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One of my comments which followed my post 'Rivers Of Blood' provided a brief bit of background information about events in the early 1990s when the paedophile gang launched an attack on Graham Day, a senior sociologist at Bangor University and caused much grief in the process. 'The Guardian' were happy to publish the lies and false allegations of the paedophiles' friends which resulted in the smeared sociologist being harassed by the world's media. At about that time, the paedophiles' friends misled and then screwed over one member of staff at Bangor University so badly that he attempted suicide. The one person to offer him support after the suicide bid was Graham, who had been attacked by 'The Guardian'. I don't think that Peter Preston ever published anything about that.
I was reminded of this when I heard Alan Rusbridger interviewed on Radio 4 about his new book, 'Breaking News'. Rusbridger took over the editorship of 'The Guardian' from Preston; Rusbridger was a senior journo on 'The Guardian' when Peter Preston provided so much help to a gang of paedophiles who were under investigation by the police and who really hated an honest sociologist and wanted him out of his job. Rusbridger knew what was happening in north Wales at the time.
Alan Rusbridger stepped down as Editor of 'The Guardian' in 2014 and is now Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He is visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and Visiting Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. Between 2004 and 2013 Rusbridger was Chair of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
When 'The Guardian' published what they knew were lies fed to them by a trafficking gang, the Chairman of the Scott Trust, which owns 'The Guardian', was Hugo Young.
Hugo Young was born in Sheffield into an old recusant family. He was head boy at Ampleforth College. In recent years it has been acknowledged that for decades there was serious abuse of children at Ampleforth which was concealed by the Catholic Church (see previous posts'). A Top Doc has explained in comments on this blog that Top Docs knew about the abuse at Ampleforth and about the wider paedophile ring in Yorkshire and made ludicrous excuses to take no action, even in the face of children with anal injuries.
Hugo Young read law at Balliol College, Oxford and began working for the 'Yorkshire Post' in Leeds in 1961. In 1963, Young spent a year as a Harkness Fellow in the US and he spent the next year working as a congressional fellow. In 1965, Young returned to the UK and was recruited by Denis Hamilton of 'The Sunday Times'. In his second year there, Young became chief leader writer, a position he kept until 1977. From 1973–84, he was also the political editor for 'The Sunday Times'. He was joint Deputy Editor of 'The Sunday Times' from 1981, but his relationship with the paper cooled notably when Murdoch took the 'The Sunday Times' over in 1981. The conflict culminated in a series of battles with Editor Brillo, which ultimately led to Young leaving The Sunday Times and joining The Guardian in 1984.
Young continued to write a twice-weekly political column at The Guardian until his death and was widely acclaimed as one of the most important and influential figures in modern British journalism. Young remained on good terms with British Gov't Ministers, including Blair and Thatch. He wrote a critical biography of Thatch, One of Us (1989), but didn't mention that her two close friends Jimmy Savile and Sir Peter Morrison were known to be molesting children while supping with her. Young wrote other books, including This Blessed Plot: Britain And Europe From Churchill To Blair (1998).
Young's Yorkshire/Leeds background and his position as a big beast in the media will have meant that he knew Mark Byford, the former Deputy DG of the BBC and Head of BBC journalism, 2004-11. Mark Byford's dad was Sir Lawrence Byford, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary between Jan 1983-March 1987. Between 1979 and 1983, Lawrence Byford was a regional Inspector of Constabulary. Byford had served as a senior officer with the endemically corrupt West Yorkshire Police – throughout the years when Jimmy Savile enjoyed a very cosy relationship with that force. Byford was HMI Chief Inspector of Constabulary while Dafydd and the gang in north Wales were causing havoc and when the utterly rotten North Wales Police colluded with and even assisted them, as well as during the years when the British police stood accused of acting as the personal army of the Thatcher's Gov't. See post 'Top Of The Cops'.
Mark Byford's boss at the BBC was DG Mark Thompson, under Chairman Michael Grade, frequent star of this blog and someone else who wilfully ignored serious crime committed by a gang of traffickers and did favours for those in high places who facilitated that gang.
Hugo Young became Chairman of the Scott Trust in 1989 and helped 'The Guardian' through important developments such as the purchase of 'The Observer'. Young died in 2003, so was still there to help with the fall-out from the Waterhouse Inquiry and Waterhouse Report. I'm only surprised that 'The Guardian' didn't launch another attack on Graham Day. Or indeed on me.
Here's Hugo with a corrupt Home Secretary who ignored the serious crimes of Dafydd and the gang, with Peter Hain peeping around the corner:
So Hugo was every bit as as useful to Dafydd, Jimmy Savile et al as the biggest Glendas – including Amanda Platell – and their friends/bosses were (see post 'Did Glenda Occupy A Key Role In Keeping It All Out Of The Media?').
Hugo Young – crazy name, crazy guy…
There is now an annual Hugo Young lecture, organised by 'The Guardian' in Young's memory. Those who have delivered the Hugo Young lecture include Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and Alex Salmond.
My post 'The Cry Of The Lunatic' promised information about Ronnie Campbell, the Labour MP for Blyth Valley. Ronnie succeeded the crook John Ryman, who had succeeded Eddie Milne, a Labour MP who had taken on the endemic civic corruption in the region and had his career destroyed as a result.
Ronald Campbell was elected for Blyth Valley in 1987. He was born in Tynemouth, attended Blyth Ridley County High School and left at 14 to become a coal miner. Campbell worked as a miner between 1958 and 1986; before entering Parliament he was a lay official of the NUM, led picket lines in the 1984-85 miners' strike and was arrested twice. Campbell was also a District Councillor on Blyth Valley Borough Council from 1969. So he was a Councillor in the north east during the years when the Councillors in that region were endemically corrupt and participating in the sort of enormous wrongdoing which involved people like John Poulson and T. Dan Smith that Campbell's predecessor Eddie Milne tried to challenge, only to find his political career ruined (see post 'The Cry Of The Lunatic' and other posts). Campbell was of course serving as a District Councillor for Blyth Valley Borough Council when the Councils in the north east were hosting a trafficking ring linked to Dafydd et al in north Wales and were sending kids in care to north Wales children's homes.
Arthur Scargill was a good mate of Michael Mansfield QC, one of the many radical lawyers who kept quiet about organised abuse and trafficking across the UK, including in north Wales, although I wrote to him in 1993 about what was happening to me at the hands of Gwynedd Social Services and the courts. Mansfield famously acted for Scargill when Scargill was arrested during the miners' strike. Other people involved in Supporting The Miners also turned their backs on those targeted by criminal trafficking gangs. Meleri Tudor, a lawyer from north Wales, was one of those who gave her expertise free of charge to miners during the strike, yet managed to witness en masse perjury and conspiracy in an attempt by Dafydd's gang to have me imprisoned and not mention anything to anyone about this (see post 'It's Just Another Gold Digger').
Meleri told me quite a bit about her work during the miners' strike, including her conversations with people in mining communities who read the press coverage of their behaviour and said to Meleri 'I didn't realise that the newspapers lied'. Meleri knew that newspapers lied, she knew that mountains of garbage was published for years regarding the non-existence of the paedophile ring in north Wales and she knew that the newspapers were lying when they maintained that people complaining of being abused in north Wales were liars seeking financial reward. Meleri also knew that 'The Guardian' was publishing lies when it accused that senior sociologist at Bangor University of discriminating against Welsh people…
Ronnie Campbell often voted against Blair's Gov't on issues such as the Iraq War, being an outspoken member on the left of the Party. When the Gov't nationalised Northern Rock in 2008, Campbell declared it 'the People's Bank' and opened an account. In May 2009, during the MPs expenses scandal, Campbell agreed to return over £6,000 that he had claimed for furnishings in his London home.
In 2013, Campbell was one of 22 Labour MPs to vote against same-sex marriage.
Upon re-election in May 2015, Campbell announced that he would stand down at the next general election, although this did not materialise.
Campbell was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015 and one of a handful of Labour MPs to publicly support leaving the EU.
Campbell was one of thirteen MPs to vote against triggering the 2017 General Election. Having previously said that he would stand down at the next election, he changed his mind stating: 'It was my intention to stand down at the next general election, however due to circumstances following the announcement of the snap election I have decided to stand again for Blyth Valley.'
Ronnie married Deirdre McHale in 1967, who serves on Northumberland County Council.
In September 2016, Campbell underwent chemotherapy after being diagnosed with stomach cancer and returned to Parliament on 30 November 2016. Just as well that you and Deirdre never mentioned that huge paedophile ring which has operated in the north east for most of your adult life then Ronnie, or you might have found that somehow the Top Docs couldn't treat you for that stomach cancer! Having said that, where stomach cancer is concerned it was a close run thing anyway. In 1990, the paedophiles' friends of Ysbyty Gwynedd, assisted by none other than Sir Richard Doll no less, needing to generate a bit of good PR for themselves, perpetrated a laughable research fraud regarding the supposed cause of stomach cancer, which had it not been exposed within weeks would have thrown a spanner in the works regarding that whole field of research (see post 'They Think It's All Over – It Is Now'). Not that it held their careers back – one of them has spent the last few decades teaching statistics to psychology students at Bangor University and another one ended up leading the clinical trials unit at Bangor University.
My post 'No Cuts' provided details of Tony Benn's career, another Champion of the Oppressed who ignored the organised abuse of vulnerable people, even when I wrote to him about it. Despite his undying loyalty to the white collar criminals who were sexually exploiting children and vulnerable adults, Tony Benn nevertheless went for a belt and braces approach and ensured that he remained very, very good mates with them all at St Thomas's Hospital, an institution which not only employed/employs a few of those who directly protected Dafydd and the gang, but which also has a sizeable proportion of very rich Top Docs who run lucrative Harley Street practices as well as pulling in fat NHS salaries.
Tony Benn was a fourth generation MP – his father, his paternal grandfather Lord Stansgate and his great-grandfathers Sir John Benn and Daniel Holmes were all MPs, mostly with factions of the Liberal Party. Benn's own children – and grandchildren – are politically active as well. Benn's son Hilary became a Labour MP and was notoriously Blairite/centrist, at a time when Blair was known to loathe Tony Benn. Tony Benn always stressed that Hilary being to the right of him politically never caused any strain between them.
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn has been the Labour MP for Leeds Central since 1999. Hilary will therefore have known about Jimmy Savile's activities in the Leeds area, including in the NHS there. Hilary will also remember the case of the two Yorkshire psychiatrists, Michael Haslam and William Kerr, who raped and sexually abused female patients for decades. Complaints were repeatedly made over a period of years by more than 100 patients but were ignored. One brave Angel who spoke out was demoted. An academic at Leeds University threatened to go public on what Kerr and Haslam were doing and was told that he'd lose his job if he did. Kerr and Haslam's offending finally became public in 1996, at the end of their careers (see post 'All The Ingredients Of A Scandal'). They both retired with their pensions intact and only Haslam went to prison, in 2003 – Kerr provided medical evidence of illness – and that was for a matter of just a few months. It was also revealed that the women whom these Top Docs had repeatedly assaulted were not permitted to have recorded upon their medical records that they had been assaulted by the Top Doctors who had compiled their records and described the nature of their 'problems'.
When Kerr and Haslam were finally exposed, MIND spokespeople were all over the media expressing their outrage. At the time, I was repeatedly raising my concerns regarding the mistreatment of patients in north Wales at the hands of Dafydd et al only to be ignored by everyone, including MIND.
Dafydd held 'clinics' in Yorkshire, including in, of all places, the Queen's Hotel, Leeds. Jimmy Savile hung out at the Queen's Hotel Leeds and lay in state there after his death.
When Dafydd finally turns his toes up, I look forward to his coffin being pulled through the streets of north Wales by black horses with their manes plaited a la Ronnie Kray, while the route is lined with weeping mourners throwing flowers at the coffin.
Perhaps Dafydd can be buried on Church Island at Menai Bridge, a sort of north Wales variant of Princess Di's resting place.
Neither of course did Hilary Benn.
Hilary served in the Cabinet, 2003-10, under both Blair and Brown. From 2010 to 2016, Hilary served in various Labour Party Shadow Cabinets, most recently as Shadow Foreign Secretary, May 2015 until June 2016, when he was dismissed by Jeremy. In October 2016, Hilary was elected as the Chair of the Exiting the European Union Select Committee.
Hilary was the second son of Tony and Caroline Benn – Caroline was an educationalist who also kept quiet about the abuse of children (see post 'No Cuts'). Hilary studied at Sussex University, which has excellent radical credentials, but is also located near Brighton, along with the brothels owned by John Allen, who trafficked kids from north Wales to those brothels. A number of senior figures at Sussex University have been complicit with concealing organised abuse and Merfyn Jones, a former Sussex student from north Wales who spilt the paedophiles' pints decades ago has never been allowed to forget it. Neither have any of Merfyn's friends or indeed members of his family. See post 'Anthem For Doomed Youth'. Merfyn later became VC of Bangor University and while he was in that role, some rather odd things were happening at Bangor University. Such as my computer being stolen by John McTernan's brother-in-law – that was in 2005. Hilary was in Blair's Cabinet at the time. Hilary, do you have any idea why Blair's adviser's brother-in-law might have made off with my computer?
By the way Hilary, among the many seriously bizarre people whom Brown and I found ourselves approached by over the many years since we complained about a paedophile gang who were murdering witnesses, was someone who asked me to accompany them to the Labour Party conference who said that they wanted to introduce me to your dad. This was just after John McTernan's brother-in-law stole my computer. The person who wanted to introduce me to your dad was someone called Rachel, whom I later found out was transgender. I only discovered that because, after asking me and Brown to act as 'expert witnesses' in court to get her off driving offences and then offering us money to do it when we said no, Rachel told me that she had been abused by a therapist in Brighton called Karen and sent me heaps of documents relating to it all. Among the documents was a statement from Karen in which Karen said that she was very angry that Rachel had not told her that she had previously been male. Karen also alleged that Rachel had admitted to past membership of fascist groups and taking part in violent attacks on gays and blacks. Rachel e mailed me stressing that this allegation was CRAP.
Rachel was an HGV driver and was in danger of losing her licence as a result of a drink driving charge, which is why she had the bright idea of asking Brown and me to falsely represent ourselves in return for money to get her out of trouble. Rachel told me that a Top Doctor had helpfully lied on oath for her the last time that she was caught bladdered behind the wheel. I stressed that we were not lying Top Docs, we were honest sociologists.
Rachel also gave me a great deal of dirt on Diane Abbott whom she seemed to know and told me all about the role that she (Rachel) played in the attempt to get John McDonnell elected as Labour Party leader a few years ago. Rachel certainly had an exciting life, I'm not surprised that a drip of a therapist was completely confused by her. One thing that I was never able to understand was Rachel's desire for the body of Bill Clinton, which she told me about as well.
At one point Rachel was threatening to come to north Wales to see me. So I told everyone whom I knew that if they spotted an HGV lorry travelling in the direction of Caernarfon with a drunk transgendered person behind the wheel, could they please tip me off so that I could make myself scarce.
Rachel was most disappointed when I refused to accompany her to the Labour Party conference to meet Wedgie Benn and John McDonnell et al, but I'd realised by then that there was no telling what was going to happen to me if I ever met Rachel in the flesh, so I made my excuses in the tradition of a good 'News Of The World' reporter. Rachel did try her hardest though, she left eleven mad messages for me on my boss's answer machine and then started ringing up a whole variety of people in the University, asking them if they knew me.
Do you happen to know Rachel Hilary? Was she a regular chez Tony and Caroline?
After graduating, Hilary worked as a research officer for ASTMS and was then Head of Policy for MSF. Regular readers will remember that it was the corrupt MSF reps David Hole and his mates who colluded with the wrongdoing at St George's Hospital Medical School and used their knowledge of patient harm and serious crime – including the facilitating of Dafydd's trafficking ring in north Wales and the linked ring which operated in south London – to shore up their own positions (see previous posts).
My documents contain letters to Wandsworth Social Services – who were colluding with Dafydd et al as well as running the south London gang – from Dr Tony Francis, explaining how dangerous I was and that if they needed further information about the threat that I posed to other people, they were welcome to write to Lucille Hughes for further info. I have never met Lucille Hughes. See previous posts eg 'Some Very Eminent Psychiatrists From London'.
After Dr Tony Francis took early retirement from the NHS – following a well-publicised breakdown and after falling out with the rest of the paedophiles' friends – he enrolled for a history degree at Bangor University. The VC of Bangor who received such grief from the paedophiles' friends held a Chair in the School of History.
Dr Sadie Francis followed her husband into retirement a few years after, as the paedophiles' friends at the Hergest Unit began to rip each others throats out. Sadie enrolled for a course in Bangor University's School of Lifelong Learning. The Head of Lifelong Learning at that time was dear old Meri Huws, who in the 1980s had been a community social worker employed by Gwynedd Social Services. Meri's patch had included the Ty'r Felin children's home, where children were abused and trafficked, including to Dolphin Square (see post 'Are You Local?').
Hilary Benn was Head of Policy at MSF when MSF was using to its maximum advantage the conviction of Professor Oliver Brooke at St George's for the possession of child porn. A number of St George's consultants were also discovered in Cynthia Payne's brothel for members of high society at Ambleside Avenue in Streatham during the various police raids on Cynthia's place, but that info was never made public. See post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'.
After joining the Labour Party, Benn was elected as a Councillor on Ealing Borough Council in 1979, on which he served for several years, rising to the rank of Deputy Leader, 1986-90. When I worked at St George's, one of the obstetricians there lived at Ealing. When I was doing my MSc at Royal Postgraduate Medical School/Hammersmith Hospital, one of my fellow postgrads was a dentist who lived at Ealing. Neither of these Ealing residents, to my knowledge, were abusing their positions themselves, but they knew that other people were and kept quiet.
After the 1997 General Election, Benn was appointed as a Spad to David Blunkett, then the Secretary of State for Education and Employment. By 1997, there had been scandal after scandal regarding the abuse of children in schools, particularly special schools and residential schools. Many of those scandals had concerned schools in north Wales. In 1997, the Waterhouse Inquiry was underway and Ronnie Waterhouse was hearing about the most serious abuse of children in residential schools/schools attached to children's homes in north Wales. Blunkett has been around since the dawn of time, he knew all about Dafydd and the related gangs, as well as Jimmy Savile – after all Blunkett ran the People's Republic of Sheffield, 1980-87 – and in his role as Home Secretary, Blunkett concealed further layers of wrongdoing by Dafydd et al and awarded a medal for 'good citizenship' to a woman who lived in Gwynedd who had a track record of intimidating 'service users' who lived in her village. This Good Citizen has a close relative who raped a six year old girl, but it was made quite clear to me by a Top Doctor and his lovely wife – who is an aspiring Lady Vicar – that I had to keep my mouth shut about that. See earlier posts for info about David Blunkett's previous.
Since Labour's defeat at the 2010 General Election, Benn has served on the front bench in the Shadow Cabinets of Harriet, Ed Miliband and Jezza. Harriet's dad was a Harley Street Top Doctor, as was her granddad and Ed's Uncle Harry was of course a consultant at Guy's and Tommy's, along with Dafydd's mates and protectors.
In 2002, Hilary Benn became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Probation in the Home Office, serving as a Deputy to Lord Charlie Falconer as Minister of State (Criminal Justice). At the Home Office, Benn led a task force investigating internet paedophilia, which subsequently recommended the introduction of the new offence of 'grooming'. In January 2003, Hilary had responsibility for introducing the Sexual Offences Bill in the Commons.
It was while Hilary was at the Home Office that the paedophiles' friends participated in yet another round of industrial scale perjury in another attempt to have me imprisoned – that time for 'threats to kill'. Alun Davies, the senior NHS manager who was a key mover and shaker in it all, told everyone who would listen that I would be going to prison for seven years. I was on bail for two years, during which time I lost my job and my house. The case collapsed on the first day of the trial, when it was clear that eight or so Angels as well as Alun Davies had lied to the police. See post 'Interesting Happenings In The Legal System'. There was no investigation into the perjury or into an assault on me by an Angel and three Angelic assistants.
Hilary Benn served as Secretary of State for the Dept of International Development, 2003-07, in Blair's Gov't. In 2007, the 'New Statesman' noted that 'Benn's work at DfID … has often been at odds with the Bush administration'. In particular, an example was Benn's opposition to the United States policy of increasing abstinence when it came to fighting AIDS in Africa, whereas Benn took a 'harm reduction' approach. Benn was also dismissive of US policy, saying: 'Abstinence-only programmes are fine if you want to abstain, but not everybody does.' Indeed not Hilary, some of those sexually abusing kids in care in north Wales refused to abstain, even when they contracted HIV, such as Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon, the son of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon aka Lord Kenyon. Lord Kenyon was a Director of Lloyds Bank, President of UCNW, Chairman of Clwyd Health Authority, a Flintshire County Councillor, a member of the North Wales Police Authority, the highest ranking Freemason in north Wales and many other things as well (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology').
In late October 2006, Benn announced that he would be standing in the 2007 Labour Party Deputy Leadership election. One of his earliest backers was Dennis Skinner, who kept quiet about the paedophile ring on his patch in Derbyshire, which was linked to Dafydd's gang in north Wales. Like many people of his generation who became big names in the Labour movement, Skinner attended Ruskin College. Matt Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, taught at Ruskin College in the mid-1960s and Peter Howarth, Arnold's friend and colleague at Axwell Park Approved School and then at Bryn Estyn, was taught by Arnold at Ruskin. John Prescott was a student at Ruskin while Arnold and Howarth were there.
The Lord Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, 1997-2007:
The Lord Prescott managed to remain in high office despite barely being able to string a coherent sentence together – 'This Labour Gov't will increase 'omelessness' – and punching someone in the chops, twice, when on a walkabout in north Wales. The nation was subsequently entertained when Tracy Temple Opened Her Heart to the 'Daily Mail' and supplied details of her Ugandan discussions with Prezza.
Prezza subsequently went for the sympathy vote by claiming to have an eating disorder. He won't have sought treatment for that at St George's Hospital Medical School/Springfield Hospital, because an Angel admitted to me that the genius which was Professor Arthur Crisp simply discharged and refused to treat patients who weren't making a good recovery. That is why Crisp had the best recovery rate among his patients of any Top Doc in the UK. I do hope that Prezza didn't risk his sanity with The Priory Group either, because their Clinical Lead for Eating Disorders is Dr Adrienne Key, who 'trained' and worked at St George's/ Springfield when those institutions were concealing and facilitating paedophile/trafficking gangs. I used to watch Adrienne shut the door in the face of distressed patients who were trying to talk to her. If the patients still didn't piss off, Adrienne would shut herself in the Angels' office and tell the Angels to get rid of them. Therefore an Angel would emerge from the office and yell at the patient to 'leave Dr Key alone'. If the ward manager Stephanie, a particularly aggressive Australian Angel, was on duty, Stephanie would really push the boat out and swear at the patient. I always expected to see Stephanie opening a can of ale with her teeth, but she must have only drunk when off duty. See previous posts for details of the wonders of Arthur Crisp as well as Adrienne and her glorious career.
In 2007, Benn was the bookmakers' favourite for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, which was triggered by the resignation of Prezza. In the event Harriet won.
In 2007, Benn was appointed as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, following Gordon's election as Leader. Benn succeeded David Miliband in this post and therefore took over what had been Miliband's responsibility to respond to the threat to cattle from bovine TB. The recommended option from the Chief Scientific Advisor until 2007, Sir David King, was a badger cull. In April 2010, on Benn's watch, a badger cull was announced in Wales, after the High Court in Cardiff rejected a legal challenge from the Badger Trust.
Bovine TB led to some very strange events in Wales. There is just as much evidence that TB is not transferred to cattle by badgers as there is that badgers do transmit TB, which was why the cull was so controversial. Vets with sound credentials opposed the cull. Anxieties over bovine TB in Wales led to the extraordinary scenes involving Shambo, a bull who became famous. Shambo was a sacred bull who lived in the interfaith Skanda Vale Temple near Llanpumsaint. In April 2007, a routine skin test for bovine TB bovine indicated that Shambo may have been in contact with the bacterium that causes the disease. As a result, the Welsh Government required that Shambo be slaughtered. Skanda Vale disputed this and campaigned for a reprieve. They were backed by the Hindu religious community at large and by other well-wishers. Skanda Vale also set up a camera so that the public could go online and watch Shambo.
Shambo:
On 15 July 2007, Deputy High Court judge Gary Hickinbottom ruled that slaughtering Shambo would be unlawful, since the two slaughter orders had failed to give enough weight to the rights of the monks. He ruled that killing Shambo would violate the human rights of the Skanda Vale community, which has a right to 'manifest' its religious faith, according to Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights. A spokesman for the Farmers' Union of Wales called the ruling 'ludicrous,' arguing that it 'contradicts the principles upon which successful TB eradication programmes throughout the world have been based for generations.' On 23 July 2007, the Court of Appeal upheld the Welsh Assembly Government's appeal. Lord Justice Pill said former Rural Affairs Minister Jane Davidson acted lawfully when she refused to make an exception for Shambo as a sacred bull. David Miliband, who was at the time still Secretary of State for DEFRA, confirmed on his official blog that the matter came under the jurisdiction of the Welsh Assembly, not the House of Commons.
It is widely accepted in Wales, even by the most loyal of Labour Party supporters, that Labour at Westminster tell Labour in the Welsh Assembly what to do, even though there is much strife between the two groups.
Skanda Vale was notified that Shambo would be taken away for slaughter on 26 July 2007 at 8 am. Veterinarians arrived at the temple at 08:50 on 26 July accompanied by police and other officials, but without a cattle truck to remove Shambo. They were refused entry by the monks because they had no warrant and so they left to obtain one from a local magistrate. A warrant could not be issued until they had been refused entry, according to 'The Guardian'. One of the monks said 'They will have to physically desecrate a temple to get him … we will be having an act of worship in front of where he is. If the Welsh Assembly Government want to take him out of there, they will have to interrupt an act of worship…Our religious laws prevent us from assisting in the killing of any life and so we will not help the inspectors remove Shambo.' At 2:00 pm the officials returned with two warrants which gave them permission to enter within one calendar month, but failed to gain access to the bull. At about 4:00 pm, police used bolt cutters to get through the gate and move their vehicles – including an animal trailer and four riot vans. The bull was removed from the site at around 7:25 pm, after protesters had been removed, who had come from as far away as New Zealand and Switzerland. Shambo was taken to a local abattoir and officials confirmed on 27 July that Shambo had been slaughtered.
Here are a few observations.
Testing 'positive' for bovine TB is not a conclusive or definitive process. Furthermore, animals which do test positive may not necessarily be carrying, let alone be suffering from, bovine TB; they may merely have been exposed to the bacterium. A similar process led to me, in my thirties, 'testing positive' for Rubella. I have never been vaccinated against Rubella, caught Rubella or even as far I know been near someone suffering from it.
Even if Shambo did have bovine TB, treatment was available and Skanda Vale were prepared to pay for it – no human would be slaughtered for testing positive for, or indeed for developing full blown, TB. Slaughtering Shambo was completely unnecessary.
Those involved in the murder of Shambo included two paedophiles' friends. Jane Davidson, the then Rural Affairs Minister, is from Birmingham and has been involved with teaching/lecturing and knows much about Dafydd and the paedophiles but has spent her career keeping quiet (see previous posts). Lord Justice Pill, who upheld Davidson's decision to murder Shambo after Skanda Vale appealed, was the man who in his previous incarnation as Sir Justice Pill, sat in the High Court in Cardiff in May 1989 for more than an hour and entertained the lies that Dafydd and the paedophile gang told about me in their attempt to gain a High Court injunction which would have prevented me writing to anyone in Gwynedd Health Authority in an attempt to pursue my complaints against them. Sir Malcolm Pill didn't actually give Gwynedd Health Authority an injunction with the terms that they requested, which really pissed the Health Authority off. Their response was to instruct Andrew Park, the crooked lawyer employed by the Welsh Office, to collaborate with Gwynedd Social Services and Gwynedd's corrupt lawyer Ron Evans, in order to gain an injunction on the terms that Pill had refused. My documentation shows that Park and Evans from then on encouraged even more false allegations, conspiracy and perjury.
While I was grateful that Malcolm Pill did not give Gwynedd Health Authority what they wanted, Malcolm Pill read scores of documents which showed quite clearly that patients in north Wales were complaining of being abused, assaulted, unlawfully arrested and imprisoned and that these complaints were not being investigated. Pill also saw evidence of perjury, conspiracy and of Dafydd intimidating people – including police officers – with his Doberman dog. Pill said not a word about any of this. Neither did the two barristers presenting the arguments to Pill – Ian Murphy and Crispin Masterman. Ian Murphy and Crispin Masterman later became judges themselves and both have presided over child abuse trials in Wales.
See post 'Some Big Legal Names Enter The Arena' for the full story regarding Sir Malcolm Pill and the perjury that was involved in the attempt to gain the desired injunction.
When I was working as a post-doc at Bangor University in 2006 I encountered someone who knew Ian Murphy and Crispin Masterman as a result of previously working as a secretary in a Chambers in Swansea. She was a woman called Sue Davies who turned up as a secretary at Bangor University. Sue Davies lied, bullied other members of staff so badly that at least one secretary left her job because of her, forged documentation in order to cover for her many 'sick days' and threatened to sue me for defamation of character when I e mailed her and asked her to please stop trying to access confidential information about me. Davies wrote me a splendid letter in such a way that I was obviously supposed to believe that it had been written by a solicitor and e mailed it to me at 7 am one morning. My response was to laugh, so Davies then arrived at the office of the corrupt HR Director, Lyn Meadows, a good friend of the paedophiles herself, demanding that a bullying investigation be launched with regard to my shocking tendencies to laugh at attempts to intimidate me.
Sue – I know that you enjoyed telling people that you were 'Clerk to the Chambers' but I know that you weren't. Because the Clerk to the Chambers is a lawyer, not a daft unqualified bint who is a member of the typing pool.
