Ollie Horner and Charlie Herridge, as well as their PR Rebecca Redwood, have been condemned by real victims of sex crime after vile opportunistic band-wagon jumping on unproven and untrue sexual abuse allegations. Now they face accountability in the form of a campaign to have them excluded from the music industry and to name and shame those who work with them.
Your author is a proven victim of sex crime, in an actual court not a Tumblr post. In 2016 I was stalked by members of a vile terrorist forum who created revenge pornography of me, leading to my well known lawsuit against the vile paedophile Kiwidynastia – a member of the infamous child stalking forum Kiwifarms. There is still a bounty to this day for his real identity. Dynastia, known to encourage the collection of pictures and other information about minors as young as five, had fabricated sexual images of me and accused me of sharing his own vile predilictions, as well as those of his perverted friend Joshua Conner Moon.
People who commit such crimes deserve to be punished. Equally however, there is little more vile than a false allegator or someone who wastes law enforcement time. Aside from causing huge distress to the falsely accused (who have rights too, of course) it draws resources from real victims. If a person in one place wastes the time of specially trained officers, somewhere a woman or a child may be raped with no redress. Such people deserve the harshest condemnation. The foreseeable consequence of squandering police resources is the image of a vile rapist or paedophile thrusting into a screaming victim. Even those who do not contact police but spread gossip discredit real victims and contributed to a growing toxicity in society around sex crime and sex abuse.
Such behaviour runs the gamut from making up vile sexual allegations, to simply encouraging such behaviour by jumping on bandwagons in ignorance of the truth. In my opinion and that of many others, such persons are abusers themselves, and it is in this context that I am naming as abusers Ollie Horner and Charlie Herridge of the inconsequential, ‘band’ Snayx and their PR Rebecca Redwood of Republic of Music.
On 2 November 2022 I ran a story about shocking abuse perpetrated by the organiser of the 2000 Trees festival, James Scarlett. In a statement written by James with the apparent assistance of Brendan Herbert, a partner at music law firm Laceys, Mr Scarlett did not deny the essentials of that story. A band scheduled to appear at the festival had been subject to sexual allegations. To police? Nope. On Facebook. James did not bother to hold an investigation, he just terminated the band’s appearance and opened a thread for discussion leading to wilder and ever more hysterical allegations.
Until I offered to consider providing pro-bono legal assistance to the accused band member. Within hours of my making contact, despicable James was in retreat. The post has been taken down. As far as I can tell, the allegations are wholly false. In contrast, the allegations in this article – and my last one – were put to the affected parties and have not been denied.