One part of the court case ends.
What was originally called the case of Hemming v Poulton (QB-2020-003558) now actually has 4 parties due to various add-on claims (called Part 20 claims). Two such claims have now ended, being between Sonia Poulton and Darren Laverty.
Darren Laverty has made the following public statement:
“My court case against Sonia Poulton has been settled on mutually acceptable terms. This includes the libel claim I am bringing against them and their harassment claim against me. Neither party has admitted liability. For legal reasons I am not able to comment further. As the matter has settled, I regard the matter as at an end. Please do not criticise or disparage Ms Poulton.”
Sonia Poulton has made the following statement:
“As people know, I have been embroiled in legal disputes for the last year. One of those disputes has now ended. My court case involving Darren Laverty has been settled. It was made plain to me that even if I won at trial – and there was no guarantee of such – I would not be able to recover the significant sums of money spent on legal costs. It was therefore decided to end litigation on both sides. For legal reasons I am not able to comment further but I am truly grateful for the support I have been shown.”
I have been providing pro-bono support to Mr Laverty. Now that this case is over, Mr Laverty will shortly be opening up correspondence for a potential claim against Mr Lee Taylor Ryan (@LeeTaylorRyan).
Mr Ryan has for some years maintained that Darren Laverty is a rapist. The difficulty with this is there is compelling evidence that the rape never happened. Mr Laverty was quoted, when a very young man, in an Observer article as admitting to participating in a rape carried out by older boys when Laverty was a vulnerable child in care. Even if this was true, Laverty would be a victim of child abuse, not a perpetrator.
However, MHN has investigated and obtained police records. Police investigated the allegations at the time and contacted the other alleged perpetrators and ‘victim’. It never happened. Laverty says he was wildly misquoted and at the time as a poverty stricken care leaver could do not nothing about the wrongdoing of a powerful national newspaper.
The allegation appeared in an article in 1992 in the Observer by journalist Brian Johnson-Thomas who was later criticised at length for serious errors and misconducts in that precise series of articles, by Lady Justice Macur in a review published in 2017. Mr Johnson-Thomas for example conducted a photographic identity parade in relation to an alleged VIP abuser. He only used four photographs. Two of them were of the same man.
The Lady Judge said this –
“I regard the actions of Mr Johnson-Thomas in staging a photographic identity parade to have been extremely irresponsible. Whether he produced two or four photocopied photographs for consideration could not produce a reliable identification of an abuser and may well have contaminated any legitimate identification made with the safeguards provided in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and associated Codes of Practice.”
There were numerous other complaints about Mr Johnson-Thomas. Given the police investigation seems to show that the rape never happened, and given that he was accused of numerous other professional lapses in his coverage of alleged child abuse at the time, I accept Mr Laverty’s account over that of Mr Johnson-Thomas.
I would encourage others not to repeat Mr Ryan’s mistake of repeating or linking to the allegations against Mr Laverty and anyone with a copy of the article on a website or social media account to remove it. Republishing it would amount to actionable defamation, in my opinion.
I would invite others such as Alan Goodwin (@Ciabaudo) to exercise care and discretion. Persons living in Europe can be sued in London and various treaties oblige foreign governments such as Germany to enforce orders for costs and damages.
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That moment, when all bent police involved in certain cases wish they had not protected all the other bent police whom they knew to have committed heinous offences against innocent victims of crime.
Police officers who have threatened members of the public with arrest, for carrying out a public duty in exposing evidence of corrupt cops, should be sacked on the spot.
No if and buts and inquiries. They failed to comply. The evidence is available in print for all police authorities and courts to see.
Waiting…
“Failing to report suspicions or knowledge of misconduct… is an offence under police regulations already.”
Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Tom Winsor, says we must now look at how many officers fail to comply with this.
https://bbc.in/3D1HQVv
In light of the details of Sarah Everard’s murder, women will naturally be more fearful of walking the streets after dark, and more afraid of the police.
It is impossible to put this shocking murder into any sort of perspective. However, the general public should be aware that it is not only junior rank male police who are likely to spend weeks and months stalking women with intent to do them the greatest of harm.
Senior ranking female police also do this.
The London Met are fully aware they have dangerous, predatory women within their ranks. They cover their tracks with threats to arrest innocent people for blowing the whistle on their dangerous policing.
That Cressida Dick appears to be kept in the dark on these matters is damning in itself.
Who is supervising the senior police who are known to be “failing to report suspicions or knowledge of misconduct”? (This being an offence under police regulations.)
None of the above is stated lightly. The proof of a senior police female’s obsessive, predatory behaviour and premeditation to harm is overwhelming and sickening.
One difference between her and Wayne Couzens is that he subjected his victim to hours of agony and suffering. Not years of it.
Should anyone have any gripes regarding the above, the damning proof of multiple instances of a senior London Met police female’s dangerous, predatory behaviour has been seen by police, CPS, Professional Standards, IPCC, IOC, lawyers and MPs.
Therefore, the shooting of messengers can stop.
It should be of great concern to Cressida Dick that a senior police female on her own watch is as equally calculating and dangerous to innocent females as Wayne Couzens. One difference being that none of her victims ended up dead by her hand. Though she did consider it.
Intelligence reports given to victims prior to the police female making false arrests, and the evidence trails left by the senior police female herself, showed that she planned to drive many hundreds of miles more than Wayne Couzens in order to arrest her prey on bent warrants.
In full knowledge that she had no evidence to bring charges against her victims.
That no police from the London Met or the provinces stepped in to prevent her dangerous behaviour, is further proof there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. That she was not sacked immediately when exposed, is still of grave concern.
Though the greatest concern, is that the corrupt senior police female was further protected by a more senior police female.
It would be interesting to hear what Sir Tom Winsor would say about a senior police female threatening innocent members of the public with arrest, when she knows beyond all doubt how corrupt and dangerous her officers are.
Wayne Couzens last crime was killing a woman. Prior to this he was known for predatory behaviour.
Any police officer reading this should do the right thing. Grass up your bent and predatory colleagues. Don’t keep covering up for them. They may become emboldened to do something far worse.
If Cressida Dick continues to fail to accept that the London Met is drowning in corruption, she must go.
Though not before she gets the mop out, and makes a public display of all the corrupt officers under her own command.
Ffs. Talking about mops, there’s a new broom at Greater Manchester Police. Generally considered by other police forces and drug gangs to be one of the laziest and most corrupt forces in England, he won’t know what’s hit him for at least two years.
Then they’ll keep pissing down his neck and telling him it’s raining.
They’re still blaming their computer. Like they don’t know how to use a pen and paper, and can’t deal with a complainant unless they have read all about them before attending an incident 😆
https://www.channel4.com/news/greater-manchester-police-failed-to-make-significant-improvements-watchdog-says
I’d like to park this link here. It may assist some police when they are filling in the blanks left by groups of their corrupt colleagues who consistently concealed evidence of politically motivated journalists and nhs workers using vulnerable people and fantasists to create csa hoaxes.
https://trollexposure.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/exclusive-the-gwentstone-cops/