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  • Rot In Hell Rolf – Rolf Harris Should Only Be Remembered As A Nasty Nonce

    Rot In Hell Rolf – Rolf Harris Should Only Be Remembered As A Nasty Nonce

    As his death is announced, Matthew Steeples joins those hoping that rotten Rolf Harris goes to rot in hell; his innocent victims – as young as just 7 years old – can now have the closure they so deserve

    Having encountered both him and his weirder-than-weird wife on several occasions and having come to know several individuals he so disgustingly abused, it is not hard for me to join those taking – at the very least – relief at the death of the convicted paedophile Rolf Harris.

     

    Nasty nonce Harris – whose other ‘victims’ effectively included individuals I’ve spoken with who bought his ‘art’ thinking it would form part of their pension funds (some of whom subsequently just burnt it) – supposedly died two weeks ago at his riverside home, ‘Highlands’ in Bray, Berkshire. He had ‘suffered’ a long and no doubt painful end, was fed by a tube and ultimately died of neck cancer and “frailty of old age” watched on by his dippy Alzheimer’s disease suffering wife, Alwen Hughes.

     

    Aside from having met Harris and his wife at ritzy London parties and dined at the next table to him on occasions at Noor Jahan restaurant in Bina Gardens, SW5 – he terrified a young Australian girl in my party; she described him as a “creepy old letch” – I began to learn of the antics of this evil monster in the early 2010s and was contacted by victims of his as early as 2011.

     

    Subsequently, I was amongst the first to report on the allegations made against him and, when he was first accused, recall going on BBC radio programmes to discuss the matter. In the early days, there was widespread disbelief that this supposed ‘national treasure’ known for working in amongst other things children’s television could be in the league of Jimmy Savile, but ultimately this vile Australian import was quite rightly convicted of abusing girls as young as just seven years old.

     

    Harris, however, maintained his supporters and many bombarded me regularly. In a tirade of messages on Facebook in February 2016, for example, Ivan Godfrey – a man with a tendency for also sharing posts by the racist group Britain First and one of over 3,600 loopy people to have supported a disgraceful Change.org petition that seeks to free Harris – told me:

     

    “I read your stupid irresponsible comment on Rolf Harris… Harris was sent down with NO EVIDENCE, by a corrupt imbecile of a judge, a corrupt jury and hammered by a vile corrupt government laky [sic] of a prosecutor Wass. You are obviously the sort of creep that has turned a once Great Britain into a cesspit”.

     

    My response was simple: “You have the right not to read our content so please exercise that.”

     

    Prison did not change Harris and in September 2014, this dedicated lover of Indian cuisine – who according to the Mail Online, “enjoyed eating curried lobster and roast quail as part of his pre-prison diet” – complained that he was having to “make do” with the food at HMP Bullingdon. He reportedly lost a stone as he “[did] not like the taste” of what he [was] being fed.”

     

    Just a month prior, in August 2014 Harris seemed to be in better spirits and at the time, The Mirror reported he’d been handing out chocolate bars to fellow inmates and “thus affectionately became known as ‘Willy Wonka.’ The paper also claimed that the 84-year old also gave away sketches to those that queued outside his cell and that he had taken up dominoes.

     

    Several deservedly unsuccessful attempts to overturn his convictions followed and when that didn’t work his daughter Bindi Nicholls – a woman who’d for a time disowned him, but who clearly came back looking to ensure she got a good chunk of the disgraced entertainer’s supposed £11 million fortune – decided she’d write a book about him in October 2018.

     

    At the time, the Daily Star on Sunday revealed that Miss Nicholls “herself stooped to a new low in deciding to write a book about this monster’s life.” In notes for such a tome seen by the paper, Nicholls outlined her ‘plan.’ Comments included:

     

    “Does this mean my father has suddenly found sex at the age of 87? Good for him I say. I hope I’m still thinking of sex at that age! He can barely run or get upstairs so it is great he can get the energy to fantasise at least!”

     

    “How many Page Three models are over the age of 20? How many people have looked at Britney Spears in the video of her dressed in schoolgirl outfits?”

     

    “Well I can tell you dad is no sexual predator, he is no murderer or kiddy fiddler!”

     

    “Dad is from the age of Benny Hill, Carry On films. He is Australian – which was pretty male chauvinist in those days – that is the era he is from, so sometimes he says non-PC jokes.”

