Esther Baker has lost her claim over articles that meant (as the court found) that she is depraved, stalked a child abuse victim for years, is a racist stalker worse than most other racist stalkers, tried to undermine a paedophile priest’s criminal conviction, told deliberate and malicious lies on Twitter for the purpose of raising money under false pretences, has made numerous unfounded allegations of sexual abuse, children are being abused by paedophiles because money and police resources have been used up by Ms Baker’s groundless allegations instead of being available to protect them and that it is possible that some of these children have been raped as a result.
In 2020 I filed a lawsuit against Esther Baker for libel and harassment. I won, and she agreed to be restrained for life after her defences of Truth and Public Interest were struck out. That court order is here. However, a counterclaim by Baker against MHN editor Sam Smith continued. Now, in a judgement today of Mr Justice Griffiths, that too has been defeated after your author applied for strike-out and / or summary judgement. The case is over. Esther Baker loses. MHN editor Sam Smith wins. The result is a devastating humiliation for fringe journalists like Mark Watts, Sonia Poulton and David Hencke who have given her account credence over the years.
The result is also a vindication for victims of Baker like former MP John Hemming, Darren Laverty and Simon Just of Real Troll Exposure. Each of these men has been subjected to substantial police involvement over the years due to Esther Baker’s false allegations. Now her supporters must suffer the consequences.
Baker and her supporters were cock-a-hoop earlier this year when Mr Justice Griffiths held that previous articles on this blog had defamatory meanings. Now, in today’s judgement the same judge has found that those meanings have been successfully defended, including via a defence of Truth –
“94. For these reasons, I am satisfied under CPR 3.9 that Ms Baker’s statements of case disclose no reasonable grounds for bringing the claim, that her statements of case are an abuse of the court’s process and are likely to obstruct the just disposal of the proceedings, and that they fail to comply with the requirements of Practice Direction 53B and the Griffiths Order. I am also satisfied under CPR 24 that Ms Baker has no real prospect of succeeding on her claims and there is no other compelling reason why the case should be disposed of at a trial.”
Furthermore, these are not mere technical findings because Baker failed to comply with court rules. The judge found that, had she complied and filed paperwork on time, she would still most likely have lost and had no realistic prospect of defeating my defence of Truth. As an example, Baker was suing me for saying that her mental illness caused her untrue allegations of child abuse. However, a medical report she had filed in other proceedings stated that she had decided to participate in IICSA (the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse), because a voice in her head told her to. The evidence was simply overwhelming. She conceded her mental illness in her draft reply and told the judge at the hearing about the voices in her head.
It is also worth mentioning that before judgement, at several stages, I gave Baker the option to drop her counterclaim with no further order for costs. She was not forced to bring this – it was her claim. No one used expensive lawyers, I am a law graduate and I defended myself. Baker had many warnings. Hard working judges, High Court Master Lisa Sullivan and High Court Judge Martin Griffiths, both gave Baker many chances to correct her pleadings and reply coherently to my defence of Truth. They gave detailed judgements and guidance on what steps Baker should take. They made express allowances for Baker’s mental disabilities. Baker failed to follow the rules in the case she brought and had the opportunity to drop.
There are a lot of meanings spread across eleven articles. The meanings that have now been defended ought to devastate Baker’s reputation, shame her supporters and Staffordshire Police.
The imputations defended are as follows, in the judge’s words cut-and-paste from the judgement on meaning. Because there were 11 articles, some are repetitive or overlapping. Each meaning has a shield next to them to show they have been successfully defended in court and can be relied upon by readers –
- Ms Baker has a mental illness and, as a result of this, she has been making allegations which are not true.
- Her untrue allegations are dangerous and may discredit the campaign for real victims.
- No attention should be paid to her when she makes them.
- Ms Baker is a fantasist, i.e. she has made allegations of rape against men which are not true, although she may believe them to be true. Her untrue allegations have wasted police time and public money and they have diverted resources from real crimes and real victims.
- As a result of her psychotic illness, Ms Baker has lost contact with reality. This has caused her to appeal for money on a Crowdfunding page by making false statements, and to present an incomplete and misleading account of the facts of the case she was trying to fund. There are reasonable grounds to suspect that the case she is trying to fund is not based on real facts, but is based on delusions caused by her mental illness.
