Mystery surrounds the sudden departure of Phillip Schofield’s former personal assistant and runner after he left This Morning for a rival ITV show.
10 Dec 2019
The male runner, who had a close working relationship with Schofe, quit the show earlier this year and is now working on Loose Women – frequently fronted by Ruth Langsford, who has reportedly lodged an official complaint against Phil.
And while ITV has said the runner was promoted, other staff are said to be confused about the move.
“It was odd because they were so close and then he up and went to Loose Women and they didn’t seem to be talking much anymore,” one insider told the Sun .
It comes as an actor who previously worked with Phil branded him a “t**t” on Twitter .
Former Emmerdale and Tracy Beaker star Connor Byrne blasted the host, tweeting: “I’ve seen a lot of the nonsense on here about Philip Schofield’s encounter with the duplicitous Bulsh*t Johnson this morning and, having worked with Mr Schofield I can categorically state cuddly Phil is a total t**t. So, it’s no surprise.
“Schofield only serves Schofield,” he added savagely.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/mystery-phillip-schofields-runner-leaving-21062922
Revealed: The frenzied 24 hours of planning at ITV before Phillip Schofield came out as gay on live TV
- Philip Schofield might have been approached from a media organisation
- His announcement at ITV on Friday morning might have been prompted by this
- It is understood those present were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement
The Mail on Sunday has learned that Friday’s announcement followed a frenzied 24 hours for ITV, during which a carefully orchestrated plan was put in motion to ensure his coming out went without a hitch.
Rumours have circulated within the showbusiness world that the announcement may have been prompted by an approach to Schofield from a media organisation.
This was said to have led to discussions between the TV presenter, his representatives, ITV head of daytime Emma Gormley and This Morning editor Martin Frizell.
It is understood those present were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent damaging leaks.
On Thursday morning, Frizell, a workaholic, was notably absent from the daily ideas meeting he usually leads. Production executives began to suspect something was afoot and later overnight staff were told to cancel a number of guests booked to appear on the following morning’s programme, due to be presented by Friday hosts Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes.
She is said to have a particularly close relationship with the This Morning presenter and last year began working as his agent.
Schofield last night admitted he had known that he was gay ‘for a while’, but said it wasn’t something he had considered when he married wife Steph in 1993. In an interview with the Sun on Sunday, the This Morning host said: ‘I admit I was perhaps a bit naive. But when we got married it was a joyous time and it wasn’t a consideration in my head…
‘I was confused by what it was. I thought maybe I was bisexual. But over time I realised and started coming to terms with it. And I realised I had to be honest with myself.’
During his television revelation on Friday, Schofield, 57, paid tribute to his family, saying: ‘My family have held me close. They have tried to cheer me up, to smother me with kindness and love, despite their own confusion.’
He told the Sun on Sunday it was too early to say if he and his wife will remain married. ‘It has taken me a long time to get here. I am not rushing to get to any other place,’ he said.
He declined to say if he was in a relationship with a man, or had been in the past, adding: ‘Steph and I have agreed to keep our private life private
But it was when Frizell, husband of former GMTV host Fiona Phillips, arrived from his home in Wandsworth, South-West London, earlier than normal at 6.45am on Friday and looking tired that This Morning’s behind-the-scenes team guessed they were in for a different kind of day. It is understood Frizell had toiled until the early hours ensuring that Schofield’s Instagram and Twitter posts announcing his coming out – issued to coincide with his televised revelation – were word perfect. He also worked on the interview with Schofield that co-presenter Holly Willoughby was preparing to conduct, post announcement.
The only other party who knew of the plans except Schofield’s family was the £30,000-per-month crisis management firm Phil Hall Associates who he instructed to work on his behalf three months ago when allegations of bullying by Schofield – which he angrily denied – began to circulate.
Frizell’s next job was to call Langsford and Holmes, who according to close friends were expecting their once-a-week presenting slot to be no different from any other. They were let into the ‘circle of trust’ just after 7am via their mobiles as they travelled to work.
An hour and a half later, staff were said to be ‘stunned’ when Willoughby and Schofield unexpectedly arrived in the studios.
Schofield went on to make his announcement, and then the two This Morning pairings embraced on camera.
For the first time in a career that has spanned more than three decades, golden boy of television Schofield has in recent months seen his name tarnished by accusations of being difficult to work with.
There were rumours of a fall-out with Willoughby, while Ms Langsford reportedly made an official complaint against him. ITV denied all claims.
Tomorrow though, ITV staff are expecting a ratings boost when Schofield and Willoughby return to their presenting duties.
https://news.sky.com/story/phillip-schofield-gets-messages-of-support-from-celebs-11928204
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Mr Phillip Bryan Schofield
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Phillip Schofield surprises charity with £20,000 donation
A HENLEY charity has received a surprise £20,000 donation thanks to Chris Evans and Phillip Schofield.
The Chiltern Centre, which offers support to young adults with learning or physical disabilities, only learned about the money when the donation was made on live television.
Schofield, who lives in Fawley, was interviewing Evans on ITV’s This Morning show about Carfest, an annual family music and motoring festival that was founded by the radio presenter in 2011 and raises funds for children’s charities.
Evans revealed he had two cheques for £20,000 each from the funds raised at the event, which he was giving to Schofield and his co-presenter Holly Willoughy to donate to the charities of their choice.
Schofield chose the Chiltern Centre, of which he has been patron since 2009. Later, he posted on Instagram, where he has 2.6 million followers, said: “Thank you, Chris Evans and Carfest, for the £20,000 you have so generously donated to the Chiltern Centre.
Carfest, which is held in Cheshire and Hampshire, gave half of the money it raised this year, to the BBC’s Children in Need appeal, while the other beneficiaries included the Teenage Cancer Trust, the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity and the Starlight Children’s Foundation.
Willoughby chose to donate her £20,000 to Short Lives, a children’s charity of which she has been patron since 2008.
The Patrons of The Chiltern Centre
We are very grateful for the continued support of our Patrons
:
- Alex Haigh
- Lady McAlpine – (wife of Sir William Mcalpine/ sister-in-law of Lord Alistair McAlpine)
- Phillip Schofield
- Gaie Scouller
- Jane Wates OBE
Lord Alistair McAlpine and ITV near settlement over Phillip Schofield blunder
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Phillip Schofield attending William McAlpine’s funeral despite having libeled his brother Alistair McAlpine
Boris Johnson’s father also attended.
30 March 2018
A NUMBER of well-known names attended the funeral of Sir William McAlpine at Fawley Church on Saturday.
They included Lord Camoys, BBC director-general Lord Hall, Sir John Madejski, Stanley Johnson, Phillip Schofield and Mike Read.
itting farewell to Bill the railway enthusiast
Jan 24, 2008
Boris Johnson will speak at the Chiltern Centre Patrons Club launch, in Sonning Common.
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Savile sailed with Cunard on a number of occasions. Notably, he travelled onboard the Queen Elizabeth on its first voyage around Britain in September 2011, the month before he died, and attended the ceremony when the Queen named the ship in 2010.
In January 2011, when plans were made for the memorial tribute, a Cunard spokeswoman described Savile as “a true friend of Cunard,” according to the BBC.
Savile enjoyed complimentary cruises onboard both Cunard and P&O Cruises for many years. It has been claimed he was kicked off P&O’s Canberra in Gibraltar by the captain who heard claims he abused a 14-year-old girl, according to a report in the Mirror.
Cunard employees:
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Paul Trotter who slipped through Cunard’s oh so strict vetting procedure to become a pianist and youth counsellor, supervising kids in the on-board children’s PlayZone. But there were more … https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/latest-news/cunard-pervert-who-abused-children-on-cruise-ship-1-4469833…
Hiding in plain sight: Well, for a start there was Paul Trotter who slipped through Cunard’s oh so strict vetting procedure to become a pianist and youth counsellor, supervising kids in the on-board children’s PlayZone. But there were more …
Simon Schofield – friend and business partner of Phillip Schofield
SHOOTING STAR CHASE CHARITY
A wealth of celebrities including Dragon’s Den Peter Jones CBE, Declan Donnelly and Jonathan Wilkes came together to support our Patron Phillip Schofield as he hosted the annual Clay Pigeon Shoot at the exclusive Royal Berkshire Shooting School, raising £137,000 for Shooting Star Children’s Hospices and the Peter Jones Foundation.
Phillip Schofield, who has been a patron of Shooting Star Children’s Hospices for over 16 years, hosted the event with his wife Stephanie, welcoming guests to the Royal Berkshire Shooting School, one of the UK’s premier shooting schools.
Shooting Star Patron
Sir Cliff Richard OBE
Patron
Sir Cliff Richard performed the ‘Topping Out’ ceremony at Shooting Star House in 2004. Recently Sir Cliff performed a rendition of his hit ‘Summer Holiday’ at our Hampton Hospice, with a sing-a-long for the children, parents and grandparents.
Simon Cowell
Vice-President
Simon Cowell was appointed Vice-President in May 2015 and has been supporting the charity since 2003. Simon makes regular visits to both hospices and enjoys time chatting with the children and young people. Every year, Simon kindly hosts a special Afternoon Tea to raise funds for the charity and welcome supported families, whilst encouraging a number of high-profile celebrities to join him in making it a very special day. Simon also hosts a special day at the X Factor rehearsals where children from both hospices are able to spend the day at the studios, chatting to Simon, who introduces them to his fellow Judges.
Simon together with his partner Lauren Silverman (Patron of Shooting Star Children’s Hospices) also attends the annual Shooting Star Children’s Hospices Ball, where he has helped create some amazing auction prizes to raise much needed funds. In 2013 the staff at Shooting Star House gave Simon a surprise with our very own Britain’s Got Talent, with Simon as a judge. The red buzzer was very busy that day! Simon’s company Syco Entertainment, together with Sony Music chose Shooting Star Children’s Hospices as their Charity of the Year for 2015.
Shooting Star Chase supports children with life-limiting conditions and the X Factor USA judge has been a devoted supporter for nine years drafting in celebrity support from the likes of JLS,Phillip Schofield and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York.
Simon recently hosted a fundraising event for the charity at the Dorchester hotel in London, and was joined by stars including Peter Andre, Jahmene Douglas and JLS.
Peter, who recently lost his brother Michael to cancer, said, “I know we’ve been through it, but you look around at children going through similar things and as a dad I think ‘Now that’s tough.'”
Sarah, Duchess of York spent time cuddling three year old leukaemia patient Alfie. “I love what Shooting Star does for people,” she said. “I’d do anything for children like Alfie to have a chance of a moment of respite from their pain.”
Famous faces including the Duchess of York, Peter Andre and JLS members met families with children not expected to reach their 19th birthday.
Mar 28, 2013
The stars were just some of those who attended an Easter afternoon tea at the Dorchester hosted by Hampton hospice charity Shooting Star Chase.
Families were welcomed by a giant Easter chick and bunny and enjoyed meeting the celebrities at the fundraising event, where an auction and other activities raised £65,000
Simon Cowell is surrounded by female admirers as he hits the town for a wild night out at a charity ball
1 Oct 2017
Shooting Star Chase bash at the Dorchester Hotel
Other stars at the bash included Louis, Cliff Richard and Hollywood actress Joan Collins, 84, who was with her toyboy husband Percy Gibson, 52.
They all got together to help raise money for the children’s hospice charity.
Joan Collins ‘shut down’ by Piers Morgan after asking questions about Phillip Schofield
‘Everyone who knew him knew he was gay’
10 FEB 2020
Joan Collins appeared to be shut down by Piers Morgan during a Good Morning Britain chat about Phillip Schofield.
The actress said it was ‘odd’ that people have to make such a ‘big statement’ about their sexuality when the ITV host diverted the chat elsewhere.
The pair made up the GMB Oscars special panel along with co-host Susanna Reid and guests Kelly and Sharon Osbourne, and showbiz blogger Perez Hilton.
But it was Phillip’s revelations from Friday that dominated the chat.
Joan replied: “That’s what I thought when I saw it. I thought, why does he have to do that? It seems like he was living a fine life. Everyone who knew him knew he was gay. Why does he want to tell anybody and confess, as it were?
“We take for granted these days that people are gay, lesbian or trans, or whatever. It seems a little odd to make a big pronounced statement…”
Kelly then butted in with her opinion.
Piers then lamented about how much he likes Phil before closing the conversation and trying to cut to the link up with Lorraine – which didn’t end up happening as their sister programme wasn’t ready.
Countess of Wessex, Joan Collins,
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Simon Cowell and Max Clifford support Shooting Star Chase
05 March 2012
Plus Annie Lennox, Cherie Lunghi, Emmanuel Petit, Alistair McGowan, Jessica Hynes, Simon Webbe, David Hasselhoff, Chris Evans and Tim Minchin
The pop mogul Simon Cowell and the PR expert Max Clifford hosted a Valentine’s Day tea party at the Dorchester Hotel in London for families supported by the Surrey children’s hospice charity Shooting Star Chase. Clifford, a patron of the charity, and Cowell are pictured with Sian, 16, who is supported by the charity. Cowell said: “I’ve got to know many of the children there. For example, Sian will often text just to tell me what a great day she’s had at Chase.”
– The singer Annie Lennox and the actor Cherie Lunghi are supporting a march across London’s Millennium Bridge as part of the world’s largest women’s rights campaign. The series of marches across bridges in places such as Canada and South Sudan on 8 March, which is International Women’s Day, are organised by Women for Women, an international charity for female survivors of war.
– The former footballer Emmanuel Petit has become a global ambassador for the Homeless World Cup. Petit, who played for Arsenal, Barcelona and Chelsea, and scored a goal in the 1998 World Cup final, said: “I believe that sport and football are very important for human beings, and that is why I decided to be an ambassador.” This year’s event, organised by the charity the Homeless World Cup Foundation, will be in Mexico City in October.
– The comedian Alistair McGowan, the actor Jessica Hynes and Simon Webbe from the boyband Blue will feature in a series of YouTube films that encourage people to use fairly traded products during Fairtrade Fortnight. In the videos for the Fairtrade Foundation‘s Take a Step for Fairtrade campaign, the celebrities break into a frenzied dance – the ‘Fairtrade step’ – every time they see the Fairtrade logo.
– The Baywatch star David Hasselhoff met abandoned puppy Dexter on a visit to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. A dog owner, Hasselhoff visited the charity after filming a TV programme at studios nearby.
– Red-headed celebrities, including the TV presenter Chris Evans and the comedian Tim Minchin, are backing an auction to raise money for the Sumatran Orangutan Society, which is trying to prevent the ginger-furred ape from becoming extinct. The auction launched on eBay on 1 March.
Simon Cowell and Max Clifford support Shooting Star Chase
Charities sever ties with Max Clifford after guilty verdict
Shooting Star Chase and the Woking and Sam Beare Hospices have said that Max Clifford will no longer be acting as a patron for them after a jury found him guilty of eight charges of indecent assault.
Hours after their six-year-old son Ivan died on Wednesday morning, David and Samantha Cameron asked well-wishers not to send them flowers. Instead, the couple said, donations should be sent to one of the many institutions which had helped Ivan, who suffered from a combination of severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy known as Ohtahara syndrome, throughout his brief and difficult life.
If it were possible for good to emerge from the death of their eldest child, the Camerons felt, it would be that these care centres, which have been pillars of hope in the lives of thousands of parents, received the recognition they deserve.
Among them are two hospices linked by an unlikely meeting 14 years ago. Sister Frances Dominica, the British nurse who in 1982 opened the world’s first children’s hospice, Helen House, in Oxfordshire, was invited for coffee by Kathryn Turner, a 55-year-old administrator working at the React children’s charity.
Inspired by Helen House, and galvanised by her meeting with Sister Frances, Ms Turner set about trying to create a similar institution in Hampton, Middlesex. It took her 10 years to raise the funds – £3m – with donations ranging from 10p to £100,000.
Eventually, in 2005, the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice was founded. At the time it was one of only eight such hospices in the world; today, it is an international standard-bearer. The Camerons, who spend weekends in the Tory leader’s constituency of Witney, in Oxfordshire, used Helen House extensively when away from London. But during the week, they relied even more heavily on the outreach services – meaning nursing visits to the family home in Kensington – provided by Shooting Star.
Open 365 days a year, the hospice offers several types of service, entirely free of charge, to parents of children with disabilities. Aside from outreach staff and day care, it provides “end of life care” to support parents in the final stages of children’s lives.
As well as family rooms, children’s bedrooms and therapy rooms designed to provide relaxation, Shooting Star has an arts and crafts room, a sensory room with soft furnishings and music, outdoor play areas and a peaceful garden for grieving parents. Its hydrotherapy pool and spa is hugely popular because it gives children freedom they otherwise don’t have.
“David and Samantha would have outreach nurses visit them quite regularly,” said Dalton Leong, a former Barclay’s banker who now works full-time as chief executive at Shooting Star. He added: “They also came to us regularly on our short break scheme, where they would drop Ivan and his brother and sister off with us while they recharge their batteries. Sometimes this would be for a few hours; at other times it would be for a few days.”
Mr Cameron has said repeatedly that his political outlook has been conditioned hugely by his experience of hospices, which he as Prime Minister would seek to give greater prominence. With growing demand – the paucity of such facilities means they are hugely over-subscribed – comes growing needs too. The centre, which receives only 8 per cent of its funding from the Department of Health, costs £8,000 per day to run. Its annual fundraising target rose last year, from £2.5m to £3m. With a third of its funding coming from local community donations, Britain’s recession is going to make hitting that target difficult this year.
Campaigning from some well-known patrons has helped. These include Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Trevor McDonald, Joan Collins, Richard E Grant, Vince Cable and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, the last of whom donated £500,000 he earned from a Valentine’s Day edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? But few people realise the fragility of these centres’ finances, the Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley told The Independent yesterday. Hadley has played in several fundraising concerts free of charge for the hospice.
Sister’s son jailed for attack on former nun
THE adopted son of the founder of Helen House hospice imprisoned a former nun in his car before punching her in the face.
Kojo Ritchie, who was adopted as a baby in Ghana by Sister Frances Dominica, was jailed for two-a-half-years at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.
The 25-year-old has 38 previous convictions for offences including headbutting his ex-partner, stabbing someone in the leg and causing grievous bodily harm to his adoptive mother, who set up Helen and Douglas House hospices in East Oxford.
Yesterday the court heard Ritchie forced his ‘auntie’, former nun and family friend Caryn Hughes, into his car and drove her around the Oxford bypass against her will before punching her in the face, making her nose bleed heavily.
Judge Tom Corrie told him: “You were adopted when you were about one by your adoptive mother who has stood by you ever since.
Prosecutor Matthew Walsh said there had been “previous incidents of violence” from Ritchie, of St Mary’s Road, East Oxford, towards Miss Hughes and that he once showed her what she thought was a gun.
During the incident on June 5 Ritchie became aggressive towards Miss Hughes and smashed the glass panel of a door at her house before taking a bag, containing knives, from his garage….
Mr Walsh said Ritchie then hit the former nun, who was wearing spectacles, in the face, but immediately apologised and later took her to hospital where she needed stitches.
John Reilly, defending, said his client was a devoted father-of-two and the incident lasted only 20 to 30 minutes.
Richmond’s deputy mayor, Councillor Tony Mollett involved with Shooting Star charity
Trust Moves Closer To Its Children’s Hospice Dream
The formal transfer of the land took place at York House in Twickenham during a fundraising concert in aid of the trust.
Richmond’s deputy mayor, Councillor Tony Mollett, presided over the formal purchase of the site on The Avenue in Hampton.
The trust is in the process of raising £6.5 million to build and equip the first hospice for terminally ill children in south west London.
Chairman Edward Bentall, who recently took over at the helm of the charity, said he was looking forward to seeing the dream of opening the hospice become a reality.
Richmond’s deputy mayor, Councillor Tony Mollett, presided over the formal purchase of the charity site on The Avenue in Hampton.
SDP–Liberal Alliance Councillor, Anthony Guy Mollett, was allegedly at EGH
Princess joins Ham’s jubilee celebrations
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA was celebrating her cousin’s jubilee in Ham on Friday when she opened the fundraising flower festival at a local church.
The festival at St Andrew’s Church, in aid of the Shooting Star Trust’s Children’s Hospice Appeal, was officially opened by Princess Alexandra and attended by Shooting Star founder Katie Turner and Edward Bentall of Bentall’s Kingston. The church was filled with dramatic flower arrangements to celebrate the 50-year reign of the Queen and the festival continued for four days.
On Saturday the church hosted a special jubilee concert with music from St Andrew’s choir, Grey Court School Big Band and Gospel Choir and Meadlands Community Choir. There were also solo performances and dramatic readings.
Children were invited to create a Hand Print picture to present to the Queen on Monday followed by a picnic lunch. In the afternoon they enjoyed a puppet show from puppeteer Stephen Novy followed by jubilee cakes and tea provided by Greggs of Twickenham.
The bakers also donated jam doughnuts for the children involved in the Hand Painted picture and are involved with the Shooting Star Trust as part of a three years scheme donating £10,000 as part of their commitment to local charities.
Kate Turner, Shooting Star Children Hospice founder
A SPORTSCAR driving granny with a passion for rugby players was not quite what I expected when I went to meet the inspiration behind one of the borough’s most well-known charities.
Kate Turner has been the driving force behind the Shooting Star Trust for the past nine years and her dream of opening a children’s hospice in Hampton will be realised this summer.
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Camilla charity clashes with nun cleared (not true – there was insufficient evidence) of sexual abuse
A children’s charity with links to the Duchess of Cornwall is engulfed in a row after the nun who founded it was barred from working there by a former boss of Scotland Yard.
Sister Frances Dominica has accused Lord Blair of Boughton, who is now chairman of trustees of Helen House in Oxford, of refusing to discuss her return five years after she was cleared of sex abuse allegations.
Controversy over the ban threatens to embarrass the duchess, who is a supporter of the charity and met the former Metropolitan Police commissioner at Clarence House last month.
Sister Frances was excluded from Helen House, the world’s first children’s hospice, in 2013 after two women made allegations of historical sexual abuse. Prosecutors ruled in 2014 that there was insufficient evidence to bring charges.
Financial difficulties at the charity resulted in Lord Blair announcing the closure of the Douglas House hospice for young adults last year.
Sister Frances said that she had asked to speak with Lord Blair, the head of Scotland Yard until 2008, but claims he has refused to meet her. “I have not had a response. Through someone else I have been told he is not prepared to speak with me.”
Supporters of the nun have suggested a link between financial difficulties at the charity, known as Helen & Douglas House, and public concern and confusion over Sister Frances’s ban. The charity raised £6.23 million in the year before her ban was made public. The most recent accounts show it received £3.46 million.
Sister Frances, 76, who is president of a charity called Falsely Accused Carers, Teachers and other professionals, founded Helen House in 1982 and it has inspired similar hospices around the world. She remains a trustee of React, a London charity that helps children with potentially terminal illness. When React checked, the regulator said that it had not required her to stop working with Helen House. She is also a trustee of The Porch charity which works with the homeless in Oxford.
The Duchess of Cornwall became patron of the hospice in 2007. Children from Helen House are invited to Clarence House each year to help her decorate the Christmas tree.
Lord Blair said: “The trustees of Helen and Douglas House yield to no one in our admiration for Sister Frances.” But her readmission as a trustee would “not be compliant with a risk assessment” and overriding the findings of the official review would be “extremely difficult to justify”.
Lord Blair said that React did not deal with children directly and pointed out that the Care Quality Commission, as a regulator, could not require charities to do anything. There was “no significance” to a suggestion that the hospice’s financial dilemma coincided with Sister Frances’s resignation, adding: “Our expenditure has now fallen and our income is rising.”
Judge rules on millionaire sex offender Charles Howeson’s release
26 Oct 2018
The former Royal Navy commander, Plymouth charity director and business leader was jailed for ‘isolating’ and ‘groping’ young men
The fall from grace of Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson was complete this morning as judges condemned him to serve his sex abuse sentence.
The former Royal Navy commander, charity director and business leader was jailed in June for “isolating” and “groping” eight young men.
He offended over a decade during the 1980s and 1990s, attacking the men – aged 20 to 33 – in strikingly similar ways.
But the 69-year-old has always insisted that the offences did not happen and the allegations are part of a conspiracy against him in “gossipy” Plymouth.
His case reached court in London today as he appealed against his convictions amid harsh criticisms of the way his trial proceeded.
Howeson claimed the trial was “unfair”, but in a two-hour hearing at the Court of Appeal, three judges upheld the verdicts.
“We are left with no real doubt that the verdicts are safe,” said Lord Justice Hickinbottom.
“On the evidence, we consider the verdicts were unsurprising.”
Appealing today, his barrister Daniel Janner QC claimed that the way the trial judge summed up the case to the jury was unfair to Howeson.
The summing up lasted four days and was a “mish mash muddle” of fact, legal directions and comment by the judge, he argued.
The length of the speech may have led to jurors “switching off” or they may have been “distracted” from the actual issues they had to decide.
Rejecting the appeal, Lord Justice Hickinbottom accepted that the judge’s summing up could have been better, but said the resulting verdicts were not “unsafe”.
‘He engaged in a course of conduct over more than 10 years’
The appeal judge, sitting with Mr Justice Jeremy Baker and Judge Deborah Taylor, rejected the sentence appeal.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/judge-rules-millionaire-sex-offender-2150746
Wealthy sex abuser Charles Howeson is bidding for freedom today
In December Howeson was convicted of 10 indecent assaults against eight young men in the 1980s and 1990s
26 OCT 2018
Fallen Plymouth millionaire Charles Howeson is appealing his conviction and sentencing for sexually abusing young men.
In December 2017 Howeson was convicted of 10 indecent assaults against eight young men in the 1980s and 1990s.
He was acquitted of attempted buggery and indecent assault against a ninth complainant in June, following a retrial at Bristol Crown Court.
That same month the judge sentenced him to seven-and-a-half years in prison and ordered him to pay £50,000 in costs.
He will also be on the Sex Offender’s Register for life.
Today Howeson will sit before the Court of Appeal in London to appeal against both his conviction and sentencing of the historic sex abuse charges.
Howeson will sit before Lord Justice Hickinbottom, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker and Her Honour Judge Deborah Taylor in a bid to clear his name.
In the last trial, the court heard Howeson had been diagnosed with cancer and was due to begin chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
At the time his wife Emma gave a moving statement outside court, saying they intend to appeal the convictions.
Sentencing Judge Mark Horton said at the time: “This case has revealed that whilst to the outside world you displayed the finest qualities of diplomacy, charisma, endeavour, organisation and charm which you demonstrated during your period in the navy and in your extensive and successful career and involvement at the very highest level with public bodies authorities, businesses, including a bank, but also in your public and charitable works, mainly associated with the community of Plymouth, the hidden and dark truth is these same qualities were the very qualities which enable you to mask and conceal a dark secret, only revealed for the world to see some 30 years later in this trial.
“That secret was your uncontrolled and predatory sexual behaviour towards particularly young, or at least vulnerable men, under your control.”
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/live-charles-howeson-court-appeal-2148533
The judges:
Judge Deborah Taylor stopped the recent Jonathan King abuse trial.
Surrey Police failures in Jonathan King child sex abuse investigation ‘undermined criminal justice system’
Judge Deborah Taylor said the prosecution of Jonathan King had been motivated by “concerns about reputational damage to Surrey Police” after revelations about Jimmy Savile’s crimes
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-police-failures-jonathan-king-15070657
Rolf Harris trial
Briscoe, 56, who denies three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice, said she had permission to sign out Deborah Taylor from the continuing professional development (CPD) course at Windsor that they were both attending in May 2012.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/27/constance-briscoe-forged-signature-court
Sir Alan Davies former head at Wembley’s Copland School given a suspended sentence.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-24383163
Privy Council appointment: Sir Gary Hickinbottom
21 April 2017
The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Sir Gary Robert Hickinbottom as a member of the Privy Council.
Justice Jeremy Baker
New High Sheriff of Worcestershire l-r The honourable Mr Justice Jeremy Baker with the new High Sheriff Cassian Robert
https://theukdatabase.com/2018/02/07/adam-parkin-sunderland/
Charles Howeson is jailed for sex attacks
The prominent city businessman was found guilty of indecently assaulting eight young men
22 June 2018
Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for sexually abusing young men.
Last year the 69-year-old was convicted of 10 indecent assaults against eight young men in the 1980s and 1990s.
He was acquitted of attempted buggery and indecent assault against a ninth complainant last week, following a retrial at Bristol Crown Court.
Today in the same court, the judge ordered him to pay £50,000 in costs.
He will also be on the Sex Offender’s Register for life.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-jailed-sex-attacks-1705301
Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson will return to court next week to be sentenced for indecently assaulting eight men.
June 14 2108
The former Royal Navy Commander was convicted by a jury back in December of ten counts of indecent assault against young men in the 1980s and 1990s.
During the original trial, the jury failed to reach a verdict on two alternative charges, attempted buggery of a boy and indecent assault.
Today, a jury found Howeson not guilty of both those counts.
The court was told Howeson, of Craigie Drive in Stonehouse, intends to appeal his convictions.
He is due to be sentenced on Friday at Bristol Crown Court for his convictions last year.
Howeson is due to be sentenced at Brstol Crown Court next Friday – June 22.
Following the initial trial, Judge Horton told Howeson that he would be sent to prison.
He offered the defendant the chance to speak to a probation officer and face up to his guilt.
Daniel Janner, QC for Howeson, replied: “The defendant’s position remains the same. He didn’t commit these offences and he has been wrongly convicted.”
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-what-happens-next-1676847
Jury told dark past had ‘caught up with’ businessman accused of attempt rape of boy
Prosecution and defence barristers give closing speeches in Charles Howeson case as jury prepare to be sent out by judge to consider verdict
13 June 2018
A jury heard how the dark past had “caught up with” a leading city businessman who stood accused of attempting to rape a boy 30 years ago.
Prosecutor Paul Dunkels QC summed up the Crown’s case against 68-year-old Charles Howeson, noting how the former Royal Navy commander had been convicted of ten counts of indecent assault against eight young men last December following a lengthy trial.
In his closing speech to the jury of nine men and three women at Bristol Crown Court, Mr Dunkels noted how victims of sexual abuse were frequently unable to talk openly about their suffering for many years.
He noted how the partner of Howeson’s accuser had told the court how the man was left sobbing as he finally recounted the sexual assault in a field near the businessman’s home in Crownhill in the late 1980s.
Mr Dunkels, recalling the words of defence barrister Daniel Janner QC, asked the jury if they thought these were “crocodile tears”, adding there was “no reason to put on an act for her, surely?”
Judge Horton said he would conclude his summation on Thursday morning before sending the jury out to consider their verdict.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/jury-told-dark-past-caught-1673946
COMMANDER CHARLES ARTHUR HOWESON – colleague of Prince Andrew, Prince Philip and Prince Charles – charged with buggery
Charles Howeson Trial Update:
Charles Howeson to appeal sex abuse convictions, court told
11 JUN 2018
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-appeal-sex-abuse-1664979
7 June 2018
A man who claimed a leading city businessman tried to rape him when he was a boy told a jury that making the complaint to police destroyed his life.
The man – who cannot be named for legal reasons – responded angrily to suggestions by Daniel Janner QC, that he only accused Charles Howeson of attempted buggery for a “compensation claim”.
The man turned to the jury at Bristol Crown Court and said: “Do me a favour – find him [Howeson] not guilty”. Turning back to Mr Janner he suggested the barrister stick his suggestion “up your a***.
“I didn’t do this for compensation. I never did this for me.”
Howeson, a former Royal Navy commander, faces one count of attempted buggery of a boy aged between 14 and 15 during a summer in the mid 1980s.
Howeson, aged 68, also faces an alternative count of indecent assault of the boy in the area of Crownhill.
On the first day of the trial the jury was told that Howeson had been convicted last December of 10 counts of indecent assault on eight young men following a six-week trial.
The offences took place when Howeson was a senior officer in the Royal Navy in the mid 1980s, while running the Groundworks charity in early 1990s and at his home address also in the early 1990s.
When Mr Janner suggested the man had made the entire sexual assault allegation up merely “for compo” because he knew Howeson was wealthy, the man replied the assertion was “utter b*******.”
He said: “I had no idea who he was. No idea whether he was alive.”
He told the court that when investigating officers told him about the application deadline for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board he told them: “I don’t want to apply – because I don’t want any scumbag lawyer saying I was doing this for money.”
In response to questions from prosecutor Paul Dunkels QC, the man said he only came forward after his partner revealed she had been victim to sexual abuse when younger. The man told the jury he only related the alleged incident to his partner “to let her know I understood… I wish I hadn’t.”
He told the jury he did not want to go to the police and took months of arguments between the couple before he finally did after his partner “insisted” he do so in an effort to save their relationship.
The alleged victim told the jury he had no idea who his attacker was, merely a number of details he could still recall from 30 years ago.
When he was later shown 10 photographs as part of an identification parade, he immediately picked out Howeson, but said he still did not know who he was.
The jury later heard from an identification officer who noted how the man appeared distressed after seeing the picture of Howeson which he had picked out immediately. Following the identification process, a video of which was played to the jury, the officer noted how the man had wiped his face and nose because “he’s wiping his tears away”.
The man had told the jury that after seeing the picture of Howeson: “I went into shock. I couldn’t control myself.” He said that even then he did not know the name of the man, nor that he had committed indecent assaults on other men in 1985, 1992, 1993 and 1994.
During an exchange between the man and Howeson’s defence barrister Daniel Janner QC, the man repeatedly denied he had “waited” 30 years before coming forward in 2015, saying: “I was never going to tell anyone. It was my business. I didn’t want to tell anyone. I’ve never been tempted to tell anyone other than my partner.
“It’s not ‘waiting’ to tell anyone. I wish I hadn’t told anyone. It’s affected lots of my life. The last three years it has destroyed my life”.
He admitted he had been jailed previously for a number of offences and was currently imprisoned for smashing up and setting fire to a large truck.
He said: “I’ve paid and am paying my debt to society and fully accept my behaviour was not right and I’m paying for it right now.”
He accepted that in his victim impact statement he had said that “certain aspects” of his behaviour “directly resulted to what he [Howeson] did to me”.
He accepted he had got “into trouble” in the years following the alleged incident and said he was “ashamed” and “embarrassed” that he had been violent towards his partner and a previous partner.
At one stage he angrily insisted “I’m not on trial”, saying he was paying for his past crimes.
His hands, clenched being him, began to shake as he replied to Mr Janner’s questions as to why he had assaulted his partner, why he had tried to take his own life in the past, why he had admitted specifically taking jobs that were “dangerous”.
He said: “When you… you wouldn’t understand. You do not know what it’s like to be a victim of this. What it does to your head.
“Do you know how hard it was to tell the woman I loved, the mother of my son?”
Noting the man had previous convictions for violence, he asked the man had not sought out Howeson to physically punish him, the man replied: “I want him to face justice”.
The man told the court he buried the incident, saying he told no one, not even his best friends, his brother or mother, adding: “I was deeply ashamed about it and didn’t want to tell anyone. I felt naïve.”
He admitted he was currently in prison for wielding an axe and covering a truck in petrol before setting it alight, saying “I lost my mind… I had a psychotic episode”, insisting it was his own truck.
When Mr Janner suggested the man knew Howeson, that Howeson had been the chair of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, the man snorted: “Do I look like I know anything about the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce?”
The man revealed that the day the Plymouth Herald and Western Morning News published reports of Howeson’s arrest on suspicion of indecently assaulting a number of young men, alongside photographs him, he had been in Woking with his brother.
He said that he rarely read newspapers and TV news and for a number of years worked “off shore on oil rigs”.
Suggesting the man had seen pictures of his alleged attacker in the Plymouth Herald, Mr Janner claimed Howeson was “probably the highest-profile person in Plymouth. He was Mr Plymouth.”
The man replied “I don’t move in those circles”.
He was repeatedly questioned about the date he gave of the alleged attack, and repeatedly admitted he had got the date wrong by two years, saying “I’m sorry about that – I’ve tried to blank it out”.
The man claimed that every time the man who lived at Smallack House “approached us as teenagers [in the field] he made up some reason to talk to us.
“We thought he was weird and I should’ve known better than to go with him [shooting] and he ended up doing what he did.”
He man said he had resented his partner “making me come forward” adding that everyone who had tried to help him “I’ve pushed them away… people have tried to help me but they can’t.”
However, he added that while his behaviour since coming forward had “been horrific” and resenting his partner at “other times I’m thankful to her… for everyone else, not for me.”
The man’s partner took the witness stand saying she had known him for around 15 years. She said that he had mentioned something had happened to him in the early stages of their relationship but nothing more. She told the jury she spotted small signals in his behaviour as their relationship continued, noting that as they walked along, if she put her hand by his bottom as he had his arm around her shoulder “he would flinch – I knew something had happened but I never asked.”
She said he would leave the room during conversations, TV programmes or news items which discussed paedophiles, rape, and sexual assaults.
She said: “All I can say is his behaviour after he told me in detail, he changed and he felt emasculated and he was just different. He drank more, he was going missing more and I couldn’t take it any more so I told him to go to the police.
“He was different, angry, defensive. I felt closer to him and I think he sensed that I wanted to protect him and he didn’t like that because he had always protected me.”
She said that when he had revealed the alleged abuse to her: “He was shaking and sobbing and this was like a child. I had never seen him like that. Not ever.”
She said he had refused to go to police, but after she gave him an ultimatum of going to police or ending their relationship, he did make a statement.
She told the jury: “I’m the reason he is here. He didn’t want any of this. If I had known it would’ve been this big I wouldn’t have made him go to police. I wouldn’t have.”
She was asked why had she insisted he go to police, she replied she hoped: “he would get specialist help, he would get counselling – instead of self-destructing around people who love him. He couldn’t cope with it, with any of it.”
The jury were told the alleged victim had a number of convictions against him including theft, assault, burglary, disorderly behaviour, shoplifting, threatening behaviour, battery, arson and breach of a restraining order and criminal damage.
They were told that he had pleaded guilty to every single matter except that of criminal damage.
Howeson’s police interview with the lead investigating officer Det Con Paul Enticknap was read out in court and the jury heard him admit he had lent a motorbike to youngsters who visited the field nearby his then home in Smallack House.
Howeson revealed he had run the local Neighbourhood Watch and was himself allowed to ride his motorbike around the Ministry of Defence-owned field, but he denied it was the one described by the alleged victim. He also denied having an air rifle, saying that at the time of the alleged incident he owned a single-barrel shotgun.
He described the allegations made against him as “a complete work of fiction” adding “it’s disgusting, it isn’t me”. He also denied he had any interest in young men, nor any homosexual tendencies.
Howeson denies both charges.
The trial continues.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/tempers-flare-man-tells-how-1652306
Plymouth businessman ‘tried to rape me’, man tells sex assault trial
Jury was told the former Naval officer and leading Plymouth businessman was convicted last year of a string of indecent assaults on young men
June 4 2018
A prominent Plymouth businessman – found guilty last year of indecently assaulting eight young men – also attempted to sexually abuse a boy in a field, a jury has been told.
Former Royal Navy commander Charles Howeson appeared at Bristol Crown Court today where he faced one count of attempted buggery of a boy aged between 14 and 15 during a summer in the mid 1980s.
Howeson, aged 68, also faces an alternative count of indecent assault of the boy in Plymouth.
Howeson, of Craigie Drive, Stonehouse, denies all charges.
Paul Dunkels QC, for the Crown Prosecution Service, told the jury of seven men and five women that Howeson stood accused of pushing himself up against the naked buttocks of the boy in a field in Crownhill in the late 1980s.
Mr Dunkels said the man only disclosed this information to his own partner in 2015, who urged him to go to police.
While not able to give the name of his alleged abuser, the information he provided enabled police to identify and arrest Howeson.
Mr Dunkels told the jury the arrest “attracted local publicity” and because of this police learned that a number of other men had made previous claims of being indecently assaulted by Howeson.
The jury were told the men alleged the offences took place when Howeson was a senior officer in the Royal Navy in the mid 1980s, while running the Groundwork Trust charity in early 1990s and at his home address also in the early 1990s.
Mr Dunkels told the jury Howeson was convicted last December of 10 counts of indecent assault on eight men following a six week trial.
He added this witness “couldn’t have known that the person he was describing to police in 2015 was the man who had indecently assaulted others in the 1980s and 1990s.
“[The witness] did not know that this man [Howeson] had a propensity to abuse men in this fashion,” he told the court.
He said the witness gave a video interview to police in which he had a “clear memory” of what was done to him although his recollections “was inaccurate” as to his age at the time and year it is alleged to have taken place.
Mr Dunkels said Howeson did not buy the property the alleged victim believed belonged to the Royal Navy officer until 1987, which suggested the alleged incident could only have happened after this year and not in 1985 as the man recalled.
The prosecutor also noted that while the alleged victim did not know the name of the man, he was able to identify him “without hesitation” during a photo identification parade which took place in April 2016, nearly 30 years later.
Mr Dunkels explained the incident was alleged to have happened while Howeson was teaching the boy how to shoot.
According to the alleged victim – who cannot be named for legal reasons – Howeson offered to teach him how to shoot an air rifle, although Howeson later told police he only ever previously owned a .22 air rifle but at the time of the alleged incident he owned a single-barrel 12 bore shotgun.
Mr Dunkels emphasised that the young man “could not have known that the man he described and identified was in fact a man with a history of sexually assaulting young men”.
The jury were then shown the video interview, where the complainant explained how the man in question “started being friendly” with young lads from the nearby naval estate, allowing them to ride motorbikes in the field near his home.
He alleged Howeson offered to teach him how to shoot and took him into the field after retrieving his rifle from his home. He said the gun was “old” and was “wooden… everything apart from the barrel was wood, dark brown wood.”
The pair laid down on the grass and began to shoot the rifle with no indication of anything to follow. However, after several minutes of shooting he claimed Howeson rolled onto his side up against him before rolling on top of the boy’s back.
Speaking to the detective about Howeson laying closer to him on his side he admitted: “I thought it was a bit odd but I didn’t think anything of it. Then he laid on top of me and put all his weight on me and I couldn’t move.
“He pulled down my trousers and tried to rape me and I couldn’t even move, he was so heavy.
“The second he took his weight off me I squirmed out and took off. I was so naive. I didn’t shout or cry out. I didn’t move. He tried to put his […] in me.
“I didn’t say anything, I didn’t even make a noise when he climbed onto me. It was just a shock. I didn’t expect it in any way. I thought this was not right but I still didn’t think this was going to happen.”
The man said he did not tell anyone until he told his partner two weeks before going to the police in 2015.
He told the officer: “If it was three weeks ago I would never have said anything. I hate talking about it. It’s hard enough talking to my partner who I’ve known since I was 14. It’s only because I’ve spoken to my partner a lot that I can even speak about it [now].
“In the years [immediately] afterwards I thought about it a lot and I was really really angry and dealt with it by drink and drugs and violence.
“I don’t remember thinking about it for years and years and years until this last year. In the last year, everything that’s happened in the news, all about paedophiles has made me think about it. About a month ago my partner told me something that happened to her when she was 13. Not similar but close enough to make me really think about it.”
He said the revelation made him think more about this incident which left him “feeling really angry about it”.
He told the detective that for a while afterwards he believed he knew the name of the man, but as time passed by he could not recall. However, he was adamant about the naval property and that it happened during the summer of 1985. He also recalled the man had dark hair and was “overweight”.
He said he also recalled the man had let him and a friend ride his the man’s motorbike which he claimed had been a 250cc Honda Superdream in blue and silver.
He said they were amazed they were allowed to ride this powerful bike around the field by comparison to their own small 50cc scooters, noting “we were all little kids… it was odd that someone was being friendly to us”.
Howeson denies the charges and the trial, which is expected to take around two weeks, continues.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-businessman-tried-rape-me-1639681
Charles Howeson to face trial over sexual abuse charges
The trial will be held in Bristol in June
2 Feb 2018
Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson is set to face a trial in June on charges of sexually abusing a teenager.
The 68-year-old will face a jury charged with attempted buggery and an alternative count of indecent assault against a male person under the age of 21 between November 1987 and December 1988.
Judge Mark Horton start before him at Bristol Crown Court on June 4.
The trial is expected to last one to two weeks.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-face-trial-over-1159470
Disgraced Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson will face retrial later this year
Charles Howeson will be sentenced next month but faces retrial on two charges after a jury failed to return verdicts
23 JAN 2018
Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson is set to face a retrial later this year on outstanding charges of abusing a teenage boy.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed the 68-year-old will be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on February 2 after being found guilty in December of ten counts of indecent assault against eight young men.
The majority verdicts followed 20 hours of deliberations by the jury of six men and six women who sat through the six-week trial.
