Riddings Park Community Centre: Moderate Trustees Resign Over Event by Extremist Sonia Poulton

After being put on an indefinite hiatus by the video sharing platform One VSP, extremist Sonia Poulton has been trying to fundraise by other means. On Saturday 9th December, concerningly, Riddings Park Community Centre allowed an event of hers to go ahead despite being notified of some of Sonia Poulton’s content. Meanwhile her former platform Brand New Tube has been reprimanded by the ICO, shortly before it was renamed One VSP, and is now under investigation by OfCom. A judge has found that allegations of child abuse made against Poulton by Hemming as part of his libel and harassment claim have, “a real prospect of success”.

Sonia Poulton promotes Albert Bishai

Sonia Poulton promotes the channel of a man called Albert Bishai – with this sinister graphic. In your author’s opinion, this graphic bears the racist and anti-Semitic meaning, promoted by Sonia Poulton, that the world is ruled by a Jewish conspiracy in the name of Satan. According to the public notice of investigation, OfCom are investigating whether One VSP has taken sufficient measures to protect the general public from, “material that would amount to a criminal offence under laws relating to terrorism, child sexual exploitation and abuse, and racism and xenophobia”.

In a recent court judgement, allegations of child abuse against Poulton were found to have a ‘real prospect of success’ and John Hemming was given permission to bring a claim against Poulton on that basis. Screenshots from his draft amendments to his claim and the judgement below:

John Hemming New Pleadings Malice Crime Accepted

John Hemming’s pleadings that Sonia is guilty of a criminal offence of child abuse by her naming two children who had been tortured in breach of a court order. The court found this had a, ‘real prospect of success’.

Judgement November 2023 - Judge Finds Real Prospects of Success on Child Abuse Allegations Against Poulton

In her judgement of November 2023 – Ms Justice Hill DBE allowed Hemming permission to bring a claim of malicious defamation against Sonia Poulton. The claim is based on her abusing two child torture victims by naming them in breach of a court order. When Poulton was interviewed by police and the video was taken town, it is alleged that she then defamed John Hemming and others as having tried to frame her. The judge found the claim has a ‘real prospect of success’.

The remaining Trustees have not denied any of the allegations when they were put in writing by MHN.

The content of Sonia Poulton’s output is now the topic of concern from many people and institutions. We will continue to campaign for her to be de-platformed for promoting hate speech and reckless, irresponsible journalism. The two resignees are to be commended. The remaining Trustees have only themselves to blame for being tarred with the brush of Poulton’s vile extremism.

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Hertfordshire Children’s Services Needs Change at the Top

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Jo Fisher, the Executive Director of Children’s Services at Hertfordshire County Council, is not impressing.

Last week your author published an article here about social services in Hertfordshire, identifying concerns that had been raised in multiple rulings by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman as well as concerns I identified (some of which the Council, to be fair, admitted – albeit seeking to minimise). These were systemic failings which could put children at risk and had led to harm to children (for example, the Ombudsman had awarded one family £15,000 in compensation).

One concern I raised was that the council had told me members of the public should use a particular email address or phone number to make child protection referrals / raise child protection concerns. I pointed out the email address was not in fact clearly advertised to members of the public on the council’s website, only at the end of a form for professionals.

Yesterday, I got an email from a manager at Hertfordshire County Council telling me that child protection referrals from members of the public should be raised by phone, as opposed to the position last week where there was an email. Aside from being another apparent change of position from the shambolic Children’s Services department, it is likely unlawful. The exchange was as follows (extracted from multiple emails on multiple topics) –

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Aaron Britton Formerly of Knives Band and Dylan Middleton in Apology and Retraction to Daniel Garland of Phoxjaw

Daniel Garland has secured a settlement of his libel and harassment claim against Aaron Britton, formerly a member of the band, Knives. Aaron had accused Garland on social media of the rape of, ‘tens’ of women (i.e. at least twenty). However, when your author provided pro-bono support to bring a libel claim, Aaron chose to settle instead of defending the claim and agreed to a permanent contractual settlement which he announced on Twitter (archive) and Facebook. Such contractual arrangements have a similar effect to a lifelong restraining order and if they are broken the beneficiary can bring a claim for an injunction with a penal notice, and imprisonment if it is breached. As he has no money, he has agreed to make a donation to Rape Crisis. Aaron has also announced separately he has left the band, Knives, citing, “overwhelming” events in his personal life, and mental health problems. This tragic outcome underlines the dangers of musicians supporting dubious and false allegations on social media.

