Channel Island Cover Up

Bill Maloney talks sense Ed Talks Balls

2011-03-26T13:54:00.000Z

Compare the two video clips & see the BBC edit out what your paying to see

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Harriot Harman

Labour figures' bizarre link to paedophile group The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)

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Award winning filmmakers Bill Maloney & Lilly Starr filmed from within the 26 March London Protest against the cuts. Maloney confronts Harriet Harman and Ed Balls about the subject of child abuse, BOTH ignored Maloney's questions. Dave Prentice, head of Unison stated that he believed the cuts in the public sector would definitely lead to further abuse of our most vulnerable in society, including the children.

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Harriet Harman under attack over bid to water down child pornography law

Harriet Harman’s political judgement has been called into question after it emerged that she once advocated the watering down of child pornography laws.

Harriet Harman's political judgement and ambitions are now in question after she she called on ministers to make sexually explicit photographs or films of children legal unless there was evidence that the subject had been harmed Photo: PA

By Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent 7:00AM GMT 09 Mar 2009

The Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality, who also sits on a Cabinet committee on young people’s welfare, is being touted as a possible successor to Gordon Brown, .

But she faces fresh criticism from Opposition MPs and campaign groups after The Daily Telegraph obtained documents showing that she called on ministers to make sexually explicit photographs or films of children legal unless there was evidence that the subject had been harmed.

At the time she made the official submission, she was a senior figure in a civil liberties organisation that wanted the age of consent to be lowered to 14 and incest decriminalised. It also defended self-confessed paedophiles in the press and allowed them to attend its meetings.

Last night Tim Loughton, the Shadow Children’s Minister, said: “Clearly there is a serious conflict of interest with the committees she sits on, who might want urgently to clarify her position on the exploitation of children for the sexual gratification of adults.

“It’s a shame that Miss Harman’s zeal for positive discrimination and all things politically correct among adults does not extend to the exploitation of children. Any child who is used for the sexual gratification of adults counts as an abused child and needs protecting.”

Miss Harman, 58, was a newly qualified solicitor when she became legal officer for the National Council for Civil Liberties, now known as Liberty, in 1978. At the time its general secretary was Patricia Hewitt, who went on to become health secretary under Tony Blair.

Among the groups affiliated to NCCL were the Paedophile Information Exchange and Paedophile Action for Liberation, whose members argued openly for the abolition of the age of consent. NCCL complained to the press watchdog about their treatment by tabloid newspapers and said in one article: “We support any organisation that seeks to campaign for anything it wants within the law. They have that right.”

In NCCL’s official response to the Government’s plans to reform sex laws, dubbed a “Lolita’s Charter”, it suggested reducing the age of consent and argued that “childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage”. It claimed that children can suffer more from having to retell their experiences in court or the press.

Amid growing public concern about adults preying on children, the Protection of Children Bill was put before Parliament in order to tighten the laws on child pornography by banning indecent images of under-16s.

NCCL’s official response, signed by Miss Harman and submitted in April 1978, claimed that the new law could lead to “damaging and absurd prosecutions” and “increase censorship”.

She suggested that a pornographic photo or film of a child should not be considered indecent unless it could be shown that the subject had suffered, and that prosecutors would have to prove harm rather than defendants having to justify themselves.

Her submission states: “Although this harm may be of a somewhat speculative nature, where participation falls short of physical assault, it is none-the-less justifiable to restrain activities by photographer which involve placing children under the age of 14 (or, arguably, 16) in sexual situations.

“We suggest that the term 'indecent’ be qualified as follows: – A photograph or film shall not for this purpose be considered indecent (a) by reason only that the model is in a state of undress (whether complete or partial); (b) unless it is proved or is to be inferred from the photograph or film that the making of the photograph or film might reasonably be expected to have caused the model physical harm or pronounced psychological or emotional disorder.”

It adds: “Our amendment places the onus of proof on the prosecution to show that the child was actually harmed.”

Miss Harman left NCCL in 1982 when she was elected MP for Camberwell and Peckham, by which time several members of PIE had been jailed for conspiracy to corrupt public morals.

A spokesman for Miss Harman said: “She has always opposed child pornography and has never supported PIE and to suggest that she did is untrue and misleading.

“NCCL’s approach to the protection of children’s bill was to argue for clear definitions in the bill to make sure the law was precise so that it was about child protection and not about censorship.”
The spokesman added: “PIE had been excluded from the NCCL before she became legal officer.”
However press cuttings from 1983 make it clear that it was still considered an “affiliate group”.

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121 arrested as police smash world's biggest paedophile ring

2011-03-16T16:27:00.000Z

Police have smashed the world's biggest peadophile ring with 70,000 members in dozens of countries.

Around 121 people were arrested in the UK after a three year global police inquiry.

Investigators say they have rescued 230 child victims of abuse - 60 from Britain.

The inquiry centred on a Dutch-based internet forum called boylover.net.

Among those arrested was the forum's 37-year-old administrator who was based in Amsterdam.

A total of 184 people have been arrested worldwide so far but police say there are at least 670 more suspects who are subject to ongoing inquiries.
More than 33 people have been convicted in the UK of child sex offences.
Undercover investigators infiltrated the senior hierarchy of the group by assuming the identities of arrested offenders.
The investigation, codenamed Operation Rescue, was led by the UK's national centre for child protection, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.

Police say the website, which has now been taken down, attempted to operate "below the radar" by offering a 'discussion only' forum where people could share their sexual interest in young boys without committing any specific offences.

However, having made contact on the site members would move to more private channels such as email in order to exchange and share illegal images and films of children being abused.

Peter Davies, the head of CEOP, said: "The scale and success of Operation Rescue has broken new ground.
"What we show today is that while these offenders felt anonymous in some way because they were using the internet to communicate, the technology was actually being used against them. Everything they did online,

everyone they talked to or anything they shared could and was tracked by following the digital footprint."
Some victims were "groomed" for sex by paedophiles and many, including infants, were subjected to the "worst of the worst" activities, images of which were then sourced and exchanged by members.

Dutch police seized the computer server of the administrator revealing the names of tens of thousands of website users.

121 arrested as police smash world's biggest paedophile ring

Power criticicises decision to publish report in more detail

2011-03-16T16:08:00.000Z

former Police Chief Graham Power.

FORMER police chief Graham Power has heavily criticised the decision to publish the fuller version of the independent Wiltshire Report into his supervision of the historical child abuse inquiry.

He said that he regarded the report’s publication as an abuse of political power and a distraction to the real issues.

In his view, in the interests of justice and fair play, if the report was going to be published, a copy of his defence statement should have been released at the same time.

But Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand said that when he asked Mr Power’s professional association representative in a letter last year if Mr Power wanted his statement published, he failed to comment on that issue.

Senator Le Marquand said: ‘If Mr Power wants his statement to the inquiry published I am willing to consider it,’ and he added that the statement would have to be redacted, where necessary, like the main report.’

Article posted on 16th March, 2011 - 2.56pm

Power criticicises decision to publish report in more detail

2011-03-15T15:34:00.000Z

Blog less, judge tells Syvret

Stuart Syvret.

FORMER Senator Stuart Syvret was told to spend less time on his blog and more time preparing for his court case by a UK judge yesterday.

Commissioner Sir Christopher Pitchers made the observation when Mr Syvret told him in the Royal Court that he needed more time to prepare his legal argument for this week’s hearing.

The judge also told Mr Syvret that because of an email the former Senator sent to him, he might have to remove himself from the case but would wait until he saw Mr Syvret’s written submissions.

‘Normally the judge or a tribunal cannot really receive communication from the parties in case there is contentious material that you think might influences the case,’ Sir Christopher said, before adjourning the case until 2 pm today.

Article posted on 15th March, 2011 - 2.57pm

Former Senator Stuart Syvret Starts his Courts cases

2011-03-14T17:44:00.000Z

Former Senator Stuart Syvret receives Death Threats.

The Magna Carta

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In the first place we have conceded to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs for ever that the English church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we wish that it be thus observed. This is apparent from the fact that we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English church, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III., before the quarrel arose between us and our barons. This freedom we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs for ever.

We have also granted to all freemen of our kingdom, for us and our heirs for ever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs for ever:
If any of our earls or barons, or others holding of us in chief by military service shall have died, and at the time of his death his heir shall be of full age and owe relief he shall have his inheritance on payment of the ancient relief, namely the heir or heirs of an earl, 100 pounds for a whole earl’s barony; the heir or heirs of a baron, 100 pounds for a whole barony; the heir or heirs of a knight, 100 shillings at most for a whole knight’s fee; and whoever owes less let him give less, according to the ancient custom of fiefs.
If, however, the heir of any of the aforesaid has been under age and in wardship, let him have his inheritance without relief and without fine when he comes of age.
The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall take from the land of the heir nothing but reasonable produce, reasonable customs, and reasonable services, and that without destruction or waste of men or goods; and if we have committed the wardship of the lands of any such minor to the sheriff, or to any other who is responsible to us for its issues, and he has made destruction or waste of what he holds in wardship, we will take of him amends, and the land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fief, who shall be responsible for the issues to us or to him to whom we shall assign them; and if we have given or sold the wardship of any such land to anyone and he has therein made destruction or waste, he shall lose that wardship, and it shall be transferred to two lawful and discreet men of that fief, who shall be responsible to us in like manner as aforesaid.
The guardian moreover, so long as he has the wardship of the land, shall maintain the houses, parks, fish ponds, stanks, mills, and other things pertaining to the land, out of the revenues of that land; and he shall restore to the heir, when he has come to full age, all his land, stocked with ploughs and waynage, according as the season of husbandry requires, and the revenues from the land can reasonably support.
Heirs shall be married without disparagement. However, before a marriage takes place, it shall be made known to the heir’s next-of-kin.
A widow, after the death of her husband, shall forthwith and without difficulty have her marriage portion and inheritance. She shall not give anything for her dower, or for her marriage portion, or for the inheritance which her husband and she held on the day of the death of that husband. She may remain in the house of her husband for forty days after his death, within which time her dower shall be assigned to her.
No widow shall be compelled to marry, so long as she prefers to remain without a husband, always provided that she gives assurance not to marry without our consent, if she holds her lands from us, or else without the consent of whatever other lord she from whom she holds her lands.
Neither we nor our bailiffs shall seize for any debt any land or rent, so long as the chattels of the debtor are sufficient to repay the debt. Nor shall those that pledged sureties for the debtor be distrained so long as the principal debtor himself is able to satisfy the debt. If the principal debtor fails to pay the debt, having nothing wherewith to pay it, then the sureties shall answer for the debt.They shall have the lands and rents of the debtor, if they desire them, until they are reimbursed for the debt which they have paid for him, unless the principal debtor can show proof that he has discharged his obligations to them.
If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, dies before that loan can be repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age, irrespective from whom he holds his lands. If such a debt falls into our hands, we will take nothing except the principal sum mentioned in the bond.
And if any one die indebted to the Jews, his wife shall have her dower and pay nothing of that debt; and if any children of the deceased are left underage, necessaries shall be provided for them in keeping with the holding of the deceased. The debt shall be paid out of the residue , save the service due to feudal lords. Let debts due to others than Jews be dealt with in similar manner.
No scutage nor aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and marrying our eldest daughter one time. For these, only a reasonable aid should be levied. In like manner it shall be done concerning aids from the city of London.
And the city of London shall have all its ancient liberties and free customs, by land as well as by water. Furthermore, we decree and grant that all other cities, boroughs, towns, and ports shall have all their liberties and free customs.
And for obtaining the common consent of the kingdom concerning the assessment of an aid (other than in the three cases specified above) or of a scutage, we will cause to be summoned the archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, and greater barons, individually through our letters. Moreover, all others who are our direct tenants, we will cause a general summons to be made by our sheriffs and bailiffs, for a fixed date (namely, after the expiry of at least forty days) and at a fixed place. In all such letters of summons we will specify the reason of the summons. And when the summons has thus been made, the business shall proceed on the day appointed, according to the counsel of such as are present, although not all who were summoned have come.
In future, we not grant to anyone license to take an aid from his own free men, unless to ransom his person, to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter. And on each of these occasions, only a reasonable aid shall be levied.
No man shall be compelled to do more service for a knight’s fee, or for any other land free-holding, than is due from it.
Common pleas shall not follow our court about, but shall be held in some fixed place.
Inquests of novel disseisin, mort d’ancestor, and darrein presentiment shall only be held in their own county courts, in the following manner. We or, should we be out of the kingdom, our chief justice will send two justices to each county four times a year who, along with four knights of each county chosen by that county, shall hold the assize in the county, and on the day and in the meeting place of the county court.
If any of the said assizes cannot be held on the day of the county court, let there remain as many of the knights and freeholders, who were present at the county court on that day, as are necessary for the efficient making of judgments, according to whether the business is more or less.
A freeman shall only be amerced for a trivial offence in accordance with the seriousness of the offence. For a grave offence, he shall be fined correspondingly, leaving him his contenement. A merchant will be fined similarly, leaving him his “merchandise”; and a villein shall be amerced in the same way, leaving him his wainage—if they have fallen into our mercy. These amercements shall only be imposed by the assessment on oath of reputable local men.
Earls and barons shall be amerced only by their peers, and only in proportion with the degree of the offence.
A clerk in holy orders shall not be amerced in respect of his lay holding except as peviously described; further, his ecclesiastical benefice shall not be taken into account.
No vill or person shall be compelled to make bridges at river-banks, except those who from of old were legally bound to do so.
No sheriff, constable, coroner, or other royal bailiff, shall hold lawsuits meant be held by the royal justices.
All counties, hundreds, wapentakes, and trithings shall remain at old rents, and without any increase, except our demesne manors.
If any one holding a lay fief from the Crown dies, and our sheriff or bailiff produces royal letters patent of summons for a debt owed to the Crown, it shall be lawful for our sheriff or bailiff to seize and catalogue chattels found in the lay fief of the deceased, to the value of that debt, as assessed by law-worthy men. Nothing at all shall be removed from there until the debt is fully paid. The residue shall be left to the executors to fulfil the will of the deceased. If there is no debt due to the Crown, all the chattels shall go to the estate of the deceased, except reasonable shares for his wife and children.
If any freeman dies intestate, his chattels shall be distributed by his nearest kinsfolk and his friends, under supervision of the church, except that the rights of his debtors shall be maintained.
No constable or other royal bailiff shall take corn or other provisions from any man without an immediate cash payment, unless the seller permits postponement of this.
No constable shall compel any knight to give money instead of castle-guard, if the knight is willing to undertake the guard himself, or to supply another responsible man to do it, if he cannot do it himself for any reasonable cause. Further, a knight taken or sent on military service shall be excused castle-guard in proportion to the time he was on this service.
No sheriff or royal bailiff, or other person, shall take the horses or carts of any freeman for transport duty, except with agreement from the said freeman.

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Neither we nor our bailiffs shall take, for our castles or for any other of our works, wood which is not ours, except with agreement from the owner of that timber.
We will not hold the lands of those who have been convicted of felony beyond one year and one day. Then, the lands shall be returned to the lords of those fiefs.
Henceforth, all kiddles shall be removed from the Thames, the Medway and throughout all England, except along the sea coast.
The writ called praecipe, in the future, shall not be issued to any one regarding any tenement whereby a freeman might lose the right of trial in his own lord’s court.
There shall be one measure of wine, of ale and of corn (namely, “the London quarter”) throughout our whole realm. There shall also be one width of cloth (whether dyed, russet, or halberget): that is, two ells within the selvages. Let weights also be standardised similarly.
Nothing shall be paid or taken in future for a writ of inquisition of life or limbs.[2] Instead, it shall be given free of charge, and not denied.
If a man holds Crown land by fee-farm, by socage, or by burgage, and also holds land of another lord for knight’s service, we will not have (by reason of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage) the wardship of his heir or of such land he holds of the other lord’s fief . Nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless the fee-farm owes knight’s service. We will not have the wardship of a man’s heir, nor of land that the man holds through knight’s service to someone else, because of any small serjeanty that he may hold from the Crown for the service of providing to us knives, arrows, or the like.
In future, no bailiff shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported words, without credible witnesses being produced to support his word.
No freeman shall be arrested or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any other way harmed. Nor will we [the king] proceed against him, or send others to do so, except according to the lawful sentence of his peers and according to the Common Law.[3]
To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.
All merchants may leave or enter England in safety and security. They may stay and travel throughout England by road or by water, free from all illegal tolls, in order to buy and sell according to the ancient and rightful customs. This is except, in time of war, those merchants who are from the land at war with us. And if such merchants are found in our land at the beginning of the war, they shall be detained, without injury to their bodies or goods, until information is received by us (or by our chief justiciar) about in what way are treated our merchants, thence found in the land at war with us . If our men are safe there, the others shall be safe in our land.
It shall be lawful in future for any one, keeping loyalty to the Crown, to leave our kingdom and to return safely and securely, by land and by water. This is except in time of war, when men may go, only in the public interest, for some short period. (This excludes, always, those imprisoned or outlawed in accordance with the law of the realm, natives of any country at war with us, and merchants, who shall be treated as previously stated).
If any one holding of some escheat (such as the honour of Wallingford, Nottingham, Boulogne, Lancaster, or of other escheats which are in our hands and are baronies) dies, his heir shall give only the relief and service to us that he would have done to the baron, if that barony had been in the baron’s hands. We shall hold the escheat in the same manner in which the baron held it.
Men who dwell outside the forest henceforth need not come before our justiciars of the forest following a general summons, unless they are named in a plea or are sureties for any person or persons arrested for forest offences.
We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or bailiffs only those who know the law of the realm and who wish to observe it well.
All barons who have founded abbeys, for which they hold charters from the kings of England, or for which they have long-standing possession, shall have the custody of them when vacant, as they should have.
All forests that have been created in our reign shall forthwith be disafforested, and similar course shall be followed for river-banks that we have made preserves during our reign.
All evil customs relating to forests and warrens, foresters, warreners, sheriffs and their officers, river-banks and their wardens, shall immediately be investigated in each county by twelve sworn knights of the same county, chosen by the honest men of the county. The evil customs shall, within forty days of the said inquest, be completely and irrevocably abolished. This is provided always that we first informed, or our justiciar, if we should not be in England [4].
We will immediately restore all hostages and charters, which were delivered to us by Englishmen as security for peace or for faithful service.

We will entirely remove from their bailiwicks the kinsmen of Gerard de Athée, so that in future they shall have no office in England. The people concerned are Engelard de Cigogné, Peter, Guy, and Andrew de Chanceaux, Guy de Cigogné, Geoffrey de Martigny and his brothers, Philip Mark, his brothers and his nephew Geoffrey, and all their brood.
As soon as peace is restored, we will banish from the kingdom all foreign-born knights, cross-bowmen, their attendants, and mercenaries who have come with horses and arms, to the kingdom’s detriment.
If, without the lawful judgement of his peers, a man has been dispossessed of his lands, castles, franchises or his rights, or had them removed by us, we will at once restore these to him. If a dispute arises over this, the dispute shall be decided by the judgement of the twenty-five barons referred to below in the clause for securing the peace. Moreover, in all cases where possessions have been disseised or removed from anyone without the lawful judgement of his peers, by our father King Henry or our brother King Richard, and which are retained by us (or which are held by others under our warranty), we will have the usual respite period allowed to crusaders, unless a lawsuit has been started or we had ordered an enquiry before we took the cross [as a Crusader]. However, as soon as we return from our expedition, or if by chance we abandon it, we shall immediately grant full justice.
We shall have the same respite (and the same manner in rendering justice [4]) concerning the disafforestation or retention of those forests [4]) which Henry our father and Richard our brother afforested, and concerning guardianship of lands under the fief of another (that is, the guardianships we had up to now because of a knight’s fee someone else held from us), and with abbeys founded in fiefs other than our own, in which the lord of the fief claims to have a right. When we return from our expedition, or if we abandon it, we will at once grant full justice to complaints about these things.
No one shall be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman, for the death of anyone except her husband.
All fines rendered to us unjustly and against the law of the land, and all amercements made unjustly and against the law of the land, shall be entirely remitted or else the matter settled by the decision of an majority of the five-and-twenty barons (or all of them) mentioned below in the clause for securing the peace. This decision shall be made together with Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and such others as he may wish to bring with him. If the archbishop cannot be present, business shall nevertheless proceed without him. This is provided always that, if any one or more of the twenty-five barons are involved in a similar action, they are removed for this particular judgement and are replaced by others. The replacements will be sworn in as a substitute only for this business, after being selected by the rest of the twenty-five.
If we have disseised or removed Welshmen from lands or liberties, or other things, without the lawful judgement of their peers (in England or in Wales), these shall be immediately restored to them. If a dispute arises over this, it shall be determined in the Marches by the judgement of their peers. English law shall apply to land holdings in England, Welsh law to those in Wales, and the law of the Marches to those in the Marches. Welshmen shall the same to us and ours.
Further, where a Welshman was deprived or dispossessed of anything, without the lawful judgement of his peers (in England or in Wales [5]), by our father King Henry or our brother King Richard, and which is retained by us (or which is held by others under our warranty), we will have the usual respite period allowed to crusaders, unless a lawsuit has been started or we had ordered an enquiry before we took the cross [as a Crusader]. However, as soon as we return from our expedition, or if by chance we abandon it, we shall immediately grant full justice according to the laws of Wales and the said regions.
We will immediately return the son of Llywelyn and all the hostages of Wales, and the charters handed over to us as security for peace.
We will return of the sisters and hostages of Alexander, king of Scotland, his liberties and his rights, in the same manner as we shall do towards our other barons of England, unless it ought to be otherwise according to the charters that we hold from his father William, formerly king of Scotland. This matter shall be determined by the judgement of his peers in our court.
Moreover, all these previously described customs and liberties which we have granted shall be maintained in our kingdom as far as it concerns our own relations toward our men. Let these customs and liberties be observed similarly by all of our kingdom, by clergy as well as by laymen, in their relations towards their men.
Since for God, for the improvement of our kingdom, and to better allay the discord arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these concessions, and wishing that the concessions be enjoyed in their entirety with firm endurance (for ever [5]), we give and grant to the barons the following security:

Namely, that the barons choose any twenty-five barons of the kingdom they wish, who must with all their might observe and hold, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted and confirmed to them by this our present Charter. Then, if we, our chief justiciar, our bailiffs or any of our officials, offend in any respect against any man, or break any of the articles of the peace or of this security, and the offence is notified to four of the said twenty-five barons, the four shall come to us—or to our chief justicicar if we are absent from the kingdom—to declare the transgression and petition that we make amends without delay.

And if we, or in our absence abroad the chief justice, have not corrected the transgression within forty days, reckoned from the day on which the offence was declared to us (or to the chief justice if we are out of the realm), the four barons mentioned before shall refer the matter to the rest of the twenty-five barons. Together with the community of the whole land, they shall then distrain and distress us in every way possible, namely by seizing castles, lands, possessions and in any other they can (saving only our own person and those of the queen and our children), until redress has been obtain in their opinion. And when amends have been made, they shall obey us as before.

Whoever in the country wants to, may take an oath to obey the orders of the twenty-five barons for the execution of all the previously mentioned matters and, with the barons, to distress us to the utmost of his power. We publicly and freely give permission to every one who wishes to take this oath, and we shall never forbid any one from taking it. Indeed, all those in the land who are unwilling to this oath, we shall by our command compel them to swear to it.

If any one of the twenty-five barons dies or leaves the country, or is in any other manner incapacitated so the previously mentioned provisions cannot be undertaken, the remaining barons of the twenty-five shall choose another in his place as they think fit, who shall be duly sworn in like the rest.

If there is any disagreement amongst the twenty-five barons on any matter presented to them, or if some of them are unwilling or unable to be present, what the majority of those present ordain or command shall be held as fixed and established, exactly as if all twenty-five had consented in this.

The said twenty-five barons shall swear to faithfully observe all the aforesaid articles and will do all they can to ensure that the articles are observed by others.

And we shall procure nothing from any one, either personally or indirectly, whereby any part of these concessions and liberties might be revoked or diminished; and if any such thing has been procured, let it be void and null, and we shall never make use of it ourselves or through someone else.
And all the ill-will, hatreds, and bitterness that have arisen between us and our people, clergy and laity, from the date of the quarrel, we have completely forgiven and pardoned to everyone. Moreover, we have fully forgiven and, as far as it concerns us, pardoned all transgressions occasioned by the said quarrel, between Easter in the sixteenth year of our reign [1215] and the restoration of peace, to all, both clergy and laymen, and completely forgiven, as far as this applies to us.

Additionally, we have had letters patent drawn up for the barons, over the seals of lord Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, of the lord Henry, archbishop of Dublin, of the bishops mentioned before, and of Master Pandulf. The letters patent concern this security and the concessions previously stated.
Thus, we wish and we firmly ordain that the English church shall be free, and that men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these previously determined liberties, rights, and concessions, well and in peace, freely and quietly, in their fullness and integrity, for themselves and their heirs, from us and our heirs, in all things and all places for ever, as is previously described here.

An oath has been sworn, on the one hand by us and on the other by the barons, that all the aforesaid provisions shall be observed in good faith and without evil intent.

Given under our hand—the above-named and many others being witnesses—in the meadow which is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June, in the seventeenth year of our reign.
[That is 1215—the new regnal year began on 28 May.]

Stuart Syvret Court Case Part 1.

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Most will know by now that former Senator Stuart Syvret continues his extensive court battle this coming Monday the 14th March 2011 in the Royal Court of Jersey.

Team Voice will be reporting in depth on the Court Case and thought that we would ask the former Senator to explain, in layman terms, just what the case entails from his perspective.

Below is an extensive interview with Mr. Syvret and we hope it goes some way to explaining just what is about to take place.
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Protestors storm court and 'arrest' judge in chaotic scenes, watch video here

2011-03-10T14:41:00.000Z

HUNDREDS of anti-establishment protestors stormed a Wirral court today and "arrested" a judge.

In chaotic scenes, police rescued Judge Michael Peake from their clutches and escorted him safely from the building.
Protestors from the public gallery charged at Mr Peake to make a civil arrest chanting “arrest that judge”.

Police scrambled over court benches to control the near-riot and one protestor shouted “seal the court.”

Another sat in the judge’s chair at the head of the court and declared Mr Hayes as “released”.

Around 600 chanting demonstrators massed around the County Court in Birkenhead.
Deafening cheers and chants could be heard from the crowd outside and protestors used mobile phones to film arrests being made.

Roads were blockaded and dozens of police officers deployed to keep order.
A stand-off followed with several demonstrators staging a sit-down protest in front of police vehicles, refusing to let them pass.

Six arrests were made - two for assaulting officers.
The protestors were from the anti-establishment "British Constitution Group."
The demonstration was sparked when one of the prominent voices in the BCG, Wirral man Roger Hayes, faced a hearing for non-payment of council tax.

In 1997, Mr Hayes, a former member of UKIP, stood for election in Wallasey representing the Referendum Party against sitting Labour MP Angela Eagle. He polled 1,490 votes and finished fourth.

As he emerged from the court surrounded by his supporters, Mr Hayes said: "The judges are breaking the law in their own courts.

"I asked him (Mr Peake) if he was serving under his oath of office.
"I asked three times for him to confirm this and he refused.
"So I civilly arrested the judge and I called upon some people in the court to assist me in this.

"They were acting lawfully and the police should not have arrested them."
The hearing was abandoned and will need to be re-arranged at a date to be fixed.
Raymond Saintclair, who organised the Birkenhead protest, said: "Today was day-one.
"This is going to happen again and again and again.

"We have sent a message to this court as one nation and one voice until change comes."

The BCG's main aim is a rallying call for "lawful rebellion."
Leaflets handed out by the crowd said: "We, the British People have a right to govern ourselves.

"That right has been subjugated as a consequence of acts of treason having been committed by the collective political establishment, aided and abetted by corrupt segments of the judiciary, the police, the Church and the civil service."

A Merseyside Police spokesman said six men, whose ages range from 20 to 41, were arrested - two for assaulting officers and four for breach of peace and obstructing police.

They have been taken to police stations around Wirral where they will be questioned.

A statement from the force said: "Officers are committed to facilitating peaceful protests but will not tolerate criminal behaviour, disorder or anti-social behaviour during any demonstrations within Merseyside."

Wirral Council leader, Cllr Jeff Green, said: "Have these people given any thought to what happens to the likes of Sure Start, public libraries or other services that people depend on? Not many people like paying tax but we accept the need for tax.

"I am disappointed that this case has been adjourned, but in the light of the events that took place, understand the court’s decision.

"However, before anyone else gets any ideas about not paying their Council Tax, let me assure everyone that Wirral Council is stepping up its activity to ensure that everyone pays their fair share. Nobody is above the law."

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2011-03-09T21:50:00.000Z

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Senator wins full child abuse inquiry

2011-03-03T15:39:00.000Z

Senator Francis Le Gresley

A COMMITTEE of inquiry into historical child abuse in Jersey will go ahead after States Members overwhelmingly voted to reverse a decision not to hold one.
That controversial decision had been taken by the Council of Ministers last month without any States or public consultation and was fiercely criticised as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘disgraceful’ in the weeks that followed.
In the States yesterday, Members voted 37 votes to 11 to adopt an amended proposition

Senator wins full child abuse inquiry

Child abuse inquiry will go ahead

2011-03-02T19:23:00.000Z

The States have agreed to hold an inquiry into the Island's historic child abuse scandal.

It is a huge U-turn for the States, who only decided last month not to go ahead with an investigation.

The vote for the Committee of Inquiry was an overwhelming 37 votes for the inquiry, 11 votes against.

It is hoped it will establish how alleged abuse across Jersey's children's homes was allowed continue for decades.

The Committee will also establish whether political influence played any part in deciding which cases were pursued through the courts.

An inquiry has been estimated at costing somewhere between £3 to £10 million.

Three years ago when allegations of abuse were uncovered, a full investigation was indeed promised.

And since last month's rejection of the idea for an investigation, there has been a strong case pushing for one to be held.

The Home Affairs scrutiny panel have called for the States to hold an inquiry and the Jersey Care Leavers Association (JCLA) have also campaigned for one.