The jury was unable to reach a decision on a single allegation of attempted buggery and an alternative count of indecent assault against a boy when he was 14 or 15.
Charles Howeson verdict
GUILTY
Charles Howeson in-between Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth
Charles Howeson’s grandson, Arthur Menzel, is aDescendant of Duke Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg
http://heinbruins.nl/SaxeA.html
In 1991 the Saxe-Altenburg line became extinct in the male line. Its representation was merged with the one of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Two branches descend from duke Ernest the Pious, the father of the progenitor of the Saxe-Altenburg branch: Saxe-Meiningen andSaxe-Coburg and Gotha;
George V changed the name of his royal house from Saxe–Coburg–Gotha to Windsor, after the castle. At the same time, he also took Windsor as a surname for his family. On her accession, Queen Elizabeth II chose to keep the name Windsor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/11693813/How-German-is-the-Queen.html
Charles Howeson: Plymouth’s most respected businessman and banker to the Queen found guilty in sexual offences trial
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-plymouths-most-respected-943833
The prominent Plymouth businessman was accused of sexually assaulting 10 young men and a boy .
The alleged assaults were said to have taken place in Drake’s Island tunnels and in dark rooms at the Royal William Yard, all involving volunteers for a Plymouth charity.
The jury was sent out shortly before midday on Monday to consider its verdict.
Howeson, 68, denied 11 counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted buggery, dating from 1985 and 1994.
Judge Horton told Howeson that he was going to be sent to prison. He gave the defendant the chance to speak to a probation officer and face up to his guilt.
Daniel Janner, QC for Howeson, replied: “The defendant’s position remains the same. He didn’t commit these offences and he has been wrongly convicted.”
Judge Horton adjourned the case until February 2 when Howeson will be sentenced or a date will be set for a new trial.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on two alternative counts against a boy aged 14 or 15 who used to live near Howeson’s former home.
He was charged with attempted buggery of the teenager and indecent assault.
Judge Mark Horton discharged the jury and adjourned the case for the Crown Prosecution Service to consider whether to seek a retrial on those two counts next year.
Howeson, who sat stony-faced throughout the verdicts, was released on bail until a date to be fixed for sentencing, thought to be in February.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-verdict-jury-out-965058
There are a small number of active firms he’s still named as director or secretary of, including Buckland Corporate Finance ltd.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02422152/officers
Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton
Children:
Mark Lennox-Boyd
Simon Donald Rupert Neville Lennox-Boyd
Christopher Alan Lennox-Boyd
Simon Donald Rupert Neville Lennox-BOYD, 2nd Viscount of Merton
Simon Donald Rupert Neville Lennox-BOYD, 2nd Viscount of Merton resigned as director a year prior to Charles Howeson becoming director at Buckland
The Lennox-Boyds
Alan Lennox-Boyd – former owner of Savile-linked Henlow Grange and a Monday Club member his son, Mark Lennox-Boyd – funded Harvey Proctor’s shirt shop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lennox-Boyd,_1st_Viscount_Boyd_of_Merton
As recently as 2015, just before the first allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him, Mr Howeson was named honorary vice-president of Devon and Cornwall Business Council.
Howeson was also a well-known face in Westminster and Whitehall, lunching with MPs at the famous Strangers’ Dining Room.
In fact, the question among many in Plymouth business circles was just how Mr Howeson found the time, and energy, to do so much work.
Companies House has him listed as involved in 45 separate businesses.
Some of these, such as the Plymouth Naval Base Visitor centre ltd, and London and Westcountry Estates are now dissolved or liquidated.
Mr Howeson chaired the Plymouth Area Business Council for 15 years and was chairman and president of Plymouth Chamber of Commerce.
As an advocate for the city, he was involved in pushing for it to have a Business Improvement District, for the Langage power station to be built, for preservation of the airport and for the mall to be constructed, particularly when it hit snags following the withdrawal of department store Allders before the building was completed.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-plymouths-most-respected-943833
Plymouth solicitors advised charity not to report Charles Howeson claims to police, trial told
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-solicitors-advised-charity-not-829533
Alastair Warren @Odd_Pupil
Were the Plymouth solicitors in on a possible cover up, or did they advise not contacting @DC_Police due to their sustained protection of prolific paedophile William Goad?
William Goad ) was a British millionaire businessman from Plymouth, Devon, who was imprisoned for life for child rape. Goad, who lived in Plymouth, abused boys over a 35-year period dating back to the 1960s.
Goad, who abused him for four years from the age of 12, was part of a “bigger network of paedophiles” which included people in positions of “power and trust”.
Goad’s fortune was once estimated to be around £25 million.[6] Goad opened Cornish Market World in 1991
Police hunt millionaire paedophile’s accomplices after report finds they failed to do enough to find people who helped him prey on 3,500 children
Victims have always claimed he had links with other paedophiles and sometimes abused boys with them. A police document from 1996 warned that Goad’s abuse ring contained ‘prominent members of society’ – but none were ever identified.
HRH Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
Brian Turner (aka ‘Chickenmaster’ & member of Dirty Dozen) was part of the Baden-Powell Scouting paedophile ring, one of which lived in Plymouth. The ring stretched across Europe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/185142.stm …
A refused FOI request, 2011:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/convicted_paedophiles_millionair
Confidential documents seen by The Herald have also revealed that as far back as 1996, police were aware of allegations that Goad was part of a paedophile “ring” which included “prominent men in society”.
The same document notes how boys were “threatened to keep quiet”.
Boys were disclosing how Goad “and associates” were taking boys away to London and Manchester “where the boys were shared with other men in these cities”. The confidential report also notes how boys said they were “threatened to keep quiet and were paid off”, adding “some prominent men in society have or did have associations with this ring”.
The reports also highlighted concerns around record keeping central to the original investigation’s remit, revealing how a key “policy book” – which contained decisions about why no action was taken against alleged paedophiles – could no longer be found.
It noted that of six names given by Mr Wyatt during a video interview on April 5, 2005, only one – Eddie Pratt – was subsequently investigated. The report found there was “no paperwork, policy book or any other documentation… to comprehend the rationale for this.”
Other suspected paedophiles who abused them were being named – including a man called Peter Norsworthy
Ms Thompson said much of the information given by victims was left uninvestigated. Locations where boys were abused, such as a venue in Blackpool, were ignored. Allegations he had taken boys on trips to America were also ignored.
She admits there was a sense that Goad was untouchable and protected by people who had “sold their soul to the Devil”.
Judge William Taylor who sentenced Goad went on to be the patron of Twelves Company, a charity which supported and counselled many of Goad’s victims.
Operation Emotion 2 was launched with the aim of tracing and interviewing all of Goad’s victims.
Examination by legal experts has found that between 1996 and his final arrest in 2003 Goad resigned his directorships from a number of his businesses and transferred many of them to other business partners.
Study of e-mails uncovered in the UK suggested one of his businesses was transferring around £3,000 a month to Goad during 2004 and 2005. Former Det Con Thompson said there was no police investigation into Goad’s activities in Thailand.
Goad had nine previous directorships and was linked to two addresses, one in Ford Park Road and one in Ladysmith Road.
In 2005 Ian was allowed some access to his social service files. He was horrified to find notes which clearly stated that social workers knew he was being visited by Goad, referred to as “Billy Goad – sexual offender”.
He said Goad was even able to visit him while he was at St Luke’s boarding school in Teignmouth.
Ian said what angered him in later life was learning that social services had clearly been aware he was in regular contact with a known sex offender – but nothing was done.
PLYMOUTH MP OLIVER COLVILE BACKS REINVESTIGATION INTO WILLIAM GOAD
Mr Colvile said he sits on the select committee for Northern Ireland
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/paedophile-ring-linked-britains-worst-449519
Ex-detective Shirley Thompson said she believed a paedophile ring linked to Goad could still be active.
13 September 2013
Devon and Cornwall Police said Det Insp Mike Cooper would lead the new inquiry.
Andreas Baader @stop1984
However, it became “apparent”, she said, some senior officers wanted to restrict the inquiry and focus the attention on Goad.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-24081380
Martin Walkerdine @mwalkerdine
William A Goad aka William A Scott born September 1944 in Plymouth to parents Miss Emily M B Scott and Mr William C Goad with siblings Pauline A Goad, Michael J W Goad, Alan M D Goad and Peter J Goad
Truthseeker @thewakeupcall09
Maybe the other directors, if not Goad himself, knew Charles Howeson CORNISH MARKET WORLD LIMITED
https://www.companieslist.co.uk/03289731-cornish-market-world-limited
High-profile Plymouth people speak in support of Charles Howeson including:
Former Plymouth MP Linda Gilroy
Current South East Cornwall MP Sheryll Murray
and John Ingham, who was the Plymouth City Council leader in the 1990s.
Leader of the Council 1991-1997 at Plymouth City Council (Official)
First elected to the Plymouth City Council in 1979
Leader of the Council Opposition in 1989.
Leader of the Council 1991 to 1998.
Retired from Council 2000.
Granted Freedom of the City in 1998
https://www.facebook.com/john.ingham.10
Lord Sebastian Seymour – the son of the Duke of Somerset – also vouched for Howeson.
Lord Sebastian Seymour, son of the Duke of Somerset
The court heard how Howeson acted as a trustee to the Seymours in their private affairs and offered guidance in family matters.
Lord Seymour, who has known Howeson for 18 years, wrote in his statement read out in court: “Charles is a wonderfully-kind family man who is proud of his children and new grandson.
“He has always been prepared to go out of his way to help other members of my family.
“I have never had any sense of impropriety [from Howeson] around me, my family or my friends.”
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/high-profile-people-supported-charles-968857
Maiden Bradley Parish Council
Councillor Lord Sebastian Seymour is heading the
Recreational and Open Spaces Consultation
http://www.southwilts.com/site/Maiden-Bradley/Profile%202016.pdf
The DUKE & DUCHESS OF SOMERSET and their son LORD SEYMOUR
Dukes are just one rung down from royalty in the social pecking order and enjoy a special status way above the rank and file of the aristocracy. As peerages go, it’s the jackpot.
Conservative MP Mrs Murray had her statement read out in court by Daniel Janner QC.
The court heard how Howeson had supported both Mrs Murray and her son through the death of her husband Neil, after he suffered a fatal accident aboard a fishing vessel.
“Charles and Emma also supported my son in the aftermath [of his father’s death] and I know that my son has nothing but respect for them and their children.”
Appearing at Bristol Crown Court to give evidence, Mr Ingham, former Plymouth City Council leader from 1991 to 1997, said he thought the allegations against Howeson were “some terrible mistake” when he found out about it through court proceedings last year.
The former Labour councillor said: “I knew Charles’ family very well and Charles was a great help to me as leader of the council.
Mrs Gilroy, a former Labour MP, praised Charles’ work in the community and how he made ‘good things happen
In a statement read out in court, Lord Seymour said he had known Howeson as a friend for 18 years.
The court heard how the leading Plymouth businessman acted as a trustee to the Seymours in their private affairs and offered guidance in family matters.
Lord Seymour wrote: “Charles is a wonderfully-kind family man who is proud of his children and new grandson.
“He has always been prepared to go out of his way to help other members of my family.
“I have never had any sense of impropriety [from Howeson] around me, my family or my friends.”
One employee of Howeson’s also travelled up from Cornwall to give evidence – the family’s electrician, Paul Chubb.
A number of other witnesses appeared in court or had their statements read out, including:
Peter Voelker
Jean Kiani
Reverend Sam Philpott
Sally Curness
John Friedburger
Cpt Mike Mann
John Rafferty
Chris Forrest
Bob Fordham
Terry Loughram
Veryan Barneby
Tony Johnstone-Burt
Vice Admiral Charles Anthony Johnstone-Burt, CB, OBE (born 1 February 1958) is a retired Royal Navy officer who is currently serving as the Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
The Master of the Household is the operational head of the “below stairs” elements of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The role has charge of the domestic staff, from the Royal Kitchens, the pages and footmen, to the housekeeper and their staff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Johnstone-Burt
Francis Redfarn
Andrew Gough
Cpt Rick Cosby
Lt Cdr Christopher Durnford
Elaine Keith-Hill
Luke Foster
Nicola Checkley
Robert Clifford
Zanah Corum-Wright
Cdr Steve Mackay
Trustee of the Britannia Royal Naval College Association, Freeman of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, Member of the Institute of Directors and a member of the First Great Western Advisory Board (supports exec role).
http://www.dorchestergrp.com/senior-management-team
http://www.ladygrover.org.uk/assets/lgf-newsletter-2015-final.pdf
Gary Chapman
Charles Howeson ‘a man with a dark side’, jury in sexual assaults trial told
Prosecutors have made their closing speeches in the trial of leading Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson
Leading Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson has been described in court as “a man with a dark side” who used his status to sexually abuse young men.
Prosecution barrister Paul Dunkels QC told jurors at Bristol Crown Court there was “no coincidence or misfortune” that 11 people had made accusations about Howeson, a former Royal Navy officer.
Howeson, 68, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court for 11 counts of indecently assaulting 10 young men and one count of attempted buggery.
He denies the charges dating from 1985 and 1994.
Mr Dunkels said Howeson had a lot to lose if he was caught out for groping or fondling his victims, but that he was “confident enough in his status [compared] to his victims to brazen it out.”
He told the jury during his closing speech that it was not “bad luck” on Howeson’s part that the allegations were so similar.
He said: “If anyone is setting out to invent completely fictitious allegations, they have a blank canvas to work with.
“They are not constrained by truth and not limited by actual events – you can make up anything you can think up, make it as sordid as you wish.
“Here, Charles Howeson says that 11 people have made up lies against him, that each has invented a story of wholly false allegations, yet many of these lies as he dubs them, we suggest are strikingly similar.
“[A common theme was] getting his victim to a dark location or making a move on his victim at such a location, whether a boat deck, a cross passageway on a ship, dark tunnels on Drake’s Island, in deserted buildings at the Royal William Yard or in a gloomy pump house at [Howeson’s home].
“Another common theme was getting his [Howeson’s] victim up higher so he could be in close contact behind that victim whether on a ladder or whether lifting Groundwork Trust volunteers
“And the nature of the indecency has a common theme – touching the penis and testicles over clothing, groping, with one [victim] saying a hand went inside, and [another victim] saying the defendant tried to get his hand inside.
“Another common theme is [Howeson] pressing up against the victim on [their] thigh or backside.
“If you’re making it up and you have a completely blank canvas, you say whatever comes into head.
“[But] 11 people inventing [these] stories? How are they going to be so similar?
“The only sensible explanation is that they [the victims] all endured similar experiences of indecent assault and for him [Howeson] now the sky is dark, and the chickens are coming home to roost.”
The court heard how evidence submitted in the case had not shown any link between the men bringing the allegations, nor that the victims would have known about Howeson’s alleged sexual assaults.
Mr Dunkels went on to say Howeson had a “position of authority” over the victims, and he was a man who had “influential friends”, making it all the more harder for the victims to speak out about the abuse they faced.
Mr Dunkels told the jury: “You’ve heard from vice admirals, a bishop, a bursar, down to his [Howeson’s] nanny and cleaner.
“[We] don’t dispute the defendant has many qualities which have brought him success and benefits to the wider community, but this is a man who also has a dark side, one which of course he would not show to his peers and certainly not to his family and friends.
It was suggested earlier in the trial that one of the victims had only come forward as a way of claiming compensation from Howeson, but Mr Dunkels asked the jury to consider why the victim would have only given a description of the defendant rather than his name, and that if it was the case he was trying to make money, it was a “very subtle game” the victim was playing.
“What luck for [the victim] that he picks out and chooses [a face from the police lineup] with a track record of sexual abuse allegations being made against him,” added Mr Dunkels.
Mr Dunkels concluded to the jury: “Step back and look at the case. It’s no longer just an able seaman’s word against a first lieutenant, it’s no longer the word of one Groundwork Trust volunteer against the executive director, it’s not anyone’s individual word against Charles Howeson’s – it’s the whole picture you must look at.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-a-man-dark-917167
Vice-admiral signed letter about formal warning for Charles Howeson, jury is told
11 Dec 2017
Vice-Admiral has told trial that former lieutenant-commander was facing a warning as defence case closes
A Navy Vice Admiral says he signed a letter to confirm a senior officer was being warned over his alleged sexual behaviour.
The Royal Navy had apparently decided to formally warn Lieutenant-Commander Howeson after he was the subject of allegations by two junior sailors onboard HMS Cleopatra in 1985.
Lieu-Commander Howeson was second-in-command of HMS Cleopatra in 1985.
Vice Admiral David Dobson (centre)
Vice Admiral Sir David Dobson served with Prince Charles on the destroyer HMS Norfolk in the early Seventies,
The warning letter, presented to the court, was signed by Vice Admiral Sir David Dobson.
However a jury at Bristol Crown Court has heard there was no formal record of the warning ever being carried out.
And Howeson, 68, a leading Plymouth business figure, has insisted that it was not administered.
Sir David said he was “astonished” to see the letter about Charles Howeson to the Ministry of Defence after 31 years.
Sir David, a former mentor to Howeson, gave evidence for his character last week but was recalled to clarify parts of his evidence.
He admitted he was shown a letter to the Ministry of Defence saying that Howeson was to be warned after the allegations by ratings on board the frigate.
Sir David added that he played no part in the decision to administer a warning, which was taken by the Admiralty Board.
He said that he had forgotten signing the letter shown to him from March 1986 when he was acting in place of the Chief of Staff at Fleet headquarters in Northwood.
It told the Ministry of Defence Director of Naval Security that Howeson was to be formally warned.
He said that he would not have then been involved in giving Howeson the warning.
Sir David added: “I have no recollection of signing this note, I have to say.”
The jury had been told previously that Howeson, then First Lieutenant on HMS Cleopatra, was jack-stayed, or line-transferred from the frigate shortly after the second allegation was made.
Howeson and the two ratings were interviewed by Royal Navy investigators, the court heard.
The sailors have already told the court that they were groped by Howeson, who was second-in-command on the ship.
Further disciplinary action was rejected at the time because of the “lack of corroborative evidence” over the alleged assaults, the court heard.
Daniel Janner, QC, has formally closed the defence case, bringing an end to the evidence.
The jury will hear prosecution and defence closing speeches tomorrow.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/vice-admiral-signed-letter-formal-911095
Former Navy top brass have come forward in support of Charles Howeson
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Ibbotson
Vice Admiral Sir David Dobson and Vice Admiral Sir Richard Ibbotson appeared at Bristol Crown Court to give evidence on behalf of Howeson, who both are still good friends with.
First to take to the stand was Sir David Dobson, who rose up through the naval ranks to become Vice Admiral.
The court heard how Sir David first met Charles in 1969 at Dartmouth, where he was Howeson’s divisional officer – describing the role as that of a mentor and a housemaster.
Over the years, Howeson and Sir David bumped into each other on occasion, leading to the pair becoming good family friends.
Vice Admiral Sir also took to the stand to explain how Howeson had been a great help to him after leaving the navy with charitable support and his role in training the Royal Navy Reserves.
Sir Richard Ibbotson and Prince Charles
Sir Richard Ibbotson has been Chair of Trust at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust since June 2014. Sir Ibbotson retired as Admiral in the Royal Navy. His naval career included periods as Commodore of Britannia Royal Naval College, Commander British Forces Falkland Islands and, most recently, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet (effectively Chief Operating Officer of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines). As well as being knighted for his services, Sir Richard is a
Sir Richard Ibbotson and Prince Charles
When questioned, Vice Admiral Dobson said he had no knowledge of the HMS Cleopatra investigation.
However, evidence given later in court by a Royal Navy lawyer revealed that Vice Admiral Sir David Dobson had actually authorised and signed the warning letter.
He said that he had forgotten signing the letter shown to him from March 1986 when he was acting in place of the Chief of Staff at Fleet headquarters in Northwood.
The letter had told the Ministry of Defence Director of Naval Security that Howeson was to be formally warned.
“One question we cannot answer is if Howeson was not given the warning as he should have been, then why not?
“The other question we cannot answer is if he had been given the warning, would this have affected Howeson’s future behaviour?
“He was moved from the Royal Navy where he learned his modus operandi of offending behaviour, to Groundwork Trust where he was even more powerful.
“He admitted to me during interview, highlighting his position in the charity, ‘I am employee number one’. He demonstrated his power with his connections, including the Royal Family.”
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/how-sexual-predator-charles-howeson-959849
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Ibbotson
A Major General from the Royal Marines also appeared at Bristol Crown Court, telling the jury how he and Howeson had become friends after meeting at the Plymouth Area Business Council which Charles ran.
Chairman of the FGW Advisory Board, Captain Charles Howeson RNR and Major General David Hook
The business council had held a dinner in Stonehouse Barracks to which Major General David Hook was invited.
Mr Hook told the court how he and Howeson became better friends over time, and how he would turn to Charles with trusted matters.
Maurice West, Plymouth Albion RFC Board Member, and Major General David Hook CBE,
Maurice West is a co-director at businesses with Charles Howeson
THE BAILEY MANAGEMENT GROUP LIMITED
and was a director at GROUNDWORK SOUTH WEST
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/02632905/GROUNDWORK-SOUTH-WEST/companies-house-data
Further Royal Navy colleagues and friends including
Commodore Jon Welch,
Commodore Peter King,
Rear Admiral John Lippiett,
Commander Steve McKay,
Commander Andrew Wynn
Andrew Wynn, a former commander in the Royal Navy, went on to be Eton College’s bursar.
He told the court: “After [serving on the] frigate we went our separate ways but have formed a very lasting friendship – he asked me to be godfather to their son.
“Over the years we have been on holiday together to France for about a fortnight where we shared a house.
and British Army Colonel David Baylis all appeared to give evidence vouching for Howeson.
Amongst the witnesses was Plymouth GP Stephen Warren, who had been Howeson’s doctor up until March this year.
The court heard how Dr Warren had grown to know Howeson personally and explained how they had mutual interests in the NHS.
Restaurateur Sally Baum from Jolly Jacks also took to the stand to defend Howeson.
Ms Baum told the jury that she and Howeson “hit it off immediately” after the family came into the eatery shortly after its opening.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-man-highest-integrity-893260
A number of witnesses also appeared in court to give character evidence in support of Howeson including
past employee Wendy Evans,
friends Nancy Pavey and Dr Simon Ashley,
former navy colleague Captain Ronald Jones,
retired reverend Rod Thomas (left)
At the age of 12, under the influence of Billy Graham, John Stott, Maurice Wood and having attended Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon, Rod Thomas became an Anglican.[3] In 1991, he entered Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, a Church of England theological college, to train for ordained ministry.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Thomas_(bishop)
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/006952.html
former Herald and Western Morning News editor Alan Qualtrough.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/no-paperwork-confirming-royal-navy-898338
Further witnesses appeared in court who have known Howeson across the years, including a lieutenant commander from the Royal Navy and friend Caroline Thynne, whom Howeson met whilst in Hong Kong where her first husband was serving on a ship back to England.
Mrs Thynne, who is Tavoya’s godmother, explained how her family had lived in the same area as Mr and Mrs Howeson when on deployment to Gibraltar and how they would stay at the Howeson’s when they visited Plymouth.
The jury heard how lieutenant commander John Martin had known Howeson for the past 35 years through their naval professions…
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howesons-children-tell-jury-881452
Howeson cries
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-cries-court-wife-880059
Charles Howeson says it would have been ‘impossible’ to grope men on ship
The high ranking officer denies touching the two men in a sexual way whilst aboard HMS Cleopatra
4 DEC 2017
A Plymouth Royal Navy officer said it would have been “physically impossible” to have sexually touched a man whilst on the ship which they both worked.
Charles Howeson, 67, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court for 11 counts of indecently assaulting ten young men and a boy and one count of attempted buggery.
He denies the charges dating from 1985 and 1994.
Under cross examination by Paul Dunkels QC, Howeson, of Cragie Drive, told the jury that accusations of sexual touching whilst aboard HMS Cleopatra would have been “impossible” because he didn’t come into contact with the alleged victims’ genitals.
When questioned about the incident in which one of the victims alleged Howeson had grabbed his backside, the high ranking naval officer said he had stumbled on a curtain shielding part of the bridge, causing him to fall down four steps – which resulted in Howeson touching the victim “chest to chest”.
He added that the impact of the fall pushed the victim backwards against the bulkhead, and that it would have been “impossible” for him to have touched the man inappropriately.
Mr Dunkels said: “When you lost balance, didn’t you grab his [the victim’s] bottom to steady yourself? You didn’t come into contact with the inside of his leg by his genitals?”
Howeson replied: “Certainly not, absolutely not. It was accidental and nothing like [the victim] describes. [Sexual contact] would have been impossible.”
Mr Dunkels asked Howeson about another incident alleged to have happened aboard the ship, involving “rubbing his [the victim’s] leg” as he followed him up some stairs.
Howeson told the jury that he recalled going up the stairs before the victim, saying: “It [the touching] would have been physically impossible as I would have been on the bridge.”
The court heard how “commonplace banter” took place between the officer and one victim on HMS Cleopatra, which came about during a man overboard exercise.
Mr Dunkels said that Howeson had made comments about the victim’s stomach being harder than his own, adding that while making those comments Howeson was “squeezing [the victim’s] thighs, penis and testicles – a claim which Howeson refuted.
The 67-year-old said the conversation about his weight was “commonplace banter, not to be misinterpreted as having a sexual component to it.”
Mr Dunkels said: “The truth of the matter is you were using your position in each of these situations [as a naval officer and a boss of the Groundwork Trust] to engineer a situation where you could take advantage of your victims. You had power and control. Was the risk you were taking part of the excitement?”
Howeson replied: “There was no excitement and I did not do this. The risk would have been utterly appalling for anyone in my position to do this.”
Howeson is accused of indecently touching men in the lower naval ranks, civilians in and around his home and some men working for The Groundwork Trust, a charity where he was the boss.
The trial continues.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-says-would-been-875877
Charles Howeson was vetted at highest level by Royal Navy, jury hears
29 NOV 2017
A jury heard how a prominent Plymouth figure accused of groping 10 young men and a boy was vetted at the highest level by the Royal Navy as part of his secretive work in Gibraltar.
Charles Howeson, aged 68, told the jury at Bristol Crown Court that after leaving the second-in-command post of HMS Cleopatra he was posted to Admiral command in Plymouth for two-and-a-half years to carry out “NATO counter terrorism work”.
He told the jury: “I had a highly sensitive job. What it stated on the door tally wasn’t quite what I did”.
After promotion to Commander he was then posted to Gibraltar to an “equally sensitive” role “if not more sensitive” which he explained the Royal Navy called the “Operations and Plans and Intelligence” department.
He added: I was responsible for all the ships coming into Gibraltar. All of them.”
However, he left the Royal Navy after what he had previously described as a “triple whammy” of tragic family events.
He was asked by his barrister Daniel Janner QC what his plans had originally been. Howeson explained that he would have remained as a Commander in Gibraltar and gone to sea as Captain of his own ship before being posted to a senior position with the Ministry of Defence.
Asked about the vetting process for such work he replied: “At that time there were three levels of vetting.”
He said the “normal” vetting was the basic level while “positive vetting” covered “positions of sensitive and secret” nature while the highest was “EPV – Extra Positive Vetting for a few people in very sensitive positions. I held the latter”.
Mr Janner referred to the Royal Navy’s Service Investigation Squad inquiry at the time into the allegations made by sailors aboard HMS Cleopatra.
Howeson said the investigation was “very, very thorough”, but later revealed he had been given opportunity while on board to view the statements by the alleged victims prior to his interview with SIS officers.
Howeson also revealed he had written a 13-page account of his movement and actions relating to the allegations while on board the RFA tanker which he had been transferred to following the claims being made.
He said he sealed the document in an envelope and sent it over to the HMS Cleopatra using a rope “within 72 hours” of the allegations being made.
He was later presented with this document and read out the details of the actions he took on those occasions to the jury.
In the account he explained how he had felt unwell and suffered a rare bout of seasickness after leaving Bermuda. He felt increasingly unwell with a rising temperature and had “aching legs”.
After his transfer to the RFA tanker Howeson was bed-bound with flu for three days before he was able to write his report.
In response to questions by a jury member, it was revealed both the prosecution and defence teams had seen a final Admiralty report of the inquiry into the allegations. Howeson said he had only seen the report when it was presented to him a month ago.
The jury heard he was asked directly by the SIS officers if he had any “homosexual tendencies”, to which he replied “no, and I’m quite positive on that” citing his wife and then two children.
After explaining he was given a lift to Admiral Hogg’s home after his SIS interviews by one of the officers, where he met his wife who took him the rest of the way home, he was asked if he was friends with the Admiral.
Howeson said his wife was friends with Admiral Hogg’s wife, adding that he had served under Admiral Hogg “when he was a commander and I was a cadet”.
Howeson said: “We’re friends now. It’s very difficult for a Lieutenant Command and an Admiral to be friends.”
Mr Janner replied: “Like a barrister and a judge?”
Howeson, noting Judge Mark Horton’s intense glance at his barrister, answered: “There’s a huge age range in age and seniority” which prompted laughter from the jury.
The jury heard Howeson was later phoned by the SIS to be told it had been examined by Royal Navy lawyers and there was no further action to be taken.
When questioned about an alleged attack on a young boy at his property Smallack House in 1985, Howeson said he did not move there until 1987.
The alleged victim, who identified Howeson from picking him out from a series of images, had told the jury earlier in the trial Howeson had allowed him to ride his Honda 250 Superdream motorbike and taken him to a nearby field to learn how to shoot an air rifle.
Howeson told the jury he had not owned an air rifle, claiming he only owned a licensed shotgun which was kept secured in a loft. He also explained he not only did not own a 250cc motorbike but he had no such licence to ride one. He admitted to owning a small 80cc Suzuki moped which had been brought from his former home in Cornwall to allow him to commute to work.
When asked by Mr Janner if his face was often in the local press, Howeson replied that “rightly or wrongly” he appeared in the Plymouth Herald “frequently” sometimes with a picture. He noted how the Herald had an extensive photographic library, adding: “They have a lot of pictures of me in it
At one stage Mr Janner read out an “officer’s confidential report” on Howeson from his commanding officer at Gibraltar Rear Admiral Biggs, following his request to leave the Royal Navy.
A departmental report from Air Commander RAF Lovett said Howeson had been responsible “for setting up the tri-Service Operations and Plans Division in our embryo Joint Headquarters.
That it is up and running at some speed in two months before the official ‘go-live’ date is a reflection of his vitality and capacity for sustained hard work. With his marked enthusiasm he is a point of inspiration for his team and gets a lot out of them. As a Staff Officer he had great output and expresses his ideas with clarity: he is an impressive orator who commands immediate attention, and his writing, although not always as concise as one might wish, is punchy and easy to read.”
The ‘general report’ completed by Rear Admiral Biggs noted at how Howeson had been “beset by a number of domestic tragedies that could have destroyed a lesser man. He, though, has carried the burden, cared for his family and continued to do his job with efficiency and flair. He has shown that he has deep reserves of moral courage, unswerving determination and unquestionable loyalty to the Service”.
The Rear Admiral notes how Howeson was “blessed” with a “colourful, bubbling personality, a delightful sense of humour and a relaxed and confident manner”.
He wrote how people “look to him [Howeson] for leadership and he never fails them; but he does dominate the stage ad can sometimes deny others the opportunity to display their own initiative. He has a good intellect, an agile mind and sound powers of reasoning. He works fast and is impatient of delay, and it is perhaps this latter quality that occasionally leads him to see things in rather blacker or white terms than is actually warranted. But above all he is an outstanding achiever whose successes far outweigh any minor or temporary shortcomings.
“Sadly Howeson has opted to leave the Navy on his return home from Gibraltar, and the Service will thus lose a most able and colourful character with enormous generosity of spirit and all the qualities for successful Command at sea. Were he to change his mind I would recommend him strongly for this and for EARLY [sic] promotion to Captain when eligible.”
The jury were shown a promotional video for the Plymouth Area Groundwork Trust which explained the ideals and actions of the organisation. Filmed by the BBC, it included footage of the Queen opening the Groundwork’s headquarters at the Royal William Yard.
Howeson told the jury he would visit Drake’s Island at least once a week and take a circular tour of the entire island. He said the ultimate aim was to see it handed over by the Crown Estate who owned it at the time, to become “a public trust for the people of Plymouth”.
When asked how he first heard of the allegations, he said he was met by Scott Norman, chair of the Trust saying there was “some unpleasant allegations” made about Howeson by members of staff”.
Howeson said he was not given any names or details other than the complaints were “sexual allegations”.
He said he responded with “shock… horror”. Howeson said he was advised by Mr Norman to go home and consult a lawyer. However, he was told he was unable to use his ‘normal’ lawyer because it was the one used by the Groundwork Trust. He instead used a “distinguished lawyer” from Bristol who told him his position was “untenable”. Noting there was a “group of employees” making allegations which were “similar” he said the lawyer told him he had experience of such situations and chief executives “never go back when something has reached this stage”.
Howeson said he was never interviewed and never went through any investigative process until his arrest years later. As each allegation was read out to him by Mr Janner, Howeson strenuously denied each one.
He said he felt it was “a fait accompli”, claiming the investigation by the Trust itself had concluded before he even sought legal advice.
Howeson said he recognised that “this would cause great damage to an organisation that quite frankly I loved and had built up.
“You may feel you’re very important but the organisation is more important. No sailor’s more important than his ship”.
He wrote a letter of resignation, and Mr Janner read out a letter from Mr Norman to the Trust’s partners to let them know Howeson had resigned due to him being “under stress for some considerable time”.
Mr Janner asked Howeson if he was under any conditions – specifically whether he was told he could not work with young people or children.
“Absolutely not,” replied Howeson. “There were no conditions”.
He said he received numerous letters of thanks and appreciation for his efforts and work for the Trust.
The jury also heard he contacted a member of staff, to ensure a two-page supplementary article he had written for the Plymouth Herald about the proposals for Drake’s Island was still to be sent.
He also revealed that while he was unable to return as an executive director to the Groundwork Trust he spent eight months as a paid consultant writing a detail submission to the Crown Estate for the future plans of Drake’s Island.
He told jury the ultimate objective and his “personal challenge” was to see Drake’s Island turned from “a derelict embarrassment to become a publicly owned trust, to allow them [the public] to access it and a sustainable maintenance regime” put in place. He had earlier said the population of Plymouth had were “thoroughly ashamed” of the state of the island, claiming “it should have been the jewel in the crown of the 27 miles waterfront” instead of being “derelict and covered in seagull droppings”.
Howeson, of Craigie Drive, Stonehouse, denies 11 counts of indecently assaulting 10 young men and a boy and one count of attempted buggery, charges which date from 1985 and 1994.
The trial continues.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-vetted-highest-level-853181
Charles Howeson takes to the stand for the first time
28 Nov 2017
He married his wife Emma in 1978 and they had four children, sadly later losing one. He confirmed he had recently become a grandfather.
Robin Rudolf Menzel (b.1966) [son of Baroness Karoline-Eleonore von Schröder (b.1940) {herself daughter of Countess Eleonore von Pückler (1919-1997) & her first husband Baron Manfred von Schröder (1914-1996)} & her husband Rudolf Menzel (b.1924)] & his wife Phillippa, nee Howeson (b.1982) had their first child, Arthur, this year.
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He said he had left the Navy for “personal reasons”, stating that he and his wife had lost a child while he was in Gibraltar, a tenant of his had “wrecked our house” and “stolen most of our belongings” and his mother had died. This “triple whammy” meant he feel he had to spend more time with his family “and a little less time on my career.”
He had also been the chair of a consumer watchdog which over saw the Royal Mail group, involved with St Peters church in Plymouth assisting it with a “multi-million pound refit” using Lottery money.
the jury heard Howeson had been chair of Plymouth Area Business Council Plymouth business council and a governor of city school for girls.
Earlier today, prosecutors closed their case against Howeson, finishing police interviews carried out after his arrest.
Mr Janner said the jury would hear a “considerable” amount of evidence to support his case, as well as from a number of witnesses, including Howeson’s wife and adult children, Royal Navy personnel and charity staff.
In addition, the jury would hear from a large number of character witnesses who knew the defendant during the periods addressed in the 12 charges which date from 1985 and 1994.
The trial continues.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-takes-stand-first-847531
Former Royal Navy officer was ‘too familiar’ with sailors, jury heard
Charles Howeson questioned about numerous allegations while he was in Royal Navy
A leading Plymouth businessman admitted to police he had been confronted by a fellow naval officer, who claimed that he was ‘too familiar’ with sailors, a jury heard.
But former lieutenant-commander Charles Howeson, who turned 68 today, explained ‘that’s kind of how I am’.
Howeson, Bristol Crown Court heard, also replied to a detective interviewing him about allegations made against him by ‘lower ranks’ stating; “you don’t hold top security clearance in the Navy if there’s something dodgy about you”.
The jury at Bristol Crown Court, where Howeson faces 11 counts of indecently assaulting 10 young men and a boy and one count of attempted buggery, listened as transcribed interviews between investigating officer Det Con Paul Enticknap and the former executive director of the charity Groundwork Trust were read out by the officer and prosecution junior Patricia Cornwall.
Det Con Enticknap, in the witness box, had questioned Howeson about the numerous allegations while he was in the Navy.
Howeson recalled that on board one ship – HMS Cleopatra – where he was second in command there was “only about five baddies and I wasn’t one of them”.
He recalled a man overboard drill he had instigated but said he could not recall nominating a sailor to assist him.
The former junior rating had given evidence saying Howeson had groped at his genitals over his trousers during the drill in December 1985.
He had claimed in court he believed the senior officer had arranged the test as a pretext to get him alone at night.
The jury heard how during his police interview that Howeson admitted he had had ‘daily’ contact with the sailor, but denied groping the man, saying it was a night time exercise, the deck was dark and he was holding onto the back of the man’s life-jacket who had been wearing ‘foul-weather gear’ at the time.
Earlier during the trial the jury heard the man had immediately gone to the Master at Arms to make the complaint and that he was “shaking and very upset” and appeared “grey”.
He said he recalled being brought into the Captain’s cabin to be told “Charles, I’m very sorry but a serious allegation has been made against you and we need to investigate it”. He was then transferred off the ship to a Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) tanker as the investigation was carried out which Howeson said was “all completely in order”.
During the interview Howeson said he believed they were taken to Portsmouth and he was then driven home. However, the officer highlighted a statement from a member of the Navy’s Special Investigations Squad (SIS) how two days after the incident the vessel they docked at Gosport in Hampshire and Howeson was driven home.
However, the jury heard how Howeson agreed with Det Con Enticknap that he had called his wife and then a Rear Admiral while on board the RFA, admitted he was a friend and is now a neighbour. The jury heard how Howeson was initially driven by an SIS to meet his wife at the Rear Admiral’s home before returning to Plymouth.
He said he was later telephoned by a member of the SIS and told ‘investigation over, no further action’. Two weeks later he returned to the ship to collect his belongings as the Captain was leaving and Howeson had already been recommended for promotion.
When questioned by Det Con Enticknap about the alleged indecent assault, Howeson replied “it would’ve been a superhuman thing to do given the clothing we were wearing”. He also told police he was never told all the details of the allegation.
He said he could “attribute no motive” to the sailor’s allegation, stating he “was a perfectly good bloke”.
Howeson admitted another officer who was of the same rank as him had taken him to one side earlier in the operation as the vessel crossed the Atlantic from Barbados to criticise his “leadership style”. Howeson said the officer ‘thought I was too familiar”.
“Touchy feely?” asked Det Con Enticknap.
“That’s kind of how I am,” answered Howeson.
He said the Rear Admiral had not stopped his promotion, which he was capable of doing, but that the Captain had recommended Howeson’s promotion. He told the detective: “Can I say my report from [the Captain] was exceedingly good, in fact it was quite exceptional”.
Questioned about an allegation regarding groping another sailor, Howeson had replied “I deny it then and I deny it now.
“You don’t hold a top security clearance in the Navy if there’s something dodgy about you”.
Questioned about the allegations of indecent assault while he was chief executive of the Groundworks Trust he told the officer the allegations all appeared the same and “make for horrific reading – I deny all of them”.
He said he knew some of the complaints came at the time, saying: “Some people did complain about me being touchy feely.” When asked what he thought the phrase meant he answered “putting arm around somebody’s back. I’m a sort of person do would do that… but not that.”
He said he was recruited to head up the charity after he left the Royal Navy having had “a jolly career” and wanted to have more time with his children at home.
He said the ‘raison d’etre’ of the charity was to get people into employed work and it had taken on people “from probation” and on “benefits”.
Their work included garden on more than “50 projects” around the city including Royal William Yard and Drake’s Island. He admitted he left after he was called in by the chairman and deputy chairman of the charity and confronted with the complaints, adding “I left in part because of these complains and I wanted to dis-embarrassment the Groundworks [charity]” and because he had “a heart murmur”.
When asked why the complaints about indecent assaults may have come about he said he did not have the details, but added “I may have dismissed some of these people” noting there had been incidents of “drug taking on Drake’s Island”.
He told the detective around 10 individuals from Groundworks were living on the island as they carried out the clearing and repair work and had been interfering with the Royal Navy’s navigation lights, turning them on and off. He had been contacted by angry Navy personnel and “I shut it down”.
He said: “We had about 10 people who lived on Drake’s Island and they certainly were drug users” which he admitted had drawn the attention of the Ministry of Defence police.
He added that they were led by “a dealer” describing the man as “most able, most literate”.
He insisted he left Groundworks because he felt the complaints would damage the charity’s reputation.
He denied he had taken anyone into the tunnels of Drake’s Island or into sheds or outhouses at Royal William Yard to indecently assault them.
Howeson was formerly chairman of First Great Western trains and also chairman of the now defunct South West Strategic Health Authority, which used to oversee health spending.
He joined the Royal Navy in 1967.
Howeson, of Craigie Drive, Stonehouse denies all 12 charges which date from 1985 and 1994.
The trial, before Judge Mark Horton, continues and is expected to take between four and six weeks
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/former-royal-navy-officer-too-841443
Plymouth solicitors advised charity not to report Charles Howeson claims to police, trial told
The Groundwork Trust said it followed strict instructions which led to Charles Howeson’s resignation
The former vice chairman of a charity which has been accused of hushing up sexual abuse claims has told a jury how he “followed legal advice” after discussing the claims with solicitor.
In the early 1990s a string of young volunteers at The Groundwork Trust accused Charles Howeson, then executive director of the Royal William Yard-based charity, of indecent assault.
Howeson, now 67, denies 11 counts of indecently assaulting ten young men and a boy and one count of attempted buggery.
During Howeson’s trial at Bristol Crown Court some of the alleged victims accused the Trust of “sweeping the claims under the carpet“.
But Alistair Norman, who was vice chairman before becoming acting chairman of charity, told the jury he was advised by a Plymouth legal firm not to pass the matter onto the police, but to leave that decision to the victims.
Mr Norman added that on finding out about the accusations Howeson reacted with “incredulity, astonishment and denial”.
Today Howeson’s former colleague, Mr Norman, told a court he was telephoned by a colleague on a Saturday informing him of “a handful” of young volunteers accusing Charles Howeson of “inappropriate touching”.
Having never dealt with a matter of this nature before, he decided to seek legal advice from a city-based solicitors, the court heard.
He said: “[Our solicitors] advised me to speak to Charles Howeson and mention the allegations to him, and then ask him to go on leave.”
Paul Dunkels QC, for the Crown Prosecution Service, asked the witness what the allegations involved, to which he replied: “From memory, it was something like ‘inappropriate touching’.”
Mr Norman said: “I said [to Howeson] there had been accusations of inappropriate touching. [His reaction] was…incredulity, astonishment and denial.”
“It was suggested at the time the individuals concerned should be informed that if they wished to take the matter further, due to their age profile, they should take the matter to [the police] and I should interview Charles Howeson and ask him to resign.”
Asked whether the board discussed bringing the matter to the police itself, he added: “There was a discussion, but by that time we had had legal advice and it was felt we should follow the legal advice we had been given.”
The court heard by this point Howeson had engaged his own solicitor and resigned from his position at the Trust.
Howeson’s defence barrister, Daniel Janner QC, asked Mr Norman if any condition was imposed on his client never to work with children again, which several of the alleged victims claim they were told, to which he replied: “We did not do that.”
Mr Janner said: “Before these allegations were made Charles Howeson was a very effective leader of the organisation; he built it up from scratch. He was immensely hard working.
“He was trusted by all members of staff…and the advisory board were extremely happy to have him at the helm. He was charismatic… and was responsible for an organisation with over 100 people working there.
