This page is about to change dramatically and lots of new information is to be published. Its seems that the authorities in conjunction with Essex Police believe it is in the best interests of my daughter to relocate her violent abuser to the same town and neighbourhood.
My disgust with this has prompted Essex Police to try and distance themselves but their stance was one of ‘he has rights as well’.
I am going to rewrite the catalogue of errors and the whole case here now, it is clear that those we put our trust in are happy to put the vulnerable at risk and believe we are stupid into the bargain.
When you see somebody you love battered, bruised and bleeding from senseless and random brutality you expect the police (in our case the Essex Police) and the government to protect them – Not Any More!!
So Why Am I Doing This?
The answer is that I am sick of the police hiding behind all the public relations posters whilst failing at their jobs!! And because I am very very good at this!!!!
I have decided to try and raise the awareness of people in general to the apathy and complete disdain of the Essex Police in relation to violent crime against women. They are in good company as the CPS and the police chiefs such as Tim Newcomb are just as inept but also try to cover up their tracks when called to account for their failings. In fact when the MP Douglas Carswell who is the local Tory MP for Clacton and Harwich tried to get more information the response from Essex Police to his official letter was to lie and mislead him.
So shocked am I by the way the case for my Daughter was handled that I have helped to launch a website aimed at domestic violence and the stories from everyday people about their experiences. In our case the police repeatedly fail to gather any evidence when they are called and subsequently despite making statements and complaints the CPS refuse to put away the man doing all the beating.
To raise the awareness of the failings of the police and to get other people to have the chance to talk about their similar experiences I am helping my wife Catherine to set up a national blog and website to highlight the chasm that the Criminal Justice system has opened up that swallows quietly the plight of women leaving them battered, bruised, bleeding and at the mercy of evil violent men.
The full story will be revealed in a national and then international blog that will throw open the doors on this problem and the complete apathy of those who are trusted to protect women when the violence blights their everyday life.
If Essex Police, the CPS and MP’s think this is just somebody blowing off steam then think again, I run a powerful digital media agency that delivers profile at the sharp end of search engines such as Google, into social media such as Twitter and Facebook and into facilities such as Youtube.
I was responsible four years ago for picking up the knife crime initiative for Ann Oakes Odger who had a big heart that was broken through the loss of her son to a senseless knife crime, she now sits in Whitehall and discusses knife crime policy with government think tanks.
She started with just a petition and now her website Knife Crimes has sat at the top of Google for three years, it gets tens of thousands of visitors and is enrolled into every worthwhile initiative in the country as well as around the world.
I have direct news feeds into Google, my expert staff are passionate and protective and get behind good causes and currently I can think of no better a cause than to try and bring to account those that sit behind their cosy PR machines.
Last night I sat in a police station for four hours whilst Catherine received an official caution – the offence was common assault and its another tick in the statistical box for a crime solved………
But scratch the surface a little…… Ah yes, then you get to see the real picture, a picture of a woman who drove to Clacton to pick up her 23 year old daughter on an early summer eve in June to find her beaten unconcious and laying on the pavement, standing over her was a violent thug who had her daughters blood on his hands.
This woman was my wife Catherine, she leapt out of the car and slapped and pushed the thug from her daughter before helping her into the car and then straight to the casualty department.
A 999 call to the police was greated with complete disdain, the thug was not arrested, he never had any forensic tests to take the blood samples, the tissue samples and fibres etc, they never took samples from her daughter because they didnt turn up for a week.
Three weeks later the thug walked into the police station and made a complaint that Catherine assualted him, he is 6ft 3ins and big built with it, she is 5ft 2ins and of small build, as a result of that complaint she was informally arrested, charged with common assault and issued with a caution and the immortal words from the Inspector and I quote ‘We have done you a favour by not taking you to court’!!!!!!!!
The victims are Catherine and her Daughter.
