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When Special Branch helped sabotage the Grand National.
The Grand National has become symbolic of the cruelty
of horse racing. In recent years there have been protests at Aintree but
these have always been controlled by the police. In 1993, however,
activists succeeded beyond their wildest dreams as the steeplechase had
to be abandoned and became “the race that never was”. The animal rights
dimension has largely been written out of the story but you here you
can find out what really happened and it will be revealed how an
undercover police officer played a key role in an action which cost the
racing industry £75 million.
There had been protests against the Grand National during the eighties but a more militant campaign began after the deaths of four horses in 1989 and seven more the following year. The callous attitude of the racing fraternity was summed up by champion jockey Josh Gifford who said: “I don’t know what all the fuss has been about. In this game horses get injured and killed every day, even exercising on the gallops.”
In 1992, there were protests by local activists both inside and outside the track and some disruption was caused. That year a new organisation was launched called Action to Abolish the Grand National. It spearheaded a national campaign and produced leaflets, press releases and merchandise not only about the National but horse racing, show jumping and eventing in general, demanding that the BBC stop broadcasting equestrian sports and the public stop gambling on horses or any other animal abused in the name of sport.
The Grand National campaign was part of an upsurge in animal rights activism in the early nineties. One of the main targets was Boots the Chemist, which had its own vivisection laboratory, and about ten people from London Boots Action Group went to Aintree for the protest in 1993. The driver was a well liked member of the group named Matt Rayner, who regularly used his van for demos, sabbing and direct action. Although the journey was over 400 miles there and back, he asked passengers only for what they could afford. The difference in petrol money was made up from the group’s coffers.
A small demonstration at the entrance to the course took place on the Friday but by the next day there were at least 100 people. The vast majority stood outside leafleting but a small group decided to take direct action. This account was given was given by the Aintree 15 in the CAW Bulletin No.11 published later that year:
“Moments before the start eight activists jumped onto the course and occupied the ground in front of the first fence. Police and security guards were taken completely by surprise and the start was aborted. The course took some time to clear and just as the horses were lined up for the second time,another seven animal rights people leapt over the barriers and ran chanting towards the start.
If the officials were taken aback by the first protest, they were dumbstruck by the second. No-one seemed to know what to do, protesters ran back and forth, security guards and police vainly trying to bring them down with rugby tackles as the crowd cheered each new arrest.
Eventually all were caught and the course cleared for the third time, but by now the starter was so nervous that he made a complete hash of raising the tape and horses were called back yet again. After a delay of nearly 20 minutes the start was aborted again but the leading jockeys ignored the recall flag thinking it was another protest and continued on the course.
The race by this time was a complete shambles. Nine horses were spared the ordeal entirely when they failed to start and only seven bothered to complete the course, the rest of the 42 starters having realised that the race was abandoned.
The protest cost us very little, and all the protesters were released without charge after four hours in custody, but it cost the bookmakers and racing fraternity £75 million in returned bets and millions more in pre-race marketing. What we really gained was the satisfaction of knowing that almost all the horses escaped unscathed, most not even attempting the course. One suffered a bruised tendon but in the circumstances we are grateful because his injuries would have been far worse if past years are anything to go by.”
Newspapers called it “The Grand Farcical ” describing it as “an unforgivable shambles, a terribly public one”, but in general the media blamed the debacle on the failure of the starting system and the weather (there was torrential rain) largely ignoring the occupation. An exception was the Independent which stated: “The disruption of the world’s most-watched horse race was a victory for animal rights protesters who staged a demonstration at the first fence for the second year running.”
On the following Monday the Independent published a letter from J Stuart and C Jones from Manchester who said: “As two of the activists involved in the Grand National run-on protest on Saturday we’d like the opportunity to give our side of the story.” They went to to say how press censorship of the action meant they hadn’t received the credit they deserved for the cancellation of the event:
“The BBC failed to televise our protest and the press has played down our role in the day’s events. However the comments of jockeys, race officials and journalists support our view that we were responsible for stopping the race. The official inquiry need look no further than the run-on for the reason why the Grand National ended as it did.”
