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UK is nothing but a Totalitarian Regime in disguise

France Chorley | 29.12.2005 05:42 | Anti-racism

For the last 10 years, I have been a prisoner in my own home, unable go out, because of the Police. I being refused all Justice and Human rights. I shudder to thiink what will happen tome, physically and mentally, if for the rest of my life I cannot go out, but there does not seem to be anything I can do about it


30, Spondon Road
London N15 4DX

To Whom It May Concern:

I need very urgent and desperate help

Since April 1993, I have been contacting, over and over again, the Police Complaints Authority and Solicitors, but so far no one has been willing to take on my Case.

I am a 65-year-old black man.

MY PROBLEMS – My full Statements of facts

My situation is perhaps difficult to understand, by someone who does not actually know me personally, therefore does not really know what kind of person I am and I suppose that makes it harder to understand my Case

But let me assure you that what I am going to tell you is the truth, the absolute truth.

Now, what you have got to understand first about my Case, is that I have never been charged by the Police about anything, although they have and they are still making very serious allegations against me.

My main problem is that the Police refuse to prosecute me, in other words, they will not allow me the right to defend myself in a Court of Law. If they prosecuted me, and I was cleared by a Court of Law, the Police could not do anything to me, they would not be able to imprison me, or order me to be detained in a mental hospital, for example.

But as it is, they can do anything they want with me, and there is nothing my family and I can do about it. That is why I live in fear day and night and that is why I cannot go out of my house any more (for the last 10 years), afraid of being arrested and locked up again.

1st. Problem

A few days ago, I received an email from the NSPCC, informing me that they have sent a referral to the Social Services against me, for further investigation.

I immediately wrote back to them, and asked them the following questions:

On what grounds you have asked for a referral?

Who has requested that this be done?

On what evidence and who made the allegations against me?

Have you any reason to believe that I am may be a paedophile or a sex offender of some kind?

Despite sending several copies of my letter, the NSPCC will not reply to me.

Moreover and more seriously, I believe that the NSPCC has put my name on their Sex Offenders’ Database, on the Internet – because on the subject line in their email to me, it is written:

Re:SEX OFFENDERS DATABASE DONE 496735 Mcameron

If they have put my name on their Sex Offenders’ Database, it would have been without allowing me any trial to try and obtain a conviction; it would have been without any evidence whatsoever.


2nd. Problem

Yes, for the last 10 years, I have been a prisoner in my own home, unable to go out at all, because of the Police, afraid of being arrested and locked up again.

I am not saying that I am under house arrest; no, no one is preventing me from going out and no one is watching my door.

But I am just terrified of going out again, for fear of being arrested and locked up again.

On the 22nd of March 1995, I was arrested by the police, and locked up for 5 hours, simply because I was trying to collect my own two children from school – they were very young then, and attended a primary school.

From the1st of October 1992, from my first day of unemployment, I took my two sons to school every day in my car and went back to pick them up in the afternoon.

But on the 22nd of March 1995, while sitting in my car, waiting for the school day to end, in a street near the school, I was arrested by the Police.

Of course they did not tell me that they were arresting me for collecting my children from school, they simply made stupid and preposterous allegations:

They said that I was “staring at the houses” – just because I was sitting in my car with eyes opened.

They said that I had stolen the car in which I was sitting. They refused to check on it, saying that I was lying.

They also said that the children were not mine – and that after the children did not see me at the school where I usually met them, and came into the street where they knew I always parked the car. They came and stood in front of the police and I. Seeing that I was being held by at least 6 policemen, they got scared, and cried – loud enough for the police to hear – “papa, papa”. And I told the police they were my two sons I was about to collect from school.

They said that I was lying; the children were not mine and I had to be arrested. They refused to come with me to the school, where I could have been identified immediately.

They threw me with violence in the police car, drove away, leaving the children on the pavement, sobbing, not knowing what to do and where to go. They took me to the police station where I was put in a cell on my own and locked up for 5 hours.

After the 5 hours, they came and released me from the cell they gave me back my car keys and told me I could go. They gave me no explanation whatsoever, why I was arrested and locked up.

I went back into the street where the children were still waiting for me, took them in the car and went home.

I then made several frantic telephone calls about this arrest, to the local Police Station and to Scotland Yard, and I was told they could do nothing.

So, the next day, I would not take the children to school again, afraid of getting arrested. So, for a month, they could not go to school. After that, I had to tell them that they had to go to school on their own form then on.

Since that day, the 23rd of March 1995, I never left my house. I contacted hundreds, perhaps thousands of Solicitors and Lawyers, as well as numerous Justice and Human Rights Organizations in England, but no one was prepared to help me in any way. No one was interested.

Finally, the Police rejected my complaints about this arrest, saying that they had fully investigated my Case, and confirmed that I had to be arrested.

So, the Police are fully aware that I was there on that street and on that day, to collect my own two young children from school, and they confirm that I had to be arrested.