Aaron Britton, former of the band Knives, has apologised to Daniel Garland of Phoxjaw, retracted his allegations and paid a donation to rape crisis in lieu of damages.

Aaron Britton, former of the band Knives, has apologised to Daniel Garland of Phoxjaw, retracted his allegations and paid a donation to rape crisis in lieu of damages.

Aaron’s announcement should come as no surprise. The 2000 Trees Festival, which could afford very expensive, tier-1 lawyers, has already retracted, apologised and paid, “substantial” damages. However, the further retraction gives me the opportunity to make a few things clear. I am a law graduate. I have passed the LL.M LPC. I have not sought admission or to practice as a solicitor, even though I passed the exams but I have over ten years litigation experience as a charitable McKenzie Friend. I have helped in this case, for free, because I believe it is meritorious. Daniel has also been helped, pro-bono by David Hirst of 5RB Media Chambers. We do not help people bring libel claims for free if we think they are guilty of sex crimes.

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Daniel Garland of Phoxjaw – 2000 Trees Festival Apologise, Retract and Pay, “Substantial Damages”

The author of MHN from time to time assists charitably as a pro-bono McKenzie Friend and lay advisor. My client Daniel Garland of Phoxjaw and his band were removed from the 2000 Trees Festival last year after allegations of rape, which he denies, were posted on Facebook. The Festival and Danny have now reached a satisfactory settlement. 2000 Trees have issued a statement in which they apologise, retract any suggestion whatsoever that he is guilty and confirm that they have paid a, “substantial sum” in damages. Danny was assisted by myself and also barrister David Hirst of 5RB Barristers (Media and Communications Specialists), who offered a second opinion on merits and quantum. Under these circumstances, my client has achieved all his objectives in the dispute with the festival. Anyone else repeating the allegations is at serious risk of losing everything they own.

2000 Trees have apologised, retracted and say they have paid Daniel Garland of Phoxjaw a, "substantial sum" in damages.

2000 Trees have apologised, retracted and say they have paid Daniel Garland of Phoxjaw a, “substantial sum” in damages, over sex crime allegations.

In the meantime, Aaron Britton of the band Knives and horrifyingly bad poet Georgina Middleton have failed to provide substantive responses to the letter of claim sent to them. Georgina claims she has changed her name by deed poll but refuses to provide proof. Aaron claims to not have a fixed address. The Witchfinder considers these decisions imprudent. Acting like children will not make the lawsuit go away.

Speaking of ‘acting like children’, your author and other volunteers have been spending time this evening identifying fools on Facebook who repeat the allegations without the slightest interest in the truth. There is compelling evidence in Daniel’s favour. The individual who accused Daniel said he followed her for two weeks, then one evening followed her to her tent, held her down and raped her.

But Daniel still has their social media messages, which show that what actually happened was that he ignored her for a week, she initiated contact and asked to meet in messages beginning, “Hey friend”, she chased to meet all night and hours after the alleged rape she messaged Daniel apologising for over-sharing. In short, the allegations directly contradict contemporary documents.

At the risk of stating the obvious, I would not willingly waste my time helping a rapist and neither would David Hirst of 5RB. The evidence is compelling.

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Paedophile Monster Joshua Conner Moon Lies About FBI

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A photograph of Joshua Conner Moon before he put on weight. Image used under the UK Parody exception pursuant to s30A Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Paedophile monster Joshua Conner Moon has recently been mocked for admitting to hosting a paedophile, child snuff ‘erotica’ board on his defunct 16chan website (the current 16chan is nothing to do with Moon, and is blameless). Moon claimed that the reason was due to his libertarian beliefs in a video of him admitting it here. Of course, the fact that Moon previously admitted to masturbating over Japanese cartoon pornography featuring underage boys (‘neko shota’) somewhat undermines this explanation. Moon (who has changed his legal name to James Gabriel Potter) has sulkily claimed the FBI sent UK police to, “visit” me. This is false.