Not that Sue Davies intended to remain as an admin assistant for long, she clearly wanted to really be Chief Clerk to the Chambers, because I subsequently discovered that she had applied for a place on the law degree at Bangor University and had even been offered a place. This was after Davies had bullied, harassed, lied and produced forged documentation. Did Lyn Meadows ever investigate the many complaints that Davies's line manager made against her, which were backed up by evidence? No. Instead Meadows did some crooked deal with Davies which resulted in Davies walking away from her job at Bangor University with a settlement. Jaws hit the ground. Then we found out about the offer of a place on the law degree…
Sue Davies was offered the place to study law by the Buffet Slayer, Aled Griffiths, who was the admissions tutor for the School of Law. Aled Griffith's sister is Gwenan Carrington, the former Director of Gwynedd Social Services; his wife is Joanna Griffiths, the former Director of Conwy Social Services; his brother is Huw Griffiths, who is a grossly incompetent solicitor who was one of those who in the 1980s and 1990s watched the paedophile gang stitch people up in the various courts of north Wales. Every one of the Buffet Slayer's nearest and dearest were up to their necks re Dafydd and the gang. See previous posts for further information on the Slayer and his Mafia.
The person who provided a glowing reference for Sue Davies so that boxes could be ticked re the application for the law degree was Professor Ian Russell, latterly of Bangor University, now of Swansea University. The Ian Russell who made as many fallacious allegations about colleagues as did Sue Davies and who was doing his best to do everything possible to smear and undermine the VC. See previous posts for info about Ian Russell, who even went as far as to make up lies about his RAE results and publish them on his Christmas Round Robins. I found the aforementioned Round Robins Of Lies after Ian used the University photocopiers to print them, fell asleep in his office and forgot to collect them from the photocopier.
Duw it's hard and that bastard of a VC won't give us redundancy packages big enough to make us go away. I have mentioned in previous posts the corrupt UCU rep at Bangor, Eileen Tilley and her funny little ways. One of the biggest laughs that I had when I worked at Bangor was after the combined forces of Tilley, Lyn Meadows and Professor Fergus Lowe opened fire on the Professor of Sociology, who was a friend and colleague of Graham, the target of the paedophiles' friends and Hugo Young/Peter Preston in the 1990s. Fungus had demanded that the contract of a particularly hopeless paedophiles' friend – the woman who was at the centre of the action that so excited Hugo Young et al – should finally be terminated. The rest of the paedophiles' friends swung into action and were clearly hoping to re-enact the Battle Of Yesteryear and within hours, I was hearing how the Professor of Sociology had treated a 'lovely, lovely lady' 'appallingly'. Who was broadcasting this across the University? Eileen Tilley. Who knew damn well that the paedophiles' friend in question was in no way a 'lovely, lovely lady', she'd nearly caused World War III in her pursuit of a job for which she was not qualified and could not do 20 years previously and furthermore it was Fungus who kicked her out, not the Professor of Sociology. However, Tilley was able to come to the rescue of the lovely, lovely, lady and the full force of UCU was brought to bear on the University and the lovely, lovely lady was given a full-time, permanent lecturing job. The lovely, lovely, lady tried to plagiarise my work but was too thick to understand it, so the result was yet more entertainment for the rest of us.
The lovely, lovely, lady was such a wow with the students that the number of them opting for the course which she ran was in single figures.
Of course, as Clerk to the Chambers, Sue Davies had all the lowdown on the criminals of Wales, including, according to the Clerk to the Chambers, Peter Hain. Sue Davies was so disgusted by Peter Hain that she voted Tory.
One organisation who were fully behind Jane Davidson's execution warrant for Shambo was the Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW). Bob Parry has been both Deputy President and President of the FUW. Bob Parry has also been an Anglesey County Councillor since the 1980s and throughout his long and glorious time on that Council, Bob Parry ignored the criminal conduct of his fellow Councillors, the serious abuse of kids in care on Anglesey and the selling of Chinese babies to anyone who had the dosh (see post 'The Old Devils'). Bob Parry served as Mayor of the Borough Council in 1989/90. He was elected as the Chairman of the Isle of Anglesey County Council for 2016/17. Cllr Parry first became a member of the Isle of Anglesey Borough Council in 1981 as a Plaid Cymru councillor, representing the communities of Bryngwran and Gwalchmai.
Bryngwran is the home of Dr Delyth Morris aka Duckula. Duckula was the best mate of the Lovely, Lovely, Lady and it was Duckula who spearheaded the assault in defence of the Lovely, Lovely, Lady in the 1990s which ended up requiring reinforcements from Hugo Young. Duckula was formerly employed as a social worker with Gwynedd Social Services. Duckula also plagiarised my work and succeeded in using it to net a research grant from the Board Of Celtic Studies. I suspect that Duckula plagiarised some work of the senior sociologist's who found himself in the sight of Hugo Young's cross-hairs in the 1990s as well. This man had an excellent idea for a community study, began discussing it with colleagues, only to discover some weeks later that Duckula had sprung up a friendship with the Scottish sociologist of religion from Aberdeen University, Professor Steve Bruce, who, bugger me, was embarking on exactly the same community study that the senior sociologist at Bangor was planning! Duckula sent an e mail to the Bangor sociologist cheerily explaining that she was advising Steve Bruce on the fieldwork. Steve Bruce may well have been entirely innocent and probably just thought that he'd discovered a wonderfully helpful lady in north Wales, but it was clear from Duckula's gloating e mail to the Bangor sociologist that she was far from innocent.
Duckula was a magistrate at Holyhead but she was obliged to stand down when it was discovered that she had tried to use her influence with the police to get her son off an assault charge. I was told by one of Duckula's son's friends that Duckula's bungaloid was used to store his drugs on the grounds that she wouldn't be raided, but he might well be. Duckula's son did his PhD at Bangor University, but no-one realised that he was Duckula's son because he had a different surname. Duckula didn't think to tell anyone that he was her son. Duckula's son received funding for his PhD from Tesco. I have no idea why, that was years before Tesco began talking about creating their own University. Amazingly enough, sometime afterwards, a huge Tesco store was built in Holyhead, despite much local opposition. There was one public spirited citizen who campaigned on behalf of Tesco however – one Dr Duckula Morris.
Duckula was very much more affluent than a lot of her colleagues. I was told that this was as a result of her flogging a field of hers at Bryngwran after she received planning permission to build bungaloids on it.
Anglesey County Council is famous for taking backhanders in return for granting planning permission and at least one Councillor – who went to prison for various offences – became a millionaire when he gained planning permission to build all sorts of things on his land.
Duckula really hates English people who have second homes in Gwynedd. Duckula's daughter, Gillian, Daughter of Duckula, was engaged to – although I don't know whether she ever married – one of the few people who has served a prison sentence for violent Welsh activism. I think that he sent or planted a bomb. Duckula told the world that she was delighted to welcome him into the clan.
Duckula has a second home in France but doesn't talk about it much because she 'doesn't want people to know'. Duckula's mentor, Professor Glyn Williams, a now retired academic from Bangor who also really hated English people, had a second home in France too.
John Allen owned a villa in France, to which he took kids in care 'on holiday'. Dr Dafydd Alun Jones used to hold 'clinics' in France.
We needn't worry about Duckula participating in crime though, because Duckula had a family connection to the Ethics Committee at Bangor University. Her sister served as its secretary and helpfully provided Duckula with full details of everybody else's projects which had been submitted for ethical approval. Including those projects which Duckula plagiarised. Not that anybody knew that the Ethics Committe secretary was Duckula's sister – like Duckula's son, she had a different surname from Duckula and Duckula didn't think to enlighten anyone.
Duckula's sister was as busy as Duckula. When I was conducting some fieldwork on Anglesey, I was surprised to be asked by someone whom I was interviewing, who did not work at the University or have any friends or relations who did, whether it was true that the VC was planning to close certain depts and sack staff, because Delyth Morris's sister has told me that she is and is asking us all to protest about it.
The VC did not have plans to close down bits of the University as accused by Duckula's sister. However Professor Fergus Lowe did and he tried to do this – Fungus wanted to close five Depts. He was unable to go ahead with his plans because the VC announced his retirement on the day that Fungus tried to force the closure plans through, assisted by the awful Professor Hilary Lappin-Scott. The Chancellor, Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas, told Fungus that no such decisions could be made now that the VC had announced his retirement.
The vile Hilary Satan-Scott is now inflicting huge damage on Swansea University, having left Bangor under a massive cloud, following the suicide of a member of staff who had been told that his Dept would be closing. See previous posts for more Satan-Scott laffs.
Bob Parry is a friend of Ieuan Wyn Jones, the former Plaid MP and AM for Anglesey/Ynys Mon. Ieuan Wyn Jones comes from Denbighshire and before he entered politics he was a solicitor. Ieuan did his degree at Liverpool Poly. One of the governors of Liverpool Poly was John Hamilton, the Leader of Liverpool City Council when Derek Hatton was Deputy Leader. John Hamilton was much quieter than Degsy, but he will have known about the corruption in Liverpool City Council and he also knew that Liverpool was a branch of Dafydd's empire (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well'). John Hamilton nearly died in a house fire just before the Waterhouse Report was published. So if he ever did feel like mentioning the names of anyone in High Places who were involved, lying in that bed suffering from third degree burns would have probably taken his mind off that. When Liverpool Poly became Liverpool John Moores University, Cherie Booth served a stint as Chancellor.
When younger, Ieuan Wyn Jones worked as a solicitor in Ruthin, in the same office as paedophiles' friend and Freemason David Jones, who is now the Tory MP for Clwyd West (see post 'The Right Honourable David Jones MP). David Jones then relocated to a practice in Bangor, where, like Huw Griffiths, he spent many years watching the paedophile gang frame victims and witnesses. David Cameron appointed David Jones Secretary of State for Wales just when Operation Pallial was opened and when the Macur Review of the Waterhouse Inquiry was being organised. David Jones is married to an Angel.
Ieuan was a pal of Alwyn Jones, the lawyer who acted for me but found himself indisposed when the paedophile gang took me to Court in Chester on the basis of their perjury and tried to have me imprisoned (see post 'It's Just Another Gold Digger').
Ieuan Wyn Jones:
Bob Parry will know another past leading light of the FUW, Henry Brookes, the brother of Beata Brookes. Beata was a particularly unpleasant Tory politician who came from a farming family in Denbighshire. Beata had many strings to her bow. She was a former social worker who held responsibilities in the Social Services, in Clwyd Health Authority and in many charidees for the disabled. Wherever there was a victim of the paedophile gang there was Beata. See post 'The 'Celtic Iron Lady' And Yet More Recent History'. In 1955, George Brookes, Beata's father (I presume that it was her father), became involved in a relatively trivial dispute with a local authority and ended up hiring some of the most famous, priciest lawyers in the UK to represent him, including Lord Hailsham; it was so mind blowing that Ronnie Waterhouse wrote about it in his autobiography. See post 'Cry, The Beloved Country'. The dispute involved the location of some caravans on Brookes's land and it would never have been worth his while employing the sort of lawyers that he did over such a matter, so I suspect that famille Brookes were actually up to something else at the time, something which could not under any circumstances be exposed.
Henry and Beata were rather grandiose and considered themselves a cut above your ordinary farmer. Henry wasn't just involved with the FUW, Henry concerned himself with country sports and country landowning organisations. Lord Kenyon was involved with agriculture on that level, as was Carlo's friend, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster. The Duke was the President of the City of Chester Conservative Association when Sir Peter Morrison was the constituency MP and was molesting kids in care in north Wales, Chester and other locations.
Mary Wynch was working as a secretary at the Dept of Agriculture at UCNW/Bangor University when Dafydd and the gang had her unlawfully arrested and imprisoned. Carlo was Chancellor of UCNW at the time.
The Buffet Slayer, who in his youth was the President of the Students' Union at UCNW, hates Carlo. If I was the Buffet Slayer I'd be thanking my lucky stars for Carlo, because without Carlo, the Slayer and his mates would be in prison by now.
For more background on Bob Parry, see post 'The Defence Of The Realm'.
One final point about the murder of Shambo. On 26 July 2007, the Govardhan Charitable Trust, a sanctuary for cows in Maharashtra state, India, wrote to the temple offering Shambo a home. The Trust appealed to the Welsh Assembly to refrain from killing Shambo until the Trust could arrange for the government of India to approve the import. The Trust's letter quoted Gandhi: 'We should be willing to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.' Transportation for Shambo was organised by a supporter from Switzerland.
After the slaughter of Shambo, Skanda Vale community leader 'Brother Alex' threatened that a 'nightmare' was just beginning for the Welsh Assembly. Secretary General Ramesh Kallidai said 'Ignorant people have chosen to desecrate our temple and have chosen to destroy life unnecessarily,' and he wanted 'to check how agricultural law can cater to the needs of sacred animals in Hindu temples in Britain'. The Hindu Conference of Canada expressed 'shock and dismay' at the decision of the Welsh Gov't.
This is what happens when a nation is run entirely by a collection of Pathetic Sharks who do not have sufficient scientific knowledge to make appropriate decisions and who have only achieved their positions by colluding with a trafficking gang who were murdering witnesses.
The Welsh Gov't Minister for Rural Affairs is now Lesley Griffiths. She doesn't know her arse from her elbow, is an on-going disaster in that role and there was yet another feature on 'Farming Today' this morning on Radio 4, which featured farmers who were pissed off with Lesley. Lesley Griffiths grew up near Wrexham, worked as a medical secretary at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital and served as a Wrexham Councillor, before being elected as an AM. Throughout the years in which Griffiths was doing this, Wrexham Maelor staff and Wrexham Councillors ignored, colluded with and concealed a vicious paedophile ring operating on their doorstep. Lesley Griffiths is a paedophiles' friend of the highest order. Lesley Griffiths was the Welsh Gov'ts Minister for Heath, 2011-13.
I wrote to Lesley Griffiths repeatedly during that time, informing her of the escalating threats which were being made toward me by the trafficking gang which she had spent her whole life ignoring. I did not receive any replies. My documents show that Griffiths received my e mails, but the concerns of the officials working for her were that I was e mailing my friends at Bangor University providing them with details of those threats as well as of a violent assault on me by a barrister's daughter. Furthermore, Griffiths' officials and NHS managers had documented that I had visited a Welsh Gov't Minister's house. I have never visited a Welsh Gov't Minister's house, I do not know where any Welsh Gov't Minister lives.
For further details of Lesley – including her performance in front of a group of wimmin who aspired to be politicians during which Lesley told the wimmin that she used to get nervous speaking in front of 'all the men', but when she was a Councillor she found that she could 'help the mums' by campaigning for better street lighting – and the numerous bombs that went off when she was Health Minister, see post 'History Repeats Itself, First As Tragedy, Second As Farce'.
It is worth noting that not only did Lesley fail to help the mums who's kids were in the hands of a vicious paedophile gang, but Lesley oversaw some pretty terrible suffering of dads as well. When I was unlawfully detained at the Heddfan Unit at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, after being assaulted by that barrister's daughter, Lesley was Health Minister. I made friends with another patient who was sectioned and prevented from seeing his own children because he wasn't allowed out and there was pressure on his partner not to take the kids in to such a place to see their dad. He was in Heddfan for a long while and the family home was located just behind the Heddfan Unit. If he went outside to sit in the garden, he could hear his daughters playing. But he couldn't actually have any contact with them. For months.
I think that we ought to campaign for Lesley to become FM. Russia's got Putin who trained with the KGB. Wales will have Lesley, who's suits don't fit, who sports ankle-swingers and who gets nervous speaking in front of all the men.
A former Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB:
A Welsh Gov't Minister:
In September 2015, both Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections took place in the Labour Party. Hilary Benn supported Andy Burnham in the Leadership election. The Andy who ignored somewhere in the region of 80 requests to hold an Inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire NHS. While thousands and thousands of people died.
On 2 December 2015, Benn made the closing speech for the official opposition in the House of Commons debate on airstrikes against ISIL in Syria. Benn's speech was described as 'one of the truly great speeches in Commons history'. Speaking to the BBC the following day, John McDonnell – he who is admired by Rachel the transgender HGV driver – compared Benn's speech to that given by Blair in 2003 ahead of the Iraq War. Was that one of the occasions on which Blair lied to the House perhaps? McDonnell described Benn's speech as an 'excellent' piece of oratory, but added: 'The greatest oratory can lead us to the greatest mistakes.' Perhaps John McDonnell had in mind another giant of Labour history who was renowned for his 'oratory':
On 25 June 2016, 'The Observer' revealed that Benn 'called fellow MPs over the weekend to suggest that he will ask Corbyn to stand down if there is significant support for a move against the leader. He has also asked shadow cabinet colleagues to join him in resigning if the Labour leader ignores that request.' During a phone call in the early hours of 26 June, Benn told Corbyn that Labour MPs and shadow cabinet members had 'no confidence in our ability to win the election' under his leadership. Corbyn then dismissed Benn from his position as Shadow Foreign Secretary. In a statement issued at 03:30 – Hilary had obviously been up all night worrying – Benn said: 'It has now become clear that there is widespread concern among Labour MPs and in the shadow cabinet about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of our party. In particular, there is no confidence in our ability to win the next election, which may come much sooner than expected, if Jeremy continues as leader.' Later in the morning, Heidi Alexander, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health, also resigned. Throughout the day, a further eight members of the shadow cabinet resigned.
Jezza is still in place. Considerably helped by Margaret Hodge constantly mouthing off and reminding everyone why so many people voted for Jezza rather than any of the selection of New Labour tossers who were on offer at the same time.
When in September 2016, Benn announced his intention to stand for Chairman of the new Exiting the European Union Select Committee. His bid was supported by Uncle Harry's nephew Ed Miliband, as well as other senior Labour Party figures including Angela Eagle and Andy Burnham. In a former life Angela worked for COHSE, an NHS union which represented many an abuser of patients. The General Secretary of COHSE was David Williams, who trained as an Angel at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh. See post 'A Very COHSE Relationship With Some Very Nasty People'.
I have a schedule of future blog posts planned, but if I have time to do so, I will blog about two people who have been loyal servants to Hilary's career who have done a few interesting things…
Hilary's predecessor as Labour MP for Leeds Central was Derek John Fatchett, who was elected in 1983. Derek Fatchett was predicted to have a great future in the Labour Party, possibly as its Leader one day, but he died suddenly in 1999 at the age of 53.
Fatchett attended Lincoln School and then Birmingham University, where he studied law, graduating in 1966. Fatchett joined the Labour Party in 1964. He took an MSc at the LSE in 1968, where he was a student activist. When young, Fatchett was on the left, but when an MP he migrated to the right…
Fatchett was a Councillor on Wakefield Metropolitan Council, 1980-84. He became a Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the University of Leeds in 1971, staying there until he became an MP.
Fatchett was a Leeds City Councillor and working at Leeds University when the Yorkshire Ripper was murdering unhindered thanks to police corruption and incompetence. One of the Sutcliffe's victims was a student at Leeds and a friend of mine who was a student there at the time said that there was an atmosphere of sheer terror across the whole area. Fatchett will have heard about Savile and the rampant police corruption that prevailed in Leeds/Yorkshire at the time.
After Labour's 1997 election victory, Fatchett was soon made a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Derek Fatchett died suddenly on the night of 9 May 1999 (aged 53), from a massive heart attack after collapsing whilst relaxing with his wife and close friend in a Wakefield pub. At the time of his death, it was predicted in political circles that he was soon to be Defence or N Ireland Secretary.
A BBC article on Fatchett's life mentioned his 'inner city constituency', which will have contained people who had been or were being targeted by the trafficking gang operating in the area remembered that Derek Fatchett had said that 'he was once a bearded leftie Marxist'.
Derek gave up being a bearded leftie under the Windbag's 'modernising leadership'. Fatchett will have known that the Windbag was staking his whole future on concealing the organised abuse gangs which were causing ructions in Wales and elsewhere, because the Windbag was so desperate for the votes of welfare professionals (see post 'I Warn You…'). Fatchett then joined ranks behind Blair. He quit the left-wing Campaign Group of which Tony Benn was a leading light in 1985. He subsequently persuaded the Tribune Group to support the Windbag and Fattersley. Fattersley held a seat in an inner-city, poor Birmingham constituency for decades and knew about the massive corruption in civic life in Birmingham, including the excesses of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad and the trade in abused and trafficked kids between Birmingham and north Wales.
Derek Fatchett joined the Foreign Office after Labour's 1997 victory and was a close friend of his boss at the Foreign Office, Robin Cook.
Robin Cook, who died after a severe heart attack on 6 August 2005:
The day prior to his own death, Mr Fatchett joined Mr Cook at the daily Ministry of Defence briefing on the Kosovo conflict. He had recently visited East Timor and had also accompanied Lilibet on the previous month's visit to South Korea. Earlier that year, Derek met with the Taleban's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Zahidc in Islamabad in the first ever contact between the UK and the Islamic organisation. Mr Fatchett had became a Privy Councillor in October 1998.
One of Derek Fatchett's responsibilities in Blair's Gov't was to sell the 'Cool Britannia' image abroad. A major contribution to 'Cool Britannia' was 'Cool Cymru', which was virtually entirely based upon a group of Welsh rock stars who were the children of the people who had been the key figures in facilitating and concealing the organised abuse and trafficking in Wales (see post 'The International Language Of Screaming').
'The Guardian' obituary for Fatchett mentioned that he had been involved in Cook's highly successful initiative to bring the Lockerbie bombers to trial. There were constant allegations and counter-allegations regarding the conviction of one of the Lockerbie bombers – that he was a stooge, that a dirty deal had been done with Col Gadaffi – who after all became a Blairite at one point – and that false medical evidence regarding his condition had been submitted etc. See previous posts.
The Dear Departed:
Massive heart attack, 12 May 1994
Massive heart attack, 9 May 1999
Massive heart attack, 6 August 2005
Someone Who Is Still With Us, Who's Heart Problem Was Diagnosed And Successfully Fixed By Top Doctors:
Recent posts and comments have discussed the meteoric rise through Scottish Labour politics of Lord Jack McConnell, who was at Stirling University with my best friend from school, who knew what was happening to me in north Wales and who found herself pursued by gangsters and having her career ruined when that was happening to me as well. Lord Jack was a maths teacher who spent the years between 1984 and 1992 as a leading light on Stirling District Council, including when there was an abuse scandal there. Lord Jack became General Secretary of Scottish Labour Party in 1992 and was credited with the splendid Scottish General Election result for Labour in 1997, in which the Tories were wiped out.
Lord Jack was elected as an MSP in 1999 and by 2001 he was FM! Fancy that happening just as the Waterhouse Inquiry was ending and then while Waterhouse published his Report. When Lord Jack was FM, he appointed Professor Alex Jay to the most senior role in social work in Scotland. Alexis had previously overseen many an abuse scandal and had been responsible for the chaos that was the Orkney Satanic Abuse Scandal (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play'). Alexis is now Chairing the IICSA, which is falling apart.
Lord Jack has a particularly high opinion of Dennis Andrew Canavan, who was MP for Falkirk West, 1974-2000 (known as West Stirlingshire, 1974-83), first as a member of the Labour Party and then as an Independent. Canavan then served as an Independent MSP for Falkirk West, 1999-07.
Canavan was educated at St. Bride's and St Columba's Schools, Cowdenbeath, St Andrew's College, Drygrange and at the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a schoolteacher from 1968 until 1974 and was Assistant Head of Holy Rood High School, Edinburgh at the time of his first election to Parliament. Canavan was also Head of the Maths Department at St Modan's High in Stirling.
Canavan was leader of the Labour Party Group on Stirling District Council in 1974 and was Chair of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Group, 1980-81.
Canavan is still a member of CND and Amnesty International, as are many on the left who have remained silent about the abuse of children and young people in welfare settings. He Chaired the N Ireland Committee of the PLP, 1989-97, and led several Parliamentary delegations to Ireland during the Troubles. Canavan served on the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body, 1992-2000. Whatever it was that was going on at the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast, Canavan knows about it.
As a member of the European and External Relations Committee of the Scottish Parliament, Canavan was author of a report on the potential for co-operation between Scotland and Ireland.
Throughout his entire political life, Canavan played a leading part in the campaign for a Scottish Parliament. Which within two years of its creation was being led by his good mate Jack. However, in 1999, when the first elections to the Scottish Parliament were held, the New Labour leadership rejected Canavan as an official Labour candidate, despite the fact that he had the support of 97% of local party members. He therefore stood as an Independent and was consequently expelled from the Party. Canavan won with almost 55% of the vote, the biggest majority of any MSP in that election. Canavan resigned his Westminster seat in 2000 to concentrate on representing his constituents in the Scottish Parliament. Canavan retained his Holyrood seat in 2003 with 55.7% of the vote, again the biggest majority in Scotland.
In the Scottish Parliament, Canavan was a member of the European and External Relations Committee and Convener of the All-Party Sports Group from 1999.
Canavan is President of Ramblers Scotland.
When Canavan announced his retirement before the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections, he was the longest serving parliamentarian in the Scottish Parliament, having completed a combined 33 years at Westminster and Holyrood. He was praised by his mate the then FM Jack as 'an outstanding parliamentarian over a long, long period of time'.
The careers of Canavan and Lord Jack are strikingly similar, but Canavan is a lot older than Lord Jack and entered politics years before Lord Jack did. I suspect that Canavan was Lord Jack's big mate and mentor – back in the days when my friend found Lord Jack getting into her bed without so much as a by-your-leave – but Jack's career then accelerated past old Dennis, particularly when Dennis was having dust-ups with New Labour. This is pure speculation, but I'm wondering if Dennis gave Lord Jack a leg-up when Lord Jack was a whippersnapper – when he was getting into my friend's bed, I heard all about it at the time Jack! – but then when Lord Jack realised that my friend had the dynamite on the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal, he was able to clobber New Labour over the head with that and rise to the very top, even though they hated his best mate Dennis.
Am I right Dennis?
So where does Dennis's answer leave these two?
On May 31 1994, 19 days after John Smith died, the two pictured above are famously alleged to have made a deal which dictated that Gordon would stand aside to give Blair a clear run for the Party leadership and then after Blair had been PM for a few years, he'd give Gordon a go. Gordon became mighty angry when Blair broke the deal years later. The deal was made over a meal in the Granita restaurant, Islington, when Tony and Cherie still lived in Islington. There was a paedophile/trafficking ring operating in Islington's children's homes at the time, with links to Dafydd's gang in north Wales.
I was the person who told Tony Francis that John Smith had died – I was in the Hergest Unit at the time, I heard the newsflash on the radio and told the other patients. Francis heard me, came out of his office, interrogated me re the circumstances of Smith's death and dashed off quite excited. My documents show that very shortly after that, Francis, Dafydd et al began yet another conspiracy to have me incarcerated in a secure hospital (see post 'The Banality Of Evil').
Tony Francis knew the Windbag when they were at university in Cardiff.
John Smith died on 12 May 1994 at Barts hospital after they were 'unable to revive' him. Dafydd's mate Professor Linford Rees ruled the roost at Barts for years (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). Lady Juliet Bingley was also very influential at Barts, due to having worked there as a social worker and her father being a surgeon there. Lady Juliet was married to Admiral Sir Alec Bingley, who served with Lord Louis Mountbatten (see post 'The Defence Of The Realm'). Lady Juliet and her son William spent their careers colluding with Dafydd et al when Lady Juliet and William held senior positions at MIND and when William was Chief Exec of the Mental Health Act Commission. See previous posts for details. On 9 June 1994 Matt Arnold, the Headmaster of Bryn Estyn, died of an 'unspecified blood disease'. On 13 June 1994 the trial of Peter Howarth, Arnold's friend and colleague from Bryn Estyn, for sexually abusing boys in care in north Wales opened. Paul Wilson was put on trial alongside Howarth. Arnold and Howarth had previously worked at Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead, where boys had been abused. They relocated to Bryn Estyn in 1973.
The friend of mine who found Jack McConnell in her bed and subsequently came under attack from gangsters sought advice from the Islington Council harassment officer in 1988. Tony and Cherie were still living in Islington at the time. Margaret Hodge was the Council leader – it was Hodge who nominated Blair for the Labour Party Leadership. Islington Council were given full details of the threats and aggression to which my friends were being subjected and was the reason why they had to move house quickly. Islington did rehouse them, but to somewhere equally as dangerous (see post 'The Turn Of The Screw').
Once my friend and her husband arrived at their new flat, an old friend of theirs from Stirling, Sheena, known to Jack McConnell, moved in and wreaked havoc, just about destroying their lives.
Do you know anything about why Sheena did this Lord Jack?
My friend and her husband were then hounded out of their jobs in the media. My friend worked at the Royal Television Society and her husband worked at the BBC. Lord Jack is a big mate of Kirsty Wark, who was a stalwart of BBC's 'Newsnight'.
In April 2010, Lord Jack's mate Dennis Canavan declared his support for John McNally, the SNP candidate for Falkirk in the 2010 general election. Falkirk is the successor to Canavan's former Westminster constituency.
Now for someone who gave a big helping hand to the Gang Of Four, all of whom were up to their eyeballs in concealing the Westminster Paedophile Ring, including that branch in north Wales/Cheshire which was facilitated by Dafydd et al. Dr Death personally knew some of the Top Docs involved with the gang in north Wales. My post 'We've Been Expecting You…' mentioned that in a recent radio interview the Gang Of Four explained that after they made the Limehouse Declaration at Dr Death's house, they received a most generous offer from David Kingsley, who gave his time free of charge and organised masses of free PR and advertising for them, utilising some of the most well-known names in the business.
David Kingsley died in 2014 and 'The Guardian' published an obituary for him. Kingsley was described as the first 'moderniser' in British politics and Labour's first spin doctor.
Kingsley played a role – which only emerged much later – in Harold Wilson's dramatic first speech as Labour leader to his Party's 1963 annual conference, offering a new vision of socialism and a Britain 'forged in the white heat' of a scientific and technological revolution. The electorate liked it and Wilson won his first general election victory the following year.
Kingsley was one of the 'three wise men' who were brought in to help Wilson in 1962; Kingsley's particular expertise being in advertising. Kingsley, Peter Lovell-David, a media-management expert and Denis Lyons, from the world of PR, formed a team of unpaid advisers to Wilson, deliberately situated outside of the Party hierarchy. They were responsible for the campaign slogans 'Let's go with Labour and we'll get things done' in 1964 and 'You know Labour government works' in 1966. The optimism that they helped convey on the party's behalf, which lay behind the 'white heat' speech at Scarborough, offered an alternative to the austerity of the postwar years and would serve to end Labour's 13 years in Parliamentary opposition.
After 1964, Kingsley was regarded as someone of considerable significance at No 10 and as the most talented of the 'wise men', who visited the PM once a fortnight. Wilson himself had written a report in the 1950s on the need to modernise the Labour Party organisation and he was determined to use people like Kingsley to introduce new ideas of presentation and public promotion of the party. With Kingsley's help and advice, he also brought in regular opinion polling, using the services of Bob Worcester – later the founder of Mori – to look at the reasons behind the voting intentions of the electorate. This was an almost unknown science in British politics at the time and, in Kingsley's view, if it had been taken more seriously would have averted Labour's narrow and unexpected election defeat in 1970.
