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Showing posts with label MPS. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Your Role Is To Support, Not Punish

Published: 01 October 2013: Updated: 10:48, 01 October 2013

Ex-convicts told: Behave or face eviction


"Pilot: the scheme is being trialled on the Stonebridge Park Estate in Harlesden, where three orders were served last month by Hyde housing association

Criminals and their families face eviction from their homes within days of being released from prison in a fresh legal assault on neighbours from hell.

The Metropolitan Police have teamed up with one of London’s biggest landlords to test fast-track legislation which bypasses lengthy eviction battles.

Tenants convicted of criminal offences are being served with Suspended Possession Orders as soon as they have been released from jail. Any breach of the order’s “good behaviour” conditions can lead to an eviction order within days. The new powers will prevent lengthy delays associated with evicting known criminals.

The approach has been piloted on the Stonebridge Park Estate in Harlesden, where three orders were served last month by Hyde housing association. It plans to adopt the strategy across the capital, where it has 15,000 homes."

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/exconvicts-told-behave-or-face-eviction-8850780.html

Saturday, 17 August 2013

More Than 125 People Have Been Arrested And Over 40 Charged With Offences

Last Updated: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 19:17

Murdoch's UK newspaper unit under Scotland Yard hacking probe

"London: Scotland Yard is investigating media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire as a corporate suspect in phone hacking and bribery offences.

The Metropolitan Police has opened an "active investigation" into the corporate liabilities of News International, recently re-branded as News UK, which could have wider implications for the ability of its parent company News Corp to operate in the US.

Scotland Yard had launched an investigation in January 2011 into claims that journalists at Murdoch's now defunct 'News of the World' tabloid had been illegally accessing mobile phone voice-mail messages to find news stories.

The phone-hacking investigation led to the closure of the paper as well as further inquiries into claims that reporters had also made illegal payments to police officers and other public officials for information.

Until now, the investigation appeared to be focused on News Corp employees rather than the company as a whole.

But, according to The Independent newspaper, it has emerged that one of Murdoch's most senior lawyers has been interviewed under caution on behalf of the company and two other very senior figures have been officially cautioned for corporate offences.

Under British law, the Crown Prosecution Service can treat a company as a "legal person" who is "capable of being prosecuted".

A company can be found guilty if any potential offender can be established as the "directing mind and will" of the organisation.

Lawyers for the Met Police identified News International as "suspects" as long ago as October 2011.

The force is believed to have warned News Corp that its UK subsidiary, which publishes 'The Sun', was under formal investigation on May 18, 2012."

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/murdoch-s-uk-newspaper-unit-under-scotland-yard-hacking-probe_869724.html

News International could face corporate charges over phone hacking

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/17/murdoch-news-international-corporate-charges?CMP=twt_fd

Monday, 24 June 2013

Lots Of Coppers Are Wrong 'Uns - Simple, Established, Fact

24 June 2013 Last updated at 12:08 

Lawrence police smear claims: Cameron demands investigation

"Peter Francis, who says he says he posed as an anti-racism campaigner, served in the Met's now-disbanded Special Demonstration Squad.

Undercover officer Peter Francis says he was instructed to find information that could discredit the Lawrence family and anti-racism campaigners.

Scotland Yard has refused to confirm or deny the claims made in the Guardian.

Home Secretary Theresa May is expected to set out details of an inquiry into the allegations in the Commons later."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23026324

Who'd try to smear Stephen Lawrence's family? A Met that's out of control

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/24/stephen-lawrence-family-smear-met

PM wants Lawrence smear plot probe

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/pm-wants-lawrence-smear-plot-probe-29366606.html?google_editors_picks=true

David Cameron orders police to investigate allegations they spied on Stephen Lawrence family

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10138410/David-Cameron-orders-police-to-investigate-allegations-they-spied-on-Stephen-Lawrence-family.html

Lawrence lawyer: Police inquiry 'needed'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23043309

This betrayal of my family: Fury of Stephen's father over revelation that police spies ran secret campaign to 'dig up dirt' on the Lawrences

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2347690/Stephen-Lawrence-Fathers-fury-revelation-police-spies-ran-secret-campaign-dig-dirt.html

'No attempt to smear Lawrence family' - video

http://www.channel4.com/news/no-attempt-to-smear-lawrence-family-says-former-officer

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Shame of the 4,000 ‘bent coppers’ as police crime soars [just the ones caught]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/410026/Shame-of-the-4-000-bent-coppers-as-police-crime-soars

As our cops are shamed by cover-ups and corruption, we ask: can we ever trust them?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4984594/We-test-the-nations-view-on-the-police.html

How The Police And Politicians Can Regain The Public Trust [every contact with the public recorded on helmet CCTV would be a good start]

http://falkvinge.net/2013/01/08/how-the-police-and-politicians-can-regain-the-public-trust/

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Monday, 1 July 2013 7:56 AM

Policing 'Hippocratic Oath' will fix bent coppers, MPs hope

"Police need to be as trusted by the public as doctors, MPs have said, in a report calling for a major shake-up of standards.

