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  • The World Mourns – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – 2022)

    The World Mourns – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – 2022)

    As the world mourns the death of Her Majesty The Queen, it is time to remember this remarkable monarch’s dedication, decency and dignity and to celebrate her wonderful contribution to the world

    This heartbroken nation and, in fact, the heartbroken world mourns with the end of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s remarkable reign of 70 years yesterday aged 96. Hers was a life well lived and a life of confidence and continuity.

     

    Whether glamorous in green or radiant in red, the longest serving monarch in British history and the most famous person on the planet displayed an unwavering sense of commitment to her people, Great Britain and the Commonwealth beyond.

     

    The 42nd of a line of kings and queens of first England, then Britain, then the United Kingdom brightened the world with her twinkling blue eyes and her wicked yet gentle sense of humour. With warmth, grace and adaptability, this hardworking lady served in an extraordinary manner and was a great constant through the many storms that came and went.

     

    Unwavering in her sense of commitment to her people and reigning during a period of extensive technological and societal changes, the ‘grandmother to the nation if not the world’ was not only a cherished sovereign but someone who stood fast and firm as 15 Prime Ministers passed her by. She conducted what was required of her up until two days before her death and showed the moral qualities of selflessness, staying power and self-sacrifice until the very end even in times of personal adversity.

     

    Whether having a marmalade sandwich with Paddington Bear or jumping out of a helicopter with James Bond, the Queen’s wit accompanied her wisdom. No movie star could play her better and as we remember this global icon, the millions that met her will recall not only her power and intellect but also her common touch. Respected and loved, this servant of the people kept her counsel and constancy and lived by the mantra: “Never complain, never explain.”

     

    Though a figure of world standing and undoubtedly the most influential female role model of the last 100 years, here was a figure of calm authority who happened to love horse racing and gin and Dubonnet. The Queen has now sadly passed, but it must be remembered that Her Majesty has left the monarchy secure and in safe hands. We join those saluting the eternal legacy of someone thought of as part of everyone’s family and we will forever remember this incredibly selfless diplomat’s legacy.

     

    As we come together in grief in the new era that will follow with the national anthem, pillar boxes, cash, stamps, police helmets, passports all change – with even QCs becoming KCs – it is time also to come together as a nation and welcome the modernising force that will be His Royal Highness King Charles III.

     

    As Her Majesty The Queen herself once wisely observed: “Better days will return” and today we conclude: “God save the King.”

     

    Pictured top – As the world mourns, this morning’s headlines celebrated the life of the most remarkable lady of all our lives. May she now rest in peace in the company of her beloved husband.

     

    Balmoral Liz Truss
    Duty over personal fulfilment was the Queen’s reign mantra to the end and in meeting new Prime Minister Liz Truss at Balmoral just two days before her death, the dedication and servitude of this monarch shone through.
    Gracious
    Gracious to her core, this Head of the Commonwealth was a constant in all our lives during her astonishing 70-year reign.
    Fun
    A sense of fun prevailed when Her Majesty conducted tours and opened this-that-and-the-other. Even in old age, her mantra made others feel at easy and in taking on whatever she did, she always made the best of any situation. As she herself said: “It is a job for life… Continuity is very important.”
    Corgi
    Corgis and racehorses were amongst the Queen’s favourite animals. With all the travails she faced as a result of the actions of her own family members, she could always turn to them for personal support.
    Horses
    Her Majesty accepted her destiny, but always showed backbone and kept it stiff. She never moaned and was never overcome. Strong of sentiment, but no sentimental; no sugar, no slush – that was her style.
    James Bond
    Not even James Bond phased Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. We will forever remember her and we today say: “God save the King.”
    Paddington Bear
    As our monarch joins her husband in the sky, the nation will fondly recall her memory and that endearing last skit with Paddington Bear in the summer. Her memory will live on forever and history will most definitely note the significance of her reign.
  • Another Met Mess – Inept Met Police Shockingly Shelve Jeffrey Epstein 2001 Abuse Investigation

    Another Met Mess – Inept Met Police Shockingly Shelve Jeffrey Epstein 2001 Abuse Investigation

    As inept Met Police unsurprisingly shelves investigation into UK activities of croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Matthew Steeples reminds that they shockingly did same with their 1994 investigation into now convicted sex fiend Ghislaine Maxwell

    In 1994, yes, you read it right, in 1994, the Metropolitan Police investigated the activities of Ghislaine Maxwell in London. To do so, they took over a bedroom in a residence opposite the South Kensington mews house where the mucky madam lived between 1989 and 1997 and for two weeks watched the comings and goings from an alleged brothel operated there.

     

    Unsurprisingly, given this pension pot plunderer’s daughter’s powerful connections with amongst others the subsequent Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick – with whom she both went to school and the same Oxford college – they did absolutely diddly squat.

     

    Last night, in another connected development relating to allegations that Maxwell’s coconspirator Jeffrey Epstein abused young women in London circa 2001, MailOnline trainee reporter Eirian Jane Prosser equally unsurprisingly revealed: “The Metropolitan Police has said it will be taking no further action over allegations made against the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.”

     

    In a statement shared by Prosser, the Metropolitan Police predictably excused themselves and pathetically observed:

     

    “The Metropolitan Police Service has been liaising with other law enforcement agencies who led the investigation into matters related to Jeffrey Epstein. Detectives have thoroughly reviewed information provided to it and in the public domain.”

