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Kirsty Williams, the leader of the Welsh Lib Dems who is a member of Carwyn's Cabinet as Education Minister, has been in the Welsh news over the last few days as promises to raise standards in Wales's schools are made – yet again. Kirsty is acutely aware that things are not what they should be and a few weeks ago she made a good speech in the Senedd, only to be faced with some of those who we know and love very pointedly walking out whilst she was speaking. I don't know what that was all about. After her speech in the Senedd I was therefore disappointed to note that in recent comments Kirsty used that appalling phrase which schools are now all using – that their pupils should become 'the best that they can be'. Such a phrase is a minefield. What does the school mean by the 'best'? What does this say about children who are unable to reach whichever heights the schools is aiming at, be it in languages, maths, music, sports, drama etc?. For those who's best isn't quite the best that the others have achieved, 'the best that you can be' pretty much rubs it in that the kid is crap. It is such a process that leads kids to become disillusioned and alienated…
The sort of language that Kirsty used has evolved from the discourses which surrounded Blair's widening participation programme. It did not work as he expected, because as I have mentioned previously Blair did not develop his policies by taking advice from the sociologists of education who could have told him how to make the policy work. He took advice from Lord Adonis instead. Blair's model of widening participation was not about making available a high quality critical education to the wider population. It was about providing a dumbed down, cheap as chips system of mass higher education to a student population who had been conned into believing that it would lead them into highly paid professional careers. It didn't, but Blair didn't ever want it to. Blair's widening participation was about producing a workforce that was ready for the neoliberal employment market. Of course the children of PMs and Cabinet Ministers weren't provided with this type of HE themselves – they still went to Oxford to do PPE or another elite university to do history of art, classics etc.
Blair's model of HE also involved another crucial element which very few people commented on – it was used to reign in dissent under the banner of 'social inclusion'. I was particularly interested when New Labour started expressing extreme concern about the 'low participation' of Gypsies and Travellers in HE. I'm not entirely convinced that New Labour had the best interests of Gypsies and Travellers at heart. They were at the time being refused permission to live in caravans, when sites were provided for them the sites were often grim and not where they wanted to live and then there was the Dale Farm Battle. The 'Daily Mail' faithfully published articles reminding the world what a load of bastards Gypsies and Travellers were, in pretty much the same way as they did with New Age Travellers in the 1980s. I knew some New Age Travellers who were definitely not bastards at the time and I was somewhat confused when Thatcher expressed her intention to 'make life difficult for hippy convoys'. Although she certainly did – at the Battle of the Beanfield, the police smashed their vehicles and chased pregnant women around whilst wielding truncheons. That'll teach them to live in a brightly painted bus and park it somewhere near Stonehenge.
When New Labour began to bang on about including Gypsies and Travellers, one of my friends was involved in a piece of community research with Gypsies and Travellers. She uncovered some pretty nasty stuff – the Travellers who she knew in north Wales had been forced to live on a site where they had never wanted to live and were being intimidated and fleeced in a number of ways by the authorities which managed the site. No of course they didn't go to the police, they would have received no more assistance than the mental health patients in north Wales did when we constantly raised concerns about the way in which we were being mistreated.
Interestingly, the Gypsies and Travellers who were being mistreated in north Wales were not in the Plaid stronghold of Gwynedd, they were over in north east Wales in the region dominated by Labour. Not a million miles away from the constituency of Blair's former PPS David Hanson. The County Councils of north east Wales are still largely run by the paedophiles' friends who ignored Dafydd's crimes for decades.
Then Kirsty popped up again in the Welsh news, this time in relation to education and social mobility. My how I laughed when I saw that Alan Milburn had joined Kirsty in speaking out regarding social mobility, or the lack of. I think that both Kirsty and Milburn are giving presentations at an OU conference on social mobility. Milburn was at the heart of New Labour. Alan – social mobility has ceased largely as a result of New Labour's policies following hot on the heels of the long rule of the Tories. You were told repeatedly that just about everything you were doing would cause already disadvantaged people to experience further disadvantage. You ignored everyone and just carried on shouting 'education, education, education', 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' and banging on about Sure Start and how successful it was. Louise Casey remained your Tsar for Chavs, even after she got pissed and swore her way through a rather stuffy conference and she is now Dame Louise. Louise was such a success that she went on to advise the Tories after Gordon left No 10.
Milburn himself was Chair of the Social Mobility Commission – a post from which he resigned shortly after I published details regarding him, his wife and their friends on this blog. Alan was Health Secretary, 1999-03 and his wife is a Top Doctor psychiatrist. Their domain is in Blair's stronghold of the north east of England, where that paedophile gang which Blair concealed with links to Dafydd et al operated.
After Blair and Lord Adonis unleashed their nonsense upon the nation, a sociologist called Kim Slack published a paper entitled 'Include Me Out'. I often felt that the title of Kim's paper could be my motto for life. Not so much with regard to academic life at Bangor, because I was fortunate to have some good bosses and colleagues who were a welcome diversion from the crap which reigned down upon universities from Gov't, but Include Me Out neatly summed up how I felt throughout the years when Top Doctors and others kept telling me that I had to learn that Dafydd et al were very influential men. Later when I was working at St George's Hospital Medical School, once more it was impressed upon me that I just did not seem to understand that I could not ignore Important People. I was directly told by the paedophiles' friends at St George's not to visit north Wales and to make a new life for myself in London. I was even told that if I liked walking holidays, Corsica was far better than Snowdonia. At the time I was baffled by the attempts to micromanage my life, but by then I'd decided that they were mad and foul anyway, but later it clicked. When I was in north Wales I was continuing with my irritating habit of talking to people who were not Top Doctors – indeed I was friends with hippies and people who didn't live in houses – which did of course mean that I heard a great deal about what Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends had done to people.
Dafydd – I am so glad that I was happy to be Included Out and that I never accepted your bribe or decided that my future lay with some truly hideous people in the London medical schools. I wouldn't have wanted to be Included by Sir Peter Morrison, the City of Chester Conservative Association or even the Duke of Westminster and trying to set fire to my house was not going to make me change my ways.
Research that I have undertaken to follow up matters that I have covered recently on this blog has confirmed that I was quite right to be Included Out.
My post 'The White Heat Of This Revolution' described how Kenneth Robinson, Harold Wilson's Health Secretary and President/Chair of MIND (when it was still known as the National Association for Mental Health), won a libel case against the Church of Scientology. The Scientologists had maintained – and still do maintain – that psychiatrists were experimenting on their patients, harming them and facilitating sex crimes against minors. Dafydd and others were indeed doing all this when Robinson went to war with the Scientologists. Harold Wilson's Gov't concealed the crimes of Dafydd and others, as did MIND – Dafydd had been a leading light in MIND himself at the time when his shocking neglect of patients was covered by 'The Times' in the mid-1960s. Harold Wilson was friendly with George Thomas, the Labour MP for Cardiff West. Thomas's abuse of children was widely known at the time but concealed. Thomas's network in south Wales was closely linked with Dafydd's network in north Wales. They were all covering for each other. Kenneth Robinson knew that the Scientologists' allegations against psychiatry had substance, as did most members of the legal establishment.
Nonetheless Robinson won his libel action against the Church of Scientology and their allegations against psychiatry have been disbelieved ever since. The judge who was so helpful to Dafydd et al was Justice – later Lord Justice – Ackner.
Desmond Ackner was the son of Dr Conrad Ackner, a Jewish dentist from Vienna. Conrad Ackner came to Britain before WWI and treated members of the British Royal Family and Queen Maud of Norway. Desmond Ackner was educated at Highgate School and then attended Clare College, Cambridge. During WWII he served in the Royal Artillery. Ackner was transferred to the Admiralty's Naval Law Branch and served there between 1942-45.
So Ackner will have known – or at least have known of – those senior figures in the Admiralty named in my post 'The Defence Of The Realm', including Lord Louis Mountbatten and Admiral Sir Alec Bingley. Sir Alec's wife Lady Juliet followed Kenneth Robinson as Chair of MIND and concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al – as did the Bingleys' son William, who worked as the legal director for MIND. William Bingley continued to collude with the very serious crimes of Dafydd et al when he became Chief Exec of the Mental Health Act Commission.
I met William Bingley in 1987 and he supplied me of even more details of the crimes of Dafydd et al than I knew of. Bingley told me that MIND were supporting Mary Wynch's legal action against Dafydd and that they had resisted Dafydd's threats to ensure that their funding from Gwynedd Health Authority was withdrawn if they advised Mary. William also told me that Dafydd ran a big sex therapy practice on the north Wales coast and that he was exerting influence as a result of information that he had discovered through this practice. Although William admitted that Dafydd was involved in very serious crime, he did not offer to help me. He instead told me never to return to north Wales. Some weeks later when Dafydd tried to threaten and then bribe me into dropping my complaints against him, I contacted William and updated him. Dafydd had told me that if I didn't drop my complaint against him he would have me arrested and detained in Risley Remand Centre. I dismissed this as a threat from a madman and didn't quake in my boots as required. Dafydd then told me that his mate was a Professor at Liverpool University and I would be guaranteed a place at the medical school there if I dropped my complaints. William cheerfully told me that this was characteristic of Dafydd and then wrote to me telling me never to visit north Wales again because I would be arrested if I did.
Bingley was a law graduate and MIND's legal adviser. What did he think that he was doing? He had been told that I had been unlawfully arrested and detained in psychiatric units – twice – because I had complained about mental health professionals abusing their positions and he knew that Mary Wynch was at that time suing Dafydd because he had done this to her as well. He then was told that Dafydd had threatened to fit me up and imprison me and when that didn't have the desired effect I had been told that Liverpool medical school would provide a home for me if I kept quiet.
Bingley also told me that a complaint had recently gone to the GMC regarding a death at the hands of Dafydd but that the GMC would never take action against him no matter how serious the complaint.
My first visit to Bingley was not only to seek help and info re Dafydd. It was to ask his opinion regarding Dr James Earp. After Dafydd and Tony Francis had previously had me arrested on a trumped up charge of assault ('attempting to throttle a doctor') – a charge which was later dropped when it was found that I hadn't attempted to throttle anyone – my lawyer had sought an expert report for the expected court case from Earp. Earp had been recommended to my lawyer because I was living in Leicester at the time and Earp was a forensic psychiatrist in Leicester. Bingley assured me that Earp was honest and a 'good conservative psychiatrist'. Earp was not only concealing the crimes of Dafydd et al (see post 'An Expert From England') but he was one of the corrupt professional people who were concealing the paedophile ring of which Frank Beck and Greville Janner were a part. In 1993 Earp was at the centre of a scandal after James Rudman, who had murdered his wife, managed to escape from Earp's secure unit and used a loophole in the law which very nearly succeeded in him remaining a free man for the rest of his life. Earp was remarkably unconcerned about what had happened and the circumstances of the original hospital order and the escape suggest that Rudman was helped by corrupt professionals, including Top Doctors in Leicester (see post 'Gwlad y Menig Gwynion').
Why my solicitor sent me to Earp I don't know. I got on very well with this solicitor and he was known as an honest man – but he worked in Bangor, in the midst of the paedophile gang, his father-in-law was a police officer who was a Freemason and Dafydd phoned him at least once and tried to stop him from representing me. I have no idea whether he was given Earp's name by someone else who was trying to stitch me up or whether that person too was unaware that Earp was one of many who was concealing a pan-European sex trafficking network. The same solicitor later referred me to Dr David Mawson after yet another attempt by Dafydd and Tony Francis to imprison me. David Mawson was very pleasant and entertaining but he too was concealing the crimes of Dafydd et al – although David Mawson seemed to be working independently of Dafydd and co (see post 'Doctors Who Disappeared From The Medical Register').