“From your point of view, did these allegations come out of the blue? Until that moment you hadn’t had the slightest hint of impropriety?” Mr Norman replied: “No.”
Mr Janner continued: “And his immediate reaction was one of incredulity, astonishment, and flat-denial?”
“Correct,” said Mr Norman. “There was no way of proving the allegations against Charles Howeson and on that basis it was considered the course of action was that he should be removed.”
The trial continues.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-solicitors-advised-charity-not-829533
Charity
Alastair Scott Norman
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Royal Navy officer ‘humped odd-job man like a dog’ in garden pump house
Charles Howeson allegedly assaulted 12 victims and is alleged to have groped a junior rating during a man overboard drill.
24 NOV 2017
A senior Royal Navy officer on trial for sexually assaulting nine young men ‘humped an odd-job man like a dog’ at his house, a court heard.
Charles Howeson, 67, allegedly assaulted victims while serving with the Navy including groping a junior rating during a man overboard drill.
Complaints were made, but Howeson was let off with a warning and went on to pursue a successful career in the service with the court being told that he believed he was ‘unassailable’ because of his position.
He became a first lieutenant and second-in-command on a ship and felt he was ‘too powerful’ to be affected by complaints against him, a jury heard.
Bristol Crown Court heard Howeson hired a former car valeter to help him with odd jobs around the house.
His alleged victim claimed he was ‘humped like a dog’ by Howeson in his garden pump house.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he began working for Howeson after he was let go by a city car valeting business in the early 1990s.
The former car valeter told a jury how Howeson phoned him up and asked him to do ‘odd jobs’ around the garden.
The man told the jury it was when Howeson asked him to check for damp in the garden pump house that he first touched him inappropriately.
He recalled the second time Howeson allegedly assaulted him – as he stood on a step ladder in the pump house. He felt Howeson ‘coming in closer’ and touching him.
He told the jury: “His groin was touching the side of my leg, rubbing against me, pushing against me.
“In a way it was like when a dog jumps up at you and holds you and pushes against you. It was that kind of feeling, like he was trying to hump you.”
On the third occasion, he claims he could feel Howeson’s penis beneath his clothes.
“I could feel it on my leg or thigh,” he told a jury.
“It was within his clothing. I can remember rapid breathing and he was quite forceful as he was holding me on the ladder.”
He told the jury he left only after the third attack because he needed money to support his then pregnant wife.
“It’s made me scared of a lot of things,” he added. “Like being close to people. It has changed a lot of stuff for me. I was embarrassed and ashamed.”
Howeson also went on to allegedly abuse young men after he left the Navy and went to work for an environmental charity organisation.
Paul Dunkels, prosecuting, said: “He was emboldened in his behaviour by the thought he could face off the allegations because of his powerful position.”
Mr Dunkels said that the alleged offences took place between December 1985 and August 1994,
He said they relate to three “wholly unrelated” phases of Howeson’s life – the Navy, his private life and at the charity – but all tell a “similar story”.
“It is the story of a man who was successful in his careers, both in and after the Royal Navy , and a man who had much to lose,” said Mr Dunkels.
“But nevertheless, he was seemingly confident that he was ‘unassailable’ because of his position of power.
“Some of his victims complained at the time, but others felt their word would not be believed because of his status relative to them, or that he was ‘too powerful’ to be affected.”
The earliest charge was said to have taken place in December 1985, while Howeson, of Plymouth, was employed as an officer in the Royal Navy.
He allegedly groped a junior rating on the ship during a man overboard drill, touching the young man’s legs and lower back and his penis and testicles over his clothing.
The “shaken and upset” victim reported the incident to a petty officer and the master-at-arms.
There was an investigation launched into Howeson’s behaviour following a similar complaint from a ship’s steward.
But the court heard the defendant was let off with a warning about his future behaviour – and went on to enjoy a successful Navy career.
It was also Howeson was granted a similar ‘escape’ during his subsequent employment at environmental organisation Groundwork Trust in Plymouth, where he was employed as executive director.
Six of his 12 victims were allegedly indecently assaulted by Howeson between April 1992 and February 1993, during his time working at the Trust.
The court heard he would take them individually to an isolated place and make up some excuse to lift them up – for instance, checking the cabling in the lights – before touching their penis and testicles, either inside or outside their clothing.
Howeson denies 12 historic serious sexual offences, including 11 of indecent assault and one of attempted buggery.
The offences happened against nine alleged male victims.
The trial continues.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/crime/royal-navy-officer-humped-odd-11578787
Charity accused of sweeping Plymouth sex abuse claims ‘under the carpet’
City businessman Charles Howeson is accused of groping young volunteers at The Groundwork Trust
23 NOV 2017
A charity which helped young people get into work has been accused of sweeping sex abuse claims “under the carpet” in the early 1990s.
Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson is on trial at Bristol Crown Court, where he denies 11 counts of indecently assaulting ten young men and a boy and one count of attempted buggery.
A jury heard today how Howeson, The Groundwork Trust’s then executive director, was asked to resign after a string of complaints were made against him by young volunteers in their early 20s.
But the charity, which was based at the Royal William Yard at the time, has been accused by alleged victims of protecting itself instead of taking the matter to the police.
One witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said in court the Trust “didn’t take it seriously” and was personally told the matter “couldn’t go to court”.
He added he was allegedly told at the time: “We all enjoy the Trust and if this were to come out it would destroy it.”
The complainant told the jury the alleged indecent assault Howeson, now aged 67, subjected him to meant he “lived in fear” and led to him moving house and seeking counselling.
But Howeson’s defence barrister, Daniel Janner QC, suggested the alleged victims were part of a “conspiracy” and that this particular complainant made the allegations up “to support a friend”.
The alleged indecent assaults are said to have taken place in the early 1990s in both the tunnels of Drake’s Island and a building in Royal William Yard.
The court heard how three separate victims, who were friends, discovered each had allegedly been groped by Howeson and decided to take the matter further to protect others.
The trial has already heard from two other alleged victims who say they were indecently assaulted by Howeson on Drake’s Island.
Giving evidence today, one of the witnesses said he decided to write a letter intended to be posted to the employment agency that found him the voluntary work.
But he was persuaded to first tell his line manager by another alleged victim, the court heard.
The man told the court: “[My colleague] said I would be doing our immediate manager a disservice if it was seen I went behind his back.
“Therefore on the Friday after I had written the letter I showed it to [my line manager]. He said ‘Oh my God’. [He] took the letter from me and he said he would follow it up. That was the only copy of that letter.
“On the following Monday I saw [my line manager] and he said the letter had been taken very seriously and had been discussed over the weekend and he then said, ‘I can’t speak to you any further about this’.”
The court heard how the complainant was subsequently invited to attend a panel made up of the deputy director, his line manager, and his line manager’s boss.
“I was asked, ‘Is there a conspiracy against Charles Howeson?’ [and] they were very anxious to know this was the only copy [of the letter] and that it hadn’t been sent. I confirmed it had not.
“I said there wasn’t [a conspiracy]. I felt humiliated, angry and belittled.”
Following a series of meetings with the complainant, and separate panels with other alleged victims, Howeson resigned, the court heard.
The jury heard the volunteers were told this was for “health reasons” and were also made aware the Trust had made it a condition Howeson never worked with young people again, something Howeson’s barrister contests.
He was also not allowed to return to the Groundwork Trust offices, the court heard.
The witness said: “I was told this could not go to court. There was no point trying to obtain an apology from Charles Howeson because it would be worded in such a way that it would be…a non-apologetic apology.”
However, the following Wednesday, the witness was contacted by Howeson, who asked a question about ongoing work at the Trust, the court heard.
The witness told the jury he “felt frightened” by this.
“I felt this was Charles Howeson getting in contact with me directly and saying, ‘I know what you have done’. I lost all confidence; I became paranoid; I felt that as he had telephoned me that I needed to watch out, so consequently I moved house. I lived in fear.”
Defending, Mr Janner said: “What you’re saying is The Groundwork Trust was merely going through the motions, but not taking it at all seriously? If that’s the case and they have swept your criminal complaint under the carpet, why not go to the police?”
The witness replied: “[We] felt there was no way on earth we are going to be believed.
“Charles Howeson was asked or told to resign and that was as much as we could hope. We were [in our early 20s] and we didn’t feel we had the authority or the confidence to go any further, simply because we had already achieved what we wanted to do, which was Charles Howeson could not abuse people in the Groundwork Trust.”
The trial continues.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charity-accused-sweeping-plymouth-sex-822759
The tunnels under Drake’s Island
‘Charles Howeson groped me in Drake’s Island tunnels’, former charity worker tells trial
A former charity worker has told a jury he was “groped” by prominent Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson in the tunnels of Drake’s Island.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claimed Howeson, who was then executive director of the Groundwork Trust, touched him inappropriately on more than one occasion.
The alleged victim, who claims the sexual assault happened in in the early 1990s, told a jury Howeson, now 67, groped his groin area in the “complete darkness” of the tunnels on Drake’s Island.
The witness told the jury Howeson, a former Naval officer, approached the charity worker “one afternoon” and asked if he could come to the island to help find a set of switches and cables.
On the boat, which the complainant said only carried the two of them, Howeson asked if he would like the steer, the jury heard.
The complainant said: “At first I was sat down and Charles Howeson came up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder, then put his hand down onto my leg and started rubbing my leg.
“He leant over on my back to show me on the front the fish finder and depth of water. He was leaning over my back and I thought it was really strange as there was no reason for him to be doing that. It was very confusing for me. I was very confused.
“I felt very intimidated and that it wasn’t right what he was doing. It was like it was a sexual come-on.”
The jury heard that the man did not challenge Howeson over the alleged incident – and the two are said to have moored up on the island and made their way to the tunnels to find the switches and cables.
But once there, the witness said he was touched again, this time on his penis.
He told the trial: “It was complete darkness – I was asked to find some cables and switches and I had to get up onto his shoulders. He crouched down and I went to get up and as he did he started to rub my legs again.
“I went behind him and as I did […] he put out his hand to rub my leg again.
“He stood up with me on his shoulders. I had to stretch up. He put his hands across and then I was touched on my testicles and my penis. It was more like groping. It went on for about a minute.”
This happened twice in the tunnels, the complainant told a jury, before three other workers entered.
“[Howeson] was quite shocked when they came in,” the man told the jury.
Despite not telling anyone of the alleged sexual offences at first, the worker was called into a meeting some months later to give a statement, the court was told.
But the complainant claims the alleged offences were “brushed under the carpet” by the Trust.
The court then heard from the man’s carer, who told the jury she was told about the alleged abuse when she brought up Drake’s Island in conversation following its purchase by Dan McCauley, the former Plymouth Argyle chairman.
The witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the jury: “I brought it up and I said, ‘We’ll be able to go over fishing’.
“He said he wasn’t going to go over there, and he said that’s where things had happened to him. He said he was abused.
“We had a bit of an argument because he didn’t like it and he stormed off.
“All I said to him was he needed to sort the issues out because it happened more than once.”
The trial continues.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-groped-drakes-island-815103
‘Charles Howeson tried to rape me’, victim told police
20 Nov 2017
The former Naval officer and leading Plymouth businessman denies a string of sexual assaults
A man has said a senior Royal Naval officer pinned him down and tried to rape him when he was a young teenager, a jury has heard.
The alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, claims Charles Howeson befriended him and a group of other schoolboys on a Plymouth Naval estate by letting them ride motorbikes in his field.
In an interview with police shown to the jury, the complainant told officers that Howeson, who denies the claims, was teaching him how to shoot a wooden air rifle gun in the field when the alleged offence took place.
He claims Howeson moved closer to him, pulled down his trousers and tried to rape him, but was unsuccessful.
The leading Plymouth businessman, now 67, has gone on trial accused of abusing his position of power to indecently touch 10 young men and a teenage boy.
Howeson indecently touched men in the lower ranks, civilians in and around his home and some men working for a charity where he was the boss, a jury has heard.
The charity, the Groundwork Trust, investigated complaints from six young men but “swept them under the carpet” back in 1993, the court was previously told.
Several of the men were allegedly abused in the tunnels of Drake’s Island, where volunteers were doing environmental work.
Howeson is accused of two alternative charges dating back to the 1980s, attempted buggery and indecent assault, which are based on the same evidence and allegedly took place near his home.
In the interview with officers at Charles Cross Police Station, the complainant said “everything was normal” before Howeson allegedly took him to a field by himself to teach him how to shoot an air rifle.
“[Howeson] started laying closer to me,” the complainant said in the recorded interview, shown to the jury. “I thought it was a bit odd but I didn’t think anything of it. Then he laid on top of me and put all his weight on me and I couldn’t move.
“He pulled down my trousers and tried to rape me and I couldn’t even move, he was so heavy.
“The second he took his weight off me I squirmed out and ran away. That’s all I can remember and all I know about it.
“I didn’t say anything, I didn’t even make a noise. It was just a shock; I didn’t expect it in any way.
“Years after I thought about it a lot. I dealt with it with drink, drugs and violence.”
The jury heard the alleged victim has more than two dozen previous convictions dating back several years, which Howeson’s defence barrister suggests indicates he is lying about this allegation.
Daniel Janner QC said: “I want to suggest to you you are lying about what’s happened for an easy way of getting [compensation].
“You are a career criminal […] [and] from the age of about 17 you were a thoroughly dishonest person.”
The complainant replied: “I got into trouble with the police a lot, yes. What happened to me has affected every aspect of my life.”
Mr Janner then asked: “Are you going to make a claim for compensation?”
“No,” the complainant said. “I have said I do not want to claim compensation.
“I was not a good kid. I did bad things and I paid for it.”
Last year the complainant attended an identity parade, identifying Howeson as the man who allegedly assaulted him 30 years ago.
He claims he did not even know Howeson’s name until three months ago, and had not seen a picture of him in the time between the assault and the ongoing court case.
The trial continues.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/charles-howeson-tried-rape-me-805814
Royal Navy ‘covered-up incident where senior officer groped a young seaman’s genitals to avoid a scandal in the newspapers’
Nov 17 2017
- Former Naval officer is accused of groping a junior on a warship in 1985
- Alleged victim says he told his superiors about the incident at the time
- He believes the matter wasn’t dealt with as the Navy didn’t want a scandal
- Accused officer denies the attack and 10 other alleged sex offences
The Royal Navy has been accused of trying to cover up a high-ranking officer’s alleged sexual assault on a sailor in a bid to avoid a scandal.
Charles Howeson, 67, who was a lieutenant commander, is on trial accused of several sex attacks including groping a junior on the frigate HMS Cleopatra in 1985.
The court heard claims that, despite complaints made against Howeson, he was allowed to carry on in his role as it would have ‘looked bad’ for the Navy if the scandal had got out.
His alleged victim, who was in his 20s at the time, said he believed no action was taken because the service wanted to keep it quiet.
he immediately complained to a senior officer and the Master at Arms, who was in charge of on-board discipline.
The man, in his 20s, said he was then interviewed by two members of the Navy’s Special Investigations Squad.
The witness said he never saw Howeson again after the incident. The defendant was moved from the ship on health grounds, the jury were told.
The complainant said he was later told that no record of the incident he reported could be found.
The witness said that he was contacted by police more than 30 years later in 2016. Only then, he said, did he realise that Howeson had continued in the Navy.
Howeson told investigators more than 30 years ago it was ‘inconceivable’ he had sexually assaulted the junior rating on HMS Cleopatra.
After being flown off the ship, he was later interviewed and said: ‘I completely refute the allegation.’
Members of the service’s Special Investigations Squad have told the court that they pursued the matter thoroughly before passing the file to the Provost Marshal.
Charles Howeson trial: sailor had his bottom touched by senior Naval officer on board frigate, court hears
The jury heard how the alleged victim reported the incident to superior officers.
He added he woke his petty officer to report what had happened and then spoke to his head of department.
The man, together with the other complainant, was later interviewed by the Navy’s Special Investigations Squad.
He was interviewed by Navy investigators but was shocked to encounter Howeson, who was originally from Mevagissey, three years later and find he had been promoted to commander.
Another junior rating has already told the court he was groped by Howeson on a boat deck on the same ship during a man overboard exercise that December.
He said to the jury that he believed the Royal Navy then kept the matter quiet to avoid a scandal.
Former officers in the squad told the court they investigated the matters and passed a file to the Provost Marshal, in charge of the Navy’s police service.
The jury heard the second part of the Service Investigation Squad interview with Howeson in December 1985.
He added his reaction to the ladder allegation was “absolute shock and horror”.
Howeson said: “I totally deny any allegation of that nature. In my mind it is unthinkable.”
The ship’s second-in-command added that he “half fell down” the ladder into the junior rating. He added the contact only lasted a few seconds and was not indecent.
The First-Lieutenant said he could not think of any reason why the two junior ratings would act in concert to make complaints against him.
He said that the allegations as a whole were “like a script from a dirty movie”.
Howeson, then married for seven years with two children, denied he had any “homosexual tendencies”.
The head of department who was told by the rating about what had happened said he decided with other officers not to tell the ship’s captain, Roy Newman.
He told the jury that Howeson claimed it was a “misunderstanding” and appeared “horrified”.
The senior officer said he decided not to tell the captain about what he said was a very “serious and difficult matter”. But the witness added he did warn Howeson he would report him if there was another complaint.
The retired officer said that the junior rating agreed with this course of action.
The former head of department duly told the captain when the second junior rating came forward two months later and the matter was included in the Royal Navy investigation.
Charles Howeson trial: accused was flown from Royal Navy frigate following allegations of sexual assault on board
Two Navy investigators flew by helicopter and were winched on to HMS Cleopatra in the English Channel in December 2015 (should be 1985?)
(The former junior rating, the first complainant to give evidence, had earlier told the jury that Howeson groped at his genitals over his trousers during a man overboard exercise in December 1985.)
The former sailor described Howeson as “flamboyant” and that he pulled up to join the frigate on a yacht.
He was also told that the lieutenant commander’s children had jetted off to join Princess Anne’s children horse riding.
http://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/howeson-trial-bristol-plymouth-cornwall-782391
16 NOV 2017
A ‘cover’ story was put out that a high-ranking officer needed medical treatment when he was removed from a Royal Navy frigate following an allegation of a sexual assault, a court heard.
A junior rating had made the accusation against Lieutenant Commander Charles Howeson, originally from Mevagissey, on board HMS Cleopatra.
Howeson was then removed from the Plymouth-based vessel with just the clothes he was wearing the day after the alleged assault.
A story was then put out that the transfer was for medical reasons, reports the Plymouth Herald.
The jury heard that Royal Navy investigators flew to the Leander Class frigate and later spoke to Howeson on an RFA ship in December 2015.(?1985)
The alleged victim has told Bristol Crown Court that the incident was then “kept quiet” by the Royal Navy to avoid a scandal.
He said Howeson, second-in-command on the ship, groped him at night while they were alone during a man overboard drill on the boat deck.
Leading Plymouth businessman Howeson, 67, has gone on trial accused of abusing his position of power to indecently touch ten young men and a teenage boy.
Howeson indecently touched men in the lower ranks, civilians in and around his home and some men working for a charity where he was the boss, a jury heard.
The charity, the Groundwork Trust, investigated complaints from six young men but “swept them under the carpet” in 1993, the court was told.
Several of the men were allegedly abused in the tunnels of Drake’s Island, where volunteers were doing environmental work.
Retired Warrant Officer Robert Payne, of the Navy’s Special Investigations Squad, said he and a colleague flew by helicopter and were winched on to HMS Cleopatra in the English Channel in December 2015.
He added that he was the senior investigator in that squad, which could be called to any ship by its captain to investigate any serious allegation anywhere in the world.
Mr Payne said himself, then a Master At Arms, and the squad’s commanding officer, Lieutenant John Buchanan, were briefed by HMS Cleopatra’s captain, Roy Newman.
HMS Cleopatra’s captain, Roy Newman
Paul Dunkels, QC, for the Crown Prosecution Service, asked whether Howeson was on the ship when they arrived.
Mr Payne said: “No he had been jackstayed (line transferred) to a Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Some story was put out that he was unwell and needed treatment.”
The witness, giving evidence over a videolink from Mold Crown Court in North Wales, said he and his commanding officer interviewed the complainant.
He added that he later interviewed Howeson on board the RFA docked at Gosport in Hampshire.
The witness said he co-operated and described him as “cool and relaxed”.
Mr Payne said: “He said to me that when he was transferred from HMS Cleopatra he only had the clothes he was standing in. He told me that he had no driving licence and I offered to drive him back to Plymouth.”
He stressed they never spoke about the investigation during the journey.
Lieutenant Buchanan, who took to the witness stand, said that he passed his report to his superior, Lieutenant Commander Bob Doyle, the Provost Marshal, the head of the Navy’s regulatory or police branch.
He added that the Provost Marshal, not a trained lawyer, would have taken legal advice before making a decision about what happened next.
The witness added that Lieutenant Commander Doyle was “sadly deceased”.
Lieutenant Buchanan said that was the end of his role in the matter.
Under cross-examination, he added that his squad had carried out a thorough and independent investigation.
Howeson, of Craigie Drive, Plymouth, has gone on trial at Bristol to answer 12 charges dating from 1985 and 1994.
He denies 11 counts of indecently assaulting ten young men and a boy and one count of attempted buggery.
One of the men he allegedly touched on board HMS Cleopatra and another in the Groundwork Trust are not subject to any charge.
Howeson was formerly chairman of First Great Western trains and also chairman of the now defunct South West Strategic Health Authority, which used to oversee health spending.
He joined the Royal Navy in 1967 and also had a senior role at the Queen’s bank, Coutts and Co.
The trial, before Judge Mark Horton, continues and is expected to take four to six weeks.
http://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/howeson-trial-navy-plymouth-bristol-788921
Top Plymouth businessman carried out sex attacks in Drake’s Island tunnels, trial told
Charles Howeson is on trial after denying a string of sexual assaults which the prosecution claim were ‘swept under the table’ by a leading charity
14 Nov 2017
A leading city businessman abused his position of power to grope 11 boys and young men – with a jury told some of their complaints were “swept under the carpet”.
Former Royal Navy officer Charles Howeson, aged 67, indecently touched men in the lower ranks, civilians in and around his home and some men working for a charity where he was the boss, a jury heard.
Barrister Paul Dunkels, QC, prosecuting, told his trial: “This was a man who was prepared to risk his success by abusing his dominant position over his victims seemingly confident he was unassailable because of his status.”
The former lieutenant-commander allegedly touched two men inappropriately on board a Royal Navy ship in 1985.
He went on to grope a young man who lived close to him at a former home in Plymouth and a young workman there, the jury heard.
Howeson, then executive director of the Groundwork Trust, allegedly touched seven men who worked for the charity. Its premises were visited by the Queen in 1992.
Mr Dunkels, opening the case for the Crown Prosecution Service, said some of the alleged victims complained at the time.
He added that others never spoke out because they felt they would not be believed.
The barrister said Howeson was moved from the ship where the alleged offences took place on health grounds after the complaints were investigated.
Mr Dunkels said: “Howeson conveniently retired on health grounds (from the Groundwork Trust) after six young men who worked for the trust complained of similar sexual offences.
“One of the young men was told by the trustees that it was pointless taking the matter to the court and that the negative publicity would destroy the Groundwork Trust.
“The defendant should resign on health grounds and would not work with young people again. In other words it was swept under the carpet.”
The barrister said the complainants working on Drake’s Island through the charity were vulnerable and two had mental health or learning difficulties.
Howeson, of Craigie Drive, Stonehouse, has gone on trial at Bristol Crown Court to answer 12 charges dating from 1985 and 1994.
He denies 11 counts of indecently assaulting nine boys and young men and one count of attempted buggery.
One of the men he allegedly touched on board HMS Cleopatra and another in the Groundwork Trust are not subject to any charge.
Mr Dunkels said Howeson was second-in-command of HMS Cleopatra in 1985.
He added the lieutenant commander would initiate physical contact with a particular sailor, touching his hand and leaning into him.
Mr Dunkels said that Howeson touched the legs and lower back of the man as he walked up stairs on the ship. He then touched his crotch over his uniform, the barrister added.
Mr Dunkels said the man was “shaken and upset” and complained to a petty officer and the Master at Arms.
The barrister said another man on board the ship also complained that Howeson had touched his bottom. He also complained to a senior officer.
Mr Dunkels said Howeson denied the allegation and claimed it was a misunderstanding. He was moved on to another ship on health grounds.
The barrister said Howeson befriended a teenager near his former Plymouth home.
He added that he lent him a motorcycle to ride and taught him to shoot an air rifle. Mr Dunkels said that while he was lying in a field Howeson attemped to bugger him.
Mr Dunkels said a second man in his 20s did odd jobs at the defendant’s home and cleaned his car.
He added that Howeson asked him to go up a ladder to do some work and touched him indecently three times.
Mr Dunkels said in the early 90s Howeson was executive director of the Groundwork Trust, based in the Royal William Yard. He added that the charity would help “vulnerable” young people or those who were finding it hard to find jobs.
He added that the trust was doing environmental work on Drake’s Island.
Mr Dunkels said: “His method was to take them individually to an isolated place, often a tunnel on Drake’s Island and make up some reason for him to lift the man up to check a cable or to put on some lights.”
The barrister said Howeson would stand close behind the man and touch him indecently, often over but sometimes under his clothing.
He described how seven men were touched in this way – six of them are subject of the charges.
The court heard how a Groundwork Trust official spoke to six of the men in February 1993. The matter was not reported to the police.
Mr Dunkels said the victim of the attempted buggery came forward only in in 2015, later picking an image of the defendant from a video identification parade.
The barrister said that following a report in The Herald the second man, allegedly assaulted doing work at the defendant’s house, came forward.
Police were also told of the investigations in the Royal Navy and the Groundwork Trust and tracked down the notes of the official who carried out the investigation.
Howeson denied all allegations put to him in police interview.
Howeson, wearing a smart dark suit and tie, spoke only to confirm his identity at the start of proceedings.
Howeson was formerly chairman of First Great Western trains and also chairman of the now defunct South West Strategic Health Authority, which used to oversee health spending.
He also held a role as a senior staff member at the Queen’s bank, Coutts and Co.
The trial, before Judge Mark Horton, continues and is expected to take four to six weeks.
The case has been moved from Plymouth because of Howeson’s high profile.
He was raised in Mevagissey in Cornwall and joined the Royal Navy in 1967, before making his fortune as a property developer and launching a long career in the public, private and voluntary sector.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/top-plymouth-businessman-carried-out-774829
The man said Howeson, who he described as ‘flamboyant and different’ and as ‘having money’, groped his genitals over his clothes.
He said he went to a senior officer to complain and a helicopter landed on HMS Cleopatra later that night and two members of the special investigation bureau came on board and took a written statement from him.
The man said he was told ‘somebody with a blanket or towel’ over their head was taken off.
He said he did not see Howeson on the ship after that night.
He said he thought Howeson would face a court martial, but heard nothing afterwards and that it ‘was not handled properly’.
‘I just wonder at the thought process of allowing somebody who has been accused of an assault not to be heard by other people (in a court or tribunal),’ he said.
He added that he had ‘honestly believed the Navy would take care of me’, despite the fact it was the word of a junior crew member against a senior one.
Charles Howeson trial
Defence barrister Daniel Janner QC said to the man: “I put it to you there was no groping at all.”
The crewman replied: “That is a lie.”
Defence barrister Daniel Janner QC (left) son of accused paedophile MP Greville Janner
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-42002437
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Let’s get this straight: A man accused of buggery turns to a QC whose father, according to CPS, should have been charged with buggery?
Lord Janner: CPS and police were ‘wrong’ not to prosecute earlier, says official report
Abuse allegations against Greville Janner should have been taken further in 1991, 2002 and 2007 – and discloses how Leicestershire police hid a crucial statement from prosecutors
Lord Janner’s family to ‘undermine’ sex abuse inquiry strand into their father after being given formal role in investigation
1 February 2017
Welcoming the decision, his son Daniel Janner QC said: “It gives me the chance to undermine my father’s strand of the inquiry from within
The family, including his son Daniel Janner, were granted core participant status, which gives them access to documents and to have lawyers attend the inquiry’s hearings
Hamish Baillie @GJannervictim
Greville JANNER: CPS said multiple opportunities missed to bring him to court.
Groundwork Trust
Bondco -> Tamar Environmental Agency Limited
- Appointed on
- 9 September 1991
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- Resigned on
- 20 February 1993
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02606472/officers
Executive director Plymouth Area Groundwork Trust, since 1991. Managing director Bailey Management Group Ltd. Chairman Bailey M & E Ltd., Bailey Environmental Ltd., Indiana Legal Practitioners Ltd., DNA Facilities Management Ltd., RNH Ltd.
http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=483191
GROUNDWORK SOUTH WEST
Company number 02632905
Previous company names:
PLYMOUTH AREA GROUNDWORK TRUST
26 Jul 1991 – 17 Mar 2006
GROUNDWORK DEVON AND CORNWALL
17 Mar 2006 – 24 Jun 2009
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02632905
Groundwork South West goes into administration with 150 jobs lost
Sir Tony Hawkhead, the national chief executive, said in a statement: “We are obviously very sad to see a member of our federation forced to take this difficult step.
“We aim to work closely with administrators when they’re appointed to provide whatever help we can to ensure communities in the south west continue to get the support they need.”
Employment Minister Chris Grayling MP recently described Groundwork’s programme as “one of the most innovative, motivational programmes” he had seen.
Charles Howeson, British portfolio manager, director. Certified yachtmaster, licensed private pilot.
Background
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Howeson, Charles was born on November 27, 1949 in Ticehurst, Sussex, England. Son of Arthur Coningham Howeson and Sheila Beatrice Uniacke.
Education
- Graduate, Royal Naval Staff College, 1980.
Career
- Executive director Plymouth Area Groundwork Trust, since 1991. Managing director Bailey Management Group Ltd. Chairman Bailey M & E Ltd., Bailey Environmental Ltd., Indiana Legal Practitioners Ltd., DNA Facilities Management Ltd., RNH Ltd.
Major achievements
- Certified yachtmaster, licensed private pilot.
Membership
Vice chairman Plymouth Chamber of Commerce. Board directors Healthy Plymouth Alliance Ltd., Plencraig Ltd., Sailport Plc, Solemeasure Ltd. Director development Plymouth Theatre Royal.
Member Devon Food and Farming Committee. Board directors Plymouth Health Action Zone. Member Regional Flood Defense committee National Rifle Association.
Member advisory committee Plymouth Post Office and Telecomm. Chairman Seaton Area Residents Association, Crownhill Estates Ltd., Eko-Tek Power Ltd., Piers Ltd., Buckland Corporation Finance Ltd., AYS 2000 Ltd., Powerplus Marine Ltd., Millfields Estate Management Company Ltd. Board directors Somerset Estates Ltd., London and Westcountry Estates Ltd., Frog Construction Ltd., Hockin Dinamic Holdings Ltd., Enterprise Plymouth Ltd.
Chairman Plymouth Economic Development Group, Plymouth Employment Action Zone Board. Vice chairman Millfields Community Economic Development Trust. Chairman, member national council Consumer Council for Postal Services United Kingdom.
Fellow: Royal Inst Navigation, Nautical Institute, Faculty of Building, British Institute Management, Institute Directors, Royal Society Arts. Member: Board Trade, Younger Brother Trinity House, Liveryman Worshipful Company Shipwrights, Freeman of City of London.
Charles Howeson’s trial has started: 13 Nov 2017
http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Bristol-Crown-Court.php
According to a BBC report Howeson will face trial at Bristol Crown Court on November 13. It is estimated the trial will take around five weeks.
The alleged offences are understood to have taken place at a number of locations in Plymouth, including Royal William Yard, Drakes Island and HMS Cleopatra.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/leading-plymouth-businessman-pleads-not-496647
18 Sept 2017
Charles Howeson, 67, of Craigie Drive, Stonehouse, Plymouth, appeared in court and denied sexually abuse charges while he was a Royal Navy officer. He has pleaded not guilty to 15 charges – 12 counts of indecent assault, two of buggery and one of attempted buggery, against 10 boys and men between December 1985 and September 1994.
According to a BBC report Howeson will face trial at Bristol Crown Court on November 13. It is estimated the trial will take around five weeks.
The alleged offences are understood to have taken place at a number of locations in Plymouth, including Royal William Yard, Drakes Island and HMS Cleopatra.
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/leading-plymouth-businessman-pleads-not-496647
earlier:
He is set to enter pleas on a date to be fixed in Bristol and a trial likely to take four weeks may be listed by the end of the year.
Howeson was released on unconditional bail.
As of 14 Sept 2017 – no news updates on Charles Howeson, even though he was scheduled to be in court on 11 Sept 2017 for an interim hearing.
His next court date is on 13 Nov 2017
Former Naval officer Charles Howeson, aged 67, faces 12 counts of indecent assault, two of buggery and one of attempted buggery between December 1985 and September 1994.
The alleged offences relate to 10 different males and prosecutors claim the incidents took place at a number of locations in Plymouth, including Royal William Yard, Drakes Island and HMS Cleopatra.
Howeson has not been arraigned on any of the charges.
He appeared for the second time at Plymouth Crown Court, where his barrister applied for the case to be heard in Bristol – an application which was not opposed by the Crown.
Judge Ian Lawrie ruled that the trial should not be heard in the Plymouth because of Howeson’s high profile.
The resident judge in Bristol will now formally have to decide whether to take over the case.
June 23, 2017
An interim hearing to organise the trial, to take four to five weeks, has been set for September 11.
Top Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson appears at Crown Court
May 08, 2017
A leading Plymouth businessman has appeared at Crown Court where he faces more than a dozen serious sexual abuse charges.
Former Naval officer Charles Howeson, 67, faces 12 counts of indecent assault, two of buggery and one of attempted buggerybetween December 1985 and September 1994.
Drake’s Island
Howeson was not arraigned and no charges were put to him.
Previously, Howeson, of Craigie Drive, Stonehouse, has refuted the allegations and said he had co-operated fully with the police investigation.
A trial was estimated to take between two and three weeks. A hearing to discuss legal arguments was set for June 16. Howeson was released on unconditional bail.
The amended application has been welcomed by Charles Howeson, chairman of the Plymouth Area Business Council.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-25665633
The War Department stopped using Drake’s Island in 1956, and after a seven year period of dormancy, they leased it in 1963 to the Plymouth City Council.
For eight years Drake’s Island had an official status as a youth training base, until it was leased to the Mayflower Centre Trust in 1971.
The Mayflower Centre Trust ran Drake’s Island as an Adventure Centre, and opened it to the public in summer months. However, soon the island became dormant again and has been unoccupied since.
http://www.angelfire.com/in4/island_uk/drakesisland.html
The former chapel turned military base became an adventure centre in the 1960s before being closed and abandoned, then sold off.
Looking north to include Plymouth Hoe
However, a city historian says there’s not enough proof a tunnel runs from Plymouth Hoe to Drake’s Island as records of it being built have never been discovered.
Drake’s Island 2014
PLANS to build a luxury hotel, spa and restaurant on Drake’s Island have been resurrected.
The £10million scheme to bring the derelict island back to life was thrown out by Plymouth city councillors in January last year.
Members of the council’s planning committee rejected the plans, saying there was not enough information on the risks to wildlife.
Charle’s Howeson – Drake’s Island Jan 9 2014
Charles Howeson, the chairman of the Plymouth Area Business Council, said “For so many years we in Plymouth have looked forward to our waterfront mosaic being completed with the removal from the post war ‘dereliction inventory’ of arguably its most significant and certainly its most visible component, St Nicholas or Drake’s Island.
“At last we, as a city, have a champion willing, and in resource terms capable, of achieving this against very many odds, and we should all be very grateful and supportive of this, perhaps at the very eleventh hour of its being offered and so being available in this form.
“The comparatively past of a couple of decades of recent history has left neither the island nor us with anything to be particularly proud of, and yet there is a west country family who are now prepared to complete the mosaic for all of us, probably with a degree of philanthropy and almost certainly bearing a degree of commercial risk which would frighten the most of us off, and which we can thus only therefore admire.
“So, let all of us in Plymouth now wholeheartedly, and without reservation, welcome the regeneration of ‘our island’, the very jewel in our waterfront crown, and the final component in our recovered and regenerated mush damaged waterfront, and thus, as our forefathers used to say so often after the last war during the great years of rebuild, let us just ‘get on with it and make it happen!’ – and, given the macro economic climate, and the growth challenges facing us all, let us do this, and with full enthusiasm, whilst the opportunity is still available to us, and so whilst we still can.”
A year ago the council’s planning committee was advised by officers to refuse the plans because environmental surveys of the island and surrounding sea were missing or incomplete.
The councillors were told that environmental surveys needed to be carried out in the summer.
But now revised plans have been submitted by owner Dan McCauley’s Rotolok (Holdings) Ltd.
They include a luxury hotel boasting 43 rooms, some with view of Plymouth Hoe and the city’s waterfront.
There would also be a spa, a restaurant and a revamped jetty.
The hotel, which would be built over 3,322 square metres, would create 50 full-time jobs, according to Rotolok.
In a statement this morning, the company said: “Rotolok (Holdings) Ltd are pleased to announce that they have resubmitted an amended planning application for the regeneration of Drakes Island.
Mar 3, 2017
Police say the charges are two counts of buggery, one of attempt buggery and 12 counts of indecent assault.
These matters relate to 10 alleged victims, all of whom are male.
At the time of the alleged offences one was aged 14/15,another was aged between 16 to 18 and eight were described as being in their early 20s.
Howeson was raised in Mevagissey in Cornwall, joined the Royal Navy in 1967 before making his fortune as a property developer and launching his long career in the public, private and voluntary sector.
Howeson is vice president for life of the Plymouth Drake Foundation, a charity he founded in 2008 to help communities in the city.
In creating the foundation, from which he stepped down in 2012, Howeson established a so-called “charity of charities” designed to support individuals and groups through grants.
Howeson … shocked ANOTHER one bestowed with honours by the queen accused of abuse
Update:
Top Plymouth businessman Charles Howeson in court on 15 sexual abuse charges
April 13, 2017
The wife of a former Coutts bank manager today vowed to stand by him as he appeared in court accused of sex offences against men and boys as young as 14.
Charles Howeson, 67, was regional head of the Queen’s bank after serving as a Royal Navy officer, where Queen Elizabeth appointed him as one of her Royal Navy Honorary Captains.
Today his wife Emma came with him to Plymouth Magistrates Court after he was charged with sex offences against 10 teenage boys and young men dating back 32 years.
HMS Cleopatra
Mr Howeson is accused of committing the offences between 1985 and 1994 including one alleged sex attack on board a Royal Navy ship – HMS Cleopatra.
He is accused of 12 counts of indecent assault, one of attempted buggery of a boy aged between 14 and 15 and two counts of buggery without consent on a male aged over 16.
Howeson who was raised in Mevagissey in Cornwall, joined the Royal Navy in 1967 before making his fortune as a property developer and launching his long career in the public, private and voluntary sector.
He is vice president for life of the Plymouth Drake Foundation, a charity he founded in 2008 to help communities in the city.
Service: 1967 – 1991
Former Naval officer Charles Howeson, 67, is facing 12 counts of indecent assault, two of buggery and one of attempted buggery between December 1985 and September 1994.
Dressed in a smart blue suit and accompanied by his wife at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court today, Howeson spoke only to confirm his name and address and said “I understand, thank you” when the charges were read out.
He did not enter a plea and will next appear at crown court on May 15.
HMS CLEOPATRA BACKGROUND:
In 1972, Cleopatra took part in escort duties during the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh‘s South East Asia tour.
The National Archives records that MOD has on file details of intelligence collection activities by Cleopatra in January–March 1978. The original document is still closed, but the bare fact of the activity itself is available.
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11447305
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cleopatra_(F28)
Post subject: Re: Any Argyle fans aboard?Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:44 pm
Trev501 wrote:I had a great time in Bermuda right up until the First Lieutenant landed on me breaking a couple of ribsHMS Montrose, 1998-2000!
Wasn’t that the irrepressible drunken loud eccentric BUT fantastic Charles Howeson. He was just something elseMy boss in Gib – had his mini-moke brought out on an RFA
Yep, the very same. The most eccentric XO I ever served with
Edited to add, having seen John’s post above it was indeed the Cleopatra not Montrose! I was DWEO from 86 to 88.
The 67-year-old had been appointed by the Queen as a Royal Navy Honorary Captain
“Ultimately it will involve me being an ambassador to the Royal Naval Reserves.
“I plan to conduct regular visits to Royal Naval units and sites in Plymouth as part of my role.
“I will also expect to be given up-to-date briefings on Royal Navy affairs.”
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/retired-commander-hugely-honoured-prestigious-title/story-11686027-detail/story.html#hxyb7g8CjTkoCgOI.99
Charles Howeson retains his links with the MOD and particularly with the Royal Navy where HM the Queen appointed him one to be of her small number of Honorary Captains in the RNR in 2009.
http://www.devonchamber.co.uk/News/news-story.cfm?story=1015
Commodore Charles Howeson
Lieutenant Colonel Bear Grylls. (more on Grylls below)
His father Arthur Howeson was a director of 2 businesses
MEVAGISSEY MODEL RAILWAY LIMITED
RAILTRONICS LIMITED
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/arthur-comingham-howeson
Charles Howeson’s younger brother –
RICHARD JOHN HOWESON is also a director at both those business
http://www.companydirectorcheck.com/richard-john-howeson
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/richard-howeson-2a516446
He is also a director at – PROSPECT QUAY LIMITED
RICHARD JOHN HOWESON (current)
Director, COMPANY DIRECTOR, 2007.01.21
315-317 NEW KINGS ROAD , LONDON
SW6 4RF
Richard Howeson became a director there in Jan 2007 as did the barrister MICHAEL MANSFIELD Director at Prospect QUAY ltd – MICHAEL MANSFIELD (resigned),
Director, BARRISTER, 2007.01.25 – 2014.03.17
FLAT 2 PROSPECT QUAY 98 POINT PLEASANT , LONDON
SW18 1PR
https://www.companieslist.co.uk/05763211-prospect-quay-limited
PROSPECT QUAY 98 POINT PLEASANT , LONDON
SW18 1PR PROSPECT QUAY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED
EuroTalk: a look back at 2013
It’s been another busy year at EuroTalk, with new products, new languages… and a new puppy. Throw in a royal encounter and a cake that looks like a Dalek, and you’ve got the makings of an interesting twelve months.
The Sydney Morning Herald
A RETIRED Royal Navy Commander and prominent city business leader has been granted a rare title by the Queen.
Charles Howeson has been made an Honorary Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve by order of the Queen on the recommendation of the head of the Royal Navy, the First Sea Lord.
It is a rare privilege granted to just a handful of people in the UK.
To date only eight people have been presented honorary ranks in the armed forces by the Queen.
The Guardian
A leading Plymouth businessman and captain of industry is to appear at court to face more than a dozen historic sexual abuse charges.
Former Naval officer Charles Howeson, 67, has been charged with 15 serious sexual offences – which allegedly date back to 1985.
‘The offences are alleged to have taken place between 1985-1994.
The 67-year-old, who lives in Stonehouse, was first questioned by detectives in March 2016 over the claims.
Howeson made his name at the helm of organisations including
First Great Western,
NHS South West and
Charles Howeson, 67, was a senior employee at Coutts
the regional arm of the Queen’s bank, Coutts and Co.
A former Navy officer who held a leading role overseeing NHS spending in Bristol has been charged with historic sex offences against males as young as 14.
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/former-navy-officer-bristol-nhs-5948
Charles Howeson, who chaired NHS Property Services 2012- 2014
NHS property company bailed out months after launch
https://www.ft.com/content/d0437c84-6bc7-11e3-a216-00144feabdc0
Charles will add strength and depth to DCBC’s strategic lobbying activities through his connectivity into London, Westminster and Whitehall.
In addition, Charles will play a key role in further strengthening DCBC’s position as the single voice for the business community across Devon and Cornwall, something which is more important now than ever before.
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=1037.10;imode
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with Plymouth businessman, Charles Howeson (centre), charged with sex abuse claims alleged to have taken place between 1985-1994.
Companies – Charles Howeson
Charles Howeson stands next to the Duke of Edinburgh who addresses the crowd at the Mount Batten Centre in 1999
MOUNT BATTEN SAILING AND WATER SPORTS CENTRE,
MOUNT BATTEN PARK LIMITED,
DNA FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED
and many other companies:
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/901620109/COMMANDER-CHARLES-ARTHUR-HOWESON/companies
Previously….
January 24, 2017
A Plymouth businessman and captain of industry has been bailed for a fourth time while police investigate allegations of historic sexual abuse.
