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NYP: “Operation Countryman II” launched
Tim Hicks announces Operation Countryman II
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Operation Countryman II
“That particularly dubious Constabulary that merits careful consideration” [Lord Maginnis of Drumglass commenting on North Yorkshire Police, following his involvement in the Widow Hofschröer Police and Local Government corruption case].
Whilst corruption can in some circumstances be a criminal offence, it is a word carrying a much wider definition than just criminal conduct.
The Transparency International definition of corruption is: “The abuse of entrusted power for private gain”.
Corruption Buster Tim Hicks is expanding the work he did on the way that North Yorkshire Police Officers allowed a paedophile-ring led by Mayor Peter Jaconelli to operate in Scarborough unhindered for many years, to launch Operation Countryman II, an ongoing investigation of misconduct by Police Officers in North Yorkshire Police.
Police corruption in the UK
There have recently been a series of high profile Police corruption scandals causing widespread public concern:
Sadly, corruption does not only affect the occasional rotten apple or junior Officer. Most alarmingly, it exists at the highest levels of the Police service as shown in some recent cases:
North Yorkshire Police and the former Police Authority
Well how does this affect North Yorkshire Police?
Many readers will have been shocked at the allegations now emerging that corrupt North Yorkshire Police Officers allowed Scarborough businessman, Councillor and Mayor Peter Jaconelli to run a paedophile vice-ring in Scarborough which included Jimmy Savile and others.
However, misconduct in the North Yorkshire force is a much bigger and deeper-rooted problem than just the Savile case. The force has had a series of high profile scandals, so many in fact that this article will probably be the longest ever published on Real Whitby:
Chief Constable (Retired) Della Canning
Assistant Chief Constable (Retired) David Collins
Superintendent (Retired) Paul Ackerley
Deputy Chief Constable (Retired) Adam Briggs
“It is utterly unacceptable that more than £30,000 of public funds can be handed to an officer without any means to audit how that money is used. Although the police authority stipulated what the money was to be used for, they did not check. Although Mr Briggs has retired, one would think he would want to take an opportunity to explain what he did with the money and why he claimed a further £11,750 from the public purse. I find his decision not to assist our investigation or answer our questions disappointing. It leaves us with an expenses claim that does not appear to withstand scrutiny and the actions of a senior police officer that do not appear justifiable. The police authority’s remit is to scrutinise the expenditure of a police force and hold the senior officers to account.”
Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell’s Personal Assistant
Chief Constable (Retired) Grahame Maxwell
Assistant Chief Constable (Retired) Steve Read, now Director of NYP Professional Standards Directorate
- To be the subject of a separate article
The Barbara Hofschröer Case
It has been alleged, in Parliament, that corrupt Police Officers assisted in the abuse of an old-age pensioner in which she was deceived and forced out of her home.
It is further alleged that other corrupt Police Officers have ignored Force safeguarding policy and blatant misconduct by a Police Officer to protect him from arrest.
Deputy Chief Constable Sue Cross
- To be the subject of a separate article
The Scarborough paedophile-ring cover up (Jimmy Savile and Peter Jaconelli)
Temporary Chief Constable Tim Madgwick
- To be the subject of a separate article
Mr Simon Dennis the NYP Force Solicitor
- To be the subject of a separate article
Mr Jeremy Holderness Chief Executive of the former North Yorkshire Police Authority and now Chief Executive to the Office of Police and Crime Commissioner
- To be the subject of a separate article
County Councillor Jane Kenyon (Chair of the former North Yorkshire Police Authority)
County Councillor Jane Kenyon is in business with her life partner Councillor Thomas William “Bill” Miller and is the former Chair of the North Yorkshire Police Authority, the organisation that was supposed to hold North Yorkshire Police to account during the period the above instances of misconduct occurred. Their business activities are closely intertwined.
I am incredulous that Councillor Kenyon intends to contest the forthcoming elections with these grave allegations unresolved and completely unresponded to. Should she wish to publish a denial and rebuttal of these allegations, Real Whitby will of course publish it in full.