The Aintree 15 issued a warning: “We have a message for the horse racing fraternity, the bookmakers and everyone else involved in cruelty: don’t bother planning your next event, people have had enough of your cruelty, and now we are going to stop you.” By March 1994 ARC News was asking it this would be “The Last Grand National?”, while Action Against the Grand National said it “hoped that the march and demonstration will be even bigger this year.”
The authorities knew full well who was to blame for 1993’s “fiasco” as revealed by the newspaper headline “Welcome to Fortress Aintree”: “The Aintree authorities have thrown up a six-foot ring of steel…in a £1 million bid to keep animal rights militants at bay tomorrow. Fences are being guarded round the clock and more than 200 uniformed police will be on duty, backed up by plain-clothes units, fast response squads and a helicopter.”
Five days before the race, three workers at an animal rescue centre were arrested on the Aintree racecourse, charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage and remanded in custody until 18 May. Nothing was left to chance. On the day of the National, 20 activists were arrested as they made their way to the demonstration outside the entrance and three more were arrested inside the event. Fences around the racecourse were improved, which made it much harder to get on the track. The race went ahead without disruption.
There was another contingent of protesters from London, once again driven by Matt Rayner. This time people were asked to contribute £7 towards petrol money. Twenty years later it was revealed that Rayner was really an undercover cop who worked for a secret Special Branch unit called the Special Demonstrations Squad. He was embedded with animal rights activists for five years and like many spies at that time he used the identity of a dead child (his real name is still a mystery). In 1996 he claimed he was going to work abroad and after sending letters to friends was never heard from again.
While Rayner himself did not take part in the occupation in 1993, about six or seven of those he transported to Aintree did. During the journey people talked about invading the racecourse and he would have been privy to the likelihood of it happening. Would the action have been so successful without the activists Rayner brought from London? It’s impossible to give a definitive answer but possibly not.
What happened on 3 April 1993 was truly remarkable. Fifteen brave people ran onto the track of the world’s most famous horse race – without concern for their own welfare – to say no to animal cruelty. Despite being arrested all were released without charge within a few hours. In those days all they would have been guilty of was trespass. This action caused £75 million loss to the racing industry and in terms of economic sabotage it is probably still the single most successful feat of direct action ever carried out in the name of animal rights.
Most amazing of all the role played by the Met Police in the whole affair. Not only did Rayner drive to Aintree in 1993 but he repeated it the following year, knowing full well that some some of the protesters he’d transported helped to disrupt the race. Rayner’s manager at the SDS was Bob Lambert, a notorious agent provocateur with a hands-on approach that included placing incendiary devices in department stores that sold fur. It seems Lambert demanded a similar level of involvement from his agents.
What’s more, while the Met was conniving with the protesters, another police force was trying to stop the plot going ahead. On the eve of the race, newspaper reports said the racecourse had agreed “a fluid plan…with the Merseyside Police and Special Branch…Among the weapons at Special Branch’s disposal are snatch squads to eject troublemakers from the course and bolt-cutters to stop protesters chaining themselves to fences.”
The same newspaper warned of a “2,000-strong army of activists…including the rent-a-mob variety wiling to march under any banner for a punch-up” and said there were reports that racecourse security had been infiltrated by activists who would be disguised as guards. No source was given for this ridiculous claim but if it wasn’t invented by the journalist, it was more than likely circulated by the police themselves.
The only people doing the infiltrating at Aintree that day were Special Branch. One section had a spy in a key role transporting protesters from London – and probably other spies amongst demonstrators too – while another was doing all it could to prevent the race from being sabotaged. And as is often the case, the police themselves were the main beneficiaries as there was no shortage of work for them to do.