In March last year, former Naval officer Charles Howeson, 67, was questioned by detectives over claims which are thought to date back many years.
Mr Howeson was not charged and was released on police bail.
That was extended in September “pending further inquiries“, before being extended again until Monday, January 23.
Devon businessman Charles Howeson, rebailed over historical sex abuse allegations
December 07, 2016
Charles Howeson (centre) with Prince Philip
A leading Devon businessman and captain of industry has been bailed for a third time while police investigate allegations of historical sexual abuse.
In March, former Naval officer Charles Howeson, 67, was questioned by detectives over the abuse claims.
It’s business as usual for Prince Andrew
Buckingham Palace today moved to shore up Prince Andrew’s image by announcing a series of engagements with British businesses.
Prince Andrew met the Queen on Tuesday following the controversy over his friendship with convicted child sex offender Jeffery Epstein. The Standard understands she gave her son her “full support”.
Charles Howeson, who will host a lunch for the Duke (Prince Andrew) at the Plymouth Business Area Association, said that he was a major asset to UK firms hoping to trade abroad. Mr Howeson added: “He has been doing this longer than civil servants and probably longer than many company chairmen, and he has built up a network of contacts that is incomparable.”
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/its-business-as-usual-for-prince-andrew-6576092.html
Prince Andrew, Duke of York commanded HMS Cottesmore from April 1993 until November 1994.
Royal 1 Fix It 1 first Lt-Cdr The Duke of York became the first Royal host of TV’s ‘Jim’ll Fix If show when he agreed to let 8-year-old Harriet Cooper be an admiral for a day on board his minehunter HMS Cottesmore. The Duke her to sea for exercises out of Rosyth last month — using the ship’s sonar to help search for Charles I’s treasure barge which sank in the Firth of Forth in 1633 — and later presented her with her ‘Fix If badge when the show was recorded at the BBC’s Shepherds Bush studios. It will form part of the final series of the 20- year-old TV favourite presented by Sir Jimmy Savile — in which the Navy has frequently lent a hand — starting at the end of next month. The Duke has lately been a surprise host for a number of Navy supporters, old and young. As we reported last month, he visited Cottesmore St Mary primary school at Hove. Earlier, a party of Royal Naval Patrol Service veterans expect¬ ing to spend a day at sea in HMS Atherstone found themselves on board the Cottesmore after a late change in Atherstone’s plans (see page 11). https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OAc-43Z4otIJ:https://archive.org/stream/NavyNews1994Collection/199403_djvu.txt+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d
Final Fix: Prince Andrew and Jimmy Savile 1994
Prince Andrew, Duke of York commanded HMS Cottesmore from April 1993 until November 1994.
Savile did not confine himself to one royal. Prince Andrew was called on to help in an episode of Jim’ll Fix It when an eight-year-old girl asked to visit a warship.
The Naval officer Prince was her host on his minehunter, HMS Cottesmore.
Jim’ll Fix It & Princess Anne Daily Express 28-09-79
1994 Final Fix “Final Fix: Prince Andrew helps Sir Jimmy (Savile) fulfill a dream in the last series of the programme April 2nd 1994 HMS Cottesmere Daily Express
Prince Andrew, Duke of York commanded HMS Cottesmore from April 1993 until November 1994.
Savile did not confine himself to one royal. Prince Andrew was called on to help in an episode of Jim’ll Fix It when an eight-year-old girl asked to visit a warship.
The Naval officer Prince was her host on his minehunter, HMS Cottesmore.
1990 Sir Jimmy Saville OBE DJ & TV Presenter stands to attention in a naval uniform saluting on board HMS Belfast in London with his Brother John.
Duke forced to miss city visit
March 02, 2010
Prince Andrew had been invited to the city by the Plymouth Area Business Council (PABC) and the University of Plymouth in his capacity as the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment.
He was due to meet 100 leading Plymouth business figures and VIPs at the Commando Forces Officers’ Mess at the Royal Marines Barracks, in Stonehouse yesterday.
Charles Howeson, chairman of the Plymouth Area Business Council, said he spoke to the Duke by telephone after the lunch engagement, which went ahead in his absence.
Mr Howeson said the Duke was ‘mortified’ to have missed the event, and added: “He’s asked us to reschedule the whole visit, which we would be delighted to do.”
The Duke had been due to give a speech to invitees including Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress Cllrs Ken and Wendy Foster, council leader Cllr Vivien Pengelly, Plymouth City Development Company chief executive Gavin Carrier, Plymouth’s top police officer Chief Supt Andy Bickley, and many city business figures.
2010
Stonehouse Barracks is home to the headquarters of 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines as well as a collection of its units including 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group … Location Stonehouse, Plymouth
A Devon-based Royal Marine unit has been renamed after a World War II intelligence unit formed by James Bond’s creator Ian Fleming.
Formerly known as the UK Landing Force Command Support Group (UK LFCSG), it carries out intelligence gathering and analysis.
In recent years it has been deployed on operations in Iraq and AfghanistaThe unit is part of 3 Commando Brigade.
Covert operations
Lt Col Matt Stovin-Bradford, the unit’s commanding officer, said: “A change of name hardens an already galvanised group of specialists.
“The role we perform can be traced back to the Second World War, a lineage of which we are immensely proud.”
Earlier a ceremonial inauguration parade was held to mark the name change at Stonehouse Barracks in Plymouth, the unit’s headquarters.
The original 30 Commando Assault Unit was formed in 1942.
Bond author Ian Fleming, who worked in wartime intelligence, based the concept on similar units used by the Germans.
It gathered information from enemy positions using covert methods and operated in North Africa, the Greek Islands, Norway, Sicily, Italy, Corsica and North West Europe.
It was also involved in the D-Day landings.
The new 30 Commando IX Group will be based at Stonehouse Barracks in Plymouth.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-11980837
Parliamentarians’ Dinner.
December 3, 2013 ·
Last week’s Parliamentarians’ Dinner at Stonehouse Barracks was another fabulous event.
Members of Plymouth Area Business Council (http://pabc.co) attended this sell out event and here is Jonathan with Simon King and Charles Howeson, being greeted by David Coslett of Plymouth University, and with Major General David Hook of the Royal Marines.
More pictures of how the dinner unfolded can be seen by following the link (to http://netprinter.co.uk/pabc/).
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-11980837
Howeson, of nearby Craigie Drive, Stonehouse
“Jimmy Savile was always a great friend of the Royal Marines.”
The year was 1969 and the Leeds legend was at the Royal Marine Commando School in Lympstone, Devon, to take on its famous assault course for a children’s documentary.
FGW advisory board chairman Charles Howeson July 19 2014
Mr Howeson made his name at the helm of organisations including First Great Western, NHS South West and the regional arm of the Queen’s bank, Coutts and Co.
A Devon and Cornwall Police spokesman said: “A 67-year-old man from Plymouth, arrested on suspicion of historical sexual offences, is on police bail until January 23, 2017.”
Howson served for nearly 25 years in the Royal Navy at home, overseas and afloat, which included secondment to other national governments.
This involved world wide travel and setting up house abroad on three occasions.https://issuu.com/navynews/docs/197503
He left the service at the age of 39 from the post of Chief of the Allied Staff in Gibraltar
1975 When H.M.S. Sirius was manning the guardboat she gave as many volunteers as possible the chance of duty in her – pictured at the Rock are Lieut C. A. Howeson and members of one of the crews who served in H. M. F. T. Ettrick.
He is a Member of the Establishment:
Fellow of the Institute of Directors
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Fellow of the Faculty of Building
Fellow of the Nautical Institute
Member of the Royal Institute of Navigation
Freeman of the City of London and Member of the Guild of Freemen
Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights
Younger Brother of Trinity House
Honorary PhD (Management) from the University of Plymouth
Honorary Captain in the Royal Naval Reserve
Nationally and Regionally
Amongst other appointments he is currently the
Chairman of First Great Western Trains Advisory Board,
Chairman National Health Service Property Services Ltd (National) and
leads DoH/MOD Nationally on veterans and reserves matters),
Chairman the Consumer Council for Water in the West,
The Social Networks of the Public Elite
Breaches of money laundering rules
In March 2012 Coutts was fined £8.75m for breaches of money laundering rules after three years of “serious” and “systemic” problems in handling the affairs of customers vulnerable to corruption because of their political links.[19] The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined Coutts because of an “unacceptable risk” that the bank could have been handling the proceeds of crime for a three-year period up to November 2010 after failing to properly deal with customers classified as “politically exposed persons“.[19]
Whilst in the private sector Charles has just handed over the Chairmanship of the Rowe Group,one of the largest private company groups based in the South West.
He is the Chairman of SPS Ltd (Pathology) and Regional Chairman of Coutts and Co bankers and of Harvey Nash plc.
He is also a trustee of the Bermuda Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (BIOS) and trustee of the 19th Duke of Somerset.
(John Michael Edward Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset, DLFRICS (born 30 December 1952), styled Lord Seymour between 1954 and 1984, is a British aristocratic landowner in Wiltshire and Devon, and a member of the House of Lords.)
He recently handed over the Chairmanship of the UK Seafish Industry Authority.
Howeson retains a range of senior voluntary and community sector appointments in Region, mostly now as President, including serving as
Life Vice president of the board of governors of the (Community) DRAKE Foundation for Plymouth, being a school Governor, and Community leader.
Charles Howeson and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
He remains (after 13 years) the annually elected Chairman of the Plymouth Area Business Council (PABC), comprising the City’s top 250 key sector leaders.
PABC Dinner HMS Ocean 2011
And off Duty
When not working, Charles is a keen family man (youngest daughter 22) who lives in Plymouth, and enjoys being a competent international cruising yachtsman
link
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Yacht Club
Howeson – member of the RNVR Yacht Club 2014
A FORMER First Sea Lord was among the guests at a charity dinner in Plymouth last night.
Admiral Lord West of Spithead, who was also the former Minister of Homeland Security, joined 100 guests at the Lord Lieutenant’s charity dinner at the Royal Marines Barracks at Stonehouse.
The dinner was expected to raise well over £1,500 for the Plymouth Drake Foundation.
Organiser Charles Howeson, chairman of the Plymouth Area Business Council (PABC), said the charity had raised more than £1.3million in the past 24 months and distributed some £400,000 through about 150 local grants.
Charles Howeson director at Plymouth College and St Dunstans Abbey Schools Charity
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05189426/officers
2010 Plymouth College report – lacking: The school does not meet all the requirements…and therefore it is required to: implement appropriate safeguarding arrangements…
Charles Howeson who recently opened the new PwC offices in Plymouth has been appointed President of the Plymouth and Devon Chamber of Commerce
Shame Your Social Worker
check out chamber of com, CHARLES HOWESON, DRAKE ISLAND, plymouth THE NAVY AND BOYS.
SIR GEOFF HOLLAND, JOHN STEVEN,
MIKE COLES AND SMALLIES.
SIR GEOFF HOLLAND and Prince Philip
The Marine Biological Association’s Royal Charter. From left to right: MBA Deputy Director Dr Matt Frost, MBA President Sir Geoffrey Holland, The patron of the Marine Biological Association, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh,and MBA Director Professor Colin Brownlee.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh meets Sir Geoffrey Holland, President of the Marine Biological Association
Sir Geoffrey Holland is a governor of a school with Elizabeth Butler Sloss
Butler-Sloss is a Devon resident.
Lady Butler-Sloss criticised for giving evidence for defence in child rape trial
Retired high court judge also gave character evidence in 2007 assault trial of Philip Chard, who was convicted this month of raping 13-year-old girl
Butler-Sloss said she had known Chard for 20 years because his mother, Valerie, was her cleaner at her home in east Devon. Chard, from Lympstone, near Exmouth in Devon, often took his mother to Butler-Sloss’s farmhouse home and sometimes stayed there for a couple of hours.
Captain Charles and Emma Howeson representing the Royal Navy
Devon History Society: April 2010
www.devonhistorysociety.org.uk/2010_04_01_archive.html?m=0
The campaign, led by Charles Howeson, chairman of the Plymouth Area Business …. will lay the stone, and it is expected to be done with due masonic honours.
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Sir Geoff Holland is a Governor (along with Baroness Butler-Sloss) and Chairman of the Merchant Taylors’ Company Educational Trust (MTET) which acts as steward of the affairs of both Merchant Taylors’ & St John’s Schools.
https://www.ukcorporations.org/merchant-taylors-school
Mountbatten Britannia Pitcairn – Earl Mountbatten and HRH Prince Phillip visited Pitcairn via the Royal Yacht Britannia during February 1971.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Mountbatten wearing tropical white Admiral of the Fleet uniform with Rear Admiral Trowbridge with Britannia anchored at the Pitcairn Island on the 21st February , anchoring at Bounty Bay
Prince Charles’ mentor Lord Mountbatten was ‘a homosexual with a perversion for young boys’, FBI files claim
18 Aug 2019
NEWLY unearthed FBI files describe Prince Charles’s mentor, Lord Mountbatten, as “a homosexual with a perversion for young boys”.
The 75-year-old secret dossier was obtained by British historian Andrew Lownie, using freedom of information laws.
Prince Charles and Lord Mountbatten visit Nepal to attend the coronation of King Birendra in 1975
Quotes from the files are included in his new biography of Mountbatten – Prince Philip’s uncle – and his wife Edwina.
The US dossier sheds further light on the sex life of Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, and his wife. An aristocratic source close to the couple, interviewed by the FBI in the 1940s, described them as “persons of extremely low morals”.
Another source in the FBI files claimed that Mountbatten’s private life made him “an unfit man to direct any sort of military operations.”
Mr Lownie believes US spies began compiling intelligence on Mountbatten’s private life after he was made supreme allied commander of Southeast Asia during the Second World War.
It’s not known if the material was passed to the British government.
The book, The Mountbattens – Their Lives and Loves by Andrew Lownie – will be published on August 22.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9745399/lord-mountbatten-fbi-dossier-prince-charles/
Truthseeker1 @thewakeupcall09:
Lord Louis Mountbatten former chauffeur Norman Nield exposed him
Paedophile Lord Louis Mountbatten
Edward Prince of Wales and his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten “relax” in a canvas swimming pool on board H. M. S. Renown during their 1920 Empire Tour.
Lord Louis was a great grandson of Queen Victoria and the uncle of Prince Philip (consort of Queen Elizabeth II). Mountbatten was also a promiscuous bisexual who was famously rumored to have had an affair with Edward VIII (who was Prince of Wales at the time) when he accompanied him on his Empire tours (see photo above).
The Queen. Like any human being, she is subject to the influence of those around her. While he lived, Lord Mountbatten was a persuasive counsellor, and he formulated the plan for Prince Charles’s unusually rigorous education.
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/magazine/an-informal-look-at-the-royal-family.html?pagewanted=all
Charles Howeson and Prince Charles:
The Charity
The Charity name is ‘The Britannia Association’.
Patron
His Royal Highness Admiral of the Fleet, Prince Charles The Prince of Wales KG GT GCB OM AL CD QSO PC
Deputy Vice Patron
Commodore Charles Howeson – Royal Naval Reserve, FIoD, FCMI, FNI, FFB, FRSA, Hon.D.Man
CLARENCE HOUSE
September 4 2003 : The Prince of Wales, Patron, the Britannia Association, this morning received Admiral Sir John Brigstocke, Captain Sir Donald Gosling RNR and Commander Charles Howeson, RN (Retired).
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/court-circular-gj8tjtg8hdf
RH Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
LAUNCH
Britannia Association
Captain Sir Donald Gosling Vice Patron, together with the President Sir John Brigstocke, Chairman Rear Admiral Robin Shiffner and the Hon Secretary Commander Charles Howeson marked the publication of the Britannia Association Commissioning Book Bravo Zulu — Bravo Alpha with a presentation of the book to the Patron, Vice Admiral The Prince of Wales at Clarence House on Wednesday. They were joined by Admiral Sir Alan West, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Sir Jock Slater, Chairman The White Ensign Association, Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham, Editor The Naval Review, Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Morgan Chairman RNBSO, the book Editor Captain David Wixon and Designer Mrs Alison Graham.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/announcements-88bd065zsck
Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge, KCVO Royal Britanniaa 1970-1975
Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge, who died on Sunday aged 83, was the first officer to rise from boy sailor to captain of the Royal Yacht Britannia and the last Briton to serve as Governor of Western Australia.
A personal friend of Prince Philip since they had served in the British Pacific Fleet at the end of the Second World War, he had an unusually long-serving and successful term as Flag Officer Royal Yachts from 1970 to 1975 when Britannia
Trowbridge was commissioned in 1940 and served at sea throughout the Second World War. He was in the destroyer Wakeful after the end of hostilities with Japan when she transported prisoners of war to Sydney; and Lady Mountbatten was in charge of repatriation. Trowbridge was mentioned in dispatches.
This was when he met Prince Philip, who was first lieutenant of another destroyer in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla. Together they were in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese signed their surrender after atomic bombs had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Trowbridge was appointed KCVO in 1983.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1429505/Rear-Admiral-Sir-Richard-Trowbridge.html
Crew enjoy a drink in the petty officers’ mess in August 1973. Each of Britannia’s 20 officers and 220 yachstmen, known as ‘Yotties’, were personally selected by the Commanding Officer to serve on the vessel. They wore soft-soled shoes to reduce noise and were given orders by hand signal to avoid disturbing The Queen. Duties included ensuring the slope of the royal gangway was never steeper than 12 degrees.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-22122763
Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips
The Queen offered Britannia to her daughter, Princess Anne, for her honeymoon with Captain Mark Phillips in 1973.
http://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/about-the-royal-yacht/royal-residence/royal-honeymoons/
Royal Britannia 1973-74
... tour to the Pacific Islands and New Zealand in 1973 and the Far East Tour in 1974
https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2317034/hmy-britannia-collection-work-book-32-1973-74
Mr Howeson left the post of Chief of the Allied Staff in Gibraltar aged 39 (1989) according to the Plymouth Area Business Council, of which he is chairman.
PLYMOUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
some of the directors..
Brian John Gerrish, Charles Howeson – Plymouth Chamber of Commerce
https://www.ukregistry.org/plymouth-chamber-of-commerce-and-i
BAILEY ENERGY MANAGEMENT LIMITED Company Directors
BAILEY ENERGY MANAGEMENT LIMITED
BRIAN JOHN GERRISH was the first director of this company.
https://companycheck.co.uk/company/03057921/BAILEY-ENERGY-MANAGEMENT-LIMITED/companies-house-data
^ Brian Gerrish of UK Column was a co-director of Bailey Energy Management Limited and on the PLYMOUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY with Charles Howeson
Brian Gerrish served on the HMS Cleopatra with Charles Howeson
Lieutenant Commander RN Brian Gerrish, rt: “I was in the Navy for 21 years and left in 1993.
Gerrish then went into business…
The business was energy management. We looked after the energy accounts, electricity, gas,water for large commercial organisations
https://www.forcesreunited.co.uk/m/briangerrish#?activeTab=1
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?17918-Scientologist-give-award-to-Brian-Gerrish
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-33674221
Carol Stadler
Of course, it would be unfair and unreasonable to draw kneejerk conclusions from this friendship. However, as Gerrish himself would (somewhat hypocritically) put it, it’s important to get all the facts out there.
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/gerrish-and-stadler-facebook-friends/
ALTERNATIVE MEDIA & CAMPAIGNERS
- DICK’ED DOSSIER 1
- BRIAN JOHN GERRISH
- BELINDA McKENZIE
- WEDGER OLIVER MALONEY TATCHELL and HAMPSTEAD
- ITNJ FILE
- GOD, INDY CAMP, CSA & SPOOKS
- FRESH START FILE
- COMMON LAW-ERS and UKIP
more here:
https://spidercatweb.blog/alternative-media-campaigners-the-dicked-dossiers
John Hemming MP – Brian Gerrish had invited him to the conference
John HOf course, it would be unfair and unreasonable to draw kneejerk conclusions from this friendship. However, as Gerrish himself would (somewhat hypocritically) put it, it’s important to get all the facts out there.emming and his Fathers Rights friends (one of whom is the convicted paedophile Nigel Oldfield)
http://revolutionharry.blogspot.com/2011/10/pied-pipers-of-truth-movement-how-about.html
You should ask John Hemming of his own involvement with paedophiles NIGEL OLDFIELD and BRIAN ROTHERY
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/paedophilia-how-one-piece-of-news-can-kill-a-novel/
Dame Alun Roberts@ciabaudo
Terence Ewing was arrested with Gleaves. Who are these MPs?
Were Austin Mitchell and John Hemming aware of the fact that Terence Ewing was a paedophile?
The Association of McKenzie Friends are the group ‘supporting’ Ella Draper and Abraham Christie, who along with Sabine McNeill are wanted for questioning by police in relation to allegations of harassment and child abuse connected to the Hampstead Satanic Claims.
Belinda McKenzie, Terence Ewing, and Sabine McNeill
Jan 10 2019 Sabine McNeill jailed for 9 years for harassment.
@ciabaudo
Interesting at this juncture to see what the blogger Anna Raccoon, erstwhile friend of Barbara Hewson until she saw through her, has to say about McKenzie, McNeil et al …
Keith Hammerton and Roger Gleaves
Keith Hammertonand Roger Gleavesare both convicted paedophiles.
And both happen to be former business partners of Terence Ewing advisor for ‘The Association of McKenzie Friends’
Terence Ewing and Keith Hammerton- Euston Trust
Terence Ewing and Roger Gleaves- Mephistopheles Debt Collection Service
Terence Ewing, having been described by a high court judge as “unattractive and indicative of a lack of personal integrity and honesty”, is banned from taking a civil action in England and Wales unless he has the permission of a High Court judge. (BBC News)
I’m sure that many will think that this proves nothing other than that Terence Ewing has an extremely poor taste when selecting business partners.
However, call me old fashioned but I do believe that it is extremely unethical and potentially illegal for ‘The Association of McKenzie Friends’ to seek to sell “video evidence”, “interviews with victims of child trafficking”, and “documentation regarding child abuse”.
Belinda MacKenzie is another name that becomes yawningly familiar. Belinda lives in leafy Highgate and had ambitions for her home to become an “in-house charity” for impoverished activists supported by “some kind of international fund“. That information was gleaned from an injunction taken out by one of her many tenants. An injunction which also revealed that her other tenants included David Shayler and girlfriend Annie, ex-MI5 defector, who subsequently preferred to be known as ‘Dolores’ and declared he was the Messiah. Curiously, he started work with MI5 as a result of an advertisement entitled ‘Godot isn’t coming‘.
Belinda also gave board and lodging to Sabine McNeil, of whom we shall hear more later. So many mouths to feed, no wonder she needs a donate button. Belinda would tell you that Iran Aid, a charity that she was closely involved with for many years, along with her ‘is he/isn’t he’ husband, Esmail Vafa Yaghmaei, and which managed to ‘misplace’ £75 million pounds, resulting in the charity commission closing it down, is NOT the source of the millions which allowed her to buy into leafy Highgate – she says her father left her millions.
John Hemming MP withdrew as patron of The Association of McKenzie Friends on 22nd January 2015.
https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/hampstead-mckenzie-friends-and-terence-ewing/
John Alexander Melvin Hemming (born 16 March 1960) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and a businessman. He served as the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 2005 to 2015.
@johnhemming4mpYour silence on the lampooning of Esther Baker by your friend Hewson is deafening. You seem to condone her behaviour!
Barbara Hewson, best known for ridiculing Esther Baker, is giving you plugs on her TL. Do you associate with her campaign?
Esther Baker
John Hemming MP –
The mistress-loving maverick millionaire
AS his wife is found guilty of stealing his lover’s cat, why life is never dull around John Hemming – the politician accused of having 26 affairs during his marriage.
A former heavy-metal drummer who once put himself forward as a candidate for Britain’s first astronaut, he is a multi-millionaire who set up a company writing software for stockbrokers when he was only 23.
One fellow MP denouncing him as unfit for public office. And as of yesterday he is also the man who drove his long-suffering wife to criminality.
Hemming seems to relish his womaniser image; he once voted for himself in a national poll as Britain’s biggest love rat.
@ciabaudo
Barbara Hewson’s willing helper Simon Just reblogged Hopkin’s/Smith’s/Vordrak’s blog recently. Would that be the same Smith referred to in this Early Day Motion by John Hemming? http://archive.is/QEvPq
https://www.nme.com/news/music/evanescence-3-1266226
There is something incredibly sinister about John Hemming MP submitting an Early Day Motion in parliament to support this chap who then reappears later to bash @Esther9982, Hemming’s accuser, in a blog which is then reposted by
Why I Do Not Support John Hemming
https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/why-i-do-not-support-john-hemming/
It is also worth looking at the other sponsors of Hemming’s EDM. Let’s commence with Peter Bottomley. His name was on the Elm Guest House list and his wife Virginia had dealings with the paedophile Peter Righton for decades.
Who is Milo Yiannopoulos and, above all, is that the fascist and Vordrak/Hoskins/Sam Smith/Samuel Collingwood grinning together into the camera. Is that the company he keeps?
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/milo-yiannopoulos-five-things-to-know…
The second of the other two EDM sponsors was Mike Hancock who served 2 terms as MP for Portsmouth South. He was forced to resign the LibDem whip after allegations of impropriety were brought against him by a Annie, a mentally ill constituent seeking help from him.
In 1984, the death of Ralph Bonner Pink, Hancock’s constituency predecessor, brought on a by-election, which Hancock won. Another contender for the seat was Cameron’s paedo friend Patrick Rock. Bonner Pink is said to have abused his adopted daughter.
Pink’s adopted daughter was packed off to Savile’s Broadmoor when she was 16 to keep her quiet. Hancock, a former MENCAP district officer, was one of those who rushed to sign an EDM in praise of Jimmy Savile. https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302606/amp/Mike-Hancock-MP-Sex-pest-Lib-Dem-MP-mother-help-Nick-Clegg-ignored.html?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHCAFYAYABAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2302606%2FMike-Hancock-MP-Sex-pest-Lib-Dem-MP-mother-help-Nick-Clegg-ignored.html…
Hancock and Savile were friends, as Pink’s adopted daughter testifies. Indeed, the two are said to have worked on the same corridor at the BBC. Interesting, too, are accounts of Pink with Peter Ball and a man called Morris beside a boat called Ambler.
Hancock was also good friends with fellow LibDem councillor Peter Hawksworth, another man of ill repute: https://web.archive.org/web/20170610135949/https://www.theblueguerilla.co.uk/2014/01/…
Sterling work has been done by @CathyCathyFox on Hancock, Bonner Pink and the Portsmouth connection:
‘Annie’ was not the only pretty woman to walk into Hancock’s constituency office and be given help. A Ms. Ekaterina Paderina who turned to Hancock for help later became Katya Banks, proud wife of Aaron, friend of Nigel.
Indeed, the interests of Russia appear to have been closer to the heart of Hancock than his country of birth.
A scan of Hancock’s directorships is also very revealing. On the Southern and South East Tourist Board, his name sits alongside Frederick Alfred John Emery-Wallis and Lord Edward John Barrington Douglas Scott Montagu: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/01345038…
Gong-owner Freddie Emery-Wallis was given 9 months for the indecent assault of two boys. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15194505.disgraced-former-leader-of-hampshire-county-council-dies-aged-89/…
Lord Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, was a close friend of the paedophile Bonner Pink and was charged with sex with 14 year old boy scouts.
Given recent revelations re. CSA in football as exposed by, among others, @OffsideTrust and Hancock’s own associations, I find this Commons question rather worrying.
And of course no mention of Hampshire and the New Forest would be complete without the purveyor of jollies and freebies Derek Laud, Master of the Hounds and close friend of Lord Montagu and both directors of Posmark:
Another friend and associate of Lord Montagu was Peter Bottomley, which brings us full circle, back to the second sponsor of Hemming’s EDM. Bottomley attended Montagu’s memorial service and was a VP of Montagu’s charity. https://beaulieu-one-hundred.com/2016/02/04/memorial-service-for-edward-lord-montagu/…
This wasn’t the only instance of a Bottomley EDM link to Mike Hancock either: In 1991, Sir Peter pushed for the kin of Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский to come to Britain. The spy Oleg Gordievsky accused Hancock’s aide of espionage.
EDM sponsor Peter Bottomley, the man who never visited Elm Guest House, was one of the MPs, along with Greville Janner and Paul Boateng, to show paedophile Michael Jackson around the House of Commons. https://www.scotsman.com/news/celebrity/the-case-of-michael-jackson-and-the-palace-of-westminster-1-608529… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jackos-tour-of-westminster-is-simply-off-the-wall-180157.html… https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2016/06/22/Stockpiles-of-child-porn-found-at-Michael-Jackson-estate-documents-show/5981466648133/…
It is intriguing that Peter Bottomley and Ken Hind, both PPS to Peter Brooke, had allegations of child abuse levelled against them. Bottomley was also PPS to Norman Fowler who agreed to make funds available for Savile’s charitable work in 1981.
https://www.itv.com/news/2012-12-28/documents-reveal-saviles-relationship-with-government/…
It was Peter Bottomley’s wife who buried the Peter Righton report and went out of her way to convince the public that Satanic Ritual Abuse doesn’t exist. …
https://spotlightonabuse-wordpress-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/virginia-bottomley-and-the-peter-righton-report/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHCAFYAYABAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fspotlightonabuse.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F11%2F18%2Fvirginia-bottomley-and-the-peter-righton-report%2F… …https://spotlightonabuse-wordpress-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/virginia-bottomley-and-the-peter-righton-report/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHCAFYAYABAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fspotlightonabuse.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F11%2F18%2Fvirginia-bottomley-and-the-peter-righton-report%2F…
Oh, and Mike Hancock, Hemming’s EDM sponsor, was promoted to the frontbench by Paddy Ashdown, the man with the funny nickname, in 1997 as the spokesman on foreign and commonwealth affairs. …
https://blogs-spectator-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/blogs.spectator.co.uk/2014/01/mike-hancock-suspended-from-lib-dems/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQHCAFYAYABAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.spectator.co.uk%2F2014%2F01%2Fmike-hancock-suspended-from-lib-dems%2F… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1363112/Paddy-Ashdowns-mistress-behaved-like-real-trouper–threw-dogs.html…
Back to Vordrak aka Hopkins for a moment. It is interesting that he served on Welwyn/Hatfield council, switching from Labour to Tory. Alan Franey, who gave Jimmy Savile unfettered access to Broadmoor, was deputy leader on the same council
Savile’s close buddy Alan Franey had considerable support among Welwyn/Hatfield Tories, including Grant Shapps, the infamous local MP, together with the council leader.
Sam Smith is welcomed into the Tory party by borough council leader John Dean and MP Grant Shapps
https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/ex-welwyn-hatfield-labour-councillor-defects-to-tory-party-1-24698
From left to right, @MHWitchfinder and @Nero. Much ethical journalism, as ever, is in the works
Matthew Hopkins The Witchfinder General
Vordrak’s dalliance with Grant Shapps didn’t last long either. Within just days of joining Shapps’ team, Hoskins hit the headlines for a sleight on the Liberals and was forced to apologise.
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/28/grant-shapps-resigns-over-bullying-scandal?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F2015%2Fnov%2F28%2Fgrant-shapps-resigns-over-bullying-scandal… https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/18/senior-tory-grant-schapps-received-pay-off-bullying-scandal?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2F2016%2Faug%2F18%2Fsenior-tory-grant-schapps-received-pay-off-bullying-scandal…
@ciabaudo:
An interesting find: Sabine McNeill, recently convicted to 9 years in prison, was a founder member of the Forum for Stable Currencies and worked closely together with McKenzie Friends patron and business associate of Hewson uncle Richard Denby at Radio Pennine, Austin Mitchell.
Apart from his years at Denby’s paedoincubator Pennine Radio, Austin Mitchell also presented Calendar on Yorkshire Television from 1969-77. Here he is talking about his friend Savile who appeared frequently on Calendar. A man without a clue!
In 2008, whilst ArchPaedophile Jimmy Savile was still alive and kicking, his friend and ‘anti-Jersey MP’ Austin Mitchell tabled a Commons motion calling on the UK government to hold an inquiry into Jersey child abuse allegations.
Allegations centred around horrific reports of abuse at the Haut de La Garenne children’s home on Jersey. A related motion was tabled a year later by John Hemming, supported by Austin Michell and Peter Bottomley.
Was Austin Mitchell, co-patron of McKenzie Friends with John Hemming, aware at the time that his friend Jimmy Savile was a visitor to Haut de La Garenne as this photo clearly shows, and if so, did he challenge Savile re. these claims?
Sir Bob Russell shared a flat with Mike Hancock MP.
In 2009, the press reported that Stuart Syvret had sought refuge with John Hemming, who was supporting Mr Syvret’s application for protection from the Jersey judiciary. In 2011, Hemming selflessly tabled another EDM re. Syvret.
Ben Birnberg – civil liberties lawyer who acted for Ian Brady on being introduced by Harriet Harman’s uncle Lord Longford[Farewell to a non-fat cat lawyer, The Independent, 25 February 1999]
“He recalls his first meeting with Ian Brady, who was introduced as a client through long-time friend Lord Longford. “Brady was in a terrible state in prison – he looked like a skeleton coming out of a Nazi concentration camp.” Using an internal Home Office psychiatrist’s report, which recommended that Brady be moved to a mental hospital, Mr Birnberg started an action against the Home Office in the early 1980s and succeeded in having Brady moved to Park Lane (now Ashworth), where he has been since 1985.”
Dr Lindsey Neustatter – Albany Trust’s Deputy Chairman in 1962 – and member of the interviewing panel appointing Antony Grey to the Trust [see blog post here on Grey’s interview] had provided the initial psychiatric report on Brady in 1966 prior to his sentencing.
On retirement in 1999:
“He (Ben Birnberg) will also spend more time campaigning, with “maverick” MP Austin Mitchell, for a National Legal Service. He has already made submissions to the Lord Chancellor. “Needless to say, I’m a very old acquaintance of the Lord Chancellor, I think I gave him one of his first legal aid briefs – possibly the only one he has ever had.”
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Knowing of Austin Mitchell’s close friendship with Savile, his Radio Pennine links and his interest in Jersey abuse, I was pretty gobsmacked to read his incredibly insensitive comments on the 2015 General Election in his constituency of Grimsby
Lord Irvine, Tony Blair’s former Head of Chambers was the Lord Chancellor at the time Birnberg is mentioning having instructed him on a legal aid case, perhaps one of the very few. Bizarrely Austin Mitchell MP’s name is only familiar to me due to attracting headlines a few weeks ago for declaring Labour will still win Grimsby even if the party selected a ‘raving alcoholic sex pedophile’ [Independent, 25 February 2015]
On the occasion of his retirement in 1999, it was claimed of Ben Birnberg that he would be spending more time campaigning with ‘maverick’ MP Austin Mitchell for a National Legal Service. He had already made submissions to Lord Irvine. But who was Ben Birnberg?
Ben Birnberg who represented the PIE- affiliated Albany Trust.
Paul Boateng writing about Ben Birnberg:
“my legal hero… He struck a blow for artistic freedom, defending David Hockney’s right to bring back magazines deemed obscene by customs and excise.
This didn’t inhibit a lifelong friendship with Lord Longford. …Ben Birnberg went on to help form the Butler Trust.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2010/oct/13/my-legal-hero-benedict-birnberg
Ben Birnberg was a civil liberties lawyer acting on behalf of Ian Brady after an intro by Harriet Harman’s uncle Lord ‘Porn’ Longford. Boateng looked up to Birnberg as his legal hero for defending a man’s right to bring back obscene magazines! I hear Leon Brittan applauding!
Most importantly in this context, Ben Birnberg represented the Albany Trust, closely affiliated with the Paedophile Information Exchange. He was also a trustee of the Loudoun Trust.
THE LOUDOUN TRUST
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ABOUT PAEDO-SEXUAL OFFENDING (SEXUAL CRIME AGINST CHIDREN).PROTECTING CHILDREN THROUGH INCREASING KNOWLEDGE.
Trustee Ben Birnberg
http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1138651&subid=0
Austin Mitchell was chair of the Fabian Society, with many links to PIE and the world of paedophilia. One member was David Owen who rubber-stamped giving Savile the keys to Broadmoor. And then there was the Harwoman and Hewitt with their Hewsonesque views.
David Evans former MP for Welwyn Hatfield
Another Welwyn Hatfield MP also piqued my interest: David Evans was one of the kind donors who gave Harvey ‘Cottonrose’ Proctor a leg-up after Spanker was kicked out of parliament.
Evans lost his seat shortly after his verbal abuse of an opponent.
After his defeat in 1997, David Evans returned to managing his cleaning business. Another 1997 failure, Michael Brown MP, joined Evan’s firm. Brown was a contemporary of Proctor, Christine Hamilton and Proctor’s criminal buddy and Hewson cousin Jonathan Denby at York University.
Michael Brown was closely linked to Derek Laud, Thatcher speechwriter, purveyor of fine jollies and freebies, alleged paedophile, Portillo mate, and one of the last persons to see Michael Colvin alive.
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/25/stuartmillar.willwoodward?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#aoh=15455528577020&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fuk%2F2000%2Ffeb%2F25%2Fstuartmillar.willwoodward … …
Michael Brown was closely linked to Derek Laud, Thatcher speechwriter, purveyor of fine jollies and freebies, alleged paedophile, Portillo mate, and one of the last persons to see Michael Colvin alive.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/256027670/THE-WESTMINSTER-CHILD-TRAFFICKING-RING-How-child-trafficker-Derek-Laud-is-connected-to-Harvey-Proctor-Michael-Portillo-Neil-Hamilton-Ian-Greer … https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/25/stuartmillar.willwoodward?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#aoh=15455528577020&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fuk%2F2000%2Ffeb%2F25%2Fstuartmillar.willwoodward … …https://www-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/from-pretoria-a-gift-horse-funny-cameron-never-mentioned-it-1674392.html?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#aoh=15455529250779&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fpolitics%2Ffrom-pretoria-a-gift-horse-funny-cameron-never-mentioned-it-1674392.html …
Grant Shapps, John Hemming and Louise Mensch, all rolled into a single blog:
Harvey Proctor turned from politics to hosiery and opened his shop in Brewers Lane, off Richmond Green, in 1988 with a pounds 2,000 grant from the Government’s Enterprise Allowance Scheme, and a little help from his friends: a start-up fund of pounds 75,000 was organised by Tristan Garel-Jones MP, the former Tory deputy chief whip and one of the party’s best-known fixers.
Lots of former chums chipped in. Besides multimillionaires such as Lord Archer and Mr Heseltine, they included the present Paymaster-General, David Heathcote-Amory; Mark Lennox-Boyd, a former junior Foreign Office minister; and MPs Sir Nicholas Bonsor (Upminster), Richard Shepherd (Aldridge-Brownhills) and David Evans (Welwyn Hatfield).
Evans represented Welwyn Hatfield as the Conservative Member of Parliament from 1987, until he lost his seat at the 1997 general election .
Shortly before losing his seat, in early March 1997, he attracted controversy over unguarded remarks in an interview by sixth-formers at Stanborough School for a school magazine in which he referred to his opponent as a “single girl” (she was 42 years old at the time) with “bastard children”,[3] and claimed that the Birmingham Six were guilty and had “killed hundreds” before being caught, as well as making remarks considered racist, such as asking how the sixth-formers would feel if their daughter was raped by “some black bastard”.[4]
The Six won substantial damages from Evans in July 1998.[5][6] After losing his seat in Parliament, he continued to manage his industrial cleaning business, the Broadreach Group, which he sold in May 2002 for around £17 million.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Evans_(British_politician)
Michael Russell Brown (born 3 July 1951) is a British political journalist, noted as a former Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1997.
THE WESTMINSTER CHILD TRAFFICKING RING — How child trafficker Derek Laud is connected to Harvey Proctor, Michael Portillo, Neil Hamilton, Ian Greer, and Michael Brown
Greer After Westminster Brown lost the election for the new Cleethorpes seat at the general election on 1 May 1997.
Greer then went to work for David Evans’ cleaning firm Michel Brown MP – working for MP David Evans’ contract cleaning firm
The deputy leader of Welwyn Hatfield Council told an NHS colleague that Jimmy Savile had a “little secret” and a “liking for young girls, the younger the better”, it has been claimed.
The allegations were put to investigators compiling a Department of Health report into Broadmoor Hospital, where Councillor Alan Franey was former general manager. When interviewed by investigators, cllr Franey – now responsible for finance at the borough council – strenuously denied making the comment.
The report, published today, stated: “The former chief executive of the High Security Psychiatric Services Commissioning Board, Ray Rowden, reported to us that he had been told by the chief executive of the hospital, Alan Franey, that Savile had a ‘little secret’, a ‘liking for young girls, the younger the better’. “This is strenuously denied by Franey, and it is not clear whether ‘the younger the better’ was understood in any way to encompass those below the age of consent.” It also said cllr Franey had said he was not aware of any complaints during his tenure at the hospital.
Sex offence reports rise after Jimmy Savile scandal, top cop tells meeting
23 January 2013
THE Jimmy Savile scandal has seen a 45 per cent jump in sexual offences in Welwyn Hatfield, claim police. Senior officers say the publicity generated by the shamed DJ’s crime has led to more victims coming forward, with some offences dating back to the 1970s.
Welwyn Hatfield Chief Inspector Dave Wheatley revealed the rise at a meeting of Welwyn Hatfield Councils Social Overview and Scrutiny Committee. He said: “We have a seen a rise of 45 per cent, that is 15, a total of 48 we are currently sitting on at the moment. “I attribute that to operation Yewtree and certainly on the highlighting of the Jimmy Savile and the press coverage. “We have seen a significant rise in historic sexual offences.”
How can you claim to represent CSA victims and tweet with this vile paedophile at the same time?
Gerrish was made a Lieutenant Cdr 1985
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/50080/supplement/4691/data.pdf
Brian Gerrish was awarded a Royal Navy Scholarship in 1972 and served until 1993, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander. After an early career in Minehunters and Frigates as a Bridge watch-keeper, Navigator and Principal Warfare Officer, he specialised as an anti-submarine warfare expert during the cold war period. He has extensive experience with RN, United States Navy and NATO forces in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Norwegian Sea, detecting and tracking Soviet Nuclear Submarines. Operations included protection of UK nuclear deterrent as well as joint US/UK anti SSBN (ballistic missile submarine) missions along the eastern seaboard of the USA.
His expertise included fixed, mobile and airborne active and passive sonar systems, electronic warfare, weapons systems, chemical, biological and nuclear protection, communications and COMSEC, oceanography, wide area and local intelligence picture analysis, and associated security matters. Brian also lectured at the Royal Netherlands Navy School of Warfare Den Helder for two years, and headed the Royal Navy’s anti-submarine warfare staff for Flag Officer Sea Training at Portland UK. His last appointment before leaving the service was in Command of HMS Orkney, an Offshore Protection Vessel, tasked with Fisheries Protection and security of North Sea Oil installations.
Charles Howeson – Chairmanship of the United Kingdom Sea Fish Industry Authority
Fishy Business for Orkney Captains Lieut – Cdr. Brian Gerrish (seated)
Former Cdr RN Charles Howson charged Man many talents business & high society connections up to Royalty. Plymouth Magistrates Court 13 Apr17
Puzzling to see Charles Howeson chosen by former @CommonPurpose Chief @DC_Police Maria Wallis
Directors at Radio Pymouth LTD
HOWESON, Charles Arthur, Commander 2004- 2005 and
2008-2012
SCHOFIELD, Phillip Bryan 2004-2005
Radio station ready to recruit for launch
Plymouth Radio’s board of principal shareholders is made up of leading Plymouth business figures including Charles Howeson, chair of the Consumer Council for Water’s Western committee, and Karen Stockdale, director of the Plymouth media partnership.
TV’s Philip Schofield – who began his career on Hospital Radio Plymouth – is also an investor and is expected to contribute to the on air-launch.
In February 2010, Schofield launched Radio Plymouth in Devon.
When he was 15, his first foray into media was a Sunday show onHospital Radio Plymouth.[2]
In 1985, Schofield returned to Britain, where he became the first in-vision continuity presenter for Children’s BBC on weekdays for two years from September 1985.[2] From 1988 to 1991, Schofield was the host of the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, a teen magazine awards show.
The television presenter showed a list of alleged paedophiles to David Cameron that included the name of Lord Alistair McAlpine
David Cameron warns against ‘witch-hunt’ amid paedophilia allegations
Jimmy Savile tweets Paul Schofield 2009
https://web.archive.org/web/20121117234649/http://twitter.com/JimmySavile
RAILWAY HERITAGE TRUST
OFFICERS AND ADVISORY PANEL
EXECUTIVE BOARD
The Hon Sir William McAlpine Bt
Sir William (Bill) McAlpine is the Chairman of the Railway Heritage Trust, a post he has held since the Trust was formed in 1985. Sir William is the great-grandson of Sir Robert McAlpine, who founded the contracting company that bears his name to this day. Sir William spent his working career, apart from National Service, in the company, starting as an apprentice fitter, and spending many years as a Director.