Kingsley proposed that politicians should use the latest marketing techniques to try to get through to people by using language rather than just headlines and that they should explain their policies and principles. In the event, the Labour 1970 election slogan 'Yesterday's men', portraying the Conservative leader, Edward Heath and his team as plastic puppets in the dustbin of history, misfired badly. It had been planned by Kingsley and his colleagues as the first half of a two-part campaign and the follow-up was intended to convey the positive message 'Make Britain great again'. But Wilson unexpectedly brought forward the General Election to June, apparently persuaded by his political adviser, Marcia Williams and the negative nature of the 'Yesterday's men' slogan rebounded to his disadvantage. A BBC TV programme the following year, about how Wilson and his Ministers were adjusting to life in opposition, caused an enormous kerfuffle when it was broadcast under the same title and suggested that the former PM had unashamedly profiteered from the publication of his account of his time in Gov't.
Kingsley was born in south London, but the family moved and he was educated at Southend High School for boys, before going to the LSE. He did his national service with the RAF, returned to be President of the Students' Union at the LSE in 1952 and the following year became Vice-President of the NUS. Kingsley remained closely attached to the LSE throughout his life, as a governor for 40 years until 2006, an honorary fellow and Chairman of the alumni association. He will have known Brian Abel-Smith and Richard Titmuss, two LSE academics who were crucial to the early development of the NHS and welfare state very well. Abel-Smith in particular knew exactly how severely the NHS was abusing the most vulnerable citizens and he knew that the Top Doctors were facilitating organised abuse gangs (see post 'The Great Stink'). David Kingsley will have known this as well, in addition to the wrongdoing of MPs such as Leo Abse and George Thomas which Wilson and his colleagues were concealing. The gang in north Wales was linked to Abse and George Thomas in south Wales.
The role of the Top Doctors in north Wales concealing sexual exploitation and abuse went back decades. My post 'The Village' describes how the situation can be traced as far back as before WWII, involving visitors from the Bloomsbury/Islington area to Cwm Croesor in north Wales.
David Kingsley had been adopted as the prospective Labour candidate for East Grinstead in 1952, but decided on a career in advertising, working in New York before returning to the UK and founding his own company, KMP, in 1964. With his business partners, Michael Manton and Brian Palmer, he created a ground-breaking agency that challenged some of the US giants at a difficult time for the industry.
Kingsley's ideas were strongly opposed by the traditionalists at Labour HQ, particularly the General Secretary, Ron Hayward and the Head of the press operation, Percy Clark. Unlike his two colleagues, Kingsley was not given a peerage. He offered his professional advice to various foreign governments, including those of Zambia and Mauritius and of course to the SDP 1981-87.
Kingsley undoubtedly knew what Dr Death and his colleagues had colluded with in their role as healthcare professionals and knew exactly what the Gang Of Four were sitting on in their capacities as politicians who knew all about the Westminster Paedophile Ring. Any advice given to the SDP will have taken that into account. It was why Shirl and Woy targeted those seats at Crosby and Hillhead which had such strong links with people involved in the Westminster Paedophile Ring (see post 'We've Been Expecting You…').
A few years before he died, Kingsley gave an interview with blogger Oliver Shah. The interview tells us that Kingsley worked 'in New York for Proctor & Gamble, the founders of modern advertising' and that Kingsley 'made regular TV appearances and knew the power players in London's blossoming advertising scene'. But Kingsley insisted it was the Three Wise Men – together with their friend Bob Worcester, the founder of Mori – who started using regular opinion polls to guide party strategy, years ahead of Tony Blair: 'In fact to my mind, introducing the Labour party to proper opinion poll research was one of the most important things we did…Bob [Worcester] was very good. If they'd used him more we needn't have lost the 1970 election. I know everyone always looks back, but he was tracking very clearly what was happening and what the problems were in a way the Labour party had never experienced before.'
Shah's blog notes that 'the art of spin' was 'now so associated with vicious briefings and irresponsible hype'. Kingsley described Wilson as 'a marvellous chap' who would 'bring his wife and children to parties and would charm friends and foes with his bluff northern manner'.
Wilson might have wheeled out his wife and kids for PR purposes, but Wilson knew that George Thomas was a child abuser, he was good friends with George Thomas and he also knew that Leo Abse, George Thomas's friend and protector, was an aggressive bent lawyer who was in the process of rewriting legislation concerning children in care solely on the advice of people who were facilitating and concealing child abuse (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country').
Dafydd too maxed out on his children. Dafydd told third parties that I had used 'foul and abusive language' in front of his young children – I didn't even know that he had young children when that allegation was made; Dafydd moved onto telling people that I was a 'danger' to his 'young children'; Dafydd gave an interview to a local newspaper telling them that his children 'say their prayers at night and I'm rather proud of that'; Dafydd told people that he was 'kind to children'. Meanwhile Dafydd ran a paedophile gang, along with his mistress, children's social worker Lucille Hughes and was so infrequently at home that he employed nannies – who were young female patients of his who lived with him – to look after his children.
Dafydd's constant references to 'children' were a running joke among the Hergest Unit patients.
Dafydd's teenaged children boasted of hurling abuse at and taking the piss out of Dafydd's patients.
Oliver Shah's blog tells us that David Kingsley 'parted amicably' from the Wise Men and the Labour party when Ted Heath's Tories scraped to power in 1970 and 'He says he has never been tempted to return to the heart of British politics, preferring to split his time between charity work and advising a number of African governments.'
Yet Kingsley moved heaven and earth, free of charge, to help the Gang Of Four.
Shah's blog states that 'Kingsley lets slip a surprising revelation: he didn't draw a penny in salary from the government in all his time as its communications maestro. Offering his services for free gave him a feeling of distance from the political machine, he says and the freedom to do as he liked. His only remuneration came in the form of a Havana cigar, itself a gift from Fidel Castro to Harold Wilson.'
People like David Kingsley do not do things out of the goodness of their hearts or because of an ideological commitment. If Kingsley was ever to do that he would not have become an advertising/PR man.
So what was Kingsley's real reason for tripping over himself to help the Gang Of Four? Where did his reward lie? What did this past master of vicious tawdry spin resort to in order to try and get Dr Death a job as PM?
Kingsley is dead, but his pal – and the pal of those Top Doctors in north Wales who facilitated the trafficking gang – Dr Death, is not. Dr Death, would you happen to know anything about the stream of people who befriended Brown, me and the friends of ours who knew what was happening to me in north Wales, who turned out to be a little peculiar and grossly abusive into the bargain? They worked in the media and in healthcare, they moved into house shares with us, they had relationships with Brown, they tried to split up our friendships and relationships and some of them knew Dafydd and other colleagues of yours Dr Death. Furthermore, references to them are to be found in documents from my medical records now in my possession.
You're welcome to e mail me Dr Death or leave a comment on the blog! You've got nothing to lose you nasty old bugger – after all you never did become PM, although your colleagues in north Wales imprisoned and killed all those witnesses to their wrongdoing.
Previous posts have discussed how Donna Ockenden, the 'independent consultant' who recently was commissioned to 'leave no stone unturned' and to 'get to the bottom of' whatever has gone so terribly wrong with mental healthcare in north Wales is yet another person who has now run away screaming and abandoned the patients of north Wales after she discovered from documents that I sent her relating to my own case just how serious the crime in the NHS in north Wales was/is and how many people colluded with it.
I have explained in previous posts how Donna invited me to meet her, but after I sent her documentation demonstrating perjury, conspiracy, the destruction of evidence, wrongful arrest and the unlawful denial of NHS treatment to patients who had complained, Donna e mailed me and cancelled our meeting and I never heard from her again.
Before Donna cancelled, she invited me to meet her and someone else whom she told me was assisting her in the investigation into the Betsi Cadwaladr University NHS Trust, but who's name has never been made public. It was Dr Graeme Zaki, an Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon who practices at Havant in Hampshire. Dr Zaki can be found listed on the website of Spire Healthcare, a private company. A number of the Betsi consultants are making good incomes from working for Spire. There is a Spire Hospital just down the road from Wrexham Maelor Hospital. If you want an appointment with a Spire consultant, you ring their NHS secretary and the NHS secretary arranges it.
For the past few years, waiting lists for joint surgery at the Betsi have been so long that I know of patients who expressly told their surgeons that they did not approve of private medicine and did not want to jump the queue when told that they could be treated within weeks rather than in nearly two years time, but who did end up going to the Spire because they were in so much pain that they could bear it no longer. One man I know suspected that this was going to happen so he logged the whole process and correlated dates. He told me that he could only conclude that the surgeons at the Betsi had got together and organised appointments and waiting lists such that they ensured that patients would be forced to go private. The consultants themselves have told the media that they do not tell any patients that they will be treated more quickly if they go private. No, the consultants don't. The GPs do that bit and then let the consultants know who has agreed to go private because they can bear the agony no longer.
In 2005 Graeme Zaki was in the media. The BBC reported a scandal which involved a doctor at a South African health care firm who had been flown in to do hip replacements for the NHS being blamed for botching operations on six patients. The surgeon worked for Netcare and carried out the operations at the Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire, between 10 and 20 November 2003. The BBC reported that another Top Doctor had described the surgeon's work as 'totally substandard and probably negligent'. Two of the surgeon's patients had to have corrective surgery. It was Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust who had contracted Netcare and the surgeon. The Medical Director of that Trust at the time was Graeme Zaki. Zaki apologised.
In 2008 the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust were facing a big negligence action after a young woman died in circumstances which they had admitted should never have arisen. The Medical Director of the Trust, Graeme Zaki, apologised.
I'll do a bit of digging and see if I can find any direct links between Graeme Zaki and the paedophiles' friends in north Wales.
My post 'It's Just Another Gold Digger' mentioned that the man who prosecuted Rebecca Teacher at the Old Bailey for conspiracy to blackmail in 1993 after Rebecca blew the whistle on the physical and sexual abuse of children at a commune near Bethesda – abuse which was widely known among local solicitors, the North Wales Police, the Top Doctors and Angels and of course Gwynedd Social Services – was a David Bate. I've tried to find out who David Bate was/is, but I have drawn a blank. I noticed his name because there is a family who live in Bangor called Bate.
Chris Bate is an accountant and his wife Nan Bate is a magistrate. I don't know where Chris Bate grew up, but Nan is the daughter of the man who was the leading Top Doctor in the Caernarfon and Bangor area during the postwar years. Chris is the accountant for two friends of mine and before I got the hell out of Wales, one of those friends had a stroke – he'd had a stroke previously, but the Top Doctors told him that he had a middle ear infection, so he was left untreated and then had an even bigger stroke – and I went to visit him in hospital. Chris and Nan Bate turned up to visit him at the same time. During the visit, the wife of the man who'd had the stroke began reminiscing how, as a child, at Christmas, her Methodist Minister dad used to take her and her siblings to visit children in hospitals and orphanages. Nan piped up and said that when she was a child, her father and mother too used to take her to visit children in hospital on Christmas morning and she hated it. The children whom Nan was taken to visit were children in the very hospital that we were sitting in, when it had been used for a different purpose! The reason why Nan hated the visits was that she didn't like the children – they were 'nutters' with awful hairstyles and naff clothes. So I asked Nan if the children were what would now be called learning disabled or whether they were children with mental health problems. Nan said that she didn't know, they were just nutters and she hated them.
Nan Bate's Top Doctor father will have known Gwynne the lobotomist and he probably knew the young Dafydd as well. When Dafydd had that infamous photo taken of himself which he used to show to young women and say 'This is me when I began my medical training. Don't ewe think I was handsome?'
Dafydd: as someone who saw that photo, I can absolutely assure you that even when you began your 'medical training' at the Sodom and Gomorrah that was Liverpool University Medical School, you were not in the least bit handsome. Instead of being an insane horrible old man, you were merely an insane horrible young man. You also looked really bonkers in that photo. Furthermore, I'm not sure what passed for 'medical training' at Liverpool in the 1950s, but it only seemed to train you in the ways of idiocy and crime.
Nan: those junior nutters will not have chosen their awful hairstyles and clothes. Your father's colleagues did that for them. Furthermore, it was your father and his colleagues who had such a bad attitude to those kids that they didn't even enlighten you, his own daughter, as to the harsh reality of their lives. What was the point of taking you to visit them on Christmas morning when you hated them and dismissed them as nutters? Or was that part of your training for your future career as a magistrate, when the nutters came up before you in Court, on the basis of the perjury of the people who were trained by the Top Docs of your father's generation?
Oh Nan – tell us what you know about the paedophile ring in north Wales which was facilitated by your father, his colleagues and those with whom you sat/sit on the Bench will you? The ring who targeted the nutters.
Nan and her husband benefit from the sort of perks that nutters don't. One one occasion some years ago, Nan got her paws on free tickets for a Rugby International in Cardiff and offered tickets and a lift down to some people whom I knew. They were a bit worried that they'd be cramped and uncomfortable on the long drive to Cardiff, particularly as they knew that the traffic would be bad and they'd be in a jam for quite a while. Nan told them that they didn't need to worry, she had just purchased a new Merc, it was top of the range and had every adaption necessary to ensure passenger comfort even on the longest of journeys.
The nutters would have to go on the bus. If they ever could afford the tickets to the big match.
One man who has famously travelled to many big rugby matches is Max Boyce, who became famous in the 1970s for singing songs about the hardship of mining as well as lighter ditties regarding getting pissed with the lads at Twickers and taking detours to Soho. Max Boyce is gay and has been for years. How do I know? Because a paedophiles' friend from north Wales told me some years ago. He should know – he knew the people in Cardiff who were alleged to be, to use Brown's phrase, 'peddling their arses' to Max and friends. The paedophiles' friend also knew boys in care in north Wales who were peddling their arses more locally, including to a solicitor in Caernarfon. That particular solicitor is a friend of Aled Griffiths the Buffet Slayer and in the past has been invited to give talks to visiting international students at Bangor Law School. Not that the Slayer told the visitors that they were meeting a solicitor from Caernarfon – the visitors were told that they were meeting a 'real British judge'.
It's a rat trap Nan – and you've been caught..
Having a good laugh at the nutters:
Inspecting and measuring a nutter:
The final solution:
As one of the nutters said to Dafydd back in the 1990s, regarding the death of Mary Wynch's mother: 'I'm not saying that you were the doctor responsible – but it looks like you did it.'
A major beano has been planned for Carlo's 70th birthday in November. It will include a gala at the London Palladium starring a few folk from the Magic Circle whom Carlo has 'supported'. I was surprised to read in the Torygraph that Carlo himself is a member of the Magic Circle, he has been since the mid-1970s. My post 'The White Heat Of This Revolution' mentioned that Sir Owen Saunders, a paedophiles' friend who used his knowledge of serious crime on the part of the Top Doctors and others to vastly expand his empire at Imperial College and who was VC of London University, 1967-69, was an enthusiastic member of the Magic Circle. As of course was Greville Janner.
Does anyone have any dirt on Ali Bongo, the children's favourite of the 1970s, who memorably always wore a pair of ladies tights when he used to appear on TV?
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I have just finished reading Rhodri Morgan's memoir and there are some real gems of information in that book. One thing that I discovered from Rhodri's book is the identities of those who made up the Windbag Kinnock's Shadow Energy team in 1988. Before readers roll around laughing at my complete nerdiness for being interested in such a matter, let me just remind everyone that between 11 June 1987-23 July 1990, one of Thatcher's Ministers in the Dept of Energy was Sir Peter Morrison – who at the time was sexually abusing kids in care in north Wales, Cheshire and in London. Morrison was Minister of State for Energy with responsibility for oil (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well'). Senior Tories from the time have admitted that Morrison's conduct with under-aged boys was widely known and extensively gossiped about. Thatcher was directly warned about it but she continued to appoint Morrison to Gov't roles nonetheless.
Morrison's Secretaries of State whilst he was at Energy were Cecil Parkinson (13 June 1987-24 July 1989) and John Wakeham (24 July 1989-11 April 1992).
Morrison's Tory colleagues have admitted that they knew about him, but Westminster being what it was – and still is – those on the opposition benches will have known as well, particularly those who had to shadow him and his colleagues in Energy. So who was in the Shadow Energy team in 1988? Well it was Rhodri Morgan, Frank Haynes, Kevin Barron, John Maxton – and they were led by the Shadow Secretary of State, a man called Tony Blair!
Rhodri remarks in his memoir that although Blair didn't understand the facts underlying global warming – although in the light of some of the comments made by Rhodri about climate change I'm not at all sure that he did either – Blair was a man who was very sharp, picked up on everything that was going on around him and quickly identified which political angle would benefit him. So I really don't think that Blair would have missed what Peter Morrison was up to. Particular as Blair had previously worked as a junior barrister in the corrupt barrister George Carman's chambers and George Carman knew all about the North Wales/Cheshire paedophile ring (see posts 'No Ordinary Methods' and 'No Ordinary Methods – Supplementary Post'). Blair was of course married to Cherie, who had also worked in the same chambers as Carman – Cherie was friendly with many of the lawyers who knew that kids from London boroughs were being sent to north Wales children's homes where they had complained of being seriously abused…
Whilst Blair was busying himself as Shadow Secretary at Energy, the need to protect Peter Morrison was causing havoc. Alison Taylor, Mary Wynch and I were all desperately trying to raise the alarm about serious criminality in north Wales. Alison had been sacked and found that her family were being targeted by the paedophiles' friends, Mary had gone into hiding in England and my life was one long round of being arrested and fitted up, being subjected to rumour and gossip, being targeted by sex offenders and other nasties or losing jobs. Brown and my friends were also being targeted.
History has it that it was whilst Blair was at Energy that he was spotted as a real star who gained a following and was predicted to be cut out for great things. How did you impress everyone so much at that particular point in your trajectory then Blair?
Rhodri Morgan mentions that Anji Hunter, Blair's right hand woman for years, was 'intensely loyal' to the 1988 Shadow Energy team. What a worthless piece of trash 'Anji' must be. People were found dead in north Wales Anji because of your 'intense loyalty' to a gang of fools who concealed serious crime – people who's parents had died or been too ill to look after them when they were kids, so they were taken into care and handed over to a gang of paedophiles. They were battered, raped, buggered and illegally imprisoned in a dungeon at the North Wales Hospital by a madman who also wanted to have sex with them and some of them were murdered.
As the Top Doctors say to each other when they are in really deep shit – perhaps when someone gets their hands on 10,000 previously unlawfully witheld documents and starts writing a blog – 'do you think that you could have done anything differently Anji?'
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime!
For further details of the horrors of what was going on in the mental health services in Wales as well as in the wider UK whilst Blair's Energy Team were bonding – including the appointment of Jimmy Savile as manager of Broadmoor – please see post 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s'.
Whilst researching for this post, I noticed some discrepancies in terms of the dates given regarding Blair's term as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy. Blair's online Parliamentary biography states quite clearly that he was Shadow Secretary of State for Energy from Jan 1988-Jan 1989. Yet Rhodri Morgan maintains that Blair was in that post for two and a half years. Furthermore Morgan's book relates an anecdote concerning a reply that Blair had received from John Wakeham in Wakeham's capacity as Secretary of State for Energy after Blair wrote to him – Wakeham didn't take up that post until 24 July 1989. So Blair must have still been in the Shadow Energy team by then, not – as Blair's biography states – in the Shadow Employment team.
Tony Blair is not known for telling the truth about matters which could prove politically difficult and it would seem that for some reason Blair only wants to fess up to having spent 1988 as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy.
Blair did become Shadow Employment Secretary after his stint as Shadow Energy Secretary, but when exactly that was is unclear. What is clear is that after Blair had been in a position to dig up the dirt on Peter Morrison, it was agreed by everyone, including John Smith who took over as Blair's boss when the Windbag stood down, that Blair was a man with a great future ahead of him.
Rhodri's colleague in Blair's team, Frank Haynes, was the Labour MP for Ashfield, 1979-92. Haynes was born in Wandsworth but moved to Nottinghamshire – before he became an MP Haynes was a miner. As an MP he was sponsored by the NUM and during the 1984-85 strike he remained loyal to the NUM rather than support the majority of Nottinghamshire miners who broke away to form the UDM.
Haynes's obituary in the Indie was written by Tam Dalyell, who when writing the obituaries of his Parliamentary colleagues, excelled at dressing up the characters of some very unpleasant people and maintaining that they persuaded others to do what they wanted by charm or simply because everybody just loved them so much.
Dalyell wrote of Haynes:
'Unquestionably he had the loudest voice in Parliament and the commentator Matthew Parris wrote that, when Mr Speaker Thomas [George Thomas, a child molester himself] called Frank Haynes, they turned off the televisions in St Thomas' Hospital and listened. Haynes was effective at going to see Conservative ministers, who liked him very much, even if his opening remark to them was 'You know I hate Tories' with his big beaming smile.
Within 18 months of becoming an MP [Haynes] took up Mrs Thatcher's offer to any member who had a problem with industry or unemployment in their constituency to come and knock on the door of No 10 Downing Street. Haynes had a group of factories which had run into severe difficulties and wanted to lay off some 400 people, so he got an appointment. He would regale his friends with how she met him at the door and offered him a drink. 'I told her I didn't think Dennis Skinner would approve! She loved that and it broke the ice; the end result was that she gave me 10 minutes to put their case and, after looking at their export record, agreed to help them. As a result, no one was laid off.'
Haynes was spotted by Michael Cox, then the Opposition Chief Whip, as a likely member of his office. This was a perfect niche for him as he was both popular and dedicated to the good of the Labour Party and those whom he represented in Parliament. It gave him an authority as an opposition whip where people have to be cajoled by force of the whip's personality.'
So there we have it – Frank Haynes didn't become a Whip and get everybody to jump when he ordered them to (even the Tories whom he hated) because he had some grade A dirt on one of Thatcher's inner circle, he did it by the use of his big beaming smile and his popularity. Furthermore St Thomas's Hospital took an interest in his Commons utterances not because they were one of the institutions playing a key role in concealing the Westminster Paedophile Ring – after all Professor Jim Watson, Dr Dafydd Alun Jones's mate, ran his sex therapy empire from St George's Hospital Medical School whilst the institution was concealing a paedophile ring and subsequently from Tommy's and Guys (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent') – but because they just loved old Frank's voice.
It was said that 'Haynes frequently highlighted the problems of the very poorest in society when putting questions to Thatcher and her Ministers'. But not those very poorest in society who were being found dead up in north Wales or who were being illegally imprisoned in the North Wales Hospital though.
Haynes specialised in energy, coal and health. So he was yet another politician who gained knowledge of the Westminster Paedophile Ring who ended up specialising 'in health' – although Haynes was an NUM sponsored MP who had spent his life as a miner before entering the Commons. After Haynes died it was remembered that he was so over-awed that a man like him had ended up in Westminster that he frequently commented on this and how he sometimes felt that perhaps he shouldn't be there. Any politician specialising in health soon finds out that a lot of Top Doctors are very conscious of what they perceive to be their own elevated position in society and don't take kindly to advice from oiks, particularly oiks in Parliament. But down at Tommy's – the most elitist medical school in the UK – they turned off the TV to catch what Haynes said in the House. Frank Haynes must have been doing them some really big favours.
Kevin Barron was another member of the Shadow Energy team under Blair as Shadow Secretary – like Rhodri, Barron remained a member of the opposition Energy team until 1992. Barron has been the Labour MP for the Rother Valley since 1983 – he was sponsored by the NUM as well. Barron was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire and went to Maltby Hall Secondary Modern School (now known as Maltby Academy). After leaving school Barron spent 23 years working in the coal industry. He attended Ruskin College and Sheffield University, where he gained a Diploma in Labour Studies in 1977. Whilst at Sheffield Barron was reportedly a member of Militant.
Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth, two key members of the paedophile ring which operated in north Wales and Cheshire, met at Ruskin College in 1966 – Arnold was a tutor and Howarth a student (see post 'A Study In Tyranny'). Ruskin has a strong alumni association in which many former students are active. Arnold and Howarth both worked at Bryn Estyn whilst Peter Morrison was known to visit that establishment – on one occasion Morrison was seen driving away from Bryn Estyn with a boy in his car.
In 1982 Barron became President of the Rotherham TUC. The Rotherham which recently hit the world's media when the en masse trafficking, rape and violent assault of kids in care – which had been going on for decades, was known about by all authorities but had been ignored by everyone – was revealed.
Barron was a member of the NUM, but was later expelled for speaking out against Arthur Scargill. On picketing duty outside Maltby colliery he was struck on the arm by a police baton – he successfully sued South Yorkshire Police for this. He was in those days a political ally of Scargill and assisted in Scargill's campaign for Presidency of the NUM.
Barron was PPS to the Windbag, 1985-88. During those years the Windbag covered up the abuse of children and psych patients in north Wales as well as the associated serious criminality (see post 'Oh, No! It's The Pathetic Sharks') and the child abusing activities of George Thomas (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
Barron was Shadow Health spokesman under Blair, Jan 1995-Jan 1998, ie. whilst the Waterhouse Inquiry took evidence and many former kids in care and psych patients in north Wales became destitute or died. Barron became a member of the GMC in 1999 – just before the Waterhouse Report was published – and has remained a member ever since. So Barron was a member of the GMC whilst they were found to be in possession of a letter allegedly written by me that had been forged (see post 'The General Medical Council And Yet Another Forged Document') and when they also refused to take action against a phenomenally violent junior psychiatrist working in the Hergest Unit who's children were taken into care on the grounds of severe neglect. Barron was Chairman of the Health Select Committee after the 2005 General Election.
Not only does this former Militant supporting ally of Arthur Scargill sit on the GMC but he also became a New Labour moderniser. Kevin Barron was a leading figure in the campaign to rewrite Clause IV – although it came as a surprise that there was no job in Govt for him after Blair's 1997 General Election victory. You can't trust him Kevin.
Barron served for eight years on the senior Intelligence and Security Committee and was made a Privy Councillor in 2001. He was knighted in 2014.
John Maxton, another member of the Shadow Energy team, was MP for Glasgow Cathcart, 1979-01. Maxton joined the Labour Party in 1970 and became a prominent campaigner as Vice-Chairman of the group Scottish Labour Against the Market during the 1975 referendum on continuing British membership of the Common Market. He was selected to oppose the sitting Tory MP, Teddy Taylor, at the 1979 General Election. The changing demographics of the area and Labour's increasing popularity in Scotland made it a winnable seat and Maxton's victory was made more likely by the Tories strident opposition to the SNP, which drove some of its voters back to Labour.
In Parliament, Maxton allied with the left in the Tribune Group and voted against the Falklands War. In 1983, his constituency was redrawn to his disadvantage, but Maxton ruled out a move to any neighbouring and more favourable areas; he therefore notionally gained his seat from the Conservatives again in the 1983 General Election. Maxton was a popular backbencher, but did not obtain much support when he stood for election to the Labour Shadow Cabinet. He was Labour's Scottish Whip in 1985 and a spokesman on Scottish Affairs from 1985-1992.
Maxton stood down from the Commons at the 2001 General Election. So what became of this lifelong backbencher who opposed the Falklands War whilst the leadership of his party supported it and who remained loyal to the left whilst the Labour Party moved very firmly to the right and excluded or demonised those on the left? Why, in 2004 Blair gave him a peerage of course. What ever could have been behind that?
Rhodri states that whilst Blair was Shadow Secretary of State for Energy, he and Blair 'lived in each others pockets'. Rhodri talks about a 'team dinner' that was held at Blair's house in Highbury at which Cherie was present. Until 1988 the head of Cherie's chambers was George Carman.
The Windbag gave Blair's Shadow team the remit of opposing the privatisation of the electricity supply industry. John Wakeham's wiki entry states that it was Wakeham who drew up plans for the privatisation of electricity. So that too puts Blair in the Shadow Energy team after Jan 1989, which according to Blair's online Parliamentary biography is when Blair waved them all a fond farewell.
Rhodri boasted that the Opposition Energy team had an unofficial 'back up research team just as good as the one advising the Secretary of State'. The crack team didn't manage to stop Thatcher privatising the electricity supply, but I am sure that they too will have got wind of Peter Morrison attending sex parties with under-aged boys. Rhodri mentions that in 1988 Blair took receipt of an anonymous hand-delivered leaked position paper – regarding the future shape of the electricity industry after privatisation – from the CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board). Rhodri claims that it was this leaked document that enabled Blair's Shadow team 'to get off to such a good start with the nuclear tax bombshell which Blair was able to launch' at Cecil Parkinson.
John Wakeham was elected as the Tory MP for Maldon in Essex at the Feb 1974 General Election. His first wife, Roberta, was killed in the Brighton hotel bombing in Oct 1984 and he was trapped in rubble for seven hours, suffering serious crush injuries to his legs. Wakeham married his secretary, Alison Ward, in 1985 – before being Wakeham's secretary, Ward had been Thatcher's secretary. So Alison Ward would have known all about Peter Morrison as well before she ever got near Wakeham either as secretary or wife.
During the late 1980s Wakeham served as Leader of the Commons.
Wakeham was given a peerage by John Major on 24 April 1992. Just at the time that a firebomb killed five witnesses to the paedophile ring of which Peter Morrison was a member (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs'). Wakeham then served as Leader of the Lords until 1994.
After Edwina Currie spoke publicly about her shagathon with John Major, Major fessed up that he had indeed had an affair with Edwina and stated that it was the thing that he was most ashamed of in his entire life. Which is interesting because I would place concealing the organised abuse of children and the murder of witnesses above having an extra-marital affair in the 'regrets' list if I'd done both…
John Wakeham became chairman of the Press Complaints Commission in 1995, retiring in 2001. In 1997 he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire. In 1999 Blair appointed Wakeham to head a Royal Commission on the reform of the Lords. The resulting Wakeham Report suggested a mainly-appointed Lords be maintained, with a small elected component. Which was how Blair ended up appointing so many people who had concealed the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal to the Lords.
Whilst Parkinson and Wakeham were Secretaries of State, Michael Spicer was Morrison's junior Ministerial colleague. Whereas Morrison had responsibility for oil, after Spicer joined Energy in 1987 he was given responsibility for electricity and coal until Jan 1990.
Michael Spicer was MP for South and then West Worcestershire, 1974-10. Spicer was educated at Wellington College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After graduation, he worked as a financial journalist for 'The Daily Mail', 'The Sunday Times' and 'The Statist'. From 1968–70, Spicer was Director of Conservative Systems Research Centre and from 1970–80, he was Managing Director of Economic Models Ltd.