To be fair, psychiatry is in such a bad way that I suspect that whoever my solicitor used for a second opinion would have been part of the trafficking network or would have been leaned on by them. I liked that solicitor and he kept me out of Risley Remand Centre on a number of occasions. I suspect that if he had said 'God we're dealing with a bunch of international gangsters' and tried to tackle them he'd have been found dead. So don't worry Mr Alwyn Jones, I really don't have a problem with you. I've got the documents to which you never gained access and I'm grassing this bunch of crooks up.
Alwyn later gave up legal aid work – at about the time of the Waterhouse Inquiry. He was probably visited by someone with a shotgun…
You might have put Alwyn out of action in terms of helping the victims of the paedophile gang you worthless bastards, but you've got this blog to spend your time reading now.
Someone else told me that James Earp was a good man as well. The person who told me to go and see William Bingley ie. the man who worked in MIND in Leicester. Furthermore he knew about Dafydd. He told me that there had been a big investigation into the psychiatric services in north Wales, that there was a psychiatrist up there 'who had everything stitched up for himself' and that it was 'all tied up with Freemasonry'. I can find no trace of the investigation that this man in Leicester told me had happened.
How did I get to see this man in Leicester MIND? A mature student at Leicester University whom Brown knew advised me to go and see him. She was a former social worker doing a sociology degree and she was appalled when I told her what had happened to me in north Wales. She told me that the law had been broken repeatedly and I really needed legal advice – she recommended Leicester MIND. I liked this woman, but I suspect now that she was probably another little gift from the security services in disguise – as so many whom Brown and I encountered were – who deliberately sent me into the arms of a network whom she knew were concealing organised sexual abuse. Or she was terrified. Leicester University staff – including those in the Dept of Sociology – had been concealing child abuse in Leicestershire for years. Maureen was in the thick of them – and Leicester Medical School was run by the paedophiles' friends as well (see posts 'Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals' and 'Gwlad y Menig Gwynion'). Furthermore Maureen's husband and Maureen were both 'service users' who encountered financial problems which caused her to withdraw from her degree. Maureen was a leading light in Leicester University Students' Union at the time, where a particularly crazy form of student politics prevailed. The Student Grants of Leicester were involved with the Radical Causes supported by Leicester City Council – which was dominated by people concealing the abuse ring who were told what to do by Keith Vaz. Greville Janner must have been pissing himself laughing.
MI5 – can you do me a favour please? Instead of sending a whole array of people in various states of fuckwittery in my direction who simply add to my difficulties or who try and send Brown and me into situations in which we narrowly escape death, please could you send someone useful? Perhaps accompanied by a large compensation cheque in the light of the British state spending more than 30 years of their time and money trying to kill us. Diolch yn fawr.
To return to Justice Ackner of the paedophiles. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1945, became a Bencher of Middle Temple in 1965 and was later Treasurer in 1984. Ronnie Waterhouse was a Bencher and Treasurer of Middle Temple and was six years younger than Ackner. They knew each other.
Ackner played a key role in two events which gave him an undeserved reputation as one who assisted the common man. He acted for victims of thalidomide in 1968-69 in their action for damages against the manufacturer of the drug, Distillers, which was settled before trial. Distillers agreed to pay 40% of the damages to each child that they would have been entitled to had the action been wholly successful. It was 'widely accepted' at the time that had the case gone to trial, the plaintiffs would have had difficulty proving negligence.
At a later date it became 'widely accepted' that the thalidomide children were robbed blind in the settlement that Ackner reached – which took him four years – that Distillers had been far less than transparent and honest, that many lies had been told by many people and that the families of the children had been forced into a corner from which they were grateful to pick up the few crumbs that they managed to scrape from under Distiller's table. Ackner was one of the most highly paid Silks in the UK. He won't have accepted 40% of anything.
The thalidomide families' settlement was a bit like George Michael's recording contract – he was delighted with it when he was a teenager, but as an older man he realised that he had been shafted.
The other person involved in 'gaining justice' for the 'thalidomide victims' was dear old Marjorie Wallace, who went into campaigning mode in the 1960s when she worked as a journo for the 'Sunday Times'. Marjorie was a paedophiles' friend of the highest order and managed to have sex with quite a few other paedophiles' friends, including Lord Snowdon. As the net looked like it was in danger of closing in on Dafydd et al in the 1980s, Marjorie set up a 'mental health charity', SANE, which actually inflicted great harm on people labelled mentally ill, particularly those who had been abused whilst in state care. Marjorie knew what Jimmy Savile was up to in Broadmoor and remained silent, she knew that June and Jennifer Gibbons from west Wales had been banged up in Broadmoor whilst they were still teenagers for no good reason and she probably knows why Jennifer 'died as a result of problems with her medication' hours before she was due to be released from Broadmoor. Marjorie knew about Dafydd et al as well – she knew from many sources, but she also knew because in about 1988 I wrote and told her what Dafydd was up to…
For further details on Marjorie and all the awards and honours that she has received from Top Docs and others in return for her ensuring that people who have witnessed serious organised crime in the health and welfare services end up imprisoned for life, dead or irreparably damaged by 'medication', see post 'One Dangerous Fucker'.
Dafydd must have received loads of phone calls from all those people whom I informed of his crimes as they sent up the distress flares, including:
|Michael and His Radical Conscience:
Then there were all the letters to the press, journal articles and books that Brown and me wrote about the abuses of the mental health system. There must be a lot of people who really love us…
'Shut your mouth about DA.'
Ah well, I never did intend to take any notice of the vile little Angels who repeatedly told me that.
Not only was Marjorie, the hero of the hour re thalidomide, colluding with Dafydd et al – she could well have been working hand in hand with Desmond Ackner as well – but another one of Dafydd's umbrella's was Sir Franck Hartley, the former VC of London University, who was one of the pharmacologists responsible for the thalidomide disaster in the first place (see post 'The White Heat Of This Revolution').
Ackner got a lot of good PR from representing those disabled by thalidomide, but his reputation as an Champion of the Oppressed had been sealed by him acting as Counsel for the families of the victims at the Public Inquiry into the Aberfan Disaster in 1967, in which he condemned the 'callous indifference, incompetence, ignorance and inertia' in the National Coal Board. Ackner 'remains a local hero' in Aberfan, where a bench in the memorial garden bears a plaque in his memory.
It was said that the people of Aberfan could hardly believe that an 'English barrister' was so willing to help them. However the people of Aberfan would have been trusting, honest enough to accept people at face value and would have been unaware of a number of salient facts about Ackner, particularly as Ackner was not known outside legal circles at the time because he usually acted as a libel lawyer and rarely appeared in criminal courts.
The residents of Aberfan had been treated appallingly by Lord Robens of the National Coal Board, who didn't bother to visit the scene of the disaster and denied that it was known that there was a spring at the heart of the tip which made it unstable and in danger of falling down the hill onto buildings with people in them. The Aberfan Disaster happened when Harold Wilson was PM. Harold Wilson and the Labour Party really needed the support of Labour voters in south Wales for political success. When Wilson kicked off his election campaigns, he did it in south Wales. Furthermore, the man at his side when he did so and one of south Wales Labour's most high profile figures was George Thomas. Who was molesting children and who had links with Dafydd and co. Harold Wilson's Gov't was instrumental in concealing the abuse of vulnerable people by the health and welfare services which had been happening since the inception of the NHS (see post 'The Human Stain'). The reputation of the legend that was Nye Bevan could not be allowed to be tarnished.
Aberfan could have been very, very difficult for Harold Wilson's Gov't, the Labour Party and the coal industry – it was difficult enough as it was, but it could have been a lot worse. A number of people not normally known for their care and sensitivity towards the lower orders came up trumps re Aberfan. Lord Edmund-Davies Chaired the Public Inquiry. Edmund-Davies was a judge who was a paid-up paedophiles' friend (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology'). Then Ackner came over all caring as well.
The Aberfan disaster was placed firmly at the feet of Lord Robens. Who had a great deal to answer for, but he won't have done it all by himself. The whole professional class in south Wales at that time had a dreadful attitude to the plebs in the valleys. Professor Kenneth Rawnsley, a Top Doctor in what became Cardiff University, conducted research into psychosomatic health problems which concluded that conditions affecting people in the mining communities which are now understood to be industrial diseases or a result of poverty, were products of the peculiar hypochondria of people living in those communities (see post 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…'). Rawnsley spent his whole career protecting Dafydd and the paedophiles of north Wales, as well as others including George Thomas.
Lord Edmund-Davies and Desmond Ackner were leading figures in a corrupt legal establishment which had been shafting Wales for years and continued to do so. Most people would have been unaware that lawyers throw cases, whilst giving every appearance of doing their best for their clients or are so shallow that acquiring a gong really means something to them so they do what they are told by people in senior roles even if they know that it is very wrong.
Ackner was perceived to have triumphed for the Aberfan families. Yet Edmund-Davies's Report was described as being deeply flawed. Let's look at some details regarding Aberfan.
Lord Robens caused outrage by not visiting the village on the day of the disaster. He chose to go to the University of Surrey that evening instead, to attend the ceremony at which he was invested as Chancellor. It is alleged that the NCB covered Robens's arse and told Cledwyn Hughes, the Secretary of State for Wales, that Robens was directing relief work. Cledwyn Hughes – who was a mate of Glenys Kinnock's parents and was the man who introduced the Windbag to the big boys of Labour politics – spent his whole career colluding with Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'). Lord Cledwyn rang Harold Wilson and they agreed that Wilson should visit Aberfan. Wilson arrived late that evening, whilst rescue work was still going on. Cledwyn and Wilson agreed that a Public Inquiry was necessary. Wilson returned to London and at dawn the next day, Lord Snowdon turned up in Aberfan and Phil the Greek followed hot on his heels. I don't think that they joined in the grafting and shifted barrows of coal waste about, I think that they did the usual 'Have you come far?' and 'So what do you do?' Royal bit that is always required when they meet the public.
On the day of the disaster the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil launched a disaster fund. Donations came in at a pace and the eventual sum reached was £1.75 million.
Lord Robens did visit Aberfan after he'd done his bit at the University of Surrey. He made a press statement and said that the NCB would work with any public inquiry and that the NCB wouldn't wriggle out of responsibility using legal loopholes. Wilson then announced that Lord Edmund-Davies would Chair the Inquiry. Edmund Davies was born in and went to school at Mountain Ash, just down the road from Aberfan.
At the Inquiry, the Labour MP for Merthyr, S.O. Davies, stated that he had held concerns that the tip at Aberfan would slip and slip so much that it would fall onto buildings. Davies explained that he didn't tell anyone of his concerns lest the colliery was shut down. The Council for the NUM, Brian Gibbens QC, woke up immediately and challenged Davies, pointing out that if that was indeed the case, Davies bore personal responsibility for the disaster. To get Davies out of a very big hole, Gibbens requested that Davies's evidence be rejected. The Tribunal agreed, taking the view that poor old Davies didn't realise what he had said.
Initially the Tribunal decided not to call Robens to testify—they took his comment to the media about the existence of the spring in the tip being unknown as hearsay and thought that his evidence could not help. Ackner attacked Robens for making the statement about the spring, saying it was 'a public scandal'; he added that 'at no stage throughout this Inquiry has the National Coal Board taken the initiative to correct this sentence'. Ackner criticised Robens's absence from the Inquiry, saying that 'no explanation has been proffered by or on behalf of Lord Robens and his absence, therefore, and in this regard has been conspicuous.' The Tribunal members decided that Robens should be able to defend his position and he was invited to attend. Under cross-examination by Ackner, Robens gave evidence inconsistent with that provided by the NCB, particularly on the point of whether the disaster was foreseeable; Counsel for the NCB asked the Tribunal to ignore Robens's testimony.