Animal Aid on Aintree 2016: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_horse//3427//
Matt Rayner profile: http://powerbase.info/index.php/Matt_Rayner_(alias)
See also: https://network23.org/redblackgreen/2015/07/30/flashback-30-july-1995-police-spy-dresses-up-at-pagan-garden-party/
This is a revised version of an article which first appeared on the blog Red Black Green on 10 April 2016: https://network23.org/redblackgreen/2016/04/10/1993-the-year-the-grand-national-was-sabotaged-with-help-from-special-branch/
https://network23.org/arspycatcher/2017/04/08/when-special-branch-helped-sabotage-the-grand-national/
There had been protests against the Grand National during the eighties but a more militant campaign began after the deaths of four horses in 1989 and seven more the following year. The callous attitude of the racing fraternity was summed up by champion jockey Josh Gifford who said: “I don’t know what all the fuss has been about. In this game horses get injured and killed every day, even exercising on the gallops.”
In 1992, there were protests by local activists both inside and outside the track and some disruption was caused. That year a new organisation was launched called Action to Abolish the Grand National. It spearheaded a national campaign and produced leaflets, press releases and merchandise not only about the National but horse racing, show jumping and eventing in general, demanding that the BBC stop broadcasting equestrian sports and the public stop gambling on horses or any other animal abused in the name of sport.
The Grand National campaign was part of an upsurge in animal rights activism in the early nineties. One of the main targets was Boots the Chemist, which had its own vivisection laboratory, and about ten people from London Boots Action Group went to Aintree for the protest in 1993. The driver was a well liked member of the group named Matt Rayner, who regularly used his van for demos, sabbing and direct action. Although the journey was over 400 miles there and back, he asked passengers only for what they could afford. The difference in petrol money was made up from the group’s coffers.
A small demonstration at the entrance to the course took place on the Friday but by the next day there were at least 100 people. The vast majority stood outside leafleting but a small group decided to take direct action. This account was given was given by the Aintree 15 in the CAW Bulletin No.11 published later that year:
“Moments before the start eight activists jumped onto the course and occupied the ground in front of the first fence. Police and security guards were taken completely by surprise and the start was aborted. The course took some time to clear and just as the horses were lined up for the second time,another seven animal rights people leapt over the barriers and ran chanting towards the start.
If the officials were taken aback by the first protest, they were dumbstruck by the second. No-one seemed to know what to do, protesters ran back and forth, security guards and police vainly trying to bring them down with rugby tackles as the crowd cheered each new arrest.
Eventually all were caught and the course cleared for the third time, but by now the starter was so nervous that he made a complete hash of raising the tape and horses were called back yet again. After a delay of nearly 20 minutes the start was aborted again but the leading jockeys ignored the recall flag thinking it was another protest and continued on the course.
The race by this time was a complete shambles. Nine horses were spared the ordeal entirely when they failed to start and only seven bothered to complete the course, the rest of the 42 starters having realised that the race was abandoned.
The protest cost us very little, and all the protesters were released without charge after four hours in custody, but it cost the bookmakers and racing fraternity £75 million in returned bets and millions more in pre-race marketing. What we really gained was the satisfaction of knowing that almost all the horses escaped unscathed, most not even attempting the course. One suffered a bruised tendon but in the circumstances we are grateful because his injuries would have been far worse if past years are anything to go by.”
Newspapers called it “The Grand Farcical ” describing it as “an unforgivable shambles, a terribly public one”, but in general the media blamed the debacle on the failure of the starting system and the weather (there was torrential rain) largely ignoring the occupation. An exception was the Independent which stated: “The disruption of the world’s most-watched horse race was a victory for animal rights protesters who staged a demonstration at the first fence for the second year running.”
On the following Monday the Independent published a letter from J Stuart and C Jones from Manchester who said: “As two of the activists involved in the Grand National run-on protest on Saturday we’d like the opportunity to give our side of the story.” They went to to say how press censorship of the action meant they hadn’t received the credit they deserved for the cancellation of the event:
“The BBC failed to televise our protest and the press has played down our role in the day’s events. However the comments of jockeys, race officials and journalists support our view that we were responsible for stopping the race. The official inquiry need look no further than the run-on for the reason why the Grand National ended as it did.”
The Aintree 15 issued a warning: “We have a message for the horse racing fraternity, the bookmakers and everyone else involved in cruelty: don’t bother planning your next event, people have had enough of your cruelty, and now we are going to stop you.” By March 1994 ARC News was asking it this would be “The Last Grand National?”, while Action Against the Grand National said it “hoped that the march and demonstration will be even bigger this year.”