More………….. Oh and there is more, some months back the same thug saw my Daughter in Colchester town centre, he ran after her and caught her in full view of Saturday shoppers, she managed to dial 999 and Essex police got the full audio recording of this thug beating her unconcious whilst she screamed for help that never came, the sound of her head being repeatedly smashed against paving stones whilst he screamed he is going to ‘kill her’ must of been damming??? Actually not so, this offence and others that were accumulated saw him serve just two weeks in prison, the non molestation order that was actioned at our own cost was breached the moment he got out from prison.
So in desperation we went to the head of Essex Police and also the local MP, the MP wrote back yesterday with the sign off and I quote ‘Your daughter obviously holds responsibility for her own security’. In the same letter Tim Newcomb, Chief Superintendent of tells him that as far as he is concerned our Daughter has ‘failed to make a complaint and therefore the case against the thug has been dropped’ whilst this is an outright lie it is also a clear indication that women are responsible for their own safety and that the Police and the Government bodies wash their hands of this violent crime.
As a last footnote for today - When I was in the police station waiting for Catherine to be charged I saw the walls festooned with brochures and advertising campaigns about violence instigated against women, statistics such as 1 in 4 women will experience violence from men in their livetimes were highlighted but I realise now that this is just PR ………………… Its just a public relations front and that behind the scenes there are tragedies every day that just fall into the chasm created by those we trust to protect our loved ones.
The only avenue left to us is to pick up on what we are good at and raise public awareness that those very people they are ready to fall back on in times of danger will just let them fall whilst picking points from the carcases to massage their crime figures.
Catherine never committed a real assault, it was never a real crime, it was the reaction of somebody desperate to get their daughter away from more brutality, its as unjust as somebody serving a sentence for a crime they never did and allows the real thugs that blight our every day life to carry on with immunity.
And for anybody who wants to see the letter from our MP Douglas Carswell use that link but this was his response after the Essex Police misled him to try and cover up poor policing!!
Update 7th-09-09.
The case has been back to court twice now, the first time he did not appear and we are awaiting news of today, in the meantime he has been arrested on other charges several times and associated with burglary and drug crime. This is all whilst he is out on BAIL can you believe it and he still walks the streets!
Of course we all saw that bold statements made by the new police chief for Essex stating that criminals need to bring thier toothbrush when entering Essex for crime but as always it is just public relations. I will be blogging to a much higher density soon and will be looking at the new Essex top brass real soon.
Update 17th-09-09
Case was back in court this week, I had a victim support letter through that advised me the case had been adjourned, the reason for the adjournment is that he did’nt enter a plea!! This is one account of not turning up followed by another account where he just didn’t enter a plea.
That means he gets his liberty for longer and is able to stroll round the streets of Essex causing mayhem still. The week before this case he was arrested for burglary and another public order offence. I assume that Essex Police again collected no real evidence and that this man walked after again securing bail, how can he get bail so he can go on making normal decent peoples lives a misery, what about the victims of his next burglary?
Update 28th-09-09
The thug didn’t turn up for his court appearance today, now there is a warrant for his arrest, why was he granted bail in the first place as his history is one of not turning up and when you add to that all the extra crime he committed whilst left out on the streets how many EXTRA victims are there now.
How can this not be embarressing for the police and the justice system??
This is such a scam and I am starting to wonder why Essex Police need this guy out on our streets habitually offending?
Update 08th-10-09
Had the official computer generated letter today to inform me of the outcome of this case, the thug was arrested and appeared in court where Essex police OFFERED NO EVIDENCE and the case is dropped!!
So thats it, all charges dropped, so what now? Well there is only one thing I can do and that is ruin the public relations front for Essex Police online and through all digital media channels, now the case is over I can name the people involved including the perpetrator without prejuding the outcome.
I will rewrite this post from top to bottom in a factual chronology of events with names and pursue this URL to the top of many Internet searches and lets see what comes out of the woodwork.
If only you could feel the sheer frustration at the hollow words spat out by the police.
shame on you Carswell
shame on you Newcomb
Dear Shaun,
On being contacted by your partner, Catherine Harvey, I acted quickly. I contacted the most senior police officer in this part of Essex, demanding to know if the police had acted – and if not, why not. Your partner has a copy of my letter.