     

    “In the absence of any further information we will be taking no further action. As with any other matter, should new and relevant information be brought to our attention we will assess it.”

     

    Featured as a world exclusive in The Steeple Times in December 2020, we shared the story of the very lady whose house was used for the 1994 surveillance of 69 Stanhope Mews East in South Kensington, SW7 – the then London residence of none other than Ghislaine Maxwell. At that time, the businesswoman concerned told us:

     

    “I was visited by officers from the Met Police in 1994 whom asked to use a bedroom in my property and to install a camera at the window to monitor the house diagonally opposite, 69 Stanhope Mews East.”

     

    “I was not told at the time who the person concerned was, but I now realise it was Ghislaine Maxwell who was the owner of that house. I recall seeing very young girls coming and going from that building very often.”

     

    “The officers remained for a week and then I heard no more about what happened next. All I knew was that a brothel was being operated from there and that the police wanted to close it down. They could have caught this evil woman then, but maybe her friendships with powerful people like Prince Andrew helped ensure her criminality was swept under the carpet.”

     

    Again today, we join those asking: “Why was the 1994 investigation swept under the carpet?” and “why has the more recent Met Police investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s London activities gone the same way?” Who, indeed, are the nation’s most powerful police force protecting and why – in the wake of their very many recent scandals including their handling of the cases of the murders of Sarah Everard and Daniel Morgan – are they so conveniently trying to close down investigations into these clearly very, very murky matters involving very, very powerful people?

     

    Pictured top – Since dead sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein and his since incarcerated co-collaborator sex fiend Ghislaine Maxwell (left), one-time alleged brothel 69 Stanhope Mews East (centre) and Maxwell’s former schoolmate and now former Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick (right).

     

    69 Stanhope Mews East, South Kensington, London, SW7 5QT was the subject of a covert surveillance exercise by the Metropolitan Police in 1994 whilst under the ownership of the pension pot plundering ‘Cap’n Bob’s’ decidedly deviant daughter. Very young ladies of a certain type were seen coming coming and going during the period and it was suspected by neighbours that the house was being operated as a high-class whore house run by a smart looking madam.
    44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia
    The Met Police’s investigation into what Jeffrey Epstein got upto in London no doubt centred on Ghislaine Maxwell’s then home at 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8ES. It could also have included the nearby Lanesborough Hotel – which, at that time, had interiors designed by his own designer Alberto Pinto – and other locations.
    Sir Mark Rowley
    New Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has closed down the investigation into the London activities of the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein rather quickly in the wake of his appointment in July this year. There’s just two questions for him of this very convenient for some very powerful figures including primarily Prince Andrew and that is: “Why?” and “Why now?”
  • Hiding In Plain Sight – ITV Documentary On Evil Abuser Rolf Harris

    Hiding In Plain Sight – ITV Documentary On Evil Abuser Rolf Harris

    As it is announced that ITV are to air a documentary on the Aussie abuser Rolf Harris titled ‘Hiding in Plain Sight,’ Matthew Steeples reminds readers of how evil this nonagenarian nonce truly is

    Rightly stripped of honours including an AO and a CBE in 2015, Rolf Harris rightly remains someone who’ll only be remembered as an evil sexual abuser of underage girls.

     

    Now 92, sadly still alive and known for pestering children in school playgrounds in Maidenhead, Berkshire, this former ‘entertainer’ turned convicted sex predator is to be the subject of a forthcoming ITV documentary titled Hiding In Plain Sight.

     

    Featuring “interviews with his victims, the police who investigated him and colleagues who worked alongside him” according to WalesOnline and made by a TV production company named Optomen, the programme will supposedly “question whether [Harris’s] crimes would have been uncovered had it not been for the Jimmy Savile scandal.” It will document the “public persona of a [supposedly] non-threatening eccentric who was devoted to his wife while revealing that actually, within the industry, Harris was increasingly known as a creep”

     

    Of the programme, Kate Teckman, commissioner and head of development for factual entertainment at ITV remarked:

     

    “There are few stories as shocking as Rolf Harris. These films give a voice to Harris’s accusers and will reveal just how the seemingly wholesome ‘national treasure’ was able to molest and abuse his victims in plain sight.”

     

    Given this rotten ratbag’s clear lack of remorse for what he did to his innocent victims, we hope that – unhidden and in plain sight – this documentary will chuck the book at this evil piece of toerag.

     

    Pictured top – Father-of-an-unknown-quantity-of-children Prime Minister Boris Johnson giggling alongside abuser-of-an-unknown-quantity-of-children Rolf Harris during a television appearance.

     

    In September 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported on the filthy paedo pest pounding the pavements of Maidenhead in soiled clothing after previously being snapped in February 2019 waving at children in a playground whilst “hobbling along on a walking stick.”
    Andrew Rosindell MP
    In July 2014, Conservative MP for Romford Andrew Rosindell was rightly condemned for having a photograph for having posted a picture of himself “grinning” with Rolf Harris on his Facebook page a month after the later convicted paedophile was first questioned by police in November 2012. The right-wing ranting Tory responded by whining: “I will try and take it down. I don’t know how to take it down to be honest.” He later bleated: “People better not be photographed with anyone in case they become future criminals.”