     

    “He loves a flirt, which he does very openly, much to my embarrassment, but I have met many a man from my dad’s generation like that.”

     

    “It’s harmless and you know it doesn’t lead anywhere. Dad loves to give compliments to women so they feel good, for no other reason!”

     

    In his latter years – aside from bizarrely turning up at school to wave at children and wandering around Maidenhead in soiled clothing – the “health [of Rolf Harris supposedly] took a turn for the worse after the sudden death of his beloved poodle.” He is now thanfully brown bread and, given he was cremated, there’ll thankfully be no grave for his remaining ghoulish ‘fans’ to worship him at. This morning, my thoughts are with the victims of this repugnant rotter; may they now finally have closure and may rotten-to-his-core Rolf Harris rot in hell.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Yesterday on Twitter as news of his death was announced, Matthew Steeples issued a poll asking: “Will you mourn death of evil paedophile Rolf Harris? Equally, do you think his daughter Bindi Nicholls will come out of woodwork to claim his £££?” Still live by 10:45am on Wednesday 24th May 2024, the very, very clear majority of respondents (83.1%) not so unsurprisingly favoured the answer: “No; let him burn in hell.”

    Reactions to the announcement of the death of Rolf Harris…

    Gutter Girls… The worst verse penned by Rolf Harris (30th May 1930 – 10th May 2023)

    Harris, it must be remembered, was a monster who showed no remorse for what he did to his victims – whom called out his actions as having “destroyed their childhood innocence” and left them feeling “grubby, dirty and disgusting.” In 2015, this awful Australian penned a sordid ‘song’ in which he described them as “slimy little woodworms.” Sickly titled Gutter Girls – which in itself was illustrative of the true character of this evil rat – it 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!

     