Spicer was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party 1983-84. In the 1996 New Years Honours, after Peter Morrison was safely dead and buried, Spicer was knighted. He picked up his peerage in 2010.
Spicer was Chairman/President of the Association of Electricity Producers, 1991-12 and since 2012 he has been Chairman of Energy UK.
David Tombs, Director of Hereford and Worcester Social Services, 1974-94, has been named as someone in a senior position who concealed the organised abuse of children both on his own patch and on a national level (see post 'Another Episode Of Friends…').
In my post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well' I discussed some of the consequences of Gov't policy regarding oil, Morrison's portfolio. I will make a few observations here about the consequences of Gov't policy re gas, Spicer's bag.
British Gas plc was an energy and home services provider in the UK. It was formed when the British Gas Corporation was privatized in Dec 1986 by Thatcher's Gov't. On 8 Dec 1986 British Gas plc shares were floated on the London stock market. To encourage individuals to become shareholders, the offer was intensely advertised with the 'If you see Sid…Tell him!' campaign. The 'Tell Sid' campaign was the ultimate Tory campaign to try to encourage working class people to take an interest in being share-holders, hence the mythical 'Sid' character, rather than a Piers or a St John.
The initial public offering of 135p per share valued the company at £9 billion, the highest equity offering ever at the time. The Gov't also created an industry regulator, the Office of Gas Supply (Ofgas), to protect customer needs. It later became part of the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem).
In June 1991, the Chairman of British Gas, Robert Evans, sparked controversy by accepting a pay rise of 66%, ten times above the rate of inflation at the time. This took his salary from £222,000 to £370,000, a pay rise which was condemned by the Labour Party as 'sheer unbridled greed'. This followed allegations of greed against the organisation a month earlier, when it reported a 42% rise in pre-tax profits.
The Sids of the UK did quite well out of the great gas giveaway, but Robert Evans was in clover.
Whilst I'm on the subject of Gov't cons under the umbrella of 'Energy', I'll retell the story of the travesty that was the Baglan Energy Park, which gets a mention in Rhodri Morgan's book.
Baglan Energy Park was a grand plan for a piece of land in Port Talbot.
When Rhodri became First Minister in 1999, one of his first tours of the different sections of the civil service was that of the Baglan Energy Park team. The team responsible told Rhodri that Baglan Energy Park would produce 6000 new jobs. It later 'became clear no jobs would arrive at Baglan Energy Park'. It was Helen Liddell aka Stalin's Granny (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – The Scottish Play') who explained to Rhodri why no jobs were actually expected.
This blog is very rude about politicians, but I really must compliment them on their excellence in the coining of entertaining nicknames for their colleagues – Stalin's Granny, The Widow Ruddock, The Crack of Doom, they are all pretty good, so at least one or two people in the system have a brain and a sense of humour. Can I ask them to perhaps turn their attentions to running the country instead of getting bladdered, shagging people to whom they are then obliged to give jobs which those people can't do and covering up the wrongdoing of their colleagues? Some real progress could then be made.
Stalin's Granny was the UK High Commissioner in Australia when she enlightened Rhodri. Stalin's Granny maintained that in 1997 Blair's Gov't issued a moratorium on new gas fired power stations. The American multi-national GE wanted to build the first ever H Series combined cycle gas turbine power station at Baglan on the site which had been vacated by BP. This was part of BP's exit strategy from south Wales in order to secure GE's brand new and revolutionary design of the power station on the former Baglan site. Then Blair's moratorium came along. Bill Clinton received a phone call from Jack Welch aka 'Neutron Jack' asking for help in getting around the moratorium.
Jack Welch is an American business executive and chemical engineer who was Chairman and CEO of GE (General Electric), 1981-01. GE is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York – its HQ is in Boston, Massachusetts. Not Port Talbot.
During the early 1980s Welch was dubbed 'Neutron Jack' for eliminating employees whilst leaving buildings intact. Welch stated that GE had 411,000 employees at the end of 1980 and 299,000 at the end of 1985. In return, GE had increased its market capital tremendously.
Clinton rang Blair and asked/told Blair to lift the moratorium for GE – thus GE acquired the permit to build the power station. However, a display had to be made of a special case for the exemption, lest anyone suggested that Clinton was telling Blair what to do. So it was agreed that electricity from the Baglan power station could be supplied directly – without paying grid charges – into proposed energy intensive industries which could it was claimed be sited on the empty Baglan site, which would be known as Baglan Energy Park. An estimate of 6000 jobs arriving at the Baglan Energy Park was made on the basis of absolutely no evidence – but it did sound good.
Before the power station opened, Rhodri asked to visit the site. GE's site director Bill Cooney took Rhodri around. Rhodri asked to meet the engineering team – he was told that the team was located in a mass of portakabins. Cooney refused Rhodri entrance to the portakabins because Rhodri didn't have a US passport – although Baglan Energy Park was located at Port Talbot. Cooney told Morgan that he couldn't go in without breaching the US Export Control Act – because 'sensitive technology' was involved, only US citizens were allowed in. Cooney mentioned that an exception was made for the young people who delivered Dominos Pizzas to the team working in the portakabins.
In his memoir, Rhodri expressed outrage that as FM he was being denied access to a place which granted access to Dominos Pizza boys. He didn't comment on the huge scam that was being worked between Blair and Clinton which would be of no benefit to people in Wales – or the lies that were told in order to make this scam 'fit' with a Gov't policy which Blair himself had thought up and wanted implemented, but breached when Clinton told him to. If I know anything about the way in which 'businesses' are 'attracted to Wales' – particularly businesses which do not benefit Wales or the people living in Wales – someone somewhere will have paid Welch handsomely to condescend to arrive in Wales, refuse to tell anyone exactly what he was up on the grounds that it involved 'sensitive technology' and rip everyone off.
This is the sort of thing that has gone on in Wales for decades – whilst people in Wales have been left with nothing and have then been berated for being part of a 'benefit culture' with 'low aspirations'. The Plaid MP Adam Price has just made a speech at Plaid's Llangollen Conference making the point that Wales is not a poor country – it is actually a rich country with a lot of poor people living in it. Brown and I have been arguing this for years. For literally centuries, wealth has been exported out of Wales in deals which have excluded most people living in Wales from benefiting. Adam Price is an unusual thing, he is a politician with a brain – most of the others seem to be too stupid to have understood what has gone on and all they can do is make lame comments about empowering and including people. If anyone actually took any notice of people like Adam Price, a great many more people would be empowered and included because they wouldn't have been fleeced by the likes of Clinton and Blair and before them Thatcher and Nicholas Edwards.
As for Baglan Energy Park now – I recommend that readers visit the website www.npt-business.co.uk it's a real laugh. Underneath the heading 'Baglan Energy Park – A Neath Port Talbot Success Story' we are told that 'Baglan Energy Park is one of Wales' premier business and industrial locations. The 180 acre park is helping transform the area, secure a green industrial future and create thousands of jobs. Situated on the M4 motorway the Park has already attracted national and international companies as well as world class facilities.'
So what exactly has been attracted to Baglan Energy Park? The following:
Ecolab's Centre of Excellence for Contamination Control – which 'provides some of the most innovative technology in the industry, including state-of-the-art clean rooms and laboratories'.
GE Energy – which 'has provided the park with a £300m power station, which provides competitively priced electricity to businesses locating on the park'.
Hi-Lex Cable Systems Ltd – 'a Japanese owned company which manufactures components for the automotive industry employs over 230 people at its European Head Office on the park'.
Italian company Intertissue – 'part of Sofidel Group produces supermarket own-brand facial tissues, bathroom tissues and kitchen roll from its 1 million sq.ft. papermill'.
Mardon Properties – 'recently completed work on the first phase of a £20m mixed-use development of office premises and industrial units which is attracting a variety of companies'.
Montagne Jeunesse – 'is an environmentally aware company that markets cosmetic products such as face packs'.
One Talbot Gateway – 'is a prestigious office facility located right at the entrance to the park. Dwr Cymru Welsh Water and the NHS partnership have relocated to the site'.
Baglan Bay Innovation Centre – 'provides an environment for young, innovative, high tech, sustainable technology led businesses to grow. 39,000sq ft of accommodation, over four floors includes 32 incubator units, meeting rooms, a business support facility as well as close links with universities'.
The Solar Centre – 'meeting facility located in the centre of the park forms an annex to the Baglan Bay Innovation Centre building. The facility generates its own electricity from surplus electricity fed into the grid system, symbolising the ethos of the park'.
Wales's first Renewable Hydrogen Research and Demonstration Centre – 'provides facilities for hydrogen production, conferencing, research, demonstrations and education all run from renewable energy sources is (sic) based at the park'.
So there's big spaces which haven't yet been filled, a small number of foreign owned businesses and the NHS and Dwr Cymru have moved in, as has a bog roll company. The bog roll company isn't even a posh one which produces the aloe vera impregnated luxury bog roll, let alone the 'moist wipes' which are sold in those plastic containers, it is one which produces 'supermarket own brand'.
As for the Solar Centre – that was originally constructed for a G8 conference in Birmingham for PM Tony Blair and the Heads of State from the G8 nations. So Blair and the G8 didn't go to Baglan for their conference then.
We are told that 'once the park is completed there will be a total investment of approximately £400 billion'. 'Investment' in Wales means the Gov't giving money to businesses to persuade them to set up shop in Wales and then pay people in Wales low wages. Regarding the jobs – well there isn't 6000, but Stalin's Granny admitted to Rhodri that that particular figure was plucked out of thin air anyway in order for Blair to pretend that he had a good excuse for doing a favour for Bill Clinton's mate Jack Welch. We are told that 'more than 1,600 people are now working on the park, and once the project is completed, it will have the capacity to accommodate 3,000 jobs'.
We are not told how near to completion the park is. Furthermore, the jobs in the bog roll factory and most of the other companies that are on the Park will not be well-paid jobs – many of the workers will probably have to claim in-work benefits to get by. However the US engineers working in the bit of GE through which non-US passport holders are not allowed to pass – unless they are delivering a pizza to hungry Americans – will be highly paid.
Like a lot of things which are not what they claim to be, the Baglan Energy Park has won an award from the HSJ (Health Services Journal). It received the BURA (British Urban Regeneration Award), Insider Award for Regeneration and the Local Government Chronicle & Health Services Journal Sustainable Communities Award in recognition of its work to create a cleaner, greener industrial future for the area.
Port Talbot is of course famous for being the location of the steelworks upon which the whole town depends. As the steelworks has gradually diminished, things have become worse and worse for Port Talbot. Baglan Energy Park has not made a great deal of difference.
One person who did really well out of Baglan Energy Park however was Neutron Jack. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4,000%. In 2006, Welch's net worth was estimated at $720 million. When Jack retired from GE he received a severance payment of $417 million, the largest such payment in history. He didn't earn that from working in the bog roll factory at Baglan.
I have not experienced the joys of Baglan Energy Park myself, although I was invited to an event at Neath Port Talbot about three years ago by a Third sector organisation who were holding a one day conference on the problems experienced by women who provide unpaid care for family members and others. I was unable to attend the said event because I couldn't get there. I was told that the event was to be held at Port Talbot and because I didn't have a car at the time, I planned to travel there on the train or bus. I couldn't. The event for women providing unpaid care was held at the Orangery at Margam Country Park – I was told by the Third sector organisation who had organised the event that the Orangery was lovely. Which I'm sure that it was, but it was also miles away from the railway station and two miles away from the nearest bus stop.
When I saw the list of invited speakers I realised that I wasn't missing anything – it was a list of paedophiles' friends who have been responsible for wrecking the health and social care services in Wales for years. That lot are the reason why so many women in Wales are having to provide unpaid care. I very much doubt that any woman providing unpaid care would have been able to attend the one day conference, even if they did have a car. They'd be far too busy providing the unpaid care – or working a few shifts cleaning the Orangery. So a group of middle class wimmin had a day out at the Orangery, funded by the Welsh Gov't, whilst scores of badly paid women maintained the infrastructure of Margam Country Park…
The travesty that is Baglan Energy Park was dreamt up pre-devolution. It will have come under the umbrella of Industrial Policy for Wales, so I presume that Sir Derek Jones had something to do with it.
Sir Derek Jones was Head of Industrial Policy at the Welsh Office in 1989 and prior to that held a number of positions in the DTI. Derek Jones served as Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Gov't, 2013-17.
Rhodri Morgan mentions in his book that he got on very well with Sir Derek.
Derek Jones was born and educated in Cardiff and went to Cardiff University. On graduation he joined the civil service in Whitehall. After undertaking the post-graduate civil service training scheme Jones joined the Treasury, then the DTI and then the Welsh Office in Cardiff in 1989 as Head of Economics and Industrial Policy. He was subsequently Head of Finance Programmes; Director of the Industry and Training department and Director of Economic Affairs. In 1999 Jones became a key figure in the setting-up and early operations of the newly created Welsh Assembly Gov't – which was choc full of paedophiles' friends from its inception. Jones was Senior Director, April 2003-April 2008 – as havoc reigned in the NHS in north Wales, as the suicide rate continued upwards and as I and other people were the victims of the perjury and wrongdoing of the paedophiles' friends.
In 2008 Jones left the civil service to join the Governing Board of Cardiff University as Director of Business and Strategic Partnerships with an Honorary Chair, tasked to commercialise the University's research and engage with business.
Jones was a member of the Welsh Gov'ts Ministerial Advisory Board BETS, Dec 2011-Oct 2012; Chairman of the membership selection panel for Dwr Cymru Welsh Water, Jan 2010-Sept 2011; Chairman, South East Wales Economic Forum, Sept 2011-Oct 2012; Board member of the EADS Foundation Wales, Aug 2011-Oct 2012.
In Sept 2012, Jones was announced as the new Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Assembly Government, replacing that very loyal paedophiles' friend Dame Gillian Morgan (see post 'A Major Coup – Or A Complete Disaster?'). Jones subsequently became a member of the UK Civil Service Board and Senior Leadership Committee. He stepped down as Permanent Secretary early in 2017.
In April 2017 Sir Derek was appointed Chair of the Prince's Trust in Wales. He is a non-executive director of IQE plc; an independent adviser to Cardiff University, where he is also an Honorary Fellow and Professor and is a Vice President of Cardiff Business Club.
There has been a great deal of fuckwittery of the Baglan Energy Park sort in Wales ie. people giving their friends large sums of money to establish businesses which provide no real benefits for anyone but the people who have received the 'investment' to set their business up. The fuckwittery did not stop when the Welsh Gov't came into being. The sums of money were no doubt less than Thatcher and Blair were able to give to their friends, but the way of conducting business remained the same. I know small business people in north Wales who were fuming at the corruption that they alleged was happening – they claimed that friends and bedfellows of key figures in the Assembly were receiving 'investment' for non-viable businesses whereas other people who were making a real go of businesses providing employment for local people received no help at all and sometimes were actively obstructed. Should the business people involved ever go public on what was happening, it could prove very embarrassing for the Welsh Assembly – some of the most successful SMEs in north west Wales were excluded from Gov't help when they were setting up because, they alleged, they did not 'know people' in the Assembly.
One of the people who was involved with the Economic Development portfolio in the early days of the Welsh Assembly Gov't was Alan Pugh, who was Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Oct 2000-03, in Rhodri's Gov't.
Alun Pugh was the AM for Clwyd West, 1999-07. Pugh was born in Mid-Glamorgan into – according to his wiki entry – 'a poor coal mining family'. I don't know anything about Alan Pugh's family, but I have developed a very high degree of sceptism concerning people who are members of the affluent middle classes laying claim to deprived backgrounds. Yes, occasionally people from severely disadvantaged families do sneak into the professional classes, but it is very unusual. Every piece of research into the subject has shown that that even in the 1960s and 70s, the decades of social mobility, people who entered university or the professions from the working classes came from families or networks where they had gained large amounts of cultural capital. It is a harsh fact that children who have no economic or cultural capital only very rarely experience the amazing social mobility that politicians like to claim for themselves. Pugh might have not had any money, but I bet that there was someone around him who was well-read or an autodidact.
After Alan Pugh left the cardboard box in't middle of t'road in which he grew up, he completed a degree in business finance and then postgrad qualifications in computer science and education. He moved to north Wales from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. I am wondering if Pugh was therefore a student in Newcastle.
Pugh was Head of Business Studies at Coleg Llandrillo Cymru and four years later he was promoted to an Associate Principal post at West Cheshire College. Pugh resided in Deganwy, Conwy for much of his time in north Wales.
This biography tells me that for much of his life Alan Pugh has been in close proximity to the paedophiles' friends. If he was not a politician he might have been unaware of them – but someone with political ambitions will not have missed what was going on around him or had gone on around him in the past. There was organised abuse of children in Mid-Glamorgan where Pugh originally came from. When he entered politics at least, Pugh will have heard about John Owen from Mid-Glamorgan (see post 'Yet More Inglorious Bastards') whom local authorities and exam boards protected and who was supported by the BBC, S4C and Welsh youth groups and theatres even after his molesting of his pupils became public. Pugh will also have known about George Thomas molesting children and young people (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar') and he will have been aware of the rumours surrounding Ron Davies and his cruising and cottaging activities in south Wales – the Ron Davies who was an adviser to Mid-Glamorgan Education Authority whilst they ignored John Owen's conduct towards his pupils.
I will be writing a post soon on the subject of just how many people knew that Ron Davies would one day blow up in their faces.
The paedophile ring in north Wales was fuelled by the arrival of Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth from Gateshead – where there was a paedophile ring in operation (see post 'A Study In Tyranny'), which was afforded protection by, as well as others, Ernest Armstrong, the Labour MP for North West Durham, whose daughter Hilary succeeded him as MP for that constituency and became a member of Blair's inner circle (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'). There were numerous connections between people working in medicine and mental health in Newcastle and north Wales (see post 'The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Connection?') and the hideous Lord John Walton, Mr Medical Establishment in Newcastle, protected Dafydd and the paedophiles of north Wales for years (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other'). Alan Pugh might not have known about that when he was in Newcastle but politicians are great gossips and are obsessed with the possibility that people might acquire dirt on them or their associates – as soon as Pugh began moving in political circles, he'd have found out all about such matters.
Furthermore Pugh lived in Conwy – stomping ground of Lord Wyn Roberts the best friend that the paedophile gang in north Wales ever had, as well as scores of others who colluded with them (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth'). Of course Pugh knew about the serious criminality wreaking havoc in north Wales concealed by the paedophiles' friends of the professional classes along that part of the north Wales coast – Dafydd was running his sex therapy business just down the road from Pugh's place of residence.
Pugh's job at Coleg Llandrillo will also have left him in no doubt as to some of what was going on. Llandrillo trained the health and welfare staff who worked with the paedophiles' friends and Pugh will have been part of the system that ensured that whistleblowers were removed from circulation and didn't usually work again. Coleg Llandrillo also ran a counselling course which trained people who then counselled distressed people who had encountered the paedophiles and their friends. My post 'A Convenient Arrangement With The Private Sector' detailed the activities of Prestwood Homes, a chain of abusive 'nursing homes' for people with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems which was actually a front for trafficking vulnerable people into sex work. Prestwood had a number of homes in the Conwy area – residents and staff were enrolled upon courses at Coleg Llandrillo. That may have been after Pugh had left the employment of the Coleg, but whilst he worked there the two women who 'managed' Prestwood, Lynda Holland and Suzanne Hamlet, met on the counselling course at Coleg Llandrillo. Holland was a student and Hamlet was a tutor on the course. They began a relationship whilst Hamlet was teaching Holland and Hamlet was dismissed for sexually exploiting a student.
OK, Coleg Llandrillo did the right thing in dismissing Hamlet, which was probably a first for the paedophiles' friends of north Wales. But how did Hamlet ever land such a job at Coleg Llandrillo? Not only did Hamlet only have the most basic of qualifications, but whilst she 'managed' Prestwood Homes I witnessed her: telling support workers to lock clients in their rooms if they became distressed; telling support workers to tell clients to 'go on and do it then' if clients threatened to commit suicide – which resulted in two clients seriously injuring themselves when encouraged to attempt suicide; telling a 19 year old female client that if she didn't co-operate with 'therapy' she would be taken back to Liverpool and 'left to die on an embankment' (the therapy consisted of viewing porn) (see post 'The Mentor'). Oh – and not only did Hamlet tell support workers to threaten to hit clients, but she LAUGHED as she described how a 'home manager' had grabbed a female client around the throat, slammed her up against a wall and threatened to punch her in the face.
If Pugh tells us all that these incidents at Prestwood happened after Hamlet had been dismissed from the Coleg in which he was a manager, I'll remind him that when his establishment employed Hamlet as a counselling tutor, she was a chronic alcoholic in middle age who had spent many years as a patient of Dafydd's in and out of the North Wales Hospital Denbigh – although she told everyone that she had been a nurse at the North Wales Hospital. Who wrote Hamlet's reference then Pugh? Was it Dafydd? Because there was no way that Hamlet was suitable to have been employed as a counselling tutor.
As for the College which employed Pugh as Associate Principal – West Cheshire College has campuses at Crewe and Chester, which were locations of the activity of the north Wales/Cheshire paedophile ring. Sir Peter Morrison was the Tory MP for Chester and Dafydd held 'clinics' at the Grosvenor Nuffield Hospital in Chester.
Of course Alun Pugh knew what was happening and could be relied upon to keep quiet – that's how he landed the nomination for the candidacy as Labour AM for Clwyd West. It's a highly marginal seat, no-one was going to risk upsetting the paedophiles' friends, so the Labour Party fielded a puppet.
Pugh was re-elected in 2003 and appointed as Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport in WAG (Welsh Assembly Gov't). Pugh remained an AM until his 2007 defeat by Conservative Darren Millar. Following the 2007 election Pugh took a mountaineering sabbatical in the Himalayas and on his return to Wales was appointed as Director of the Snowdonia Society, an environmental charity. He was a columnist for the Daily Post (North Wales) and ran consultancy projects.
Pugh stood as the Labour candidate for Arfon in the 2010 Westminster General Election, but lost to Plaid's Hywel Williams, another paedophiles' friend who formerly worked as a psychiatric social worker and at one point featured on Dafydd's twitter feed. I met Alan Pugh when he was out campaigning in Bangor for that election. He was very frosty to me considering that he was asking people to vote for him and I did wonder if he knew who I was, because by that time I was experiencing maximum harassment and threats from the paedophiles' friends. I asked Pugh what he intended to do about the abuses of the mental health services in north Wales – he turned tail and fled and decided to do a bit of canvassing with a group of students further down the road instead.
When I bumped into Pugh with his rosettes and gang of supporters I didn't think of the hideous Hamlet and Coleg Llandrillo. I thought of something else for which Alun Pugh was much more famous in Bangor University – Alun Pugh was the former bedfellow of Meri Huws aka The Crack of Doom. As with all Meri's liaisions, allegations were flying that Pugh was being used to land Meri jobs that she couldn't do and should never have had (see post 'Let Me Enlighten Lord Gnome…').
Meri was Chair of the Welsh Language Board in 2004-12 – well Alun was the Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Fun, although the most common allegation at the time was that Meri had landed that particular post as a result of her affair with Andrew Davies, another Welsh Gov't Minister. But then there were those who claimed that Meri's success with the Welsh Language Board selection panel was a result of her fling with Rhodri Morgan. Who could ever know?
After that particular scandal Meri entertained the nation by making noises about joining Plaid. There was only one question on everyone's lips – who the hell is she shagging now???
Meri however when she was younger had been party to a great deal of information which her bedfellows will have found very useful but which will have also provided Meri with great blackmail capacity when people finally desperately wanted to be rid of her. Meri – it was getting pissed and abusive at official Bangor University functions that did it, people in high places wanted to know why the hell anyone had given you a job as PVC. And of course having yourself photographed completely bladdered, wearing that bacofoil jumpsuit with a zip that was undone rather too low among a crowd of 'old students' of Bangor University, not one of whom was under 80 years of age. The University magazines with that photo in mysteriously disappeared en masse when I and a few others were spotted howling with laughter at the photo.
However, the gerontocracy that runs Bangor University have to shoulder some of the blame for the appointment of Meri to high office. It was openly discussed that the VC knew damn well what a disaster putting Meri in charge of anything was going to be, but the Welsh Gov't – ie. Rhodri – and the gerontocracy demanded that Meri and her talents be elevated to the post of PVC. Why did the old farts want a mad, drunken, abusive slapper appointed to a role which effectively was a diplomatic/ambassadorial one? Perhaps because many moons ago when Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends ran Bangor University and Sir William Mars-Jones the late corrupt judge was President of the institution, Meri was employed as a community social worker by Gwynedd County Council. Dafydd's mistress Lucille Hughes was Director of Gwynedd Social Services and at that time the paedophiles were running the children's homes in north Wales. The children's homes in Bangor, Ty'r Felin – which was located on the Maesgeirchan estate – was supplying under-aged boys for sex parties in Dolphin Square and other locations outside of Wales whereas under-aged girls were taken to local pubs and to the Octagon nightclub in Bangor and sold for sex to predatory men (see post 'Are You Local?'). I don't know who accompanied the boys to London and Brighton and other locations, but the girls were taken to local pubs and to the Octagon by social workers employed by Gwynedd Social Services.
Meri worked as a community social worker on Maesgeirchan.
One thing that is worthy of observation since Alun Pugh was defeated by Darren Millar in Clwyd West in 2007, is that although every liberal and leftie in north Wales groaned when Darren was elected on the grounds that Darren was one for articulating relentlessly right wing opinions of the sort that are quite unusual in Wales, Darren has been quite a star where bringing attention to the atrocities of the NHS in north Wales has been concerned. He has demanded prosecutions and even wrote to the Chief Constable to say that. Another Tory MP in north Wales, Mark Isherwood, has also been very supportive to the victims of the paedophiles and their friends and has tried very hard to effect change. Meanwhile just about every other politician remains deeply in denial and if they do mention the slaughter that has gone on for years – and continues – it is simply to tell everyone that they're going to empower service users. Then, much more volubly, they demand that Carwyn should give a great deal more money to the paedophiles' friends.
To return to those with responsibility for Economic Development in Wales. Alan Pugh's boss, the Minister for Economic Development, was the Lib Dem AM for South Wales East, 1999-10, Mike German. German was Leader of the Welsh Lib Dems, 2007-08 and was Deputy First Minister, 2000-01 and then again 2002-03, because the Welsh Gov't was a Labour-Lib Dem Coalition, Oct 2000-May 03.
Mike German was educated at the Open University and St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (now St Mary's University). In his early life he was a member of 28th Cardiff Sea Scout Group.
German trained and worked as a music teacher before becoming Head of the European Unit at the WJEC (Welsh Joint Education Committee). Has also been a school governor.
The sexual abuse of John Owen's pupils by John Owen was for years concealed by Mid-Glamorgan Education Authority and the WJEC (see post 'Yet More Inglorious Bastards').
Mike German was a Councillor and Leader of the Lib Dems on Cardiff City Council, 1983-96 and joint Leader of the Council, 1987-91. Mike German sat on Cardiff City Council with Alun Michael, who knows a lot more about the paedophiles and their friends than he has ever let on. Alun Michael, many many years ago, was involved with the Liberal Party – so he will have known about Jeremy Thorpe and Cyril Smith. Alun Michael also shared a flat with Paul Flynn, the Labour MP for Newport, for a long time. In the 1990s Paul Flynn appeared on TV programmes along with Dafydd. Paul Flynn did challenge the nonsense that Dafydd spouted about reefer madness, but Paul Flynn knew about Dafydd's other activities but didn't say a word – because in 1974 Paul Flynn stood as the Labour candidate in Denbigh and just about everybody in the town worked at the North Wales Hospital.
Alun Michael is also an old friend of paedophiles' friend, former social worker Jane Hutt. Rhodri's memoir comments that Michael and Hutt worked together on various charities and causes, including the Cardiff Broadcasting Company. So Hutt and Michael's media connections must have been why the logic of Alun Michael resigning as FM literally as the Waterhouse Report was submitted to the Secretary of State for Wales was never explained (see post 'News From Sicily').
Rhodri Morgan mentions in his book that Tom Middlehurst supported Alun Michael for the Welsh Labour leadership. Tom Middlehurst was the AM for Alyn and Deeside, 1999-03. Middlehurst was among the paedophiles and their friends for years – before he became an AM he was the Chief Executive of Flintshire County Council, one of the successor Councils after Clwyd County Council disappeared in a puff of smoke in 1996 after the Jillings Report admitted that there had been serious inexcusable abuse of children in the care of Clwyd County Council for many years. Middlehurst also managed to save the paedophiles' folly, Theatre Clwyd, when it had one of its many financial crises and once more the coffers of the Council were inexplicably empty. HOW Tom Middlehurst saved Theatre Clwyd was never explained, a great deal of money will have had to have been obtained from somewhere, but Middlehurst did manage to snare some big names to drum up a high profile for the Theatre (see post 'Workers Play Time').
Jane Hutt's proud boast is that she founded Welsh Women's Aid. I have mentioned previously on this blog that it is not possible to be involved with Women's Aid and not know that a paedophile gang is operating in the area, because such matters affect women and their children. I knew people who worked for Women's Aid in north Wales who admitted that they knew about the organised abuse of children but they could not make themselves heard within that organisation. I also have in my possession two copies of letters written by Bangor and District Women's Aid after they were approached by a Hergest Unit patient who was faced with homelessness after leaving a difficult relationship. The first letter is a referral for 'services' in terms of the client being rehoused. The second letter was written some four weeks later, discharging the client from the Women's Aid service. Had the client been rehoused or indeed received any 'services' at all? No. But she had complained about the paedophiles' friends. The dates on those letters are during Hutt's time as Health Minister.
One of the biggest problems with Bangor and District Women's Aid was that one of the leading lights in that organisation – who I think genuinely did want to help people – had been the victim of the paedophiles' friends herself when she had been referred to the mental health services. She knew that they were appalling and she was frightened of them. She will also have known that her job will have somehow have come to an end if she had dared speak about what was happening to her clients at the hands of the health and social care services.
Rhodri Morgan's book mentions in passing that when the agreement to form the Labour-Lib Dem Coalition Gov't was formed, Hutt – who was then the Health Minister ignoring the serious abuse of vulnerable people in north Wales – appeared with a near final draft of a partnership agreement.
