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Maurice Not Guilty Verdict

Pie2211 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:36:00 GMT

News just in that Maurice has been freed by a majority not guilty verdict. The jury fully acquitted Maurice on all charges at Cardiff Crown Court today. He's currently being processed and will be released shortly.

More information will be posted as soon as we hear more.

News From Prison

Maurice — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:24:00 GMT

Civil Court Judge has ordered the South Wales Police to produce the 52 files for Maurice but when they eventually arrived the Prison Authorities refused to give any to him. At last, with more delay, they have allowed him access to 6 files at a time (so no cross-referencing possible) and each batch available every day or so thus meaning he has no time to prepare for his criminal case which starts 25^th Jan. He is still being denied his laptop on which he has filed evidence.

Because he has recently won a case for excessive physical restraint against Reliance, the firm employed to move prisoners from Prison to court, hospital etc, they have seen to it that he has even more restrictions placed on his visiting rights.

Civil Proceedings Lodged

Maurice — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:48:00 GMT

Maurice started his Civil Proceedings against the South Wales Police this morning in the County Court.

The Solicitors, acting for the Police, admitted in court that they had no copy of their complaint to the Police against Maurice which led to his arrest on 22^nd June. He had been accused of threatening to throw the bundle of witness exchange papers into the building, as he was not allowed in and they would not accept them.

Further, the Judge has ordered the Police to identify the police officers involved over the last 20 years in over 100 incidents where they have proof of which ones were involved.

Documents Posted - Download Section

Pie2211 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Maurice has asked for the following documents to be posted to the downloads section of the site.

You can view them from the MOST RECENT tab here:

They are listed as follows:

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/SWPolice_SummaryOfEvidence.pdf
South Wales Police Summary of Evidence document

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Interview Statements_Transcripts.pdf
Interview transcripts and statements

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_SWPoliceSolicitors_170609.pdf
Letter to Dolmans solicitors

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/CPSDocument_CardiffCrownCourt_220609.pdf
CPS document

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_CardiffCrownCourt_230609.pdf
Letter to Cardiff Crown Court

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_PossesionMachineGun_010709.pdf
Letter concerning possession of Lewis machine gun

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/ComplaintForm_Cardiff Prison_030709.pdf
Cardiff prison complaint

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_Airweld_MGun130709.pdf
Letter from Airweld concerning Lewis machine gun

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_CardiffPrison_2407090001.pdf
Letter to Cardiff Prison

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_PrivyCouncil_RCVS_260709.pdf
Letter concerning Privy Council and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_JudicialComplaints_050809.pdf
Letter containing list of Judicial complaints

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/PoliceReasonsForRefusingBail_070809.pdf
Reasons for refusing bail by the South Wales Police

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_ForBailApp_080809.pdf
Letter supporting bail application

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_BailApplication_100809.pdf
Bail application

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_CaswellClinic_1408090.pdf
Letter from Caswell Clinic

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letters_toCPS_220809.pdf
Letter to the CPS

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_ CardiffCrownCourt_260809.pdf
Letter to Judge, Cardiff Crown Court

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_ReasonsBehindArrest_260809.pdf
Letter explaining perceived reasons for arrest

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Letter_3rdSep09tHearing_280809.pdf
Letter concerning 3rd September court appearance

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/JudicialReviewApp_280809.pdf
Judicial review application

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/RCVS_LawStatement_SF_Moore_BA.pdf
Statement of the law by S.F. Moore BA

http://www.kirkflyingvet.com/PDFs/Correspondence_PatrickCulinane.pdf
Various correspondence to the press by Patrick Culinane

19th Day on Hungerstrike

Pie2211 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:38:00 GMT

Maurice Kirk rang at 3.15pm today (2 August 2009) from the Hospital Wing of Cardiff Prison, as he was transferred there on 29 July 2009. Maurice said that he was assessed by psychiatrist Dr Gaynor Jones for two hours on Friday 31 July 2009. “It was a gruelling session, mentally and physically” he said. Maurice also relayed that he is in a lot of pain and finding it difficult to walk now. Maurice would not be persuaded to abandon his hunger strike.

