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Tuesday 25 March 2014

JERSEY CHILD ABUSE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY: THE IMPORTANCE OF GIVING EVIDENCE



The official launch of the Committee of Inquiry into the State cover up of decades of institutional child abuse is now just over a week away. Many abuse survivors have often thought that we would never, ever get to see this finally come about. Understandably so, given the rabid opposition orchestrated by those who desperately wanted both the true extent of the victims’ suffering; and the betrayals of those who let it happen and should have brought the perpetrators to justice years ago swept under the carpet in best ‘Jersey Way’ fashion to protect our image as an ‘Off Shore centre’. 

Survivors/victims have not only been dismissed and even simply deliberately ignored over the years many have been bullied; they have been humiliated and insulted. Some have even been threatened with legal action to try and intimidate them into silence. As one of the tiny handful of politicians who actually fought for the establishment of the Committee of Inquiry way back in 2008 I thus really cannot stress highly enough just how crucial it is that anyone who has evidence of any kind comes forward now and presents this to the Committee if it at all possible. 

I know only too well from the large number of survivors I have spoken to that this will be terribly painful for many… 

Perhaps it will even be genuinely impossible for a number. Indeed, just listening to some of the victims’ experiences made me feel physically sick on occasions. But what all of us who do not go along with the ‘Jersey Way’ ethos of the likes of the Bailhache brothers – two arrogant and utterly disgraced Attorney Generals and ‘judges’ whose names are now shamefully synonymous with the betrayal of both child abuse victims and justice alike – must keep in mind is this. 

No matter how painful; no matter what the intimidation or the cost all who can manage it simply must endeavour to place all that we know ‘on the record’ come the inquiry beginning on April 3rd because the alternative is surely even worse. Can we be sure that the Committee will act upon the evidence they are given as a truly independent body should do? No. We cannot. Yet what we can do - and do beyond any shadow of a doubt – is ensure that all of the facts finally do end up on the public record for posterity. 

By doing so we thus may just ensure that this type of sickening cover-up by the Island’s Establishment cannot happen so easily again; nor perpetrators get away with it so easily. 

After all, Jersey won’t always have a ‘justice’ system as corrupt and utterly warped by power and greed as the one allowed to ferment under Philip Bailhache and the equally contemptuous of Jersey’s obligations to comply with the European Convention on Human Rights, Michael Birt. Just as one day the UK finally won’t have weak individuals like recent ‘Justice Ministers such as McNally and Hughes; or of course the Queen’s Lieutenant-Governor for the Island who equally know what is going on but keep their mouths shut for fear of damaging the murky Jersey tax links with the City of London. Truth will always out in the end no matter how long it takes. 

But should you be one of those who genuinely doubt that presenting your evidence is worthwhile or will achieve anything positive – perhaps when set against the pain the process may bring about - please just consider the likely consequences if you do not. For in such a scenario the likelihood is that the lies and false picture of what took place at Haut de la Garenne and so many other places painted by the Establishment and their lackey media mouthpieces like the Jersey Evening Post will over time become accepted ‘fact’. 

Just as Dr. Goebbels stated: if you keep repeating a lie long enough… 

Not only will both the true extent of the suffering of the victims and the complicity of the politicians, civil servants, police and media who made it all possible be airbrushed out of history – the same Establishment and media fabrications trashing the hard work of the brave police officers, Graham Power and Lenny Harper, who finally did act to do something about it all will also become historical ‘fact’. 

This should be something that not a single soul who cares about justice and putting an end to ‘the Jersey Way’ could even contemplate as letting happen. And that is why all who can should give their evidence and give it proudly. 

Indeed, as the politician who led the investigation into the absolute fabrication of what really happened within the financial managing of Operation Rectangle by Power and Harper I know as well as anyone how the Jersey mainstream media – not just the Jersey Evening Post but Channel and the local BBC - sold the public a work of fiction in conjunction with Establishment politicians that would have done Stephen King proud. 

For example, without the evidence secured from witnesses in that Scrutiny Review we would never know such important and revealing facts such as… 

Far from Harper and Power ‘wasting’ 7.5 million pounds as claimed by the State media and some oddly obsessed Establishment politicians the duo did not even spend such a figure at all. The majority of the money actually was spent by their successors Warcop and Gradwell who did not even have a major crime scene to maintain. 

We would never know the truth that, try as politicians such as Ben Shenton, Jim Perchard and Sean Power did to smear the name of Lenny Harper the only individual leaking information to the media during a live child abuse investigation was actually Mick Gradwell – the man the JEP tried to spin to people as some kind of whistle-blowing hero! Yes, one of the very men brought in by the Establishment to trash and bury the whole investigation! 

