I would not miss the 24th Feb Barry Magistrates hearing for 'all the South Wales Police Pension Fund' the court heard when quashing the police restrictions refusing my leaving the country. It was therefore no surprise to be detained at Portsmouth docks on Tuesday night by my refusing to disclose 'registered police fixed residence for bail'.
I eventually get away only for my 'cut away speed model' aging Fiat Panda to 'blow up' on the M4 motorway in the pouring rain. Hitching, walking luggage and aching joints gets me to Lea's Pub in Malmsbury and another Lea driving me, Stirling Moss style, past Prince Charles's residence to catch the last train, by mere seconds remaining, for Cardiff long after midnight.
Around 1 am I receive a call on my new mobile. "Wiltshire police here, where are you?" "You know perfectly well exactly where I am, I have just (stupidly) put the battery back into my phone." "You were last seen dragging two large bags across a field near the motorway so, considering your welfare, we launched the police helicopter."
I reach Barry settee by 3.30am and arrive at court 10 minutes early! The District Judge fixes 14th April date to argue witness summonses for Drs Tegwyn Williams, Professor Roger Wood and Ruth Bagshaw of Caswell Gulag to disclose the redacted 'damaged brain' reports for all day trial on 28th April.
I remind the judge that Crown Prosecution barrister Tom Thumb Twomlow told HHJ Bidder QC, in front of Dr Tegwyn Williams that I had cancer and therefore must be legally represented. I, meantime, was smouldering in the cells beneath, but the power crazy lot had failed to notice the court tape recorder had been inadvertently been switched on.
It was their last 'throw of the dice' to scupper the trial and obtain the IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) and one way ticket to Broadmoor, for indeterminate prison sentance, Williams et al having found no other forensic level. 12 psychiatrists for the mandatory Section 41, 83 Mental Health Act 2nd signature. Apparently the cabal had abandoned the earlier argument of brain damage due to my having been 'drinking pal of Oliver Read, ditched in he Caribbean and had flown to Australia withouut a map'.
BUT HOW MANY PERFECTLY SANE BOYS AND GIRLS DID I LEAVE IN CASWELL GULAG WHEN I ESCAPED?
Maurice is in London 3rd/4th/5th March on mobile 07907937953 & maurice@kirkflyingvet.com