The Commons' home affairs committee wants the introduction of a new code of ethics and integrity comparable to the Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors at the start of their career.

Its report, published today, called for unified policing standards, a register of interests for chief constables and a scale of fines established by the College of Policing in cases of grave misconduct."

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/07/01/here-s-a-bright-idea-policing-hippocratic-oath-will-fix-bent

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I was weak and cruel, admits ex-undercover police boss

http://www.channel4.com/news/undercover-police-bob-lambert-exclusive?google_editors_picks=true

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Doreen Lawrence says 'no confidence' in police

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23254498

Friday, 10 May 2013

More Lies Quashed

10 May 2013 Last updated at 08:18

Jimmy Savile 'not protected' from arrest, West Yorkshire Police say

"Jimmy Savile West Yorkshire Police said there was "no evidence" Savile was protected by the force

A West Yorkshire Police report has found "no evidence" Jimmy Savile was protected from arrest or prosecution by his relationship with the force.

But the review found there was an "over-reliance on personal friendships" between Savile and some officers. [ ... and this was rare, how? Ask Mark]

Hundreds of allegations of abuse by the former BBC entertainer emerged after his death in October 2011.

The police said the report would be passed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

The West Yorkshire Police review, named Operation Newgreen, comes after a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) highlighted failings by forces across Britain."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22476937

No evidence police protected Savile from arrest

http://www.itn.co.uk/UK/75614/no-evidence-police-protected-savile-from-arrest

West Yorkshire Police did not protect Savile, says report 

http://www.theweek.co.uk/crime/savile-abuse/52947/west-yorkshire-police-did-not-protect-savile-says-report 

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Now, when it suits him, Mark does not trust the police ...


https://twitter.com/mwilliamsthomas

10 May 2013 Last updated at 11:06

Reaction to West Yorkshire Police report on Savile

"Police say Savile 'not protected'

The report into West Yorkshire Police's relationship with Jimmy Savile has shown how he "ran rings around" officers who were taken in by his fame, leading figures have said.

The force said it was currently dealing with 76 crimes, involving 68 victims, committed in the West Yorkshire area, but the report claims none of these were reported to the force before his death.

Criminologist Mark Williams Thomas told the BBC he believed the report was "very very poor", describing it as "probably one of the worst reports I've seen"."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22477805

Step away from from the hole and put down the spade, Mark.

"King of the Manginas" - Mark Williams-Thomas

http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/king-of-manginas-mark-williams-thomas.html

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THE PAEDOFILE: Why West Yorkshire Police, Ben fellowes, and Bradford Council are either mad or cunning

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/the-paedofile-why-west-yorkshire-police-ben-fellowes-and-bradford-council-are-either-mad-or-cunning/

Jimmy Savile Used in West Yorkshire Police Campaigns Despite Knowledge of Sex Abuse Allegations

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/466601/20130510/jimmy-savile-yorkshire-police-sex-abuse-protect.htm

Police report into relationship with Jimmy Savile branded a whitewash 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10048789/Police-report-into-relationship-with-Jimmy-Savile-branded-a-whitewash.html

OUTRAGE AS JIMMY SAVILE COPS ARE CLEARED

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/313921/Outrage-as-Jimmy-Savile-cops-are-cleared/

Police review of Jimmy Savile dismissed as a ‘whitewash’

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/398758/Police-review-of-Jimmy-Savile-dismissed-as-a-whitewash

Cops ‘fixed it for Jim’

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4923186/West-Yorksire-Polices-Jimmy-Savile-report-a-whitewash.html

Saturday, 20 April 2013

Oh, Mainly, Something Else, For Sure

8 hours ago

Op-Ed: Historic alleged sex crimes in the UK, or something else?

"The alleged historic sex crimes currently being "investigated" do not fall into that category, for all manner of reasons. To begin with, the current investigations are not evidence led but trawls; when people are invited to come forward and make allegations against either named individuals or a specific class of person, they have a tendency to do just that, all the more so when they will be guaranteed anonymity, may be rewarded with tea and sympathy, not to mention the prospect of cash payouts further down the line and maybe the chance of selling their stories to a Sunday tabloid for a five figure sum.

With no corroboration required and no sanctions applied for those who simply make things up, some individuals may see this as a win-win situation, they get to drag someone's name through the mud, someone to whom they may have taken a dislike for whatever trivial reason - perhaps failing to reply to a fan letter.

To the above must be added the most dangerous accusers of all, delusional people, largely but not exclusively women. This is one of those taboo subjects, but talk to an experienced detective or a specialist solicitor/barrister off the record and you will be told what only the very brave or the very foolish will admit openly, that for whatever reason, some people fantasise about being sexually attacked, and that with the passage of time these confabulations become real memories."

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348375

Rolf Harris axed from TV following 'sex abuse' arrest

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/393333/Rolf-Harris-axed-from-TV-following-sex-abuse-arrest?google_editors_picks=true

Why I pray my dear friend Rolf is innocent [well, he is, at this time]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2311804/AMANDA-PLATELL-Why-I-pray-dear-friend-Rolf-Harris-innocent.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal: Why has Rolf Harris' name only come out now?