    Rolf-Harris-house-Highlands-Bray-SL6
    Rotten Rolf’s riverfront lair – Highlands, Fishery Road, Bray, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1UP is supposedly worth circa £5 million and has been owned by the Harris family for six decades; in August 2017 the ‘Daily Mail’ reported that neighbours were “selling up their homes disgust after [the paedophile Rolf Harris] returned from prison.”
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    Rotten Rolf’s dirty dinners – Prior to his conviction Harris and his weird looking wife used to enjoy consuming curries at Malik’s Tandorri House in Cookham. Whether he returned after leaving preison with “dear friend” Amanda Plattell, for example, is unknown, but if he had, he’d likely have found his local Member of Parliament Theresa – now Lady – May at an adjoining table.
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    Rotten Rolf’s circle of influence – This evil man got to hang out with everyone from the late Queen Elizabeth II to Boris Johnson; just like his chum Sir Jimmy Savile here was a deviant who realised that infiltrating the circles of the great and the good was key to getting away with his evil antics.
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    In February 2020, Twitter users reacted angrily to a forcible deportation flight bound for Jamaica by arguing that it was wrong that the convicted paedophile Rolf Harris was not put on such a flight back to Australia after his release from prison in May 2017. Sadly, such an idea never came to fruition, but here we picture the monster with his equally off-the-scale weird chum Sir Cliff Richard.
    Rolf Harris boat to prison July 2014
    On the day he was sent down on 4th July 2014, Rolf Harris tried unsuccessfully to evade photographers by leaving his home by boat. To the very end, this ratbag thought everything “just a bit of a laugh.”
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    A binbagged berk – Rolf Harris pictured arriving at his Berkshire home with a binbag full of his possesions on 19th May 2017 after leaving Her Majesty’s Prison Stafford earlier that morning.
    Bindi Nicholls Rolf Harris
    In May 2015, joining cranks demanding the release of her father on a Change,org petition, Rolf Harris’ daughter Bindi Nicholls remarked: “Rolf Harris is my father, I have known him all my life, he is a kind sweet, honest man on stage and off. He has worked tirelessly all his life to bring joy, laughter, inspiration and happiness to all he meets. He is a workaholic, work is his priority and he lives to entertain. I have never witnessed him being interested on [SIC] children in that way, EVER. In public he is more interested in getting groups of people singing or telling jokes than sculking [sic] off with one person, he is just nothing like the man the press have been portraying him to be. All of his dear friends are shocked and desperately upset that he has been tarred by the propaganda out there. He has been swept up in a witch hunt because of his high profile and celebrity! A total travesty at his age”.
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    In what was a very clear attempt to justify the actions of her monster father, Rolf Harris’ deranged daughter Bindi Nicholls was highlighted as writing a book supposedly titled BinVincible in October 2016. An excerpt leaked to The Sun, this crazy woman was said to complain about her father’s paintings being removed from galleries and remarked: “I watched a programme about Picasso’s wives and how he fell in love with this girl who became his muse and secret lover at the age of about 14 to 15. They waited until she was 16 and then got married and were married for years. Do we now take all of his paintings from the galleries and burn them and denounce him as an artist and forget he ever painted? Because Picasso was a paedophile.” Going further, of one of Harris’ victims, Miss Nicholls specifically commented: “She loved drinking, she was a great drinker, which she inherited from her drinking family. Yes, my father should have been stronger, should have had better boundaries. He should have said no. He was married and he was the older wiser of the two, this was my best friend so that was also a no-go area, but he didn’t say no, they both loved the danger and the secrecy, and don’t forget this flirtation went on for twenty odd years, but they only had actual sex twice.”
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    Rolf Harris was quite deservedly described as a “Jekyll and Hyde character” at his trial in 2014. Here, he is pictured with his wife Alwen Hughes, daughter Bindi Nicholls and another relative; the fact that he needed so much security was indicative of how utterly detested he had finally and most deservedly become.
    Rolf Harris Sir Jimmy Savile
    As with many of their type, paedophile Rolf Harris was friendly with fellow monsters including Sir Jimmy Savile. Here they are seen “sharing a joke” and “grinning creepily at each other” as the Australian ‘artist’ painted the abuser of even corpses and here they are also appearing on a television programme with an innocent little girl.
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    Harris also had the support of some truly strange sorts – amongst them a twisted Twitter user going by the name of Lizzie Cornish (who raged on her now suspended Twitter handle: “ROLF HARRIS IS INNOCENT! I’m a woman pissed off by Lying Women”) and the convicted criminal ‘pop paedophile’ Jonathan King. Another, Kris Finch from Liverpool, remarked in 2015: “I have spent the past 50 years collecting Rolf Harris memorabilia, that collection was my pension and unless Rolfy is pardoned it’s worthless.”
    Andrew-Rosindell
    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.”
    Soiled clothing Rolf Harris
    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.” Clearly, this provided illustration that the ‘Two Little Boys’ singer had well and truly let himself go and was well into a stage of mental illness.
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    That the convicted child abuser paedophile Rolf Harris “[hated] the noise” of children seemed most perplexing given his February 2019 visit to the Oldfield Primary School in Maidenhead, Berkshire to “wave” at children. One can only surmise that this noxious nonce did protest too much; he was subsequently given a warning about his frankly weird and creepy behaviour but should really have been recalled to jail many observed.
    Books
    Bizarrely there are still people out there who seek to defend and justify the twisted antics of the now late 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 attempted to claim the Australian abuser innocent and his very much-deserved convictions “sinister.” Sickeningly Merritt went 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 organise his working life. He had no experience in the rough and tumble world.”
  • The Pyjama Prattler – Pyjama-Clad Omid Scobie Snapped At The Dorchester

    The Pyjama Prattler – Pyjama-Clad Omid Scobie Snapped At The Dorchester

    EXCLUSIVE – As ‘Finding Freedom’ author Omid Scobie is snapped at The Dorchester in a pyjama-like outfit, we remind readers of some of the traits and oddities of this bizarre PR peddler for the Duchess of Sussex

    Just three days prior to the coronation of King Charles III, the widely respected journalist Alexis Parr – a lady of stature whom was one of the first to call out the various pieces of fake news peddled by the mendacious menace formerly known as Meghan Markle – literally ran into a bedroom wear-clad Omid Scobie as he left London’s ritziest hotel, The Dorchester.

     

    Speaking exclusively to The Steeple Times of her encounter with the YahooNewsUK ‘executive editor (royals)’ columnist – a plastic-not-fantastic-like creature known for continually banging on about his prominence on what he bizarrely labels “the royal beat” – Parr remarked:

     

    “I was surprised to see Scobie as I got out of a cab and asked him where he got his pyjama-like outfit from. He answered: ‘Moss Bros’ and in response I jokingly quipped: ‘Surely you didn’t hire THAT.’”

