous posts (eg 'Those Who Are Ready To Serve' and 'Upper Class Twit Of The Year – Shooting Themselves') describe how some people in Somerset who knew what had happened to me in north Wales but who did not support me did very well for themselves in terms of career progress and money throughout the late 1980s and the 1990s. One such person received a cheque from Coutts. William Waldegrave was a senior person at Coutts.
Dafydd's partner-in-crime Dr D.G.E. Wood was from a medical family near Bristol. Over towards the Waldegraves' neck of the Woods…
My friend who had the dust-up with Samuel Brittan in 1985 was driven out of her job at the Royal Television Society in 1991, just after I was forced out of my job at St George's Hospital Medical School, after she wanted to make a film about north Wales. Her husband worked in the Drama Commissioning Dept of the BBC and was forced out of his job after his boss yelled at him that he'd make sure that he'd 'never work in this town again' when my friend's husband refused to accept a bribe at work. Weeks later he was transferred to the Religious Broadcasting Unit at Manchester and was soon after made redundant.
The troubles of my two media friends escalated after the summer of 1985 when they moved to London to begin their media careers. They were gradually frozen out by most of their former friends from Stirling University – they had all been part of the circle which included Jack, later Lord, McConnell, who was elected as an MSP in 1999, just before the publication of the Waterhouse Report and then bugger me found himself Scotland's FM in 2001 (see previous posts) – and they subsequently came under attack from gangsters (see post 'The Turn Of The Screw').
Lord Jack's mate:
In the summer of 1987, I went to see Leicester MIND as well as William Bingley, the Legal Director of MIND at MIND HQ in London and told them what I had witnessed and found out about Dafydd et al. I had no idea that not only was Dafydd involved in MIND himself, but that the organisation had been concealing his wrongdoing as far back as the 1960s. I presume that Bingley rang Dafydd and a few other people as soon as I left his office.
Readers might remember the Radio 4 light entertainment programme 'Loose Ends' when Ned Sherrin hosted it during the 1980s. It starred Carol Thatcher and although everybody on 'Loose Ends' did their 'we're not afraid to push the boundaries' bit, Thatch had the BBC firmly under her thumb at the time. Emma Freud was also a regular on 'Loose Ends' and a 'Loose Ends' book published in 1988 describes Emma as being 'the posh bird who giggles in the background'. Which was indeed all that Emma did on 'Loose Ends'. But her dad was Radio 4 favourite/Liberal MP Clement Freud… Who has since been unmasked as a sexual predator, including towards underaged girls. Clement's son was PR guru Matthew Freud. See previous posts. Gee, why ever didn't we hear about Clement's sexual assaults on teenagers then Matthew?? Emma Freud is married to Richard Curtis, who, with Ben Elton, wrote 'Blackadder'. Ben Elton's dad Lewis Elton was a Prof at Surrey University when I worked there in 1988 (see previous posts for details of Ben, his dad and others in their network). Emma and Richard were very conveniently living in New York during the year that Clement's lecherous ways made headline news. They were off just before the story broke and then back again after the dust had settled.
Victor Lewis Smith, the film, TV and radio producer, had a regular spot on 'Loose Ends' from 1986. Victor Lewis Smith also worked on 'That's Life'. Lewis Smith is a York University graduate who presented his own programme on Radio York before joining Radio 4. Yorkshire: Savile ruled the region. Lewis Smith has written for 'Time Out', 'Private Eye', 'Mail On Sunday', 'Esquire', 'Daily Mirror', 'The Independent', 'Harpers and Queen' and 'The Guardian'.
Stephen Fry was a regular on 'Loose Ends' in the 1980s. The Stephen Fry of 'I took cocaine in Buck House, aren't I naughty' and 'I'm friends with Prince Charles as well' fame; the Stephen Fry who was/is a Labour Luvvie and is President of MIND. Fry rather blotted his copy book with supporters of MIND when he sent out a rude tweet about the self-pity of someone who was Sharing re their experience of sexual abuse. Shortly after the furore, Fry tweeted that his earlier tweet didn't express his views; although it obviously had 20 mins previously. I don't know why anyone was surprised that Stephen wasn't as cuddly and fluffy as they presumed; Fry was born into a fair degree of privilege but believes that it had no effect at all on his later achievements and quips that of course public school didn't help him, he was expelled from several but still ended up at Cambridge after serving a prison sentence. That is indeed true Stephen, but the difference between you and the people with whom I was banged up in the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, was that they were not guilty of the crimes for which they went to prison and no-one gave them a second chance yet alone a place at Cambridge when they came out of jail. Not that they all did come out, quite a few were found dead in prison.
Stephen Fry used to joke that prison wasn't so bad, he wasn't raped in the showers by Mr Big. Had Stephen been a kid in care in north Wales rather than the son of a Gov't scientist, he'd have been raped repeatedly before he ever got as far as prison. And Carlo would not have invited him to Royal premises where Fry could enjoy a few snorts, any plea from Stephen to Carlo for help would have resulted in a letter from Carlo's office saying that he could not get involved.
Stephen Fry famously made TV programmes about being a manic depressive to enlighten everybody else on the matter. Which seriously pissed off a few manic depressives known to me; they all had the same response: 'he's in fucking private clinics in America, just look at what is happening to us..'.
I don't blame Stephen Fry one bit for not checking into Denbigh or the Hergest Unit, but he didn't do people with serious mental illness any favours with his Public Information Broadcasts. More of a PR job for the Top Docs really wasn't it Stephen?
I was amused to find that not long after I blogged about the messy reality of the Top Docs 'diagnoses' and 'cures' for prostate cancer, Stephen sent out a tweet explaining that he had recently had prostate cancer, his prostate had been removed and how grateful he was to the Top Docs for Saving His Life. Stephen Fry has had a good classical education but he knows bugger all about cancer research and the prevailing practices in that field. However he is intelligent enough to know that he cannot ever know whether the Top Docs did save his life or not, because there is not an identical Stephen Fry who did not have his prostate removed to use as a control. So Stephen is now doubly incontinent and impotent, which if it did save his life was worth it; but he does not know whether his life was saved or not. But I know that the PSA tests are throwing up a lot of false positives…
My friends who's media careers were ruined used to meet Stephen Fry and Ben Elton at various events!
Jonathan Ross also starred in 'Loose Ends' in the late 1980s. The Jonathan who was always an offensive twat but who somehow got away with it for years until he and Russell Brand rang up Andrew Sachs and boasted about Brand shagging Sachs's granddaughter. There was much shock-horror re the upsetting of a national treasure and a granddad, which eclipsed the rather more unedifying spectacle of Brand bragging about whom he had sex with, when the woman concerned probably just wanted to forget all about the toe rag. Woss and Brand were middle aged men, not 15 years old, so I can't work out why they were ever received in polite company again.
As for Ned Sherrin; er, where shall I start? Originally a barrister, smug, narcisstic and openly gay even back in the days of 'That Was The Week That Was' and David Frost etc. So Ned knew all of the Footlights/BBC 1960s crowd, all of whom knew about the Westminster Paedophile Ring, Jimmy Savile etc. Some of them, like Jonathan Miller and Graham Chapman, knew about north Wales too…See previous posts.
Ned was the John Biffen of the BBC; the clever son of Somerset farmers who made it big. Like Biffen's family, I think that Ned's family were impressed by him even if they privately raised eye-brows. They were fairly mainstream Somerset farmers of their generation, so they must have been a little surprised at Ned's activities.
Ned went to Sexey's School at Bruton; yes it was really called that. When I was a teenager, the other schools in Somerset used to play Sexey's School at team sports, Sexey's seemed to take team games quite seriously.
I might return to 'Loose Ends' in a future post, I am still digging…
So this was the context in which Alf Dubs's Amazing True Story was revealed and subsequently broadcast by Esther in February 1988. How did Esther get hold of Lord Alf's True Story? Amazingly enough, that possessor of a big heart Robert Maxwell was the conduit.
It is often reported that Nicholas Winton, Lord Alf's saviour, 'suppressed' his humanitarian exploits for many years. However, Winton mentioned them in his election material while unsuccessfully standing for election to the Maidenhead Town Council in 1954.
Yet Winton's rescue achievements 'went unnoticed for half a century, until in 1988 his wife found a detailed scrapbook in their attic, containing lists of the children, including their parents' names and the names and addresses of the families that took them in. She gave the scrapbook to Elisabeth Maxwell, a Holocaust researcher and wife of media magnate Robert Maxwell…
Mrs Winton handed that scrapbook over to Cap'n Bob's wife just like that…
Winton himself could not remember the reason why this was done. Letters were sent to each of these known addresses and 80 of "Winton's children" were found in Britain.'
One of whom was Alf!
In February 1988, Alf was invited as a member of the audience to 'That's Life'. At one point, Nicholas Winton's scrapbook was shown and his achievements were explained. Esther asked whether anybody in the audience owed their lives to Winton, and if so, to stand – more than two dozen people surrounding Winton rose and applauded. Well fancy them all turning up like that! But would anyone have actually known if they really all had been saved by Winton? I bet that Esther didn't take the microphone around to each and every one of them. The BBC were always fiddling figures and rigging situations, those standing up could have been anyone. Furthermore, Alf himself didn't know that he'd been rescued by Winton until Esther told him…
Although a stockbroker, Winton was also 'an ardent socialist who became close to Labour Party luminaries Nye Bevan, Jennie Lee and Tom Driberg'. Tom Driberg was a controversial figure in the Labour Party, being a bisexual communist with criminal connections. It was later revealed that Driberg had been working for the security services.
Alf Dubbs served as the Labour MP for Battersea South, 1979-83 and then Battersea, 1983-87. In 1988, when Alf's True Story received all that heart melting coverage, the Windbag was the Leader of the Labour Party. The Windbag who knew Tony Francis and who was married to Glenys, the school teacher from Holyhead. Glenys's parents had been Labour Party activists and were good mates with Lord Cledwyn, who in his capacity as the MP for Anglesey and Secretary of State for Wales, 1966-68, as well as a member of the Lords, for decades played a major role in concealing the crimes of Gwynne the lobotomist and Dafydd et al (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'). Lord Cledwyn, along with Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, the Windbags and the rest of the Labour Party, also concealed the sex offending of George Thomas aka Viscount Tonypandy, who despite being a Labour politician, was a mate of Thatch and a big fan of the Royals.
In Dec 1987, Alison Taylor had been sacked by Gwynedd County Council. She had written to Thatch in Jan 1987 about the abuse of kids in care in north Wales and on Feb 28 1988 Alison wrote to Tony Newton, the then Health Minister. Alison had also reported abuse to the North Wales Police, only to be told that she lacked credibility and was 'manipulating' children into making complaints. By Feb 1988, Mary had won her case against Dafydd et al, but they were refusing to pay her the damages that had been agreed.
By Feb 1988, my official complaint against Tony Francis, Gwynedd Social Services, Dafydd et al was lodged with the NHS and was the responsibility of the Medical Ombudsman in the Welsh Office, Professor Robert Owen. Who was one of Dafydd's mates from the Liverpool branch of Dafydd's empire. Robert Owen was the Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Liverpool and also worked as a consultant at Alder Hey Children's Hospital (see post 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen'). While my complaint was supposedly being handled, the crooked lawyer from the Welsh Office, Andrew Park, was busy advising Dafydd et al on fitting me up…
By Feb 1988, the shit was hitting the fan in Cleveland in the form of the child abuse scandal there, which was the result of the gang operating in the north east of England with direct links to Dafydd et al in north Wales. Lord Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was employed to Chair the whitewash for that matter. See post 'Twas The Night Before Christmas And The Culprits Were Named'. Butler-Sloss was the sister of Michael Havers, who as Attorney General under Thatcher had blocked the prosecution of a number of well-connected paedophiles, including the diplomat and MI6 officer, Sir Peter Hayman.
Alf Dubs's constituency of Battersea fell within Wandsworth Borough Council. Wandsworth Council, along with the staff of St George's Hospital Medical School and Springfield Hospital, were facilitating a big paedophile ring which operated in south London (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'). My documents show that there was a direct link between Wandsworth Social Services and Lucille Hughes of Gwynedd Social Services, Tony Francis and Dafydd. There were also direct links between St George's/Springfield and Tony Francis and Dafydd. Donald Naismith, the Director of Education for Wandsworth, was known to be an active paedophile who was abusing kids in care. See previous posts.
St George's Hospital had a close historical link with the Duke of Westminster. The Duke's ancestors had donated the money and land which had led to the establishment of the original St George's at Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge. When St George's relocated to their new building in Tooting Broadway in 1980, the Duke demanded of Thatch that the Hyde Park Corner building – worth a great deal of money – should be returned to him, although it belonged to the Dept of Heath. The Duke was allowed to buy the building back for £6k… See previous posts.
In 1988, the year that Alf's True Story took the world by storm, Professor Sir William Asscher, who as a Top Doctor in Cardiff for many years concealed organised abuse right across Wales, was appointed Dean of St George's. When in Wales, Asscher had concealed George Thomas's offending and the crimes of Dafydd et al. The previous Dean of St George's had been deposed after Oliver Brooke, the Prof of Paediatrics at St George's, was imprisoned in 1986 for the possession of child porn. Ollie was a big player in a pan-European paedophile ring. Asscher spent the next eight years concealing the rest of the ring at St George's/Springfield/Wandsworth, on Alf's doorstep.
William Asscher's first name was Adolf but he preferred not to use it. Asscher's family were Dutch Jews who were deported to Westerbork transit camp, where Asscher's mother secured their release in 1943 by fabricating claims to be of English descent. The family then came to Britain. See previous posts.
Adolf Asscher was just two years younger than Alf Dubbs.
In 1988, matters regarding the paedophile ring in the Leicestershire area were beginning to gather steam. Investigations were beginning after complaints about, among others, Greville Janner, one of Dubs's fellow Labour MPs. Janner was a barrister, also Jewish and a leading light in the Jewish community. Janner's father, Barnett Janner, had held Janner's Leicester seat before him. Barnett Janner was also a lawyer and leader in the Jewish community who had moved to Leicester from Cardiff when Barnett was younger and in search of a seat.
In the autumn of 1987, Dr James Earp of the Towers Hospital, Leicester, concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al in north Wales. See previous posts.
One high profile lawyer in south Wales in 1988 was Leo Abse, a Jewish lawyer who until June 1987 had been the Labour MP for Torfaen. Abse was a crook and a close friend of George Thomas. Abse admitted threatening and paying people off in order to protect George Thomas (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Leo Abse's brother Danny was a poet and worked as a Top Doctor in south Wales. The Abse family all had a keen interest in psychoanalysis. See previous posts.
It was Leo Abse who, virtually single-handedly, was responsible for the Children Act 1975, which resulted in hundreds of kids in care being sent to north Wales (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'). Abse twisted the arms of Jim Callaghan and Dr Death in order to help him achieve this aim. Jim Callaghan had known Glenys Kinnock's parents as long ago as when Glenys was a schoolgirl in Holyhead. Dr Death personally knew some of the Top Docs in north Wales who were facilitating Dafydd's gang (see posts 'Dr Death' and We've Been Expecting You…'). Audrey Callaghan was in on the dinners where Leo Abse persuaded Jim Callaghan to support a rewriting of the legislation with regard to the welfare of children. Audrey had colluded with child abuse when she had sat on the London County Council. In 1969, Audrey Callaghan became the Chair of the Board of Governors of Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Savile dropped in on the kiddies trapped in their hospital beds whenever he felt like it. Audrey continued raising funds for GOSH for the next thirty years. The Princess of Wales was President of GOSH from 1989 and Di was involved with the fund-raising efforts of GOSH.
Leo Abse has been investigated for historical sex offences.
Jim Callaghan hated George Thomas but concealed his activities because Thomas was such a big vote puller in south Wales. George Thomas was an enthusiastic supporter of medical charidees and also did much for the University Hospital in Cardiff, which was where William Asscher worked. Now which south Wales big wigs with feet in Cardiff and London and interests in medical charidees could have possibly been instrumental in the relocation of William Asscher to St George's when the wheels very nearly came off the bandwagon after Ollie was jailed??
Here's a smug old bastard who ensured that no-one would vote Labour for a very long time:
Is that a finger part of a hand covered in blood??
Leo Abse had supporters in the form of the Windbags. The Windbags were quoted in the press as having said of Leo Abse that 'Leo was courageous, highly principled, very funny and totally unique.' Leo was also very unpleasant.
The Windbags were friends with Claire Rayner, an Angel who by the 1980s was a regular on the BBC and in the tabloids. Rayner knew about organised abuse of children and vulnerable people at the hands of health and welfare professionals, she knew about Jimmy Savile and remained silent about all of it throughout her entire life (see post 'The Wretched Of The Earth'). Claire Rayner is a good friend of Helena Kennedy QC.
Helena was a leading light in WISH (Women In Special Hospitals) which was established in the mid-1980s to support female patients in Broadmoor, Ashworth and Rampton. Helena knew that scores of women in those institutions were there for no other reason than that they repeatedly self-harmed or tried to kill themselves as a result of the abuse that they had suffered as kids in care or in the mental health system. Helena said nothing about this and she said nothing about Savile's offending in Broadmoor either, although two female patients there killed themselves because of Savile's assaults on them. See post 'Close Your Eyes And Make A WISH'. For years, Helena worked closely with Professor Nigel Eastman of St George's/Springfield Hospital (see post 'Eve Was Framed – As Were A Lot Of Other People'), who was one of those concealing the trafficking ring in south London and who also colluded with Dafydd et al in north Wales (see previous posts).
The Windbag is Wales Patron of the Helena Kennedy Foundation.
Helena Kennedy worked with Claire Rayner on the panel which provided the advice re medical services in HMP Holloway in 1999, when there were great numbers of seriously distressed women in Holloway. The advice provided by Rayner and St Helena was to transfer the women to secure hospitals – where many of them had previously been abused…
The Holloway 'initiative' involving Rayner and Kennedy was announced on the day that Miranda's Prisons Minister Paul Boateng visited Holloway. It was the Windbag who made Paul Boateng a junior Treasury spokesman in 1989.
As a young barrister, Helena Kennedy worked in Took's Court, Michael Mansfield's chambers. Mansfield lived in Wandsworth. Mansfield knew what was happening in north Wales and did not respond to it, even when I wrote to him in 1993. Mansfield had handled the trials of some of the men who rioted at Risley Remand Centre in 1989. Mansfield knew that the medical wing at Risley was full of kids in care from north Wales and Dafydd's patients (see post 'Include Me Out'). Mansfield didn't represent them or ever talk about their plight.
Helena Kennedy was President of the National Children's Bureau (NCB), with which the paedophile social work academic Peter Righton was involved. Righton was employed by Keele University; Mansfield is a Keele graduate.
After discovering his own True Story, Alf Dubs campaigned for Nicholas Winton to be honoured. Winton was knighted in 2002.
Dubs was educated at Cheadle Hulme School, which is in Greater Manchester, near to the wealthy parts of Cheshire eg. Wilmslow, Altrincham. Many of the professional people who concealed Dafydd's gang which operated in north Wales/Cheshire lived in the Wilmslow/Altrincham area. Dubs studied at the LSE, an institution which educated numerous people who were either involved in the abuse in north Wales/Cheshire or who concealed it. Dubs worked as a local government officer before entering politics. The local government officers trade unions NUPE and NALGO – which merged to form UNISON – contained many people who had been involved with the abuse of children in care. Not only did NUPE and NALGO provide full protection to their members who had abused children, but in some cases – including in north Wales/Cheshire – it was the union reps who had abused the kids. Jeremy Corbyn worked for NUPE before he became an MP and Alun Michael, whom Miranda imposed upon Wales as First Secretary/FM – Michael is another Keele University graduate – also had a deep and meaningful relationship with NUPE.
Dubs lost his Commons seat at the General Election of 1987. From 1988 to 1995, Dubs was Director of the Refugee Council. In 1994, he became a Labour peer. On 9 June 1994, Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, died of an 'unspecified blood disease'. On 13 June 1994, the trial of Arnold's friend and colleague at Bryn Estyn, Peter Howarth, for sexually abusing boys in care began. John Smith, the Leader of the Labour Party, had died on 12 May 1994 after Bart's hospital had been unable to revive him following a heart attack. On 8 July 1994, Peter Howarth was found guilty of child sexual abuse and sentenced to ten years in prison. Miranda became Leader of the Labour Party on 21 July 1994.
Before becoming an MP, Miranda had been a pupil barrister of George Carman QC, the crooked, much-feared barrister who was retained by Jimmy Savile. Cherie worked in Carman's Chambers until 1988. Before Carman relocated to London after he acted for Jeremy Thorpe at the Old Bailey in 1979, Carman worked in Chambers in Manchester and lived in Cheshire, on Lord Alf Dubs' old stomping ground. It was the presence of Killer Carman in particular on the planet that caused so many people to feel that they could not print a word about Savile or indeed the rest of the crew, including Dafydd. When Gillian Taylforth, the East Enders actress, sued 'The Sun' for libel in Jan 1994, Carman caused her so much distress that Taylforth collapsed in court. The scene was treated as one huge entertaining spectacle. Taylforth lost the case and it cost her a fortune. The Presiding judge was Justice Drake, who had presided over the Dec 1994 trial which resulted when the former North Wales Police senior officer Gordon Anglesea sued 'Private Eye' and others for libel after they had published allegations that Anglesea had sexually abused boys in care in north Wales. Anglesea won nearly £400k damages. George Carman QC represented 'Private Eye' et al and I believe deliberately threw the case (see posts 'Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd' and 'Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd – A Few Additional Comments'). Shortly after the trial, one of the witnesses, Mark Humphreys, was found dead.
In 2016 Gordon Anglesea was convicted of the historical abuse of boys in care in north Wales and was imprisoned.
George Carman provided legal advice to a number of newspapers, including, for quite some time, to the Mirror. Which employed Miranda's PR man Alastair Campbell, who doubles up as a MIND ambassador.
For years, people told me repeatedly that if I tried to take on Dafydd et al in court or ever published a word about them, they would produce George Carman QC and I'd be eaten for breakfast. Now I am sure that was true. But I'd like to make the point that the only reason why, after 1987-88, that Carman or someone like him could have devoured me was that by then, Dafydd et al had been allowed to lie and lie and lie – and document those lies as fact and send them to third parties – about me, as well as about my friends who knew what Dafydd et al had done and it would have been those lies that Carman would have relied upon to discredit us. When I first raised concerns about those we know and love, I, Brown, my two media friends and two other academic friends would have made excellent witnesses. We did not have criminal records, we were not alcoholics or addicts and none of us had been involved in sex work, porn etc. None of us had any of the characteristics that were used to discredit every other witness. Furthermore, my medical records were full of written admissions by Dafydd himself, as well as his colleagues, that the most serious crimes had been committed by them. Those documents were unlawfully witheld from me for decades; because the contents would have been enough to put a few people in prison.
The only reason why no-one could find ANYONE considered credible to give evidence against Dafydd et al was that every witness had been systematically trashed, unlawfully, by the forces of the state. I have mentioned many times previously on this blog that I have been made aware that EVERYTHING, from the day that I arrived at UCNW, was recorded by the security services because the whole place was bugged, probably because of the IRA and Welsh activism in UCNW, but also because of the fall-out from Mary Wynch's case. No-one bugged UCNW – and later St George's – to protect us. The info gained was used to protect Dafydd et al.
What use is it if MI5 record a gang of people traffickers threatening and intimidating a student who has complained about them and forging documents about her if they do not put a stop to it? What did they think they were doing when they recorded me telling my tutor and Dr D.G.E. Wood that Brown was receiving murder threats, knowing that the idiots Bell and Wood ignored me? The security services, over a period of years, recorded a murdering criminal gang at work. They did not stop them and they did not warn their targets/victims. That is why Killer Carman could put the fear of God into honest witnesses; he knew they all been fitted up and smeared and if anyone challenged him the crooked old bastard would just order a load of lies from members of the gang employed as professional people. Medical records were always an occasion for a party on behalf of the likes of Carman and they'd have had a ball with mine. They were substantially untrue and Carman would have known that, but no-one would have given a stuff.
Carman had such a serious alcohol problem that he employed his own personal Top Doc, who on one occasion set up an intravenous drip when Carman collapsed from alcohol poisoning in court. I bet that none of the 'not credible' witnesses to Dafydd et al have ever collapsed in court from alcohol poisoning. I can imagine what would have been said if they did.
Alastair Campbell was for a time as drunk as George Carman. Does that make Alastair someone who is Telling Lies About Top Doctors? No, it makes Alastair a MIND ambassador and the PM's Press Officer.
It is not true that there was no evidence of a VIP paedophile gang in north Wales/Cheshire, there was mountains of evidence. The full forces of the British state were used to ensure that none of that evidence ever saw the light of day.
As for events in 1994, my documentation shows that while Matt Arnold was dying and Peter Howarth was standing trial and Miranda was busying himself becoming Leader of the Labour Party, those we know and love were carefully planning – yet again – my incarceration in a secure hospital. The plan swung into action after I and another patient had a meeting with two members of the Mental Health Act Commission and told them that Dafydd was sexually exploiting patients and that serious complaints were not being investigated. We were told by the members of the Commission, in front of nursing officer Jeff Crowther, that they had heard such complaints about Dafydd 'all before'. Our complaints were never investigated, by the Commission or anyone else. At the time, William Bingley was Chief Exec of the Commission. After we made those complaints, Dafydd et al staged the throwing of a brick through his glass door in the early hours of the morning and claimed that I had done it. On the basis of no evidence at all linking me with this crime which had been staged anyway, details of this were given to the High Court in Liverpool to demonstrate what a danger to Dafydd I was. See posts 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' and 'The Banality Of Evil'.
That brick has now become part of my 'history'. Ooh she threw a brick through Dafydd's door. Er – no, we've agreed that she didn't. But we've recorded it all anyway and sworn it in an affidavit to Liverpool High Court. So we know that it happened!
In 1994, the Jillings investigation into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council since 1974 was underway. The Jillings Report was published in 1996 and concluded that the abuse had been horrific and that the organised abuse of children in north Wales had stretched back way before 1974, probably as far back as the 1940s. Not that anyone but Clwyd County Council's own insurers and lawyers ever read the Jillings Report. On the advice of Michael Beloff QC, the legal adviser to Municipal Mutual, Clwyd County Council's insurers – Municipal Mutual also insured the North Wales Police – the report was witheld from everyone, including Clwyd's own Councillors and subsequently pulped. See post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…'.
Michael Beloff QC was and is a friend and colleague of Cherie and Beloff was a visitor to Chequers when Miranda became PM. Michael's dad Lord Max Beloff was a pal of Ioan Bowen Rees, the Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council who oversaw the abuse of kids in the care of Gwynedd. Lord Max was also involved with Thatcher's fave university, the private University of Buckingham, of which Thatch served as Chancellor. See previous posts.
To return to Lord Alf, the hero of this story. He was given a peerage – in 1994! – and served as a junior Minister in the N Ireland Office, May 1997-Dec 1999, under Secretary of State Mo Mowlam. Who had spent her career in the north east of England, who knew about the trafficking gang up there which had direct links to Dafydd et al in north Wales and who as N Ireland Secretary knew all about the VIP paedophile at Kincora Boys' Home, which was linked to the other gangs on mainland Britain. Lord Alf would have known about Kincora as well. Mo's Top Doctor also assisted in the lies about Mo's health when she developed a brain tumour. Mo was in a ropey state for a long time and it affected her performance when she was in the N Ireland office; this was known but concealed.
While Alf Dubs was still in the Commons, Labour supporting comedian John O'Farrell worked in Dubs's office and was a Labour activist in Battersea. In his book, Things Can Only Get Better, O'Farrell described the events leading up to Dubs's shock defeat by the Conservative John Bowis at the 1987 General Election. In 1986, my two friends who were sacked from the Royal Television Society and the BBC in the early 1990s shared a flat in Bethnal Green with some other Stirling University graduates, one of whom was a woman called Julia, who was then John O'Farrell's girlfriend. Julia was very hostile to me when I shared the flat with them all for a short while in the autumn of 1986 and her 'bad vibes' as my friends described the situation continued towards my friends after I had moved out…
I remember it well, Julia sitting there glowering at us without explanation for hours on end. Never mind Julia, your ex did really well out of it, even if I and my two friends ended up with gangsters after us! O'Farrell wrote jokes for Gordon Brown and other New Labour big wigs…
Why did the Leftie cross the road? Er – some gangsters running a VIP trafficking ring were after his girlfriends' flatmates and the Labour Party were too fucking spineless to speak up…
O'Farrell successfully campaigned for a new state secondary school to be opened in Lambeth – the Lambeth Academy – and became the Chair of Governors from its opening in 2004 until 2012.
Alf served on an Area Health Authority and more recently on a Mental Health Trust. I haven't found out which ones, but ooh I can make a few guesses. Dubs was Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Commission until December 2003 and had previously been Deputy Chair of the Independent Television Commission. He is a Trustee of the Open University Foundation.
In the past, Dubs has been a local councillor, Chair of the Fabian Society, Chair of Liberty, a Trustee of Action Aid, a Trustee of the Immigration Advisory Service and of a number of other voluntary organisations.
Three patients at the Hergest Unit who were witness to the serious wrongdoing of Dafydd et al were involved with Action Aid.
In it's previous incarnation, Liberty was the NCCL and there was much embarrassment when all that business of the NCCL supporting paedophiles' rights in the 1970s appeared in the press some four years ago. Paul Boateng and Helena Kennedy were both leading lights in the NCCL.
Dubs is a Patron of Humanists UK, formerly known as the British Humanist Association. Claire Rayner served as both Vice-President and President of the British Humanist Association and many other paedophiles' friends have been involved with the BHA (see previous posts).
In the Lords, Dubs has spoken on varied subjects including the National Probation Service and road safety. Dubs was Chair of the Road Safety Foundation. In north Wales, the Probation Service was involved with the organised abuse of children and vulnerable people.
Dubs lists his main home as a cottage in the Lake District in Cumbria, which enabled him to claim over £26,000 of overnight subsistence expenses in 2007/2008, although he has lived in Notting Hill, west London, since 1964. In May 2009, he argued in justification that Lords regard the overnight allowance as a payment in lieu of salary. "We are the only legislators in the world that don't get paid," he said. "The overnight thing is quite generous because it compensates for not having a salary. In practice that's how it works."
Dubs is a Vice-President of the Debating Group.
So Lord Alf, how did all that Compassion of yours somehow miss the enormous criminal network with its HQ on your doorstep in Wandsworth which traded in children and vulnerable people? You've been the public face of Waifs In Need since 1988. You knew that Ollie at St George's had been imprisoned and following that there were three high profile scandals at St George's starring Ollie's colleagues. Then there were high profile investigations into paedophile rings in Islington, North Wales, Lambeth, Leicester and other places. Your colleague Greville Janner was interviewed under caution with regard to sexual assaults on children in 1990. Don't tell me that you didn't notice, because when Greville next appeared in the Commons, he was greeted with a round of applause, so happy were you all to see his his face again.
Lord Alf remained schtum throughout the Waterhouse Inquiry, the more recent revelations re Jimmy Savile and since then the discussions regarding the Westminster Paedophile Ring, including the offending of his fellow Labour peer Viscount Tonypandy.
Ever since Esther discovered Lord Alf's True Story, at certain times of Peak Distress for Dafydd et al, Lord Alf has been trotted out in the media to remind the world that he was once a Waif who was rescued from Hitler. Little Nell Hodge played the Hitler card the other day when Jeremy Corbyn hurt her feelings; Little Nell was the Leader of Islington Borough Council when the paedophile gang which murdered some of the witnesses operated within that Council. Greville raised the spectre of Hitler as well when he first stood accused; he claimed that the allegations against him were a result of anti-semitism.
Anti-semitism does exist, but we should not allow people who very obviously have questions to answer to muddy the waters by conjuring up images of Hitler which are completely irrelevant to matters under discussion.
Oh, by the way – Esther is Jewish aren't you Esther?
It is not anti-semitism, this is about NETWORKS which are being utilised. The Jewish network is not the only network that was/is used by this lot, they have used and exploited every network which any of them have ever touched.
The biggest and best network of all at their fingertips is that of the Top Doctors.
Esther felt the full force of the Top Doctors when the BBC and Esther were sued by Dr Sidney Gee in 1984 after Esther featured him on 'That's Life!' in June 1983. Sidney Gee was a 'weight loss specialist' who, from what I deduced, certainly had questions to answer. He wasn't as excessive as Dafydd, but if I wanted to lose weight I would not have gone to Sidney Gee, no matter how desperate I was. Sidney Gee also sued two Top Doctors who appeared on 'That's Life' discussing his treatment of patients, Dr Clemency Mitchell, a GP from Berkshire and Dr Roger Blackwood, a consultant physician at the King Edward Hospital, Windsor. Other defendants were the Chief Presenter of 'That's Life' Gavin Campbell and Gordon Watts, Editor. Gee won the case and it cost the BBC more than a million.
Who acted for Dr Sidney Gee? Er, a Michael Beloff QC…
Esther never touched a Top Doctor again; shortly after Sidney Gee clobbered her, she joined forces with them when she launched her lame anti-child abuse campaign, then her mental health campaign, then her anti-drugs campaign… Child Abuse, Mental Illness, Drug Abuse – can anyone see Dafydd hidden in the picture?
Esther nearly got her fingers burnt again when in 1987, she exposed Holyrood House, a 'nursing home' for psych patients in Llandudno, in which patients were being beaten up and abused. Esther named and shamed one Margaret Richards as managing Holyrood House. Esther didn't mention that all of the patients in Holyrood House had been sent there by one Dafydd Alun Jones and that he knew exactly what was happening to them. Nor did Esther mention the widespread rumours that Margaret Richards was yet another person whom Dafydd was shagging, that she purchased his suits for him – which might have been why they never fitted – and that she was involved in crime in Llandudno. Esther quietly and very quickly dropped her interest in Holyrood House and returned to ringing the gas board and naming and shaming petty poorly paid officials as Jobsworth of the Month.
Millionaire Top Docs forcing kids and patients into sex work? No, Esther wasn't going there. However she was happy to provide endless free PR for them.