- Ms Baker has made multiple claims of rape against Mr Hemming MP and others which have no real factual foundation.
- She is not worthy of belief and does not deserve the financial support she has been asking for.
- There are reasonable grounds to suspect that by her Twitter posts Ms Baker has committed offences of criminal harassment.
- There are reasonable grounds to suspect that Ms Baker has committed the criminal offence of wasting police time.
- She has accused her father and others of being part of a large faith-related abuse group which has led to 30 people being interviewed. [This does not mean that all of those interviewed were suspected of being perpetrators themselves.] There is no evidence to support her allegations.
- She has without justification lent her support to Carl Beech who made criminally invented false allegations against VIPs.
- There are reasonable grounds to investigate whether Ms Baker is a deliberate liar.
Ms Baker’s false allegations have turned innocent lives upside down, more even than Carl Beech’s allegations did. - Public money was wasted on Ms Baker’s representation at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. That is her fault.
- Children are being abused by paedophiles because money and police resources have been used up by Ms Baker’s groundless allegations instead of being available to protect them. It is possible that some of these children have been raped as a result.
- Ms Baker claims to be a survivor of sexual abuse, but there is no basis for her claims. There are reasonable grounds to suspect that she invented them, knowing them not to be true.
- Ms Baker has made numerous unfounded allegations of sexual abuse. She has paid the price by losing an unfounded libel case and being ordered to pay costs and being made bankrupt.
- Right-thinking people should not believe her or support her.
- Ms Baker told deliberate and malicious lies on Twitter (by saying she had not dropped a defence of justification) for the purpose of raising money under false pretences.
- Ms Baker has wrongly tried to silence the claimant [meee!] by complaining to the police but she has not succeeded.
- The claimant is entitled to speak against her and will not be silenced.
- Ms Baker is guilty of 16 allegations of stalking against a proven child abuse victim that was so serious that it justified a lifelong restraining order being imposed by the Court.
- In many (but not all) of the 16 counts, Ms Baker’s stalking was racist.
- She is either a liar, or mad, or mistaken. It is not clear which.
- She has made up stories for attention and without evidence.
- Her made-up stories have resulted in vast amounts of public money being wasted by the Staffordshire police.
- Ms Baker made allegations of VIP ritual abuse which were untrue.
- Ms Baker is guilty of harassment and the conduct may amount to stalking.
- Ms Baker stalked a victim of child rape for years.
- Ms Baker is depraved.
- She tried to contact a paedophile priest to try and undermine his criminal conviction.
- Ms Baker accused the paedophile priest’s victim of perjury on Twitter. This accusation was false, malicious and criminal.
- Ms Baker is a racist stalker.
- Ms Baker is worse even than most racist stalkers.
That, readers, is who Mark Watts, Sonia Poulton and David Hencke have been giving their coverage to. The following specific MHN articles have been defended and will shortly be getting the official MHN Defended shield added at the top –
Defended banner for articles defended in court. Being added to all the articles below later today.
- Jess Phillips MP, Mark Watts and Who Raped Esther Baker?
- Jess Phillips MP, Her Outside Earnings … and How to Take Them Away
- Esther Baker Crowdfunding Page Taken Down Over False Statements
- Esther Baker Crowdfunding Campaign Removed from Third Site
- Staffordshire Police, Esther Baker and DCS Javid Oomer – His Career and Reputation on the Line?
- Dr Jacqui Dillon and Her Appalling Remarks on Esther Baker and Historic Abuse
- Esther Baker Made Bankrupt Over “Rape” Libel Case – are Jacqui Dillon and Jayne Senior Next?
- Rekt – Esther Baker in Humiliating Libel Loss – John Hemming Innocent of Raping Her
- County Court Restrains Esther Baker for Racist Stalking, High Court Makes Further Strike Out Order
- Staffordshire Police, DCS Javid Oomer, DC Garry Bainbridge Must be Investigated Over Esther Baker Bias
- Twitter’s Del Harvey / Alison Shea and Vijay Gadde Openly Back Child Rape Stalker and Anti-Semite Racist
One important assertion of fact I raised was that, “children are being abused by paedophiles because money and police resources have been used up by Ms Baker’s groundless allegations instead of being available to protect them”. That is an inferential allegation, which I based on the sheer expenditure of public money on time occasioned by her allegations. As set out by IICSA and in previous articles on this blog, truly vast police resources were used by Baker’s allegations. 30 innocent people were interviewed by police, some more than once. Each interview requires multiple police officers’ involvement. Those police hours could have been spent on other cases.