Alun Michael and Jane Hutt will have both known that George Thomas was sexually assaulting young people (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar').
Just to ensure that there were no loose ends, Mike German's first wife Georgette was also a Cardiff City Councillor. So they could have discussed the corruption in the City Council together, as well as the abuse of children in care in south Wales.
German had been involved with politics for many years before he was elected to the Assembly. He contested Cardiff North in Oct 1974 and 1979 for the Liberals. Cardiff North is a seat in which it seems to be essential to be a paedophiles' friend to be nominated let alone win (see post 'The Paedophiles' Friends Of Cardiff North'). German then fought Cardiff Central in 1983 and in 1987 for the SDP-Liberal Alliance, but was unsuccessful.
So – like Alun Michael – German will have known that the Liberal Party concealed everything with which Jeremy Thorpe was involved, including their knowledge that he was openly discussing the need to have Norman Scott murdered years before someone did try and murder Norman (see post 'My How Things Haven't Changed'). Rhodri Morgan's book provides a bit of info about Jeremy Thorpe's 1979 trial that I hadn't previously come across. Morgan was mates with Lord Gareth Williams, who was counsel for George Deakin when Deakin stood trial with Thorpe for conspiracy to murder. I knew that an incriminating tape existed in which Thorpe discussed the need to have Norman Scott murdered and I knew that Williams had called for the tape to be played in full knowing that some of the contents were so excruciatingly embarrassing to the Royal Family that no-one would actually dare do this and it was as a result of this ploy that George Deakin was acquitted.
Rhodri's book mentions that what was causing the precise difficulty was Jeremy Thorpe's status as someone who had conducted affairs with both Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon. But between them Thorpe, Ma'am Darling and Lord Snowdon certainly did a great deal of bed hopping, so Marjorie Wallace is by no means the only person with the dirt on the Snowdons (see post 'One Dangerous Fucker') and their connections to the abuse of vulnerable people and the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal.
Gareth Williams QC did of course successfully represent the former senior North Wales Police officer Gordon Anglesea in 1994 when Anglesea sued for libel after he had been named as someone who had abused boys in care in north Wales. Anglesea was awarded nearly £400k in damages. Some weeks after the trial, Mark Humphreys was found dead, hanging from the stairwell in the block of flats in Wrexham in which he lived (see posts 'Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd' and 'Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd – A Few Additional Comments'). In 2016 Anglesea was convicted of historic sex offences against boys in care in north Wales and imprisoned.
Rhodri Morgan had a very high opinion of Gareth Williams the paedophiles' friend. Rhodri believed that Gareth Williams was, like John Smith, a barrister-politician who had principles, unlike Blair. Gareth Williams grew up in Prestatyn and went to Rhyl Grammar School before Cambridge University. He practised as a barrister and was then a recorder on the Chester and Wales Circuit for years whilst there was a major problem with corruption on the Circuit. Williams was a member of the Bar Council and at one point Chair of the Bar Council. He eventually became a Deputy High Court judge and leader of the Chester and Wales Circuit, again whilst corruption was endemic. Williams picked up his peerage in 1992 after the firebomb killed the five witnesses to the paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire (see post 'The Silence Of The Welsh Lambs').
In 1999 Blair appointed Gareth Williams as Attorney General for England and Wales and Attorney General for N Ireland. Well who better than a man at the heart of a rotten circuit which has concealed a murdering paedophile gang and fitted up their victims? Williams remained AG until 2001. So he was in post when the Waterhouse Report was published .
Rhodri's book explains that Gareth Williams died suddenly at his home in 2003 whilst the Labour Party Conference was in full swing at Bournemouth. Williams, the paedophiles' – and indeed aspiring murderers' – friend, was 'posthumously voted the best peer of all time' by 'his fellow lordships'. Well Gareth Williams certainly did them a few favours, the Lords is rather more congenial than a prison cell on the sex offenders wing.
Rhodri observed that if ever he had to hire a defending barrister, it would have been Gareth Williams rather than John Smith or Tony Blair. So if you had been recorded on tape organising a murder after shagging both Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon or you were suing various media outlets after they had named you as a child abuser when indeed you were one, Gareth was the man for you.
When Williams died, the British state certainly pushed the boat out to give him a good send off. The RAF flew the whole of the British Cabinet and Rhodri – although he wasn't a member of the Cabinet – from Hurn Airport in Bournemouth to Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in a transport aircraft and they were then bussed across to Great Tew, the village where Gareth Williams and his wife Veena lived and where the funeral was held.
So Gareth Williams received a rather better send off than one of the victims of the paedophiles' and their friends whom I knew when I lived in Bethesda. This man had grown up in care, arrived into adulthood destitute, had spent a lifetime circulating between mental health facilities and ended up being utterly neglected by the Hergest Unit, who placed him in Neuadd Deiniol in Bangor, famously unsuitable accommodation which was categorised as a 'nursing home' and was run by one of Dafydd's business associates. Because of his multiple health problems this man was supposedly being observed in the 'nursing home' every 20 mins. He was found dead after having choked on a ham sandwich but no-one managed to explain why he had been dead for a lot longer than 20 minutes before he was found.
Not only was this man's death in 1999 or 2000 part of the Great Holocaust of potential witnesses whilst the Waterhouse Inquiry was underway, but he also was a witness to the whole sorry saga of the framing of an innocent man as a potential danger to his own baby by Gwynedd Social Services, whilst two other real abusers from the family which assisted in fitting that man up were protected by the Social Services, as well as to the suspicious death in a road accident of someone else who knew the details of all of this. The full story is detailed in my post 'It's All About Protecting Children'. The wrongdoing involved was extensive and serious and involved Gwynedd Social Services, the North Wales Police, the North Wales Housing Association, a crooked solicitor in Bethesda, all the GPs in Bethesda Surgery, the Hergest Unit, the Arfon Community Mental Health Team and Councillor Dafydd Orwig of Gwynedd County Council. And that's just the bit that I know about it.
So a great many people might have breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that man had been found dead in Neuadd Deiniol.
After this witness to serious crime was found dead, there was an enormous row over what to do with his body. He had left no money and he only had one living relative – he had been married but had divorced some years before he died – and no authority would agree to bury him. So he remained 'in the freezer' (as another Hergest patient explained to me) for many months whilst the local authority tried to coerce his ex-wife (who was a Hergest patient and grossly neglected and penniless as well), his ex-wife's brother (who was also a penniless, neglected Hergest patient) and his elderly great aunt – who hadn't seen him since he was about eight years old – to cough up. None of them could even afford dentistry and spectacles let alone a funeral, so the local authority finally relented and a 'pauper's funeral' was held, which was attended by a few patients. No mental health staff attended the funeral, not even the Rev Wynne Roberts, the Elvis-impersonating, singing, parishioner-shagging, disgraced vicar who doubled up as the chaplain at Ysbyty Gwynedd and who later joined the management of the Betsi Board and sat on the ethics committees for Ysbyty Gwynedd and Bangor University's School of Healthcare Sciences (see post 'Music Therapy Anyone?).
After writing those paragraphs and remembering it all, I am sorely tempted to ask any members of mental health staff from north west Wales who might be reading this if they feel at all ashamed of how they have conducted themselves. But the answer will of course be 'no, not at all, we're holding out for a pay rise'.
Gareth Williams knew Sir William Mars-Jones, a barrister and High Court judge who grew up in Flintshire and was also a paedophiles' friend working on the Chester and Wales Circuit. Mars-Jones was President of UCNW (now called Bangor University) whilst the paedophiles' friends were running the place and whilst Dr DGE Wood, a corrupt GP and T. Gwynne Williams, the lobotomist from the North Wales Hospital, were employed in the Student Health Centre – they were both facilitating the sex abuse ring in north Wales. I have documents in my possession which demonstrate that a Mrs Mars-Jones was being CC'd into letters from NHS bodies in north Wales which named people who had complained about the North Wales Hospital, as well as into letters regarding visiting Commissioners from the Mental Health Act Commission who had also complained. Mrs Mars-Jones appears to have been sent a hit list of people who dared challenge the paedophiles' friends. I will be blogging more about this soon.
William Mars-Jones was a big name in London as well as in north Wales – he was a leading light in the Garrick as well as in the London Welsh Society.
Mike German will also have known Dr David Owen – who personally knew some of the Top Doctors who were facilitating the sex trafficking ring in north Wales (see post 'Dr Death').
I have read no accounts of anyone publicly challenging Mike German about his knowledge of serious criminality on the part of members of the Liberal Party, but German did end up at the centre of a police investigation by the South Wales Police and the audit experts at the WJEC in 2001 following allegations that German had claimed expenses fraudulently when he worked for the WJEC before he became an AM in 1999. German stood down as Deputy FM whilst the investigation took place. He hired his own legal team at considerable expense to himself – he had to sell his house and downsize in order to foot the bill. German was cleared and resumed his position as Deputy FM in 2002.
Rhodri Morgan states that the WJEC was a body which was completely under the control of Labour councillors in south Wales, in particular Jeff Jones, the Leader of Bridgend Council. Morgan mentions that Jeff Jones was a man who never had the political career in the Assembly that Jeff Jones and everybody who knew him expected him to have. Rhodri doesn't explain why, but he claims that whilst it was still assumed that Ron Davies would be Wales's FM after the formation of the Welsh Assembly – before that unfortunate business with Boogie on Clapham Common obliged Ron to resign as Secretary of State for Wales, just as Blair was about to appoint him as First Minister (see post 'The Cradle Of Filth') – Jeff Jones and everybody else expected that Jeff would be the Education Minister in Ron's first Cabinet. Sadly for poor old Jeff he didn't get as far as becoming an AM despite the best laid plans by Ron and him.
Rhodri states in his memoir that he knew that whatever allegations were levelled at the WJEC, it was a fundamentally sound organisation because his own mother had been an examiner for the WJEC for decades….
As it seems does every paedophiles' friend who falls under suspicion but is somehow cleared, Mike German was given a peerage. In May 2010. So who filled the yawning gap left behind in the Assembly as a result of Mike's departure to the Upper House? His wife did of course. In June 2010 Mrs German (by then Lady German), Veronica, became the Lib Dem AM for Mike's old seat of South Wales East. However, Veronica could not be accused of not having the necessary experience – she had lived in south Wales for decades and had been a Councillor in Newport as well as in Torfaen.
The MP for Torfaen 1987-2015 was Paul Murphy. Murphy was Secretary of State for Wales, 1999-02 and 2008-09. It was Murphy who took delivery of the Waterhouse Report in 2000 and he stated that he was glad that the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal had now been investigated in a transparent manner, that there had not been a whiff of a cover-up and that there was no link with any paedophile gang outside of north Wales. Murphy forgot to add that Sir Ronnie Waterhouse was a personal friend of many of those who ran the bodies which managed the services in which children were abused or which colluded with the abuse and that Ronnie refused to take evidence regarding or investigate any links with abusers outside of north Wales so it was no surprise that he failed to find any such links.
Before Murphy was elected, the MP for Torfaen was Leo Abse. Abse was a close friend of George Thomas, threatened and paid off people who claimed to have been sexually abused by Thomas and told the media a pack of lies when Thomas ended up in hospital after contracting an STD (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Abse was also the subject of a police investigation into historical child sex abuse. Paul Murphy was a Torfaen Councillor for years whilst Abse was the local MP.
Paul Murphy was also Secretary of State for N Ireland and was party to whatever sleazy deal Blair did there. The deal involved the suppression of the truth about the abuse of children at the Kincora Boys Home.
Murphy was the Chairperson of the Intelligence and Security Committee, 2005-08. Let's hope that the security services don't actually let that Committee know what they're up to.
Murphy joined the slumbering hordes in the Upper House in 2015.
Veronica German was a school teacher in Gwent for 25 years. There was abuse of children happening in Gwent.
What with Mike German under investigation by the South Wales Police, in Feb 2002 Rhodri had to tweak his Cabinet as he was in need of a Minister for Economic Development after German had stepped down. So Andrew Davies, the Labour AM for Swansea West, 1999-11, was promoted to the position. The Andrew Davies who was busy having an affair with Meri Huws at the time…
Andrew Davies was the former Chair of Swansea West Labour Party, a member of the Welsh Labour Executive Committee and was a regional party official from 1984-91. Davies was one of the architects of devolution as the main organiser of the Labour Party Yes Campaign in 1997.
Davies is a graduate of Swansea University which is effectively run by Rhodri Morgan's friends and relatives (see post 'A Bit More Paleontology').
Between 2007-09, Andrew Davies was Minister for Social Justice and Public Service Delivery and Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery. Two things that were absolutely not happening in Wales whilst Davies held those positions were social justice and public services delivery.
Andrew Davies was born in and went to school in Herefordshire, but his parents are Welsh. His mother is from Llandeilo and his father is from the paedophiles' friends heartland of Flintshire. Davies trained as a teacher as well as a counsellor and has worked in further, higher and continuing education. Something tells me that Andrew Davies knew all about the paedophiles and their friends in north Wales a long while before he ever encountered Meri Huws.
Davies left the Welsh Gov't when Rhodri Morgan stood down as FM.
Before Rhodri was FM himself, Blair famously imposed Alun Michael on Wales as FM after the National Assembly was formed, although no-one but Blair really wanted Alun Michael as FM. Rhodri put up a battle but Blair rigged the process in numerous ways and Wales ended up with Alun Michael as FM but not for very long. Rhodri was given the job as Economic Development Minister in Alun Michael's Cabinet.
Rhodri's memoir is littered with anecdotes regarding the various dodges and fiddles that were carried out over the years in order to 'bring business to Wales' – as far as I can see in every case because a rich powerful person desired a particular outcome. Wales became a laughing stock as a result of the Korean LG deal in which £247 million of Welsh Office money was pissed down the drain and left a financial black hole that screwed the Assembly for the first ten years of its existence. LG and Corruption Bay were simply the most highly publicised cons which ripped off the tax payer, there were many, many more. LG was actually the handiwork of Lord Hague of the Massive Cover-Up of the Paedophile Ring…
I was interested to read Rhodri's account of how the 5 star St David's Hotel at Cardiff Bay was built. St David's Hotel is a very nice place in which to stay but the Welsh political class don't seem to view it as a privilege to live it up in the luxury of St David's. This motley crew of not very bright ex social workers and local councillors see it as their God given right to crash out at St David's at the tax payers expense, nowhere else could possibly be good enough for them. There is an Ibis Hotel in Cardiff which is so 'budget' that the rooms don't even have a chair – there are only the most basic facilities and it seems to serve principally as a crash pad for people after hen and stag parties when they have got so wrecked that they can't use public transport to get themselves elsewhere. I think it is about time that someone organised a conference for the paedophiles' friends of the Cardiff Bay bubble and booked the whole lot of them into the Ibis for the night whilst allowing them to believe that they'll be sleeping in their usual luxury suites at the St David's Hotel. Then they'll all have to go to Gregg's for breakfast, because the Ibis doesn't supply so much as a morning coffee.
According to Rhodri, Cardiff only ended up with the St David's Hotel because when William Hague was Secretary of State for Wales he desperately fought for the 1998 European Summit to be held in Wales, but the Foreign Office said that this was out of the question because Wales didn't have a 5 star hotel. So Hague went to see his mate Rocco Forte who had several hundred million quid on his hands after the Forte family lost out in the takeover battle against the Granada Group – and Hague asked him to build the St David's Hotel. Of course Rocco Forte didn't do this without a huge bribe – he received a grant of several million from the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation (see post 'Corruption Bay Special' for the lowdown on the CBDC). The Foreign Office then agreed that the European Summit could scrape the barrel and drop in at Cardiff in 1998.
Not that the St David's Hotel was built in time for the Summit, the Summit was actually held in Cathays Park – the Cardiff University buildings and the civic centre were all taken over for the week to host it. But at least Rocco Forte received millions of pounds to build a fantastic hotel that very few people in Wales can actually afford to stay in – but then that means it's always available for the politicians and businessmen who do so well out of the taxes paid by the people who can't afford to stay there themselves.
Hague – you and your mate Rocco must have known that the St David's Hotel wouldn't be finished in time for the summer of 1998, it was another year before it was finished. Did Rocco perhaps want to build an hotel in Cardiff anyway, so you thought up a way in which the tax payer would fund it?
Rhodri mentions that whilst he was FM, he was scrutinised by the Economic Development Committee, which was Chaired by Ron Davies. Ron resigned as Secretary of State for Wales after the Boogie business, but he didn't actually go away, he remained as an AM for quite some time and then had to be effectively bribed to go away. I will be blogging the details of Ron's exit arrangements soon. Rhodri states that Ron remained seething about not being FM for a long time and allowed himself to be used by lobbyists for their own ends. Rhodri names Sir David Rowe-Beddoe as one such lobbyist. Rowe-Beddoe was Chair of the national embarrassment that was the WDA (see post 'Corruption Bay Special' for details of some of what Rowe-Beddoe was involved in), who along with Ron attempted to get the Trade and Export Promotion Unit in Rhodri's Dept transferred to the WDA, although Rowe-Beddoe was supposed to have been working for Rhodri at the time.
What is clear is that everybody involved in business/economic development was fighting each other and using their knowledge of each others wrongdoing to ensure that huge amounts of money were channelled to their friends. Whilst they were doing this, they also duplicated each others work as they tried to build their own empires. Sadly none of them seemed to have any idea what they were doing – no wonder the business people that I knew during my years in Wales were tearing their hair out dealing with this bunch.
When I was a student I had a gardening job for a businessman who lived near me on Anglesey. I always found this man very pleasant and as far as I know he wasn't a paedophiles' friend – although I have found out that many people whom I always presumed were OK were involved in the most appalling conduct. Many years after I spent a summer working for this man he appeared on Welsh news having been fleeced by the WDA. The journo actually told him that he 'had been rather naive' to trust the WDA and my old associate explained aghast that he actually expected people to behave with a degree of integrity in business…
I heard two other people on the 'Today' programme this morning who know about the abuse of children and mental health patients but who have kept very quiet about it all.
I picked up the tail end of an interview with Paddy Pantsdown talking about regulation of the energy industry no less. Paddy was explaining that the population is well-educated and rather than state regulation of energy prices, 'empowered citizens' can exercise a choice and thus the market can be regulated in that way. That would work if citizens were all well-educated – which they are not – and if politicians didn't keep lying to the nation.
Paddy – you remained silent about Cyril Smith abusing children for years, which enabled him to carry on abusing them. You also worked with Dr Death, who knew about the most appalling criminal behaviour on the part of some of his Top Doctor colleagues. Did you warn anyone about this? No, you didn't. If you didn't warn people about this sort of criminality which resulted in yet more unsuspecting people being referred to Top Doctors who tried to traffick them into a sex abuse ring and more very vulnerable kids being taken into care and handed over to a gang of paedophiles, how can we trust you to give us the information that is needed to make 'empowered' choices about purchasing energy?
Before being elected to Parliament, Paddy worked for the security services. The security services knew exactly what Peter Morrison, Dafydd et al were up to. They protected them, not their potential victims. Never mind advising us all on energy regulation Paddy, Brown and I would have really appreciated it if when we were 21 someone had just said to us 'don't ever go near those fucking Top Doctors again, they're running a sex trafficking ring with connections to serious organised crime and witnesses have been found dead'. But no-one did – instead all those people who knew what they were doing not only dismissed our concerns but they pressurised me to go back and see the people traffickers…
You really could have warned us O Paddy of the Special Boat Service and High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovia to whom people turn in a war because you've been a soldier – then at least we could have protected ourselves. I bet that you never sent your men into machine gun fire with no cover.
About an hour after Paddy dispensed his pearls, Owen Smith was interviewed, having been sacked from the Opposition front bench by Jeremy Corbyn yesterday. Owen's been a naughty boy – he's been talking about another EU referendum to try and overturn the result of the last one because the nation didn't do what it was required and vote remain, so Jeremy has given him the boot.
I saw Owen speaking on a panel a few years ago and he was much brighter and more compos mentis than the drips who accompanied him, but the thing about Owen is that I don't believe what he says. If Owen wanted, he could write a blog like this. Owen grew up in south Wales and his dad is a Labour historian who has worked at BBC Wales, the Universities of Cardiff, Swansea and Glamorgan and he is Chair of the Arts Council of Wales. Dai Smith knows as much about the paedophiles' friends as I do and he's given some of them money from the budget of the Arts Council of Wales. Owen is good mates with his dad, what Owen hasn't picked up from elsewhere his dad will have told him.
Owen also knows all the funny little ways of the Top Doctors – he was previously an executive with Pfizer at a time when Pfizer was fiddling like there was no tomorrow. Pfizer must have liked Owen because they paid him a great deal of money.
Most intriguingly, Owen was Paul Murphy's special advisor. In fact Owen was boasting about this on the radio this morning, telling the listeners about Murphy's sterling work in N Ireland.
Owen – I can write lots about the wrongdoing of the paedophiles' friends, the Top Doctors and medical research/Big Pharma, because like you I've witnessed it. But I'd love to know what the basis of the deal that Blair and Paul Murphy thrashed out in N Ireland was – oh and who was the member of the Royal Family who was alleged to have been implicated in the Kincora Boys' Home Scandal? Could you please start writing a blog asap?
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My Arse – It's Tatifilarious
In my post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well' I observed that whilst Derek Hatton's buddy Tony Mulhearn felt confident in 2009 before open heart surgery at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital – aka Broadgreen Cardio-Thoracic Centre – because the actor Ricky Tomlinson went there for his heart surgery and survived the experience, Ricky Tomlinson would be OK in the hands of the Liverpool NHS even though it is a branch of the empire of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and the paedophiles' friends because Ricky Tomlinson hadn't spilt the pints of the paedophiles' friends. Ricky Tomlinson however did spill the pints of a few other people, including Ted Heath's Gov't and ended up going to prison as a result. There is still a campaign fighting to clear the name of Ricky and Des Warren, who was convicted along with Ricky in 1973.
All I knew about Ricky Tomlinson was that he was involved in leftist politics and trade unionism in the 1970s, is famously associated with Liverpool and when he was in middle age became a very well-known actor. He was Bobby Grant in 'Brookside' and then he acquired a cult following in 'The Royle Family' for responding to many things with the words 'my arse'. I vaguely knew about Ricky being imprisoned after the famous Shrewsbury flying pickets trial and that it was accepted by many that it had been a political gesture and that Ricky had been stitched up. The person whom I had always wondered about was Desmond Warren, the man who was imprisoned along with Ricky at the Shrewsbury trial – who fared very much worse than Ricky. Des Warren remained in prison for a lot longer than Ricky and his health was completely destroyed after he was forcibly drugged with anti-psychotics whilst he was in there. Des was not in a psychiatric unit but he was wrecked by the Top Doctors in the time-honoured way that the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles were. Des never regained any sort of quality of life, yet alone became a household name. So someone somewhere had a much bigger problem with Des Warren than they did with Ricky.
Then I discovered that in Nov 2010 Ricky Tomlinson had donated £1 million to the Alder Hey Children's Hospital charity, the Alder Hey Family Trust. The Trust runs Ronald McDonald House, the accommodation which is provided for the families of the young patients at Alder Hey. The Alder Hey Family Trust was co-founded by Professor Robert Owen – a retired surgeon from Liverpool – who in 1988 played a central role in concealing the criminal activity of Dr Dafydd Alun Jones and the paedophiles' friends of north Wales (see post 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen') . Ricky's donation was made public and there was much tweeting about Ricky's kindness and a photoshoot of Ricky with the builders who were building the extension to Ronald McDonald House. Alder Hey needed £1.5 million for the extension, so Ricky pretty much bankrolled that.
Compassionate Ricky's generous donation had actually been made in 2008, which was the year that Professor Robert Owen launched himself into another brave battle on behalf of the paedophiles' friends. Edwina Hart, the then Health Minister in the Welsh Gov't, had suggested that neurological patients from north Wales should be referred to south Wales for neurosurgery rather than to The Walton Centre in Liverpool. This followed the death of someone from north Wales whilst in the 'care' of The Walton Centre – someone who's husband and close friend had spilt the pints of the paedophiles' friends. I don't know whether this death had any relevance to Edwina's suggestion, but I do know that at the time Edwina was under attack from the paedophiles' friends herself for daring to try and put a stop to their misconduct in the north Wales NHS. Professor Robert Owen appeared in the media leading the charge against Edwina, demanding the right of Dafydd's mates the Top Doctors of Liverpool to eliminate anyone whom they deemed to be Enemies of the Paedophiles. For the full story see post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!' The paedophiles' friends' battle with those who were desperately trying to bring a halt to their activities was still raging long after Ricky handed over the dosh and provided much-needed good PR for Robert Owen and his colleagues at Alder Hey.
In the late 1990s Alder Hey was embroiled in scandal when it was revealed that over a period of 12 years, the organs of children who had postmortems at Alder Hey had been unlawfully retained by the hospital. The bodies of thousands of stillborn and miscarried babies had also been retained. Thymus glands which had been removed during surgery had been flogged off to a pharmaceutical company for profit without patient's knowledge (see post 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen'). Like the other hospitals in north Wales and the north west of England, in spite of all the cooing at photos of Angels cradling children, Alder Hey is very much part of the empire of Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends. I knew a woman from Gwynedd who's little boy was one of those who's body parts turned up where they should not have after he died in the care of Alder Hey and she never really got over it. She was then labelled as bonkers by everyone who did not know what had happened.
Alder Hey is in the news once more at the moment because of the case of toddler Alfie Evans. Alfie is an Alder Hey patient who is seriously ill in a coma and his parents want to take him abroad for medical care. Alder Hey are resisting this – they want to withdraw Alfie's life support – and a pitched battle is being fought in the courts accompanied by public protests regarding Alfie's fate.
Ricky's coughing up a one million donation for the charity founded by one of the paedophiles' friends was not the only occasion in 2008 when Ricky provided the NHS with dosh and free PR. In that year, he also donated £200,000 as Patron of the Human Milk Bank of Cheshire and North Wales. This charity provides babies on Special Care Baby Units with milk from donor mothers.
In 2013, the Milk Bank celebrated its 10th anniversary and Ricky was on hand at the Countess of Chester Hospital to launch a promotional DVD and have his photo taken shaking a few hands. At that time, so many babies died unnecessary deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital that there was eventually a police investigation and the obstetric and gynaecology services in north Wales were so dangerous and dysfunctional that they were placed in special measures and a Welsh Gov't hit squad was sent in with the remit of 'achieving normality'.
I thought that it was time that I found out a bit more about Ricky, so I purchased a copy of his 2003 book – entitled 'Ricky', rather than as might be expected, 'My Arse'.
Ricky was born in Blackpool but spent his childhood and adolescence in Lance Street, Liverpool and after leaving school he went to Walton Technical College. Walton was the area of Liverpool which came to be run by Militant. In 1990 Michael Carr, the MP for Bootle who had fought Militant, did not survive a visit to Walton Hospital and two DPPs subsequently refused to investigate the obvious criminal negligence of the staff at Walton Hospital (see post 'News From Sicily'). Walton Hospital subsequently closed down, but just as when the North Wales Hospital Denbigh was closed down the staff and their practices were simply relocated to other hospitals. The neurological unit The Walton Centre grew out of Walton Hospital…
As a young man Ricky Tomlinson was mates with John Rand from Toxteth and they were both Communists. Like many people at the time, Ricky abandoned communism as a result of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. John Rand's brother Jimmy became well-known in leftist politics.
Ricky showed an interest in acting whilst still young and he was active in the Bootle Drama Society.
As a young man Ricky developed very strong connections to north Wales, connections which became lifelong.
In 1961 Ricky began working at Brymbo steelworks near Wrexham. He began a relationship with a girl, Marlene, who lived on the Queen's Park estate in Wrexham. In 1961 kids were being abused at Wrexham and monstrous things were happening at the North Wales Hospital – Gwynne was still lobotomising and awkward customers were being banged up without question, as were gays and women with pregnancies that inconvenienced other people. Bryn Estyn was still an approved school run by the Home Office and the boys there were abused. John Allen had not yet opened the Bryn Alyn Community, so the highly organised paedophile ring had not yet reached the dizzy heights that it achieved in the 1980s. There was however a highly classed society and people at the bottom of the heap did not do too well. The Queen's Park estate was very disadvantaged and by the 1980s was providing Dafydd and the paedophiles with fresh meat. One of the victims of the paedophile gang with whom I made friends in the North Wales Hospital Denbigh was from Queen's Park. Queen's Park was renamed Caia Park after some quite spectacular riots on the estate – it had become notorious and people were refusing to live there.
In March 1962 Ricky and Marlene married. They lived in Liverpool but Marlene was very close to her family and returned to Wrexham every weekend to stay over at their place.
Ricky makes much of not being a well-educated man, but he is intelligent and has been involved in politics from a very young age – he won't have missed what was happening in north Wales and he'll have developed quite a sophisticated analysis of why he and his mates were being so short-changed by the world around them.
Ricky spent his spare time in clubs and pups in Liverpool, hanging out with big names in entertainment as well as people who would later become big names. People in entertainment mix with numerous different cohorts – Ricky put on a show for the Runcorn Police but also spent time in the Colombo Club which was frequented by gangsters.
Like a lot of politically active working class young men at the time, Ricky flirted with the NF and got as far as attending a few of their meetings, but left after concluding that some of the leaders were rather mad and dangerous.
Marlene didn't settle in Liverpool and made it clear that she was unhappy. So in 1970 Ricky and Marlene moved to Wrexham – their son was born in Wrexham Maelor Hospital in 1970. Ricky worked for McAlpine.
The trouble began when Ricky became a member of the Wrexham Strike Action Committee and became an organiser of flying pickets in the 1972 building strike which involved the TGWU and UCATT unions. Ricky travelled around the region as a result of this – he attended meetings in pubs in Chester and at Oswestry Labour Club. By 1972 the paedophile ring operating in that area had begun to build up its business. John Allen established the Bryn Alyn Community in 1968 and in 1973 Bryn Estyn became a community children's home managed by Clwyd County Council. It was in 1973 that Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth relocated to Bryn Estyn from the Axwell Park Approved School in Gateshead – they were two key figures in the north Wales paedophile ring.
Before Arnold and Howarth arrived at Bryn Estyn there were indications that business practices which became characteristic of the paedophile gang were already happening.
In March 1973 the Bryn Estyn Headmaster Peter Burton, along with his wife and seven year old son, were killed in a road traffic accident near Crewe, Cheshire. The Deputy Headmaster of Bryn Estyn was also killed in the accident. Peter Burton had been appointed Head only the previous year. He was appointed after the previous Head, David Ursell, was suspended. Ursell was suspended in 1972 following an inquiry held in 1971 after a complaint was made concerning the way in which Ursell upheld discipline.