In 1988 Esther launched another lame show, 'Hearts Of Gold'. I have mentioned before that for a laugh my friends and I entered Dafydd for 'Hearts Of Gold' and asked Esther if Dafydd and his patients could meet Bob Monkhouse because they all loved 'Bob's Full House'. We pretended that the letter was from Janice Davies, Dafydd's lying, crooked Nurse Rached at the North Wales Hospital. We never heard back from 'Hearts Of Gold', but years later, I found a copy of my letter to 'Hearts Of Gold' in my medical records, with accompanying documentation from those we know and love: Look what she has done now!!! Janice is a Senior Angel at the North Wales Hospital and she has IMPERSONATED Janice!!!
So who was Dafydd's contact at 'Hearts Of Gold' then BBC??
Lord Max Beloff was not the only link between Ioan Bowen Rees, the Fiery Welsh Nationalist Who Was Of The Gwerin And Who Hated The English. Ioan – who was incredibly enough an expert on local democracy and even published some highly rated volumes in the field, one of which was highly recommended by Lord Max – co-authored with the Irish historian Owen Dudley Edwards (see post 'Events, Dear Boy, Events'). Owen Dudley Edwards is the brother of Irish writer Ruth Dudley Edwards. Ruth Dudley Edwards was married to Patrick Cosgrave.
Patrick Cosgrave brought up a Catholic, in poverty in Ireland. Cosgrave rebelled against the severe Catholic piety of his mother and his teachers and acquired a love of British history (or a certain interpretation of it) as a teenager, from reading Kipling, Churchill and Lawrence of Arabia. At University College Dublin, Cosgrave embraced the epithet "West Brit"; at a debate, when an opponent accused him of being "to the Right of Douglas-Home", Cosgrave retorted that he was "to the Right of Lord Salisbury". Cosgrave claimed that his grandfather, a warden in Mountjoy Prison, had beaten up Kevin Berry, a Republican rebel executed in 1920. Cosgrave partnered Anthony Clare to win the 'Irish Times' debate and the 'Observer Mace' debate.
Anthony Clare was an associate of Dafydd's from the Maudsley, who colluded with serious crime yet was robustly promoted by the BBC as a Caring Top Doc who's hands were unsullied with the blood of the barbaric asylum docs from past times.
Patrick Cosgrave did his PhD at Peterhouse at Cambridge, which was renowned as a college where gay male students, along with some of their tutors did interesting things such as dressing up in women's clothes and adopting girls' names. Michael Portillo took part in such japes when he was at Peterhouse. Cosgrave was was among the Peterhouse alumni nicknamed "the reactionary chic" by the 'New Statesman'.
Having freelanced for Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE) while at UCD, Cosgrave was appointed as their London correspondent in 1968, when the Northern Irish Troubles revived. Cosgrave met all the leading politicians at Westminster, who were then brushing up on their Irish history and Cosgrave provided RTE with the fruits of his contacts. So Cosgrave knew about Kincora and allowed himself to be used by the British state, who ensured that the crime continued and that those responsible were never held to account.
After helping out the Gov't which caused so much trouble in N Ireland, in 1969, Cosgrave joined the Conservative Research Dept, which was at the time known for being a haven of gay male Tories, some of whom went cruising for boys when in London and enjoyed holidays at a venue in Italy known as the 'villa of shame', where, according to Matthew Parris, 'willing boys' were supplied. At the Conservative Research Dept, Cosgrave became a Zionist. His job there included briefing Edward Heath on Prime Minister's Questions, while continuing to write for 'The Spectator'.
Cosgrave became political editor of 'The Spectator' in 1971, where his numerous, often scathing, articles about Heath's leadership were influential in effecting the change to Thatch.
In 1975, Cosgrave became Thatch's advisor while she was Leader of the Opposition. One person who had been key to Thatch becoming Leader of the Tories in 1975 was Peter Morrison. Thatch dropped Cosgrave after winning power in 1979, although as her adviser, he had been viewed as a futire Cabinet Minister. By 1979, Cosgrave's excessive boozing was impairing his reliability.
Subsequently, Cosgrave was briefly Editor-in-Chief of Tiny Rowland's Lonrho publications. After this, Cosgrave earned a precarious living as a freelance journalist and by writing books, mainly political biographies. Among other publications, he wrote for 'The Times', 'The Daily Torygraph' and 'The Independent'.
Cosgrave's 1978 biography of Thatch was faulted for hero-worship. His biography of Enoch Powell, whom he also admired, was made with access to Powell and his correspondence.
Cosgrave obtained a British passport and sometimes attended services of the Church of England, while remaining agnostic.
Cosgrave married three times and divorced twice. It was his first marriage in 1965 that was to Ruth Dudley Edwards, his fellow student at UCD and, later, Cambridge. He married Norma Green, mother of his daughter Rebecca, in 1974; and Shirley Ward in 1981. Shirley Ward was Secretary of the European Democrats at the European Parliament.
Patrick Cosgrave had financial problems from the late 1970s and when Norma Green left him in 1980, Rebecca was made a ward of court. I bet that no-one dared entrust Rebecca's welfare to Gwynedd Social Services. In 1981 the Inland Revenue filed a tax demand for over £10,000 and Cosgrave was declared bankrupt.His debt of £18,700 was discharged in 1985.
Cosgrave died of heart failure at the age of 59 in 2001, the year following the Waterhouse Report. His poor health was exacerbated by heavy drinking and smoking.
The Defender of Fortress Gwynedd Against Thatch:
It'll be Christmas before too long, so I'll get ready to drive around Caernarfon equipped with a loud hailer on the car roof, to give everyone a rendering of some traditional Gwynedd County Council hymns and arias, including 'Yma O Hyd' and of course 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me'. See you at the festivities Dafydd Iwan!
Now Lord Alf, do us all a favour and spare us your Compassion. We've all suffered quite enough at the hands of Mindfulness practitioners. When they spread their Compassion around north Wales, the following scenarios were not unusual:
This is what you did. All of you. While you bollocked on about Enemies Within, about being the first Kinnock in a Thousand Generations and Caring and Sharing and Prison Works and being Tough On Crime and Tough On The Causes of Crime. The security services knew exactly what was going on and told their political masters, who decided that it was going to continue.
People who went to the police were found dead. Or sometimes their children were.
Now just fuck off, the lot of you. You have caused enormous suffering and it was my friends who died while you troughed. Fuck off and now. You have been exposed for what you are and we don't need any more of you mouthing off about Compassion or Stigma or Men Who Won't Share.
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I mentioned in a previous post that when I was young I was keen on a comic called 'Bunty' which was substantially composed of stories of girls in boarding schools tackling serious organised crime. Along the top of the pages featuring the crime-cracking school girls were words of advice to the readers which frequently included 'Remember girls – never get into a car with a stranger!'. The 'Bunty' readers were sadly never warned against people traffickers who doubled up as Top Doctors, but then the criminals in 'Bunty', as with the criminals in Enid Blyton stories, were always a bit working class. The likes of Professor Oliver Brooke or his lawyers never got a look in.
Sadly, girls growing up in the 1970s were expected to graduate from 'Bunty' to a sickening publication called 'Jackie', which was the best-selling teenaged girls' magazine at the time. I spent my teenage years sneering at 'Jackie' and I was lucky enough to have a close friend who also found 'Jackie' deeply vomit-inducing, with its advice on shaving one's legs and armpits and reminding one that the most important thing in the world was gaining the approval of a 14 year old boy. My mate and I would sit in the classroom at school in the morning just before formal lessons began on the day that the latest issue of 'Jackie' would be available and just about every other girl in the room would have their nose stuck in 'Jackie'. Years later I read Angela McRobbie's work – which I think was based on her PhD thesis – 'Jackie, A Study of Adolescent Femininity', which very effectively analysed the toxic messages conveyed to girls by that publication. It was also more recently admitted that the notorious problem page in 'Jackie', the Cathy and Claire page, while only publishing readers letters which were concerned with a crush on a teacher or a drip of a boy whom the reader was too shy to approach, was receiving letters from girls who were being sexually exploited or who were suicidal but there was a policy of ignoring those letters. They were deemed 'unsuitable' for inclusion in the magazine and furthermore no-one even replied to those letters privately. I was interested to hear about this, because my anti-Jackie friend and I used to discuss the possibility that people with serious problems were writing into 'Jackie' but were being ignored.
For many years the Editor of 'Jackie' was Nina Myscow, who later found fame and fortune writing offensive things in the tabloids and insulting the wanna-be acts on 'New Faces'. Perhaps Nina could let us know if those desperate readers whom we now know wrote to Cathy and Claire after being sexually assaulted named their assailants and if so were any of the people named known to the public as celebs?
The one thing that I did get wrong about 'Jackie' was my belief that it had a predominantly working-class readership. Because of the staggeringly bad 'careers advice' dispensed by Jackie – when girls wrote in expressing an interest in vet science or medicine they were always reminded that you had to be 'ever so clever to do that' and it was suggested that they should think about secretarial work or nursing instead, with no consideration at all that some of the readers will have been capable of achieving the A levels necessary – I presumed that 'Jackie' was aimed at girls in the sort of school that I attended, but I later found out that it did have a readership among girls who's parents had professional jobs as well.
Recent revelations about the sexual exploitation of teenagers – boys as well as girls – over the past decades by people involved with the pop music industry makes 'Jackie' and other teen magazines of the recent past even more worrying in terms of their uncritical promotion of an industry which was grossly abusing people whom those magazines were targeting. One reason why Jimmy Savile was considered untouchable was that he was running a racket in which youngsters were being procured for the sexual use of 'VIPs'. 'VIPs' including everyone from politicians to people involved with the music industry. Dafydd's gang in north Wales, which had links to Savile, served the same purpose. The trade in young people for the music industry went back years, before the early 1960s, which was how Savile became so influential, he pioneered it.
My post 'We've Been Expecting You…' mentioned the paedophile/trafficking ring in Leicester and the fact that Lord Robert Kilpatrick, the Dean of Leicester Medical School, colluded with it. Kilpatrick's wiki entry says very little about him, despite him having been such a big name in the medical establishment for so many years, so I haven't previously blogged much about him. However Kilpatrick's 2015 obituary published by 'The Scotsman' tells us more.
According to 'The Scotsman' Robert Kilpatrick was a 'much-respected reforming' President of the GMC, 1989–95 and 'was instrumental in encouraging doctors at all levels to listen to their patients'. Kilpatrick was such a reforming President that the GMC continued to fail to take any action at all against Dafydd et al or indeed Harold Shipman and were also in possession of a forged document purporting to be a letter from me after Kilpatrick had done all that reforming (see post 'The General Medical Council And Yet Another Forged Document').
In 1993 Kilpatrick published the first 'Tomorrow's Doctors' report, which provided a universal curriculum for medical students, 'recommending a greater emphasis on clinical and practical experience', which 'influenced medical training worldwide'. So what went wrong?
'The Scotsman' assures us that Kilpatrick was a 'towering figure in UK medicine', serving 'with distinction' as Dean of Sheffield Medical School, 1970-73, Dean of Leicester Medical School, 1973-89 as well as President of the GMC and of the BMA. So after concealing the paedophile gang that was operating in Yorkshire, in which Savile played a key role, Kilpatrick graduated to concealing the gang in Leicester which obviously had Leicester Medical School eating out of its hand from the day that the Medical School was established in Leicester University, which had been colluding with the gang for years (see post 'Gwlad y Menig Gwynion').
Finlay Scott was the GMC's Chief Executive during Kilpatrick's years and told 'The Scotsman' that: 'Robert was an outstanding clinician and President of the GMC. It was his energy and drive that got the legislation through Parliament on performance procedures in the profession'.
Robert Kilpatrick was born to a miner working in the Fife coal fields. He was a 'star pupil' at Buckhaven High School and at 16 he won a scholarship to Edinburgh University to read medicine. Being less privileged than many of his peers, he had to partly support himself and worked as a potato gauger and in local factories in the vacations. Kilpatrick was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship at Harvard. He returned to the UK in 1955, was appointed senior lecturer at Sheffield University and then became Dean of the Medical School. Kilpatrick was the first Dean of Leicester Medical School, 'where his pioneering spirit and thirst to educate and improve methods were immediately recognised'. He turned 'the fledgling school into a major force in the profession and it was soon hailed internationally'. I wonder how Kilpatrick achieved that then?
Even more intriguingly, Kilpatrick 'introduced a highly innovative medical course and through persuasion and charm found the funding to support the programmes.' So someone gave him dosh as well!
'Over the ten years of his stewardship he furthered the role of research…and improved patient care in all the Leicester hospitals'. So that's why the recent explosion involving Dr Bawa-Gharba and the death of her young patient revealed massive lethal failings throughout Leicester Royal Infirmary and negligence so serious that staff too frightened to be identified have stated that the hospital has been dangerous for many years but that this has been concealed (see post 'We've Been Expecting You…').
Kilpatrick became 'so esteemed within the medical profession that he sat on several important advisory commissions. In 1989 he left Leicester to assume the post of president of the GMC'. Dr James Earp of the Towers Hospital Leicester concealed the criminality of Dafydd et al in the autumn of 1987 (see post 'An Expert From England'). In 1989 the then biggest ever investigation into institutionalised child abuse was launched in Leicestershire. In April 1990 Leicestershire social worker Frank Beck was arrested for sexual misconduct in Leicestershire children's homes during the 1970s and 1980s. Beck spent the next eighteen months on remand and on 29 November 1991, following an eleven-week trial at the Leicester Crown Court, Beck was sentenced to five life-terms for sexual and physical assaults against more than one hundred children in his care. He was sentenced to a further twenty-four years on seventeen charges of abuse, including rape.
In their book, Abuse of Trust, Mark D'Arcy and Paul Gosling suggest that in 1977, Beck and a co-worker, Colin Fiddaman, killed a 12-year-old boy, Simon O'Donnell, by throttling him whilst he was being sexually abused, though the subsequent inquest into O'Donnell's death concluded that the boy had committed suicide after running away from a children's home run by Beck. In 1998, a former resident, Peter Bastin, stated that he witnessed Beck and Fiddaman removing what he believed to be O'Donnell's body from the home on the night before the child was found dead in a local factory. In the same year, Bastin was awarded a rumoured £50,000 compensation for the abuse and suffering he received from Beck.
Frank Beck maintained that he was innocent and had been fitted up. Beck was planning an appeal against his conviction when he was found dead in Whitemoor Prison on 31 May 1994. By 1994 the North Wales Police's investigation into the abuse of children in care in north Wales had concluded, finding 'no evidence' of a paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire and the Jillings Investigation into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council had been launched in Jan 1994.
Some children who had been in care in Leicestershire who named Frank Beck as their abuser also named Beck's friend, the Labour MP for Leicester North West, 1970-74 and Leicester West, 1974-97, Greville Janner. Janner denied everything. He was interviewed by the police in 1990 in the presence of his solicitor Sir David Napley, who was so certain that Janner would be charged that Napley retained George Carman QC. Napley and Carman had successfully defended Jeremy Thorpe, the Leader of the Liberal Party, when he stood trial for conspiracy and incitement to kill his former gay partner Norman Scott (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed'). Janner wasn't charged, although years later the CPS admitted that there was sufficient evidence to charge him and no-one could explain why he hadn't been charged. Frank Beck was elected as a Liberal Party Councillor for Blaby District Council in 1983 and successfully defended his seat in 1987. Nigel Lawson was the Tory MP for Blaby, 1974-92 and was a Cabinet Minister in Thatcher's Gov't while Sir Peter Morrison, who was molesting children in care in north Wales, Cheshire and other locations, held a number of different roles in that Gov't.
The Frank Beck case led to the Kirkwood Inquiry, Chaired by Andrew Kirkwood QC. Sittings were held in secret to protect innocent third parties, but not all evidence was released to the public. Kirkwood also held a meeting with Greville Janner in private and an agreement was made that Janner's name would not appear in the Report. The Kirkwood Inquiry reported in 1993, was strongly critical of the management of Leicestershire Social Services during the 1970s and 1980s and of the conduct of several key managers as well as of the police. The Top Doctors were not criticised although it was known that mental health treatment of youngsters in care in Leicestershire had consisted of Top Docs having meetings with social workers not the children and advising the social workers on how to handle those terribly difficult children. Frank Beck abused children while giving them 'therapy'. Before Beck was convicted, two Directors of Social Services for Leicestershire, Dorothy Edwards and Brian Rice, gave Beck glowing testimonials and references.
It was while Frank Beck was held on remand that I was forced out of my job at St George's Hospital Medical School and told by Professor Nigel Eastman, who was providing a 'second opinion' on me, to go back to north Wales. In the spring and summer of 1990 and winter and spring of 1991 there were a number of attempts by Dafydd and the gang in north Wales to imprison me on the basis of their perjury. The Assistant Director of Gwynedd Social Services, Rob Evans, who was responsible for children's homes in Gwynedd and then mental health services, trained as a social worker after studying Social Sciences at Leicester University in the mid-1970s (see post 'I Know Nuzzing…').
Richard Webster, who rubbished Alison Taylor (see post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate' and 'Heart Of Darkness') and maintained that allegations of a paedophile ring in north Wales were a result of mass hysteria and false memory syndrome, said very similar things about the allegations of serious abuse of children in Leicestershire.
Meanwhile Robert Kilpatrick developed a 'towering reputation' after his huge successes at Leicester Medical School. 'The Scotsman' tells us that Kilpatrick's 'earnest desire to raise the profile and expertise of the profession never ceased. Many colleagues recall how he had the knack of choosing the right Whitehall mandarin to approach. With his erudite and compelling manner (always free of medical jargon) he delivered his case which was listened to by ministers and their advisers. Baroness Jay, the Labour leader in the Lords, spoke for many when she said: 'Sir Robert has been generous with his time and most courteous in answering detailed questions. In a way this bill is his Private Member's Bill.'
Kilpatrick knew that he was on to a winner with Baroness Jay then. Baroness Jay began life as Margaret Callaghan, the daughter of Jim Callaghan, the former PM. Jim and Audrey Callaghan both concealed and colluded with the organised abuse of children (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'). Margaret Jay is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford – like Thatch and Shirl – and between 1965 and 1977 Jay held production posts within the BBC. She then became a journalist on 'Panorama', Thames TV's 'This Week' and presented the BBC 2 series 'Social History of Medicine'. Elwyn Parry Jones, a paedophiles' friend who grew up in Llangollen, worked as a journo for the BBC for years and was Deputy Editor of 'Panorama', 1977-85 (see post 'The Turn Of The Screw').
Margaret Jay 'has a strong interest in health issues', notably as a campaigner on HIV/AIDS. Jay was a founder Director of the National Aids Trust in 1987 and is also a Patron of Help the Aged. Between 1994 and 1997, Baroness Jay was the Chairman of the charity Attend (then the National Association of Hospital and Community Friends). In 2003, she was elected Vice-President of Attend.
After Blair's General Election victory in 1997, Jay became Health Spokesman and Minister for Women in the House of Lords. From 1998 she was Leader of the Lords. Jay retired from active politics in 2001. Among the numerous non-executive roles that she has taken on since retiring from politics, Jay was a non-executive Director of BT Group. She was Co-chair of the cross-party Iraq Commission (along with Tom King and Paddy Ashdown) which was established by the Foreign Policy Centre think-tank and Channel 4.
Margaret Jay's first husband Peter Jay was a friend of Dr Death and it was Dr Death who, in his capacity as Foreign Secretary, gave Peter Jay a job as Ambassador to the US. Peter Jay's mother Margaret (Peggy) Jay was a member of the GLC, so she will have known about the abuse of kids in boroughs such as Islington, Lambeth and Hackney as well as the abuse of kids from London Boroughs who were sent to children's homes in north Wales.
While in the USA, in 1979, Baroness Jay had an affair with the journo who exposed Watergate, Carl Bernstein. The Baroness didn't think to ask Bernstein to expose the role that her own parents had in colluding with the sexual exploitation of kids in care then. Not one to be outdone, Peter Jay then had an affair with the family's nanny, fathering a child in the process. Peter originally denied paternity, but I don't know whom he tried to blame. The Jays divorced in 1986 and the Baroness lived for a while with the Cambridge economist Robert Neild. In 1994, the Baroness married Top Doctor AIDS specialist Michael Adler, who had been Chair of the National AIDS Trust when she was its Director. Neither Adler or the Baroness have acknowledged that many of the young men who died of AIDS in the late 1980s/1990s were rent boys who had been kids in care forced into sex work (see post 'Apocalypse Now').
No wonder everyone 'listened to' Robert Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick became Lord Kilpatrick in Feb 1996. William Hague announced the North Wales Child Abuse Inquiry on 17 June 1996, although Sir Ronnie Waterhouse seemed to know that he would be Chairing that Inquiry during 1995.
The Baroness Jay of Paddington:
Frank Beck:
The Lord Lawson of Blaby
The Lord Janner of Braunstone
Marion Janner OBE with her 'support dog' Buddy, to whom Marion believes that she gave birth (see post 'Have The Lambs Stopped Screaming?')
The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the King's Fund are as deluded as Marion – they think that Marion has 'transformed patient care' in her capacity as a mental health campaigner. Somehow Marion has managed to adopt two learning disabled children, as well as give birth to that dog.
Robert Kilpatrick's superhuman qualities knew no limits. His 'constant activity' was achieved despite Kilpatrick suffering from type-I diabetes. He 'regularly had to inject insulin but he followed a strict exercise regime and walked everywhere, both in London and Edinburgh'. Kilpatrick retired to a house in Edinburgh from where he made occasional trips to London to speak in the Lords, principally arguing against euthanasia, although Kilpatrick knew that witnesses to the wrongdoing of Dafydd et al were being unlawfully denied NHS care for life-threatening conditions.
Kilpatrick was a keen golfer throughout his life. He was a member of Edinburgh's New Club as well as a member of the Royal & Ancient, 'which he loved for its friendship and tradition'. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club is now known as the The R&A. The Royal and Ancient had a male-only membership policy, this must have been one of the traditions which so endeared it to Kilpatrick. In 2012, former British PM Gordon Brown called on the club to abandon this tradition in favour of a non-discriminatory policy, as did Louise Richardson, the Principal and VC of the University of St Andrews. Louise Richardson was the first female VC of St Andrews, which caused a problem because the Royal and Ancient refused to let her cross their threshold what with her being in possession of ovaries, yet another tradition of the Royal and Ancient being that the VC of St Andrews should play a high profile role in the club. The policy was changed, along with the name of the club.
Professor Robert Bluglass, who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang in the summer of 1989 (see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE'), was a student at St Andrews and is a leading light in their alumni network. It was in 1989 that the police investigation into child abuse in Leicestershire was launched and that was the year in which dear old Kilpatrick, being so esteemed, left his job of running Leicester Medical School to take up the office of Chair of the GMC.
Bluglass quaffing champagne at an Old Warwickians' dinner:
Lord Robert Kilpatrick in ermines:
In February 2015 The R&A's first female honorary members were announced. They included Princess Anne. In 2015, Lady Angela Bonallack became the first woman to take part in a match as a member of the club; specifically, she was the first woman to play in the club's annual match against the Links Trust. Lady Bonallack seems to have been granted this honour as a result of being married to Sir Michael Bonallack, Secretary of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, 1983-99 and Captain from 1999-2000. Sir Michael has also been President of the Golf Club Managers' Association, 1974–84, Chairman of the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland, 1976–81, Chairman of the Golf Foundation, 1977–82 and President of the English Golf Union, 1982. He is the current President of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA) and also served as President of the One Armed Golfers Society, the Professional Golfers Association of Europe and as Chairman of the advisory committee for the Official World Golf Rankings. Sir Michael is also President of the National Association of Public and Proprietary Golf Courses (NAPGC).
Michael Bonallack was given a knighthood in 1998. Presumably for services to golf-playing protectors of sex traffickers and paedophiles. In 1972, Bonallack was given the Bob Jones Award, the highest honour given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. He is a member of Augusta National Golf Club and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000.
Here's The R&A clubhouse. It beats the shack which doubles up as the clubhouse of the Bangor Golf Club, of which so many of the associates of Dafydd's gang are members (see previous posts):
Frank Beck's seemingly bomb-proof invincibility saw him fend off a continued escalation of complaints about him abusing youngsters, until finally, in March 1986, his career in Leicestershire was ended by a complaint of sexual abuse made by two male residential social workers who claimed that Beck had made advances toward them during staff supervision sessions. This time, Beck was suspended from duty and he subsequently handed in his resignation rather than subject himself to investigations under the Council's protracted disciplinary procedures and risk dismissal.
As the complaints rolled in about Beck, a senior solicitor for Islington Borough Council called Keith Vaz decided that he'd quite like to be the Labour MP for Leicester East and he was selected as the prospective Labour candidate for that constituency in 1985. At that time Vaz found a job as a solicitor at the Leicester City Council-funded Belgrave Law Centre. When Vaz worked for Islington Council, there had been a paedophile ring operating in the Council's children's homes. Before working for Islington, Vaz was employed as a solicitor to Richmond-upon-Thames Borough Council, while there was a paedophile gang operating in Richmond-upon-Thames. Vaz was elected as Labour MP for Leicester East in June 1987.
Vaz was recently placed under investigation by Parliament as a result of his shenanigans involving rent boys and the attempted procuring of drugs while he passed himself off as a washing machine salesman. The investigation was suspended when Vaz produced medical evidence from a Top Doctor.
My post 'Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals' mentioned that while the welfare services ran a paedophile gang in Leicestershire, Sue Townsend, the staunch socialist, supporter of the NHS and chronicler of teenage angst that caught the hearts of the nation in the form of the Adrian Mole books, lived in Leicester and rented out rather poor properties which were never maintained to her tenants for rather high rents. Townsend was from Leicester, left school at 14 and worked in a series of casual poorly paid jobs. She married young and had three children by the time that she was 23, at which point her marriage ended and she became a single parent, enduring the hardship which she later wrote about at every opportunity.
Legend according to Sue states that one day her 13 year old son asked why they didn't go to safari parks at weekends 'like other families' and that it was this comment which began her writing that evolved into the Adrian Mole books, looking at life through the eyes of a teenager. Townsend then chose to 'research the world of teenagers' and started attending youth clubs as a volunteer organiser, which led to her training as a youth worker. She won't have been able to have avoided knowing what was happening to teenagers in care in Leicester. While employed as a supervisor at an adventure playground, Townsend went on a canoeing course and met her second husband Colin Broadway. Their relationship took a while to get off the ground because Colin was married to someone else so Sue didn't speak to him. She obviously didn't keep her legs crossed for ever though, because Colin was the father of her fourth child, Elizabeth. Subsequently, Townsend became pregnant twice more, underwent abortions, but later realised that abortions were 'wrong' so wrote about that as well.
Colin encouraged Townsend to join a writers' group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, in 1978, when she was in her early thirties. Initially 'too shy to speak', she did not write anything for six weeks, but was then given a fortnight to write a play. This became the thirty-minute drama Womberang (1979), set in the waiting room of a gynaecology department. At the Phoenix, Shy Sue who couldn't speak or write became the writer-in-residence and 'Womberang' subsequently won the 1981 Thames Television playwright award.
During her time at the Phoenix, Shy Sue was mentored by several theatre directors including Ian Giles and principally Sue Pomeroy who commissioned and directed a number of her plays. Townsend was also introduced to William Ash, then Chairman of the Soho Poly (now Soho Theatre), who also played a significant part in shaping Townsend's early career. Bill Ash was a lifelong friend of Tony Benn and co-founded the Communist Party of Great Britain, which numbered among its members a great many people who knew about Dafydd and the gang in north Wales, as well as other organised sexual exploitation gangs, including the one in Leicestershire (see previous posts). Shy Sue met writer-director Carole Hayman 'on the stairs of the Soho Poly theatre' and went on to develop many theatre pieces with her and they later co-wrote two television series.
At the time of writing the first Adrian Mole book, Townsend was living on the Eyres Monsell Estate, near the house in which playwright Joe Orton was brought up. Joe Orton came from Saffron Lane, a disadvantaged part of Leicester who's residents were considerably stigmatised and known by other people as 'Saffs'. It was the Saffs who got it in the neck from the likes of Frank Beck and the Social Services. The Eyres Monsell ward is adjacent to Blaby, which is where Frank Beck was a Councillor.
Joe Orton used to comment that he was never allowed to forget that he came from the gutter. Joe Orton was gay and famously promiscuous from a very young age. He died at the age of 34 in 1967 when his partner Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned Joe to death with a hammer at their home in Islington before killing himself with an overdose of Nembutal, or at least that is what the official story was. There are many aspects of the account which don't quite add up and Joe and Kenneth will also have known the identities of some people involved in the gay/rent boy scene who really did not ever want that involvement becoming public (see post 'Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals').
The first two published stories of Townsend's appeared in a short-lived arts' journal entitled 'magazine', in the editing and production of which Townsend was involved, featuring the character then still called Nigel Mole. Actor Nigel Bennett, a graduate of the University of Wales, had given Shy Sue 'help and encouragement' to persist with the work and sent the script to John Tydeman, the Deputy Head of BBC Radio Drama. The character first came to national awareness in a single radio play, The Diary of Nigel Mole, Aged 13¼, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on New Year's Day 1982.
John Tydeman was Deputy Head, Radio Drama at the BBC from 1979 and then Head of BBC Radio Drama, 1986-94. He joined BBC Radio Drama in 1960 and was responsible for commissioning and directing the early plays of Joe Orton and Tom Stoppard. Tydeman had introduced the theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay to Joe Orton. After Peggy Ramsay died in 1991, Tydeman became a Trustee for the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, leading to his continued support for new writing after he left the BBC, particularly through administering the Foundation's annual grant to the Pearson Playwright's Scheme, originally the Thames Television Theatre Writers Scheme, of which dear old Shy Sue had been a beneficiary…
Someone at the publishers Methuen heard the Radio 4 Nigel Mole broadcast and commissioned Townsend to write the first Mole book, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, which came out in September 1982. The publisher insisted on the change of name because of the similarity to Nigel Molesworth, the schoolboy character who was a 1950s version of Adrian Mole, created by Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans. A month after Shy Sue's book's appearance it had topped the best seller list and had sold a million copies after a year. Adapted as a play, the stage version premiéred in Leicester and ran at Wyndham Theatre for more than two years.
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984) was reputedly based on Townsend's children's experiences at a comprehensive school in Leicester in the early 1980s. My post 'Radical Leicester and Some More Free Radicals' describes how people in teaching, teacher training and education in Leicestershire knew that there was organised abuse of children in the region. The Labour MP Lisa Nandy's mum and dad worked with people who were concealing the abuse of children in Leicestershire. Lisa's grandfather was Lord Frank Byers, who insulted Norman Scott so badly when Scott told a Liberal Party investigative panel about the harassment and threats that he had received from Jeremy Thorpe that Norman left the room and subsequently made a police statement (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed').
Townsend's first two Adrian Mole books were adapted into a TV series, broadcast in 1985 and 1987.
So Shy Sue, the girl who grew up in Leicester, left school at 14 and lived with the Saffs, found that her career as a writer very rapidly took off after she found employment as a youth worker, at a time when Frank Beck and – according to most other people except for Greville Janners' children – Greville Janner, as well as others, were very busy molesting disadvantaged young people in Leicestershire. How did Shy Sue from Leicester, who's first attempts at the work which made her very wealthy and very famous seemed to equate to plagiarism of the Molesworth classics, so quickly grab the attention of big wigs in the theatre and the BBC? Shy Sue really hit the big time while huge efforts were being made to conceal the crimes of Frank Beck and co as people began to come forward alleging terrible abuse in Leicestershire which stretched back decades but had become particularly bad from the 1970s onwards…
John Tydeman's career took a turn for the better immediately after he gave Sue a helping hand as well.
Socialist Sue was so distraught at the ravages of Thatcherism that in 1989 she wrote 'Mr Bevan's Dream: Why Britain Needs Its Welfare State', a short book in the Counterblasts series. Sue did fantastically out of the welfare state, not only did she get the NHS treatment and care for her multiple health problems that the Saffs and kids in care so often didn't, but her tales of poverty and hardship were lapped up by the swathes of welfare professionals and people in the liberal media who knew some of what was happening to vulnerable people and kids in care at the hands of celebs and 'VIPs'…
The journalist Christina Patterson observed of Townsend in 2008: 'Her heart, it's clear from her books and a few hours in her company, is still with the people she left behind, the people who go largely unchronicled in literature, the people who are still her friends.' Unless of course they were Saffs and kids in care being repeatedly sexually assaulted and trafficked by Sue's social work colleagues.
It is quite extraordinary how frequently references to hearts are associated with those close to people who have concealed organised abuse:
Esther, who presented BBC's 'Hearts Of Gold':
Great Ormond Street Hospital:
The Pheonix Arts Theatre is now known as the Sue Townsend Theatre and in 1982 staged Sue's play 'Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults'.
The MP who currently holds the seat of Leicester South, the neck of the woods where Sue Townsend lived and where the Saffs still do live, is Labour's Jon Ashworth. Ashworth is the Shadow Health Spokesperson and bangs on endlessly about the marvellous Top Docs and Angels being in need of more dosh.
Ashworth grew up in Manchester, went to Bury College, then to Durham University and in 2000 served as National Secretary of Labour Students. In 2001 Ashworth began working for the Labour Party as a Political Research Officer, then worked as the Economics and Welfare Policy Officer, 2002-04. Ashworth was seconded to the Scottish Labour Party in 2003 to work on the Scottish Parliamentary election campaign where he worked closely with Gordon Brown.
In 2004 Ashworth was appointed Spad to Chief Secretary to the Treasury Paul Boateng. Ashworth was a busy campaigner in the 2007 Crewe and Nantwich by-election. In May 2010 Ashworth became Political Secretary to Harriet Harman. He was described as a 'key member' of Ed Miliband's team on the day after Miliband won the Labour leadership election. When Miliband won, he asked Ashworth to join his office as Head of Party Relations. In 2011 Ashworth sought selection in Leicester South and was immediately identified as the front runner and was backed by the major trade unions, including his own Unite, UNISON and the GMB.