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/jimmy-savile-sex-abuse-scandal-why-has-rolf-harris-name-only-come-out-now-29209883.html

Rolf Harris's friends rally to comfort him after news of arrest for alleged sex offence

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/393522/Rolf-Harris-s-friends-rally-to-comfort-him-after-news-of-arrest-for-alleged-sex-offence?google_editors_picks=true

'My poor husband can't sleep': Rolf's wife speaks of the emotional strain since his arrest over historical sexual offences

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312421/Rolf-Harris-arrest-Veteran-entertainers-wife-speaks-emotional-strain-arrest-historical-sexual-offences.html

Jimmy Savile: Recorded sex crimes [allegations] up 9% since scandal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23001428

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

In This Case The Complainant Made A Withdrawal Statement

25 March 2013 Last updated at 18:31

No charges against ex-BBC producer Wilfred De'Ath

"No charges will be brought against a former BBC producer arrested in connection with the inquiry into abuse claims made against Jimmy Savile.

Wilfred De'Ath was arrested last year in Cambridgeshire over an allegation of indecent assault on a girl in the 60s."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21930181

26 March 2013 Last updated at 10:02

Savile suspect: 'Inquiry has gone too far'

"A former BBC producer who was released without charge yesterday after being arrested by detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal has said the police operation has "gone too far".

Wilfred De'Ath, who has always denied any wrongdoing, was arrested last year in Cambridgeshire over an allegation of indecent assault on a girl in the 60s. But the complainant has since withdrawn her statement, said Alison Saunders, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London.

He told the Today programme's John Humphrys that he believed the police were over-compensating now because they failed to get Savile at the time and said that the investigation, codenamed Operation Yewtree, was "getting silly"."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21938307

March 26, 2013

Wilfred De’Ath – One Hypocritical Old Goat

"So the first of the Yewtree branches has crashed to the ground, a sound virtually unheard in the forest of bad news today.

The ‘famous actress’ (I had to look her up such a household name was she…) (we are not allowed to mention her name – her publicist must be devastated) who alleged that Wilfred De’Ath (I definitely had to look him up) might have fondled her when she might have been a teenager in it might have been a cinema, has decided to withdraw her allegation. She still maintains it is true, but feels that she will be lonely in court, since no one else has come forward with similar allegations about the same man. She only came forward to Yewtree, she says, in the hope that it might give others the courage to come forward.

She is of course, an employee of ITV, the company which paid Mark Williams-Thomas to make the ‘Exposure’ programme, on which Wilfred De’Ath was such a willing witness against the ‘disgusting behaviour’ of Jimmy Savile."

http://www.annaraccoon.com/duncroftsavile/wilfred-death-one-hypocritical-old-goat/

March 26, 2013

YEW-TURN – SUDDEN DE’ATH

"Scotland Yard attempted to dump news of the their case against Wilfred De’Ath being dropped due to the sole complainant withdrawing her statement very quietly. Unfortunately, amongst the bigger news of widespread legalised theft in Cyprus and ‘Teflon Boris’ vs Eddie Mair it was noticed by a few pesky truth-seekers. And, my, what a tangled little web of intrigue it is.

For a deeper analysis of Wilfred De’Aths contribution to Mark Williams-Thomas’ shallow character assassination of the late Sir Jimmy Savile I will guide readers to this EXPOSITION."

http://chrisbarratt.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/yew-turn-sudden-death/

PUBLISHED: 23:10, 26 March 2013 | UPDATED: 01:53, 27 March 2013

Eleven men are arrested by Savile inquiry detectives... but just THREE will be charged in £1million operation criticised by some as 'a celebrity witch-hunt'

">Police believe there will be insufficient evidence to charge most of the suspects,
>Former BBC producer William De'Ath was released without charge,
>Speculation mounting that comedian Freddie Starr will not be charged."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2299621/Jimmy-Savile-inquiry-Eleven-men-arrested-detectives--just-THREE-charged-1million-operation-criticised-celebrity-witch-hunt.html

Posted on April 4, 2013

Australian arrested: the mainstream media is right not to name him for now 

"Their principle source of corroboration appears to be Mark Williams-Thomas, a former UK detective specialising in major sex crimes, who has since become a media personality and television criminology expert [sic].

So what exactly has Williams-Thomas said in relation to this latest arrest?

According to his Twitter account (Williams-Thomas is a prodigious tweeter) absolutely nothing.

He did tweet this in November last year:

Breaking : XX XX currently being interviewed under caution at police station as part of #Savile other #sexual offences

This tweet – four months old – appears to be the primary source of corroboration used by bloggers for naming the suspect charged by last week, after the Metropolitan Police tweeted this ..."

