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Yet ANOTHER expose on channel four news tonight about the most bent and corrupted police force in the UK.

Included in the despicable cover ups and of a few copper being allowed to leave / resign - the IPPC and HMIC are not fit for any purpose in the 21st Century either.

That they get away with it is a testament to the bent and corrupt judiciary operating in South Wales also.

The latest of numerous messages detailing M. Kirk's situation in the courts and in HMP Cardiff -  the `1st message below regarding how MK is stopped from getting his appeal papers to the relavent people,was also sent to Lord Thomas [Lord Chief Justice] by Royal Mail also,  

The P.P.O., N.O.M.S.,, M.o.J. [Grayling, Wright, Green, Hughes, Vara, Mcnally], I.M.B., P.R.T. and others - all ignore everything sent by Rec. Delivery saying anything sent will "be kept in our intelligence files" or they cant act "on individual cases", or they simply ignore anything sent [especially the M.o.J.]. They all have been notified over and over since MK  was assaulted in October 2013 in HMP Cardiff but nothing is ever done.

At the bottom of this message is an email from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman - sending 4 of these messages within the space of 10 minutes in reply to communications sent to them. I have a letter of permission from MK to communicate with these characters of MK's behalf, and anyway, as MK has already stated, over 100 complaints he has made have not reached their destination within HMP Cardiff, and I suspect mail to outside parties sent by MK is not sent either by the prison,

To:  Mr. S. Cross, governor, HMP Cardiff, Lord Thomas, RCJ, London

copied to Mr. A. Cairns, MP

09 June 2014

Dear Mr. Cross,

Please excuse me for  writing again regarding the iregularities befalling Mr. Maurice Kirk who is in HMP Cardiff. Attatched is a letter of permission from Mr. Kirk to me, John Graham, giving me permission to act in certain instances on his behalf

The irregularity I am writing to you about this time, and I certainly hope you have been receiving the mail I have been sending you by recorded delivery and email via your clerk's email address - concerns Mr. Kirk, 69, being disallowed from sending his appeal papers in to Bristol Crown Court.

This situation has been ongoing for some time - I believe I have already written to you about this at least once.

PLEASE can Mr. Kirk be allowed to send his appeal papers into the court? - tI am sorry to say he prison staff have obsttructed him at every turn regarding many subjects - the prime concern at the moment relates to him not being allowed to send his appeal documents in. Please can he be allowed to do this.

Below are 2 messages I have received this morning 09 June 2014 regarding this matter from Mr. Kirk's sister - a former magistrate. The 1st message is relating to my asking Mr. Kirk if he could send the document in question to me so I could send to the court on his behalf.

Thank you.

sincerely,

Mr. J. Graham

[address redacted

1]

celia jeune to me

"Thanks for the offer John but it was typed and is 'stuck' in the computer! As M has been promised, almost on a daily basis, that he will have access to this or that facility he has not hand written it. He also does not have the ability to photocopy nor carbon copy his handwriting.

He is being denied Justice by the Staff of HMP  Cardiff pure and simple "

2]

On 9 June 2014 09:14, celia jeune  wrote:

"Maurice Kirk's phone call was again how he is being hampered in seeking Justice whilst a Litigant In Person in prison.

Over a month ago he typed out his Appeal to the Criminal Court on a HMP computer. His hand writing has deteriorated hugely over the last months due to having no suitable glasses for his eyesight; despite an eye test last year no new glasses have appeared.

He has been denied the ability to download his Appeal onto a CD, a memory stick or even onto a printer so that he can post the Appeal document direct to the Criminal Court of Appeal. He is denied photocopying and carbon paper.

He is unable to change the seven telephone contacts he registered in October 13 even though he is in need of direct contact with certain bodies to confirm information relevant to his Appeal.

Although he has money in the Prison system he has been denied further money onto his account and so is unable to telephone out, buy stationery and stamps etc.

They laughingly allowed him to work on an HMP computer in his cell and after hours of work he discovered that it had been disabled and thus totally useless for any form of download.

This is how the Justice System treats a man who is in his 70th year."

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---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: PPO Mail <Mail@ppo.gsi.gov.uk>

Date: 23 May 2014 09:55

Subject: RE: : MAURICE KIRK A7306AT, HMP CARDIFF

To: me

Dear Mr Graham

Thank you for your email about Mr Kirk's lack of medical treatment.