Ashworth is married to Emilie, the former East Midlands Regional Director for the Labour Party. She was Labour candidate for Sherwood in the 2010 General Election, but could not hold the seat. Gordon and Sarah Brown attended their wedding on 3 July 2010 in Derbyshire.
I really am fed up of Jon Ashworth bellyaching on about The Cuts and how those who work in the NHS are flawless. So here's a few things for Jon to ponder on re his biography:
Manchester, where John grew up: Lethal mental health services, bullying and intimidation of whistleblowers; Dafydd's mate Dr Bob Hobson worked there and formed an outpost of the abuse empire in Manchester. Durham, where Jon went to university: on the patch of major paedophile ring linked to the gang in north Wales, which was concealed by Labour MPs in the North East, including Ernest and Hilary Armstrong and Mo Mowlam, for years. Scottish Labour Party, 2003: Jack McConnell, FM of Scotland, went to Stirling University with my best friend from school, who had her career destroyed and was targeted by gangsters at the same time as me, after I refused to shut up about Dafydd; McConnell knew about organised abuse in Scotland and I rather think that Lord Jack knew what was going on in north Wales as well and knew that someone whom he knew at Stirling was close friends with a witness. Paul Boateng, Ashworth's former boss: worked at lawyers Birnberg when Birnberg represented Mary Wynch against Dafydd et al for the first part of her legal action; Mary won, Birnberg dropped her, Mary was subsequently ruined by Michael Howard at the Home Office, despite winning her case. Crewe and Nantwich: centre of the Cheshire arm of Dafydd's gang, the seat was held for years by Gwyneth Dunwoody, a corrupt old bag who was married to an equally corrupt Top Doctor and they produced Tamsin, who grew up into yet another corrupt politician; all the Dunwoodys knew about the Westminster Paedophile Ring and the role of the NHS in concealing it. Harriet Harman, Ashworth's former boss: daughter of a Harley Street Top Doctor, who is as thick as pig shit and was involved with the NCCL when the NCCL was affiliated to PIE and fighting for paedophiles' rights. Ed Miliband, Ashworth's mate/leader: a goon who's Uncle Harry worked as a Top Doc at Guys and Tommy's with Dafydd's mates and who's dad knew about the Westminster Paedophile Ring as well.
Then Ashworth rocks up in Leicester, having had no previous links there, having been considering other seats. Leicester – site of a former paedophile gang which had close links to Westminster and was concealed by the NHS. Oh and Brown lives and works there as well, the Brown who, when Ashworth decided that Leicester was the place for him, had published with me on the abuses of the mental health services in north Wales and elsewhere. Jon Ashworth sought the nomination for Leicester when it became clear that Operation Pallial was going to re-open investigations into the abuse of kids in north Wales and that there was going to be a national inquiry into organised sexual abuse.
Unite, UNSON, GMB: unions with many members who have concealed or colluded with organised abuse.
Now for Christ's sake Ashworth, piss off, bugger off, sod off. I've got 10,000 documents and you haven't, all you can do is bleat about giving the Top Doctors more money. They are already among the most highly paid people in the country and the health outcomes for people in the UK are among some of the worst in Europe and it is nothing to do with Tory Cuts you big idiot. I've read some of your speeches re the NHS, your facts and figures are wrong, as are your conclusions but as you know nothing about the biomedical sciences that doesn't surprise me.
When I lived in Leicester in the autumn of 1987, as well as Sue Townsend, there was another local person who had become famous whom I was told still had a house in Leicester and jetted back and forth between there and his place in the US – the old crooner Engelbert Humperdinck. Girls/women of my vintage howled with laughter at Engelbert Humperdinck, but for the generation before us he was promoted as highly desirable. Humperdinck is not one of those who has been named and shamed in the recent spate of stories regarding ageing stars who stand accused of sexual misconduct, but when he was younger, Humperdinck was involved in a spat with the mother of his illegitimate child, who had to take Humperdinck to court to enforce maintenance payments.
Just months after I heard about Humperdinck owning a house nearby when I was living in Leicester, I was working at the University of Surrey at Guildford and one of the PhD students said that there had been an Engelbert Humperdinck concert in Guildford the previous night and because the students thought that the very notion of such a thing was such a laugh, some of them went. Humperdinck was described to me in a highly negative way, as it was explained that during the concert he kept trying to grab hold of the young female students to drag them up on stage with him for a grope-lite fest, whilst he refused the many offers of women in their 50s who had paid good money to go and see him because they were actually fans of his, rather than because they wanted to experience the spectacle of a ridiculous old crooner with an equally ridiculous name.
Humperdinck is a Roman Catholic who makes a point of trying to visit a cathedral when he is on tour wherever he is on the planet. I am not someone who believes that all Catholic priests are molesters, but the combination of Englebert, Leicester and Catholicism is worrying.
In August 2005, Engelbert auctioned one of his Harley Davidson motorbikes to raise money for the County Air Ambulance in Leicestershire. Sue Townsend was no doubt proud of him. In 2006, Leicester University awarded Humperdinck an Honorary Doctorate.
Theophilus P. Wildebeeste PhD (Leics):
'Jackie' magazine never featured Engelbert during the course of its promotion of passive adolescent femininity, or if it did it was years before I saw people reading 'Jackie', but 'Jackie' did sell the Bay City Rollers to its readers in a big way. After the teenage craze for the Rollers had died a death, rumours were circulating that the Rollers had been used for gay sex by their manager, Tam Paton and his associates. I didn't believe this when I was told it, I presumed that it was just another one of those tall stories with no basis at all that do the rounds about celebs. However, it was clear that the Rollers' lives began unravelling even as they were still stars. Les McKeown, the lead singer, had several brushes with the law yet seemed to get off quite lightly. He ran over and killed an elderly lady in 1975 and not long after that he was charged with a shotgun offence, either possessing a shotgun without a licence or threatening someone with it, I can't remember the details. In 1976, another member of the band, Eric Faulkner, nearly died at Paton's Edinburgh mansion from a drug overdose.
The real Rollers bombshell came years after they had disappeared into obscurity when in 2000 Derek Longmuir, who had been the drummer, was convicted of possessing child porn, a great deal of it as well, after making some not very credible excuses as to why he had a house full of child porn (see post 'The Bloody State We're In'). Longmuir was by that time working as an Angel at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, having worked there since 1993. Longmuir began training as an Angel in 1990, after having done voluntary work at the Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh. Despite having a mountain of child porn in the form of photos, videos and floppy discs and having admitted making indecent photos of children at his home in March 1998, Edinburgh Sheriff's Court sentenced Longmuir to only 300 hours of community service. He was suspended from his job as an Angel but later returned to nursing.
The Rollers came from Edinburgh. The richest and most grandiose Top Doctors are to be found in London, but it is Edinburgh which has the traditional 'reputation' for medical excellence. Edinburgh medics see themselves as far superior to the vulgarians in London.
They do get things badly wrong in Edinburgh though, even in circumstances where one would imagine that the Top Docs would be taking extra care. In Oct 1988, John Smith complained of chest pains and went to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for advice. He was given an EEG and was told by the examining Top Doctor, 'whatever it is, we don't think it's your heart'. Smith subsequently suddenly collapsed, was briefly unconscious and spent three days in intensive care, then 'made a full recovery'. Over the next three months, Smith gave up smoking, lost three stone and began mountain walking. He returned to Parliament in Jan 1989. In May 1994, John Smith had a heart attack at his Barbican flat and was taken to Barts where Top Doctors 'could not revive him'. See post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play'. One month after Smith's death, Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, died of an 'unspecified blood disease'. Four days after Arnold's death, Peter Howarth, Arnold's friend and colleague at Bryn Estyn and Paul Wilson, stood trial for sexually and physically abusing boys in care in north Wales (see post 'The Banality Of Evil').
A Top Doctor's opinion was sought for the purposes of sentencing Derek Longmuir, so presumably there is a Top Doc somewhere who does not have a problem with someone who owns a mountain of child porn working as an Angel.
Regarding those rumours about the Rollers having been sexually used by their manager Tam Paton. Tam Paton was gay and upfront about it but Tam Paton didn't live quite as most other gay men do. In 1982, Paton was convicted of gross indecency with two teenage boys aged 16 and 17, below the then-legal age of consent and he served one year of a three-year prison sentence. Paton was arrested on child sexual abuse charges in January 2003, but was later cleared of all allegations. In April 2004, Paton was convicted of supplying cannabis and fined £200,000. In 2003, the Rollers' guitarist Pat McGlynn reported an attempted rape by Paton in an Australian hotel in 1977 but police found that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. In 2009, Les McKeown said that Paton had raped him.
In 2016, in the wake of the publication of a book about Paton and his success story with the Rollers, it was alleged by Gordon 'Nobby' Clark, the original singer with the band, that Paton had attempted to persuade the Rollers to have sex with the then Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning, who in 2016 was jailed for 13 years for sex offences against children. Clark said the incident happened when Chris Denning was the band's promotions manager in 1971, while they stayed at Denning's home in Surrey. According to Clark, Paton told the band – whose line-up at the time included brothers Derek and Alan Longmuir, Neil Henderson and Archie Marr – that 'Chris would probably do more for us if one of us slept with him'. Clark stated that: 'Paton had drawers full of Quaaludes (a sedative marketed in the UK as Mandrax). There was cocaine and cannabis. They would use sleeping tablets to spike kids' drinks. Chris Denning was always there. He would come up from London especially. Whenever he saw a kid who was in a bad way from the sleeping tablets he'd be straight across. Then he'd drag them into one of the bedrooms.'
McGlynn told the author of the book – 'The Dark History Of The Bay City Rollers' – that Paton was 'drugging everyone he wanted to get his way with – drug them and abuse them. He was just an animal. Les [singer McKeown] pulled Tam off me a couple of times when he tried to rape me or he spiked my drink.'
In 2014 'The Express' reported that Pat McGlynn had stated that he agreed with a former adviser to the Scottish Gov't, Dr Sarah Nelson, that Paton had run a paedophile ring in Edinburgh. McGlynn claimed that he had witnessed high-profile individuals from entertainment, law enforcement, 'genteel Edinburgh society' and organised crime attend sex parties at Paton's secluded mansion near Edinburgh. McGlynn alleged that police officers attended the parties, which were held between 1976 and 1981 and involved young boys as well as older men. McGlynn maintained that the scale of sexual exploitation as a result of Paton's parties was enormous and that hundreds of young people were abused. McGlynn told 'The Express' that he had hoped that the launch of Operation Yewtree into the crimes of Jimmy Savile and others would finally expose Paton and his accomplices. Like Savile , Paton's involvement in the music business went back decades, in Paton's case to the early 1960s.
McGlynn said that he had been to the Edinburgh police every five years, 'trying to get something done, hoping they would have some new evidence…The last time was about eight months ago and I told them they weren't doing enough. They said they had done all they could, and until I could come up with some more evidence there was nothing more they could do.'
When Paton was jailed in 1982, an associate claimed that Paton had a 'dossier' of famous names who should have been jailed alongside him. After his release, Paton turned to drug dealing and running a network of rent boys, with one source claiming he became the 'top man' in the Scottish underworld. Paton always insisted that the boys at his parties – many of them runaways or children in care – were over 16 and willing participants. McGlynn insisted: 'He was supplying the boys with drink and drugs. That's the only reason they were there. They weren't there because they liked Tam Paton. He would have a big punchbowl he would fill full of drugs – you wouldn't even know what you were taking. He got you in a trap, he got you addicted to drugs. I remember being in the band, I'd have a few drinks and I'd wake up with that man on top of me, having to fight him off. He was vile. The boys were anything from eight up to, well, after 17 or 18 they were too old for him. He wasn't interested. A lot of them would come to see the band and he'd get chatting to their parents and that's how Paton would get his hands on them.'
Pat McGlynn also suggested that drug addicts would willingly bring their children to Paton in exchange for a free high, while still more youngsters were flown in from abroad – sent to Scotland by their unwitting families with hopes of achieving pop stardom.
In 1990, a 16-year-old boy from a children's home was found at Paton's flat on Palmerston Place. The boy had been drugged and repeatedly raped by a number of men, although the resulting Operation Planet investigation – which was rumoured to involve prominent legal figures – eventually led to just one man being jailed.
Dr Sarah Nelson stated that many survivors of the paedophile ring were afraid to speak out because they had become involved in drugs and petty crime and because they feared Paton and his associates. Pat McGlynn alleged that Paton was violent and kept guns at his house.
In the 2014 'The Express' article, the then Scottish Labour Justice Spokesman Graeme Pearson said that the Paton allegations should be included in a full public inquiry into historic child abuse in Scotland.
They won't be. Instead, Professor Alexis Jay, who has spent a career in social work in Scotland throughout these events and who was appointed to the very pinnacle of Scottish social work by Lord Jack McConnell when McConnell was Scotland's FM, is Chairing the IICSA and is feigning horror at the abuse of youngsters by churchmen.
'The Express' article mentioned that Detective Chief Superintendent Lesley Boal confirmed 'a report of an historic sexual offence' which was made to Lothian and Borders Police in 2003. This was investigated and it was concluded that there was insufficient evidence at that stage'.
An article in 'The Scotsman' in 2007 reported that Paton was living in his mansion with a number of young men whom Paton claimed were homeless and had been cast out by their families, who appeared to be acting as servants for Paton. Paton and the young men co-existed with a number of Dobermans and Staffies. As well as 'managing pop bands' Paton had amassed an estimated £3 million fortune from his Edinburgh based property developing business and told ' The Scotsman' that his lawyer had drawn up his will, leaving cash for various animal charities, including the Canine Defence League and something for the dog and cat home at Seafield, as well as a donation for the children's hospice at Kinross.
Paton died at his Edinburgh home in 2009, after several years of serious health problems which, he boasted, were treated on the NHS, although he could have easily afforded private care.
Early last month – July 2018 – it was reported that Alan Longmuir, a founder member of the Rollers and the brother of the paedophile Angel Derek, had died. Alan was 70 and died in hospital after becoming ill in Mexico. Last week, it was reported in the Scottish press that another member of the original Rollers line-up had just died when his house caught fire. The report didn't appear in many media outlets and there was no explanation regarding the cause of the fire or whether it was suspicious.
The success of the Bay City Rollers led to the formation of another Scottish band in 1974 with a similar image, Slik. Slik were favourites of 'Jackie'. Slik were from Glasgow as opposed to Edinburgh but linked up with songwriters Bill Martin and Phil Coulter, who were writing for the Bay City Rollers. One member of Slik subsequently became a big name in more serious music circles and spoke of his embarrassment at being packaged in the way that Slik was – Midge Ure.
Ure enjoyed success with bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids and Visage, but most notably as frontman of Ultravox. Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy was married to the daughter of light entertainment favourite Leslie Crowther, who objected so strongly to Lynott's drugs excesses that for a time Crowther wouldn't have anything to do with his daughter. Lynott was an alcoholic and heroin addict who collapsed at his home in Kew in Dec 1985. Lynott's wife took him to a drug clinic at Clouds House near Shaftesbury and he was then taken to Salisbury Infirmary, where he was diagnosed with septicaemia. Lynott died in intensive care in Jan 1986.
In 1984, Ure co-wrote and produced the charity single 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', which has sold 3.7 million copies in the UK. The song is the second highest selling single in UK chart history. Ure co-organised Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 with Bob Geldof. Ure acts as Trustee, and serves as Ambassador for, Save The Children.
St Bob has famously lost both his former wife, Paula Yates and Peaches, one of his daughters with Paula. They both died of drug overdoses. Peaches died from a heroin overdose and no-one could understand why because she had given it up ages ago. Paula died after being in the care of Top Docs for serious depression after her partner Michael Hutchence hung himself. Paula maintained that Hutchence did not kill himself but she was denounced as a mad grieving woman. Paula was found dead after a heroin overdose. Paula's friends all maintained that Paula had definitely given up heroin. Paula spent her early life in north Wales. She lived at Llandudno and went to the primary school in Rowen, the village where the family lived after moving from Llandudno, as well as to Ysgol Aberconwy and Penrhos College. Paula described herself as a groupie when she was young and also modelled for 'Penthouse' before she became famous.
When Paula was living in north Wales, Dafydd's gang were busy. Lord Wyn Roberts, the Tory MP for Aberconwy and Welsh Office Minister who concealed the crimes of Dafydd and the gang for years (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'), lived in Rowen.
For more information about the deaths of Michael Hutchence, Paula and Peaches and the numerous inconsistencies in the explanations for those deaths, see previous posts.
Ure has been the Musical Director and performed at The Princes Trust Rock Concerts 1986,1987,1988, 2010 and 2011. He performed at Music for Montserrat, September 15, 1997, to raise funds for the Caribbean island which had been devastated by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and in 1997, Montserrat was practically destroyed by the volcanic activity. Ure himself lost a house that was destroyed in Montserrat.
On 24 July 1999, Ure was the Musical Director of the Wicked Women concert for the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Charity held at Hyde Park in London. See post 'Oh Lordy, It's CR UK' for details of the large scale research fraud in cancer research.
One of Midge Ure's co-musicians was Steve Strange, who was born Steve Harrington, in Newbridge, Caerphilly. The family lived for a time in Aldershot and then moved back to Wales, to Rhyl. Steve's parents divorced and he moved with his mother back to Newbridge.
After attending a Sex Pistols concert at the Castle Cinema in Caerphilly in 1976, Harrington befriended the bass player Glen Matlock. He then arranged gigs for punk bands in his home town and befriended Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers before leaving for London where he worked for Malcolm McLaren.
McLaren was callous and highly exploitative, as was demonstrated by his response to the disaster involving Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungeon. McLaren knew a lot about the sordid sexual exploitation of young people in the music industry at the time, but is no longer here to tell us all about it, although McLaren's partner Dame Viv Westwood is. I am still waiting for Dame Viv to tell us all why some expensive Top Doctors went to the law to prevent Adam Ant aka Stuart Goddard from talking to the media and what happened to Stuart Goddard in an NHS secure unit after he had a breakdown that upset him and his friends so much. See posts 'The Bloody State We're In' and 'No One Is Innocent'.
McLaren and Dame Viv's son used to revel in describing himself as a pornographer but he dresses it up as art these days.
In the late 1970s, prior to the success that Steve Strange and Midge Ure had with the group Visage, Strange and Visage partner Rusty Egan began to make a name for themselves as a nightclub host and DJ respectively. In 1978, they began organising "Bowie nights" on Tuesdays at Billy's nightclub in Soho, before moving to the 'Blitz' club in London's Covent Garden in 1979. 'Blitz' became an essential location in the rise of what would become the New Romantic movement. Following 'Blitz', Strange and Egan then fronted the "Club for Heroes" in London in 1981, before moving to the Camden Palace nightclub in 1982 for two years, attracting major celebrities on a regular basis. Their next club venture, "The Playground" in 1984, was less successful.
Later in the 1980s, Strange went to Ibiza and became an integral part of the budding trance club movement and hosting parties for celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone. During the mid-1990s, Strange promoted nights at the Emporium nightclub in Soho, London.
In November 2006 Strange took part in, and went on to win, the BBC reality series for Children In Need, 'Celebrity Scissorhands'. He returned to the show in 2007 and 2008 as Assistant Manager/Image Consultant.
Steve Strange was bisexual and for many years was addicted to heroin. In later years he moved back to Wales, to Porthcawl, suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalised in south Wales. In November 1999 Strange was arrested for shoplifting – he was caught stealing a Teletubbies doll for his nephew. In court, he was found guilty and given a three-month suspended sentence. On 12 February 2015, Strange suffered a heart attack while in Egypt and died later that day in hospital.
People in a position to name names re the sexual exploitation of youngsters in the 1970s and 80s really don't last very long do they.
Steve Strange had a very bad relationship with his dad, who killed himself in Rhyl. Steve Strange might have hated him, but if his dad did have difficulties, there'd have been no help for him in north Wales.
Strange was mates with Paula Yates.
Boy George worked for Steve Strange at 'Blitz'. By the late 1980s, George had been struggling with heroin addiction for many years. Addictions to other drugs soon followed. In 1986, Boy George was arrested for heroin possession as part of "Operation Culture." In 1986, keyboardist Michael Rudetsky was found dead of a heroin overdose in George's London home. Rudetsky's parents filed a death suit in Britain against George, seeking financial damages for their son's death. George won the court case against the Rudetskys and was not required to pay any damages. George lost another friend, Mark Vaultier, who overdosed on methadone and Valium at a party, George having never made it to the party, being arrested en route on suspicion of carrying drugs.
On 7 October 2005, George was arrested in Manhattan on suspicion of cocaine possession and falsely reporting a burglary. George denied that the drug was his. In court on 1 February 2006, the cocaine possession charge was dropped and George pleaded guilty to falsely reporting a burglary. He was sentenced to five days of community service, fined US$1,000 and ordered to attend a drug rehabilitation programme. On 17 June 2006, a Manhattan judge issued a warrant for the arrest of Boy George after he failed to appear in court for a hearing on why George wanted to change his sentence for the false burglary report. George's attorney informed the court that he had advised George not to appear at that hearing.
On 5 December 2008, George was convicted in Snaresbrook Crown Court, London, of the assault and false imprisonment of Audun Carlsen, who was a Norwegian who initially stood for a photography session with George, but on their next meeting George handcuffed him to a wall fixture, traumatising him and subjected him to violence. George's defence gave the effects of his long-term drug use as a mitigating factor. On 16 January 2009, George was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment for these offences. He was given early release after four months on 11 May 2009. George was required to wear an ankle monitor and submit to a curfew for the remainder of his sentence.
On 23 December 2009, George had his request to appear on the final series of Celebrity Big Brother (to be broadcast on Channel 4) turned down by the Probation Service. Richard Clayton QC, representing the Probation Service, said George's participation would pose 'a high level of risk' to the service's reputation. Clayton argued that if he used the show to promote his status as a celebrity and earn 'a lucrative sum of money' it could undermine public confidence in the criminal justice system.
Another one of Midge Ure's associates in the music business was Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet. Hadley was a big fan of Thatch and at one time, like the alcoholic wife beater Jim Davidson, aspired to be a Tory MP. I'm not sure why Hadley has given up pursuing that particular dream, he was hell bent on that for quite some time. Hadley enjoys telling everyone that he has never claimed benefits. I rather suspect that if he was ever in need of money, Hadley would be capable of doing something far more unscrupulous than claiming benefits. Hadley is the sort of aggressive unscrupulous person who describes himself as 'competitive'. Some years ago he appeared in a real life documentary which was a singing competition between 'stars', the prize being to give the winning star an even bigger break. As well as Hadley, an actress from East Enders featured who was by far the most talented of anyone on the show and seemed a really nice, generous, fair player. Hadley behaved appallingly and used every dirty trick possible to put this young woman out of action. Towards the end of the competition, she remarked 'Tony feels really threatened by me and he's going to do absolutely anything to win this.' I think that she just gave up trying because she just couldn't bear Hadley's naked aggression and near-cheating any longer. His behaviour was so bad that it would have warranted his removal from the show, but no, the big meathead won and was filmed gloating and banging on about his future as a Tory MP.
Perhaps Hadley would like to enlighten us about the drugs and trafficking scene of which he witnessed so much when he was singing those boring Spandau Ballet songs back in the 80s. Hadley grew up in the Islington area and his mother worked for the local District Health Authority. So Mrs Hadley will have known all about the paedophile/trafficking gang which operated in Islington and which was facilitated by the NHS in that area.
A rather different sort of star from the Bay City Rollers and Midge Ure who emanated from Scotland was the child star who became famous when she won 'Opportunity Knocks', Lena Zavaroni. Lena appeared on the show when she was about 9 yrs old, dressed up as a much younger child but singing a song about a man trying to get off with her. It was all seriously weird and I never worked out who voted for Lena in sufficient numbers to ensure that she won the show five weeks in a row because all the adults who surrounded me at that time were horrified at what someone had put Lena up to. Lena ended up in a very sad way. She developed anorexia when she was about 12, never recovered fully although she did stage a come back after she almost starved to death in her mid-teens, became very seriously depressed as a young adult, was unable to work and then died in the University Hospital of Wales after she had what was effectively a leucotomy but tarted up under a different name. Cardiff is one of the few places that still performs that operation and after Lena died 'in their care', it was obvious from the public statements that were issued by UHW that the truth was not being told about Lena's death.
Lena came from the Isle of Bute, off the coast of West Scotland and had led a very quiet life until she was about nine. Her family seemed to do things like sing in pubs and other local venues and got her to do that as well, but when she was 'discovered' she was whisked off to London and paraded around TV studios, parties etc. I presumed that her parents went with Lena to London, but it transpires that they just took her there and stayed a few days before coming home, leaving her in the care of her manager, Dorothy Solomon, who very obviously had no idea about looking after a little girl.
Dorothy Solomon was the wife of Phil Solomon, the music industry executive who was co-director of Radio Caroline. Phil Solomon made his name and his money in the 1950s/60s and retired in 1970, but Dorothy continued working, 'managing' Lena.
Lena then never really saw her parents or Scotland again, she was being taken off to places like Japan and America and had her nose to the grindstone. There are numerous clips of interviews with Lena and they are gob smacking. When she was first interviewed after arriving in London, she couldn't cope with roads which had so many traffick lights, not having seen such roads before. Then there were all the interviews with horrid old showbiz men who were asking Lena questions that a lot of people wouldn't have felt were acceptable to ask a girl of her age. As Lena got older, she was interviewed on TV about 'being fat', about having anorexia and other weird topics for chat shows. It is very clear that there were what would now be called 'child protection issues' with Lena from the day that she left Scotland, God knows what was happening to her off camera.
Interviews with Lena's dad after her death demonstrated that he had no idea what a leucotomy was and I doubt that Lena knew either. She just knew that she felt terrible, had heard that some people who get depressed have 'an operation on their brain' which 'makes them better'. I cannot find any information regarding who referred Lena for such a procedure or what their rationale was. Before the leucotomy, Lena had been an in-patient at a rather whacky therapy centre in the US, run by people who were obviously out of their depth. After Lena died there were threats to take action against the therapy centre. No such threats were made towards UHW who had given a young woman a leucotomy, somehow killed her and had not told the truth about the circumstances of her death.
Lena died in Oct 1999, four months before the Waterhouse Report was published. The man who put Lena on her first steps to stardom was the presenter of 'Opportunity Knocks', Hughie Green, who was notorious for being sexually exploitative and was not a particularly pleasant character. Paula Yates was distraught when, as an adult, she discovered that Hughie Green was her real father, not Jess Yates, the man whom Paula had always thought was her dad.
Someone who knows the details of much of the wrongdoing detailed on this blog whom I have not blogged about yet is Clare Short, the Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, 1983-10. Short held the seat during the years when kids in care were being abused in Birmingham and being sent to children's homes in north Wales where they were abused and trafficked. Aston University is within the constituency which Clare held. Aston was a very troubled place from the early 1980s, as a result of the activities of the VC Sir Freddie Crawford, known as 'Thatcher's favourite VC'. Crawford's managerialism was so savage that Dr Ron Easterby, a former colleague of Brown's and member of staff who committed suicide, was said by his other colleagues to have been 'killed by the University' (see post 'The White Heat Of This Revolution'). Professor Elwyn Edwards of the Psychology Dept was inviting male freshers to his room for a 'welcome drink', greeting them in a silk dressing gown and propositioning them and complaints about this were not dealt with. Aston had one of the highest suicide rates among students of any UK university and within the institution this was attributed to the bizarre ideas of Dr Philip Cauthery, the student physician, who doubled up as a 'sexologist' and was a member of the Editorial Board of 'Forum', the sex magazine. 'Forum' was not a magazine which endorsed paedophilia, but it was discovered that paedophiles were using the small ads in 'Forum' to network and sell/buy child porn. Alastair Campbell used to write for 'Forum'.
Brown was forced out of his job at Aston unlawfully in 1995, two weeks or so after Sir Peter Morrison and Bing Spear, the corrupt mandarin who ran the Home Office Drugs Branch (see post Little Things Hitting Each Other'), were found dead within four days of each other.
Crawford's son was involved with drugs and crime and used to boast that he got away with anything because of who his dead was. He was found dead in an hotel in Israel, allegedly after a heroin overdose. After he stood down as VC of Aston, Sir Freddie was appointed as Chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which angered a lot of people because of Crawford's position as a leading Freemason.
All universities are dysfunctional, but Aston under Crawford was very worrying indeed. Clare Short never raised concerns about the activities of Thatcher's Masonic henchman.
Short was born in Birmingham to Irish Catholic parents from N Ireland. She was supportive of peaceful Sinn Fein initiatives, although she was never a supporter of IRA violence. Short attended Keele University for a short time. At that time there were a number of people associated with Keele University who had concealed organised child abuse. Alun Michael, the Labour politician who was later imposed as FM of Wales by Blair went to Keele University at about the same time as Short. Alun Michael was a Councillor in Cardiff when that Council ignored the abuse of kids in care in south Wales. Michael inexplicably resigned as Wales's FM when the Waterhouse Report was submitted to the Gov't (see post 'News From Sicily').
When she was eighteen Clare Short married a fellow Keele student, after she had a baby when she was seventeen. The couple's son was given up for adoption and did not make contact with his mother until 1996. Short discovered that her son was a Tory supporter who worked as a solicitor in the City of London. Short went public on her reunion with her son, as did Prezza when his wife Pauline's son who had been adopted many years ago contacted her. Both Short and Prezza and Pauline welcomed their children and it was good to see that everyone was so happy to be in touch. Although I am sure that what Clare Short and Pauline Prescott went through when they felt obliged to give up their babies for adoption was bad, neither Prezza or Short have uttered one word about the many kids in care who were abused, trafficked and had their children forcibly removed in even more traumatic circumstances.
Short completed her degree at Leeds University and then worked as a civil servant in the Home Office. She was for a time Private Secretary to the Conservative Minister Mark Carlisle. Carlisle was the MP for Runcorn (later called Warrington South), 1964-87 and Risley Remand Centre was in or near his constituency. Dafydd and the gang used Risley as their personal prison for decades and scores of young people, including kids in care, were found dead in the 'hospital wing' there. It was Carlisle who was wheeled out in a Commons debate in 1973 to answer questions about the horrific conditions, practices and deaths at Risley (see post 'Include Me Out'). The screw at Risley were violent and the prison doctor was corrupt and in cahoots with Dafydd and the gang. Clare Short will have had access to the full details and she has never ever said a word about any of it, although Short maintains that it was while working for Carlisle that she realised that she 'could do better' than many of the MPs whom she dealt with and thus decided to go into politics herself.
In 1983 Short was elected as MP for Ladywood, the area where she grew up. In 1983, when he was in his final year at Aston, Brown received his first murder threat, which I have now been told was related to what was happening to me at Bangor, as I had come to the attention of the trafficking gang. Our pleas for help after Brown was threatened were ignored by Aston and Bangor Universities and the Top Doctors. Brown spent as much time as he could at my house on Anglesey because he wasn't safe in Birmingham and as soon as he sat his finals he moved in with us in north Wales. After Brown returned to the midlands to take up a lecturing job a few years later, the man who threatened to murder him attacked Brown in daylight in Nottingham city centre and tried to fracture Brown's skull. He had previously nearly killed the old man who lived next door to him and the West Midlands Police admitted to Brown that Paul Bates was considered to be very dangerous.
Meanwhile Clare acquired a feminist following as a result of her campaign against 'Page 3' photos and became the go-to Labour politician for a quote on sexual violence against wimmin.
Clare gained some notoriety shortly after her election when she implied the Govt's Employment Minister Alan Clark was drunk at the despatch box. Clark's colleagues on the Gov't benches in turn accused Short of using unparliamentary language and the Deputy Speaker, Ernest Armstrog, asked her to withdraw her accusation. Clark later admitted in his diaries that he had been drunk as accused.
No-one mentioned that there were many MPs at that time who drank heavily and a few – such as Nicholas Fairbairn and Charles Kennedy – who's alcohol problems were so serious that they died as a result. I was told in the mid-1980s that there was one woman MP who was well-known for getting regularly completely plastered in the Commons bars – a Clare Short. I know that it wasn't at the despatch box Clare, but I received first hand witness accounts.
Alan Clark wasn't only a lazy drunk, he was a serial sexual harasser of women, including 'women' under 16 who could best be described as girls. He exposed himself to teenagers, he followed women around London whom he'd seen on public transport and liked the look of and he also had sex with at least two girls under 16. This is just what Clark himself admitted to. Clark's conduct was no secret. No MP, not even Clare, commented about it, although when Clark was doing all this, the press ran silly articles about him being attractive to the ladies. It was all a rather posher version of Dafydd. A pain in the butt who committed sexual offences and who was constructed as being a source of desire for those unfortunate enough to be bothered by him. Clark's offensive conduct only became a talking point when he had a public spat with a Judge – who was supposedly Clark's friend – after the Judge discovered that Clark had shagged his wife and two daughters, one of whom was 15. The UK press considered that Clark was 'one helluva guy', the three women involved were called 'old trollops' by one UK newspaper and the Judge became an object of contempt. Clark's snooty drip of a wife Jane referred to the Judge and his family as 'downstairs people'. Clark's diaries make reference to his relationship with these three women and describe how he impressed the teenagers into having sex with him by explaining that he was now a Gov't Minister and taking them for rides in his expensive car.
Remember Girls – Never Get Into A Car With A Thatcherite Employment Minister!
As Dafydd once said, 'Don't ewe think I was handsome?'
Dr Dafydd Alun Jones:
Alan Clark:
Another Minister for Employment under Thatch was Sir Peter Morrison…
In 1986, Clare Short introduced a Private Members Bill in the House of Commons which proposed banning 'Page 3' photographs of topless models in the British tabloids, which resulted in an outpouring of abuse in her direction from the press which almost equalled their abuse of the Windbag. One paper bought and published alleged photographs of Short in her nightwear from her ex-husband, although she stated they were pictures of somebody else's body with her face superimposed. Clare gave a definitive account of her attitude towards tabloid nudity and the negative role that pornography plays more generally in society in her introduction to the book Dear Clare (1991), which presents a selection of the many letters of support she received from women in response to her campaign. Those wimmin had no idea what Clare and the Windbag were keeping quiet about. The homes of my friends and I were bugged by the security services Clare, including our bedrooms, bathrooms and bogs. Brown found himself with a series of mad girlfriends who caused havoc whom we have now been told were working for the security services. All because, unlike you and the fucking Windbag, we would not keep quiet about the abuse of vulnerable people.