Following the death of Peter Burton, in May 1973 Matt Arnold was appointed Head of Bryn Estyn. He gave his old molesting buddy from Axwell Park Peter Howarth a job at Bryn Estyn in Nov 1973 . In 1974 Peter Morrison was elected as Tory MP for Chester – Morrison was one of those who in 1975 led the demands for Thatcher to be installed as Tory leader. By this time all the ingredients for the Great Cover-Up were in place and the paedophile gang had begun business proper…It all seemed to follow on from John Allen establishing the Bryn Alyn Community…
Ricky would not have had to have been directly involved with the care of young people to have known that something was wrong in the area in which he lived. He was acutely aware of matters like police and judicial corruption and he will have known about the terrible reputation of the North Wales Hospital, Denbigh. He might well have heard about the Tory MP for Chester molesting children as well. Ricky purchased a house at Coedpoeth – a village near Wrexham – to renovate. So Ricky was living in Paedophilia Central. Des Warren bought himself a cottage in Henllan. Henllan is a village about three miles away from the North Wales Hospital, Denbigh. The town of Denbigh was dominated by people who worked at the North Wales Hospital, but there were so many people employed there that there was an overspill who lived in the villages around Denbigh – one such village was Henllan. Some of Des's neighbours will have definitely worked for Dafydd and the paedophiles. All of them will have known something about Dafydd and his institution – certainly that ending up in there as a patient was to be avoided at all costs.
As a result of organising flying pickets in the Shropshire area, Ricky and Des were charged with serious offences and stood trial at Shrewsbury Crown Court. Sir Robert Carr was Home Secretary at the time under Ted Heath. The DPP was Sir Norman Skelhorn QC whose time in office was notorious for miscarriages of justice, his admission that terrorist suspects in N Ireland had been tortured and his Freemasonry (see post 'They Planned To Put Acid In All The Reservoirs…')
The evidence against Ricky and Des was provided by West Mercia Police. West Mercia Police had longstanding connections with the North Wales Police and both were forces which colluded with organised child sexual abuse. The current news story involving allegations that hundreds of children in Telford over years were targeted by a sex trafficking gang yet the police failed to act on complaints suggests that all is still not well in West Mercia Police. Last year an officer from West Mercia Police killed himself in the Heddfan Unit – he was at the centre of a disciplinary charge.
Ricky's solicitors were Casson and Casson, a Manchester firm – the two solicitors acting for him were Campbell Malone and Tony Casson. His barrister was Keith McHale QC. Other lawyers involved in the trial were David Turner Samuels, John Platts Mill, Marist Young and Philip Phillips.
The trial was at Shrewsbury Crown Court in Oct 1973. The Presiding Judge was Justice Mais, a Tory Gov't appointment to the High Court in 1971. The prosecuting Counsel was Maurice Drake QC. In 1994 Maurice Drake was the Presiding judge at the libel case that former North Wales Police officer Gordon Anglesea brought after he was named in the media as someone who had molested kids in care in Wrexham (see posts 'Yn Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd' and 'Yn Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd – A Few Additional Comments'). Anglesea won nearly £400k damages and a few weeks later Mark Humphreys – one of the young men who had given evidence against Anglesea – was found dead, hanging from the stairwell in the block of flats in which he lived in Wrexham. In 2016 Gordon Anglesea was convicted and imprisoned for historical sex offences against kids in care in Wrexham.
The Shrewsbury Two were supported by the SWP (Socialist Workers' Party) and received sympathetic coverage in the 'Morning Star' and 'Socialist Worker'. Ricky was sentenced to two years in prison, Des to three years.
After the Shrewsbury Two were imprisoned, the case went to appeal. Lord Chief Justice Widgery upheld the convictions for conspiracy and unlawful assembly but ruled that the convictions for affray could be appealed. Widgery was a man who was happy to accommodate the wishes of leading politicians – Widgery was still Lord Chief Justice when Jeremy Thorpe was charged with trying to have Norman Scott bumped off and he was happy to alter the date of Thorpe's trial at a time which was convenient for Thorpe in terms of his campaigning in the forthcoming General Election.
Ricky served part of his sentence at HMP Sudbury, an open prison in Debyshire, which Ricky described as being full of white collar criminals including bent lawyers and corrupt public servants. Ricky observed that 'the class system is alive and well, operating at an open prison near you'. He's quite right as well – but don't tell me that somewhere along the way Ricky didn't find out what was happening to kids in care on his doorstep in north Wales and how many white collar criminals were building their careers on it. Ricky observed that his transfer to an open prison was approved after Labour won the General Election in Feb 1974, when Roy Jenkins was appointed Home Secretary. Roy Jenkins was a man who did many favours for the paedophiles' friends of north Wales (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part I').
Ricky was granted bail and released from prison on 3 June 1974. His wife Marlene had by then moved into rented accommodation at Plas Madoc whilst their cottage at Coedpoeth was being renovated. Plas Madoc is a big council estate just outside of Wrexham. It is somewhere else where the tenants would find themselves living under the yoke of Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends if they dared transgress.
After his release from Sudbury, Ricky spent a few weekends at Des's place in Henllan helping with the renovations.
In Oct 1974 Ricky's case was heard. The charges of affray against him were quashed, but he was sent back to prison after being found guilty of conspiracy and his request for an appeal to the Lords was refused.
Protests of support for Ricky and Des were held in Liverpool, London and Manchester. Dennis Skinner asked questions about their case in the House. Skinner was an alumnus of Ruskin College, along with John Prescott. Matt Arnold had taught at Ruskin in the mid-1960s – Peter Howarth had been his student there. Prescott had been at Ruskin at the time as had Dennis Skinner. Ruskin has an active alumni association and the former students who became Labour MPs were loyal members (see post 'A Study In Tyranny'). The presence of Arnold and Howarth at Axwell Park and then from 1973 onwards at Bryn Estyn and their activities will not have been unknown among their old mates from Ruskin.
In 1975 Ricky was transferred to HMP Leicester. There was corruption in the criminal justice system in Leicester – the paedophile ring of which Frank Beck and Greville Janner were part pursued their activities unhindered for years, whilst the local authorities as well as the NHS and Leicester University colluded with them (see post 'Radical Leicester And Some Other Free Radicals'). When Beck was imprisoned in Nov 1991 and the scale of his offending became clear, it was admitted that the police had been seriously negligent. Janner never was prosecuted although the CPS admitted that there had been sufficient evidence for charges and no-one was able to explain why he wasn't charged.
One of the celebrity inmates in HMP Leicester was the bank robber John McVicar. McVicar had been one of sociologist Laurie Taylor's high profile students whilst McVicar had been in prison at York. When McVicar was released from prison he was given a column in the 'New Statesman'. I think that he remained friends with Laurie Taylor as well. The celebrity criminals of York were given the sort of opportunity by Laurie Taylor and his colleague Stan Cohen that no wrongly imprisoned paedophiles' victim ever was. But then if Laurie had fought the cause of the victims of Dafydd et al, Laurie's son Matthew Taylor would not have ended up as Blair's advisor at No 10 years later…
The BBC commissioned a documentary on the Shrewsbury trial and Eric Heffer, the then MP for Liverpool Walton and Minister for State and Industry, called for an inquiry into into the case. That's the Eric Heffer who visited Thatch for secret midnight tipples whilst she was PM and who, along with his wife Doris, was keeping a lid on the corruption of the Liverpool branch of the empire of Dafydd and the paedophiles' friends (see post 'These Sharks Are Crap As Well').
Whilst reading Ricky's book, I frequently caught the whiff of a rodent, but the rat that I smelt was the rat which is common to north Wales – the sort of rat that suggests that Ricky knew far, far more about Dafydd and the paedophiles and the web of corruption which emanated from them than he ever have admitted to anyone. However, after there was a stink kicked up in the media and in Parliament about the imprisonment of the Shrewsbury Two, a rat of huge proportions materialised.
According to Ricky, in the first half of 1975 he received a visit from some of those who'd been on the picket line with him and they begged him to give up his protest against prison rules for Des's sake. Ricky and Des had demanded status as political prisoners and they had been doing various non-violent things to piss the prison authorities off. They had of course been on hunger strike, had refused to wear clothes and had refused to undertake work in prison. They were both put in solitary confinement. I know from what has happened to the victims of Dafydd and the paedophiles known to me who were imprisoned that if prison officers want to get nasty with prisoners, they can get very nasty indeed. The culmination is to put someone in a shared cell with a total psychopath who has told the screws that he'll kill any cell mate if he's forced to share. This has resulted in the murder of an unconvicted remand prisoner with mental health problems in the UK prison system on at least one occasion – on the occasion known to me, Robert Bluglass Chaired the Inquiry which followed the murder, smeared the murdered man's character and exonerated the institution involved.
Was Ricky battered to a pulp/refused medical care/forced to share a cell with someone dangerous/raped in the showers by Mr Big whilst being a pain in the butt to the prison authorities? No. The authorities seemed to have gone through the motions of not being too nice to Ricky – they didn't provide him with a foot spa in his cell or anything – but Ricky did not endure half of what other people have told me happened to them in Risley Remand Centre or HMP Walton.
Des however was in a dreadful state. In response to his protest, Top Doctors at HMP Leicester were overdosing Des on a cocktail of drugs Denbigh-style and Des had developed Parkinsonian symptoms as a result. Des was given amitriptyline, perphenazine and nitrazepam. Des was barely able to walk. Such 'side-effects' are irreversible. Supporters of the Shrewsbury Two feared that Des was going to die within weeks, which is why they asked Ricky to call off his protest on the grounds that Des would never give up and let Ricky down, but if Ricky told him that he (Ricky) couldn't bear it anymore and was giving up, Des would give up as well.
So Ricky ended his protest. Des didn't. In fact Des was absolutely furious with Ricky, accused him of selling out and it was many, many years before Des even agreed to meet Ricky and speak to him. After Des was released from prison, he never really worked again, having been blacklisted by employers for his role in organising the strikes. As Des got older his health got very much worse and eventually he used a wheelchair. As Des lived in Henllan, just down the road from Dafydd et al, I doubt that Des received much in terms of domiciliary care. Des died in 2004, completely debilitated, aged only 66. Before he died Des threatened to sue the Home Office for the damage done to his health as a result of the drugs which had been forced upon him – a settlement of £3000 was made out of court by the Home Office. Des Warren's family believe that the settlement was made to avoid public scrutiny of what had happened.
The TUC refused to support the Shrewsbury Two because they didn't want to 'rock the boat' with Harold Wilson's newly elected Gov't. Amnesty International refused to adopt Des as a prisoner of conscience.
Des ended up serving all but four months of his three year sentence and was treated very harshly by the prison authorities throughout. Des was moved between prisons constantly at short notice and without his family being informed, making it damn near impossible for them to visit him.
Ricky however was released in July 1975 – in Ricky's words the Home Office 'was rushing him to freedom'.
I cannot understand why Ricky was treated so much less harshly than Des. They committed whatever crimes they were supposed to have committed together. They were both involved with far left groups and had seriously pissed Heath's Gov't off. They were charged simultaneously with the same offences and were tried by the same judge and jury in the same Court. I cannot find any indication anywhere of any argument that was used to suggest that Des had done anything to make the Home Office want to really shaft him.
I can think of only two possible explanations as to why Ricky was not dosed up by Top Docs and destroyed in the way that Des was. In the 1970s, the security services infiltrated trade unions and left groups. The security services are very good at ensuring that nothing TOO bad happens to their own. Er, Ricky – is there something that you haven't told us?
The other explanation relates to the source of the serious criminality in north Wales at the time of the police investigation into and the subsequent jailing of the Shrewsbury Two. Des came from Broughton near Chester and was local to Chester/north Wales. Like Ricky, Des will have known something about Dafydd and the paedophiles. I am speculating that Des either knew something very damning indeed about that lot and, like those of us who were targeted just a few years later because we were witnesses, was shafted in an attempt to ensure that he could never speak with credibility about what he knew. Or that Ricky used his knowledge of what was going on to protect himself in the way that Des didn't…
I am not at all surprised that Des received no support from Amnesty International. The Secretary-General of Amnesty Internation at that time was Martin Ennals. Not only did Amnesty not take on causes which would ruffle the feathers of the UK Gov't but they had also been infiltrated by the security services (see post 'Dogma And Disarray?'). Martin Ennals's brother was David – later Lord – Ennals. In the late 1960s David Ennals had been a Home Office and DHSS Minister in Harold Wilson Gov't, whilst those Depts had concealed the criminality of Dafydd and the paedophiles in north Wales. Ennals was a friend of Dafydd's mate from the Maudsley Dr Jim Birley who was also colluding with and concealing the wrongdoing of Dafydd (see post 'A Galaxy Of Talent'). Furthermore at the time that people were trying to drum up support for Des, David Ennals was working for MIND leading a major campaign for them – Dafydd was involved with MIND and MIND were colluding with Dafydd and the paedophiles…(see post 'MIND Are Out For Mental Health – Never For Themselves Of Course').
The campaign to free Des continued after Ricky was released – Arthur Scargill and the SWP took part. Did anyone make public that the most dreadful scandal involving police, judicial and Ministerial corruption was taking place in north Wales/Cheshire where Des grew up and where he and his family lived? No. Surely if someone wanted to give the authorities a kick in the groin they could have pointed to what the Home Office had concealed for years whilst it ran Bryn Estyn and what the DHSS and Welsh Office were at the time concealing at Bryn Estyn. And of course what Dafydd and Gwynne were doing at Denbigh three miles down the road from Des's family home.
At the 1975 TUC conference Mick McGahey called for a general strike to force the Gov't to free Des. The TUC included all those unions who's members and shop stewards were protecting the people who were abusing kids and psych patients in north Wales and elsewhere. The supporters of the Shrewsbury Two could not understand why most people in the union movement had abandoned them.
No-one ever succeeded in freeing Des before he had completed his stretch and his health was destroyed. No-one used the nuclear option of exposing Dafydd and the paedophiles and their links to people in high places and Des went the same way as so many kids in care or psych patients in north Wales who dared complain.
In 2002, Ricky received a phone call telling him that there was interest in a documentary about him because Gov't files released under the 30 year rule revealed that MI5 had a file on Ricky. They've got one on me as well Ricky and I never got as far as organising flying pickets or pissing the capitalists of the construction industry off – I just refused to participate in a gropefest with a bunch of horrible old men who were running a sex trafficking ring and look what happened…
Although Ricky very successfully rebuilt his life after imprisonment, he maintained that he was still targeted because of his union activism. He was blacklisted by absolutely everyone in the building trade. The law also failed to work for him. At one point he owned a house in Wrexham and let it out. The tenants turned out to be really bad – they trashed the place, failed to pay rent and threatened him. Ricky occupied his own house in protest and the police arrested Ricky and his wife. This sort of thing is familiar to people who spilt the paedophiles' pints in north Wales – I know three people who all had similar experiences and were threatened with arrest themselves by the police when they reported the crimes.
In Jan 1993 by which time Ricky was famous as an actor, he stood trial for trying to kill a former business partner, whom, Ricky maintains, attacked him. Ricky was found not guilty – Ricky then tried to recover the money owed to him by the man whom he was alleged to have tried to kill via the civil courts but that was not particularly successful.
People who have not encountered the likes of the paedophiles' friends find it very difficult to believe that this sort of thing can happen. The near-universal response is 'but you must have done something MORE than you're telling us…' No, spill the pints of certain people and you will find yourself arrested yourself should you report a crime against you, I absolutely believe Ricky on this. The stories becoming public of the teenagers who were targeted by the gangs in the sexual exploitation scandals in places like Rotherham, Rochdale and now Telford tell a similar tale. Teenagers who went to the police to report being raped or after threats were made to kill them and their families were arrested by the police themselves for trivial offences. For years in north Wales, we were saying of the likes of Dafydd, the Arfon Community Mental Health Team and some – but not all – of the Hergest Unit staff, 'what do they actually have to do to us before someone investigates them?' The harsh reality was that the colleagues of these people and their senior managers were beating, raping, buggering and trafficking children in care – everyone knew it and still no-one acted. They did what they wanted and were never held to account no matter how much evidence or how many witnesses there were.
Ricky was also prone to having people think the worst of him. After his marriage broke up he had a relationship with a girl in north Wales who was a lot younger than him – she was 17. He seemed to receive a lot of grief over this with people constantly implying that Ricky was some sort of molester. I don't know Ricky Tomlinson, he might be a sexual predator – but it is equally as likely that he established a genuine relationship with someone a lot younger. Ricky was in this relationship whilst he lived in a region in which the local authorities wilfully ignored the en masse rape and abuse of kids as young as 11 in their 'care'.
If it's any consolation Ricky, my friend Brown found himself the constant source of rumours that he couldn't be trusted with children and at one point a poisonous pen letter was sent to the senior managers of the university at which he works, stating that he was a 'known paedophile' who has 'committed many offences' but hasn't been caught yet. So he's not a known paedophile is he then Martin/Elfed/Dafydd??? (see post 'A Nasty, Ludicrous Poison Pen Letter'). After this, a kindly person told me that they didn't know how Brown and me were withstanding the crap that was being thrown at us by the paedophiles' friends. Partly it was because the paedophiles' friends are so utterly ridiculous. And of course having poison pen letters sent around about one provides a bit of light relief from the cars that are trying to run one over. Eee, you were lucky…I used to dream of having t'poison pen letter sent t' boss…
Towards the end of Ricky's book, Ricky provides a detailed account of a number of events that make it quite clear that certainly by the late 1990s Ricky knew exactly how shite and corrupt the NHS was, at least in north Wales. Ricky's son Gareth developed serious mental health problems – he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia – and Gareth was treated in the usual manner. He was sectioned, drugged and once out of hospital was visited by completely unhelpful people who seriously neglected him. At one point Gareth ran away to Liverpool – he was living in a unsuitable flat in Queen's Park in Wrexham – 'to escape the mental health services in Wrexham'. Ricky doesn't enter into why Gareth was running away from these people or trying to avoid being drugged by them, but I suspect that Ricky knew damn well it was because they were aggressive, unhelpful and the drugs left Gareth unable to function normally. He will also have been running the risk of developing the same 'side-effects' as Des.
Gareth drifted around Liverpool, had a row with Ricky, threatened him with a knife and became so aggressive that Ricky remained in touch with the police whilst Gareth returned to Wrexham by train and asked the police to pick Gareth up for his own safety. Gareth returned to Wrexham but was not approached by anyone.
Ricky became increasingly concerned about Gareth's welfare – who was very obviously unable to look after himself – and the neglect of those being paid to look after him but he got nowhere, despite visits to the police and the MP for Wrexham. At the time the MP for Wrexham will have been John Marek. None of the MPs in north Wales at that time would help psych patients or kids in care, so Ricky wouldn't have had any more help had he visited any other politician, but John Marek was infamous. He has been a Labour MP, a Tory MP and at one point set up his own political party, consisting of himself. In none of this guises did he mention one word about the vicious sex trafficking gang whose victims were being found dead.
Ricky was trying to get help for Gareth whilst the Waterhouse Inquiry was underway. At the time, anyone who might have had brushes with the paedophiles' friends and who could be a potential witness was left to kill themselves and a lot of people did. No-one was going to help Gareth no matter what happened.
What did happen was that Gareth was arrested and charged after telling the police that he had a bomb. The police knew Gareth, they had been ignoring him for months as he visited the police station with outlandish stories. They probably knew that he was highly unlikely to have been in possession of a bomb, but there are procedures tch tch so Gareth was met with an anti-terrorist squad. He was sectioned and ended up in Wrexham Maelor for 28 days. When he came out of hospital he was – surprise, surprise – reluctant to open his door to those who were 'helping' him.
I knew someone in Felinheli who tried to protect herself from the aggressive bastards of the Arfon Community Mental Health Team by refusing to open her door. So they called the police who broke the door down. My friend was evicted from the house as a result and was then yet another 'homeless schizophrenic' whose 'chaotic lifestyle' had led to her losing her tenancy.
Just before Christmas in 1999 Gareth ended up in trouble again. He developed the idea that Ricky was an imposter and was not his father. Gareth visited the births, marriages and deaths office at a time when it was highly unlikely to be open, state bureaucrats having the tendency to work office hours rather than throughout the night. Gareth smashed the door of the office and then headed for Liverpool. Wrexham and St Helen's CID co-ordinated their activities and Gareth was arrested and charged with criminal damage. Gareth appeared at Mold Crown Court. He was remanded in custody and a hospital assessment and psych reports were ordered.
Down the road at Ewloe, Sir Ronnie Waterhouse and his stooges had just finished hearing evidence from people who had been kids in care in north Wales. Most of them were people whose lives had been wrecked by the people who were destroying Gareth's life. They were aggressively cross-examined by lawyers such as Baroness Patricia Scotland who were representing the paedophile gang and were called liars. Some of them collapsed whilst giving evidence and some were unable to leave the building unaided such was their distress. Everybody who had worked with the paedophile gang was guaranteed immunity from prosecution if they agreed to give evidence – including those who had been accused of the most serious offences. Most of the kids who had been in care in north Wales – of those whom were still alive – didn't know that the Inquiry was happening anyway, so not many former kids in care actually gave evidence. Neither could the Inquiry trace any of the former residents because at the beginning of the Inquiry the warehouse near Chester containing all the records from Bryn Alyn went up in flames and all the records were destroyed. The fire was so fierce that neighbouring houses were burnt to a cinder as well. The police maintained that the fire was not suspicious.
Whilst all this was happening, Prestwood Homes – a chain of 'care homes' for people with mental health problems and learning difficulties in north Wales which was very obviously a front for a people trafficking organisation – found that business was booming. Most of their patients were young women who been placed there by Liverpool Social Services or Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool (see post 'A Convenient Arrangement With The Private Sector'). The homes were registered with Conwy County Council. MIND, the staff of Coleg Menai and the Hergest Unit knew that there had been complaints of abuse of residents at Prestwood Homes. No action was taken. I was threatened when I paid a visit to Conwy Conwy Council to raise concerns. One resident of Prestwood was told that if she didn't co-operate with 'therapy' – the therapy being to watch porn films – she would be 'taken back to Liverpool and left to die on an embankment'. She disappeared from Prestwood a few weeks later after telling some staff at MIND that she was being abused at Prestwood and was never seen again (see post 'The Mentor'). No explanation regarding this young woman's disappearance was ever demanded from Prestwood Homes Ltd by any authority.
Two other people who died during the Waterhouse Inquiry who were possible witnesses were Screaming Lord Sutch and John Tomiczek. Screaming Lord Sutch had shared Cynthia Payne's house in Streatham which doubled up as a brothel. Among Cynthia's clients were a number of Top Doctors from St George's Hospital who were concealing the crimes of Dafydd and the paedophiles (see post 'The Most Dangerous Man In The World – Part III'). David Sutch was found hanging – it was presumed that he'd killed himself after a severe depressive illness. He was in the care of St George's. John Tomiczek was the adopted son of Monty Python's Graham Chapman. John was a teenager from Liverpool who had run away when he met Chapman and Chapman persuaded John's father to let Chapman adopt him. Chapman told everyone that John was 17 – he was 13. Chapman was known to regularly pick up teenage boys for sex. It was observed that Chapman's relationship with John was not exactly fatherly. Chapman was an alcoholic who let John drink as much as he wanted. Chapman died of cancer in 1989 and John died – still a young man – whilst the Waterhouse Inquiry was underway (see post ' Inside Information About A Hergest Unit Death'). Chapman made regular trips to north Wales because he was a keen climber. He was at one point interviewed by the police regarding his relationship with John but Chapman stressed to the police officer that he was a Top Doctor and the Plod got the message and left.
After watching Gareth encounter such difficulties, Ricky was distressed when his other son Clifton told Ricky that he had a drug problem. Despite Ricky's socialist principles, he paid for Clifton to receive care in a private clinic in Harrogate. I can understand why Ricky did this – he wasn't going to risk the health of another one of his children with the paedophile gang.
At about the same time, Ricky's elderly frail mum ended up being admitted to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Whilst remembering to tell the readers that 'the nurses and doctors had been marvellous and deserved to be called Angels', Ricky mentioned that at one point there was a discussion about his mum being transferred to a ward where she had previously been treated. Ricky's family became very upset and stated that 'she's not going back there'. Ricky doesn't explain why not. Perhaps because the staff weren't quite Angelic.
I can absolutely understand why Ricky wanted to protect the vulnerable members of his family from attack by the paedophiles' friends and that he might therefore have not dared speak out because Gareth was in their clutches. But what Ricky should not have done was to give the bastards a million quid and a load of free publicity when someone was actually trying to challenge their reign of terror.
Ricky's book mentions his many Liverpool showbiz links. He is critical of Cilla Black and Tarby for selling out and not supporting the Liverpool docks strike in 1995, particularly as Cilla's father was a docker. Ricky commented on an irony that I had noticed – that Cilla who really loved Liverpool lived in a mansion in Buckinghamshire and very rarely visited Liverpool, except to be photographed. Ricky of course was particularly pissed off with Cilla and her husband/manager Bobby Willis because they were both high profile supporters of Thatcher. I'll tell you something else as well Ricky – Cilla was a personal friend of Prof Geoffrey Chamberlain of St George's Hospital Medical School. Chamberlain knew that his colleagues were concealing a paedophile ring and he presided over serious misconduct in his own Dept as well.
Ken Dodd was another Liverpool bred and based entertainer who supported Thatch, but Ricky seems to have forgiven him for that. Ken Dodd was a guest at Ricky's wedding to his second wife.
In 1989, Dodd was charged with tax evasion. The subsequent trial – the prosecution case was led by Brian Leveson QC – produced several revelations. The Diddy Men, who had appeared in Dodd's stage act, were often played by local children from stage schools and were never paid. Dodd was also revealed to have very little money in his bank account but he did have £336,000 in cash stashed in suitcases in his attic. When asked by the judge, 'What does £100,000 in a suitcase feel like?', Dodd replied, 'The notes are very light, M'Lord.' Dodd also said: 'I am not mean, but I am nervous of money, nervous of having it, nervous of not having it' and described money as 'important only because I have nothing else'.
Dodd was represented by George Carman QC, who in court famously quipped, 'Some accountants are comedians, but comedians are never accountants'. He described Dodd as 'a fantasist stamped with lifelong eccentricities'. Yet the Court was told about wheelbarrows full of money being physically shifted around and notes from Dodd to his accountant joking about what the taxman didn't know. Cash was stashed in cupboards, in wardrobes and under the stairs. Dodd also had nearly £1 million in bank accounts in the Isle of Man and Jersey.
The trial lasted three weeks and Dodd was acquitted. Dodd's acquittal gobsmacked many people. The prisoners at Walton famously hung up a banner which read 'Coming soon – Ken Dodd' and someone in north Wales observed to me that 'surely the only thing to be speculated upon was which prison and how many years'.
Despite the strain of the trial, Dodd immediately capitalised on his new-found notoriety with a successful season running from Easter to Christmas 1990 at the London Palladium. Some of Dodd's subsequent material mocked the trial and tax in general. For a while, he introduced his act with the words, 'Good evening, my name is Kenneth Arthur Dodd; singer, photographic playboy and failed accountant!'
What was never discussed at the time was the degree of corruption with which George Carman was involved – or Carman's violence, gambling addiction, alcoholism and his close friendships with bent police officers, crooked lawyers and gangsters (see posts 'No Ordinary Methods' and 'No Ordinary Methods – Supplementary Post'). Carman successfully defended people whom he knew were guilty, including people charged with sex offences against children. He was retained by Jimmy Savile, defended Jeremy Thorpe and was retained by Sir David Napley, solicitor for Greville Janner, because Napley expected Janner to be charged with child sex offences.
The identity of the Presiding judge at Dodd's trial was barely remarked upon – it was Sir Ronald Waterhouse. It was reported that at the trial Dodd had Waterhouse in fits of laughter. A man with one hell of a sense of humour Ronnie Waterhouse. But then a lot of Liverpool judges – Dodd's trial was held at Liverpool Crown Court – have a good sense of humour. One of them even issued a High Court injunction against me because another Hergest Unit patient told Dafydd to bend over whilst he stuck a hand-grenade up his bum and then to take a deep breath and wait for the hand-grenade to explode. Dafydd discussed this event in the High Court in Liverpool and used it as evidence that I was phenomenally dangerous and was planning to murder him. Presumably rectally.
Ronnie Waterhouse may have thought that Ken was a real laugh, but the Inland Revenue didn't – they maintained that Dodd had been lying and cheating for at least 15 years and they estimated that he owed them £1 million. They also expected Dodd to attempt to flee the country before the trial.
Ken Dodd presented medical evidence from a helpful Top Doctor in an attempt to avoid standing trial but that ploy failed.
In the early 1950s, Dodd began a relationship with Anita Boutin; they were engaged at the time of her death from a brain tumour in 1977. Shortly after Anna's death, Dodd began a 40 year relationship with Anne Jones, with lasted from 1978 until his death. They first met in 1961 when Jones appeared at the Manchester Opera House. On 9 March 2018, two days before his death, Dodd married Anne – this stopped her having to pay inheritance tax of more than £2 million.
Despite the enormous weight of evidence against him, the nation was very firmly on Dodd's side when he stood trial for tax fraud. It was just considered entertainment and many people took their hats off to him for getting one over on the tax man. If Dodd's 1989 trial could be considered to be a laugh, a later trial involving Dodd was definitely not – but this trial did not receive the media coverage which Dodd's tax fraud trial did and there were a number of crucial things which were neither clarified or questioned which should have been.
Dodd's wiki entry states that in Oct 2001, a stalker, Ruth Tagg, harassed Dodd and his partner Anne Jones by sending them threatening letters, a dead rat, appearing on the front row at almost all of his live shows during this time and also attempted to burn down their house by pushing burning rags through the letterbox. The fire caused £11,000 worth of damage to the ground floor of the house. Tagg pleaded guilty to harassment and arson at Preston Crown Court.
Media reports – what reports there were – regarding Tagg's trial stated that she had developed a 'distorted obsession' with Ken Dodd and was a 'psychopath' who was sentenced to be detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act. The journos who reported the case clearly had it down as a case of a crazed stalker who nearly murdered Dodd and Anne Jones in their beds.