Ms Baker’s allegations have been covered and promoted by a number of irresponsible and shoddy journalists, including former Exaro writers Mark Watts and David Hencke as well as Brand New tube video producer Sonia Poulton. David Hencke was successfully sued by John Hemming, and he agreed to a lifelong restraining agreement as well as a token donation to charity. Poulton is currently being sued for reporting Baker’s allegations in an interview without reporting any of the outcomes of the investigations and lawsuits. Mark Watts has had significant involvement in the litigation, even sitting behind Baker and prompting her at the first hearing in the related case of Baker v Hemming.
In my opinion, this coverage has encouraged Baker and significantly enhanced the distress to Baker’s victims such as John Hemming. To the extent it has encouraged Baker, it has contributed to the waste of public resources. Therefore, in my opinion, if it is to be inferred Baker’s waste of public resources has caused children to be abused by paedophiles, those who have given publicity to those allegations like Mark Watts, Sonia Poulton and David Hencke have contributed to that state of affairs and bear moral responsibility. They need to apologise and accept that Baker’s allegations are not true.
The hearing on 26 July 2022 that has led to today’s judgement was tragic. Baker literally rambled at the judge about the voices in her head. I had actually raised the issue of her capacity to litigate with her local NHS services, but they have allowed the case to continue – not saying she was incapable. The judge noted that she had been able to produce documents in the case previously. It does not take long, during any interaction with Esther Baker, to realise that there is something seriously wrong. It is difficult to see how any journalist acting with due diligence and in good faith could not quickly come to the conclusion that her allegations lack credibility.
For me, the case is over. However, police and CPS are still considering a prosecution of Baker. Hemming and indeed Ms Baker have been waiting for 7 years since 2015 for an outcome. It is time for things to move forward and for justice to be done.
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Very well done, Sam. Long overdue, as is a judge seeing through the constant stalling tactics and failure to comply with court requirements. Hopefully it will now lead to Ms Baker changing her ways, however I suspect it won’t and she will make more mistakes. I also agree that it is now time that Staffordshire Police got their fingers out of whichever orifice they have stuck them in and realised what a waste of resources she put them through and treated her the same way Northumbria Police did with Carl Beech. The softly softly approach only works for so long and I feel she’s been given too many opportunities because of the almost constant playing of the MH card without any supportive evidence [as the judge remarked] at that particular time of the card being played. Such methods discredit genuine survivors of abuse and also genuine individuals with MH problems.
Congratulations to Sam on this.
About time too. I would not be one bit surprised if she prevaricated and procrastinated because she knew that if this went to trial, she’d have to answer cross examination questions under oath. There’s nowhere to hide in the witness box and judging from the judges comments in Lavery, she is a rather inconsistent witness to say the least.
There have been many who’ve commentated on these and related proceedings – let alone Ms. Baker’s original allegations. Perhaps it’s time for some of them to review their position?
The rather ridiculous posturing and mild untargeted threats to “expose the truth” have started on Ms Baker’s Twitter feed today.
It’s not going to do her any good as anything she publishes which repeats any allegations that have already been determined as untrue by the courts won’t only land her in more civil/criminal difficulty but could also see the Attorney General’s office get involved for contempt of court issues. She has already claimed she is going to publish “the truth”… why couldn’t she do that in the court environment?
She is already facing sanctions in Sam’s case for breaching the “Griffiths Order”, quite what she thinks she is ultimately going to achieve is beyond any logic, other than dangling carrots for her rather deluded supporters.
Plus as she has played the MH card on numerous occasions the sort of aggressive posturing by her today is likely to result in more involvement by MH services imho.
Each time she has been asked for evidence to back up her claims she has not provided any to the courts and not only in Sam’s case, she is now claiming she has ring binders full of evidence. This raises an important issue too: has she conned the courts and lied? If so then perhaps she should also be investigated for perjury.
