02 Legal Battles

Once again: no author could make up what the combination of South Wales Police, Dolman's Solicitors, HMCS (Wales) and HMP Cardiff can come up with to give Maurice a hard time - above all, to protect Dr Tegwyn Williams and his Caswell Clinic establishment. 

First, Maurice was sent to the Hospital wing and then 17 police officers took him to the punishment wing, once again, where the window in his cell can't be closed. So he is freezing. 

The current "harassment of Dr Williams" case is the fourth case in which Maurice is denied his right to cross-examine witnesses.

Let's hope they won't kill him before he gets some form of justice some time. 

Meanwhile, his efforts on behalf of the stolen Musa children are being appreciated by this African paper.

It is said that Wales is the test bed for Police State UK. The Multi-Agency Public Protection Agreement (MAPPA) is one such mechanism that was started in Wales. Being categorised level 3, like Maurice was, means being treated like the top most violent 5% of the population: terrorists or sex offenders. 

For South Wales Police it meant holding meetings between South Wales Police, NHS and Caswell Clinic (and possibly others) trying to 'assess the risk' that Maurice represented and finding ways of locking him away for life.

Dr Tegwyn Williams played the key role with his false medical reports. But who will acknowledge, let alone admit or compensate? It seems 'cheaper' to pay lawyers and to keep Maurice in prison...

These six pages are an excerpt of a leaked report that HHJ Seys Llewellyn QC refuses to disclose... 

Meanwhile, Maurice has been denied the opportunity to cross-examine Dr Williams and is waiting for some sort of sentence for some sort of charge of being imprisoned, under the most oppressive conditions imaginable, ignoring all rights and facilities for prisoners to prepare his defences in a number of court cases... 

 

Maurice has been figting "lost causes" for all his life. But I sincerely hope that his own "civil action for damages"will not be a 'lost cause'. After all, his record of winning legal actions against three police forces is well above 90%!

God only knows what the Court of Appeal office may have done to him in his absence, while 

• our carbon paper did not reach him
• he could not photocopy, telephone, write or post as much as he needed to
• he had no access to a law library.

What may be worst, is the fact that his records on the Police National Computer system have been changed.

But he did see "unconvicted, no sentence". I guess that this is only possible because "white collar criminals" get away with anything they do, for nobody polices the Police... 

Here are the four pages he composed for the Court of Appeal office in London. 

On the prison computer (PNC) it seems to state that Maurice is unconvicted, with an unknown sentence. But it has been changed to suit the needs of whoever orchestrates this campaign to ruin him as many others' lives have been and are being ruined: false bankruptcies, false imprisonments, false incarcerations, false sectioning.

Royal Charters make sure that "white collar criminals" get away with their crimes.

Already, Maurice is being extremely limited in his ways of dealing with court cases: 

• his solicitor's mail doesn't get delivered
• mail sent by him gets bundled and sent to one of our addresses
• his list of allowed phone numbers is down to eight
• his time for phone calls is limited
• his money for phone calls is budgeted and he can't use his own cash
• CPS, HM Court Service and South Wales Police's solicitors don't respond or the mail gets withheld.

 As European Citizens, we should benefit from Article 6: Right to a Fair Trial:

Everyone charged with a criminal offence has the following minimum rights:

(a) to be informed promptly, in a language which he understands and in detail, of the nature and cause of the accusation against him;

(b) to have adequate time and facilities for the preparation of his defence;

(c) to defend himself in person or through legal assistance of his own choosing or, if he has not sufficient means to pay for legal assistance, to be given it free when the interests of justice so require;

(d) to examine or have examined witnesses against him and to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him;

(e) to have the free assistance of an interpreter if he cannot understand or speak the language used in court.

I'm told that South Wales is the 'test bed' for the rest of the island. So we're facing Police State treatment a la South Wales in the rest of the UK in future, is that it? 

Psychiatrists are supposed to 'judge' Maurice next - the Gulag card, as he likes to call it. Will they decide that he's "unfit to plead" on this Thursday and for other hearings? Will they try to section him AGAIN to Broadmoor, for life?     

As we know that the Judiciary and the Police view and scrutinise this blog, I would like to use a phrase that I am sure they will all be familiar with: "Take a quiet moment's reflection" and consider this: is it not going too far to protect the bretheren "at whatever consequence to others"? 

If you do have a conscience, then examine it. If you have just one ounce of decency left, come forward and help this man. It can be done in such a way that you will never be named or identified in any way whatsoever.

For once, do the right thing. Because if people don't act, this cancer, like all cancers left untreated, will kill without any remorse. 

 

It obviously helps to have prison experience, if you want to survive those limitations and de-humanisations.

When Norman Scarth realised how severely hampered Maurice was, while he does have a few court proceedings to look after, he pointed out that litigants in person have the legal right to have access to computers, printers, Law Library, etc. In fact, Norman praises two prisons but got great obstructions in others! Eventually, he was even given a laptop in his cell. 

So why do South Wales Police not return Maurice's laptop which they stole on August 24th - for "efficient investigation of the offence"?

Why is he prevented from communicating with courts, solicitors, McKenzie Friends, friends and family? 

Why is his mail being opened and sent to one of his supporters? 

Here are judgements that HMP Governors should follow and respect. They are based on Article 6 of the Human Rights Act. In fact, Articel 6 (b) ensures "the right to time and facilities to prepare a defence." But do prisoner's have human rights?...

1. Raymond v Honey (1983)
   
2. Ponting v Governor of HMP Whitemoor (2002)
3. Cooper v HMP Service (2005) 

 

Do Litigants in Person have a chance to be treated fairly?