     

    “He looked at me sheepishly and then – though he allegedly doesn’t imbibe – told me he’d been to a party in the hotel. Sadly, I didn’t get to ask him about his supposedly claiming he was 33 when he was in fact 38 in 2020 or how he has so suddenly and so conveniently remembered discussions with Piers Morgan about phone hacking at The Mirror when he was just 18 years old in 2002 as he clambered into my cab and fled for the hills.”

     

    “I will say that ‘recollections may vary’ was a very accurate analysis by the late Queen of Scobie’s ‘friend’ Meghan and I must add that they clearly do in his case too. I do hope he went home and put on something more suitable for his next engagement.”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Follow Alexis Parr on Twitter at @ParrOnTheRoad.

     

    Pictured Top – Alexis Parr snapped Omid Scobie as she arrived and he left The Dorchester on 3rd May 2023 (left) and a promotion for the PR peddler’s forthcoming book ‘Endgame’ (right).

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Will Meghan Markle’s mouthpiece Omid Scobie prove to be a help or a hinderance when he gives evidence in Prince Harry v Mirror Group News (MGN) court case this week?” By 11:30am on Monday 15th May 2023, the majority of respondents very clearly favoured the answer: “No; he’s spinning yarns.”
    Omid Scobie Piers Morgan
    Omid Scobie is due to testify in court this week in the Prince Harry v Mirror Group News case. According to ‘The Daily Beast’s’ Tom Sykes: “He will testify that when interning at the showbiz desk of MGN Sunday paper ‘The People’ he was given a list of mobile telephone numbers and a verbal description of how to listen to voicemails, as if it were a routine newsgathering technique… [He] will say that he saw Piers Morgan being told that ‘the information had come from voicemails,’ when he questioned a story about the singer Kylie Minogue.”
    Omid Scobie 38 not 33
    Scobie was called out for allegedly telling ‘porky pies’ by ‘The Sun’s’ Alex Winter in September 2020 in an article titled: “THIRTY-SOMETHING: Omid Scobie tries to explain claims he ‘lied’ to The Times after it was reported he is 33 – when he is actually 38.” The ‘Finding Freedom’ co-author’s bizarre behaviour was unsurprisingly labelled “baffling.”
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    In August 2020, the ‘Daily Mail’ shared that plastic-not-fantastic Omid previously worked at gossip magazine ‘Heat’ and partied with the ‘glamour model’ Jodie Marsh. They mentioned how somebody had “airbrushed” Meghan Markle’s “entry on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia… to include more flattering details days before her romance with Prince Harry became public” and illustrated the ‘Finding Freedom’ author’s “drastic transformation” in two very different photographs.
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    Illustrating himself to be anything but a real journalist, “influencer” Scobie told the ‘Women in Leadership Publication’: “A casual follower be forgiven for thinking that royal news is just fizzy commentary on the pomp and soap opera of The Firm” in their spring 2021 edition. He self-importantly added: “Reaching millions on Twitter has also enabled my own views and advocacy to travel further” and concluded: “I want to do everything I can to ensure that individuals from every background can get a seat at the table.” Here is someone far from a journalist; here, in fact, is someone who should just be called out as the Duchess of Sussex’s PR peddler.
    Omid-Scobie-TheHeirPod-Chartable-Podcast-Chart-Rankings
    Whilst Omid Scobie’s podcast, #TheHeirPod, was “downgraded from ‘a real chore’ to ‘unlistenable’” according to ‘Royal Analysis,’ the true revelation is that it isn’t even popular in the places where it surely should be most relevant, Britain and America.
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    An analysis of Omid Scobie’s Twitter feed clearly shows that a large proportion of his followers are a bit like himself: FAKE.
    When he’s not bragging about wearing Balenciaga, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior or sharing photos of his dog, Yoshi, on his Instagram account, the ‘Finding Freedom’ author constantly bangs on about how he believes the royal family to have racist elements. His speculation is rarely supported by anything other than unnamed sources that give his suggestions little to no credibility.
    Canadian waiter turned Soho House director Markus Anderson was allegedly the person to have introduced Prince Harry and the then Meghan Markle. This “champagne partial” individual has been repeatedly linked also to Omid Scobie online on sites such as Quora whilst the site ‘Royal Analysis’ has reported: “Well, apparently, Omid and Markus used to be very close. I don’t think it’s out of the question for Markus to have facilitated Meghan and Omid getting together to strategize about what positive press coverage Omid could give to Meghan.”