I will be releasing further shocking allegations of misconduct about County Councillor Jane Kenyon in a separate article.
Related articles on County Councillor Jane Kenyon and her life partner Councillor Miller can be found below, they make gruesome and alarming reading.
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/jane-kenyon-north-yorkshire-police-authority-in-my-view-by-nigel-ward
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/whitbys-jane-kenyon-the-mulberry-bush
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/north-yorkshire-police-authority-rip
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/cllr-kenyon-nypa-admits-misconduct-tim-hicks
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/letter-to-jeremy-holderness-nypa-ceo-in-the-public-interest
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/jeremy-holderness-north-yorkshire-police-authority
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/north-yorkshire-police-musical-chair
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/forgery-jane-kenyon-and-the-8-n-yorks-mps
In summary, with a few exceptions, every Chief Officer of North Yorkshire Police for several years, the Chair of the Police Authority and members of civilian staff have been involved in serious misconduct of one sort or another and failed miserably to set the appropriate example of probity and integrity to their subordinates.
There is a clear pattern of Officers who are accused of serious misconduct that in any other profession or organisation would result in them being summarily dismissed and even of receiving a criminal conviction, being completely and perfectly protected by other Police Officers and the erstwhile Police Authority.
There is also a pattern of the Police Officers trying to protect Councillor Kenyon from legitimate public comment and abusing their positions by allowing themselves to be used for Councillor Kenyon’s own personal, political purposes.
It is also obvious that there has been a complete failure of financial control in North Yorkshire Police.
This situation is absolutely unprecedented in the history of the British Police Service.
No other force in the UK has a history of misconduct by successive Chief Police Officers, coupled with the failure to address issues of corruption as grave as these, as the North Yorkshire Police – yet no one has been disciplined for it.
Put bluntly, North Yorkshire Police and the former Police Authority simply will not prosecute or criticize a Police Officer of Inspector rank or above for misconduct, no matter how blatant or serious it is.
Action taken to combat police corruption
Until recently, investigation of the Police has been left to individual Police Forces and the Independent Police Complaints Commissioner (IPCC), which has been described as woefully under-equipped and failing to get to the truth of allegations of misconduct.
It has become notorious for failing the public and bungling investigations. In February 2008 over a hundred lawyers who specialise in handling police complaints resigned from its advisory body, citing various criticisms of the IPCC including a pattern of favouritism towards the police, indifference and rudeness towards complainants and complaints being rejected in spite of apparently powerful evidence in their support.
The Home Secretary has now announced new measures to prevent Police corruption.
Interestingly, these new measures will prohibit Police Officers facing misconduct allegations from being allowed to retire until the allegations have been resolved, (thereby preventing any further action and wiping the slate clean), which is to be applauded.
Under new legislation already passed after the Deputy Chief Constable Briggs fiasco, the IPCC can compel officers to attend and respond to questions.
Had these measures been in place last year, Deputy Chief Constable Briggs would not have escaped disciplinary action and could have been compelled to attend and be interviewed by the IPCC instead of ignoring its entirely reasonable requests for an explanation of what he had done with the money.
Whilst it must be said that the vast majority of British Police Officers are honest and do a very difficult job to the best of their ability, I have evidence of North Yorkshire Police Officers and members of civilian staff being involved in a wide range of criminal offences of conspiracy to defraud, theft, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, misuse of police intelligence, misconduct in public office, witness intimidation and harassment of those that make complaints against Police Officers.
This involves officers at Fulford Road Police Station, York and Selby CID, Force Headquarters, the erstwhile North Yorkshire Police Authority, the Force Intelligence Bureau and – most concerning of all – the Professional Standards Unit.
I also have evidence of corrupt Police Officers being protected by the very Police Officers in the professional Standards Department whose duty it is to deal with their misconduct.