The authorities knew full well who was to blame for 1993’s “fiasco” as revealed by the newspaper headline “Welcome to Fortress Aintree”: “The Aintree authorities have thrown up a six-foot ring of steel…in a £1 million bid to keep animal rights militants at bay tomorrow. Fences are being guarded round the clock and more than 200 uniformed police will be on duty, backed up by plain-clothes units, fast response squads and a helicopter.”
Five days before the race, three workers at an animal rescue centre were arrested on the Aintree racecourse, charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage and remanded in custody until 18 May. Nothing was left to chance. On the day of the National, 20 activists were arrested as they made their way to the demonstration outside the entrance and three more were arrested inside the event. Fences around the racecourse were improved, which made it much harder to get on the track. The race went ahead without disruption.
There was another contingent of protesters from London, once again driven by Matt Rayner. This time people were asked to contribute £7 towards petrol money. Twenty years later it was revealed that Rayner was really an undercover cop who worked for a secret Special Branch unit called the Special Demonstrations Squad. He was embedded with animal rights activists for five years and like many spies at that time he used the identity of a dead child (his real name is still a mystery). In 1996 he claimed he was going to work abroad and after sending letters to friends was never heard from again.
While Rayner himself did not take part in the occupation in 1993, about six or seven of those he transported to Aintree did. During the journey people talked about invading the racecourse and he would have been privy to the likelihood of it happening. Would the action have been so successful without the activists Rayner brought from London? It’s impossible to give a definitive answer but possibly not.
What happened on 3 April 1993 was truly remarkable. Fifteen brave people ran onto the track of the world’s most famous horse race – without concern for their own welfare – to say no to animal cruelty. Despite being arrested all were released without charge within a few hours. In those days all they would have been guilty of was trespass. This action caused £75 million loss to the racing industry and in terms of economic sabotage it is probably still the single most successful feat of direct action ever carried out in the name of animal rights.
Most amazing of all the role played by the Met Police in the whole affair. Not only did Rayner drive to Aintree in 1993 but he repeated it the following year, knowing full well that some some of the protesters he’d transported helped to disrupt the race. Rayner’s manager at the SDS was Bob Lambert, a notorious agent provocateur with a hands-on approach that included placing incendiary devices in department stores that sold fur. It seems Lambert demanded a similar level of involvement from his agents.
What’s more, while the Met was conniving with the protesters, another police force was trying to stop the plot going ahead. On the eve of the race, newspaper reports said the racecourse had agreed “a fluid plan…with the Merseyside Police and Special Branch…Among the weapons at Special Branch’s disposal are snatch squads to eject troublemakers from the course and bolt-cutters to stop protesters chaining themselves to fences.”
The same newspaper warned of a “2,000-strong army of activists…including the rent-a-mob variety wiling to march under any banner for a punch-up” and said there were reports that racecourse security had been infiltrated by activists who would be disguised as guards. No source was given for this ridiculous claim but if it wasn’t invented by the journalist, it was more than likely circulated by the police themselves.
The only people doing the infiltrating at Aintree that day were Special Branch. One section had a spy in a key role transporting protesters from London – and probably other spies amongst demonstrators too – while another was doing all it could to prevent the race from being sabotaged. And as is often the case, the police themselves were the main beneficiaries as there was no shortage of work for them to do.
Animal Aid on Aintree 2016: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_horse//3427//
Matt Rayner profile: http://powerbase.info/index.php/Matt_Rayner_(alias)
See also: https://network23.org/redblackgreen/2015/07/30/flashback-30-july-1995-police-spy-dresses-up-at-pagan-garden-party/
This is a revised version of an article which first appeared on the blog Red Black Green on 10 April 2016: https://network23.org/redblackgreen/2016/04/10/1993-the-year-the-grand-national-was-sabotaged-with-help-from-special-branch/
https://network23.org/arspycatcher/2017/04/08/when-special-branch-helped-sabotage-the-grand-national/
Thursday, April 06, 2017
Tuesday, April 04, 2017
Jeremy Thorpe, Norman Scott – and the Denbigh Connection.