    What’s the truth about the many ‘curious stories’ that abound about the Duchess of Sussex?

    • In November 2021, the duchess was forced to apologise to the Appeal Court in London for making a misleading statement in her privacy case against The Mail on Sunday’s publishers.
    • Her very own father, Thomas, has called out her many untruths about him and others again, again and again.
    • Of her claiming having got married the day before she actually did, Mr Markle stated: “Lying about the archbishop? How can you say: ‘We’ve been married three days before we got married’? Her lies are so obvious, I don’t know why she says them.”
    • Her very own half-sister, Samantha Markle, who is currently bringing a defamation case against her, has called her out as a liar on multiple occasions also. It has been proven that the duchess’s claim that she hasn’t seen her sibling in over 20 years was untrue given a photo of the pair together 14 years ago proves quite to the contrary.
    • Her very own half-brother, Thomas Jr., said of her: “I told Prince Harry, I think she’s going to ruin your life. She’s very shallow… She’s a phony, a bully, a jaded, shallow, conceited woman.”
    • The wife of Prince Harry has been called out on multiple occasions for spinning stories against other members of the royal family, most especially the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Queen Camilla.
    • Staff who’ve worked for her have complained that she is a bully and investigations into this remain ongoing.
    • The Duchess of Sussex is a known manipulator of the press and paparazzis and it has been claimed that she’ll “twist the truth” to get any headline she wants.
    • Questions remain as to how many times she’s actually been married in total. Some say twice, some say thrice.
    • What’s the truth about Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland? Is this clearly equally manipulative woman an honest and decent citizen or is she a jailbird who has spent time in the clink?
    • Did the ‘Montecito Meddler’ meet Prince Andrew or Prince Harry first? Rumours abound that she could have spent time and holidayed with the former as long ago as 2001 and that her claim to have no prior knowledge of the royal family until 2016 is just utter baloney.
    • “Would you trust this woman with a bargepole?” is something often asked of this money motivated minx.

  • Not Quite The Full Ticket – Disgraceful Omid Scobie And Disgraceful Duke & Duchess of Sussex Strike Again

    Not Quite The Full Ticket – Disgraceful Omid Scobie And Disgraceful Duke & Duchess of Sussex Strike Again

    As a ticket package to a dinner with the Duchess of Sussex is laughably peddled for £795,000, Matthew Steeples reminds the much loathed ‘MeGain’s’ PR peddler Omid Scobie that “recollections may vary” as he heads to court to support Prince Harry

    “Recollections may vary” was the late Queen Elizabeth II’s deservedly punchy response to the ongoing insults piled on her family by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in March 2021 after the commencement of the couple’s train wreck ‘interview tour’ with the likes of Netflix and Oprah Winfrey.

     

    Now, with the pomp and ceremony of the coronation over, Prince Harry is again causing trouble by forming part of a group action against Mirror Group News (MGN) at the High Court in London. Meanwhile, back in America, his whack job wife is back being ‘me-me-me-and-a-little-more-me’ and ‘doing the circuit’ of awards galas later this month in New York and Beverly Hills, California.

     

    Laughably, guests at the Ms. Foundation Women ceremony – where the meddling menace formerly known as Meghan Markle will be awarded the ‘Woman of Vision’ award on 23rd May – are being touted tickets for astounding sums of upto £795,000 for a ‘lead’ package that includes 24 tickets. The cheapest offering comes in at £20,000 and includes hospitality for 10 guests.

     

    In Beverly Hills, however, the event where the dastardly duchess will receive a digital media national winner award for her Spotify podcast Archetypes, is illustrative that Californians are tiring of this moaning Minnie. So-called ‘Sussex Squaddies’ will be able to nab a seat for ‘just’ £397.

     

    Returning to the Prince Harry v Mirror Group News case, predictably Finding Freedom ‘co-author’ and guffawing gossip Omid Scobie has yet again stuck in his sticky fingers. Very much like Prince Andrew, who very distinctly remembered going to a Pizza Express on the night in 2001 when the then Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed she was with the non-sweater, Scobie is now behaving as if he has “one of the great memories of all time” in Donald Trump-like fashion.