Operation Countryman II
In 1972, Sir Robert Mark took over Command of the Metropolitan Police and found there was widespread corruption within the CID, which was endemic, not confined to those below the rank of Sergeant and had been acquiesced to by a succession of weak Chief Police officers
After investigative journalists from The Times and the Sunday People ran a series of successful and high-profile ‘sting’ operations on corrupt Police Officers, giving him the evidence he needed to act, Sir Robert Mark initiated a purge of the Metropolitan Police, successfully arresting or dismissing 487 corrupt Officers.
His investigation into corruption was referred to as “Operation Countryman” because so deep rooted was the corruption within his Force that he had to bring in Officers from the County forces to conduct the investigation, rather than rely on Metropolitan Officers whose integrity and impartiality could not be relied upon.
He then set up a separate Anti-Corruption Branch to deal with allegations of corruption impartially.
This was a traumatic time for the Met, but it emerged a stronger and better Force because of it.
In marked contrast, Temporary Chief Constable Tim Madgwick is currently resisting calls for an investigation by another force into allegations of misconduct by a group of named North Yorkshire Police Officers and continues to ignore the recommendations of the IPCC on the Hofschroer case that it should be re-opened.
Under these circumstances, to highlight the issue of Police corruption in North Yorkshire Police I will be running a series of articles exposing corrupt Police Officers and civilian staff in North Yorkshire Police.
These articles will be run in the public interest, on the same lines as the original article in the Sunday People and The Times that triggered Operation Countryman, with the intention of obtaining a similar investigation to Operation Countryman into corruption and misconduct by North Yorkshire Police Officers by officers from another force.
To distinguish them from other articles on Real Whitby, they will be run under the name of Operation Countryman II.
The next Chief Constable
On the 16th of April 2013 the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire will select a new Chief Constable for North Yorkshire.
Following the scandals referred to above, there has been a sea change in attitudes to police corruption in the UK.
Temporary Chief Constable Madgwick has shown that he is still personally wedded to the old ways of “The Blue Wall”, of closing ranks and protecting his colleagues no matter what. In modern policing terms he is a dinosaur that along with others has accepted unacceptable practices and fostered a culture of impunity within North Yorkshire Police.
Wanted
An Officer of the honesty and integrity of Sir Robert Mark to purge North Yorkshire Police of corrupt Police Officers and practices.
Coming next
Operation Countryman II:
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Read (Retired). Director of the North Yorkshire Police Professional Standards Directorate
March 27, 2013 at 5:02 pm
A brilliant article Nigel, assessing everything that is wrong with the police force in North Yorkshire, and with evidence to back it up. I strongly urge you to print this and send a copy to the Home Secretary to see if she will lend her considerable influence to get this action going. It is blatantly obvious that on a local level it will be buried so deep it will take a force of mining engineers to find it.
LongbonesReply
March 27, 2013 at 5:04 pm
“Put bluntly, North Yorkshire Police and the former Police Authority simply will not prosecute or criticize a Police Officer of Inspector rank or above for misconduct, no matter how blatant or serious it is.”
Yes, as I said before – the ‘Untouchables.’
But Nigel, this is an absolutely devastating catalogue you have assembled, and seeing how the Press and everyone and his dog monitor these pages – where are you all?
kathleen parkerReply
March 27, 2013 at 5:42 pm
It seems we can’t trust anybody anymore,whoever thought we would be policed by such corrupt officers? This article is an eyeopener to say the least,well written Tim Thorne.
Nigel WardReply
March 27, 2013 at 6:06 pm
Just to put the record straight, this article is by Tim HICKS. There will be an important announcement tomorrow regarding immediate progress at a local level and beyond the sphere of influence of North Yorkshire politicos. The Corruption Busters will be taking this all the way.
Michael OccleshawReply
March 27, 2013 at 7:47 pm
The evidence of corruption is overwhelming. This sort of thing destroys trust and needs to be stamped out and the people reponsible brought to justice in short order.
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These top ranking police officers, and others like Kenyon, have made their beds and lets hope theyre made to lie in them, and be shown for what they really are – outright criminals abusing their positions of responsibility and trust, and getting paid damned good salaries too at the taxpayers’ expense whilst letting down not only every decent police officer in the land but also the general public they are meant to serve.What a disgrace.
