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Camden animal abuser charged and remanded on paedophilia charges after raids.

Anon | 30.07.2009 22:15 | Animal Liberation | South Coast | World

The Animal Liberation Front will remember how Christie Singham kept live parrots in tiny glass cages as ornaments in one of his nightclubs in Camden. The parrots were removed and rehomed following a campaign against the nighclub owner who runs a string of bars in Camden. He has been arrested and remanded in custody following raids on safety deposit boxes which revealed Singham's child porn.

The Camden Gazette and Camden New Journal have said:

Nine people were arrested following raids on bars, clubs and restaraunts in Camden Town and raids on 3,500 safety deposit boxes in Hampstead and Park Lane. Eight venues in Inverness St [mostly owned by Singham], chalk Farm and Camden High St were raided on Thursday as part of Operation Rize - an investigation into safety deposit box use by criminal networks.

Christie Anthony Singham, 47, of Milton Park, Highgate, appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates Court last Friday charged with 30 counts of making indecent images of children and two counts of possessing indecent images of children and was remanded in custody.

Officers have found £35 million in cash, four firearms, forged passports and indentity documents, quantities of Class a drugs, illegally imported elephant tusks, items used for organised befit fraud, evidence of human trafficking, paedophilia and money laundering.

At least 3,500 safety deposit boxes held at a security firm's vaults in Hampstead and Park Lane were raided in June last year. The police claim that the raids have disrupted around 21 criminal gangs. Tax officails have taken £4 million. Inverness St bars such as Cafe Brasil where the aprrots were caged and Bar solo were closed but the bars are now open again and running business as usual while a police van sits on guard on Inverness St outside the [said to be] pervert's clubs.

Camden police's licensing chief Sgt Bob Dear said : [to the newspaper] "Given the seriousness of the allegations, the licences of these premises could be reveiwed".

Despite the allegations of child pornography critics have questioned the legality of confiscating the contents of every box at the depositries.

Christie became known to Animal Rights activists following a campaign against him when the Camden New Journal revealed that he was keeping parrots in a tiny glass box in the window of Cafe Brasil a few years ago. Residents campaigned against the cruelty and the Animal Liberation Front were told at which point the parrots were removed and rehomed within a day. [The A.L.F. activists who contacted Singham have since moved from the area].

Chritis has been remanded in custody charged with various crimes including crimes against children.

Anon

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scum

30.07.2009 23:26

Abusing animals, abusing children? It matters not to some of these scum bags who have no regard for life. Hopefully he'll be locked up for a long time.

resident


The last sentence should read Christie Singham has been remanded.

30.07.2009 23:44

Apologies for the spelling mistake. As for sentences ...if it does turn out that Chris Singham is indeed a child molestor then I hope you have a fucking horrible time in prison and that you leave there in a body bag.

So often it is proven that people who abuse animals turn out be capable of the most disgusting acts, child abuse being the worst.

Although it is not yet proven in court about him, it is shocking that people are still drinking in his clubs and that they are open at all under the circumstances.

Anon


Long been known ...

31.07.2009 00:00

NSPCC has long said that animal abuse and child abuse are linked. It's time the reports from the likes of NSPCC were taken more seriously and child abuse was stopped by the laws on animal abuse becoming tougher and enforced properly.

NSPCC Supporter


Property, Money Laundering and Pic of Sinham

31.07.2009 07:20

nonse singham pictured centre
nonse singham pictured centre

Singham appeared in the CNJ the other year complaining about drug dealing and litter on Inverness Street. The irony of this piece of trash....