Sir William has a life long interest in railways, and has one of Britain’s most interesting private railways in the grounds of his home. He is more well known for saving the locomotive ‘Flying Scotsman’ which was stranded in America in the early 1970s, repatriating it to the UK, and running it on the main line for many years. He has also been heavily involved in other locomotives and carriages, and retains a large private collection. In addition, he served on both the Southern and the Great Western Advisory Boards of British Rail, is Chairman of both Dartmouth Steam Railway and River Boat Company and the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Light Railway, is President of the Transport Trust and is involved with many other preservation organisations.
Charles Howeson
Advisory Panel Member since 2009
Amongst other appointments, Charles is currently the Chairman of First Great Western Trains Advisory Board, Chairman of the UK Seafish Industry Authority, and Chairman of the National Health Service (Strategic Board) for the South West and the Consumer Council for Water in the South West. In the private sector Charles Chairs the Board of the Rowe Group, one of the largest private company groups based in the South West and is the Regional Chairman of Coutts and Co bankers. He is also a trustee of the Bermuda Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (BIOS) and of the 19th Duke of Somerset.
In the voluntary and community sector, he holds a wide range of honorary and elected appointments in the South West including, in Plymouth, being Chairman of the Plymouth Area Business Council and Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce. He is the founding Chairman of the City Regions (Community) Drake Foundation. Charles is passionately interested in the UK Railway and has “Second Great Western” running around his garden in G Gauge.
OU is the magazine for the Old Boys and Girls of Uppingham School.
Charles Howeson (Fgh 63) – Old Uppinghamian – OU has Masonic Lodge
http://www.olduppinghamian.co.uk/uploads/publications/Magazine-Issue-40-2012-2013.pdf.pdf
Howeson’s daughter is an Old Uppingham alumna
Phillippa ‘Pip’ Menzel (nee Howeson) (Fd 98) is now running her own design
His daughter Pippa Howeson is a tailor to Stephen Fry and she is married to Robin Rudolf Menzel (1966), m.2012 Phillippa Howeson
Doug Richard and Chris Ingram have invested in Pip Howeson
Dragons’ Den investor Doug Richard.
Pip Howeson’s husband is part of a dynasty –
Descendants of Duke Friedrich of Saxe-Altenburg
http://www.propertypilot.co.uk/pdf/1710+90.pdf
Father Sam Philpott visits Nigerian family (Helen and her six children) in the Yarl’s Wood centre in Bedfordshire.http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/disp…entPK=19784499
The Reverend Prebendary Samuel Philpott from Plymouth is made an MBE by Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace..
Father Sam Philpott – Party to celebrate Priest’s MBE
July 31, 2012
Father Philpott has been at the forefront of pioneering projects including the Ship homeless hostel, Plymouth Mediation and The Millfields Economic Development Trust, which he chairs. He also worked with sex offenders to try to get them to face up to their offences and lay down roots so they weren’t constantly travelling round.
He has been involved in schemes including Wheels, which encouraged children to work on car repairs, and Stables, which taught children how to interact more effectively by teaching them activities such as theatre and rock climbing.
He is currently involved in the Widening Horizons project which encourages children’s aspirations.
And he has worked with business leader Charles Howeson on the Drake Foundation which is “raising sums for good things in the city”.
Charles Howeson
Board Director
Chaplain to Bishop of Plymouth
Church of England
Reverend Prebendary
Church of England
Retired as Priest in Charge of St Peter Plymouth April 2013
Appointed Chaplain to Bishop of Plymouth May 2013-
Retired as Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral April 2013; appointed Prebendary Emeritus
National Council & Executive of Forward in Faith
Regional Dean of Tamar (Diocese of Exeter & Truro)
Member of General Synod 2010-2015
Member of Exeter Diocesan Board of Education
Governor All Saints Church of England Academy Plymouth
Chair of Governors of St Peter’s Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Plymouth
Governor of St George Church of england Primary Academy
Trustee of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacarment
Trustee of Drake Foundation & Chair of Grants Committee Plymouth
Chair of Millfields Economic Development Trust Plymouth
Member of Plymouth Fairness Commission April 2013-
Member of Plymouth City Council Child Poverty Cross Party Group 2013-
CSA at Merchant Taylors’School/Stephen Freedman/the Royal Navy section of the school’s Combined Cadet Force
FORMER TEACHER , HAD 8,000 IMAGES OF CHILD ABUSE; Jail for Sailing Coach Who Stalked the Net
He was investigated on suspicion of supplying indecent images of children.
… arrested on suspicion of distributing indecent images of children
Stephen Freedman, who worked at Merchant Taylors’ in Crosby for more than 20 years, admitting 18 counts concerning thousands of sick images of children being abused, along with hundreds of videos, and images of people having sex with animals.
Biology teacher Freedman, 54, took early retirement from the school in 2008, but continued to be employed as a sailing teacher and was involved with the Royal Navy section of the school’s Combined Cadet Force up until his arrest in 2010.
Regarded as a pillar of the community he was honoured with the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in 2000, the Cadet Force Medal in 2002, and a clasp for that medal in 2009.
” From left: Lt Cdr (SCC) Stephen Freedman RNR, Cdr Cedric Loughran RNR, Lt (SCC) Sidney Taylor and POC Christopher Pagett with their certificates
Dedication is rewarded
THERE was a strong Naval element at the annual Lord Lieutenant’s Reserve Forces and Cadets presentations for Merseyside. Not only was RN HQ Merseyside chosen as the venue, but Reserve Forces and Cadets Association Vice Chairman Cdr Cedric Loughran also deputised at the last moment to make the presentations. Three of the main recipients were shining examples of the best of Sea Cadet spirit. As well as teaching biology at the Merchant Taylors’ School in Crosby, Stephen Freedman (48) also dons the dark blue uniform of a lieutenant commander to lead the school’s Combined Cadet Force Naval Section. His citation for a Lord Lieutenant’s Certificate highlighted the fact that Stephen has filled this demanding role with great distinction, and is also second in command of the school’s cadet force.
For many years he has run the CCF RN Camp at HMS Bristol at Whale Island, founded the annual Cadet Forces Regatta, staffed a yacht crewed by cadets sailing from Scotland to Norway, and runs the Bridge Trainer for the RN Cadet Camp at Dartmouth each summer.
Mr Freedman, who has been decorated for his naval work in schools, also occasionally took activities at Liverpool College in Mossley Hill.
From 1991 to 2008, he ran the Royal Naval Section of the Combined Cadet Force at Merchant Taylors’.
His expertise includes dinghy and power boat instruction.
And, in 2006, he was awarded the Lord Lieutenant’s Certificate given sparingly for military service beyond the call of duty. At the time, he said: “It has been the most rewarding part of my career and I like to think that my involvement has not only opened up opportunities for our cadets, but for myself as well.”
“Mr Freedman was an able and experienced member of the biology department who retired from teaching in July, 2008.
“The school has no further comment to make at this time, as the investigation is ongoing.”
The criminal investigation comes three months after a jury found 25-year-old Hannah McIntyre not guilty of having sex with a 16-year-old pupil while employed as a classics teacher at the school.
Dating back to 1620, the independent school is consistently among the country’s best performing.
IN THE NAVY- GAYS AND SPOOKS
WHO’S WHO
Patron
Her Majesty the Queen
Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps
His Royal Highness The Duke of York, KG GCVO
President
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC
Chairman
Captain Nigel Palmer OBE MNM
Chief Executive Officer
Martin Coles
Captain Sea Cadets
Captain Phil Russell RN
Trustees
Captain Nigel Palmer OBE, MNM (Chairman)
Mr Tony Allen
Dr Louise Bennett
Ms Liz Cassidy
Mr Andrew Davenall
Mr Simon Figgis
Dr Sheila Fitzpatrick MBE
Mr Alan Marsh FICS
Mr Alex Marsh
Mr Nick Mason
Vice Admiral Sir Alan Massey KCB, CBE
Mr John May
Captain Ian McNaught MNM
Vice Admiral Sir David Steel KBE, DL
Ms Kathryn Stone OBE, CDir, FloD
Commodore Bill Walworth CBE, RFA, MNM
Mr John Taylor
Mr Robert Woods CBE (Vice Chair)
Sexual abuse of cadets ‘was covered up by officials who urged victims not to tell police’
Tony was 14 when he joined Cheshunt Sea Cadets, in Hertfordshire, in 1979. Tony’s attacker was not suspended, he was promoted and moved to another division
He said he woke to find his commanding officer Alan Waters at his bedside while he was on a weekend trip away.
Terrified of returning, he told his parents – whose complaints were met with a home visit from two Sea Cadet officers, in full uniform.
Tony’s parents were dissuaded from approaching the police by the officers and in return for not taking matters further, they were promised that Waters would be moved from looking after children.
John Wesley and Alan Waters present decanters to Vice-Admiral Paul Boissier and Ewan Steele
But Panorama has discovered that he was not dismissed or even suspended – he was, in fact, promoted and moved to a division in North London where he was in charge of 10 Sea Cadet units.
What’s more, concerns by other members of the corps after this appointment were dismissed by the very top – the Captain of the Sea Cadets – who said the allegations were “thoroughly investigated” and “not proved”.
Waters was later convicted for separate child abuse offences in India in 2006 and placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
Panorama has found out that despite this, until March 2017 he held a title in a naval veterans’ organisation – as honorary secretary of HMS President Retired Officers Association.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40457123
Duncan Alexander Grant – a Retired British Navy office
His grandmother – descendant of Earls of Coventry and 7th Lord Seton
John Grant married Ruth Slade in 1935, and they have two married daughters, Tessa, born 1939, and Grizel, born 1941.
His father: Rear-Admiral John Grant CB DSO (13 October 1908 – 28 February 1996) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet.
He went on to be commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Cleopatra in 1952 and after attending Imperial Defence College in 1954, became Commander of HMS Vernon in 1955.[1] He joined the staff of the Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence in 1957 and became Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1959 before retiring in 1960.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grant_(Royal_Navy_officer)
Duncan Grant’s father taught by Mountbatten:
John Grant entered Dartmouth in 1922 and left as a midshipman in 1925 to join the battleship Queen Elizabeth. His time in her had a profound influence on his career. Mountbatten was the fleet assistant wireless officer and taught him wireless telegraphy and communications;
(In August 1931 Mountbatten became Fleet Signals Officer in the Mediterranean in the battleship Queen Elizabeth)
Among his postwar appointments was command of the destroyer HMS Fame which carried Princess Elizabeth on her first official visit alone to Northern Ireland in 1946.
After retirement Grant had ten years in the electronics industry, first in the Rank Organisation where he had responsibility for colour television, and secondly, as director and secretary of the Conference of the Electronics Industry.
He married in 1935 Ruth Slade. They had two daughters and two sons.
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The trail of abuse
1995-98 Duncan Grant opens three Anchorage Shelters for Bombay street kids.
1999 February: A German schoolteacher is convicted of sexually abusing a boy who had stayed at the Anchorage Shelters. The boy tells the court that he lived at a shelter run by “Dunkel from London” for 18 months and had had sex with several foreign men during that period.
2000 Rumours about sexual and physical abuse at the Anchorage Shelters start to circulate among Bombay’s social-worker community.
2001 January: Childline India receives first telephone complaints by boys from the Anchorage Shelters.
August: Spot inspection of Anchorage Shelters by the Maharashtra State Monitoring Committee for Juvenile Justice reveals boys being regularly beaten and “allegations” of sexual abuse.
November: Five boys make a formal complaint to police against Grant and Alan Waters, alleging sexual and physical abused. Charges are filed. Grant and Waters, already in the UK, refuse to return to India on legal advice.
2002 April: Indian Police issue international warrants and Interpol “red corner” notices for the arrest of Grant and Waters.
May: Grant goes to Kenya to investigate setting up new Anchorage Shelters in Nairobi
June: Grant moves on to Tanzania where he opens new Anchorage Shelters in Dar Es Salaam.
November: Waters makes the first of three trips to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania where Duncan Grant has set up a new set of Anchorage Shelters for homeless children. He also travels to Malta and Canada over the next six months.
2003 July: Waters is arrested at New York’s JFK International Airport en route to Bermuda.
2004 August: Telegraph publishes articles and photographs revealing that Grant, Waters’s co-accused, is working with children in Tanzania.
September: Waters deported to India from USA. Grant arrested in Tanzania. India seeks Grant’s extradition.
2005 May: Extradition request fails for lack of India-Tanzania extradition treaty.
June: But … Grant is deported to Britain from Tanzania. British police fail to make arrest after Grant misses flight connection and arrives seven hours late. One week later, Grant is tracked down again by The Daily Telegraph, this time to his sister’s house in London.
July: Grant returns voluntarily to India and is arrested on arrival in Bombay.
2006 March: Grant and Waters convicted.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1513438/The-trail-of-abuse.html
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Anchorage Shelter Foundation was known to CHILDLINE India Foundation since its inception. CHILDLINE team interacted with Duncan Grant, Director and Founder of Anchorage Shelter Foundation at a number of including CHILDLINE birthday parties. Mr. Duncan expressed interest in collaborating with the CHILDLINE service.
CHILDLINE team visited the shelter home at Colaba where Duncan Grant resided with the boys. CHILDLINE team members puzzled at close physical interaction that was observed between the boys and Duncan. Large amounts of money was given to the children to spent lavishly by Duncan
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http://www.childlineindia.org.in/anchorage-case-trail-of-abuse.htm
Five boys came forward with sex assault allegations against Alan Waters and Duncan Grant
HMS President Retired Officers’ Association PROA
PROA Honorary Secretary Lt Cdr Alan Waters Dip RSA RNR
Feb 2017
PROA
President Commander Ian Dunkley RD RNR,
Chairman Peter Beauclark Dewar
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President Commander Ian Dunkley RD RNR
The Sea Cadets – Chairman of the Unit Management Committee, Ian Dunkley is also the full-time manager of the Gravesend Lifeboat Station
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Gravesend Sea Cadet Corps became affiliated members of Gravesend Sailing Club in April 2008.
Signing the Agreement Although an informal arrangement had been in place for the past year, the arrangement was finally made official. In the photo, the cadets watch Commodore Penny Davies and Sea Cadet Chairman Ian Dunkley sign the agreement.
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Gravesend Unit 159 Of The Sea Cadet Corps
Trustee – Commander Ian Dunkley (Chair)
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Ian Dunkley
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The historical fireplace inside HMS President
HMS President during the London 2012 Olympics
HMS President supported the national security operations throughout the Olympic Games:
The Chiefs and Petty Officers Mess invited, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, as the guest of Honour, for the Mess Dinner celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Royal Naval Reserves.
Al Simpson with Lord Louis Mountbatten,
Al has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his exchange duty and service time with the London Division RNR HMS President, he was the first candidate and laid the foundations for many more to follow to Royal Naval Reserve Units Worldwide.
HMS President holds regular open evenings for potential new recruits to meet serving Reserves and to find out more about joining the Reserve Unit. Entry is open to men and women aged 16-40.
HMS President also serves as the functional head office for the younger Sea Cadets.
Newly refurbished HMS President unveiled by HRH the Duke of York
08/04/2014
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, was recently at the heart of HMS President’s re-dedication ceremony.
The London Royal Naval Reserve unit, home to more than 230 reservists
Retired officers association banned from Navy training centre after failing to bar paedophiles
A Royal Navy training centre has banned an association of retired officers’ from using its base after they failed to expel two convicted predatory paedophiles from their club.
For decades, hundreds of members of the President Retired Officers Association attended formal lunches, dinners, lectures and drinks receptions at HMS President on the River Thames in London.
But, senior officers in charge of the “stone frigate” – a naval base on land – launched an investigation after finding that two high-profile sex offenders had been among those attending functions at the reservist training centre, also used by young Sea Cadets.
Allan Waters and Duncan Grant were allowed to renew their membership of the retired officers association despite both being jailed in India for six years in 2006 for preying on vulnerable boys at an orphanage in Mumbai.
After completing their jail terms and arriving back in the UK five years ago, Waters, a former lieutenant commander, was made honorary secretary of the association, while Duncan Grant, previously a reservist officer, renewed his membership.
The pair triggered a scandal into how paedophiles posing as charity workers were targeting children from the poorest communities in Third World Countries.
They were convicted of using an orphanage Grant had set up to force children into performing sexual acts before passing them on to a network of sex tourists. In 2008, an Indian high court overturned their convictions for “unnatural sex acts” and conspiring to “obtain minors for immoral purposes”. Three years later, the country’s Supreme Court upheld the original convictions and the men were sent back to jail.
When Waters, now 68, and Grant, 73, completed their sentences and returned to Britain they were made to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.
Waters’ conviction led to fears he may have targeted children while serving as a senior officer training youngsters in the Sea Cadets. In 2017, a former Sea Cadet alleged to a BBC Panorama programme that Waters abused him when he was 14, and attending a Cheshunt Sea Cadets centre in Hertfordshire in 1979
Last year, Commander John Herriman, the officer running HMS President, discovered the two men had been spotted attending the independent association’s functions at the Royal Navy’s centre that serves London reservists and cadets.
He then banned both Waters and Grant and the entire association from using the centre over concerns the club lacked a “rigorous” membership criteria, and consequently posed a threat to the centre’s ability to “maintain a safe training environment”.
A source close to HMS President’s senior officers praised Mr Herriman, who retired last year, for his decisive actions, explaining that he was determined to ensure an “old boys’ club” could not tarnish the reputation of a Navy training centre.
“The main concerns was that individuals who could have been or were on the Sex Offenders Register could be allowed to join such an esteemed association,” the source said. “It wasn’t considered good governance from the perspective of the President Retired Officers Association that these men could saunter back in as if nothing had happened.
“HMS President is essentially a training establishment with young people studying there. There may have been occasions where these two men would have access to the unit for lunches or events.
“The challenge running a military training establishment is to make sure you are creating a totally safe environment and there are no opportunities for risks to occur. The best way to do that was to bar the association that was thought not to have robust membership procedures in place.”
It is understood Grant played on his family’s respected military past to allow him to join the association. Grant is the grandson of Major General Sir Philip Grant, who rallied the defence against the German offensive of March 1918 in the First World War.
Waters was appointed superintendent of the Sea Cadet training centre in Portsmouth in 1996. He later became a member of the Sea Cadet Council, the highest body of the corps.
A Royal Navy Spokesperson said: “The Royal Navy has no official link with the President Retired Officers Association, but can confirm we take a very robust stance where there is any risk to our personnel, in particular vulnerable groups such as minors.”
Although no one from the association was prepared to speak on the record, a source said that Waters and Grant were allowed to renew their membership because they had served their sentence and were only attending functions where no young cadets or reservists would be present.
He added that many of the members of the association felt the blanket ban on holding functions at HMS President unfairly penalised retired officers who played no part in allowing the two paedophiles to renew their membership and may have been unaware of their criminal past.
London man convicted in Indian paedophilia case
Five boys came forward with sex assault allegations against Waters and Grant
Duncan Grant – his father
1983:
John Grant retired as a rear–admiral, having gained a D.S.O. during an action at sea with a Russian convoy. He was appointed a C.B. for his service with the Reserve Fleet. … They were followed by two sons, Duncan Alexander, born in 1943, and Andrew James, born in 1948. Duncan Alexander Grant is a lieutenant- commander, Royal Naval Reserve, Reserve Decoration, and in addition to seeing much …
Andrew James Grant after short service in the Royal Green Jackets married an American girl from Pennsylvania, and … He and his wife, Taveta, now have a son aged three, who is the youngest member of our branch of the Grants of …and having spent a period in the banking world of the U.S.A., as well as …
18 March 2011
India’s Supreme Court has convicted two Britons of sexually abusing boys at a children’s shelter in Mumbai.
Duncan Grant, of Hampstead, north London, and Allan Waters, of Hampshire, had been acquitted by the High Court in Mumbai in 2008 for lack of evidence.
But the Supreme Court overturned that decision and upheld guilty verdicts from the trial court in 2006 which sentenced the men to six years.
Charity Childline India Foundation said the case was a “real watershed moment”.
Campaign group Fair Trials Abroad, which represented the accused Britons in court, is yet to comment on the case.
‘Culture of silence’
Grant, a charity worker, had set up Anchorage shelter in Colaba, Mumbai, in 1995. Waters, of Porchester, was a visitor to the home, Indian police said.
The pair were charged in 2001 with sexual assault after five boys complained to the police about repeated sexual and physical abuse by the men.
William D’souza, an Indian citizen who managed the shelter, was convicted of aiding and abetting the men and sentenced to three years. He had also earlier been cleared by the High Court, in 2006.
Childline India Foundation had appealed against the High Court’s decision to acquit the men.
Kajal Mennon, executive director of the charity, said: “This was a real watershed moment in child sexual abuse convictions (in India)… as laws are extremely opaque, plus there is a culture of silence.”
She added the case would go towards ensuring that people do not take advantage of India’s “laxity of laws” and the convictions highlighted the need of special legislation for child sexual offences in the country.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-12786203
HMS Cumberland and paedophile-run Anchorage Shelter
Paedophiles Grant Duncan and Alan Waters host parties for children aboard ships – Cumberland, Newcastle, and Sunderland
Navy News Apr 1, 2001
Duncan Grant comes back to the UK during the spring and autumn from four to six weeks to give illustrated talks on the shelters to schools, churches, clubs and other organisations. The point of contact in the UK is LT Cdr Alan Waters who visits Mumbai three times a year to relieve Duncan.
We have had some people from very high up in the authorities who st and eat with the street children. A party from the HMS visited.
When former Naval Reserve officer Duncan Grant decided to put down roots he chose a penthouse property close to the tourist centre of Mumbai.
After a working life which ranged from selling domestic electrical components to helping develop marinas in Turkey and the caribbean, he worked for charities on the sub-continent.
When in 1995 he decided he wanted to help street children in Mumbai, there was a ready-made umbrella group in Rescue a Child set up by Catherine Douglas, and although there were no funds, his Anchorage Shelter Foundation became an outreach project of the main charity.
Children tour HMS Cumberland with Weapons Engineering Officer Lt Cdr Peter Coulson
Volunteers from HMS Cumberland had plenty of willing assistants when they decorated the Anchorage shelter
“We have had a tremendous response from Cumberland. The Zoo Mess (OMs) on board donated their stereo equipment. Lt Cdr Alan Waters did a round-robin of the Feet and Cumberland picked it up and said we are coming.”
They sent £300 before they got here and have brought £700 now and there’s the stereo and thry held a party on board.
Newcastle and Sunderland were here last year. Newcastle did a paint job at Anchorage 2 and hosted a ship’s visit on board.”
PO Neil Carleton, one of the ship’s party said: “There were 30 volunteers, but we couldn’t get them all in. We always get quite a lot of volunteers for this sort of thing.
The shelter patron is Felicty Kendal. Duncan has spoken at the school attended by Kendal’s son which prompted a fund-raising drive. She has nothing but praise for Duncan’s efforts. “He is doing an extraordinary job.-he is a wonderful man.”
“when I was approached by Duncan, I went to see the shelter. I did some research and spoke to people of note who said what a wonderful place it was.
“I agreed to become patron and I did a lot, everything I could, towards it. He [Grant] went to speak at my son’s school in Westminster, and they thought he was brilliant.
She had written to the Prime Minister to support an application for Grant to be made an OBE in recognition of his missionary work.
“His credentials are superb. He’s a wing commander.
Back home in England, Duncan Grant has rich and well-connected benefactors.
He gave an illustrated talk to the Holy Cross Catholic Church in London.
The son of a rear admiral, he was educated by the Jesuit fathers at Beaumont College, near Windsor.
Grant is the grandson of Maj Gen Sir Philip Grant, who as the chief engineer of the Fifth Army in the First World War rallied the defence against the German offensive of March 1918.
His great-great-grandfather served in the 78th Highlanders and the King’s American Regiment in the American War of Independence.
The Bombay shelters received money through British schools and churches where Grant gave illustrated talks and from the British charity Rescue-a-Child.
They were never formally registered with the state authorities but by 1999 they had a full complement of some 50 to 60 boys aged from eight to 18. An official Indian report found the homes to be “ramshackle and filthy and the children were being beaten indiscriminately”.
Waters, who is said to know Grant through the Royal Naval Reserve and was a regular visitor to the Bombay shelters.
The British Jesuits said they immediately withdrew their gap year students when they learned of allegations about mistreatment of children.
Vicky Robertson, the chairman of Safe Havens-Tanzania, said she had not been involved with Grant in Bombay but started raising money when he went to Dar es Salaam.
“Duncan Grant was represented to me with impeccable references,” she said.
“When I started fund-raising for his work in Tanzania I did not know about the allegations in India. I was told and, because of the references and confidence I had in Duncan’s work, we decided these 240 children should not be deserted.”
Mrs Robertson, a retired lawyer from Norfolk, is about to visit the Dar es Salaam homes.
She said: “I have every confidence that there are absolutely no grounds for these abuse allegations. Street boys can be bought for five pence halfpenny and you are talking about evidence in a third world country where corruption is rife. Do you think I would support a charity where there is any suggestion of abuse? I have children myself.”
Aruna Buxton, a trustee of Rescue-a-Child, which gave grants to the Indian shelters, said no money had been sent to Tanzania.
The engagement was announced 6 May, 2004 between Thomas F. Lacey, son of the late Mr Norman Lacey & Myra Fagon Bosley, & Sophie M.A. Bolton, elder daughter of Sir Frederic Bernard Bolton, Kt, MC (b. 1921), of Pudlicote, Oxfordshire, by his second wife, Lady Bolton (nee Vanessa Mary Anne Robarts b. 1939), daughter of Anthony Vere Cyprian Robarts b. 1910, of that landed family, by his wife Grizel Mary, daughter of Major Sir Philip Gordon Grant, KCB, CMG (1869-1943), by his wife, Annette, fourth daughter of John Coventry, of Burgate Manor, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, scion of the Earls of Coventry.
(Hilda Mary) Clare Talbot (b. 23 Feb 1913; d. 28 Nov 1995), mar. 1972 Lt Col Peter Coventry Grant (d. 1973), 2nd son of Maj Gen Sir Philip Gordon-Grant KCB CMG, by his wife Annette Emily Mary Coventry, 4th dau. of John Coventry JP
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The shelters also received frequent foreign visitors – including Grant’s co-accused, Alan Waters, a very senior sea cadet officer and a long-time friend of Grant’s from their days as naval reservists.
One of the alleged victims told The Daily Telegraph that Anchorage boys frequently went to Goa “on holiday” with Grant’s friends where they were expected to perform sexual favours for money.
In August 1998 a 14-year-old street boy from an Anchorage shelter was discovered in a hotel in Goa having sex with a German schoolteacher who was later convicted and jailed for six years.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1513435/Hideous-price-of-a-roof-over-their-heads.html
As the Indian authorities searched unsuccessfully for him, he was living in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, and had set up three shelters identical to his operation in India. The shelters have attracted gap year students from some of Britain’s leading schools.
British newspaper The Daily Telegraph traced Grant to Tanzania last week, as it emerged that the British Jesuits, who had sent volunteers from some of their schools, had suspended dealings with him.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/21/1092972821596.html?oneclick=true
Allan Waters and Duncan Grant had become quite a fixture in Colaba in Mumbai. The brooding Waters and loud talking Grant were regulars at the Mangalorean hole in the wall, New Martin, cockily giving their take to the press after the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai.
In 2006, Grant, a former British navyman, and Lieutenant Commander Waters, a former superintendent of the British Royal Navy’s National Sea Cadets Centre in Portsmouth in the UK, were ordered to serve the remainder of their six-year prison sentence, after being convicted by a sessions court in Mumbai. Grant was the sole operating trustee of the orphanage, set up by a British charity organisation.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/1110327/jsp/7days/story_13771509.jsp
PRESIDENTS OF THE INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS
Maj Gen Sir Philip Grant, KCB, CMG
The Royal Engineers Journal – Page 290
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR PHILIP G. GRANT, K.C.B., C.M.G. Philip Gordon Grant, the younger son of Colonel J. M. Grant, late R.E., was born on the 10th December, 1869, and educated privately and at the R.M.A. He was gazetted int6 the Corps …
Paedophile who abused orphans in India is flown back to UK
Allan Waters
A HAMPSHIRE paedophile who abused homeless boys in a Mumbai orphanage is back in the UK.
Allan Waters, 63, a retired Naval officer from Portchester, was deported after serving a six-year jail term in India.
He was met a Heathrow by police from Scotland Yard and made to sign the sex offenders register.
Waters, a highly respected Lieutenant Commander formerly of Cador Drive, was found guilty in 2006 of carrying out child abuse at the Anchorage shelter in Mumbai.
He was freed in 2008 by judges at the Indian High Court, who cited “lack of evidence provided by the prosecution’’.
But that decision was quashed by the country’s Supreme Court, which ordered Waters to serve the rest of his six-year jail term and pay damages and fines imposed.
Waters was arrested at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport in 2003 on the basis of an Interpol arrest warrant and was extradited to face charges in India following a complaint from a 15-year-old boy about repeated sexual and physical abuse.
Four other boys also made similar complaints.
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9771055.Paedophile_who_abused_orphans_in_India_is_flown_back_to_UK/
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Duncan Grant/Allan Waters – Hampstead/Porchester
June 2012
Back in UK: Paedo who abused slumdog children
A PAEDO who abused “Slumdog” street kids in India sneaked back into Britain yesterday — amid fears he could carry out more attacks.
Allan Waters, 63, was deported after serving a six-year term for molesting five boys at a Mumbai orphanage. The ex-Navy Commander was quizzed by Scotland Yard cops at Heathrow and made to sign the Sex Offenders Register.
But Waters was then released into the community despite serious concerns he will re-offend. A Whitehall source said: “Our hands are tied. Waters hasn’t committed an offence here and has served his time in India.
“He will be monitored round the clock to make sure he doesn’t abuse any kids. But it would be fair to say nobody wants him living next door.”
December 2011
Slumdog paedo is back in Britain
A CREEP who sexually abused street urchins at his Mumbai orphanage was freed early to Britain yesterday.
Duncan Grant, 68, (pictured above) was met by Met officers at Heathrow.
After being quizzed and signing the sex offenders register, the ex-Navy officer was let out into the community
Grant was freed from an Indian jail after serving four years for an “appalling violation of trust”. He and a fellow Brit — retired Lieutenant Commander Allan Waters — from Porchester sparked global disgust when it emerged they abused five homeless boys at the “children’s shelter” Grant set up using a Brit charity in Mumbai.
His three Anchorage Shelter Homes gave beds to boys from slums that featured in film Slumdog Millionaire. Good Life actress Felicity Kendal, 65, was persuaded to be a patron. She has cut all ties to the pervert.
As well as abusing the boys, Grant and Waters would hand them over to foreign sex tourists.
Grant, from Hampstead, North West London, and Waters, 63, from Hampshire, were convicted in 2006. In 2008, they were acquitted due to “lack of evidence”.
Abuse … Duncan Grant’s ‘shelter’ for orphans in Mumbai
That was quashed this March. India’s Supreme Court ruled: “The street children having no roof over their heads became the prey of paedophiles.”
Waters remains in jail but is expected to be released shortly.
Scotland Yard said: “We work closely to monitor offenders to reduce the risk of offending
March 2011
London man convicted in Indian paedophilia case
India’s Supreme Court has convicted two Britons of sexually abusing boys at a children’s shelter in Mumbai.
Duncan Grant, of Hampstead, north London, and Allan Waters, of Hampshire, had been acquitted by the High Court in Mumbai in 2008 for lack of evidence.
But the Supreme Court overturned that decision and upheld guilty verdicts from the trial court in 2006 which sentenced the men to six years.
Charity Childline India Foundation said the case was a “real watershed moment”.
Campaign group Fair Trials Abroad, which represented the Britons in court, is yet to comment on the case.
Anchorage shelter at Colaba.Grant, a charity worker, had set up Anchorage shelter in Colaba, Mumbai, in 1995. Waters, of Porchester, was a visitor to the home, Indian police said.
The pair were charged in 2001 with sexual assault after five boys complained to the police about repeated sexual and physical abuse by the men.
William D’souza, an Indian citizen who managed the shelter, was convicted of aiding and abetting the men and sentenced to three years. He had also earlier been cleared by the High Court, in 2006.
https://theukdatabase.com/2012/03/09/duncan-grantallan-waters-hampsteadporchester/
Alan Waters – PROA Honorary secretary 2017
Abuse … Duncan Grant’s ‘shelter’ for orphans in Mumbai
That was quashed this March. India’s Supreme Court ruled: “The street children having no roof over their heads became the prey of paedophiles.”
Waters remains in jail but is expected to be released shortly.
Scotland Yard said: “We work closely to monitor offenders to reduce the risk of offending
March 2011
London man convicted in Indian paedophilia case
India’s Supreme Court has convicted two Britons of sexually abusing boys at a children’s shelter in Mumbai.
Duncan Grant, of Hampstead, north London, and Allan Waters, of Hampshire, had been acquitted by the High Court in Mumbai in 2008 for lack of evidence.
But the Supreme Court overturned that decision and upheld guilty verdicts from the trial court in 2006 which sentenced the men to six years.
Charity Childline India Foundation said the case was a “real watershed moment”.
Campaign group Fair Trials Abroad, which represented the Britons in court, is yet to comment on the case.
Grant, a charity worker, had set up Anchorage shelter in Colaba, Mumbai, in 1995. Waters, of Porchester, was a visitor to the home, Indian police said.
The pair were charged in 2001 with sexual assault after five boys complained to the police about repeated sexual and physical abuse by the men.
William D’souza, an Indian citizen who managed the shelter, was convicted of aiding and abetting the men and sentenced to three years. He had also earlier been cleared by the High Court, in 2006.
Childline India Foundation had appealed against the High Court’s decision to acquit the men.
Kajal Mennon, executive director of the charity, said: “This was a real watershed moment in child sexual abuse convictions (in India)… as laws are extremely opaque, plus there is a culture of silence.”
She added the case would go towards ensuring that people do not take advantage of India’s “laxity of laws” and the convictions highlighted the need of special legislation for child sexual o
Call for Sea Cadet inquiry after sex abuse case
Child rights lawyers are demanding an immediate inquiry by the British Sea Cadets after one of its most senior officers was convicted of sexually abusing street children in Bombay.
Lt Cdr Allan Waters, 57, who has worked with the Sea Cadet Corps in Britain for more than 30 years, was jailed for six years and ordered to pay £20,000 compensation for having “unnatural sex” with street children.
A fellow former naval officer, Duncan Grant, 61, was also jailed for six years at the Bombay sessions court.
Grant, a Royal Naval Reserve officer from a distinguished military family, had set up the Anchorage shelters in Bombay, where the abuse took place. He was also ordered to pay £20,000 compensation to his victims.
The judge, P S Paranjape, said the sentence was intended to “wipe the name of India from the map of sexual tourism”.
The court heard that the street boys, aged from eight to 18, were used as objects of “sexual lust” by Grant, Waters and several other foreigners who frequently took boys with them “on holiday” to coastal resorts in Goa.
Boys were also subjected to a brutal regime of corporal punishment in which they were stripped naked and regularly caned by Jesuit-educated Grant and the local manager of his shelter.
Both Grant and Waters were convicted of “unnatural sex acts” and conspiring to “obtain minors for immoral purposes”.
Grant, the grandson of Maj-Gen Sir Philip Grant, who rallied the defence against the German offensive of March 1918 in the First World War, used a wealth of establishment contacts to raise funds for his Anchorage shelters.
His supporters, including the actress Felicity Kendal, two Tory MPs, high-ranking naval officers and the British Jesuits, were convinced that Grant had given up a comfortable life in the West to devote himself to India’s impoverished street children.
However, the court heard that while Grant painted a heart-warming picture of life at his shelters for his British donors an inspection in August 2001 revealed that the children suffered “repeated beatings” and were poorly looked after.
Waters, an old friend of Grant from the Royal Naval Reserve, was a regular visitor to the Anchorage shelters, bringing presents for the children before sexually abusing them, the court was told.
Both Grant and Waters, who intend to appeal against the judgment, claimed they were victims of a conspiracy by another paedophile who convinced the boys to make malicious complaints to social workers in Bombay.
The conviction of Waters raises serious questions about his conduct in Britain, where, The Daily Telegraph has learned, he was formerly accused by a fellow officer of sexually abusing a sea cadet.
Yug Chaudhry, a lawyer who represented the Indian Childline charity in the case, said the Sea Cadets had a “fundamental duty of care to their young members” to investigate whether Waters had abused cadets in Britain.
Information received by The Daily Telegraph said that Waters was caught in a compromising act with a young cadet while he was commanding the Clapton unit of the Sea Cadets in London in the early 1980s. Waters, the sources alleged, dismissed the allegations as “an initiation ceremony” and after a brief suspension was reassigned to another unit, where he continued to rise up the ranks of the organisation.
Waters, who also worked as an education social worker with the Inner London Education Authority in the 1980s, was appointed superintendent of the Sea Cadet training centre in Portsmouth in 1996.
Until his arrest at JFK international airport, in New York, in July 2003, Waters was a member of the Sea Cadet Council, the highest body of the corps.
Last night the Sea Cadets confirmed that it was aware “that a report was made by a Sea Cadet officer who had concerns about Waters” in the early 1980s but said that allegations had “not been substantiated”.
Colin Bonner, the Sea Cadets’ director of administration, said the organisation remained “unconvinced” that Waters was capable of sexual abuse.
“Since The Daily Telegraph reported to us certain allegations about alleged misconduct by Waters many years ago, when he was working for us at Clapton, we have made a great many inquiries into his past,” he said.
“We did find that a report was made by a Sea Cadet officer who had concerns about Waters. But he has been dead for many years and there was nothing to substantiate those allegations at the time and nothing since.
“I am not going to say that it is impossible that Alan could have done the things he has been accused off. Anything is possible. But, from the man I know, I do not think it is likely. I do not believe he would abuse children and we have no evidence that he did.”
However, Mr Chaudhry, who studied law at Cambridge, said it was “inconceivable and inexplicable” that the Sea Cadets would not investigate Waters further.
“They have a duty to vulnerable members to make an immediate and thorough investigation of Waters,” he said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4199412/Call-for-Sea-Cadet-inquiry-after-sex-abuse-case.html
Lt Cmdr Alan Waters, from Porchester in Hampshire, in his late 50s, awaits trial in Mumbai on charges which campaigners say are clearly bogus.
His case, and cases of others facing serious charges abroad, was highlighted yesterday by the organisation Fair Trials Abroad. Baroness Sarah Ludford, the Liberal Democrat MEP who attended the press conference, called for action to be taken in the growing number of similar cases when people are held in foreign jails on flimsy or nonexistent evidence.
Lt Cmdr Waters is a superintendent with the Sea Cadets centre. He and his wife, Gwen, have spent many holidays helping a friend, Duncan Grant, in his work with street children at the Anchorage Shelters in Mumbai. The shelters depended on volunteer workers, many from the UK.
Duncan Grant had set up the Anchorage Shelter Home at Colaba, Mumbai in 1995 which was frequently visited by Waters.
In 2001, Mr Grant asked two male volunteers, one British and one Indian, to discontinue hostel visits because he felt they were developing inappropriate relationships with boys there.
Shortly after the confrontation, Lt Cmdr Waters and Mr Grant were both back in England when they heard of allegations being made against them, including sexual abuse, to the Mumbai police by five boys from the shelters who had been befriended by one of the men asked to cease his visits. An investigation was carried out by police and charges were made against Lt Cmdr Waters, Mr Grant and the shelters’ Indian manager, William d’Souza.
In July 2003, Lt Cmdr Waters was travelling via New York to Bermuda in an official capacity with a group of naval cadets. He was detained at JFK airport by US immigration and eventually extradited to India in September last year.
In August 2003, defence lawyers obtained sworn statements from the boys retracting their allegations. They claimed they were offered money by the man barred from the shelters, and had signed statements at the police station written in English, which they would have been unable to understand. Lt Cmdr Waters is still in jail awaiting trial and Mr d’Souza is on bail. Mr Grant has not returned to India on legal advice. “I have been in custody since 2 July 2003,” Lt Cmdr Waters wrote in a recent letter. “How much longer before I get a fair and just trial?”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/may/20/duncancampbell
Ludford was created a Life Peer as Baroness Ludford, of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 30 September 1997,[2] after serving as a Councillor for the London Borough of Islington 1991-99.
Baroness Ludford is married to Steve Hitchins, Leader of Islington Borough Council (2000–06).[6][7]
Duncan Alexander Grant, a British national, in and around 1995 opened three shelters called the Anchorage Shelters for the welfare of street children in Mumbai and Colaba, Cuffe Parade and Murud.
Allan John Waters was a friend of Duncan Alexander Grant and used to visit the Shelters regularly. Another accused William D’Souza was the manager of the Anchorage Shelters.
Grant had been allowed to slip back in to the country despite being subject to an international arrest warrant.
Last night Benjamin Strickland, whose wife Tessa Strickland – a Conservative councillor for Wandsworth Council – is Grant’s sister, said he had not seen or spoken to his brother-in-law in recent weeks or days.
Despite being wanted on international arrest warrants, Grant and his colleague, Alan Waters, passed through British immigration on 10 occasions. Interpol “red corner” notices – which should be triggered whenever a suspect passes through immigration – were issued in February 2002 but were never enforced by Britain.
Between April 2002 and July 2003 Allan Waters made five foreign trips, but was never stopped. He also made three visits to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, where his friend Duncan Grant – wanted for sexually abusing Indian street boys – was running homeless hostels for street children.
However, when Waters landed in New York’s JFK airport en route to Bermuda for a holiday on July 3, 2003 he was immediately arrested and later extradited to India.
Councillor Tessa Strickland:
Tessa Strickland has lived within sight of Battersea Power Station since childhood. She became a Councillor in 1998 for neighbouring Fairfield, but enthusiastically accepted the opportunity to join her home ward of St Mary’s Park in 2006.She is also a trustee of two local charities, organises an RNLI appeal team, fund-raises for the Red Cross and is a member of a Sheltered Housing Trust.The education and welfare of the borough’s children has been an uninterrupted commitment, chairing the Children and Young Person’s Services committee for six years and now serving as deputy. She is also chair of governors at a local primary school (
Governors | Falconbrook Primary School)
and governor of a large secondary school.
A British charity worker accused of paedophile offences against street children in Bombay has been found by The Daily Telegraph after police allowed him to walk freely back into this country last month.
Duncan Grant, who is wanted on an international arrest warrant and an Interpol red notice, arrived in Britain on June 1 after being deported from Tanzania.
Despite being notified of his imminent arrival by the Foreign Office, police failed to arrest Mr Grant after his flight was delayed, causing him to miss his anticipated connection in Dubai.
Yesterday, however, 19 days after Mr Grant re-entered Britain, The Daily Telegraph found Mr Grant who, it is understood, has still not been contacted by the police.
Since returning, he has been living with his sister, who is a Conservative councillor in London.
She refused to answer the door at her neat Victorian terraced house in south London yesterday, but through the intercom, she claimed she had neither seen nor spoken to her brother since his return to this country.
“I haven’t seen him and he hasn’t been staying here,” she said. Asked if he planned to turn himself in to the police, she said: “I don’t know because I haven’t spoken to him.”
A large number of foreign paedophiles were regularly visiting the Shelters and taking the children to Goa where the children were also being sexually abused.
http://www.childlineindia.org.in/anchorage-case-history-updated.htm
On 12 September John Wesley together with the PROA Hon Sec Alan Waters and his wife Gwen visited the RNLI HQ
John Wesley and Alan Waters present decanters to Vice-Admiral Paul Boissier and Ewan Steele
Jimmy Savile in Mumbai 1992
Troy @snowfaked
200: HAPC 20th Anniversity guest speaker/patron Keith Vaz
HAPC patron, Keith Vaz MP, addressing the 1500 guests
Help A Poor Child charity was founded by paedophile Derek Slade
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
Keith Vaz’s links to Varley are significant as they bring together Goa, Leicester and Islington.
Troy @snowfaked
Raymond Varley was an international trafficker. That’s why his phony dementia claim keeps him safe from extradition.
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
And what of his buddy Derek Slade?
Troy @snowfaked
Varley was connected to Freddy Peats who ran an orphanage in GOA. No evidence found yet linking Varley with Slade.
Anchorage Shelters… Waters/Grant also worked the mumbai-goa coast.
