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My 8 Weeks as a Political Prisoner of the UK Police ( True Story )
TOPIC: My 8 Weeks as a Political Prisoner of the UK Police ( True Story )
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Re:My 8 Weeks as a Political Prisoner of the UK Police ( True Story ) 13 Years, 9 Months ago
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BR wrote:
On the morning of 26 February 2010 I was having my first coffee of the morning and preparing to visit my partner who was in hospital when the phone rang,. It was the Police. They said they were outside my door and they wanted to talk to me.
I said could they wait a moment as I was not dressed and was in the bathroom.
As I sat on the toilet I heard my door being smashed down and soon was hearing the thuggish voice of a Policeman outside the bathroom door. They certainly wanted to intimidate me.
A friend who was staying with me appeared and this seemed to unsettle the Policeman who then said he wanted to take me down the Police Station. Perhaps they were going to beat me up if I had been alone - but luckily I was not.
I said fine and told my friend I would be back later.
Several questions are raised by this rather strange account.
Would the police, evidently equipped and fully prepared to break in the door, really ring you up first? And would you really be drinking your first cup of coffee of the morning in the bathroom? Do you have a bathroom equipped with a telephone point? If not, is it your usual practice to have a telephone in the bathroom with you first thing in the morning? You make no mention of arrest or being read your rights. Both are legal requirements prior to being taken “down the station” if charges are to be laid {as, evidently, they were}. Arrest is a significant part of the process, and a moment of hugely significant personal impact. One which anyone who has truly been there would think of as unlikely to be left out of any genuine account. Yet you make no mention at all of it.
BR wrote:
When I got to the Police Station I was kept waiting for ages. I wanted to see a Doctor but the Doctor was appallingly rude to me and ran out of the room and refused to treat me because I questioned him about why I was in the Police Station/
It’s a usual thing for a duty solicitor on hand in a police station. Much less common are doctors. This truly is a bizarre situation. Whatever the circumstances actually were. I have been in the situation you claim you were in. I was confused, frightened, shaking and in a state of deep shock. This is normal. I’d suggest asking to see “the” doctor” isn’t. Now here’s a question for you. You claim the doctor “ran from the room”. I don’t know what “room” you imagine you would, under the circumstances, be in, but I’d suggest that any such room would be secure and much too small to “run” out of.
BR wrote:
The next I knew I was being charged - with no interview - for assaulting two Police. This totally threw me but I was told by a Police Station solicitor that I would be bailed and then I could deal with it. The allegations went back to the 1990s I might add ! Which was totally ridiculous. But these days it seems that picking a date over 10 years ago is common when trying to charge someone. Though I doubt if the CPS had any part in me being charged.
You really haven’t got any idea how things work, have you? Which is unusual for anyone who has been through what you claim you have been through. The CPS don’t have any hand at all in the charging of suspects. They make the decision as to whether or not charges are carried forward into the prosecution process. You’d know this if your imagined scenario had even a grain of truth in it.
BR wrote:
This seemed fine because I knew that I could fight these allegations but the Police then said they would not let me out of custody - so I had to spend the whole night in the Police Station. The solicitor said the court would let me go next day no problem because I had no criminal record at all and was obviously not a criminal.
A solicitor would never say something like that. No one is “obviously not a criminal”. Especially to the Duty Solicitor.
BR wrote:
So I reluctantly spent the night there in a Police Cell.
This was bad enough but after being taken to a Magistrates Court I could not believe my ears when the Police said that I had been on the “run” and was a bail breaker and so could the magistrates put me in prison. My friend had come to the court and was supposed to be called to recount what had happened at my home - but he was not and was left waiting OUTSIDE the court.