Moon has recently been involved in a convoluted feud with Caroline Farrow, Stephanie Hayden and an anonymous Twitter account called @RubinRemus. The latter has an avatar in the form of Rod Hull’s Emu. Kiwi Farmers have responded to his with various death threats featuring Emu puppets being assaulted, Emu death notices and so on. Bizarrely, Moon, who fears me and is pervasively obsessed with me, made false claims I was providing legal assistance to Hayden. This is false, it is nothing to do with me and never has been. No disrespect to Hayden. In fact I am largely on Farrow’s side of the transgender ideology, “debate”. I have simply levelled the criticism at Farrow that it is possible to oppose, for example, premature child transition and surgery without joining Kiwi Farms, a website used for stalking, terrorism and harassment (including child stalking), owned and run by a paedophile maniac.

Moon of course has admitted to making mutilation threats to a minor and watching neko shota cartoons as per the screenshot below –

Joshua Moon admits to viewing Neko Shota and threatening to mutilate an underage female Blockland user.

Joshua Moon admits to viewing Neko Shota and threatening to mutilate an underage female Blockland user.

It is also true that a large number of murder threats were sent from an email service operated by Moon. For reasons that are unclear to me, the latest manifestation of his obsession is claims police in the UK visited me over it. They did not. Police have never visited me about Kiwi Farms as a suspect, nor have they ever accused me of sending threats, nor have they ever asked me to remove or amend articles about Kiwi Farms –

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Caroline Farrow’s Premature Police Proceedings

Caroline Farrow has posted on Twitter that her solicitor has brought a claim against Surrey Police, specifically, “my solicitor who was submitting a claim for wrongful arrest against Surrey Police to get it in before the 3 month deadline under the Equality Act expired” (archive). That does not look right to your author, who went to a law school. So the question is, is it Caroline who is mistaken or her solicitor?

Caroline Farrow claims her solicitor has filed a claim in order to get it in by the 3 month deadline. Except there is no such thing. The deadline is actually six years for wrongful arrest, and 6 months for discrimination.

Caroline Farrow claims her solicitor has filed a claim in order to get it in by the 3 month deadline. Except there is no such thing. The deadline is actually six years for wrongful arrest, and 6 months for discrimination.

Quick law lesson: Wrongful Arrest is a tort. It has nothing to do with the Equality Act 2010. It is actually just a name for the tort of false imprisonment, the elements of which are (1) imprisoning the claimant and (2) absence of lawful authority. The time limit is six years save in the case of a claim for personal injury where it is three years.

Police can also be sued for discrimination in relation to an arrest. In this case, the arrest would be one of the elements of the claim (the ‘detriment’) suffered as a result of some protected characteristic, e.g. Catholicism. Such claims are actioned as a breach of statutory duty, also called statutory tort. Non-discrimination is a duty created by the Equality Act 2010. Under the Equality Act 2010, being arrested is a service provided by the state and therefore actionable under s29, which covers claims by members of the public against service providers. S29 claims are brought in the County Court and not the Employment Tribunal per s114. The time limit is six months per s118 (1) (a).

Donoghue Solicitors have a near-complete list of time limits here in case anyone doubts me.

Caroline’s replies are current full of, “yay! Go grrl!” and similar. Since what Caroline has written appears to be mistaken, I have written to her solicitors and asked them to clarify. I am curious as to what proceedings have actually been issued (if any), which solicitors are acting and what the head of claim is. Her solicitor at AI law Tom Ellis read my request for an explanation, but no response has been received. If I have made an error of law, they have not said what it is. If another firm is acting for Farrow in the police claim, they have not said who it is.

With a claim where there is a six year time limit and plenty of time left, it is customary and prudent to wait until the criminal investigation and police complaint investigation have completed so that the Practice Direction on Pre-action Conduct can be completed. Failing to do so may attract costs penalties. Where there is a shorter limitation period like six months for a discrimination claim, it is of course incumbent on police to get a move on within that period or proceedings may have to be issued protectively. It is very unusual to bring the claim at three months and can attract costs risks.