"In another case, just over a week ago, former BBC producer Wilfred De’ath arrested by police last November was freed without charge after claims he molested a 14 year old woman were withdrawn. "

http://freshlyworded.wordpress.com/tag/mark-williams-thomas/ 

Rolf Harris arrested by Operation Yewtree police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/19/rolf-harris-arrested-operation-yewtree-police

Saturday, 16 March 2013

And For Non-Idiots, With Integrity, Too

March 14, 2013

OPERATION YEWTREE: AN IDIOTS GUIDE

"It should not surprise anyone, as the whole posthumous Jimmy Savile scandal, is – as discovered by Anna Raccoon – a conspiracy of epic proportions, were dissenting voices are arrested, vilified or – for those like Anna, the wrong sex and the wrong intellect – completely ignored despite being in possession of evidence that disputes and casts a cloud against dubious stories now, no matter how absurd, taken as gospel by a public overrun with false media reports.

The scandal was based around lies broadcast on a shoddy ITV shockumentary, and the grew legs by the fact that allegations could be made by anyone – however fanciful – and never challenged.

The sort of things dreams are made of if you’re a hand-wringing shifty former detective trying to make a name for himself on ITV, a disgraced “news”paper looking to increase crashing circulation and deflect your own much-publicised moral failings or simply a trash chat show looking for rubbish to talk about."

http://chrisbarratt.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/operation-yewtree-an-idiots-guide/

Savile revelations must be seen in perspective

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/humanities-soc-sci/news-events/news/archive/nov-dec-2012/savile-revelations

A personal reflection on the ‘Jimmy Savile affair’ 

http://moralpanicseminarseries.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/a-personal-reflection-on-the-jimmy-savile-affair/

Beasts [offensive and inflammatory] must be pursued to the very end

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/papercolumnists/aameranwar/4915716/Beasts-must-be-pursued-to-the-very-end.html

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Edinburgh Festival outrage at Jimmy Savile: The Musical

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400484/Edinburgh-Festival-outrage-at-Jimmy-Savile-The-Musical

Saturday, 12 January 2013

Graphs Do Not Make It Any Less Of A Bunch Of Lies

11 January 2013 Last updated at 13:44

Savile report: Key points on TV presenter's offending [sic]

"The Metropolitan Police and NSPCC have published a joint report, Giving Victims [sic] a Voice, on Jimmy Savile's sexual offending [sic]. Here are the key points:"


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20984284 

8:18PM GMT 11 Jan 2013

Treating every allegation against Jimmy Savile as a 'fact’ undermines justice

"The self-righteous Operation Yewtree report does not get us much nearer the truth.

The lead headline on the BBC website yesterday said: “Jimmy Savile scandal: Report reveals extent of abuse”. Well, I have read the whole of the report, and I can assure you that it does not."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9795920/Treating-every-allegation-against-Jimmy-Savile-as-a-fact-undermines-justice.html

PUBLISHED: 23:20, 13 January 2013 | UPDATED: 10:26, 14 January 2013

Forgive me asking, but how do the police know Savile spent 'every waking minute' planning abuse?

"Anyone who reads the report about the former DJ Jimmy Savile is likely to come to the conclusion that he was a very wicked man who abused children on a scarcely believable scale.

Some of the allegations against him are gut-wrenchingly awful. He is said to have preyed on young children at a hospice and 13 hospitals, including a terminally-ill child at Great Ormond Street."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261888/Jimmy-Savile-report-How-police-know-spent-waking-minute-planning-abuse.html 

Sunday January 13,2013

JIMMY SAVILE WAS PART OF SATANIC RING

"JIMMY SAVILE beat and raped a 12-year-old girl during a secret satanic ritual in a hospital."

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/370439/Jimmy-Savile-was-part-of-satanic-ring

Posted: 13th, January 2013

On Satan and Jimmy Savile’s porn ring

"Daily Express Weekend newspaper front page On Satan and Jimmy Saviles porn ring

IT was only ever going to be a matter of time before Jimmy Savile was implicated in a Satanic porn ring. The Sunday Express has taken a while to oblige us, but here is it. James Fielding writes:

JIMMY SAVILE beat and raped a 12-year-old girl during a secret satanic ritual in a hospital. The perverted star wore a hooded robe and mask as he abused the terrified victim in a candle-lit basement.

How do we know that?"

http://www.anorak.co.uk/344898/celebrities/on-satan-and-jimmy-saviles-porn-ring.html/ 

Monday, 14 January, 2013

Compared to Sinason, Savile was a saint

"Heretic TOC has now read the official Metropolitan Police Service report on Jimmy Savile in its entirety. As suspected, there is much sound and fury, signifying nothing very much except the virulence of moral panic in the UK right now."

http://tomocarroll.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/compared-to-sinason-savile-was-a-saint/

Posted: 12th, January 2013

Lawyers win as all Jimmy Savile claimants are treated as victims

"HOW can you prove that Jimmy Savile sexually abused you? Savile’s alleged victims are vying for a shared of his £4.3 million estate plus compensation form the NHS, schools, the BBC and what institutions failed to stop Savile and provided a venue for his deviancy."

http://www.anorak.co.uk/344888/celebrities/lawyers-win-as-all-jimmy-savile-claimants-are-treated-as-victims.html/

