EX-WW2 ARCTIC CONVOY NORMAN SCARTH, HOUNDED BY AUTHORITIES – UPDATES FEB 2012

 

From:	norman scarth ([email protected])
Sent:	03 February 2012 00:56:26
To:	norman scarth ([email protected])

REPORT of the ‘hearing’ in Regina v Scarth, Leeds Magistrates’ Court, Thursday 2nd February 2012.
A thick wad of ‘evidence’(??) & two CDs arrived by post from the Crown Prosecution Service just minutes before I was due to leave for the court.  Obviously I didn’t have time to do more than glance at them.  All credit to the five staunch supporters who turned up, but disappointing there weren’t more.  No reflection on those who live far away, but with a million people living in the Leeds & Bradford area, there could easily have been a thousand – & there should have been!  Not that they should necessarily have been ‘supporters’, just observers, concerned at what is happening in our courts.   Through ‘Security Scanning’ without hostility from staff this time (though there was plenty when leaving!)   

 

Outside Courtroom No. 1 Adam Roxborough asked to have ‘a quiet word’ with me.    I said, “No, this is a public building, let everybody hear” & the ‘robust’ exchanges between us (me more than him!) delighted the score or so people present.   He said he was a self-employed barrister from Manchester& knew nothing of this case until given his instructions that morning.   At the hearing three weeks ago, the Crown Prosecution Service had asked for an adjournment, the reason being that THEY had asked the police to “undertake a large number of actions in respect of the case”.   One would assume they were searching for more charges, more serious charges to throw at me?  In fact the three weeks of searching by large numbers of CPS staff had brought the opposite result.  Roxborough told me the charges had been reduced so the case would NOT be heard in a Crown Court & the charges were NOT imprisonable.   Now wasn’t that nice of the CPS?  No, it certainly was NOT ‘nice’ at all  – but because they are DESPERATE that a jury shall not hear the full horror story!   He then told me that ‘the court’ itself had decided the case was to be transferred to Manchester Magistrates’ Court.   “For your benefit!” I said, but he denied this.   With no threat of imprisonment now I said ”So you will only take my old age pension from me?”   I complained at the documents only reaching me as I was setting off for court.  HE said, outrageously, “That’s the trouble with the Post Office these days”.  I said the only reply to that was a word which rhymed with SCALLOPS! (in fact the postmark showed it had only been posted the day before!)  In court it was District Judge Roy Anderson again.  I challenged the jurisdiction of the court, denounced him as a usurper & a fraud, that he was a crooked lawyer masquerading as a magistrate.  I offered up my Sworn Affidavit & said it must now be part of the court record.  There followed garbage from Anderson – he didn’t scuttle away this time.  

 

 He even said “You can leave if you want, if you don’t think this is a court of law.  You can’t have it both ways.  It doesn’t bother me whether you go or stay” – as though I had some choice in the matter!  Had I failed to turn up at the ‘hearing’ they would probably have sent a Jean Charles Menezes Death Squad after me!   Bail conditions bar me from the Leeds 17 area: I asked that the bail be unconditional as I have friends & relatives there: he refused & said, “Appeal to Crown Court”.   A big bellied ‘Security’ psychopath threw me violently out through doors of the courtroom – many police saw this assault but did nothing.  As the police were ‘escorting’ me out of the building I asked them why they were not arresting the criminals.   The five supporters & I had cups of tea at the Town Hall Tavern; I then caught bus to Bradford, & another bus home.   “And so to bed”, as Samuel Pepys was wont to say.  Though traumatic, on reflection it has been an EXCELLENT day.   WATCH THIS SPACE!
 

Norman Scarth.
 

PS:  At least as bad as the persecution of me is the CRIMINAL waste of public money! NINE police travelling from Leeds to Bradford to spring the COMPLETELY unlawful ‘Honey Trap’ on me (plus whoever authorised it, & those holding me captive in Bradford Nick), THREE  court ‘hearings’ already - with more to come!  Heaven knows how many CPS staff & ‘Forensic Experts’ involved in searching through my illegally seized computer & mobile phone, & even worse, STILL holding the computer of the lady who did nothing more than give me a lift in her car.     The eventual response to her many enquiries was, “It has gone away for Forensic Examination, & because it is ‘Low Priority’ we have no idea when it will be back”.  So this whole thing is ‘Low Priority’????   And the police are going to have great difficulty ‘protecting’ us because of ‘financial cutbacks’?   Trite but true – ‘You couldn’t make it up!’      NS.

  

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