Edmund-Davies's Report was published in Aug 1967 and placed all blame for the disaster on the NCB. Nine employees of the NCB were personally censured. No blame was attributed to Merthryr Tydfil County Borough Council or the NUM. As Inquiry Reports are required to do, recommendations were made. Not very exciting ones.
The NCB was not prosecuted. No member of NCB staff was demoted, sacked or prosecuted. In a Parliamentary debate on Aberfan, Thatch – who was at the time the Opposition Spokesman on Power – raised a point concerning a witness at the Inquiry who had been criticised but who, by the time that the Report was published, had been promoted to Board level at the NCB.
Lord Robens received a copy of the Report 10 days before its publication and immediately campaigned to defend his position. He toured the coalfields against spoke against nuclear power.
After the Report was published, Robens discussed his position with the Minister for Power, Richard Marsh and after he was assured that his role at the NCB was secure, Robens offered his resignation. In line with the agreement previously made between Marsh and Robens, his offer was refused.
Leo Abse – George Thomas's mate who not only spent years concealing Thomas's sex offending, but was also investigated for historical sex offences himself – was very rude about Robens and Marsh in Parliament, describing their conduct as a 'disgraceful spectacle'.
The NCB offered the bereaved families £50 compensation and then increased it to £500 for each family. The families had to show that they were worthy however – they had to demonstrate that they had been sufficiently close to their children to have felt a bit put-out when the kids were killed by a coal tip landing on top of them. Other families were refused compensation if their children had been physically uninjured but had only suffered psychologically. Some families tried their luck and petitioned the NCB for high compensation. The NCB insurers told Robens that it was 'only the hard core [of bereaved families] who are trying to capitalise'.
In the same way that the people who had been beaten and raped for years in the children's homes in north Wales were a bunch of lying addicts who wanted to get their paws on the filthy lucre.
In Oct 1967 it was agreed in a Parliamentary debate that the remaining tips at Aberfan were not safe. The residents of Aberfan subsequently petitioned the Welsh Office to have the tips removed – by that time the Secretary of State for Wales was George Thomas – he'd taken over from Lord Cledwyn in April 1968. At the time of the disaster, Thomas had been a Minister in the Welsh Office under Cledwyn.
Lord Robens told the Treasury that removing the tips would cost £3 million and that the NCB would not pay for this. The Chief Secretary of the Treasury – John 'Jack' Diamond – also refused to pay. So George Thomas took £150k from the Aberfan Disaster Fund to contribute to the cost of removing the tips. The NCB and Treasury chipped in the rest and the tips were removed. The total cost of the removal was £850k.
In May 1970, Barbara Castle, then Secretary of State for Employability and Productivity, appointed Robens to Chair a Committee on Health and Safety at Work. The result was the 1972 Robens Report, which gave rise to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Health and Safety Commission and the HSE.
Barbara Castle later became Secretary of State for the DHSS, 1974-76, in Harold Wilson's Gov't. In that capacity, along with her young adviser Jack Straw, she concealed the deaths of more than 30 disabled children in the care of Hackney Council. Castle and Straw also concealed the crimes of George Thomas and Dafydd and the paedophiles of north Wales.
After Gov't papers relating to Aberfan were made public under the 30 year rule, two academics – Iain McLean and Martin Johnes – undertook a considerable amount of work on Aberfan and concluded that the NCB had spin-doctored its way out of trouble from the moment that the tip fell onto the village to the time of the removal of the last tip, controlling the public agenda throughout. Furthermore it is highly likely that Edmund-Davies and Ackner knew that was the overall plan and were quite happy to play the roles needed.
Edmund-Davies died with his towering reputation intact. Desmond Ackner – one of the most highly paid barristers in the UK at the time – was then called upon to play the hero with regard to the thalidomide victims who were yet another group of people whom it is now admitted were seriously shafted with regard to their settlements. After helping the oppressed re thalidomide and Aberfan, Acken got his teeth into something really important – ensuring that the Church of Scientology's allegations that psychiatry was colluding with child abuse were blown out of the water and that the Scientologists were made to look particularly mad, so much so that more than 40 years later, no-one accepts that their allegations with regard to psychiatry were indeed true.
George Thomas ensured that the Aberfan Disaster Fund was plundered to pay for the removal of the rest of the coal tips – the Charity Commission prevented the Disaster Fund from making payments directly to the families of the injured children or the bereaved – and Thomas's offences against children remained unknown to the general public for decades. George Thomas's offending was concealed by Prof Kenneth Rawnsley – the leading psychiatrist at Cardiff – as well as by Gwynne the lobotomist, Dafydd, Tony Francis (Dr X), Rawnsley's wife who was the psychiatrist Dr Elinor Kapp and many more…
In 1965, two years before Aberfan made Ackner a People's Champ, Ackner acted for the BMA when they negotiated the Top Docs salaries with the Gov't. The Health Minister was that favourite Health Minister of all time of the BMA – Kenneth Robinson. No wonder Ackner was Kenneth Robinson's first port of call when Robinson wanted to sue the Scientologists.
Look at it this way. Dafydd and the paedophiles had begun to cause a great deal of grief in the 1960s. In particular George Thomas. Ackner did the BMA proud in 1965 and as a result Kenneth Robinson was the only Health Minister who didn't get grief from the BMA. That allowed Harold Wilson and the subsequent Labour Gov'ts to be seen as Friends Of The NHS Which Helps The Poor. The NHS was systematically abusing vulnerable people, particularly in Wales, Labour's stronghold. If somebody wanted to blow a potential scandal involving high profile politicians and large scale paedophilia facilitated by the psychiatric establishment out of the water before it ever got anywhere, who better than a People's Champ and Friend of Wales to do it? Ackner, Friend of the BMA, was transformed into the People's Champ by Aberfan, in which people were killed and then fleeced on the watch of a Labour Gov't who backed the NCB which caused the problem; then Ackner built upon his reputation as a Champion of the Disabled by negotiating them a really crap deal with Distillers. The time was then right for Kenneth Robinson to sue the Scientologists, now that Ackner was a High Court judge.
In 1997, Blair's incoming Secretary of State for Wales Ron Davies repaid the £150k that George Thomas swiped from the Aberfan Disaster Fund. Except that Ron didn't pay interest or take into account inflation. If he had have done this, he would have been obliged to stump up £1.5 million. Fortunately Ron subsequently came a cropper just before Blair installed him as First Secretary of the newly-created National Assembly for Wales when Ron resigned after his moment of madness on Clapham Common with Boogie. It was alleged at the time by some that 'everyone had known' about Ron for years, but it was covered up (see post 'Cottaging At Castle Gate'). By whom I wonder?
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|Ackner also acted as Counsel in libel actions brought by John Bloom, the famously dodgy 1960s businessman – who hung out with celebs including David Bowie and Shirley Bassey – Svetlana Alliluyeva (Joseph Stalin's daughter) and Lee Kuan Yew (PM of Singapore), who sent a lot of work the way of Sir Ronnie Waterhouse.
Ackner was elected to the Bar Council in 1957, was Treasurer in 1964, Vice-Chairman in 1966, Chairman in 1968 and Chairman of the Bar Council's Law Advisory Committee, 1981-90. He was appointed Recorder of Swindon in 1962 and became an Appellate Judge of Jersey and Guernsey in 1967, serving in both offices until he was appointed a High Court judge in 1971. He was promoted to become a Lord Justice of Appeal. In Jan 1986 Ackner was appointed a Law Lord. Just when Alison Taylor and I started bellyaching and after Mary Wynch had gained leave from the Master of the Rolls to sue Dafydd, Clwyd Health Authority and Risley Remand Centre. Ackner retired as a Law Lord in 1992, but continued with his legal career.
Ackner joined in the majority in the Lords in 1987 in the 3:2 judgement imposing an injunction to prevent 'The Guardian', 'The Observer' and 'The Sunday Times' from publishing extracts from former MI5 officer Peter Wright's book 'Spycatcher', saying that failing to impose an injunction would be a 'charter for traitors'. It might be remembered that after that judgement Ackner and his fellow Law Lords looked just a little bit foolish after people in the UK simply purchased 'Spycatcher' from overseas. I spotted a copy of 'Spycatcher' at the height of the hype, when I was in Leicester. I saw a young man on a bike pedal past me and he was clutching a copy. I should have stopped him and asked for his assistance in my battles with Dafydd et al – what with me being the sort of traitor that the young man with the copy of 'Spycatcher' was.
Ackner also joined in decisions banning broadcasts by the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein. Whilst Thatcher's Gov't held secret talks with them (see post 'Is The Party Over Yet?').
One of the more florid highlights of Ackner The Heart's career occurred whilst he was a High Court judge. The Torygraph's obit of Ackner tells us that Ackner presided over 'the trial of a schoolmaster accused of assault for breaking a pupil's jaw. The schoolboy had started the day with half a tablet of LSD and spent the morning break screaming obscenities at the teacher before kicking him in the stomach. "Have we really reached the stage in this country," Ackner asked the jury in his summing up, "when an insolent and bolshie pupil has to be treated with all the courtesies of visiting royalty?" The teacher was acquitted.
Not only does LSD not cause people to scream obscenities at and violently assault others, but I have never considered it to be 'treated like Royalty' to not have one's jaw broken by a school teacher. I suspect that there was a great deal of fantasy involved with regard to the events which led to this trial, because somehow it had to be explained how a teacher broke the jaw of a pupil. Even when corporal punishment was legally permitted, it was canes across hands or buttocks, not a smack in the mouth hard enough to break someone's jaw.
In 1976, Ackner jailed two IRA men for 20 years for plotting to blow up the QE2. He was sceptical about calls for shorter prison sentences, saying that judges had a duty to protect the public: 'I belong to the school,' he said, 'who think that courts should have particular regard to the effect on victims'.
Well what kept old Ackner so quiet about Dafydd and the paedophiles then?
Ackner practised on the Western Circuit from chambers in London and was Presiding Judge on the Western Circuit, 1976-79. So Ackner was around and in a position of influence in the west country when the farce that was the prosecution and trial of Jeremy Thorpe took place (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed') and the equally farcical trial with resulted from Operation Julie (see post 'The Planned To Put Acid In All The Reservoirs…').
Ackner's finest hour probably occurred soon after his promotion to the Court of Appeal in 1980. Ackner had to decide whether Lindi St Clair, a call girl and a payer of income tax, was entitled to become a limited company. The Registrar of Companies had allowed Miss St Clair to register under the name Lindi St Clair (Personal Services) Ltd – having rejected the title Lindi St Clair (French Lessons) Ltd. But Ackner upheld an appeal by the Attorney-General, paedophiles' friend Michael Havers, that the registration went against public policy.
Lindi St Clair- aka Miss Whiplash – experienced much media coverage in 1991 when it was revealed that she was running her business from a flat which she was renting from Norman Lamont, who was at the time the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In 1981 Ackner dabbled in the world of pop. In an emergency sitting, Ackner freed Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees from a 14-day jail term, accepting that Gibb had been 'needled' by the 'Daily Express' into divulging details about his marriage breakdown against his court undertaking. I can't help but think that if I had been up in front of Ackner for breaching a court undertaking in relation to say, Dafydd and the paedophiles, that any excuses from me regarding being needled by the publishers of Rupert the Bear would fall on stony ground.
'The Guardian' obituary for Ackner stressed that after Ackner's decision in the 'Spycatcher' trial, Peter Preston, then the Editor of 'The Guardian', denounced the decision as giving the Gov't 'a new and sinister weapon'. That would be the Peter Preston who did not publish a word about Dafydd and the paedophiles, who never mentioned the huge problem that there was with the infiltration of the UK's social services depts by paedophiles and who accepted advertising revenue from many of those very same social services depts.
I mentioned that after retiring as a Law Lord in 1992, Ackner remained busy. 'The Guardian' provided details. In retirement, Ackner the People's Friend undertook arbitration work for the Lloyd's insurance market, in City disputes and for the Personal Investment and Securities and Futures authorities.