'Dear Clare – people tried to kill us you weak hypocrite'.
Furthermore I was told a few weeks ago that at some point in the past, photos were taken of me and other young women of which we were unaware, I was told by hidden cameras and that those photos were passed on. I think that I was supposed to have a trauma, but not only was I not surprised, but once you've had a bunch of gangsters trying to murder you and your friends and no-one, no-one at all, will help, some photos are neither here nor there, no matter how much of a liberty they were. I presume that the photos were taken in somewhere like the North Wales Hospital. They were after all running an abuse ring out there and I've never stepped into a photographer's studio in my life.
Short supported Prezza in the Labour Party Deputy Leadership election in 1988 and left the Socialist Campaign Group, along with Margaret Beckett and her caravan, as a result of Tony Benn's decision to challenge the Windbag for the Party leadership.
Prezza came from Prestatyn in north Wales and studied at Ruskin College, Oxford, at the same time as Peter Howarth, who later went to prison for sexual assaults on boys in care in north Wales. Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, taught at Ruskin when Prezza was there and Arnold was one of Howarth's tutors. For more details of Ruskin and its alumni, see post 'A Study In Tyranny'. Prezza was MP for Hull East in Yorkshire, 1970-2010. Yorkshire was the base of an enormous trafficking gang within which Savile played a key role. Savile was friendly with many police officers in Yorkshire and also had links to Dafydd's gang in north Wales.
Short supported Margaret Beckett and her caravan for the Labour leadership in 1994, against Blair and Prezza. Margaret Beckett has been the Labour MP for Lincoln, 1974-79 and has been MP for Derby South since 1983. There was a long-standing paedophile/trafficking ring in Derbyshire with links to the ring in north Wales. Some of those involved in the abuse of kids in north Wales were recruited from Derbyshire and John Jillings, who led the Jillings Investigation into the abuse of children in Clwyd, was the former Director of Social Services for Derbyshire. Jillings's Report was damning, but many felt when, many years later, the Report finally became public, that Jillings hadn't dared admit how bad the situation in north Wales was. Jillings refused to comment when he was asked if a paedophile ring was in operation in north Wales. See post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…'. Jane Tunstill, a member of the Jillings Panel, secured a Chair in Social Work at Keele University.
Beckett was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, 1992-94, under John Smith, when the North Wales Police investigation into child abuse in the region was taking place. One of Beckett's Shadow roles was for Health, 1994-95, while the Jillings Investigation was underway. Beckett was Lord President of the Council, 1998-01. One of the roles of Lord President of the Council is that of visitor for Bangor University. When Beckett was Lord President of the Council, the VC of Bangor University was the craven paedophiles' friend Prof Roy Evans, who did what the trafficking gang told him to do and promoted many of their associates to senior roles. Beckett's time as Lord President of the Council spanned Ronnie Waterhouse's writing of the Waterhouse Report and its publication.
In 1989 Clare Short raised the issue of abuse of police procedure and fabrication of evidence at the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, relaying concerns of Birmingham solicitors that many miscarriages of justice had taken place. It was eventually admitted that the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad had caused havoc and there were allegations of Masonic corruption. The Squad was dissolved and some of those who had been framed had their convictions overturned, including Ali Khan from Caernarfon. What received less publicity was that after Ali Khan had been awarded compensation, he was convicted of robbery and returned to prison. Ali Khan maintains that this was yet another fit-up as a punishment beating for daring to win against the West Midlands Crime Squad. I don't know the truth behind Ali Khan's allegations; the Khans are known as a 'crime family' in north Wales, but I do know that the West Midlands Police and the North Wales Police were corrupt and fitted people up, sometimes as a result of a joint enterprise. I had never heard of Ali Khan until the first occasion in 1986 on which Dafydd had me unlawfully arrested and when I was in the cells at Bangor Police Station I read the graffiti that Ali Khan had written and signed, detailing all the occasions on which he alleged that he'd been framed.
After the alleged clean-up of the West Midlands Police, Sir Ron Hadfield was appointed as Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police. He was in post from 1990-96. Immediately after retirement, Hadfield served as an adviser to the Waterhouse Inquiry, which says it all really. Another adviser to the Inquiry was Adrianne Jones, the former Director of Social Services for the City of Birmingham. Prior to becoming Chief Constable of West Mindlands, Hadfield had served with the Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Derbyshire forces. Hadfield was given a knighthood in 1995, after everyone had been reassured that there was no VIP paedophile ring in north Wales and when Hague et al were busy behind the scenes ensuring that the Public Inquiry which they knew would eventually be held would reach the same conclusion. Hadfield was International Vice-President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Clare Short was a member of Labour's NEC, 1988-1997, along with others who were allies of Dafydd and the gang, such as Gwyneth Dunwoody and Eric Heffer. Short was Chair of the NEC's Women's Committee, 1993-1996.
After Blair won the election in 1997, the Overseas Development Administration was given full departmental status as the Dept for International Development and Short was the first Secretary of State for International Development. She retained this post throughout the first term of the Labour Gov't and beyond the 2001 UK General Election into the second.
A few months after her appointment to DfID, the island of Montserrat (one of the UK's few remaining overseas territories) was devastated by a volcanic eruption which rendered half the island uninhabitable; when the 4,500 islanders asked for more help from the DfID, Short was reported to have remarked 'they will be asking for golden elephants next' and refused to visit the island. She was probably far too busy Chairing a Wimmin's Committee discussing topless photos to give a stuff about some poor sods who's land had been burnt to a cinder.
On 6 November 1997, Short sent a letter to Kumbirai Kangai, Minister of Agriculture in Zimbabwe, in which she stated that 'we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe.' She went on to write 'We are a new government from diverse backgrounds, without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.' Good to know that Clare experiences Genetic Oppression which absolves her from any temptation to make herself useful in diplomatically sensitive situations. In the same letter Short did, however, offer qualified support for land reform: 'We do recognise the very real issues you face over land reform… we would be prepared to support a programme of land reform that was part of a poverty eradication strategy, but not on any other basis.' This letter caused a rift with the Zimbabwean Gov't, which asserted that the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 had contained a continuing pledge from the UK Gov't to assist in land reform. Well they could all sod off, Blair's Gov't of Diversity, Wimmin and Peter Mandelson didn't worry about matters historical and definitely wasn't interested in keeping things like promises.
In December 1997, Short signed the UK into the Ottawa Convention, banning the production, handling and use of anti-personnel mines. In 2001, she wrote that the 'ready availability of small arms has a direct and negative impact upon levels of crime and conflict in developing countries. We (the DFID) are supporting various peace building and disarmament initiatives.' The following year, she claimed that Britain was 'committed to combating small arms availability and misuse'.
Short approved of the NATO bombing of the HQ of Serbian state TV in which sixteen media workers were killed and sixteen others wounded, because the station was 'a source of propaganda'. As is Clare Short.
On 9 March 2003, Short threatened to resign from the Cabinet in the event of the UK Gov't going to war with Iraq without a clear mandate from the UN. This looked set to be a reprise of her previous resignation as party spokesperson during the Gulf War of 1991 as a protest against the Labour Party's stance, although in 1999 she had publicly supported the NATO attack on Serbia. However, on 18 March she announced that she would remain in the Cabinet and support the Govt's resolution in the Commons. Which resulted in a lot of wisecracks about Clare Short saying no when she meant yes.
Short remained in the Cabinet for two months after her decision to back the 2003 Iraq War. She resigned on 12 May. Her letter stated: 'In both the run-up to the war and now, I think the UK is making grave errors in providing cover for the US mistakes rather than helping an old friend… American power alone cannot make America safe… But undermining international law and the authority of the UN creates the risk of instability, bitterness and growing terrorism that will threaten the future for all of us'.
On 26 February 2004, Short alleged on the 'Today' programme that the British security services regularly intercept UN communications, including those of Kofi Annan, then Secretary General. Reacting to Short's statement, Blair said 'I really do regard what Clare Short has said this morning as totally irresponsible, and entirely consistent [with Short's character].' Is that why you appointed her then Blair?
Blair also claimed that Short had put British security, particularly the security of its spies, at risk. The same day, on 'Newsnight' BBC's Short called Blair's response 'pompous' and said that Britain had no need to spy on Annan. The only reason they had to spy on my friends and I Clare was to gather info to stop the trafficking ring that you, Blair and many others were keeping quiet about, but they didn't stop them or indeed the many bent politicians who knew damn well what was happening.
On 29 February 2004 Short appeared on ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby programme. She revealed that she had been written to by the Cabinet Secretary Andrew Turnbull. Turnbull's confidential letter, which Short showed to Dimbleby, and which was quoted on the programme, formally admonished her for discussing intelligence matters in the media, and threatened 'further action' if she did not desist from giving interviews on the issue. Turnbull wrote that she had made claims 'which damage the interests of the United Kingdom' and that he was 'extremely disappointed'. The 'further action' referred to in the letter has been interpreted as threatening either Short's expulsion from the Privy Council (what was she doing in there in the first place?) or legal action under the Official Secrets Act. On 1 March 2004, a Downing Street spokesman refused to rule out such a step.
Andrew Turnbull will be after this blog next. Along with the Llangefni police (see post 'A Letter From The North Wales Police')….
Short also admitted that her original claim that Britain had eavesdropped on Annan may have been inaccurate. The security services were far too busy bothering us Clare. By the way, wasn't Kofi implicated in corruption?
In December 2004, Short was reportedly critical of US efforts to dispense aid to countries devastated by a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean. She was quoted as stating that the formation of a group of countries led by the US for this purpose was a challenge to the role of the UN, which she believed was uniquely qualified for the task. The UN could go to the rescue as they had previously, with 'peacekeepers' standing by while people were butchered a la Srebrenica or exchanging food rations for sexual favours from 12 yr old girls…
On 12 September 2006, Short announced that she would not be standing at the next General Election, stating that she was 'ashamed' of Blair's Gov't. On Friday 20 October, Short resigned the Labour whip and announced that she would sit as an Independent Labour MP. After Gordon became PM, Short said that the change offered 'a new beginning' and hinted that she might re-join the parliamentary Labour Party if Brown changed the policies that had caused her to leave.
On 2 February 2010, Short appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry and repeatedly criticised Tony Blair, Attorney General Peter Goldsmith and others in the UK Gov't for allegedly deceiving her and other MPs in an attempt to obtain consent for the invasion of Iraq.
Short has condemned Israel as being guilty of "bloody, brutal and systematic annexation of land, destruction of homes and the deliberate creation of an apartheid system." She has also stated that "the EU and Britain are colluding in this operation and the building of a new apartheid regime" because they give Israel privileged trade access. Short has expressed support for a boycott of Israel, stating at the 2007 UN International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace that "The boycott worked for South Africa, it is time to do it again". She also told the conference that Israel is "much worse than the original apartheid state" and that Israel "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming".
Regarding the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, Short stated that "Israel is out of control and our Government and the US is giving them a green light to continue" and that "Britain clearly now just backs President (George W.) Bush in whatever he does, in automatically backing Israel in breaching international law, in disproportionate attacks on Lebanon and attacks on Gaza".
According to 'The Guardian', Short accepted £1,580 worth of flights, hotel accommodation, food and travel expenses from Hezbollah-affiliate al Manar Television in Lebanon in 2008. Al-Manar was described by the US Gov't as a terrorist entity in 2006.
On 1 March 2011 Short was elected as Chairwoman of the EITI (the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) at the EITI Global Conference in Paris.
Since 2006, Short has been a member of the Cities Alliance Policy Advisory Board and subsequently chaired the Policy Advisory Forum, described as a "platform for public discussion, debate and knowledge sharing" on urban poverty and the role of cities.
Clare Short's second husband was Alex Lyon, whom she met when she worked at the Home Office and married in 1981. Lyon was the Labour MP for York, 1966-83, right at the centre of Savile-land.
Lyon was educated at West Leeds High School and UCL. He became a barrister and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple. Lyon was a member of the Bar Council and of the Fabian Society. He was a Methodist local preacher and Secretary of Leeds North West Constituency Labour Party. Lyon will have known the child molester George Thomas, who throughout the middle years of the 20th century was one of the UK's most well-known Methodists and who preached all over Britain (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
Lyon was Minister of State at the Home Office, March 1974 – April 1976, under that Home Secretary who was most helpful to Dafydd and the gang, Woy Jenkins (see post 'We've Been Expecting You…').
In 1971 Lyon introduced the United Reformed Church Bill, which became the act which created the United Reformed Church from a union of Presbytarian and Congregationalist churches in England and Wales.
Lyon lost his seat in the Commons on the day in which Short gained hers. Lyon then ran Short's constituency office and returned to the Bar for a short while until his health caused him problems. Lyon had developed Alzheimers and died in 1993.
In 2004, Clare published her book 'An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power'.
If Clare was deceiving anyone honourably, she didn't manage to put an end to some truly dreadful matters.
In 2006 an article in 'Femail' 'appeared about Short, entitled 'I've fallen in love again' – us ladies would be instantly drawn to such an article obviously – which detailed how Clare Short had now found happiness with her mate Mo Mowlam's with widower Jon Norton. Jon was the City banker who made himself so useful to the Labour Party when they decided to make friends with global capitalism rather than those who were being harmed at the hands of the Top Doctors. 'Femail' observed that Mo and Clare 'were two of a kind'. I expect that 'Femail' meant that they were 'Strong Feisty Wimmin' but I think that the they had a lot more in common in terms of being female politicians who made much of their status as Wimmin in a Men's World who were Fighting For Other Wimmin, while they ignored the role that the welfare services played in a pan-European trafficking ring in their own constituencies.
To return to the Labour Party in Wales ignoring Dafydd et al. In 1991 I was invited to join Ogwen Valley Labour Party, on the grounds that things had been very bad under Thatcher and would continue to be particularly bad for Wales under John Major, who had just been elected. I had been forced out of my job at St George's Hospital Medical School and had returned to live near Bethesda on a permanent basis. I was being arrested on a regular basis at the behest of Dafydd et al, the cases against me collapsed but of course no-one asked any questions. I knew that virtually no politicians were showing the interest that they should have been showing in what was happening to some people at the hands of the NHS and social services, but I had no idea of the degree of collusion with serious crime which was taking place.
I was invited to join the Ogwen Valley Labour Party by my neighbour at about the time that the North Wales Police launched their first investigation into the possibility of a VIP paedophile/trafficking ring in north Wales. This neighbour knew what was happening to me at the hands of the mental health services and was horrified. She showed me a great deal of support and friendship and dared challenge a member of the Arfon Community Mental Health Team over their mistreatment of me and another person who lived in our village. She was told that it could not be discussed because it was 'confidential'. This was at a time when the Arfon CMHT were telling my other neighbours that I was a danger to their children. My neighbour was working as a support worker for Cartrefi Cymru, in the 'independent housing' that had been provided for people with learning disabilities who had previously lived in Bryn-y-Neuadd, the long-stay hospital at Llanfairfechan and was frank in her opinion that the management of the 'supported housing' was so chaotic that it constituted abuse of clients.
I accompanied my neighbour to a few meetings of the Ogwen Valley Labour Party. It was certainly a very small party, there were only about six people at each meeting. Much time was consumed by things like 'the minutes', which I know have to be done, but did seem to take up a great deal of time. In 1991 in north Wales, the local economy had collapsed, a vicious trafficking gang dominated the region, the police were investigating, every category of vulnerable person was being grossly abused, the regional NHS was lethal and bankrupt and had the poorest clinical outcomes in the UK for many conditions and many local businesses were exploiting the people who did have jobs on a massive scale, including big companies like Euro DPC in Llanberis who had relocated to north Wales after being given huge business support grants from bodies like the WDA.
The Ogwen Valley Labour Party was Chaired by a man involved with the trade union movement but I can't remember if he was a TUC rep or a rep from a specific union. Their was only one cause which he maintained needed fighting in the area and that was a company called Thistle Trading on the Llandegai industrial estate in Bangor. The Chairman was very vexed about Thistle Trading and maintained that the 'ladies' – to be fair, the Chairman was about 65 and people of his generation would have talked about the ladies, as would many of the ladies themselves – who worked for them were being underpaid. He had declared war on Thistle Trading and he seemed to have had a degree of success. The ladies got a pay rise and were so chuffed that they were singing the Chairman's praises. Because I found the meetings so boring and because the Chairman was only interested in the sins of Thistle Trading and once he'd won that one he didn't see any other causes to fight, I stopped going to Ogwen Valley Labour Party meetings. My neighbour persisted for longer, but she too gave up because there didn't seem to be any action happening.
The ladies of Thistle Trading may have been underpaid, but kids in care in Gwynedd were being beaten, raped and forced to work for local businesses for as little as 30-50p/hour or no pay at all.
The Chairman of Ogwen Valley Labour Party never spoke to me or my neighbour and neither did the Secretary, although it was they who had begged local people to 'get involved'. I can't remember the Secretary's name, but I do know what she did for a living. She was a lecturer at the Normal College in Bangor. The teacher training college, which employed scores of people who colluded with the paedophile gang, including Dafydd Orwig, a Plaid Councillor who lived in Bethesda.
'We didn't know'. You bloody well knew what was happening to me because that neighbour of mine was terrified and was telling people.
The Windbag was Labour leader when the Ogwen Valley Labour Party prioritised the pay of the ladies of Thistle Trading above fighting a trafficking gang who were murdering people. The Windbag must have known the Chairman of the Ogwen Labour Party, he was obviously quite a big figure in the trade union movement in north Wales and Baroness Glenys Windbag came from Holyhead. But then the Windbag knew Tony Francis who was one of those facilitating the gang, as Francis used to remind his patients.
My neighbour's husband stopped speaking to me a few months later and never spoke to me again. I didn't know why, I hadn't fallen out with them and my neighbour carried on being perfectly friendly to me. A reader pointed out the other day that my neighbour's husband decided that I was best ignored after he got a job at the Psychology Dept in Bangor University. The Psychology Dept which for years had been dominated by Dafydd, but by then had been taken over by Professor Fergus Lowe, who used his knowledge of Dafydd's crimes to build his own empire after overthrowing Dafydd. The Psychology Dept was training clinical psychologists who were on placement at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. The dungeon for Dafydd's victims was still in operation at the time.
Perhaps Dave Lane, who was a neighbour of two people who's lives were being wrecked by Dafydd and the gang and who subsequently purchased a house from another person who had been destroyed by the same gang, could let us know who threatened or bribed him and how. Before Dave Lane purchased the house from the man who had been destroyed by Dafydd et al, he rented a house from another man, Dave Hardwick. Dave Hardwick was a bit of a hippy and started up the Bethesda Food Co-Op. He was always very friendly and pleasant and had a son with mental health problems whom he was very caring towards and tried hard to support. When Dave Hardwick's son grew up, Dave went into nursing. Mental health nursing. Dave Hardwick became a senior Angel at the Hergest Unit. Dave was on duty when Angels were ordered to perjure themselves in an attempt to have me imprisoned. He also worked as a Charge Nurse on Taliesin Ward, where patients were being assaulted by the staff. Not by Dave, he was much better than the rest of them and he was never abusive. But he knew what the others were doing.
One of my friends has known Dave Hardwick for decades, from their hippy days. Before I left Wales, he told them that he hated working at the Hergest Unit because patients were treated so badly there and he couldn't wait to retire.
Now that the cracks in the NHS are canyons which cannot be concealed any longer by the usual methods, I was interested to discover that the GMB have sworn that they'll 'fight the Gov't' to ensure that the NHS gets the money that it needs, the latest few billion to plug yet another gap – on top of the pay rise for Top Docs and senior managers – being insufficient. I found this out because someone from the GMB has published an article on the website 'Open Democracy'. I do read 'Open Democracy' from time to time, because Dr Minh Alexander, a consultant psychiatrist who lost her job after raising concerns about patient safety, writes some excellent articles for that website, but sadly Dr Alexander is virtually a lone voice among many on 'Open Democracy' who maintain unproblematically that the NHS is as pure as the driven snow and all would be well if only it were given yet more dosh.
It is usually the BMA who are demanding the dosh, the Top Doctors having a rather more wholesome media image than other trade unions 'who hold the country to ransom'.
I wonder if the BMA have had to back off in the light of revelations that they have done some pretty disgusting things in the course of their duty of protecting the jobs and pensions of Dafydd et al? UNISON and UNITE are usually the unions coming to the aid of the NHS, rather than the GMB. Could the BMA have possibly done a little deal with the big wigs of the GMB and reached an agreement that it will be the GMB rather than the Top Docs with their gobs stuffed with gold who will 'fight for the money that the NHS needs?'
Lest anyone believe that the noble GMB would not be capable of such a sordid arrangement, I will remind them that David Basnett, who was the General Secretary of the NUGMW, 1973-86 – the NUGMW officially became known as the GMB in 1987 – and who served as President of the TUC in 1978, had a number of meetings with Thatcher's hatchet man Ian MacGegor during the NUM strike of 1984-85. In his autobiography, MacGregor observes that Basnett was 'quite approachable and open on the subject of the NUM strike' and that 'Basnett takes life very seriously and was really worried about finding a solution to the Scargill problem'. MacGregor met Basnett and Buckton because he agreed to meet a 'few of the TUC people' to 'discuss grounds for talks' and was delighted to discover that they agreed with MacGregor that the only problem was Scargill. MacGregor also met the Windbag 'for an introductory chat before the strike began'.
MacGregor claims in his autobiography that on the first occasion that he met Scargill after the strike was called, it was at Hobart House, the HQ of the NCB, which at the time had an NUM picket permanently outside. Scargill was refusing to cross a picket line, so to enable Scargill to enter Hobart House to meet MacGregor without upsetting the NUM by crossing the picket line, the picket was removed for that day. MacGregor claims in his autobiography that all this happened after 'pressure' from the Windbag. Not that the Windbag's bright idea came to anything; MacGregor grumbled that not only were the whole NUM executive in the room which MacGregor couldn't cope with, but MacGregor maintains that because of the timing of the meeting, he was in a relatively strong position with regard to holding out against the NUM.
Dave Basnett grew up in Liverpool and became the Regional Officer of the NUGMW in 1948. In 1955 Basnett was appointed national education officer, then in 1960 national industrial officer. In 1966, Basnett was elected to the General Council of the TUC. In 1970, he negotiated a settlement regarding a major dispute at Pilkington, which was the springboard to him becoming General Secretary in 1973. Trevor Jones, a leading light from Pilkington's off-shoot in north Wales, was a big ally of Dafydd and the gang (see post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!').
Basnett was General Secretary, 1973-86 and during that time, the union was involved with numerous mergers with smaller unions and became the GMUW. Basnett also sat on the National Enterprise Board and National Economic Development Council. In 1979 Basnett founded 'Trade Unionists for a Labour Victory' and spent much of next decade promoting conference between trade unionists and Labour Party members. Frustrated by the lack of progress – perhaps the Windbag could tell us why Basnett's initiative didn't lead to a Labour Victory – Basnett took early retirement in 1986. As with the Windbag and Mrs Windbag, Basnett's complete ineffectiveness didn't stymy him and in March 1986, Dave Basnett became Baron Basnett of Leatherhead in the County of Surrey.
Leatherhead is on the River Mole no less and the UK and Ireland HQ of Unilever plc are at Leatherhead. It was Unilever who bankrolled the expansion of the Psychology Dept at Bangor University under Prof Fergus Lowe, when Philip Lever aka Lord Leverhulme was Chancellor of Liverpool University, Dafydd's old alma mater, which at that time was still employing numerous people in senior positions who were concealing Dafydd's crimes (see previous posts).
Baron Basnett of the Wealthiest County in the UK died in 1989.
The GMB describes itself as 'a general trade union in the UK which has more than 631,000 members. GMB members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution and the utilities, social care, the NHS and ambulance service and local government'. The GMB represents another group of workers as well which it doesn't boast about as much as it does its members who are NHS workers. The GMB represents sex workers and has since 2002 when the International Union of Sex Workers became affiliated to the GMB, four years before the Ambulance Service Union did.
The website of the International Union of Sex Workers tells us that not only does it have official recognition as the sex industry branch of the GMB – the GMB is divided up into different branches, eg. 'service industry', 'security industry' etc – but various services for sex workers are offered by the GMB including self-defence classes. Sex workers are subjected to violence, so if one is a union with members who are sex workers, self-defence classes could well be a good idea.
However, the International Union of Sex Workers supports the x:talk Project, 'which provides free English language classes to migrant sex workers in London'. How many members of the GMB know about this? Even among those people who take a liberal approach to prostitution, there will not be many who think that providing such a service is a particularly good idea. There is a considerable problem with migrants being tricked and/or trafficked into sex work and a hot spot for traffickers is London. Those free language classes could be a God-send to people traffickers. I have discussed previously on this blog how the GMB ignored and concealed child abuse and trafficking (see post 'Mary Turner – An Appreciation'), but those language lessons for migrant sex workers are taking the collusion with serious crime to a whole new level.
The International Union of Sex Workers website advertises another service as well – free advice and support on criminal prosecution from an 'award winning legal firm'. This is an 'automatic benefit of GMB membership', which can be acquired for £6-50/month. The website has a pdf which can be downloaded for sex workers who wish to join the GMB. Again, free legal advice and support could be a lifeline for sex workers who have been fitted up by the police – but what if it is a trafficker or a pimp who is being prosecuted? Furthermore, an award winning legal firm will not come cheap, the GMB will be subsidising that to a great extent.
The GMB's wiki entry tells us that membership of the GMB costs full-time workers £13/month. Which is rather more than the sex workers who are members of the GMB have to pay for their free legal advice. Sex workers who are not being trafficked and robbed will earn considerably more than most GMB members.
Not only have the GMB been spectacularly bad at defending the interests of most of their members who do work in the NHS or social care – the pay and conditions of the sort of workers who are likely to be members of the GMB, as opposed to the BMA or RCN, are dreadful and have been getting worse as those jobs are increasingly outsourced – but those members are now possibly subsidising people traffickers or the legal help given to sex workers who earn a great deal more than NHS workers. I am wondering if the GMB is one of the unions which as part of its pay packages for senior officers of the GMB provides private healthcare cover, as unions which represent senior NHS staff nearly all do now.
John Edmonds was the General Secretary of the GMB when the International Union of Sex Workers became affiliated to the GMB. Edmonds is an Oxford graduate. Surely he could have predicted this minefield?
The current General Secretary of the GMB is Tim Roache. His wiki entry describes him as a 'father and a husband'. He is also extremely gullible.
The GMB is one of three largest affiliates to the Labour Party and donates up to £2 million/yr to the Party, being the third largest union donor.
The Guardian Online continues to provide free PR for people who've been named and shamed on this blog. One of their recent offerings was a 'profile' of Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, who is a colleague of Professor Mark Williams, the man who perpetrated that research fraud which was Mindfulness when Williams worked as a clinical psychologist at Bangor, alongside those facilitating the trafficking gang in north Wales (see post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot'). Sarah-Jayne and Mark Williams received much money from the Wellcome Trust for their 'research' into Mindfulness and school pupils. Sarah-Jayne works at UCL where she is responsible for the, er, Wellcome funding programme.
'The Guardian' described Sarah-Jayne as an 'expert on teenagers brains' and just to ensure that we get the message, Sarah-Jayne was pictured fondling one of those layman's white casts of a human head and neck with the different regions of the brain sketched on it. I saw one for sale in a gift shop in Hebdon Bridge a few years ago. Not only has Sarah-Jayne carried out a major project with Dafydd's former colleague Mark Williams, but other colleagues of Sarah-Jayne's, including her 'mentor' Una Frith, trained at the Maudsley, along with yet more mates of Dafydd and Tony Francis who then concealed their crimes, as detailed in previous posts.
In 'The Guardian' interview, Sarah-Jayne talked about her own adolescence and her intense embarrassment when her father, Professor Colin Blakemore, was targeted by animal rights activists. Colin Blakemore was indeed given a terrible time, there were attempts to kill him. When Blakemore was being targeted I was still working in medical research and I remember even other people who were carrying out animal work maintaining that Blakemore was cruel and that his experiments could not be justified, including someone who had been a colleague of Blakemore's at Cambridge. Sarah-Jayne remembered worrying that her classmates were 'judging' her. Whether they were or not I don't know, but her teachers definitely were. Sarah-Jayne went to school in Oxford, everyone knew who her father was, well he's that clever scientist isn't he, OF COURSE Sarah-Jayne must go to Oxford for her psychology degree, particularly now that Oxford will be developing their huge research centre spearheaded by one Colin Blakemore, Head of the MRC…
People who were familiar with Colin Blakemore's animal research used to wonder how he got away with it all. Perhaps Sarah-Jayne who has been embarrassed all the way to those massive research grants and a Chair at UCL – which was where Fergus Lowe's mistress Professor Pauline Horne did her MSc before she changed path and went to do a degree in psychology at Bangor with Fergus and Dafydd (see post 'Feet In Chains') – could take us back to her teenage years and let us know.
Who are 'The Guardian' going to profile next? Dafydd himself? 'Lucille, the lady in my life' would make a nice feature…
BBC News Wales online reported that extra NHS funding is to be made available for 'specialist GPs' to provide services to 'trans teenagers' in Wales. By definition GPs aren't specialists, that is why they are called GENERAL practitioners. The BMA are supporting the plan. My how things have changed. Not only did many – if not most – BMA members used to be utterly hostile to transgender people, but the BMA gave their full support to Dafydd, who tried to encourage a teenaged boy to undergo gender reassignment surgery in 1991 because he was gay. The BMA also gave Dr Sadie Francis and her colleagues advice on how to best bring criminal charges against me or have me transferred to a secure hospital although they knew that they had lied repeatedly – including on oath – about me. At one point, Sadie doubled up as a gender identity expert in north Wales. Sadie did not know anything about gender identity, but then most of her colleagues didn't know anything about anything either. With the exception of David Healy, they were not very bright not very competent dysfunctional doctors who washed up as psychiatrists in north Wales because they very obviously couldn't make it in any other sphere. Their 'training' at most consisted of a short stint at the Maudsley, which was a highly dysfunctional institution itself and colluding with the abuse of vulnerable people (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent') but more usually Mickey Mouse short 'courses' taught by one of the other paedophiles' friends in north Wales. According to Dafydd's gang, they were all experts in de-escalation skills, in borderline personality disorder, in dealing with dangerous patients, in CBT, in DBT, in 'psycho-social treatment for psychosis', in 'early intervention', in of course Mindfulness and latterly in gender identity problems. Their patients died while the experts ran a trafficking/paedophile ring. Sadie wasn't as downright obnoxious to talk to as many of her colleagues were and she wasn't covered in Brylcreem or dandruff, but she knew what the others were doing and she lied on oath and to patients, I suspect because she was ordered to do so by the big boys.
There is another gender identity expert in north Wales as well, who pre-dated Sadie's expertise – the dreadful Kenny Midence. For a long time, Midence was listed as the only gender identity expert in the whole of Wales. At least two patients told me that they felt that Midence breached professional boundaries and may even have been preparing them for a relationship with him. When they complained – not about him but about the chaos of the 'service' – in both cases Midence dropped them and cut off all contact. Both ended up suicidal. Midence does however have some rave reviews online. Midence seems to have been accepting 'referrals' from far and wide to carry out 'psychological assessments' on people who want to undergo gender reassignment surgery. They love him – judging from the comments left online, you just pop up to north Wales, hand your fee over and Kenny OKs a sex change. Kenny himself is a bit of a globe trotter and travels to Brazil and other such places for 'conferences'.
The last that I heard, Kenny was in a relationship with a female Angel, Jan Stanley-Smith, which surprised me a bit because Kenny Midence is more like someone out of the Village People than anyone whom I have ever met. Jan Stanley-Smith has worked as a mental health Angel in north west Wales for years. Jan worked in the old psychiatric wards in Ysbyty Gwynedd before the Hergest Unit was built, she then worked in Hergest, she worked as a lecturing Angel in the School of Healthcare Sciences in Bangor University when Dafydd's old colleague from the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, Ruhi Behi, was Head of that School and bullied her out of her job and then she joined the thugs of the Arfon CMHT. Like Dave Hardwick, Jan didn't directly abuse patients herself, but she worked with a great many people who did and watched them do it.
There is no real expertise in gender identity disorders in Wales. So presumably the dosh will be going to Kenny Midence to 'train' the 'specialist GPs' in one of the most difficult, sensitive conditions that a young person can experience and one that, if not handled very carefully, can have dreadful consequences.
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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.
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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.
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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 GP in Cambridgeshire. He was Chair (2001-04) and then President (2006-09) of the Royal College of General Practitioners. DGE Wood held office in the Royal College of General Practitioners for years, including as Treasurer.
Haslam is Chair of NICE.
The hideous Baroness Sheila Hollins followed Haslam as BMA President. Hollins spent many enjoyable years working as a Consultant Psychiatrist at St George's Hospital Medical School and the associated mental health unit Springfield Hospital whilst the staff of those institutions concealed and colluded with serious crime, including the organised abuse of children and the criminality of Dafydd and the paedophiles in north Wales (see posts 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…' and 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). For more info on Baroness Sheila, see posts 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part V' and 'A Galaxy Of Talent'. A lot of info about Sheila has disappeared from other internet sites since I began writing this blog.
Dr John Marks was Chairman of the BMA, 1984-90. John Marks was locked in battle with Thatcher's Gov't throughout this time and was the man who spearheaded the hate campaign against Ken Clarke. John Marks and Ken Clarke were both concealing the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophile gang in north Wales and they both knew that Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, had some knowledge of what was going on – Grosvenor was President of the City of Chester Conservative Association whilst Sir Peter Morrison was their MP. Morrison molesting children was openly talked about in the Conservative Association (see post 'It's The Sun Wot Won It'). Boys from Bryn Estyn used to be taken on work placements to the Grosvenor estate – they then refused to return there but wouldn't explain why.