SOURCE: http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/nyp-operation-countryman-ii-launched
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The latest comments, + scroll down for radio interview with ANONYMOUS RADIO:
“This email was addressed to Eric Pickles and c/c [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] pccnorthyorkshire-pcc.gov.uk [email protected] [email protected] nigel.adams.mp@parliament . Copies have been sent to Tim Madwick, Simon Denis, Kayley Scaife, Richard Abbott, Jim Shanks, PCC (Julia Mulligan@ now defunct), all at North Yorks Police several DCLG Public Servants ALL Selby District Councillors, private planners, York Magistrates Court, 5 email addresses at Spawforths Ltd, ALL Selby District Parish Councils, Local and National press and BBC Sky news and my tweets on SElby District Council criminality @ucimup right across government and judiciary – I hit the limit for tweets sent in a day and was stopped tweeting yesterday.
“But Ian
How far are you practically?
Have you managed to get the CPS involved?
Are the Police investigating?
Have there been any enquiries by the Police?”
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As you seem to expect me to ‘handle’ the situation, so every other authority is looking for someone else to ‘handle’ the problem, and for the last two years, at least!
And the problem comes home to Selby District’s honourable Councillors.
I bumped into ‘Grandma B’ in my researches, absolutely astonishing! GOOGLE IT AND BE ASTONISHED!!
Police corruption in North Yorkshire is at a level which even Lord Maginnis taking the root problem of corrupt police working with social services and even NHS at the quickest way of ridding the world of seniors to share in their wealth (it is incredible!) to House of Lords has been unable to successfully challenge.
And it appears this little earner has gone nationwide. How? By ‘word of mouth’? Or is simply that investigations into paying for care home places met to show the opportunity to like-minded mercenary police/social care workers/NHS workers who simultaneously took the opportunity to gain? And right across the Nation? ELSEWHERE, OUTRIGHT MURDER HAS TAKEN PLACE!!!
No body will regard themselves as capable of cracking the problem Selby District has, if the North Yorkshire Police are involved, especially if Lord Maginnis and the House of Lords can’t touch them – York Magistrates Court refused to pass my indictments onto CPS according to law!
(One deep into the ‘earner’ is Mr Moreton, ex Grandma Barbara ‘case’, after ‘retiring from ill health’ with pension, of course, ended up regaining his health to run Selby ‘Community Policing’)
No body or public body is going to get involved after knowledge of what has gone on without it being able to be checked.
It is down to the untainted councillors as public servants to proactively exercise their duty of care to their electorate by demanding an Extraordinary Meeting, and to begin a process of revelation which might have far reaching national consequences and repercussions eventually.
I gave you the ‘big picture’ and it seems barely credible to me though evidence abounds.
North Yorkshire law seems paralysed – the Police Commissioner is running side-shows to avoid involvement.
And something has to be done soon if the can of worms is not to infect the whole of society IRREPARABLY!”
“Thanks for your comments. When this affair started, we were still naive enough to believe we were dealing with a small group of corrupt officials, whose superiors would deal with quickly. That was five years ago. As you mention, raising the case the House of Lords has not stopped the abuse. Every government department and every official we have gone to for help has been obstructive. What causes more concern is the way their brush-offs are phrased the same way, suggesting that they are being guided centrally at a high level.”
Grandma B is now 82 years old. She is wheelchair-bound and very frail. The past three years of her life have been horrendous. She lost her husband of 60 years, but that was the easy part. She has also been the victim of sustained and systematic abuse in which she has been defrauded of her house, subjected to threats and harassment because she will not hand over her life savings to her abusers, then unlawfully evicted from her house and stranded abroad, with her abusers trying, fortunately unsuccessfully, to fraudulently sell her house.
You may well ask who would do such an awful thing to a little, old lady in a wheelchair. Sadly, most abuse takes place within the family and this is very much the case here. The main abusers are Grandma B’s older son, his wife and her two adult grandchildren.