    ‘Gutter Girls’ by Rolf Harris

    In 2015, this audacious Australian abuser penned a sordid ‘song’ in which he described his multiple victims as “slimy little woodworms.” It should have been banned on grounds of obscenity and was sickly titled Gutter Girls.

     

    It outrageously went as follows:

     

    Climb up out of the woodwork babe

    From forty years ago,

    The climate’s great in Britain now

    For making loads of dough

    You’ve festered down there long enough,

    Time’s right to grab your chance

    Clap eyes on a rich celebrity

    And make the bastard dance

     

    Chorus

    Make him squirm, slimy little woodworm

    Make him squirm, squirm, squirm

    Sink your claws right in to the hilt, don’t let him go

     

    (Group) NO! NO!

     

    Make him burn, burn, burn

    Slimy little woodworm, make him burn

    Get your fifty-years-old hooks into his dough

     

    (Group) GO BABY GO

     

    That old bandwagon you crawled out of

    (rotten to the core)

    Conceals a host of foul accusers,

    Twenty maybe more

    My guess is they’ll slide after you

    All following your stench,

    Perhaps you believe you’re pretty still

    Some perfumed sultry wench

     

    Chorus

    “Make him squirm”,

    I can hear you singing

    “Make him squirm, squirm, squirm:

    Just imagine all of the money waiting there”

     

    (Group) OH YEAH!

    Make him burn, burn, burn

    Come and join the feeding frenzy girls,

    Don’t miss out, come on and join me for your share

     

    (Group) PUT IT THERE!

     

    The evil ‘entertainer’ was convicted in an era when justice was also done with the convictions of fellow paedophiles Stuart Hall and Max Clifford.
    Sir Cliff Richard
    The ironically titled given his ‘love of children’ and abusing them ‘Two Little Boys’ singer with the crackpot crazy creepy Christian crooner Sir Cliff Richard. Shouldn’t the Aussie paedophile have been deported after his release from jail in May 2017?
    Bizarrely there are still people out there who seek to defend and justify the twisted antics of this criminal sex offender. Amongst them are individuals going by the names of William B. Merritt and Mark Walker. The book by the former of the two, a private investigator, came out remarkably in May 2022 in paperback format and shockingly attempts to claim the Australian abuser innocent and his very much-deserved convictions “sinister.” Sickeningly Merritt goes as far to allege: “Harris had no chance. Rolf was an entertainer he was a kind, artistic man who had spent most of his relying on others to manage and organize his working life. He had no experience in the rough and tumble world.”
    Of the Australian nonce, one Twitter user, James Tryand, shared: “When I was a child, if we naughty in class, we were sent outside the classroom to stare at the wall. For one class, this involved staring at a picture drawn by Rolf Harris when visited the school, So, for me, he will always be associated with the punishment of children.”
  • Is Brazen Barclay Really Broke? Sir Frederick Barclay Claims Poverty Whilst Sporting The ‘Simon Cowell-Look’

    Is Brazen Barclay Really Broke? Sir Frederick Barclay Claims Poverty Whilst Sporting The ‘Simon Cowell-Look’

    Matthew Steeples asks: “Is brazen Simon Cowell wannabe Sir Frederick Barclay really broke or is he pulling the other one in an attempt not to pay his ex-wife Hiroko?”

    Sir Frederick Hugh Barclay (born along with his late twin brother Sir David Rowat Barclay on 27th October 1934) in Hammersmith, London turned up at the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday sporting a pair of radiant red pants that were higher up his waist than anything even Simon Cowell would dare.

     

    Aside from being mocked on Twitter for his unmitigated “fashion disaster” as he headed for yet another telling off from judge Sir Jonathan Cohen over his not having paid a £100 million ($121 million, €119 million or درهم446 million) settlement to his ex-wife Lady Hiroko, the 87-year-old got told that was in contempt of court and now faces potentially being jailed at a further hearing on the 11th August.

     

    Known as “notoriously private” and until 2019 very close to his twin, Sir Frederick claims he is broke whilst his ex-wife, Lady Barclay, previously told the court:

     

    “Frederick says he cannot pay. He says he has no money. I do not believe him. It is not that he cannot pay, but that he will not pay… He’s not allowed to have a bank account because he’s not paying tax in the UK.”

     

    Going further the Japanese born 79-year-old claimed via her lawyers that her ex-husband was trying “to string things out” by hiding “behind a web of complex structures” as part of an attempt “to get out of paying the settlement before either she or Frederick dies.”

     

    Complicating matters further, Lady Hiroko – whom the judge highlighted has come out of “a very long marriage” with “next to nothing” thus far – accuses her very own daughter, Amanda, of “conspiring [to] stop her receiving any money” and threatening her “with a move to social housing.” Of her child, Lady Hiroko went as far to ludicrously remark: “She was telling me you have to go and live in a council flat… You don’t have any money, so please stop this divorce procedure.”

     

    Analysing the clearly very acromonious situation that is rather akin to the battle between the late dead-by-impaling-on-railings tycoon Scott Young and his off-her-not-so-merry rocker ex-wife, Sir Jonathan concluded:

     

    “The wife’s suspicions are understandable. The husband totally excluded his wife from any knowledge, let alone discussion of, financial affairs and kept her in the dark… [This is a] put-up sham designed by the husband to ensure she is kept out of her money.”

