The Twitter / x.com account @PNWNet, along with an associated WordPress blog, mordred8.wordpress.com have been removed by their owner. MHN can exclusively reveal this followed police intervention combined with MHN beginning formal civil legal processes to unmask the account operator. Police have also looked into the allegation it is Simon Just and apologised to him in writing. Provided the @PNWNet successor(s) on Bluesky and elsewhere do not draw me into their dramas again, that is the end of the matter from my perspective. Other anonymous account operators should take note.

Police apologised to Simon Just over false allegations he operates Project Nightwatch. They were then given the information to contact the real owner, which coincided with, shortly thereafter, the @PNWNet, ‘X’ account and an associated blog being removed.

The so-called, “Project Nightwatch” account(s) on X, WordPress and elsewhere have been of growing concern to MHN and police for some time. There is a court case going on in the Sussex area. Police are properly anxious it not be disrupted by imprudent posts. I was separately concerned about being drawn into dramas that have nothing to do with me. After a number of warnings online, I stopped making public comment and quietly started real-world legal process, serving Enix Limited, which hosts the project, with a pre-action letter and draft court papers.

At almost the same time, a few weeks ago, police in Brighton contacted Simon Just because he had been wrongly accused of being the operator of PNW and they wanted the account to shut up about a case they were working on to avoid prejudicing it. After a short discussion, which I joined, the police accepted that Simon Just was not the operator and apologised. We gave them sufficient details to identify the real person who operated the account and they presumably got in touch to ask them to stop posting about the sensitive case.

At the same time, I had started the civil process. This is too expensive for most people, but I have an LL.M LPC (Commendation) and ten years experience as a McKenzie Friend. So I served a letter of claim and a draft of the court papers for an application for a Norwich Pharmacal order on Enix Limited which hosts the Project Nightwatch domain. I asked them to pass it to their customer. The offer was simple: leave me out of it, or I would start the proceedings to unmask the operator, seeking damages and my costs of doing so, which would potentially be substantial and would include Enix Limited’s costs as an innocent party. The draft court form was attached – it only needed to be put into the system for a modest fee of a few hundred pounds.

A draft of an N244 pre-action application for forced disclosure of the identity of the operator of Project Nightwatch.

PNW is in an indefensible legal situation. They process personal data but are not registered with the Information Commissioner and therefore are in breach of Article 5 (1) (a) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), before we get to accuracy, defamation or harassment and so forth. Damages are available under s169 (1) Data Protection Act 2018. Per s169 (5) this includes hurt feelings. I made clear in my letter that I expected to recover over £10,000 for hurt feelings alone.

I asked Enix Limited to pass my pre-action letter to their customer, the holder of the Project Nightwatch domain. As they have now removed their material, I will not be pursuing them. Provided they do not draw me into their dramas again. For example, PNW had accused YouTuber Ann Drogyne of being involved in, “doxxing” directed towards me but provided no evidence of same even when asked. My thinking on PNW is that it is a low traffic account, operated likely by someone with limited assets who does not want to suddenly lose all those assets and be bankrupted by the costs of myself and Enix Limited at pre-action stage, and does not want further police trouble. Equally, I do not want to waste a few hundred pounds on issue fees if they will be sensible.

As for others, I would like to point out that Simon Just has nothing to do with PNW and neither have I nor Darren Laverty. In fact Just and I were instrumental in police getting in touch with them. I have published this exclusive correspondence to reassure third parties like the operator of the Yanto account and to give context to recent events.

Likewise, now they know it is not us, the fair thing to do is to leave us out of it. Obviously, if we can unmask PNW we can unmask others, so it would be sensible for third parties with a beef against PNW or its alleged members like James Hind to leave us out of it too.