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"No man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or goods except from a distinct breach of the law established by ordinary courts of the land." A V Dicey
(Except in LibDem run Stockport)

Mr. Parnell, the Town Hall protester, adopted two girls from Stockport Council. The girls had been placed with Stockport Council for adoption by Wigan council. They had had a terrible time with their birth parents. When they were first adopted they were receiving counselling from After Adoption.


Despite receiving over £600,000 to provide such services, the Council subsquently refused to fund the counselling.


Mr. Parnell asked the Council to re-instate this. As I know too well myself, it is almost impossible to navigate the Council's Complaints procedure under Mr Majothi.  After a decade of getting no help and his girls getting more and more troubled, Mr. Parnell decided to stand on the Town Hall steps until someone listened to his plight.  Instead, they had him arrested.  Hundreds of custodies, many, many arrests, nights in a police cell, many court appearances, many dropped on the day of the hearing, always one hanging over him and his family over the Christmas period, sentenced to two years house arrest 8am to 8pm so he couldn't even visit his dentist, multiple incarcerations in tough Forest Bank Prison.


What had this man done?  Asked the LibDem Council for counselling for his two daughters adopted from Stockport Council.  These are the LibDems who pontificate their belief in human rights!


They accused him of assault with a sneeze.  He was found guilty and sent to Forest Bank prison, despite being in very serious ill health.


When this case finally went to appeal at the Crown Court in a 3 day hearing which cost you and me tens of thousands of pounds, the security guards were found to have lied in court, the Assistant Chief Executive of Stockport Council failed to turn up in court. The police said they contacted him about 9 times asking him to attend but he didn't bother to return their calls or emails.  Judge Bernard Lever said: "When Mr Ged Lucas was asked to appear before this court he ran for the hills.

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I have today 10th November 2012 at 18.17 sent this to Peter Jones, senior council officer responsible. I don't actually have any confidence that Mr. Jones will do the decent thing.  I might be surprised, but I doubt it:-

Peter Jones
Recovery Team Manager
Business Services
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Tel : 0161 474 5824
Mobile: 07891 949107 ( 88 9107 from internal phones)
Fax : 0161 474 5827


Dear Mr Jones,

I have taken expert advice on this matter and say to you the following:-
This is a litany of non-communication, deliberate or not, failure in all areas of entitlements, payments, acknowledgments, demands for non-existent liabilities - the Parnells appear to have been driven by the Council's actions into problems which should have had no place in their troubled lives. Apart from their courage against the odds, there is no sense of co-operation from a hapless Authority (which does echo other situations I have met with in the same Authority - is their kind of chaos simply explained by a universal malaise in these local government organisations?) and I have, as is my norm, dealt, as far as I can, with complex legislation, unbelievable incompetence and downright stupidity bordering on vindictiveness. I recall the previous incidents of access to "City Hall" spitting accusations and bullying.


I look forward to your comments as to how this disgraceful situation can be sorted out and shame on you, Mr Jones, that it has not been done before. You have my letter of authority to act on Mr. Parnell's behalf and I shall put any response from you, or lack of one, up on my website, which is getting a surprising number of visits.


Sheila Oliver






----- Forwarded Message -----
From: MICHAEL PARNELL <mickysara@btinternet.com>
To: sheilaoliver <sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com>
Sent: Monday, 12 November 2012, 3:14
Subject: Fw: Reporting to the Police Reply
Dear Sheila
Mike here, Hello how are you, hope you are well,
the liberal security democratic protecters have done it again, so that i couldn't ask a question at the full council meeting last thursday 8th November 2012, they had the police arrest me at 14:23 hrs for a section 4A public order offence and was forcefully put on conditinonal bail (
not to go to fred perry house ) being released the next day at 00:03 hrs 9th November 2012, and conditioned to attend court on the 22nd November 2012, ............

Derbyshire, Weldon, Hogg, Candler, Pantall, Smith, White, Boylan, Schulz, Roberts, Khan, Majothi, Jones, Webb - the culprits.


This council was responsible for the stories above and below. The serious case reviews led to guarantees that the council would assist people who came to them for help with vulnerable children. With the town hall protester, although they had a legal duty to help him, they repeatedly sent him - a sick man - to prison.



You and I paid possibly hundreds of thousands of pounds in police, prison, court and appeal court time over this alleged assault with a sneeze. The Council security guards were found to have lied in court. Although acquitted of the assault with a sneeze, the control order remained in force.  How anyone can continue to be punished for a crime of which he was acquitted is beyond my understanding, but that is what happened.

 

Mr. Parnell is acquitted in a 3 day appeal at Manchester Crown Court of assault with a sneeze.  The security guards were found by Judge Bernard Lever to have lied in court over the alleged assault with a sneeze.