Jimmy Savile and the end of objectivity

http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13250/

Operation Yewtree: putting the past on trial

http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13251/

Using children as a moral shield

http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13249/

Transmogrification – the making of a monster

http://www.inquisition21.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=289

Witchfinder General. Who will fill the position?

http://www.inquisition21.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=290

Police 'protection' of celebrities 'allowed serial abusers Cyril Smith and Jimmy Savile to escape prosecution for decades'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-protection-of-celebrities-allowed-serial-abusers-cyril-smith-and-jimmy-savile-to-escape-prosecution-for-decades-8541473.html

Friday, 11 January 2013

We Cannot Wait To Tear This To Pieces - Turns Out, It Illustrates Its Own 'Quality'

January 2013

"Mass hysteria, ambulance-chasing lawyers, professional victims, false memories, vested interests - charities, media and others, backwatching and protection, police/political PR, defamation of a dead, good, man.

That is the valid evidence, all else is dubious allegation.
"

NLO"

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The Report - Giving Victims [sic] a Voice   Giving Victims [sic] a Voice

"11. Concluding remarks

11.1 From the information provided by the hundreds of people who have come
forward to Operation Yewtree, police and the NSPCC have concluded that Jimmy
Savile was one of the UK’s most prolific known sexual predators
. Indeed the formal
recording
of allegations of crime
[sic] on this scale is, to the best of our knowledge,
unprecedented in the UK. [and that is all you have to know, about the 'judgment' and corrupt, disinforming, mentality and practices of these people]

Detective Superintendent David Gray MPS Paedophile [sic] Unit
Peter Watt Director of Child Protection Advice & Awareness NSPCC"

ACPO is no better, of course ...

11 Jan 2013

Media Centre Home > Press Releases: ACPO response to Jimmy Savile reports

"The lessons of these disclosures reinforce the importance of the work the police service has done to increase our focus on supporting victims [sic] and survivors of [sic] sexual offences, whether they are children or adults

ACPO lead on violence and public protection Chief Constable David Whatton said:

“The case of Jimmy Savile reveals a terrible example of sustained abuse [sic] by a manipulative individual [sic] exploiting a position of power over the vulnerable [sic]. Allegations of abuse made long after the event are important – they are not ‘historic’ for victims who may be living with consequences every day. The police service is committed to ensuring victims [sic] are supported and have access to justice. It is equally committed to pursuing offenders, many of whom, like Savile [sic], will offend time and again unless stopped."

http://www.acpo.presscentre.com/Press-Releases/ACPO-response-to-Jimmy-Savile-reports-1df.aspx

"Breaking News 

Peter Watt, NSPCC director of child protection advice and awareness, who co-authored the Giving Victims a Voice report, says the scale of Savile's abuse [sic] "simply beggared belief"" [indeed, little more need be said, need it, Peter?]

"1038: Clive Coleman BBC News legal correspondent ...

... says he believes the police/NSPC report was "written from the heart", because it details how the authorities were not doing their job properly [sic] during all the years Savile carried out his abuse [sic]." [certainly not from the rational head, but, do not underestimate the level of their deceit]

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Live: Jimmy Savile report

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20983527

Jimmy Savile reports - live blog

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/11/jimmy-savile-reports-live-blog 

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11 January 2013 Last updated at 03:58

Jimmy Savile scandal: Police to publish inquiry report

"Jimmy Savile Sexual abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile emerged a year after his death

The scale of sexual offending [alleged] carried out by Jimmy Savile will be set out later in a joint report by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC [the bastions of balanced analysis - not].

Revelations that Savile had [allegedly] sexually abused girls prompted hundreds of other victims [no] to come forward.

These included those who said they were attacked on BBC premises.

The report is expected to reveal that Savile's [alleged] abuse extended to many hospitals, and that he allegedly assaulted someone at a hospice.

The television presenter died at the age of 84 in October 2011, a year before allegations emerged in an ITV documentary.

Historical abuse

Friday's report, called Giving Victims a Voice [sic], will set out what Scotland Yard and the NSPCC have discovered [sic] about Jimmy Savile since they launched the inquiry - Operation Yewtree - three months ago.

By mid-December, police had recorded almost 200 allegations against him including 31 rapes, following information from 450 victims."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20981611

Jimmy Savile 'Abused Dying Hospice Patients'

http://news.sky.com/story/1036443/jimmy-savile-abused-dying-hospice-patients

500 children abused by Jimmy Savile, say cops

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4738086/Jimmy-Savile-abuse-inquiry-reevals-500-victims.html

Jimmy Savile assaulted children as young as 10, report reveals

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/10/jimmy-savile-abuse-inquiry-published?CMP=twt_gu

Moira 'Killer' Abused On 'Same Scale As Savile'

http://news.sky.com/story/1035698/moira-killer-abused-on-same-scale-as-savile

Jimmy Savile scandal: Report reveals decades of abuse 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20981611

Reaction: Jimmy Savile report

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20985028

Predator Savile ‘groomed the nation’

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4738366/jimmy-savile-groomed-the-nation.html

Jimmy Savile scandal: Chances to prosecute 'were missed'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20992789

DPP statement on Savile cases 

http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_statements/dpp_statement_about_savile_cases/ 

January 2013

In the matter of the late Jimmy Savile: Report to the Director of Public Prosecutions by Alison Levitt Q.C.