The police, as you know, gave me a somewhat different version of events. I am not in a position to contradict either your partner or the police, as I am not in possession of all the facts.
That was why I again repeated the suggestion that your partner come to meet me to discuss how to ensure that the criminal justice system respond to her concerns. To date, my invitation has not been taken up.
My principal concern in this matter is to ensure that your step-daughter in law is protected – not to get involved in any web-based campaign. I am sure that your concern is likewise.
If it is, then can I suggest that you do indeed encourage your partner to contact my office, as indicated, to make an appointment to meet me at my regular local surgery to discuss the details of the case and how I might help?
I would prefered not to have responded to this on such a public forum, but as you posted on many such public forums, I felt I had no alternative.
I look forward to discussing this face-to-face with your partner, as I have repeatedly suggested.
Warm regards,
Douglas Carswell MP
Hello Douglas,
It is good to see that we got your attention and that you responded.
Firstly I want to let you know that our decision to go to a public level is driven by a much wider experience of events than just this one, in fact 30 pages of violent offences spanning over two years, this is just one more, well actually three because two more offences were committed by this man against us and our daughter in the week after.
This is not an isolated event by this man, this is the tip of the iceberg.
We made the complaints, we spent many hours giving statements, at no point did we ever drop any of the complaints, in fact we have had threats to our lives for making them, how is it possible for Tim Newcomb to lie to you and if the police are willing to do that what chance do we have.
Time is not on our side to wait for workshops and letters to discuss this, the CPS have told us they are dropping the case NOT US and they are doing this despite our protests. I will be making a complaint at the way we and the case has been handled and I will follow it all the way as far as I can.
Your letter simply took the statement from Tim Newcomb (how can he say that) and then spun the responsibilty to us, what you are saying is that when our daughter walks down the street it is her responsibilty to make sure she is not attacked and beaten, how does a young girl do that?
Is that not the responsibilty of the police? A responsibilty of care for the community, should normal decent people not be allowed to go out in case they are beaten or killed because if they do their security was their own problem???
Time is not on our side, the invite to come and chat sometime will not help us, we came to you to try and get the CPS to carry on with the case, we appealed to you as we thought you would apply pressure to the system, that you would add weight but you allowed yourself to be conned and you then allowed what would of been a whitewash.
Other than go public there was no other course of action, that said if you are willing to meet us and meet us quickly in an environment that is not an open forum then perhaps you may get a clearer picture, I would stand by everything we have said and by everything we would say and I know that the facts would prevail.
You say you are not in a position to contradict the police well we have the letters and the police have all the statements.
The last straw was standing outside Clacton police station after Catherine was grilled for four hours and then cautioned and then to be told ‘I hope you are happy because we have done you a favour’, we retained our dignity and composure before going home and deciding to take this to the public domain.
I beleive that this is a much wider issue and that is why we want to put our energy into raising the profile on a national basis of which I have to power and capability to do.
I have some searching questions for you, questions that we cannot get answered by the police, perhaps you will not respond here but you could respond to parker@highposition.net and offer us some of your time?
Thank you for responding
Shaun
I dont get how a senior police chief can lie to an MP??
I think this should be investigated but I dont know if Mr Parker should be so public about it, maybe this case is better behind closed doors but the wider issue should be investigated.
The police promised me they would help protect me but when I called they took 2 hours to respond, two hours of pain.
They wont help you
Newcomb should stand up and be counted – I bet he doesnt say a word.
This is yet another example of broken Britain. The failing system is almost as much a disgrace as the cowards that continue to raise their hands to women.
Newcomb needs to act sharply here and try and resurect some dignity and put an end to this family’s misery. This scumbag (the coward causing the beatings and misery) needs to be behind bars, but with the prisons full to the brim, maybe this is another factor as to the police turning a blind eye.
My sympathies lie with the victims, why should they suffer any longer?
