ANIMAL FORUM

Recent Letter to America.


Dear Pamela and Will

Your counterpart in England, war hero and human rights activist Norman
Scarth (77), is in grave danger. Norman is founder member of The Article 6
Group (fighting for fair hearings in British courts). He exposed nationwide
fraud and corruption in the English legal system, published a book Cause
for Concern which denounces and names dishonest judges, and changed the law
(singlehandedly, without any lawyer) to ban secret hearings, via ECHR case
Scarth v UK (33745/96). British courts, however, continue to conduct
hearings of public importance behind closed doors.

Corrupt judges regarded this old-age pensioner as a threat to themselves, so
they targeted him. West Yorkshire Police were sent out to terrorise Norman,
who lived under siege for eleven months before riot police illegally forced
an entry into his home and brutally assaulted him. The Police maliciously
prosecuted Norman, who had an unfair trial (perjury by officers; judicial
obstruction of key defence witness; press banned). He was defamed, by the
corrupt judge, as a dangerous man and sentenced to 10 years.

The Prison Service has transferred Norman six times during the two years he
has been incarcerated, and his applications for bail, appeal and release on
temporary licence are obstructed, delayed and not acted on. Though popular
and respected by prison inmates, education officers and doctors, Norman is
subjected to mental torture and physical assault from the warders. An appeal
against conviction was hijacked by a hostile barrister and the judge quashed
the sentence completely - only to section him under the infamous 1983 Mental
Health Act. Norman was immediately subjected to further mental torture by
state psychiatrists threatening to forcibly inject him with a
potentially-lethal drug. Only public protests, the intervention of an
American psychiatrist, and the refusal of nurses to participate prevented Dr
Quin from committing state murder. Norman was subsequently brought back to
court to allow the judge to reimpose the original sentence. It is believed
that Prisoner GV5409 (Norman) is not on Home Office records; and Members of
Parliament are not allowed to ask questions about political prisoners or
human rights abuses committed by the Government.

At the latest court hearing (Leeds High Court, West Yorkshire) on Monday 14
July, public observers were shocked and distressed to see a skeletal, long
grey-haired and bearded old man (wearing his Article 6 Group Tee-shirt)
shuffle slowly into court, shackled between two prison warders. This
hearing - inexplicably delayed for two years - was Scarth v Moore LS190197
(Human Rights Activist v The Police State): an action against West Yorkshire
Police. Norman was unrepresented and without documents, and His Honour Judge
Grenfell again refused to order the Prison Director, David McDonnell, to
allow Norman access to his own (or any) computer and files whilst in prison.
This greatly disadvantages Norman, whose medical conditions render
handwriting difficult. One tortured, partially-disabled and weakened old
man, without a necessary computer, legal papers or representation, is
expected to conduct his claim against a fully-represented State: further
indication of UK violation of human rights law (equality of arms). The case
was adjourned until next month (brought forward on Normans grounds that he
may not survive much longer).

Please contact impartial observer, Reverend Ray Gaston, All Hallows
Vicarage, Regent Terrace, Leeds LS6 1NP, West Yorkshire (UK 0113 2422205),
David Emslie (07947 571306), lay adviser, or Tony Wilde (07905 108296), lay
adviser - who has been threatened by Scotland Yard officials for writing to
Prime Minister Blair - to obtain the publics opinion: that this man should
not be in prison.

Norman was returned to Armley Prison, Leeds, which is grossly overcrowded
and inefficiently run. There are 3 or 4 inmates to each cell, locked up 23
hours daily, pop music blaring incessantly. The prison has a reputation for
deaths through medical neglect. Yesterday (Tuesday 15 July) I received an
urgent telephone call from Norman: during shower period, he was surrounded
by a mob of sneering, jeering prison warders who turned the fire hose on
him. One warder (18 stone, 64) confronted him, glaring down threateningly.

Clearly, Norman is at great risk. If you could assist in any way to pressure
the UK Government to release him, the British public (kept ignorant due to
media complicity) would be in your debt - as they are in Normans.

Yours sincerely

Ann Mallaby
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Is the time about right to start arresting those who are active in the use
of judicial crime along with those who fail to do their paid public duty to
act on it? Should we clear out some of those who are wrongly imprisoned to
make room for them? A crooked judge is perhaps the most evil and vile person
of all. Should we tolerate them any longer? Should Tony Blair be held to
account for the present state of the justice system? Should his former
acquaintance and head of the judiciary, a man by the name of Irvine, also
be brought to trial before an independent and impartial tribunal or
authority for ignoring crimes used so extensively now by members of the UK
judiciary? At Present the UK citizen is grossly being denied their rights
under Article 6(1) of the European Human Rights Convention. That Article
requires that all UK citizens must have access to independent and impartial
tribunals or authorities established by law for the resolution of their
criminal and civil rights. We have no such tribunals or authorities. The
fairer Britain falsely promised to us all by Tony Blair in 1997, has led to
a situation where the UK is less fair now than probably at any time since
before the civil wars of the middle ages. Could we be leading to a similar
war now? The arising probable results of such widespread UK injustice, could
have dire consequences for us all if it continues to remain unchecked.
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The-Informer

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