"The expression “complainant” is inappropriate in the circumstances of this case. Where I have described the women as “victims” this is for the sake of convenience; I of course acknowledge that these allegations have not been proved to the criminal standard."

http://cps.gov.uk/news/press_statements/dpp_statement_about_savile_cases/executive_summary_on_jimmy_savile_cases_report/

Full report

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January 11, 2013

Who Let the Dogs Out?

"‘Cry Havoc’ was originally a military rallying call to the victorious troops to collect the spoils of war, to plunder the treasures of the defeated. In a few minutes I expect to start wading through the ‘Yew-tree’ report, which I confidently expect to be a rallying call for the massed armies of lawyers out there to start plundering the tax payers for £13,000 a piece to sooth the ruffled feathers of those whose allegations of how they were ‘groomed’ – in five minutes flat! – to become a victim of a celebrity, 40 years ago.

It really matters not one jot, the ultimate fate of those who have been charged under the ‘Savile investigation ‘others’ tag – they will be forever tarred as associates of ‘the most prolific paedophile’ the media have ever gorged upon. When, hopefully, they are found not guilty, it will receive as little publicity as has the writing of Darren Laverty, or the other ‘non-victim’ who wrote to me the other night to tell me of the numerous attempts she had made to interest the media in the story of how as a child she had known Savile well, and spent many hours alone with him in Leeds – only to be unmolested by him, to this day…no takers. Not one media outlet interested in printing the story. The truth is being sadly suppressed.

Who let the dogs out? The Feminists. They win. If I was the Mother of a white middle class teenage son in Britain today, I would move heaven and earth to see him emigrate - just about anywhere."

http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/who-let-the-dogs-out/

January 11, 2013 

Are the British really a nation of sex offenders? 

"After the report into the apparent sexual offending of Jimmy Savile, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kier Starmer, has effectively announced that the prosecution of those accused of sexual offences against children is to be made even easier by further lowering the bar – or ’level of proof’ – required before police can be authorised to charge alleged offenders.

If the charities are to be believed, Britain seems to be a nation of perverts – but rather than the British really being pre-disposed to sexual offending, is it actually the law which is wrong?

The DPP, deeply embarrassed at failings within the Crown Prosecution Service’s handling of allegations against Savile, has been forced to respond to the joint investigation by police and the statutorily gifted NSPCC into the now dead BBC presenter."

http://www.theopinionsite.org/are-the-british-really-a-nation-of-sex-offenders/

January 11, 2013

Nonce Sense

"Sky news just on – report by NSPCC reveals ‘full extent of Savile’s offending’ and Police missed ‘at least three opportunities’ to charge him. Sylvia Edwards just being interviewed – the girl who alleged that film of the final episode of Top of the Pops shows him groping her bottom – an event which she says has ruined her entire life….

And apparently ‘he struck at Duncroft School at least 11 times’….and Savile was ‘unchallenged by Police’. Interviewed under caution over an incident where the alleged victim declined to give a statement is NOT unchallenged.

Cobblers! I am ashamed to be British tonight."

http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/nonce-sense/

Friday, 11 January, 2013

Savile: sound and fury, but signifying what?

"Followers of Heretic TOC hardly need to be told “Don’t believe everything you read in the papers”. What is worth pointing out, though, is that there are good reasons not to believe everything – and perhaps hardly anything – in the joint police and NSPCC report into allegations of sexual abuse made against Jimmy Savile out with an almighty, nation-blasting, media-saturating, fanfare in Britain today.

I have not yet read the report, Giving Victims A Voice, but the title alone gives grounds for scepticism: Savile, lest anyone forget, died without facing trial. He is no longer around to defend himself and none of the allegations have been tested through cross-examination in court.

http://tomocarroll.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/savile-sound-and-fury-but-signifying-what/

Jimmy Savile report: Abuse victims to seek compensation [really?]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/12/jimmy-savile-report-abuse-victims-to-seek-compensation-3348885/

NSPCC launches media campaign in wake of Savile report [really?]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jan/11/childprotection-jimmy-savile 

The [defaming] Brum lecturer [?] who unmasked twisted [sic] Jimmy Savile

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-lecturer-mark-williams-thomas-on-how-819458

Why wasn't he caught? Investigator who nailed Jimmy Savile attacks prosecutors

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/investigator-who-nailed-jimmy-savile-1532115

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Duty Of Care? Not Us, Says The Met

13 December 2012 Last updated at 03:30

Met Police payout for rape complainant [much, much, better]

"The officers assigned to the case were part of Scotland Yard's specialist rape unit

A woman who made a rape complaint that was not properly investigated by police has reached an out-of-court settlement with Scotland Yard.