The Home Affairs scrutiny panel believes that there are a number of fundamental questions which ought to be addressed about the past management of the children's homes, the monitoring of staff and the procedures for dealing with any reports of abusive behaviour.

The panel also say that the people personally affected by the events of the past should have the opportunity to have their stories heard.

States to decide on child abuse investigation

The States have been discussing whether there will be an inquiry into the Island's historic child abuse scandal.

Exactly a month ago today Jersey's Council of Ministers announced there would not be an inquiry - but this decision could now be overturned.

Last month's decision was a huge U-turn by the government, because three years ago when allegations of abuse were uncovered, a full investigation was promised.

The States discussed the possibility of the inquiry today and will continue tomorrow.

New call for Committee of Inquiry

2011-02-10T18:42:00.000Z

Former deputy police chief Lenny Harper

THE Council of Ministers could be forced to reconsider their decision not to hold a Committee of Inquiry into the historical abuse investigation.

Senator Francis Le Gresley has lodged a proposition calling for a debate on the issue.

Meanwhile, former deputy police chief Lenny Harper says that by not holding an inquiry, Jersey would lose the opportunity to expose the ‘full extent of the brutalities’ inflicted at Haut de la Garenne, the former children’s home.

The man who headed the historical child abuse inquiry has reacted to Wednesday’s announcement by Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur that there will not be a committee of inquiry.

In a letter to the editor in today’s Jersey Evening Post, the now retired police officer said: ‘Such a committee would have seen the trickle of truth turn into a torrent and the full extent of the brutalities inflicted on the victims as well as the lengths gone to in attempts to cover it up would have been exposed for the world to see.’

New call for Committee of Inquiry

Garenne inquiry'

2011-02-04T21:40:00.000Z

Haut de la Garenne The police investigation began after allegations of abuse at former children's home Haut de la Garenne

Money seized from criminals could fund an official inquiry into an historic child abuse investigation, according to Senator Francis Le Gresley.

The chief minister announced this week that no further action would be taken after the police investigation closed, and it was questionable whether an inquiry could find what had happened.

But Senator Francis Le Gresley has asked members to rethink that decision.

He said islanders need an independent inquiry.

He added the committee of inquiry would be expensive, but the criminal offences confiscation fund contains £6.5m and he believes that is an appropriate use of that money.

Senator Le Gresley said "it was completely wrong" that politicians were not given the chance to debate the report that decided there should be no inquiry.

He said such an important issue, which has dominated the headlines for the past three years, should be discussed in the House.

"A committee of inquiry was promised by the Council of Ministers once all the prosecution had been completed," he said.

Garenne inquiry'

Jersey to have Police Authority

2011-02-03T16:57:00.000Z

Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand

JERSEY is to have its own Police Authority after States Members unanimously agreed to de-politicise the Island’s police force.

There was nothing but praise for Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand in the Chamber yesterday as his proposal to establish the body as a buffer between his role and the States of Jersey Police was adopted unanimously.

It was particularly welcomed by Members who had expressed serious concerns about the conduct of some officers of the States of Jersey Police in recent years and was repeatedly described as a ‘step in the right direction’.

Jersey to have Police Authority

New call for Committee of Inquiry

2011-02-03T16:53:00.000Z

Minister resigns over email data breach

2011-02-03T00:17:00.000Z

Deputy Power who has resigned as Housing Minister

HOUSING Minister Sean Power has resigned after being found to have broken the Data Protection Law by sending a confidential and personal email to a States colleague on to a third party.

Deputy Power – who has held the post of Housing Minister for just over six months – was told to quit or be sacked by the Council of Ministers yesterday lunchtime after being ruled to have broken the law by the Data Protection Commission.

This morning, Deputy Power said: ‘I have put my hand up and made a mistake and been slapped down by the Council of Ministers.’

Minister resigns over email data breach

No Haut de la Garenne Committee of Inquiry

2011-02-03T00:10:00.000Z

Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur.

THERE will be no Committee of Inquiry into historical child abuse at Haut de la Garenne or anywhere else, the Chief Minister announced yesterday.

In a brief statement on behalf of the Council of Ministers in the States, Senator Terry Le Sueur said that no significant issues remained that needed to be examined.

Yesterday’s statement by the Chief Minister has caused deep dismay among victims who believe that they have yet to see justice.

No Haut de la Garenne Committee of Inquiry

No inquiry into historic child abuse

2011-02-02T21:47:00.000Z

Jersey's Council of Ministers have done a U-turn on their promise to hold a committee of inquiry into historic child abuse.

When the allegations around Haut de la Garenne broke in 2008 it was feared it was the worst case of abuse anywhere in the UK.

Shortly afterwards the Council proposed to hold a committee of inquiry once all the prosecutions were dealt with.

However, they have now changed their mind.

The Council say it would achieve nothing and would cost millions.

The news has angered those both outside and inside the States.

The Jersey Care Leavers' Association (JCLA), who represent victims of abuse on the island, say they are 'dismayed' at the decision and said it was "the final straw" for them.

They released a statement, which said: "It is with the utmost dismay that we hear today that the Council of Ministers has reneged on a promise made in 2008 to hold a full Committee of Enquiry into the Historical Abuse enquiry.

"This really has to be the final straw for us, and the anger felt towards the Council of Ministers over this decision is beyond comprehension.

"Time and again we have been let down by the States of Jersey, from our childhood right through to this very sad day.

"The lack of caring and the clear intention of the Council of Ministers to not bring closure to this matter, means that exactly the opposite will happen and the public will still have grave misgivings about the whole handling of this affair and the now so transparent cover-up of the historic child abuse investigation."

They added that there had been no consultation with the JCLA over the decision.

No inquiry into historic child abuse

Minister resigns after breaching data protection code

2011-02-02T15:52:00.000Z

Deputy Sean Power Deputy Sean Power said he thinks the Council of Ministers have overreacted to his mistake

Deputy Sean Power has resigned as Jersey's housing minister after breaching data protection laws.

He said he passed on an email he found lying on a printer in the States building in August last year.

The Deputy said he felt like he had let down Housing Department staff, but did not feel his error was that serious.

He said the Council of Ministers put pressure on him to stand down after he breached data protection laws and the Code of Conduct for Ministers.

Not long after becoming Housing Minister, Deputy Power said he came across an email on a printer in the States building and with workmen around, he decided to take it home because of the sensitive nature of what it contained.

The e-mail correspondence between two female States Members referred to the former Senator Stuart Syvret and his personal situation.

Deputy Power forwarded it to the Data Protection Commissioner - and also a third party - and in doing that he breached the Data Protection Code.

He said he accepted that he did breach the rules but claims the Council of Ministers put pressure on him to resign.

He said the worry it has caused him affected his health.

The Chief Minister, Terry Le Sueur, made a statement in the States Chamber earlier about Deputy Power resigning.

He said he acknowledged that he had received the Deputy's resignation as housing minister and he would bring forward his nomination for a replacement at the next States meeting.

Minister resigns after breaching data protection code

Housing Minister resigns

2011-02-01T19:15:00.000Z

The Housing Minister has resigned after seven months in the job after being discovered to have leaked private emails.

Deputy Sean Power was advised by the Chief Minister to resign or face a vote of no confidence.

Deputy Power admitted in a statement that he was found to have breached data protection laws after passing on emails that belonged to another Deputy.

In his statement he said: "At a meeting today, the Council of Ministers has expressed a view that I should resign as Housing Minister and I now do so".

He went on to explain that he had found printed-out emails in the States Building on 5th August 2010 between the Deputy of Grouville, Carolyn Labey, and Deputy Judy Martin.

These emails also included correspondence between the Deputy of Grouville and former Senator Stuart Syvret.

Deputy Power admitted in his statement that he scanned these emails and said it was in order to seek advice on what to do.

These emails were later found on internet sites.

He said: "I scanned the document and emailed it to myself. I put the email in my bag. My feelings in those minutes were at best, confused."

Deputy Power said he took the email back to his office and posted it to the Data Protection Commissioner.

He said he also scanned the emails and then emailed the document on to one person to ask them for their advice.

It was this move, he said, that caused him to - unintentionally, he claims - breach the Data Protection Code.

He said: "My mistake was this act of scanning and forwarding to a third party".

Deputy Power defended his actions and said of the emails: "The contents were, in my opinion, salacious and I did want the Data Protection Commissioner to see it".

Deputy Power said he will continue his duties as Deputy of St Brelade.

He was only recently appointed Housing Minister in June.

In a statement Deputy Labey said:

"Deputy Sean Power has made the right decision. His actions were inappropriate for a Minister and a States Member.

"As well as breaching the Data Protection 2005 Law, they also breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct and indeed the States Members Code of Conduct."

"I do not agree or concur with his recollection of events outlined in his Press Release.

"However neither do I wish to be drawn any further on this matter as I believe all families are entitled to their privacy."

Speaking live on Channel Report Deputy Power wasn't willing to apologise to Deputy Labey for his actions.

Housing Minister resigns

The quality of local journalism

2011-01-24T16:56:00.000Z

The local bloggers seem a bit upset about just how poor the local journalists are at investigating anything properly, so here's how it is for those who haven't fully realised :

'Follow The Money' is, as ever, key to understanding how it works.

Channel TV is a good place to start. This is a local franchise that exists purely to make money for the shareholders, like any other company. There is zero obligation to do anything useful or helpful for anyone other than those who stand to make a profit from it. If they could, they would happily just relay the programmes from ITV London in full, save for inserting local adverts - and rake in the cash. The only thing stopping that happy state of affairs is OFCOM regulation ensuring that a certain amount of News is produced.

So you own a local TV station money spinner and want to come up with a news programme? Much of it can be sport, which is dead easy to film and comment upon, nice and simple. The weather isn't going to be expensive to cover either, which just leaves the actual What's Happening Out There. Thankfully there is a vast pool of wannabe TV stars eager to appear on the screen as a stepping stone to fame and fortune in the UK and beyond, so it's easy enough to recruit these fresh faced pawns to go out and record local events, accidents, and hooray! - local politics is so easy! Simply stand in the Royal Square and point a camera at any local politician who wants to increase their profile to help their next election prospects!

There's no need to really question anything or probe into the real background to any story or issues, as they wouldn't want to ruffle any feathers. The main business of CTV is selling airtime. Adverts bring in the money. From successful businesses. Run by their fellow businessfolk. Who mix with them socially. A self perpetuating ruling class who stick together with no real loyalties but to their own bank balances, but who collectively act as The Establishment in effect, or The Oligarchy according to the bloggers - a term which is scoffed at in some quarters but if you fully appreciate how the island society hangs together, is entirely accurate whether you like it or not.

There is simply No Chance Whatsoever, and no motivation for, any attempt to cover political issues in any real depth or expose any wrongdoings by anyone in a position of power, on the whole. Unless someone somewhere has fallen out of favour, can be disposed of without comeback because they have no dirt on anyone else - then, in that case, they can really go to town on finishing them off. Then they can congratulate themselves on what great journalists they are. Maybe apply for an award.

The same applies to Channel 103fm radio. It's all about airtime, baby. The only reason they make any effort to be entertaining is to sell advertising space. It's Lowest Common Denominator stuff - no edgy music or variety; just inoffensive background muzak with some inane humour if they can find a mug DJ to supply some, keep the audience research listening figures high enough so that the sales team can go and sell airtime.

They also produce the bare minimum of local news to satisfy their licence conditions, with no wish to upset their customers - the business community. What, you thought the Audience were their customers?! Hell no, radio isn't a service for the listeners, the listeners are the PRODUCT - that enables the money to flow inwards and onwards to the shareholders.

The shareholders of a radio station are of course totally uninterested in radio. It's just a cash cow for them. When the licence for a local commercial station was first put out to tender, there were applications from groups who actually loved the whole concept of radio for what it was. Enthusiasts caught up in the glamour and excitement of music broadcasting to an appreciative audience. But, naturally, the local frequency was awarded to the applicants consisting of local oligarchs, conservative establishment politicians, and people who had already set up BBC Radio Jersey a decade earlier. Keep it in the family, you see?

Is the local press likely to be any different? No, of course not. Sell adverts, fill the rest of the pages with just enough easily found words and photos to keep the punters picking up each copy they print. And the mug punters love it! Over a hundred quid a year to buy a JEP every day they print one, killing a tree in the process. There's just enough reporting of local social events to engender some sense of 'bringing the community together' - or in other words establish a GroupThink effect to subtly brainwash the readers into all agreeing with the editors' outlook upon life. Perfect for those who don't want to think for themselves - they can just follow the herd as usual.

Journalism, what journalism? In a one horse race like Jersey's, there's no competitive need to beat the rivals to a scoop and gain more readers. In a large market the paper with the best stories wins for that day, keeping everyone on their toes. Journalists can actually do that journalist thing and go find real stories!

Competition works! (but the those in the game hate it, naturally - they'd much prefer an easy ride). In Jersey there is that easy ride, no competition, people simply subscribe to the JEP and pick it up each day regardless of what's in it! So the lazy reporters can simply cut and paste from the press releases handed to them on a plate. Bingo. Job done, no need to actually question anyone.

That's it for commercial journalism in Jersey. You either toe the line and keep the Ruling Class (the wealthy) happy if you want to remain in the island and employed, or out you go on the next boat or plane in the morning and try your luck in the Big Wide Real World instead.

Our only other source of paid journalism is from the BBC. Here the situation is different, because Following The Money leads us to a similar set of overpaid managers, but not to corporate shareholders - instead the whole setup is dedicated to the continuing to rake in money from the captive audience of unwitting licence feepayers, keeping the BBC Charter going, keeping Auntie Beeb alive, keeping the employees together. Don't rock this boat, chaps, it's a wonderful gravy train alright!

In Jersey the BBC trick is to produce cheap radio (presenters are ego maniacs who love the sound of their own voices and would do it for nothing if they were honest enough to admit it) by playing safe and dull music to the over 50s if they can get away with it, and for speech content there's a never ending supply of people eager to appear on the air. "Did you hear me on the radio the other day?" - "Oooh, you were very good!" etc.

There's no danger of the wheels falling off this juggernaut. The whole thing is so well set up that they have staff who actually fall for the whole 'public service' line, hook, sinker, etc., because there is some element of that. But mainly it's about keeping going, stay employed, keep it safe and don't rock the boat. If any decent programmes happen to rise to the top, then some National Pride can come into play too! Yay!! Aren't we lucky to have the BBC and their quality programmes?!

As usual, what is actually talked about amongst the normal everyday people of the island is completely different to what appears on any of the 'accredited media' offerings. At any social gathering, the state of the island and its management is always slated completely. Politicians are loathed. The media is derided. Yet, there's no evidence of this to an outsider who can only see or hear what is printed or broadcasted. The new age of media website comments allows some small amount of real feedback, but the outsider will only see a sanitised version, where dissenting views are made out to look like rantings of lone disaffected whingers. Any stories that could be really controversial don't allow public comments!

We were brought up to pity the poor unfortunates in the Commie countries where the media was overtly controlled propaganda, and be thankful how free we were. Is it really so different here after all? There may not be military government censor installed at each media outlet to adjust what the brainwashed plebs receive, but by the magic of social engineering the end result is pretty much similar.

If you want the truth, you'll have to get out there and find it for yourself, keep an ear to the ground where the truth can't be hidden. Thankfully the late 20th century brought us the internet to make that easier. The blogs and forums allow real facts to emerge, blinking, into the daylight at last. You'll still have to make an effort to look around and find it, but the truth is there if you can face it and honestly accept it. No wonder the paid media dismiss the bloggers as un-accredited and unworthy of attention. They're running scared

The quality of local journalism

April decision on Syvret case

2011-01-20T15:12:00.000Z

Former Health Minister Stuart Syvret

AN attempt to get former Health Minister Stuart Syvret’s civil claim against the Chief Minister and Attorney General thrown out will be heard in April.

The former Senator is suing the Chief Minister, the States Employment Board, the States of Jersey and the Attorney General, because of an alleged criminal conspiracy which he claims forced him to resign as Health Minister.

Solicitor General Howard Sharp is trying to get the case against the four defendants thrown out.

UK judge Jonathan Sumption QC was in the Royal Court yesterday to set dates for the next hearing. He has given Mr Syvret until 28 February to gather all his evidence for the hearing on 26 April, which is expected to last for three days.

Article posted on 20th January, 2011 - 2.59pm

April decision on Syvret case

Syvret sues for unfair dismissal

2011-01-19T18:57:00.000Z

Former Senator Stuart Syvret was in court today to prove he has a case to sue for unfair dismissal - but told Channel TV he fears he will not win if it goes to trial.

Mr Syvret is suing the Chief Minister, the Council of Ministers, The States Employment Board and the Attorney General for process that led to what he claims was 'unfair dismissal' from his role as Minister for Health and Social Services in 2007.

A directions hearing took place under Jonathan Sumption QC in relation to the Order of Justice filed by Mr Syvret at the end of last year.

In the States on Monday, Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur, who appears as a defendant in the proceedings, informed members that he had instructed the Solicitor General to apply for the case to be struck out on behalf of all the defendants.

Jonathan Sumption will be giving directions as to the further conduct of proceedings and the timing of a hearing of an application to strike out the case.

In his statement, the Chief Minister said: "The ability of the court to strike out proceedings is a mechanism to enable the early stopping of proceedings that have no real legal prospect of success. It is a decision generally taken on the documentation before the court and is only ordered in plain and obvious cases. I am advised by the Solicitor General that this is such a case."

At a hearing under Julian Clyde-Smith at the end of last year Mr Syvret was adamant that no local judge would meet the test of objectivity required, and asked that an external judge be brought in to hear the strike out application or the full trial should it go ahead.

It was then announced that Jonathan Sumption QC would be taking over the case in the New Year.

Jonathan Sumption, QC, has been involved in a string of high profile cases, most notably he represented the UK government in the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly, the arms control expert; and in a class action brought by shareholders of Railtrack, the collapsed national railways infrastructure company.

Syvret sues for unfair dismissal

Former Senator appears in court

2011-01-14T14:38:00.000Z

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Former Senator Stuart Syvret appeared in Jersey's Magistrate's Court today after failing to attend yesterday.

He was due to appear on an outstanding contempt of court charge. Mr Syvret said he was under the understanding that he was exempt from appearing, considering his pending appeal. A warrant for his arrest was issued as a result, which has been dropped following his appearance today.

The case has now been adjourned for two months pending his appeal. A directions hearing is to take place in March under Sir Christopher Pitchers.

The Appeal:

Stuart Syvret is appealing the outcome of his data protection trial last year. He was found guilty of two data protection charges relating to a posting on his blog in March 2009 that included parts of a confidential police report into suspicions that a nurse at the General Hospital might be murdering patients.

The court found that his naming of the nurse had been neither in the public interest or in the interest of the detection or prevention of crime.

During the trial he also incurred three contempt of court charges, for which he was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison. He was also fined a total of £4,200 and ordered to pay a £10,000 contribution towards the cost of the prosecution. He was released on bail the following day pending his appeal.

The Order of Justice:

Another directions hearing, relating to his Order of Justice is due to take place under Jonathan Sumption QC on Wednesday.

In his Order of Justice Mr Syvret is suing the Chief Minister, the Council of Ministers, The States Employment Board and the Attorney General for the processes that led to what he claims was an unfair dismissal from his role of Minister for Health and Social Services in 2007.

Former Senator appears in court

Stuart Syvret, Jersey’s first political prisoner since the Nazis left

2011-01-08T17:20:00.000Z

The Guardian is carring a long first extract from Treasure Islands today. One of the characters who appears in the article is Jerseyman Stuart Syvret, a popular but controversial Jersey politician. He’s read the Guardian article, and sent me this email this morning:

Well done re the piece in today’s Guardian. It’s so important to keep up the pressure on all of these rotten oligarchies that control these island jurisdictions around the world.

I’m increasingly confident that the several serious legal battles I’m fighting – criminal and civil – are going to have apocalyptic consequences for the Jersey oligarchy.

Since we last spoke – I’ve become Jersey’s first political prisoner since the Nazis left. Got jailed for ten weeks – for supposed “contempt of court” charges – that I was given less than 24 hours notice of – and denied an adjournment. I was locked up in the local jail overnight – but I was able to make my own bail application the next morning – and was driven to court in an armored van – handcuffed between two prison guards as though I were a terrorist. It was heard by an English judge – who was clearly decidedly unimpressed with the local crooks. So now I’m out on bail whilst I run my appeals – which I’m having to do myself, as the Jersey authorities have prevented me from having legal representation throughout the whole oppressive episode.

As I remark to the point of cliche – you just couldn’t make it up.

I wonder how many British people understand that the authorities in London are ultimately responsible for failing to ensure good governance and the proper rule of law in these islands?

Regards.

Stuart
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States face legal action by ‘victims of abuse’

2011-01-08T16:28:00.000Z

A UK lawyer is seeking damages for over 20 former residents of Haut de la Garenne

A UK law firm has said that it is seeking substantial damages from the States of Jersey on behalf of 21 alleged victims of abuse at Haut de le Garenne.

Alan Collins, director of Verisona Solicitors in the UK, said that he believed his clients were entitled to those damages as their lives had been ruined by their experiences.

In his view, victims of Haut de la Garenne could now point to another legal victory following the imprisonment this week of former house parents Morag and Anthony Jordan.

Mrs Jordan was sentenced to nine months in prison and Mr Jordan to six months for physically assaulting vulnerable children in their care in the 1970s and 1980s.

Article posted on 8th January, 2011 - 3.00pm

States face legal action by ‘victims of abuse’

Syvret says police raid ‘worse than Mugabe’

2011-01-07T15:24:00.000Z

Former Senator Stuart Syvret

FORMER Health Minister Stuart Syvret said in the Royal Court yesterday that a raid on his former home was heavier-handed than those conducted by the regime of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe.

Mr Syvret criticised the 2009 States police raid on the Grouville premises, which involved a search by ten police officers.

After the raid the former Health Minister was detained by the police for seven hours.His arrest led to his trial in November 2010 for motoring offences and for breaching data protection laws.

Mr Syvret was in court for a hearing relating to his appeal against a ten-week jail sentence for contempt of court. That sentence was imposed in November followed his trial and he is currently on bail until his appeal is heard.

• Read the full report in Friday’s JEP

Article posted on 7th January, 2011 - 2.56pm
Syvret says police raid ‘worse than Mugabe’

Does sex offenders law go far enough?

2011-01-06T17:20:00.000Z

Jersey finally has legislation which protects the islands children and vulnerable adults but some parents are concerned the sex offenders law doesn't go as far as Sarah's law in the UK.

The sex offenders law creates a register of people who've been convicted of sex crimes both in Jersey and elsewhere. The register allows police to keep a check on them and allows courts to make orders to prevent them from re-offending - such as stopping them living near a school. The law also requires offenders to tell police about travel plans, which can be stopped if necessary.

38 people are being put forward to go on the register- 20 are currently in prison, 15 are free in the community and considered to be high risk. 3 are also on the UK register but Jersey's new legislation doesn't go as far as Sarah's law in the UK. After Sarah Payne was killed by a convicted sex offender in Sussex, her family campaigned to give parents access to information about paedophiles in their area - and a pilot scheme is now running in parts of England.

What do you think?

Does Jersey's law go far enough to offer sufficient protection?

Would you like to see a more robust law or are you happy that the legislation is finally in place?

Are you concerned for your children?

Does sex offenders law go far enough?

Couple jailed for Jersey care home assaults

2011-01-06T17:13:00.000Z

Former Haut de la Garenne house parents Morag and Anthony Jordan used 'casual and routine violence' against children

Anthony and Morag Jordan have been jailed for a string of assaults against children on Jersey island Anthony and Morag Jordan have been jailed for a string of physical assaults against vulnerable children at the Haut de la Garenne care home on the island of Jersey during the 1970s and 1980s Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

A husband and wife have been jailed for physically assaulting children at the Haut de la Garenne residential home in Jersey.

Morag and Anthony Jordan, both 62, from Kirriemuir, Angus, received jail terms of nine months and six months respectively at the royal court of Jersey. They had been found guilty in November last year of eight separate counts relating to abuse at the home.

Morag Jordan was acquitted of a further 28 counts and her husband of four.

Morgan Jordan, who worked at the children's home between 1970 and 1984, was convicted of assaults including pushing a child's face into urine-soaked sheets after she wet the bed and hitting other children with her hand and a wooden shoe. Her husband was found guilty of hitting children with a metal spoon, a knife and his hand.

Prosecutors said the couple were "intimidating bullies" who used "casual and routine violence" while working as house parents.

Last year another former carer at the home, Gordon Wateridge, then 78, was convicted of eight charges of indecent assault and one of assault against teenagers living there during the 1970s.

Wateridge, also a house parent, would grope girls' breasts, hug teenagers inappropriately and kiss them on the neck, the court was told. He indecently assaulted three teenage girls and assaulted one teenage boy.

Also last year a former teenage resident of the home, Michael Aubin, was convicted of sexually abusing other boys there.

The £4.5m police investigation into alleged crimes at Haut de la Garenne has faced criticism. In February 2008 the Jersey force said it had found the "potential remains of a child" buried under the Victorian building, prompting a long and expensive excavation. But later that year a new officer taking charge of the case said there had never been compelling evidence to justify the dig.

Despite lurid reports suggesting torture and murder at the home no evidence emerged to support this. Of 170 bone fragments removed from site only three were found to be possibly human – two of those dating back as far as 1470, and the other two between 1650 and 1950.

Couple jailed for Jersey care home assaults

Haut de la Garenne couple jailed

2011-01-06T17:10:00.000Z

Anthony and Morag Jordan arriving at the Royal Court this morning. Picture: Tony Pike (01124157)

A COUPLE who physically assaulted children in their care at the Haut de la Garenne children’s home in the 1970s and 80s were jailed by the Royal Court this morning.

Morag Jordan was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment and Anthony Jordan to six months.

The couple, both aged 62, and who worked as house parents at the home at different periods between 1970 and 1984, were found guilty in November of physically assaulting a number of children.

Article posted on 6th January, 2011 - 2.59pm

Haut de la Garenne couple jailed

Police ‘bullying’ is a thing of the past, says minister

2010-12-31T19:01:00.000Z

By Diane Simon

Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand

SIGNIFICANT progress has been made during the past two years in changing the culture of bullying and arrogance which affected the States police, says Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand.

And the positive changes have come under the leadership of former acting police chief David Warcup and his deputy, Barry Taylor, said the Senator.

Commenting at the end of the historical child abuse inquiry, Senator Le Marquand said that there had been cultural issues in the force which were exacerbated under the leadership of police chief Graham Power and his deputy, Lenny Harper.

‘I noticed a culture of bullying in certain areas and a culture of arrogance,’ said Senator Le Marquand. ‘The message coming from senior management tended to be “We are the expert professionals and we know better than you”, and that attitude was being passed down the force.’

Article posted on 31st December, 2010 - 2.57pm

Police ‘bullying’ is a thing of the past, says minister

You must be aware of the situation in
Jersey before you rush to judgement "the Jersey way hold sway"

OBE for former Chief Minister

2010-12-31T18:56:00.000Z

By Ben Quérée

Former Chief Minister Frank Walker, OBE, and his wife, Fiona

FORMER Chief Minister Frank Walker has been made an OBE for ‘public service’ in the New Year’s Honours List.

Mr Walker, who stepped down from the States after 18 years in 2008, says that he is delighted at the news, and with the citation marking his years of work as a Deputy, Senator and as Chief Minister.

He said: ‘I am absolutely thrilled, and of course, greatly honoured.
‘I have always thought that the greatest possible honour for me was to be elected Jersey’s first Chief Minister, but to be recognised in this way is also a tremendous honour.’

Article posted on 31st December, 2010 - 3.00pm
OBE for former Chief Minister

Former States policeman to spend Christmas in jail

2010-12-27T15:01:00.000Z

By Dolores Cowburn

Mr Gallichan appeared in the Magistrate's Court yesterday

A FORMER States police officer will spend Christmas in jail after being charged with 19 offences including making indecent photographs of a child.

Roy Charles Gallichan’s bail application was refused by Relief Magistrate Peter Harris yesterday in the Magistrate’s Court.

As well as the one count of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph between 9 December 2009 and 4 May this year at a property in the Island, the 52-year-old faces 14 counts of making indecent photographs comprised in a film showing a child between 1 January and 5 May this year.

Former States policeman to spend Christmas in jail

Former honorary policeman ‘was sexual predator’

2010-12-23T15:33:00.000Z

By Lucy Mason

The Royal Court building

A FORMER honorary police officer who groped two women in separate attacks just minutes apart has been jailed for 18 months by the Royal Court.

Virgilio Ferdinando Pita Mendes (35) was described in court as a ‘sexual predator’ who had preyed on two drunk, vulnerable women during the ‘unpleasant’ assaults in August.

One woman, the court heard, was left ‘petrified’ by an assault which could have been far more serious had a passer-by not intervened.

Former honorary policeman ‘was sexual predator

States caught up in a culture of blame, says Chief Minister

2010-12-17T02:02:00.000Z

States caught up in a culture of blame, says Chief Minister

Senator Le Sueur: ‘More people should take informed and educated decisions’ Picture: DAVID FERGUSON (01114543)

Senator Le Sueur: ‘More people should take informed and educated decisions’ Picture: DAVID FERGUSON (01114543)

CHIEF Minister Terry Le Sueur has attacked civil servants and fellow States Members during a hard-hitting talk to business leaders.

The Senator accused middle-ranking public-sector workers of failing to make decisions and criticised some States Members for being too concerned with finding someone to blame when things go wrong.

At an Institute of Directors lunch yesterday he said: ‘‘Sadly, at the present time we have a culture within the States in which nobody wants to make a decision. Doing nothing, or passing the responsibility to a higher authority, means that one cannot get blamed.’

Read more: http://www.thisisjersey.com/2010/12/15/states-caught-up-in-a-culture-of-blame-says-chief-minister/#ixzz18KYDvs00

‘Criminal conspiracy forced me out’

2010-12-17T01:53:00.000Z

By Dolores Cowburn

Former Senator Stuart Syvret

A CRIMINAL conspiracy by States officials trying to cover up child abuse forced former Health Minister Stuart Syvret out of his job, he claimed in the Royal Court yesterday.

