"Section 12" of the Mental Health Act has become a "guillotine" for Maurice: the axe with which to cut him off life for good and for life: after having robbed him of his livelihood as a vet, South Wales Police want to rob him of all his possessions and his liberty to fly to relieve hunger in Africa.

Stealing his computer and legal papers is not worth mentioning as a criminal offence, compared to his current unlawful imprisonment and this next step of "sectioning". A judge has the power to rubber stamp the opinion of three psychiatric "experts". Never mind the 35 juries of public opinion who have signed the petition in Maurice's support. Never mind the evidence Maurice has against South Wales Police, HMP Cardiff and HMCS (Wales).

What counts seems to be abuse of the power of positions in institutions. Never mind ethics, morals or conscience. Just repeating the power of adults over children: South Wales Police in collusion with Haringey Council and local players in Cardiff.    

It is a common pattern, this whistleblower treatment: first prison under draconian conditions, hoping that you accidentally die, then sectioning into an environment where you can be not only physcially, but also medically controlled - as sinister as you care to imagine.    

Section 12 seems to be concerned with the "authority" that two doctors must have so that their "opinion" can send Maurice to Ashworth or Broadmoor. They are high security prisons that Maurice feared already when in Caswell Clinic for three months in 2009 - courtesy of South Wales Police who asked Dr Tegwyn Williams for help. He obliged by writing that Maurice suffered from "paranoid delusional disorder, significant brain damage and possibly brain tumour". The NHS withhold these records, don't allow a brain scan and therefore could not operate on his hip. 

The fact that French doctors did not find anything wrong with Maurice and did replace his hip, seems to be held against him now. Or what information might the learned doctors base their "professional opinion" on?

Might it be that all efforts are being made so that Maurice's "consolidation" of 20 years litigation against South Wales Police MUST not happen and some psychiatrists are called to help, just as Haringey Council calls "experts" to sanction lies? 

Whose opinion counts? - is that the question? Or is it: how much money does it take for 2 psychiatric surgeons and a psychiatric nurse to agree on the necessity for Maurice being locked up in yet worse conditions than HMP Cardiff? I am told that "Independent Monitoring Boards" watch prison conditions and report to the Home Secretary. 

The IMBs' remit is:

  • to monitor to ensure that people in custody are treated fairly and humanely
  • to operate independently of prisons
  • they are volunteers appointed by the Home Secretary to report on closed establishments on behalf of the community
  • they have unrestricted access to prisons
  • they listen to prisoners' complaints
  • they see that the rules are properly applied
  • they challenge things that they are not satisfied with and take their concerns to the Home Secretary.

This letter tells Maurice about the solicitor that the Court has appointed to cross-examine Dr Williams and other witnesses. 

Maurice uses it to authorize the bearer to collect papers on his behalf. 

For lack of "disclosure" is half his battle. One does wonder what people need to hide all the time, whether it's South Wales Police or Haringey Council.. 

Thank god there are American reporters who like to bring light where there is darkness:

see Beyond the Rule of Law: Being a Political Prisoner in HMP Cardiff

and

 World Attention Focuses on UK Political Prisoners: Musa Family and Aviation Adventurer Maurice Kirk

And do phone the Listings Officer at Cardiff Magistrates Court on 029 2047 4330 to find out when and in which court might be the hearing on Tuesday. The judge must see Maurice in person to send him to a psychiatric hellhole. Can you think of a way to prevent it?