Childline India oversees world child helplines. http://bit.ly/2cE589P
“A serial social entrepreneur who’s founded 6 orgs incl. Aflatoun.”
Aflatoun funders, partners, pro bono supporters. http://www.bibalex.org/Search4Dev/files/431876/460163.pdf …
SEXUAL ABUSE OF CADETS
Julian Hankinson – seated fifth from left – while at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow. He was Headmaster of Queen Victoria School at its chief time of crisis.
“These people were ‘Friends of QVS’ who were taking certain boys out for a treat.”
Dunblane Primary School. In 1996, ’16 children from this class were shot dead.’
Thomas Hamilton was held responsible for the 1996 school shooting in Dunblane.
He was a friend of QVS.
George Robertson was a friend of QVS.
“Lord Robertson was the referee on Thomas Hamilton’s shotgun licence.” (‘Blair covering up paedophile scandal?’)
Thomas Hamilton ran clubs and camps for boys and had access to the Queen Victoria School, in Dunblane, a boarding school run by the Ministry of Defence.
The unofficial story is that Thomas Hamilton was supplying pornography, and young boys, to top people including policemen and politicians; and Thomas Hamilton may have been murdered, to shut him up.
It has been suggested that Thomas Hamilton was a patsy and that the real shooters were working for the security services.
In the Dunblane shootings, “none of the survivors would have been able to obtain a good viewing of the gunman.”
The Murder of Thomas Hamilton | Dunblane Exposed / dailytelegraph.news.com.au/
Lord Cullen led inquiries into the Dunblane shootings, and in March 2002 led the five-judge tribunal which heard the failed appeal of the alleged Lockerbie bomber.
A former senior judge / aangirfan: Dunblane / aangirfan: Lockerbie – who were the key players in the trial?”
Lord Cullen … physically walked Thomas Hamilton to the massacre.”
If those names get out even now after 12 years, there will be a riot and the press will have a field day! Lives and careers will be ruined! Is this why Hamilton‘s file went missing only hours after the killings? Is this why Lord Cullen, who I believe was a QVS Commissioner, was appointed to preside over the Hamilton investigations? This is how Masons operate. They control everything and their allegiance is to each other. No wonder they want a 100-year embargo on the Hamilton case!
http://dunblane.site/gh_qvs_story.htm
William, George, Billy & Scotch Myths re the Cullen Report on Dunblane
https://www.tomminogue.com/tom/?p=3465
via Wildcat:
Queen Victoria School, Dunblane
Hamilton was a friend of Ben Philip, the senior housemaster at Queen Victoria School.
Ben Philip died in December 1993, aged 46, ‘when he fell from a ladder while hanging decorations’.
Malcolm Rifkind‘s close friend Robert Bell sold guns and ammunition to Thomas Hamilton only a few weeks before the Dunblane massacre, according to the Edinburgh Evening News on 23 March 1996.
Dame Alun Roberts @ciabaudo
It’s pretty obvious that Thomas Hamilton was a stooge. But who hired this thug and what role did the angelic Malcomb Rifkind play?
http://dunblane.site/rifbellart.htm
Tom Minogue @MinogueTom
Neither the man who sold TH his guns & ammo nor his chum (head HMC at QVS Rifkind) were called to give evidence at the PI. Nor were CC of CSP, or the CEO of CSC who gave TH use of schools for his clubs or his Masonic dad. As Ian Bell said there were questions for another day
Malcolm Rifkind is the cousin of Sir Leon Brittan.
Headmaster Hankinson.
Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Forsyth was on the Board of Directors of QVS, and was also responsible for the appointment of Cullen to conduct the school shooting Inquiry.
Prince Philip, a Freemason, is the patron of the Board of Directors of QVS.
Lord Donald Ross, the then Lord Justice-Clerk and Cullen’s superior in the judiciary, was also on the Board of Directors.
StolenKids-Dunblane: 29-Oct-03 – Cullen Inquiry Whitewash
Glenn Harrison, a former housemaster at the boarding school, first raised the alarm about QVS in 1991.
The police told him that the school was covered by the Official Secrets Act and therefore out of their jurisdiction.
Top Scots school in abuse claims
Harrison referred to the ‘Friends of QVS’, which included top people who would often take boys away for the weekend, with the pupils returning “distressed but flush with cash”.
Harrison said: “They had to take their kilts and clean underwear and I was not given a contact address. What may have gone on at these parties was secret but some boys were very disturbed.
“I became disturbed, too, by screams in the dorm at night, empty beds, rituals in dark places and used, warm, filled condoms hurriedly abandoned. There was fear throughout every age group and the teachers knew about it.”
Harrison and his wife refused to sit next to Prince Andrew at a school dinner “in protest at the many unheard voices and suffering of young boys”.
Top Scots school in abuse claims
QVS
The police responded to Harrison’s whistleblowing.
They broke down the door to his flat and removed many of his personal papers.
He was escorted from the school premises and interviewed by detectives.
Harrison moved to Shetland.
The UK parliament’s Hansard recorded a written response from QVS headmaster Julian Hankinson to say that police had “concluded there was no cause for further action on their part”.In November 1996, Harrison wrote to The Shetland Times to say: “I believe that, had my allegations in 1991 been properly investigated, there is a strong possibility that Hamilton would have been discovered.”
Among the top Scottish private schools hit by child abuse allegations are Fettes, Merchiston Castle School, Fort Augustus Abbey School and Gordonstoun.
Detective Chief Inspector Elaine Galbraith, of the Police Scotland Public Protection Unit, said there were no current investigations into any persons connected with Queen Victoria School.
Top Scots school in abuse claims
Lt Cdr Allan Waters, 57, worked with the Sea Cadet Corps in Britain for more than 30 years
In 2006, in India, Waters was jailed for child sex abuse.
Boys had been stripped naked and regularly caned.
“Information received by The Daily Telegraph ( Call for Sea Cadet inquiry after sex abuse case – Telegraph) said that Waters was caught in a compromising act with a young cadet while he was commanding the Clapton unit of the Sea Cadets in London in the early 1980s.
Reportedly, Waters was reassigned to another unit, and continued to rise up the ranks of the organisation.
Waters was appointed superintendent of the Sea Cadet training centre in Portsmouth in 1996.
Waters was a member of the Sea Cadet Council, the highest body of the corps.
The Sea Cadets confirmed that it was aware “that a report was made by a Sea Cadet officer who had concerns about Waters” in the early 1980s but said that allegations had “not been substantiated”.
In 2006, Jersey Police, in the UK, were investigating child abuse by ‘carers’.
The commanding officer of the Jersey Sea Cadets was arrested for downloading pornographic images including some involving sea cadets.
The attitude of the Sea Cadet authorities of that time ’caused great concern’. (Cached)
There were several convictions for sexual offences involving officers of Jersey Sea Cadets.
Police began noticing links between the victims in those cases and other institutions on the island, including Haut de la Garenne.
Police call off Sea Cadets abuse inquiry
It was announced, in September 2008, that the police investigation of alleged child abuse at the Jersey Sea Cadets has been abandoned.
The Jersey police claim there is insufficient evidence.
The Sea Cadet force used Haut de la Garenne (child brothel).
The third scandalous Jersey case had happened Victoria College to whom the Haut de la Garenne was supplying young recruits.
The maths teacher, Andrew Jervis-Dykes, was jailed in 1999 for indecently assaulting six pupils who he plied with alcohol then abused in their beds during Naval Combined Cadet Force yachting.
He had pleaded guilt and was condemned to four years prison, as an isolated predator, as are all the members of the Zandvoort network, which includes Marc Dutroux.
https://belgianjustice.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/child-abuse-jersey-stinks-of-zandvoort/
A trapdoor leading down to a windowless room holding a single chair, and shackles were discovered during the refurbishment of the care home at the centre of the Jersey child abuse scandal, it has been claimed.
The sinister findings were allegedly uncovered four years ago when the property Haut de la Garenne in the east of the island was converted into a youth hostel after lying empty for 18 years.
The building, where a human skull was unearthed on Saturday, is the subject of an intense police search operation amid fears that the bodies of up to seven children could be buried there.
Two builders working on the site spoke of the alleged finds but the shackle claim was strenuously denied by a Jersey government source.
Robert Boutillier, one of the builders working at the home said: “We found some things that would send a chill down your spine.
“We found some shackles lying around the grounds.
“I picked them up. They were heavy shackles mounted on a wooden block. It was gruesome.
“We also found a pile of about five large canes. They had been removed from inside the building.”
Another builder from Houze Construction, who did not want to be named, said: “It was spooky, I felt like the place was haunted.
“There were shackles lying around. God knows what else was in there, I shudder to think.
“In one room there was a trapdoor leading down to this room which was pitch black. Inside was just this chair. I felt sick.”
But a government source insisted: “Nothing of that nature at all was found at the site.”
Police teams have focused on the home’s bricked-up cellar but were forced to suspend work over fears the structure may collapse. But forensic specialists will return to the scene on Wednesday.
News of the alleged findings came as child abuse offences – and claims that they were covered up – were linked to the island’s top public school and another Jersey care home.
Maths teacher Andrew Jervis-Dykes was jailed in April 1999 for indecently assaulting six pupils at Victoria College who he plied with alcohol then abused in their beds during Naval Combined Cadet Force yachting trips between 1984 and 1993.
According to an independent report into the case, allegations about Jervis-Dykes surfaced in 1992 then again in 1994. Both times, the school’s headmaster Jack Hydes failed to notify the police or investigate further, the report said.
Former chief education officer of Buckinghamshire, Stephen Sharp, who conducted the inquiry, said Mr Hydes instructed his staff not to discuss the allegations.
He accused Mr Hydes and his deputy Piers Bakers – who was in charge of pupils alongside Jervis-Dykes on one yachting trip – of putting the interests of the college and supporting a colleague above protecting its pupils. The pair subsequently resigned from the school.
“If the correct procedure had been followed, it is most likely that Jervis-Dykes would have been suspended and perhaps arrested in 1992,” Mr Sharp said.
Senator Stuart Syvret, who is highly critical of the Jersey government’s record on child protection, accused officials of sweeping the issue under the carpet and demanded to know why the report had been kept secret.
“The reaction of the political establishment was to sweep this under the carpet and keep the veneer of respectability.
“This is just another example of concealment and cover up. They did the bare minimum, prosecuted one perpetrator.”
The Education Minister Senator Mike Verbert said the headteacher and deputy had been punished by dismissal. He defended keeping the report private: “The decision not to publish the report was taken to protect those children.”
Mr Syvret said he would write to Justice Minister Jack Straw later this week to ask for independent judges to oversee any possible prosecution in relation to Haut de la Garenne.
“I am going to ask him – in relation to the current child protection controversy – to appoint independent judges and prosecution,” he said.
Mr Syvret claimed there was evidence of abuse at schools and care homes across the island.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579886/Jersey-care-home-had-shackles-and-trapdoor.html
STATES police officers tried to cover up abuse allegations against an ex-Victoria College teacher, a former detective has claimed.
Speaking at the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry, Anton Cornelissen said he began investigating claims into abuse by former teacher Andrew Jervis-Dykes in 1996 but that he was hampered as several members of the force attempted to hide the abuse allegations.
Mr Cornelissen claimed that crucial evidence went missing and was subsequently found in a colleague’s locker.
He also alleged that a former deputy head of the school, John Le Breton, who had left the college and become a Jurat, intervened by complaining to the Law Officers’ Department when an arrest warrant was issued.
The panel heard that Jurat Le Breton allegedly questioned the facts of the case and asked the Law Officers not to issue a warrant.
Mr Cornelissen said: ‘He had sight of it [the warrant] and he disputed the facts. I think he complained to the Attorney General or the Bailiff over the facts of the case to try to get the warrant stopped.’
Mr Cornelissen also claimed that when Mr Le Breton was still deputy head, he had been told about alleged abuse by a pupil but had not done anything and had ‘in effect bullied at least one pupil to not make a complaint against Andrew Jervis-Dykes’.
The inquiry yesterday entered a new phase in which it will examine the handling of the 2008 police investigation into historical sexual abuse, named Operation Rectangle.
Mr Cornelissen, who is originally from the UK, moved to Jersey in 1993 and was seconded to the Child Protection Team in 1996.
He began investigating claims that Jervis-Dykes had abused several pupils, but said that the only person who supported the investigation was Barry Faudemer, the then head of the Child Protection Team.
He added that many of his colleagues in the force were ex-Victoria College pupils who did not want their school ‘dragged through the mud’ and therefore did not offer any support to the investigation.
Mr Cornelissen said that a short-time later, his secondment was ended when he refused to pass on confidential information about the Victoria College investigation to another colleague – Derek Upton – who was not part of the inquiry.
The case was dropped shortly after Detective Sergeant Roger Pryke took over the Child Protection Team.
However, Mr Cornelissen, who has since retired, and Mr Faudemer began reinvestigating the case about a year later, but claimed that many of the problems remained.
He said: ‘It harped back to the old thing that “we don’t want Victoria College investigated”.’
He added that he was ‘mortified’ to think that potential victims had not been contacted in a year after he was taken off the initial investigation.
During the second stage of the Victoria College inquiry, Mr Cornelissen claimed that evidence went missing from his desk, including pictures, slides and an index box containing vital witness information. He said that the index box was later found in Roger Pryke’s locker.
Mr Cornelissen said: ‘The index box was very important because up to that point there was nowhere else that had the victim witness details, and I had made a summary.
‘It was a crucial bit of evidence and of course it went missing.
‘I don’t know how it ended up in Roger Pryke’s locker – it was in a large brown evidence sack.’
Jervis-Dykes was jailed for four years in 1999.
Sexual abuse of cadets ‘was covered up by officials who urged victims not to tell police’
The Ministry of Defence has reportedly paid out more than £2m to victims of abuse in the cadets
4 July 2017
Almost 100 cadet force instructors have been dismissed in the past five years after allegations of sex abuse and leaders repeatedly tried to cover up past allegations, an investigation has found.
Parents of cadets who had been abused were encouraged not to go to the police as cadet organisations tried to hush up the accusations, it is alleged.
A total of 363 sexual abuse allegations, both current and historic, have been made across the Army, Air and Sea cadet forces since 2012, according to a seven-month BBC Panorama investigation.
Lawyers representing victims of the abuse claimed the scale was likely to rival scandals in the Catholic Church and the Jimmy Savile case.
The Army, Air and Sea Cadets are between them one of Britain’s largest youth groups and are responsible for nearly 130,000 children in more than 3,000 clubs across the country.
Former cadets who said they had been abused in the 1980s told the programme that when their parents or loved ones raised concerns, they were urged not to tell the police.
To date the Ministry of Defence has paid out over £2 million to victims of the abuse.
David McClenaghan, head of law firm Bolt Burdon Kemp’s abuse department representing victims said: “I have absolutely no doubts that the abuse in the cadets will mirror the other scandals like the Jimmy Savile case, like the abuse in the Scouts, like abuse in the Catholic Church.”
One victim identified only as Martin said he was 12 when he was “systematically abused and raped repeatedly over many years” by his commanding officer Brian Leonard, at Tennal Grange cadet base in Birmingham.
He told the programme: “You are trained to follow orders and you are trained to respect the officers and do as they tell you.
“That includes having to lie on the floor on a dirty blanket and just lie there and… take it like a man.”
The programme spoke to 10 men who were abused by Leonard in the 1980s.
Martin said: “The thing was it was so blatantly obvious, it was almost as if it was hidden in full sight.”
A girlfriend of one of the victims threatened to report Leonard to the police in 1987, but cadet officers pressured her to keep quiet.
The sergeant said he would take a statement from her, but warned her not to approach the police. No investigation into Leonard was ever carried out. He died in 1996, having never faced justice.
Another victim, identified only as Tony’ was 14 when he joined Cheshunt Sea Cadets, in Hertfordshire, in 1979. He alleged he was abused by his commanding officer Alan Waters on a weekend trip away.
Terrified of returning, he told his parents, whose complaints led to a home visit from two Sea Cadet officers, in full uniform.
Tony’s parents were dissuaded from approaching the police by the officers, as this could lead to the closure of the groups. In return for not taking matters further, they were promised that Waters would be moved from looking after children.
But Waters was just moved to another division of sea cadets in North London, where another instructor raised concern. The Royal Navy captain in charge of all the sea cadet corps responded that the allegations against Waters were “thoroughly investigated – and not proved.”
In 2006 Waters was found guilty in Mumbai of raping and abusing boys at an orphanage run by his naval friend, Duncan Grant. Two years later they won an appeal, which was later quashed.
Waters returned to the UK in 2012 and made to sign the sex offenders register. Despite this until March 2017 he still held a position in a naval veteran’s organisation – Honorary Secretary of HMS President Retired Officers Association.
Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed police have investigated 282 allegations of abuse in the past five years and 99 instructors have been dismissed.
An MOD spokesman said: “Child sexual abuse is an abhorrent crime, and we have robust procedures in place to protect cadets. This includes all adults who work with children undergoing mandatory security and background checks, rigorous disclosure procedures and regular safeguarding training. We encourage anyone who has been a victim, or knows someone who has, to report it to the police.”
Prince Andrew, Duke of York commanded HMS Cottesmore from April 1993 until November 1994.
April 2nd 1994 Daily Express
HMS Cottesmere
“Final Fix: Prince Andrew helps Sir Jimmy (Savile) fulfill a dream in the last series of the programme”
Prince Andrew, Duke of York commanded HMS Cottesmore from April 1993 until November 1994.
Savile did not confine himself to one royal. Prince Andrew was called on to help in an episode of Jim’ll Fix It when an eight-year-old girl asked to visit a warship.
The Naval officer Prince was her host on his minehunter, HMS Cottesmore.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles are the patrons of the Sea Cadet Corps, while Prince Andrew is the Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps.
Warrant Officer J. E. Moss
HC Deb 22 June 1984 vol 62 cc659-66 659
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—[Mr. Archie Hamilton.]
While I am extolling the virtues of the ATC, I should say that it is just one of the many cadet forces which exist; in all, the ATC, the Army Cadet Force, the Sea Cadet Corps and the Combined Cadet Force offer places for over 140,000 young people. I believe both my hon. Friend and I were members of CCF at school. My comments about the ATC apply to all these bodies.
The ATC has a long list of people who have passed through its squadrons and go on to make a distinguished career for themselves in adult life. Many are senior RAF officers, including the present Chief of Air Staff. Others have come to prominence in all walks of civilian life, among them John Conteh, Richard Burton, Jimmy Savile and my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths).None of this work or achievement would be possible without the many thousands of hours which the volunteer instructors devote to the corps. Although there is a small staff at HQ air cadets and the Ministry of Defence directs policy, the success of the whole scheme rests on the largely unpaid work of people such as Warrant Officer Moss. The instruction and week-by-week work with the cadets is borne by 6,500 commissioned and warrant officers and civilian instructors who are, for the most part, unpaid.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1984/jun/22/warrant-officer-j-e-moss
Sir Jimmy Savile was a member of the Air Training Corps before being conscripted as a Bevin Boy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7312004.stm
The squadron, based at Towerhurst, on Oakwood Lane, were one of hundreds of Air Training Corps set up on February 5, 1941, with King George VI as Air Commodore-in-Chief. Among the early recruits was Leeds’s own Sir Jimmy Savile.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/leeds-air-cadets-squadron-flies-high-1-3058421
BBC Panorama has uncovered evidence of repeated cover-ups of historical sex abuse in Britain’s cadet forces.
Victims have spoken for the first time of senior cadet leaders covering up complaints, and pressurising families against going to the police.
Overseen by the Ministry of Defence, the cadets is one of the UK’s largest youth bodies with 130,000 members.
The MoD has paid more than £2m to cadet abuse victims, and says it has “robust procedures in place to protect cadets”.
According to Freedom of Information requests, in the last five years 363 sexual abuse allegations – both historical and current – have been made across the UK for the Army, Air and Sea Cadets.
Some 282 cases have been referred to the police and 99 volunteers have been dismissed.
Panorama’s seven-month investigation focused chiefly on uncovering a pattern of historical abuse – conducted by a number of different cadet leaders – in Glasgow, Birmingham and Hertfordshire.
‘Take it like a man’
Martin was 12 when he was “systematically abused and raped repeatedly over many years” by his commanding officer Brian Leonard, at Tennal Grange cadet base in Birmingham.
He told Panorama: “You are trained to follow orders and you are trained to respect the officers and do as they tell you.
“That includes having to lie on the floor on a dirty blanket and just lie there and… take it like a man.”
Panorama has spoken to 10 men who were abused by Leonard in the 1980s.
Martin says: “The thing was it was so blatantly obvious, it was almost as if it was hidden in full sight.”
A girlfriend of one of the victims (who has chosen to remain anonymous) threatened to report Leonard to the police in 1987, but cadet officers pressured her to keep quiet.
The sergeant said he would take a statement from her, but warned her not to approach the police. No investigation into Leonard was ever carried out.
Leonard died in 1996, having never faced justice.
Parents pressured
Tony was 14 when he joined Cheshunt Sea Cadets, in Hertfordshire, in 1979.
He said he woke to find his commanding officer Alan Waters at his bedside while he was on a weekend trip away.
Tony told Panorama: “I looked down and I was exposed… There was no doubt in my mind that he was touching me, no doubt in my mind whatsoever.”
Terrified of returning, he told his parents – whose complaints were met with a home visit from two Sea Cadet officers, in full uniform.
Tony’s parents were dissuaded from approaching the police by the officers and in return for not taking matters further, they were promised that Waters would be moved from looking after children.
But Panorama has discovered that he was not dismissed or even suspended – he was, in fact, promoted and moved to a division in North London where he was in charge of 10 Sea Cadet units.
What’s more, concerns by other members of the corps after this appointment were dismissed by the very top – the Captain of the Sea Cadets – who said the allegations were “thoroughly investigated” and “not proved”.
Waters was later convicted for separate child abuse offences in India in 2006 and placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
Panorama has found out that despite this, until March 2017 he held a title in a naval veterans’ organisation – as honorary secretary of HMS President Retired Officers Association.
‘Stuck in my mind’
Joe joined the Glasgow Highlanders Army Cadets in 1988 when he was 11. His Commanding Officer, John Fitzpatrick, would invite cadets to his flat, ply them with alcohol and sit them in front of pornographic films before bedtime.
Joe told Panorama: “I mean real hardcore stuff that I’ve never seen since I was in that guy’s company…
“Images that have stuck in my mind to this day… if anybody had put images like that near my kids, I’d want to kill them.”
On four occasions, Joe woke up to find Fitzpatrick sexually assaulting him.
Panorama has discovered that before Joe was abused, another cadet instructor – Gordon – had received complaints that Fitzpatrick had sexually assaulted another boy.
There were two young witnesses. Gordon went straight to the police, but instead of being congratulated his boss was furious.
Gordon told Panorama the boy’s parents defied pressure from senior cadet figures and told the police.
The case went to trial – but Fitzpatrick was found “not proven”. He was welcomed back into the cadets – taking up the position of CO again.
However, last year, Fitzpatrick was charged with lewd and libidinous behaviour against Joe and three other boys. This time the case was proven and he was sentenced to two years in prison.
The Birmingham case was one of the first cadet cases taken on by David McClenaghan, a child abuse solicitor from law firm BBK.
He told Panorama: “I have absolutely no doubt that the abuse in the cadets will mirror the other scandals like the Jimmy Savile case, like the abuse in the scouts, like abuse in the Catholic church.”
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) says no sphere of society is immune.
But Napac’s chief executive Gabrielle Shaw said the figures obtained by Panorama indicated that people were now more confident about coming forward to report abuse.
She added: “The onus is now on institutions such as the armed forces to deal fully and promptly with reported allegations.”
The MoD told Panorama that today all adults who work with children undergo mandatory security and background checks, rigorous disclosure procedures and regular safeguard training.
A spokesman said: “We encourage anyone who has been a victim or knows someone who has to report it to the police.”
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets (MSSC) apologised unreservedly for any hurt in regard to the case of Alan Waters and said what had happened was “not reflective of our organisation today”.
Duke of Edinburgh prevented women from joining the crew of the Royal Yacht Britannia
No women ever served among the crew on the Royal Yacht Britannia
Paul Burrell/Royal Yacht Britannia orgy scandal
In 1981, 11 members of the crew of the Queen’s yacht ‘Britannia’ were charged.
Paul Burrell (pictured fifth from right) was part of a orgy on the Royal Yacht Britannia, his agent claims. None of the people in the above photo of the Britannia are thought to have been involved in the reported orgy
Reports from 1981 show that a trial against naval members were held in secret, which prompted rumours of a cover-up, which officials denied.
The men involved were accused of ‘disgraceful conduct of a cruel, indecent or unnatural kind’, and sailors were arrested after X-rated photos were found during a drugs raid.
The Queen was kept up to date on disciplinary proceedings during the case, and Prince Phillip was shown a special report on the case, the Sun reported.
Buckingham Palace would not comment on claims that the Queen knew Mr Burrell was involved in the orgy.
The Queen reinstated me and said: ‘Paul, I am so glad to have you back. Let’s put this unsavoury business behind us.’
Mr Burrell has never talked about his sexuality even though it was well known within royal circles that he was gay.
Paul and Maria Burrell met while they were both working at Buckingham Palace, with Maria serving as the Duke of Edinburgh’s maid, and married in 1984.
An established tradition suggested one of them should give up their job with the Royal Family, but the Queen made an exception for them, allowing both to remain in Royal service.
Burrell was the only non-family member to be present at Diana’s private burial at the Spencer estate Althorp.
In 1993 she wrote a letter to him that claimed the Prince of Wales was plotting to kill
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Is this Burrell? Press & palace spin story that he was sacked?
The commander of the Royal Britannia yacht, Sir Paul Greening, was promoted after the scandal.
1981 COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL BRITANNIA:
As Flag Officer Royal Yachts from February 1981 to August 1985, he was responsible for the vessel’s safety and efficiency, and for hosting receptions on behalf of the Queen at events held on board in support of British industry.
Greening’s first days in Britannia were spoilt by the dismissal (under the then law) of several homosexuals: the tabloid press had a field day, but he showed his imperturbability in dealing with it. A natural courtier, he had a boyish charm; the puckish impression given by his permanently raised eyebrows disguised an understanding of people, a mastery of detail and an absolute loyalty to the Crown.
As Master of the Household from 1986 to 1992 Greening was a successful head of staff of all the Queen’s palaces, responsible for 250 chefs, sommeliers, event planners, craftsmen, pages and footmen, housekeepers and postmen.
He was a Younger Brother of Trinity House.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3485237/Rear-Admiral-Sir-Paul-Greening.html
The ‘gay mafia’ of the royal household
09/11/2002
Paul Burrell
The rumours have been washing through Fleet Street. Queen Elizabeth intervened in Paul Burrell’s trial, they alleged, to avoid his going into the witness box at the Old Bailey and revealing tales of homosexual rape, male orgies and a gay mafia in control of the royal household.
That there is at least some truth in them has only fanned the gossips’ flames. Prince Charles acknowledges running up a legal bill of at least £100,000 (?160,000) on behalf of a trusted member of staff accused of raping another man. The allegation was widely known in the household, as the Spectator magazine, a staunch defender of the monarchy, reported.
1997
Burrell received the Royal Victorian Medal
09/11/2002
Twenty years ago, Buckingham Palace investigated an alleged homosexual orgy on the royal yacht Britannia, when Burrell was a footman. One member of staff was required to resign.
Some whisper that Burrell was implicated in those events; others mention a telephone call to Scotland Yard after Burrell’s arrest. The Australian caller described “alleged aspects of Burrell’s private conduct that might not entirely tally with his public image”, according to the Spectator.
“a suspicion is taking root that the homosexual mafia that infiltrates the court has had a criminal case stopped to protect the prince from sordid revelations concerning one of its own.
Buckingham Palace butler ‘ran paedophile sex ring while working for the Royal Family’
A former Buckingham Palace butler has been unmasked as a sexual predator who ran a paedophile ring while serving the Royal Family.
Bachelor Paul Kidd, 55, groomed at least one of his teenage victims for sex by taking him for tea with the Queen Mother at Clarence House, it has emerged.
In 1976 he was appointed as butler to the Queen at Buckingham Palace and served there for six years until being transferred to Clarence House where he served the Queen Mother.
During his years in Royal service, he was said to have met and looked after three American Presidents including Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan plus many other Heads of State from around the world.
He also appeared on stage with Hollywood actor Robin Williams at the Nemacolin Spa & Resort Centre in the USA.
http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/the-gay-mafia-of-the-royal-household-26026804.html
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On the last day of his trial the Queen suddenly remembered that Diana did give him some gifts strange that…
Rape tape that set royal alarm bells ringing
As Princess Diana sat by his hospital bedside, the royal manservant had no idea a tape was secretly running inside her handbag.
During their 30-minute conversation, Diana listened sympathetically as he made the astonishing allegation that he had been raped by another male member of the palace staff.
Paul Burrell knew both the ‘victim’ – who is a close friend of the former butler – and the man accused of the violent homosexual assault.
The alleged rapist works closely with Charles.
Last night the Prince was said to be terrified that the man could be identified.
That fear of exposure was increasingly being seen as a possible explanation for the dramatic last-minute royal intervention that led to the collapse of the Old Bailey trial last week.
The Royal Family were terrified that, once Burrell took the witness stand, he would divulge sensational and hugely-damaging secrets – in particular, the existence of the ‘rape-tape’ recording.
It was the explosive tape police were desperately seeking when they raided Burrell’s Cheshire home searching for the so-called ‘Crown Jewels’.
A Scotland Yard inquiry into the alleged rape took place at the same time as the Burrell theft investigation and both were led by the same police officer, Maxine de Brunner.
During the police investigation, former members of the Royal Household were interviewed in intimate detail about the alleged incident and asked ‘prurient questions’ about Charles himself.
The man allegedly assaulted, who has a wife and children from whom he is separated, has since left the royal household with a £50,000 payoff and, as with all palace staff, was required to sign a confidentiality agreement.
At the time several senior royal aides carried out an internal palace inquiry and reported back to Prince Charles and his solicitor Fiona Shackleton.
Charles – said to regard his aide as a ‘loyal and necessary person’ – took the unprecedented step of employing one of the country’s top law firms, Kingsley Napley, to defend him against the rape allegations.
Such was his concern for the servant that Charles is understood to have phoned the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens when the inquiry was launched.
REVEALED: How Prince Charles dramatically tried to stop court case of Diana’s butler Paul Burrell that threatened to humiliate the Royals
- Police found a hoard of items belonging to Princess Diana at her butler’s home
- Paul Burrell was later accused of stealing 310 items together worth £4.5 million
- 11 days into the trial, the Queen ‘had a recollection’ proving Burrell’s innocence
The doorbell rang at 6.50 in the morning of January 18, 2001. Paul Burrell, who was asleep, was woken by his wife.
Standing at the door was Detective Chief Inspector Maxine de Brunner and three other police officers.
‘Do you have any items from Kensington Palace in this house?’ Princess Diana’s former butler was asked.
‘No,’ he lied. He was then placed under arrest and the pre-dawn raid on his home near Runcorn in Cheshire began.
What the detectives found was far beyond their expectations.
The rooms were filled with paintings, drawings, china and photographs that clearly belonged to Diana, who’d died three-and-a-half years before, and her children William and Harry.
‘Oh my God,’ exclaimed de Brunner.
In Burrell’s study, she’d just spotted an expensive inlaid mahogany desk inscribed ‘Her Royal Highness’. ‘How did you get all this?’ she asked the butler.
‘The princess gave it to me,’ he said, collapsing into a chair and beginning to sob.
As the search continued, the police discovered 2,000 negatives. A cursory look revealed Charles in the bath with his children, and many others showing the young princes naked.
Other finds included 30 signed photographs of Diana, many empty silver frames, a box containing the princess’s daily personal notes to William at school, and another box of Diana’s more intimate letters to William.
As Burrell’s sobs intensified, an officer shouted from the attic: ‘It’s full of boxes, wall to wall!’
The boxes were wrenched open: inside were bags, blouses, dresses, nightgowns, underwear, shoes, jumpers, suits and hats that had belonged to Diana, including a blue-ribboned hat she’d worn during her visit with Prince Charles to South Korea in 1992.
Her perfume, de Brunner noticed, lingered on the fabric.
Late that afternoon, officers filled a lorry sent from London with 2,000 items that de Brunner judged had been illegally removed.
The princess, she believed, would never have given away such personal material, and certainly not in such quantities.
Nevertheless, a large number of Diana’s possessions remained in the house. But without orders from Scotland Yard either to seize everything that had belonged to the family or to seal the house as a crime scene, there was no more to be done.
‘I want white lilies on my coffin,’ wailed Burrell as he was escorted to the waiting police car.
There can be few people in Britain unaware of the 2002 trial of Paul Burrell, which was dramatically halted after the Queen had a ‘recollection’.
Nearly 16 years on, however, it appears that a great deal went on behind the scenes that was never revealed to the public.
I have talked to many of the police, courtiers and lawyers who were intimately involved in the Burrell case — before, during and after the trial.
Among the most serious disclosures are those relating to Prince Charles — and the attempts made on his behalf to try to stop the prosecution going ahead.
Burrell had originally worked for both Charles and Diana at Highgrove, then moved with the princess to Kensington Palace, where he was a witness to her extreme moods and secret affairs.
Although married himself, he’d had so many gay affairs with guardsmen that Diana’s chef called him ‘Barrack-Room Bertha’.
The public knew none of this, however, when Burrell became a minor celebrity after Diana’s death, appearing on TV shows and even posing for photographers at the Oscars.
News of his former employee’s arrest reached Charles about a week after the police raid.
Unaware of the scale of the alleged theft, and knowing that low-paid staff occasionally pilfered small items, he told his assistant private secretary Mark Bolland that Burrell probably did steal some things ‘because they all do’.
Within hours, however, Charles had become more alarmed. After all, police probes into murky palace habits could produce unexpected difficulties.
Soon afterwards, his senior private secretary Stephen Lamport, looking beaten and downhearted, confessed to a colleague: ‘We’ve got a terrible problem with this man Burrell… the Prince of Wales is distraught.
‘The prince will say he gave the things to [the butler] and that Burrell’s actions were all right.’ Lamport’s confidant was unimpressed. Even Charles had to allow justice to take its course, he said.
Indeed, the investigation was now well under way. During his second police interview Burrell was asked: ‘Did you tell anyone that you had the property?’
Burrell faced a trial at the Old Bailey and Prince Charles was distraught at what might be disclosed
‘No,’ he admitted, insisting that the items — including all Diana’s school reports — were gifts.
Burrell’s solicitor Andrew Shaw, for his part, appeared to think the case would never come to trial.
‘You’re making a terrible mistake,’ he told Maxine de Brunner. ‘They won’t let Burrell’s secrets be splashed in the public domain. They’ll never let this come to trial.’
In light of what happened subsequently, his comments were not quite as far-fetched as they seemed.
April 3, 2001
Along with a Crown prosecution lawyer, Maxine de Brunner arrived at St James’s Palace for a meeting. There was no alternative but to prosecute, they told the Royal Family’s senior officials.
Also present was Charles’s divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, to whom he’d now turned for legal advice.
She revealed that Paul Burrell had sent the prince a handwritten letter in which he offered to return some of the items, provided Charles agreed not to support any prosecution. The letter had been returned on her advice.
The CPS lawyer explained that the case could be closed only if Prince William and Diana’s sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale, who together inherited Diana’s property, signed statements to drop their complaints.
Shackleton’s view was that Charles could not be party to undermining the legal system.
Agreeing to accept the return of some property in exchange for dropping the investigation, she said, would make it look as if Buckingham Palace were participating in a cover-up.
‘It needs to be all or nothing,’ she said.
Sir Robin Janvrin, the Queen’s private secretary, agreed to tell the monarch what had been discussed, and almost certainly did so.
This, of course, would have been the ideal moment for the Queen to recall that she’d allowed the butler to take some of Diana’s possessions for safekeeping. But apparently she didn’t say a word.
As for Charles, he was upset when his own private secretary told him the police intended to prosecute.
Who knew what Burrell might say in the witness box? In effect, he was a time-bomb, having witnessed the prince’s secret meetings and phone calls with Camilla while he was married, and Diana’s many rendezvous with her boyfriends.
He told his spin-doctor Mark Bolland to try to navigate a way out of a prosecution.
May 2
The case against Burrell strengthened.
The police had now had time to watch six videos found in Burrell’s home, featuring Diana talking about the most intimate details of her relationship with the Royal Family, her sex life with Charles, and her affair with police protection officer Barry Mannakee.
The tapes had been recorded by Peter Settelen, the princess’s voice coach, who, soon after her death, had asked her private secretary for the return of not six but 16 tapes.
He’d been told: ‘I am advised by Mr Burrell that he has been unable to trace them.’
What had happened, the police wondered, to the missing ten tapes? [Material from Settelen’s six recovered tapes was used in a Channel 4 documentary last year.]
And there was another tape that worried Charles. Kept in a box of Diana’s and now, he believed, in Burrell’s possession, it described the alleged rape of one member of his staff by another of his staff.
July 19
Burrell’s lawyers now issued a warning to Shackleton. If Burrell were prosecuted, they said, he would have to describe from the witness box not only details of Diana’s sex life, he might also read out quotes from letters in which Prince Philip had allegedly threatened her.
(In fact, the letters were perfectly reasonable, it emerged later.)
Burrell’s lawyers later explained that this was not a threat — the defence was seeking only to protect the Royal Family.
At this point, the CPS and the police asked for a ‘victims’ consultation meeting’ in order to obtain the direct approval of Princes Charles and William to prosecute Burrell.
In anticipation of a police visit to Highgrove, Charles appealed to Bolland: ‘Mark, this is crazy. You must do something.’ The prince was now willing to do anything to avert a trial, especially with William a potential witness.
Burrell simply knew too much. Would he, for instance, dare to describe Diana’s reported use of cocaine to the court? The best way to avoid a prosecution, Bolland agreed, was for Burrell to return all the property he’d taken.
July 24
A top-secret meeting was arranged between Bolland and Burrell. Over coffee, the butler said: ‘I’m sorry.’
He wanted to let Charles know that he’d return all the property, but insisted on telling him so in person.
Throughout the 25-minute meeting, the spin-doctor had been appalled by Burrell’s ‘creepy manner’. The royals’ staff, he thought, were ‘a slimy, weird group with odd relationships’.
Later, he reported back to Charles that the butler wanted ‘a big hug and an offer of a job at Balmoral. He doesn’t want to be cast out’.
The prince repeated thoughtfully: ‘He doesn’t want to be cast out.’ A truth occurred to Bolland then about the royals: ‘No one cares whether Burrell is guilty or not.’
August 3
That very afternoon, the police were expected at Highgrove.
What they didn’t know, Bolland hoped, was that secret arrangements had been made for Prince Charles to meet Burrell a few hours later.
But before the police arrived, the spin-doctor became suspicious that the plan had been leaked to the police, probably by one of Charles’s own protection officers.
The meeting with Burrell must be cancelled, he advised. Charles agreed.
Next, the prince discussed the approach he planned to take with the police.
He intended to ask, ‘Does this really matter? Yes, some items may have been pilfered, but just how serious is it? Not very.’
In the event, however, Charles didn’t get round to saying any of this. Instead, he was palpably shocked when the police told him 2,000 items had been seized at Burrell’s home.
It was the first time he’d heard the actual number.
‘He’s taken the lot!’ Charles exclaimed.
After listening to more evidence against the butler, the prince was asked if he supported a prosecution. ‘We’ve got no alternative,’ he sighed. Before leaving, the police asked Charles not to have any contact with Burrell.
The prince was now in a fix. Officially, he had to support the CPS’s charge that Burrell had stolen the items but privately, he still wanted the prosecution halted.
Another big sticking-point was that Diana’s sister and co-executor, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, was adamant that the butler should be brought to trial.
If she refused to change her mind, there was little Charles could do. Meanwhile, the police confronted Bolland to ask if he’d talked to Burrell. Yes, replied the spin-doctor. His admission confirmed police suspicions.
Bolland was then asked to sign a formal statement as a potential prosecution witness. Legally, this prevented him having any further contact with the suspect. He was relieved — though he worried about whom Charles would rely on now.
Fiona Shackleton? Not if Bolland could help it. While he and Charles wanted the prosecution stopped, she had seemed to waver. They could no longer rely on her, he told Charles.
As for the prince’s private secretary, Stephen Lamport, he was ‘weak and tired’. It was all becoming ‘a mess’, Bolland concluded.
August 18
In an attempt to avert prosecution, Burrell’s lawyer handed the police a 39-page statement signed by his client.
Among other things, it described the butler’s close relationship with Diana — how he would smuggle her boyfriends into Kensington Palace, cancel public engagements so she could be with her lovers, and provide meals for the princess and her man of the moment.
In addition, Burrell hinted that he’d tell what he knew about Diana’s nocturnal visits around Paddington, where she tried to persuade prostitutes to give up their trade by plying them with gifts.
Even the police could see that if Burrell gave detailed testimony about Diana’s sex life in court, the monarchy would be seriously harmed.
Still, there was nothing in the butler’s statement that undermined the charge of theft. So Burrell was once again interviewed.
This time, he claimed that the items found in his house should be seen either as gifts, taken by mistake or handed over to him to be destroyed. He didn’t offer to return anything.
There was no mention of any conversation with Diana’s executors, her sons or the Queen about taking items for ‘safekeeping’. At 2.40pm, Burrell was charged with theft.
A month later, Burrell’s lawyer wrote to Charles, asking for an audience so he could explain ‘the extreme delicacy of the situation’ if his client had to testify.
Charles, who’d taken legal advice, did not reply.
The lawyer then sent further warnings about Burrell’s intention to speak about events of ‘extreme delicacy’ and ‘matters of a very private nature’, and how his enjoyment of Diana’s ‘intimate’ trust would require ‘close examination’ at trial.
Again Charles did not reply. This provoked Burrell’s lawyer to threaten to summon the prince as a witness.
February 13, 2002
Yet another statement from Burrell was delivered to the police — this time about a meeting with the Queen.
They’d talked for three hours, he’d said, sitting on her sofa together shortly after Princess Diana’s death.
The Queen had told him, he said, that his relationship with Diana was unprecedented.
She had spoken about how much she herself had tried to help the princess, and also warned him to be careful — so many people were against Princess Diana, and he had sided with her.
However, the CPS lawyers decided that since Burrell’s statement made no mention of Diana’s property, it wasn’t relevant to the case.
Burrell is pictured behind the Queen. Burrell stood in the dock of Court One at the Old Bailey, accused of stealing 310 items together worth £4.5 million
August 27
Burrell’s lawyer again approached the police, insisting that a message be passed on to Charles.
His client, he said, was offering to return all the royal items in his possession if the prosecution was dropped.
The message was never delivered, though somehow the prince became aware of the butler’s offer — and hoped it would stop the trial going ahead.
Legally, however, that was impossible: the CPS now had sole responsibility for the prosecution.
Nevertheless, Charles ordered his new private secretary, Sir Michael Peat, to express his concern about continuing with the prosecution if it was a lost cause.
August 30
On the prince’s orders, Peat summoned Maxine de Brunner and another police officer to St James’s Palace.
At the outset he directed de Brunner to a low chair so he could look down on her — a higher chair was noticeably moved away — and thereafter spoke only to the junior police officer, Roger Milburn. ‘How can you be sure that these items were not gifts?’ he asked Milburn.
Milburn redirected the question to de Brunner. Not persuaded by her answer, Peat was emphatic that the prosecution should be stopped. ‘You have not got enough evidence,’ he said. ‘We want the property back without a fuss.’
Both officers were disturbed by Peat’s performance. In his concern to protect Charles, he seemed to forget that Burrell had actually been charged with stealing property belonging to Diana’s executors, not the prince.
Or that any decisions about the prosecution now had to be taken by the Director of Public Prosecutions, who was sure he could prove Burrell’s guilt.
September 11
This time, Peat summoned two of Diana’s executors to the palace — her sister Lady Sarah and the princess’s former private secretary, Michael Gibbins.
Both knew that the initiative for the meeting had come from Charles.
‘The police,’ Peat told them, ‘don’t have enough evidence to mount a successful prosecution and the case must be stopped. There is a risk of acquittal.’
His disdain for Commander John Yates — who was in overall charge of the investigation — and de Brunner and Milburn was obvious, and Gibbins shared some of his doubts.
He also spoke frankly about Charles’s fears that, among other things, Burrell would testify in detail about both Diana’s love life and her anger at the way she’d been treated by the Royal Family.