There is no way I can take their word for it that if I go out of my house, I won’t get arrested and locked up again.

Anyone can see that the allegations the Police against me, when they arrested me, were stupid and preposterous. The real reason they arrested me was because I am a black man.

The police in England believe that all black people are criminals and insist of treating us as such.

I shudder to think what will happen to me, physically and mentally, if for the rest of my life I cannot go out of my house, but there does not seem to be anything I can do about it.

But the police refuse to prosecute me, in other words will not allow me the right to defend myself in a Court of Law, so they can arrest me and do anything with me they want at any time.

3rd. Problem

About a year ago, two policemen called at our house, at about 11.30 p.m. All of us were already in bed. My wife went downstairs to open the front door for them. I remained in bed.

They told my wife that they had just been informed by the Social Services that I had written a letter to them (the social services), just to tell them that I was abusing my two sons and also that I want to kill them with a Samurai Sword. They asked my wife if she knew anything about this. When my wife told them that she did not, they just left.

Of course it is totally false. I have never abused my sons; I have never been interested in boys, sexually that is. And why would I want to kill them? I have never had any problem with either my sons or with my wife. And why a Samurai Sword? I don’t know anything about any Samurai Sword; I only the name.

The next day, I wrote a letter to the Ombudsman, a person who has the authority to investigate complaints against he Social Services. I told them what the police had said, and I told the Ombudsman that it was totally false, I never abused my sons and so on. Just as I have told you here; also I that I never wrote such a letter to the Social Services.

After a week or so, I received a letter from the Ombudsman, telling me that they had contacted the Social Services, who deny having received any letter from me and that they have never contacted the Police against me.
I wrote back to the Ombudsman, saying that this is impossible: The Police could not possibly use the Social Services’ name and make false allegations against me. If that were the case, surely the Social Services would prosecute the Police for using their name for totally false allegations.

The Ombudsman replied that the Case is closed; they do not wish to receive any more letters from me, and if I write to them again, they will not reply.

I then wrote to the Social Services and got no reply, despite sending numerous copies of my letter to them.

I then wrote to the Police telling them that the Ombudsman, after investigation has confirmed that the Social Services never received any letter from me and that they did not go to the Police against me.

The Police will not reply despite sending them many copies of my letter.

Then my wife asked the Police to let us see the letter that I was supposed to have written to the Social Services.

The Police told my wife that they did not have the letter; the letter is with the Social Services (which the Social Services deny having received). The Police said that they had no power to get the letter, we have to get it ourselves from the Social Services.

Now, this is another strange thing: It is impossible that the Police do not have the power to get the letter, a letter which child abuse and murder is mentioned in it.

Neither the Police nor the Social Services will tell us anything.

Of course they have not charged me with anything, but the accusations, very serious accusations have been made against me by the Police and the Social Services.

But again, the Police refuse to prosecute me, in other words will not allow me the right to defend myself in a Court of Law. Consequently, the Police can do anything they want with me and there is nothing my family and I can do about it.

That is why I live in fear day and night, wondering when the Police might call on me again and what will they do to me.

Besides, my family has a right to know what is this all about, to see the letter I was supposed to have written, and to find out who made the accusations against me and why. But neither the Police nor the Social Services will not tell my family anything. My family is entitled to know the whole truth.

Incidentally, I have contacted hundreds of Lawyers and Solicitors as well as Forensic Experts, Criminologists and numerous Justice and Human Rights Organizations, but no one wants to know.


4th. Problem

In October or November, 1992, three policemen forced their way into my house, during the day, while my sons were at school and my wife was working, and they attacked my 70 year old mother. What they did to her, considering her age and frail physique, could easily have killed her. As they were leaving, they told us that they would be back to “sort you out”.

I made frantic telephone calls to the Police about this attack, but they just said that there is nothing they could do.

I contacted the Police Complaints Authority, who refused to do anything, saying that it was up to the Police.

I contacted again numerous Lawyers and Solicitors, and no wanted to know.

How could I just accept this senseless attack? So I kept on writing to the Police complaining and demanding Justice and Human Rights. They just refused to reply to my letters.

So, in April 1993, terrified that the Police would come back again and attack us, I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, begging for his help.

He did not reply to me, but sent my letter to the Police. A few days later, the Police called on me, asked me if I had written that letter and when I told them yes, they arrested me took me to the Police Station and with the complicity of a Social Worker and a Psychiatrist, took me to the a mental hospital and order me to be detained there.

I would point out that I was not mentally examined by either the social worker or the psychiatrist. In fact, I was refused the right to say anything. I was only asked my name and address, which I knew very well, and they found that I was severely mentally ill and had to be rushed to hospital.

If I was mentally examined, no one would have found that I was mentally ill in any degree. My family certainly did not see any mental illness in me nor by any one who knew me.