     

    “It is consistent with his approach to minimise tax and keep control himself. For only a short period of time in their very long marriage did the wife have a hold on property assets of any sort, other than her own bank account containing modest savings.”

     

    Former co-owner of The Ritz hotel and the Telegraph Media Group Sir Frederick responded that he is “highly motivated to comply with the orders because of his abject fear of prison.” Though concluded: “I’ve never had as much stress as this divorce since I was a boy,” it is clear that Mr Justice Cohen is quite right – here’s a case of the ultimate audacity in asset hiding.

     

    Pictured top – Clearly modelling himself on Simon Cowell (right), Sir Frederick Barclay (left) turned up at court yesterday in a velvet jacket and red pants that nearly hit his ‘man boobs’ to face his ex-wife Hiroko (centre). Where did the supposedly broke tycoon think he was going? A camped-up fancy dress party with Sir Noël Coward?

     

    On Twitter this morning, I suggested to my followers: “Amazing that supposedly penniless Sir Fred Barclay managed to avoid jail yesterday. Even more amazing was that he tries to outdo Simon Cowell in the trousers-upto-his-man-boobs department. He may be sporting the look in the clink in 2 weeks, however. #FredBarclay #SimonCowell.” Another user, David Mathieson, responded: “I’m not usually super critical about older men’s sense of style… But having the tie stuffed down the trousers is a definite no-no…”
    Knighthood 2000
    Billionaires Sir David and Sir Frederick in happier times when they received their knighthoods together at Buckingham Palace in October 2000 “for their support of medical research.”
    Lady Beatrice
    Amongst assets contested – and since sold – was a co-owned yacht named Lady Beatrice where the twin brothers were said to have punched one another after the breakdown of their business relationship.
    The Ritz
    The Ritz was sold for around £700 million ($852 million, €833 million or درهم3.1 billion) to Qatari investors in March 2020 in spite of Sir Frederick demanding it be sold for no less than £1.3 billion ($1.6 billion, €1.5 billion or درهم5.8 billion). The controversy and the bugging that occurred on the premises was a major factor in the breakdown in the relationship of the twin brothers.
  • £1 Million Reward For A Letter From Yorkshire Ripper

    £1 Million Reward For A Letter From Yorkshire Ripper

    Matthew Steeples asks: Is British plc chairman Dickie Bingham having a laugh in offering a reward of £1 million reward for a crocodile skin briefcase he left on a tram that contained amongst other things a letter from the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe?

    At CrimeCon London 2021, I met a perfectly affable gentleman named Mark Austin. He told me that he had been made the next of kin of the Bacardi rum loving serial killer Dennis Nilsen in 2009. Furthermore, on his death in 2018, he inherited his belongings and the copyright of his rambling 3.5 million word autobiography, collectively titled Epic Nobody. He told me had several storage units full from this inheritance whilst his wife added something to the effect: “He could be utterly charming.”

     

    At CrimeCon London 2022, I met a delightful lady from Kensington named Lindsay Siviter. She told me that amongst the true crime memorabilia in her 5,000 item Siviter True Crime Library are Lady Lucan’s tiny corset and the last cheque book of her husband Lord Lucan, undoubtedly the most famous British missing person ever.

     

    This week, providing proof that true crime memorabilia collectors truly do value their possession of items from the most notorious criminals, a “publicity shy” 72-year-old former criminologist named Dickie Bingham has offered a reward of £1 million ($1.19 million, €1.18 million or درهم4.39 million) for a black crocodile-skin briefcase containing amongst other things a letter from the evil-to-his-core serial killing monster Peter Sutcliffe.

     

    Mr Bingham, originally from Writtle, Essex and the chairman of British plc – which describes itself as “one of Scotland’s oldest companies” and which claims to be involved in artificial intelligence, extended reality, distributed ledger technology, quantum technology and solar-powered engineering – supposedly lost his case on Monday after a breakfast meeting at the University of Edinburgh whilst travelling on a tram. One can only wonder if he’d been on the whisky.

     

    The businessman now claims that the case also contains documents that could bring “vast amounts of wealth to Scotland” and of it, he bizarrely told the Mirror:

     

    “This is potentially Nobel Prize-winning documentation. It basically shows how the universe works – we think we may have cracked it. It was lost by my own stupidity.”

     

    “The briefcase just looks like one a barrister or advocate will use but the contents is priceless.”

     

    “It is a theory of everything that covers the sub-atomic world.”

     

    “That is why it is crucially important – £1 million sounds a lot but it is petty cash compared to the value of what this could be, it is crucial to the Scottish economy.”

     

    “I’m a criminologist and worked with Peter Sutcliffe, and that’s why there’s a letter from him, there are also some diaries which have sentimental value.”

     

    “It is the most expensive tram ride I will ever take… It’s like a James Bond film.”

     

    Now, come on ‘Nicola Sturgeon-fish,’ get your Jimmy Krankie-like arse into gear and get it found! Nicola: Your desperate to be independent country clearly needs Mr Bingham’s wealth!