A reader of the blog has just provided me with this link to a story
in Mail Online asking me if I was aware that a connection to Denbigh has
emerged regarding the Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott case http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4371716/Jeremy-Thorpe-DID-send-hitman-kill-says-ex-lover.html
I remember this case very well – I was a teenager living in west Somerset when the allegation that Jeremy Thorpe had tried to have Norman Scott killed was first made. Jeremy Thorpe’s first Court appearance was in Minehead and it was the most exciting thing that had happened in west Somerset for years. The eventual hearing was at the Old Bailey and readers might remember that although Jeremy Thorpe was found not guilty, allegations of corruption in high places never went away. Norman Scott was living on Exmoor at the time and I can remember local people all believing that Jeremy’s mates would have another go at killing him. Furthermore I knew someone who knew Norman Scott who maintained that he had seen compromising photos of Norman and Jeremy confirming that they did have the sexual relationship that Thorpe always denied. Norman featured in the media from time to time feeling very sore at having been trashed by the famously biased judge at the trial – well he needn’t have worried, the whole of the west country believed what he was saying about Jeremy and his dreadful mates.
The Mail Online is running an interview with Norman, in which he claims that two people, one a former detective, were recently going to be charged with conspiracy to murder him, but the charges have suddenly been dropped and a load of papers have ‘gone missing’ (sounds like those medical records of mine demonstrating corruption in legal and medical circles and at the Welsh Office). Norman has also claimed that Jeremy had tried to smear one of Norman’s friends, alleging that he was running a ‘vice-ring’ and Mail Online have published a letter from Jeremy Thorpe to Harold Wilson, in which this allegation is made. Jeremy gives the former address of this man in the letter – it is in Denbigh, that is why the reader has sent me a link to the story. The letter is dated 1976. So assuming that the man accused of running the vice-ring had left Denbigh a few years previously, which would give him time to have moved to London and occupy the more recent address that Thorpe supplies for him, that still places him in Denbigh in the 70s – during the period of T. Gwynne Williams and Dafydd Alun Jones’s reign of terror and of course during the period when sexual assault and abuse of vulnerable people en masse was alleged to have been happening in north Wales and when dissenters were banged up in Denbigh with no questions asked, sometimes dying within or else only emerging into the outside world again decades later when Denbigh was closed down. Yes there were still prisoners in there as recently as that. When I was in Denbigh during the winter of 1986/87, a nurse cheerily told me that Denbigh used to house many unmarried mothers – and the last one of them had died in Denbigh a few months previously.
So everyone knew that in 1985 there was still someone in Denbigh who had been put in there decades before for having a child out of wedlock. No-one questioned this. Furthermore the nurse who told me this as an ‘interesting bit of history’, also told me that before she died, she’d taken this old lady on a day trip to Rhyl and for the first time ever she tried an ice-cream and saw a zebra crossing. She had obviously never left the institution until the 1980s. Dafydd and Gwynne knew about that. Another interesting comment that Dr X from the Hergest Unit once let slip during the process of Denbigh closing down was that there was a ‘problem’ because Dafydd had ‘hidden away’ a few ‘difficult’ patients in there and no-one knew where they were going to go once Denbigh was shut. Perhaps Peter Higson, the Chair of the Betsi, would like to tell us all exactly who these patients who Dafydd had concealed in Denbigh were, why they had been secreted there and what happened to them – because Peter is the man who boasts on his CV that he oversaw the closure of the North Wales Hospital. What did you do with them Peter? Oh and another thing – the other day I was reading one of Dr David Crossley’s laughable publications regarding the history of psychosurgery at Denbigh – written whilst David was working there himself – and I noticed that not only did David not mention the name of Gwynne the lobotomist (well Gwynne was embarrassingly recent history wasn’t he), but David claimed that there was ‘one person who died during surgery’. These operations were being carried out IN DENBIGH – in a room that was later used as a store room – by Gwynne Williams and nurses ‘trained in psychosurgery at Denbigh’. ONE DEATH? Don’t make me laugh David, that bunch of butchers will have killed loads of people. WHERE ARE THE BODIES BURIED?