MHN hopes that Caroline’s cheering followers are not about to be disappointed.

There is a more serious issue here however, because Farrow is asking her followers for donations in support of her various legal defences and claims (archive). When asking for money, in my opinion the utmost transparency and clarity is warranted.

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End of Year Court Case Roundup – Hemming and Smith v Butt and Pouton

It is the end of the year and this is a brief, scheduled post to set out the current state of play in the court proceedings I am, or have been, a party to in Hemming v Poulton and Smith v My Media World and Butt. This is partly to counter-balance Sonia Poulton’s misleading comments about it.

In his bizarre official statement today, Muhammad Butt looked far greyer than he did only two years ago.

In a bizarre official statement after the hack of Brand New Tube, Muhammad Butt, Brand New Tube CEO, looked far greyer than he did only two years ago. Picture used for the purposes of criticism of the video.

Smith v My Media World Limited and Butt – (near) total victory. I sued Muhammad Butt and My Media World Limited for libel and under the data protection act. They counter-sued for libel and harassment. The counter-claim was dropped, meaning all my articles stayed up and Muhammad ate his costs of the counter-claim and paid mine. In my case, it was settled by My Media World Limited and Muhammad Butt agreeing to a permanent, lifelong restraining (Tomlin) order. Some costs were paid to Muhammad by a wealthy backer, but overall far less than he paid out. This case is notable because I represented myself in all of the cases and did my own paperwork, except in this case for one hearing I instructed David Hirst of 5RB Media Chambers, and also used advice from Matthew Hodson of Gatehouse Chambers. Very happy with both barristers.

During the period of this case, My Media World’s Brand New Tube website (brandnewtube.com) was hacked again. This is notable because some of my coverage of their firm was allegedly defamatory or harassing. My Media World and Butt’s counterclaim was dropped however, meaning my articles stay up. Muhammad’s odd video about it is worth watching for comedy value. It is a shame because Brand New Tube is a good idea but the execution is poor and attempts at constructive criticism have received a hostile response.

Smith v Baker – Total victory. I sued Esther Baker and defended a counter-claim, representing myself. Her defence was largely struck out and she agreed to a lifelong restraining order. Baker counter-sued for libel and harassment. Her counterclaim was struck out and summarily judged in my favour because she failed to Reply to my defence of truth. My articles stay up. She is paying my costs back in instalments. It will take her a very long time.

Hemming v Poulton, Smith and Laverty – John Hemming is suing Sonia Poulton for libel and breach of the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. Sonia has counter-sued Hemming myself and Darren Laverty for harassment. Darren counter-counterclaimed for libel. So far, Sonia has settled with Darren and had a small part of her Particulars struck out.

Bizarrely, Sonia has claimed on her fundraising page and on Twitter that in the proceedings the court has accepted that she is a journalist against opposition by John Hemming at a hearing on 14 July 2022. No such decision was made because it is not in issue. The court order, which is public, simply adjourns the hearing and the judge remarks it is due to Poulton raising further matters the night before. We are seeking our costs of the hearing thrown away in all circumstances.

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Is Kiwifarmer ‘Erasmus of Rotterdam’ Really Caroline Farrow?

Yesterday, MHN posted a damning exposé about Caroline Farrow. She was quite a bit upset with my media inquiry letter which was sent beforehand to give her a chance to point out any factual errors. Caroline went so far as posting on Twitter that my media inquiry made her, “throw up in fear” (archive). Today, a user called ‘Erasmus of Rotterdam’, posted bizarre allegations on Kiwifarms, claimed to have hacked MHN and the editor’s PC, but was especially upset about questions 10 and 11 in the letter. Those questions were never published. There are grounds for investigation as to whether the poster was in fact Caroline Farrow, sock-puppetting.

Kiwifarms user 'Erasmus of Rotterdam' posts allegations so fake even Dynastia calls them out. But this person has seen a private letter I shared only with three people.

Kiwifarms user ‘Erasmus of Rotterdam’ posts allegations so fake even Dynastia calls them out. But this person has seen a private letter I shared only with three people. Click for full size.