The style of the baiting and posturing is straight out of the Graham Wilmer handbook in keeping supporters interested but ultimately provide nothing that has been promised.
That is another reason why her posturing doesn’t do her any favours at all as it sort of demonstrates the previous linkages to Wilmer and mirroring of his behaviour are still an issue regarding her own behaviour.
Baker is so disgusting. Sonia Poulton is so vile.
I hate them both. Sonia deserves to be in prison for what she did naming them child torture victims. The police are too soft.
Well done, Sam! My laptop killed itself writing in response to your latest victories last week. Such must have been the power of your original post.
I wrote to congratulate you on your great success. Expecting that Esther Baker would have finally accepted her lot.
Though I did consider she may get the urge to fire off a deluge of cat memes containing her usual passive-aggressive comments.
I did not expect to see the remorseless and vindictive tweets which ensued. Tweets which are all the more concerning as Esther Baker is allegedly writing them under “much sedation”. Difficult to calculate how venomous her tweets will become when she is not sedated.
Much like Sonia Poulton, Esther Baker does not appear to understand how serious it is to continually endanger and cause great harm to innocent people and their families and friends.
Neither of them have ever told their followers the whole truth regarding the serious points in any of their court cases.
Their twisted versions of what happens in court being believed without question by their followers. Both women are proven to have lied in police interviews, statements, and to courts. It is impossible to believe this pair of devious, law-breaking fantasists do not understand how serious their individual circumstances are. n.b. Alex Belfield’s case. Convicted of stalking four people. Telling his followers to join in with him in attacking his victims. Putting money up to “expose” people. Belfield is to be sentenced next month. Stalking is a very serious crime. The judge warned Belfield he may be looking at a custodial sentence.
It is noted and accepted that those involved with Sonia Poulton and Esther Baker have spent a similar length of time stalking and committing far worse crimes against people than Alex Belfield.
Alex Belfield did not threaten or associate with anyone who threatened people with use of firearms. He did not threaten to burn down homes. He did not make threats to kill and mutilate. Nor has he directed and supervised bent police and twisted their lazy brains into sitting back and accepting every scrap of slander and false allegation he made to them without investigating him. Which has been the case when police have interacted with Sonia Poulton, Esther Baker and their gang members.
Cynics may say Esther makes mention of being medicated because she had already planned to overstep the boundaries set by the court.
She is not the only one in the cabal who believes prescribed drugs and street drugs will somehow rescue them from large fines and prison sentences. (Much more to follow regarding selling/swapping/ordering prescribed drugs and street drugs; teaching hacking to novices; fraud; blackmail; sex sites; revenge porn; selling illegal computer software. Gang members emailing home and work addresses of their prey to other gang members with instructions to commit to commit great harm.)
Police latterly found to have kept such matters hidden for their own selfish reasons. Though to be fair, police were also found to have been deliberately kept in the dark by Sonia Poulton, Esther Baker and all the other liars associated with them. Gang members lying to the police, pretending not to know each other or any of the social media accounts operated by their cohorts. When their prey could prove otherwise. Said proof having already been made available to police to prevent false arrests in advance of gang orchestrated phone calls to police. Consequently, crimes were discovered which the perpetrators may see appearing on a charge sheet or in the High Court. It will all come out in the wash.
This is a joint enterprise unlike any other.
Esther Baker @Esther9982·Aug 18So. In the next few days/weeks/months – as I sort through and organise stuff when I’m well enough – I’ll start posting EXACTLY what has happened over the past 7 years. Even better …. Unlike some …. It will be the TRUTH and evidenced. So sue me
Can see a lot of Ben & Jerry’s cartons being emptied during this time. Pieces of furniture will have been ‘flying around the room’ in some quarters. The glass on the OuiJa board slamming itself from letter to letter. Spelling out Sam’s name. Affirming that he is indeed one of the darkest of the ‘dark forces’. Only here to silence people. Preventing people on twitter from rallying the troops they need to rescue hundreds of children from the clutches of all those ‘known’ paedophile Parliamentarians whom Sam is allegedly protecting.
More violent fantasies are expected to be written up into open letters to the public with regard to ‘dark forces’; being silenced; being murdered; leaving legacies; body being squashed into a suitcase. Etc.