     

    Tram
    Mr Bingham lost his anything but shabby briefcase – which sadly cost a crocodile its life also – on a tram in Edinburgh on Monday. According to the ‘Mirror,’ to claim the reward of £1 million, members of the public need to take “the case and all the contents” to “any Scottish police station with contact details included.”
    Frank Bruno
    Boxing legend Frank Bruno claims he was conned into shaking hands with Peter Sutcliffe during a visit to Broadmoor by Sir Jimmy Savile in 1991. He remarked afterwards: “Savile planned it. It was not a nice thing to do me. If I had known it was the Ripper, I’d have tried to get out of it. It was a scary feeling. I’d rather shake Mike Tyson’s hand. I didn’t know a photographer was taking pictures. When the photo came out, I rang Savile and said: ‘What was that all about?’ He apologised but by then it was too late.” Bruno has since said he is “still haunted by the picture of him with Sutcliffe and issued an apology to the killer’s victims or anyone the image might upset.”
    Nicola Sturgeon Jimmy Krankie
    First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon is often cited as looking like Jimmy Krankie. Of working as a criminologist, Mr Bingham remarked: “The scariest people I have ever met are politicians.” This scary looking woman’s chances of getting Bingham’s wonga might thus be rather minimal.
    Dennis Nilsen
    Denis Nilsen’s collection of memorabilia is all in the possession of one man, Mark Austin. There is so much of it that it has to be stored in two storage units. If someone stole it, would a £1 million reward be offered? Frankly, that seems unlikely given his heinous crimes.
  • Maxwell’s Judgment Day – Sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell

    Maxwell’s Judgment Day – Sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell

    As mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s judgment day arrives, it is time now for her co-collaborators to be brought to justice suggests Matthew Steeples

    Judgment day for Ghislaine Maxwell has finally and very deservedly arrived. In a New York courtroom at 11am local time, Judge Alison J. Nathan will hammer down sentence on this decidedly deviant daughter of a pension pot plunderer and likely send her off to a place where she’ll finish her rotten days.

    Having encouraged her lawyers to use the word “victim” only four times (and four times to describe herself) in their 77-page submission in which she requested just 4 years as opposed to the 55 years sought by prosecutors, this arrogant to her core mucky madam will finally be forced to face up to reality.

    Though her siblings – who now face further shame through the exposure of their links to their having used dodgy La Hogue and Panamanian trusts to likely hide assets to which they were never even entitled – continue to bleat about her conditions, the fact that croaked paedophile Jefffey Epstein’s one-time lover has been shown as a liar is evident of the fact that she deserves a prison term in the upper limit of the guidelines suggested.

    Miss Maxwell participated in the forging of photographs whilst on the run and used fake names also, she lied about her assets and wealth when arrested and didn’t even bother to tell her so-called beloved brothers and sisters about her 2016 marriage to Scott Borgerson. She lied also when claiming to be suffering from malnutrition – she weighed 146 pounds when first incarcerated, she weighs 144.5 pounds now – and she lied in suggesting her hair had fallen out.

    Today represents a chance for victims to have their voices heard and today, though the grubby groper will most definitely appeal, should be the last time that Ghislaine Maxwell is ever heard. This evil piece of toerag should but won’t realise that she’s done the crime; it is now time for her to do the time and it is now time for her co-collaborators to be brought in.

    Grubby groper mucky madam
    In times past, the deranged daughter of ‘The Bouncing Czech’ lived the life of luxury with her then lover. Between them this mucky madam and her Ponzi scheming partner travelled the world, conned, schemed and manipulated hundreds of people – some more famous than others.
    Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein
    Was Melania Trump trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein given his jet was known for going to the part of the world she where she came from? Will President Donald Trump ever be asked any questions about his involvement with the croaked paedophile and his co-collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell?
    Jeffrey Epstein
    Helicopters and submarines were a major part of the scheme of, quite frankly, two of the most evil and cunning people on this planet. The address book was Ghislaine Maxwell’s, the ability to con was the skill of her co-collaborator. The former was the chief, the latter was the functionary.
    Bouncing Czech
    If the batty verging on bonkers Eleanor Berry is to be believed, here is a woman who replaced her familial abuser with a wealthy and equally vile one. This is instead a case of a very well educated woman – now 60 – who was perfectly capable of making choices. Nobody forced her to go from supposed abuse victim to actual abuser. She deserves to spend the rest of her rotten life paying for this disgusting choice.
    Siblings
    The now convicted sex offender now claims that her father’s abuse of her excuses her from her gruesome offences. She claims to want to be imprisoned in Britain to be nearer to her beloved siblings. She never even told them she married Scott Borgerson on her birthday on Christmas Day in 2016 until after her arrest in 2019. This is a woman most definitely contradictory and one that deserves the maximum of punishments.
  • Word of the Week 2022 – Coffin Dodger (Codger)

    Word of the Week 2022 – Coffin Dodger (Codger)

    Is describing the likes of bungling billionaires like Bernie Ecclestone and Rupert Murdoch as ‘coffin dodgers’ or ‘codgers’ acceptable? Matthew Steeples says MOST DEFINITELY YES

    Titty feeding twerp Tamara Ecclestone once charged at me as I sat minding my own business at the bar of a Pavilion Road, Chelsea restaurant enjoying a glass of vino. This modern-day Bet Lynch lookalike, clad in some kind of especially louche leopard skin number, screamed like a banshee and demanded: “Why do you call my dad a ‘coffin dodger’?”

     

    Clearly surprised at this awkward ambush by a birdbrained bimbo, I simply responded: “Because that’s just what he is” and of this most unpleasant encouter I was reminded in recent days when somebody told me off on Twitter for using the very same description of the soon to be divorced for a fourth time old ‘codger’ Rupert Murdoch.