John Marks's brother was Professor Vincent Marks, who was head of the cancer research team that I worked with at the University of Surrey in 1988. Both John and Vincent Marks were well aware of the extent of research fraud and wrongdoing in medicine (see posts 'The BMA At The Root Of Another Mystery?' and 'Oh Lordy, It's CR UK'). John Marks was a barrister as well as a Top Doctor, he could recognise crime when his colleagues were committing it.
The above list of accessories to serious crime is not exhaustive. There is still the MDU to consider who were every bit as, if not more, helpful to Dafydd, Tony Francis and the paedophiles than the BMA and GMC. The BMA bullied Gov'ts and pompoused for Britain, the GMC pompoused as much as the BMA and refused to discipline people who were sexually abusing and killing their patients, but it was the MDU who agreed to conspire to pervert the course of justice with them.
Leading lights in the MDU whilst the MDU supplied lawyers to Tony Francis and Dafydd who knew that Francis and Dafydd were committing perjury and committing other criminal offences included:
John Garfield, who was a consultant neurosurgeon, 1968-92. Garfield worked at Atkinson Morley's Hospital – affiliated to St George's -and then at Southampton. Garfield contributed to the consultation held by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in 2010 re consent for organ donation.
Baroness Gloria Hooper, a British lawyer and a Conservative peer. Gloria was educated at La Sainte Union Convent High School, Southampton and at the Royal Ballet School. She has a law degree from Southampton University and also studied at Universidad Central del Ecuador, where she was a Rotary Foundation Fellow. Gloria opened the British School of Quito in Sept 1995.
Hooper was assistant to the Chief Registrar of John Lewis Partnership, 1960–61 and Editor in Current Law of Sweet & Maxwell, Law Publishers between 1961–62. From 1962–67, Gloria was Information Officer to the Winchester City Council and from 1967–72 Assistant Solicitor with Taylor and Humbert. In 1972–73, she was Legal Adviser to Slater Walker France S.A. Between 1974–84, she was partner with Taylor and Humbert (now Taylor, Wessing).
Hooper was the Tory Party's candidate for Liverpool in the 1979 European Parliament. The seat was thought to be safe Labour, but Hooper won it over Labour's Terry Harrison, a member of Militant. Hooper was defeated in 1984 in the Merseyside West constituency.
Gloria is also a Member of the Law Society of England and Wales; a Member of the Advisory Board, Polar Research and Policy Initiative; President of the British Educational Suppliers Association; Vice-President of Canning House (Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council); President of Waste Watch; President of the European Foundation For Heritage Skills; Council Member of the Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London); President of Good Guy's Cancer Appeal; President of the Anglo Latin-American Foundation; President of the Friends of Colombia for Social Aid; Trustee, Royal Academy of Dance; Trustee, Centre for Global Energy Studies; Trustee, National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside Development Trust; Trustee/Fellow, Industry and Parliament Trust (and fellow); Trustee, The Tablet; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts; Fellow, Royal Geographical Society.
Gloria bagged her peerage in 1985. As a Roman Catholic with a good knowledge of Liverpool, Gloria will know about the abuse of children at St Vincent's School and St Aiden's Community Home which were run by Liverpool Catholic Social Services and will know that some of those doing the abusing had links to the north Wales gang (see post ' These Sharks Are Crap As Well').
It is highly likely that Gloria knows that other high profile Roman Catholic from Liverpool, Cherie Booth, who was mentor to and friends with so many of the lawyers who ignored the organised abuse of children in north Wales, Liverpool and elsewhere.
Between 1999-01, Hooper served as a PPS to Foreign Secretary, William Hague, whilst Sir Ronnie Waterhouse was writing the whitewash after Chairing the Inquiry into the abuse of children in north Wales which Hague had orchestrated whilst he was Welsh Secretary. But then Hooper already knew about Dafydd et al because she has been a Minister in the Dept of Health, 1989-92 as well as in Energy, 1988-89, whilst Sir Peter Morrison was a Minister in that Dept, at the same time as he was molesting children in north Wales and elsewhere (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well'). Prior to that Hooper was a Minister in Education, 1987-88, whilst kids in special schools and residential schools in north Wales and elsewhere were abused.
Gloria Hooper worked on the Parliamentary Delegation to the Council of Europe.
Dr Alan Horler was 'a Geordie born and bred and proud of it'. He went to Durham University Medical School. After a period at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, Horler returned to the north east in 1956. In 1962 he was appointed as consultant physician at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Gateshead Hospitals. So he'll have known the monstrous Lord John Walton and he'll also have known about the abuse of boys at Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead whilst Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth worked there before they relocated to Bryn Estyn (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III').
Alan Horler was primarily interested in haematological disorders. So he will have known that the young men who died of AIDS in the late 80s after shaking hands with Diana were usually rent boys who had been coerced into sex work whilst they were in care (see post 'Apocalypse Now') and that was the reason why nearly all of them had no families or visitors except for Di, rather the stigma of being gay – they were witnesses to serious crime and it was to the advantage of many powerful people that they died alone. Perhaps Horler knew exactly which 'unspecified blood borne infection' killed Matt Arnold, the former Head of Bryn Estyn, in June 1994, four days before Peter Howarth stood trial for sex offences against boys at Bryn Estyn.
Horler and the MDU went back many years – he was first appointed to the Council of the MDU in Jan 1972. From 1972-94 he served on the Cases Committee and was its Chairman for five years – Horler knew about the long and glorious history of Dafydd then. Horler's obituary claimed that he enjoyed his work for the MDU and brought 'simple humanity' to the 'problems' which he encountered. I had no idea that assisting a gang of sex offenders could be so fulfilling, let alone an act of compassion. Horler was President of the MDU, 1988-93 and was Chairman of the Board of Management, 1991-93.
It was said that Horler 'never failed to interpret a Latin quotation or indeed cite one when appropriate'.
How about this for a Top Doctors motto then – 'credo quia absurdum est – I believe it because it is absurd'.
Here are a few more gems from Horler's hagiographies. Horler 'was much respected as a man of great integrity whose opinion was often sought on non-clinical matters. He was a 'wise' man long before the 'three wise men' or other mechanisms of dealing with doctors in difficulties were created. He was a man of great charm and had a sense of humour which would often explode into hearty laughter joined by his friends'. I'm glad that the old bastard found so much to laugh at, unlike those in Dafydd's dungeon at the North Wales Hospital.
'His obsessional attention to detail may sometimes have caused his junior staff some extra work, but they soon realized the immense benefit his patients derived from it and learned a way of caring and looking after patients which the rapid advance in technology has threatened to destroy. His meticulous clinical notes, carefully written in his distinctive and beautiful handwriting, were a model for all doctors in training.' I presume that Horler led the way in the forging of the documentation as detailed in my post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'.
Alan Horler joined the TA following his National Service in the RAMC and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel – just like Brown's dad, before Brown's dad was found dead so suddenly and unexpectedly just after the Waterhouse Inquiry.
Alan Horler was a 'family man who never allowed his busy professional life to detract from his warm and loving home. He had one daughter and two sons and was a devoted father whose children were a source of both happiness and pride to him'. Horler's children would not have been sent to live in a children's home in north Wales or referred to Dafydd should they ever become distressed or develop drug/alcohol problems. That was what happened to other people's children – usually the children of people who had also had their lives ruined by Dafydd and Gwynne some years previously, not the offspring of Top Doctors.
Professor David Marsden, a consultant neurosurgeon. Marsden is another one of those Top Doctors about whom legends were created, although there was no evidence for the legends. We are told that 'Whether or not he really danced the samba with Dolly Parton in Rio only four hours before his keynote morning lecture on basal ganglia disease is unimportant' – so he didn't then – 'the fact is that David Marsden's colleagues believed that it was well within the limits of possibility. He had the physical stamina and the intellectual prowess to do both brilliantly'. Marsden 'attracted some of the best young neurologists from around the world… if they ever remembered anything after late-night drinks in the Phoenix & Firkin at Denmark Hill…'
The Top Doctors really enjoy telling these sort of stories about each other, to emphasise just how exceptional the subject of the anecdote is or was. Yet exactly the same material is used to discredit patients who might need a bucket of slurry thrown over them. If any of the witnesses at the Waterhouse Inquiry had banged on about dancing the samba with Dolly Parton in Rio and getting so pissed in the Pheonix & Firkin that they couldn't remember a thing about it, it would have been used as evidence that nothing they said about being abused by paedophiles could be believed.
The Top Docs carry on a bit like Shallow and Silence in Henry IV Part II, who in their dotage reminisce about their youthful excesses and maintain that people at the Inns of Court will still be discussing them. Dafydd encouraged this phenomenon. I was constantly told about how Dafydd parked his Mercedes one day, forgot where he'd parked it, so went out and purchased a new one; how Dafydd had killed more sheep whilst driving around north Wales than anyone else and how Dafydd kept crashing his planes. Was all this taken as evidence that he was a mad, grossly incompetent, dangerous idiot? No – it just demonstrated what a Superman he was.
What a bunch of fawning tosspots surrounded that man.
Marsden trained at St Thomas' Hospital and at the then National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square (now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery). He was only 34 when he was appointed to the first Chair of neurology at King's College and the Bethlem Royal Hospitals in Denmark Hill. Thirteen years later, in 1987, he was elected to the premier post of clinical neurology as Professor at the Institute of Neurology in Queen Square.
We are told that 'establishment connections were never courted by David Marsden' – of course not, that's why he was sitting on the MDU, being the old hippy that he was.
Marsden's 'driving ambition in science did not prevent him from being an excellent clinician. He had the knack of being able to recognise, often in difficult circumstances, the real needs of the patient, and to appreciate that these might change over time'. I suspect that as in the case of Dafydd and Tony Francis, the 'real needs' of those patients might have been whatever was convenient to David Marsden at the time. And when they say no they mean yes.
Marsden 'was held in the highest esteem by his own patients and received referrals from around the globe'. Which was exactly what unsuspecting patients were told about Dafydd, 'Europe's leading forensic psychiatrist', as featured in the 'Bangor and Anglesey Mail' (see post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate').
When Marsden moved to Queen Square, 'his administrative responsibilities soared and his direct involvement in science grew smaller. He hated this. Despite the honours that were heaped upon him, he was never at ease with his establishment position'. It must have been a nightmare for the poor man – all he wanted to do was have a knees-up with Dolly Parton and get pissed down at the Fool & Bladder.
Marsden 'was blessed with a voice and demeanour that gave him instant advantage in committee work' – so he intimidated everyone else. 'He established a new research unit…funded directly by the MRC and was instrumental in helping to establish the Functional Imaging Laboratory in Queen Square.' This translates as 'by hook or by crook he extracted the dosh for a machine that goes ping'.
'At heart, he was a shy man who could only open himself fully to a small number of very close friends. He was shattered by the sudden death from cancer of one of his closest colleagues, Professor Anita Harding, in 1995, and, perhaps because of associated ill-health, never seemed able to recover his old self'.
So Marsden wasn't a complete bastard, he was just concealing his shyness and was unable to be his true self. And the Krays loved their mum.
There was a nurse at the Hergest Unit who constantly told patients whom Tony Francis had demanded be arrested or towards he had behaved very unacceptably that the problem with Tony Francis was that he cared about the patients too much and it caused him stress. Francis was undoubtedly a very troubled man, but it is highly likely that the reason for his obvious disintegration as the Waterhouse Report neared publication and his suicide after Operation Pallial was launched was because he feared that he could be in a great deal of trouble, rather than because he was losing sleep over the plight of the patients. I actually feel rather sorry for Tony Francis regarding the mess that he got himself into, but I do think that the rest of us should have been warned how dangerous he was and told what he was doing to us without our knowledge, rather than being reassured that he was a caring sharing doctor who was doing his best for everyone.
As for Marsden's loss, Anita Harding was a neurologist who died of colorectal cancer when she was just 42 – but the NHS is the best in the world! – which was dreadfully sad. But the victims of Dafydd et al were usually dead by the time that they were 30 and often much younger. They never had a go at being a neurologist on a healthy salary with a fulfilling life – they had been battered, raped, locked up and were abused all over again if they complained and they often hung themselves in Risley Remand Centre, where they had been detained after having been framed by their assailants. Marsden was one of many who could have stopped that happening to quite so many people – he didn't.
But then the lives of the Top Doctors and their friends are worth more than the lives of the rest of us. One student at UCNW was told by DGE Wood in the Student Health Centre before finals that he was ill and might not be able to sit his exams. The young man expressed concern and Wood told him to stop bloody moaning because Wood's mate had nearly died in an accident at the boatyard the day before. Wood was referring to Stuart Ferraris, a dentist who had been caught in an explosion whilst he was working on his yacht in Dickie's boatyard in Bangor. Stuart Ferraris's life had been saved by another Top Doc who was working on his yacht nearby. It was bad, but then so were the deaths of all those young people whom Wood and the sex traffickers targeted. Including my house mate Ann.
CRASH!!! Problem sorted – and Ann didn't even go out in style on a yacht…You weren't that sympathetic when Ann was killed were you Wood?
Come to think of it, no-one ever explained WHY there was an explosion in Dickie's in 1984 just when all those Top Docs were down there…So Wood, why did someone try to blow your mates up?
Prof David Poswillo, an oral-maxillo facial surgeon. David Poswillo worked at the Universities of Adelaide and London. In 1990, he Chaired the Department of Health working party on anaesthesia, sedation and resuscitation in dental practice. The working party was considered necessary because anaesthesia was frequently carried out by dentists working alone, a practice that, every so often, resulted in a patient's death. Poswillo also Chaired, from 1994-98, the scientific committee on tobacco and health which curbed tobacco advertising and consumption in public places.
Poswillo was a New Zealander but at the age of 36, he took up a Nuffield Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in England. The College subsequently offered him a Chair in teratology, a post created for him which was funded by Action for the Crippled Child. Presumably those launching into action on behalf of the crippled child had no idea that Poswillo was assisting a paedophile gang who er, crippled (and killed) their victims. Having expertise in teratology, Poswillo will also have known about all those female mental health patients who were being prescribed sodium valproate although it was known that it caused foetal deformities… Never mind, they were only the babies of Empowered Service Users!
Dafydd's colleague Dr Neil Davies continued to prescribe sodium valproate to female patients of reproductive age with no warnings at all….
In 1979, Poswillo returned to London to take up the Chair in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery at the Royal Dental Hospital. In 1986, this merged with the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, after which Poswillo remained as Professor and Head of Department until his retirement in 1992.
Poswillo helped launch the Charity, the Facial Surgery Research Foundation – 'Saving Faces'. A most appropriate name for a charity Chaired by Poswillo.
Poswillo was an executive member of the World Health Organisation Human Task Force.
Readers might have noticed that I have mentioned above that a few of the Top Docs who assisted Dafydd and the paedophiles were gastroenterologists. I have been taking an interest in gastroenterologists, because among my medical records I found a copy of a job application that I'd written back in 1988. Not an application for a job with the paedophiles' friends of north Wales, but an application for a job with a Professor King as a Research Fellow – on a cancer research project funded by a gastroenterological society. Now how did that get into the hands of the north Wales mental health services?
Now here's a big cheese who sat on the MDU whilst they were so helpful to Dafydd and Francis – Prof Sir Roland Smith. Smith was an alumnus of both Birmingham and Manchester Universities and he lived in Altrincham, Cheshire, which was the stomping ground of the north Wales/Cheshire paedophile gang. However I doubt that any of Roland Smith's friends and relations were in any danger from Dafydd, Sir Peter Morrison et al. Roland Smith was the sort of man who would probably have said 'I own shrinks'.
Roland's Telegraph obituary described him as someone 'who made his name as a combative Chairman of House of Fraser, British Aerospace and Manchester United'. Smith literally collected Directorships and corporate Consultancy roles, he had scores of them. He held senior roles at Liverpool University and at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).
In 1980 Smith was headhunted to be Deputy Chairman of the House of Fraser, which was under takeover siege by Tiny Rowland of Lonrho. Rowland was also a Fraser Director. Smith took over the Chairmanship from the Sir Hugh Fraser (whom Tiny Rowland had first befriended and then all but destroyed) in 1981 and with the backing of City institutions, placed himself in the path of Rowland's ambitions. Smith told Rowland after a meeting of Fraser shareholders in Nov 1982: 'If this is your idea of a game, please play it somewhere else in future . . . Get your tanks off my lawn'.
Meanwhile the paedophiles had their tanks on the lawns of so many people a good deal more dispossessed and vulnerable than Tiny Rowland or Roland Rat.
Anyone up for sex with a ten year old whom Lucille Hughes has demanded should be taken into care by the paedophile gang because Dr Dafydd Alun Jones has given his professional opinion that his parents are not fit to look after him? All with the stamp of approval of Roland! Comes Highly Recommended!!! Roll Up Roll Up, It's The House of Fraser Sale – overpriced ridiculous hats and those boring handbags with the Scottie dog motif on them for the ladies, little boys for Peter Morrison, Norman St John Stevas, Cyril Smith, Greville Janner and God knows who else…The MDU will ensure that business is never stopped.
Roland once said of Tiny Rowland 'If he has a redeeming feature, I never saw one'. Coming from a man who believed that Dafydd should remain working as a doctor that is a damning statement.
Thatcher's Gov't blocked Tiny Rowland's/Lonrho's bid for House of Fraser on the grounds of national interest and the then unknown Fayed brothers stepped forward to buy the group for £600 million. Smith was given a relatively free rein to run the business for them and remained as the Chairman until 1986.
How ever was Thatcher's arm twisted by Roland?
In 1984, Fayed and his brothers purchased a 30% stake in House of Fraser from Tiny Rowland. In 1985, the Fayeds bought the remaining 70% of House of Fraser. Rowland claimed the Fayed brothers had lied about their background and wealth and put pressure on the government to investigate them. A DTI inquiry into the Fayeds was launched. The DTI's subsequent report was critical, but no action was taken against the Fayeds.
Sir Peter Morrison was the Tory MP for Chester, 1979-92. He was Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1979-81; Minister of State for Employment, 1983-85; Minister of State for Trade and Industry, 1985-86…then Deputy Chairman of the Tory Party, 1986-87.
Harrods – The Top People's Store!
Night in the Ritz anyone?
Roland Smith's next major appointment was as Chairman of British Aerospace, 1987-91. Whilst there he was credited as the architect of the £150 million take-over of Rover, a bargain-priced deal agreed personally between Smith and the Trade and Industry Secretary Lord David Young, the cost of which was largely recouped by the subsequent sale of Rover's interest in the Leyland-DAF trucks group. David Young was appointed Secretary of State just months after Morrison left the DTI, although I am sure that Morrison was remembered by his colleagues. As well as by Roland Smith.
The explosions which followed Smith's Chairmanship of BAe lasted into the 1990s. European Commissioners had previously decided that the company had received illegal subsidies or 'sweeteners', amounting to £44 million, which it ordered BAe to repay. This development hurled Smith into a political row with Thatcher's Gov't – he emerged victorious but 'he had made some powerful enemies'. Not that any of them had Roland and his associates arrested for their part in facilitating the serious organised crime with which Dafydd et al were involved, because Roland had the shit on absolutely everyone who had kept quiet about Dafydd. Including Thatcher, who was a personal friend of Sir Peter Morrison.
Thatcher's desire to keep giving Peter Morrison roles in Gov't really did render her vulnerable, although sadly the people who were found dead because of this cesspool were former kids in care and mental health patients in north Wales.
Roland Smith masterminded the profitable redevelopment of the Royal Ordnance factories and drove a diversification of the group into property and construction. The strategy came unstuck in the recession: shareholders were disgruntled by falling profits and fellow Directors let it be known that Smith's dominant personal style no longer commanded their support. Smith resigned in Sept 1991.
1991 – the year of the Great Stuffing Over of a group of young academics and media professionals who had found out about some of what Dafydd and Tony Francis were doing and the year that charges against Greville disappeared.
Roland was knighted in 1991. As was Peter Morrison!
Roland's obituary writer stated that 'Smith would chase a new Chairmanship as other men might chase a pretty girl'. Or an underaged boy.
Smith was a member of the Court of the Bank of England, 1991-96.
Smith was Chairman of Manchester United, 1991-2002. Smith had been an ardent Man United fan since his youth.
Keith Fearns, a paedophiles' friend employed for many years by Gwynedd Social Services, comes from Manchester and was involved in football there as a young man. As an abusive old git in north Wales, Fearns runs a ladies football team, who undertake unlikely activities such as touring Eastern Europe. People have long since wondered what Fearns's ladies football team is all about – they are known as 'Fearns's harem' and are nearly always trainee social workers or probation officers.
Roland Smith was the son of a Manchester police sergeant, which would have served him well because the Manchester police have been endemically corrupt for generations and loads of them were mates with Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends, even high ranking officers (see post 'Top Of The Cops').
Roland's life was touched by Dafydd et al long before Roland was part of the MDU. In the early 1960s Roland taught Economics at Liverpool University and in 1963 he became Director of the Business School there. Dafydd studied medicine at Liverpool in the late 1950s, Lucille did her social work training there at about the same time and many other paedophiles' friends trained or worked at Liverpool University, usually as Top Doctors or social workers. Liverpool was a branch of Dafydd's empire, he had people in Liverpool City Council, in Walton Prison, in Liverpool University and Liverpool Poly/Liverpool John Moores University as well as in all the hospitals there (see posts 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well' and 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen). David Hunt was a paedophiles' friend who was MP for the Wirral for years (see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends Of Cardiff North') and there were other tame MPs on Merseyside as well, such as Robert Kilroy Silk. Roland will not have been able to miss them.
Among Roland Smith's first contacts in the corporate world were the leaders of the mining giant Rio Tinto Zinc and it was from them that he learned about large-scale entrepreneurship. Rio Tinto owned Anglesey Aluminium on Anglesey, a major employer throughout the paedophile years. Liz Stables, a pal of Dafydd's who worked as the nurse at the Student Health Centre in UCNW (Bangor University) along with Wood and Gwynne the lobotomist, had previously been the company nurse at Anglesey Aluminium. Prior to that Liz had been a nurse in the C&A Hospital in Bangor and before that a teacher in Liverpool.
Smith's tenure as Professor of Marketing at UMIST lasted from 1966-1988, although one student stated that 'his most outstanding feature as a Professor was that he was never there. Despite him never going to work, UMIST loved Roland Smith and he was Chancellor, 1996-2002. Smith was succeeded as Chancellor by one of his former students, the Chief Executive of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy.
In 2004 UMIST merged with the Victoria University of Manchester to form Manchester University. Dafydd's old mate Dr Bob Hobson worked at Manchester Medical School from 1974 (see post 'The Mentor') as did Professor Kenneth Rawnsley – another long term umbrella for Dafydd and Tony Francis – before being appointed to a Chair at Cardiff Medical School (see post 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…'). Tony Francis himself worked at Manchester Medical School with Ian Brockington's team immediately before he relocated to north Wales in the early 1980s (see post 'Ian Brockington's Mischief').
In the 1970s Roland Smith was on the Boards of Barrow Hepburn, Midland Aluminium and Senior Engineering. Among dozens of other corporate involvements, Roland Smith was Chairman of Hepworth plc 1986-87, Readicut International, 1984-96, Temple Bar Investment Trust, 1980-99, P&P, 1988-97 and Kingston Oil & Gas.
In 1992 Roland became Chairman of the Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conference.
Roland's kind heart led him into charidee work with the NHS a la Jimmy Savile – he was a key member of the committee to raise funds for the Christie Hospital.
Roland and his wife Joan were not blessed with children.
As for people working in north Wales who knew about the serious criminality documented upon my medical notes, the forged documentation as well as the collusion of the GMC, the BMA, the MDU, every statutory agency, Top Doctors in Leicester and London and various bent lawyers and members of the judiciary, one woman who read all the 10,000 documents in my possession making all this crystal clear was Rita Thomas, the 'litigation officer and claims co-ordinator' for the North West Wales NHS Trust. The incriminating documentation detailing decades of serious organised crime was arranged in bundles emblazoned with Rita's name.
Well Rita, what kept you so quiet?
On holiday over Easter, I read an analysis of some of the material in the Mass Observation archive at the University of Sussex. I've never got around to visiting the archive myself, so reading extracts is the next best thing. The Mass Observation archive is famous, it is a collection of diaries and personal records which were kept by thousands of people living in post-war Britain as part of a body of work aiming to build up a picture of the nation and its citizens. Among the extracts that I read were accounts written by two women who wrote about their lives in the 1970s and 80s. One worked as a teacher in Lambeth and the other worked as a social worker in Surrey and then Bradford.
The teacher in Lambeth mentioned that 'the Barnardo's boys' in her class were selling sex. One of the boys had shown her a 'compromising letter' from an MP whom, the teacher was later told by her colleagues, was 'untouchable'. The teacher knew that if she raised concerns about what was happening to her pupils she would be sacked by Lambeth Borough Council. This teacher had previously been politically active but had walked away in disgust at the activities of the 'thugs and criminals' whom she claimed were running both Lambeth and Haringey Councils. I think that she must have been referring to some of those who are now sitting in the Commons and the Lords…
The teacher made a note on her records that she was very angry after having been told by Sussex University that she had to delete the name of the MP who wrote the letter which she read before her material could be stored in the archive – she was livid at being 'censored'.
Sussex University is near Brighton, which was where John Allen owned the brothels to which he trafficked the youngsters who were abused whilst in his children's homes. The firebomb in April 1992 which killed five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal was chucked into a building in Brighton (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs').
The social worker featured in the book that I read was a woman from a privileged background who had been troubled as a child who 'drifted' into social work as a young adult. The extracts that she wrote only briefly mentioned her work, but concentrated mainly on her interests in humanistic psychology, various therapies of different degrees of whackiness and Eastern philosophies. And the fact that she was having sex with her gardener and handyman which left her feeling very Lady Chatterleyesque. For years this woman worked as a social worker in Bradford – where there was a paedophile ring targeting kids in care. The only observation that the social worker made about her Bradford clients was that they had had 'such painful relationships' with the local authorities that they refused further contact with social services. Nonetheless this social worker believed that she was good at 'communicating with her working class clients'. I think what she meant was that they were battered and sexually assaulted whilst in 'care' and that she had them arrested if they complained.
When Jackie Brandt had me prosecuted in 1993 for 'looking at her in Safeways', Brandt told the Bangor Magistrates that she had had 'an unhappy relationship' with me. Well yes, she had witnessed me being threatened by people who were running a sex trafficking ring, she had unlawfully detained me in a psychiatric ward, refused to respond to complaints about this, had a High Court injunction served on me after I wrote the second letter of complaint and had then perjured herself in an attempt to have me imprisoned (see post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena'). I can only wonder whether Jackie was having sex with her gardener throughout it all, just to complete the picture.
A couple of days ago it was reported that the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's bill for staff sick leave is now running into millions because so many staff have developed mental health problems. Just do the usual everyone – give them a few more million and blame it all on the stress caused by violent psych patients attacking Angels. Although where all the mentally ill staff will go for treatment I don't know – they're certainly not going to use their own shite, lethal 'services'. As a (very pleasant) receptionist who worked in the Hergest Unit for years said of the 'BMA psychiatrists' after she retired, 'God I wouldn't go near any of them if I was ill'.
The 'Daily Post' reported yesterday that there has been the death of a patient at Hafan Wen, the detox unit run by Dafydd's charity CAIS in Wrexham. The police have stated that the death is 'not suspicious', but nevertheless an investigation is going on. This is not the first death that there has been at Hafan Wen. CAIS are receiving millions from the Welsh Gov't – and from a number of English authorities – to provide 'substance abuse services'. The dead person's bed will have been filled by someone else by now. The one thing that no-one will do is put a stop to any of this idiocy.
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I have previously detailed how bare-faced lies were documented about me and other patients by the mental health services in north Wales and a perusal of our records demonstrated quite clearly that on numerous occasions the staff were well aware that they were documenting fallacies, just as they cheerfully perjured themselves in attempts to secure convictions against patients who had made serious complaints. My recent posts 'A Solicitor's Letter From North East Wales MIND' and 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' provided accounts of how serious complaints that I made were simply never investigated yet various managers then wrote to me telling me that their investigations had not upheld my complaints; how managers either ignored correspondence from the Mental Health Act Commission or lied to Commissioners; how patients were repeatedly lied to when they attempted to follow up complaints and were told that accounts provided by third parties who had witnessed wrongdoing had not been received whilst those accounts were lying in files with instructions not to reply to the witnesses; how the solution for dealing with patients who produced evidence of serious wrongdoing was to serve them with High Court injunctions preventing them from writing repeatedly to follow up complaints and then to prosecute them and declare that representation from those patients could be ignored because they were, after all, lying criminals.
In 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' I provided details of documentation in my medical records that was fairly obviously forged, amended at a later date or at the very least not compiled on the dates given.
The staff of the mental health services in north Wales were characterised not only by their callous, brutal treatment of patients but by their callous, brutal treatment of each other – I have given previous examples of staff being unfairly dismissed, having nervous breakdowns, committing suicide and the claims of one female member of staff who worked with the Arfon Community Mental Health Team leaving the area after she was sexually assaulted by one of her male colleagues following her complaint of workplace bullying. The culture within the health and welfare sector in north Wales was – and remains -toxic.
So here are a few more gems from the records that my lawyers managed to obtain after the mental health services unlawfully witheld them for the best part of 25 years and a few more names of people who knew just how serious the criminality was and who should now be speaking to the police.
On 7 Jan 1991 a Debra Lewis made a note regarding me phoning Gwynedd Health Authority and telling her that I had been told by my colleagues in London that a sleazy looking person had turned up saying that he had come to serve court papers on me. I remember this well – I was working in London but had gone away for a few days and my colleagues and my house mates in London contacted me to say that a rather dodgy man in possession of a stack of papers was looking for me. I presumed that it would be something to do with Gwynedd Health Authority – the bailiffs used by the courts often looked as though they were on their uppers – so I rang in order to find out what was happening. Gwynedd Health Authority told me that they had no idea what I was talking about so I rang Hempsons, the MDU solicitors. Hempsons refused to discuss anything at all with me. Debra Lewis's note explained that the seedy looking man was indeed in pursuit of me after Gwynedd Health Authority had ordered him to serve papers on me, but she explained in her note how everybody was to lie to me and profess complete ignorance of what was happening. So what was the outcome of this stupidity? Well the sleazy man tracked me down to where I was staying – with relatives in the west country, so I presume that once more someone had unlawfully accessed a confidential database in order to find those details, because I hadn't given them to anyone – and the sleazebag served the papers on a relative of mine. Unlawfully. When the seedy old bailiff realised that the person to whom he'd just handed the bundle wasn't me, he panicked…
Why everybody felt obliged to lie to me about this I do not know. I wasn't trying to escape the country, I was trying to find out what on earth was going on. But it was business as usual – a stream of lies, the telling of which was faithfully recorded in the records that these people unlawfully refused to hand over every time that I or my lawyers requested them.
In the early months of 1991 I finally got so fed up of the threats, the harassment and being bullied out of jobs when it was discovered that I had dared take on Dafydd and the paedophiles that I sought a barrister's opinion. I was told that I had a case against the NHS for false imprisonment and trespass to the person. What happened over the next few months was exactly what happened on the two occasions since when I have tried to begin legal action against the mental health services – crucial papers disappeared and then even the lawyers did as well. One barrister in north Wales who provided his opinion but after which everything inexplicably fizzled out – Wyn Williams – was married to a psychiatric nurse in the Ablett Unit. The senior psychiatrist in the Ablett Unit at the time was Dr Neil Davies. Who was Dafydd's colleague at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh and was involved in falsely imprisoning me….
On 22 March 1991 Alun Davies wrote to Tracey Jones, a lawyer employed by AJ Beale – the legal firm in the Welsh Office who also employed the corrupt lawyer Andrew Park who documented that Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and Tony Francis (Dr X) were lying about my alleged assaults on people but was happy to begin proceedings against me nonetheless – re my proposed action against Gwynedd Health Authority for false imprisonment and trespass to the person. Davies explained to Tracey Jones that Gwynedd could not be held responsible because it was Clwyd Health Authority who managed the North Wales Hospital and held Dafydd's contract. Davies had failed to explain that although Dafydd was employed by Clwyd, he held clinics in Gwynedd and had beds at Ysbyty Gwynedd – and that I had been unlawfully detained in Ysbyty Gwynedd and told by Tony Francis that Dafydd was now my doctor. It was indeed in Ysbyty Gwynedd where I first encountered Dafydd. Furthermore, I had been unlawfully arrested in Ysbyty Gwynedd no less – on the orders of Dafydd – and then been taken to the North Wales Hospital, where I had been held illegally. The North Wales Hospital was used for patients from Gwynedd and Clwyd. So Gwynedd were pretty bloody culpable but began wriggling desperately when I mentioned legal action.
On 23 April 1991 Alun Davies wrote to Tracey Jones to confirm that Dr Neil Davies was the RMO for Bryn Golau Ward in the North Wales Hospital, where I had been illegally imprisoned. Davies also admitted that Dafydd 'still provides a service to Gwynedd'.
On 20 May 1991 Alun Davies writes to Mrs T.L. Jones – who as far as I can work out is the Tracey Jones to whom Davies had written just days previously in AJ Beale's firm, but who was now working for DG Lambert, Solicitor, Crown Buildings, Cathays Park. DG Lambert was obviously another legal firm working for the Welsh Office, but I don't know why they were involved at that point, particularly as Andrew Park of AJ Beale's company had not gone anywhere. Park continued to send me threatening letters and 'advise' the paedophiles' friends as to how to secure convictions against me. Davies explained to Tracey Jones the latest problem that he had with me – that I had now written to Huw Thomas, the General Manager of Gwynedd Health Authority. Tracey came up with the usual solution and wrote back to Davies telling him that she would write to me and threaten me with court action if I did not stop writing to Gwynedd Health Authority.