The matters of which you speak are nothing but appalling. In the grand scheme of things I have somewhat limited experience in this area however domestic violence is a matter which sits very closely to my heart, both for personal reasons and for love and respect of the family in question. No one in the world should be made to feel like they cannot live out their own lives without constant fear of being approached by someone with intent to torment and cause and harm.
As a teenager this is something which I was forced to deal with on a regular basis with certain people/groups of people trying to excerpt power and authority over me via what can only been deemed as bullying. After several attacks on me and threatening behaviour towards my family there were times in my own life when I was afraid to leave my home in the fear of getting beaten and, even worse, through fear of leaving my mum by herself. Albeit somewhat different circumstances, the same levels of concern applies which can have a somewhat demeaning effect on everyday life.
The thug in question is not unknown from the world of violence. He has already been charged on a separate occasion for causing grievous bodily harm with intent. This is not speculation, it was reported in a local newspaper which is readily available on the Internet…I am restraining from posting the article and naming the man in question!! Yet after a brief period in jail he still walks our streets.
The apparent lack of action from the police and relevant authorities does not help the situation in any way shape or form. In many cases (myself included) it mealy spurs a sense of revenge as times change a people grow, forcing people to attempt to resolve the problem in their own way by taking the law into their own hands and inevitably increasing the severity of the situation.
In other cases the lack of action leads the elimination of faith in the system ultimately leading to hundreds of people around the UK in similar circumstances failing to reveal the brutality of their experiences and continuing to unnecessarily live in fear.
As Stuart Davie so rightly commented “this is yet another example of broken Britain”. I am 100% behind your campaign and I urge others to stand up and have their say.
Shaun cannot change Britain by himself, I cannot change Britain on my own, but together we can give it a dam good try!
Well Mr Carswell, we are awaiting an update, I have not seen you post any further comments???
Have you got in touch with Mr Parker? I see that he has his email posted above, I hope you do and perhaps you will be able to use your position properly instead of going through the motions.
I cannot imagine that Catherine Harvey would write all those letters if the family had dropped the complaints so what were you thinking of!!!
Get of your backside and do something.
I posted 3 comments and none have been published!!
Maybe I need to tone down my language but this has made me sooooooooo angry.
It is as they say Broken Britain when a thug gets preferntial treatment.
Hey Carswell, we are your constituants, where is your mettle.
How can you sleep at night??
How the hell does a little lady get a caution for spping a 6.2 in animal, I know the people and god help you if they ever come your way Mr Carswell, but of course they wnt. This lady was very brave indeed t slap that man.
I heard about this today.
How can essex police charge somebody for what s in effect reasonable force and yet his man goes unpunished, the cps and tim newcomb should hang their heads in shame but of course they wont care. as for mr carswell i doubt you will hear anymore from him as he will be limping away to hide until it blows over.
the police and the local MPs are just in it for PR and its all about image andfancy words, deeds take effort and purpose and it looks as though Newcomb and Carswell are not interested, they are just careers people.
hey I made posts too but i dont see why you cant allow them as its waht real people thik about this situation.
I had a great chat with Mr Carswell who seemed to understand our frustration, he was angry that Essex Police had misled him thus opening him up to so much criticism.
We showed Douglas all the different incident reports, previous non molestation orders, other crime reports, hospital reports, proof that we had made complaints and statements and that Tim newcombs letter stating that we had dropped our complaint was an outright lie.
Douglas could not understand how one man could commit so much violence against a woman and not be serving a long jail sentence. Remembering that this thug only had a brief relationship with my daughter and that has resulted in two years of violent hell whenever he can find her.
He has written now to Tim Newcomb the police chief for Colchester but I know he will still try and fudge the issue and mislead still further because all he is is a poor politician and its the PR and his career that matters.
The latest case was back in court today (Tim Newcomb cannot lie this time) so lets see what the police and the CPS can mess up today.