     

    Said to be an alternative way of describing an “elderly person” or “crinkly” and sometimes abbreviated to ‘codger,’ this is a somewhat derogatory description that is representative of someone “good at avoiding death” but also is the name of an alcoholic beverage that is “sometimes drunk as a hangover cure.”

     

    With even a beer named in its honour also, here is a phrase that should be used more widely and today we invite readers to suggest the names of other famous antique beings who quite frankly live on forever in the hope of simply annoying the rest of the bloody planet for as long as they possibly can.

     

    Pictured top – Ultimate “coffin dodgers” Putin loving Bernie Ecclestone and maniacal media mogul Rupert Murdoch; here is a pair of very rich, very miserable, very tempestuous men who think they can do and say whatever they want. The vast majority of the planet most definitely won’t miss this pair of rotten toerags when they thankfully pass.

     

    Definition
    This is a description that should be more widely used.
    Codger
    The description is sometimes abbreviated though some claim ‘codger’ to have an entirely different meaning. Of this someone named Raeanne Dimick suggests: “The origin of [codger] seems to lie in the complex links between [cadger] and codger (not as a contraction of coffin-dodger, as one of my more inventive correspondents has suggested). In some parts of England the two words were used interchangeably, whereas in other regions they were separate words, one meaning beggar and the other eccentric/grotesque fellow. The latter meaning is the one used in an early example of old codger, David [Garricks] [farce] [Bon] Ton, 1775: [My Lords] servants call you an old out-of-fashiond [Codger]. Men who had fallen on hard times and had resorted to any means possible to keep body and soul together were often those who were too old to find work. A cadger was likely to be a [grizzled] character wanting to borrow or steal from you; a codger was a peculiar and unfashionable chap, and both were likely to be old. Old codger is most likely to be the linguistic merging of all those images.”
    Tweet
    Amusingly, this response came in on Twitter to the poll I started about whether the description was acceptable or not today. The “late granny” was most “clearly a legend” indeed and I do think that this way of referencing nasty old antiquities should be more widely used.
    Mugs emblazoned with the term and beer named for such antiquities can be bought online.
    TV show
    A 2013 TV short takes the description as its title. It starred John DiMaggio and was directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill.
    Tamara Ecclestone and Jay Rutland
    Often clad in leopard skin banshee Tamara Ecclestone – pictured with her not especially bright and banned from the city husband Jay Rutland approaching Scalini restaurant in Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 – does not like the description being used of her deranged dwarf-like daddy.
  • Troll Off – Bog Off, F**k Off, Do One, Jog On & Go Away

    Troll Off – Bog Off, F**k Off, Do One, Jog On & Go Away

    Matthew Steeples enthuses about telling online trolls supporting Ghislaine Maxwell and the Duchess of Sussex to “bog off” given their intense dislike for such

    This week, aside from bizarrely being informed that Ghislaine Maxwell is to be lauded as “a God” on Twitter and then trolled by the suggestor, yesterday another user got het up when I told them to “bog off” when they bombarded me with nonsense telling me off for not being supportive of the mendacious menace formerly known as Meghan Markle.

     

    Responding with a poll on social media, I decided to ask the Twitterati what they viewed as an acceptable alternative to this way of saying “go away” this morning. Thus far, whilst the majority of the 100 plus respondents have suggested sticking with my favoured option, others have plumped for the more offensive “f**k off” as the way to answer these nuisances.

     

    “Go away,” itself and “do one” have been joined by the truly, in my humble opinion, ghastly and grubby “jog on.” I examined what we called “a phrase that should be consigned to history” in August 2011 and pointed to it having first become prominent in The Football Factory film about football hooliganism.

     

    Going further, at that time, I added:

     

    “This awful insult got wider use in recent days after a mother from Salford used it in response to someone who criticised her defence of rioters looting stores in a BBC interview. This oik-ish woman and her Kappa clad son are unfortunately not alone in their use of this dreadful way of telling someone to ‘f*** off.’”

     

    “On a trailer for another BBC show this morning I heard a dwarf utter it when describing how he responds when people look at him. It appears that there aren’t many places that this choice phrase of the underclass is not now used. In this vein, that Sally Bercow, the speaker’s wife, applies it when replying to negative tweets about her husband is not at all surprising.”

     

    “’Jog on’ even gets abbreviated sometimes to ‘JTFO,’ which according to urbandictionary.com ‘adds an element of gusto and offence, for those times when the simplicity of the original phrase just don’t relay your feelings as fully and emphatically as they could.’”

     

    “Those using the insult are even given notes actions to accompany it on one site: ‘The phrase mentioned must be preceded by raising the fore finger and middle finger to create a ‘V’ sign to the recipient. This should be followed by a movement to the side with a clenched fist and thumb extended in the direction of the movement.’”

     

    “On Facebook there is even a group named ‘The ‘Jog On’ Appreciation Society.’ Fortunately, it only has 15 members and thankfully their aim to ‘get the phrase into the Oxford English’ doesn’t seem to have garnered much support.”

     

    “I very much hope the phrase ‘jogs off’ into oblivion. Sadly, though, I suspect it’ll still be jogging around for some time yet.”