Maurice's Mission Statement

The trial concerning Dr. Tegwyn Williams on 10th November is on behalf of those that have been sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act unlawfully, reliant on arrogant and deceitful doctors immune from HM prosecution due to HM Crown Court rules.

 

In Nigeria, ordinary people, Parliament and Senate campaign to get the Musa family reunited, after Haringey Police kidnapped their six children - the youngest baby even in a hospital outside their borough. Lately, they also showed up in yet another borough where the Musas moved to. 

Here, Bradford Police lured Norman Scarth out of his sheltered housing to arrest him and take his computer in his absence. 

And in South Wales, Police are still refusing to return what they stole from Maurice, while ensuring that HMP Cardiff make everything as restrictive as possible for him:

• today one of his supporters received a large envelope that contained eight opened envelopes, ready to be mailed: two to courts, one to a solicitor and five to supporters and Mckenzie Friends
• Maurice continues to suffer from gut pain and continues to wait for proper medical attention
• his hunger strike continues on a piece of fruit a day, "until he is taken seriously"
• he listed his reasons for continuing here.

Next Thursday, November 10th is scheduled for his hearing about his current charge: harassment of Dr Tegwyn Williams, who was paid by South Wales Police to commit him to a psychiatric clinic for life.Here's a short excerpt of his last of four reports.

Now they are trying again, what Maurice calls the "Gulag card". But he also says that Caswell Clinic should rent a 36-seater bus for the staff to come to court as witnesses. 

 

You can't make it up:

1. cash needs to be sent by postal orders made payable to HMP Governor but get cashed only once a month. To send £50 costs £6.20.
2. Maurice phoned yesterday to say he has been allowed £8 per week on telephone calls
   
3. he can spend £6.68 on stamps, paper and envelopes.
   

Are there any human rights organisations that look into prison conditions?

It seems that chaplains are our only source of possible support.

But the Church of England wants to evict the campaigners from St. Paul's. So the Rule of Money will continue to overrule the Rule of Law...  

 

Maurice used to call two of us every day. He has either no money or our numbers have been blocked or both. 

This is therefore an appeal to support Maurice in whatever way you find appropriate:

• write to prisoner no. A7306AT in HMP Cardiff, Knox Road, South Glamorgan CF24 0UG
• contact HMP Governor Richard Booty, T: 02920 923 100, Fax: 02920 923 318. See Norman's letter as a remarkable model (see also that Norman's computer was taken when he was re-arrested!!!)
• you can also ask to speak to the Chaplain as a messenger
• write to the Crown Prosecution Service asking for fair hearings, due process and that Maurice's demands are met. Email: Cardiff.DistrictPCPT@cps.gsi.gov.uk
• just as Haringey Council criminalises the victims of their child snatching and their supporters, so does South Wales Police criminalise and penalise their victim Maurice Kirk - with the collusion of HM Court Services and HMP Cardiff. Hence the term HM Partnership
• sign the petition WANTED: Fair Trials and Compensation.

Writing to his MP Alun Cairns might make him write to the Justice Minister Kenneth Clarke.Letters by MPs are 'fast tracked'. Ours are ignored. His sister has written to Amnesty International. 

His next hearing is scheduled for Nov. 10th. 

Please put any other idea into action. The life of a serious 'victim turned starfighter' is at stake!

 On the positive side,

• somebody high up has ordered South Wales Police to return his legal papers
• Tottenham Police Station and Cardiff Central Station are ordered to hand over everything concerning him
• South Wales Police' Solicitors have sent a judgement dated 25th July 2011 concerning the release of MAPPA minutes
• why has it been withheld for such a long time?
• why did it take the Defendant's solicitor to send it rather than the Court?

On the negative side,

• Maurice expects not to be able to walk soon
• Maurice needs to know who has sent cash, cheques, postal orders or stamps so that he can complain about the stealing that has gone on
  
• he fears that he will be prevented from cross-examining Dr Tegwyn Williams by the case being dropped on November 10th
  
• he suspects that he will be held 'indefinitely' to stop him from pursuing his legal actions and being there for the Musa hearing on October 31st
• he has evidence that the latest psychiatric report by Dr Tegwyn Williams was sent to Haringey doctors to try and keep him in prison and stop him from supporting the Musas.
  

Anybody seen Big Brother lately? Are we living in 1984 or in 2011?

Here is a recording of one of his latest phone calls.

This is the phone line for visitors to book a visit - but you must be patient. They let you wait and wait and may give you one or two options some five or six days away: 02920 923 327

14 kg lost, but HM Prison have been trying to hush up that Maurice is on hunger strike, until they were obliged today to fill in a form.

Maurice writes: "CPS, South Wales Police and HM Court Services refuse to disclose all witness statements created each incident relied on in current prosecution.

Witness statements relating to Caswell Clinic staff, Police previously taking no action or CPS withdrawing prosecution." 

Despite all the odds, he managed to get this defence statement before the courts today.

His list of complaints about HMP Cardiff will soon be as long as the list of "incidents" that South Wales Police made happen to bully and harass him:

1. it's freezing, but they don't give him a blanket
2. he does not get his faxes from Norman Scarth and his solicitor
3. he is being refused stamps and needs them badly - but they are being taken out when we send him stamps
4. it is going to take a MONTH to get to his cash and thus can't buy stamps

From ruining his professional life to holding him in prison and psychiatric clinic the steps experienced by other victims of "white collar crimes" can be foreseen: sectioning and bankruptcy... 

But "white collar crime" is a minor understatement for the "harassment" and criminalisation by the various authorities that I have been watching. These are definitely five star rating in terms of wickedness, cruelty and violence:

• Bradford Police with Norman Scarth
• Haringey Police with the Musas and Maurice
  
• South Wales Police...  

Norman says: Hitler was at least open about it...