One very entertaining sequel to Jeremy Thorpe’s acquittal in the face of much evidence that he was indeed guilty, was Peter Cook’s performance at The Secret Policeman’s Ball, during which he dressed up as a High Court Judge and performed a truly wonderful satire of a corrupt, biased judge bending over backwards to acquit someone who had attempted to murder someone else. It contained many memorable lines, including some hurling abuse at the alleged hitman that ended with the judge stating that the hitman was ‘someone unable to carry out a simple murder plot without cocking the whole thing up’.
Four years ago I gave the Welsh Govt nearly all the information that I have published on this blog – I also cc’d most of this information to Kirsty Williams and Leanne Wood, in their capacity as opposition leaders. I also wrote many, many e mails to the GMC informing them as to what had been going on. Peter Cook’s biased batty old corrupt judge reminded me so much of His Honour Huw Morgan Gruffydd Daniel when he presided over my ‘trial’, that I also enjoyed myself by attaching the You Tube clip of Peter Cook performing his sketch to my e mails. Since I wrote those e mails, I have acquired even more documentation demonstrating that the institutional corruption in medicine and law was even more serious than I knew at that time. In the same way that nearly all the witnesses who claimed to have been abused by the north Wales paedophile ring have been found dead in questionable circumstances, nearly everyone I know who had the Gwynne and Dafydd experience at Denbigh is now dead. It will be obvious from this blog that I’ve had a few close shaves myself over the last thirty years – including being left with no care for years on end when I was suicidal and seriously depressed, having someone stuff half a bonfire through my letterbox, being prescribed a combination of drugs by Richard Tranter which would have killed me if I’d actually taken them, experiencing cars being driven carelessly in my direction and being regularly contacted by a friend of Dafydd’s who is now serving a prison sentence for attempted double murder (please see blog post ‘A Very Bad PR Man’).
Thankfully, with respect to me, it would seem that there are a number of people in north Wales who are unable to carry out a simple murder plot without cocking the whole thing up.
http://www.drsallybaker.com/uncategorized/jeremy-thorpe-norman-scott-and-the-denbigh-connection/
I remember this case very well – I was a teenager living in west Somerset when the allegation that Jeremy Thorpe had tried to have Norman Scott killed was first made. Jeremy Thorpe’s first Court appearance was in Minehead and it was the most exciting thing that had happened in west Somerset for years. The eventual hearing was at the Old Bailey and readers might remember that although Jeremy Thorpe was found not guilty, allegations of corruption in high places never went away. Norman Scott was living on Exmoor at the time and I can remember local people all believing that Jeremy’s mates would have another go at killing him. Furthermore I knew someone who knew Norman Scott who maintained that he had seen compromising photos of Norman and Jeremy confirming that they did have the sexual relationship that Thorpe always denied. Norman featured in the media from time to time feeling very sore at having been trashed by the famously biased judge at the trial – well he needn’t have worried, the whole of the west country believed what he was saying about Jeremy and his dreadful mates.
The Mail Online is running an interview with Norman, in which he claims that two people, one a former detective, were recently going to be charged with conspiracy to murder him, but the charges have suddenly been dropped and a load of papers have ‘gone missing’ (sounds like those medical records of mine demonstrating corruption in legal and medical circles and at the Welsh Office). Norman has also claimed that Jeremy had tried to smear one of Norman’s friends, alleging that he was running a ‘vice-ring’ and Mail Online have published a letter from Jeremy Thorpe to Harold Wilson, in which this allegation is made. Jeremy gives the former address of this man in the letter – it is in Denbigh, that is why the reader has sent me a link to the story. The letter is dated 1976. So assuming that the man accused of running the vice-ring had left Denbigh a few years previously, which would give him time to have moved to London and occupy the more recent address that Thorpe supplies for him, that still places him in Denbigh in the 70s – during the period of T. Gwynne Williams and Dafydd Alun Jones’s reign of terror and of course during the period when sexual assault and abuse of vulnerable people en masse was alleged to have been happening in north Wales and when dissenters were banged up in Denbigh with no questions asked, sometimes dying within or else only emerging into the outside world again decades later when Denbigh was closed down. Yes there were still prisoners in there as recently as that. When I was in Denbigh during the winter of 1986/87, a nurse cheerily told me that Denbigh used to house many unmarried mothers – and the last one of them had died in Denbigh a few months previously.