The woman reported the alleged attack aged 15, in 2005, but during the Met Police investigation evidence was lost.

The judge at the trial of her alleged attacker branded it a "disgrace". The defendant was later acquitted."

"They agreed to the out-of-court settlement with no admission of liability."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20705707

Met admits rape inquiry failings

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/met-admits-rape-inquiry-failings-16250003.html

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Why Are You Disinforming, Like This, Scotland Yard?

500 victims [no], 200 allegations [yes]: full shocking [sic] scale of Jimmy Savile's alleged [yes] sexual abuse to be revealed

"Scotland Yard to publish report in New Year

More than 500 people have come forward as victims [no] of the late DJ and television presenter Jimmy Savile, police said today.

Over 200 allegations [yes] of sexual assault have been recorded, Scotland Yard said, with a report into child sex crimes by Savile [no], who died in October last year at the age of 84, due to be published early in the New Year.

The report draws on the testimony [and?] of scores of victims [no] and "will provide as clear a picture as possible" [not] of Savile's offending [sic], a force spokesman said.

Savile is now believed [yes - by some] to have been one of the UK's most prolific abusers [no]. It is alleged [yes] the TV star abused young people on BBC premises [no], in hospitals, care homes and at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.

"We are extremely grateful to those victims [no] who have contacted us and commend their bravery [no]. Without them we would have no investigation," a spokesman said [indeed].

"To date, in excess of 500 victims [no] have come forward and we have recorded [yes] 200 allegations yes] of sexual assault.""

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/500-victims-200-allegations-full-shocking-scale-of-jimmy-saviles-alleged-sexual-abuse-to-be-revealed-8406448.html

Wednesday 12 December 2012  

The legacy of Savile's abuse [sic] must lead to change

"We need to pool the findings from Operation Yewtree and the various other inquiries

Jonathan Wheeler is a personal injury partner at Bolt Burdon Kemp and acts on behalf of victims of child abuse." [well, surprise, surprise]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-legacy-of-saviles-abuse-must-lead-to-change-8411396.html

Savile abuse part of Operation Yewtree probe 'complete'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20686219

Savile Sex Abuse: Operation Yewtree Draws To A Close 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/12/11/savile-sex-abuse-operation-yewtree-police-_n_2279056.html? 

500 [much better] come forward in Savile inquiry

http://www.formbytimes.co.uk/news/formby-breaking-news/2012/12/11/66401-32408669/

Jimmy Savile accused [yup] of 31 rapes as police warn of more child abuse arrests

http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/uk/2012/dec/12/jimmy-savile-rapes-child-abuse

Scotland Yard investigating allegations [yup] senior politicians abused children in the 1980s and used 'connections' to escape justice

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/scotland-yard-investigating-allegations-senior-politicians-abused-children-in-the-1980s-and-used-connections-to-escape-justice-8411989.html

Savile Abuse 'Unprecedented' [pretend], Police Say

http://news.sky.com/story/1024564/savile-abuse-unprecedented-police-say

Savile coverage has led to 100% increase in rape reporting

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-12-12/savile-coverage-has-lead-to-100-increase-in-rape-reporting/

13 Dec 2012

Rape allegations double as Operation Yewtree approaches completion

"“The obvious inference is people have seen this investigation and think they will be believed.”

Peter Watt, Director of the NSPCC’s helpline, said the current investigations provided “a historic opportunity to learn from the past” and tackle the problem of child abuse.

"Operation Yewtree has exposed shocking child abuse allegations of such an unprecedented scale that it has left a deep scar on the consciousness of the country,” he said.

“By bravely speaking out, Jimmy Savile's victims have given others the courage to report child abuse they have suffered themselves, or their concerns that a child is being sexually abused.

"Child abuse remains widespread and children are suffering right now. We must do all we can to ensure this never happens again by listening to children, taking them seriously and taking action to protect them. Sadly Savile's victims had to wait decades for help."

http://www.policeprofessional.com/news.aspx?id=15610 

Addendum (18/12/12)
 
It seems, that they are all as confused, about what a victim is, as is the CPS ...

"A victim is defined as "a person who has complained of the commission of an offence against themselves or their property". The term includes bereaved relatives or partners (including same sex partners) in homicide and fatal road traffic cases, as well as parents or carers where the victim is a child or a vulnerable adult. It also includes small businesses. Large retailers or corporations do not come within the definition of victim. Road traffic offences where death or serious injury has occurred are also included in the scheme."

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/v_to_z/victim_personal_statements/#a04 

Allow us ...

noun

"a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action: victims of domestic violence"

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/victim

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Esther blasts Savile police squad over its star arrests: Focus on famous could jeopardise young victims seeking justice, says ChildLine founder

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258199/ChildLine-founder-Esther-Rantzen-blasts-Jimmy-Savile-police-squad-star-arrests.html

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Inevitable Consequences

27 November 2012 Last updated at 19:13

Met police boss: Covert relations 'almost inevitable'

"Bernard Hogan-Howe Bernard Hogan-Howe said such relations should not form the strategy

Some undercover police will "almost inevitably" have sexual relationships with members of groups they are infiltrating, the Met chief has said.