The former Senator, who describes himself as an unemployed investigative journalist, claims that he was removed from his position as Health Minister in 2007 because of the conspiracy.

Mr Syvret has launched a civil claim against the Chief Minister, the States Employment Board, the States of Jersey and the Attorney General, saying that they are responsible for damages to him because of their actions in the conspiracy, which forced him to resign.

Solicitor General Howard Sharp, representing the four defendants, is trying to get the case thrown out.

‘Criminal conspiracy forced me out’

Case closed

2010-12-14T15:43:00.000Z

By Diane Simon

A major part of the investigation focused on allegations at the former children’s home Haut de la Garenne between 1960 and 1986

JERSEY’S historical abuse inquiry is officially over, acting police chief David Warcup announced today.

The investigation – the longest and most expensive in the Island’s history – has been officially closed after States police ruled that all lines of inquiry have been exhausted. The final cost will be in excess of £10m.

During the inquiry – named Operation Rectangle – officers investigated 533 offences, took 1,776 statements, collected 9,874 documents and seized 4,620 exhibits. And a total of 192 victims were identified during police inquiries.

Case closed

"Not while there is breath in bodies of all survivors"

Apology for abuse victims

2010-12-11T17:02:00.000Z

Jersey's Chief Minister has apologised to all victims of child abuse in the island.

Senator Terry Le Sueur gave a statement saying he was sorry for the way the children were treated during their time at former children's home Haut de la Garenne and in States care.

He said: "On behalf of the island's government I acknowledge that the care system that operated historically in Jersey, failed some children in states residential care in a serious way. Such abuse has now been confirmed by the criminal cases that have been before Jersey's courts. So to all those who suffered abuse, whether confirmed by criminal conviction or not, the island's government offers its unreserved apology."

The abuse was brought to light in 2008 when police started Operation Rectangle looking at systematic abuse of children, mainly in the 70s and 80s.

Seven people have been found guilty of abuse during the operation although not all at Haut de la Garenne.

The first person charged in January 2008 was Gordon Claude Wateridge, he was a house parent at Haut de la Garenne. In August 2009 he was found guilty of three historic indecent assaults on female children under 16 committed between 1969 and 1979.

Claude James Donnelly was charged in April 2008 and faced two separate Royal Court trials. He was convicted in June 2009 for one count of rape, one count of indecent assault and one count of procuring an act of gross indecency.

Michael Aubin was charged in May 2008, he was a resident at Haut de la Garenne He pleaded guilty in the Royal Court in May 2009 of abusing other children. The charges - all of which are between 1977 and 1980, relating to three separate children, were: one count of sodomy against a male child and two counts of indecent assault against two other male children.

In July 2009 Ronald George Thorne was charged with gross indecency with a boy between 1983 and 1984, on four separate occasions.

His son Julian Thorne was found not guilty of abusing the same boy after a Royal Court trial in July this year.

Leonard Miles Vandenborn was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting 2 girls aged 8 and 14 over a 12 year period in the 1970s and 1980s. He was found guilty of rape, and 12 counts of indecent assault.

The final case before the Royal Court was of Morag and Tony Jordan, who were house parents at Haut de la Garenne. They were found guilty of physically assaulting children in their care.

Apology for abuse victims

Woman jailed for sex abuse of young boys

2010-12-07T15:18:00.000Z

By Lucy Mason

The Royal Court building

A FORMER childcare worker who plied young boys with alcohol and cigarettes before sexually assaulting them during parties at her home has been jailed for two years.

Yesterday, the Royal Court heard how 37-year-old Doris Ropers, who is also known as Dolly, ‘sexualised’ children as young as 12 during the parties by playing pornographic films, dishing out lollipops in the shape of genitalia, playing risqué party games and baring her breasts.

On one occasion the former childcare worker, who was the only adult present at the parties, performed oral sex on a 13-year-old boy in front of other teenagers during a game of spin the bottle.

Woman jailed for sex abuse of young boys

‘End the Bailiff’s dual role’

2010-12-07T15:15:00.000Z

By Andy Sibcy

Lord Carswel

THE States should remove the Bailiff from his position as President of the House to save Jersey the embarrassment of being forced to make the change by the European Court, says one of the UK’s most eminent judges.

Speaking yesterday following the publication of the review into the roles of the Crown Officers which he was asked to lead and which recommended that the Bailiff should cease to be President of the States, Lord Carswell warned that inaction could damage Jersey’s reputation.

The former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland explained that the review panel, which he chaired, had sought the advice of an eminent London barrister on the legality of the dual role of the Bailiff as President of the States and head of the judiciary.

The lawyer, Rabinder Singh QC, said that while he thought Jersey might be able to successfully defend a challenge to the Bailiff’s role in the States in Europe now, the position was likely to be less tenable in ten years.

‘End the Bailiff’s dual role’

Victims of child abuse given a formal apology

2010-12-07T15:11:00.000Z

Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur

VICTIMS of child abuse received a formal apology from the States yesterday when Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur admitted that they had been failed by the system.

Reading a statement at the start of the session, Senator Le Sueur said that with the historical child abuse inquiry now concluded, it was time to extend sympathy to the Islanders who were affected.

He said: ‘On behalf of the Island’s government, I acknowledge that the care system that operated historically in the Island failed some children in the States’ residential care in a serious way. Such abuse has been confirmed by the criminal cases that have been before Jersey’s courts.’

Victims of child abuse given a formal apology

Review says Bailiff should quit States

2010-12-06T17:37:00.000Z

By Andy Sibcy

The report suggests that the Bailiff should no longer preside over the States

THE Bailiff should no longer preside over the States, an independent
review of the roles of Crown Officers has concluded.

In a report published today, the review panel chaired by Lord Carswell, the former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, said that States Members should elect their own president either from within or without the Chamber.

If adopted, the removal of the Bailiff from his position as the president of the States – a role similar to that of the Speaker in the House of Commons –would end centuries of tradition. The Bailiff has chaired States meetings since the early 1600s.

Review says Bailiff should quit States

Guilty verdicts mark end of abuse inquiry

2010-11-27T20:29:00.000Z

By Diane Simon
Picture: DAVID FERGUSON

Morag and Anthony Jordan leave the Royal Court yesterday afternoon.
AFTER almost three years of drama and controversy, Jersey’s historical child abuse inquiry came near to an end yesterday with the conviction of two former States employees on assault charges.

In the final case in what became the biggest police investigation in living memory, Morag and Anthony Jordan, former houseparentsat the Haut de la Garenne children’s home, were convicted in the Royal Court of assaulting children in their care in the 1970s and 1980s. However, they were both acquitted of the majority of the charges against them.

After the verdict, Acting Chief Inspector Alison Fossey said that at this time no one else was charged in connection with the inquiry. She said: ‘We are currently finalising all outstanding matters and anticipate that the inquiry will draw to a close in the near future.’

Guilty verdicts mark end of abuse inquiry

Syvret sues Chief Minister

2010-11-26T18:54:00.000Z

Former Senator Stuart Syvret is suing Jersey States, the Chief Minister, the employment board and the Attorney General.

He wants compensation for what he claims were a range of unlawful actions relating to his dismissal from the post of Health Minister in 2007.

During a brief appearance in the Royal Court he was told none of the defendants had replied to the complaints.

Syvret sues Chief Minister

Syvret told to remove blog names

2010-11-26T18:28:00.000Z

By Carly Lockhart
Article posted on 26th November, 2010 - 2.57pm

FORMER Senator Stuart Syvret is being further investigated for publishing material on his blog.

The ex-politician was yesterday ordered by the Royal Court to take material off his internet blog that identified a nurse he had described as a Harold Shipman-style mass murderer. Mr Syvret said that he would remove as much as he could and welcomed Crown Advocate Stephen Baker to highlight any he missed out.

It was also revealed during the proceedings that Mr Syvret faced further allegations of illegally publishing personal information. He described the charges as ‘nonsense’, claiming that the authorities were trying to put a stop to ‘investigative journalism’.

Earlier this month Mr Syvret was jailed for ten weeks, fined £4,200 and ordered to pay legal costs of £10,000 after his lengthy court case came to an end. He was given bail pending an appeal.

Syvret told to remove blog names

Culture of Fear.

2010-11-26T17:11:00.000Z

Courtesy of voice for children

Deputy Paul Le Claire gives Citizen’s Media an in-depth interview on how, is in his opinion, our Government and Civil Service operates. Due to uploading restrictions we have edited this interview in order to comply with these restrictions and at the same time represent the views of the Deputy.

The Deputy talks about such subjects as the removal of former Senator and Health Minister Stuart Syvret. The suspension of the former Chief Police Officer Graham Power QPM. The Deputy’s own speech in the States Chamber (which can be listened to HERE) concerning the conversation he allegedly overheard of the former Chief Minister and Former Home Affairs Minister about the retired DCO Lenny Harper.

There is a culture of Fear that runs through this island that is not only felt by us mere mortals, it is also felt by the elected members of our Parliament. Deputy Le Claire fully expects reprisals for speaking out so should be applauded for doing so.

Team Voice would like to thank Deputy Le Claire, not only for showing the courage of speaking out, but for supporting Citizen’s media by giving us a full and frank interview and an insight to the workings of our government machinery…………………………The Culture of Fear.

Culture of Fear.
Deputy Paul Le Claire gives Citizen’s Media an in-depth interview on how, is in his opinion, our Government and Civil Service operates. Due to uploading restrictions we have edited this interview in order to comply with these restrictions and at the same time represent the views of the Deputy.

The Deputy talks about such subjects as the removal of former Senator and Health Minister Stuart Syvret. The suspension of the former Chief Police Officer Graham Power QPM. The Deputy’s own speech in the States Chamber (which can be listened to HERE) concerning the conversation he allegedly overheard of the former Chief Minister and Former Home Affairs Minister about the retired DCO Lenny Harper.

There is a culture of Fear that runs through this island that is not only felt by us mere mortals, it is also felt by the elected members of our Parliament. Deputy Le Claire fully expects reprisals for speaking out so should be applauded for doing so.

Team Voice would like to thank Deputy Le Claire, not only for showing the courage of speaking out, but for supporting Citizen’s media by giving us a full and frank interview and an insight to the workings of our government machinery.

The Culture of Fear

Jersey abuse trial ends problem-hit criminal inquiry

2010-11-26T16:43:00.000Z

26 November 2010 16:09 GMT

The multimillion-pound investigation at the children's home led to several convictions but also highlighted mistakes by the police.

Jersey abuse trial ends problem-hit criminal inquiry

Child abuse: Jersey probe highlighted many problems

The conclusion of criminal proceedings against Morag and Tony Jordan brings to a close a shameful episode in Jersey history.

As verdicts relating to common assault at Haut de la Garenne were read, former residents of the children's care home wept at the back of the court.

It marks the final act of a multimillion-pound investigation that led to a number of convictions but will forever be remembered for its failings.

The probe uncovered not only historic abuse in the Jersey care system, but also serious mistakes in the handling of the inquiry. Many feel that, as a result, questions remain unanswered.

Haut de la Garenne was dubbed the "house of horrors" in 2008 after police claimed they had found fragments of a child's skull at the former children's home.

It prompted one of the largest child abuse investigations ever conducted in the British Isles, costing around £4.5m.

More than 100 former residents came forward to report abuse at the care home.

But it resulted in only a handful of convictions, with the cases against at least three people named by alleged victims dropped due to lack of evidence.

The episode also left the reputation of the island's police seriously tarnished.

Haut de le Garenne, a former Victorian school and orphanage, served for many years as a children's home, housing often vulnerable youngsters from broken homes.

The allegations of abuse date from after 1945 until it was closed down in 1986. It later became a youth hostel.

An investigation into alleged abuse began in 2006.

In February 2008, Jersey Police announced to the media that it had launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a piece of skull.

It prompted a full-scale investigation including excavation work at the site.

As the national media descended on the island, further details were revealed by the police.

These included secret underground "punishment rooms", shackles and the discovery of teeth.

Deputy Police Chief Lenny Harper, leading the investigation, suggested that as many as five children could have been murdered at Haut de la Garenne.

But the murder investigation disintegrated as a revamped investigation headed by a new man following Mr Harper's retirement disputed the evidence.

The skull fragment was found likely to be a small piece of coconut. Shackles were merely rusted pieces of metal and the milk teeth found could have been shed naturally, the new probe found.

It also emerged that so-called punishment rooms, in which torture was alleged to have been carried out, were too small for an adult to stand up straight.

The original investigation was described as a "shambles" and the murder claims were discredited.

"There is no suggestion there has been murder or any bodies destroyed," Deputy Chief Officer David Warcup declared after he was brought in to review the evidence.

It prompted claims of a cover-up on the island. Jersey senator Stuart Syvret and Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming went to the High Court in London in an bid to get then-justice secretary Jack Straw to intervene.

But the attempt to force a judicial review failed, with Lord Justice Richards dismissing the application on the grounds that the complaint should be pursued through Jersey's own judicial system.

Meanwhile prosecutors sought to bring to justice a number of people alleged to have carried out abuse at the children's home.

Last year, former carer Gordon Wateridge was jailed for two years for a string of sex attacks during the 1970s.

The unrelated case of the Jordans, convicted of physical assaults against former residents while working as houseparents, was the last prosecutors have on their books relating to the Haut de la Garenne care home.

Jersey abuse trial ends problem-hit criminal inquiry

Angus couple guilty of Jersey child abuse

2010-11-26T14:48:00.000Z

26 November 2010 13:21 GMT

A couple who were working at Haut De La Garenne care home have been found guilty of eight counts of abuse each.

Angus couple guilty of Jersey child abuse

Guilty: married couple Anthony and Morag Jordon Pic: © STV

An Angus couple accused of child abuse offences at a Jersey care home have been found guilty.

Anthony Jordan, 62, and his wife Morag were found guilty of eight counts of abusing children each. Judge Sir Christopher Pitchers delivered the verdict on Friday.

Mr Jordon of Brechin Road, Kirriemuir, was found guilty of abusing children at the Haut de la Garenne children’s home on the island between 1981 and 1984.

His wife Morag, originally from Dundee, was employed at the house between 1970 and 1984. She was also found guilty of eight counts of common assault during her work there, including shoving soap into their mouths and pushed the face of one into a puddle of urine.

The charges relate to offences committed against 11 children aged between one and 17.

The jury of six men and six women heard from a succession of witnesses before retiring to reach their verdict. The Royal Court in Jersey heard from former residents, now all in their 40s, giving evidence that Jordan and his wife Morag abused them.

The couple, who were arrested in February 2010, worked at the centre until 1984. Sentencing was deferred until January 6.
Angus couple guilty of Jersey child abuse

Guilty of eight charges of assault

2010-11-26T14:45:00.000Z

By Carly Lockhart

Anthony and Morag Jordan arriving at the Royal Court. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

A COUPLE have each been found guilty of eight charges of assault on children in their care when they worked as house parents at Haut de la Garenne 30 years ago.

Morag Jordan was found not guilty of 28 charges of assault and her husband Anthony Jordan, not guilty of four charges.

The couple, both aged 62 and who live in Scotland, had denied all the charges against them. Seven charges were withdrawn because of lack of evidence.

The Assize jury of six men and six women announced their verdicts in the Royal Court just after 1 pm today, after deliberating for more than eight hours and after a trial lasting seven days.

Guilty of eight charges of assault

‘Ozouf must go’ call

2010-11-25T17:14:00.000Z

By Lucy Mason
Deputy Geoff Southern addresses the crowd at Fort Regent last night THERE were calls for the Treasury Minister to be sacked last night amid claims that he lied to Islanders about raising the rate of GST.

Senator Philip Ozouf came under heavy fire from all sides at last night’s protest rally at Fort Regent, organised by the union Unite, and a petition is now circulating to get him removed from office.

The minister, who recently went back on a promise to the States not to bring a proposal to increase GST, was branded ‘Pinocchio’ and posters bearing his face on the body of the cartoon character, complete with long nose, were placed around the hall.

Around 180 people turned out for the rally – far fewer than were expected and well short of the 1,000 who attended the last protest against GST. However, the crowd remained defiant and many expressed their anger and frustration at the proposed cuts and the current state of Jersey’s political system.

‘Ozouf must go’ call

Jersey's sex offenders law needs an extra £184,000

2010-11-24T20:06:00.000Z

Senator Le Marquand Jersey's home affairs minister said they needed an extra £184,000 for the sex offenders register

Officials behind Jersey's new sex offenders register say there is not enough money to fully fund it.

The register will mean convicted sex offenders will have to keep police informed of where they are.

Some money was agreed in the business plans for 2009 and 2010 to help fund the staff needed to administer the law but the budget is still £184,000 short.

The home affairs minister said more people are likely to be on the register than first expected.

The Probation Service is currently dealing with seven sexual abusers, which the minister says is taking up a lot of staff time.

If the department does not get more funding for the sex offenders register it could mean other offenders do not get the supervision they should have, according to the minister.

The department applied to cover the shortfall as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review, but it was not considered essential by the council of ministers.

Home affairs minister Senator Ian Le Marquand has warned that if the law is going to be enacted now, more funding will need to be agreed next year to maintain it.

Senator Le Marquand said they were expecting legal costs of £22,000 for each name added to the list.

He said the extra £184,000 was needed for several reasons.

He said: "There are two areas in which more money is needed, one is staff but the really big issue in terms of extra money is anticipated legal costs.

"We estimate that for every case on average there will be costs of about £22,000."

Jersey's sex offenders law needs an extra £184,000

Home to something evil

2010-11-24T03:05:00.000Z

Timely Reminders

Timely reminders II

How Jersey's tourism bosses must have lamented the marketing slogan they chose last year: "Small enough to really get to know, yet still big enough to surprise."

It was supposed to mark a campaign to rejuvenate the holiday business.

Instead, it served to highlight a child abuse scandal that erupted on the island.

The story had first trickled out in November 2007, gaining almost no press attention. Following a covert police inquiry into allegations of mistreatment in the island's care homes, police and the NSPCC in London had appealed to former residents to come forward. By January 2008, hundreds were said to have made contact, reporting physical and sexual abuse, mostly at Haut de la Garenne, a grim, Victorian industrial school that had, until the mid-80s, served as Jersey's main children's home. Soon, Jersey was in the grip of one of the largest police child abuse inquiries seen anywhere in Britain.

How would the tiny island and its 88,000 residents hold up? They pride themselves on their traditionalism (the pound note survives here) and an independent spirit that locals refer to as the Jersey Way. The mantra, reflecting a closed community that knows how to look after itself, is credited with transforming the place from a bourgeois bucket-and-spade resort in the 50s into the oyster-shucking tax haven it is today. So potent is the lure of the island's low-tax, non-intrusive regime that the level of wealth required of prospective settlers has risen to stratospheric levels: only those who can pay a residency fee of about £1m and show assets in excess of £20m need apply. The lucky few include racing driver Nigel Mansell, golfer Ian Woosnam, broadcaster Alan Whicker and writer Jack Higgins, as well as hundreds of reclusive tycoons, who have made the island the third richest compact community in the world, after Bermuda and Luxembourg.

And then February 2008 arrived like a fist in the face. All anyone on the outside looking in could talk about was paedophiles. Then Jersey police announced they were investigating murder as well as complaints of physical and sexual abuse: witnesses said they recalled seeing the corpses of children at Haut de la Garenne; others claimed to have found bones buried beneath the foundations.

What made it worse for those on the inside was that the crisis had been started by an outsider, a Northern Irish copper called Lenny Harper, second-in-command of the island's police force, and the antithesis of the Jersey Way. Instead of managing bad news, Harper had teams of forensics specialists excavating for it. Every day, sitting on a granite wall outside the home, Harper regaled the world's press with stories that "something evil" had happened there - Haut de la Garenne had been a virtual charnel house. The first find was a sliver of human skull on 23 February. As the investigation progressed, the supposed tally rose to "six or more" bodies buried beneath the home.

By August last year, Harper had retired, to be replaced by a new policeman from the British mainland. More experienced than Harper, detective superintendent Mick Gradwell was a veteran whose cases included the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle-pickers at Morecambe Bay in 2004.

At his first press conference, on 12 November, Gladwell stunned reporters with his findings: "There were no bodies, no dead children, no credible allegations of murder and no suspects for murder." Only three bone fragments could be definitely said to be human, he said - and they dated from the 14th to 17th centuries. Newspapers ran gleeful headlines: "Lenny Harper lost the plot." By the time we arrived on Jersey in February 2009, a year after the digging had begun, it was as if Harper and his inquiry had never existed.

The Jersey establishment was triumphant. One of the island's most senior social workers expressed a view we were to hear many times: "I'm not saying all the former children's home residents are liars but some have misremembered," he said. "Some have embellished and a small number have been telling porkies to get money." Nothing was wrong with the island. Jersey was off the hook. It was all a cock-up.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Among the thousands of statements that still line the shelves of Harper's old incident room, and in the testimony of former residents and workers at Haut de la Garenne and other institutions across Jersey, many of whom we tracked down and interviewed, harrowing stories are buried.

Over a period of three decades, residents of the care homes made repeated complaints that they were being sexually and physically abused. A series of damning reports was produced, following confidential inquiries into these institutions, most of which went unheeded. Few prosecutions ensued.

It is true to say there were no corpses. However, the testimony provides compelling evidence of a catastrophic failure within Jersey's children's services that ran a regime so punitive, they preferred to lock up problem children en masse than deal with them in their own homes: four times more children, proportionately, are imprisoned in Jersey than in its nearest neighbour, France. And what happened to them once in care was something that Harper's team, had they not been distracted by murder plots, came close to exposing.

Harper clashed with the Jersey Way as soon as he was appointed head of police operations in 2002. A career officer, he had been office-bound for a few years and on Jersey he wanted to get back to real policing. Summing him up, one former Jersey colleague told us that Harper "was a bit of a pit bull" who found himself on a small island where discretion and subtlety were valued above all else. Early attempts at making his mark, including a clear-out of illegally held weapons and a curtailment of the often cosy relationship between local police and businessmen, made him instant enemies. Harper, who now lives in Ayrshire, told us: "I started getting death threats. But I'd been on the streets of Northern Ireland."

His most significant problem was recognising the limits of his power. Jerseymen trace their ancestry back to the medieval Dukedom of Normandy and a feudal culture survives. The island is divided into 12 parishes, each governed by a connétable or head constable, who between them raise a private volunteer police force, the Honorary Constabulary. It might sound like a toytown operation, but these so-called "hobby bobbies" form a network of neighbours, friends and relatives licensed to arrest and charge fellow islanders through powers vested in them by the 500-year-old States Assembly.

The assembly - made up of the connétables, their deputies and 12 elected senators, many of them multimillionaires - is supervised by the bailiff, Jersey's highest officer, who is appointed by the Queen, while the task of upholding the law and keeping the hobby bobbies in check falls to the attorney general. These two key posts are currently held by brothers, Sir Philip and William Bailhache, members of one of the oldest and most powerful families on Jersey. At the bottom of the heap are the 240 officers of the States of Jersey Police, imposed on the island in the 50s but even today requiring attorney general Bailhache's approval to charge anyone with anything more serious than a traffic citation.

It was a system that frustrated newcomer Lenny Harper, until he found an ally inside the attorney general's office. This was a mainlander who similarly mistrusted the Jersey Way and told Harper of a "web of child abusers" who he claimed all knew each other. He also alleged the attorney general's office appeared reluctant to prosecute. When we put this to William Bailhache, he replied that Harper had repeatedly suggested his office was "soft" on child abuse - this is untrue, he says, and so is the suggestion that he was reluctant to prosecute. "I have signed many indictments for people charged with child abuse offences, some of them historic. Several cases have resulted in substantial sentences of imprisonment."

Harper recalls: "I was cautious at first. The allegations reached into many worthy organisations, including the Sea Cadets and the St John Ambulance, and there were whispers about establishment men. One name that kept cropping up was Paul Every, a commanding officer in the island's Sea Cadets." Every had also served as a senior civil servant.

Harper dug around, discovering that Every's name had surfaced in connection with child porn offences during Operation Ore in 1999. In late 2004, Harper applied for a warrant to search the Sea Cadets' HQ. He was refused. Harper then contacted the Jersey Sea Cadets directly: "They completely ignored me and refused to sack Every." When the States Assembly, too, declined to act, and Harper received a message from the attorney general's office that it was reluctant to prosecute, Harper began to suspect a cover-up. He says, "What made things more fraught was that some of my own officers were in the Sea Cadets." (On this case, the attorney general comments: "It is absolutely not the case that I decided not to prosecute Every. It is true that one of my officials wrongly gave Mr Harper that impression.")

Harper pressed on, and in January 2005 had Every arrested and his home computer seized. On it, police recovered a cache of child porn and evidence that Every had scoured the internet for "naked sea cadets". Still unable to persuade the local Sea Cadets to act, Harper wrote in August 2005 to the youth organisation's national HQ in London, and finally Every was removed from his position. The following month, Harper arrested Roger James Picton, another Sea Cadet volunteer; Picton was found guilty of indecent assault on a schoolgirl in February 2006 and Every was convicted of child porn offences that December.

In early 2007, convinced there was a broad network of abusers operating on the island and mindful of Jersey's steadfast refusal to introduce a sex offenders' register, Harper began reviewing statements made by Sea Cadets who had alleged abuse. He discovered that many had been in care, especially in Haut de la Garenne. Calling up their care files, Harper found that a member of Jersey police's family protection team, Brian Carter, had been there before him. Carter was no longer in the force, but finding him on the island was easy. It turned out that in 2004 Carter had noticed an unusually high incidence of suicide among men who had passed through Haut de la Garenne. Reviewing the records of 950 former residents, he discovered that a significant number had complained of sexual and physical abuse, describing similar acts and perpetrators, going back to the 50s. Shockingly, even though supervisors at the homes had dutifully noted the complaints, none had been properly investigated.

Carter had sought out victims and taken statements detailing how they were allegedly beaten and raped by older children and staff, and also by Sea Cadet officers, St John Ambulance volunteers and at least one senator in the States Assembly. In April 2006, Carter handed the dossier to Jersey CID. Nothing happened.

Suspecting that allegations of crimes against hundreds of children were being brushed under the carpet, Carter quit the force in late 2006. Now, Harper alerted Graham Power, head of Jersey's police, to the dossier. Appalled, Power contacted the Association of Chief Police Officers which launched an independent inquiry, currently being handled by South Yorkshire. In September 2007, Power gave Harper the go-ahead to launch a full-scale child abuse investigation, with Carter re-employed as a civilian investigator. Together they set up an incident room at Jersey police headquarters in Rouge Bouillon, St Helier. Detective inspector Alison Fossey, another outsider, originally from Strathclyde, was called in to help sift through the first of 4,000 children's files.

Abuse claims were rife. Haut de la Garenne was at the centre; other child facilities on the island were also implicated, including a secure unit called Les Chenes and a "group home", Blanche Pierre. Harper ordered his men to find and interview as many victims as they could - something that proved difficult because several former care home residents had already spoken to Carter and were disillusioned when nothing came of it.

Fearful that his inquiry would collapse, it was then that Harper went public, making an appeal for witnesses to come forward, with the backing of the NSPCC. "I was summoned to the chief minister's office and given a rollicking," Harper claims. "CM Frank Walker told me, 'Stop calling these people victims. It's not proven yet. You can't say that. Do you realise what you are doing here can bring the government down?' " We tried to contact Walker, but he declined to respond.

A firestorm now swirled across the island. Harper recalls: "The NSPCC opened a helpline and the phones went haywire." Former Haut residents talked of being slammed into walls, punched and slapped. One victim from Les Chenes claimed to have been knocked out by a staff member and told police, "The supervisor put a foot on my chest and stood on me, screaming, 'This is what we do to scum like you!' " Former care home children also detailed sadistic sexual abuse, with residents raping their dorm mates and supervisors doing the same.

Dozens of potential protagonists were thrown up by the new inquiry, the same names having also been identified by victims in the Carter report. One of them, a former Jersey senator, Wilfred Krichefski, who died in 1974, was known as the "Fat Man" among Haut residents who accused him of multiple rapes. Other Haut victims claimed to have been "lent out" to men who took them sailing into international waters before forcing them to have sex - crimes thus committed outside Jersey's jurisdiction. Colin Tilbrook, a former headmaster at Haut de la Garenne in the 60s, was repeatedly named as having roamed the corridors at night with a pillow tucked under his arm with which to stifle the screams of the children he raped. Jersey social services had never investigated Tilbrook, who went on to secure a job in the early 70s on the British mainland. When news of the Jersey investigation became public, Tilbrook's foster daughter, by then in her 30s, came forward to reveal that he had repeatedly raped her when she was a child.

Like Krichefski, Tilbrook was dead, as were others accused, including Jim Thomson, the superintendent of Haut de la Garenne in 1979, who was repeatedly accused of abuse. It was the living that presented Harper's team with the knottiest problems. The list of those who had worked at the homes included the serving education director, Tom McKeon, and his deputy, Mario Lundy. Both were interviewed by police earlier this year; both vigorously deny any wrongdoing.

The inquiry was delivered a blow when, in January 2008, Harper's deputy, DI Alison Fossey, went to the mainland on a strategic command course. Fossey had a law degree and had worked in child protection for most of her career. She was a details person, while Harper had a more scattergun approach. In her absence, the investigation was transformed by lurid claims of bodies and murder. One police report from this time states, "Among the [Haut] victims were a few who said that children had been dragged from their beds at night screaming and had then disappeared." A local builder who had done renovations there in 2003 said he had found what he thought were children's bones and shoes. These items had been disposed of by the Jersey pathologist. Harper remained suspicious. On 5 February 2008, he flew to Oxford to take advice from LGC Forensics, a crime scene service used by forces across the UK.

Two weeks later, an LGC team encamped at Haut de la Garenne. A squad of technicians in white suits pored over the site. Central to it all were two sniffer dogs, Eddie and Keela, which Harper took to describing as his "canine assets". They were veterans deployed in the search for missing Madeleine McCann in Portugal, although the controversy caused there should have served as a warning to Harper. In Portugal, the dogs had crawled over a car used by Gerry and Kate McCann, and sounded the alarm. The Portuguese police then claimed that the McCanns had killed their daughter, when what the dogs had actually picked up on was both parents' legitimate proximity to death, working in hospitals.