In spring 1991, under John Major's NHS modelled on business principles, the idiot Davies was no longer styled as 'Priority Services Administrator', but was now 'Business, Planning and Contracts Manager'. Such was the fuckwittery of every NHS reorganisation – the same old crooks and fools were left in place and given new job titles. Older readers will remember the Tories 'internal market' which they imposed upon the NHS. Ooh yes, GPs and managers would be able to buy services from the best provider, thereby increasing patient choice and enabling patients to 'shop around' for the best care. What happened in north Wales? Hilarious, Gwynedd Health Authority took out full page adverts in the local papers explaining that they would be buying mental health services from – Dafydd and the North Wales Hospital! How Brown and me laughed. Here's your choice under the Tories' internal market – Dafydd and the paedophiles. Again.
When I mentioned this to the fat fool Davies, he snapped at me that in north Wales there wasn't any choice. Yes, I had noticed – I escaped to London and was still told that Dafydd was my doctor. Professor Nigel Eastman of St George's Hospital Medical School told me to go back to north Wales for 'care', even though Eastman had been told by his colleague Dr Robin Jacobson that Dafydd had described me as 'attractive and seductive', that Dafydd 'had a soft spot for me' and that Jacobson had noticed that Dafydd and Tony Francis had 'lost their boundaries' (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…'). Escaping from Dafydd trying to get his leg over? We'll say nothing about the perjury taking place in an attempt to imprison you and when the case collapses we'll send you back to Dafydd whilst telling everyone that you're the dangerous one…
'There was no evidence of any criminal conspiracy in north Wales with people outside of the region in order to conceal sexual abuse.'
The criminal conspiracy of course had begun back in 1987, when Dr James Earp of the Towers Hospital Leicester had colluded with Dafydd, Tony Francis and Gwynedd Social Services after the first time that I had been unlawfully detained and exposed to Dafydd's highly inappropriate conduct (see post 'An Expert From England').
What else happened in the early months of 1991? My friend who worked at the Royal Television Society who knew what had happened to me in north Wales and who wanted to make a documentary about it was unlawfully dismissed and blacklisted – her husband who worked at the BBC was told by his boss that they would make sure that he 'never worked in this town again'. He was transferred to Manchester and made redundant some months later. Another friend of mine from our Bangor days who was working for a pharmaceutical company in Kent found that he was driven out of his job as well. Brown discovered that his colleagues had been told by someone that 'he could not be trusted around children'. Then the workplace harassment of Brown at Aston University began in earnest.
The other thing that happened in early 1991 was that my solicitor – who was amazingly supportive – had done his best to secure what he thought would be an independent second opinion in the face of the constant charges brought against me by the north Wales mental health services. My solicitor found someone called David Mawson who was certainly pleasant and friendly and didn't conduct himself in the manner of Dafydd et al (see post 'Doctors Who Disappeared From The Medical Register'), but I have now found out that Dr Mawson knew all about Dafydd and the paedophiles and like absolutely everybody else he was not going to say a word about their criminal activities. Everyone took the same view – the solution here is to stress that it is the patients who are the problem not a bunch of professionally qualified gangsters who are into serious organised crime. Documents in my possession show that Alun Davies and Tony Francis (Dr X) made it their business to contact David Mawson without my or my solicitor's knowledge or consent and ask him what he was going to say in his report….
Documents in my possession show that after they feared that I was going to sue, Gwynedd and Clwyd simply sent letters back and forth to the lawyers in the Welsh Office in which everybody claimed that it wasn't them who had been responsible for my unlawful arrest and detention. The Welsh Office's solution? Threaten me with legal action to stop me writing to anyone. Meanwhile, crucial evidence – such as the identity of Ann Williams, the one honest social worker who was a key witness (see post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels') and documentation – was witheld.
I suspect that it might have been at about this time that Alun Davies et al forged the documentation that I detailed in my post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'. Gwynedd Health Authority knew that if I began legal action against them at some point, documentation could be extracted by a High Court order – as indeed it was many years later – and all would be revealed. So a load of paperwork was compiled to make it look as though legal procedures had been followed in 1988-89 when Professor Robert Owen (see post 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen') at the Welsh Office conspired with Professor Robert Bluglass and Dr Colin Berry to conceal the wrongdoing of Dr Tony Francis, Gwynedd Social Services and Dafydd (see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE').
By the spring of 1991 the authorities were having great trouble convincing everyone that something terrible was not happening in north Wales. Former residents of children's homes were being found dead at an alarming frequency and some members of staff of the children's homes had been convicted of violent and/or sexual assaults on children. There had been many more allegations of abuse which had been dismissed as untrue. From spring 1991 matters snowballed.
In May-June 1991, the by now sacked Gwynedd social worker Alison Taylor took her allegations that children in care were being abused to Wrexham Councillor Dennis Parry. On 10th June 1991 Wrexham Labour Councillors Dennis Parry and Malcolm King held a crisis meeting with John Jevons, the Director of Social Services for Clwyd County Council. On 17th July 1991 a letter was sent to the Chief Constable of North Wales stating that there were allegations circulating that a paedophile ring was in operation in the children's homes of north Wales. On 30th July 1991 yet another member of staff of the children's homes in north Wales was convicted of rape and indecent assault.
On 2nd August 1991 the North Wales Police launched an investigation into Clwyd children's homes. In Sept Wrexham Councillor Dennis Parry contacted 'The Independent' newspaper, alleging a North Wales Police 'cover up'. On 19 Sept 1991 Dennis Parry met journalist Dean Nelson at a London hotel and on 26 Sept 1991 HTV screened a film outlining complaints about Nefyn Dodd, the manager of the Ty'r Felin children's home in Bangor. On 12 Oct Dean Nelson met Alison Taylor at her home in Bangor and on 7 Nov 1991 'The Independent' newspaper formally commissioned Dean to report on the North Wales allegations.
On 14 Nov 1991 police warned Alison Taylor about 'contacting witnesses'. On 30 Nov Frank Beck, the Leicester social worker and associate of Greville Janner, received three life sentences for the abuse of children in his care. There were links between the Leicester gang and the gang in north Wales… On 1 Dec 1991 the 'The Independent on Sunday' published an article about child abuse in North Wales. North Wales Police merged the Clwyd and Gwynedd child abuse inquiries on 2 Dec 1991 and on 6 Dec two former kids in care in north Wales launched a joint compensation claim against Clwyd County Council.
So who in high office presided over this carnage? The Secretary of State for Wales during this time was none other than this blog's friend David Hunt who had already loyally served the paedophiles' friends for years (see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends Of Cardiff North').
The Secretary of State for Health was William Waldegrave and the Secretary of State for Social Security was Tony Newton. Alison Taylor had previously written to Newton on 28 Feb 1988 and described a brutal assault that she had witnessed on a child in care.
The havoc and concerns in north Wales continued throughout 1992. Two former residents of north Wales children's homes Heath Kelvin Jones and Barry Williams were found dead in their bedsits/flats. In Jan and Feb Dean Nelson continued seeking evidence regarding the paedophile gang in north Wales.
On 15 March 1992 police arrested sixteen men and one woman in dawn raids in and around Wrexham. All but one of these had once worked at Bryn Estyn. 'No child pornography' was found and there was 'no evidence' of any paedophile ring. By the end of that day the police had no alternative but to release twelve of the sixteen without bringing any charges. Of the four that remained – Stephen Norris, Peter Howarth, Paul Wilson and David Birch – only Norris made any admissions.
On 9 April 1992 John Major won the General Election. Just days later, Adrian Johns died along with Mabel Roberts, Paul 'Tony' Jones, Tim Sharpe and Andrew Manners when a firebomb was thrown into a building where a party was taking place in Brighton. Two people – AIDS counsellor Mabel Roberts and Andrew Manners – died from multiple injuries trying to jump to safety. Seven people managed to escape by clambering down a drainpipe at the back of the building. One, Tim Sharpe, fell to his death after losing his grip. Several people were impaled on the spiked railings as they jumped to safety from the upstairs windows. Adrian Johns, 32, and another man, Paul 'Tony' Jones, 33, remained trapped in the flat and died of smoke inhalation. Their bodies were so badly charred that they had to be identified by dental records. A number of those caught in the fire had been in care in north Wales. Days later the man who allegedly confessed to starting the fire was found dead. One survivor claimed that witnesses to the abuse of children in north Wales were being murdered. This man was later found dead after giving evidence at one of the trials of John Allen. For full details of the fire and its aftermath, see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs'.
On 13 Sept 1992 a story about the abuse of kids in care in north Wales was published by 'The Observer'. On 17 Sept Mark Humphreys and Steven Messham appeared on TV and accused Gordon Anglesea of abusing them whilst they had been in care in north Wales. Carl Holden watched them at home on television and then telephoned the BBC. During Oct-Nov 1992 Carl Holden was visited by BBC journos and on 30 Nov the BBC filmed Carl Holden accusing Gordon Anglesea of abuse.
Anglesea subsequently sued HTV, 'Private Eye', 'The Observer' and the Indie on Sunday for libel and in 1994 was awarded nearly £400k damages (see posts 'Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd' and 'Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd – A Few Additional Comments'). Shortly after giving evidence at the trial, Mark Humphreys was found dead, hanging from the stairwell in the block of flats in which he lived in Wrexham. In 2016 Gordon Anglesea was jailed for the historical abuse of children in care in north Wales.
So I was interested to discover from my medical files that on 12 Nov 1992 Alun Davies wrote to Rob Evans, the Assistant Director of Gwynedd Social Services, demanding that an approved social worker should be allocated for the specific purpose of being on hand to 'assess' me, because they never knew when I might require sectioning under the Mental Health Act. Who did Davies ask to perform this service? A Terence James, as recommended by Tony Francis.
Terence James was one of Dafydd's mates. Whilst I was in the North Wales Hospital being unlawfully imprisoned and threatened, Dafydd called upon the services of Terence James to section me – after I had been unlawfully arrested and held for three weeks. So why did Dafydd need to do this? Because the next day I was due to appear at Bangor Magistrates Court on a charge of assaulting a junior doctor. I was pleading not guilty because I hadn't assaulted him – unbeknown to me, the doctor himself had admitted this and the charges were going to be formally withdrawn but no-one told me that. Dafydd and the paedophiles' knew though and thus sectioned me the day before I was due to appear in court. So I was taken in the clutches of Angels across to Bangor Magistrates Court, told when I arrived that the charges had been dropped – and was taken straight back to the North Wales Hospital because Terence James had sectioned me the night before. James had sectioned me on the grounds that I was suicidal – he agreed with the charge nurse Mike Williams that the atmosphere on Bryn Golau Ward was 'difficult and oppressive' and that was why I had become suicidal. So there was only one answer – I had to stay in the 'oppressive' atmosphere which had made me suicidal….Just to emphasise how important it was for me to stay banged up, Dafydd contributed his ha'porth – I was 'excitable and potentially dangerous'. Which is hardly consistent with being depressed and suicidal, but when did coherent thought ever have a role to play with this lot? For details of the conflicting evidence, the lies and the fuckwittery, see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE '.
When I was in Bryn Golau Ward in the North Wales Hospital, because the paedophiles' friends were indulging in their usual practice of refusing to identify themselves, every time that I found out who one of them actually was, I made a note of it. I had a list of the guilty parties on a sheet of paper on my pillow. One day it disappeared. Just like that. However, I've found it! It turned up in my medical files! So a helpful Angel must have swiped that when they realised that I was identifying the culprits. One of the names on my list was 'Terence James, social worker'.
I had no idea in Nov 1992 that Davies and Francis were trying to persuade one of the paedophiles' friends to be on stand by until they gave him the signal to bang me up again. However I note from my records that Terence James was 'unwilling to make himself available'. I wonder if Terence was a bit shaken by the police investigations and newspaper exposes regarding matters in north Wales?
Terence would have good reason to be. I have discovered that Terence was a member of the Aberconwy social work team. The Aberconwy team were rather heavily implicated in the abuse of children. From 1987, the Assistant Director of Gwynedd Social Services – whilst the paedophile gang carried out business unhindered – responsible for the Children's Section was Rob Evans, who had been the Area Officer for Aberconwy since November 1984. Rob Evans had graduated in Social Sciences from Leicester University and obtained his CQSW in 1976. Whilst Evans was in Leicester, the paedophile gang involving Frank Beck and Greville Janner were busy and were being concealed by a number of people in Leicester University (see post 'Radical Leicester and Some Other Free Radicals'). In 1992 Rob Evans was appointed Assistant Director (Mental Health) in Gwynedd.
No wonder Terence didn't introduce himself when he imprisoned me in Bryn Golau Ward – and no wonder my piece of paper with Terence's name on disappeared.
'There was no evidence of any criminal conspiracy.'
Some witnesses at the Waterhouse Inquiry were not considered credible because they consistently misidentified staff whom they claimed had assaulted them.
It was all a pack of lies to claim compensation!!!!
In April 1992 Virginia Bottomley took over as Secretary of State for Health and Peter Lilley took over as Secretary of State for Social Security. Anyone remember Peter Lilley's 'little list' of all the social security scroungers whom he wanted to eliminate? You bloody idiot Lilley, just look at what was happening to the 'scroungers' at the hands of a bunch of white collar serious criminals.
Now here's the name of someone else who has info for the police – Bethan Jones, who was working as Dafydd's secretary in March 1993. Dafydd's secretaries didn't hang around for long because he used to do things like ask them to dress up and come to work wearing 'a brief mini skirt and smokey grey stockings because that's my favourite'.
#ME TOO!!
Except in wasn't a case of #Me Too, these snivelling invertebrates freely admitted to each other that they were leaving because they couldn't bear Dafydd propositioning them – and worse – but on every occasion that a patient described similarly offensive conduct from Dafydd, the same invertebrates were happy to do as they were told and complain about these dangerous patients making 'wild allegations' about Dr DA Jones and oooh they were ever so frightened and they thought that the deranged patient in question was probably going to 'attack' them. If any patient ever attacked a member of staff it will have been in self-defence.
Another man who might have been up to no good with the patients at the North Wales Hospital was Frank Riley. He was some sort of occupational therapist. I didn't have the pleasure of the Frank Riley Experience myself, but I did hear about him. From female patients. I was told by a male Angel that Frank Riley was 'a sex symbol for the over 60s' in Denbigh. Frank could have been innocent – Dr David Healy used to have a following when he was younger and I don't think that he was indulging in Dafydd-like pursuits – but in my experience, much of the 'harassment' that staff in north Wales were alleged to be receiving from patients was actually sparked off by the conduct of the staff themselves. If Frank Riley wasn't sexually exploiting patients himself he knew people who were.
Previous posts have mentioned Bob Ingham, a thug of a CPN employed in the Arfon Community Mental Health Team. In 1988 Slob Ingham dragged me along a corridor and injured me. Whilst telling me that he was Keith Fearns. I only found out that Slob had misidentified himself after I tried to make a complaint about him assaulting me. I told Jeff Crowther, a nursing officer at Ysbyty Gwynedd, that Keith Fearns had just assaulted me and Jeff told me that I was lying because 'Keith Fearns isn't in work today'. I later found out that my assailant had been Slob.
My medical records reveal exactly why Keith Fearns wasn't in work that day – he was on strike. Along with the rest of the social workers in Gwynedd. Whilst it is tempting to observe that for once the patients would have been safe if the paedophiles and their friends were on strike, they weren't because Slob assaulted them instead.
The notes that Slob made on that day refer to a Mrs Nancy Jones and a Mrs Crowley being the only other people in the building. Perhaps Mrs Nancy Jones and Mrs Crowley would like to make a statement re Slob assaulting me, they could hardly have missed it. I don't know Mrs Crowley, but I do remember Nancy. Nancy was an utter incompetent who for a long while worked as Tony Francis's receptionist in Ysbyty Gwynedd. Nancy was rude to patients and she kept screwing up the appointments – so people wouldn't receive their appointment through the post until after the salient date had come and gone. Francis knew that Nancy was doing this because so many people complained about her. So he did what he seemed to have done a great deal of – he was charm itself to the patients and their relatives, told them that it would never happen again and then fumed and planned revenge. The first bit of 'evidence' that Francis sent to the MDU solicitors Hempsons regarding my irrationality and dangerousness was a complaint that I had made about Nancy – after the fouth time that I received a little yellow card through the post telling me that my appointment had been the day before the card arrived.
Being dragged along a corridor was not my only encounter with Slob Ingham. Following that incident, I was partaking of my usual habit ie. reading the newspapers in the supermarket – namely Safeways in Bangor – when I felt a drunken thuggish presence next to me. Then the presence elbowed me and I realised that it was Slob. I asked him what he thought that he was doing and Slob insulted me and walked off. So unsurprisingly I followed him. Slob then told me that he would be calling the police to report me for 'harassment'. It got better. Slob then supplied a statement to the police explaining that he knew that I was in Safeways (how?? ESP???) and he also knew that his colleague Jackie Brandt was shopping in Safeways at the same time. So in order to stop me 'attacking Mrs Brandt', he 'distracted me'. How I was supposed to have even known that Brandt was shopping in Safeways let alone be getting ready to attack her whilst I was reading 'The Guardian' I cannot fathom. Furthermore, if danger was really imminent the most sensible course would have been for Brandt to do her shopping somewhere else. This incident was faithfully logged as yet another occasion on which a paedophiles' friend narrowly escaped with their lives after a chance encounter with me.
Brandt appeared in court on several occasions and perjured herself in an attempt to secure convictions against me, on one occasion with Slob, Keith Fearns and their partner in crime Maggie Fookes, on another with Keith Fearns and in 1993 by herself (see post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena'). On one occasion Brandt started crying after my solicitor demonstrated that I had not – as she alleged – screamed and yelled at her, indeed I hadn't even spoken to her. I was fined £60 quid for looking at her. Yes, honestly – Gwynfor Evans, the Chairman of Bangor Magistrates Bench, claimed that by looking at Brandt I had caused her to feel fear and distress as defined under the Public Order Act. Gwynfor was a retired bank manager from Holyhead. God knows what sort of decisions Gwynfor was making when he managed the bank. He also deported an overseas student at Bangor University who nicked a credit card from another student. Gwynfor was quoted in the 'Bangor and Anglesey Mail' as saying 'this is what we call organised crime and we will not tolerate that in Bangor'. I showed the article to Brown's brother and he pissed himself laughing and said 'organised crime, that's the Mafia isn't it?'
Well Gwynfor, I've got news for you – there was organised crime in Bangor, Dafydd and his mistress Lucille Hughes were running a paedophile ring with interests in drug dealing and child porn. But Gwynfor almost certainly knew that at the time, which was why he was fining the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles £60 for looking at them in Safeways. I don't know whether Gwynfor simply just worked in Holyhead or whether he lived there as well, but the children in the children's home in Holyhead were being abused.
In May 1993 John Redwood took over as Secretary of State for Wales.
In the summer of 1993 an exceptional cousin of mine who had a place to do a PhD with Stephen Hawking found that his career was unexpectedly derailed (see comments following my post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks').
In Oct 1993 Ron Davies – of moments of madness and looking for badgers fame (see post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate') – was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Wales.
Just weeks after I was find £60 for looking at Jackie Brandt, I had yet another encounter with Slob Ingham. I was standing in a corridor at Ysbyty Gwynedd chatting to an Angel, when Slob advanced towards us and stood right next to me glowering at me. He didn't move until I finished the conversation and I had walked away. I – and other patients – had by then had such a bellyful of the constant aggro from Slob and the gang that we agreed that if we could be fined for looking at them whilst they continued to conduct themselves like this, it left us in a very vulnerable position. So I made representation about Slob and two other patients backed me up, having witnessed his intimidation.
My medical records contain a fascinating account of what happened behind the scenes after we complained about Slob. On 30 Nov 1993 Alun Davies wrote a letter about it all. Davies's letter explained that 'a member of staff, Mrs Penny Phillips' witnessed everything and that Penny barely noticed Slob's presence let alone any silent intimidation.
Penny Phillips was married to another Hergest Unit nurse, Gareth. Gareth Phillips developed back problems a few years later and was unable to continue working as an Angel. I was told by a former member of staff that the North West Wales NHS Trust had 'looked after Gareth'. This looking after of Gareth consisted of the Trust giving Gareth a job as the RCN rep and in this capacity Gareth obediently gave interviews to the local papers explaining how many psychiatric patients were carrying out violent attacks on Angels after every allegation that there was abuse of patients happening in the Hergest Unit. I never saw Gareth or Penny abuse patients themselves but they certainly knew that some of their colleagues were doing so.
But then Gareth and Penny had an idyllic existence on their smallholding on Ynys Mon with their horses and horses don't come cheap. What would have happened if the Phillips's had to live in poverty like the patients?
Alun Davies had certainly prepared for all eventualities after he received representation about Slob. Before he even asked the tame Angel Penny for her opinion, Davies had written to Tony Francis – for his opinion on my 'mental state' no less, immediately after Davies received my complaint about Slob. I could see the logic in such a course of action if, for example, an acutely ill patient had complained that there was a spaceship parked in the hospital grounds and he wanted someone to remove it. Even so, the opinion about someone's 'mental state' should be sought with the complainant's knowledge and consent and in tandem with – or following – an appropriate investigation.
Well if Davies was hoping that Francis was simply going to declare me insane and he could therefore ignore my complaint as the rantings of a lunatic, he was to be disappointed. Francis – for a man, who without my knowledge spent much time and energy sending letters to the BMA, Hempsons and the MDU demanding that I be prosecuted and locked up on the grounds of the enormous imminent danger that I presented to the world – had an interesting response.
On 25 Nov 1993 Francis replied to Davies, but Francis refused to comment on my 'mental state'. Because it would have been thoroughly unethical? Er, no. Because Francis noted that a member of staff had witnessed the incident – so Francis knew that Penny was on hand to lie – and that it was important 'therapeutically' for people to view this situation sensitively and 'through [my] eyes'.
I suspect that the reason why Francis had not done the usual – put on his jackboots and told Davies that I should be ignored because I was nuts – was because they had already been stung after using this approach. After I complained about Gwynne the lobotomist's lechery at the Student Health Centre at UCNW (Bangor University), the corrupt GP Dr DGE Wood had tried the 'you're mad and we're right' approach and it backfired. Brown was livid and wrote to them as well, we gained evidence of complaints by other students against Gwynne the lobotomist, we contacted the Students Union so they all began crapping themselves up there (see post 'Just A Language Divide?') and eventually we wrote to the Vice-Chancellor.
So obviously a different approach had to be adopted – particularly, as with the students at Bangor University a few years before, there was no shortage of people ready to testify as to Slob's previous.
The police investigation into a possible paedophile ring in north Wales ended in 1993. The North Wales Police claimed to have found 'no evidence' of a paedophile ring, just a 'few evil men'. Which is odd because I found absolutely scores of evil men and as many evil women as well, so obviously the North Wales Police weren't looking in the right places. They obviously were just searching behind the cushions instead of in the NHS, the BMA, the GMC, the MDU, Hempsons, the social services, MIND, the Samaritans, the County Councils, the Houses of Parliament, the Magistrates Courts, the Crown Courts, the High Courts and their own police stations. Easy to miss I suppose.
My records show that on 20 Jan 1994, Alun Davies sent a memo to Rob Evans, Slob, Ella Fisk (the nurse who ran the very popular day centre), Jeff Crowther (a nurse manager), Keith Fearns (the thug who was leader of the Arfon Community Mental Health Team), Jackie Brandt and Bruce Napier (a clinical psychologist who had a much nicer manner with the patients than did most of his colleagues and who for a while had a management role at the Hergest Unit). The memo purports to have been sent by Alun Davies but it is signed D. Parsons. The memo states that there is a 'need to discuss the issues' raised in Jackie Brandt's letter to Bruce Napier of 23 Dec 1993 and Brandt's solicitor's letter to me.
There is no copy of any letter from Brandt to Bruce Napier in my files, but Brandt did send me a solicitor's letter at about this time. I had been in Bangor on a Saturday morning and had walked past her and her husband in Bangor High Street, near the clock which is in the main thoroughfare through Bangor town centre. About 30 mins later I passed them again in the shopping centre. Brandt's solicitor accused me of following her – although it was Brandt's husband who breached the peace by shaking his fist at me and shouting. Bangor is a small town and if one is in town at the same time as someone else, it is highly likely that you'll see that person – particularly near the clock where you have to pass to get from one end of the town to the other or in the shopping centre. There is only one shopping centre and it doesn't have that many shops in it. It would be possible to miss someone if one of you was visiting the cathedral because that's at the other end of town, but go to Bangor on a Saturday morning in a car or on the bus to do some shopping and you'll all end up in pretty much the same place. As my solicitor explained to Brandt when she threw a hissy fit and her husband shook his fist at me.
As for Brandt's letter to Bruce Napier, I never saw it, but I was told that Brandt hit the roof because I walked past her in a corridor in the Hergest Unit. Brandt explained to Bruce that she had been with 'a reluctant paranoid client' – yes, that was Jackie Brandt being nice about a client – and just the sight of me could have had a deleterious effect on this 'reluctant paranoid client'. As opposed to her mate Slob dragging them down a corridor or Brandt illegally detaining them in Ysbyty Gwynedd where Dafydd then shuts himself in a room with them and talks about sex with no prompting. After seeing me in the corridor, Jackie Brandt declared that she would no longer be prepared to attend Ysbyty Gwynedd lest she see me there again.
Brandt clearly pushed the boat out on this occasion. Not only had she sent me a solicitor's letter and banged on to Bruce Napier about a reluctant paranoid client, but Brandt had also made contact with Gwynedd County Council's legal dept – the legal dept that employed the crooked lawyer Ron Evans, who's assistance not only kept a lot of people out of prison after the Jillings Report caused everything to hit the fan and was then followed by the Waterhouse Inquiry, but who was also involved in the rigged court case in Chester in July 1990 when Lucille, Fearns, Brandt, Slob and Maggie Fookes tried to have me imprisoned by perjury par excellence (see post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena').
Brandt 'advised' Ron Evans and Gwynedd's legal dept that Slob was 'subject to a spurious complaint' from me and referred to my 'abusive behaviour' which, according to Brandt, was interfering with Slob's 'clinical work' no less.
The correspondence regarding the terrible threat that I presented to Jackie and Slob and the need to have a meeting to discuss it – on Jan 24 1994 – was CC'd to Mrs J. Hughes, legal dept and to Rob Evans, the Assistant Director of Gwynedd Social Services.
I presume that Mrs J Hughes was Janet Hughes, of Gwynedd County Council's legal dept. Although Gwynedd County Council was a separate body from the various incarnations that the NHS in north Wales passed through, they were always happy to put their heads together in their efforts to shaft patients. Andrew Park, the crooked lawyer employed by the Welsh Office – who's lawyers the NHS used – wrote to Gwynedd County Council and asked them to 'share information' with him because he thought that the injunction which Gwynedd County Council obtained against me was 'more favourable in its terms' than the injunction that Gwynedd Health Authority obtained.
It certainly was – the reason why I was a punchbag for Fearns and Brandt was that after my second letter of complaint to Gwynedd Social Services about Brandt unlawfully detaining me, Lucille Hughes asked Ron Evans to obtain an injunction against me preventing me from writing to anyone in Gwynedd Social Services or visiting any of their properties. Park wanted to know how they obtained such a wonderful and far reaching injunction. Easy. Brandt and Fearns lied their arses off on oath and Ron Evans took the request before a judge in Leeds, a paedophiles' friend called Sir John Kay (see post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena'). So Brandt and Fearns did whatever they wanted and I could not even make written representation, unless I splashed out for a lawyer and paid them to write to Gwynedd Social Services on my behalf.
Ron Evans seems to have been on tap quite regularly. Ron had a trademark signature, a distinctive R which was underlined – it appears on a number of NHS documents concerning me to which Ron should had not have had access. Ron was also on hand to advise when Alun Davies and Tony Francis tried to entrap me over the phone – Ron was advising them on which recording equipment to invest in.
It was Ron's wife who told me that Ron kept the paedophile gang out of prison – I worked with her at Bangor University. She had no idea that he had tried to have me imprisoned and it was a while before I realised that her husband was the Ron who had caused me such problems. She told me that Ron was the best and they all used to go to him for advice. Well he was not as daft as the rest of them, I'll give him that. I've got documents that were forged by Ron and they are far superior to Alun Davies's efforts at forgery (see post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'). Ron remembered to sign them, he was careful to get the date right when he pre or post dated them AND he forged the Gwynedd Health Authority stamp with the appropriate date on. So how do I know that Ron forged them? Because unlike Ron, the silly fuckers who were finally forced to hand my records over to my lawyer in 2005 or see Keith Thomson – the CEO of the North West Wales NHS Trust – go to prison for contempt of court, handed the whole lot over without sifting through them when my lawyer sent the bailiffs in to search all the Trust buildings and seize everything relating to me. So all the documents that Ron would have had the brains to remove were handed over as well – the original copies, the plans and the instructions to people to lie in court.
I've got the lot Ron!
Following Penny Phillips' bearing false witness and Alun Davies writing to me telling me that Slob Ingham had not tried to hassle me in any way whatever, I and another patient decided to take this further in the light of the number of patients who had told us about the naked abuse and aggression that they had experienced from Slob. One family told us how on a 'home visit' Slob threatened to hit a member of the family, his 'client'. The family were so frightened of Slob that they were locking themselves in their house. We had all had years of getting absolutely nowhere with the mental health services no matter what had happened to us, so I suggested that we should go outside of the mental health services, above their heads. I discovered that there was a Director of Nursing for the Gwynedd Community Health Trust, a Nerys Owen, who was probably not a psychiatric nurse and I wrote to her.
Nerys wrote back and met both I and another patient. She actually seemed to take the matter very seriously and we noticed that none of the Hergest Unit staff tried their usual fuckwittery in front of Nerys. They were incredibly polite to her, even Slob Ingham kept a civil tongue in his head which I had never seen before or saw since. We had a private meeting with Nerys and told her just how serious some of the allegations against Slob were. She gave us a supply of her business cards and virtually begged the other people who had been threatened and hassled by Slob to get in touch with her. (They wouldn't – they simply pointed out to us that he knew where they lived, he knew confidential information about them and that he or Fearns and/or another member of the gang could turn up at any point and section them and that would be it. Which is a fair point – someone said to me two years ago 'you complained about them and look what happened to you'.)
Although our meeting with Nerys left both I and the other patient with the firm impression that Nerys really was doing her best, the truce was short-lived, as I shall explain.
When I obtained my records, I found a copy of the letter that Nerys wrote to Slob after I and the other patient contacted her. On 16 Feb 1994 Nerys wrote to Slob ordering him to a meeting with her on 21 Feb 1994, 'to discuss in detail comments and complaints that [my name] has made in relation to your behaviour…the areas to discuss with you will be limited to your attitude and behaviour in a professional capacity…my intention is to address issues raised by [my name] and then to move forward endeavouring to create an atmosphere of understanding rather than confrontation which the current situation appears to be'. The letter was CC'd to Alun Davies.
My perception is that Nerys's letter was excellent. Slob was rude, aggressive and threatening and this was well-known. His attitude towards patients was dreadful and he was also very unpleasant and confrontational with a lot of other staff. Slob, Fearns and the alcoholic alcohol counsellor Tom Harney – who was another totally abusive member of the Arfon Community Mental Health Team – could be seen every day in Safeways in Bangor between 9-30 am and 11-30 am enjoying a cooked breakfast in the cafe. They were supposed to be in their office on duty and incredulous patients who had been told that the Arfon Team were 'too busy' to fulfil various simple basic functions would watch this every morning. Then other people would see Slob enjoying a round of golf on the golf course in Bangor on many a weekday afternoon.
The Hergest patients gained the impression that Slob backed off after Nerys intervened. Then came the backlash. Slob did back off, but the other paedophiles' friends advanced fully armed.
Meanwhile, on 12 May 1994 Labour leader John Smith died unexpectedly after the Top Doctors at Barts just could not revive him after a heart attack. When Smith had his first heart attack, he was absolutely reassured by Top Doctors that the problem was not his heart. See post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play' for details of how the Top Doctors just didn't seem to get it right with John Smith.
Tony Francis was most interested when he heard me telling everyone at Hergest that I'd just heard on the radio that John Smith had died.
Dafydd led the post-Slob charge. He was making constant representations about my very presence in the day centre – where I used to go to meet my friends and for appointments with my key worker, who was by then the Hergest whistleblower and was always very, very helpful. Dafydd made constant demands that I should be legally prevented from going to the Hergest Unit. He put in a complaint literally every time he saw me. Even on the occasion when Dafydd walked through the front door and was traumatised because he saw me sitting on a chair talking to an Angel. Not even Penny Phillips' witness testimony managed to cause any problems on that occasion.
At about this time the Mental Health Act Commission paid a visit to the Hergest Unit. I and another patient made an appointment to see them. We told them of the suicides, the constant aggression from certain members of staff, the fact that complaints were never investigated – and we also told them about Dafydd's conduct towards female patients. One of the Commissioners laughed. We asked him what he was laughing at and he told us that he was laughing in despair because he'd heard this so many times. Jeff Crowther, the nursing manager, sat in on the meeting. He told us later that the second Commissioner, an older lady, had spoken to him after our meeting and had commented that she had been involved in inspections of North Wales Hospital in the 1960s 'and it was exactly the same story then'.
To remind readers of just a bit of Dafydd's previous in relation to patients: in 1987 a worker for MIND had collected statements from five female patients all independently stating that they had had a sexual relationship with Dafydd. He cohabited with a number of female patients, at one time with two at once. Dafydd's conduct towards women, including patients, was the subject of jokes among the staff and many years later I was told by a former social worker who had given up with Gwynedd and walked away that it was an 'open secret' that Dafydd was sexually exploiting patients. In 1991 Dr Robin Jacobson of St George's Hospital Medical School/Springfield Hospital documented that Dafydd and Tony Francis had 'lost their boundaries' after Dafydd told Jacobson that I was 'attractive and seductive' (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London…'). Jacobson did not tell me that Dafydd had made these comments. In the mid 1990s Alun Davies received a series of anonymous letters about Dafydd and after what was said to me (Davies thought that I was behind the letters) I suspect that Dafydd's sexual relationships with patients were the topic.
Any comment or a complaint from patients about such matters resulted in it being diligently recorded but not as a complaint. My post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' mentions how even documenting the numerous complaints about Dafydd's sexual misconduct was said to be 'publishing libellous material'. Instead comments from patients were recorded and used to demonstrate how mad the patients were.