Grandma B’s younger son was working abroad when he noticed something was very wrong. He immediately rushed back home, where his worst fears were confirmed. While he was travelling, his 87 year-old father was admitted to hospital with a serious heart complaint caused by neglect. His mother too was seriously ill due to neglect. His older brother and his family lived just around the corner, but had done little to help Grandma B and her very sick husband.
A year before this, Grandma B and her husband had signed over their house to the older son and his family on the understanding they would care for them. Their younger son agreed to this, because he was living and working abroad and could not provide the level of care needed. Hardly was the ink on the agreement dry when the older son and his family started running Grandma B and her husband down, hoping they would pass on as soon as possible.
When, in April 2008, the younger son arrived in the parental home, he was horrified by what he saw. He dropped what he was doing, gave up his job and home and became the full-time carer for his parents. His father led a full and happy life in his last months. His mother’s physical health has improved dramatically since the younger son took over her care.
As soon as the younger son took over the care of his parents, the older son and his family started a campaign of harassment designed to drive him out of the parental home and to seize control of their finances. Matters reached such a level in September 2008, that the younger son reported the criminal offences to the police and the abuse to social services.
What followed from there can only be described as a nightmare. The police made several attempts to arrest the carer on the basis of false allegations, while social services fabricated allegations against him in an attempt to have his powers of attorney revoked and the care of his parents placed in the hands of their abusers.
A few days after the younger son made his complaint, the police arrived at the parental home to investigate a complaint he has “stolen” his parents’ money. They had no evidence to support this allegation made by the abusers, but refused to record a complaint of harassment by the abusers.
Social services blocked all attempts at getting the abuse investigated. Grandma B’s social worker made a false allegation of assault against her carer, an unfit, middle-aged man. Social services withdrew this allegation when they were shown evidence that the social worker was a black-belt in martial arts. His claim to have been overpowered and physically ejected from the parental home without injury looked a little ridiculous, to say the least.
On the morning Grandma B’s husband of 60 years died, the police unlawfully raided her house. They allowed her abusers to charge in, assault her and bawl insults at her over her husband’s still warm corpse. When her carer stood between her and her abusers to protect her, the police officers pushed him out of the way and threatened to arrest him.
In the following months, the abusers stalked Grandma B, attempted to break into her house and send her abusive letters. The police refused to uphold the law and arrest the criminals in question.
An independent investigation into Social Service’s handling of the case criticised them and required them to reopen the safeguarding investigation. Months later, they did, but the police and Social Services withheld all evidence of abuse.
Instead, they fabricated abuse allegations against the carer and applied to the Office of the Public Guardian to have his powers of attorney annulled. The Office of the Public Guardian established the allegations made by Social Services were false and rejected the application.
Grandma B then went on her wheelchair to a local council meeting to hand out a leaflet protesting about the way the police and social services were treating her. Her local ward councillors set police officers in stab-vests on to her, threatening to arrest her for distributing a “defamatory” leaflet. When her carer pointed out that defamation is a civil matter and not a police matter, the officers looked a little flummoxed, but still tried to prevent her from exercising her democratic right of peaceful protest. Grandma B is a veteran of the Second World War and stood her ground. When her carer called out to the police sergeant attending the meeting in front of the 30 or so members of the public present that she should arrest these officers for harassing a vulnerable person, they beat a hasty retreat. The sergeant refused to uphold the law.
Instead, two days later, the local police fabricated the first Harassment Warning against her carer. A couple of weeks later, they fabricated a second warning and were clearly intending to fabricate a third, at which point the carer could have been arrested.
In the ensuing two years, the carer’s legal representatives both in Britain and abroad have made a couple of dozen requests for sight of the evidence to support these unsigned, undated harassment warnings which are not legally valid. The police have produced nothing other than excuses and have refused every opportunity to sign these warnings for fear of perjuring themselves. The police inspector that issued the warnings took “early retirement” when challenged by the carer’s solicitor to produce the evidence.