The Glamorgan GEM - Friday, 31 July 2009

Flying Vet on hunger strike

www.barry-today.co.uk/.../news.cfm

Serious Developments

Pie2211 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:47:00 GMT

The latest news is that Maurice refused to appear at his bail hearing yesterday, because the court refused him Habeas Corpus (his right to appear in court in person to defend himself against the law). Instead they would have only allowed him to appear via video link. As a result of his unwillingness to attend the hearing, the judge ordered him to be psychiatrically examined.

Maurice is being held in solitary confinement at present and he belives that after having the examination yesterday, they are going to have him sectioned to remove his right to make judgments on his own behalf.

In response to this he has begun a hunger strike.

Prison Letters and a Call to Jury Service

Pie2211 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:12:00 GMT

A couple of letters from Maurice landed on our mat this week franked with HM Prison Service stamps. That's a first for us. What's ironic is that amongst Her Majesty's post was a letter calling upon one of us to do jury service. Should we state on the return form that we work for Maurice on a professional basis, do you think?

In the letters Maurice has been busy outlining, in his own indomitable way, events leading to his current predicament. Unfortunately, his hand writing is a tad hard to decipher and we've not had time to translate it to type, I dare say it would take us a week to unpick. So we've scanned the most legible and put them up for reading which for the most part just about works...

Download Timeline Letter here

Download Other Prison Letters here

One document is a timeline of events from 1916 to present, yes that's right 1916. As far as we were aware, it was to be a precise blow by blow account of events since his arrest this month, except it also includes a historical prologue about a replica DH2 war plane and a string of pages concerning his engagements with the Police and other authorities prior to the present day. For your information pages 7-9 provide the background details to the arrest.

The other document contains three shorter letters providing more information over the circumstances of the arrest and his situation in Cardiff Prison.

Inside with Maurice's letters was a letter from another inmate for us to forward on; we assume this was to save on the cost of stamps or maybe they are suffering a shortage, since taking Maurice in. We do know that Maurice has been making a lot of new friends on the inside. The website is picking up quite a following from friends and family of inmates. If you're visiting the site after hearing about Maurice from someone in the prison, hello and welcome! Please don't be alarmed by anything you read here, your associates are quite safe. Although we do urge you to convey to those inside the prison to please refrain from encouraging Maurice's natural urge to form an escape party or to join it, should he succeed. He currently does not have a pilot's license to fly the matchstick microlite he's building under his bed and by which he intends to gain freedom.

We recently received a couple of phone calls informing us that Maurice has been given a bail application form for a hearing next Monday. This indicates a change of direction, since it was earlier understood that Maurice would remain in prison with no opportunity to influence his circumstances until a jury case, to be held at the end of the year.

We also have a copy of the summary of evidence against Maurice. It seems that by and large the contents of this website form the main plank of the CPS case and the fact that he won't go away and do as he's told, says 'inappropriate' things, might be of unsound mind (and/or an alcoholic) and on the testimony of a certain undercover cop code-named 'Foxy' who covertly asserted that at one time he owned a live WW1 era machine gun or "lethal barrelled weapon" before he sold it to the RAF over a year ago. Lastly, various experts have been employed to sign bits of paper that confirm all the worst suspicions.

It sounds as if a considerable amount of resources have been invested in making sure Maurice goes down, and we must admit that he's undoubtedly provided the ‘ammunition' for them to succeed. What's odd is that most of the evidence is rather old having been in the public domain (on this website) for ages (see blog/picture archive).

So why now has all this come to light? Was it really to do with an impending court case against the South Wales Police for harassment, we asked ourselves? If this were true it would either mean that there's some truth to Maurice's argument or the legal system is totally incapable of dealing with his accusations. It could well be that the Police genuinely believe that Maurice is a dangerous man who needs to be taken off the street. But having known and worked with Maurice for more than a decade at best, such a thing seems unlikely and at worst it looks like a convenient excuse to discredit and beat him down with.

Ultimately the charges come down to owning a firearm, whether working or not, without a proper license and we doubt Maurice would ultimately deny the technical fact of the charge. What is open to question are the motives behind the charges being applied at a particular point in time, just prior to a court case involving the South Wales Police. That is the most worrying element whether you sympathise with Maurice or not.

Maurice's official reply to all this was recorded as "I think it's rediculous" (SIC)