One the first occasion on which I mentioned Dafydd's sexual exploitation of patients Tony Francis was so livid that he documented that I was a 'very disturbed individual' and whoever had given me information about Dafydd's 'private life' should be hunted down and sacked. After I raised the subject of Dafydd's sexual exploitation of patients with two different members of admin staff at the North Wales Hospital, they passed on my comments 'behind the scenes' and Andrew Park made a written note that I was making a nuisance of myself again and that I had to be stopped. My files reveal that on 23 July 1990 Lilian Roberts, a temporary secretary to Dafydd, wrote to Alun Davies after I mentioned Dafydd's conduct with female patients; that on 23 July 1990 an A. Howells, another secretary or administrator, took a phone call from me about the matter and that on 29 July 1990 a Dr Fear, 'registrar, psychiatry', made a note that I had mentioned it to him as well.
What did not happen at any time was any sort of investigation. Finally in about 1995 after I dared raise the subject of Dafydd again, Alun Davies bellowed at me that I should 'put up and shut up'.
The situation was so widely known that it was the subject of piss-taking among patients. One person quipped that when the first female patient tried to report Dafydd they probably refused to document the complaint because she didn't know the Welsh for 'rape'. It wouldn't actually surprise me if someone really had used that excuse.
English immigrants to north Wales who have learnt Welsh will be very familiar with the conversational Welsh course which is taught absolutely everywhere, WLPAN. WLPAN comes highly recommended and is good fun, but you don't always get the vocabulary that you need to deal with Dafydd. So here's a quick guide to learning Welsh the Dafydd way. Vocabulary which could be needed includes –
paedophile – pedoffilydd
rape – trais rhywiol
hooker – putain (plural = puteindra)
brothel – putaindy
testicles – carreg gwr (this is a nice one, it translates as 'men's stones')
People who live in Caernarfon will be familiar with 'Wenglish', the slang Welsh which contains many English words which many younger people speak. Hence the reference to the need to 'kick him in the carregs' as explained to me by one of the bar staff in Wetherspoons one day.
Should pigs ever fly and Dafydd ends up under investigation but tries the Max Clifford excuse as to why he cannot possibly be a sexual predator, the Welsh for 'small penis' is 'pidyn bach'. Just so that everyone understands Dafydd's excuse of last resort.
Sadly there is a catch for anyone who even learns the appropriate vocab in an attempt to make a complaint about Dafydd. Welsh grammar is complex and difficult (but not as complex and difficult as English grammar) and no doubt if someone arrives at the office of Andrew Park/Alun Davies/Ian Rickard or indeed anyone else and makes their complaint in Welsh, they'll be told that they haven't mutated properly and dear oh dear we cannot possibly take down this complaint.
I did not hear any more from the Mental Health Act Commissioners, so I presumed that once more complaints about the most serious misconduct had been ignored.
On 9 June 1994 the head of Bryn Estyn, Matt Arnold, died of an 'unspecified blood disease'. On 13 June the trial of Peter Howarth – Arnold's colleague and long time friend – and Paul Wilson on sexual abuse charges began. Howarth was found guilty at Chester Crown Court on 8 July 1994 and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. Paul Wilson was acquitted of all charges, although on 28 Nov 1994 Wilson pleaded guilty to three counts of physical assault.
My files show that on 13 June 1994, Ian Rickard replied to a letter from Dafydd re Dafydd's 'extreme concern' regarding the safety of him (Dafydd), his colleagues and patients 'in relation to the above woman' (ie. me). This letter was rather different in tone to the letter from Francis a few months earlier, regarding the need to see things through my eyes and show sensitivity to patients' anxieties. Rickard finished the letter by offering to discuss me with Dafydd any time at Dafydd's convenience…
On 4 July 1994 Ian Rickard wrote to Francis regarding me bothering Dafydd and the possibility of banning me from the hospital, although here were no examples given of whatever I was supposed to be doing that was causing such distress. Rickard also asks Francis if I should be assessed by a forensic psychiatrist. At this time Rickard's job description was that of a 'mental health advisor' for Gwynedd Community Health Trust.
My files contain a copy of a letter from Mrs Joyce Kaye of the Mental Health Act Commission (Maid Marian House, Nottingham) written to Alun Davies on 7 July 1994, reminding Davies that on a visit to Ysbyty Gwynedd the Commissioners had spoken to him about me and asking Davies for an update re his investigation of my concerns.
On 4 Aug 1994, Joyce Kaye from the MHAC wrote to Alun Davies again. This letter was from Joyce on behalf of the Chief Exec of the MHAC and mentioned that it was further to her letters of 7 July 1994 and 12 July 1994 wanting an update on Davies's investigation of my concerns.
In the wider world, on 21 July 1994 Tony Blair became leader of the Opposition. The Pretty Straight Kind Of Guy who is married to a lawyer who was mates with and indeed mentor to so many of those 'radical lawyers' who ignored the plight of kids in care and psych patients who were being so seriously abused. Tony and Cherie know many lawyers who are personal injury specialists – who undoubtedly know folk who have worked for the MDU and/or Hempsons.
On 26 Aug 1994 Alun Davies wrote a memo which was circulated to Rob Evans, Tony Francis, Keith Fearns, Ella Fisk and Jackie Brandt confirming a meeting on the same day to discuss my 'present needs' and to formulate a response to the Mental Health Act Commission.
The one really helpful person – my keyworker, the Hergest whistleblower – was not invited to the meeting to discuss my 'needs'. Yet Fearns and Brandt – who had made it crystal clear that they hated me and had even lied on oath a few times in their attempts to have me imprisoned – had been invited to discuss my 'needs'. Fearns and Brandt had no part in my 'care' – although they were invited to nearly every meeting and CC'd into confidential letters about me.
On 1 Sept 1994 Alun Davies wrote to Joyce Kaye, giving details of my 'care' – presumably on a separate sheet, because I do not have those details. Alun Davies also told Mrs Kaye that Rob Evans – the Assistant Director of Gwynedd Social Services – would meet with me.
Rob Evans had graduated in Social Sciences from Leicester University and obtained his CQSW in 1976. Whilst Evans was in Leicester, the paedophile gang involving Frank Beck and Greville Janner was concealed by a number of people at Leicester University (see post 'Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals'). In 1992 Rob Evans was appointed Assistant Director of Gwynedd Social Services (Mental Health).
I was told that my meeting with Rob Evans was to discuss the constant aggro between Brandt, Fearns and me. However Rob didn't discuss that. Instead Rob gave me a tutorial on 'changing social work practice'. He explained that what was once acceptable is not any more. As an example, Rob Evans explained that when he used to take children into care, he would take their shoes away because if he didn't they would run off. (People who had been in care in north Wales explained when they were adults that they had tried to run away from the beatings and the buggery but social workers took their shoes away so they couldn't escape.) Rob told me that he knew some people in north Wales hated him but he didn't care because he knew that he had done the right thing by taking their kids into care because they didn't know how to look after them. I spent a long while wondering whether Rob Evans was just stupid, but I have come to the conclusion that he is pure bloody evil.
I last saw Rob Evans just before I left Bangor, in Tesco no less. When he saw me he told me that if 'arrassed him he'd call the police.
Rob Evans made a record of his meeting with me and what happened afterwards. After meeting me, Evans held a meeting with Keith Fearns and asked Fearns what he wanted him (Evans) to do with me. Fearns replied 'lock her up'. Evans documented that he told Fearns that wasn't possible. Fearns repeated 'lock her up'. Evans recorded that there was no solution to this situation and because he was being transferred to a new role the following day the matter would no longer be his responsibility.
When Rob Evans gave evidence to the Waterhouse Inquiry he explained that after running the children's services in Gwynedd, he transferred to mental health. Rob told Waterhouse that the mental health services in north west Wales had been recognised as being among the best in Europe. But then Dafydd kept appearing in the 'Bangor and Anglesey Mail' describing himself as 'Europe's leading forensic psychiatrist'.
For the details on Rob and his child molesting colleagues, see post 'I Know Nuzzing…'.
In the autumn of 1994 Dafydd was writing to the MDU making ludicrous allegations, such as that I had thrown a rock through the glass door of his house at 3 am one morning, for which he did not have a shred of evidence (see post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'). When Dafydd described events that had actually taken place as opposed to those events he described which had simply never happened at all, it was the actions of people other than me that Dafydd detailed. But nonetheless, Dafydd knew that I was the wicked genius behind it all. It was certainly true that Dafydd was the subject of much piss-taking and the butt of many jokes, but I didn't need to encourage anyone to do that, Dafydd himself was quite sufficient. One example of 'criminal damage' to Dafydd's Range Rover with which the MDU was supplied occurred when a Hergest patient drew a cartoon and carefully tucked it under one of the windscreen wipers. The incident had arisen because a group of patients had watched Dafydd arrive at the hospital, park illegally, ignore the pleas of the parking attendant – who was actually one of the patients, a man called Emlyn (one of those who died shortly after the day centre was shut and scores of patients became destitute) – and had started exchanging Dafydd anecdotes. One woman said 'well he says the most dreadful things to you, but I think he's trying to shock you into getting better'. Whereupon someone else said 'what do you think he is, a Zen master??' and drew a cartoon of a Buddha with Dafydd's face under the slogan 'prepare for Nirvana' and placed it under Dafydd's wiper. Not only did Dafydd attribute the incident to me – no I wasn't responsible, but I did think that it was quite entertaining – but Dafydd maintained that his windscreen wiper had been wrenched back, buckled and needed repairing at the garage.
The MDU did not ask Dafydd to produce any evidence for any of his allegations. They presented them all in court as uncontested matters of fact.
On 11 Oct 1994 Dafydd wrote to John Mullen, the CEO of Gwynedd Community Health Trust, telling Mullen that he'd ordered the MDU to raise an injunction against me. Dafydd CC'd this letter to Keith Thomson. I don't know what Thomson's job title was at the time, but Keith Thomson eventually became the CEO of the North West Wales NHS Trust. Thomson refused to investigate serious complaints and also refused to co-operate with external NHS investigations. He declared me and a number of other people to be 'vexatious complainants' and on those grounds refused to answer our correspondence. On Keith Thomson's watch, north west Wales had the second highest suicide rate among women of any area in England and Wales. It was Thomson who was summoned before the High Court in Cardiff in 2005 and ordered to hand over all documentation relating to me or face imprisonment for contempt of court. Hours later Thomson resigned. An article subsequently appeared in the 'Daily Post' entitled 'Ten Years At The Top For Keith' waxing lyrical about Thomson's glorious career and how he was now retiring. Thomson was then awarded an OBE. He didn't retire. Thomson went down to Pembrokeshire and became CEO of the NHS Trust there. Where there was havoc in the NHS and a paedophile ring in operation.
Rhodri Morgan was FM when Thomson was let loose on the NHS in west Wales. There was a paedophile gang in operation in west Wales which had links to the one in north Wales – Ioan Bowen Rees, the Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council who was in post whilst the paedophile gang in were busy on his turf, had previously been County Secretary of Dyfed County Council, whilst a paedophile gang were busy there (see post 'I Know Nuzzing…'). Rhodri's wife Julie is a former social worker who was Assistant Director of Barnardo's. Some Barnardo's staff were involved with the abuse of children in north Wales.
More recently I heard that Barry Shingles had always expected to become CEO of the NW Wales NHS Trust, but Thomson knifed him and usurped. Shingles committed suicide.
On 3 Nov 1994 Dafydd obtained a High Court injunction against me on the basis of a truly extraordinary affidavit in which he discussed his anus of all things (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well'). The official who served the injunction on me had read it and was laughing, I was later told that the Bangor police heard about the contents and were having a good laugh and I took it into the Hergest Unit to show everyone. Tony Francis was attempting to section one patient on that day for unclear reasons and interestingly enough when this man recited the contents of the injunction and told the assessing 'second opinions' that it had been passed around the day centre to great amusement, all talk of sectioning him was quietly dropped. This man was yet another person who disappeared without trace after the day centre closed. He was a lecturer from Bangor University who had experienced a breakdown. Bright, well-read and someone who would have been in a position to witness just how outrageous and crazy Dafydd's conduct was if there was ever any sort of inquiry into the abuse of vulnerable people in north Wales.
So is Dave Nunn now dead along with all the rest of the witnesses then Dafydd?
Someone who will be in a position to give the police information concerning the mistreatment of patients during this time is Sharon Thomas who worked as Tony Francis's secretary in 1994.
An injunction wasn't enough for Dafydd. He also demanded that an alarm system be installed in the Hergest Unit – because of the danger that I represented to him. On 1 Nov 1994 Alun Davies wrote a letter to John Mullen regarding the alarm system as required by Dafydd. Alun Davies estimated the cost at 25k and told Mullen in his letter that he wanted to discuss the funding with Mullen.
Meanwhile, I had made representation about Dafydd's injunction. Not about the fact that Dafydd had discussed his anus in the affidavit or the crazed allegations that another patient losing his temper with Dafydd and telling Dafydd that he was going to stick a hand-grenade up Dafydd's bum was evidence that I was about to murder Dafydd using a rectal method. I had made representation because among the gossip, speculation and mad fantasy in Dafydd's injunction, he had breached confidence. He had provided clinical details of a matter involving me many years previously which had no relevance to the injunction or to any of Dafydd's claims re the danger that I presented to him. I remembered how many times people had told me that they wouldn't complain about Dafydd 'because he knows things about me and he'll tell people'. I knew enough to know that Dafydd was not on sound ground including some of the comments that he had in his affidavit. So I wrote to the NHS authorities in north Wales making it clear that Dafydd had now done what he was constantly alleged to do in the face of challenge – he had breached confidence and this time in the High Court in Liverpool.
On 11 Nov 1994 John Mullen wrote to the Medical Director of Gwynedd Community Health Trust, Jeremy Corson, asking him to investigate my complaint re Dafydd and the breach of confidence.
On 16 Jan 1995 Ian Rickard, now styled as the 'Head of Mental Health Services and Project Manager', wrote to me concerning my complaint re Dafydd's injunction. Rickard stated that 'any personal information about you was likely only to have been read out in open court in Liverpool, I feel that this is sufficiently far enough away to offer you anonymity…I conclude therefore that in this case confidence has not been breached'.
However Ian Rickard didn't actually send the letter to me.
On the same day – 16 Jan 1995 – Rickard also wrote to Tony Francis saying 'perhaps you will be kind enough to show my letter to Dr DA Jones when you next see him. I am not sure of the appropriateness of sending him a copy.' Rickard also stated that I 'may become quite upset by the outcome of my deliberations' and thus he had sent the letter to me to Ella – the nurse who ran the day centre – 'to discuss with me'.
So Ian Rickard didn't actually carry out an investigation – his response was a result of his 'deliberations'. He had sought no advice at all, let alone legal advice and had just written back telling me that because Dafydd only breached confidence in OPEN COURT in Liverpool and I lived near Bethesda, that wasn't really breaching confidence. Furthermore Ian Rickard knew that he shouldn't have sent a copy of his letter to me to Jones – so he sent a copy of it to Tony Francis, so that Francis could give a copy to Jones. Rickard also knew that I was likely to be highly unsatisfied with his response – so he was sending the letter to Ella. Perhaps to stop me from picking up a phone and calling a lawyer?
Ian Rickard, soon after doing all this, was appointed Head of Mental Health for Gwynedd Community Health Trust. Is it surprising that the Hergest Unit was in crisis and the suicide rate in north west Wales was one of the highest in the UK?
Dafydd, Rickard and Francis had their arses fully covered. On 24 Jan 1995 Tony Francis wrote to Dr Chris Jones, consultant forensic psychiatrist for the North Wales Forensic Service, Unit 2, Clwydian House, Wrexham Technology Park, asking for a forensic opinion regarding the danger that I posed to Dafydd. Francis told Chris Jones that there are 'extensive notes available about her…which I refer you to'. These were of course the notes that Francis, Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends had written about me. Detailing assaults on Top Doctors and Angels that I had not carried out, rocks that I had not thrown through Dafydd's door, Top Doctors that I had not tried to stab or throttle and people whom I had not tried to kill. Except that Dafydd, Francis et al forgot to mention that although they had lovingly documented all of these crimes there was absolutely no evidence at all that the crimes had even been committed let alone that it was me who had committed them. Francis CC'd his letter to Jeremy Corson and to Dr Madelin Osborn.
Madelin Osborn – her name is spelt thus on my documents, although it is probable that the correct spelling is different, this lot did not know how to spell the names of their own colleagues or their patients – is someone else who needs to make a police statement. Madelin Osborn was a Top Doctor at the Hergest Unit who joined the exodus as the publication of the Waterhouse Report drew near. Madelin Osborn was the doctor of the female patient who was unlawfully sectioned by Jackie Brandt and kept at Ysbyty Gwynedd for three days with no clothes or access to her relatives. When the young woman's parents complained, they claimed to have been told 'lie after lie after lie'. Then the young woman was evicted from her rented house after she locked the door to try to stop Brandt coming in – Brandt called the police who broke the door down and Brandt then sectioned the young woman. This young woman used to appear to make a good recovery on a number of occasions and would begin new jobs and undertake postgrad courses – whereupon Tony Francis would state that she was becoming ill, alter her medication and within a month she'd be sectioned again. Before this patient ended up in the Hergest Unit she'd been leading a rather yuppyish life in London working for Marco Pierre White when a number of things happened to her that she found very upsetting. She was 'sent home' (she came from Gwynedd) by a Top Doctor in London and ended up in Ysbyty Gwynedd after her encounter with Brandt. Her only wish was to recover and resume her life in London but she kept being told by mental health staff in north Wales that 'people in London don't want to see you again'. I wonder why that was? Then there was the occasion on which she was sectioned in Ysbyty Gwynedd and she swore blind that Tony Francis had tried to get into her room and had exposed himself to her. Well she was completely bonkers, how could anyone ever believe such a thing. Her complaint was not upheld.
Step forward Madelin Osborn, you are needed in north Wales – to tell the truth for once in your life.
I'm not sure what a forensic psychiatry service was doing on a technology park in Wrexham, such services are usually in hospitals. However the two children homes where very serious abuse of children was happening in north Wales – Bryn Alyn and Bryn Estyn – were located close to Wrexham and forensic psychiatrists were constantly being called upon to assess the kids. Whilst Chris Jones was in business on the Wrexham Technology Park, a full police investigation into the possibility of a paedophile ring in north Wales had been undertaken, the Jillings Investigation into the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council was well underway and Nicola Davies QC was conducting a review of the documentation concerning child abuse in north Wales in order to ascertain whether a public inquiry was justified. Dead former kids in care and psych patients were turning up everywhere.
Not that the police had found any evidence at all of a paedophile ring, despite a number of 'care' staff and teachers going to prison for abusing the children in their care. The month before Francis wrote to Chris Jones asking for a 'forensic opinion' on me, Gordon Anglesea won his libel case…
On 9 Feb 1995 John Allen, the owner and manager of the Bryn Alyn Community, was convicted of indecent assault against six former residents and received six years imprisonment.
On 13 Feb 1995 Gwynedd Community Health Trust's solicitor Tony Lane wrote to John Mullen re Dafydd's breach of confidence in Court in Liverpool. Lane mentioned that Hempsons – the MDU solicitors – had acted for Dafydd.
On 27 Feb 1995 Hefin Davies, the Chairman of Gwynedd Community Health Trust wrote to Tony Lane requesting his advice. Was Hefin's letter seeking legal guidance re Dafydd and the breach of confidence? No. Hefin was asking Tony Lane if there was any more that they could do to have me prosecuted.
On 9 March 1995 John Mullen wrote to me maintaining that Dafydd's affidavit was not read out in open court, it was presented to a judge 'in High Court chambers in a private hearing'. Mullen knew that Rickard had previously written to me stating that there was no breach of confidence because the case had only been heard in open court in Liverpool because Mullin mentioned Rickard's letter.
So either Ian Rickard was lying or John Mullen was.
On 16 March 1995 John Mullen wrote to Dafydd. Mullen refers to Dafydd sharing my complaint regarding the breach of confidence with Jeremy Corson and makes a reference to the MDU's 'latest letter'. Mullen asks Dafydd to ask the solicitors who dealt with the injunction – Hempsons – whether they considered a breach of confidence likely to occur.
I suppose that is an advance on Ian Rickard spouting lies as he thought of them, telling Ella to break the bad news to me and then giving Francis a copy of a letter to give to Dafydd when he knew damn well that Dafydd should not have been given access to the letter, but nonetheless I doubt that John Mullen made much headway asking Hempsons – who had breached confidence – whether they thought that they had breached confidence.
The issue of the breach of confidence on the part of Dafydd was never resolved. Neither did anyone ever explain why so many lies were told about the 'investigation' of the complaint.
The merry go round continued after this date – there were further attempts to have me declared dangerous and to prosecute me…
As for Chris Jones, the forensic psychiatrist most conveniently placed near to Wrexham. Well he came up trumps amazingly enough – Chris Jones effectively told Francis that he thought that he was making a fuss about nothing and that the chance of me launching a murderous attack on Dafydd was really rather low. So Francis just made another referral for me to see Chris Jones after a decent interval had passed, stressing to Chris Jones that I really was potentially very dangerous.
The one thing that I remember discussing with Dr Chris Jones was the abuse of vulnerable people in institutional care. Chris Jones agreed that it was a substantial problem – he commented that the abuse of elderly people in care homes was a major problem and he thought that it would soon break as a major scandal.
I heard years later that Chris Jones was one of the mental health professionals from north Wales who had a nervous breakdown and left the area. Chris Jones didn't seem to be quite so mad and sadistic as many of his colleagues, which was probably why he didn't survive working with that bunch of lunatics. Take it as a compliment Dr Jones, you weren't barking mad and you wouldn't lie about me. At least you're not looking at a prison sentence for being an accessory.
Not being mad and abusive certainly took a high toll on mental health staff in north Wales. My post 'The Blog Post Which Was Hacked Can Now Be Read' detailed Dafydd's missile that he fired at Don Campbell the Assistant Director of Nursing Services (Psych), in July 1988 after Campbell refused to break the law and lock me in a room. Dafydd went absolutely wild and wrote to Huw Thomas, the General Manager of Gwynedd Health Authority, accusing Campbell of 'gross impertinence' and demanding his head on a plate.
Bruce Napier, the very pleasant clinical psychologist who didn't hate the patients, left Hergest and took up a mental health research job at Bangor University. I was told that before long Bruce Napier announced his desire to 'get out of the NHS' and he went to England to live on a canal boat. I don't know for sure but I suspect that Bruce Napier was hounded out. He crossed the path of Dafydd. When Gwynedd Health Authority were not doing a very good job of trying to persuade Dafydd to retire, it was left to Bruce Napier to tell Dafydd that Dafydd didn't have an office in the Hergest Unit. Dafydd did of course have a room in which to work for the one day a week that he spent at the Hergest, but it didn't have a brass name plate on the door and Dafydd was fuming. The others were too frightened to tell Dafydd, so they got Bruce Napier to do it. Then Bruce Napier had to go on Welsh news and defend the Gwynedd Community Health Trust when Dafydd was making guest appearances on Kilroy, the Kane Debates, Welsh news, S4C and telling everyone that in making him retire the Trust was ensuring a certain death for the many patients whom depended upon Dafydd. The matter would have been settled had anyone just gone on tele and said 'look he's sexually exploiting the patients, running a paedophile gang, flogging drugs and dishonest expert witness reports and what's more he's got a load of people shut in a dungeon at the North Wales Hospital'. But no-one did, not even Bruce Napier, even later on from the safety of his barge. He probably feared being torpedoed.
I also wondered if Nerys Owen might have been 'dealt with' after challenging Slob Ingham. On our last meeting with Nerys, Nerys told me and the other patient who complained about Slob with me that if ever we needed her again we should not hesitate to get in touch because she would not tolerate the mistreatment of patients. My post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play' described how in 1997 I and another person – the same person who made representation with me about Slob Ingham – were arrested and prosecuted after Bridget Lloyd, one of Slob's colleagues, told a pack of lies about us threatening her. The case collapsed – but not until after we had both been banned from the hospital and yes, referred to Dr Chris Jones and the forensic team again as dangerous nutters – and there was a flat refusal to apologise to us. We contacted Nerys but only received a weak frosty letter saying that the law had taken its course. There is a document in my collection signed by Nerys during that period of time which demonstrates that she obediently went along with the general insanity of the paedophiles' friends, signing off records of meetings as 'fair and accurate' when the meetings were held by people who never made fair and accurate records of anything.
I presume that Nerys Owen was probably a wolf in sheep's clothing all along. She reached a senior position in a totally corrupt organisation and was in that position between 1994-1999 and possibly for much longer. It's unlikely that she'll have been able to do that without being complicit with some dreadful things. I don't think that she was a psych nurse, so she'll have been a general nurse or a midwife and someone knew about those psych patients at the North Wales Hospital being sterilised in order to stop them becoming pregnant because the staff were having sex with them, the theft of the babies of the female patients who had not been sterilised, the disappearance of the girls in the children's homes who had become pregnant after being raped by the 'care staff' and the horrors of the St David's Laundry in Bangor (see post 'The BMA And It's Ethics').
Nerys Owen must also have been complicit with the running down and then the closing of the day centre at the Hergest Unit during the duration of the Waterhouse Inquiry, which ensured that a considerable number of psych patients became destitute and died.
Let's have a chorus of that old favourite by The Jam, 'A Town Called Malice'…
In May 1995 it was announced that the Welsh Office had appointed Nicola Davies QC to conduct a review of the documentary evidence related to the abuse of children in north Wales in order to ascertain whether a public inquiry was warranted. Nicola subsequently discovered that all the paperwork from 1989 onwards was missing!
On 26 June David Hunt returned as Secretary of State for Wales until 5 July 1995. Just for a few days – whilst the deal to pretend that Dafydd was being retired off was completed (see post 'The Evolution Of A Drugs Baron?') and the public were told that the North Wales Hospital had been shut (see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends Of Cardiff North'). It hadn't. Gwynfryn Ward remained open and there are allegations that it remained open until 2000. But no-one can be sure, because no-one will come clean about when the hospital did eventually close, why so many lies were told about it and what happened to the patients whom were imprisoned out there illegally when it closed. Or failed to close.
So what was Gwynfryn Ward? It was a mother and baby unit. A mother and baby unit is usually a cause for 'ah', but it bloody well wasn't at Denbigh. If anyone knows why an institution which was notorious for brutally warehousing women – often under-aged girls – whose pregnancies were inconvenient to other people, continued to provide that service after the rest of the building was literally falling down, please do let me know.
On 5 July 1995 Stephen Dorrell was appointed as Secretary of State for Health, succeeding Virginia Bottomley. William Hague became Secretary of State for Wales on the same day.
On 13 July 1995 Sir Peter Morrison was found dead at his house. Brown was sacked from his job at Aston University in the same month.
Hansard records that in April 1995, Julia Lomas of the Lord Chancellor's Department replied by letter to a question from Alex Carlile confirming that at some point in 1994 Mary Wynch had been paid a paltry sum of money in full and final settlement regarding her litigation against the Public Trustee (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details'). Mary had been unlawfully arrested by Dafydd, had been illegally imprisoned in Risley Remand Centre and then illegally imprisoned in the North Wales Hospital for a year. She had won her case against Dafydd, Clwyd Health Authority et al but they then simply refused to pay Mary her compensation unless Mary returned to court to enforce payment. Mary continued with the case, as well as with the case against the crooked cartel of lawyers and the Public Trustee who had, in collaboration with Dafydd, fleeced her of her money and property in the first place. The Home Office under Michael Howard dealt the final blow in 1994 – without any public announcement – and ruined Mary. Mary was by then an old lady who had been screwed by a bunch of rural gangsters who had enjoyed the full backing of every Gov't since she had been unlawfully arrested in 1979 by Dafydd. But the real problem went back to the early 1970s – when Mary's mother died in the 'care' of one of Dafydd's nursing homes. Mary told me that she was convinced that her mother had been killed. But Mary was nuts wasn't she. Ooh – except that no, she wasn't, as was admitted when she won her case against Dafydd.
The patients in the Hergest Unit used to openly talk about how Dafydd had killed Mary Wynch's mother. It was just a standard topic of conversation, in much the same way that everybody else's other extraordinary Dafydd-related anecdotes were. Mary always maintained that her mother had been killed by an overdose of barbiturates. One Hergest patient had the measure of Dafydd's bare-faced lies and used to do a Dafydd voice and rant on about how he only told the nurses to give Mary Wynch's mother half a Kalm before bedtime and of course that was nothing like an overdose of barbiturates. In fact the patients got so used to the staff just closing their ears to terrible Dafydd-horrors that dares would be undertaken to see if staff could be moved. One such dare involved one patient carrying a rubber plant and walking up to a senior nurse in Ysbyty Gwynedd and saying 'I did not murder Mary Wynch's mother and this plant was not the murder weapon. It was Dr DA Jones wot dun it and he used an overdose of barbiturates'. And the nurse said 'yes dear' and walked off, leaving a gang of Hergest patients rolling around laughing.
The same patient was accused by Dafydd of lying on one occasion, so he responded by saying 'I lied, you murdered'.
DAVID HUNT WAS SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WALES WHILST MUCH OF THIS WAS HAPPENING. THE MAN IS A FUCKING LAWYER.
In Dec 1995 Secretary of State for Wales William Hague announced that Nicola Davies QC's review had concluded that a public inquiry into the abuse of children in north Wales was not justified. William changed his mind a few months later and orchestrated the Waterhouse cover-up.
Nicola is now Dame Nicola and has been the Presiding judge of the Wales Circuit.
In Feb 1996 the Jillings Report regarding the abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council since 1974 was completed. I can't say that it was published because it wasn't. It was heavily redacted and the only people who saw the Report were the insurers and legal advisors of Clwyd County Council – even the Council officers and Councillors were forbidden from reading it. The legal advisor to the Council's insurers Michael Beloff QC advised that if any Councillor did get their paws on a copy the Council's insurance should be withdrawn and the Councillors should be held personally responsible for the damages claims that would inevitable follow from former children in care suing. Beloff admitted that this would be a consequence because the abuse of children had been so serious and so well organised over decades that the Council had no defence. Beloff also advised that if Malcolm King, the one Councillor who would not stop asking questions about the abuse of children in the care of the Council, ever found out what was in the Report and publicised it he should be sacked (see post 'It's A Piece Of Cake…').
Michael Beloff is a colleague and a friend of Cherie Booth. Michael's dad Max had some years previously helpfully plugged a book on local gov't and democracy written by Ioan Bowen Rees. Bowen Rees was the Chief Exec of Gwynedd County Council whilst Dafydd's mistress Lucille was Director of Gwynedd Social Services and the paedophile gang flourished on their watch (see post 'I Know Nuzzing…'). Alison Taylor was sacked by Lucille after raising concerns about the abuse of children in care.
Just to be on the safe side, on 1 April 1996 Clwyd County Council was dissolved as a result of a local authority reorganisation days after the Jillings Report was completed. So even if someone did get hold of a copy of the Report there was no-one to sue. I haven't been able to find out who makes decisions regarding local authority reorganisations but the disappearance of Clwyd days after that Report was finished really was far too convenient to have been an accident.
The Report was pulped, although in 2013 somebody actually found a copy that had escaped the pulping machine and at last the world was allowed to see what was within. It was so heavily redacted that it was virtually meaningless. All that was known was that something dreadful had gone on in Clwyd for decades and that a great many people had colluded with it.
After Clwyd County Council was dissolved, John Jevons, the Director of Social Services for Clwyd who had worked so successfully with the paedophiles and their friends for so many years (see posts 'It's A Piece Of Cake…' and 'Ain't Nothing Clean – Not Even The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists'), found himself in need of a job. Director of the Social Services which played host to the biggest child abuse scandal in the UK? No problem. Cardiff City Council snapped him up and Jevons took up the post as Director of Social Services for them almost immediately.
Two of those with a sense of humour who were sitting on Cardiff City Council at the time that Jevons was given a warm welcome were Julie Morgan and Sue Essex. Julie, the social worker and Assistant Director of Barnardo's – the Barnardo's who's staff abused kids in north Wales. Sue Essex – who later became Minister for Finance, Local Gov't and Public Services in Julie's husband Rhodri's Gov't – was Deputy Leader and then Leader of the Labour Group of Cardiff City Council, 1995-99. Sue had previously graced Leicester University with her presence. I presume that it was Julie and Sue who head-hunted Jevons then. For more Julie n Sue fun, see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends of Cardiff North'.
In Sept 1996 – virtually as soon as Jevons touched down in Cardiff City Council – the South Wales Police announced a major investigation into the physical and sexual abuse of children at the Taff Vale children's home in Whitchurch, Cardiff, which had been run by Cardiff City Council. It was feared that hundreds of children had possibly been abused before the home had closed. The police were particularly interested in investigating what had gone in between 1985-91 – there was a belief that a paedophile ring had infiltrated Taff Vale.
Before Alun Michael became an MP he was the Labour Group Whip on Cardiff City Council. Alun Michael was imposed as FM of Wales by Blair and resigned as soon as the Waterhouse Report was submitted, whilst his mates caused a distraction (see post 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels').
Of course Rhodri himself and the paedophiles' friends went back a long way. In 1966 Rhodri began work in the endemically corrupt Welsh Office with George Thomas et al and in 1974 Rhodri found himself working in City Hall Cardiff.
On 17 June 1996 Welsh Secretary William Hague announced the North Wales Child Abuse Inquiry aka the Waterhouse Inquiry. On 25th Oct eighteen families were left homeless after a fire at a warehouse engulfed their houses. Eight people were taken to hospital and more than 100 residents of Lightfoot Road, Chester, were evacuated as the blaze destroyed a Pickfords storage depot on the neighbouring Hoole Bridge industrial estate. 'The houses spontaneously combusted because of the intense heat', said a Cheshire Fire Service spokeswoman. The warehouse held the care records of children from the Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn homes.
On 21 Jan 1997 the Waterhouse Inquiry began at Ewloe, Flintshire.