'The Guardian' stressed that one of Ackner's concerns was 'the family and morality'. Dafydd's often been very worried about that, he recommends learning Bible verses in Welsh when one is a child (see post 'A Serious Moral Collapse?'). In 'The Daily Telegraph' in 1993, Ackner was quoted as faulting the media for rising crime, suggesting they had 'unsettled society' by 'giving images of violence and promiscuity to the public'.
All you can do is sit back and laugh really.
In 1996, the plans by Tory Home Secretary Michael Howard for minimum sentences and mandatory life sentences caused Ackner to make a comparison with the Soviet Union, where 'telephone judges' were rung up by prosecution authorities and told what their decisions would be. Thank God that could never happen in this country. At the same time the Royal College of Psychiatrists launched attacks on Soviet Psychiatry for incarcerating dissidents and diagnosing them with non-existent mental illnesses. Over to you Dafydd.
Ackner had a house near Chichester in Sussex . John Allen trafficked the kids from north Wales to brothels in Brighton and five witnesses to the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal were killed by a firebomb in Sussex in 1992 (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs'). From 1993-96, Ackner was President of the Society of Sussex Downsmen. Ackner's wife was Joan Evans. Their daughter is called Moelwyn, which suggests that Ackner's wife was Welsh. All that I have found about Joan Ackner was that her father was John Evans, a JP. Welsh with family members who were magistrates – it sounds like part of the profile of so many of Dafydd's pals.
Ackner's memorial service was held in Temple Church. There were a great many guests and I have not had time to research them, but a few names jumped out at me who have featured on this blog in their roles as paedophiles' friends of the highest order:
Charlie Falconer; Helene Hayman; Earl Ferrers; Viscount Tenby; Lord Thomas Bingham; Lord Grabiner, Geoffrey and Elspeth Howe; Derry Irvine; Lord Mackay of Clashfern; Patrick Mayhew; Lord John Morris; Baroness Patricia Scotland; Ronnie Waterhouse; Alan King-Hamilton; Dominic Grieve.
Ackner's son, the Hon Martin Ackner, was killed in car crash in Oct 2011. There was a bit of a cull at that time – just as it was clear that the police would be re-opening the investigation into the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal.
The 1989 riot at Risley happened when Douglas Hurd was Home Secretary. Hansard, 4 May 1989, records that Hurd made a statement to the House regarding the riot, which began on 30 April 1989. Hurd stated that he had set up an urgent inquiry into the riot to be conducted by Ian Dunbar, the Regional Director of the Prison Service for the south west.
Dunbar's obituary tells us that he 'blended an unwavering humane respect' for prisoners with 'organisational realism and managerial flair'. It states that 'for a substantial portion of Dunbar's career' working in the Prison Service 'was made even more dismal by the keenness of political parties to use crime and punishment for electoral advantage – and in consequence to embrace ill-considered and short-term policies…Dunbar was one of a group of senior prison figures who preserved and propagated civilised values in the face of great difficulties…He would undoubtedly have taken a deal of comfort and satisfaction from the recent speech by Kenneth Clarke, the Lord Chancellor and Minister of Justice, momentously announcing his Government's intention to detach itself from the futile rhetoric that has led penal policy for much of the past three decades.'
Ken Clarke did indeed do that, but Ken Clarke knew that for many years – including when he was a Minister in the DoH and then Health Secretary – numerous innocent people had been banged up in prison or secure hospitals for no other reason than that they were witnesses to the activities of Dafydd and the paedophile gang in north Wales. Ken Clarke also knew that a property in Knightsbridge worth a bomb had been flogged to the Duke of Westminster for £6k as a result of some sort of deal between the Duke and the Gov't in order to conceal the activities of Dafydd and the paedophile gang (see post 'The White Heat Of This Revolution').
Born in Hackney – where all those kids with cerebral palsy who died which was then concealed for decades – Ian Dunbar's career in the Prison Service began in 1959, as an assistant governor. This followed a degree at Keele University and a period at Reed College, Oregon.
There was a problem at Keele with paedophiles who had found a base there. Peter Righton, the social worker who was a paedophile and who used his academic work to justify paedophilia, worked at Keele. Students who passed through Keele at about that time included Michael Mansfield and Wales's former First Secretary paedophiles' friend Alun Michael.
Dunbar later received a Diploma in Applied Social Studies from the LSE. An institution through which many paedophiles' friends of north Wales travelled.
While in the US, Dunbar had contacts with the Civil Rights Movement and meetings with Martin Luther King and Paul Robeson. In later years a he developed a friendship with Norval Morris.
Dunbar's postings included Leyhill, Usk, Long Lartin, Wakefield and Wormwood Scrubs. His 'success in the direct management of prisons' carried him to more senior appointments. He became Regional Manager for the South West and then, from 1990 until retirement in 1994, Director of Inmate Administration at Prison Service HQ, responsible for safeguarding and upholding prisoners' rights.
Dunbar 'was always completely attentive to the individuals with whom he was engaged: it would be utterly impossible to imagine him being disrespectful or dismissive to a prisoner or a colleague'. His career attested, nevertheless, that 'this was a man who made shrewd judgements and could say no in all the necessary ways'.
Dunbar acquired a family base to which he returned at weekends and while on leave. This was in the Somerset Levels and he and his wife participated in community affairs there. Dunbar was a 'valued member of the Levels' community'. He retained a keen and current interest in penal affairs (and public matters generally).
Gary Glitter lived in Somerset for years until he ended up in prison in Bristol for child porn offences.
Dunbar was appointed as a Sentence Review Commissioner in Northern Ireland, dealing with releases under the Good Friday Agreement.
Conditions at Wormwood Scrubs were so bad that prisoners staged a riot in 1979; after the previous governor departed, Ian was put in charge. He 'immediately instituted a series of reforms' which he described in a subsequent book, A Sense of Direction (1985), which he wrote following visits to penal systems in Canada, Sweden and the US. I
In retirement, he and Sally, his wife of 44 years, enjoyed travelling and charity work.
In an oral history interview with a former colleague, Dunbar stated: 'the important thing is, in terms of any difficult situation is to get as near to uncovering and unravelling the facts as possible. And to treat people with a degree of fairness and humanity'.
That was not happening in the Prison Service.
Ian Dunbar's old school, Burckhurst County High School, on it's old pupils' website, states that Dunbar 'had a successful career in the prison service, joining in 1959 and rising to become a regional director of 25 penal establishments by the mid-1980s. He played a key role in the investigation of prison unrest in the early 1990s and was responsible for many initiatives to improve methods in prison management.'
Prisons are still unsafe, woefully inadequate and full of people who should not be there.
I lived in Somerset until 1981, when I left to go to UCNW. All was not well in the criminal justice system in Somerset. The drug squad were notoriously corrupt and as in north Wales, people were fitted up by them regularly. The Avon and Somerset Police pursued small time hippies and even school kids whilst serious drug barons went unchallenged. I knew of a boy from my school who was framed for indecent assault on a younger boy by the police in Bridgwater and his brother was then fitted up for drugs offences. There was a teacher at my school who was undoubtedly abusing the younger boys, whilst every member of staff did all that they could to not notice the obvious. It wasn't anything like what was happening in north Wales, but the signs were there. There was one teacher at my school who presented himself as a true friend to the kids with difficulties, who cultivated my company and encouraged me to keep in touch with him after I went to university. It transpired that he was a very predatory man and I had a seriously bad experience with him in 1987 when I went to visit him, just at the time that Dafydd and the paedophiles' launched their attack on me. He lived on the Somerset Levels, not a million miles away from Ian Dunbar. Dafydd's umbrella and partner in crime Prof Robert Owen had a daughter who lived just down the road from this teacher, at Shapwick.
I have been told recently that this teacher was in contact with Dafydd and the paedophiles and that they were all busy trying to work out what to do when I blew the whistle on the whole lot of them. The teacher concerned died a few years ago, but other people will have known what he was doing. So, anyone want to come forward with info about Ray Stanlake, a leading light in agricultural life in Somerset, who taught for many years at Chilton Trinity School and who was most definitely a very nasty wolf in sheep's clothing? I have been told that another twat of the highest order who taught at Chilton was involved as well, the former Deputy Head, Mike V. Davies. Known to the kids as 'Fiddler'. Which speaks volumes.
The MP for Bridgwater for many years was Tom King, who was N Ireland Secretary, 1985-89. Who concealed what happened at Kincora Boys' Home. Before that, King was Secretary of State for Employment, 1983-85. One of King's Ministers was Sir Peter Morrison…
Another member of Thatcher's Cabinet came from near Bridgwater – John Biffen, who grew up on a farm about three miles away from where I lived. John Biffen's parents continued to live on the farm whilst Biffen made it big in politics, after becoming the MP for Oswestry and then North Shropshire – right on the territory of a paedophile gang directly connected to Dafydd. Biffen fell out with Thatcher in the end, but he'll have known about Morrison, about Kincora and everything else.
Problems in Britain's prisons are long-standing and what is noticeable about matters concerning Britain's prisons is that some very odd choices have been made regarding those from whom to seek advice or involve in prison work. In the mid-1960s the Home Office established a Committee to investigate prison security which was Chaired by Lord Mountbatten of all people, a man who has been named regarding the allegations of abuse at Kincora Boys' Home (see post 'The Defence Of The Realm'). The subsequent Mountbatten Report (Home Office 1969) was opposed by the Advisory Council on the Penal System, a sub-committee Chaired by the Cambridge Professor Leon Radzinowicz, which led to the 1968 Radzinowicz Report.
Someone who will have known what was going on was Lord K.O. Morgan's late wife Jane Morgan, a criminologist with academic interests in children's offending. Jane came from Wrexham and was a magistrate. She worked at Oxford and was a mate of Dick Hobbs, who is a good pal of Laurie Taylor. Laurie's son is Matthew Taylor, Blair's former policy adviser at No 10. Lord Ken was VC of Aberystwyth University – the Aber which churned out crooked lawyers who protected Dafydd et al…See post 'A Bit More Paleontology' for more details on Lord Ken and Jane.
In the Commons in May 1989 Douglas Hurd admitted that in Risley there was overcrowding, poor conditions and that prisoners spent a long time on remand. Hurd had known about this in the summer of 1987, in his role as Home Secretary. In my post 'Additional Security Measures' I describe how Dafydd and Tony Francis tried to frame me for 'attempting to stab a doctor' and have me imprisoned in Risley in the late summer of 1987. A truthful statement by nursing manager Jeff Crowther and then Sgt Morgan at Bangor Police Station refusing to take a fabricated allegation from Janice Davies – the Nurse Ratched who was manager of Bryn Golau Ward at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh – or to allow Dr D.G.E. Wood into the cells to see me, were the only things that stopped me being fitted up and sent to Risley. Jones didn't realise that his plan had fallen apart and I have in my possession documents written by Gwynedd Health Authority staff stating that I was now in Risley after attacking someone with a knife, as well as letters between David Ewart of the Mental Health Act Commission and the North Wales Hospital discussing my incarceration in Risley Remand Centre.
I may have escaped Risley Remand Centre but I knew a few other victims of Dafydd's who didn't. They were all mental health patients who had been framed and were detained on the medical wing of Risley. The medical wing where they were beaten up by the screws and received no medical care – but were simply transferred back to Denbigh again, on sections of the Mental Health Act for one year. At one point Dafydd had more patients on one-year sections than nearly any other psychiatrist in the UK. That would be the year of their lives when the health and credibility of the complaining sex abuse victim would be completely destroyed with massive doses of anti-psychotics before they re-appeared in the outside world or died.
Dafydd's sectioning habits and the suicide rate in north Wales showed up as statistical outliers. No-one asked any questions.