With orders that the public should not accept the coroner’s report in the event of their death. That they do not own a suitcase. That they would not have had the strength to close the zip on their own. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Some readers of this “obscure” and “little read” website should see this latest court case as a warning that the tide has turned. Justice will prevail. No matter how long it may take.
Those puppeteers, David Hencke and Mark Watts. We see what they did there. They gave credence and platforms to Esther Baker and Carl Beech. Gaining them international audiences who watched Baker and Beech vying with each other to tell bigger and bigger whoppers every week. Risking prison for themselves and others. Lining the pockets of every unethical and dangerous journalist involved.
David Hencke 2021: “I am one member of the 20-strongUK national committee of journalists and academics that is drawing up a programme which, if successful, could make journalistic ethics mainstream rather than a side issue or an option. The charity has signed up with Speakers for Schools so its members can go out and talk to young people about being a journalist and working for media organisations. They can discuss issues such as fake news and how to distinguish it from fact-based news as well as how to source and rate ”
Hencke is a scream, isn’t he. What a comedian. ie. When he isn’t engaging with fantasists and ‘paedo hunter’ gangs, or harassing and abusing people on social media who dare to advise him not to call innocent people ‘paedophiles’. It is impossible for David Hencke to not know his own ethics are pants.
Kids in schools already know how to filter fake news way better than he does. When Mark Watts launched Esther Baker on Sky News, David Hencke still believed her. lol. Very few schoolchildren would have believed her. Children have built-in bull-sh*tter detectors.
David Hencke should ‘leave those kids alone’. The kids will be fine. They will also figure out that journalists are only going into schools to make a buck out of already cash-strapped school budgets. Inventing jobs for themselves. Anything to stave off having to take up manual labour jobs when their work dries up. .
There are legal reasons why some other gang members and perpetrators of heinous crimes have not been named on this site and elsewhere. Every lie told to police is under investigation/has been investigated.
The time for their names and crimes to be listed on the web and in court will come.
All involved in this joint enterprise ‘paedo hunt’ should start saving up for train rides to criminal and civil courts.
There will be some lengthy train rides. Each journey perhaps giving gang members time to put themselves in the shoes of innocent people about whom they have made false claims for almost a decade.
A dangerous game, which eventually led to someone being forced to travel overnight from Anglesey to London on at least five occasions, to attend a kangaroo court set up for him by London Met police at the behest of Sonia Poulton and her gang. David Hencke and Mark Watts somehow receiving information in advance that police were obtaining bent warrants to make false arrests.
Only the police would have held this information. How were David Hencke and Mark Watts finding out arrests were to be made on certain days?
Did they obtain information first hand from police, or did Sonia Poulton’s gang members contact them? Either way, this is another example of dpa breaches by police with regard to both Esther Baker and Sonia Poulton’s cases.
Times of arrests should be kept strictly between the police, the falsely arrested, and the neighbours of the falsely arrested who are awakened by the hysteria of adrenaline-fuelled police acting like Billy Big Bollocks when they know infirm, elderly people and young children are in residence.
Very easy to understand how innocent people end up battered with truncheons or have bullets pumped into them when you hear and see what police talk about prior to making an arrest and raiding someone’s property. Their venomous and defamatory spewings in their communications with each other and with gang members proving they truly are an utter f*cking disgrace to policing.
Though in their defence, the police go to enormous lengths to prevent the public finding out about what they say in private messages and emails.
Think ‘Wayne Couzens’ and his associates, and you would be bang on the money.
To reiterate for the benefit of Hencke, Watts and Poulton, evidence regarding the police being coerced into making false arrests and other ‘set-ups’ were made available and supplied to police in advance of all arrests.
Police failed to save Esther Baker from being used as a last resort by Sonia Poulton and her gang when she needed to have more arrests made. This was one of the points in time when police should have investigated Esther Baker and Sonia Poulton thoroughly. To bring an end to their reckless and dangerous behaviour.
Maybe those people journeying to courts to answer for their crimes will use the journey time to consider the nuisance Esther Baker, Sonia Poulton and their associates have caused to innocent people whose homes were ransacked at dawn by police.