SHAUN, WHILST HAVING SYMPATHY FOR YOUR STEP DAUGHTERS SITUATION I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE QUICK TO BLAME THE POLICE AS A WHOLE FOR THE RESULT OF THE INVESTIGATION WHEN REALISTICALLY THE POLICE ARE TIED TO WHAT THE CPS DICTATE ON THE EVIDENCE AVAILABLE. YOU MAY HAVE AN ISSUE WITH MR NEWCOME BUT PLEASE DO NOT BAD MOUTH THE WHOLE OF ESSEX POLICE AS AN ENTIRETY AS THERE ARE MANY HUMDREDS OF OFFICERS WORKING VERY HARD WITH A SYSTEM WHICH I AGREE IS NOT PERFECT. WITH REGARD TO THE MAN WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF THE CASE AT PRESENT THE POLICE AT THE COURT STAGE OF INVESTIGATION HAVE NO SAY IN THE ISSUE OF BAIL SO PLEASE DO NOT BLAME US IN BOLD TYPE IT IS NOT OUR DOING!!!!!!!!!
YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE A CHIP ON YOUR SHOULDER WITH MR NEWCOME BUT STOP BAD MOUTHING ESSEX POLICE AS A WHOLE.
Hello Anon,
I posted your comment un-edited as I feel that people are entitled to voice their opinion and it is good for debate.
Firstly though – Your comment suggests that you are part of the Essex police force so the first thing you should grasp is that the Inspectors name is Newcomb and not Newcome.
Secondly this is much more than a chip on my shoulder its a chip on the shoulders of many many people who have lost respect for the police in this county and others. We are talking about everyday hard working people who run businesses, people who work hard and expect to get a credible level of performance from the police.
Add these to all the people who have commented on this blog alone, then add in all the women who have contacted me and my wife through the domestic violence website http://www.domestic-violence.org.uk/ and there is a huge groundswell of public disillusionment with the police from people from all walks of life.
As a police person yourself it is clear that you are also to arrogant to see this and your mandate is merely to try and portray this and other threads as my little chip.
I take the following issue with you – You state that the police are tied to what the cps dictate due to the evidence available – quite right but with domestic violence the police are not collecting the evidence, this is coming through all the time through the website and this means when a case even gets in front of the cps it is so weak it gets canned.
Our case is just typical of many coming through, the police never arrested the perpetrator or took any evidence, he had her blood and tissue on his hands, the same on his clothes and fibres were on her and him, his defence is that she fell over and he never went near her, had the police done their job properly it would be just a formality to convict him. This experience has been the same for the last four assaults, they didn’t even respond to the 999 call after he breached her non molestation order that has powers of immediate arrest.
This series of events is common place for almost all of our contacts that are coming through the domestic violence website at the moment.
I and my friends were always pro police until the last few years, we are all successful people with good families and yet all are now reciting stories of abject police failure, they range from one friend who is a very upstanding businessman who has just had his complaint against Colchester police upheld after they tried to coerce his son into admitting a crime he never committed even saying they had it on cctv, they lied to try and get a young lad to admit to a crime he never did, later cctv video evidence proved it too.
What about the mother of 3 who was stopped for speeding in Weeley a month ago, she was late for a very important smear test due to her son being unwell, caught by traffic police for doing 42 in a 30 limit all she wanted was to get the paperwork over and done with and get to her doctors appointment, she asked the traffic officer to try and finish the paperwork quickly and he arrogantly took as long as he could, he even read every word out on the back of the ticket and when questioned why he smugly replied that it was in case she was partially blind!!! That is a partially blind person driving a car?? No he did it just because he could and he enjoyed her distress, this was witnessed and he kept her 22 minutes to write out a 3 minute speeding ticket.
Then there is the police officer who assured a victim that her husband was now on the domestic abuse register so she will be notified if he moves near her again… there is no such register so she would have been of her guard!
Then we have the lad arrested for having a knife in his haversack, it cost £1500 to defend him before the cps threw out the case, this lad was a chef, he was on his way to work after being dropped close by car, the knife was in a protected wooden scabbard with his chefs uniform, the arresting officer said that it didn’t make any difference that he was on his way to work with the tools of his trade evebn after the restaurant confirmed it by telephone and in writing.