It was the work of a sex trafficking ring Hurd and you knew about it.
The Home Office under Douglas Hurd were also forging documents (see post 'Additional Security Measures').
Hurd told the House in 1989 that he accepted the recent criticisms from HM Inspector of Prisons Stephen Tumim.
Roy Hattersley made a reference to Stephen Tumim's comment that Risley was 'barbarous and squalid' and Fattersley also talked about the growing number of remand prisoners. Fattersley was a Birmingham MP who knew about the crimes of Dafydd et al but kept quiet – as did Stephen Tumim.
John Wheeler praised the staff at Risley and reminded the House that the staff: prisoner ratio at Risley was the highest that it had been in years. So why didn't anyone ask why those staff were unable to keep prisoners alive?
Sir John Wheeler was the Tory MP for Paddington, which evolved into Westminster North. His constituency included the Harley Street area. More recently Wheeler has been Chairman and non-executive Director of a number of companies with interests in private prisons and security equipment. He is or was a non-executive Director of Merchant International Group, an organisation concerned with 'corporate intelligence'. Wheeler is also Patron of Prisoners Abroad.
Douglas Hoyle joined in the tributes to a bunch of thugs who were notorious for beating the living daylights out of young people who had complained about a paedophile gang: 'I want to join in the tributes to the prison officers who showed bravery in difficult circumstances'.
Hoyle was the Labour MP for Nelson and Colne and Warrington North – Risley is located in Warrington. So Hoyle was supporting his POA constituents – the victims of Dafydd didn't have votes. Supporting sex traffickers didn't do Hoyle any harm – he was Chair of the PLP and received a peerage in 1997.
Nicholas Budgeon demanded that the right of folk who are refused bail to appeal to a judge in Crown Court should be withdrawn. In one case in which Tony and Sadie Francis had perjured themselves in an attempt to have me imprisoned, my solicitor's biggest worry was that the police had opposed bail. He told me that there was no way that he wanted me in Risley Remand Centre 'because they're all dying out there'. This would have been at the very end of 1990. I asked Alwyn what he was going to do if the magistrates refused bail and he said that he would appeal immediately to a judge in Crown Court. I wondered why the police had refused bail – because they knew that despite the constant florid rhetoric of the Francis's et al, there was no evidence that I had ever harmed or threatened to harm anyone. Every accusation that I had done so was demonstrated to have been fictitious.
The victims of the paedophile gang were being murdered. In Risley. Furthermore Nick Budgeon might even have known that.
Budgeon was the right wing Tory MP for Wolverhampton South West, 1974-97, who succeeded Enoch Powell. Like Powell – Powell supported Budgeon to succeed his seat – Budgeon was anti-immigration and made public statements and wrote material which even by the standards of the day, were perceived to be racist. Budgeon was born in Shropshire but brought up in Lichfield, Staffordshire, by his grandfather, who was Canon of Lichfield Cathedral. Budgeon retained lifelong links to the C of E.
Budgeon was a keen huntsman, was involved in race horses, robustly defended gun ownership after the Dunblane Massacre, loathed Ted Heath and was contemptuous of John Major. Budgeon described Major's Gov't as being one that you could 'push', on account of its small majority. Budgeon was one of the Maastricht rebels in the 1990s.
In 1985 Budgeon made a series of speeches against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which it is thought encouraged his cousin Ian Gow to resign from Thatcher's Gov't. Ian Gow was murdered in 1990. The murder was attributed to the IRA, but there are allegations that rogue members of the security services were involved and that the IRA might not have been responsible. Gow was blown up in his car at his home in East Sussex.
Charles Moore maintained that Budgeon wasn't a racist bastard who foamed at the mouth at all, he was a little pink pussycat. Budgeon died of liver cancer shortly after he lost his seat and Charles maintained that it was the shock of being defeated that brought the liver cancer on. Liver cancer doesn't work like that Charles – it is however associated with alcoholism, hepatitis B and C. It can also result from liver fluke – Budgeon was a farmer, so I expect that he caught it from his sheep Charles. Not as a result of liver damage from getting pissed in Commons bars and definitely not by having sex with an infected partner.
'Mr Charles Moore/was only twenty four…' as the 'Private Eye' clerihew of many years ago began, which went on to take the piss out of the then young fogey Charles Moore. Charles Moore is now an older fogey who might have edited 'The Spectator' and 'The Daily Telegraph' as well as 'The Sunday Telegraph' – between 1992-95, when Sir Peter Morrison's mates were trying to kill me – but he certainly doesn't know anything about cancer. Get your crystals out Charles, they'll align your chakras and sort out your yin and your yang. Then you'll be able to write another hagiography of Thatcher and fail to mention that one of her friends and Ministers was a member of a vicious murdering paedophile gang and that she knew about this.
|Lord Snooty
Charles Moore used to visit the Quantocks in Somerset. One of his mates lived down there and Charles entertained the listeners of Radio 4's 'Any Questions' on one occasion with his impersonation of a Somerset bumpkin with that quaint accent from down those parts. Where I come from Charles. I think that the friend whom Charles used to stay with will have been Paul Johnson, another mad right-wing journalist, who purchased an estate near Over Stowey and then moved all of his mates in. Johnson began his adult life as a leftie – Lord Snooty was a Liberal when he was a young man – and used to knock about with Ronnie Waterhouse.
Paul Johnson had a rather unsavoury son, Cosmo, who had a relationship with a local mother of young children and they lived near Over Stowey. Cosmo ended up holding them all hostage at gun-point whilst drugged to the eye-balls. Did Cosmo go to prison? Er, no. Not very much at all happened to Cosmo, although he was known to be weird and worrying by many in Somerset by then. From what I remember, Cosmo pleaded drug problems and the craven magistrates of Somerset proved to be most understanding and Cosmo was turned loose once more.
I was told the other day that Cosmo is now a Tory Councillor in Watchet.
So Cosmo didn't end up in Risley or Pucklechurch then…
Do you know why that might have been Lord Snooty?
Charles's tender-hearted mate who developed liver cancer when the cruel gits of Wolverhampton South West rejected him at the polls was a barrister on the Midlands Circuit. So Budgeon knew about the Freemason-heavy horrifically corrupt West Midlands Serious Crime Squad and all the people whom they framed – including Ali Khan from Caernarfon. Budgeon will have known about the kids from the West Midlands being sent to Dafydd and the paedophiles in north Wales and Budgeon will have known Dafydd's protectors like Robert Bluglass, Adrianne Jones and Sir Ron Hadfield.
Budgeon was a member of Gray's Inn and knew that other leading light in Gray's Inn who was so helpful to Dafydd, Sir William Mars-Jones…
Budgeon will have known about the abuse of vulnerable people in Staffordshire as well. He'll have known fellow MP and barrister Greville Janner, who was a member of Middle Temple – as was Ronnie Waterhouse.
One feature of Budgeon that was constantly remarked upon even by those who hated him was that he was very, very bright. He won't have missed what was happening in the criminal justice system and at Risley Remand Centre in particular.
Budgeon hated Ken Clarke because of Clarke's stance on Europe. Not because Ken Clarke was another barrister on the Midlands Circuit who knew about the serious criminality of Dafydd and the paedophiles, as well as the dirty deal that was done between the Duke of Westminster and the DoH regarding the St George's Hyde Park Corner site because of the need to keep the cover on the slurry pit (see post 'The White Heat Of This Revolution').
Fancy a stay in the Lanesborough Hotel Professor Bluglass?
Bottoms Up!
I note that Budgeon defended the right of people to bear arms. Presumably as ever old Budgeon was fighting for the rights of Dafydd and co. A boy at Bryn Alyn alleged that he was sexually assaulted at gunpoint and I and someone who made a witness statement regarding his knowledge of the attempt by Martin Jones and Elfed Roberts – the CEO and Chairman of the NW Wales NHS Trust – to frame and arrest me were threatened by police officers in possession of firearms which they were not authorised to have. Elfed Roberts was a former senior officer in the North Wales Police who left the force amidst allegations of corruption.
I know somebody else who will have had a gun as well. Dafydd. At his house at Talwrn. Dafydd lived in an isolated house on the outskirts of the village. He had a doberman – a drug dealer's dog – which he used to set on people. I witnessed two police officers from Llangefni trapped in their car refusing to get out because Dafydd's doberman had them at bay. When I challenged Dafydd about that dog he waxed lyrical about his 'puppy'. At the time there was constant fuss in the media about dangerous dogs. Crispin Masterman, a barrister on the Chester and Wales Circuit who later became a judge, acted for Gwynedd Health Authority when they sought a High Court injunction against me before Sir Malcolm Pill in Cardiff in 1989 (see post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena'). Masterman and Pill had a written account from me regarding Dafydd using that dog to intimidate people – Masterman referred to it in Court. But then Crispin and Malcolm Pill ignored much more incriminating evidence as well.
Dafydd ran a paedophile ring which dealt in drugs and child porn. He will have had a gun in that house because of the risk of rivals coming after him. It will have been yet another Dafydd-related outrage that will have been known but ignored.
Oh but Dr Jones has a problem with foxes in his garden, they've been stealing his hens. But then Willie Whitelaw fired a load of lead shot into the buttocks of a beater on a grouse moor and Willie didn't end up in Risley. Willie was one of those who knew about Dafydd and the paedophiles and who protected them.
Another member who joined in the party that was the debate on the Risley riot was Robert Maclennan, who praised the prison officers and the police, but at least had the decency to mention all the suicides of remand prisoners. Maclennan's loyalties will have been severely divided – Maclennan's parents were both notable Top Doctors and he took over the leadership of the SDP from Dr Death. Being a bit liberal, he obviously had to mention the suicides, but his heart was with the Top Docs. Dr Death had personal connections to some of Dafydd's circle. Robert Maclennan was given a peerage in 2001. Once the Waterhouse Report was safely out of the way.
Kenneth Hind heaped yet more praise on the police and the prison authorities. Hind was the Tory MP for West Lancashire and was PPS to Peter Brooke when Brooke was N Ireland Secretary. Hind is a barrister who is a member of Gray's Inn. I get the picture. Hind is or was leader of Ribble Valley Borough Council. So he'll know about the activities of the pissed gay groper Nigel Evans.
Alfred Morris expressed concerns that Strangeways might go up next! Which of course it did, about a year later…
How did Alfred know that might happen, what with all the tributes to all the excellence in prisons???
Alf was the Labour MP for Manchester Wythenshawe – which was where Tony and Sadie Francis were before they joined Dafydd and the gang in north Wales. Alf was a Minister in the DHSS, 1974-79. Where he remained schtum about Dafydd and the paedophiles. What was Alf doing in the DHSS? He was Minister for the Disabled – the first such Minister in the world no less. Alf picked up his peerage in 1997, as the Waterhouse Inquiry got underway.
Douglas Hurd fessed up that there was overcrowding at Strangeways and Armley as well – but nonetheless, the Risley rioters were going to be transferred to those prisons.
Teddy Taylor was livid that 'The Sun' had published photos of the prisoners at Risley with their list of demands. Murdoch and Kelvin MacKenzie weren't known for their sympathy for people who had been shafted by polite society – but the Risley prisoners were of course represented by Michael Mansfield and his Radical Conscience. Mike did a damn good job for some of the rioters – including one who was a very serious criminal with a few murders under his belt. The victims of Dafydd who were in Risley were terrified of the sort of clients that Mansfield represented in the riots. Three patients told me 'God, there were murderers in there'.
Dafydd's patients used to be housed with the murderers. Dafydd's patients were regularly found dead in Risley Remand Centre. Mike Mansfield's clients were not.
'I've just killed me pad mate. Get me Mr Mansfield on speed dial will you.'
When I wrote to Mike in 1993 about what was happening to me at the hands of the paedophile gang in north Wales, Mike wrote me a one line reply thanking me for my letter. I wasn't featured in 'The Sun' either.