Exhausted by this constant harassment, Grandma B went abroad on holiday for Christmas 2009. The police tipped off her abusers she was away from home, who then forced entry, changed the locks and unlawfully evicted her. After stealing her valuables in full view of the police, they tried to fraudulently sell her house. Fortunately, Grandma B’s solicitor prevented them from doing so.
However, her abusers and their friends in the police and local authority then fabricated a kidnapping allegation against her carer. This request to arrest the carer went from the local CID to Special Branch, to SOCA, to New Scotland Yard, to Interpol London, Interpol in the country in question, then to the national police headquarters and provincial police headquarters before landing on the desk of a local police officer in a remote Alpine village.
The expectation here was obvious: the local country bumpkin plod would be so impressed by the provenance of this request that he would summon up reinforcements before daring to attempt to tackle this known, hardened, serious international criminal.
It did not quite work out like that. Two weeks before this request arrived, the police officer and his good wife had been among the many guests at the local pub at Grandma B’s 82nd birthday party. He had been sceptical about the stories he had heard about official corruption in Britain, but now he was supposed to arrest the carer for kidnapping his mother, holding her against her will and incommunicado. He obviously knew these allegations were false, but being a professional, he carried out a proper investigation. His report made it clear that the British police had knowingly lied to Interpol to help corrupt officers defraud a little, old lady on a wheelchair.
This attempt by corrupt British police to abuse honest local police officers to carry out criminal acts on their behalf is now under investigation by the local foreign ministry.
Had the carer not been so lucky, then the chances are he would have been remanded in custody pending extradition, while Grandma B would have been returned to Britain and to the tender mercies of social services. Her assets would then have been plundered and divided up between the gang of criminals running this racket.
There have now been five independent reviews of this case. All have called for it to be reopened. Both the police and local authority have ignored these requests.
So what is going on here and who is involved? The main abuser is employed by local social services. He, his wife and daughter have provided support services to the local police. They all know who the isolated old people in their area with assets are. It would seem they are systematically targeting defenceless old people and seizing control of their assets before bundling them off into a council home, then selling their assets. The cash then gets laundered through a dodgy private care company as “care fees” and the police officers, social workers, council officials and local politicians involved then pocket the money. The perfect crime, as who is going to listen to a confused, old lady in a home, whose contact with the outside world they are controlling?
This is rampant corruption and serious, organised crime. Nobody in authority in North Yorkshire – including a certain senior police officer in the news at present – will respond to correspondence and deal with this case.
How many more victims are there?”
You may well ask who would do such an awful thing to a little, old lady in a wheelchair. Sadly, most abuse takes place within the family and this is very much the case here. The main abusers are Grandma B’s older son, his wife and her two adult grandchildren. Grandma B’s younger son was working abroad when he noticed something was very wrong. He immediately rushed back home, where his worst fears were confirmed.While he was travelling, his 87 year-old father was admitted to hospital with a serious heart complaint caused by neglect.
His mother too was seriously ill due to neglect. His older brother and his family lived just around the corner, but had done little to help Grandma B and her very sick husband. A year before this, Grandma B and her husband had signed over their house to the older son and his family on the understanding they would care for them. Their younger son agreed to this, because he was living and working abroad and could not provide the level of care needed. Hardly was the ink on the agreement dry when the older son and his family started running Grandma B and her husband down, hoping they would pass on as soon as possible.
When, in April 2008, the younger son arrived in the parental home, he was horrified by what he saw. He dropped what he was doing, gave up his job and home and became the full-time carer for his parents. His father led a full and happy life in his last months. His mother’s physical health has improved dramatically since the younger son took over her care.As soon as the younger son took over the care of his parents, the older son and his family started a campaign of harassment designed to drive him out of the parental home and to seize control of their finances. Matters reached such a level in September 2008, that the younger son reported the criminal offences to the police and the abuse to social services.What followed from there can only be described as a nightmare. The police made several attempts to arrest the carer on the basis of false allegations, while social services fabricated allegations against him in an attempt to have his powers of attorney revoked and the care of his parents placed in the hands of their abusers.