     

    What’s your view? Should trolls be told to “bog off,” “go away,” “f**k off” or “jog on”? I welcome your views in the comments section below and your votes in our Twitter poll.

     

    Response
    The response I gave to the aforementioned troll. In it, I told @Corkynut316: “You are clearly deranged and do not understand language. Go and buy yourself a dictionary. It’d give you hours of pleasure.”
    Informal, British slang for “go away,” here is the perfect way to make clear one’s feelings to trolls online.
    Alternative Definition
    A 2006 definition suggests my favoured choice is used by people “too posh to swear” and adds: “It is thought, by most cool enough people to be the single worst way to tell people to go away.”
    Merged into one word, it is also a description for when you can “buy one, get one free” in retail environments.
    My favoured option has even been used on CBBC programmes so clearly is viewed acceptable by ‘Auntie.’ The ‘Urban Dictionary’ references it as “prominently used as a phrase in ‘The Story of Tracy Beaker.’”
    T-shirts declaring “Bog Off Boris” are available to buy online as are wall prints. The many that loathe the buffoon Prime Minister Johnson would do well to purchase them.
  • Sham Marriage Of Levi Bellfield Should Be Stopped

    Sham Marriage Of Levi Bellfield Should Be Stopped

    Matthew Steeples joins those demanding attention seeking rapist-serial killer Levi Bellfield isn’t granted the right to have a sham marriage in prison; this maniacal monster deserves punitive punishment not privileges

    Levi Bellfield (born Levi Rabetts and also known as Yusuf Rahim) wants to get married. Naturally, in response to this sick beyond belief rapist and serial killer’s latest nothing but another attention seeking stunt, outrage has followed. Rightly, the former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland summed up the views of the majority in arguing that the proposed prison nuptials “beggars belief.”

     

    As Nikolay Kalinin pointed out in his July 2021 article for this publication in which he condemned the double child killer Colin Pitchfork being released – the “inhuman swine” was subsequently recalled for breaching parole conditions – there are certain monsters-not-men who do not deserve to be treated as anything but the subhuman specimens that they well and truly are. Pitchfork and Bellfield are exactly such and in their cases, life truly should mean life and with that should come punitive punishment and utterly no privileges.

     

    A father of eleven children by three women – none of whom he tellingly got around to bother marrying – Bellfield, as Buckland also added, ensured “Milly [Dowler] never got to see her wedding day, it cannot be right he gets to have his.”

     

    At a time when he stands accused also of having confessed to the 1996 murders of Lin and Meghan Russell – for which Michael Stone remains incarcerated and still professes his innocence of – “cunning” Bellfield has plainly conned a woman with less than half a brain into helping him cause further pain and suffering to the families of his deceased victims Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell and Amélie Delagrange and his still living victims Kate Sheedy and Anna-Maria Rennie.

     

    Of this deranged deviant’s attempt to marry a “besotted blonde visitor” said to be in her 40s, Victoria Atkins MP rightly added that she will “do ‘everything in her power’ to stop the ‘evil monster’ tying the knot and has urged an urgent review,” according to The Sun. Having known Victoria and her delightful and especially sensible parents, ex-MP and ex-MEP Sir Robert Atkins and his good lady wife Lady Atkins, since my youth, I salute the current Prisons Minister for her wise words.

     

    Though the 53-year-old’s application is “still being processed” and “is not [yet] at any further advanced stage,” today we join those calling for the governor of HMP Frankland in County Durham to veto permission for this clear sham marriage. Clear maniac Levi Bellfield is supposedly “cock-a-hoop” about the media attention he is yet again getting, but this “bus stop beast” deserves only to rot in hell.

     

    Of Bellfield, Detective Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police turned author Colin Sutton – who caught ‘The Bus Stop Killer’ – once remarked: “He has a massive ego to feed, he thinks he’s God’s gift to everyone. He drives around in his car, feels a bit ‘whatever’ and sees some young blonde girl. Young blonde girl says ‘go away’ and he thinks you dare to turn down Levi Bellfield, you’re worth nothing’ and then she gets a whack over the head. It is shown in the case of Kate Sheedy. She was smart enough to think she didn’t like the look of his car and crosses the road. He thinks: ‘You think you’re so clever’ and whoosh, he runs her over.”
    HMP Frankland Durham
    The killer of Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell and Amélie Delagrange should NOT be allowed to enjoy himself getting married in Her Majesty’s Prison Frankland whilst his victims rot in their graves, their lives having been taken far too young.
    Colin Pitchfork
    Colin Pitchfork is another example of a prisoner who should never have been rewarded with privileges. Allowing him release on conditional licence in June 2021 was rightly slammed by the public and media, but when he was recalled in November 2021 for breaching that licence by “approaching young women” while on walks from his bail hostel, proof was gain provided that monster’s like him and Bellfield never change their spots.
  • Untouchable Savile v A Voice For Victims

    Untouchable Savile v A Voice For Victims

    After the premiere of ‘Untouchable’ – a 4-hour documentary about the late paedophile Sir Jimmy Savile – last night, Matthew Steeples suggests those supporting such people as him, Rolf Harris and Ghislaine Maxwell having a ‘right to reply’ should be shamed and silenced; it is victims who do deserve a voice instead

    Watched already 44,000 times in just 17 hours on YouTube since it premiered last night at 6pm – an astonishing figure given Piers Morgan’s new flagship show has attracted only 62,000 viewers a night on the very, very well funded billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s talkTV television channel – Untouchable hosted by true crime author and activist Shaun Attwood has immediately been lauded as far more revealing than even Netflix’s superb yet sickening Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story.