I've taken an interest in mad stalkers ever since I found out that Dafydd, Tony Francis and the staff of Gwynedd Social Services described me as one as a result of my 'harassment' of them by 'bombarding' them with 'voluminous correspondence'. What they didn't tell anyone was that the 'voluminous correspondence' were complaints from me requesting an investigation into them and described in detail serious criminal activity on their part. I certainly did send voluminous correspondence – no-one would answer my letters, or deal with my complaints but instead they constantly threatened me or perjured themselves, so I wrote letters about that as well.
I now have documents demonstrating that whilst allegations were made about me 'stalking' staff of the mental health services, they were keeping a record of where I was living, where I was working, who my friends were and my future plans re work and accommodation. They were using unlawful methods to access personal information about me – including intercepting mail that had been sent to me at my workplace – and were contacting people who worked in the hospitals and universities where I was working to befriend me in order to extract information and relay it back to the paedophiles' friends in north Wales.
It is clear now that it was me who was being stalked.
I was also told of a woman who 'stalked' a former employee of Gwynedd County Council – a lot of people had been told about this 'stalker' and her 'harassment' of this man. It transpired that the stalker was a woman who lived nearby whom her 'victim' had used sexually and the 'stalking' consisted of her trying to contact him. No threats, no harassment – she was trying to talk to him. So he told everyone that he was being 'stalked'.
The police now admit that they have to take care when investigating allegations of stalking or harassment, because experience has taught them that it is sometimes those complaining of being stalked or harassed who are the ones doing the stalking or harassing.
The judge at Ruth Tagg's trial for sentencing at Nottingham Crown Court in 2001 told Tagg that 'you were dangerous and all too frequently a menace. You have a distorted obsession, making Ken Dodd and his partner's lives hazardous'.
What details were reported included that Ruth 'had tried to declare her love for the 75-year-old comedian by sending him a tapestry in his image, but it arrived back at her home with the glass front broken'. Ruth then 'responded by bombarding Dodd and his girlfriend, Anne Jones, with cards, indecent photographs, lurid letters and bizarre packages. One parcel she sent was packed with clothes embroidered with slogans abusing Miss Jones, while another contained a dead rat sprayed with perfume'. It was alleged that Ruth had sent the items between July 2001 and May 2002, during which time she also 'attended the entertainer's performances and sat in prominent positions'. In Oct 2001, Tagg 'pushed burning rags through the letter box of Dodd's Liverpool home, causing £11,000 damage. No-one was in the house at the time'.
Ruth Tagg circulated around the criminal justice system for a considerable length of time between her arrest on suspicion of harassment and her sentencing. She was detained in psychiatric hospitals repeatedly for 'assessment'. Which in reality means that the chances of the facts being presented in Court as to what she did do or intended to do as opposed to speculation without evidence would have declined with every detention and assessment.
Initial media reports concerning the case stated that a Dr Jacqueline Short had reported to Justice Morland at Winchester Crown Court that Ruth had a 'complex personality disorder', namely psychopathy. Justice Morland extended the interim hospital order already in place, adjourned that until the next hearing at Bristol Crown Court in the August, but stated that he would impose a full hospital order at Manchester Crown Court in the Sept.
Yet reports show that Ruth wasn't sentenced until Nov 2003 – and it was at Nottingham Crown Court, not Manchester – after previously pleading guilty to harassment and arson at a hearing in Preston. So a great deal wasn't being reported. Neither were there any more references to which Top Doctors diagnosed what in the further assessments.
The BBC report contains a few other things of interest. Firstly, a photograph of Ruth and Ken Dodd – looking very friendly as well, not at all like stalker and stalked. It was mentioned that Ruth had sent Dodd a 'pornographic photograph' of herself, that Ruth 'became abusive after she felt insulted and rejected by Dodd' and that 'she tried to introduce herself to him at one [performance] in Somerset, but he refused, telling staff she could be a stalker'. She was finally arrested at a show on the Wirral under suspicion of harassment. It was mentioned that when her 'campaign' began in Jan 2001 Ruth wrote to Dodd using the pseudonym 'Rose Price'. She later 'started sending abusive messages to his partner'.
Peter Davies the prosecuting Counsel told the court: 'Both Ken Dodd and his partner were disturbed by these approaches. In October of that year events took a sinister turn. It is well-known where Ken Dodd and his partner live in Knotty Ash but he also owns another property nearby which was subject of an arson attack while they were away'. Martin Picton, defending, said Tagg developed a love for Dodd, but said she was now ashamed and apologetic about her actions and was recovering from her disorder.
Whilst sentencing, Justice Morland told Ruth that 'There is happily every indication that you are overcoming the problem [but] at present you remain a danger to the public at large and not only to Ken Dodd and his partner'.
OK. So Dodd knew the stalker well enough to have his photo taken with her. She was attending his performances around the UK – as will have numerous other people, loyal fans will have been Dodd's bread and butter. Yet when she tried to introduce herself after one performance, he told staff that she might be a stalker. How did he know? Did he recognise her and if so what was it that concerned him? She allegedly became upset when a gift that she had sent him was returned smashed – did someone smash it deliberately and then return it or was it returned and then damaged during transit? Ruth's 'campaign' seemed to have been one of behaving towards Dodd like a former partner who was angry with him – and one who was insulting the woman with whom he lived.
As for the arson attack – pushing flaming rags through letter boxes is not a good idea (I know because someone started doing it to me after I complained about the paedophiles' friends), but whereas press reports stressing Ruth as crazed nutter described her as attempting to set fire to 'Dodd's home', what she actually did was to cause criminal damage to another house owned by Dodd which was empty at the time. As for £11k worth of damage – we only have Dodd's word for that and experimental evidence suggests that Mr Dodd wasn't that accurate with figures. In fact experimental evidence suggests that Mr Dodd told bloody great porkies on oath when it suited him and he had the ability to persuade people charged with upholding the law to view this as entertainment.
As for Ruth being a danger to the public at large – there was no evidence of that at all. What there was evidence of was Ruth being very pissed off with Dodd and enjoying being offensive to Anne Jones.
Dr Jacqueline Short stated that Ruth was a psychopath who presented a danger to Dodd and Anne Jones. Yet Justice Morland described Ruth as 'recovering' from her 'disorder'. One doesn't recover from psychopathy – if one believes that such a thing exists, the essential element of a psychopathic disorder is that it is lifelong and not responsive to any treatment. So was Short wrong – had another Top Doctor made a different diagnosis perhaps? If so – who, when, what was it? Furthermore if Ruth was recovering and apologetic, why was she detained indefinitely?
This case has all the hallmarks of a case in which Top Doctors have been called in to shut someone up – namely Ruth.
Is it possible that Ken Dodd might have known Ruth rather better than anyone admitted? There was another snippet about Ruth's insane behaviour before she was arrested as well – that she was attending Dodd's performances sitting 'in a prominent place at the front' 'wearing the same bright green dress'. Well there's the mark of a psychopath. It could also have been the mark of a fan who was very, very close to Dodd and whom he would be able to spot when she was sitting in the front row wearing the special dress. But don't tell anyone, because Anne will hit the bloody roof if she finds out….Might that also have been why Ruth's initial correspondence to Dodd – before she got pissed off with him and Anne – was sent under a pseudonym?
Jacqueline Short – who diagnosed the dangerous Ruth as being a psychopath – has disappeared off the face of the earth. Justice Morland achieved notoriety before he presided over Ruth's trial. In Nov 1993 Justice Morland sentenced two ten year old boys from Walton, Liverpool for the murder of toddler James Bulger. The two boys were Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. Top Doctors maintained that Robert was a psychopath, a dangerous little boy who would remain a danger into adulthood but that John Venables had been 'led on' by Robert and if separated from him would soon have no serious problems.
Whilst Jon Venables was in a young person's psychiatric unit a female staff member had sex with him. After his release as a young man Venables had further brushes with the law, was found in possession of child porn, could not cope with the strain of living under a new identity and has been recalled to prison. Robert Thompson, the wicked little psychopath with the dire prognosis, has led a productive trouble-free life since being released.
Anyone feel like telling the full story about Ruth and Ken Dodd?
Ronald Waterhouse was not the only link that Ken Dodd had with north Wales. Ken was a favourite in north Wales, he turned up to places like Rhyl every summer. In 1966 Ken Dodd visited UCNW – what is now Bangor University – when that institution was firmly in the grip of the paedophiles' friends. I'm not sure what Ken Dodd was doing visiting UCNW, but there is archive footage of it – he caused quite a stir.
When Ken Dodd died there was acres of coverage about him and his showbiz friends in the tabloids and a photo of Frank Bruno popped up with the crowd. The Frank who famously had a breakdown, was known to have been incredibly distressed whilst in the 'care' of the Top Doctors and who very obviously has not really ever returned to the man he used to be. And who has remained very low profile indeed despite the occasional vow to 'fight the stigma' or help others in the same boat. Frank Bruno was a friend of Jimmy Savile – a man whom the Top Doctors know damn well that they should never have touched with a barge-pole. The extent of Savile's activities in the NHS and the details of those who assisted him have never been made public. Savile visited Bryn Estyn – he was present at the scene of a serious sexual assault on a boy there. Savile also used to hang out at the Queen's Hotel in Leeds.
Dr Dafydd Alun Jones used to hold 'clinics' at the Queen's Hotel in Leeds.
Another well-known Liverpudlian actor who was involved with the Labour Party was Tony Booth. His daughter Cherie married a man called Tony Blair.
One of the films in which Tony Booth starred was 'Corruption'.
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I have mentioned before how often in the biographies of the paedophiles' friends in Wales that a degree in law from Aberystwyth University seems to feature and how many people who are among the friends and relatives of Rhodri Morgan have passed through Swansea University. In terms of the Mr Bigs from further afield than Wales who have assisted paedophiles' friends another two educational institutions are a running theme – New College, Oxford and Ruskin College, Oxford. As with Aberystwyth University, when I first noticed this I presumed that perhaps it was simply a reflection of the cohorts from which the people I was researching were drawn – many influential people were educated at Oxford and Ruskin College educated scores of people from disadvantaged backgrounds with links to the labour and trade union movements. Then I looked harder and realised that the names of these colleges were cropping up so frequently that the most likely explanation was the operation of networks. Where there is a network there is usually a small number of massively influential people involved in that network.
New College popped up frequently when I was researching for the post of Jean Trumpington – the junior Minister who appointed Jimmy Savile to the position of general manager at Broadmoor Hospital (see post '95 Glorious Years!'). Trumpington and her pals were usually high Tories and aristocrats to boot, but many CVs of theirs began with 'Eton, New College Oxford'. New College is one of the wealthiest of the Oxford Colleges and has formal ties with Eton. Then I noticed New College on a few CVs of other politicians as well. However what really prompted me to do a bit more exploring was discovering that after graduating, Peter Mandelson had landed his job as a researcher for the TUC as a result of the recommendation from one Alan Bullock – who was an historian at New College, Oxford. Mandy's job with the TUC was the beginning of his rapid ascendency to the position of principal influential scheming bastard in the Labour Party. Furthermore Mandy was a very busy scheming bastard long before Blair became leader – Mandy was recruited on Neil Kinnock's watch as Director of Communications for the Labour Party, after he had worked as a producer at LWT following his stint at the TUC. At one point Mandy shared a flat with Julie Hall, Kinnock's Press Secretary.
When Mandy was highly recommended to the TUC by Alan Bullock, the General Secretary of the TUC was Len Murray, the man who sold the Grunwick workers down the river, although they really were one group of workers who deserved the full backing of the union movement (see post 'News From Sicily'). Len Murray had studied at New College himself, in the 1940s. One of his tutors had been Richard Crossman who was the Labour MP for Coventry East, 1945-74. Crossman was a Bevanite who was a member of the Labour Party's NEC, 1952-67 and Chair of the Labour Party, 1960-61. Crossman became a member of Wilson's Gov't – he was Lord President of the Council and Leader of the Commons, 1966-68 and then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, 1968-70. So Crossman will have known about the abuses at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh at the time – as well as the abuses in other similar institutions – and the abuses of children in care or in facilities for disabled people. Some of those abuses resulted in substantial numbers of people dying – which was then concealed under successive Gov'ts. Crossman was a contributor to the New Statesman for many years and became Editor, 1970-72.
Crossman had close connections to the security services – during World War II he had worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), producing anti-Nazi propaganda for broadcast and at one point he was the Assistant Chief of the Psychological Warfare Division.
The man who recommended Mandy to Len Murray, Alan Bullock, was perhaps most famous for his volumes 'Hitler: A Study In Tyranny' (1952) and 'Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives' (1991). Bullock was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1969-73 and Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, 1962-81.
Bullock grew up in Lancashire. His father Frank was Minister at a chapel in Bradford and was himself a Liberal who campaigned for Lloyd George. Alan went to Bradford Grammar School and was influenced by Bradford's well-known Liberalism. Bullock then studied at Wadham College, Oxford and in 1938 became a research assistant to Winston Churchill. During World War II Bullock worked for four years at the BBC's Overseas Service – which suggests that he also was working for the security services. He then became a Fellow at New College.
Bullock was founding Master of St Catherine's College. During the 1950s he developed the College from the St Catherine's Society – which had been established for students who were too poor to join a 'proper' university college – into a fully fledged Oxford foundation. Bullock raised an enormous amount of money for the time – £2 million – by persuading companies such as Esso and Lockhead to fund buildings and scholarships. Bullock's obituaries mention that he 'trod on toes' whilst doing this. There are plenty of clues in Bullock's obituaries that point to him being an intimidating old git – he was known as 'Bullock by name, bullock by nature', there are references to his booming voice, to his 'imposing' character, to his ability to deal with 'unruly students' and that whilst at the BBC he 'learned and enjoyed the arts of black propaganda'. Photos of him available online bear a weird resemblance to Bruce Forsyth.
Bullock was a Trustee on the Board of the Observer, 1957-69 and then a Director, 1977-81. He was on the Board of the Tate and then Chairman, 1973-80.
Bullock was decorated with the award of Chevalier, the Legion of Honour in 1970 and was awarded a knighthood in 1972. In 1976 he bagged his peerage as a reward for Chairing the Committee of Inquiry On Industrial Democracy. Which was rather odd because when Bullock submitted his Report in 1977 – which recommended workers' participation in industry with workers sitting on company Boards – Jim Callaghan ignored every recommendation and forgot about it, although Callaghan had commissioned the Inquiry. Indeed at the time that Bullock submitted his Report, Bullock's mate Len Murray was shafting the Grunwick workers and the Metropolitan Police's SPG were duffing up their supporters.
Bullock discovered his true home in 1981 when he founded the SDP. Along with the likes of Dr Death and Shirl. The Shirl who's union APEX had been recommended to the Grunwick workers by the TUC as being an organisation which would defend their interests, but did not. Perhaps a major clue that Bullock was considered a safe pair of hands was that in 1972 Thatcher, in her capacity as Secretary of State for Education in Heath's Gov't, commissioned Bullock to Chair an Inquiry into reading standards in schools.
Ah well not to worry, the migrant workers – mostly women – who had been so badly treated by Grunwick were stuffed over and ended up living in't shoebox in't middle of road, but at least Bullock, Shirl, Len and Sunny Jim ended up in the Lords. Trebles all around!
Bullock had a partner in crime – his wife Hilda aka 'Nibby'. Nibby had been a schoolfriend of Bullocks at Bradford Grammar. Nibby was a graduate of St Anne's College, Oxford. The Bullocks settled permanently in Oxford after the war – Nibby was a key figure in the Oxford Bach choir for over forty years and between 1964-85 sat as a magistrate in Oxford. Nibby's obituaries observed that she was a 'staunch supporter of her husband' in his role as VC and that she challenged students who had the temerity to protest over 'secret files'. What secret files these are the obituaries do not explain, but it sounds as though Bullock and Nibby had been doing some rather unacceptable things and that those unruly students had found out. No doubt when Bullock had them arrested and charged Nibby was on the bench. Nibby was capable of being quite unruly herself when she wanted – she was a 'prominent activist' in the 'Tin Hat' campaign which opposed proposals to build a bypass in north Oxford. No doubt the road was going to spoil the view from her house, so Nibby was galvanised into action. For many years Nibby taught at Wychwood School in north Oxford, the school from which Dr Ann Dally – dealer to the Royals – was expelled (see post 'Little Things Hitting Each Other').
The impression that one is left with is that one couldn't so much as fart in Oxford without the say-so of the Bullocks.
I have found a publication from St Catherine's College which is a round up of College news from 2009. It mentions that Nibby, wife of the founder of St Catherine's, had passed away. There is also a feature about one of the most exciting events that there had been at St Catherine's in 2009 – a visit and a lecture from a St Catherine's old boy, one Lord Peter Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Lord President of the Council. That was the year when Gordon appointed Mandy to run the whole planet, which almost certainly contributed to Labour's defeat at the polls in 2010. Mandy had returned to St Catherine's to address the Oxford University Labour Club – of which Mandy had been a member when he had been a student at St Catherine's, 1973-76. The Co-Chair of the OULB, a Ben Lyons, was thrilled at Mandy dropping in, stating that it was 'really exciting' and that Mandy enjoyed his 'celebrity treatment'. I imagine that Mandy insisted upon celebrity treatment. I googled Ben Lyons earlier expecting him to be a Labour MP by now, but no he's not – probably because he was daft enough to align himself with Mandy. However Ben did write an article for the New Statesman last year in which he provided a free plug for Left Foot Forward, the blog founded by the dreadful Will Straw, Jack's son, who spends his free time blacking up and dancing with a troupe who go under the name of the The Nutters.
So the predecessors and architects of New Labour sprang from the loins of New College, Oxford…
In the way that the TUC and some people masquerading as workers' friends allowed themselves to be hijacked and utilised by people who were anything but friends of those having a hard time, sadly it seems that there were a few vipers in the nest at Ruskin College.
Ruskin College has historical connections with the labour and union movement, it has for decades been a symbol of workers' education and prided itself on giving educational opportunities to people who were disadvantaged or who did not have the qualifications necessary to gain entry to other universities. Unions have sponsored numerous people to study at Ruskin and a healthy number of Labour MPs gained qualifications from Ruskin.
Sadly however, like other institutions which were established to help less privileged people, something went wrong at Ruskin and it left a terrible legacy. I do not know for how long there was a problem at Ruskin, but the scale of the problem will be obvious if I tell readers that in 1965 Peter Howarth – one of the senior members of staff at Bryn Estyn who eventually went to prison for sexually abusing boys in his care – met Granville (known as Matt) Arnold, the Head of Bryn Estyn, at Ruskin College. Matt Arnold was employed as a part-time tutor at Ruskin and Howarth was a student. Arnold and Howarth were not working at Bryn Estyn at the time, although by 1966 Peter Howarth was teaching at Axwell School in Gateshead under Matt Arnold who was the Head. After Howarth went to prison it was revealed that there had been complaints of brutality and sexual abuse on the part of Howarth when he had been working in Gateshead.
Matt Arnold wasn't appointed Head of Bryn Estyn until May 1973. It was at that time still an approved school run directly by the Home Office. John Allen had by then established the Bryn Alyn Community at a location nearby, where children were also abused on a massive scale. Children and staff moved between Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn, the institutions were part of the same paedophile network. In Oct 1973 Bryn Estyn was redesignated as a local authority children's home and in Nov 1973 Arnold gave his former colleague Peter Howarth a job as 'third in charge' there. In 1974 Sir Peter Morrison was elected as Tory MP for Chester – Morrison was one of the people who was known to be abusing children in care in north Wales. Morrison's family came from Wiltshire. His father was John, 1st Baron Margadale, Tory MP for Salisbury, 1945-65. John Morrison was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, 1969-81 and Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire, 1983.
In 1976 Gordon Anglesea became an Inspector based in Wrexham (the town just a few miles away from Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn) and in 1978 Anglesea was given responsibility for the area in which Bryn Estyn was located. Gordon Anglesea eventually went to prison for abusing children in care, including boys from Bryn Estyn.
So if one thinks in terms of organised child abuse, it was all in place in north east Wales from the appointment of Matt Arnold onwards. There was abuse at Bryn Estyn before Matt Arnold of course – he only arrived there after there had been complaints about his predecessors and they had been removed. But a look at the histories of Matt Arnold, Peter Howarth and others whom Arnold saw fit to employ before they got near Bryn Estyn simply emphasises what very rash, indeed inexplicable, appointments these were.
A number of those who were at Ruskin as either staff or students whilst Arnold and Howarth were there became very well known. A John Prescott received his diploma from Ruskin in 1965 and in 1967 one Dennis Skinner attended Ruskin after completing a course at Sheffield University. In 1969 Skinner joined Derbyshire County Council and in 1970 Skinner was elected MP for Bolsover in Derbyshire. Some of the staff of the north Wales children's homes who had abused children had previously worked for Derbyshire County Council. Skinner was a member of the Labour Party's NEC for 30 years and was Chair of the Labour Party, 1988-89. Unusually for someone on the left of the party, Skinner had a good relationship with Blair. The Blair who promoted so many people who had concealed child abuse, whose wife's lawyer colleagues had ignored and concealed child abuse and who appointed Prescott as Deputy PM. Prescott of course was MP for Hull – where there was a problem with organised child abuse. Mandelson – after a stint as a Lambeth Councillor whilst kids in the care of Lambeth were being abused both in Lambeth homes and in north Wales where they were sent on placement – eventually became the MP for Hartlepool. Near Gateshead. Some of those who concealed the abuse of children in north Wales had previously worked in the north east of England (see post 'The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Connection').
Obviously I have no idea whether Prezza and Skinner knew Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth from their time at Ruskin, but Ruskin is famous for its alumni association for both students and staff. People who have studied at Ruskin talk about that being the way in which they got to know so many Labour MPs. Prezza himself was obviously up for socialising and networking with other students because he is a former member of the Ruskin Students' Union, as was Jack Ashley when he was at Ruskin in the late 1940s.
Jack Ashley was Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, 1966-92 and then sat in the Lords. His daughter Jackie Ashley was a student at St Anne's College, Oxford – who knows, she might have sung along in the Oxford Bach choir with Nibby – and became a political journalist. After graduating Jackie was a trainee journo with the BBC. She went on to work for the BBC – including on Newsnight – TV-am, Channel 4, ITN and has written for the Guardian and the New Statesman. Jackie is now President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Jackie is married to BBC political journo Andrew Marr. Andrew Marr is a graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Other Trinity Hall alumni include Labour MP and then peer Greville Janner, who molested children in care from Leicester and Geoffrey Howe, who was Solicitor General under Ted Heath and a member of Margaret Thatcher's Gov't whilst they all concealed the fact that their colleague Peter Morrison was molesting children in north Wales and Cheshire. In 2011 Andrew Marr obtained a High Court super-injunction to prevent anyone publishing the name of the female journo whom he was having an extra-marital affair with. Just imagine what lengths he'd go to in order to prevent anyone finding out that he, his wife, or his wife's dad might have moved in the same circles as a few paedophiles.
George Woodcock, General Secretary of the TUC, 1960-69 was a Ruskin alumnus, as was Judy Fryd, who founded MENCAP. Fryd observed that she 'befriended many future Labour politicians' through Ruskin. Like a number of other people who have gone in for charity work in a big way, although Fryd undoubtedly identified much that was very wrong with society's attitude towards and care of people with learning disabilities, there are many worrying aspects to her campaigning. She gave birth to a learning disabled daughter at a time when if that happened parents were told to institutionalise their child, forget about it and have another baby. Fryd ignored such advice although her daughter did end up institutionalised before she was a teenager. Fryd realised that the institution was the wrong place for her daughter – she was placed in a mental hospital and Fryd was 'amused' to see her daughter assaulting other patients when they greeted her and knocking the elderly mentally ill over. So it was obviously a laugh a minute for the other patients. It transpires that Fryd's daughter had what is now categorised as autism. Fryd was appointed to a commission on mental illness. An area in which Fryd had no knowledge or experience except for the time when she had a good laugh whilst institutionalised mentally ill people were assaulted by her daughter. In 1991 Fryd was honoured at the 1991 Labour Party conference for her voluntary work. MENCAP was by then a huge organisation, with a turnover of millions and thousands of employees. What no-one – including Fryd – admitted was that learning disabled people were still regularly physically and sexually assaulted in long stay institutions where thousands of them lived and efforts at community care usually resulted in chaos and yes, abuse. It has now been revealed that abuse of residents occurred in homes run by MENCAP but it was concealed.
The sociologist Peter Wilmott was a Ruskin graduate. Wilmott was Chair of Sociology at the University of East London and carried out some very famous community studies in East London. He founded the Institute for Community Studies with Michael Young. Wilmott's wife Phyllis was an almoner, which was what is now called a social worker. Wilmott actually had a number of connections to organisations run by the paedophiles' friends – all references to this have disappeared from the internet in the last few weeks. Peter Wilmott died in 2000 so I wonder who is preserving his reputation.
Other Ruskin alumni include Owen Jones the Guardian columnist who cares deeply about everybody but never mentions a word about the abuse and neglect of mental health patients by the NHS; Judith Cummins the Labour MP for Bradford South and Peter Sawford the former Labour MP for Kettering, 1997-05, who was a student at the University of Leicester in the early 1980s when Greville Janner and Frank Beck were abusing the local kids in care. Phil's son Andy Sawford is now the Labour MP for Corby.
A number of high profile people taught at Ruskin. Peter Donaldson, an economist and broadcaster who lectured at Leeds University from 1957 and then Leicester University, 1960-64, spent six months teaching at Ruskin in 1965. He then taught at Osmania University in Hyderabad until 1967, then returning to teach at Ruskin until the early 1990s. In the early 1980s Donaldson worked for Yorkshire TV and the newly created Channel 4. Like Ted Heath, Donaldson was a graduate of Balliol, Oxford, although Heath was some 18 years older than Donaldson.
Lord Bill McCarthy was another well-known person who taught at Ruskin. McCarthy was a specialist in industrial relations. The shop workers union USDAW – who sponsored the MP Sir Ray Powell who undoubtedly knew what the paedophiles of north Wales were up to but never uttered a word about them (see post 'News From Sicily') – sponsored McCarthy when he studied at Ruskin. In 1965 McCarthy was Research Director of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations, which was set up by Wilson's Gov't.
Raphael Samuel also taught at Ruskin from 1962 until his death in 1996. Samuel pioneered a form of Marxist 'history from below' which I have an interest in and a lot of time for. Samuel was also a Professor at the University of East London and was a member of the Communist Party Historians Group, along with E.P.Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm et al. Samuel founded the Partisan Coffee House in Soho in 1956 which was the meeting place of the New Left. Raphael Samuel founded the History Workshop movement at Ruskin, which attracted many high calibre lecturers and influenced scores of students.
Donald Selbourne the political theorist who also wrote works for the theatre taught at Ruskin, 1966-86. Whilst at Ruskin Selbourne wrote for New Society, New Statesman, the Indie and the Guardian – post-Ruskin he wrote for the Times, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. David Selbourne encountered the sort of blind spot among his Ruskin colleagues that I constantly encounter when I tell people what the mental health services actually do to their patients. In 1986 Selbourne published an article in the Times concerning the corruption of Labour politics in Liverpool. The article was published during the Wapping dispute when the print workers were fighting Murdoch. The Ruskin students and staff accused Selbourne of betrayal and his lectures were picketed by members of the print unions and students, which prevented him teaching. He later won a High Court action against Ruskin for constructive dismissal. My post 'News From Sicily' details how Michael Carr, the MP for Bootle who fought Militant, didn't survive a visit to Walton Hospital in 1990. Walton was a region of Liverpool dominated by Militant. Carr had been the Bootle MP for 57 days before he was polished off by the dear old NHS. My post 'A Vampire At Glyndwr University!' describes the political row that surrounded the Walton Centre (the neurological unit which grew out of Walton Hospital), details the paedophiles' friends who 'supported the Centre' and mentions the case of the spouse of someone who had fought the paedophiles' friends – along with a friend – who did not survive 'the treatment' at the Walton Centre. It is not only Labour politics which have been corrupted in Liverpool – Lord Chris Rennard of the Lib Dems was also a product of Liverpool politics (see post 'He Knows Where The Bodies Are Buried'). I was always intrigued by the left's support for the print unions at Wapping anyway – these were the unions whose members actively discriminated against women and ethnic minorities and who were happy to print the Sun which vigorously supported Thatcher, even when the Sun was publishing fabricated interviews with women who had allegedly been widowed in the Falklands conflict, as well as photos of injured Argies. Exactly who's side were the sodding print unions on??
So who was the Principal of Ruskin who had employed Matt Arnold as a teacher? It was Herbert Hughes aka Billy Hughes who was Principal between 1950-79. Billy Hughes was Labour MP for Wolverhampton West, 1945-50 and graduated from Balliol in 1935 the year that Ted Heath arrived at Balliol.
Heath's near contemporaries at Balliol, Denis Healy and Roy Jenkins, were, like Heath, all President of the Balliol Junior Common Room. The Master of Balliol 1924-49 was Alexander 'Sandie' Lindsay. Lindsay was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, 1935-38. Whilst he was at Oxford, Lindsay was a leading figure in adult education. In 1949 he retired from Balliol and became the first Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire, which in 1962 became Keele University.
Whilst at Oxford, Billy Hughes was Chair of the Oxford Union Labour Club. The official history of the OULB maintains that there was a lack of 'strong figures' in the OULB at the time and that this resulted in the merging of the OULC with the Communists at Oxford after 1935. Billy Hughes was a Councillor in Lambeth in the late 1930s. This was many years before the big child sexual abuse scandals in Lambeth, but abuse scandals of that dimension usually have their roots in abuse which occurred decades previously, as in north Wales. Members of the Shirley Oaks Survivors have traced the organised abuse of children in care in Lambeth as back as far as the 1940s.
Billy Hughes was President of the WEA – Alan Bullock also lectured for the WEA. I know paedophiles' friends in north Wales who have connections to the WEA. In 2001 Coleg Harlech merged with the WEA – my post 'A Bit More Paleontology' details the numerous links between Coleg Harlech and the paedophiles' friends.
I am not suggesting that Ruskin College was a hotbed of paedophilia. However, a key member of an organised UK-wide paedophile ring who killed some of their victims after they went to the police or gave evidence in Court taught there and he was using his position to network with other paedophiles. That paedophile ring had members who worked in Westminster who enjoyed complete protection. Someone at Ruskin College will have known something about it. People who are involved in community studies as sociologists or historians get to hear at first hand what is happening to disadvantaged people and who is doing what to them. Like GPs and MPs, if they are even half competent they will know if they are working with a community which has a paedophile ring operating within it. One does not of course routinely shop people who have taken part in one's community study, but if one realises that children are being raped and are then found dead if they've told anyone what has happened to them or are routinely illegally banged up in mental hospitals and that adults who have blown the whistle are sacked and framed for serious crimes, it is time to stop worrying about one's historical loyalty to the labour movement.