A few days after the younger son made his complaint, the police arrived at the parental home to investigate a complaint he has “stolen” his parents’ money. They had no evidence to support this allegation made by the abusers, but refused to record a complaint of harassment by the abusers.Social services blocked all attempts at getting the abuse investigated. Grandma B’s social worker made a false allegation of assault against her carer, an unfit, middle-aged man. Social services withdrew this allegation when they were shown evidence that the social worker was a black-belt in martial arts. His claim to have been overpowered and physically ejected from the parental home without injury looked a little ridiculous, to say the least.On the morning Grandma B’s husband of 60 years died, the police unlawfully raided her house.
They allowed her abusers to charge in, assault her and bawl insults at her over her husband’s still warm corpse. When her carer stood between her and her abusers to protect her, the police officers pushed him out of the way and threatened to arrest him.
In the following months, the abusers stalked Grandma B, attempted to break into her house and send her abusive letters. The police refused to uphold the law and arrest the criminals in question.
An independent investigation into Social Services’ handling of the case criticised them and required them to reopen the safeguarding investigation. Months later, they did, but the police and Social Services withheld all evidence of abuse.
Instead, they fabricated abuse allegations against the carer and applied to the Office of the Public Guardian to have his powers of attorney annulled. The Office of the Public Guardian established the allegations made by Social Services were false and rejected the application.
Grandma B then went on her wheelchair to a local council meeting to hand out a leaflet protesting about the way the police and social services were treating her. Her local ward councillors set police officers in stab-vests on to her, threatening to arrest her for distributing a “defamatory” leaflet. When her carer pointed out that defamation is a civil matter and not a police matter, the officers looked a little flummoxed, but still tried to prevent her from exercising her democratic right of peaceful protest. Grandma B is a veteran of the Second World War and stood her ground. When her carer called out to the police sergeant attending the meeting in front of the 30 or so members of the public present that she should arrest these officers for harassing a vulnerable person, they beat a hasty retreat. The sergeant refused to uphold the law.
Instead, two days later, the local police fabricated the first Harassment Warning against her carer. A couple of weeks later, they fabricated a second warning and were clearly intending to fabricate a third, at which point the carer could have been arrested. A file recently obtained from the Office of the Public Guardian shows this was planned to be on Christmas Day 2009, when the main abuser and corrupt police officers were planning to raid Grandma B’s house – unlawfully again, of course.
In the ensuing two years, the carer’s legal representatives both in Britain and abroad have made dozens of requests for sight of the evidence to support these unsigned, undated harassment warnings which are not legally valid. The police have produced nothing other than excuses and have refused every opportunity to sign these warnings for fear of perjuring themselves. The police inspector that issued the warnings took “early retirement” when challenged by the carer’s solicitor to produce the evidence.
Exhausted by this constant harassment, Grandma B went abroad on holiday for Christmas 2009. The police tipped off her abusers she was away from home, who then forced entry, changed the locks and unlawfully evicted her. After stealing her valuables in full view of the police, they tried to fraudulently sell her house. Fortunately, Grandma B’s solicitor prevented them from doing so.
However, her abusers and their friends in the police and local authority, then fabricated a kidnapping allegation against her carer. This request to arrest the carer went from the local CID to Special Branch, to SOCA, to New Scotland Yard, to Interpol London, Interpol in the country in question, then to the national police headquarters and provincial police headquarters before landing on the desk of a local police officer in a remote Alpine village.
The expectation here was obvious: the local country bumpkin plod would be so impressed by the provenance of this request that he would summon up reinforcements before daring to attempt to tackle this known, hardened, serious international criminal.
It did not quite work out like that. Two weeks before this request arrived, the police officer and his good wife had been among the many guests at the local pub at Grandma B’s 82nd birthday party. He had been sceptical about the stories he had heard about official corruption in Britain, but now he was supposed to arrest the carer for kidnapping his mother, holding her against her will and incommunicado. He obviously knew these allegations were false, but being a professional, he carried out a proper investigation. His report made it clear that the British police had knowingly lied to Interpol to help corrupt officers defraud a little, old lady on a wheelchair.