Inverness Street: a ‘third world’ market for all your tourist tack

Shop owners lash out at council as ‘medieval circus’ sees trade plummet

SHOP owners in Inverness Street have levelled a litany of complaints at council bosses, blaming nosediving trade on the “third world” market in front of their premises.
Despite a £1.5million revamp in 2006, businesses in the historic market street say that their turnover is worse than ever due to a “medieval circus” of badly positioned stalls and tourist tack.
They claim that drug-dealing has also crept back into the market, encouraged by the barrows and stacks of refuse left out by traders at the end of the day.
Christie Singam, the managing agent for all bar two of the shops on the street, said: “This has been a seriously wasted opportunity. It could have been amazing as a market for residents – instead it looks like a market in a third world country.
“Trade has suffered incredibly. We’ve lost at least 20 staff in the past year. The layout needs to change – we need to be seen from the main street – and the nature of the market needs to change.”
He added: “There’s someone selling Union Jack T-shirts, and someone else selling fake Gucci bags. It just doesn’t sit. The council say every stall is vetted but they are rarely down here during the day.”
Mick Marshall, manager of On the Floor Records, said that shops were getting lost behind the closely placed stalls and the large canopies, but insisted it was not the traders at fault.
“We were misled by the council in consultation. In an ideal world this would be a farmers’ market on the other side of the street. But the way it’s laid out now, people don’t know there’s anything along this street apart from the market,” he said.
Market traders, who preferred to remain anonymous, saw things differently.
“The market has been here for a hundred years, so it’s the businesses that are new, not the market.
“The businesses behind [us] feed off the trade in the market – that’s why people come down the street,” said a stallholder.
He added: “Everybody is doing less trade – there’s a recession. It’s an easy excuse to say there’s no business and it’s the fault of the market.”
Several traders agreed that the canopies were a hazard but scoffed at the accusations of rubbish.
“You should see all the cigarette butts from their bars I have to sweep up every morning,” said one.
Mr Singam said they would continue to campaign for the stalls to be relocated to the far side of street and the tourist stalls removed.
They would pay increased rates for pavement dining and display space to subsidise the market’s revenue, he added.
But traders said the idea was unrealistic.
“The whole thing is geared up for tourists. It’s the not the type of place where you can sell goats’ cheese and knitted sweaters,” one said.
A council spokeswoman said: “Our market inspectors visit each day to deal with any issues around trading and cleanliness and deal with any complaints.
“All prospective new stallholders are first interviewed to ensure their goods would comple­ment those already sold, enhance the market’s standing and be unlikely to negatively impact existing business. We are also investigating ways we might better store stalls at the close of the market.”

CNJ


Singham the nonce grasses on all the street "drug dealers"

01.08.2009 16:58

He has been complaining about drug dealers for years then boasting about it to the Camden New Journal. On one occasion he complained about Somalian youths who were playing football on "his" street and told the public "Why are people afraid of children? Get rid of them". Now the truth is out about you....you grassing , animal abusing, double dealing NONCE. I hope you fucking die a really painful, slow and horrible death. I hope the other prisoners rape you, cut you, burn you, rip open your arse and then kick you to death you child abusing piece of dirt.

I hate Singham


Ez b

01.08.2009 21:35

Even though Singham is a tax evading crook, he is definitely not a paedo. In fact I heard from the police that the pictures he was accused of having were found in a temporory internet file on a computer that most of his staff use, including that weirdo looking guy that works for Singham in Inverness street called Steve. (Now he definitely looks like a Paedo). So he won't be charge with having indecent pictures, because as any computer tech will tell you, once you peruse through a page, your computer downloads images onto your hard drives temporary internet folder (Cache) so you can see the pictures more quickly the next time you visit the page. Maybe Singham or someone else might have visited the page but they can't prove that images were downloaded onto the computer.

EZB


celebration of the prison industrial complex woo yea!

02.08.2009 16:50

yet again i read so called animal liberationist celebrating the use of prisons. how very depressing...

abolitionist


reply to ez b from steve wilmot

04.08.2009 16:20

if you want to make random allegations without any facts to back them up,then stop being such a coward and at least have the guts to make your petty accusations about me in person

steve wilmot


once again for the brainless ez d

04.08.2009 19:50

i'd also like to suggest that next time you post a comment on a public forum that you try to use correct english grammar,obviously this is indicative of a fickle,moronic,pre-judgemental philistine.you decide to brand me as a wierdo and a paedo and then have the nerve to rant on about computer technology and supposed information donated to you by the police,i would be suprised if you even knew how to turn a computer on.
so,come and see me .you'll find me in inverness street most days,as i am a free ,innocent camden citizen,who has not been arrested for anything and will remain that way.
ez d,shame on you,go get a white pillowcase,red arm band or home made bomb and join your kin

steve wilmot


ha ha ha

10.08.2009 12:53

its about time they lock chris singham away,he has broken the law countless times over the years.he is arrogant little man who thinks he can go through life doing what ever he wants,he rips off the taxman,he rips off his workers ,he rips off his customers,he even rips off gas,electricity etc,he constantly dissolves his companie,leaving supplyers unpaid,then starts up a new company in the same venue,he gets stupid polish builders and kitchen porters to become directors and then lets them take the heat when the companies gone done for employing illegal immigants,avoiding tax or paying below minimum wage( we used to get £30 for 10 hour shift)
he really is the most hated man in camden,he has no one who cares for him except a gold digger and his piles of money he has stashed away.
how ironic it is that the precious money he needs to get himself out of jail,he cant get to because he stashed it away from everyone
karma has no timeframe

the inverness st ex employees


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