In Mr Parnell's own words:-

This was taken while I was waiting outside the town hall ready for a council meeting that I had been summonded to attend.  The council had aleady reported me to the police that day for being stood outside Stopford House (yes, for being outside).  The police moved me on and I went for a coffee at Macdonald's, after which I came back for the meeting, was told 5.30 was too early, and I had to wait outside until 5.50.  I stood outside with a blank, A4 laminated piece of paper in front of me to shield my camera from the traffic dust, but not from the disgusting filth of Council Security.   Do they want to put me down?  Sorry but I have to say this - they make me feel like "sh*t".   I know I am not.   I have a clean conscience.  The only thing I might be doing is uncovering their stink of behaviour.  They need to clean up their own mess and dispose the disrespectful waste that abuse those who fund  their wages.  Brush with the law and lets have a good spring clean. Scrub them out clear and transparent.

In Mr. Parnell's own words:-

Mike here.   I am trying hard to get many more of the video clips to you but my PC is not coping very well.  If it was a person you could say it might be having a nervous breakdown.   The virtual memory keeps failing; this means I have to shut down and restart -  that is the computer not myself. just a little joke.  Hard though  it might be, but with your greatly appreciated support around me I can carry on in our quest.  We both know it is not to our own selfish gains, but we want to serve those who can't protect themselves from those within the council who just don't care, and all they just seem to do is try and destroy peoples lives.  And then for them only to stand back and say look at the good job they had done.  Before they do too much further damage, let's get it out there how they do the things they do.   The video clip sent is first for you just to look at and guide me about its content.   I find it difficult not to show things in full as recorded with all that is said from both sides.   I don't have anything to hide, but there are some who might discriminate when they don't know the true facts or causes..................   My problems are that, as you might understand, in my mind I see the sound recordings as it was when they happened.  Because of the many hours listening or viewing to find the events that happened, this is causing the computer health problems.

"It was in 2008 that (then) Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced that the Police would be rolling out these tactics on the estates to combat "anti-social behaviour". Anti-social behaviour was Labour's crime buzzword of the noughties - a term so nebulous it became used much in the same way as the 'sus' laws of the 1980s. Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (or ASBOs) were used to impose stringent conditions on the behaviour of individuals who were regarded, for whatever reason, undesireable. Breaking these conditions is a criminal offence and thus often criminalises essentially un-criminal behaviour. This particular FIT watcher remembers the tabloid shockers of the time: the suicidally depressed getting ASBOs preventing them from going near tall buildings, Then there were the local police advertising campaigns: billboards and buses bearing the likenesses of supposed 'offenders' detailing their ASBO conditions and urging people to grass if the 'offender' is seen to break their conditions. In the midst of ASBO-mania, Jacqui Smith heralded the arrival of "Operation Leopard" - a pioneering scheme to introduce Forward Intelligence Team tactics to Essex. Coupled with the 2007 introduction of additional powers for Police to stop people on the street based entirely on suspicion (again, not a million miles away from the 'sus' laws), it wasn't long before it was rolled out to police other areas - such as the estates around East London's Brick Lane,".........or that it is still in operation within Greater Manchester at Stockport town hall where the peaceful protester has had harassment following the council's employee's circulated malicious chinese whisper !! ( as said at the last recall ), "why don't we let him protest from the top of the building because when he's there he might fall off and then we'll be rid of him"........

"Where do we go from here?

We have seen how concentrated police harassment affects not only our own social movements, but also the communities of the past and the present. We also have an idea of the forces at work behind policing - how it is always used selectively by the government as a tool of social control whether in our communities or on protests. Some of us may know better than others how this feels; we have all experienced repressive policing in different ways. Some of us in our communities, some of us on protests, Some of us may never have directly experienced such harassment, but are rightly disgusted by it. It is important that we respect the differences in our experiences, whilst focussing on the one thing that we all share; a determination to assert ourselves and fight back against repressive policing. We may also choose to fight back differently - we must not make moralistic value judgements on the different ways people resist these repressive policing strategies. We must not allow ourselves to be divided by an insistence on non-violence or violence either way. A tactically diverse partnership acting in solidarity with each other is one of the most resillient enemies of the status quo."

Why is there a banning letter signed by Council Solicitor, Barry Khan, when Mr. Parnell has at no time committed any crime or been shown to have been abusive or threatening?

The Council had a legal duty many years before this incident to sort out help for his daughters. This was when Mark Hunter, Lib Dem MP, was Leader of the Council. Andrew Stunell, MP, Mr. Parnell's local MP also refused to assist him. Why?  Was Mr. Stunell keen to cover up abuses committed by his political cohorts?  Why would he not intervene when he could have done and was paid to do to help his constituent who desperately needed his help. Why did I have to try to help Mr Parnell, for which I was subjected to an  abusive attitude by Mr. Stunell?