At Haut de la Garenne, the dogs made straight for the place where in 2003 the builder said he had found bones. A senior police officer recalled, "They did cartwheels on the spot. And Harper went through the roof." As in Portugal, the dogs had smelled something but could not differentiate between ancient remains and a contemporary murder. But at 2pm on 23 February, caution cast aside, Harper called a press conference, telling reporters police believed that the partial remains of a child were buried there.

Over the following months, £7.5m would be spent sifting 100 tonnes of earth. By the time DI Fossey returned, there were 65 milk teeth, 165 bone fragments and two lime-lined pits dominating the inquiry.

Meanwhile the child abuse investigation, which had already identified 160 alleged victims, was, Harper claimed, taking flak. Harper was called to the attorney general's office after his team charged a former Haut warder with indecently assaulting underage girls at the home from 1969 to 1973. William Bailhache demanded that a lawyer appointed by his office be inserted into the inquiry to assess the evidence before any arrest or charges could be preferred - common practice on the mainland, he says.

The police sent the lawyer details of a further five suspects, including a former police officer and two couples. Hearing nothing for two months, Harper went ahead and arrested the 50-year-old former police officer on 12 June last year. The attorney general's lawyer had the man released the next day, citing a lack of evidence. Likewise he vetoed charges being laid against one of the two couples. That left only Jane and Alan Maguire, a couple now living in France, and their case, too, went nowhere.

Bailhache told us: "It would no doubt have been much easier for me personally if I had simply waved prosecutions through. However, had I done so I would have been failing in my duty... Actions on my part which Mr Harper no doubt interpreted as frustrating a prosecution were rather directed at ensuring that any prosecution which was properly brought had the best chance of succeeding."

In the end, Harper charged only two other individuals, both peripheral, one of whom, in a terrible irony, also claims to have been a child victim of abuse at Haut de la Garenne in the 70s.

Once Lenny Harper retired in August 2008, and the murder inquiry was discredited, some island officials were concerned that the investigation into the abuse allegations might collapse, too.

The alarm had been raised in 1979, following the death of a two-year-old at the hands of a foster parent. Two years later, visiting social workers David Lambert and Elizabeth Wilkinson, concerned that none of the proposed improvements had been put in place, launched a full-blown inspection. Their confidential report, taking a broader look at Jersey society, concluded that while the island was reinventing itself as a haunt for jetsetters, there was a neglected group afflicted by a "high incidence of marital breakdown, heavy drinking, alcoholism and psychiatric illness". These problems were exacerbated by a small island mentality that demanded everyone "conform to acceptable public standards".

Children rebelled in small ways: dropping litter, swearing, facing down the police, having parties on the beach. On Jersey, all of these "offences" were, according to Lambert and Wilkinson, often sufficient to get a child into serious trouble. And once children had come to the attention of the police, it was almost inevitable that they would enter Jersey's care home system. Without any provision for children to be bailed, most were incarcerated on remand, placed alongside children taken from their families, often for such reasons as "giving the mother a break". In this rural backwater, one in 10 children had been in care, a ratio far higher than on the mainland.

Once in care, the real problems began, with predatory residents, some with criminal records, bunked with the vulnerable. Cases were almost never reviewed; Lambert and Wilkinson found in one group of 65 children, 36 had remained invisible inside the system for more than 10 years. This was the more likely if parents made little fuss, or even, in some cases, left the island. One of the invisible told us how he had been incarcerated at Haut de la Garenne for being repeatedly sarcastic to the hobby bobbies; he stayed in care for eight years, he says, without ever seeing a trained social worker, during which time he claimed to have been raped by adults and fellow inmates alike.

At the time of Lambert and Wilkinson's visit, Haut was run by superintendent Jim Thomson. Like many then working in the Jersey care system, he had no professional qualifications. Thomson, who would be accused of sexual and physical abuse in Harper's 2008 inquiry, was found by Lambert and Wilkinson to have created a "highly unsatisfactory" environment that focused on corporal punishment for "boys aged 10 to 15", some of them locked in remand cells for days at a time. It was an institution ripe for abusers, especially at night when only one staff member was on duty for 45 children sleeping in four distant wings. Haut was "not suitable for any of the tasks in which it is currently engaged".

Nick (not his real name) was resident at the time. He told us he had been taken, aged 11, to Haut de la Garenne in "a large white van with bars on its windows" after his mother abandoned him in 1975. He said: "The dorm was at the end of a rabbit warren of corridors and consisted of eight hospital-style beds lined up against opposite walls. Most of the boys were in their teens and had been in the home for years." No sooner had he arrived than he was beaten up and his possessions stolen. "At night they would never come to check up on you. The younger boys would be tied down on their beds and raped by the older lads." He survived only because he was a boxer and he was allowed to stay with foster parents at weekends, a time when adults were said to come and prey on the children left behind.

According to the 1981 report, other homes caused concern, too, for their punitive regimes; chief among them was Blanche Pierre with its new house parents, Jane and "Big Al" Maguire. But the extent of the allegations against the Maguires would not be properly investigated for another 18 years. One of their former charges was Dannie Jarman, now 28, who moved into Blanche Pierre when her mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1985, ending up in a hospice. "I wasn't allowed to visit her," Dannie told us. "Two weeks after her funeral, I was told she was dead. I was repeatedly told that our mum hadn't brought us up right and had never wanted me." Other children later levelled accusations about the extremely harsh conditions.

No one would have known about it had Dannie Jarman not got drunk one night in 1998 and thrown a brick through the Maguires' bedroom window. When the Maguires called the police, former residents, including Dannie, were brought in for questioning. After they repeated their allegations of abuse, the police turned around their inquiry and charged the Maguires instead.

The then attorney general, Michael Birt, today the island's deputy bailiff, sought advice from counsel who suggested that while this home "might possibly have been one that was run on a somewhat Dickensian basis, the strict regime applied by the Maguires would have not been regarded as unusual in pre-politically correct times. Indeed it is quite likely members of the jury would have some sympathy for people who in order to instil a sense of discipline in their charges threaten to wash a child's mouth out with soap and water." The counsel suggested: "The evidence is extremely weak." Birt, who declined to comment when we approached him, dropped the charges. Following an internal inquiry, Jane Maguire was subsequently sacked by Jersey social services.

Another inquiry focused on Jersey's elite Victoria College after the head of maths was jailed for four years in April 1999 for indecently assaulting a pupil. In his report, Stephen Sharp, a former chief education officer for Buckinghamshire, criticised senior staff and school governors, who included bailiff Sir Philip Bailhache, for failing to act speedily or adequately. It had taken 15 years for the teacher to be caught and Sharp concluded: "The handling of the complaint was more consistent with protecting a member of staff and the college's reputation than safeguarding the best interests of pupils."

Haut de la Garenne eventually closed in 1986, Blanche Pierre in 2001, but when Kathie Bull, a British child behaviour expert, was called in the following year to inspect the island's children's services, she found the situation had worsened. So many children were now being locked up that the island's institutions operated a "hot-bedding" system to cater for them, which in the case of Les Chenes included children sleeping on a pool table. Discipline was meted out in The Pits, a punishment block consisting of four bare concrete cells. The island's youth justice system was backwards and brutal, Bull concluded, and she made 50 recommendations, including the establishment of a Children's Executive.

Four years later, when Simon Bellwood, a British social worker, was employed to close Les Chenes and move the secure unit to a new, purpose-built site, he was startled to find the old regime still in force: "I met children who spent months at a time, near naked, in bare, concrete punishment blocks." When he made public his concerns in 2007 - following a long-running dispute with some of the old regime who were still in positions of authority - he was sacked; the then health minister, senator Stuart Syvret, who had vocally championed those who alleged they had been abused, was voted out of office for his "intemperate and ill-considered statements in the assembly".

Two years on, Mick Gradwell's team is trying to pick up the pieces of the abuse inquiry. The attorney general has been handed evidential files against key suspects by the police, and says he expects to make his decisions in the next few weeks. Bellwood, Syvret and others are keeping up the pressure on Jersey's States Assembly, and lobbying UK justice minister Jack Straw to call a full, independent inquiry (the subject of a court hearing to be held in London next Tuesday). But, many of the victims of the care homes of Jersey are convinced that nothing can outflank an island establishment that often saw little wrong in what had gone before and is reluctant to embrace the future prescribed by the social work experts.

The guardians of the Jersey Way continue to thrive, such as the sprightly Iris Le Feuvre, elected to the States Assembly for almost 20 years, who as president of the education committee oversaw Haut de la Garenne, Les Chenes and Blanche Pierre during some of their most troubled times. Now retired, the 80-year-old, whose husband Eric was for years a hobby bobby, lives in St Lawrence parish. "Granny's coming," she shouts as an over-excitable Tibetan spaniel barks at the gate, and ushers us into her front room. Le Feuvre, who collected an MBE from Buckingham Palace in 2002, says of Haut de la Garenne: "It's been a terrible business. But mostly I feel for William and Sir Philip Bailhache. They've been through so much."

But what of the victims? She smiles: "Oh, such a fuss has been made. My father always used a belt on me. It did me the world of good."

A MASS-MURDERER IN THE JERSEY HOSPITAL.

2010-11-21T16:54:00.000Z

Thursday, 19 March 2009
A MASS-MURDERER
IN THE JERSEY HOSPITAL.

A Death-Delivering Maniac?

Jersey’s Then Attorney General

Michael Birt

Pulls the Plug

On The Police Investigation.

So it begins.

It is with trepidation I publish the material below – for reasons which will become plain within the first few paragraphs.

The document I publish here was tabled before the court in London, as one item of evidence in the Applicant’s bundles.

To be clear – this went before the two judges – and even then, they chose to disregard the public interest – instead asserting that we should take up these matters with the Jersey justice apparatus.

Notwithstanding the fact that the same administration of justice apparatus was responsible for covering-up what is revealed.

The document I publish is a secret Police report from 1999.

It is self-explanatory.

The subject of this report – one Andrew Charles Marolia – came to the attention of the Police because of – comparatively – minor offences involving the stealing of drugs from the Jersey General Hospital.

He was charged with these comparatively minor offences, pleaded guilty – and was sentenced to two years unsupervised probation.

I was a member of the then Health & Social Services Committee, and later became President of the Committee in December, 1999.

Marolia was sacked from the General Hospital in response to the comparatively minor offences.

However, being a former military Nurse, who has served in the first Gulf war – he found a ready stream of politicians and others to lobby on his behalf to be allowed to be re-employed in the Hospital.

On one occasion he appeared before the H & SS Committee to make a formal appeal.

It was rejected because of the conviction for the minor offences.

Still, I continued to be lobbied by politicians and others, who wanted the Committee to employ Marolia again.

I raised the issue of this lobbying in a face-to-face meeting with the then Chief executive of Health & Social Services, Graham Jennings.

I did not want Marolia to be re-employed, and Jennings was certainly of the same opinion.

He explained that Marolia was obviously a wholly unsuitable individual to be in health care. Jennings went on to say that, in any event, we couldn’t be expected to take Marolia back even if we wanted to – as he was deeply unpopular with other staff – who were “mounting a vendetta against him”. To illustrate the extremity and unreasonableness of the “personality clash”, Jennings said to me, “a member of staff has even suggested that he killed people. It’s utter rubbish. But don’t worry – the Police have investigated the matter, and whilst they were too gung-ho and wanted to start exhuming the non-cremated bodies, the Attorney General Michael Birt has told them to drop it, because he doesn’t believe their are any grounds for securing a conviction.”

At the time, I took this at face value. After all, if your professional Health Chief Executive tells you this – and relays to you the fact that no less an authority than the Attorney General has dismissed the allegations – who is a mere politician to doubt them?

But – some years later – around 2005, perhaps – a conscientious member of staff at H & SS leaked this Police report to me.

As is clear from the Report, Jennings had a copy – but he never told my Committee or me of its existence.

It took a whistle-blower to reveal it.

When I read the report you are about to read, I was speechless.

Amongst it’s suggestions are that – during the period of February 1998, through March 1998 – Marolia may have murdered 13 people in the Hospital.

8 – in a period of four nights during February 1998.

5 – during March 1998.

As for the remaining 10 months he worked on Corbiere Ward – who knows?

At the time of reading this report, I was deeply shocked that Jersey’s then Attorney General, Michael Birt, could cause such an investigation to be dropped.

Jersey’s version of Harold Shipman.

A mass-murderer in sunny Jersey’s hospital?

Oh dear – terrible for the image of the island’s authorities.

Potentially a huge scandal – of the kind that might “shaft Jersey internationally”.

Never mind – brush, brush – carpet, carpet. There – sorted.

Everyone can carry on with a nice easy, quite time. No controversies.

No awkward questions.

One of the tragedies of this episode is that reading the judgment on Marolia’s conviction for the minor offences – by way of sentencing mitigation, his legal representative adduced a load of character witnesses.

Prominently amongst them – people who’s loved-ones had been “cared for” by Marolia.

How many of those loved-ones were murdered by Marolia?

We will probably never know.

Thanks to Jersey’s prosecutory and judicial system.

And to think – some people doubt the capacity of the Jersey oligarchy to cover-up child abuses – and possibly killings?

The horror, the horror.

Stuart.

STATES OF JERSEY POLICE

Your ref:

Our ref: RHLeB/PAO

Date: 12th May 1999.

TO:

M C St. J. Birt Esq. QC.
HM Attorney General
Law Officers’ Department
Morier House
Halkett Place
St. Helier
JE1 1DD

Dear Attorney General

Andrew Charles MAROLIA

I refer to the attached report by Detective Inspector Faudemer concerning the above named who is currently on remand from the Magistrates' Court for a variety of charges involving Drugs, Theft and Firearms.

Mr. Faudemer's report details allegations and innuendo, the most serious of which indicate that Marolia may, over a period of time, have terminated the lives of some patients at the General Hospital where he was employed as a Nurse.

I support Mr. Faudemer's recommendation that if enquiries are to continue a phased approach should be undertaken, the first of which would be to collate further evidence. However, I recognise that the continuation and development of this investigation will require a high level of legal advice and guidance from your department and our work will impinge upon the Health Authority and Viscount and given the uniqueness and sensitivity of such an investigation I feel it is appropriate to hold a high level meeting with yourself and others to whom I have copied this letter.

The purpose of the meeting will be to receive an oral brief from Mr. Faudemer who will be able to answer questions which you and others may have, followed by a general discussion to determine the way forward.

The meeting has been arranged for Thursday 20th May at 2.15 p.m. in the Conference Room at Police Headquarters and I look forward to seeing you.

Yours sincerely,

R. H. Le Breton
Chief Officer

c.c. Legal Adviser – Mr. Ian Christmas, Deputy Viscount – Mr. P. De Gruchy, Chief Executive Health Service – Mr. G Jennings, Deputy Chief Officer – Mr. R. Jones, Superintendent – T. Garrett, Director of Finance – Mr. M. Szpera.

REPORT

Submitted by: Detective Inspector B. Faudemer.

Date: 8th May, 1999.

Subject: Investigation of Nurse Andrew Charles MAROLIA.

Sir,

This report has been compiled into three separate areas, namely:

1.Evidence which gives rise to concern, relating to the activities of Andrew Charles MAROLIA.

2. The recommended for phase 1 of any investigation.

3. The suggested manpower requirements for conducting such an investigation.

BACKGROUND

On Thursday, 1st April, 1999, Police Officers attended the home address of a female who disclosed that Andrew Charles MAROLIA, a Staff Nurse on Corbiere Ward, had stolen and stored drugs at her home address. The female, an ex-lover of Mr. MAROLIA, produced to the officers, drugs in the form of Valium and Hypnoval, together with a syringe containing clear liquid and several packets of Coproxamol. These have since been identified and their content verified. Hypnoval is more commonly known as a 'date rape' drug. Enquiries confirmed that the drugs were from the hospital and indeed had been sent from the Hospital Pharmacy to Corbiere Ward, where Mr. MAROLIA worked.

A check on the Firearms Register held at Police Headquarters, revealed that Mr. MAROLIA had possession of several firearms, and that his Firearms License had expired in October, 1998. The female who handed the drugs to the Police confirmed that MAROLIA had attended at her premises with a loaded firearm.

Mr. MAROLIA was arrested on returning to the Island on the 17th April, 1999, and, armed with a Warrant, his home address was searched. During the search, the following property was recovered.

1. One lump of brown cannabis resin, tablets and scales.
2. Knuckle-duster.
3. A Police Philips radio (in working order).
4. Bag containing various medications.
5. Eleven syringes with a clear liquid within, and other medication, including
two bottles of potassium chloride.
6. Six firearms, with large quantity of ammunition.
7. One expired Firearms Certificate.

MAROLIA was interviewed concerning the medication found, and at first suggested that the insulin in the eleven syringes was intended as an aid to body-building. He later changed this story, in that he intended to kill himself with the medication, by marching down to the Cenotaph in military dress, where he would inject himself with a lethal dose of insulin and potassium chloride.

He claimed that the medication recovered from his ex-girlfriend's address by the Police, which prompted the investigation, had originated from himself, but that he had taken it to the location by mistake, from Corbiere Ward, having left it in the pocket of his nurse's uniform.

Police Surgeon Dr. Michael HOLMES first expressed concern when he viewed the drugs recovered, in that a combination of insulin and potassium would be very difficult to detect in the body. Added to this, the amount of drugs in the possession of Mr. MAROLIA cast doubt on his account, in that he had several lethal doses of drug. If a person with a serious medical history were to be injected with the combination of drugs found in the possession of MAROLIA, the cause of death would not be clearly apparent. His possession of such drugs was therefore regarded as suspicious.

Enquiries have continued over the last three weeks, and have established that Mr. MAROLIA has had several affairs with either patients or relatives of patients at the General Hospital.

A disturbing disclosure was received from a nurse in the United Kingdom, which will be subject of comment later in this report. The evidence which gives rise to the suspicion that Mr. MAROLIA may have endangered the life of patients is as follows.

NURSE A

Nurse A in the UK, has disclosed in a statement recorded on the 6th May, 1999, that she had worked with MAROLIA in Corbiere Ward during 1997 and 1998. She was part of a team of three who were responsible for one of four sections on Corbiere Ward. MAROLIA, Nurse A and another male nurse, would work together. She was the more senior of the three, and had responsibility for assessing Mr. MAROLIA's performance. It should be stated at this stage, that this nurse is currently critically ill in hospital, awaiting a lung and heart transplant, and may die in the near future. She holds the view that MAROLIA was intent on terminating the life of very ill patients, and to support such a claim, she cites specific incidents.

Incident 1 - an elderly male admitted to Corbiere Ward (name unknown) suffered a heart attack which was further complicated when his insulin levels became abnormal. He was placed on a glucose drip, which is the normal procedure. The drip had been inserted correctly, and was working fine when Nurse A checked the patient on the previous evening in question. Nurse MAROLIA handed over to a nurse on the ward, just prior to Nurse A arriving for duty (the am. shift). On this occasion, MAROLIA had not worked with Nurse A and the normal team. As normal, the nurse checked on her patient and discovered, to her horror, that the glucose drip had been disconnected from the patient, and a bung put into the base, preventing the substance from leaking. The patient was unconscious and close to death. The nurse reconnected the drip and the patient recovered within about ten minutes.

Nurse A checked the patient's records and established that MAROLIA, who had been solely responsible for his care had, at about 07.00 hours, entered a blood/sugar reading of '0.3'. She states this would be regarded as dangerously low (confirmed as critical by Dr. HOLMES). The nurse confronted MAROLIA immediately, as he was still on the ward, and he explained that the patient must have moved and the drip disconnected. She, however, cannot accept this account, due to the bung being in place and the fact that the patient was unconscious. The nurse endorsed the patient's records accordingly, and reported her concerns to the Senior Nursing Officer Lesley HIGGINS.

The nurse alleges that HIGGINS disregarded the incident, in the hope that MAROLIA would shortly move to another position in the Accident and Emergency Department, and would therefore no longer be a problem.

The nurse checked the patient's records some days later and noticed that an entry had been inserted by MAROLIA which stated that, on discovery of a 0.3 blood/sugar level, the Duty Doctor had been informed. The nurse believes this to be a false entry on the part of MAROLIA and that the doctor had not been consulted.

By placing a bung in the drip, she is firmly of the view that this was a deliberate act aimed at ending the patient's life.

Incident 2 - A Mrs. [name excised] was admitted to Corbiere Ward at around Easter 1997, with liver failure. The son of Mrs. [name excised] confided in the nurse that MAROLIA had asked him why he bothered visiting, because his mother would be dead in the morning.

Mrs. [Name excised] died whilst on Corbiere Ward.

Incident 3 - Perhaps of greatest concern to Nurse A, was an incident in 1997, around the time Princess Diana died. Andrew MAROLIA had responsibility for a patient on the ward who was critically ill (name unknown). In the final days of the patient's life, the family attended upon the patient 24 hours a day. Nurse A was approached by a member of the family, who asked why MAROLIA would turn up the dose on the diamorphine pump during the evening and re-set it to its original setting, before the morning shift began. This rang alarm bells for Nurse A, who reported the matter to Lesley HIGGINS, who again did not take the matter very seriously. Dr. HOLMES holds the view that such action could result in the early termination of a patient's life.

Incident 4 - A young girl was admitted to Corbiere Ward, following an overdose. MAROLIA found her attempting to hang herself in the toilet on the ward. The patient was transferred to the APU, where it is alleged that the young girl disclosed to a member of staff that MAROLIA had offered to show her how to commit suicide correctly.

NURSE B

This incident occurred within the UK at Basingstoke Hospital. Nurse B was employed at the hospital and has disclosed in a statement, that she entered into a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with MAROLIA during his one year attachment to Basingstoke Hospital. She explained that they had experimented with [sexual activities excised], with her permission. This had, however, progressed to MAROLIA becoming very violent, and he had on one occasion, thrown her over his shoulder and placed his knee on her chest, asking her if she wanted to die. She suffered a fractured sternum on this occasion. She alleges that the violence progressed to rape, and on one occasion, she was tied up on a table, naked, when he put a poker in the fire, took it out, placed it in water and ran it along her body at the time. Nurse B is very scared of MAROLIA, and she was spoken to by her line manager, after sporting a black eye and cut lip at work.

Basingstoke CID have been asked to undertake a thorough investigation of her allegations, which, on initial assessment, suggest the victim may have suffered over 20 incidents of rape.

NURSE C

Nurse C worked with Nurse A and MAROLIA. The nurse supports Nurse A's account of the detached glucose drip, and will provide a statement on Tuesday, 11th May, 1999. The early indications suggest that the allegation that the hospital authorities, in the form of Senior Nursing Officer Lesley HIGGINS, did not act correctly, are supported by Nurse C.

SENIOR NURSING OFFICER LESLEY HIGGINS

HIGGINS paints a picture of an over-confident Andrew MAROLIA, who was taken to task for answering the telephone on the ward, introducing himself as the Ward Manager, rather than the junior nurse that he was. She recalls a clash of personalities between Nurse A and MAROLIA, but has omitted to reveal important evidence. Firstly, she has not mentioned the incident described by Nurse A. In addition, she has failed to produce the written assessments on MAROLIA, when Nurse A placed her concerns on record, in writing. Nurse HIGGINS has stated that she misses MAROLIA, due to being short-staffed. Nurse HIGGINS regards the Police enquiries to date as an inconvenience.

HOSPITAL DEATHS

The Hospital Authorities, with the assistance of Senior Nursing Officer Jenny LE GALLAIS, have conducted a survey of deaths on Corbiere Ward, in conjunction with the duties of Andrew MAROLIA, from the 1st March, 1998, to the 31st March, 1999. The average death rate is 4.5 deaths per month, but evenly distributed between MAROLIA's duty time, rests days and annual leave.

In February, 1999, however, the records show a significant departure from this trend, and we see 8 deaths in four nights when MAROLIA was on night duty. In March, 1999, five deaths occurred, all during the duty time or the next morning when MAROLIA would have been on night shift. Such fluctuations could easily be explained by a serious bout of flu affecting frail or already critically ill patients, but equally it could be due to foul play.

POLICE SERVICE

The services of Andrew Charles MAROLIA were dispensed with by the States of Jersey Police in September, 1993, as a result of:
a) irrational behavior;
b) consistent failure to seek advice;
c) consistent failure or refusal to follow advice given;
d) regular indications of mistrust between him and his peers.
Due the lead-up to his dismissal, he was described as deceitful and sly.

MEDICAL ASSESSMENTS

Medical reports from Dr. Ian BERRY and Dr. VINCENT, the suspect's GP, indicate that MAROLIA has suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome linked to his service in the Gulf War. He suffered from depression in January, 1999, when he attended his GP. At no time has he given an indication of suicidal tendencies. The treatment for depression and the rise in deaths on Corbiere Ward during February, 1999, do give me cause for concern.

Mr. Richard WALTER

Mr. Richard W ALTER is a US Forensic Psychologist based at the Michigan State Prison. He has considerable experience in the field of offender profiling and visited Jersey to attend the International Police Surgeons Conference. Whilst in Jersey, I took the opportunity to relay the facts of this case to him. He confirmed my suspicions that MAROLIA possessed the hallmarks of a serial killer and that he was an extremely dangerous man. He found the sexual activities of MAROLIA to be of particular note and the threat to kill Nurse B, on the occasion that he allegedly broke her sternum, was an indication of the man's unhealthy interest in death.

BAIL APPLICATION

MAROLIA is due to reappear at the Magistrate's Court on the 19th of May, 1999, and a bail application is expected. He is currently held at St. Saviour's Hospital. The degree of security on Chausey Ward can only be described as poor.

CONCLUSION

Arising from the evidence above, I would recommend the following response from the States of Jersey Police.

I would advocate that this incident is broken up into two phases. Phase 2 should only be considered if significant evidence is uncovered during Phase 1.

Phase 1

The following action should be undertaken in pursuit of this case:

1) Recover all documents and appraisals from the Hospital in relation to Andrew Charles MAROLIA and patients mentioned in the statement of the nurses already interviewed.

2) Identify the patients referred to in the statement of Nurse A, and interview the relatives.

3) Identify and recover records of patients who died in February, 1999, and interview all relatives of such patients.

4) Identify and interview all past and present members of staff (46) in 1998.

5) Trace [name excised] reference possible sexual advances to her in Jersey by MAROLIA.

6) Re-interview Lesley HIGGINS in more depth reference the disclosures of Nurse A.

7) Identify all patients who were resident in Corbiere Ward in February, 1999, and during incidents referred to in the statement of Nurse A.

8) Identify and interview the female and members of staff reference the suicide attempt, including the hospital staff she disclosed to.

9) Engage a UK expert arising from a similar enquiry, to advise on this investigation.

10) Devise a press strategy.

11) Conduct an emergency conference with Hospital Authorities and request Senior Nursing Officer Jenny LE GALLAIS assists with the enquiry.

12) Commence a HOLMES incident room.

13) Seize drugs records on Corbiere Ward.

14) Invite Basingstoke CID to conduct enquiries into MAROLIA's activities whilst in post at that location.

15) Identify all friends in Jersey of Nurse A and interview them.

16) Record possible 'dying declaration' from Nurse A.

Dependent upon the results of Phase 1, Phase 2 may require the following action.

Phase 2

Consideration should be given to expanding this enquiry to all patients who died on Corbiere Ward during the term of office of Andrew MAROLIA. This should, in my view, only be considered upon receipt of all the information obtained in Phase 1.

COST IMPLICATIONS

I have attempted to assess the manpower implications of undertaking such a major enquiry, and they are attached to this report in the following folders, together with other relevant data:

Folder 1: Schedule of suggested manpower requirements re: Phase 1.

Folder 2: Survey of deaths between the 1st March 1998, and 31st March 1999.

Folder 3: Statement of Nurse A.

Folder 4: Police report of Detective Sergeant 202 Andrew SMITH re: the seizure of drugs at the home address of Andrew Marolia.

Barry Faudemer
Inspector – CID
Anonymous said...
OMG.
Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:26:00 GMT

Tony Gallichan said...
Bloody hell! When you said you had shocking evidence I had no idea that things were THIS bad. I do hope your not going to get into any trouble for releasing this to the general public, but we need to know about incidents like this.

You know, this can't go on. Something has to be done. They can't be allowed to continue.

I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to copy your post onto my own blog.
Thursday, 19 March 2009 23:31:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart can you confirm that any further shocking evidence you have has been copied and put in a safe place preferably outside the UK! No doubt the ripples of this disclosure is going to have serious reprecussions and I am more than sure that eventually they will try and shut you up.

If you require any assistance in finding a safe haven please let me know.

Were they aware you have this evidence and are they aware you may have further incriminating evidence?
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:07:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Tony - 'getting into trouble' for publishing this is the least of my concerns.

I'm sleeping with a hammer besides the bed.

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:07:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
To answer your questions:

Yes - all evidence I have accumulated over the years is multi-duplicated and stored at several very secure locations - not in Jersey.

The oligarchy were aware that I had this particular report - just as soon as we filed our evidence before the London court.

No - the establishment do not know of significant amounts of other material I have.

And - no - it won't help them if I get imprisoned or murdered - as it will all emerge then.

A safe-haven?

Yes - I might well need just that.

E-mail me on:

st.syvret@gmail.com

Thanks

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:19:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The info you have just gets worse hard to belive these things go on and were all kept in the dark.
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:25:00 GMT

One Day said...
OMG, dare I ask where this man is now?

A friend of my mum's was admitted to hospital at the end of 1999, died in there Jan 2000. Shortly before she died, my mum received a call from her stating 'they're killing me'. We've never quite made up our minds about this statement, now if it was in his time i would be very suspicious.