Due to those synchronised calls to police to make false allegations, law abiding people were left on bail. Innocent people having to drive to the police stations every week. All the while knowing that the police were refusing to admit they held data which proved they had been falsely arrested.
Sonia Poulton’s exploitation of Esther Baker as a willing executioner to bulk up her own lies and false allegations was completely ignored by police. Leaving Ms Baker even more vulnerable. Similarly, a sexually deprived barrister, who has on occasion tried to entice a social media user to go over to her house to watch her vacuuming her carpets without her knickers on, was also lied to and exploited. She was made to look a fool by Sonia Poulton and her gang.
Sarah Phillimore took heed of Sonia Poulton’s heinous false allegations against two males. Phoning police at the crack of dawn to make the most ridiculous complaints in synch with Sonia Poulton, Esther Baker and Sonia Poulton’s gang members. Allowing herself to be used up by Sonia Poulton and Esther Baker’s in their hate campaign to silence Barbara Hewson.
The cabal knew only death would silence Barbara Hewson. Police failed to protect her in the same way as they failed to protect all the people and their families who have been attacked by Esther Baker and Sonia Poulton and their associates.
Barbara Hewson’s life came to an end. The ‘paedo hunters’ claiming victory that she was one less person to be concerned about preventing them earning an income from talking about alleged VIP paedophiles and those who defended them on social media.
Ms Hewson’s peers rarely backed her up in public and kept their heads down. The warped minds of the mob read this as not only unsupportive to Barbara Hewson, but also as a silent nod of support towards their own campaigns of abuse. Sarah Phillimore’s obsession with Barbara Hewson was a gift to the mob.
Roofs blew off in some quarters when Sarah Phillimore contacted police to repeat the lies Sonia Poulton had brought into the public domain in regard to a child who was battered and abused by staff whilst ‘in care’. Having a High court judge onside was more than they could have dreamed of. (How did this turn out for them? lol)
Another person reported to police by Sarah Phillimore is renowned for having made evidence available to police (and latterly the courts) with regard to Esther Baker and Sonia Poulton and their associates’ campaigns of abuse. Had Sarah Phillimore known this before she contacted the police, she would have been one in a long line of minions who have obstructed and perverted justice. Therefore she must not have had even a whiff of all the vendettas. Or she would not involved herself. One would assume. Although the jury is still out regarding this matter.
Sarah Phillimore has been used as a chimp. Esther Baker has also been used as a chimp. The police must accept some of the blame for the escalations and endangerment people have suffered from this journalist-driven agenda. ie. Police had the evidence to prevent Esther Baker continuing to cause harm to innocent people and herself. They had evidence to prevent Sonia Poulton’s malicious vendettas getting out of control.
It is high time police started making their moves on all the organ-grinders who have been forcing the general public to believe Parliament is full of paedophiles and accusing all and sundry of being paedophiles and ‘paedophile protectors’ when they do not comply with the narratives supplied by Sonia Poulton and Mark Watts and their crew.
It goes without saying that those who have deliberately kept Esther Baker’s ridiculous stories on the boil are beneath contempt.
Sonia Poulton has used Esther Baker’s false allegations year after year only because she wants to stay relevant, and has found no other sensationalist story to prop up her own wholly unsubstantiated claims against dozens of innocent people since Ben Fellowes turned out to be a balloon.
Her asides after Carl Beech was sentenced led people to believe Beech was being used as an example in order to prevent other people abused in childhood coming forward to report rape and ‘Satanic abuse’. Her followers still believe this.
The London Met police have already had access to more than enough information to begin prosecutions.
They chose to ignore it. Choosing instead to waste time and money on assisting gangs of fantasists and liars in framing innocent people for crimes they did not commit and could not have committed.
@ Sue Themall “Anything to stave off having to take up manual labour jobs when their work dries up.”
The impression I get, is that David Hencke couldn’t do a proper job where he has to clock in and show how he spends his working hours. Too erratic and immature. Stuck in the 1970s.
If he worked in a fruit and veg shop, I wouldn’t trust him to weigh my spuds. Nor do I believe he could stop himself from entertaining his co-workers by doing rudies with the tomatoes and cucumbers.
I take it his collar hasn’t been felt yet? If the police contact anyone to say which day and at what time he will be arrested, please keep it to yourself. Let it be a surprise.