As previously advised, in my letters, we can only consider complaints from prisoners themselves about their treatment by the Prison Service.  Complaints about the courts, the police or the clinical judgements of healthcare staff are not covered by our terms of reference.  In Mr Kirk's case he will need to complete the NHS complaints procedure and if he still remains dissatisfied then he can refer his complaint to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

Yours sincerely

zzzzzz

Allocation and Assessment

Re: my earlier message - credit where credits due I suppose and ironically while waiting for the above message to appear here I received this below from Cardiff's governor. I would distance myself too from those who stand in the way of normal procedures, and those who allegedly assault elderly pensioners [as MK alleges happened to him last October  the police refusing to take photos of his injuries or take a statement on 10 visits after being called by MK, as he alleges] for what can only be for their own grotesque satisfaction,imho.

"11/06/2014      

To: me

Dear Mr Graham,

I regret to read of the problems being experienced by Mr Kirk.   I will investigate why Mr Kirk cannot get his appeal papers posted out to Bristol Crown Court and get this resolved as soon as possible.  

I will contact you again when I have assurance that the papers have been dispatched.

Thanks again for raising this,

Best regards

Steve

Steve Cross

Governor

HMP Cardiff"

It is a great shame MK's acute medical situation didn't get the attention it deserved after being  "raised" weeks ago in the  same manner by myself and others at the time. I have a call from MK dated the 27 May where he alleges, regarding his detatched colon problem, he hadn't seen a doctor there for 8-9 weeks, and when he did see a dr., on the 27 May [after she was on the phone for ages before seeing him] she stated she didn't know who he was [even though his file on the prison computer must be formidable] and refusing to help him, or even give him his N.I. number when he  asked for it, finishing MK's meeting with her by putting him on a punishment report after it was claimed he  said something out of order, MK finally being escorted out of the room.

Apparently MK's situation regarding this colon subject has progressed for the better somewhat, but not after so much unnecessary pain  non-action for weeks on behalf of the prison medical staff employed to see to inmates health problems. Detatched colons to not just go away or repair themselves. I mean, was it necessary for MK to receive no treatment for weeks, having parts of his bowel exiting his body, as happened, with the pain that came with that, and also having a hospital appointment cancelled while he was actually at the hospital for the appointment regarding a colonoscopy? If this is not brutal victimisation of the worst kind by those whose wages are paid by the taxpayer I don't know what is.

It is beyond time that many of you who read this blog copied and read the following at least 'ONCE A WEEK' because many of you seem to be forgetful

Justice can’t be done in secret. And here’s why

We will always try to twist the evidence to fit our theories. Especially when we are wrong

Daniel Finkelstein

Have you ever heard of “wilding”? Can you remember when you heard of it? I want to refresh your memory.

This week in times2, my colleague Camilla Cavendish has been telling some terrible stories of children taken from their parents without good reason and adopted against their will, never to be returned. And all in secret. Not a word to be published. I think that the story of wilding will help you to see why the secrecy is a scandal.

On April 19, 1989, a young woman jogging in Central Park, New York, was attacked. That understates it. She was brutally beaten and raped. Her terrible injuries left doctors convinced she would die. Eventually she pulled through, although without a memory of the attack.

The case of The Central Park Jogger became a symbol of a city out of control. The story became even bigger when the first arrests were made. New York police rounded up a gang of young African-Americans who quickly confessed. Apparently they liked to attack strangers, regarding their frenzied assaults as a form of entertainment. Wilding, they called it, and the word became famous.

Now I am going to tell you something you may not know. Certainly I didn’t until I stumbled across it a couple of days ago. About ten years after being sentenced for his part in the wilding, Kharey Wise met a man in prison, another New York rapist, called Matias Reyes. And the more Reyes got to think about it the sorrier he felt for his new friend. For Reyes knew something that the police and the courts did not. The wilding story was nonsense. The confessions were coerced, as the young men had claimed for years. How did he know it? Because he, Matias Reyes, had really raped and beaten the Central Park Jogger.