Then we have the carpenter who had his van stolen in Clacton, after two weeks of chasing clacton police for action he went into the station exasperated at the fact that nobody had even called him back, they had not even given him a crime number so he could start an insurance claim, he lost everything and the carpark had cctv footage of the crime, by the time the police bothered to do anything the footage was lost, he left the station with the words that the officer he needed was on nights and would call him… the same message he had been given for two weeks, he was totally disgusted.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, the modern police force does not do the job it is supposed to do and blindly defends itself against all criticism, it hides behind the glossy pr and the manipulation of crime figures, of course there are some hardworking officers but too many are just going through the motions because they are not accountable.
Your statement above is typical of somebody who is completely out of touch with what the average hard working person thinks and what they experience. The sad part is that it will not change because you are NOT accountable, police officers do not get fired for being rubbish at their jobs, they take the money and wait for their cosy pensions… taken nice and early.
So be aware that you are just one more cog in a system that we, the mainstay of British family life have lost confidence in you and you do not care.
The police are a joke, they dont know what they are doing and just look at the easy stuff or the high profile stuff like murders, yes they have some success with drug raids but most anti social and violent crime is either not reported or not responded to.
The top brass are too busy being politicians and the guys on the ground are like sheep.
This makes me sad to read, after 15 years out of the force it seems we have lost touch with normal people.
As a former believer in the protection of the police for members of the public, I now have no faith or trust in Essex police, after the beating up of my 17 year old son by a policeman I am no longer surprised by anything I hear. After my complaint to the police was covered up and lied about and declared unsubstansiated I am left totally gobsmacked by what has happened to my family and the fact that the thugs responsible have got away with the assault on my son. Now my young son is being harassed by one of the officers involved, it is really time that these people were held to account for their actions
Sadly there is no accountability, it made me smile when anon posted who is undoubtedly a serving officer in Essex Police, his arrogance in trying to portray this as only my problem and that I have a chip on my shoulder astounded me.
There is no doubt that Essex Police are completely unaccountable from top to bottom and are at licence to act as their politics dictate rather than serving the public and their needs.
And still I have heard nothing from Newcomb the Colchester police chief who lied to an MP again with no accountability for his actions.
I aim to push this thread to the top of Google so that more and more people can register their disatisfaction.
Hi, good article, you posted all the same if you don’t mind I’d impart few points out, you shoul be more direct, you sould explain seo more, yo should show visual examples more. apart from that topnotch.
Over the other side of Essex in Harlow, things are not much better.
I have been a cabbie for 22 years, seen a lot of street crime and been subject of crime myself. Sure, you get a sympathetic officer attend SOMETIMES, however most of the time they are just not interested. If you are white and working, you may as well just bend over and accept the crime.
Very upset, disillusioned and dissapointed with what Policing has become.
As a lad i used to respect police. Not any more. Never seen so much crime in my life as i see nowdays.
God help us all.
Good luck Sean, its a uphill struggle to get Justice, i sincerely hope you do.
firstly i am sorry to hear the abuse your duaghter has suffered at the hands of some one she once had a relationship with, this often makes the situation more difficult to deal with. I understand your totalemotional and mental frustrastion of dealing with the police. I have four children and have raised them to have respect for their fellow man, that includes the police. I have over the past year lost complete trust in the police as in your experience, i have been let down by the police because of the lack of care to do their job. Not to get into detail at this point, my 19yr old son and his friend were attacked by a mob of young people and when the police turned up one of the metro-police kicked my son in the face while he was on the ground while a doorman sat on top of him. Thank God my son is ok and also thank CCTV, because this is captured on CCTV. The case is to go before the CPS, the police are in for a surprise there…
4 months ago i made a 999 call from my hospital bed. I called because i had been threatened by the doctor on duty and i was in great physical disstress, i thought i may die. I have since complained to the IPCC as to why the polioce did not respond to my repeated 999 calls, they pasted on the complaint to Surrey police whom after doing their bit, concluded that they made the right decision not to attend my 999 call because “obviously” i am not dead. They nver mention anything about the doctors threat, this is just something else the police sweep under the carpet and hope for it the problem to go away.