Well I think the saying you couldn't make it up sadly does not shock me anymore. Surely they can't keep acting this way time after time. Lives mean nothing, it's just money that talks.
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:26:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
this is shocking. I do not think I will sleep tonight. Stuart, this is so dangerous. I am in shock and keep Reading the report, why was the case never properly investigated - I suppose it was not in the best interest of the island - how often have we heard those words.
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:43:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Lrts hope that the major papers get hold of this and run with it...I dare say the jep will just bury it shame on them.
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:44:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
and Michael Birt will be the Bailiff, absolutely fantastic.
Friday, 20 March 2009 00:50:00 GMT

Damocles said...
Well, this looks like the end of the oligarchy - unless Birt had genuine reason to believe there was little or no chance of conviction of Marolia. If all the dead were cremated, there would be little evidence left, just anecdotal. Even if there were "exhumable" bodies, unfortunately an excess of potassium ions and insulin is hard to nail down forensically unless it is really large. Both "substances" are naturally occurring in the body.
Friday, 20 March 2009 01:39:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Posted your post on mensaid to all MP's in UK...
Friday, 20 March 2009 01:44:00 GMT

corrupt camden council said...
WOW I'm flabbergasted!

I thought the day I had was bad but this is mind-blowing!

Don't expect any help from the jersey police if they are anything like the ones in the london borough of camden! These bent lot arrested me on trumped up charges, stole my door keys and broke into my home and stole my laptop!

All because I wrote a few 'upsetting things on a website about some very nasty tenants. I seriously do fear what they will do next.

What the feck has happened to our police? How have they become so corrupted?
Friday, 20 March 2009 06:12:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
"A mere politician" - lets get this straight. This happened in 1998-9 when you were on the Health Committee. The report was leaked to you in 2005 when you were President of Health, and you have done nothing till 2009? And you accuse everyone else of covering it up?
Friday, 20 March 2009 06:48:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION IN OUR LEGISLATURE DO THESE IDIOTS NEED!!!!
Friday, 20 March 2009 07:53:00 GMT

voiceforchildren said...
Stuart.

How can London stand by and allow our Goverment to carry on like this?

If nobody is going to help us then surely we must take to the streets. I know there is a peaceful protest in April (the white march) but we need a full out demonstration that will attract the worlds media.

This is without mentioning the State of our Education department or home affairs......How bad does it have to get?????????????????
Friday, 20 March 2009 08:20:00 GMT

TonyTheProf said...
I've only skimmed it, but where does it say that it was the AG that got it dropped (rather than perhaps the police themselves)
Friday, 20 March 2009 08:21:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

I'm not shocked at all reading this report.

Thank you for this. I am sure that we will all do our best to make sure that this is read by as many people as possible.

Copy this onto your own blogs, send links to all your friends, bloggers. Keep telling ordinary people what is going on. Talk about it wherever you socialise, just keep talking. We Mothers for Justice have a little grass roots reach out scheme - we aim to tell three new people every day about the secret family courts. It is getting difficult now, as when I talk to people at bus stops ect they have usually heard about the secret family courts already - it was not like that three years ago, there was hardly a whisper about it.

Don't be discouraged, just keep talking, and if someone does not want to hear about it, just go on to the next person, don't get emotional about it.

We have to wake people up to this stuff - it's the only way to stop it. Just keep telling people to look at the truth. Make sure that you stress to everyone you talk to that they must never take violent action. These wicked criminals will be overthrown, but not by violent means.

Stuart, you won't need that hammer - you have God protecting you. There are lots of people praying for God to protect you. It's brilliant what you have done.

There is no way these wicked wretches can bury these crimes now by committing other crimes. The wickedness is all coming out now - look at the hospital stories - the Liverpool Care Pathway is crumbling to bits as the people of this country realise that it was a wicked plan to involuntary euphanise (aka murder) old and infirm people all over the country. To drug old people so that they are paralised, slap a notice on the bottom of their bed instructing nurses not to treat them and deny them food and water is one of the cruellest most evil and disgusting ways to bump off people that I have ever heard.

The best thing these wicked immoral depraved wretches can do is to hop it whilst they can onto another tax haven, because the death penalty will probably have to be re -introduced to deal with the terrible crimes that have been committed, and strangulation by rope and trap, or, in the case of Jersey, the guillotine, surrounded by prison guards is not a particularly pleasant way to die.

Zoompad
Friday, 20 March 2009 08:34:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Being wholly realistic - this is Jersey - so your blog will soon be yestedays news! I fully appreciate your oft used word systemic when attacking the flawed systems that pose for authorities in thi sisland. My God are we that backward as a society that we are afraid to hand our dirty laundry out to dry? My first question to you is what prevented you from airing this topic all those years ago? My second question to you is where is this individual now, has he gone on to 'work' in another location?
Society has moved on somewhat and cases or such evil are more openly discussed - this man appears to have suffered PTSD but was probably profoundly disturbed to join the army in the first place!
Friday, 20 March 2009 08:51:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
I have finished reading your post and have to admit I am shaking.

Words fail me. How do 'they' wriggle out of this one?

I would also like to know where this man is now?

You are a brave, brave man Stuart.
Friday, 20 March 2009 08:56:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
I KNOW WHO THIS PERSON I USED TO WORK WITH HIM AND I MUST ADMIT I WAS A BIT SCARED TO BE AROUND HIM
Friday, 20 March 2009 09:11:00 GMT

Puzzled said...
Stuart, why are you complaining of a contaminated court and conflicted judges (I agree, but..) when the case was lost simply on a point of order that you have to have exhausted attempts locally first before attending in London?
Friday, 20 March 2009 09:32:00 GMT

thejerseyway said...
Words fail me.
This is most disturbing thing I have ever read how can this not be looked into. Having connections with Nursing Staff, I know this is going to be very hard to Take.
Were is it going to end.
You have put the cat amongst the pigeons big style this time.
I've said this before "what are you going to tell us next".
It can't get any worst then what you have told us can it.
GOD HELP US.
Friday, 20 March 2009 09:54:00 GMT

Jadzy said...
it doesnt surprise me that it was covered up like that
whats worrying is do we even know where this nurse is now??
hope your ok stuart. and i hope its a pointy hammer!
Friday, 20 March 2009 10:03:00 GMT

thejerseyway said...
"MASS-MURDERER" in little old Jersey.
Cover up ather Cover up, When are the people of Jersey going to See whats going on.
All these stories that you have been told about are the most hunting that any one can be told & had to stay quite until the time is right.
No wonder you haven't given up, you are so right, we need to know the truth.
Friday, 20 March 2009 10:08:00 GMT

Ahimsa said...
I thought things like that only happened in the movies.....Like 'Jaws'. You know what I mean. Look there are no sharks.

Truth Will Out
Friday, 20 March 2009 10:14:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

While I am no fan of Birt, I can't see anything in your post which shows that he pulled the plug on the investigation and I fear that we don't have the full picture here.

While ultimately he may have pulled the plug, were phases 1 or 2 of the investigation completed?

If so, only then would a decision to charge be made. If a decision was made not to charge, on what basis? Evidential? Public interest (that's a moveable feast for you!!)?

If the phases were not completed do you know why not?

I would like to know what happened immediately after Le Breton's letter to Birt. Was Faudemeur told to stop and forget about it?

It does pose more questions than answers.
Friday, 20 March 2009 10:33:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
A reader has submitted a comment concerning maltreatment by Jersey's General Hospital.

I'm not unsympathetic to the point the readers is making - but it does name several doctors, and I don't have any supporting evidence for justifying naming them.

But if the reader wishes to resubmitt the comment - re-written to remove the names, I'll happily post it.

Thanks

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:13:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

I'm sure you don't needv me to tell you this, but make sure you keep one step ahead - keep a few tricks up your sleeve.

It doesn't do to put all the goodies on the table before all the guests are seated, lest the dogs gobble everything up.

Don't give the corrupt aholes any wriggle room to escape the rope. They are experts in the law - they are so fallen now that they are even trying to change the law by stealth day by day, to suit themselves.

You are doing a great job!

Zoompad
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:16:00 GMT

Póló said...
I am also a bit puzzled:

How do you justify not releasing this material earlier, particularly if there was a possibility of any subsisting danger to patients?

and

How come you were not advised of the likely outcome of the London hearing if you had not formally exhausted all the Jersey channels? Would not even an unprejudiced judicial panel have sent you back to tick the box in Jersey? Or, did you feel the need for a London profile for your case at this stage to ensure it was not ambushed in Jersey?

I am not asking these questions out of hostility but in an effort to understand just what is going on.
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:20:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Hold on Guys. You say the UK is doing nothing about all this?

WAR ON TAX HAVENS

WITHDRAWAL FROM HEALTH AGREEMENT

TIGHTER BORDER CONTROL POLICIES

Anything I missed?

What do you do with your liabilities?

GET RID OF THEM
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:22:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
now we are told that somebody at the treasury screwed up over the incinerator funding and may have lost the island some money - we are assured that staff will be disciplined.

it occurs to me that when money is involved - people will be held to account.

but personal abuse, child abuse,,, the senior civil servants and politicians are complicit in their silence.
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:37:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
We have a senior police officer suspended pending investigation of allegations of sexual impropriety -
how long does it take to bring a prosecution.

are our local police really so crap, inept or corrupt?

- for whatever reason our police force is starting to be an embaressment
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:40:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
surely if the police keep arresting Danny Wherry without making charges stick even as far as court, guilty or not he will have a good case for police harassment..
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:42:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
I'm asked a number of questions arising out of this post, which I will endeavour to answer in separate comments.

So, to begin:

How do I know it was Birt who pulled the plug?

I was told this by Graham Jennings - who very much strove to give the impression Birt was absolutely right - and that there was no meaningful substance in the allegations against Marolia - they were just lies invented by other members of staff who had a "personality clash" with the psycho.

But further - it is not as though Birt doesn't 'have form' when it comes to not prosecuting certain individuals or organisations - when to do so would be embarrassing or damaging to the establishment.

The subject of Birt deserves a whole, separate post, so I wont go into great detail now.

But, to be getting on with:

The dumping of toxic incinerator ash into the marine-porous land-reclamations sites, the polluting of the environment and the potentially harmful exposure of workers and the public to the ash was - without question - a serious and sustained criminal offence by the States of Jersey.

In around 1994/5 I and a local marine biologist secured an appointment to see Birt and explain the state criminality which had taken place, so that he initiate investigations and prosecutions.

About an hour beforehand, I received a panicked message from Birt's PA to the effect that he had changed his mind, did not now want to meet us - and, instead, we should go and investigate the matter and produce a legal file for prosecution.

That's realistic and reasonable, right?

You are the prosecution service for Jersey - but you suddenly realise that matter about to be explained to you as apocalyptic for the establishment - so you tell two complainants that they have to assume the mantel of investigatory and legal responsibilities.

Then - we come to the Victoria College child abuse scandal - in which at least 5 individuals should have been prosecuted for the unambiguous criminal offences they committed in breaking the Children (Jersey) Law 1969 by failing to protect children from harm, risk and dangers, which they, the staff, were aware of.

They should also have been prosecuted for the obvious conspiracy to pervert the course of Justice.

Birt failed to prosecute any of them.

We also have to consider the criminal case against the child abusing McGuires.

One committal hearing in the Magistrates court - then Birt stands up in the Royal Court - and - quite dishonestly - tells the court that the case was being dropped for "insufficient evidence".

I have read that evidence - so I know - far more than I wish to know - just what shockingly ethically bankrupt nonsens Birt told the court.

Etc. Etc.

Though not prosecuting when it may be damaging to the oligarchy appears to be a long-established tradition of Jersey AGs - Birt appears to rivalled by only Bill Bailhache when it comes to the monstrous cover-up.

But - as I said - Birt in particular - and the prosecution system generally - deserves a dedicated blog all their own.

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 11:59:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
The role of the Police in this case?

Some commenters have suggested the police were at fault in this case, and whether the further phases of the investigation were carried through?

As far as I am aware - no blame can be attached to the police in this case.

Whilst I have never spoken to Barry Faudemer in connection with this case - my understanding is that he was - very - very - err - unhappy - at being told to drop it.

To the best of my knowledge - the other phases were not fully see through - because Birt had conviniently determined - no doubt with the full backing and encouragement of Jennings - that there was no substance or merit to the case.

No substance - mere wild allegations?

Go back and read the report - and ask yourself what your action would have been as AG - upon reading it?

I sure as hell know what I would have done - which would have been to move heaven and earth to get this bastard prosecuted.

Stuart

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 12:08:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Your current revelations leave me shocked and angry that the Jersey authorities are willing to cover up suspicious deaths without a thorough investigation, but I am not surprised.

I read your blog whilst sitting in considerable pain caused by the negligence at the birth of my child in 1985 at the General Hospital. The senior obstetrician insisted on delivering my baby personally when he discovered I had medical insurance, then when it all went wrong he never sent a bill! We sought legal aid in order to sue, which got us nowhere, and finally we paid to consult a lawyer who told us the obstetrician had probably delivered the Bailiff's children and therefore we were wasting our time. I could not accept this at the time but since following your blog I understand exactly what his comments meant.

Thanks to a now-retired senator, we finally confronted the obstetrician, the matron of the hospital, an orthopaedic surgeon and a pain specialist. The obstetrician invented a non-existent baby he had been delivering when he could not be found, the matron invented a holiday she was taking when she was on duty, the orthopaedic surgeon squirmed and lied, and the pain specialist apologised, only to go on and use the same terms to another lady wishing to sue, "You won't win you know - we won't let you."

My healing began after that meeting when I realised what despicable cowards and liars they really were - unworthy to bear the title of doctor.

It is very important to remember that when all goes well for the patient being treated at the hospital, they are charming, affable and smiling, but the minute a mistake is made they close ranks, lie, falsify records and will stop at nothing to cover their tracks.

I do hope more people will come forward with their negligence stories and that a real complaint procedure can be put into place in Jersey, not relying on Guernsey or England where it is just as corrupt.
Friday, 20 March 2009 12:12:00 GMT

vile blog reader said...
At least this was before Lenny's time - he started in 2002 :)
(I could sense the usual crowd wondering!)
Friday, 20 March 2009 12:14:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
I'm asked why I didn't release this report earlier.

Because I may well get killed as a result of publicising it - even now?

As I explained in my introductory remarks to the blog posting - as far as I knew - there was no substance whatsoever in the allegation of a killing by Marolia.

And please bear in mind that I was only told that there had even been such an allegation - on one occasion - by Jennings in a conversation - long after Marolia had been sacked.

I was naive back in those days - as I've explained preveiously - and had no reason to doubt what the senior civil servants told me.

Especially when they were just casually informing me that no less an authority than the AG had discussed the allegation.

I only became aware of the truth of the situation - some years later - upon being leaked the police report by a conscientious member of staff at H & SS.

Why haven't I released it before?

Look - let's get real shall we?

Read the report again - consider the psychotic individual involved.

He still lives in Jersey.

I have had to think long and hard about releasing the report even now.

It is not an exaggeration to say that I fear for my life.

I e-mailed the police late last night - and alerted them to what I had published - and the various possible public safety ramifications of it.

And as if running the risk of getting killed by this gun-loving maniac weren't bad enough - I will face yet another round of rabid oppression and harassment from the oligarchy for revealing the report.

What's the betting that Bill Bailhache isn't already around in his mate's, Emma Martins, office cooking up yet another case for prosecution against me?

As revealed on this blog, I've already been routinely harassed, and threatened with prosecution by Martins & Bailhache for having made various public interest disclosures.

I am also regularly threatened with various pseudo-disciplinary actions by PPC and the States assembly.

In fact - form a personal interest perspective - the best thing for me to have done would have been to follow The Jersey Way - and gone along with the cover-up.

I would not now be fearing for my life.

I would not now be faced with yet another load of threatened - or actual - prosecutions by Bill Bailhache & his crew.

I would not now be faced with the strong probability of another round of harassment by the States.

Look - the public now know the truth of this matter only because of me.

I reject utterly criticisms of me for this episode.

I'm just one man - one man who has, ultimately, been forced to to put myself in jeopardy - on all sorts of grounds - in order to expose the truth.

So - far from trying to blame me for this episode - any decent, thinking person should be taking a long, hard look at the agencies which should have dealt with this matter - Hospital senior management, Police, the Attorney General - and asking them:

'What the hell did you imagine you were doing in failing to take this matter forward?'

You cannot look to me and expect me to constantly have fulfilled the role and duties of others.

Those who should have acted.

Isn't it enough that I've shouldered the burden of exposing this matter - with the consequences of all that which flows from my action?

When will we start holding £300,000 per year Attorney generals to account? Or £200,000 per year senior civil servants?

When all's said & done - these people are the supposed professionals who should be protecting the public.

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 12:43:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
This is absolutely astonishing.

As others have suggested, it may be worthwhile taking a look at securing the information you have in your possession.

One place it cannot be shutdown is Wikileaks:

http://wikileaks.org
Friday, 20 March 2009 13:12:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
While the AG has the power to bring prosecutions, the police have (or at least in theory) unfettered discretion to investigate suspected offences. It is clear from the report that Barry Faudermer suspected serious criminal offences.

Unless they had completed all their investigations the AG is not even in a position to decide whether charges should be bought.

If Birt bought pressure to bear to stop the investigation this is inherently wrong and potentially an offence in itself.

I suppose the police can't investigate Birt can they? He will probably tell them that it is not in thepublic interest to investigate him.
Friday, 20 March 2009 13:22:00 GMT

Vile reader of blogs said...
Has isthisjersey.com been nobbled, or has Nick forgotten to pay a bill somewhere?
Friday, 20 March 2009 13:51:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Even as one of your critics Stuart, I will give you credit for this one, it is interesting.
Friday, 20 March 2009 13:59:00 GMT

Siobhan said...
Stuart,

We could do with a whistle blower to advise on the Masonic Lodges the two judges belong to.

Tha fact that they are masons should also debar them from hearing a case involving child abuse. Links between masons and organised paedophilia can be proved. I have evidence of this on mainland Britain.

As an aside, for the last 3 weeks, Channel 4 has been broadcasting a series called, "Red Riding". It is set in the 1970s in Yorkshire. It featured Police corruption, violence and murder by Police and a local paedophile group (which included Police) that abused and killed children for years with all concerned escaping any investigation, let alone justice.

It all has a familiar ring to it I think.
Friday, 20 March 2009 14:56:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
You are the barer of very bad news, and you will get it in the neck by some who will hate you for trying to shatter their cosy littel worlds where nothing bad ever happens to those who don't deserve it.

The truth can be very terrifying for a lot of people. In some ways I can understand that, unimaginable horrors just don't happen in real life do they?
Friday, 20 March 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Dave Rotherham said...
To "Vile Reader of Blogs"
Is This Jersey's hosting contract comes up for renewal in March. It went down this time last year, too, I seem to remember.
Friday, 20 March 2009 15:27:00 GMT

Dottie said...
To say 'shocking' would be an understatement! I bet the JEP do not run with this! Stuart - I am also appalled that there will be 'no further action' re Perchards remarks to you. Now if that had been the other way round......!
Friday, 20 March 2009 15:58:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
"I reject utterly criticisms of me for this episode."

And you are right to do so too.

They always come this one Stuart - they try to shift the blame onto other people. But they have gone too far now, too many people know about it now.

Like I said before - you disgusting child abusing murderous creeps who even have the bare faced cheek to come on to this blog and try the same old tactics that you've always used - your Masonic ways are nothing compared to the power of Almighty God. You think you have the allseeing eye, with all that Isis cr*p, well, God has seen every little thing that you abusing creeps have done. All your nasty little secrets are coming out now, all the secret things you thought no-one would ever find out about.

I expect the death penelty will be re - introduced into the British Isles and Jersey as well pretty soon. You'd be well advised to get out while you can, because otherwise you'll be getting the drop or the chop, depending which country you happen to be in. Law and order WILL be restored to these islands. Don't say you weren't warned.

Zoompad
Friday, 20 March 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
"the senior civil servants and politicians are complicit in their silence."

There are a lot of people who DID know what was going on, it's true, but those people were too frightened - they just didn't know what to do!

If they have kept their mouthes shut when they should have spoken up, for this reason, then no-one is going to turn upon them, people WILL understand.

People still have spirit and soul - look at how the people reacted when Princess Diana died - you could hardly move in London for flowers, and there were books of condolances in every town, which even hardened cynics were signing. I know some people see that as sentimentality, but it is a good sign that people had the heart and soul to feel that way, moved by someone that most of us had never even met. It just shows that there is something left in these islands that bonds us all together in a good way.

This is a special time historically - a time very much like the smashing down of the Berlin wall. David Cameron did something amazing a few days ago - he apologised. I noticed that certain people jumped on him for doing so, but the people are starting lo discern what is happening for themselves, instead of believing everything that certain media outlets tell them.

There are only a very few really wicked people behind all of this, and they have come into focus now, so that we know who they are! They will not go unpunished.

But the people who did not speak out, for fear - well, we've all of us done things wrong at times. I am sure that people will learn to forgive, when the truth is told.

Zoompad
Friday, 20 March 2009 16:20:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
I can't believe the mentality of some of the posters on PJ. They are running a thread about the title of this Blog and already it has turned into slagging or defending you.

The fact that a mass murderer might have been allowed to ply his trade whilst employed at our hospital. The fact there could be at least 13 families grieving the death or murder of a loved one. The possibility our future balliff has covered it up is all irrelevent. the most important issue is Syvret's is or isn't to blame.

Quality..........pure quality.
Friday, 20 March 2009 16:22:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Don't blame posters on PJ for having views, this is only one side of the story. But a good side Stuart, a v-good one.
Friday, 20 March 2009 16:43:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
loads of people from the hospital have known about this for years. Again they were told "not in the public interest" and again the carpet was lifted. Its jersey, you can get away with murder. Seriously,you couln't make it up
Friday, 20 March 2009 16:46:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Senator Syvret

I’m not a supporter of yours. I have been critical of you on this blog and on other forums.

But I like to think of myself as a rational and decent person.

Reading your latest revelations causes me to re-appraise my view of you and what you write.

Whilst your politics are very different to mine and you may have too many rough edges for my tastes, I cannot read this posting and think ill of you.

The report you have published is horrifying, and those who try to turn this into something to attack you for are just not being honest. And they are not thinking of the public good.

We would not know about this if it wasn’t for you, and I can’t help but agree with your comment that there is no advantage to you in having published the report, on the contrary, some serious risks to you arise.

As much as my instinct has been to criticise you, even I have to admit that what you have exposed shows a massive failure on the part of the authorities. No rational person could look at this and not ask the question, ‘what on Earth were the authorities, like the Attorney General, thinking of, in not charging and prosecuting this man?’

Even if he had been acquitted, the gravity of the allegations should have made a public interest prosecution a given.

The JEP editorial criticises you tonight for being too abrasive and aggressive towards politicians, civil servants, journalists and the like, which is a view I used to share.

But after reading this, well, perhaps now your frustrations with the system become a great deal easier to understand.

Rentier.
Friday, 20 March 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
How the mighty fall
Friday, 20 March 2009 17:27:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Senator.

I confess to be no fan of yours in the past much like the previous poster. Being a middle aged and middle Jersey lady and very new to the internet. I have been following your blog forum for a few months now and I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever utter or type these words but I believe you are a man of honesty and intergrity and very brave.

This is shocking and frightening and has changed my outlook on the whole HDLG and Lenny Harper business. I don't like to say it but I think you are right.
Friday, 20 March 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Secret Handshakes said...
Rentier, welcome to the truth... no more 'backing the wrong horse', eh?

The fact is, there very definitely is an old boys network in Jersey covering each other's backs to various degrees, to the serious detriment of justice here.

This isn't some grand conspiracy theory that they are ***all*** colluding in evil, but simply that they look out for each other instead of doing the right thing when required. This filters down to the innocent who know what is going on but are too scared to speak out, all the way down the tree to the deluded social climbers who aspire to suck up to the 'successful' and act in their interests while being clueless to what really goes on, and the comfortable ignorant who are happy with their lot and hate to see anyone rock the boat.

This is what many of us know, and what Stuart fights, and thank God he does. Those who regard him as a paranoid conspiracy believer are simply out of touch with reality - it is they who really need to open their eyes.
Friday, 20 March 2009 17:52:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
You have given the perfect scenario to those that want to get rid of you.
Marolia killing you and getting executed while doing so would free Jersey of 2 "evils" in one go.

I fear for you and would pray if I had not left the church today.
Friday, 20 March 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
“Dumbed down people get dumbed down politicians”

Time to wake up all you people in Jersey who think that there is nothing wrong on Jersey?

Protectionism is never the way and many folk knew and know about most of the things that are comming out of Jersey and have known or suspected for years.

Now is the time to say it how it is or was and those who stand in the shadows with knives will fall.

The good honest working people in Jersey maybe frightened to say anything however when the establishment falls as it will You will be better off by far!!!
Friday, 20 March 2009 18:16:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

This is the entry on the Nursing and Midwifery Register:
Practitioner Details

Name: Mr Andrew Marolia

Expiry date: 31 Aug 2009

Register Entry Start Date
Registered Nurse - Adult 16 Jul 1997
Registered Nurse - Adult (Level 2) 05 Jan 1983

Recordable Qualifications Start Date
No Recordable Qualifications registered.

Geographical Location
Channel Islands

This man is still registered to work as a nurse. He will have access to drugs and be near the ill and the sick. If he is so bad why is he allowed to practise?
Friday, 20 March 2009 18:38:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Corbiere ward - again!
Friday, 20 March 2009 18:39:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The hypocrisy in this is extraordinary. A man who purports to be fighting for the correct administration of justice in Jersey is simultaneously able to totally ignore the fundamental principle of innocent until proven guilty. The facts surrounding this guy do not sound good. And my feeling is yes, he has done some terrible things for which he should be brought to justice. But it is possible – just conceivably possible – that all he is guilty of is being unpopular with his colleagues, having a predilection for some unusual sexual practices with a now embittered ex-girlfriend, and being on duty through a flu outbreak. I am not saying that this is the case, just possible. And yet you feel comfortable, despite the fact that he still lives in Jersey, posting his full name and calling him a ‘mass-murderer’ a ‘psycho’ and so on. What is more, you always excuse your worst excesses by inviting anyone who objects to sue. But surely you know that a man in his position does not have the means to even contemplate legal action? What you have done is cowardly and despicable. The fact that you do not believe that justice will be done through the normal channels does not, in any way, justify you setting yourself up as judge, jury and executioner.
Friday, 20 March 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Jinxy said...
Hi Stuart

I spotted Pollard talking to David Beuzeval yesterday afternoon near the Cenotaph. Pollard was very animated when telling DB that he could not understand people believing all your lies! He must be in the Phil and Bill buggery club!
Friday, 20 March 2009 19:10:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The lights were turned out and after 2 minutes of name calling and general childish antics silence fell upon the dormitory; I prepared myself for what I knew was to come.

I went to great lengths to make it hard for them to get to me in bed usually making an apple pie bed and if you went to a children’s home you should know what the is, if not someone will on here will tell you I’m sure.

Anyway I didn’t know exactly what time it was but I heard the sound of keys and segged boots walking up the corridor remembering the pain of 2 nights ago I wished they would pick someone else tonight. I know that is wrong but when you’re a child you think as a child. The door swung open and the two men walked into the room laughing and saying “Remember those two sisters a couple of weeks ago?” “Aye” came the answer from the second man “But something different tonight eh?”

I could smell his breath reeking of alcohol and his warmth as he stood by my bed, I took a sharp intake of cold breath and preyed he would not choose me.

He hadn’t chosen me and had chosen my friend in the next bed James was his name that was the last time I saw my friend.

“The all too familiar story has its familiarity in truth.”
Friday, 20 March 2009 19:13:00 GMT

Jinxy said...
I understand Mick Gradwell was trying to insinuate that it would be easier to drop allegations and take the compensation at the JCLA meeting last night! Was Gradwell on duty last night? I do not think he should be offering advice to the abused.
Friday, 20 March 2009 19:17:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Is this the time for Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf to start making new enemys? Ha Ha Ha...

you could ,ake it up but it would still not be a patch on the reality!!!

If you now think they are bad then double it and add 10 and you still wont be close to the truth of the situation ans if you knew the reality of just how many people are and were actively involved with the keeping of the Jersey Way and how high is goes and has been for decades. Ask Jimmy Savile or Edward Heath
Friday, 20 March 2009 19:38:00 GMT

middle class(less) said...
Tonight I have been pointed in the direction of your blog for the first time as a result of what I read in the JEP.

I was concerned about the allegations of provocation that the JEP levelled at you and was intrigued.

What I have discovered is absolute and downright hypocrisy.

While I can understand, to an extent, how Senator Perchard may have reacted to what he considered to be long term provocation by yourself, I can now see that your blog is a direct reaction to the provocation of the system.

There does seem to be a rotten core to this government and those who support it in their official capacity.

What I find curious is that no official source responds to deny or explain your exposures on here.

There is more to read, so if you pardon me...
Friday, 20 March 2009 19:42:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The NMC have a duty to protect the public, the fact that the man is still registered suggests you are wrong
Friday, 20 March 2009 20:22:00 GMT

Advocatus Diaboli said...
Hello Stuart, the war of attrition continues, this time in London. I had rather hoped that the establishment in London might have been willing to lean on the Jersey Stooges just to remind them who's boss and the penalties for allowing the local can of worms to burst open. I'm pleased that their rather lazy rebuff from compromised individuals hasn't put you off.

Good move to blow the gaff about the possibility of a killer at the hospital - one day you'll get your day in court!

I suspect that Jack "Toe Rag" Straw the Gauleiter of gauche knows more about the bentness of the Islands than you by now so I look forward to the day you see him in the witness box. Probably after the elections mind you. Funny how these days elections look suspciously like fraudulent bankrupcies.
Friday, 20 March 2009 20:35:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
"I understand Mick Gradwell was trying to insinuate that it would be easier to drop allegations and take the compensation at the JCLA meeting last night!"

Shame on him! I hope and pray that most of the Care Leavers have more sense than to fall for what amounts to a sugar-coated gagging order

Proud Survivor
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:25:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
No wonder Chief Minister Terry is hanging on for dear life to Jimmy.
Realistically who would be dumb enough to replace him at this present moment in time?
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Read the report - ask the question 'who else has tackled this subject publicly?

My actions? cowardly?

Sorry - you're in a dream-world.