     

    Offering, as ever, his undying support to the domineering duke and duchess, the little read YahooNewUK ‘executive editor (royals)’ has curiously not shared anything other than retweets since 8th May, but has submitted evidence in support of Prince Harry’s accusations in the case.

     

    According to Newsweek’s Jack Royston: “[Scobie] approached Harry’s lawyer offering evidence. It allegedly tied [Piers] Morgan to illegal acts at his newspaper, [the Mirror].”

     

    The filing reads:

     

    “As a journalism student [Scobie] spent a week at the showbiz desk of the Sunday People [another MGN title]. He was given a list of mobile telephone [cellphone] numbers and a verbal description of how to listen to voicemails, as if it were a routine newsgathering technique.”

     

    “In April/May 2002, he did additional work experience on the Daily Mirror’s 3AM column. He recalls during one of those days in the office the editor, Piers Morgan, came over to talk to someone about a story relating to Kylie Minogue and her [then] boyfriend James Gooding.”

     

    “Mr Morgan asked how confident they were in the reporting, and was told that the information had come from voicemails. After informing the claimants [Prince Harry and others who are suing] about this information, Mr Scobie found an article online dated 11th May 2002 which appears to relate to that discussion.”

     

    Going further, Royston added: “Scobie told the court he did not carry out the request to hack phones at the Sunday People viewing the practice as ‘immoral.’” He failed, however, to mention that in November 2021, the Duchess of Sussex was forced to apologise to the Appeal Court in London for making a misleading statement about her involvement with Finding Freedom in her another privacy case against The Mail on Sunday’s publishers.

     

    The truth is no doubt stranger than fiction, but in the case of the anything-but-selfless Scobie: “Recollections may vary, recollections may indeed vary.”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “What is to be made of PR peddling pillock Omid Scobie’s allegations that he supposedly overheard Piers Morgan talking about a story gained via phone hacking whilst on work experience at ‘The Mirror’ some 21 years ago?” By 11:30am on Thursday 11th May 2023, the very clear majority of respondents had voted in favour of the option: “He’s telling porky pies.”

    The Forthcoming Known Diary Dates Of The Not-So-Private ‘Privacy Seeking’ Duke & Duchess Of Sussex

    10th May onwards for 6 to 7 weeks – The Duke of Sussex v Mirror Group Newspapers lawsuit at the High Court in London. The Honourable Mr Justice Fancourt is the presiding judge in the case.

     

    Prince Harry will be cross-examined over the allegations and will be the first senior royal to appear in court since his aunt, Princess Anne, appeared and was found guilty in November 2002 after her English bull terrier dog, Dotty, bit two children in Windsor Great Park in April that year.

     

    The prince forms part of a group litigation and amongst others bringing the action are the former Girls Aloud ‘star’ Cheryl Cole, the Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, the estate of the late singer George Michael, the model Paul Sculfor, the actor Ricky Tomlinson and the television presenter Ian Wright.

     

    Prince Harry is represented by David Sherborne QC, whose previous clients have included ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, actor Johnny Depp, actress Sienna Miller, model Kate Moss, ‘Wagatha Christie’ Coleen Rooney and the somewhat reclusive businessman James Stunt.

     

    16th May – ‘MeGain’ to be awarded ‘Woman of Vision’ award at the Ziegfeld Ballroom at 141 West 54th Street in New York by the Ms. Foundation for Women.

     

    Amongst those organising the event is the New York magazine journalist Gloria Steinem. Astoundingly, a package of two tables (24 seats) is offered for the sum of £795,000 ($1 million, €915,000 or درهم3.7 million); whether that includes an audience with the former Suits actress is unknown but those opting for this do get 2 Twitter posts about them or their company as a ‘Brucie bonus.’

     

    Also on 16th May – Fifth ‘wedding’ anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – if you believe the former Meghan Markle’s statement to Oprah Winfrey in March 2021 that: “Three days before our wedding, we got married. No one knows that. But we called the archbishop, and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us.’ So, like, the vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury.”

     

    Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, later called out this as utter baloney stating the only valid marriage occurred on 19th May 2018.

     

    19th May – Fifth wedding anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

     

    23rd May – ‘MeGain’ to be awarded a digital media national winner award for her Spotify podcast Archetypes at the 48th annual Alliance for Women in Media awards at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

     

    Tickets to this event are far cheaper and start at just £397 ($500, €458 or درهم1,836) – clearly the good people of Beverly Hills aren’t willing to pay as much to have a knees-up with the bestie of Sir Elton John and his titleless hubby David Furnish.