In Mr. Parnell's own words:-

To explain what it is all about, on the evening of 14th April 2009 Stockport Council advertised the Standards Committee meeting to be held at 6 o'clock in the Town Hall.   It was my intention to attend this meeting and I did arrive in good time for it.   The management of the Town Hall instructed me that they did not know of this meeting that night.  I directed them to their own noticeboard outside, which advertised the said meetting.  They apologised that it must have been cancelled or was being held at a different venue, and if I had any problems I should  put them to the Council's Solicitor.   As I had met with the solicitor before, Mr Barry Khan, and on other occations we have had conversations while walking to his car, I know where he usualy parks,  and  so I checked to see if he was still in work.   His car was there, so I went to his office to contact him over the meeting and the request I wished to submit.   I attended the building - Mount Tabor - to ring the door bell, which was where I have contacted the Legal Department in the past and stood there to await the door to be answered.   I waited a short while; nobody came so I turned to leave and found that the 8 foot high gates that provide access to the car park and this office were locked.   A gentleman from Venue Management was walking away with no regard to myself being in the car park and at the door to the solictors office (which I feel he could have seen the back of me facing the office entrance but chose further harassment to lock me in).   I turned back to the door and rang the bell again.   No-one came.   I waited about 5 to 6 minutes and then phoned the police for I was trapped with no way out.   About 15 minutes later the Venue Management gentleman who had locked up arrived with who I was given impression looked like a police officer.   And from the Venue Management gentleman who was commenting that I was tresspassing, my requests to the officer confirmed my concerns he was not police but security.   He refused to tell me where he was from, so I elected to wait for the police to arrive and for the matter of tresspass or intentional detainment by the further harassment from the Venue Management gentleman to be investigated.   In waiting for the police, who did not arrive even though my call was by 999, approximately 30 minutes passes while waiting for the police to arrive, of which in the hands of the council workers along then with another who arrived did I suffer assault, harassment victimisation, ridicule, detention and injury.   There are more parts to this video clip.


Mr. Parnell's own words:-

Do the police under commuinity protection have a duty to investigate local authorities data breaches, because if they do, it is that they then knew that what I had shown, and as yet no one here has ever been brought to task.




Mr. Parnell's own words:-

Please view the attached file it contains a video clip recording of the reporting to a GMP Stockport Division police officer, the breaches towards the public under legislation within Data Protection Act by the actions of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.


Stockport Council security guards are plotting to kick the f*ck out of Slovakian supporters at Wembley!!!!!

Again, the Council Security guards plotting against foreign football supporters.

Stockport Council security guard slaps the back of a Council manager's head!!!!

Stockport Council security guard tells a completely innocent counciltaxpayer:- "You're talking sh*t!!!!!

Recording of an assault on innocent Town Hall protester - Mr. Parnell - by the Council security guards.

At no time has Mr. Parnell been found guilty of any aggressive behaviour and the council holds no evidence of any such behaviour on his part or that evidence would have been shown in court.

The Council Leader, past and present Chief Executive, all the LibDem Executive Councillors were made fully aware of what was being done to this gentleman.  They merely sneered and did things like trying to have him arrested for trying to raise questions in council meetings about his treatment, or for trying to leave council meetings before the end.

This case demonstrates the total contempt in which the LibDem councillors and LibDem MPs at Stockport hold Mr Parnell's human rights.

Mr. Parnell's day.

Standing outside Stockport Town Hall for 2 years all day long.  Exchanging cheery greetings with passers-by. Trying to get someone at the Council to deal with his cheap to sort out problem of counselling for his two daughters adopted from Stockport Council. They had a legal duty to provide it.  It cost the council taxpayer and taxpayers possibly hundreds of thousands of pounds to deal with his case.  The hundreds of times the police were called, the dozens of arrests, police time in processing his case, nights in police cells, court time - Magistrates and Crown - often with the case dropped on the day of the hearing as a form of intimidation, incarceration in prison repeatedly, sentenced to two years house arrest with the police repeatedly coming to his house.

Every day those LibDem Executive councillors passed him on the Town Hall steps.  He went to every meeting to try to get them to do something about his plight. What did they do? They kept on persecuting him.

Why didn't the Leaders - Mark Hunter and Dave Goddard, the Deputy Leader Sue Derbyshire, the Executive Councillor Mark Weldon, the Director of Children and Young People's Services, Andrew Webb, the Assistant Chief Executive Ged Lucas - do what they are highly paid to do and sort out his problem?

Was there some sort of Masonic back-scratching club going on here between the Council, the Magistrates Court, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Police?  I don't know but something very, very strange has been going on!

Mr. Parnell didn't commit the assault with a sneeze. He was acquitted after the council security guards were found to have lied in court. Why then did the restraining order remain in place?  Barry Khan, Council Solicitor, was fully aware of this miscarriage of justice, yet continued to have Mr. Parnell persecuted, including having him arrested three times over one weekend alone for trying to report a Data Protection Act breach by the Council which was putting him at serious risk of fraudulent use of his identity.