     

    Extending to a remarkable 4-hours in length yet gripping throughout, Attwood featured interviews with guests including the former police officer turned investigative reporter Mark Williams-Thomas – a man credited with being the first to expose the Jim’ll Fix It presenter Sir James Savile OBE KCSG as a paedophile in 2012 – and victims of the Havana cigar chomping devil, amongst them Stephen French and Kelly Gold.

     

    Aside from including a warbling contribution from my very self, the far wittier and far wiser criminologist and author Christopher Berry-Dee and the class act consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr. Soham Das, here was a programme that delved deep into these horrific crimes. This exploration of how a friend of royals and politicians was enabled provided much more detail than the very many other countless examinations of this Leeds born lunatic that have been aired since Savile’s much deserved demise in October 2011.

     

    Attwood’s genius in the making of this programme was to not entirely focus on the Top of the Pops host’s sexual abuse of hundreds of victims – amongst them adult men, adult women, boys, girls and even dead bodies – but also to go into how he used such things as his ‘Friday Morning Club’ to ensure this “meanest of multi-millionaire’s” evil activities were not stopped during a lifetime of clear wickedness.

     

    Curiously in the hours after the show premiered, I received missives not only from those who unsurprisingly remain shocked by how this monster got away with what he did and who agreed with my sentiments that the likes of Edwina Currie – whom astonishingly gave Savile the keys to Broadmoor but now rather conveniently “regrets ever setting eyes on him” – still have a lot to answer for, but also correspondence from some truly sick-in-the-head individuals. Amongst them were people who maintain the ‘innocence’ of not only one of Britain’s worst sexual predators but also believe the likes of the still living noxious nonce Rolf Harris and the still living sex trafficking predator Ghislaine Maxwell to have been wrongly convicted also.

     

    Asked recently to participate in a televised debate with an individual who continues to maintain Savile was “setup” in spite of the overwhelming evidence of his having abused upto 300 innocent victims for the sake of showing both sides of an argument, I politely declined.

     

    My reasoning for giving a clear “no” to this request was singular. Yes, such an opportunity could be used to show whomever this crackpot defender of evil truly is to be off-their-not-so-merry-rocker, but, equally, why on earth should such reprehensible victim shaming even be given a platform in the first place? It helps no one and it simply further upsets victims and, indeed, victims who do not deserve such unpleasant reminders of what should never have happened to them in the first place.

     

    In my dealings over the years with those primarily sexually abused by Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris and most recently the warped daughter of the pension pot plunderer that is the mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell, I have encountered damaged people who were disgracefully told their stories should never be told. They were instructed to shut up or face the consequences of the bastions of power and privilege; instead, today, I remind these enablers, PR peddlers and apologists of such cretinous creeps that it is they who deserve to be forever silenced and named and completely shamed.

     

    Pictured top – Grubby sexual abuse facilitator Ghislaine Maxwell on a plane massaging the feet of the grubby thankfully croaked sexual abuser and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein with her breasts (left) and grubby and thankfully also croaked sexual abuser and paedophile Sir Jimmy Savile cavorting topless (right). The both of them deserve to burn in hell.

     

    Jim'll Fix It
    ‘Untouchable’ by Shaun Attwood was nearly 4 hours in length and covered not only the ‘Jim’ll Fix It’s’ sickening abuse, but also explored the pathetic antics of those that protected and enabled this monster.
    Jimmy Savile
    A video clip from the documentary showed Savile chomping on his cigar on the BBC’s ‘Have I Got News For You’ panel show as the dumbest MP in Britain, Diane Abbott, sat alongside guffawing at the since exposed as a paedophile’s twisted jokes about who he liked to sleep with.
    Top Of The Pops
    ‘Top of the Pops’ was highlighted as a television show where this monster committed abuse in plain sight.
    Sir Edward Heath
    A major focus of the show was Savile’s connections to powerful politicians and royalty – amongst them, of course, not only Margaret Thatcher but also Edward Heath.
    Stuart Hall Max Clifford Rolf Harris
    Others mentioned on the show numbered the especially vile now disgraced paedophile television presenter Stuart Hall, the thankfully croaked PR peddler turned sex abuser Max Clifford and the sick, sadly still living, sex fiend Rolf Harris.
    Mark Williams-Thomas
    Amongst those featured on the documentary were former police officer Mark Williams-Thomas, best known for his 2012 television series ‘The Other Side of Jimmy Savile’ and ITV and Netflix crime series ‘The Investigator: A British Crime Story.’
    Kelly Gold
    Amongst the most powerful guests on the show was Kelly Gold – who was groped by Savile as a teenager at the BBC. Her friend, Claire McAlpine, it is alleged, killed herself after being “terrified at the thought of being pregnant” by another ex-BBC DJ who also worked on ‘Top of the Pops’ and whom it is claimed abused her.
    Christopher Berry-Dee
    Bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee suggested of the powerful and connected the late paedophile associated with. He remarked: “You’re telling me not one single one of them had the brains and the wits to think ‘let’s do an in depth security check on Mr Savile before we let him in here.’ … It’s almost as if it’s ‘don’t worry about him.’”