Good luck to you i wish you well and all those other people that get less than professional treatment fron the police, i myself am sick to death of all this corruption, i just don’t no what to do anymore..
Hi Gordon,
I am sorry to hear of yet one more disenchanted person and as you can see the response to this post has mirrored your own disillusionment.
The sad fact is that until the police are accountable they will not perform. The system is set up so that statistics can blur the real picture and those sitting at the top are no more than politicians massaging their public relations.
For our part I have now been told by a third party that the case has been dropped, no feedback or reasons have been given and there is no direct communication telling me so, but I know from somebody sitting in court that the cases were all dropped.
This is disgusting to me because all the advice from the top brass is how they would keep us informed.
Hi my story is different but amounting to the same thing, the people we pay to guide and protect us are corrupt.
I was driving back from Stanstead airport with my 73yr old mother ,niece & nephew I was stopped by Essex police who say that I was on the phone while driving ,I explained that they must be mistaken ,they proceeded to fill out a ticket with my details stating “on the phone while driving” I refused to sign it that but offered to add that “I was not on the phone ” .They then got aggressive threatened to arrest me and then confiscated my phone .(which if they looked at the call history at that time they would see that I wasn’t on the phone ).Then they looked at my car and because I had a cracked windscreen (on the passenger side)they entered my car put a steering lock on it and left myself, my mother and two kids stranded half an hours drive from home .The court is tomorrow and I still have not had my phone back so I can prove I wasn’t on it. I have make a official complaint And is being investigated by one of their own .
I am not surprised by anything you say. I also have suffered domestic violence. I ended up in a womens refuge because Essex Police did not protect me. This man was obviously insane. One particular attack was when i was dragged out of his car by my hair dragged back into the house by my hair and then had my head smashed against the floor about 20 times. I eventually broke free and ran away. I had blood pouring down my face and two passers by called the police who attended with an ambulance. My ex was arrested. I got a phonecall the following morning saying my ex had been released without charge despite the fact the ambulance driver wrote a report saying i had a deep laceration and other injuries. Unfortunately for me my ex had a lodger living at his house a police woman! She didnt even see the incident however she went to the police station after my exes sister informed her he had been arrested and proceeded to make a false statement saying he never touched me. The officer who rang me and told me this was very abusive towards me and i became very upset and confused at why they had released my ex without charge. Explaining this to me in a very abusive manner this officer said “Your injuries do not match your statement!” I was gobsmacked and shocked and i still am one year on! I hadnt even made a statement yet as he had arrested him immediately. Turns out this policeman was a friend of my exes lodger! Surprise surprise! The story turns darker when on the following Monday who turns up to arrest me….yes PC Abusive from Basildon Police station and basically does ME for HARASSMENT! Over some text messages i sent to my ex months earlier when he wouldnt stop attacking me and my 12 year old daughter (text messages sent over frustration at Essex Polices treatment of me and inaction). I got caution for harassment but not before this corrupt and abusive officer locked me in a cell for 8 or 9 hours and came and told me through the hatch he wanted to search my property to which i replied “what you looking for text messages?” Hmmm very strange. He told me he didnt like me and continued to arrest me several times after this each time abusing me. It was my ex who arranged all these arrests and he also taunted me afterwards telling me this copper was his mate! I hate Essex police and all they do they are corrupt nasty vile things (not people) total egomaniacs and love nothing more than hurting already vulnerable people. They are still doing this to me now. My daughter was walking to school and got threatened with violence with two of her 12 year old friends by a woman who lives in my street and her huge scary friend. Guess what the police have done nothing except be sarcastic and vile! Im scared to ring the police as they always look bored of you. Ive been a victim of a few crimes in my life and ive never had a good experience. The are utter pigs and this story does not surprise me. Im glad you posted it as now i know im not alone. Hope you get justice in the end as i never did.