Ermm… where was your legal representation? There’s no way you appeared in a Magistrate’s Court without any. And if he was there why was he not challenging the allegation that you were a “bail breaker”. Before any Magistrate would accept this they would want evidence. Had you no previous record at all no such evidence could be produced and no Magistrate would turn down an application for bail. {the call is for denial of bail, therefore remand, not “put him in prison”} I was transparently guilty. I was bailed without question because of my previous “good character”. There was no police objection to this. And lastly, it’s the duty of your solicitor to apprise your next of kin of any result of the court’s proceedings. Either yours was negligent or you’re making things up.
BR wrote:
The next I knew I was being put in a van and being taken to Pentonville Prison as a “bail breaker” who had NOT BEEN on bail and had never been convicted of breaking bail and was now facing serious charges of assaulting the Police. Charges that weretTotally unfounded and totally untrue and fabricated with NO evidence to back them least of all the allegation that I was a bail breaker that needed to be put into custody.
This is sort of a hysterical rant. But it doesn’t sound like how anyone who had really made the transit from those little court cells to one of HM’s Prisons would relay the tale.
BR wrote:
When I got to the Prison I was refused any phone contact for a week and was locked into a cell 24 hours a day for 7 days until I demanded a move to the vulnerable prisoner unit where I finally found help.
But I was refused any contact with lawyers or my family or friends.
Now here’s a thing. I had similar problems. It was a week before I was able to speak to my wife. Not because I was refused anything. It just took time to get onto the system. I should have been able to ring. But something had gone wrong and I couldn’t. Frustrating, but simple and the result not of conspiracy but of being somehow given 2 prisoner numbers.
And you can’t “demand” a move to a VP wing. You have to apply and they’re always so full that the waiting list is long. I got onto the one in Hull very quickly because; A. Serious threats were made against my life {the razor blades pushed under my door made plain the reality of this}, and B. I was, at all times reasonable in my dealings with the Wing Officers. Had I “demanded” anything I’m sure those demands would have fallen on deaf ears, and finally C. I was lucky and a vacancy came up. The next in line {I didn’t find out about this until later when the gentleman whose place it actually should have been told me} actually gave up his place on J wing for me because “I was in the holding cell with you and you looked so completely lost and terrified”. A much bigger man than I, he was better able to cope with the bullies. I only relate this because the hoops one has to jump through in order to get onto a VP wing are ones which you, BR, are simply not at all acquainted with and have obviously not really personally encountered.
Neither do you seem to be at all familiar with the usual first experiences of prison. Nowhere do you mention induction, your medical check, your chat with one of the Listeners, your prison manual, the “welcome pack”, your canteen or any of the odd routines one has to become rapidly accustomed to. Your account of going to prison seems, somehow, completely unrecognizable to someone who actually has been there. It’s something which will stay fresh in your memory for the rest of your life. And it’s something that no one who hasn’t actually been there would relate in the simplistic terms you have. It’s just too big to be described in such trite language. It doesn’t sound even in the slightest bit realistic.
There’s one other thing which really does need to taken into account here, one which I would have expected to feature at least somewhere in this account. That “thing” is the Prison Chaplaincy. I’m not a Christian, in fact I’m not an anything. Yet, during that horrible first week in HMP Hull it was this deeply valuable body who got word out to my family that I was OK. Are they strangely unrepresented at Pentonville? As a practicing and devout Christian I would have expected them to be your first port of call. Yet you seem completely unaware of them. .
BR wrote:
After 2 weeks my family finally located me - because my friend was not told where I had been taken and came to the Prison - at which point they started the process of getting me out of there. But as with all things it took 8 weeks to get a hearing in a Crown Court because they blocked me talking to my lawyers for SEVEN WEEKS . It was only the personal intervention by my Wing Officer that actually got me a phone call to my lawyers after seven weeks or I would still be there now. She was incredible - and I have amazing respect for the job that those people do.BR wrote:
Your “Wing Officer” ? Well, they certainly exist, but there are many more than one of them. They have responsibility for the Wing. The person you claim to have had these dealings with would be your Personal Officer. He/she has responsibility for you.