Now the accusations the Police made against me, were totally false and they were:

1. That I wanted to kill our milkman because I thought he was a spy – but I never knew the milkman, I never talked to him and I have never even seen his face. A man came to deliver our milk every day, and it was my mother who paid him every week. So, why would I want to kill him and why would I think he was a Spy? Russian or German Spy? I don’t know.

2. That I could not understand that I was legally entitled to receive Unemployment Benefit. But in hundreds to the Unemployment Benefit and to the Police, I repeated myself over and over again, that I do understand that I was legally entitled to receive Unemployment Benefit, but because I did not want to be accused false of refusing jobs, I did not want to receive any money. So, clearly, the accusation is totally false, made to make the social worker and the psychiatrist think that I was mentally ill.

3. That I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, for no other reason, but to tell him that I wanted to go about killing people and policemen everywhere, for no reason whatsoever. This is also totally false, because, in the first place, I never told the Archbishop of Canterbury this. I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, explaining my Case point by point and asking for his help.


I still want justice and human rights for this, because the accusations the Police made against me to order me to be detained in a mental hospital were totally false and can easily be proved to be false.


5th. Problem

Being aware that the Police are making very serious allegations against me, concerning the abuse of my children and the threat to kill them, I cannot help thinking that the Police, refusing to prosecute me, and will not allow me the right to defend myself in a Court of Law, they could order me to be detained in a mental hospital again, under totally false allegations.

Now, to try and prevent this from happening, I managed to get a Consultant Psychiatrist to come home to give me a full mental examination, from a local Psychiatrist Hospital.

He came and examined me. After the examination, he told me that he could find nothing wrong with me. I asked him to tell the Police that he has examined me and could find nothing wrong with me. He told me that he could not do that.

I then told him about all the allegations the Police were making against me, for example writing to the Social Services and telling them that I had been abusing my two children and also that I want to kill them with a Samurai Sword. I told the Psychiatrist that if these allegations could be proved to be true, then surely, I must be severely mentally ill. I asked him to ask the proof from the Police. He told me that he could not do this neither.

So, I told him of my fears that the Police could order me to be detained in a mental hospital under totally false allegations, at any time. He told me that neither him nor the Hospital can do nothing about it. The Police can do whatever they want.

So, even if the hospital knows that there is nothing wrong mentally with me, but the police want me to be detained, even under false allegations, they will not be able to help me.

I have again contacted numerous lawyers and solicitors about this, but no one wants to know.

So you see, why do I live in fear day and night, wondering what the police will do to me next?

6th. Problem

About a year ago, two policemen called on me, six times (over a period of about a 3 or 4 weeks) during the day while my wife was out working, and the children were at school. They demanded to see the children’s bedrooms.

I did not allow them into the house because (a) they refuse to tell me why and (b) they refuse to obtain a search warrant.

When my wife came home in the evening from work, I told her about the Police’s visit. She immediately telephoned the Police station to try and find out what was going on. They told her that the persons dealing with this case were not there and that she had to phone the next day.

My wife could not phone the police the next day, as she has to go to work And she did not wish to make such a phone call from the office. So, she asked a neighbour of ours to phone the police on her behalf.

She did phone the police and they told her that I had written a letter to them, telling them that I was abusing my two sons and also that I want to kill them with a Samurai Sword. She told my wife and my wife told me.

So, from time to time the police continued to call on me (as I said, totally they called on me 6 times, demanding to see the children’s bedroom).

The next time the police called on me, I told them about the accusations they were making about me. They told me that no one was making any accusation against me; I was imagining it, because I was mentally ill.

Now, I could not have imagined anything, because the Police told my neighbour about it and she told my wife, who then told me.

So, you see, they wanted to make me appear to be mentally ill – why, to try and shut me up for clamouring for Justice and Human Rights.

After a couple of weeks, my wife went to the Police station, and asked them what was going on. The Police told my wife, at the station, that I had written a letter to them telling them that I had been abusing my children and also that I want to kill them with a Samurai Sword.

My wife asked them to see that letter; they refused, they just said that they could not do that.

Asked what was going to happen now; they said that they were still investigating and would come back to her.

First of all, there was nothing to investigate, because they said that they had received a letter from me.

Secondly, over a year has passed now, and they never came to back to my wife. Except of course about a month ago, with this business of the Social Worker’s letter.

This is my Case. If there is any question you wish to ask me, please ask and I will always be honest and true to you.

Thank you very much indeed for all your kindness. I desperately hope that you can find some ways to help me. I myself have tried everything I can, but I cannot find anyone to help me.

As long as I cannot get any one to help me I will remain a prisoner in my own home unable to go out of my house, afraid of being arrested and locked up again.

Also, living in fear day and night, wondering what the Police might do to me next and not being able to do anything to prevent it or for me to defend myself in a Court of Law.


_____________
France Chorley
My email address:  france.Chorley@gmail.com

France Chorley
- e-mail: france.chorley@gmai.com

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