I have followed this story for some time, it seems quiet at the moment but there is no update reference Douglas Carswell or Tim Newcomb.
Also what has now happened to the case?
I am amazed at the public interest a small blog post has stirred up.
Please update the latest news.
Reporter.
Useless!!! can’t believe this story! i hope this gets out to as many people as possible. And why not just have the thug K##### off! would be alot easier!
I wish you well. It’s not just Essex police
as you will see from my ‘Brighton Scandal’ site.
Regards Mike (Clacton)
Hi! I WISH YOU WELL.
I HAVE A SIMILAR BATTLE WITH BRIGHTON POLICE.
IT’S HARD WORK BUT AT LEAST THE RESIDENTS ARE
GIVING ME THEIR FULL SUPPORT. FULL DETAILS ON
‘BRIGHTON SCANDAL’ REGARDS MIKE.
Hello! Your post (Essex Police, Cover Up) does so well that I would like to translate it into French, publish on my french blog and link to you. You have something against it? Regards
Shaun Replies – I am happy for you to translate it.
I work for Essex Police and am disgusted by the service we provide, or rather dont provide , and the arrogance of officers lack of interest or the whole “damn public getting in the way of us doing nothing” attitude
I’ve bookmarked this because I found it helpful. I would be very interested to hear more info on this. Cheers!
The Telegraph
I have been to your website before. The more I learn, the more I keep coming back! ;~)
I have many friends (and a few relatives) in Essex Police and, like in any job there are useless individuals who shouldn’t be there. I’m sure as hell not going to try and defend the actions of those wasters mentioned earlier above but I will tell you of my experiences. I had a motorbike stolen, the police actually caught the scumbag riding it. He was a known convicted thief and was charged with the theft. The CPS (Criminal Protection Service) said there was insufficient evidence and reduced the charge to interfering with a motor vehicle. When the case came to court the CPS offered no evidence and case was dropped. The Government want police to hit targets and if they are to do that they are forced to go for guaranteed convictions. The CPS are lazy and incompetent, judges are told there are insufficient prison cells so don’t give custodial sentences and the upper end of the Police is staffed with bloody “managers” who are only interested in budgets and sucking up to their bosses. get rid of all the civilians in the the police, get more proper coppers, let them go back to old fashioned policing and make the courts (and those idiots in the CPS) give them more support – then we might see more dedicated people coming back into the force.
Google led me to this blog post, and it is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for everything and I am crawling through the info now, I know that my own problems with essex police are alongside the problems you experienced. essex police will be getting a complaint from me now that i have been inspired by your blog.
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Essex police stopped me for having to tax because their computer told them, I had tax in my window and have never been without it, they kept me for 30 mins and made my son late for school before letting me go, no apology, no climb down, arrogance and rudeness from beginning to end despite my innocence and protests.
Shame on Essex Police
Cried as I read your experiences with essex police. Similar happened to me last year although not so badly. I am a pensioner and was hit and kicked on my own doorstep by a woman. Called the police for help but they didn’t come for over an hour. In meantime the woman made a counter allegation and I was arrested. The police took no statement from me, neither did they question me. Was offered a caution but would not accept it as I had not done anything wrong. This displeased the police and I now realise by accepting it this would have ‘tidied up their paperwork’. I am a decent human being but was not treated as one by the police. It is still hard to live with what happened when I called for help. The values I grew up with have disappeared as far as the police are concerned. The woman continues to intimidate me.
We are seeking a reform of the police
complaints system. Progress on this wii be
posted on our ‘Brighton Scandal’ site.
Regards Mike.
Sadly our corrupt police are only interested in sucking up to their political masters by publishing fake crime figures. If you are English, white, own a house and car then you will be targeted to raise revenue and ballance crime figures. A policeman friend told me that police have to target and prosecute English people because 95% of crime is commited by non English, but this fact is unacceptable to our political correct leaders, so by persecuting the English and falsifying the crime figures, the police can’t be accused of racialism.