So everyone knew that in 1985 there was still someone in Denbigh who had been put in there decades before for having a child out of wedlock. No-one questioned this. Furthermore the nurse who told me this as an ‘interesting bit of history’, also told me that before she died, she’d taken this old lady on a day trip to Rhyl and for the first time ever she tried an ice-cream and saw a zebra crossing. She had obviously never left the institution until the 1980s. Dafydd and Gwynne knew about that. Another interesting comment that Dr X from the Hergest Unit once let slip during the process of Denbigh closing down was that there was a ‘problem’ because Dafydd had ‘hidden away’ a few ‘difficult’ patients in there and no-one knew where they were going to go once Denbigh was shut. Perhaps Peter Higson, the Chair of the Betsi, would like to tell us all exactly who these patients who Dafydd had concealed in Denbigh were, why they had been secreted there and what happened to them – because Peter is the man who boasts on his CV that he oversaw the closure of the North Wales Hospital. What did you do with them Peter? Oh and another thing – the other day I was reading one of Dr David Crossley’s laughable publications regarding the history of psychosurgery at Denbigh – written whilst David was working there himself – and I noticed that not only did David not mention the name of Gwynne the lobotomist (well Gwynne was embarrassingly recent history wasn’t he), but David claimed that there was ‘one person who died during surgery’. These operations were being carried out IN DENBIGH – in a room that was later used as a store room – by Gwynne Williams and nurses ‘trained in psychosurgery at Denbigh’. ONE DEATH? Don’t make me laugh David, that bunch of butchers will have killed loads of people. WHERE ARE THE BODIES BURIED?
One very entertaining sequel to Jeremy Thorpe’s acquittal in the face of much evidence that he was indeed guilty, was Peter Cook’s performance at The Secret Policeman’s Ball, during which he dressed up as a High Court Judge and performed a truly wonderful satire of a corrupt, biased judge bending over backwards to acquit someone who had attempted to murder someone else. It contained many memorable lines, including some hurling abuse at the alleged hitman that ended with the judge stating that the hitman was ‘someone unable to carry out a simple murder plot without cocking the whole thing up’.
Four years ago I gave the Welsh Govt nearly all the information that I have published on this blog – I also cc’d most of this information to Kirsty Williams and Leanne Wood, in their capacity as opposition leaders. I also wrote many, many e mails to the GMC informing them as to what had been going on. Peter Cook’s biased batty old corrupt judge reminded me so much of His Honour Huw Morgan Gruffydd Daniel when he presided over my ‘trial’, that I also enjoyed myself by attaching the You Tube clip of Peter Cook performing his sketch to my e mails. Since I wrote those e mails, I have acquired even more documentation demonstrating that the institutional corruption in medicine and law was even more serious than I knew at that time. In the same way that nearly all the witnesses who claimed to have been abused by the north Wales paedophile ring have been found dead in questionable circumstances, nearly everyone I know who had the Gwynne and Dafydd experience at Denbigh is now dead. It will be obvious from this blog that I’ve had a few close shaves myself over the last thirty years – including being left with no care for years on end when I was suicidal and seriously depressed, having someone stuff half a bonfire through my letterbox, being prescribed a combination of drugs by Richard Tranter which would have killed me if I’d actually taken them, experiencing cars being driven carelessly in my direction and being regularly contacted by a friend of Dafydd’s who is now serving a prison sentence for attempted double murder (please see blog post ‘A Very Bad PR Man’).
Thankfully, with respect to me, it would seem that there are a number of people in north Wales who are unable to carry out a simple murder plot without cocking the whole thing up.
http://www.drsallybaker.com/uncategorized/jeremy-thorpe-norman-scott-and-the-denbigh-connection/
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