This attempt by corrupt British police to abuse honest local police officers to carry out criminal acts on their behalf is now under investigation by the local foreign ministry.
Had the carer not been so lucky, then the chances are he would have been remanded in custody pending extradition, while Grandma B would have been returned to Britain and to the tender mercies of social services. Her assets would then have been plundered and divided up between the gang of criminals running this racket.
There have now been five independent reviews of this case. All have called for it to be reopened. Both the police and local authority have ignored these requests.
So what is going on here and who is involved? The main abuser is employed by local social services. He, his wife and daughter have provided support services to the local police. They all know who the isolated old people in their area with assets are. It would seem they are systematically targeting defenceless old people and seizing control of their assets before bundling them off into a council home, then selling their assets. The cash then gets laundered through a dodgy private care company as “care fees” and the police officers, social workers, council officials and local politicians involved then pocket the money. The perfect crime, as who is going to listen to a confused, old lady in a home, whose contact with the outside world they are controlling?
This is rampant corruption and serious, organised crime. Nobody in authority in North Yorkshire will respond to correspondence and deal with this case.
Questions are now being asked in Parliament about this case. See here: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2011-11-22a.220.0&s=speaker%3A10406+section%3Awrans#g220.1
source: http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/02/09/uk-war-on-pensioners-the-abuse-of-grandma-b/
My mother and I became homeless in [31/07/08]. The Vale of Glamorgan local authority placed all our belongings with their contractors, Masons Moving Group Ltd (“Masons Ltd”) for safe keeping, whilst we were placed under a re-homing scheme.
When we were no longer homeless, Masons Ltd denied access/return, and continues to deny, access to / the return of our possessions. This has been for [11/05/09]. Masons are withholding all our possessions, which include passports, original birth certificates, as well as furnishings- beds/sofa/white goods, and irreplaceable personal effects.)Heritage/Original family photographs of us and all our loved ones/living and deceased…
Masons Ltd have put undue pressure [Duress/threatened blackmailed my mother to sign a contract [and pay £330 monthly fees or they would 'sell' or 'Dispose' all property] (which would give them authority to deal with our possessions). We declined to sign the contract. My mother is on Disability Living Allowance and I am main and only full time carer.[Ms E Feldmeier has numerous medical conditions (life threatening)
Mason’s Ltd provided me [2/03/11] with evidence of selling SOME our original family photographs including original framed photographs of ancestors and 1479 family tree…..
Further background.
I gave up my job to become a full time carer for my grandmother who required round the clock nursing care (was in a vegetative state due to medical negligence in 2001).
We were in accomodation that my grandmother kept falling in such confined places…The local Authority (HOMES4U) did not grant us any of our bids for a disabled friendly property,for which there were many so… Social Services (SS) (senior social worker Jayne Morgan) told us to move asap,and find a property in the private sector….and go for the first property that we could take reciept of a HOSPITAL BED,HOIST and all manner of nursing equipment…….(we remained in this property despite exceptional hardship and going without basic essentials to ensure we meet the shortfall (were there for 7 and half years)
However, we reached the point in [2008] when we could no longer afford the costs for rent and looking after my grandmother, because of the ongoing lack of support from the local authority….and the local authority said they would help provided we get the Estate Agent to execute a warrent of possession and effectually make us legally homeless to which the local authority said they would then have a duty of care towards my disabled seriously ill mother and myself.
The Local Authority has paid Masons in full (tax payer) out of public purse…
Masons are the councils contractors,there is no contract between us and the council or Masons….
Masons will NOT comunicate with us………………….we do not know where our LIFE TIME OF BELONGINGS are………
Nadia & Ellinor Feldmeier
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[the interview above from "Anonymous Radio"]
The story of how corrupt police officers and social workers are abusing a little, old lady on a wheelchair
Posted by Grandma B on 01/10/2012
http://www.grandmabarbara.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/radio-interview-back-online/