     

    Twitter reacts to Matthew Steeples’ poll and Omid Scobie’s audacious antics…

  • Will Any Epstein-Maxwell Associates Finally Be Brought To Justice?

    Will Any Epstein-Maxwell Associates Finally Be Brought To Justice?

    Matthew Steeples reports on the latest developments concerning the Ponzi scheming paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell and shares new news of which ‘famous face’ associates will likely be ‘sacrificed’

    WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT: This article contains photographs of the rotting body of the rotten deceased sex trafficking monster and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

     

    The rancid rathole that keeps on ‘giving’ in the most shocking of fashions that is the case of the sex trafficking ring run by the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the mendacious mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell has taken further turns in recent days.

     

    Aside from Epstein’s former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione – who had bunked up with him at the time of his first ‘suicide’ attempt at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the summer of 2019 – having finally been convicted of quadruple murder, it seems the demand for the naming of names to whom he and Maxwell sex trafficked their victims to is finally starting to happen.

     

    Whilst the likes of bankers such as disgraced ex-Barclays and ex-JPMorgan Chase CEO Jes Staley stand accused of, at the very list, ‘enabling’ Epstein through not doing enough due diligence about what the now croaked Ponzi schemer was using funds for, the Prime Minister of Israel between 1999 and 2001, Ehud Barak, is now again facing ‘the heat.’

     

    On 4th May, Barak – whose cousin most curiously is an associate of Sarah, Duchess of York, Hillary Clinton and also Maxwell’s most willing PR peddler Daphne Barak – was named in an article in The Jerusalem Post after a calendar of his meetings with Epstein in 2016 came to light.

     

    According to the report, first published in The Wall Street Journal, Ehud Barak:

     

    • Supposedly met with Jeffrey Epstein at least 36 times on a monthly basis from December 2015 onwards.
    • Epstein had been convicted for sex crimes in 2008 and had subsequently served jail time; it does seem curious that an Israeli ex-Prime Minister with a security detail would not have been aware of such.
    • Barak flew on Epstein’s private jet and visited his mansions in Florida and New York.
    • Epstein flew Barak from Palm Beach to Tampa on his ‘Lolita Express’ jet; Barak has claimed this was “for a US military installation” and claims he “flew only twice on his airplane, together with [his] wife and security detail.”
    • Epstein introduced Barak to Noam Chomsky, a “famed critic of Israel,” at his Lenox Hill mansion in January 2016. On that day “a large group of women were seen entering the home.”
    • Barak denies having had any relations with “girls or women” via Epstein.

     

    Responding, the politician has stated:

     

    “I never participated in any party or any other improper event around [Epstein], and never met him with girls or minors, or even adult women in improper context or behaviour.”

     

    “In retrospect, [Epstein] seems to be a terrible version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but at the time seemed to be an intelligent person, socially well connected and of wide areas of interest, from science to geopolitics.”

     

    Turning their attentions to other ‘famous faces’ associated with the deviant duo on Sunday, Edward Helmore for The Guardian featured further names. He observed:

     

    “Like a Hollywood zombie, the scandal surrounding the late sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is resurfacing to infect the reputations of the living, as names once again emerge from legal documents amid fresh details of his daily itinerary of meetings with prominent government, financial and cultural figures.”

     

    “The latest boldface names to emerge from a series of Wall Street Journal reports include the director of CIA, Williams Burns, and Kathryn Ruemmler, White House counsel under Barack Obama, alongside lesser figures including the leftwing professor and activist Noam Chomsky, billionaire venture capitalist Reid Hoffman and Lawrence Summers, former Harvard president and director of the National Economic Council under Obama.”

     

    “And then there were the figures from arts and letters. Woody Allen was scheduled to visit the studio of Jeff Koons with Epstein. Another was Dr Helen Fisher, an anthropologist of human behavior. She was invited to speak to his staff.”

     

    “Simultaneously, a lawsuit filed in US district court by an unnamed woman and the US Virgin Islands against Epstein banker JP Morgan is not only dragging financial fat cats, including JP Morgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, and former Barclays CEO Jes Staley, but also Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Hyatt Hotels chairperson Thomas Pritzker, American Canadian businessman Mortimer Zuckerman and former CAA talent agent Michael Ovitz toward giving depositions under oath.”