But it was no good. After two hours of discussion, he’d failed to persuade Charles’s sister-in-law to change her mind.
‘Sarah McCorquodale wanted Burrell to get his come-uppance,’ said Gibbins, who was less certain himself about pushing for the case to go ahead.
‘She was convinced that he had made away with the property. She wasn’t interested in deals.’
After the meeting, McCorquodale called Maxine de Brunner, with whom she’d built up a working rapport.
The trial, she warned the senior policewoman, would be thwarted in some way.
October 14
Paul Burrell, aged 44, stood in the dock of Court One at the Old Bailey, accused of stealing 310 items together worth £4.5 million.
Other items taken from his house were not listed because they allegedly belonged to either Charles or William, and neither wished to appear in court as witnesses.
The day’s proceedings made blazing headlines in all the media, raising increasing concern at St James’s Palace.
October 28
Just after 8.30 that Monday morning, 11 days into the trial, Crown Prosecutor William Boyce was reading his papers in a small room adjacent to the court. He was unexpectedly joined by Commander Yates.
‘I’ve just had a conversation with Michael Peat,’ said Yates, then repeated the private secretary’s exact words: ‘Her Majesty has had a recollection.’
On the previous Friday, Peat had explained, the Queen had recalled a meeting five years earlier, soon after Diana’s death. Burrell had come to the palace to tell her about preserving some of the princess’s papers.
‘The Queen agreed that he should care for them,’ said Peat.
Boyce visibly paled. Taking off his wig, he seemed to shrink.
Only by questioning the Queen in court could Burrell’s version of the conversation be rebutted, and that was constitutionally impossible.
No reigning monarch could appear in ‘Her Majesty’s’ court.
‘That’s the end of the trial,’ was Boyce’s view. Later in the day, Peat told CPS lawyers more about the Queen’s recollection.
On the previous Friday, she, Charles and Philip had driven together to St Paul’s for a memorial service for the victims of the Bali bombing.
Driving past the Old Bailey, she asked why a crowd was standing outside. Charles answered that Paul Burrell was on trial. The Queen was apparently unaware that he was being prosecuted.
Then she mentioned that, some years before, Burrell had sought an audience with her to explain that he was caring for some of Diana’s papers, and she’d agreed that he should do so.
What Peat didn’t go into was what had happened afterwards.
After the Royal Family returned from St Paul’s, there had been unusual activity in St James’s Palace.
Lawyers — among them Robert Seabrook, QC, who’d been advising Charles on the Burrell case — were summoned for a conference to discuss the Queen’s recollection.
Peat was told that Crown Prosecutor Boyce should be informed immediately.
Next, Sir Robin Janvrin was called. Told about the new evidence, the Queen’s private secretary expressed his astonishment. ‘Oh my God,’ an eyewitness heard him exclaim.
Thereafter Janvrin did nothing, allowing Peat to continue managing the crisis on Charles’s behalf. The reason for that at least was clear to observers inside the palaces: Janvrin wanted no part in the undertaking.
Then something very strange occurred. Contrary to QC Robert Seabrook’s advice, neither Boyce nor the CPS was told on that Friday afternoon about the ‘recollection’, and the lack of communication continued through Saturday and Sunday.
According to palace rumours, however, Peat did tell Peter Goldsmith, the attorney general, that the recollection was a ‘golden opportunity to get rid of this embarrassment’.
Early on Monday morning, Peat had finally called Commander Yates to report the Queen’s remarks.
To some in the prosecution and to police at the Old Bailey, the circumstances of the recollection described by Peat lacked credibility.
First, Janvrin, an assiduous official, had been regularly briefed about the Burrell investigation, not least because William and Harry were involved. He would certainly have reported the main details of the case to the Queen during their daily meetings.
Second, the Queen was known to read the newspapers regularly, and for over a year Burrell’s plight had been widely reported. The trial itself had dominated the front pages for the nine days before her drive to St Paul’s.
Third, it was unusual for the monarch and her heir — who seldom spoke to each other — to travel in the same car, for security reasons. The coincidence that mother and son should have been so publicly united on that particular day while driving past the Old Bailey was one that raised questions.
Fourth, the version offered by Peat contradicted that of others in the palaces.
Edmund Lawson, QC, would later explain, in a report commissioned by Michael Peat, that the Queen had in fact been aware of the ongoing trial and had been prompted by the publicity relating to it to mention her conversation with Burrell to the Duke of Edinburgh.
According to the report, she had not previously considered the conversation of any relevance, since the correspondence belonging to the Princess of Wales was but a small part of the property alleged to have been stolen by Mr Burrell.
Lawson’s report would also say that it was the Duke of Edinburgh who had mentioned the Queen’s recollection to the Prince of Wales before the memorial service at St Paul’s.
Peat failed to explain why the prosecution was not told about the Queen’s recollection for two-and-a-half days; he failed to report his own consultation with a lawyer to understand the significance of the recollection; and he omitted to explain why he, rather than the Queen’s own private secretary, Sir Robin Janvrin, asked the Queen about her recollection.
Inevitably, some of those involved in the case questioned whether the Queen had ever met Burrell in the ‘three-hour’ audience he had described in his statement of February 13, 2002.
But three witnesses would have been available had the police sought that information, among them a palace page who claimed to have accompanied Burrell to the Queen’s sitting room, where he remained for between 45 and 90 minutes.
Few believed the butler’s version of spending three hours with the Queen, and in any event his description of their conversation — about documents, and not hundreds of Diana’s personal possessions — was irrelevant to the charges he faced.
Similarly, none of the prosecutors or police expressed at subsequent meetings their outright belief of the Buckingham Palace spokesman’s explanation that ‘the Queen did not realise that her evidence was important, and no one told her’.
Nevertheless, that explanation could well have been true. There was no reason for the Queen, by nature a reactive person who absorbed enormous amounts of information, to have taken any initiative after meeting Burrell.
The surprise was the timing of her revelation, coinciding as it did with Charles’s increasing despair — and the palace’s highly convenient interpretation of that meeting.
‘An act of genius,’ was the judgment of one Whitehall observer. ‘Only a golden bullet could have stopped the trial.’
October 30
Only two people could order the trial to end: the Director of Public Prosecutions, David Calvert-Smith; and the Attorney General, Lord (Peter) Goldsmith.
Calvert-Smith prevaricated, so Goldsmith took the lead. He went to see the Queen to explain the consequences of what he termed the ‘fiasco’, then consulted Tony Blair. Robin Janvrin had also called Downing Street.
At that moment, Blair was immersed in deciding the size of Britain’s military commitment for the invasion of Iraq.
Now he was being asked to consider how to save the monarchy. His decision was that the trial should be brought to an end.
November 1
Crown Prosecutor Boyce announced in the courtroom that the trial was over. Charles and Peat breathed sighs of relief.
So did Burrell: ‘The Queen came through for me,’ he exclaimed. In the ensuing excitement, his brother, Graham, told a journalist: ‘He will have his revenge, but he will do it with dignity.’
Within days, Burrell had offered a string of tawdry revelations about Charles and Diana to the Daily Mirror. He would later follow this up with an explosive book that betrayed Diana’s secrets and portrayed the prince as a heartless schemer.
November 2
With the trial in ruins, everyone was blamed except Charles.
The police were widely accused of incompetence, and Maxine de Brunner — who’d kicked everything off by raiding Burrell’s home — was singled out for particular censure.
At 2.30 that afternoon, de Brunner’s mobile rang. To her surprise, Diana’s sister was on the line.
‘I’m so sorry,’ said Lady Sarah McCorquodale. ‘They shouldn’t have done that to you. It’s disgraceful. We’re totally behind you.
‘A deal was struck by Paul Burrell and the Prince of Wales,’ she claimed.
‘They agreed that the trial would be stopped if three things happened. First, Burrell would not mention certain things in his book; second, William’s property will be given back to William; and a third thing which I don’t know.’
Diana’s sister concluded: ‘They couldn’t afford for Paul Burrell to go into the witness box. Burrell had told the Prince of Wales that he would tell all unless the trial was halted.
‘The Palace have maintained that they didn’t know about the Queen’s and Burrell’s conversation.’
De Brunner wrote down every word of this extraordinary tirade.
But Edmund Lawson, the QC commissioned by Michael Peat to investigate the allegation that Charles’s household had influenced the halting of the trial, said in his report that such an allegation did not stand up to scrutiny: there was simply no evidence to suggest there was any interference by Prince Charles ‘to procure the termination’ of the trial.
Nor was there any evidence to suggest that the Queen’s recollection had been made in order to derail the trial.
December 12-19
At the police’s request, both McCorquodale and Diana’s former private secretary Michael Gibbins agreed to sign a note describing their September 11 meeting with Charles’s private secretary.
Peat, they agreed, had sought to stop the trial going ahead.
‘Let’s nick Peat for seeking to pervert the course of justice,’ Detective Sergeant Roger Milburn said to Commander John Yates after showing him the signed note.
Yates apparently agreed, telling Milburn: ‘You’ve set off an Exocet.’
The scandal, had the prince’s private secretary been formally cautioned and interviewed, would have been immense. But nothing happe
March 13, 2003
Keen to lay the whole matter to rest, Michael Peat published the report that he had personally commissioned from Edmund Lawson, QC, on the Burrell fiasco.
At no stage, Lawson wrote, did the prince or anyone on his behalf try to stop the prosecution.
That was plainly untrue. Bolland, Shackleton, McCorquodale and Gibbins had all described various such attempts, as had the prince’s former private secretary Stephen Lamport, the CPS lawyer and various police officers.
That left the most important mystery — the Queen’s recollection.
And now the circumstances differed from the account Peat gave to the CPS lawyers.
In Lawson’s version, she no longer inquired about the crowds outside the Old Bailey that Friday as she was being driven towards St Paul’s.
Instead, before the memorial service Philip had told Charles that the Queen’s recollection had been triggered by publicity about the trial.
According to Lawson, Charles had told Peat about the recollection only on Saturday — the day after the St Paul’s service.
But this was inaccurate.
Charles’s lawyer Robert Sea- brook had been told about the recollection the previous day, and had immediately gone to Clarence House to advise Peat to inform the prosecution as a matter of urgency.
According to Lawson, Charles suggested to Peat that he might speak directly to the Queen, and he did so on Sunday when she confirmed her recollection to him.
As we know, the police weren’t informed until Monday morning. So who told them? Lawson said it was Charles’s lawyer Fiona Shackleton who’d given the news to Commander Yates.
Yet Yates had actually told Lawson that he was ‘100 per cent certain’ that it was Peat who’d phoned him.
The effect of Lawson’s apparent distortion was to impugn Shackleton.
Lawson’s fee for compiling Peat’s report was never disclosed. He died six years later, without receiving an honour, which he might justifiably have expected.
As for DCI Maxine de Brunner, the chief of Scotland Yard showed his robust support by promoting her to deputy assistant commissioner.
Burrell made about £4 million from his book, while hinting that ‘there are many, many more secrets I have not written about. Very personal, very damaging… not very pleasant’.
Michael Peat, when he left the prince’s service, was rewarded with generous severance terms, including the right to stay on in his five-bedroom flat at Kensington Palace for nearly another year.
And Charles? In the polls, his popularity fell back to the dismal level last seen in the days after Diana’s death.
Mr Burrell sobbed in the arms of his defence lawyer, Lord Carlile, as the decision was announced.
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Sweetcheeks @UpYours999
Tape went missing after her death. Burrell saved
from testifying at last minute.
The Queen’s intervention in the Paul Burrell case
The Queen’s intervention in the Paul Burrell case came as a complete shock to the defence team, says his QC, Alex Carlile
Just over two weeks after Jimmy Savile emerged from his heart operation, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris. He was invited to the funeral service at Westminster Abbey but was too weak to attend.
In our final interview, I asked Savile again about his relationships with the royals. ‘What you’ve got to realise is how many books have been written about them by people who don’t really know them,’ he said. ‘Paul Burrell and people like that.’
I put it to him that having worked as Diana’s butler for ten years, Burrell must have surely known her better than most. ‘Yes, he did,’ said Savile, suddenly changing his tune.
‘I helped him get out of his court case.’
In 2002, Burrell was charged with the theft of items belonging to the Princess of Wales but the trial collapsed when it emerged the Queen had spoken to him and a public interest immunity certificate was presented to the court.
‘That was something else,’ smiled Savile, leaning back in his chair, eyes tightly closed as if mentally picturing the next brick being laid on the wall.
‘Nobody could get him off the hook. The entire world had him on the hook. He fell out with [Diana’s] trustees … Paul was very upset about this and because he was so upset, he was a danger, you see.
So they invented this thing that he’d half-inched some of her gear, which he hadn’t.’
Jimmy Savile and Prince Philip 1998
(Janet Cope showed me a 1998 letter from Paul Burrell in which Diana’s former butler said how much he was looking forward to ‘spending some quality time with Jimmy.
I need some sound and wise advice from him as he always knows the right answer.’)
Savile pointed to my tape recorder and told me to turn it off…
pg 410-413
In Plain Sight: the Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies
Geoffrey Dickens: I am concerned The Palace could be part of a chain supplying boys to abusers all over the world”
Former Palace staff member Burrell used to run the Laughing Duck with Fiona Woolf’s footman.
The Laughing Duck. Conveniently links the Palace to Woolf’s footman
Arthur Colin Tucker & Paul Burrell (Laughing Duck)
I’m not a member of the Establishment but the Queen’s butler did get my footman a job!
Now, now! You shouldn’t judge a non-Establishment CSA chair by the footman she keeps!
Fiona Woolf harboured that criminal as her footman:
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Old Fettesian Tucker fled Scotland while awaiting trial & returned with 1 Mansion House address.
Arthur Colin Tucker ‘list’ of paedophiles ?
Colin Tucker, steward to Fiona Woolf, Fettesgate and the Scottish ‘Magic Circle’ Affair, and Wider Networks – Part 1
October 28, 2014
In the letter from the Lord Mayor of London, Fiona Woolf, to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, dated October 11th 2014 and published on the website of the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on October 20th,
as well as the details of connections to Lord and Lady Brittan, the CityUK organisation, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, former Legal Officer NCCL, and Harman’s successor Marie Staunton (who openly defended the organisation’s affiliation to the Paedophile Information Exchange (‘The Left’s web of shame: It’s not just Harman, Dromey and Hewitt.)
As we reveal, many other members of Britain’s ruling liberal elite held senior posts at the NCCL when it was closely linked to paedophiles’
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (the trial of a former teacher at which will take place in early 2015), and the City of London School for Girls (whose former trumpet teacher Helen Goddard was jailed in 2009 for abusing an underage girl, as detailed within this long post), there was a hitherto little commented-upon passage concerning an employee at Mansion House:
I believe it is appropriate to bring to your attention the report of an inquiry conducted in Scotland in 1993 relating to an allegation to pervert the course of justice. A current staff member at Mansion House, an employee of the Corporation, was referred to in that inquiry; the individual concerned was not in the employment of the Corporation during the time period mentioned in the report. Full details of the inquiry and its conclusions (at pages 106-107) are contained in the attached link to the full report (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228813/0377.pdf ). I can confirm that I have never discussed this issue with the individual and was unaware of the individual’s prior history until the matter was recently brought to my attention.
The individual in question is Anthony Colin Tucker, a former solicitor who has been steward to the Lord Mayor since the early 1990s. The report in question is W.A. Nimmo Smith QC and J.D. Friel, In this audio interview, Tucker speaks about his work for the Lord Mayor in what is essentially a butler-like role, suggesting something rather closer than Woolf’s term ‘current staff member at Mansion House’ would imply.
The report refers to the now mostly forgotten almost 25-year old saga involving an alleged ‘Magic Circle’ within the Scottish legal establishment, in which gay judges were alleged to have given more lenient sentences to gay criminals because of fear of blackmail. Tucker’s own trial on charges of embezzlement, for which he was acquitted, was central to this affair; the trial came about after Tucker’s senior partner, Ian Walker, killed himself. One journalist, Graham Grant, Home Affairs Editor for the Scottish Daily Mail, reported on this connection this Saturday (October 25th, 2014), in this article below.
As mentioned by Grant, of central importance is the role of Tucker’s defence counsel, the late Robert Henderson QC. Henderson has been in the news again since his daughter Susie has claimed that she was abused by both him and the late former Scottish Solicitor General Sir Nicholas Fairbairn (Emma Cowing and Graham Grant, ‘I was raped aged 4 by top aide to Thatcher: Woman claims she was abused by senior Conservative MP who visited notorious guest house with paedophile Cyril Smith’, Daily Mail, August 14th, 2014), who has also been alleged to have been a visitor to the notorious Elm Guest House in Barnes, a key location for VIP guests to abuse young boys, said to have been delivered from care homes (‘Sir Nicholas Fairbairn in child abuse scandal link’, The Scotsman, July 13th, 2014). This has led to a renewed interest in the ‘magic circle’ allegations (see for example Jonathan Brocklebank, ‘A magic circle of judges, a sex abuse probe and the sinister truth about the Fettesgate scandal’, Daily Mail, August 14th, 2014), though until Grant no-one had made the connection with someone close to the Lord Mayor of London.
Tucker is also listed as a partner in a company entitled ‘LD Inns’, address 24 Howe Street, Edinburgh EH3 6TG, from March 9th 1988 to July 17th, 1989, together with a Burnett Walker and David Ben Aryeah. It turns out this was the notorious Laughing Duck gay bar (see Rory Knight Bruce, ‘Below the Law: It is a short walk from Edinburgh’s Court of Session to the Laughing Duck’, Spectator, January 27th, 1990), mentioned at various points in the 1993 report, and listed with a three star rating in the 1982 edition of Spartacus International Gay Guide for Gay Men; membership of Spartacus, which was run by Roman Catholic priest John Stamford, who was later convicted of sending pornographic material through the post, also notoriously gave discounts for stays at Elm Guest House, and championed PIE; Stamford also published PAN: A Magazine about Boy-Love
Tucker was also for seven years an elder at St Cuthbert’s, next to Edinburgh Castle (Bruce McKain, ‘Solicitor tells fraud trial his partner had hold over him’, Glasgow Herald, December 16th, 1989). Burnett Walker was also a director of a delicatessen, Victors of Edinburgh; Edinburgh-born David Ben-Aryeah worked for the Israeli military, as a travel agent, and was one of the first journalists to report on the Lockerbie disaster
Amongst other matters, this affair demonstrates the importance that the inquiry incorporates Scotland as well (and Northern Ireland, where the Kincora Boys’ Home scandal is said to have involved intelligence operatives from the mainland). Not only is Fairbairn alleged to have been linked to abusers in both England and Scotland, but also the Paedophile Information Exchange was itself founded in Scotland, in Glasgow in 1974 by Ian Campbell Dunn and Michael Hanson as an outgrowth of the Scottish Minorities Group, of which Fairbairn was himself honorary vice-president in the early 1970s (Guy Adams and Andrew Malone, ‘Revealed: The Full horrifying truth about Sir Nicholas Fairbairn – the other paedophile at Margaret Thatcher’s side’, Daily Mail
In the meantime, it is reported today that Fiona Woolf may have to face a second appearance before the Home Affairs Select Committee … it is important that Keith Vaz MP and other members of the committee also question her over this affair and whether it represents a significant conflict of interests.
Below I reproduce a wide range of articles from Tucker’s trial, through the course of the ‘Magic Circle’ and ‘Fettesgate’ affairs, up until the release of the report
Part 2 will include subsequent articles on the affair, the allegations of sexual abuse made in 2000 against Robert Henderson, then some obituaries of Henderson, followed by recent press articles which have revisited these affairs, relating to Henderson and Fairbairn. The Fettesgate affair related to the theft of a report by Detective Inspector Robert Orr on ‘Homosexuality and the Criminal Law’, relating to the possibility of a homosexual network in the legal profession, which can be read here. This is a complex and detailed affair which requires extensive reading.
Colin Tucker hired as footman to Lord Mayor of Lon BEFORE he was acquitted of embezzlement and WHILE he owned gay bar inv with Magic Circle
Said he was in Cornwall with friend who suggested he sign up with agency. Footman job came up, had 2 interviews!
L.D. Inns Limited
Colin Tucker hired as footman to Lord Mayor of Lon BEFORE he was acquitted of embezzlement and WHILE he owned gay bar inv with Magic Circle
Said he was in Cornwall with friend who suggested he sign up with agency. Footman job came up, had 2 interviews!
L.D. Inns Limited
What’s Arthur ‘Colin’ Tucker been up to now? Still butler to The Lord Mayor of London? Dresser to the m̶a̶r̶e̶ mayor last I heard!
ORGY on the Royal Yacht Britannia
- The orgy aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia reportedly took place in 1981
- The orgy supposedly involved members of the navy, who were later dismissed
- Mr Burrell wasn’t arrested for the orgy, nor did he face criminal charges because he ‘was the Queen’s right hand man at that point’, Burrell’s agent said
‘Paul was there. But he wasn’t arrested or subjected to any sort of criminal charges because he was the Queen’s right hand man at that point.’
Ah, now I get it: If you’re Queenie’s right-hand man you can get away with blue murder!
amazing if I brought porn into work I would be sacked! Not its alright lad, go and get married to keep job
Boris Johnson has just told the House of Commons he will support proposals to build a new Royal Yacht Britannia
Bloody Tories. Can find money to do up Westminster & Buckinham Palace plus fund a royal yacht. No money for social care, NHS, the poor…
Boris Johnson calling for a new yacht for the Royals, wonder what stories the Britannia could tell.
and what dna and other evidence it might contain…
11 Britannia Crewmen Charged In Sex Scandal –
The Britania charges happened on the same day as Dickens named PIE member/paedophile Sir Peter Hayman
Alun tweeted: Isn’t it just amazing that Theresa May knew nothing of this when she appointed Haver’s sister to head the CSA inquiry?
Shortly before Charles and Diana married on July 29, 1981, the Queen apparently suspended Burrell from his job as footman after he was implicated in a gay pornography ring on the Royal Yacht Britannia – and only gave him his job back on the understanding that he would marry his now wife Maria (who worked for the Duke of Edinburgh).
‘Because Paul was the Queen’s footman he was treated like royalty by the other staff and had his own maid.
Paul and Maria Burrell – shareholders in Black Dragon Group LTD managed by Whitmill Trust
Black Dragon Group LTD – Part of the Panama Papers, the Offshore Leaks and the Bahamas Leaks investigations
Agent: Mossack Fonseca
LUDGATE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED was established in 1991 by TIM TROTTER.
Another Ludgate Communications director was LOUISE BEAN – see below.
LUDGATE LAUD LIMITEDwas the lobbying arm of Ludgate Communications established the following year, 1992.
and JOHN REMFREY PINNIGER (Monday Club member who had worked for Harvey Proctor and alongside John Bercow as a Lambeth Councillor).
1.Fagre Benson Hobson Audley Limited (Solicitors)
2.Audley Investments Limited (presumably a related division of the above)
Lawyer and company co-founder GERALD AUBREY HOBSON has been a director of the above law firm AS WELL AS a director of a company called CMGRP UK Limited, where he sat on the board alongside Company Secretary LOUISE BEAN… who was also Company Secretary for Ludgate Laud Limited and Ludgate Communications Limited.
3.Tavistock Investments Plc (*Previously known as SocialGO Plc.) Past Directors of Tavistock Investments Plc include: LORD WILLIAM ASTOR, whom Derek Laud is quoted discussing in ‘Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron’. And IAN LIVINGSTONE CBE, the author of games with occult themes. Lord Astor also sits on the Board of Directors of Silvergate Media with Lord Waheed Alli – ‘Silvergate’ is a term from the poem Ambergris penned by the occultist Aleister Crowley.
4.Black Dragon Management Limited. This occult-sounding company has a famous director in PAUL BURRELL (more below).
5.Ludgate Secretarial Limited and Ludgate Nominees Limited. These related companies are listed as directors of Black Dragon Management Limited alongside Paul Burrell. Burrell was the confidante of Princess Diana, the royal whose targeted murder benefited Derek Laud’s friend Camilla Parker Bowles, and Jimmy Savile’s friend Prince Charles, and quite possibly Jimmy Savile himself.
6.Ludgate Investments Limited*at this address until 2001, several addresses since then. Linked to Ludgate Nominees and Ludgate Secretarial, Ludgate Investments Limited was co-founded by Nick Pople. On its Board of Directors sit CHARLES SEBAG-MONTEFIORE and JAMES STOURTON (a former chairman of Sotheby’s).
7.Dozens of murky companies called ‘Ludgate [***] Limited’. Examples include Ludgate 213 Limited, Ludgate 253 Limited, Ludgate 294 Limited, Ludgate 309 Limited, Ludgate 310 Limited, Ludgate 311 Limited, Ludgate 314 Limited, Ludgate 315 Limited, Ludgate 329 Limited, Ludgate 332 Limited, Ludgate 342 Limited, Ludgate 343 Limited, Ludgate 361 Limited, Ludgate 373 Limited. What these companies exist to do is anybody’s guess.
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QUESTION:Why do so many companies operating out of 7 Pilgrim Street either employ the term ‘Ludgate’, or have a connection to the person of Derek Laud, or have a connection to other individual(s) in Derek Laud’s circle who have links to the VIP/Westminster Paedophile Network?
The Hampstead Judgement Contains Proven Falsehoods and Cannot Therefore be Valid.
As seasoned cover up merchants have long known, the best way to conduct a cover up is to get on the front foot, seize the initiative and present an essentially inverted narrative, where the perpetrators are the victims and the victims are perpetrators. As the Americans might put it, the best form of defense is offense. And so it was that Justice Pauffley announced grandly and unequivocally on the first page of her Judgement that:
“I am able to state with complete conviction that none of the allegations are true. I am entirely certain that everything Ms Draper, her partner Abraham Christie and the children said about those matters was fabricated. The claims are baseless. Those who have sought to perpetuate them are evil and / or foolish “ Justice Pauffley, Hampstead Judgement Page One.
These sentences quite simply cannot possibly be true.
A Profound and Simple Problem:
The Judgement is Not Factually Correct and Should Be Considered Invalid on this Basis.
The Judgement is not factually accurate. It makes claims that are provably false and must therefore surely be perceived to be entirely invalid because the foundational assumptions that underlie Justice Pauffley’s interpretation of events are not factual in basis and this can be simply and quickly proven.
The Factual Error that Proves the Judgement is Without Validity.
On page 21 of the Judgement, in reference to the police interviews Justice Pauffley writes that
” Fact No. “142. “As emerges from the interviews themselves, both P and Q did indeed withdraw their claims, all of them.”
The Justice states this without equivocation, yet when the recording of the police interviews are re-examined it emerges that Witness G in fact never did retract his claim to have been sexually abused in the disabled toilet of a local swimming pool. Please note that the Judgement is very specific and definitive, “withdraw their claims, all of them.”
The record of the police interview actually indicates that contrary to the Judgement’s claims, witness G never did retract his claim relating to the sexual abuse at the swimming pool. It did not happen, so the claim that the judgement makes and one of it’s underlying foundations is factually incorrect.
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Anna Pauffley QC was a judge in the Hampstead Heath SRA case. Here is her verdict on Ricky Dearman, ex-husband of Ella Draper, the mother at the centre of the Hampstead ‘hoax’ whose boyfriend was Abraham Christie. hamhigh.co.uk/news/crime-cou
Now Ella Draper and Ricky Dearman just happen to be the sole directors of Lighthouse Media. That wouldn’t by any chance be related to the London Lighthouse those artists like Hockney, Freud, Charles Maud (brother of Francis) and Bacon associated with? independent.co.uk/news/people/ob
Anna Pauffley QC represented people allegedly involved with Bryn Estyn abuse. It was her job to make sure children were not believed. Here is Dr. Sally Baker on Pauffrey:
Anna Pauffley was also involved with the Hollie Greig case.
heraldscotland.com/news/13062006
Of course, Mr. Janner. Three bags full, Mr. Janner: Anna Pauffley was counsel to the Kirkwood inquiry where it is broadly agreed that Greville Janner lied. cathyfox.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/jan telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/0
According to my records, Anna Pauffley is a resident of the pretty village of Tangley near Andover in Hampshire, population 557. Andover is the epicentre of satanic ritual abuse, with umpteen mentions in the RAINS list compiled by the late Dr. Coleman ...
1983 Buckingham Palace…details of a civil servant involved in child sex
Plymouth
March 17, 2015
Plymouth ex-detective said Cyril Smith child abuse probe mirrors Goad inquiry
A FORMER Plymouth detective who helped bring paedophile William Goad to justice said she is not surprised Met officers may have been told to halt their inquiry into child abuse by Cyril Smith and other public figures.
Recent news reports claim investigators were ordered to hand over evidence and quit their inquiry into the Liberal MP after his arrest.
Smith was held during a 1980s probe into alleged sex parties with teenage boys in south London, a former Met officer told the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
In 2013, former detective Shirley Thompson told The Herald of her long-standing concerns about the Goad inquiry. Goad was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 after he admitted sexually abusing more than a dozen boys.
She noted what she believed was a number of failures by Devon and Cornwall Police, including failing to act on statements by his victims of other paedophiles operating in and around Plymouth.
She said senior officers told her to “put a lid on it” and concentrate her investigation solely into Goad.
She said: “Reading the newspapers today was like a repeat of what I saw with Goad – officers being told to stop investigating, told to ignore evidence, and young men being left to be abused by others. This is what Goad’s victims said for years. It’s what I was told during the inquiry – “put a lid on it and concentrate on Goad”.
“So much of that investigation was not finished. There was an immense possibility and probability there was communication between him and other paedophile offenders in Britain after he fled to Thailand, but no one bothered to look into it.
“There was evidence he snatched boys in other cities and shared his victims with other paedophiles in London and Manchester, but no-one looked into it.”
Shirley said her attempts to get other cases fully investigated in 2004, after Goad was jailed, met with silence. It took another year – and a damning BBC Panorama programme criticising Devon and Cornwall Police – to see an investigation into other men previously mentioned. Even then, only one – Peter Norsworthy – was brought to justice. But by then she said she had been sidelined and left the force soon after suffering breast cancer.
She said: “In relation to the child abuse inquiry in London, I wonder how many whistle blowers have lost their jobs or been ignored and sidelined over the years?
“Now they’re talking about the Met investigating the Met over whether they protected suspected paedophile MPs.
“I suppose it could be worse – they could ask Devon and Cornwall Police to do it, or South Yorkshire Police, after the child abuse scandal in Rotherham.
“They need specialist independent investigators, who cannot be influenced or pressured. That way no-one could threaten them with disciplinary action, threaten them with the Official Secrets Act. They would be able to go where the evidence guides them – not senior officers and not politicians.”
Shirley said that despite being told not to go on fishing trips for information, she would often gather damning statements from victims before alerting her superiors.
She said: “We would interview victims who led us to other victims and we’d interview them and so on. After we’d gathered the evidence senior officers would write the action up after the fact, when it should’ve been the other way around. When other suspect names were mentioned we were told ‘don’t go there’.
“Goad would’ve pleaded not guilty if we had stuck to what we were told to do.”
| 13 September 2013
New probe into William Goad paedophile ring allegations A new investigation linked to “voracious and predatory” paedophile William Goad could uncover “hundreds” more victims, an ex-detective claims. Goad, who is believed to have abused up to 3,500 boys, was jailed in 2004 at Plymouth Crown Court. He died in prison of natural causes last year aged 68. Ex-detective Shirley Thompson said she believed a paedophile ring linked to Goad could still be active. Devon and Cornwall Police said Det Insp Mike Cooper would lead the new inquiry. Goad, who lived in Plymouth, abused boys over a 35-year period dating back to the 1960s. During his trial, prosecutor Martin Meeke QC described Goad as a “voracious, calculating, predatory and violent homosexual paedophile”. He pleaded guilty to 14 specimen counts of serious sexual assault and two counts of indecent assault and was sentenced to life in prison. The new investigation follows a complaint from one of Goad’s victims. Paul Wyatt, 44, who has waived his right to anonymity, told BBC News that Goad, who abused him for four years from the age of 12, was part of a “bigger network of paedophiles” which included people in positions of “power and trust“. “There are people who have sold their soul to the devil, without a doubt,” he said. Mr Wyatt’s complaint – that some allegations of abuse by Goad and others were ignored by police during the original inquiry – was investigated internally by Devon and Cornwall Police’s professional standards department. Its findings were voluntarily referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which advised further investigations should be carried out. The IPCC said an investigation into the conduct of officers was not necessary. However, it advised the force “there were still areas of concern around allegations made”. Mr Wyatt said he hoped a new investigation would allow victims to be able to “close the book”. He said: “Goad left a legacy in this city and people are still suffering the effects of it. “We need to be able to break that legacy and build a platform where victims can feel relaxed about coming forward knowing they’re going to be listened to.” Goad, who owned discount shops and market stalls, groomed his victims by offering them jobs and then inviting them home. During Goad’s trial, the jury was told he had boasted of a “record” of sexually abusing 142 boys in one year – a claim later denied. After he was jailed, Goad wrote to BBC One’s Panorama programme, claiming he himself been “physically, sexually and mentally abused for years” at Forde Park approved school in Newton Abbot where he was sent by magistrates aged 10. The letter said: “What happened to me as a boy messed my whole life up… the authorities who put me into that approved school turned their back on me and I had to cope on my own.” A Panorama in 2005 about Goad followed information from a detective who was involved in the original investigation. Former Det Con Shirley Thompson said she always believed there were more victims and more abusers. She said she was pleased a new investigation would be carried out as there could be “hundreds” more victims who had been – or still were being – abused by paedophiles connected to Goad. Ms Thompson said when she was called into the inquiry in 2003 after Goad was arrested, a number of victims identified several abusers other than him. However, it became “apparent”, she said, some senior officers wanted to restrict the inquiry and focus the attention on Goad. “I heard a conversation that said: ‘Stick with what you’ve got – we need to put a lid on it’,” she said. Devon and Cornwall Police said the new investigation was “not directly connected” to the historic William Goad investigation. “A victim of William Goad has made a number of allegations which are currently being investigated. “This investigation is likely to take some time and is being progressed by experienced detectives in Plymouth. “Throughout the historic William Goad investigation, specialist support was given to numerous victims for an extended period of time. “Should any further information come to light then this will be appropriately investigated.” |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti…-children.html
Inside the mind of Plymouth’s most notorious paedophile
April 08, 2017
William Goad was a millionaire whose career began on a market stall
One of Britain’s most prolific paedophiles – Plymouth businessman William Goad – stopped attempting suicide in prison after he believed he would be freed six years into his life sentence.
Goad, of Ford Park Road, was jailed for life at Plymouth Crown Court in October 2004 after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing young boys.
During his sentencing hearing, prosecutor Martin Meeke QC, told the court: “It is believed there has been no single defendant with more victims than this man.”
Millionaire Goad was branded a ‘voracious, calculating, predatory and violent homosexual paedophile’ who had once boasted of beating his own ‘record’ of abusing 142 boys in a year
In that time he set up and ran the Mount Gould Camping Club, opened the Cornish Market World in St Austell with a business partner, and later opened a children’s play zone Ben’s Playworld in the same area.
The ‘strictly private and confidential’ minutes revealed how a man revealed during counselling how as a child he was abused by a paedophile gang, naming Goad as the ringleader. The psychiatrist revealed to the group the man had gone to police “in the summer of 1994” and listed other children also abused and names of “some of the paedophiles concerned”.
The minutes revealed how Goad’s house was “kitted out like a boys club” and that “in payment of the abuse the children suffered they were all given BMX bikes”
Some of the abused boys’ parents “had debts paid or overlooked and some were taken away for weekends by Bill Goad and associates”.
The minutes noted: “The weekends away were spent in other large cities such as London and Manchester where the boys were shared with other men in these cities.
“The boys were threatened to keep quiet and were paid off.”
Most ominously, the minutes noted: “It appears that some prominent men in society have or did have associations with this ring.”
William Goad (1944 – 20 October 2012) was a British millionaire businessman from Plymouth, Devon who was imprisoned for life for child rape. He was called in various newspapers “Britain’s most prolific paedophile”,[1][2][3] with his assaults causing two of his victims to commit suicide.[2]Goad was sent to prison for life in October 2004.[1] He pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault and 14 counts of rape.[a][4]He was described in court as a “voracious, calculating, predatory and violent homosexual paedophile” who sexually abused young boys over a 30-year period.[4]
Goad’s fortune was once estimated to be around £25 million.[6] Goad opened Cornish Market World in 1991, which became at one point Britain’s biggest indoor market with more than 300 stalls.[7]
In the mid-1990s Goad launched Ben’s Playworld, a children’s play zone hosting a range of activities aimed at 2 to 12-year-olds, including mega-slides, giant tubes and a massive ball-pond.[7]
Goad died of natural causes at HMP Isle of Wight, Albany on 20 October 2012.[4][9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goad
Timeline of a Child Rapist 4 – William Alexander Goad
William Goad aka Bill aka Billy aka David Scott aka George Healey was possibly the countries most prolific child rapist.
I think he’s linked to john Stingemore and Neil keir… In fact I would put money on it…
John Stingemore at the trial of Peter Sutcliffe..linked to Savile..linked to McSweeney…
DCI Bornshin was the step father of Peter Bornshin who killed himself in 1994…Who was at Grafton close children’s home when Elm house was raided
Peter and is brother David were both at Grafton close children’s home and were so called “rent boys” at Elm house
Neil Keir was at the Elm house raid and put Carole Kasirs son in care although he was long gone from Grafton close at the time… DCI Sage and DCI Bornshin were in charge of the raid…
Andrew ‘Neil” Keir who was the OIC of Grafton close children’s home in 81-82
he worked in Hull at the De La Pole mental hospital after he ran from Grafton close..I was told he was there until he retired…that would have been in 2008…I was told that from a member of operation Fernbridge
De La pole is linked to jimmy Savile although it has been hushed up as it links prominent people to Elm house and the Westminster child sex scandal…
May 2015 Chris Bornshin died
John Stingemore,Leon Brittan and Lord Janner all died in 2015
Yes, it seemed to be de rigeur to snuff it in 2015 if you were somehow connected to Westmonster.
https://twitter.com/TrojanManifesto/status/944640849291481088
Lord Justice Sir Peregrine Simon, Justice Simon – William Goad
Andover rapist, Ronald Bennett, jail term cut by judges
Lord Justice Simon, Mr Justice Soole and Mr Justice Blake.
5 Mar 2017
THE founder of an Andover children’s charity – caged for a string of horrific child sex crimes – has had his sentence slashed by top judges in London.
As previously reported by the Advertiser, Ronald Nicholson Bennett, 73, of Launcelot Close, was jailed for 16 years in October for five crimes against two girls.
The offences took place more than three decades ago and caused “life-changing devastation” to the victims.
But after an appeal on Tuesday, three senior judges in London cut the “excessive ” term to 14 years.
Bennett founded the now-disbanded Brave Hearts children’s charity and had refused to go into the witness box to defend himself during his trial.
In 2007 he was fundraiser of the year at the Pride of Andover awards where he was congratulated by Esther Rantzen.
http://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/15129650.Andover_rapist_jail_term_cut_by_judges/?ref=twtrec
Lord Justice Sir Peregrine Simon
Andover rapist, Ronald Bennett, jail term cut by judges
He had gone on to serve the community for over two decades with charity work, he told
Lord Justice Simon,
Mr Justice Soole and
Mr Justice Blake.
Justice Blake.
Judges hand-picked for special cases where establishment links need to be covered-up…
5 Mar 2017
Lord Justice Simon, Mr Justice Soole and Mr Justice Blake cut paedophile’s jail term.
THE founder of an Andover children’s charity – caged for a string of horrific child sex crimes – has had his sentence slashed by top judges in London.
As previously reported by the Advertiser, Ronald Nicholson Bennett, 73, of Launcelot Close, was jailed for 16 years in October for five crimes against two girls.
The offences took place more than three decades ago and caused “life-changing devastation” to the victims.
But after an appeal on Tuesday, three senior judges in London cut the “excessive ” term to 14 years.
Bennett founded the now-disbanded Brave Hearts children’s charity and had refused to go into the witness box to defend himself during his trial.
In 2007 he was fundraiser of the year at the Pride of Andover awards where he was congratulated by Esther Rantzen.
http://www.andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/15129650.Andover_rapist_jail_term_cut_by_judges/?ref=twtrec
The idea that we keep the political and judicial systems apart in this country is sound. No one would want a crooked government being able to lean on the courts to make sure decisions always went the “right” way. But when you study this week’s decision to cut 10 years from the sentence handed down to Roy Whiting, the killer of Sarah Payne, you might come round to see the justice in my idea for a radical overhaul of our legal system.
To highlight the legal lunacy of the decision made in the High Court by Mr Justice Sir Peregrine (Simon)
Simon, unfortunately it is necessary to remind you of the continued depravity exhibited by the predatory paedophile whose case he has seen fit to support….
…what was going on in Mr Justice Simon’s head when he made that shocking decision to uphold the rights of a child murderer.
The judge “has form” in puzzling verdicts though; five years ago he took two years off the sentences of three Real IRA terrorists jailed for a bomb plot and refused a bid to increase the minimum tariff for William Goad.
Now aged 60, he was dubbed Britain’s vilest paedophile having abused hundreds of boys. As a consequence, he
Paedophile Army sergeant who raped a young girl has jail term cut by top judges
February 22, 2017
A paedophile army sergeant who raped one young girl and committed sex attacks on another has had his jail term cut by top judges.
Alan McCurry, 67, who served in the 4th Battalion Mercian Regiment, based in Farnborough, abused the victims during the 1970’s and 1980’s.
McCurry lived in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, after leaving the Mercians in 1982. And he later served as a chef in a Territorial Army division of the Merseyside-based King’s Regiment.
He was arrested after one of the victims plucked up the courage to go to the police in 2010.
He was convicted of two counts of rape, four of indecent assault and one of indecency with a child.
Lord Justice Simon, at London’s Criminal Appeal Court, cut his sentence by a year.
Justice Michael Soole
Justice Holroyde / Sir Timothy Victor Holroyde
The judge, sitting with Mr Justice Holroyde and Mr Justice Soole, also heard McCurry’s bid to get his convictions overturned.
Lord Justice Simon commented:
“These were very serious offences with a devastating impact on the lives of the victims,” he added.
But aspects of the 15-year sentence were “unlawful” and the overall term had to be cut by a year.
The notorious Medomsley run by the Home Office where much child sexual abuse had occurred had been knocked down. [HT @RandolphTrent]
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British court refuses to extradite suspected American paedophile
UK judges say Roger Giese, a fugitive from FBI since 2007, can only be sent to US after assurances his human rights will not be breached
The two judges at the high court in London made it clear that if no assurance was given, they would refuse to hand over Roger Giese, 40, to stand trial in California, where he is charged with sexually abusing a boy under the age of 14 from 1998 until 2002.
The former choirmaster has been living in a village in Hampshire under a different name and working for a PR company.
Giese is wanted in Orange County, California, for allegedly committing “lewd acts” with a child. He is alleged to have befriended the boy in 1998, when he was working as a voice coach for the All-American Boys Chorus. He fled the US eight years ago just as he was about to stand trial.
An extradition request from the US was certified by the Home Office in May 2014, and Giese was arrested on 4 June last year. But magistrates court district judge Margot Coleman refused the request last April.
Lord Justice Aikens and Mr Justice Holroyde stated in a joint written judgment that Coleman was right to conclude that extradition would be “inconsistent” with Giese’s ECHR rights. The judges said that if no assurance was given “in due time”, the US government appeal for the right to extradite must be dismissed.
According to a Daily Mirror investigation, Giese set up home with a new partner in the Hampshire countryside. There was no suggestion she knew about his past. Together, the pair built a PR company with clients including the travel firm (Savile-linked)Thomas Cook.
(Lord Alistair McAlpine involved)
US alleged paedophile Roger Giese set for extradition
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14 August 2017
- From the section Hampshire & Isle of Wight
An alleged paedophile who was on the FBI’s most wanted list can be extradited to the USA, a judge has ruled.
US national Roger Giese, 42, is wanted for trial in California, charged with sexually abusing a boy under the age of 14 between 1998 and 2002.
His counsel had argued conditions in US prisons and an extended custody threat meant he should not be sent back.
The Secretary of State will now make a final decision on the case.
District judge Margot Coleman said she had thought a “great deal” about the case before ruling against Mr Giese at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Mr Giese emptied his bank account and fled to the UK on the eve of his trial in 2007, leaving his family behind.
He is wanted in Orange County after allegedly befriending the child when working as a voice coach for the All-American Boys Chorus in 1998.
As well as child sex offences, US Federal authorities also issued a warrant for Mr Giese’s arrest on a charge of “unlawful flight to avoid prosecution”.