Eric Heffer pitched into the debate with his fears for Walton Prison. Walton was another receptacle for the victims of Dafydd and the gang. Eric Heffer and his dear old wife Doris covered it all up. They were mates with the Top Doctors and Thatcher as well, but Eric and Doris didn't advertise that (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well').
One of my friends ended up in Walton Prison, after he rang an Angel at the Hergest Unit and told her that he was so suicidal that he felt like chopping a gas pipe. Tony Francis ordered the Angel to phone the police and have him arrested. Which she did. How did my mate get out of Walton Prison? His wife was told that a man called Dr Dafydd Alun Jones could help. Dafydd turned up at Walton and told my friend that he had PTSD. My friend said that he did not think that was true and the day before the prison Top Doc had diagnosed him with bipolar disorder. Dafydd reassured him that he had PTSD and offered him a bed in his 'nursing home' Ty Gwyn, at a cost of several thousand a week. My mate went to Ty Gwyn on bail, yet all charges against him disappeared when he walked out of Ty Gwyn against Dafydd's wishes after he told Dafydd that this was no nursing home, it was a mediocre boarding house that was one big scam. My friend tried to obtain all the documentation relating to his case but Walton refused to hand it over. My friend had the Hergest-Walton-Dafydd experience in about 1993-94.
So Eric and Doris still hadn't sorted out the prison that Eric was so concerned about in 1989 then.
It was common knowledge in north Wales that Dafydd was the best for getting people out of prison. I knew people who had been told this by solicitors in Bangor, by screws at Risley and Walton and by Angels and social workers.
It was Sister Ella Fisk of the Hergest Unit who followed Tony Francis's orders to have my friend who ended up in Walton arrested. Ella knew that I was being fitted up as well, she knew the circumstances of at least two arrests of me and tried to tell me that there had been a misunderstanding. No there hadn't Ella, they knowingly lied and you knew that they lied. Ella also knew about Prestwood People Trafficking Ltd (see post 'A Convenient Arrangement With The Private Sector') – I told her that I had witnessed abuse of patients when I worked there. She advised me to leave the job. Alun Davies knew about Prestwood People Trafficking Ltd – I told him. Rosie Waite, at that time a social worker employed by Conwy County Council, who later became a social work trainer – and for some reason is now a humanist funeral celebrant – knew about Prestwood People Trafficking, because I told her. MIND in Holyhead were told by a client of Prestwood that she was being abused. They told Robin Holden who was at the time a Hergest Unit manager – who told them that he knew 'all about Prestwood'. Robin Holden is a former Denbigh nurse. Who is now a 'MIND executive'.
The client who told MIND that she was being abused never returned to MIND and later disappeared from Prestwood People Trafficking Ltd. Prestwood could not explain where she had gone. When I worked at Prestwood, I witnessed Suzanne Hamlet, one of the managers, tell the support workers that there was an arrangement with Liverpool Social Services – who had sent the young woman to Prestwood – that if this resident didn't 'co-operate with therapy', she would be denied all further care and 'returned to Liverpool, dumped on the pavement and left to die on an embankment'. This was a girl who had been sexually assaulted at the age of 12 and her 'therapy' was to watch porn movies whilst Hamlet, a lesbian who was in her mid-50s, cuddled her.
WHERE IS SHE DAFYDD? Susan Colligan. WHERE IS SHE? And why was I threatened by Conwy Social Services and asked where I was now working when I reported the abuse at Prestwood to two of their inspectors?
Ella must have known that Tony Francis was completely nuts, she would have seen the documents that he wrote about me that came as a complete surprise when my lawyers accessed them years later. Ella was frightened of gangsters that she worked with I know that, but people were being framed and killed.
Ella – give evidence, people were being found dead. Francis was barking mad and you told us repeatedly that he was doing his best for us. Furthermore Sadie Francis was an accessory. It won't have been a barrel of laughs being married to a man who was obviously quite dangerous, but that didn't mean that we had to go to prison or be found dead.
Tony Favell contributed to the Commons debate on Risley. Favell had the answer, he told everyone to hurry up and introduce private sector involvement in the Prison Service. That's worked well hasn't it…
Tony Worthington told the House that 40% of remand prisoners are found not guilty or receive non-custodial sentences. I'm glad that someone mentioned that – Dafydd's patients were frequently found not guilty of the ridiculous offences with which they were charged.
Worthington was a Labour MP who knew what he had to say. He was a graduate of the LSE, Glasgow University, York University and Durham University. He worked as a lecturer in HMP Borstal, Dover and later as a lecturer at the City of Sunderland College. He was a Councillor on Strathclyde Council. Everywhere that Worthington went, there was organised abuse of vulnerable people. He probably thought that it was normal.
Worthington mention in the debate that Hurd was about to address the Centre for Policy Studies.
John Greenway heaped more praise upon the heads of the screws in Risley. Greenway was brought up in Cheshire and was the Tory MP for Ryedale in Yorkshire. So he was in proximity to nearly as many abusers as Tony Worthington. Greenway's talents were noticed by William Hague in 1997, when Hague promoted him to the position of Home Affairs Spokesman.
Alice Mahon, the Labour MP for Halifax, was good enough to express concern re the suicides in HMP Armley and made the poignant observation that in the case of remand prisoners, no-one ever will know whether they were guilty or not because they're dead. That was the plan Alice. You set a bunch of gangsters loose on vulnerable people who were sent into the 'care' of the gangsters in the first place because they were fragile and you then try and coerce the 'psychiatric patients' or 'troubled children' into sex work. If they refuse or complain, you wreck their lives, ensure that they can't get employment, can't find anywhere to live and tell the neighbours that they're dangerous and then you fit them up for a serious crime, after ordering Angels to lie on oath. It doesn't matter that there is zilch evidence, you just keep adjourning their case whilst they are beaten to buggery by the screws on remand, or if they are on bail, you relentlessly hound them in 'the community'. They will soon be found dead. When that happens, people will be reminded of how hard everyone tried to help them, but there was just no pleasing them.
Does this sound familiar, everyone who knew that this was happening to me? Everyone who sat in the corner wetting themselves with terror as they remained silent? Or how about those of you who screamed abuse at me in the street, telling me that 'you knew all about me'? Well I knew all about you, but I'm not a member of a paedophile gang so I didn't conduct myself in the way that you did.
Step forward Aled Griffiths aka The Buffet Slayer, 'senior lecturer in social policy and law' at Bangor University, who – along with his sister and brother – were in the centre of this cesspool. The Aled who just before I left Bangor waylaid me in College Road and bellowed that he 'wanted a word' with me. I think it must have been me publishing about abuses in the mental health system that upset The Bol. He and most members of his family were, or had been, employed at the most senior levels in it.
Alice Mahon has a track record of speaking out on behalf of the vulnerable unless they have been abused by the health and welfare system. At which point she retreats very quickly. See post 'Security, Security'.
Geoffrey Dickens told the House that there were 'no votes in prisons'. There weren't any votes in defending the victims of celebrity paedophiles either, but Geoffrey Dickens was the one man who back in the 1980s stood up in public and stated that he had a list of politicians who had been involved in child abuse and that it was disgusting that they were being protected. Dickens explained clearly that there was a terrible situation which had evolved and the people supplying these children to the VIPs were involved in large scale drug dealing and child porn. Geoffrey Dickens was talking about Peter Morrison, George Thomas, Dafydd, John Allen and the rest of them. He was mocked and derided and every effort was made to silence him. He gave a file to Leon Brittan at the Home Office, which was subsequently 'lost'. Geoffrey Dickens told people that he had received death threats and that his name was on a hit list. He was a mad old bugger so no-one took any notice. Geoffrey Dickens was found dead, suddenly, at the age of 63, in 1995. As the demands for a public inquiry into the abuse of children in care in north Wales were so loud that it was becoming obvious that they could not be resisted.
Dickens and Hurd made references during the debate to Willie Whitelaw's prison building programme. Who was subsequently put in those prisons? Drug addicts, mental health patients and kids who had grown up in care of course.
Tom Cox raised concerns regarding unrest and overcrowding. Tom's a barrel of laughs – Tom is an alumnus of the LSE and was the Labour MP for Wandsworth Central. Bang on the patch of the paedophile gang which was based in Wandsworth/St George's Hospital. Before becoming an MP, Tom was a Councillor for Hammersmith and Fulham and a member of ILEA. Tom knew about the kids from inner London being sent to children's homes in north Wales.
Tony Lloyd spoke about the 'disgusting' conditions in Risley and reminded everyone that the POA were saying they they didn't have the resources/training to deal with mentally ill prisoners. Which they didn't, so they just beat them up instead. At no time did the POA grass up Dafydd, who was giving them all those allegedly mentally ill prisoners. They did deals with him instead. And turned a blind eye to Dafydd's victims when they were duffed up by the prisoners who were mates with Michael Mansfield. Sometimes the screws really pushed the boat out and told Mansfield's friends that the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles were nonces themselves, so everyone was after their blood then.
Tony Lloyd has featured on this blog previously. He has been the Labour MP for Manchester Central, Chair of the PLP and Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner. Before he was elected as an MP, Tony was a Trafford Borough Councillor. Tony knows about the police corruption in Manchester and he'll know about the nutters who have run the mental health services there for so long, who have links to Dafydd and the paedophiles.
I met a victim of Dafydd who had just been transferred from Risley to Denbigh when I was in Denbigh in 1986/87. He had been beaten up in Risley after the other prisoners were told that he was a nonce. So he was transferred to Denbigh for his own protection! He was due to appear in Bangor Magistrates Court on the same day as me on a theft charge. No-one collected him, they just took me over to Bangor, leaving Stanley Wyn cheerfully watching TV in Denbigh. When we got to Bangor, the police asked me where he was and I told them that no-one had collected him, he was still in Denbigh. The police all pissed themselves laughing and said that at least it wasn't Risley. Stanley Wyn had been remanded on bail in Risley to appear in Bangor Magistrates Court on the day that I appeared. So from that day onward, his detention in Denbigh was unlawful. No-one told him and no-one made any inquiries about why the Angels and hospital driver had only been told to take me over to Bangor. Stanley Wyn was still being unlawfully held at Denbigh when I left there.
How are you Lord Hurd? You knew that this was going on didn't you? Were you close to your uncle, the Cambridge botanist Edred Corner, who knew Prof Peter Greig-Smith, the botanist at UCNW (Bangor University), who worked with the spouses of two of those involved in the sex trafficking gang (see post 'Additional Security Measures').
The Commons knew that things were bad at Risley years before everyone did their I Know Nuzzing bit in 1989. Hansard, 25 July 1980, recorded that Arthur Lewis (Labour) asked Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw a number of questions about suicides in Risley. This was the grim record that the Home Office actually admitted to – the real figures will have undoubtedly been worse:
|No. of suicides
|Date of incident
|Cause of death (Inquest verdict)
|15 August
|Strangulation due to hanging
|15 November
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|28 February
|Wound to abdomen by scissors
|23 August
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|10 October
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|20 October
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|15 June
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|30 November
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|30 November
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|2 April
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|26 October
|Broken neck due to hanging
|13 May
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|5 September
|Asphyxia due to hanging
|10 January
|Death by hanging
These were prisoners in custody, under surveillance and although by 1989 Risley had one of the highest staff: inmate ratios of any prison in the country, nothing had improved. Things had become considerably worse. Asphyxiation by hanging is a slow process. The only way that the outcomes detailed in the table above could have happened is if the screws deliberately failed to answer bells or did not check on inmates. Which was what I was told was routine. That was how people were murdered or killed themselves.