What follows is the shocking bit – shocking but instructive. The moment that Reyes confessed, it was clear that he was indeed guilty. His DNA was linked to the rape, and the chance that the link was mistaken was one in six billion. The wilding teenagers had left no DNA. And, when you came to look at it, their confessions didn’t really add up. They weren’t consistent with each other or with the facts. The District Attorney concluded that the convictions must be overturned and there can’t be much doubt that he was right.

Yet the prosecution lawyer in the original case refused to accept this. She was furious. She stridently opposed the finding of the DA. So did the New York Police Department. They convened a panel that concluded that the police had done nothing wrong and that, even if Reyes was guilty, he may not have acted alone. They concluded, lamely, that the teens must have started the assault with Reyes taking his opportunity later.

Even though the teens were eventually freed, this sort of behaviour is typical. In this country we should know this because we have had the case of Timothy Evans, whose wife and child were found dead at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, West London. Evans was hanged in 1950, found guilty of murdering the child, a crime he blamed on his fellow tenant John Christie.

Then in 1953, other bodies were found at Rillington Place – in the garden and sealed behind wallpaper. Christie was a mass murderer. The evidence that Evans had been executed in error was overwhelming, but the legal Establishment refused to yield to it. There was silence at first. Then there was a review that concluded, preposterously, that he murdered his wife but not the baby. This paved the way to a pardon 15 years after Evans’s death. His conviction, obviously wrongful, has never been overturned.

Why does this happen? Why do people refuse to accept what simply has to be true? Social psychologists use a term to describe this behaviour that you may have come across – it is called cognitive dissonance. This is the tension that arises when a person holds two attitudes that are psychologically inconsistent. And it is tension that is hard to live with, tension that simply has to be resolved.

So what do you do? A brilliant new book by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson – Mistakes Were Made, but not by Me – explains. You believe that you are a good person, say, yet you know you have done a bad thing. There is dissonance. You resolve it by deciding that the bad thing was not that bad. The worse your behaviour, the harder you will try to twist it around in your head until you can reconcile it with your view of yourself.

It is commonly thought that we have theories and that they are tested by the facts. The opposite is true. We have theories and then we strive mightily to fit the facts into them, ignoring those that don’t quite work or reinterpreting them if we have to. The more we have at stake emotionally, the more pressing this task becomes.

Cognitive dissonance explains a great deal. Take Gordon Brown. Some people believe that all the strife, all the difficulties he is encountering may lead him to give up. Cognitive dissonance suggests that the more trouble he is in, the more difficult things get, the harder he will work to convince himself that it is all worthwhile and that he is indispensible. His troubles make him less likely to resign, not more.

Now look at the Central Park Jogger case. People suffered because mistakes were made. The police and the prosecution, believing themselves to be good people doing good work, could not reconcile this suffering with their view of themselves. So they insisted, they had to insist, that the teenagers were guilty. The facts challenged their theory of themselves, so the facts had to be reinterpreted. The Evans case is similar. The legal Establishment regarded itself as dispensing justice and the death of an innocent man didn’t fit. It became essential that he not be innocent, whatever the evidence.

When groups – police, medics, politicians, social workers, the Family Court apparatus – get together, convinced of their own righteousness, the facts (like Timothy Evans) can go hang. They are certain that they are right, certain that they are just and often, you know, they really are. But when they are not, they will never ever admit it, digging themselves in more and more deeply.

A local authority that has taken your children away can never admit it did so wrongly. And every fact that shows that it did needs to be twisted around until it shows that it didn’t. That is what is happening all the time, behind the closed doors of our Family Courts beyond scrutiny.

There’s only one way out. That is to allow others, those without a stake in the righteousness of anyone, to shine a light on proceedings. Not to do so is inexcusable. It is an affront to justice and the rule of law.

FOR C'S SAKE - COPY IT AND READ IT ONCE A WEEK.

With the scum newspaper 'gloating' from its front page about one of its own being 'Acquitted' one has to take a look back at the 'silence of the scum lambs' when they went rather distinctly 'silent' when Maurice Kirk was 'acquitted some years ago in a far more serious criminal trial.

And notwithstanding that - the Scum had ran a bum steer 'smearing' story about Maurice 'prior' to his acquittal - perhaps in the belief that he was about to be nicked.

But upon being acquitted - the scum thereafter printed nowt.

And the scum claim to speak up for the public interest. Hypocrites.