The rest of your account is your usual implausible nonsense in which you attempt to tell everyone what an influential person you are and how much of a threat the police and establishment see you.
I can’t understand the following;
Why you need to make this stuff up.
Why you need to validate yourself in this way.
Why you would choose a scenario which is unlikely to be seen as in any way credible by anyone who has any experience at all of genuine prison life.
Why you thought any such people wouldn’t want to shoot holes in your story for so blatantly misrepresented what they’d actually personally experienced and survived with their senses and sensibilities intact.
What you were really doing for the period you were away from these boards {I’d certainly accept that you were “otherwise detained” because of your repeated references to being “locked up” following your return} but I’d suggest that you weren’t in prison.
Why you took so long to tell us this story if it had any truth to it.
Why you don’t get the help you so obviously need.
I'm aware, on reviewing this, that I'm applying a very rigid standard of plausibility here. You may believe I'm being unfair.
If this is indeed the account of a man who has been falsely arrested, charged and imprisoned I apologise for my lack of either belief or sympathy. If the circumstances are genuinely as set down here I'm sorry to have attempted to discredit the story being told.
But if they are the words {as I believe them to be} of a fantasist with a seriously developed persecution complex and a need to be seen as someone influential I make no such apologies. For the sake of Innocent Accused and JK, both of whom actually have been the victims of false accusations and legal process, we need to recognise that this is too big an issue to be taken without proper scrutiny. The story being told here has failed to impress me as one which carries sufficient weight of evidence to bear it out, and BR's "experiences" fail to ring any bells with me as someone who has spent time in prison. This boy has cried "Wolf" too often, and I'm afraid he has set the credibility bar with previous postings very high - too high, I'm afraid, for my skepticism to get over. To simply accept it as genuine is, I believe, an insult to those who have been wrongly incarcerated everywhere. And to challenge it seems to me to be the right thing to do. It just doesn't ring true.
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Re:My 8 Weeks as a Political Prisoner of the UK Police ( True Story ) 13 Years, 9 Months ago
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Graham - I can understand your post very well. The system has made you believe that what I have written is a lie and I understand that.
I have just been in court this morning at Wood Green court 9 to try and sort this out.
Here is a link and you will see it listed under APPLICATION.
www.courtserve2.net/courtlists/current/crown/indexdailies.htm
Click on WOOD GREEN and go to court 9 and you will see it listed there for the second hearing in front of the excellent Judge Carr.......
I wish I was lying - but every word is 100% true. I dont have any mental health issues - sorry. The truth of what is happening out there is hidden from you the public.
This is what is REALLY happening. My family and friends are in such a state of shock they dont even know who to speak to - they cant believe this is happening in the UK - and let me be honest with you when the Police first started to harass me in 2003 my very own family said I was making it up and that I had mental health issues and took me to a Pyschiatrist !! Seriously - that is how brainwashed everyone is - but now they believe me totally and I might add the Doctors gave me a 100% bill of mental health......they have now seen it with their own eyes and seen the documentations and obviously my friend is also totally SCARED of what is happening out there......
Go to DAVID ICKE . COM and read his headlines - all the stories there are true as well. Ordinary people being arrested right around the UK......those of you who read the Daily Mail and close your eyes to the truth of what is happening - I pity you because one day in the next few years unless people like me can continue to fight the NWO ( peacefully I might add ) you WILL be next or your family will be next.....
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Re:My 8 Weeks as a Political Prisoner of the UK Police ( True Story ) 13 Years, 9 Months ago
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you can read David Icke and he can sound quite bizarre...such as his "exploding water" tale but it is in fact true.
A main stream US TV station took various samples from the Gulf after the oil spill to a laboratory and one lot did explode before the technician could test it...he reckoned there must be heaps of ethanol that has leaked which means they have been lying about the BP oil spill. Worse than we imagine.
Poor BR..caught in a Kafka world. Keep us posted...shine the light on the cockroaches.
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