By the time that Ian Dunlop carried out his Inquiry in 1989, Risley was the probably the worst facility in the country in terms of self-harm and mortality figures. The Angels at Denbigh referred to it as Grisley Risley and told me that they were frightened on the occasions that they had been in there. Throughout my time in Denbigh I was constantly threatened with transfer to Risley Remand Centre. I had been charged with 'assaulting a doctor', charges which were later dropped when it was admitted that the doctor had lied. He had previously illegally detained me in Ysbyty Gwynedd, along with paedophiles' colleague Jackie Brandt. It was after they illegally detained me that Dafydd turned up, talked about sex to me and when I challenged him told me that if I ever came back to north Wales again he'd have me arrested. I told everyone when I was in Ysbyty Gwynedd that I had no interest in seeing Dafydd at al. Sister Bridget Lloyd told me that because I was sectioned, I would not be released until I saw Dafydd. I was left alone with him.
Bridget Lloyd later perjured herself in an attempt to have me and another patient who complained about Dafydd imprisoned. The case collapsed and there was no investigation into Bridget's lies.
So little Irish Bridget, what took you to north Wales to try and force young people into the grip of a prostitution ring? Because you knew damn well that was what was happening. No, I was not going to have sex with Dafydd and if I had wanted a career in the sex trade I would have set up on my own, I wouldn't have worked for Dafydd.
Bridget Lloyd is not on her last legs like Dafydd, she has a few more years of people trafficking left in her yet. Anyone up for putting Bridget on trial?
It was ironically Bridget Lloyd who was part of the Anglesey Community Mental Health Team who failed to care for Ron Evans after he had a breakdown. Ron was the crooked lawyer who was employed by Gwynedd County Council who cooked up the wheezes with Lucille Hughes to frame me and others. It was Ron Evans who kept them all out of prison when the investigations into the abuse of children in north Wales finally began. They all beat a path to Ron's door and Ron explained very firmly to them that what they had done was so serious and so inexcusable that none of them must ever say a word to anyone. Ron's wife told me that, she didn't know that I was one of Ron's victims.
What were you hoping Bridget, that Ron would top himself and never be able to blab about the many people who were involved?
This lot don't even look after each other. Ron kept them all out of prison, the whole lot of them…
So where was Ian Dunlop's much boasted about humanity and his ability to find out what was going on at ground level? Did he somehow miss the violent assaults on inmates by screws, the fact that on occasions dead bodies were left in cells with living cell mates because no-one bothered to answer the bell as the person was dying or that the medical wing was full of distressed young people from north Wales who had been charged with ludicrous offences by the same bunch of people traffickers?
Hansard 1980 records that David Alton asked Whitelaw if he'll be holding an inquiry into the suicide of Stephen Anderson at Risley and whether he will he make a statement. Willie states that the governor of Risley will be submitting a report, that the inquest had been opened and adjourned and that Willie won't make a statement until the coroner's report has been written.
Stephen Anderson killed himself in Risley in 1979 after he set fire to his cell. He died from inhaling toxic fumes hours after he and two others were given 30 yr sentences at Chester Crown Court for the murder of two wealthy women in Cheshire. The case was known as the Boarded Barn Murders and it was alleged to have been a burglary which had gone wrong and resulted in the rape and shooting of the women.
I used to wonder how prisoners set fire to their cells, but I was told by a former kid in care whom I was mates with in Denbigh that it is the mattresses that people set on fire. He told me that prisoners are very frightened of cell mates who set fire to things because the screws often deliberately don't come to the cell if they don't like someone who's cell is on fire. They let them die. This young man had been in Risley and Walton and the practices were the same in both institutions. He told me that people begged the screws not to have to share a cell with him, because on one occasion he had set fire to the mattress. The screws would choose the most frightened person to be his cell mate.
Ah, bechod, they take good care of them on the medical wing, they have a Top Doctor on duty.
So Stephen Anderson set fire to his mattress and whoops he was dead before anyone noticed. Or someone else set fire to his mattress and left him in there with it until he was dead.
When Stephen Anderson and his two fellow defendants were sent down for thirty years there was much celebrating on the part of West Yorkshire Police. It was an 'orrible murder and it was 'Uddersfield wot solved it. The man who received the most lavish praise in relation to his detective work re the Boarded Barn Murders was Colin van Bellen. Colin was known to be a Good Cop and during the course of his career, he received many commendations from West Yorkshire Chief Constables and judges. In 1981 Colin even received a trophy for his work on the Boarded Barn Case.
Stephen's fellow defendants were Paul Hebel and Philip Jenning. Press reports from the time maxed out on these three murdering bastards who raped and shot the women after making them dance naked. Jenning was quoted as being very rude about them and mouthed off in a rather class war-like way saying that he murdered them and didn't give a stuff because the likes of them had everything. The murdered women were members of the upper echelons of the Cheshire set and one was a high profile member of the North Staffordshire Hounds. The action had all taken place around Congleton.
However, there didn't seem to be evidence directly linked to Stephen Anderson. Neither was Stephen mouthing off. It was reported that he was terrified and that he was visibly shaking in the dock. The only reason why he was ever arrested after Colin the Good Cop spent a long time following up leads that went nowhere, was that one of Stephen's ex-girlfriends had allegedly told the police that a shotgun found in someone else's house belonged to Stephen. Colin's cop's nose led him to the three men who were later convicted.
Press reports described Stephen as a body builder and a ladies man. They also mentioned that Stephen held 'wild parties' to which children as young as 10 were invited. Allegations of wild parties involving children can be levelled at anyone and they always cause a lot of excitement.
There was a child abuse and sex trafficking ring in Cheshire/North Staffs and it was part of Dafydd's empire. Could Stephen have been part of it and someone wanted to make damn sure that he wouldn't be naming anyone in the future? Or was he not guilty of absolutely everything alleged, murders, wild parties, the lot and someone wanted him silenced?
I know of a completely innocent victim of Dafydd and the paedophiles who lived in Bethesda who, within weeks of moving into the town in 1987 from London, was dragged off to Bethesda Police Station on the grounds that she had been reported as having 'danced naked with young boys'. I knew this woman well. She had never danced naked with anyone and was baffled as to why anyone had ever thought that she had. I also knew that this woman, her husband and brother had been abused in Warlingham Park Hospital in south London, that they had been fleeced of their inheritance after their mum died in suspicious circumstances in Warlingham Park herself and that a group of crooked Top Docs and lawyers in London and Bethesda who were linked to each other had cooked up the whole plan. Her husband died whilst in the 'care' of the mental health services in north Wales.
A circle of crooked Top Docs and lawyers in south London and north Wales who were linked had framed someone. Er – that's what happened to me when I worked at St George's in 1991! I know who the crooked Top Docs were, I have named them in previous posts – Nigel Eastman, Robin Jacobson, Alice Levinson, Ruth White, Paul Bowden, Dafydd and Tony and Sadie Francis (see post 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London'). I wonder which lawyers advised them?
It's the Westminster Paedophile Ring Alwyn! They probably forced you into it but they're pretty disgusting, people were found dead and I'm fed up of them. So please grass up the details of who, what, where, when…
Marjorie Wallace is based in London and is mates with all the big name Top Docs there. After she established her charidee for nutters, 'SANE: Schizophrenia, A National Emergency' – whose main campaigning point was that nutters need to be kept locked up, they like that and if they're not locked up they're only murdered in the community anyway – some public spirited service users who realised how bloody dangerous Majorie was established an organisation called 'MANE: Marjorie, A National Emergency'.
They were bloody right that it was a national emergency, Marjorie was connected to Dafydd.
Colin van Bellen's colleagues who were involved in the Boarded Barn case were Terry Hall, Bob Bridgestock and Gary Dooley. Terry Hall became a Detective Inspector in Huddersfield, Bob Bridgestock became a Detective Superintendent in Huddersfield and Gary Dooley became an Inspector in the Firearms Division of the West Yorkshire Police.
Can anyone see West Yorkshire Police hidden in the picture? The West Yorkshire Police who buggered up the Peter Sutcliffe investigation and the West Yorkshire Police who ignored organised sex trafficking and crime in the Bradford area. It was the West Yorkshire Police who, along with the South Yorkshire Police, beat up picketing miners at Orgreave and in the tradition of the Angels of north Wales, then lied about the miners, saying that the miners had attacked them. The South Yorkshire Police hit the headlines not so long ago, when it was revealed that they'd told a pack of lies over Hillsborough and had fabricated statements. The man named and shamed as a result of his organising all that was Sir Norman Bettison, at the time a senior officer in the South Yorkshire Police. Bettison was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police in 1993 and then, after serving as the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, in Jan 2007 Bettison became the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. He probably gave Colin van Bellen an award.
My post 'Additional Security Measures' details how Lord Peter Taylor's Report into Hillsborough which was ordered by Hurd when Hurd was at the Home Office appears to have been forged or at the very least prepared in advance according to orders from Thatcher's Gov't.
Jimmy Savile was mates with the West Yorkshire Police, as well as with the South Yorkshire Police.
There was trouble at Risley as long ago as in 1973 that was recorded in Hansard, 19 June 1973. Robert Parry asked how many attempted suicides there had been at Risley in each of the preceding five years, ie. 1968-72. Parry also asked how many of those suicides were of people under 18. People under 18 in Risley are highly likely to have been children in care or kids with mental health problems from north Wales. We're back to Dafydd and the paedophiles again.
It was Mark Carlisle, who responded to Robert Parry's questions. He stated that data relating to the ages of inmates who had committed suicide was not available. Er – so CHILDREN were being banged up in a prison in which people were dropping like lemmings and no-one bothered to note how many of the dead lemmings were not adults? I do not believe that there was no way of accessing that data. The ages of those who died in Risley would have been available from multiple different sources. Of course the ages of the dead were known, Top Docs love recording people's ages. The admission sheets for Denbigh had four pieces of info on the top of them – patient's name, age, gender and diagnosis. The diagnosis was filled in BEFORE anyone met a Top Doctor to be 'assessed'. I know because I saw my own sheet as the nurse who greeted me sat opposite me. It had my name and then '24 year old female, personality disorder' written at the top. I had been reassured by Tony Francis and Dafydd only three months previously that Gwynne the lobotomist's lies from three years before that – including his diagnosis of 'personality disorder' – had absolutely not been entered upon my NHS records. I was told by Tony Francis that one should never make a diagnosis of personality disorder in young people.
So I asked why that had been written on my records. They went mad. It was noted that I was 'clearly a very dangerous girl'. (I saw that on my medical records when I read them whilst the Angels were in possession of them as well'.) OOH she is a horror, she reads everything, challenges us on our constant lies and helps herself to her own records when we're unlawfully witholding them.
Now – if a diagnosis of personality disorder should never be made in young people, why did Dafydd have a unit at Denbigh for 'young people with personality disorders'? This was the unit where Mary Wynch told me that the young patients were encouraged by Dafydd to have sex with each other whilst the Angels gathered around to watch.
Can anyone explain all this? All Dafydd's Top Doc mates in London? The members of the Parliamentary Committees to which Dafydd gave evidence? The Royal College, the BMA, the GMC? What was going on?
Dafydd – I really do apologise that my idea of a fulfilling career when I was in my 20s was not having sex with you, Gwynne or indeed a range of foul old MPs, even if you did describe me to Dr Robin Jacobson as being 'attractive and seductive'. Had I come to work for you I can only presume that this would have resulted:
I am not Esther Rantzen, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn is not my idea of fun.
As for the numbers of those topping themselves in Risley Remand Centre, 1968-72, Mark Carlisle provided the following data: 1968 – data not available; 1969 – 38 males, two females; 1970 – 20 males; 1971 – 20 males, one female; 1972 – 5 males.
In 1968 John Allen opened the Bryn Alyn Community near Wrexham. There was already abuse of children happening in north Wales, but it became an industry from 1968 onward. Allen became a millionaire within just a few years.