I'm the only States member who would have had the courage to exposed this maniac.

And - the prosecution system & the judiciary had their chance to determine his guilt or innocence.

They failed - they betrayed the public interest - they didn't pursue the charges and prosecution - becuase it would have been bad for the "image" of the States.

I had the courage - and the oligarchy failed.

The result? This maniac - who you feel so much affinity for - cowardly murdered elderly, frail defencles people.

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:40:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart, Stuart, Stuart

NB The following relates to comments published on this blog, not the original posting which, wise or otherwise, raises different issues.

Uncorroborated publication of anaonymous grievances against health professionals at our Hospital is not the way to go. When Minister I respected your level-headedness when such accusations were brought to you. It is the nature of healthcare that such grievances will arise even when there is fault on neither side. Certainly in some cases there is justifiable cause for complaint. That also is in the nature of healthcare- as is the case with all human activities. Indeed, most justifiable causes for complaint inevitably go unnoticed by patients and relatives alike. Conversely, when complaints are made they frequently have no substance. You are, I would humbly suggest, in no position to judge the validity of complaints submitted to this blog. It is therefore unwise, unjust and certainly not in the public interest to publish unscrutinised allegations arising from anonymous personal experience, particularly when those accused can be readily deduced or narrowed down to one or two possibilities. There is no sense and no natural justice to that. Please reconsider your policy.
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:43:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
He was reported to the NMC, or the equvilant body then, with the objective of having him struck off for the minor convitions.

Though he should have been struck off for those charges, the NMC failed miserably to do so because Marolia got some 'specialist' in to plead post traumatic stress disorder.

So even though he is a maniac - the proffesional body kept him registered - beacuase he was a maniac - if you understand their reasoning.

So much for the protection of proffesional bodies.

Stuart
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:46:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
".... this man appears to have suffered PTSD but was probably profoundly disturbed to join the army in the first place!"

Easy there mate-he may have been traumatised during his time in the Army -but he was still good enough to get into the pretend police force we employ in Jersey!...great lads when it comes to thumping kids or covering up when their mates get caught importing porn!.

I can see why Birt didnt allow this one-it would just be so embarrassing if he was convicted and it came out that he was once one of Jerseys' finest wouldnt it?.
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:47:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
JCLA meeting.......Gradwell tried to slate Lenney Harper and beleive you me they tore into him like a bull to a red rag!!!!!

Gradwell, if you hate the island as much as you say, I will help pay for your ticket to leave!!
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:49:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Well done Rob Kent, you have silenced them, well for a while anyway on PJ. Your post was excellent and perhaps the nerd could place it on Stuarts blog.

Sorry for using your blog to pass that on STuart, I really feel the less people who sign in to PJ to feed the need of JTM and his numerous alias the better.
Friday, 20 March 2009 21:54:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart, if you are worried about your safety may I suggest hooking up a few web cams around the doors and windows to your house. They can be linked to "cloud storage", that is directly to cyberspace so that anything recorded is safely stored far away from you and your home.
Friday, 20 March 2009 22:34:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
This blog was posted last night and there is not a mention of it today on the bbc or ctv.

Crap or corrupt discuss.
Friday, 20 March 2009 23:20:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Islanders of Jersey - RIP

What a sad indictment - and still it goes on.

When will you realise this is wrong???

Stuart you are quite amazing, I don't know how you manage to keep going.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 00:16:00 GMT

Computer Geek said...
Rob Kent on PJ Link
Saturday, 21 March 2009 00:28:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

I'm not registered on Planet Jersey..essentially I don't trust them, but I do get fed up with the JTM virus that infects what is often an interesting site very so often.

Currently Spartacus, Ruddler, Durendal and King Rollo (the latter two have made a recent resurrection) all have the the hallmarks of that well known troll JTM. And on Vue des Ilse I suspect he posts as Troy McLure

If only someone could expose his real identity!

Now there is a task for local commentators - out the sad little git.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 00:41:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

That post by Bob Kent on PJ is indeed one of the most thoughtful regarding your efforts against the obstructive Jersey Way. I also hope someone can provide that link for those who still delude themselves into believing Jersey would be just fine if you stopped telling these uncomfortable truths. The rot you exposed will only spread deeper if it is not honestly examined by an informed electorate.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 01:04:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
If Mr Pollard believes that Senator Syvret is making libellous comments about him, why does he not sue him?

Until he does so, it is reasonable to conclude that Senator Syvret's accusations are founded in truth.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 07:11:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
pipSyvret

How dare you bring this correspondence to the public notice !
This is the kind of disclosure we don’t like on our perfect island !
Don’t you realise your “shafting Jersey internationally” !
What you’ve done will attract international press and we will end up with another “media frenzy” !
You’ve done it now – it’s going to have a direct effect on our well regulated offshore finance industry !
Why don’t you “toe the line” !
You should be like our other politicians and brush this under the carpet !

These are just some of the statements I’m beginning to hear around the island.

Why do you not concentrate on other more important topics like building up the finance industry or helping developers build more offices !

Shame on you!
Saturday, 21 March 2009 07:57:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart
Does the hospital monitor its death rates and if not why not?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 08:20:00 GMT

Jadzy said...
Can i ask, what's PJ?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 08:20:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
This report is 10 years old and people are treating it like its today's news. If Stuart is just going to pull out police reports from the past and give a one-sided story to them then more fool you for taking any notice of them.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 08:43:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

Don’t you realise that you’re going about this the wrong way!! – it will ruin your political career!!!!

I’ve studied politicians over the years and the best way to survive as a politician is to not get involved in anything associated with child abuse stories or misconduct of our island professionals.

Your best plan is to pretend your busy with more important States business which is critical to future our lovely island.

It’s called “keeping your head below the parapet”. Most admired politicians use it. It works very well and it means you will always be very popular with the voters.

My tip to you is to start kissing babies in King Street and champion good causes like “No GST on children’s toys”.

Another tip is to always accept what the Council of Ministers say. By doing this I can guarantee you will never get any adverse JEP or BBC reports.

I’m surprised the other States members who use this method have not tipped you off about how to play the game!
Saturday, 21 March 2009 08:54:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Please go and sign the petition to have Jim Perchard removed from office. There will be people outside the old Woolworths on Monday from Midday until 3pm.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 10:02:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

Do you have any letters/evidence in responce to Inspector Faudemers Report dated 8th May 1999?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 10:28:00 GMT

Jason the Maverick said...
This is laughable, I have had nothing to do with Planet Jersey since January and people now use my name to attack any right wing views people may have!

I think the report is interesting reading but I think there are a few key points which are being omitted here:

A) It is pretty old;
B) If you ever read any Police report they always word them in such a way to make them sound like the person is guilty of a crime;
C) Putting 2 + 2 together may end up being 5;
D) We do not know what the response was.

I think the jury has to stay out on this until the defense has had a chance to counter the prosecution's claims.

This is just my opinion. It is too easy to jump to conclusion in these cases and I actually feel sorry for the person that has now been named on the Internet is such a way. Vigilantism is not something we want in such a small community.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 10:29:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Any more of this carry on and MARIO LUNDY will be round to have a word in your eye.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 11:06:00 GMT

voiceforchildren said...
Stuart.

How can any of our "journalists", in their wildest dreams, deem this not to be a subject of public interest? Anyhow here's another one of my "have your say's" they won't be publishing. It was left for the article on three pateints dying in intensive care because of a bug.

The "superbug" wasn't a member of staff was it?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 11:17:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Re `this report is 10 years old’.

It just goes to prove how long the establishment have been covering up the instances of serious crime on this island. In their attempt to maintain the image that Jersey has low serious crime, and an ideal place for those wishing to avoid paying their dues elsewhere in the world, and to launder (sorry that should be to invest) their ill gotten gains.

Tell me, are you not concerned? Does it matter that it is ten years old?. Is your attitude the same with regard to the victims of Haut de la Garrenne - Oh it was so long ago, so we should not be seeking to bring those to justice who, over the years have bent the meaning of truth and justice, in their attempt not to `shaft the island internationally’.

Well, if you are not concerned, I certainly am! As it once again highlights the lack of regard that the establishment on this Island have for the ordinary person.

Does it not worry you that one day you may end up in the care of someone who in the words of the police is more than just suspect. And in the words of an acclaimed expert, exhibits all the characteristics of a `serial killer‘?

Tell me was the world wrong after 1945 in publishing the names of people who were `suspected’ of marching millions of women and children into gas chambers?

What planet are you on? Our families are not safe! And, because of the cover-ups and corruption on this island, remain at the mercy of any lunatic who has conned their way into our society. Wake up!!

A very concerned Jersey person
Saturday, 21 March 2009 11:43:00 GMT

Jason the Maverick said...
Voice for Children.

You cannot jump to conclusions all the time from just hearing one side.

This does sound to some now as a deliberate witch hunt and to move it up a gear from throwing toys, to a deliberate view in order to create massive political distrust.

Like I said, it was interesting reading, but if we start vigilantism on a whim then the consequences can back lash severely.

For the record, I have no doubts at all that child molestation happened at Haute de la Garenne.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 12:53:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Dear Stuart

More scandal at the hospital and the JEP gave them an easy run.

They should have asked why the superbug got in there in the first place.

Dirty hospital, poor infection control practice by health care professionals and no effective governance systems.

It really is time that Pollard and his senior managers went before any more unnecessary deaths.

The hospital is becoming more like a death chamber than a place of safety.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Jason

I do not advocate vigilantism - which is the administering of summary punishment - often violent - by mobs of people.

I have put this material into the public domain to hopefully provoke the authorities into acting now, but, more realistically, to supply this information to the public so they may draw their own conclusions.

You're really going to have to do better than such trivia as accusing me of throwing toys out of the pram.

As a number of other people have observed, including people who don't usually agree with me - on this blog and a load of other forums - this is an extremely serious matter - involving as it does potential mass-murders, a defective hospital management system which failed to protect the public good, and a profoundly serious criminal investigation which got dropped for de facto 'political' reasons.

If you and others really can't find anything of greater relevance to write about arising out of this subject than childish and trivial personal attacks on me, then you and they just can't expect to be taken seriously.

And - I must point out - the evidence is a little more than 'just one side of the story'.

We have a very professionally written, concise, and well-evidenced police report.

Frankly, even on the facts as revealed in this report - let alone others that may have emerged with some more investigation - Marolia should have been charged and prosecuted.

Even if, however unlikely, he had been acquitted - the absolutely overwhelmingly vast public interest requirement in prosecuting such cases is simply beyond dispute.

Stuart
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:14:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Hey Jason why not, you do, incidently the written word is this case related to a "Police Investigation" READ the evidence. Police in the plural there would of been more than one Police Officer collating the evidence.

Now we know you don;t like it, neither do I personally like people who tell porky pies - so toddle off to your little planet - where you may not have used JTM in recent weeks but, oh dear oh dear your not very good at covering up, you need to take some lessons from the Establishment your so fond of especially Senator em um ooh whats his name?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:18:00 GMT

Jason the Maverick said...
But Stuart quote "to supply this information to the public so they may draw their own conclusions."

Is only your way of attempting to create a one-sided conclusion.

What will happen now? The person named has lost integrity for starters and will probably take legal advice on the matter.

I have, like many people around have access to information that is sensitive but I would never dream of putting it onto a website because I know it would create upset and potential repercussions to me.

You are a fire starter and I feel sorry for the majority in government that have to put your fires out all the time.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:29:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
"Any more of this carry on and MARIO LUNDY will be round to have a word in your eye".

Rather that than have to endure "gymnastics class" with Dancin' Danny!.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:34:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Jason

Your argument is feeble.

Too much trolling I fear; you know, it can loosen one's grasp on how to construct a cogent argument?

The logical conclusion of the view your posit here is that gross, public administration scandles should be kept under wraps - lest exposing them should make the public doubt the ethics and competencies of their government.

As many people have observed to me privately, and yes, even those who don't usually agree with me - this is not a 'right-wing vs left-wing' subject; the argument is not 'establishment vs anti-establishment'.

Subjects of this nature transcend the mundanities of partisan politics.

This issue is simply one of overwhelming public importance - regardless of which side of the political fence one stands.

Stuart
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:45:00 GMT

Sick of bullies said...
Jason stop being a hypocrite about taking the law into your own hands ~~~ we all know how badly youve treated various people
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:45:00 GMT

Jason the Maverick said...
Stuart, I am not here to argue with you.

If you cannot see the other side of the coin then you have selective blindness.

Have you spoken to the report writer about this yet? Did you consult the reporter on this issue before publishing his report on the Net?

You are running into a situation where all the facts are not known thoroughly.

By your responses so far, I would say you are not aware of all the facts because that information is beyond your authority to view.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:59:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Overdale
Saturday, 21 March 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
@ Jason the Maverick

A) Your first point is irrelevant “There are no statutes in limitations law in regards to murder or torture there are no time limitations in law to prevent any accused person being charged with a murder/murders.
B) I have read many police reports and you may think that they are skewed towards a person who may well be guilty or not, however the point of those reports are for a court room to decide and not the police or some official other than a judge to decide given the opportunity. That did not happen as the report was not seen by the court when the offender was charged with unrelated offences.
C) Verging on the ridiculous, Putting 2 + 2 together may end up being 5; Not when I went to school it was 4 and if you get given only one of the numbers i.e. 2 and then a +, but the other number refers to the facts of a case then one could almost decide the outcome if you’re the AG…
D) The response is also irrelevant as the response should have been an in depth public inquiry and not the obvious cover-up.

“Vigilantism is not something we want in such a small community. “Sounds like someone has something to hide or fears the retributions of others to me.”
Saturday, 21 March 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
It is with interest that I read about the latest scandal affecting our world class hospital. The hospital apparently spent millions on cleaning itself up last year. Did anybody check that there were adequate hand washing facilities, changing and laundry facilities for staff.
Stand outside Patriotic street carpark and watch as staff turn up for work in uncovered dirty uniforms, hair hanging down and covered in jewellery and nose studs. World class indeed
Saturday, 21 March 2009 14:11:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

I’m getting increasingly disturbed by people saying to me that:-

“Stuart Syvret rocks the boat!!”

Well I’m beginning to think they’re right. They say these things because they recognize you’re not doing things “The Jersey Way”.

If you take my advice you should drop all this concern about child abuse.

Look how well the Dean is respected by the establishment. That is because he does not “rock the boat”. He knows where his bread is buttered and it’s not in his best interest to pay any attention to concerns of child abuse. He knows that in years to come he will be able to stand with great reverence and preach about the great injustice that has happened in our society. Of course to cover himself he will only do this once he is sure that he will not upset any of the establishment.
In the meantime he just concerns himself with important things like the church roof.

Stuart, if you could act more like the Dean, people would accuse you less of “rocking the boat”.

Perhaps, the next time your in the States, you can ask the Dean for a tip or two on the best ways to appear concerned about the welfare of abused children but do absolutely nothing about it?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 14:57:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Jason

I'm afraid a fundamental point has gone completely over your head.

One of the fundamental issues here is that I DID have authority to view that information.

Just as I had the authority to view the Dylan Southern report into the conduct of the McGuires.

The point is that even the very EXSITENCE of such reports - and God only knows how many others - was deliberately withheld from the H & SS Committee.

My Committee should have bee fully informed of, and alerted to, these matters.

Instead, we were kept in the dark - and only years later did the truth emerge, thanks to brave whistle-blowers.

Stuart
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Last time I saw Marolia he was running a ladies hair salon in Gorey Village.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:10:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart, I agree with Jason, the fundamental issue is that you have not posted the professional responses to this report or any other.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:12:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Having read many of JTM's other arguements it clear that it JTM who suffers for slective many things. Blindness being just one!
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:25:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
As far as I am aware - there was no "professional response" to this report.

The meeting referred to in the covering letter took place - then?

Nothing.

Stuart
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:25:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Jason "I have like many people had access to sensitive information" Blimey Jason I think either this is a fanciful declaration or just who's bed have you been sharing? Sensitive information indeed something you have always maintained, perhaps Senator Syvret ought to be asking questions in the States as to why it's only him that is charged with Leaking sensitive information when it appears that any Johnny in the street has access to it as stated by you on is blog. Perhaps the local constabulary will be knocking on your door as well.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:44:00 GMT

Elaine said...
Hi Stuart,

Sorry to go off track here but I just noticed your comments pages have a Google PR8, thats Google Page Rank, and very very few websites get PR8 from Google!

Thats as well as getting close to 124,000 unique site users.

Well done!
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:47:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Go Jason Go !!!!!!!

It is about time somebody brought this Island back to normality!
Saturday, 21 March 2009 15:51:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

Your going to totally ruin your political career unless you stop “rocking the boat”.

Don’t you realize you may have totally blown any chance of a plum seat on the board of a bank or the directorship of a prestigious Jersey company!

The way you’re going you will leave the States without a nice little nest egg.

It’s not too late! But only if you ditch all this talk about child abuse and misconduct by certain senior public servants.

Let some other conscientious fool sort that out!

I suggest you get set up with a major development company (indirectly of course !!) and get involved in some of the big spend projects like the Esplanade Quarters. That way you’ll be flying the flag for Jersey Ltd and have a nice little earner for when you leave the States!! I think they call this “The Jersey Way”.

I guarantee you - people will stop saying your “rocking the boat”.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:16:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
> Go Jason Go !!!!!!!
>
> It is about time somebody brought
> this Island back to normality!

yes, we know what kind of 'normality' you like.

No thanks
Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:41:00 GMT

Well done sir, said...
Here we go, Rankinevision reporting, standby to be arrested by Ms Martins and Jersey's finest :-)

That will give you the chance to get a lot out in the open! I wonder if they'll be so foolish..........?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 16:52:00 GMT

Linda Corby said...
Hi Stuart,

This is totally gross, this just cannot be allowed to continue! It is sick!

I hope you don't mind but I have done an article and put it out there with a quote of the report in in, it just makes me feel ill. Obviously with links back to your blog.

You deserve a medal a gold one at that, here if you need me!

http://lcorby.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/mass-murder-gets-covered-up-the-jersey-channel-islands-way/
Saturday, 21 March 2009 17:16:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
From the BBC report in 2005 re Jersey health standards

"UK inspectors to check hospitals
Jersey hospitals are to be inspected by UK health officials under new plans to be implement by a newly-appointed member of staff.
Jersey's Health and Social Services Department is introducing new guidelines which all its services will have to meet.

Rose Naylor has been appointed as Head of Governance to deal with the plans.

The Health Department says in many ways Jersey's standards are better than those in the UK.

However, it says it wants to continue to improve by cutting waiting times for patients, introducing better clinical standards and providing good value for money.

The guidelines will be checked by inspectors from the UK's Healthcare Commission.

The first inspection is expected to take place in two years time."

Congratulations Mike Pollard - you really are a treasure
Saturday, 21 March 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Now that this has been disclosed what is likely to happen to you?
Will the police re-examine the evidence and is there anyone there strong enough to stand up to the AG?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 18:12:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
have any other states members got access to these docs?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 18:23:00 GMT

Luis Portugal said...
Hello
It has a nice blog.
Sorry not write more, but my English is bad writing.
A hug from my country, Portugal Inglês
Saturday, 21 March 2009 18:36:00 GMT

Jinxy said...
You cannot believe a thing Minty says. The NIMBY tells lie after lie. No doubt another attempt at a cover up on the way. SOJP not to be trusted.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:19:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Anyone know if DI Faudemer is the same Barry Faudemer now Head of Enforcement at the Jersey Financial Services Commission? Have you spoken to him Stuart, to find out what happened following the meeting?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 19:48:00 GMT

voiceforchildren said...
Would be worth swapping notes! http://www.vox.gi/Local/Which_Newspapers_do_EC_Commisioners_Read-20032009.html
Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:03:00 GMT

Paul said...
I have had time to read and think about what you have posted and was initially outraged at the whole affair. Still am but I think you have made a huge mistake here.

Not a mistake in posting it but a mistake in not deleting peoples names. It would still have had the same effect and no doubt people would know who it referred to but any naming of the person who is alleged to have committed the crimes.

Is it possible that you can get booted out of the states or as an elected member is that not possible? I ask this because you may have now put yourself in a position whereby you are kicked out and if that happens then you will have lost any chance of justice as you become a normal ignored member of the public. As opposed to a senetor who gets ignored.

Dont get me wrong I agree with what you stand for but I really think you may have made a huge mistake. After all the support you got from people regarding the JP insults myself included, I feel you may have stooped lower with this article by naming the alleged perp.

Imagine if you were one of the people whom Birt etc did not allow prosecution of because of lack of evidence or something else but you were innocent. You could wreck an innocent persons life through no fault of their own.

I hope the people who read your blog consider this expecially those posting where you work.

Yes, this guy sounds guilty but what about the next and the next and so on. Sorry but i think leaving names on this and future posts is completely against what you stand for.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:08:00 GMT

Johanna said...
Hello Stuart,
I have taken the liberty to quote and translate parts of your posts on my newly created Blog in german dedicated to stories that get swept under the carpet. The wider the audience, the better...
Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:14:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
What was the out come of Marolias Court reappearance on 19th May 1999?
There must be records of this.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:32:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Thank God.
CTV has finally has a report about this on teletext.
Oh, it seems the major issue here is whether you have broken data protection laws.

Ahh the good old Jersey way.

Wait for the critical editorial in the rag next.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:39:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
This is not the way to get justice Stuart, you should not be making such reports public.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 20:41:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Nurse B, Nurse C, Lesley Higgins, Dr Holmes, Jenny Le Gallais, Dr Ian Berry, Dr Vincent, Mr Richard Walter, Barry Faudemer.
Surely one or all of these people should now come forward, or not mind being contacted in relation to Andrew Marolia, surely these valuable witnesses need to, and would like to help and clear their consciences.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:03:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
If the case is to be re-examined this will need to be done by an external team
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:08:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
I know engaging with their argument only encourages these sorts of people but, what the hell, we need some light relief from our Hammer hospital of horrors.

Jason (ahem) "the maverick" said
"You cannot jump to conclusions all the time from just hearing one side."
No not all the time. But if a politician is shown a police report that identifies a health worker who has been accused of attempted murder by colleagues and is found in illegal posession of drugs which can kill people without leaving signs of murder. Then I would hope the politician (well anyone at all actually) would ask why this wasn't taken to court.

"Maverick man" then states
"I have, like many people around have access to information that is sensitive but I would never dream of putting it onto a website because I know it would create upset and potential repercussions to me."
So you have evidence of uninvestigated claims of murder?
If you do have knowledge of important crimes you really should tell someone. Go on be brave, like Stuart.
If your sensitive information is just scandal or gossip well fair enough. Thanks for not sharing

And to round it off that edge living (and somewhat comical) maverick says
"Stuart, I am not here to argue with you."
Well, you are really.
I mean this is Stuart's blog page.
If you were expressing an opinion on any other site you could say that. But if you click onto the "Senator Stuart Syvret Blog" and express a different opinion well, you are, in fact, here to argue.
So from now on, (and this also applies to that poor, benighted fool Jim Perchard) if you do not like what you read here don't visit the site.
It's easy.

P.S.

Is the "maverick" handle some sort of reference to that classic camp film "Top Gun"?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:10:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
A mistake to post the report, and not the way to seek justice?

As far as my personal position is concerned - undoubtedly a "mistake".

But I knew that beforehand - yet did it anyway.

Bailhache and his very, very friendly cop, Minty are already on my case. (By the way, Dave - when are you going to investigate and prosecute the gangster politician whose brazen corruption is well-evidenced and witnessed?)

As I said in earlier comments, I had to think very carefully about publishing this report.

And I did, actually, excise some innocent names from it.

I published it because - plainly, and on the record of the Jersey oligarchy and its prosecution service - the prime suspect will - never - be prosecuted for the offences.

Get real - if Birt & co were credible when it comes to protecting the public good, this man would have been prosecuted 10 years ago.

But no - not good for the old "image", eh?

And, likewise - the staff named in the report do, absolutely, deserve naming.

Again - face facts. What other form of accountability and justice is ever going to be faced by senior States of Jersey employees?

None. These people ARE the system. They are Teflon-coated.

Don't believe me?

Then why hasn't the lying, child-abuse concealing, patient death causing, hospital chaos inducing clown that is Mike Pollard been sacked yet?

Just watch.

Instead of being sacked, his mate Bill Ogley will renew his contract - and then we're stuck with the shyster.

You tell me what I do is not the way to seek justice?

Sorry - but it's the only way we have left.

Stuart
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:10:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
fond on google in piblic domain

Barry Faudemer Director, Enforcement Jersey Financial Services Commission.
14 - 18 Castle Street
St. Helier
Jersey JE4
8TP
Email: B.Faudemer@jerseyfsc.org ...
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:14:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The recent scandal in the Mid staffs Trust demonstrates how flawed strategic planning can be:

Here is an extract from the web that your readers may find interesting - our esteemed MOH may have help develop the Foundation Trust strategy.

"Title: SHROPSHIRE AND STAFFORDSHIRE STRATEGIC HEALTH AUTHORITY LOOKS TO THE FUTURE
Date: 30 July 2004

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shropshire and Staffordshire people were today invited to help shape the future of healthcare across the two counties as part of an exciting project to deliver improved services to patients.
Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) unveiled its vision for health services in 2010 and is now appealing to the public, industry, voluntary groups and health professionals to have their say about the proposals.

Our Health Tomorrow has been developed by the SHA with three patient groups from Shropshire, North Staffordshire and South Staffordshire, health service managers and front line clinicians and now a 12-week consultation has been launched to develop and improve the plan.

It includes moves for more patient centred services, improvements on waiting times, the development of local services and primary care and improvements to services for children, older people and mental health.

It also tackles issues such as obesity, poor diet, inactivity, smoking and infections.

Following the consultation the SHA aims to develop Our Health Tomorrow and turn the vision into reality to create a better NHS for patients in Shropshire and Staffordshire.

Today Dr Rosemary Geller, Director of Health Strategy at the SHA, said: “The vision the SHA sets out in Our Health Tomorrow reveals the authority’s aspirations for a better NHS by 2010. It is challenging and will require a great deal of effort on the part of NHS organisations, local authorities and others to make it a reality.

“It builds on what we are already doing, while at the same time, challenges the practices of today to deliver fundamentally different, innovative and better patient services for the future”.

Dr Geller added: “The next stage of this vision will be to make plans which detail the approach we are going to take to turn the vision into a better NHS for patients.

“It would be wrong to finalise this plan before patients, NHS staff and managers as well as partner organisations and local authorities have had an opportunity to tell us whether our vision is correct and worth pursuing"

The 400 deaths at A&E tell you that you were wrong!
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:24:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
" After all the support you got from people regarding the JP insults myself included, I feel you may have stooped lower with this article by naming the alleged perp.

Imagine if you were one of the people whom Birt etc did not allow prosecution of because of lack of evidence or something else but you were innocent. You could wreck an innocent persons life through no fault of their own."

If the investigation has ended, as it's fair to assume after this much time. Then there is nothing to stop someone, politicians or public, from naming someone who they believe has committed a crime.
It's only once the person has been charged that retraint is required.
Every day people are publicly charged with crimes that they will be found not guilty of committing. Their names are made public and sometimes they can be remanded into cutody until their trial.
Newspapers have often exposed criminals to the public via front page scoops before the accused have been to court or even charged.
The Daily Mail printed pictures of the suspected killers of Stephen Lawrence because they believed the police investigation was being stifled. They claimed to be acting in the public interest to ensure the case would not be dropped.
It would take a drooling, deranged megalomaniac to prosecute someone who is revealing what they believe to be a cover up of multiple murders.
Uh oh.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:29:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

If you had the power of this blog ten years ago, you would have been doing then what you are doing now.
Power to the Blog, and the Internet
Saturday, 21 March 2009 21:49:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
It is not too late for Phase 1 to progress to Phase 2, these are not historic event, yet.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:26:00 GMT

Jinxy said...
You know that the right thing to do is tell the truth. You are a brave and honest man with a lot of support from the people. I have spoken to a lot of people today and have only heard praise for what you have done. Good work Stuart.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:36:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
If I was Inspector Faudemer, I would be wondering, why was my first class report was never taken seriously?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 22:37:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
If the investigation has ended, as it's fair to assume after this much time. Then there is nothing to stop someone, politicians or public, from naming someone who they believe has committed a crime.
It's only once the person has been charged that retraint is required.
Every day people are publicly charged with crimes that they will be found not guilty of committing. Their names are made public and sometimes they can be remanded into cutody until their trial.
Newspapers have often exposed criminals to the public via front page scoops before the accused have been to court or even charged.
The Daily Mail printed pictures of the suspected killers of Stephen Lawrence because they believed the police investigation was being stifled. They claimed to be acting in the public interest to ensure the case would not be dropped.
It would take a drooling, deranged megalomaniac to prosecute someone who is revealing what they believe to be a cover up of multiple murders.
Uh oh.

I think you have just answered my question.

Once your name is on a blog site you are guikty till proven innocent!
Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:11:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Action has to be taken on this latest blog, and the ones to be published in the next few days or weeks, otherwise who knows what our children and grandchildren will think, when looking back at these here for ever, blogs.
Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:25:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
'Today Dr Rosemary Geller, Director of Health Strategy at the SHA, said: “The vision the SHA sets out in Our Health Tomorrow reveals the authority’s aspirations for a better NHS by 2010. It is challenging and will require a great deal of effort on the part of NHS organisations, local authorities and others to make it a reality. '

Is this our same Dr Rosemary Geller who edits our annual health report?
Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:42:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Hi stuart, i think you,ve done what any decent person! who is voted in buy the people of jersey, just a shame no one else had the balls to do it! at long last people are waking up to whats going on here, money comes before anything here , this lot have lined there pockets , is this the place we want to bring up our children? an island run buy crooks and liars who cover each others backs , there is an option we could leave this island, which would then be left to the wealthy! but who will do the jobs? its time to stand up to this lot, theres a great jam song called set the house ablaze from the sound affects album, just perfect for our wonderfull greedy lying goverment
Saturday, 21 March 2009 23:43:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Hi Stuart, well it seems the sh.. has hit the fan.... at last. Numerous people have vented their feeling as to whether your decision is right or wrong and have made their feelings known.