The Gov'ts of Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron and now May have all concealed the extent of the North Wales Paedophile Ring, which supplied children to the Westminster Paedophile Ring. Tory MPs aren't going to have studied at Ruskin, but a lot of Labour politicians did. In 2012, after a £17 million redevelopment programme, Ruskin opened a new building. The library was named the Callaghan library in honour of Jin Callaghan, who delivered a major education speech at Ruskin in 1976. Whilst Sunny Jim was making that speech, the boys in Bryn Estyn were being battered and molested by the former Ruskin student Peter Howarth and his colleagues as well as a variety of other people, including a Conservative MP and a police inspector. Matt Arnold, the former Ruskin teacher, was running Bryn Estyn at the time.
This blog has mentioned a few people who confronted the paedophiles' friends who met untimely deaths in questionable circumstances, including at the hands of NHS facilities employing paedophiles' friends. When I was still working at Bangor University – before I left north Wales after the relentless threats and harassment from the paedophiles' friends employed by the local NHS and social services – I had begun working very closely with Professor Duncan Tanner, an historian at Bangor. Duncan was Director of Research at the time and was incredibly supportive of my work, reviewing my bids and suggesting reading which might be helpful. Duncan died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 51. He had developed a heart problem which had been successfully treated at a hospital in Manchester. Some weeks later, he had to go into Ysbyty Gwynedd for an entirely routine procedure that was not considered at all risky. He died. Very soon after Duncan's funeral a huge article appeared in the local paper about the heroic efforts of the cardiology team at Ysbyty Gwynedd and how they'd saved the life of a local woman against all odds. These stories tended to appear after Ysbyty Gwynedd had killed someone. The patient interviewed was a woman known to me. She used to 'do the shopping' for local pensioners but she had a habit of not giving the pensioners the change from their pensions and her husband had offered to give 'sex education lessons' to one of my former neighbours, a young woman with learning disabilities. Duncan died shortly after the spouse of someone else whom the paedophiles' friends had a downer on died after treatment from Walton was unsuccessful. Before Duncan died he was working on the diaries of Richard Crossman and Tony Crosland. The Richard Crossman who worked at New College and the Tony Crosland who was friends with Ernest Armstrong, the father of Blair's mate Hilary Armstrong – the Ernest Armstrong who almost certainly concealed the activities of Matt Arnold and Peter Howarth when they worked in Gateshead (see post 'News From Sicily'). Duncan was probably the UK's leading Labour historian. He also knew a great deal about the history of the Labour Party in Wales. I was deeply sorry that I didn't work with Duncan for longer. I am not the historian that Duncan was but I did learn a great deal from him. Think about it paedophiles' friends.
Yesterday's copy of the Times published an article by Philip Collins in the wake of Ratko Mladic's conviction at The Hague for genocide. Collins's article mentioned someone who featured in my post 'News From Sicily' – Llew Smith, the former Labour MP for Blaenau Gwent. Collins was very angry with Llew because he had discovered that thirteen years ago, Smith had tabled an Early Day Motion -which was signed by Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and others – in support of John Pilger, the journalist who had recently published an article regarding the 'devastating human cost' of the invasion of Kosovo led by NATO and the US. I noticed that Llew Smith actually stood down from the Commons shortly after signing that EDM and I wondered if he had been forced out by Blair and the gang for his sins. Llew Smith had also been the MEP for South Wales East and as I explained in my post 'News From Sicily', in 1994 he was somehow persuaded to stand down, only to be replaced by Glenys Kinnock. I'm wondering if perhaps Philip Collins might have forgotten some of what happened at Srebrenica. Things might not have been quite as Pilger suggested, but the rest of Europe – or indeed the world – did not cover itself in glory.
The Srebrenica Massacre occurred in July 1995 – more than 8000 Muslim Bosniak men were killed as a result of ethnic cleansing. The mass murder of the Muslim men was accompanied by the forced transfer and abuse of between 25,000 and 30,000 Bosniak women, children and the elderly. The Bosnian Army carried out the killings and transportation, assisted by a paramilitary unit from Serbia. The area in which all this occurred that been designated as an UN 'safe area' since 1993, which was why the refugees had fled there.
The refugees were located at Potocari and were supposedly under the protection of the UN. They were left with little food or water despite the sweltering heat. As they were in the compound they watched Serb soldiers setting houses and haystacks on fire. Serb soldiers then mingled with the refugees and began the summary executions of the men. Children were also killed and women were gang raped. All this was witnessed by the UN soldiers who did not intervene. Some of the refugees, watching what was happening to others, killed themselves by hanging. Photographers photographed women hanging dead from trees in the area who preferred to die rather than fall into the hands of the Serbian soldiers – those photos later appeared in the UK press. The refugees weren't killed painlessly. Some had their noses, lips and ears chopped off. There was a case of a heavily pregnant woman who's abdomen was cut open, after which the foetus was removed and cut in half. Girls as young as nine were raped by Serbian soldiers. Teenaged boys were ordered to rape girls younger than them, sometimes their own sisters. The UN soldiers – many of whom were members of the Dutch Army – watched it all and did nothing.
The people who had ordered the killings were Ratko Mladic, Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, President of Republika Srpska. After being indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Radovan famously went on the run – for thirteen years. Radovan was a psychiatrist. He trained in psychiatry at the Sarajevo University School of Medicine, then at Naestved Hospital Denmark in 1970 and between 1974-75 Radovan worked at Columbia University, New York. Radovan was a real Top Doctor. He was also a poet and an ecologist with an interest in alternative medicine. Radovan had a touch of the Dr Dafydd Alun Jones about him – after he graduated he worked in the psychiatric clinic in the main hospital in Sarajevo and boosted his income by providing fake medical reports and psychiatric evaluations for health care workers who wanted early retirement or to avoid punishment by claiming insanity after having been convicted of crimes. In 1984 after Radovan had worked as a therapist in a hospital in Belgrade, he was arrested for fraud and spent eleven months in detention before he was bailed out by a friend and released. His trial was subsequently halted on the grounds of lack of evidence, but later revived. In Sept 1985 Radovan was sentenced to three years in jail for embezzlement and fraud. He was released immediately on the grounds that he had already spent time in prison.
What did Radovan do when he went on the run? Was he holed up in a cellar somewhere or hiding in hedgerows, only going out under cover of darkness? No. Radovan worked as therapist in Belgrade, specialising in New Age medicine and sex therapy. He did have the good sense not to call himself Dr Radovan Karadzic, he actually went under the names of Dr Dragan David Dabic and D.D. David. Did he have cosmetic surgery to change his appearance and fingerprints a la the Mafia bosses who go on the run? No. He grew his hair, tied it into a ponytail and grew a beard. He had to make a bit of an effort because in Jan 2008 Radovan appeared at a medical conference in Belgrade where he delivered lectures to hundreds of people. Whilst he was 'in hiding' Radovan visited Vienna using the name Peter Glumac, claiming to be a purveyor of herbal potions and ointments. The Austrian police interviewed him about a homicide case – involving someone whom had not been one of the thousands of people killed by Radovan and his mates – but didn't realise who he was. One would have thought that perhaps someone somewhere might just have spotted Radovan during those thirteen years when he pretended to be a therapist-hippy. They did. In 2005 someone from the BBC saw him getting out of a red Mercedes and identified him. It was admitted that western intelligence agencies knew where Radovan was but that there was no political will in London or Washington to seize him. At the time of the Srebrenica Massacre and the aftermath when Radovan worked as an Alternative Top Doctor quite openly in Europe, Blair and then Gordon Brown were in office in London and Bill 'I did not have sex with that woman' Clinton and then George Dubya Bush were in office in Washington. Well who else would have ever presided over that mess??
In July 2008 Radovan was finally arrested in Belgrade and detained in custody at The Hague. Radovan was found guilty of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and sentenced to 40 years. In July 2016 he launched an appeal against his conviction. I have not heard whether Cherie Booth is acting for him.
Throughout the massacre and for the years that Radovan was on the run, Glenys Kinnock was the Member of the European Parliament for South Wales East and then the Member of the European Parliament for Wales (a newly established post, Glenys was the first incumbent). After Radovan had finally been arrested, Gordon was so impressed by Glenys that he appointed her Minister of State for Europe and then Minister of State for Africa and the UN. Neil and Glenys received a personal invite from Joe Biden to Barak Obama's Presidential inauguration in Washington DC in 2009.
The horrors in the former Yugoslavia had a terrible effect on other people whose plight has never got a mention. Some eight years ago I was talking to a young Albanian woman who as a teenager had lived on the family farm. She told me that one day they heard screaming so they looked out of the window and saw people killing each other. Then soldiers came into her house and did terrible things. (I took that to mean that she had been raped – the woman who were raped in the former Yugoslavia would never use the phrase rape, they talked about soldiers doing bad or terrible things.) The family lost possession of their farm – it was explained to me that other people had taken over the farm because soldiers elsewhere had thrown them out of their own house. The young woman to whom I was chatting fled to Tirana and trained as a cardiology nurse. How did I meet this young woman? A friend asked me to go and visit her because they knew that I was working on a European sociology project and they thought that I might be interested in meeting her. Not only did I find out that the young Albanian woman had suffered in the shenanigans that European politicians are now claiming to have dealt with so nobly, but she and her friend were being kept in modern slavery. They were working as care assistants in a home near Caernarfon, having been sent to the job by an employment agency in Albania who had told them that they were going to be working in Devon as cardiology nurses. They could not escape from their employer because he had taken their passports and if they left his employment they would have been deported. The care home in question also employed a woman as the manager who was working as a prostitute in Liverpool and an addict whose partner was a big time drug dealer from Liverpool as a care assistant. I can tell the story now because the Albanians managed to escape after they were helped by a specialist lawyer. Whilst all this was going on, the young lady whom I met became pregnant and gave birth at Ysbyty Gwynedd.
So how was it that I was able to find out about the cess pit that this young woman was living in when no-one else -not even the Angels and Top Doctors who looked after her whilst she was pregnant, during the birth and then afterwards – noticed that they were dealing with a rape victim who was being kept in slavery?
Now that Radovan, Ratko and Slobodan have been convicted, Europe and the UN have taken a leaf out of the book of the UK social services after the many murders of children in their care and have stated that the people who were responsible for the Srebrenica Massacre have faced justice. The Netherlands did fess up that perhaps the Dutch soldiers who stood by and watched whilst the people whom they were 'protecting' were slaughtered might have borne responsibility for three of the deaths.
At present, some African nations and Russia are stating that the International Criminal Court at The Hague is a total joke and that they are going to withdraw from it. Putin must be pissing himself laughing as he gallops topless across the Steppes in sub-zero temperatures at the very thought of a school teacher from Holyhead who sat on the Board of a children's charity – SNAP Cymru – alongside someone who was named in the biggest scandal involving the sexual abuse of children in care in the UK sitting in the European Parliament telling us how to deal with mass murderers. But at least Glenys enjoys trips to Brussels and Strasbourg and got to rub noses with Obama.
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The Aftermath Of The Jillings Report – In Parliament
In the wake of a number of staff from children's homes in Clwyd being convicted of offences against children and a lot of former residents of children's homes in Clwyd being found dead, in 1994 Clwyd County Council ordered an independent external investigation into the county's children's homes. It was led by John Jillings, the retired Director of Derbyshire Social Services. My post 'It's A Piece Of Cake' provides details of the Jillings Report. Of course the Jillings Report has never been published in full – it wasn't available at all until 2013 and then only in a heavily redacted form. As I explained in 'It's A Piece Of Cake', Michael Beloff QC advised the Council's insurers, Municipal Mutual, not to make the report available at all – what had happened in the children's homes was so indefensible that this was the only way that those advising Clwyd Council could see of dealing with it. Clwyd County Council itself was dissolved days after the report was submitted, in a very convenient local government reorganisation. When it was revealed that the long awaited Report would not be available to hardly anyone – not even to most Members of the Council itself – and that this was to protect the Council from legal claims, there was outrage in Wales. Some of the nation's politicians were incredibly vocal about the fact that there had been large scale abuse of children in north Wales and possibly a paedophile ring at work but no-one was allowed to know the results of the investigation into this, yet alone the identities of those involved.
A look at Hansard is informative. One politician whom it seems was particularly vexed was the Labour MP for Cynon Valley, Ann Clwyd. Ann Clwyd came under a lot of fire for supporting Blair over the war with Iraq, but with regard to the abuse of children in care, her record seems to be impeccable. I was at a public lecture that she gave last year on the day that Gordon Anglesea was convicted and she made a point of expressing her great relief that perhaps this was now the beginning of a degree of honesty. Sadly I doubt that it was – on the same occasion Ann mentioned that George Thomas the former Speaker of the House, aka Lord Tonypandy, was also under investigation, but I read the other day that the police investigation into him had stopped. None of my documents relate to George Thomas but I am aware that in the wake of the Ely Hospital Scandal Thomas described the methods of the 'nurses' involved as being 'old fashioned'. These were 'nurses' whose 'old fashioned' ways included punching and beating elderly people, dragging them around wards whilst they were naked and turning cold hoses on them. Then lying through their teeth about all of it.
At least four of the former residents of Bryn Estyn had lived in the Cynon Valley and had spoken to Ann about their experiences there. Hansard, June 1996, records that Ann made reference to Speaker Weatherill's ruling of 17 Feb 1992 which was used to block Early Day Motions (EDMs) that Ann had attempted to table the night before regarding the North Wales Police and child abuse. Ann asked the Speaker – who was at that time Betty Boothroyd – to reconsider the position and observed that 'it now seems that one cannot table a motion or a question for an oral or written answer; one cannot speak in a debate or probably even introduce a Bill drawing on the experience of Clwyd. One cannot raise the issue in a Select Committee or a Standing Committee either. A wall of silence will surround the passage of the Government Motion later tonight'. [I assume that the motion that Ann is referring to here is the Motion regarding the establishing of a public inquiry into the abuse of children whilst in the care of Gwynedd and Clwyd County Councils.]
Ann makes the point that some of her constituents were involved in the Clwyd abuse 'and there are things that should be done before that Motion is passed. We should have had a debate in the House on child abuse and the Secretary of State for Health should have made a statement on the Utting Review. This morning a Welsh Office Minister tried to convince me that the Jillings Report was defamatory…I want to expose the fact that 25 years ago there was a Report on Bryn Estyn….it was never published because the Home Office suppressed it…'
Madam Speaker then responds with 'I have looked at the two proposed Motions that she has attempted to table. I am satisfied that one of her Motions breaks the campaign rule…I am content that the other Motion be tabled…however that this Motion, along with the three other EDMs that she tabled on Monday, will be withdrawn automatically as a result of the application of the House's sub-judice rule… if and when the Motion setting up the Tribunal of Inquiry is agreed to by the House. If she is seeking a statement by a Minister or a debate on the matters before that Motion is passed, she should ask questions of the leader of the House tomorrow. She should deal with her front bench team about having the subject placed on the Order Paper…She will be aware…that in raising her voice in objection to the Motion, which is now on the Order Paper, the setting up of the Tribunal will be delayed.'
The Madam Speaker concerned, Betty Boothroyd, was generally considered to be an all round good egg – yet it does look here as if there are machinations at work to prevent Ann Clwyd from raising questions and eliciting debate regarding the matter of the serious abuse of children in care in north Wales.
After this exchange between Ann Clwyd and the Speaker, Hansard records that Alice Mahon, the Labour MP for Halifax, said that 'the Commons Select Committee on Health is undertaking an extensive inquiry into all aspects of children's health and well-being. Will you clarify whether the ruling that you have made means that the Select Committee cannot take evidence on Clwyd?' Following this, Nicholas Winterton, the Conservative MP for Macclesfield, said 'Yesterday the Government announced that here would be a review of the care and abuse of children and children's homes and residential accommodation throughout England and Wales. I am particularly concerned about problems that have been encountered in Cheshire…will you confirm that there are no restrictions on Members who want to take matters forward in respect of England and Wales, but especially in respect of Cheshire?' Madam Speaker replies 'There will be no restrictions'.
I'm not sure what to make of this – that Ann Clwyd was the only person on whom restrictions were placed? Or is the Speaker just wriggling here, reassuring people that of course there are no restrictions on anyone, when there were very obviously restrictions placed on Ann Clwyd?
Some months prior to this, in the wake of the suppression of the Jillings Report, three EDMs had been tabled concerning the North Wales Abuse Scandal.
On 27/3/96, Martyn Jones (Labour, Clwyd South) was the primary sponsor of an Early Day Motion: 'That this House deplores the actions of the insurance company providing cover for Clwyd County Council which is attempting to suppress by process of law a report produced for that council, at some cost to the taxpayer called Child Abuse, An Independent Investigation commissioned by Clwyd County Council 1974 to 1995, the Jillings Report, simply because it may lay the council open to claims against itself and further considers that putting the interest of the finances of an insurance company above the rights of even one abused child is an outrage'.
http://www.parliament.uk/edm/1995-96/673
It was sponsored by Win Griffiths, David Hanson, John Marek, Rhodri Morgan and Don Touhig. It was signed by Diane Abbott, Janet Anderson, Tony Banks, Harry Barnes, D.N. Campbell Savours, Michael Clapham, Eric Clarke, Ann Clywd, Michael Connarty, Jeremy Corbyn, Jean Corston, John Cummings, Terry Davis, Bill Etherington, John Evans, Win Griffiths, John Gunnell, Mike Hall, David Hanson, Eric Illsley, Barry Jones, Martyn Jones, Ken Livingstone, Elfyn Llwyd, Alice Mahon, John Marek, Ian McCartney, Kevin McNamara, Alan Meale, Bill Michie, Rhodri Morgan, Paul Murphy, Paddy Tipping, Don Touhig, Robert N. Wareing, Dafydd Wigley.
The next day, 28/3/96, saw another EDM, whose primary sponsor was Rhodri Morgan: 'That this House calls on the directors of Municipal Mutual Insurance Co., it's affiliate Zurich Mutual Insurance Co and Municipal Mutual Insurance's solicitors Browne Jacobson, to desist from all further anti-democratic actions in relation to Clwyd County Council and the report by John Jillings retired Director of Social Services of Derbyshire County Council into child sex abuse at children's homes in Clwyd, and in particular to desist from their request to the county council to remove from office the Chair of the Social Services Committee, and further calls on the Secretary of State for Wales to consider whether it's proper for an insurance company specialising in local government insurance to conduct itself in a manner which threatened the primacy of the duty of the local authority in child protection to put the welfare of children first, attempts to set the duty of looking after the councils finances and the insurance company's own claims liabilities above child protection, and uses the threat of voiding the council's insurance cover and the transfer of finance liability from the insurance company to individual councillors as a means of suppressing the truth, and to amend regulations governing local government insurance if necessary.'
It was signed by Janet Anderson, Tony Banks, Harry Barnes, Clive Betts, D.N. Campbell Savours, Michael Clapham, Eric Clarke, Michael Connarty, Jean Corston, John Cummings, Denzil Davies, Terry Davis, John Evans, Paul Flynn, Norman A. Godman, Win Griffiths, John Gunnell, Mike Hall, David Hanson, Martyn Jones, Ken Livingstone, Elfyn Llwyd, John Marek, Ian McCartney, Kevin McNamara, Alan Meale, Bill Michie, Rhodri Morgan, Ken Purchase, Ernie Ross, Dennis Skinner, Don Touhig, Dafydd Wigley.
All those signing these EDMs were Labour MPs, apart from Dafydd Wigley (Plaid), Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid) and Ken Livingstone (not affiliated to any party).
I find it difficult to believe that many of those who signed these EDMs did not previously know that children were being abused in care in north Wales. Many of them were MPs from north Wales themselves – and the whistleblowing social worker Alison Taylor had gone public on the child abuse years previously. Furthermore, 'children's care workers' had been appearing in the local Courts on trial for offences against children for a very long time. My posts 'Further Information On Garth Angharad Hospital' and 'More On Those Who Signed That Early Day Motion' describe how in 1992 a number of MPs signed an EDM in response to plans to close Garth Angharad, a facility for 'mentally abnormal criminals'. People who had been abused whilst in care in north Wales tended to end up in there. The notoriously unscrupulous psychiatrists in north Wales who were involved with criminal activities as well as with discrediting and imprisoning people who had been abused whilst in care had connections with this 'hospital'. Furthermore it was a very odd 'hospital'. It was not an NHS facility, it was owned and managed by Paul Hett, who also owned a number of schools and children's homes in north Wales that had been the subject of allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Later in his career Paul Hett became a solicitor but ended up being struck off for embezzling clients money. Paul Flynn, Dafydd Wigley, Elfyn Llwyd and Ken Livingstone were all among those expressing outrage that Garth Angharad might close it's doors. Ken had previously been instrumental in running Lambeth Borough Council – who sent children in their care to Paul Hett's establishments. Lambeth Borough Council is now the centre of a huge scandal regarding the sexual abuse of children in care between the late 1950s and 1980s – millions have been paid out in compensation and more is expected to be paid after it was admitted that the Council's homes had been infiltrated by paedophiles, that this was known, yet nothing was done to protect children. Dafydd Wigley definitely knew about the criminal practices in the north Wales mental health services because I wrote to him about them. He initially sent me a very supportive letter but when I wrote again some two years later I did not receive a reply. Dafydd Wigley was MP for Caernarfon, where the HQ of Gwynedd County Council was. There was serious corruption in that Council among its legal advisors and social services dept. Gwynedd's Director of Social Services, Lucille Hughes, was named in the Waterhouse Report as knowing that a paedophile ring was operating in the social services but failed to act. If I knew about the very serious problems in that Council, particularly in the Dept of Social Services, then I'm sure that Dafydd Wigley did. Previous posts have described how the children's services and mental health services in Gwynedd were notorious. Dafydd Wigley must have been told of people's concerns and he almost certainly received correspondence from people other than me. Elfyn Llwyd was also a Gwynedd MP, he will have heard. Furthermore, Elfyn Llwyd was President of Gwynedd Law Society in 1990-91, so he'll have known all those dodgy lawyers who were concealing abuse in the children's and mental health services and indeed trying to imprison people whom they knew were innocent. Paul Flynn had stood as the Labour candidate for Denbigh in 1974. Denbigh was a town in which nearly every resident worked at – or had a relative or friend who worked at – the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, where people who had been abused in care were imprisoned. Denbigh had a dreadful reputation but those who worked at that institution had votes, those imprisoned did not. Which is why Paul Flynn was never going to campaign on behalf of the people being abused in there. Martyn Jones was MP for Clwyd South between 1987-2010 and was Wrexham born and bred. He lived on the doorstep of the children's homes with the worst reputations for abuse – but he too signed the EDM opposing the closure of Garth Angharad.
John Marek was a Wrexham MP between 1983-2001, albeit a rather strange one. He eventually defected from Labour and set up his own party consisting of himself and he is now a member of the Conservative Party. He too was right on the doorstep of Bryn Estyn, the home where serious abuse had gone on for decades. David Hanson has been the MP for Delyn in north east Wales since 1992. He had known the region before that, having been in pursuit of a seat in the Cheshire and north east Wales region. The paedophile ring that was active in north Wales was operating in Cheshire as well. Surely Hanson will have heard something about the problems in the region even if he didn't know the full picture? I suspect that the same situation prevailed with Win Griffiths, Rhodri Morgan, Paul Murphy and Don Touhig, all MPs from south Wales. Don Touhig had worked as a journalist in Wales including as an editor – journalists tend to receive leaks from allsorts of people, including the police. Win Griffiths has for a long time been involved with what is now called the Third sector – people working in that sector knew that children were being abused.
On the same day, 28/3/96, Rhodri Morgan sponsored another EDM: 'That this House calls on the Secretary of State for Wales to fulfil the promise made on 7th September 1992 to hold a public inquiry into child abuse in North Wales children's homes by the honourable member for Cardiff North, the Parliamentary Under Secretary then responsible for health and social services in Wales and reported in Welsh Office press release W92359 of the same date, and which was reported by him as going to start as soon as the criminal proceedings were completed; believes that the Chief Constable of North Wales was also correct to call for such a public inquiry when criminal proceedings were over on 4th September 1992 and reaffirmed on 13th August 1993; and further believes that the need for the promised public inquiry is now more urgent with the imminent danger of the shredding of all copies of the independent but non-judicial inquiry into Clwyd County Council child care homes and policies carried out by John Jillings, the retired Director of Social Services of Derbyshire, which drew attention to the deaths of 12 young people who were victims of child sexual abuse who had been in the care of Clwyd and the failure of the Welsh Office Social Services Inspectorate and the North Wales Police to detect the failures in the child care system in North Wales and which also called for a public inquiry.'
It was signed by Diane Abbott, Janet Anderson, Tony Banks, Harry Barnes, Roy Beggs, Michael Clapham, Eric Clarke, Ann Clwyd, Michael Connarty, Jeremy Corbyn, Jean Corston, John Cummings, Terry Davis, John Evans, Paul Flynn, Norman A. Godman, Win Griffiths, John Gunnell, Mike Hall, David Hanson, Barry Jones, Lynne Jones, Martyn Jones, Ken Livingstone, Elfyn Llwyd, John Marek, Ian McCartney, Kevin McNamara, Alan Meale, Bill Michie, Rhodri Morgan, Ken Purchase, Ernie Ross, Dennis Skinner, Paddy Tipping, Don Touhig, Robert N. Wareing, Dafydd Wigley.
Again, all the signatories were from the Labour Party, except for Dafydd Wigley (Plaid), Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid), Ken Livingstone (not affiliated to any party) and Roy Beggs (Ulster Unionist). I am wondering whether Roy Beggs might have taken an interest in child abuse matters as a result of the Kincora Boys Home Scandal in Belfast. Some of the MPs outside of Wales who signed this EDM were representing constituencies and had even been councillors in areas where the children's services had also been infiltrated by paedophiles.
Years later, in the wake of the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal rearing it's head again, on 8/11/12, Ann Clwyd was the primary sponsor of an EDM: 'That this House notes EDM 1003 tabled June 1996 stating 'That this House notes that the honourable Member for Cynon Valley has been personally approached by a young man who has been abused while in care; regrets that at least four people from the Cynon Valley were in care in Bryn Estyn during the period covered by the Jillings Report; notes that the child abuse affair in Clwyd ranks as one of the worst and most shocking scandals to come to light in Britain, in that the Report exposes unimaginable horrors such as buggery, rape, bestiality, violent assaults and torture; in the light of disclosures, is appalled by the conduct and failure of public authorities with the responsibility to protect children; in this regard notes that Clwyd County Council has failed to publish the report; further notes moves to block the publication of this report by the insurance companies Zurich Municipal and Municipal Mutual, presumably simply to avoid their liabilities; further notes that in this regard the police have lost the confidence of the public by their apparent failure properly to investigate the full extent of the paedophile activity in North Wales; and similarly that the Crown Prosecution Service has inexplicably failed to prosecute on a number of occasions despite clear evidence and a large number of allegations, and in some cases statements of admission of guilt by paedophiles of sexual offences against children; and notes the failure to prosecute all concerned.'
It's sponsors were Paul Flynn (Labour, Newport) and Linda Riordan (Labour, Halifax). I presume that the original EDM was one of the EDMs that Ann Clwyd referred to as I quoted earlier ie. one of the EDMs that the Speaker told her would be 'withdrawn automatically'. So it was Ann mentioning this sort of thing that caused so much upset in Parliament…
So what became of those MPs in Wales who seemed to have kept quiet about the activities of a paedophile ring until they were forced into action by public concern accompanied by UK wide coverage? Most of them have done quite nicely for themselves. Dafydd Wigley, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy have ended up in the Lords. David Hanson was appointed PPS to Tony Blair in 2001 and ended up as Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing at the Home Office until Labour lost the election in 2010. Win Griffiths became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales in 1997, with responsibility for Health and Social Services. He has retired from politics now but was (and maybe still is) Chair of WCVA (Wales Council for Voluntary Action), a body that acts as an umbrella organisation for many charities that have concealed child abuse and until 2012 was Chair of Abertawe Morgannwg University Health Board. In 2010 he was appointed as Chair of the Welsh NHS Confederation. Wales's NHS is somewhat troubled and in north Wales has just about collapsed, mainly as a result of the legacy of the paedophile ring and the corruption that accompanied it. As for Rhodri – well he became First Minister of Wales after the National Assembly for Wales came into being. Whilst he was First Minister I wrote and wrote and wrote about the harassment and threats that I was receiving at the hands of the mental health services – the services which had concealed and colluded with the paedophile ring. Rhodri's Health Minister Brian Gibbons responded by writing to me to tell me that 'this correspondence is at an end' when I told him that I had evidence of criminal activity in the NHS in north Wales. Rhodri is no longer with us but the mess that was left behind after no-one tackled the organised criminals that ran that paedophile ring is all over north Wales. Martyn Jones has retired from politics but he was very critical of the former Chief Constable of North Wales Richard Brunstrom, for being so zealous regarding traffic offences. As compared to the previous Chief Constable Michael Argent who refused to co-operate with an investigation into a paedophile ring.
I suspect that Ann Clwyd really did want to blow the lid off the cover-ups of the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal. I'm not convinced that the others did. Some of them must have had some indication of what was going on yet none of them raised their heads until the public outcry over the suppression of the Jillings Report, when they just couldn't continue to ignore what was happening. I note that by 2012, only three people were sufficiently interested to sign the EDM. As for the situation at the present time – it is clear that there now are so many in politics, the civil service, the police, the law, medicine and the social services who have in some way been involved in concealing or colluding with abuses in the children's care services or the mental health services across the UK, that I think there are far more of them who don't want an expose than those who do. Previous posts have named scores of institutions including the Garrick Club, the Law Society, the BMA, the MDU and the GMC who hosted the people who concealed and colluded with child abuse in north Wales. People still trip over themselves to join the Garrick (I think it's one of those clubs with a waiting list literally years long) and the Top Doctors believe that a position on a BMA committee is worth having. And being involved with the GMC or MDU does wonders for one's career.
Unlike so many named on this blog, Ann Clwyd has not been elevated to the House of Lords. If anyone ever did give her a seat in there she'd probably have great difficulty finding anyone worth sitting next to.
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