If Mr. Khan doesn't understand the law or has no respect for it, then he shouldn't be Stockport Council Solicitor.

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Mr. Parnell was acquitted in January 2010 of the assault with a sneeze for which he has given the restraining order, so why has he 5 breaches (each carrying a possible prison sentence of 5 years) in February and March 2010?


Is Barry Khan a fit person to hold public office as Council Solicitor?  He was fully aware of this miscarriage of justice and compounded this injustice many times over in the following years?


Are the LibDem Executive councillors fit to hold public office?  Is the Chief Executive?  They were all made fully aware of what was being done to this innocent gentleman, who only ever peacefully asked for counselling help for his troubled daughters adopted from Stockport Council.

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Why would Mr. Parnell be in 5 breaches of a restraining order in 2010 when he was acquitted of the crime of assault with a sneeze when the council security guards lied in court?

 
 

Why would he get a restraining order placed upon him when the charges of assault against him raised by the council security guards who threaten to kick the f*cking heads in of foreign football supporters were dismissed?

What on earth has Barry Khan, Council Solictor, been doing in allowing this appalling miscarriage of justice to continue?

Why did Mr Parnell's local LibDem MP - Andrew Stunell - not assist him?

Is Mr Khan a fit person to hold the position of Council Solitictor at Stockport if he is wilfully blind or worse an instigator of this abuse?


Mr. Parnell got the restraining order for this assault, of which he was acquitted and council security guards lied in court.


Why did the Leader of the Council send me this sensitive information about another council taxpayer when at that time there was no functioning authority in force for me to act on Mr. Parnell's behalf?


Why wouldn't the Council's Complaints Team deal with this breach of the Data Protection Act?


The Leader says:-


"I hope you will forward this information to your media friends, if you don't be assured I will."


Why is the Leader of Stockport Council continuing to pursue his vendetta against this completely innocent man - not only continuing to have him arrested despite the full facts being brought to his attention, but also telling all and sundry about his conviction, of which he was later acquitted because council security guards lied in court where they were found to have threatened to kill him, and kick his f*cking head in.


I raised this matter with the Chief Executive of Stockport Council, and Mr Anwar Majothi, Complaints Officer, but in all this they found nothing wrong at all.


I have to question whether Mr Boylan or Mr Majothi are fit people to hold public office.


Why did the Crown Prosecution Service refuse bail for this innocent, very sick, peaceful protester? Why did the Leader of the Council send me a CPS copy of his bail notice? Why did no-one in the Council deal with my complaint about this abuse of Data Protection issues (yet again) in a proper manner?




I posted the Town Hall Protester details up on the What Do They Know site with his full permission.  I did this in a desperate attempt to stop a man driven to attempt suicide by these heartless officials from being repeatedly sent to prison and being hounded for council tax arrears which he simply did not owe.


I got my legs slapped by the What Do They Know website team, but this man is completely innocent of any crime.  I had to do my utmost to prevent this horrific abuse of him and his lovely family from continuing.


The town hall protester owes no council tax arrears (I have seen his electronic council tax records held by SMBC), yet they keep hounding him and sending in the bailiffs for money he doesn't owe.  They remove money paid for later years to pay off non-existent earlier years arrears, then claim he owes them money. When he tries to point out in the Magistrates Court that he is up to date and there are no arrears from years ago, he is told they don't go into "history".


It is well recognised in law that Magistrates Courts are  often not impartial places; certainly not in Stockport.



Please see above the complete hash the Council has made of his council tax.  If he were to try to access Citizens Advice as is his human right, he would be arrested and subjected to 5 years imprisonment for an ASBO imposed on him for a crime of which he was acquitted and the accusations of assault were found by the court to be lies.


Barry Khan, Council Solicitor, knew all this. I told him. Why did he allow this deplorable situation to continue? Is he a fit person to hold public office?

A litany of non-communication, deliberate or not, failure in all areas of entitlements, payment acknowledgments, demands for non-existent liabilities - the Parnells appear to have been driven by the Council's actions into problems which should have had no place in their troubled lives. Apart from their courage against the odds, there is no sense of co-operation from a hapless authority (which does echo other situations that have been met with in the same Authority - is this kind of chaos simply explained by a universal malaise in these local government organisations?) and this involves complex legislation, unbelievable incompetence and downright stupidity, bordering on vindictiveness - recalling the previous incidents of access to the town hall, spitting accusations and bullying.

I hope Mr. Jones will "recover" some order into this matter.

It is impossible to get complaints dealt with at Stockport Council under Khan, Majothi, Derbyshire, Schulz, Boylan et al.  However serious they are - they don't get dealt with, which was the root cause of Mr Parnell's problem.

 
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