These are just two hugely revealing facts amongst a great many that were dragged out into the light to counter the Establishment/State media lies only by people giving evidence to my panel… 

By now speaking to the Committee of Inquiry survivors and other witnesses alike can achieve the same – only even more so! Perhaps even setting in motion moves that will finally bring some of those protected under the ‘justice’ of the regimes of Bailhache and co to belated justice. So I repeat: let the true facts be recorded for future generations. Because if we do not we can be quite certain it will only make the events surrounding Haut de la Garenne all the more likely to happen again. 

Keep the Faith

31 comments:

  1. Quite simply Trevor there is nothing that can be added to this excellent posting except to add my own plea to anyone who has anything to offer to this Inquiry, however small that information may seem to be, please do so.

    Grateful thanks for your continued support for the victims of abuse, courtesy the States of Jersey. I too have been party to some horrific stories which, if justice is seen to be done, will shame this Island and all the perpetrators and those involved in the cover-up because believe you me that's just what it was.

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    1. Thanks Gill. All who can must try and ignore the rants of the handful of fruitcakes like Haworth, Le Main, Sean Power, Perchard and co who try to dismiss what happened to people and cause them even more pain in the process by all their efforts to undermine the police investigation by Harper and. G Power. Bad enough that we have disgraces like the Bailhache brothers betraying so many victims of child abuse. With these other odd bods you have to wonder what they are so worried about?

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  2. An excellent blog Trevor. May I add my voice to yours, and urge victims to find the strength to come forward. I sincerely hope they find that strength.

    You only have to look at the belated and imminent exposure of massive corruption in the Metropolitan Police - the murders of Daniel Morgan and Stephen Lawrence in particular - to see that eventually the guilty can possibly be held to account, but only if the victims find the strength to relentlessly pursue the wrongdoers, and get everything on the record.

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    1. Thank you. The truth will win in the end. This is a war of attrition. We just have to keep going.

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    2. What a load of Tosh!!!! I had a lovely chat with Shona in town the other day. She looked radiant and well rested, just what the doctor ordered! Keep up the good work Trevor.

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  3. That was a "Suppa Duppa" posting :)

    Keep digging in the dirt Trev.

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    1. Thanks Ian. Do you happen to know of a machine that could help the Jersey troll? Apparently he is now so perpetually drunk that he has convinced himself and is telling others that Shona has left me and is living in Devon! Poor old Jon - he must be living in Royston Vasey!

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    2. How odd, you both have been up to my home every day for the last week! I saw both of you this morning, when did she leave you and go to Devon? It must have been after 11.15am this morning!!!

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  4. Well said Mr. Pitman.

    You are so right to mention the Nazi fascist Goebbels who stated "if you keep repeating a lie long enough" ......
    This is one of the central tenets of the establishment's management of truth and opinion.

    The repetition of misinformation and the suppression of truth and alternative narrative.
    A rather well evidenced alternative narrative which they have expensively failed to supress is available at:
    http://freespeechoffshore.nl/stuartsyvretblog/the-publics-inquiry-into-the-public-inquiry-starts-here/

    In spite of the concerns and unanswered questions regarding the enquiry, even Ex health Minister Syvret ENTIRELY AGREES THAT ALL WITNESSES should come forward. This will make any attempted whitewash embarrassingly untenable. The millionaire lawyers may bow to human decency rather than publicly twist and turn and soil themselves attempting to maintain the untenable establishment storyline.

    The mainstream media (shamefully including the BBC) is responsible for maintaining gullible islanders in the establishment's own brand of denialist "consensus reality"
    [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_reality]

    This manufactured reality is crumbling due to the increased readership of evidence on the island's quality blog sites.

    Jersey's redemption is not based on a fight between Right and Left, it is based on a fight between right and wrong. The morally weak are seduced by the lie of shared self interest also peddled by our incompetent ruling elite. The guilty must be fingered so that this cancer can be cut form our beautiful island.

    Otherwise history repeats itself and only the complacent would think that they or their children were immune to the diseases which span class and culture.
    Paedophilia and culture of abuse do not spontaneously cleanse themselves. The compromised continue to run the show and have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted with justice or with the real interests of the community.

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    1. A fight between right and wrong - never a truer word!

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  5. They got rid of you and Shona out of the states to try and silence you and prevent you from supporting abuse victims so I'm pleased to see you are still supporting us. Everybody should give evidence to this enquiry to make the cover up harder for them.

    James Pearce.

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  6. Keep up the great work Trevor.

    Julie Hanning.

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    1. Dear Julie and James. Than you for your sensible views. I fear that I am told someone who is obviously a mad bam pot and a drunk is attributing very silly right wing views to you on a blog read only by the police, lawyers + an ex-military latrine digger and a pretend witch.

