Those who are quick to offer scorn and ridicule on others,
are often slow to appreciate their equal right to justice and a fair
hearing. Can I use that as the basis for my explanation?
I had two encounters with the Police, both of which were very
harmful to me, and both were the result of the endeavours of
staff employed by Derek Clark MEP. On the first occasion the
Police arrived at my pied-a-terre, an address which I did not use
for purposes of mail and electoral registration, but only casual
occupation for my convenience of employment. It was about 8,am
and some eight Police arrived with a battering ram. I told them that
force was not necessary, for I had done nothing wrong and would co-operate
wholly with them. I was taken to a local Police station and held for about
10-12 hours while they searched my address and removed whatever they chose.
At the end of that time I was not charged, or cautioned or advised to live a more
innocent life. They had received a call to Crime-Stoppers which was wholly devoid
of truth. That was a fearful and humiliating experience, and one from which I have not
wholly recovered. A few days previously one of Mr Clark’s staff warned me to expect
a visit from the Police, and that proved to be the case. Following the event, I telephoned
Mr Clark, and he sneeringly said that it could have been UKIP.
That was to be just the first interest that the Police were to take in me. A report was
passed to the Police that I was transferring capital from the bank account of an elderly
relative and depositing it into another. The Police visited that elderly relatives care home,
and I was able to fully explain the situation. Acting with the power of attorney, I was not
only entitled to make those transfers, but was required to do so. That was to ensure my
relative had security of residence. I was soon to holiday in Bolivia, and I was anxious to
clear doubts that the Police may have had. They told me that they were fully satisfied,
as the home confirmed the financial arrangement which involved me. Whilst in Bolivia,
contacts with the Police informed me that all their enquiries had ceased. It later transpired
that the Police informant had been an employee of Mr Clark, and that name remains on the
investigation file.
Why should that have happened to me? I had been a faithful member and paid employee of
UKIP for some 15 years. The late Geoffrey Kingscott, UKIP General Secretary, had assigned to
me that task of analysing the national account. I reported to him that concerns were justified
and more investigations were needed. I was to encounter immediate difficulties, which finally
resulted in my employment being terminated. If Mr Clark feels that he is being harshly
treated, he is welcome to provide his version of events to the Police or HMRC.
Why should I have to have these falsehood resurrected on the BDF in recent times? They were false
at the time, and that remains the position.Without a blemish on my good name, I am not prepared
to be harmed further by those postings which were published on the BDF. I have written both privately
and through an ‘open letter’ to Mr Butcher. All has been ignored. May I again ask that he provides those
postngs from Mr Pain and Mr Ransome? He can do it privately to me, or through any Police or statutory
agency. This is not a game, but a serious matter which he appears prepared to ignore.
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