So, who could it be? Firstly, I do not have a copy of anything uploaded to Kiwi Farms so if a copy of the letter was actually uploaded, I have not verified it is the real letter. However, the poster must have at least seen the real letter to know about the questions. So, there is a limited pool of suspects.

Full disclosure. I do not normally correspond with Stephanie Hayden but as they were a subject of the story, I sent them a copy of my letter. Another went to Simon Just. Finally of course, a copy was sent to Farrow via her solicitors. Not long after, Louise Moody claimed to have read the letter. From time to time, Caroline Farrow has been advised by Adrian Yalland, so I considered he might have had a copy. All of these people have at times been accused of sock-puppetting, save that I discount Farrow’s solicitors as likely culprits having no reason to suspect them of socking nor breach of confidence.

The ‘Erasmus of Rotterdam’ account was created on 1 September 2022. It is an account mostly notable for a virulent hatred of transgender persons, variously describing them as fat, eunuch, paedophiles (note the British spelling of ‘paedophile’ as opposed to the American, ‘pedophile’). The account was created before my beef with Farrow and comments mostly on a debate my supporters and I have little involvement in. Beyond a suspicion they are British, who could it be.

But … we have such a short suspects list. Who would be really, really upset about my article about Caroline Farrow? Who would claim to have hacked my hard drive, when they only actually have access to one document – clumsily trying to be, “down with the kids”, if you can call the members of a stalking site, “kids”. I could just imagine Erasmus beginning a post with, “Hello fellow Kiwi Farmers”. Indeed, I had been talking about this with Hayden and Just all day, also separately with the hacktivist Echo. Echo is a younger woman in her twenties and by eerie coincidence had made the very same point about Farrow being a cringe user of Kiwi Farms.

So, I decided to make use of a tool we have had for some time. An AI neural text analyser. Continue reading

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Caroline Farrow, Paedophile Sadism, Terrorism, Child Protection and the Catholic Church

As a Conservative, Christian, law blogger I have much sympathy with the gender critical movement. I am the author of multiple articles on that side of the debate, for example, “Trump Boosted as American College of Paediatricians Describes Transgender Ideology as Child Abuse”, “High Court Judge Saves 7-Year Old Boy from Being Forced to be Transgender by Abusive Mother” and “Why Straight Men Should Support Lesbians and Feminists Over ‘Drop the T’”. So I was surprised to hear that Joshua Moon was claiming I was assisting a person suing Caroline Farrow as McKenzie Friend (and should, “die”) … because I am not. No offence to either side – but I have nothing to do with Farrow related litigation. The incident has however reluctantly forced me to scrutinise Farrow’s online activities – which I fear may reveal a serious safeguarding failure by the Roman Catholic Church. In my opinion, based on the materials below, Farrow and those closely associated with her have no place in a Christian ministry or anywhere near vulnerable people.

Caroline Farrow Respects Joshua Conner Moon

Caroline Farrow Respects Joshua Conner Moon. So, what is Moon known for? This article explores the man she rates so highly.

Caroline Farrow is a member of the website Kiwi Farms, a site she describes as, “doing the Lord’s work” and, “the basest site in the world”. This is an unusual and concerning way to describe a site that has promoted and facilitated paedophilia, stalking (including child stalking) and terrorism.

Farrow uses Kiwi Farms to, "decompress" and for, "laughter".

Farrow uses Kiwi Farms to, “decompress” and for, “laughter”.

According to her profile (archive), Caroline joined the site on 13 March 2020, she has over two and a half years of posting and 181 posts. The profile also describes her as a, “bulwark” of the Catholic Church. So, her Catholicism is very much associated with the site. So, what is it, exactly? What is this site that Caroline has chosen to endorse in such an enthusiastic (and therefore, it is to be inferred, informed) way?

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Kiwi Farms is run by paedophile sadist Joshua Conner Moon and exists, in its own words for “exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”. Based on her enthusiastic endorsements, Caroline apparently believes this is God’s will.

Kiwi Farms was set up, in the owner’s own words on the site’s now banned official Twitter account for the purposes set out left.

“Gossip and exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes.”