You made the decision, a decision which I feel is in the interest of future generations. Your decision may help to insure that carpets and brushes are not the way forward.

If a society cannot expect honesty from their rulers the society is undermined.

Already the kangaroo courts have started who is right and who is wrong, naming and shaming or covering up, which is correct.

Like one of your bloggers said this should in fact be handled by an outside police agency provided of course all the relvant documentation has not been "ripped up, shredded or whatever" This should be carried out by officers who have no connection whatsoever with current police officers or who are friends with the Bailiff the AG or the Bailiff in waiting. A fair apraisal should be made of the police findings which were made by an officer who was held in high esteem by serving police officers during his employment with Jersey Police Force, not only in Jersey but internationally also.

With regard to naming names, that was your decision a decision I have no doubt whatsoever you did not come to lightly. You have put your job, your credibility and above all your life on your line in your quest for justice. How anyone can condem a person for this is beyond me I can think of no-one else I know be it on-line or in life would take such a step knowing the consequences. This, in my humble opinion, took more than guts but the actions of a man who actually cares about injustice.

I must admit I may not agree with all your views, my god your not a saint, however, I do, like so many other people prefer truth and justice to a society that places their need for greed before people.

Jersey has been and continues to be "shafted internationally" and in my humble opinion that is not by you, it is by those in high places who put their own needs before the needs of the people they supposedly represent. My heart goes out to all of those people who have suffered under the years of suppression by a government who put their own needs before the needs of the people who pay their salaries.

I have always maintained that the most important people in any society are the clean a uppers, you know the ones I mean, the men who clean the toilets, empty the bins, clean the streets, these people are paid a pittance for their labours yet the ones who cover up the sh.. for another day are the ones the tax payers are paying the most to. A lesson to be learnt.

My plea is to the genuine residents of Jersey to support Stuart, you may question him, his motives etc., etc., at the end of the day it is Justice for you and your children he is to be commended not insulted.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Why don't we ask the police to set up a blog with every police report they have on file? Then most of the Senator Syvret judges on here can go through the lot with their verdicts. Once established that everybody named no matter what is guilty we can then have hangings back in the Royal Square.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 02:22:00 GMT

Debbie said...
Anonymous said: "Once your name is on a blog site you are guikty till proven innocent!"

That's not true. A person's name might appear on a blog showing that a finger of suspicion is pointing at them, but guilt or innocence isn't be proven other than in a court of law. If the person with the suspicious circumstances surrounding them can prove innocence, then there's nothing wrong with said person suing the blog writer.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 08:50:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

I’ve been following your career with interest and I feel you’re in danger of being ostracised by your fellow States Members.

It’s not too late for you to change!

I guarantee you, if you change the main focus of your States business to that of expanding the finance industry, you’ll be welcomed back into the flock.

So stop looking into areas like child abuse and misconduct of senior senior public servants. It time consuming and there is no financial gain for the island!!

I’m not surprised you are being ostracised by your fellow States Members.

My tip to you is to join a nice club like the one in Stopford Road. There you will be surrounded by like minded States Members and upstanding members of the public. They will help you focus more on helping yourself.

With their support you will be guided into fine financial projects which will not upset the establishment and at the same time you’ll find you’re personal circumstances will be enhanced. I think they call it “The Jersey Way”.

You’ll never be in danger of being ostracised again!
Sunday, 22 March 2009 09:24:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

Interesting article in todays Observer - where does this sound like? Except we have no Health Commission to report to.

"Even the whistleblowers have been silenced

What hope do we have of being looked after in hospital if targets are more important than care?
Comments (24)

* Nick Cohen
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o Nick Cohen
o The Observer, Sunday 22 March 2009
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To my knowledge, the only writer who has ever dared give a psychopath the implausible career of an NHS manager is Christopher Brookmyre, the fast and funny Scottish novelist. In his 1996 Quite Ugly One Morning, the villain, Stephen Lime, moves from the City to run an Edinburgh hospital. He hates the idea of doctors overruling executives. "They just couldn't see, could they?" he rages. "The people who had medical experience were precisely the wrong candidates for NHS senior management, as they brought too much sentimental baggage." Doctors "haemorrhaged funds to give some old grannies a few more years of drooling and incompetence", and space in buildings which might be sold for a fortune if only the "coffin-dodging" patients disappeared.

To get a share of the profits from handing the land to a corrupt developer, Lime bribes a surgeon to start poisoning the elderly. Brookmyre makes his manager's lust for money a plausible motive, but what could he do with the managers of the Stafford Hospital? They were not driven by greed or a psychopathic fury. Their motive was so banal no novelist could entertain it: they wanted foundation status for a north Midlands hospital. To win that pathetic prize, 400 patients, maybe up to 1,200, died, amid silence from the professionals who were meant to protect them.

Just as hardly anyone in the City spoke out as the banking system careered towards catastrophe, so those who ought to have shouted from the rooftops about patients begging for help from excrement-stained beds bit their tongues. Their dereliction of duty is all the stranger because, while Labour did not regulate the City, it sent an army of quangocrats to monitor the NHS and helped staff raise urgent concerns by providing statutory protection for whistleblowers.

For all that apparent encouragement, whistles were not blown by doctors or nurses in Stafford. Instead of independent professionals with the confidence to defend the public interest, the Healthcare Commission described sullen staff, bullied by managers and neglectful of patients. Doctors told its investigators that they had been "proletarianised": turned from professionals with their own codes and standards into employees who must obey.

The management implemented a "dictate and impose" approach when it decided to allow untrained or partially trained nurses and secretaries to rush patients through A&E so that the hospital could meet its targets and attain the sanctified foundation status. It "steam-rollered" staff and made it clear that it "did not welcome critical comments".

The enemies of the public sector, who railed against consultants in the James Robertson Justice mould, who thought the NHS was run for their benefit, can see the results of the triumph of target-setting and box-ticking over professional autonomy. We now have a service where doctors are so frightened of the sack they go along with callous neglect. One senior figure explained: "Doctors know that if they cross the NHS they put their career on the line. In London, consultants with private practices are maybe more forthright, but on the whole doctors with only the NHS as an employer have a poor record of defending patients."

Mortgages make cowards of us all and a cautious consultant who wanted to warn of mass deaths may well wonder who to blow the whistle to. Labour abolished the community health councils, which once acted as effective voices for patients and their relatives. The supposedly independent non-executive directors on trust boards can be guarantors of the public interest, but across the NHS they also know that if they shout too loudly about the colossal costs of a Treasury PFI scheme or the failure of the latest unworkable IT project from the Department of Health, they will not advance in the quangocracy.

In Stafford, directors fell into a second trap and were captured by the management. The Healthcare Commission noted that the board gave "considerable attention to marketing and public relations" and never asked for reports on death rates in the wretched hospital its members were meant to be monitoring.

Suppose whistleblowers were to turn to the press. They would find a cowed Fourth Estate, which is being battered by the recession, and a judiciary which does not believe in freedom of publication. Last week, Mr Justice Blake banned our sister paper, the Guardian, from publishing leaked documents from Barclays which showed how the bank was avoiding the taxes the little people have to pay.

To me, it seems obvious that the public has a right to know how the rich increase the tax burden on the rest of us. It is not at all clear to the judiciary, however, and there is no guarantee that the judges would not also silence a paper which wanted to publish internal documents from a fatally dysfunctional hospital.

The final discouragement to a potential whistleblower came with the news last week that Cynthia Bower, former chief executive of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority, which was meant to check standards at Stafford hospital, is likely to be the head of the new health regulator, the Care Quality Commission. A public service has to be just, and while I am sure Ms Bower is an admirable bureaucrat, in many respects her promotion makes a mockery of national justice.

To put it another way, whistleblowing codes and regulatory quangos are no more use than the targets for rushing patients through A&E, if there is not a self-confident culture to uphold just standards. If that culture could not develop in the boom years, when money was being poured into the NHS, how will it grow in the worst recession of our lifetimes? With jobs vanishing, Brookmyre's "sentimental baggage" will be jettisoned as all but the bravest keep their heads down and watch what they say."
Sunday, 22 March 2009 09:53:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
People being judged on this blog?

The reader who makes that criticism hasn't (a) understood the situation, or (b) is a person who prefers the culture of concealment.

People get exposed, named & shamed on this blog when all the appuratus supposed to protect us has failed.

All those rich senior civil servants you feel sorry for, those who conceal such things as child abuse, paitient deaths and mass-murders - and those who committ such crimes - all of them should have been heald to account by the system.

Instead their bosses, official disciplinary proceedure, the police, the prosecution system and the courts have failed us.

Our saftey, wellfare, and right to an effective public sector have been repeatedly betrayed by 'The System'.

Exposing wrong-doers on blogs like this is our last resort.

We have no choice - because the courts in Jersey - even if they were competent - never have these serious, embarrasing, damaging cases put before them - because succesive AGs act as prosecutor, judge & jury - and determine guilt or innocence - without bothering with all that messy public trial buisiness.

Much better for the "image" of the oligarchy that way, you see? Less risk of "shafting Jersey internationaly".

And why bother - when the States disciplinary proceedures can be kept busy oppressing troublesome whistle-blowers like Bellwood - and the courts can be kept busy by prosecuting uppity proles like JDA members?

Our public sytems are corrupted, stagnant and have failed us.

Citizen Media is our last resort.

Stuart.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 10:58:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
THAT LEADER

Talk about hypocricy ( sorry can't spell!) the JEP already knew that Perchard wanted you to top yourself as they already had evidence to support that - so why didn't they publish it back then....why wait until you exposed him for the bully he is?
Is it because he was not Minister for Health the first time he wished you dead ...........what an excuse for a newspaper - the JEP is. If we had been served by a better standard of impartial journalism in this island teh government and authorities would not be descending into chaos now.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:13:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
I totally agree with naming the civil servants, I hate the way they get away with anything they want.

But because I dont agree with you naming members of the public before they have a chance to prove themselves innocent then I must be on the side of the cover uppers.

What an observation, i disagree with one part of the blog item so am no better than the scum running this place. Thanks.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:55:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

I note you often say you get very tired.

I have a tip for you which will guarantee temporary relief from all the work you do.

Across our happy little islands, groups of people congregate in building every Sunday. You’ll find these buildings dotted all over the place – they’re normally named after some ancient Saint from years gone by.

Within any of these places I can guarantee you that none the topics you normally deal with will come up for discussion. This will be a great relief to you – it certainly seems to be with all the congregations.

Local community problems of any importance are out of bounds, especially if it might upset the establishment – so don’t worry about that!

No one points any fingers especially towards any misguided political policy – so don’t worry about that!

Africa is often under discussion – this might be because we send a few thousand pounds there. I expect it’s their way of thanking the lucky African business men who get to bank billions of pounds in our island. You will not be made to feel hypocritical because they only discuss the money we send there. I think it’s called “The Jersey Way”.

Don’t worry about having to discuss any major world problems - those types of problems are only discussed after the event. A good example of this was apartheid.
You’ll find that the injustices of apartheid are only now discussed openly. I guess this saved upsetting anyone in the island with a vested interest in apartheid.

Anyway, after the meeting you’ll get a great feeling of self righteousness. So give it a go!
Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:55:00 GMT

BBC Useless said...
What a waste of a BBC Talkback programme! I'm not saying that the environment isn't important - obviously it is - but with all that's happening at the moment, 2 hours that produced nothing worth hearing was a complete waste of time!

When are they ever going to do their job properly and let you on to discuss issues that the people really care about?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 12:03:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The JDA have admitted to breaking the law though Stuart. You cannot have it both ways, either everybody follows the law or they do not.

I can't see how this nurse can now be charged with anything following your release of this. How could they get a jury in Jersey together now that won't know about this story if it went all they way?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Samares Ward - neglect and dehydration. Ask Rose Naylor to explain that one
Sunday, 22 March 2009 13:20:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart
In my personal opinion you are wrong to name this individual - it is essential to the people of Jersey that we have you in the States assembly and privy to what is going on, with every two fingered gesture you aim at the Establishment - you move closer to exit stage left!

I listen to all debates and follow local politics ( I do use that word 'politics' lightly) closely and whilst I do not agree with your tactics I do beleive that politicians of your stature come about in Jersey very rarely, I concede that we have a number of young guns in waiting but they are not of your intellectual capacity.

Put simply we need flys like you in the ointment and should you ever be able to or wish to stand again you have my vote.

Anyone with an inkling of how 'The Jersey Way' works will know that there are people on the Establishment payroll furiously beavering away to serve your head on a platter at the Bayleafs ByeBye Banquet......Crocked Bean a La Syvret......regretably this last post has played right into their hands.

This man deserves some privacy - Jersey being Jersey - his name did not have to be published - what has that served but to demonise him - he has already been charged and sentenced for some of his misdemeanours - you could have published the report without his name people know who he is.

If I was him I would do an interview with the JEP to put his side of the story into the public domain. I would rather reseve my judgment against him until such time as I have heard his account of his experiences.

You have named and shamed him - he may be guilty - the number of deaths on his watch do seem alarmingly out of kilter with the 'average' number of deaths over similar periods. I do sympathise with the alleged victims but that is exactly what you are talking about allegations.

PTSD does exist, Gulf war Syndrome does exist - I am of the opinion that he too has been failed by the system -and to what end .......to perpetuate the myth of Jersey the paradise island.

As for the excuse for a Crown Prosecution Services that our island has - well that is a wholly different issue - it needs root and branch investigation and if your blog avhieves anything it is a full investigation of the offices of our Attorney General. Jeresy is afterall an independant dependancy.

You shoudl remove his name from your BLOG forthwith - that is my humble opinion.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 14:25:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Naming Names.

I understand your point of view. I did, in fact, wrestle with the decision as to whether to take out all names.

However - finally I decided that the key names had to stay in - especially his.

Why?

Because you know as well as I do - The Jersey Way System will do nothing effective with this individual - just as it didn't last time around.

There is, therefore, a public interest element in at least naming the individual concerned, so that people may be on their guard against him.

This exercise is not something I've gone into lightly.

From a personal perspective, I'm in a lose-lose situation - for all kinds of reasons - merely a few of which, you describe.

Ultimately - it was a judgment call - and I had to conclude that exposure of him was the action in the public interest.

Stuart
Sunday, 22 March 2009 15:06:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart, I cannot agree with any of your fans on this move. Its a step over the line. What will they do next? Probably charge you under data protection, the victim will probably sue you and people will be concerned about more reports being made public again, so they will not trust you.

This isn't whistle blowing it's playing god.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 15:27:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Dear Stuart

To all your detractors who say you should not have named this individual, and bearing in mind he is still registered with the NMC as a nurse, I ask one question:

Would you want to place your life in his hands to look after you?

Chilling isn't it?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 15:46:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
HdelaG, Harper, Power, Perchard, Ogley, Pollard, Hospital deaths,
Mrs Rourke........................

THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING!!!!!!

Thank God for Stuart Syvret.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 16:07:00 GMT

One Day said...
Reading the debate on the naming of names, I can't help but wonder why there was not the same 'outrage' when Mario Lundy et al. were named. Is this because the public in general perceive these alledged crimes to be worse? How various children were treated in homes has indeed cost some of them their own lives, often by their own decision. Perhaps because the abusers did not directly murder them then their crimes appear to be regarded as less shocking.

These people need to be named to enable the public to be able to question why they did not stand before the courts facing a trial etc. How can all these acts be descibed as not in the public's interest to pursue?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 16:12:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
If I lived next door to a "child fiddler" I would want to know, in the UK there are lists. In Jersey no lists.

If I went into the General Hospital I would want to know that anyone who has been remotely suspected of unlawful abuse of drugs and medical equipment. I would want to know.

Since this guy is still on a list that would allow him to get a job, even though he has been tried and charged with serious drug offences because that is what they are I would want to know "WHY"

What is stopping this man from getting another job with a Health Authority, stealing the drugs meant for the patients for whatever use.

That is NOT playing god that is being honest with the residents who may use the service.

The only complaint I would have is why this guy was not named earlier, why this guy remains on a register allowing him to gain employment as a nurse, most of all I would want to know WHY this guy was not charged and tried by a judge and jury.

One man should NOT be able to make the decisions that Child Abusers, suspected Murderers are allowed to roam the streets of Jersey without reproach.

Stuart you are a brave man, could I have done what you have done, who knows.

One other question one may ask is Why are unelected representatives to the States of Jersey in possession of confidential information, perhaps this guy should also be arrested and the person passing on this knowlege be charged with Dats Protection. Sauce for goose, sauce for gander.

PS If this information has been in the possession of workers in the Health Department one can presume that many other people are aware of the situation that took place in 1998/99.

There are many questions will anyone get any answers, I doubt it.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 16:40:00 GMT

Tony Gallichan said...
Someone has already probably sent you this but...

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/7957760.stm[/url]

think they're gonna get you for this one, old chap...but dammit, you did the right thing...plus lets face it, they try anything and the royal court gets rushed by a rather large crowd of people.....

Sorry, but Im still for a popular uprising..peaceful, none violent, but throw the buggers out of the island, remove their assets leaving them just enough to live on. Throw em in prison if they've been found guilty of corruption after an investigation....

So much should be done, folks....so much to do...
Sunday, 22 March 2009 16:44:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The JDA have admitted to breaking the law though Stuart. You cannot have it both ways, either everybody follows the law or they do not.

I can't see how this nurse can now be charged with anything following your release of this. How could they get a jury in Jersey together now that won't know about this story if it went all they way?

Doesn't that mean that no one should ever be named if they are going to be tried by a jury in Jersey?

What about the JDA2? Weren't they named before the court case?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:05:00 GMT

ellie said...
This is a very disturbing report,and I think you were right to release it. I am however slightly worried about one aspect of it. You say you fear for your life if this "nurse" is still in Jersey and might try to get revenge. However I worry about the evidence that has been shown from various nurses who worked with him. He will obviously recognise these people if he reads this blog, and are they not also in danger of revenge for speaking out against him? Perhaps they will also be worried that he will try to contact them? I don't know, it is such a terrible thought that he may have tried to end patients lives prematurely but revealing the nurses' observations might be dangerous for them.A difficult one.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:19:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
BBCnews 24 running story Jersey hospital. About time
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:23:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
"This isn't whistle blowing it's playing god."

FOR GOD'S SAKE!
Stuart has simply made public the information that the police and some of his colleagues in the hospital suspected a nurse of committing murder.
Stuart has not committed a crime here, he is alerting the public to the fact that a serial killer may have escaped prosecution.

The police had evidence to charge the man and nothing was done.
Ten years later is long enough to assume the case has been dropped.
A few years ago the national press were openly speculating that Ian Huntley may have killed two children long before the police charged him.
He still went to jail.

Would all you champions of data protection prefer just to let another rancid little secret rot away in our society?

Don't you see it's not just this case!
Just as the Greenfields abuses were a legacy of HDLG this another symptom of our culture of secrecy.
The omerta that is imposed anytime something occurs that is deemed to be embarrassing to the island allows criminals to commit crimes, neglect to go unnoticed and dangers to go unreported.

Looking the other way until it's clear doesn't solve any problems it just creates new ones.
We need to be honest now with an open and unbiased court case to either clear this mans name or punish him for his crimes.
We have to do this for HDLG also.
The truth should be the truth wherever it's spoken so why can't these cases be heard in the U.K.?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Jersey nurse deaths claim probe
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:34:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
What kind of twisted mind reads this article and is outraged by the disregard for data protection?

That's what makes you angry?

Nothing else?

Nothing?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:35:00 GMT

Derek said...
I'm starting to ******** hate this island.

Beautiful but Poisonous.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:39:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

I think you made the right decision, the judicial processes in Jersey are completely flawed, as evidenced by the refusal of the then AG to pursue the case further and allow the evidence to be tested in court.

Innocent until proven guilty? Only if you can trust the Law to follow proper process. The Law after all is but a useful social construct and depends on fair application.

Also innocent in Law does not mean innocent in fact - the law is not interested in getting to the truth. You only need to look at the case of Elizabeth Rourke. It all depends on how good your lawyer is, how many criminals have been let off on technicalities?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 17:50:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
First Gulf War was 1990 - 1991. Was AM admitted to the police after he returned (presumably suffering from PTSD)in which case why was he acceptable to join the force, or was he an already serving officer who return to his job, again if suffering from PTSD why was he allowed to return without assessment.
He is later allowed to join the Health Service, convicted and sacked for stealing drugs and then re-employed!
A search of his hoem finds:
1. One lump of brown cannabis resin, tablets and scales.
2. Knuckle-duster.
3. A Police Philips radio (in working order).
4. Bag containing various medications.
5. Eleven syringes with a clear liquid within, and other medication, including
two bottles of potassium chloride.
6. Six firearms, with large quantity of ammunition.
7. One expired Firearms Certificate.
..not what one expects to find in a normal family home, surely cause for great concern and alarm.
NOTHING IS DONE!!
Where or where Stuart do the Establishment buy its massive, mega, huge brushes for its even bigger carpet?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:13:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
1. One lump of brown cannabis resin, tablets and scales.
2. Knuckle-duster.
3. A Police Philips radio (in working order).
4. Bag containing various medications.
5. Eleven syringes with a clear liquid within, and other medication, including
two bottles of potassium chloride.
6. Six firearms, with large quantity of ammunition.
7. One expired Firearms Certificate.

Not the possessions of a normal everyday family man I feel.nrast
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:15:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Could I just point out to whoever submitted the recent comments with expletives in that I prefer not to publish such material.

Should you wish to re-submit the comment without the swearing, I'll post it.

Thanks

Stuart
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:28:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
The potential dangers posed by this man.

This was an obvious concern of mine - for those around him, and me. I therefore took the precaution of alerting the police to the fact I had published the report round about the same time as I posted the blog.

Stuart
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
What is the law on exhumation in Jersey?

DT
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:31:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

Insulin and potassium chloride - easily available to a nurse.
In some of the wards at the JGH they don't even bother to lock the potassium/sodium chloride and water away. There was a case were a nurse auxiliary was giving sodium through patients venflons. The committee re-instated the person after a disciplinary sacked him. I believe your previous assistant minister and Mike Pollard were responsible for that patient centred approach
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:48:00 GMT

Nick Palmer said...
On the Talkback show this morning, Nick Jouault and Mike Stentiford mentioned that, in the final analysis, the only way to get anything done in Jersey is to stand up and shout about it. How sad. How worrying.

During my time with Jersey Friends of the Earth, when we did things like returning thousands of empty milk cartons to the Jersey Milk Marketing Board and demonstrating outside shops who kept their doors fully open in the depths of winter and thereby wasted energy, we got a lot of flak from people who argued along these lines - by doing demonstrations like this, they would say, surely you are reducing your own credibility because most people will look at you as somebody not to be listened to if you do "radical" things like this. "Why don't you just write to the relevant authorities about your concerns?" they would say, helpfully. The thing is, in this final statement, we can see the fundamental underlying assumption of too many ordinary Jersey people. They believe in the adequacy and conscientiousness and goodness of the system and they believe that going through the system by, for example, writing a nice polite letter to the relevant authorities is an effective, correct way to go about things and will have results without resorting to that nasty placard-waving nonsense that people in other countries do... unlike in civilised Jersey...

They literally seem almost unable to comprehend that those who shout about it - whistleblow about it - demonstrate about it and generally kick up a visible public fuss about it (and leak documents etc) do this because, in general, they've already gone through the system the "correct way" of doing it and been frustrated over and over again - constantly stonewalled.

Writing in or raising a concern the "normal way" is not a box ticking exercise that absolves you of all responsibility in the matter. Sometimes, if you know your concerns are being improperly dealt with by the system, or you have no faith in the competence of the system to take the correct action speedily or at all, you should feel an overriding social responsibility to step out of line and DO THE RIGHT THING. Sadly, in Jersey, the situation is that the whistleblowers or the daring angel mavericks will get dismissed or otherwise clamped down on. This is the moral corruption in Jersey - it is a consequence of too many people living corporate "yuppie" lives and accepting the limited moral values of that culture without public argument. Too many people kow-tow to the system or, more exactly, the people who administer the system without considering the fundamental principles of truth, justice, morality, fairness, accountability and responsibility that those systems should be based upon.

The people only give the Law power over their lives because they believe it is rooted in those values I just outlined. If it becomes divorced from those values by expediency or becomes a tool for the suppression of those who call into question the judgement and values of the lawmakers and administrators, where these diverge from the 6 values above, then we are all in trouble.

I say the "Spirit of the Law" is everything; blind application of the "Letter of the Law" is where much injustice occurs. During my Senatorial campaign, I was astonished to find out that Ian le Marquand didn't know the term casuistry - from Wikipedia - casuistry is the basis of case law in common law, and the standard form of reasoning applied in common law

In essence, it argues that the breaking of a small law or social norm to prevent a far more serious problem is valid. An example would be the priest who hears the confession of serial killer in his confessional box and breaks the "client's" confidentiality.

Some laws have this "get-out clause" written in. For example, the Jersey Postal Services Law has provision to prosecute people who break the confidentiality of a client using the service. However, the law also has a section which allows confidentiality breaking in a "defence of the realm" situation. For example, if a terrorist plot appeared to be underway, action must be taken - the greater good overwhelms the lesser evil as far as some laws are concerned. The application of the Law in Jersey sometimes seems to miss or ignore the fundamental moral justifications underpinning, and giving validity and power to, that law.

Stuart may get prosecuted under the Data protection law. Although I have not studied it, I hope it has a similar section which allows actions for the "greater good" of society to bestow immunity from relatively minor technical breaches of that law (or it is a badly written law).

Brave people are driven to drastic actions by the imperviousness and incorrigibility of many of those in the system and it is extremely annoying when people with a blind faith in the system criticise others who are driven to distraction by that system - ultimately forced to more extreme lengths. As Stuart says, what he has done is a matter of last resort.

Where I diverge from Stuart in his relentless quest to bring the leaders of our judiciary and senior civil servants to book is his apparent assumption that the "coal-face" workers are blame-free.

It is obvious that employees in Jersey who go just a little outside of the line-in-the-sand of mindless, unquestioning compliance are stamped down on very heavily. Also, it clearly takes a very brave or foolhardy individual to stick to their moral guns and not just keep their mouths shut.

However, I believe ultimately it is the lack of bravery of the majority to stand up for what is right that is to blame. A sort of unspoken conspiracy of the democratic majority to do nothing, say nothing and keep their heads down to avoid personal risk. At the end of this post I will quote the lyrics of the song Universal Soldier by Buffy Sainte Marie which shows that it's not necessarily the bad and the evil or the power crazed and the corrupt who are totally responsible for all the evils of the world. It may be uncomfortable for the majority to realise that the person who doesn't speak up because they have a mortgage to pay, or are concerned about compromising their career prospects, shares the responsibility too.

This is Pastor Niemoller's famous poem about political apathy - written about the rise of Hitler but applicable in a much wider sense to those who see things yet do nothing in order to keep a comfortable life for themselves.

"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me."

This is the 60's song

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
Buffy Sainte-Marie
© Caleb Music-ASCAP

"I (Buffy) wrote "Universal Soldier" in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in Toronto in the early sixties. It's about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all. Donovan had a hit with it in 1965."

He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
and he knows he shouldn't kill
and he knows he always will
kill you for me my friend and me for you

And he's fighting for Canada,
he's fighting for France,
he's fighting for the USA,
and he's fighting for the Russians
and he's fighting for Japan,
and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

And he's fighting for Democracy
and fighting for the Reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide
who's to live and who's to die
and he never sees the writing on the walls

But without him how would Hitler have
condemned him at Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body
as a weapon to a war
and without him all this killing can't go on

He's the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from him, and you, and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end to war.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:50:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart
Please send the report to the NMC - they need to look at this under professional misconduct and not fitness to practise through ill health
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:57:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
The great enemy of the Truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and realistic.

John F Kennedy
Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:57:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart

I posted earlier the article from today's observer, I also left a comment about to the effect that at least in the UK there is the Health Care Commission and an investigative press, whereas here we have neither, I also mentioned the scandals and cover up in the Jersey health services, the suspensions, dismissals and disciplinaries against anyone who raises concerns and finally mentioned you a Jersey politician deposed as minister for health because you raised concerns with a link to your blogsite.

Guess what they have removed my comment - I'm really p*ssed off with what I thought was a newspaper that was not afraid of political pressure.....seems I was wrong.

Anyway have Just posted the following no doubt that too will be removed:

"Why did you delete my comment about the Jersey Health Services? Is the UK press only interested in its own scandals?"

Anyone want to join me the site address is

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/22/nhs-whistleblowers-nick-cohen?showCommentBox=true
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:08:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
A.M. reappeared at the Magistrates Court on 19th May 1999, and a meeting with Michael Birt was held at Police Headquarters on 20th May 1999.
Records of the court appearance, and minutes of the meeting held at Police HQ the day after, would make very interesting reading. Thats if the records of these two important and incriminating events are still, or ever have been in existance.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Even the whistleblowers have been silenced
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:16:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Reported on BBC Radio 4 news.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:17:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
I have a certain understanding of what happened at the meeting - but no documented evidence.

The court judgment - I have.

And in at least two respects, it makes very disturbing reading.

Stuart
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:20:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Michael Birt must be now, a very worried man
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:31:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
He certainly should be.

I'm gradually writing a blog dedicated to the subject of the fascinating Mr. Birt.

Whilst the subject of this post is the most appalling - there are lots more examples of his "failures" to prosecute, misuses of power, partisan political interference and derelictions of public duty.

In fact, it just so happens I was going through some of my files this afternoon, and re-discovered yet another example.

Some people - in their nativity - so long for the departure of the Bailhache Brothers - that they looked to Birt as an improvement.

Sorry to shatter your illusions - but he is every bit as bad as them.

Stuart
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:39:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Posted on the guardian

"Even when you blow the whistle all you get is ridicule and hatred from those who will be held responsible for whatever you blew the whistle on."

The BBC pay scant regard to any issue's coming out of one of our dependecies Jersey.

They appear to be able to get awy with murder, child sexual abuse and so many other crimes that it make Zimbabwe look civil.