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  7. Trevor.

    I echo your call for all to give evidence to the Committee of Inquiry.

    As mentioned in the main posting "try as politicians such as Ben Shenton, Jim Perchard and Sean Power did to smear the name of Lenny Harper"

    Lenny did address these three individuals HERE.

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  8. Trevor.

    Also from your main posting;

    "Far from Harper and Power ‘wasting’ 7.5 million pounds as claimed by the State media ."

    Your readers will find THIS POSTING very informative, and educational, in the way the State Media distorts the truth and lies.

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  9. Well how can it be possible in2014 for the states to actually believe themselves that they can cover this up any more,they ghosted Stuart, lenny harper , graham power, therapists that were helping victims back in 2008/9, to cover the truth again . if this don't come out every victim should go to the papers, internet to tell their story . I personally supported many victims and yes it was horrific .if a society is judged by how it treats its children then god help us. and yes there were bones found lenny harpers report from the bones found that was on Stuarts blog tells a whole other story . and the states wasted that money on the pretense of a thorough investigation in which all the evidence was collected and then hidden again . im not surprised Stuart got angry this whole island only knows what the papers were allowed to report .because the states control that as well .

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  10. Good to read your sensible honest blog and also get the feeling you are on good form Trevor. It is clearly a battle about what is wrong and what is right and you and Shona are on the side of good. One point if I may as much as the enquiry is so very important, so are the elections in a few months time.

    It is the once in a very long time chance, to remove the ineffective so called politicians who's agendas have nothing to do with the well
    being of islanders.

    Whether they stay or go, is your decision, use your vote.

    Take good care both of you,

    Paul Letherbarrow.

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    1. Paul Letherbarrow has a pea for a brain if he thinks this bullshit is honest.
      Planet Jersey is as dead as a parrot in a monty sketch.

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    2. Planet Jersey not quite as dead as the hate site run by the petty convicted criminal AKA Jon the troll! as for Mr Letherbarrow... Why not come clean about how this hatred of him grew after you were kicked off of Planet Jersey due to his and others concerns at your talking to yourself via multiple avatars to abuse others, Jon?

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  11. Well said. I also hope the committee are made fully aware of the hate sites that people like the troll ran to attack the abuse victims and Harper and Power. Not to forget the States members who were happy to comment on it like Sean Power, Le Main and Perchard. Totally sick.

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  12. BIG RESPECT to deputy Sam Mezec for showing what a spiteful bullying liar Terry Le Main is with the cr*p he is trying to spread about your wife on the pedo friendly hate site Le Main spends his life on nowadays.

    Go for it Sam we need people in the states who will stand up to these bullies now that Trevor and Shona have been ousted by the corrupt legal system.

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  13. Hope to have a new post up in next couple of days. Meanwhile all those interested in justice should ensure they go to the public launch of the Committee of Inquiry at St. Paul's Centre on Thursday at 10.30 am.

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  14. So glad you are still hanging on in there to support the 'victims' of abuse, so sad you aren't still in the States. That's the problem, anyone who stands up to be counted against 'the establishment' just cannot win! 'They' get rid if you one way or another. You're both greatly missed. People don't want to hear the truth.

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  15. Trevor.

    Transcript from the public meeting this morning with FRANCIS OLDHAM QC

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  16. Sad to say the usual multiple abusive comments coming through from the fruitcake Haworth. So glad I have kept them all and had them analysed.

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    1. You are just a stupid man.

      From what I am reading if Haworth took action you would be fucked. No leg to stand on.

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    2. Dream on Jon (or is it Julie today?) we now have so many of your victims who have not only registered official complaints but are itching to get the truth heard in court. Bring it on just remember there will be no getting away with the lie of an isolated 'moment of madness' to excuse your sick obsessions next time.

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  17. Mr Haworth is a sad case that clearly needs help, and has done for a long time. Could it be that he is Jealous that PJ now constantly gets a substantially higher numbers of readers then when he was involved, and he was banned on at least five occasions for malicious behaviour to others.

    Planet jersey is a huge archive going back to 2008 with detailed examination of the Harcourt, Heritage Trust and other fiasco's, and represents the views of many interested and clever members / islanders.

    Boatyboy.

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  18. How's your Mum? Going to loose her house too?

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    1. I publish the disgusting comment above just to show readers how twisted freak Haworth is. At 83 my mum passed away on Sunday from cancer after a long battle. Well, sorry to disappoint you scum bag but my mum fully understood the corruption in Jersey's so called 'justice' system and took appropriate steps. But just how sad, sick and twisted can a person be? I guess the same sort of sicko who threatens people''a wives? #TaxingTimes

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    2. Trevor, I am so sorry to read this. My best wishes and condolences to you, Shona and your family,

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