A good example of the, “exploitation” is the site’s treatment of an autistic person called Christine Weston Chandler. Chandler used to live in Ruckersville, Virginia and has been the focus of Kiwi Farms’ interest to the extent they used Chandler’s postal address on their accounts at times – hence the Ruckersville location in the image to the left.

Chandler was stalked on an industrial scale. Female members of Kiwi Farms and its precursor CWCKi would pretend romantic interest and record phone calls or even meetings with them. This included phone sex. The recordings would be shared online for pleasure. This behaviour was well exposed by Margaret Pless in New York Magazine, “Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Biggest Community of Stalkers” (archive).

Vulnerable Chandler suffered as a result of the stalking that continued throughout the latter part of their minority and into adult life. Eventually Chandler was arrested after a female member of Kiwi Farms persuaded him to have sex (or claim to have had sex) with his very elderly mother (archive).

Given the stated purpose of Kiwi Farms, which is also extremely well covered in the media, I asked Caroline Farrow, via her solicitors AI Law – Question 1 – Is stalking the disabled and encouraging sexually activity for the purposes of mockery, “the Lord’s work”?

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Update on Sinister Internet Troll Georgina Middleton / Dylan Charlie

This is an update on the appalling internet troll Georgina Middleton / Dylan Charlie from my last article. I had been in touch with a PC at Cambridgeshire Police about Georgina based on an old address. Since then, however, the tracing agency I instructed has come back with a current address, in Coventry in the West Midlands. I have been in touch with West Midlands Police and now have a West Midlands Police incident number too. Middleton has been making false allegations of rape and paedophilia about multiple individuals online, including one she had actual knowledge was false, based on her emails. Although she has tried to claim Georgina is her deadname, in fact Middleton not only used the name, “Georgina” in her emails but on currently active social media such as her Twitter account @GeeWrites_ (archive). As of today, the account asserts the name, “Georgina”. Obviously, now we have an address for service both myself and another victim are in a position to serve letter(s) of claim or sealed process. Currently we are waiting on discussions the other victim is having with a solicitors firm about a possible Conditional Fee Arrangement (no-win, no-fee). For other victims, the West Midlands police reference is 3109-151122.

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Georgina Middleton / Dylan Charlie’s posts will very shortly lead to substantial civil action against her, and her online posts are under police investigation. Click for full size.

As I said in my previous article here, I consider there is a compelling public interest in naming Dylan / Georgina and giving information about my police reports. This person has been making allegations of the most serious nature online about people ill-equipped to identify her for some time. She has referred to allegations against me she knows to be false, based on her emails. She appears to have incited or encouraged others. Naming her is in the public interest and will assist her victims. Publishing the crime reference number allocated by Cambridgeshire Police and the number from West Midlands Police will make it easy for other victims to explain to police she has a history. There is also a public interest in my responding to false allegations about me communicated to the public, and making it clear how the authorities view them. Finally, there is a public interest in deterring anonymous trolling in the belief it is consequence free. There is a public interest in deterring the group of posters around Georgina making dangerous allegations.

There is also an ongoing concern the allegations may incite violence, which is not helped by members of a group calling themselves, “Knives” getting involved. Taken together, the events have caused fear, alarm and distress to victims and put them in fear of violence by vigilantes.

Cambridge Police have previously had to apologise to me about a similar case when I was in law school but have been very helpful this time. In the previous incident, I had named an internet troll and threatened them with litigation. It did not end well for the troll – or the police officer. The police have been helpful and seem keen not to repeat the same mistakes. Management action was taken against an officer previously – there is still a note in the previous crime report. Private individuals are allowed to represent themselves to contact potential defendants to civil crimes for the purposes of litigation, such as a letter of claim, and it is not harassment no matter how much the defendants say torts trigger them.

Fortunately, because I have previously taken High Court action, successfully representing myself, police now have a better idea of the seriousness of the situation. As a reminder, here is a restraining order I obtained against Dr Jacqui Dillon, and here is a restraining order I obtained against Esther Baker – who is still paying off my costs by High Court Enforcement Officers (High Court bailiffs). Baker has years – perhaps more than a decade – of debt and poverty in front of her.

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