The BBC in Jersey which I pay part of my licence for are keeping the lid on so many attocities its behond belief, lots of influential people within the media in Jersey are related to some of the accused as well as the police and politicans.

Black is the soul of those who did nothing to help these children.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:43:00 GMT

voiceforchildren said...
Not only do we have a possible Mass Murderer in our midst we have Mario Lundy still doing what he does best. We have Tom Mckeon still walking the streets. We have the Maguires living a life of Riley on tax payers money. We have the HDLG and toothfairy saga. We have the, what appears to be, avoidable death of Elizabeth O'Rourke (possible corporate manslaughter) Our health Minister encouraging suicide, swearing and lying in the States. Our Education Minister leaving it to National Newspapers to answer questions about his Chief officer, the list goes on. And the biggest news appears to be you naming names. You couldn't make it up!
Sunday, 22 March 2009 19:53:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
"Why don't we ask the police to set up a blog with every police report they have on file?" - previous comment.

Look around. In most of the free world, that is exactly what is published for all to see in a police blotter. Whilst the fuller documentation of a criminal investigation may not be automatically published for all to see, the arrest and detailed charges could normally be made public, legally. Only in Jersey would this be an issue of such ridiculous controversy. Jersey is unique in all the supposedly Western world in devotion to such secrecy.

Do Stuart's critics realize that millions of people all over the world have access to names and charges of those arrested? Sex offender names are published and film footage of arrests and crime witness accounts fill news broadcasts in multiple countries, nightly. Only the names of sex crime victims(!) are frequently withheld.

You see, outside of Jersey, a free press generally manages to investigate and report on exactly the kind of details Stuart has exposed here, even when charges are not brought. That is the value of the fourth estate, in a system with checks and balances.

Don't believe this? Hop the ferry, or go almost anywhere abroad, and you can quickly find at least some remaining examples of a printed free press, even where most larger media conglomerates now serve corporate masters. The internet makes free speech almost impossible to stifle, so even Jersey is now being exposed to that cleansing bright light of objective truth.

An objective reader of this blog logically concludes that no charges were ever going to be brought in this nurse's case. Now, if Stuart is charged with data protection law violations, that will be an outrage to democracy lovers throughout the world, who see Jersey as what Stuart calls "A little microcosm."

The hyperfocus in Jersey on a single elected Senator, like Stuart Syvret, seems due to his role as the only balancing force against a corrupt regime. You have only this senator serving as the entire fourth estate, as well as serving as your most popular elected official, and then also striving to represent victims of a generation of abuse.

Odd, Stuart claims to have little higher education or money, and may have seldom travelled much beyond Jersey, but he thinks as a person who has a vastly larger world view. It appears he and his supporters are the only ones who foresee that Jersey's corrupt provincial banana republic is being dragged into a future with more transparency than it is yet set up to withstand.

I believe many of Stuart's supporters are outside of Jersey and consider Stuart to be an increasingly international figure in the fight for democracy. He would have little limit to his support off the island, should he ask.

I have no doubt he will play an important role in much to be written and published in the future, for many eyes are upon him, now. If he is harmed for his efforts to expose the truth, even more global attention will be called to "The Jersey Way."
Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:01:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Stuart,

Just thought I'd mention your staggering number of first time blog visitors. Looks like nearly a thousand new viewers over the past 30 hours or so. Where do they all come from?

Newfan
Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:37:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Join the guardian comments the talking about Jersey
Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:49:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
Absolutely staggering. The case is only being reopened because the public have been alerted to these alleged crimes on this blog, but in the same breath, SSS may be prosecuted for breaching data protection. Where's the justice in that?
Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:49:00 GMT

Tony Gallichan said...
well, i double checked with a Journo friend of mine...a proper journo, not one from The Rag, but the uk.

As most here suspected, putting the report up IS a clear case of libel and will affect any possible investigation and court case.

Trouble is, that report is now all over the net - that ol' copy/paste option, so usefull for blogs, don't cha know?

You did the right thing - as have those of us who've copied it...however the law may well get you for this one, we shall see. Personally, I think you need an adviser..someone on your side who can basically say 'oi, hang on, look, just take a step back a mo, remove that name or that date etc, and you'll be ok'

Its not going to do any good to anyone, least of all you, if you get done big time...we need you out, about and blogging

So, isn;t it time we started getting together online properly? That way we can help, advise and make sure Stuart doesn't carry the can on his own and, hopefully, doesn't 'shoot himself in the foot' as my journo friend calls it, lol?

We need to organise, folks...
Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:31:00 GMT

Senator Stuart Syvret said...
Tony

I appreciate your concern.

But as explained previously - there is simply no way the mainstream media - local, national or international - would have run this - unless and until someone like me had put it out there.

Ultimately - this was the only realistic way of getting the issues in the public domain.

There is no prospect of Marolia being prosecuted - whatever.

Let's face facts about that shall we?

If the Jersey oligarchy weren't going to prosecute him 10 years ago - what bloody chance do you think there ever was of them doing it now?

Nil.

Christ - look, for God's sake - Bill Bailhache won't even extradite and prosecute the McGuires in order to protect Birt and The Jersey Way.

I'm afraid your journo friend suffers from a lot from the fear that keeps the truth suppressed - even in supposedly free Britain.

Look - even The Daily Mail, fer Christ sake - named and exposed the murderers of Stephen Lawrence.

There comes a time when you just have to take your courage in both hands and do what is right.

The last, remote, chance there was of effective justice in Jersey - in this case and others - was the court action in London on Tuesday.

See my previous blog - for the surreal, "you couldn't make it up" frank, corruption of that episode.

Lord Richards and Justice Tugendhat had the opportunity there to do what was right by law - and what was in the public interest.

They failed - instead putting the old boys' network first.

When all aspects of the law, of prosecution, of courts have failed - really - what else is there left to do other than what I have?

Stuart
Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:49:00 GMT

Anonymous said...
tony, with you 100% how many of us is there. I will start. I'M IN. Please put your support down as "I'M IN"(just once,to be helpful to this poll),

SSS, with you all the way
Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:50:00 GMT

Tony Gallichan said...
Fair enough..well argued. I do understand why you put it up - and agree with you doing so....just remember some people worry about you, ok? :) Apart from being a decent bloke, your too damned important to be silenced, whether you think so or not.
Sunday, 22 March 2009 21:56:00 GMT

Jail 'no big deal' for former Jersey politician Syvret

2010-11-20T16:46:00.000Z

20 November 2010 Last updated at 14:58

Stuart Syvret Stuart Syvret said the prisoners he met in La Moye were "very friendly"

Former Senator Stuart Syvret has said spending a night in Jersey's La Moye prison was "not a big deal".

Syvret was jailed for 10 weeks for contempt of court after leaving Jersey for six months whilst facing data protection and motoring charges.

He spent one night in jail before being released on bail pending an appeal against his conviction for contempt of court.

Syvret, 45, has also refused to do community service.

"Obviously one would prefer not to be in prison, but all things considered it wasn't bad and the staff were perfectly professional and polite," he told BBC News.
'Psychologically prepared'

He said the prisoners were "very friendly".

"I knew a lot of them anyway - former constituents I'd tried to help over the years and one or two people I recognised from my school days," he said.

"So actually being in prison wasn't that big a deal - it was something I was psychologically prepared for."

Syvret was jailed on Wednesday by magistrate Bridget Shaw.

He was also fined £4,200 and ordered to pay £10,000 in prosecution costs for the data protection breach.

His sentence has been condemned by some MPs in the UK.

Jail 'no big deal' for former Jersey politician Syvret

Former Senator is freed on bail

2010-11-18T21:46:00.000Z

Adam Fowler spoke to Mr Syvret as he took his first steps to freedom.

Former Jersey Senator Stuart Syvret has walked free from court following a successful bail application less than 24 hours after being found guilty of contempt.

Mr Syvret was jailed on Wednesday for ten weeks. The main reason he was granted bail was that he would have served most, if not all of his sentence, before his appeal could have been heard.

He will now appear at a directions hearing in January.

On leaving the court Mr Syvret told Channel Television: "I'll be going for the appeals process, I'll be taking other civil actions also, against the States of Jersey, I don't expect any long term success within the island obviously because the judicial system is so politicised here but this has all been taken with a long term objective to challenging the structure of power in Jersey before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and that has always been for at least the last two years, the long term goal and the actions taken agains me in the last day or so, I mean jailing me for 10 weeks, on the basis of three charges I'd only had less than 24 hours notice of, you know, it's great actually because it just adds massive weight to the evidence and the cause of getting Jersey cleaned up."

Advocate Christopher Scholefield also told us his realease on bail pending an appeal was not unexpected: "It's not unusual, it happens all the time. If you're convicted but you are appealing and your prison sentence is not a very long one, you're granted bail very often, pending your appeal, so that by the time the appeal case is heard there isn't the danger that you've already served your sentence in prison."

Meanwhile UK politician John Hemming MP said he believes Stuart Syvret is a victim of 'political persecution'.

Mr Hemming has tabled a Commons Motion on the matter. He says he is shocked at the decision by the Jersey courts and is calling for the British Government to raise concerns about his treatment.

The motion has the support of UK MPs Peter Bottomley and Bob Russell.

Mr Hemming told Channel Television: "It's wrong to prosecute him because it is in the public interest for people to know what's going on. The politicians have a duty to speak out, the whistleblowers should be protected not jailed. I've already tabled a Commons motion about the issue. I have spoken to the Chair of the Justice Select Committee. And I have written to the Minister of the Crown Dependencies. And the issue will be taken up over the next week or so."

John Hemming MP has tabled a Commons Motion.

No one expected Stuart Syvret to be released so soon after he was taken to La Moye, least of all his supporters who mounted a campaign for what they called 'justice' for the former Senator.

Adam Fowler has the story of the Support for Stuart.

Former Senator is freed on bail

Jersey politician Stuart Syvret bailed pending appeal

2010-11-18T20:56:00.000Z

18 November 2010 Last updated at 18:26

Former Jersey politician Stuart Syvret has been given bail pending an appeal against his conviction for contempt of court and data protection offences.

Mr Syvret, 45, had been jailed for 10 weeks by magistrate Bridget Shaw.

He was found guilty in the magistrates court after he left the island for six months while facing data protection and motoring offences.

He has been granted bail after making an application in Jersey's Royal Court earlier.

He was fined a total of £4,200 and ordered to pay £10,000 in prosecution costs for the data protection breach.

Mr Syvret is appealing against his sentence and conviction.

Jersey politician Stuart Syvret bailed pending appeal

Witness ‘lived in fear’

2010-11-18T18:13:00.000Z

By Carly Lockhart

Anthony and Morag Jordan arriving at the Royal Court. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

A CRIMINAL who lived in Haut de la Garenne as a boy has described how he ‘lived in fear’ of a man who worked at the home.

The 39-year-old, who has been charged with various offences over the years and is currently serving a jail sentence at La Moye for a violent assault, gave evidence yesterday in the third day of the trial of Morag and Anthony Jordan.

He said that living at the children’s home was one of the worst times of his life because Mr Jordan would frighten and beat him constantly.

The defendants, who are both 62 and live in Scotland, are charged with a catalogue of assaults on 11 children, some as young as two, while they were houseparents at the home between 1970 and 1984.

Read more: http://www.thisisjersey.com/2010/11/18/witness-lived-in-fear/#ixzz15evFJHQL

Ex-minister is sent to prison

2010-11-18T18:10:00.000Z

By Ramsay Cudlipp

Stuart Syvret

FORMER Senator Stuart Syvret was jailed for ten weeks, fined £4,200 and ordered to pay legal costs of £10,000 as his lengthy court case finally came to an end yesterday.

At the conclusion of his trial in the Magistrate’s Court, Syvret was fined after being found guilty of twice breaching data protection laws. He had named on his internet blog a former Hospital nurse who he accused of murdering patients – despite a police investigation finding no evidence to support such claims.

But it was three new counts of being in contempt of court that led to his imprisonment, with Syvret paying the price for fleeing Jersey for the UK last year. He was charged with being in contempt between November 2009 and May 2010, when he did not attend court, and for walking out during proceedings.
‘Public interest’

Ex-minister is sent to prison

MPs condemn decision to send Stuart Syvret to prison

2010-11-18T12:55:00.000Z

Stuart Syvret Stuart Syvret has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison

Three MPs are condemning the decision by Jersey's magistrates' court to send former senator Stuart Syvret to prison.

Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming tabled a Commons motion claiming Mr Syvret was the victim of "political persecution".

The 45-year-old has been jailed for 10 weeks after being convicted of contempt of court and breaking data protection laws.

Mr Hemming wants the British government to raise concerns about his treatment.

Mr Syvret was arrested after publishing a confidential police report into suspicious deaths at the island's General Hospital, containing the name and details of a suspect.

He argued there had been a "cover-up" and said he was acting "in the public interest".

John Hemming, along with fellow Liberal Democrat Bob Russell and former Conservative minister Peter Bottomley, said he has been jailed for "criticising the Jersey establishment for its failures to enforce the rule of law".

They say the sentence "is an attempt to frighten others away from raising concerns about the failings of the justice system in Jersey".

Mr Syvret stayed with Mr Hemming for six months while in self-imposed "exile" in the UK.

Mr Hemming told BBC Jersey he felt Mr Syvret wanted to make a point.

He said: "I'm not surprised because what he wants to do is see the rule of law properly instated.

"One of your problems in Jersey is you do not have judicial review on the Attorney General.

"Which means you cannot challenge the failings of the prosecutary apparatus to prosecute people who have committed real offences and not nonsense offences.

"He needs to highlight this and I understand all of that and I am not surprised that he wasn't going to compromise."

MPs condemn decision to send Stuart Syvret to prison

Former Senator jailed

2010-11-17T19:20:00.000Z

Former Senator Stuart Syvret

FORMER Senator Stuart Syvret has been jailed for ten weeks after being found guilty of breaking the data protection law and being in contempt of court.

The former Health Minister was also fined £4,200 and ordered to pay legal costs of £10,000 as his lengthy court case concluded in the Magistrate’s Court late this afternoon.

Syvret was found guilty of twice breaching the data protection law and being in contempt of court on three occasions.

Former Senator jailed

Former Jersey senator Stuart Syvret jailed for contempt

2010-11-17T19:01:00.000Z

Stuart Syvret Stuart Syvret, a former Jersey senator and health minister, represented himself in court

Former Jersey senator Stuart Syvret has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for contempt of court.

Mr Syvret, 45, left the island between November and May and failed to make court appearances, the island's magistrates' court heard.

He was also found guilty of two charges of breaking data protection laws.

The court heard he published on his blog a confidential police report into suspicious deaths at the island's General Hospital.

The report contained the name and details of a suspect.

After a thorough police investigation officers found no evidence that any crime had been committed, however.

Mr Syvret published the report on his blog believing there was a cover up and that it was in the public interest, the court heard.

He was fined a total of £4,200 and ordered to pay £10,000 in prosecution costs for the data protection breach.

Magistrate Bridget Shaw offered Mr Syvret the chance to be assessed for community service but he declined.

She told him he "only had himself to blame for the outcome".

Supporters in the court applauded the former politician as he was led out to the prison van.

He has said he will appeal the verdict.
Former Jersey senator Stuart Syvret jailed for contempt

Former Senator Stuart Syvret is jailed

2010-11-17T18:37:00.000Z

Former Senator Stuart Syvret has been jailed for ten weeks and faces heavy fines after being found guilty of three counts of contempt of court.

He was offered community service but refused.

The former Father of the House was also found guilty of two breaches of the island's Data Protection Law and a number of motoring offences.

He was fined a total of £4,200 and ordered to pay a £10,000 contribution towards the cost of the prosecution.

The data protection breaches related to an entry on his blog in March last year. In it he published a confidential police investigation into allegations that a nurse was killing patients at Jersey's General Hospital.

The path to prison

Syvret says he will appeal against the sentence and the fines.

Former Senator Stuart Syvret is jailed

A lifetime of hell

2010-11-17T17:32:00.000Z

By Carly Lockhart

Anthony and Morag Jordan arriving at the Royal Court. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Anthony and Morag Jordan arriving at the Royal Court. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

FOUR former Haut de la Garenne children yesterday described years of abuse at the hands of two carers who worked at the home.

The alleged victims, now in their 40s, took to the witness stand in the Royal Court and gave emotional accounts of how Morag and Anthony Jordan, both 62, terrorised them as youngsters.

One woman described the abuse as ‘a lifetime of hell’ and claimed that she still had nightmares about what happened.

The defendants, who live in Scotland, deny a total of 48 charges of assault on 11 children in their care at the home between 1970 and 1984. Ten of the alleged victims are due to give evidence during the course of the trial.

A lifetime of hell

No need to apologise

2010-11-16T22:44:00.000Z

LetterstotheEditor

November 16, 2010 – 3:00 pm

From Lenny Harper, former deputy chief, States of Jersey Police.
I WAS somewhat bemused to hear that your Chief Minister has called for an apology from myself and Graham Power.

This is on the same day as you report that two of those on my priority suspect list when I retired are facing court.

I suppose that in the Mad Hatter world in which some Jersey politicians exist it does seem right to apologise for believing the evidence of victims of State child abuse, both during and after the actual physical abuse.

I suppose they think it okay to apologise for refusing to be intimidated by senior politicians and civil servants with their warnings that my stubbornness could bring the government down.

It really is unforgivable to consult with experts in the UK regarding information received about human remains in Haut de la Garenne and to then take their advice and investigate further.

And imagine the nerve of not apologising for having Association of Chief Police Officers in the UK describe our inquiry as a shining example of how such an enquiry should be carried out?

I suppose if I had fabricated a letter used to demolish the credibility of victims then I would have been a good guy and the JEP would have repeated their glowing words about my work that they published after the second excellent HMI report on Graham Power’s watch.

But then again, what do the HMI know? Perhaps I should have taken the victims’ statements and replaced them with summaries of my own which actually made them look to be inventing stories. I could have given these summaries to the AG and not told him they were actually my own work, that the real thing was very different. Now, didn’t I read that somewhere in the Napier Report?

Or, like a former Home Affairs Minister, the one after Wendy Kinnard, I could just have changed my mind with each new piece of evidence.

On reflection, I think that I sleep better having that sort of people criticise me and the victims and ordinary decent people believe that I tried my best for them.

Article posted on 16th November, 2010 - 3.00pm

No need to apologise

Haut de la Garenne abuse trial begins

2010-11-16T18:49:00.000Z

By Carly Lockhart

Anthony and Morag Jordan arrive at the Royal Court yesterday. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

Anthony and Morag Jordan arrive at the Royal Court yesterday. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

A COUPLE who worked at Haut de la Garenne inflicted a regime of physical and mental cruelty on vulnerable children in their care, an Assize jury heard yesterday.

Morag and Anthony Jordan, both 62, are charged with a catalogue of assaults on 11 children while they were house parents at the home between 1970 and 1984.

Yesterday was the first day of their trial and a jury of six men and six women heard that their alleged abuse of babies, toddlers and teenagers was ‘frequent and callous’.

The couple, who are retired and live in Scotland, deny a total of 48 charges against them. Mrs Jordan, from Dundee, faces 36 counts of physical assault and her husband, from south Wales, is charged with 12 counts of physical assault.

The trial, which is being heard in the Royal Court, is expected to take three weeks.

Haut de la Garenne abuse trial begins

“A DIRE WARNING TO ALL PARENTS IN JERSEY, and possibly, WALES”

2010-11-14T18:40:00.000Z

An Elderly Paedophile Plumber by the name of T*** P**** is a child abusing monster.
Whatever you do, do not employ, or let this evil creature into your home, at any cost. I believe he is living in South Wales now, with a woman who has a young teenage daughter, and this woman knows of his past, but he may be coming back and forward to Jersey for work as he (I believe) has a plumbing contract with The States of Jersey. He has abused many children for most of his years and I doubt he will ever stop. This is also the view of his family.

T*** P**** came to Jersey many years ago after doing a 'wages snatch' in England, seriously injuring a man. Somewhere along the line, perhaps through his knowledge and paedophile tendencies, he entered the Sea Cadets in Jersey. Unknown to most people, he had two stints in the Sea Cadets. The first stint ended when there were allegations of sexual abuse against minors, he was simply ordered to move on. However, some time later, amazingly, (to any rational way of thinking) he was reinstated into the Sea Cadets in Jersey and began to abuse children again.

He was one of the animals that use to take the children from Haute De La Garenne, on their 'special' boating trips. It also transpires that T*** P**** was highly ranked in the Sea Cadets. This next extract is from family member, J*** P**** (family) “Haute De La Garenne used by the Sea Cadets, yes, shit head was a leader”. Perhaps not an unreasonable response from a family member, that is, until you are informed that T*** P**** horribly abused his own siblings also!

In 1998, T*** P**** seriously sexually assaulted a 13 year old female (Jersey) Sea Cadet, and then told her “he would kill her if she mentioned the incident to anyone”. She kept her mouth shut for several days before she finally broke down at school, but by this time, her mother had washed her clothes and the evidence was lost. She was so traumatized by the ordeal, that at one point she tried to take her own life, and spent time in hospital. Thankfully, she lived. This young Lady now has a small child of her own, who T*** P**** (last year) had also threatened “TO GET”. Shortly after this incident another victim came forward, but retracted her statement, perhaps out of fear, or being deterred from following on! There were also a number of other alleged victims that the Jersey Police wanted to trace and interview. During this time, T*** P**** told the investigating Jersey Police Officer, D.C R** M*****, that he “had committed the crime, but they (the Jersey Police) couldn’t ever prove it”.
The case was then dropped, shattering the victim a second time!

Then in 2007, the Jersey Police contacted her (the Jersey victim) again, this was to ask her if she would go ahead with her original complaint. They wanted to use this complaint as a holding charge for T*** P**** whilst they investigated other allegations from new witnesses/victims. T*** P****’s house was raided and he was arrested. Two days later, the Jersey Police informed the young victim that T*** P**** had produced a fax, allegedly sent from the Investigating Officer D.C R** M*****, who had died shortly after the original investigation!!! The fax was alleged to have said that “no further action would be taken against T*** P**** in this case”. I must add that the victim has told me that D.C R** M***** was absolutely passionate and determined that T*** P**** should never get away with his crimes. Also, neither the victim, nor any member of her family has ever seen this fax. She states, “It’s once again, all because the Jersey Police have f*@*ed up, or are trying to hide something. I don’t believe this crap about a fax, that they have tried to blame on a dead man. I have never seen a copy of the fax and I have never received anything in writing from them (the States of Jersey Police) to explain any of this”.
And you guessed it; the case was dropped again, shattering the victim a third time!

One thing that is of note in this case is the astonishing fact that, a certain Jersey Policeman had told the victim, and her family that he had some sympathy for the abuser??? I have since discovered that this is not the first time that this same Jersey Policeman has said this to a victim and their family.
And I Quote the 2nd Instance; “There is a small amount of sympathy for (name of paedophile) in this case as he will be prosecuted for indecent assault, even though he has been honest about his actions and admitted the offence”.
“EVEN THOUGH” !!! This is what Jersey’s young vulnerable children are up against when dealing with our sick and twisted regime. After being sexually assaulted by adults, they are then humiliated and degraded even further by the Jersey Policemen who are supposed to, and sworn too, protect them???
I personally retain (along with others) a copy of the above meetings, minutes. These are available for any interested States of Jersey members.

In 2009, Officer D.C T** H***** from the Worthing Police Force contacted the Jersey victim to inform her that “two of T***’s siblings had come forward with a number of allegations of rape and sexual assault against T*** P****”. The officer said that “T*** P**** had been arrested and was on bail awaiting trial”. She (the Jersey victim) was asked to give evidence of (bad character) against T*** P****, which she gladly agreed to do. They kept in touch with her over the months leading up to the trial, kept her informed, and treated her “far better than the Jersey Police ever have”.

During these months, the Worthing Police had informed her that the Jersey Police were being “very uncooperative with them”, and would not provide Worthing Police with a number of details, including the reasons why hers, and the other girls cases in Jersey were dropped. Leading up to the trial there was a hearing between the prosecution and defence to agree the witnesses that would be used. This is where the Judge “STAYED” the case, (threw it out) on the grounds that it would be an unfair trial against T*** P****. This being because they did not have the reasons to tell the jury why the cases in Jersey were previously thrown out. Worthing Police needed this information as it was the backing for T***’s sibling’s cases, as they were all historical cases. Since the case was “stayed”, the Jersey victim has received notification from the C.P.S in England, explaining this reasoning.

I personally retain (along with others) a copy of this document, and that it is available for any interested States of Jersey members.
And you guessed it; the case was dropped again, shattering the victim a fourth time!

IN SUMMARY: It appears that The States of Jersey Police, and perhaps, others in Jersey’s Government, have done all they can to prevent this case getting to trial.
WHY? You may ask!
One explanation could be that T*** P**** was in a wonderful position to name the names of the adults accompanying the HDLG children on their “special” boating trips. Remember what was said by J*** P**** (family) in the third paragraph of this document. “Haute De La Garenne used by the Sea Cadets, yes, shit head was a leader”.

I will leave you with a few quotes from associates, friends, and family members with which to try and ponder the imponderable!!!

J*** P**** (family) “The police lost some statements; Jersey seems to not want anyone to know how many perverts they have”.

Anonymous M.B (friend) “About time someone did something positive. Jersey has a serious problem if they cannot bring perverts like T*** P**** to justice. Does not say much for the whole Jersey legal system. Wake up Jersey politicians why aren't you looking after the people who elected you, or are you only after the money you receive from us”.

J*** P**** (family) “Jersey politicians, ha, don’t make me laugh; the whole Jersey Government are corrupt as are the Jersey Constabulary”.

S**** P**** (family victim) “Loads and Loads of proof, when he went to court in 2009 he might have knobbled the judge, probably another paedo anyway, but this time he won’t. I have managed to get copies of 4 statements made that were made to the police last time, and am working with another 3 people. The family that are helping me and financially backing this next case (that will be going through the European Court) are so powerful that they will win this case. Those people that know me will know the ********** family that I am on about, so will know that this time the sick ba*tard will pay the price for a lifetime of perverted sick acts”.

Female Jersey Victim “I have seen him (T*** P****) twice in people’s houses, with children running around and I have also seen him at Fort Regent twice, standing on his own watching kids in the Jungle Gym. None of our kids are safe! But what the hell can I do Ian?”

S**** P**** (family victim) “Everyone will know, I already have four newspapers booked to come with us, the bloody Jersey Paedo Society..oooops sorry, I meant the Jersey Government ain’t gonna know what’s hit them, and there ain’t enough coppers on the island to stop it, not with the amount of people showing an interest in coming. I really can’t wait, it’s gonna be great, and will certainly put Jersey back in the limelight again. I know there are loads of innocent residents in Jersey but there are also hundreds of sick ba*tards covering all this up, WHO WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT!!!!”.

S**** P**** (family victim) “No, coz it’s the truth. I don’t mind letting the whole world know he is a pervert kiddie fiddler who has only avoided jail on 11 COUNTS OF RAPE, AND COUNTLESS INDECENT ASSAULTS”.

“ELEVEN COUNTS OF RAPE & COUNTLESS INDECENT ASSAULTS”....THAT SAY’S IT ALL FOR ME !!!

This story has taken nearly a year to research, and put together. It stands as an everlasting testament to the bravery and tenacity of the victims, their families, and friends. May Justice Prevail.

For those of you out there who know

“THERE COMES A TIME WHEN SILENCE IS BETRAYAL”

"Sun, Sea, Satan & The Ferryman"

Former senator back in court

2010-11-12T17:08:00.000Z

Former Jersey senator Stuart Syvret has been back in court charged with breaches of the data protection law.

The charges relate to an entry on his blog in March last year in which he published a confidential Police report. It was about an investigation into claims that a nurse at Jersey's General Hospital had been murdering patients.

Mr Syvret named the nurse, despite the case having been investigated in 1999 and dismissed.

He says the '99 investigation was flawed and that it had been in the public interest to name the individual, who could have posed a danger to the community.

Mr Syvret will be summing up his case this afternoon.

Former senator back in court

Ex-nurse guilty of abusing teenage boys

2010-11-11T23:41:00.000Z

By Jo Hutchison

De Mouilpied is led away from the Royal Court.

A FORMER nurse who took photographs of himself indecently assaulting drunk or drugged teenage boys was yesterday convicted of 23 counts of sexual abuse.

Lee Albert de Mouilpied – who has refused to identify his victims to the authorities – plied the 13- and 14-year-olds with alcohol or drugs before recording or photographing himself assaulting them.

He has been told that his ultimate prison sentence could be reduced if he names the boys he abused, as it is feared many of them may need access to medical or psychological help.

Ex-nurse guilty of abusing teenage boys

Liar Liar

2010-11-10T19:56:00.000Z

Former nurse ‘abused boys’

2010-11-10T16:37:00.000Z

A GRAPHIC film of a man sexually assaulting a boy in his school uniform and photographs of him abusing other young teenagers while they were ‘unconscious’ were shown to a jury yesterday.

The sexually explicit footage, which included more than 300 images, was shown to seven women and five men who will decide at the end of an Assize trial whether Lee Albert de Mouilpied is guilty of 24 counts of sexual abuse.

It is alleged that the former nurse plied young teenage boys with alcohol and drugs before sexually abusing them and photographing his actions – with some of his victims still unaware to this day that they were violated. The defendant denies the charges and the trial continues.

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Former nurse ‘abused boys’

I had to name ‘killer’ nurse, insists Syvret

2010-11-09T17:12:00.000Z

By Lucy Mason

Stuart Syvret.

IT WAS ‘absolutely necessary’ to name a staff nurse accused of murdering patients more than ten years ago, former Health Minister Stuart Syvret has claimed.

The ex-Senator made the claim while giving evidence yesterday at his trial into alleged breaches of the data protection law – charges which relate directly to his naming of the nurse, who was never prosecuted, on his blog.

An application by Mr Syvret that there was no case to answer was refused earlier in the day by Assistant Magistrate Bridget Shaw.

I had to name ‘killer’ nurse, insists Syvret

British Family Courts Exposed

2010-11-08T13:36:00.000Z

Watch the video above for an insight into the corrupt and unjust British Family Courts.

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