Bernard Hogan-Howe told the Home Affairs committee such relationships "shouldn't be part of the strategy".

But, he said, when officers got close to targets it was not "impossible to imagine" that relationships developed.

The Met is being sued by a group of women who have had relationships with undercover officers.

The women came into contact with five undercover officers who carried fake passports and other identity papers and were involved in various undercover operations between 1987 and 2010.

Speaking at the Home Affairs Select Committee meeting, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner said it was up to officers monitoring the deployment of undercover police to spot relationships early or before they began and to move the covert officer out."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20518106

Top cop says sexual relationships with activists are "almost inevitable"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans/2012/nov/28/commissioner-claim-over-sexual-relationships

Undercover Ops Being ‘Jeopardised’

http://touch.policeoracle.com/news/article.html?id=61685

Undercover policing: MPs demand reforms

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21619324

ACPO comment on Home Affairs Committee interim report on undercover officers - March-01-13

http://www.lccsa.org.uk/news.asp?ItemID=31552

Sunday, 28 October 2012

Fishing Exercise

October 28, 2012

After Savile, every British man should worry about his past

"The Pandora’s Box of Historic Sexual Abuse Cases

As the Jimmy Savile affair rumbles on, the question of whether so called “historic” offences should be subject to some form of Statute of Limitation has again been raised, not just because police, the CPS, courts and politicians seem to be applying today’s modern thinking to life as it was 40 years ago but also because the authorities are successfully bringing prosecutions that were not pursued at the time based on little or no evidence.

This week saw another “historic” case end with the jailing for 11 years of a 78 year old man for sex offences alleged to have taken place some 63 years ago from 1949-1973; the longest delay ever in bringing charges before a British court.

TheOpinionSite.org should point out that the recent sudden surge of accusers from the past is no accident either. The police and the CPS are openly inviting anyone who “thinks they may have been abused, no matter how long ago” to come forward and make a complaint, regardless of whether or not there is any evidence.

In other words, police are using the high profile Savile case in order to “trawl” for cases that they know full well will end in easy convictions."

http://www.theopinionsite.org/after-savile-every-british-man-should-worry-about-his-past/
 
Jimmy Savile: how the police investigation grew
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/28/jimmy-savile-police-investigation-grew?newsfeed=true

April 8, 2013

The Great British Whine Industry
 
"I see yesterday that Scotland Yard commander Peter Spindler has jumped ship from the appalling Yewtree ‘investigation that never was’. ‘Spindler’s List’ of 12 arrests, one charge so far, has become an embarrassment to the nation.

The police involvement in the whine-managers dark arts will take a long time to live down. The justice system is damaged, perhaps irreparably.

The spirit of Torquemada lives on, where debate is driven by prejudice and supposition, by fear not fact; the media preferring to give air time to the unhinged armchair moralists screeching ‘cover-up’ whenever their chosen celebrity unaccountably fails to make the ‘arrested’ list than to the likes of Karren Brady.

All I can say is God bless Karren Brady for convincing me that the entire septic isle hasn’t gone stark raving bonkers."

http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-great-british-whine-industry/

6 Apr 2013 21:00

Police chief Peter Spindler quits Operation Yewtree celebrity sex abuse inquiry for watchdog role

"The Scotland Yard commander had overseen a string of high-profile arrests, including Freddie Starr, Jim Davidson, and Max Clifford.

Scotland Yard commander Peter Spindler has dramatically quit in the middle of the high-profile investigation into Jimmy Savile and other celebrities, the Sunday People reports.

The decision has surprised insiders who expected Spindler to see Operation Yewtree through to the finish.

He had overseen a string of high-profile arrests, including Freddie Starr, 70, Jim Davidson, 59, and Max Clifford, 70.

But last week Spindler began a two-year secondment to the police watchdog Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, the investigative website Exaro and the Sunday People have learned."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-chief-peter-spindler-quits-1816009

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

How Donut Eaters Are Entrapping Paedophiles [Not] Online

Wednesday 22 August 2012 09.00 BST

How police investigators are catching paedophiles online

"A specialist undercover Metropolitan police team is tracking down the growing communities who commit sex crimes [sic] online

Louise Tickle [smile]

A model using a laptop. The internet has provided new opportunities for paedophiles [sic] to prey [sic] on children.

Dan is a detective sergeant, and a covert internet investigator with the Metropolitan police. At the Met's paedophile and high tech crime unit, we sit in front of his laptop as he navigates to an internet chatroom. He's already set me up with a username — louiseis14 — and clicks the button that tells users I'm online.

Within 10 seconds, two men whose profile names suggest they're in their 30s and 40s want to talk to me. Dan selects one at random — lets call him 'anonman_37' — and starts typing a response.

As the conversation goes back and forth, notifications from men inviting me to get in touch appear so fast that the list runs off the screen. We've been online for less than three minutes."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/aug/22/police-investigators-catching-paedophiles-online