In 1968 the responsibility for the NHS and Social Services in Wales was transferred to the Welsh Office. In April 1968 the child molester George Thomas became Secretary of State for Wales.
In 1969, 38 men and two women killed themselves in Risley. In the light of the sort of prisoners that ended up there it would probably be fairer to say that 38 boys and two girls killed themselves. Bryn Estyn at the time was run directly by the Home Office, as was Risley. The Home Secretary at the time was Jim Callaghan. Jim Callaghan's wife Audrey colluded with child abuse in London and it was when Sunny Jim was Home Secretary that he was so helpful to alleged child molester Leo Abse as Abse embarked upon his Cunning Plan to rewrite the legislation regarding children in care. The resultant legislation was most favourable to John Allen and his business associates (see posts 'Cry, The Beloved Country' and 'The White Heat Of This Revolution').
Our champagne drinking, art collecting friend from Solihull will have known what Abse and the Callaghans were doing:
During the years 1970 and 1971, 20 boys/young men killed themselves and in 1971 that was added to by one girl/young woman. The Home Secretary during those years was Monty Python favourite Reginald Maudling, who ended up resigning in a scandal involving crooked business dealings.
The suicide figures for 1972 are not half so bad. Call me a cynic, but it was probably because things had become so awkward and embarrassing that the figures were fiddled…
This was an industry in sexual assault which Wilson's Gov't and indeed every successive Gov't after that knew all about and did all that they could to conceal.
It was in May 1973 that Matt Arnold was appointed Head of Bryn Estyn. Arnold had relocated from the Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead, where there had been abuse of the boys. Peter Howarth, who had worked with Arold at Axwell Park, was given a job at Bryn Estyn by Matt Arnold in Nov 1973. Arnold had taken up the post at Bryn Estyn after the previous Head Peter Burton was killed in a road accident in Cheshire, along with his wife, seven year old son and the Deputy Head. Burton had only been in the post since 1972. He had taken over from David Ursell, who had been suspended after a number of complaints 'about the way in which he instilled discipline'. Ursell had only been at Bryn Estyn since 1967 – he succeeded Harold Bennett as Head, who had retired after 26 years at Bryn Estyn.
It was in 1972 that the suicide figures for Risley suddenly improved so drastically.
CRASH! There's a problem solved. Now let's take a look at those suicide stats …
Peter Howarth was one of the bottom feeders who did end up going to prison for abusing kids in care in north Wales. Matt Arnold died on 9 June 1994 from 'an unspecified blood disease'. Howarth's trial began on 13 June.
Robert Parry also asked how many remand deaths there had been in Risley over the past five years and asked for the causes of death to be listed in the official report.
Mark Carlisle stated that in 1968 there had been three remand suicides by hanging and one remand death from a paraldehyde injection; that in 1969 there had been two remand suicides from hanging; that there were no remand deaths in 1970, 1971 or 1972.
Paraldehyde is a cosh that was used in asylums in a past era. It was lethal and it was very easy to kill someone with. A former nurse from Ely Hospital – the site of the infamous Ely Hospital Scandal – told me that for a laugh he and his mates used to give paraldehyde to birds, let them go and then watch the birds take off and after a few seconds drop straight to the ground. Gwynne and Dafydd would have had great fun with paraldehyde. Why the staff of Risley Remand Centre were injecting people with paraldehyde in 1968 is a mystery. The 1950s generation of anti-psychotics were supposed to have replaced paraldehyde, along with straight jackets. Or so we are told.
But then patients were being kept in a dungeon at Denbigh until at least 1987 weren't they Dafydd/Janice Davies/Mike Williams? Were they given paraldehyde as well, enough to ensure that it killed them? Then it was documented as an unfortunate death due to a bad reaction to a 'sedative'? Rather than 'we killed the awkward sod, they were going to name names'?
Robert Parry made a reference in the House to 'medical failure' at Risley. You bet there was medical failure – and medical murder – at Risley, but that medical failure was the result of the medical failure of Dafydd et al. They had the ways of killing well-rehearsed and they knew just what to say and to whom to say it to ensure that the politicians colluding with them would know which excuses to make.
The 'medical failures' at Risley persisted, as did Dafydd and the gang. Mary Wynch's legal action that she took in the wake of her being unlawfully arrested and detained in Risley and then in Denbigh in 1979 named Dafydd, Clwyd Health Authority, Risley Remand Centre, Dr Paul Bishop and Dr Paul Hayward (see post 'The Mary Wynch Case – Details').
Paul Hayward was a medical officer at Risley. Bishop was a GP in north Wales.
Paul Hayward had died by the time that Mary appealed to the Master of the Rolls for leave to sue. Well there's a surprise.
The details that Mark Carlisle gave to the Commons regarding the 'medical facilities' at Risley were that there were 'separate hospitals' for men/boys and women/girls. Carlisle was using the term 'hospital' in its widest sense. He meant 'cells where the prisoners are rendered even more vulnerable to the abusive psychopathic screws because they have been deemed to be mad and are therefore available to be injected with paraldehyde without questions being asked'.
Carlisle explained that among other staff in the flagship medical facility that was Risley, there was one senior medical officer; four full time medical staff; two part time medical officers and a visiting venereologist. Was there perhaps a problem with STDs at Risley? This was an institution that couldn't even keep prisoners alive, why would they be prioritising the treatment of STDs? Er – because the screws didn't want a dose? Because Dafydd and the paedophiles didn't when the surviving prisoners ended up back at Denbigh after they'd been destroyed and rendered compliant by the horrors of Risley?
Whenever I challenged the staff at Denbigh over the abuses and conditions there, they would shriek at me 'well it's better than Risley Remand Centre'. They we're setting the bar quite low then. 'You are a 24 year old postgrad who has been illegally imprisoned by a sex trafficking gang. Thank your lucky stars that you are not in the pox-ridden hell hole that is Risley.'
Gee Dafydd, you're such a generous guy!
Mark Carlisle told the Commons that he was 'satisfied' with the 'medical arrangements' at Risley. Furthermore, the prisoners were in clover. If necessary they were transferred to NHS hospitals – yes, they were sent back to Denbigh to disappear for ever – and they were also transferred to the surgical unit at Liverpool Prison hospital. That was the Liverpool Prison and its 'hospital' which were also run by Dafydd and the gang. Mr Carlisle must have been really impressed with that visiting venereologist.
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So who was Mark Carlisle, who was satisfied with the 'medical facilities' provided by Dafydd's mates in which victims of a sex trafficking gang were detained – often unlawfully – after being fitted up and who somehow died or who were murdered on a frighteningly regular basis? Carlisle was the Tory MP for Runcorn and then Warrington South. His constituents were the staff of Risley Remand Centre. Carlisle was a barrister who was a member of Gray's Inn who was a Minister in the Home Office, 1970-74. Who knew exactly how bad what was going on in his constituency was. Carlisle was given a peerage in 1987.
Much as it was good to read Hansard's record of Parry grilling Carlisle, Robert Parry knew the answers that he was seeking and he knew that there were a load of victims of a sex trafficking gang who were killing themselves in Risley. Because Robert Parry was a hard left Liverpool MP for nearly 30 years and before that he was a Liverpool City Councillor. He knew that everybody across the political spectrum in Liverpool was keeping quiet about Dafydd, including his mates in Militant.
Robert Parry asked Carlisle how many complaints there had been regarding inadequate medical facilities at Risley and how many complaints regarding the ill treatment of prisoners there had been. Carlisle told him that such records could not be made available without disproportionate cost. Robert Parry should have just nipped over to my house in Llanllechid in the 1990s, my friends could have filled him in. They'd have given him the info for free as well.
Parry also asked how many visits were made by officials of the Home Office to Risley in the past five yrs. Carlisle told him that details were not readily available of every occasional visit. There were general visits by relatively senior officers of the Home Dept, including those from regional offices, as recorded by the Governor. He added that where a group of officials visited for a particular purpose, it counted as one visit.
The figures were: 1968 – 23 visits; 1969 – 27 visits; 1970 – 23 visits; 1971 – 18 visits; 1972 – 25 visits. Up until to mid June in 1973, there were 11 visits.Robert Parry asked how many people under 16 yrs there were in Risley. I cannot find any reply from Carlisle to this question.C
Under 16 years old. A visiting venereologist was considered necessary.
Robert Parry asked how many visits were made by official prison visitors to Risley. Carlisle provided the following figures: 1968 – 48; 1969 – 44; 1970 – 41; 1971 – 51; 1972 – 52; 1973 – 24. These figures refer to visits from the board of visitors or by members of the visiting committee.
So didn't the Lady Mayoresses and other Trumpers-like figures who made up the prison visitors notice the suicidal, STD-infected teenagers languishing in Risley who had all encountered Dafydd and the paedophiles?
Robert Parry asked how many people were approved as official visitors to Risley and Carlisle told him that between 1968-72, the visiting committee normally had 12 members and the board of visitors which replaced it comprised 16 members.
These figures will have been bandied about in order to reassure everyone that 'independent' people visited Risley on a frequent basis and of course they would say something if anything was amiss. They don't. It is just like all the 'checks and balances' in the mental health system. There are genuinely well-motivated people who take up these 'independent' positions who do raise concerns if all is not well but they are ignored. If they are a little too persistent and robust they are weeded out of the system. I mentioned in a previous post that in the 1990s I and another Hergest Unit patient made representation to two members of the Mental Health Act Commission when they visited Hergest. We told them that complaints about Dafydd behaving improperly with female patients were going uninvestigated. One of the people whom we spoke to later told a nurse manager at Hergest that she had been inspecting Denbigh in the 1960s 'and it was the same story then'. Dafydd continued to go uninvestigated.
Over the past 15 years, a number of people have urged me to sit on various 'service user' committees, 'get involved' etc. I always say no, because there is absolutely no point. The system is completely rigged and packed to the rafters with people who are, frankly, abusers. Lawyers and barristers cannot win in cases where people with mental health problems have been killed in psychiatric hospitals, whilst sectioned. A 'service users committee' and other such things are simply there to tick boxes and to reassure everyone that all is well in deeply troubled services.
Further questions from Robert Parry elicited the information from Carlisle that as a result of the rapid expansion in the Prison Services in England and Wales between 1968-71, the Home Office hadn't been able to maintain the previous staffing levels at Risley.
So they stuffed that place with the victims of a paedophile gang and left them to it.
Whilst I was in Denbigh, there was one very odd patient who everyone was wary of. He never spoke to anyone and sat watching TV all day. Everyone agreed that he looked 'rough', one patient remarked that he looked 'like a boxer' and another patient told me to keep away from him because he seemed unsavoury. One evening I was watching a TV version of Silas Marner and when it came to the bit where Silas takes in the little girl, The Boxer stood up and switched the TV over without a word. I was bloody furious so I went to find an Angel to ask them to ask The Boxer to switch it back to Silas Marner. Janice Davies, Dafydd's Nurse Ratched, refused to move her arse and said to me 'it's the law of the jungle out there'. I continued to press my point and eventually a male nurse went to considerable trouble to find a black and white snowstorm for me from a cupboard, fix the aerial and I watched what remained of Silas Marner in the kitchen.
No Angel would confront The Boxer. Well it was a jungle wasn't it Janice. Tony Francis told me that there would be a problem if Denbigh shut down because Dafydd had 'hidden people away out there who had killed'.
Who was The Boxer in the jungle who could not bear to watch a drama involving a little girl going into an old man's house whom no Angel dared challenge?
Regarding the other jungle at Risley. Carlisle told the Commons that there was accommodation for 535 men and 91 women 'without overcrowding'. In 1970 there were 939 males in there and in 1971, 119 women. Carlisle stated that there was no fixed maximum.
At least Dafydd's victims had the mobile clap clinic to look forward to.
'We didn't know'.
How could you have ever missed it?