On 2 May 1997 Tony Blair became Prime Minister.
Peter Howarth died of a heart attack at HMP Wakefield on 24 April 1997, so if anyone was worried about him naming a few people involved in abusing kids in care who were rather grander than bottom feeding social care workers they didn't have to worry any longer. Particularly as Ioan Bowen Rees had died suddenly in 1999, just before the publication of the Waterhouse Report, so as the man who ran Gwynedd County Council for years whilst the paedophile ring's business boomed under his steady hands, Ioan wouldn't be dropping any clangers either. Ioan was considered an expert on local gov't and had advised Dafydd Wigley as well as the working party who set up the infrastructure of the National Assembly for Wales under Ron Davies whilst Ron was Secretary of State for Wales.
The Waterhouse Inquiry held its last hearing on 7 May 1998 and on 30 Sept 2000 the Waterhouse Report was handed to the Secretary of State for Wales, Paul Murphy. Murphy stated that he was delighted that a full and transparent investigation had taken place, that there had been no cover-up and that there was no evidence of a paedophile ring outside of north Wales, let alone the involvement of Westminster or Whitehall figures.
For details of the well-planned co-ordinated attempt during 1997-98 on the part of the north Wales mental health services to have me banged up, please see post 'A Solicitor's Letter From North East Wales MIND'.
A website that is well worth a visit is the site of the North Wales Hospital Historical Society. It is not an historical society, it is a forum for the former staff of the North Wales Hospital and what a source of entertainment it is. Staff leave messages reminiscing about the old days and breaching patients' confidence, just as they did when they were employed as Angels there. There are messages which are alleged to be from former patients who remember the kindness and the wonderful treatment and who have now become Angels themselves, which I do find a little unbelievable. I suspect that like the positive feedback left on the patient feedback websites about the awful Dr Giles Harborne, a former Denbigh psychiatrist, the messages from grateful former patients have actually been written by former staff.
The North Wales Historical Society website has an observation that no patients from Avallon, the adolescent unit, have left any messages. Avallon was the unit in which Mary Wynch told me that Dafydd encouraged the teenagers to have sex with each other and then the staff would gather around and watch the action. The same correspondent to the website asks if Dafydd is still alive. Yes he's Chairing his drugs charity CAIS. It is not a surprise that no former patients of Avallon have left messages, they were introduced to a life of street prostitution and hard drugs whilst they were teenagers and most of them died before they were 30.
On 31 July 2013 John Allen was charged with 22 indecent assaults and one offence of gross indecency, alleged to have taken place between 1968 and 1989 at Bryn Alyn. The second trial of John Allen on charges of historic sexual and physical abuse took place at Mold Crown Court and on 1 Dec 2014 Allen was sentenced to life imprisonment, with the recommendation that he serves at least 11 years.
There has been a great deal written about the collusion of the North Wales Police with Dafydd and the paedophiles. I and other people certainly noticed that when allegations of sexual misconduct/exploitation – or indeed more serious offences – were made against certain people, there was a flat refusal to investigate on the part of absolutely everybody. It didn't matter how many first hand accounts there were, how many corroborating witnesses, how much supporting documentation, the allegations were simply ignored and if the complainants did not go away they found themselves being charged by the police.
However I do know that this immunity was only enjoyed by certain people. The North Wales Police were certainly not afraid to investigate complaints about other people even if the evidence was extremely shaky. I knew of a case in 1983 involving a teenaged girl from Anglesey who made a complaint of rape against a young man whom she met in a pub in Bangor. The girl was fairly notorious – she felt the need to tell tall stories, really ridiculous ones which even the most trusting person would in the end conclude could not be true. She was also capable of lying through her teeth under all circumstances if she thought that she would benefit from that. She went out boozing in Bangor one night, met a young man and they went up onto Bangor mountain with the intention of consummating the relationship which they had established about 60 mins previously. The young man was too drunk to do very much and he wandered off. Another young man found the girl crying and asked what was wrong. She replied 'I've been raped'. This sort of comment from her wasn't that unusual – she had told me some really worrying things and it was only when I and my friends had pitched in to help that we discovered that the various dramas hadn't happened. The young man immediately rang the police and the police did conduct a full scale investigation.
I was involved in the investigation and I remember the detectives visiting me and a female police officer saying 'I cannot help but be on the side of the girl in rape cases, but she's told us so many lies that I can't take that view here'. I hadn't encountered Dafydd and the paedophiles at the time and I actually gained a very positive view of the detectives working on the case. They were stereotypical coppers – calling women 'birds' and wearing macs with the collars turned up – but unlike the drug squad whom I had heard about by then, they didn't seem to be endemically corrupt. The investigation into the alleged rape took months. It transpired that no rape had occurred or indeed even an attempt at a rape. I wondered if the girl involved would be charged with wasting police time but she wasn't. I presume that the police did get it right – the girl was alleged to have admitted to a number of people that she hadn't been raped, she'd told a dramatic story and it had got out of control.
Like many other mental health patients in north Wales, with the exception of a few police officers whom I knew were corrupt, I generally found the police very much more helpful than the mental health services and they undoubtedly protected me and other people from the excesses of the mental health services on a number of occasions.
The problem will have been Westminster, the Attorney Generals – such as Sir Patrick Mayhew – and Whitehall, who were protecting Dafydd and the paedophile gang. A great many police officers would have dearly loved to have dealt with Dafydd et al but they couldn't. They were being told what to do by organised criminals in high office.
What is very clear to me with regard to the documents that I have drawn on to write this post and some others such as 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', is the key role that the MDU played in protecting a number of Top Doctors whom they knew were abusing patients and perjuring themselves to silence and indeed destroy patients who complained. The MDU and Hempsons were probably more responsible than anyone else for the serious criminality which pervaded north Wales for decades.
There will be a post coming soon naming the movers and shakers in the MDU during those years whilst the MDU ensured that Dafydd and the paedophiles remained in business.
Then I'll be naming a few more of Rhodri Morgan's circle who knew about it all…
One other person who disappeared along with others whom I have previously named on this blog. Nellie. An old lady who was in Bryn Golau Ward the night that I arrived. She was there the next morning and then like the girl who had been abducted, kept in an attic and sexually assaulted (see post 'The Distressed Young Woman Who Vanished') and the young man from Wrexham who vanished when another patient who had been in care recognised him, Nellie disappeared. No-one let her out of the front door which was a double door and locked – I last saw her in the kitchen with Angel Iola Edwards. Just near to the back door which was always heavily guarded and was only ever used 'to bring the catering supplies in and out'. And patients who needed to be disposed of discreetly.
There is someone else who is worthy of a mention here. A man who was lurking in the Welsh Office throughout everything detailed in this post – Sir Jon Shortridge. Shortridge joined the Welsh Office in 1984 and was Private Secretary to both Nicholas Edwards (see post 'Old Nick Bites The Dust') and Peter Walker (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'). In 1995 Shortridge conducted the Senior Management Review of the Welsh Office and in 1997 he was Director of Economic Affairs, responsible for establishing the National Assembly for Wales. Shortridge became Permanent Secretary at the Welsh Office in March 1999, then for the newly established National Assembly in May 1999 and then for the Welsh Gov't, 2007-08. In 2009 Shortridge was appointed interim Permanent Secretary at the Dept of Innovation, Universities and Skills – the Dept led by Mandelson. One of Mandelson's most senior aides was the daughter of Ron Evans, the crooked lawyer employed by Gwynedd County Council, who did Dafydd and the paedophiles' as many favours as the MDU. Sir John topped off his long record of public service with a stint as Chancellor of Glyndwr University, an institution run entirely by paedophiles' friends (see post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!').
The news over the past few days has been very topical with regard to recent posts on this blog. The Welsh Language Commissioner Meri Huws – who has featured on a number of recent posts as a paedophiles' friend and a bedfellow of other paedophiles' friends who doubled up as Ministers in the Welsh Gov't – has crawled out of hiding and tried to convince everyone that she has some sort of plan. Meri has been talking about everyone going on a journey. Meri isn't very bright, so when she opens her mouth she tends to trot out whatever cliche she has recently heard bandied around in the media. When Meri worked at Bangor University at one point she was banging on about capturing 'hearts and minds'. One academic with a great deal of knowledge with regard to Meri and her bedfellows observed that with Meri, 'shock and awe' was far more likely to be the order of the day. If Meri had known how much entertainment she had provided for the oppressed of Bangor University I think that she'd have probably resigned on the spot.
Cancer is absolutely everywhere in the media, with George Alighaia and Andrew Lansley both announcing that they have advanced bowel cancer and if only they'd 'got screened'. It's not that I'm unsympathetic to these two men, I can imagine they must be feeling quite dreadful, but the chances are that a screening programme would not have made much difference. Huge quantities of the research upon which the screening is based is fraudulent and many of the much publicised screening programmes are in chaos. At the same time other headlines screamed that there is now a new joined up cancer programme to be launched that will make care 'excellent'. Which is weird, because we've been told for years that care is already excellent, indeed that the whole NHS is the envy of the world and that UK hospitals are bursting at the seams with Nigerian women who are pregnant with quins who just Come Over Here To Use Our NHS. More sober reflections on the rather poor clinical outcomes of the UK NHS when compared to other European healthcare systems are strangely absent.
Meanwhile amidst the constant PR, people in north Wales who have dared cross the paths of the paedophiles' friends are refused care, refused pain relief for conditions such as kidney stones which send the Angels and Top Doctors straight for the opiates when they are afflicted and told to go ahead and do it then if they become suicidal. On the occasions when the paedophiles' friends have been faced with relatives or the odd patient confronting them with their dreadful conduct the response is usually 'we didn't know you felt like that'. Well they bloody well know exactly how I feel about them now that this blog has gathered a readership.
BBC News Wales is trumpeting the new proton beam centre in Newport and how this is going to revolutionise cancer care and Save Lives. Only if you've got a lot of money – that centre is a private concern but that doesn't seem to have received much media coverage.
Winnie Mandela has died and amongst all the tributes people are doing their best to play down the unfortunate business of the necklace killings and the murder of Stompie McKenzie. It is stressed that Winnie suffered at the hands of the South African police under apartheid. I'm sure that she did, the South African police were deeply unpleasant, but it wasn't the South African police who were targeted in the necklace killings and I don't think that Stompie McKenzie was a white South African policeman under apartheid either. I seem to remember that he was a 14 year old black boy…
The Mail Online had a Rolf Harris exclusive in which they revealed that Rolf has held a birthday party attended by friends at which he played the didgeridoo. It was a bit of a non-story but I did notice that according to the Mail, one of Rolf's guests was his 'old friend' Timmy Mallett. Most people know Timmy Mallett as a rather over the top children's entertainer from the 1980s, but I was gobsmacked a few years ago to discover that there is a Timmy Mallett suite at the Gladstone Library in Hawarden. The Gladstone Library – it was called St Deiniol's Library until quite recently – is a residential library in north Wales. It's got fantastic collections and you can just go and stay there for a few days and bury yourself in interesting reading matter. It has a strong theological side and is a favourite place for clergy and theologians to hang out. I was completely confused by Timmy Mallett's association with the Gladstone Library until someone told me that Timmy Mallett's dad was a clergyman with links there and Timmy Mallett, having made a great deal of money, is a benefactor of the institution. I have found out that the Rev Michael Mallett studied for ordination at St Deiniol's – as it was then – in the mid 1960s. I'm sorry to go on about it all the time, but Flintshire – the location of the Gladstone Library – was at the heart of the powerbase of the paedophiles' friends in the 1960s. Sir Ronnie Waterhouse and co came from Flintshire and many of them had connections with the Church. Timmy Mallett was born in Cheshire. Just down the road from Chester – where the north Wales/Cheshire paedophile ring which later numbered Sir Peter Morrison operated. A former Bishop of Chester has been recently named as having been involved.
The Mail Online also published a furious article by Daniel Janner, the late Greville's son. Daniel was hurling venom in the direction of Alison Saunders, who has just announced that she will be standing down as DPP. Daniel maintains that it was Alison Saunders who cruelly put Greville through hell after demanding that there be a trial of the facts with regard to the allegations against Greville. Most people believe that Alison Saunders did Greville a very big favour – she did all she could not to prosecute Greville despite considerable evidence against him and she only announced a trial of the facts after public fury. The announcement came so late that Greville died before a trial of the facts could take place.
Daniel is furious that he was interviewed by the police himself and asked if Greville had ever abused him. I can understand that Daniel may not have been very impressed with that line of questioning, but presumably, Daniel was able to say no – Daniel is a barrister, he is not going to feel intimidated by the police. Daniel fumed about his father being degraded in public, as a doubly incontinent elderly man being accused. Well I didn't know that Greville was doubly incontinent and I don't expect that many other people did either, so Daniel seems to have been responsible for inflicting that particular bit of lack of dignity upon his father himself.
Daniel maintains that the CPS was great until Alison Saunders became DPP. Not only was the CPS deeply flawed and notably failed to prosecute certain people for serious offences – including some politicians – despite files of evidence being submitted, but the CPS prosecuted people like me for ludicrous trivial offences. In 1993 Daniel I was prosecuted for 'staring at a social worker'. In 2002 I was prosecuted because I had told an NHS secretary over the phone that her boss was a fat idiot. The social worker whom I looked at and the fat idiot were both involved in facilitating a paedophile gang. Furthermore Alison Saunders was the first DPP to be appointed from within the CPS. She had worked for them for years.
Author Sally BakerPosted on April 4, 2018 May 30, 2018 Categories Bangor University, Cancer Research, Clwyd Health Authority, Clwyd Social Services, Forensic Psychiatry, Glyndwr University, Gwynedd County Council, Gwynedd Health Authority, Gwynedd Hospitals NHS Trust, Gwynedd Social Services, Language, Lawyers and Judges, Leicester Child Abuse Scandal, Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, Medical Defence Union, Mental Health Act Commission, North Wales Child Abuse Scandal, North Wales Hospital Denbigh, North Wales Police, North West Wales NHS Trust, Springfield Hospital, St Georges Hospital Medical School, Substance Misuse, Uncategorized, Welsh Assembly Politicians, Welsh Government, Welsh Office, Westminster Polticians, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Ysbyty GwyneddTags A. Howells, Ablett Unit, Adrianne Jones, AJ Beale, Alex Carlile, Alison Saunders, Alison Taylor, Alun Davies, Alun Michael, Andrew Lansley, Andrew Manners, Andrew Park, Ann Williams, Arfon Community Mental Health Team, Aston University, Avallon Ward, Bangor and Anglesey Mail, Bangor Magistrates Court, Bangor University, Bangor University Student Health Centre, Barnardos, Barry Shingles, Barry Williams, BBC, Bethan Jones, Bishop of Chester, BMA, Bob Ingham, Bridget Lloyd, Bruce Napier, Bryn Alyn Community, Bryn Estyn, Bryn Golau Ward, CAIS, Cardiff City Council, Cardiff Social Services, Carl Holden, Cathays Park, Cherie Booth, Chester Crown Court, Chief Constable of North Wales, Clwyd County Council, Clwyd Health Authority, CPS, D. Parsons, D.G. Lambert, Dafydd Wigley, Daniel Janner, Dave Nunn, David Birch, David Hunt MP, Dean Nelson, Debra Lewis, Dennis Parry, Don Campbell, DPP, Dr Chris Jones, Dr Colin Berry, Dr D.G.E. Wood, Dr Dafydd Alun Jones, Dr David Healy, Dr David Mawson, Dr Fear, Dr Giles Harborne, Dr James Earp, Dr Neil Davies, Dr Robin Jacobson, Dr T. Gwynne Williams, Dr Tony Francis, Dr X, Dyfed County Council, Ella Fisk, Frank Beck, Frank Riley, Gareth Phillips, George Alighaia, George Thomas, Gladstone Library, Glyndwr University, Gordon Anglesea, Gwynedd Community Health Trust, Gwynedd County Council, Gwynedd Health Authority, Gwynedd Social Services, Gwynfor Evans, Gwynfryn Ward, Hansard, Hefin Davies, Hempsons, Hergest Unit, HMP Wakefield, HTV, Huw Thomas, Ian Rickard, Independent, Independent On Sunday, Ioan Bowen Rees, Iola Edwards, Jackie Brandt, Janet Hughes, Jeff Crowther, Jeremy Corson, Jillings Investigation, Jillings Report, John Allen, John Jevons, John Major, John Mullen, John Redwood, John Smith, Joyce Kaye, Julia Lomas, Julie Morgan AM, Keith Fearns, Keith Thomson, Kelvin Jones, Kilroy, Lilian Roberts, Lord Chancellor's Department, Lord Greville Janner, Lord Max Beloff, Lucille Hughes, Mabel Roberts, Madelin Osborn, Maggie Fookes, Malcolm King, Marco Pierre White, Mark Humphreys, Mary Wynch, Matt Arnold, Max Clifford, MDU, Mental Health Act Commission, Meri Huws, Michael Beloff QC, Michael Howard, Michael Williams, MIND, Mold Crown Court, Mrs Crowley, Nancy Jones, National Assembly for Wales, Nefyn Dodd, Nerys Owen, Nicholas Edwardes, Nicola Davies QC, North Wales Forensic Service, North Wales Hospital Denbigh, North Wales Hospital Historical Society, North Wales Police, North West Wales NHS Trust, Paul Jones, Paul Murphy, Paul Wilson, Penny Phillips, Peter Howarth, Peter Lilley, Peter Mandelson, Peter Walker, Private Eye, Professor Nigel Eastman, Professor Robert Bluglass CBE, Professor Robert Owen, Public Trustee, RCN, Rev Michael Mallett, Rhodri Morgan, Risley Remand Centre, Rob Evans, Rolf Harris, Ron Davies, Ron Evans, Royal Television Society, Samaritans, Sharon Thomas, Sir John Kay, Sir Jon Shortridge, Sir Patrick Mayhew, Sir Peter Morrison, Sir Ronald Waterhouse, South Wales Police, St Bartholemews Hospital, St David's Hospital Bangor, St Deiniol's Library, St Georges Hospital Medical School, Stephen Dorrell, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Norris, Steven Messham, Stompie McKenzie, Sue Essex, Taff Vale Children's Home, Terence James, The Observer, Tim Sharpe, Timmy Mallett, Tom Harney, Tony Blair, Tony Lane, Tony Newton, Towers Hospital, Tracey Jones, Ty'r Felin, UCNW, University of Leicester, Virginia Bottomley, Waterhouse Inquiry, Waterhouse Report, Welsh Language Commissioner, Welsh Office, William Hague, William Waldegrave, Winnie Mandela, WLPAN, Wyn Williams, Ysbyty Gwynedd15 Comments on The Banality Of Evil
Tomorrow Wiltshire Police are due to publish their report regarding the allegations that Ted Heath sexually abused children. Whatever is in that report, the indications are that the Ted Heath Fan Club will be demanding the Chief Constable of Wiltshire's head on a plate. The Chief Constable, Mike Veale, is said to be so determined not to be party to a cover-up that he is prepared to stake his career on this matter.
So before Mr Veale is howled down and hung out to dry, I thought that I'd write a post about the man who is still alive – although now very elderly – who knew rather more than he ever let on and who probably still does. The man in question is Lord Robert Armstrong, a retired Mandarin.
Robert Armstrong was Principal Private Secretary to Ted Heath, 1970-75. Between 1979-87 he was Secretary to the Cabinet under Margaret Thatcher. He was elevated to the peerage in 1988 and sits as a cross-bencher. It was Robert Armstrong who, in 1986, coined the phrase 'economical with the truth' when he was giving evidence in the Spycatcher trial. Armstrong was a key witness for the British Gov't, which sought to suppress the publication of the book written by Peter Wright, a former senior member of MI5. Wright's lawyer at the time was Malcolm Turnbull, who later became the PM of Australia. The British Gov't were ultimately unsuccessful and Spycatcher was published.
Armstrong was Chancellor of the University of Hull, 1994-2006 and until 2013, the Chairman of the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Fund.
Armstrong has admitted that he knew about the paedophilia of Sir Peter Hayman, the British diplomat who was a member of PIE. Armstrong stated: 'I was aware of it at the time but I was not concerned with the personal aspect of it'.
It was Armstrong who gave Thatcher a veiled warning not to give Jimmy Savile a knighthood because of the allegations of child sexual abuse swirling around him – advice that Thatcher ignored.
It July 2015, the Mail Online reported that in 1986, the then head of MI5 Sir Antony Duff wrote to Armstrong and told him that an MP had a 'penchant for small boys'. Armstrong's response was that 'at the present stage…the risks of political embarrassment to the Government is rather greater than the security danger'.
In 2015 Armstrong told the Mail Online that 'if there is evidence it would have been properly examined at the time. I don't think this is a matter of important people being protected. You can't pursue inquiries unless you have evidence on which you can base the enquiry'.
The July 2015 Mail Online article reported that David Cameron promised that there would be no bar on the then current investigations and that 'the police on their part should then follow the evidence without any uncertainty about how high they can go – they can go as high as they like'. One therefore wonders why so much slurry is currently being poured upon the head of Mike Veale.
The MP 'with a penchant for small boys' whom Sir Antony Duff and Armstrong were discussing in 1986 is widely believed to have been Sir Peter Morrison, who was MP for Chester and who was abusing boys in care in north Wales.
As for all this talk of evidence being properly examined at the time and how no important people were being protected and the need for evidence before an enquiry – I have 10,000 documents in my possession demonstrating the most serious criminal activity in the north Wales mental health services, criminal activity related to the sexual abuse of patients and children in care in north Wales. This evidence was concealed by Dr James Earp at the Towers Hospital in Leicester; Dr David Mawson, latterly of Ashworth and Broadmoor Hospitals; Dr Chris Hunter of Cardiff; Professor Robert Bluglass of Birmingham University; Dr Colin Berry of Coventry; Professor Robert Owen of Liverpool University; Andrew Park (the crooked lawyer employed by the Welsh Office) and a whole collection of psychiatrists at St George's Hospital Medical School/Springfield Hospital including Professor Nigel Eastman, Dr Robin Jacobson, Professor Tom Burns, Dr Alice Levinson and Dr Ruth White, as well as the corrupt occupational health physician at St Georges, Dr Nicky Mitchell-Heggs. Scores of other people and organisations also helped conceal the aforementioned criminal activity. No-one has ever asked to see this evidence – which is why the details are posted up on this blog. Operation Pallial hasn't been in contact with me and neither has the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse. I am of course now living in hiding as a result of the constant harassment and threats that I received and the serious attempts that were made to harm me. But all Robert Armstrong et al have to do to fill in a substantial part of the picture is to read this blog. Should they require clarification of any details or wish to ask me any questions, they are welcome to e mail me or leave a comment on the blog and I will reply. Other people who's lives have been ruined by the mental health services have done this, so I wonder why those who claim that allegations of a high level cover-up of VIPs involved in the sexual abuse of children are all stuff and nonsense are incapable of doing the same.
As for the investigation that was going to get to the bottom of everything in north Wales, Operation Pallial – which has cost more than £4 million and has so far arrested a grand total of eight old buggers who were all bottom feeding social workers and the like – and the Review of Waterhouse, the Macur Review, which was so heavily redacted that it was meaningless, they were both ordered by someone called Theresa May. She is today making a speech at the Tory Party Conference in Manchester in a desperate bid to try and bring that shambles of a Party together.
Theresa: it is a very unfashionable view at the moment, but I happen to believe that the likes of Peter Morrison and Peter Hayman were very sad men who were actually in need of some sort of help and support to address their penchant for small children. Such help and support is still virtually unavailable for paedophiles, as some who have begged for it have discovered. Molesting children was bad enough. But witnesses were killed.
Do you have any comment Theresa? Particularly as I understand that part of your speech today is going to be concerned with the mental health services – the mental health services which have for decades systematically wiped out the very people whom they are paid to care for and concealed the widespread very serious abuse of children in care across the whole of the UK.
Author Sally BakerPosted on October 4, 2017 October 18, 2017 Categories Forensic Psychiatry, Jimmy Savile, Lawyers and Judges, Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, North Wales Child Abuse Scandal, Special Hospitals, Springfield Hospital, St Georges Hospital Medical School, Uncategorized, Welsh Office, Westminster PolticiansTags Andrew Park, Ashworth Hospital, Broadmooor Hospital, Chief Constable of Wiltshire, Conservative Party, David Cameron, Dr Alice Levinson, Dr Chris Hunter, Dr David Mawson, Dr James Earp, Dr Nicky Mitchell-Heggs, Dr Robin Jacobson, Dr Ruth White, Edward Heath, Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse, Jimmy Savile, Lord Robert Armstrong, Macur Review, Malcolm Turnbull, Margaret Thatcher, MI5, Mike Veale, North Wales Child Abuse Scandal, Operation Pallial, Peter Wright, PIE, Professor Nigel Eastman, Professor Robert Bluglass CBE, Professor Robert Owen, Professor Tom Burns, Sir Antony Duff, Sir Edward Heath Charitable Fund, Sir Peter Hayman, Sir Peter Morrison, Springfield Hospital, Spycatcher, St Georges Hospital Medical School, Theresa May, Towers Hospital, University of Birmingham, University of Birmingham Medical School, University of Hull, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool Medical School, Welsh Office, Westminster Paedophile Ring, Wiltshire Police20 Comments on Lord Robert Armstrong
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My blog post 'A Very Cosy Relationship – and Some Serious Smears' describes the frantic activity behind the scenes, involving people at the highest levels, in Gwynedd and Clwyd Health Authorities after I made complaint about the mental health services. I also explain how the Mental Health Act Commission, rather than investigating my complaint to them about my unlawful detention, was actively colluding with the Authorities concerned. (There are many references in the letters between all these parties to previous 'telephone conversations', the contents of which never seem to have been documented.) Yet all this was happening at a time when the North Wales Hospital Denbigh was involved in a high profile legal case – which was even receiving coverage in the London based press – involving the unlawful detention of Ms Mary Wynch (please see blog post 'Making Legal History – The Mary Wynch Case') and had a reputation so dreadful that it had been ear-marked for closure. There had been recent damning reports about both Denbigh and the psychiatric wards at Ysbyty Gwynedd and the GMC had received numerous complaints about Dafydd Alun Jones, but had failed to take any action. And Alison Taylor, a social worker from Gwynedd, had contacted Gwynedd County Council, the police and had written to Margaret Thatcher, alleging that serious abuses were taking place in the children's services across north Wales and that a paedophile ring was operating in the area. One would have thought that perhaps alarm bells should have rung when I started writing to MPs and Ministers at the Welsh Office alleging serious abuses in the mental health services in north Wales. The Welsh Office did act of course – they were providing legal advice to the services that I was complaining about, advising them with regard as to how withhold my medical records and the ways in which they could obtain a High Court injunction against me.
Throughout all this, there was one professional whom I was in contact with who I always knew was excellent but whom I now realise was far better than even I had realised – my solicitor, a local man with a legal aid practice in Bangor, who represented me every time that the mental health services brought charges against me. Whilst I was in Denbigh facing charges of 'assaulting' a junior doctor – charges which had been dropped by the time I returned to Court for the case to be heard – it was Dafydd Alun Jones's responsibility to provide a psychiatric report for the Court about me. I had expressed concern to my solicitor about this situation and he told me that the Magistrates Courts in north Wales had started ignoring reports compiled by Jones because 'they know what he's like'. However, when it was later alleged that I had 'tried to stab a junior doctor' at Ysbyty Gwynedd, this solicitor obviously realised that things were getting nasty.
After the junior doctor concerned alleged that I had tried to stab him (please see blog post 'A Very Cosy Relationship – And Some Serious Smears'), I was taken to Bangor Police Station. During the course of the time that I was at the station a number of memorable things happened. At the station, the officer on duty, Sgt Morgan, told me that statements made by hospital staff were inconsistent and it seemed clear that the junior doctor had lied in his statement. Whilst I was at the station however, Dr X from Ysbyty Gwynedd phoned Sgt Morgan, told him that I was 'very ill', 'dangerous' and that they would be sending a doctor to the station to section me. Sgt Morgan told Dr X that he 'couldn't' do that and hung up on Dr X. Within minutes, Janice Davies, a ward sister from Denbigh, rang and told Sgt Morgan that I'd threatened her. Sgt Morgan hung up on her too. At this point Sgt Morgan observed to me that 'they're all conspiring against you up there'.
Although I wasn't charged with attempting to stab anyone, I was charged with threatening behaviour, so I was detained at Bangor Police Station overnight. I had three visitors whilst I was there. I would have had another visitor as well, but Sgt Morgan wouldn't let him in. That was Dr DGE Wood, my former GP, who, the documents from my lawyer reveal, was still taking a very keen interest in me and my activities although I was now living in Leicester. My first visitor was a police surgeon whose name I never knew. To be fair to him, I wasn't very co-operative but he was frank enough to tell me that he could see why this was. He was remarkably good humoured but did of course ask me if I fancied another stay in Denbigh. I refused and to his credit I presume that he then refused to section me. Then late at night, one Dafydd Alun Jones arrived. He walked into the Sgt's area where I was sitting and told me that he didn't think that I'd been 'helped' by Denbigh and that I should not be 'involved with' the psychiatric services that night. I observed that Denbigh wasn't really helping anyone. Jones stood up and said 'I think ewe should be in prison' and left. Then my solicitor arrived and asked me what Jones had said. I replied 'I think ewe should be in prison'. My solicitor observed that Jones was saying that because I'd complained about him.
My solicitor told me that he was going to apply for bail for me because there was no way that he wanted me remanded at Risley Remand Centre. He also said that a psychiatric report would be required and he didn't want that from Risley either 'because their reports all say the same thing'. By the next day, my solicitor returned to tell me that he had contacted the psychiatric hospital in Leicester, where I was now living, and they'd agreed to provide a report for the court. I was then allowed bail and I returned to Leicester, where I made enquiries and found out a lot more about Dafydd Alun Jones and Denbigh (please see blog post 'The Mysterious Silence of MIND').
I soon received an appointment from the Towers Hospital to see a Dr James Earp, a forensic psychiatrist, for the report. Dr Earp wanted to admit me to the hospital – I was still experiencing serious depressions – but after what I had seen at Denbigh there was no way that I was going to agree to that. So I saw him as an outpatient. As with the police surgeon at Bangor Police Station, I got the impression that Dr Earp was fully aware of why I had so little confidence or trust in him. Dr Earp did compile a report for the Court and then provided a shorter additional report. I have been given legal advice that I cannot reproduce the Court reports on my blog without permission from the people who compiled them (I will be seeking that permission from a few people very soon…), so I cannot reproduce extracts of Earp's report here, much as I'd like to. However, he did not appear to be mad or corrupt as so many practitioners in north Wales seemed to be and he came up with a diagnosis that I think was probably quite appropriate (I have major reservations about psychiatric diagnoses but Earp's was probably the most accurate).
I had given Earp a detailed account of my experiences in north Wales and he admitted to being 'surprised' regarding the way in which I had been admitted to and detained at Denbigh. However, although he clearly spotted a number of things that didn't add up at all, he concluded that I was trying to 'discredit' practitioners in north Wales. At the time I simply assumed that he could not imagine the enormity of the malpractice in north Wales – it was fairly clear that he was no D.A. Jones himself and I presumed that he really had no idea of what could be happening up there.
But during one of our conversations, Earp let something slip. He was discussing life in north Wales generally and said that he'd only ever visited the Denbigh area once and had been surprised because he had asked someone for directions and discovered that they 'could only speak Welsh'. So Earp was well aware of how provincial the area was – he would also have been aware that in an area like that, many local people would find it very difficult to challenge the medical establishment in the region. Since then I've often thought about what Earp said. Why would he be visiting the Denbigh area? Of course he may have been a tourist, visiting the castle or going hill walking…But he needed to ask directions to somewhere. Denbigh town is pretty compact and the castle is very near the centre. But the North Wales Hospital isn't, it is quite a way out. There were/are no signposts to the North Wales Hospital and no indication of how to get there. If you're in the town and you are not local, you would have no idea of how to get to the hospital. A friend who came to visit me when I was there discovered this – he had to ask someone for directions.
In the years following my adventures at Denbigh, I discovered that many, many people in psychiatry knew of it's grim reputation. At one point when I lived in London I shared a flat with a psychiatric nurse who had trained in Liverpool who asked her former tutor if he knew anything about Denbigh Hospital. She later told me 'my tutor knows Denbigh Hospital, he says its terrible'.
By the time that I met James Earp, Mary Wynch's legal case against Jones and Denbigh had been widely reported. This was the first time that anyone had ever sued a psychiatrist for wrongful detention under the Mental Health Act and it was making legal history. The case had even involved an appeal to Lord Denning, the Master of the Rolls. Every forensic psychiatrist in the UK would have been following that case, because of the legal implications for their own practice. By the end of 1986, UK psychiatrists were fully aware that there was a rogue practitioner at Denbigh in north Wales. And I suspect that Earp had visited the North Wales Hospital himself at one point but like everyone else had got lost on the way there.
In retrospect, it could be said that James Earp had been vey culpable indeed by ignoring something terrible that was staring him in the face. But Earp's allegation that I was trying to 'discredit' practitioners in north Wales was a very minor shot across the bows indeed in comparison with the comments and activities of some of the 'experts' whom I subsequently encountered…
Author Sally BakerPosted on February 7, 2017 April 25, 2017 Categories Clwyd Health Authority, Clwyd Social Services, Forensic Psychiatry, General Medical Council, Gwynedd Health Authority, Gwynedd Social Services, Lord Denning, Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, Mental Health Act Commission, North Wales Hospital Denbigh, North Wales Police, Prisons, Uncategorized, Welsh Office, Ysbyty GwyneddTags Alison Taylor, Bangor Police Station, Clwyd Health Authority, Dr D.G.E. Wood, Dr Dafydd Alun Jones, Dr James Earp, Dr X, General Medical Council, Gwynedd County Council, Gwynedd Health Authority, Gwynedd Social Services, Janice Davies, Lord Denning, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Wynch, Mental Health Act Commission, MIND, North Wales Hospital Denbigh, Risley Remand Centre, Sergeant Morgan, Towers Hospital, Welsh Office, Ysbyty GwyneddLeave a comment on An Expert From England