The married former choirmaster was eventually traced to a Hampshire village where he was living under a different name, working for a PR company, and cohabiting with a woman who knew nothing of his true identity.
Since 2014, a series of extradition battles have been fought after the Home Office certified a request from the US.
Mr Giese’s removal was previously blocked by High Court judges on human rights grounds.
He now has 14 days to appeal against the decision.
- Survivors say he was not the only abuser
- Official report concluded that investigators could have done more
- Now police launch a fresh search for other paedophiles in the case
William Goad
Police have launched a new investigation into Britain’s worst ever paedophile after an internal report revealed that officers failed to hunt down his sick accomplices.
Goad died last year in prison aged 68, but some of his survivors have long suspected there were others involved in his child abuse ring who escaped the net.
Their claims have now been backed by a police probe which said detectives focused so narrowly on Goad that they sidelined claims he had help.
The report by Devon and Cornwall Police’s Professional Standards Department (PSD) said hundreds of possible new victims have come forward after his conviction but none had even been interviewed properly.
Survivors have always claimed he had links with other paedophiles and sometimes abused boys with them.
A police document from 1996 warned that Goad’s abuse ring contained ‘prominent members of society’ – but none were ever identified.
Devon and Cornwall Police launched their internal probe after a complaint was lodged last November by Paul Wyatt, who was abused by Goad in his teens and has campaigned for years to see the case reopened.
The PSD referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission but insisted the force had correctly followed its policy at the time and did not recommend specific disciplinary action.
However, investigators agreed there was a possibility other survivors ‘might have also been abused by other offenders and thus the lack of any police action has potentially meant these offenders have retained their liberty and continued their offending behaviour’.
Mr Wyatt, who said survivors who came forward were simply given a crime number and referred to support services, welcomed the new inquiry.
He said: ‘Of the 17 witnesses who originally were part of the trial which led to Goad’s eventual conviction, some had named other paedophiles connected to Goad who had also abused them. This information eventually led to the convictions of other paedophiles in the last few years.
‘What if these other hundreds of victims, that came forward but were never allowed to make statements, were abused by others as well?
‘They were just given crime reference numbers and a telephone helpline to ring. It means their offenders have been active in Plymouth for all this time without ever being brought to book.’
Mr Wyatt was backed by former detective constable Shirley Thompson, who helped secure Goad’s life sentence in 2004.
| And by the 90s Goad was a rich man. He was a joint owner of a huge indoor market in Cornwall. The business is worth several million. He knew his share would be at risk if he was arrested and ordered to compensate his victims. In 1998 he fled abroad. With a false passport Goad set about hiding not just himself but his assets too. He was now wanted for questioning.Secret filmingBut when police approached Ken Gorvin, associate and business partner of over 30 years, he couldn’t help. Did he ever offer you any help to tell you where Mr Goad was?SLEVIN: Certainly no information came to us to indicate where he was.POWYS: So there was no information from Mr Govin that “Yes, I know where he is and this is where he is”?SLEVIN: No.POWYS: What police didn’t know was that the two men were in contact. In October 1999, while he was on the run, Goad travelled to Spain to meet Gorvin. There they struck a deal. What exactly they agreed isn’t known, but what is clear from the company documents is that Bill Goad resigned from the business and transferred his shares. Ken Gorvin became the sole director of a new company in which he and his family hold all the shares. In 2003 Goad ventured back to the UK and stayed at this hotel on the outskirts of Plymouth, he was caught and arrested on his way back from a meeting with Gorvin and lawyers to discuss the Cornish market’s trading hours. It was then police found out Goad was booked into the hotel under his false identity.He was booked in under the alias.SLEVIN: Yes.POWYS: What name was given?SLEVIN: The name of Gorvin was used to confirm the booking.POWYS: So the name of Ken Gorvin was used.SLEVIN: And to confirm the credit card booking, yes.POWYS: Was it paid by credit card, cash? How was it paid for?SLEVIN: It was by credit card in the name of Gorvin.Secret filmingPOWYS: Mr Gorvin declined to answer our questions saying we were acting maliciously. We wanted to ask if he knew of Goad’s false identity and how the business assets had been dispersed. At Goad’s sentencing the court heard that his money from the deal must have been secreted or hidden, and that as a result, there was nothing left to compensate the victims. Most of those victims can’t sue Goad either. The law says victims of abuse have to sue within six years of turning 18. For Ian Gibbons it’s too late, he’s too old, and he’s been warned his record may put off the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority. They make awards to victims of violent crime, but not always if they themselves have gone on to offend. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl…/crimewave.txt
As I mentioned, Goad was extremely close to Gorvin and they were in partnership in the majority of Goad’s companies. Lots of chopping and changing within the companies, no doubt hiding the assets. One of the companies Cubic Vision was originally called Charlie’s Adventureworld and it is this company that eventually appears to have been sold by the now sole owner Ken Gorvin before he set off for a life in Australia.
http://www.townandcountrymarkets.co….ture-land.html
I believe this to be Gorvin, married Mel Gorvin in 2008 and now living what appears to be a very comfortable life in Perth Australia.
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/ken-gorvin/26/454/6a1
https://www.facebook.com/ken.gorvin
https://www.facebook.com/mel.gorvin
Unfortunately those that were abused appear to have received no financial compensation, as the majority of Goad’s millions simply disappeared.
Edit: Yes that is definitely the Gorvins as Mel Gorvin’s Facebook page has a ‘friend’ in the name of Donna Hood who was the company secretary for almost all William Goad’s companies. Perhaps she knows where the money has gone?
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/9…CHRISTINE-HOOD
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/9…CHRISTINE-HOOD
The domain name bensplayworld.co.uk has been registered on behalf of a client of ours.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050203032544/http://www.bensplayworld.co.uk/
Contact Person: Mr. Kenneth J Gorvin, Director
One of the longest associates of William Goad was Kenneth (Ken) Gorvin, who was director of many of Goad’s companies and had an association with him for over 30 years.
He is named and interviewed in the BBC documentary Crime Wave transmitted 6th Jan 2005.
Did corrupt Plymouth policeman tip off Britain’s worst paedophile William Goad?
February 28, 2014
A “CORRUPT” police detective is feared to have helped derail investigations into one of Britain’s most notorious paedophiles.
William Goad was jailed for life in 2004 after he admitted sexually abusing more than a dozen boys.
However, his survivors have long claimed that Goad appeared to act with impunity for many years.
Goad himself used to boast to his victims that he was untouchable.
Police officers were seen going to Goad’s address while he was under observations by a officers from special “Task Force”.
One officer, who has since died, is repeatedly mentioned in the report and his action have been described as “suspicious” and the decision to have him be part of a later investigation into Goad’s abuse as “concerning”.
The report by PSD notes that in the early 1980s the Task Force conducted observations on Goad’s house “as a result of intelligence received believed to be regarding underage sex at the address”.
One of the two officers who carried out the observations told PSD investigators he recalled how a Detective Constable [Mike} Foulden was seen going to the address.
An Inspector who led the operation, but who has since retired, also confirmed Det Con Foulden’s unexpected presence at Goad’s home.
When police finally raided the property, believing they would find incriminating evidence such as video recordings, they instead found nothing, except “Masonic material”, he report says.
The officer carrying out the observations told PSD investigators that “it appeared that Mr Goad was expecting the police”.
The retired Inspector also told PSD investigators he believed the operation might have been compromised by Det Con Foulden.
The matter was referred upwards to another senior officer.
Another officer – who retired as a distinguished senior officer – was interviewed by PSD investigators and recalled how when they were a constable, they remembered Det Con Foulden coming into the Task Force office and asking questions about the operation.
This incident was also referred to the Task Force supervisors as it was thought “suspicious”.
The PSD report notes that the visit of Det Con Foulden to Goad’s home, together with the suspicion at the time that the observations might have been compromised by him, “does highlight the question of what, if any action, was taken in regards to this.”
Paul has bitterly complained that in 1986, when he was collected for interview by two officers about the abuse he suffered at the hands of Goad.
One of them was Det Con Foulden.
During the trip to the police station, he said the officer said to him: “We’ve heard that Billy Goad popped your cherry”.
As a result of this comment, and others during police interview, Paul felt he could only reveal a small part of the abuse he suffered.
He did not make a fuller statement until 1994, which saw the launch of a new investigation.
This investigation was binned after the Crown Prosecution Service said further charges would be an “abuse of process”.
Two years later more victims came forwards but as police launched another investigation, Goad fled to Thailand until he return in 2003.
At his sentencing the successful Plymouth market trader was described by Judge William Taylor as “a voracious, calculating and predatory paedophile over the past 40 years who has corrupted generations of boys aged between eight and 16”.
The PSD report, which was launched to investigate whether a number of officers were seen going to Goad’s home, has found Paul Wyatt’s complaint cannot be upheld.
However, Paul feels it has uncovered a likely explanation as to why Goad escaped justice for so many years.
Paul told The Herald: “When Foulden said in the police car he’d heard Goad had “popped my cherry” I had not told anyone else at that stage.
“He had come to me because another victim had said I was also victim of Goad’s – but he never said what Goad had done.
“I believe the only way he would’ve known that detail was from Goad himself.
“Because of what he said, and how he behaved during the interview, I never made a full disclosure to him.
“Because of Foulden’s impact on me, Goad was allowed to carry on abusing boys for another 15 years.”
Some quarters have suggested that there could be an innocent explanation, in that Det Con Foulden was a golfer, who played for a police golf team and often encouraged local businesses to sponsor prizes and that his visit to Goad’s address may have been to garner sponsorship.
His arrival at the Task Force office may have been genuine interest in the inquiry and his comments to Mr Wyatt may have come about due to the officers’ “brash, larger than life character”, rather than any dishonesty.
This is dismissed by Paul, who notes that other officers had flagged Det Con Foulden up to senior officers in the early 1980s for his possible links to Goad, yet he was later given a significant role in investigating allegations against the market trader.
He said: “I believe he was aiding and abetting Goad.
“I believe he was feeding Goad statements.
“Just after I made my first statement to police I had the first attempt on my life.
“Other victims of Goad had been sent to get me, one with a big bowie knife.”
He said Det Con Foulden also intimidated him during the 1986 interview, using a specific piece of information which Paul never revealed to police until years later.
He said: “Foulden threatened me with a charge on an incident which involved me and someone else.
“The only way he could’ve found out about it was from direct contact with Eddie Pratt, a man closely linked to Goad, who was later exposed by BBC Panorama as a paedophile.
“I did not reveal this information until I was interviewed in 2005 by Det Con Shirley Thompson.
“There was no way he could’ve know it, unless he was in contact with Eddie Pratt or from Goad himself.
“That information was not in the public domain, or even known to police.
“I think he threatened me in an attempt to keep me quiet regarding Goad.”
Police finally launched Operation Faber into Pratt and others in April 2005.
Eighteen days after Paul gave a video interview, disclosing his abuse at the hands of seven men, including Pratt, Pratt committed suicide by hanging in France.
The operation in the jailing of Peter Norsworthy for 15 years for nine counts of rape.
In 1987 Goad was sentenced to six months, suspended for two years, for the three counts of indecent assaults on Paul.
He was found not guilty on sexual assault charges on six other boys.
Goad died of natural causes in HMP Albany on the Isle of Wight in October 2012.
Paul fears these other boys were also interviewed – and put off giving a fuller account – by Det Con Foulden.
He said: “Foulden interviewed several boys.
“He was one of the main investigators.
“Goad got not guilty’s on all but my charges.”
Paul said the finding by the PSD report, that there was “no case to answer” was “bitter-sweet”.
He said: “It touches on the concept that police knew there was something suspicious about Foulden. A number of officers raised concerns about Foulden at the time, including the observation team and a senior investigating officer. Since then some of Goad’s victims have mentioned Foulden.”
Following a separate complaint by Paul, police last year launched a new investigation made “during and since previous inquiries” into Goad.
Paul said: “It all shows the difference between policing back then and how brilliant it is now.
“Now victims feel safer than ever. They know they will be listened to and it will be properly investigated. That’s what this has always been about for me.”
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police: “The allegations subject of the complaint have been fully investigated by our Professional Standards Department which has involved interviewing both serving and some retired officers.
“However no evidence has been gained to support the allegations and the complaint is not upheld.”
FORMER DETECTIVE: ‘COMPLACENCY, CORRUPTION AND NEGLECT LED TO A DECADE OF FURTHER ABUSE’
THE detective who helped jail Goad said she has long believed there was a “corrupt officer” who “compromised” earlier investigations.
Former Det Con Shirley Thompson said the PSD investigation still leaves questions unanswered.
She said: “I still would like to know the justification for not going to Thailand to seize Goad’s computer after he returned to the UK under a false name.
“It could have given us a lot of information.
“We know he was sending e-mails and had access to a computer, because we had access to information he was sending them to his business partner in England.
“If he was a major drug dealer they would’ve had an officer on the next aeroplane.
“But the rape of young boys? They were not even going to suggest it. It was a case of “put a lid on it” because they were frightened allegations of corruption were going to come out.
“Why was there no investigation of Goad’s Blackpool trip where he procured boys? No investigation into allegations about Goad’s journeys to other cities with kids being kidnapped and abused?
“Why was Goad allowed to live under an pseudonym in Ivybridge before he fled to Thailand?
“If Goad did not know police were after him, why did he use a pseudonym?”
In September last year, The Herald exclusively reported how the former detective had repeatedly urged her bosses in 2004 to go further with the investigation into other alleged abusers linked to Goad, but to no avail.
She said she had first heard Det Con Foulden mentioned in the 1990s in relation to another case.
She said: “I was a probationary officer, dealing with a nuisance phone call case. The woman mentioned a man who was linked to boys’ homes. She said Det Con Foulden would go ‘dining’ with this man on a weekly basis.
“Years later the man committed suicide after a boy made allegations of abuse.
“I heard there had been surveillance years before so I contacted the detective who made the surveillance.
“The detective said I wouldn’t find any of it, saying ‘some people are untouchable’.
“I went to a CID officer asking what should I do with the information I was being given by this woman about this abuser. The detective said leave it with me, but came back later and said if I valued my job, I should burn the lot.”
“I do believe there was a corrupt officer who compromised the initial inquiries.
“There is still so much that needs answering.
“As Paul has said before, there should be a public inquiry.
“I believe that because of complacency, neglect and corruption, it led to a decade more of boys being raped by Goad.”
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PANORAMA CRIME WAVE RECORDED FROM TRANSMISSION: BBC-1 William Goad 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/panorama/transcripts/crimewave.txt
IvyBridge area
Well known children’s home in Devon has been temporarily shut down.
Dame Hannah Rogers children’s home in Ivybridge shut down amid police probe
August 08, 2014
A HOME for children with disabilities has been temporarily closed and alternative living arrangements made pending a police probe.
Details emerged yesterday that children’s residential services at Dame Hannah Rogers Trust children’s unit in Ivybridge have been suspended until at least mid September.
Devon County Council had to plan alternative care arrangements after the action was taken on Tuesday night.
It is understood that the suspension came after the Trust referred itself to the authorities over safeguarding issues.
One of the UK’s oldest charities, Hannahs has sites in Ivybridge and Seale-Hayne, Newton Abbot. It provides learning, care and support to children and adults with a range of disabilities.
A Devon County Council spokesman said: “Due to on-going safeguarding concerns and police investigation the regulatory body Ofsted have made the decision to serve notice of temporary suspension on the Dame Hannah Rogers Trust home in Ivybridge.”All the social care and health authorities who fund placements at the home have been informed and are working together to plan alternative care arrangements.”Councillor James McInnes, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member with responsibility for children, schools and skills, said: “We are very concerned about the difficulties this disruption in service places on children with very high needs and their families. We are working with regulators and all other authorities to find solutions to this situation as quickly as possible. We want to ensure the highest quality care for our most vulnerable children and adults and we place their safety at the upmost importance.”
Read more at http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/dame-hannah-rogers-children-s-home-ivybridge-shut/story-22123087-detail/story.html#Jx2MxgvHtBOs8xW6.99
We’ve been aware of rumours about the place for some time.
But notice what Gary Streeter, MP, says: ” I do think that Dame Hannah Rogers will come out of this with their reputation intact and their heads held high.”
CUB CLASS TRAVEL: Alison Seabeck, left, and Charles Howeson, right, present tickets
A SCOUT group travelled in style to London to collect their environmental awards.
Members of the 47th Plymouth (Langley) Scout Group won a special Green Apple award for their work in supporting villagers in Nepal.
The Scouts were given three first class rail tickets by First Great Western chairman Charles Howeson for their trip to the House of Commons this week.
The Scouts have been involved in fundraising for the charity Clinic Nepal, which was set up to provide a health clinic for the 20,000-strong community of Meghauli, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital.
In October last year the Plymouth group, along with Scouts from Bristol, held a ‘Jungle Jamboree’ with local Scouts in Nepal.
Fran Cramoysan, whose son Jez went to London this week, said they had laid the foundation stone for the new Scout hut last October, and hoped to have an opening ceremony when they take another group to Nepal in October 2009.
Mr Howeson said: “First Great Western is proud to be able to support Langley Scout Group.
“The work they have undertaken in Nepal is an example to us all. I also wish them good luck in representing their country in the European Awards for the Environment.
Commodore Charles Howeson
Lieutenant Colonel Bear Grylls.
“Derek Laud… ran a Pimlico PR agency called Ludgate Communications for a number of years…
“(He was) in cahoots with Ian Greer Associates which has since been scandalised because of the Neil Hamilton Affair and payment for questions on behalf of Al Fayed…
Strategy Network International – Derek Laud
In June 1990, Hamilton was recruited by the right-wing Monday Club activist Derek Laud to work for Strategy Network International , a firm specifically created to lobby against anti-apartheid movements and economic sanctions and for apartheid South Africa‘s ‘transitional government’ of Namibia set up in defiance of UN Resolution 435 on Namibian independence. Derek Laud was an ex-Monday Club activist and protégé of Hamilton’s friend Michael Brown, who offered Hamilton a fee of £8,000 per year. Hamilton failed to register the paid-for consultancy. Hamilton took free trips to South Africa in the company of Brown.[19][20]
David Cameron’s freebie trip to South Africa
The trip was organised and funded by Strategy Network International (SNI), created in 1985 specifically to lobby against the imposition of sanctions on South Africa.
Yet when asked by the authors if Mr Cameron wrote a memo or had to report back to the office about his trip, Alistair Cooke – in 1989 his boss at Central Office – said it was “simply a jolly”, adding: “It was all terribly relaxed, just a little treat, a perk of the job.
Southwest Pathology Services (SPS) is a joint venture between Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and private sector partners Integrated Pathology Partnerships (iPP).
SPS has invested in a new, state-of-the-art hub laboratory and equipment to deliver streamlined, high quality, cost effective pathology services across the south west.
The official open day was attended by dignitaries including SPS Chairman Charles Howeson, Lord Carter of Coles and Taunton MP Jeremy Browne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1CJaMQbKt0
Minh Alexander @alexander_minh
Charles Howeson, former Chair of South West SHA, was also former Chair of NHS Property Services and a signatory to @Jeremy_Hunt ‘s response to Mid Staff Public Inquiry report
All aboard the train home! Immaculate six-bedroom house complete with outdoor model railway is yours for £800,000
- Train firm executive Charles Howeson is selling his ‘perfect’ family home
- It features a 400ft working model railway, perfect for rail enthusiasts
- Also includes separate flat, landscaped garden, lake and an outdoor hot tub
After much deliberation, train firm executive Charles Howeson has decided to put his ‘perfect’ family home called Smallack Barn, on the market.
Coutts Bank – Charles Howeson, 67, was a senior employee at Coutts
Clients
Until the 20th century Coutts was a clearing bank to the nobility and landed gentry, but today it is a wealth manager to a wider range of clients, including entrepreneurs, entertainers, sportsmen, professionals and executives. The British Royal Family is a noted client.[8][9] There are however stringent requirements to being accepted as a client, not just based on average and total financial assets. Prospective clients need at least £1,000,000 in investable assets, not including real estate.[10]
Coutts is seen as a bank for the rich and famous of British society. Like all banks, it is secretive about its client list. The bank has a regular presence at the annual Cannes Film Festival.[11]
Design
Coutts often collaborates with British fashion designers, including previous designs for its distinctive credit and debit cards. In 2004, British fashion designer and Savile Row tailor Ozwald Boateng designed the super-premium Coutts World Charge Card[12] whilst in 2006 Stella McCartney was commissioned to design the Coutts Visa debit card.[13
1989 FO Gib in Wintex, Commander Charles Howeson
Charles Howeson
NHS Property Services Ltd
Duchy of Somerset Estates Ltd
SPS Ltd
First Great Western Trains Advisory Board
Bermuda Institute of Oceanic Studies
Coutts and Co Bankers
WaterFuture Customer Panel (Exeter
Harvey Nash PLC
Crownhill Estates Limited
Buckland Corporate Finance Ltd
Eko-Tek Power Limited
Estates of the 19th Duke of Somerset
Millfields Community Economic Development Trust
Plymouth Area Business Council
RNH (WE)Ltd
Millfields Estate Management Company
UK Railway Heritage Trust
Seaton Area Residents Association
Local Engagement Forum (Bristol)
Customer Scrutiny Group (Wessex)
Customer Challenge Group (Cholderton)
Customer Engagement Planning Forum (Bournemouth)
Honorary Doctorate in Management (University of
Plymouth)
Honorary Captain Royal Naval Reserve
The Plymouth Drake Foundation
The Britannia Association – Alumni of Royal Naval College
Dartmouth
Tomorrows People
Eko-Tek South West Ltd,
Eko Tek Power Ltd,
Crownhill Estates Ltd,
Buckland Corporate Finance Ltd,
Stonehouse Waterfront Developments Ltd,
RNH (WE) Ltd,
DCM (Jersey) Ltd,
Radio Plymouth Ltd
Charles Howeson and Associates (Sole Trader)
Stonehouse Barracks/
30 Commando (IX) Royal Marines:
Rev James Francis Naval Chaplain
James Francis – before 2012, he served with 30 Commando (IX) Royal Marines
Rev Revelation @revelation_rev
| Truro Diocese
HMS SEAHAWK |
| Chaplain: The Revd James Francis (James)
http://www.trurodiocese.org.uk/directory-live/chaplains/ The Rev’d James Francis RN | Regional Chaplain, Chaplain of St Ann’s & Chaplaincy Team Leader| HM Naval Base & Portsmouth Flotilla http://hmscavalier.org.uk/information/pg1.htm St Ann’s Church is an Anglican chapel within Her Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth. It is regarded as the spiritual home of the Royal Navy, [1] In October 2012, the church held ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, attended by Princess Anne. [5] As of 2015 the current chaplain is Revd. James Francis, RN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ann%27s_Church,_HMNB_Portsmouth |
HMS Kent returned to her namesake county and home port of Dover to mark the 101st anniversary of the Battle of the Falklands.
Royal Navy Chaplain Reverend James Francis commenced the Ship’s four day visit with a Church service on the Flight Deck to commemorate the 8 personnel from HMS Kent who gave their lives at the Battle of the Falkands on 8 December 1914.
In a bracing wind, and with Dover Castle as the backdrop, the Ship’s Company remembered the battle and honoured those who took part with a minutes silence.
The Lord Warden, Admiral of the Fleet and Constable The Lord Boyce GCB, OBE, DL, a former First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence staff, attended lunch on board in his capacity as Lord Warden of the Cinque ports, hosted by Commanding Officer Commander Dan Thomas Royal Navy and was greeted by a Ceremonial Guard and Rule Britannia over the main broadcast.
He was accompanied by other dignitaries, such as the Mayor of Dover, Mayor of Hythe and Speaker of the Cinque Ports, Head of the Dover Harbour Board, the Registrar of Cinque Ports, the Receiver General of Canterbury Cathedral and the Master of the Mercers Livery Company, an important and longstanding affiliate of HMS Kent.
A CBBC team, accompanied by two children who would like to be chefs in the future, filmed in the Ship’s Galley all day during preparations for two VIP events; one is keen to join the Royal Navy when she is old enough.
Kent’s Chefs thoroughly enjoyed having the children help out in the Galley and the children benefited from talking to the Ship’s two 18 year old chefs who recently left HMS Raleigh. HMS Kent is looking forward to seeing the episode of ‘All About the Workplace’ air later this year!
Omg any other job and sex offence = sack. @RoyalNavy = fast track for Revd James Francis arrested for procurement. Also Mr A in Gibb Report
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/83380/2634_WA_Annual_review_WEB.pdf
...the strange status of Westminster Abbey that governs its most famous function, as a national shrine to house great state events. The abbey rejoices in the title “royal peculiar,” which means it is neither a parish church nor a cathedral, and answerable only to the sovereign. Its clergy are appointed by the crown (through 10 Downing Street) and have uncommon access to the power brokers in British society.
The Holy See invites Westminster Abbey choir to sing at St Peter’s in Rome
2012
The invitation to Rome came after Pope Benedict XVI visited the Abbey in September 2010
http://www.blessedsacramentuki.org/westminster-abbey-choir-to-sing-at-st-peters-in-rome/
The Royal Wedding Ceremony – Westminster Abbey Choir
^^ (clipping) It is earlier this year – but it seems no one wants to do anything about Revd James Francis #powerfulfriends?
Revd James Francis RN Chaplain outed +Peter Ball yet he was linked with Ball and Simon Gay. How many other connections?
https://www.churchofengland.org/media/3999908/report-of-the-peter-ball-review-210617.pdf
2012 Westminster Abbey – Simon Gay retired after 30 years as counter-tenor lay vicar.
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/83380/2634_WA_Annual_review_WEB.pdf
Richard Scorer @Richard_Scorer
#Gibb report on Bishop Ball a damning indictment of how the establishment in this country protect their own.
https://www.churchofengland.org/media/3999908/report-of-the-peter-ball-review-210617.pdf …
Princess Anne horseback riding/disabled/Savile
Prince Andrew and Savile
White Ensign Association and Royal Navy Submarine Association
Baroness Thatcher was one of the guests of honour at a reception held yesterday at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum to launch the book Commander-in-Chief, a celebration of the life of Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fieldhouse of Gosport, by Captain Basil Watson. Vice Admiral Sir Roy Newman, Chairman of the Museum, was also present. Admiral Sir Jock Slater, Chairman of the White Ensign Association, Lady Fieldhouse and Admiral Sir Jonathan Band, Commander-in-Chief Fleet spoke. Among the guests were: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire Captain Sir Donald Gosling, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, Air Marshal Sir John Curtiss, Admiral Lord Boyce, Vice Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent, the Mayor of Gosport, Mr Peter Viggers MP and Mrs Mary Fagan.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/reception-zltmsgdj5rk
William Alexander Goad
Born Sept 1944 Died 20th Oct 2012
Put into an approved school as a child – Forde Park School, Newton Abbot
Last home address Ford Park Road, Plymouth
Director of three companies- Barbican Discounts of Plymouth Ltd, Markets South West (Plymouth) Ltd, and Barbican Property Associates Ltd.
Business partner and fellow director Kenneth James Gorvin.
Joint owner with Gorvin of a huge indoor market in Cornwall – Cornish Market World.
Two branches of Barbican Discounts” stores.
Set up and ran The Mount Gould Camping Club
1964 first recorded offence
Goad taken to court three times for indecent assault.
1972 put on probation and sent on a sex offenders course
1980 he received a suspended sentence (A man called “Bob” (Robert) was facing the same charges alongside him
1987 he received a suspended sentence.
1998 fled to Thailand (Pattaya) on false passport (under the name of George Healey) and was living openly there with two Irish 15 and 16 year old gypsy boys.
1999 Travelled to Spain to meet with his business partner Ken Gorvin, resigning from the company and transferring all of his shares over to Gorvin.
2003 (July) ventured to the UK for a meeting with Gorvin and arrested .
2004 jailed for life (16 sample offences)
(Operation Emotion)
First count of abuse was from 1965.
He boasted of abusing 142 boys a year and wanted to break that record.
Shy Keenan said his offending spread to northern England, America and Thailand.
Goad travelled extensively, buying stock and took boys with him, using boys to lure other children off the street.
2005 Court of Appeal refused to increase minimum jail term.
In the 2005 Panorama documentary it was revealed that social services knew about Goad, and did nothing. A pattern of failure to bring Goad to the attention of the police existed.
Boys were handed around other paedophile associates of Goads.
One such man who was also accused and identified was the “Bob” mentioned earlier above. Police refused to pursue any case against Bob- he wasn’t even questioned, because police said they hadn’t the resources to pursue “Bob” or any others. It seemed they were content to nail Goad, and Goad alone.
Another of Goad’s associates,and also accused, was Eddie Pratt who moved to France, and was found running a bar in Brittany. Pratt later committed suicide in 2005 following th Panorama documentary.
.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4576259.stm
2006 yet another of Goad’s associates – Peter Norsworthy, also of Plymouth, was jailed for 15 years (Operation Emotion again) for raping, indecently assaulting and intimidating a number of teenage boys between 1992 and 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6060488.stm
William Goad: Britain’s most prolific paedophile
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July 12, 1944
William Goad is born.
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1957-1961
Goad attends Forde Park Approved School where he says he was abused.
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October 1972
Goad convicted of indecency with child and indecent assault on male. Made subject of probation order for three years.
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June 30, 1980
Goad convicted of two counts of indecent assault, two counts of procuring an act of gross indecency and one count of indecency with children.
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1987
Paul Wyatt alleges he was abused by Goad aged 13-16, but not the full extent.
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April 23, 1987
Goad convicted of three counts of indecent assault on Mr Wyatt. Sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years.
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1991
Goad and business partner open Cornish Market World in St Austell.
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1994
Mr Wyatt makes full disclosure of sexual assault by Goad.
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January 1995
Goad arrested. CPS say further charges would be an “abuse of process” and case dropped.
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June 6, 1996
Confidential meeting regarding allegations against Goad and “prominent men in society” who “have or did have associations with this ring”.
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1996 to 1997
Further allegations against Goad formally made by two victims to police.
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October 1998
Operation Emotion 2 launched to investigate abuse and rape claims.
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Late 1998
Goad flees to Thailand on false passport.
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June 4, 2003
Goad arrested on train in UK on false passport. After Herald reports he has been charged 10 more victims come forward.
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September, 2004
Goad jailed for life
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February 6, 2005
BBC Panorama programme claims there are more abusers, including Eddie Pratt.
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April 2005
Operation Faber launched to investigate Pratt, Peter Norsworthy and three others.
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April 2005
Pratt contacts police saying he will return to UK to be interviewed.
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May 4, 2005
Mr Wyatt gives video interview to police, of abuse by seven men, including Eddie Pratt.
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May 22, 2005
Pratt takes his own life.
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October 17, 2006
Norsworthy jailed for 15 years for nine rapes and three indecent assaults.
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October 20, 2012
Goad dies in prison.
BARBICAN DISCOUNTS OF PLYMOUTH LIMITED
BARBICAN PROPERTY ASSOCIATES LIMITED
MARKETS SOUTH WEST (PLYMOUTH) LIMITED
https://companycheck.co.uk/director/901462880/MR-WILLIAM-ALEXANDER-GOAD/companies
CO-DIRECTORS:
MR KENNETH JAMES GORVIN
KEITH LAURENCE WEBB
DONNA CHRISTINE HOOD
DAVID WILLIAM WICKETT
| One of the longest associates of William Goad was Kenneth (Ken) Gorvin, who was director of many of Goad’s companies and had an association with him for over 30 years.
He is named and interviewed in the BBC documentary Crime Wave transmitted6th Jan 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl…/crimewave.txt by the 90s Goad was a rich man. He was a joint owner of a huge indoor market in Cornwall. The business is worth several million. Secret filming But when police approached Ken Gorvin, associate and business partner of over 30 years, he couldn’t help. SLEVIN: Certainly no information came to us to indicate where he was. POWYS: So there was no information from Mr Govin that “Yes, I know where he is and this is where he is”? SLEVIN: No. POWYS: What police didn’t know was that the two men were in contact. In October 1999, while he was on the run, Goad travelled to Spain to meet Gorvin. There they struck a deal. What exactly they agreed He was booked in under the alias. SLEVIN: Yes. POWYS: What name was given? SLEVIN: The name of Gorvin was used to confirm the booking. POWYS: So the name of Ken Gorvin was used. SLEVIN: And to confirm the credit card booking, yes. POWYS: Was it paid by credit card, cash? How was it paid for? SLEVIN: It was by credit card in the name of Gorvin. Secret filming POWYS: Mr Gorvin declined to answer our questions saying we were acting maliciously. We wanted to |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl…/crimewave.txt
As I mentioned, Goad was extremely close to Gorvin and they were in partnership in the majority of Goad’s companies. Lots of chopping and changing within the companies, no doubt hiding the assets. One of the companies Cubic Vision was originally called Charlie’s Adventure world and it is this company that eventually appears to have been sold by the now sole owner Ken Gorvin before he set off for a life in Australia.
http://www.townandcountrymarkets.co….ture-land.html
I believe this to be Gorvin, married Mel Gorvin in 2008 and now living what appears to be a very comfortable life in Perth Australia.
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/ken-gorvin/26/454/6a1
https://www.facebook.com/ken.gorvin
https://www.facebook.com/mel.gorvin
Unfortunately those that were abused appear to have received no financial compensation, as the majority of Goad’s millions simply disappeared.
Edit: Yes that is definitely the Gorvins as Mel Gorvin’s Facebook page has a ‘friend’ in the name of Donna Hood who was the company secretary for almost all William Goad’s companies. Perhaps she knows where the money has gone?
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/9…CHRISTINE-HOOD
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/9…CHRISTINE-HOOD
Here’s an old article with Gorvin running the Cornish Market World
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/visi…#axzz2boCOIPro
This is Cornwall – August 11, 2008
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http://companycheck.co.uk/director/9…s-shareholders
KENNETH JAMES GORVIN
Holly Manor, Harrowbeer Lane, Yelverton, Devon, PL20 6DY
MARKETS SOUTH WEST (HOLDINGS) LIMITED – Appointment: Active since 21/10/1999
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 21-10-1999
Current Secretary Name – Mr David William Wickett
Appointed – 24-11-2006
Previous Secretary Name – Mrs Donna Christine Hood
Appointed – 21-10-1999 Resigned – 24-11-2006
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INTERPARK (UK) LTD – Appointment: Active since 13/03/2008
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WINNINGTON LIMITED – Appointment: Resigned since 16/01/1996
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 22-09-1995
Current Secretary Name – Ms Donna Christine Hood
Appointed – 16-01-1996
Previous directors and secretaries
Previous Director Name – COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED
Appointed – 20-09-1995 Resigned – 22-09-1995
Previous Director Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 22-09-1995 Resigned – 16-11-2000
Previous Secretary Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 22-09-1995 Resigned – 16-01-1996
Previous Secretary Name – TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED
Appointed – 20-09-1995 Resigned – 22-09-1995
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CORNISH MARKET WORLD LIMITED – Appointment: Resigned since 14/07/1999
Current directors and secretaries
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 10-12-1996
Current Secretary Name – Mr David William Wickett
Appointed – 24-11-2006
Previous directors and secretaries
Previous Director Name – COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED
Appointed – 10-12-1996 – Resigned – 10-12-1996
Previous Director Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 10-12-1996 Resigned – 28-10-1999
Previous Secretary Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 10-12-1996 Resigned – 14-07-1999
Previous Secretary Name – Mrs Donna Christine Hood
Appointed – 14-07-1999 Resigned – 24-11-2006
Previous Secretary Name – TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED
Appointed – 10-12-1996 Resigned – 10-12-1996
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DIRECT VENTURES LIMITED – Appointment: Resigned since 14/07/1999
Current directors and secretaries
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 11-07-1991
Current Secretary Name – Mrs Donna Christine Hood
Appointed – 14-07-1999
Previous directors and secretaries
Previous Director Name – ELK (NOMINEES) LIMITED
Appointed – 11-04-1991 Resigned – 03-07-1991
Previous Director Name – Mr Keith Laurence Webb
Appointed – 03-07-1991 Resigned – 28-02-1994
Previous Director Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 11-07-1991 Resigned – 28-10-1999
Previous Secretary Name – ELK COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED
Appointed – 11-04-1991 Resigned – 03-07-1991
Previous Secretary Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 03-07-1991 Resigned – 14-07-1999
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TORMOUTH LIMITED – Appointment: Resigned since 31/08/1996
Previous directors and secretaries
Previous Director Name – Mr Keith Laurence Webb
Appointed – 13-08-1992 Resigned – 28-02-1994
Previous Director Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 13-08-1992 Resigned – 31-08-1996
Previous Director Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 13-08-1992 Resigned – 31-08-1996
Previous Secretary Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 13-08-1992 Resigned – 31-08-1996
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CUBIC VISION LTD. – Appointment: Resigned since 30/04/1996
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 28-06-1995
Current Secretary Name – Mr David William Wickett
Appointed – 24-11-2006
Previous Director Name – COMPANY DIRECTORS LIMITED
Appointed – 28-06-1995 Resigned – 28-06-1995
Previous Director Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 28-06-1995 Resigned – 30-04-1996
Previous Secretary Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 28-06-1995 Resigned – 30-04-1996
Previous Secretary Name – Mrs Donna Christine Hood
Appointed – 30-04-1996 Resigned – 24-11-2006
Previous Secretary Name – TEMPLE SECRETARIES LIMITED
Appointed – 28-06-1995 Resigned – 28-06-1995
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MARKETS SOUTH WEST (PLYMOUTH) LIMITED – Appointment: Dissolved
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 17-03-1994
Current Officer Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 17-03-1994
Previous Director Name – COMBINED NOMINEES LIMITED
Appointed – 17-03-1994 Resigned – 17-03-1994
Previous Director Name – COMBINED SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED
Appointed – 17-03-1994 Resigned – 17-03-1994
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BARBICAN DISCOUNTS OF PLYMOUTH LIMITED – Appointment: Dissolved
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 30-09-1991
Current Officer Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 30-09-1991
Current Secretary Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 30-09-1991
Current Secretary Name – Ms Donna Christine Hood
Appointed – 16-01-1996
…
MARKETS SOUTH WEST LIMITED – Appointment: Dissolved
Current Officer Name – Mr Keith Laurence Webb
Appointed – 30-06-1991
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 30-06-1991
Current Officer Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 30-06-1991
…
BARBICAN PROPERTY ASSOCIATES LIMITED – Appointment: Dissolved
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 30-06-1991
Current Officer Name – Mr William Alexander Goad
Appointed – 30-06-1991
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ESTATE AND LEISURE ASSOCIATES LLP – Appointment: Dissolved
Current Officer Name – Mr Kenneth James Gorvin
Appointed – 23-01-2006
Current Officer Name – Ms Melanie Jane Gorvin
Appointed – 23-01-2006
…
http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/…_City_Council/
Hampshire Chronicle – 16th September 2011
Businessman attacks delays at ‘bureaucratic’ Winchester City Council
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete…ce-minute.html
Comments:
I remeber many years ago flying from Johannesburg to Cape Town at dusk and experienced an extemely long sunset as the plane climbed. The experience was magical.
– Keith Webb , Winchester UK
Panorama “Crime Wave” Transcript BBC1 6th Feb 2005
This BBC Panorama “Crime Wave” transcript is valuable. It is about William Goad, a serial child rapist and the effects his sexual abuse had on the victims, many in Plymouth where he abused hundreds of children. It is available here [53] or below.
Other links are BBC Comments on the programme [2] and BBC articles A one-man crime wave? [3] BBC Panorama Crime Wave [5] and A letter from William Goad [4]
https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/panorama-crime-wave-transcript-bbc1-6th-feb-2005/
There’s a road in Plymouth named after sexual predator Charles Howeson
Charles Howeson was convicted of indecently assaulting eight young men
3 Jan 2018
A Plymouth street named after Charles Howeson will not automatically be renamed following his convictions for sexually assaulting young men.
Plymouth City Council says Howeson Lane, named after the former Royal Navy commander, would only be reviewed if an official request was made by residents or businesses.
The street in Derriford was named Howeson Lane after the prominent businessman gifted the land to the council in 2004.
Howeson, who was last month convicted of indecently assaulting eight young men, chaired the Plymouth Area Business Council for 15 years and was previously chairman and president of Plymouth Chamber of Commerce.
Businesses located on Howeson Lane include a Travelodge, a Mercedes Benz garage and the Jack Rabbit restaurant.
The council said renaming streets is normally only considered if a request is submitted
A Plymouth City Council spokesperson said: “Howeson Lane was officially named in 2004 after Charles Howeson, who owned the land it is on.
“The City Council follows a statutory process for renaming streets and this would normally only be considered at the request of residents or businesses.”
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/theres-road-plymouth-named-after-1002433
Brian Gerrish and Bill Maloney
Bill Maloney was born on March 31, 1956 in Lambeth, South London, England as William Maloney. He is an actor and director, known for Trauma (2004), Lunatic (2007) and Billy & Lilly Go to New York (2009).
Founder of Pie ‘N’ Mash Films Ltd., an independent company making both dramas and hard-hitting documentary exposes. [2008]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1711630/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Bill Maloney film from 2008:
…journey into the world of two South London brothers and their associates.
Bill and Perry, the brothers, are small time entrepreneurs. Howard, Dave and Laurie are their partners. The chaps get the bulk of their money from collecting rents on ex-council properties that they acquire through a scam.
The main character of the story ‘Bill’ takes the viewer through two days of events that he persistently blames upon an impending full moon.
With tender-sweet moments of love, laughter and south London banter, entrepreneurs, sidekicks, wives, lovers and friends push the film towards its conclusion of revenge with wonderful street humour and colour.
Infidelity, betrayal, suicide and murder crash onto the screen with an authenticity rarely witnessed.
http://film.britishcouncil.org/lunatic
2010
Pie & Mash Films ( actually two almost identical, dissolved companies. Both with zero accounts filed, both being set up on the same 12.02.10, with Director Maria Maloney and Secretary Bill Maloney.
https://www.scribd.com/document/245370703/02-11-14-Pie-and-Mash-Film-Productions-Limited-07156371
2010
Does Bill Maloney not know about Peter Tatchell?
9:30 Maloney interviewing Tatchell about child abuse
1997
In 1998, Tatchell wrote an obituary in the Independent for a man called Ian Dunn. Tatchell spoke warmly of Dunn, describing him as a “pioneer for lesbian and gay human rights”. Tatchell did not mention that Dunn was a co-founder of PIE.
In 2001, just the year after the reduction in the gay age of consent, Tatchell wrote an article for the Guardian calling for the age of consent to be reduced to 14 and further in some more limited cases for ‘consenting’.
Crafty Muvva @craftymuvva
2000: Child sex ring at the heart of UK’s armed forces? I’ll just park that here…
The People (London, England) > February 27, 2000
A MASSIVE investigation has been launched into a suspected child sex ring at the heart of Britain’s armed forces.
It follows the conviction last week of RAF Squadron Leader Matthew Taylor who was caught with disgusting pictures of little girls from the Internet.
Military police believe a paedophile gang may be operating in the Ministry of Defence – with tentacles stretching to Army, Navy and RAF bases throughout Britain.
Another RAF squadron leader and a senior MoD scientist have also been charged with downloading obscene kiddie pictures from the Internet – offences similar to those of shamed pop star Gary Glitter.
Top brass were horrified to discover vile images have been stored on MoD computers. Investigators believe the arrests could be the tip of the iceberg.
They are examining e-mails and phone records to see if there is a widespread porn network.
The scandal emerged after Squadron Leader Taylor, 39, admitted seven charges of downloading indecent images of young girls.
Another squadron leader based at Catterick, North Yorks, has been charged with making indecent photos and an indecent video of a child.
The officer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been remanded on bail and will be tried at Crown Court.
The third MoD high-flier is a scientist who was on holiday with his wife when military police raided his home and seized computer material.
He has been charged with 34 counts of making indecent photos of a child.
A high-ranking MoD source told the Sunday People: “We fear these are not isolated cases.
“There could be a well-organised, secretive network of paedophiles within the heart of the British military establishment.
“Staff in the Army, Navy and Air Force are all being checked. It is a grave cause for concern.”
Squadron Leader Taylor’s career and marriage are in tatters after he was put on probation for two years and on the sex offenders’ register for five years at Portsmouth, Hants, last week. The dad of three was arrested after a tip-off from a Royal Navy chief petty officer who found a list of child porn Internet websites in a text book Taylor had lent him.
Taylor has been suspended from his pounds 40,000-a-year post as instructor at the RAF Nursing School in Gosport, Hants.
MoD police spokesman Mervyn Dadd told the Sunday People: “Any connection between offenders will be examined in due course.”
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