     

    “Last week, The [Wall Street] Journal looked at just one day – 8 September 2014, six years after Epstein was registered as a sex offender in Florida – and found that he planned to meet with four billionaires: Gates, Zuckerman, Pritzker and Leon Black, a financier whose ties to Epstein are already known.”

     

    “The outlet has not revealed where it obtained the documents, which it said include thousands of pages of emails and schedules from 2013 to 2017.’ It said it could not verify that the scheduled meetings took place, but said some documents ‘provided new details about how often or where the people met with Epstein, and the kinds of favors Epstein did for them.’”

     

    Elsewhere, the appearance of ‘The Grand Old Duke of Broke’ Prince Andrew at his brother’s coronation and coronation concert on Saturday and Sunday last has revived interest in his associations with the dastardly duo Epstein and Maxwell. Both the duke and his live-in ex-wife ‘Fergie’ still have a lot of questions to answer about what money and hospitality they took from the pair and last night’s final episode of Channel 4’s excellent documentary series Andrew: The Problem Prince appropriately concluded with Emily Maitlis asking: “Is there anything left that has been unsaid that you would like to address now?” The rotten royal arrogantly answered: “No, I don’t think so. You have probably dragged out most of what is required.”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Pictured Top (left to right) – Jes Staley, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and Ehud Barak.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “With latest developments concerning bankers and politicians being more publicly ‘connected’, will any of those powerful people Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficked their victims to be finally be brought to justice?” By 11:30am on Tuesday 9th May 2023, the majority of responses (82.9%) were: “No; nothing will develop.”
    Nicholas-Tartaglione
    The former Briarcliff Manor police officer Nick Tartaglione was arrested on 19th December 2016 and charged with a quadruple homicide. The case against him was most curiously delayed by everything from “from the decision to seek the death penalty to the COVID-19 pandemic, to an ongoing, months-long hearing on whether a conflict of interest exists that would keep any of the defense lawyers from continuing to represent [him].” Of the 23rd July 2019 supposed “suicide attempt” by Epstein whilst the pair were cellmates and when Prince Andrew’s ‘bestie’ was “found in a foetal position with marks around his neck,” Tartaglione’s lawyer Bruce Barket “told NBC News that the day before Epstein’s death, officials at the MCC informed him in an email that the internal investigation had concluded and his client would face no charges or internal discipline. ‘We’ve always maintained Nick did nothing wrong and that’s clearly been borne out here by the jail itself,’ Barket said.” Tartaglione was found guilty of the execution of the four men and burying them in a mass grave over a perceived debt last month; he now likely will receive a life sentence when sentenced.
    Jes Staley Debbie Staley
    “I was her parents’ worst nightmare” – words said by James Staley his very self – will be ringing in the ears of swivel-eyed Debbie Nitzan Staley in the wake of her husband’s former company Barclays’s decision to not (yet) payout £22 million the couple were expecting. No doubt that’ll mean one less holiday for her and her two daughters on their 90-foot long gin palace ‘Bequia’ in the coming years. They face troubles further from the JP Morgan investigation into Staley’s 1,200 plus stash of emails to his one-time friend Jeffrey Epstein and no doubt countless other problems as well.
    Ehud Barak Jeffrey Epstein mansion 1
    Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak pictured arriving with his face covered up at Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘paedo palace’ at 9 East 71st Street, Lenox Hill, New York, NY 10021 in January 2016. Curiously, given Epstein had become a convicted sex offender in 2008, why on earth would such a powerful politician want to associate with this poisonous paedophile is a question that must be properly answered.
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    Ehud Barak departing the mansion subsequently looking a little beyond sheepish.
    Daphne Barak Kevin Maxwell Ghislaine Maxwell
    One-time Jeffrey Epstein associate Ehud Barak’s cousin, ‘journalist’ Daphne Barak, interviewing her friend of 30 plus years Ghislaine Maxwell alongside Kevin Maxwell in January 2023. The connections run deep in this circle of power and privilege.
    Daphne-Barak-Sarah-Duchess-of-York-Hillary-Clinton
    Daphne Barak pictured in December 2022 with “she who has never confirmed if she repaid the wonga she took from the Ponzi scheming paedophile Jeffrey Epstein” Sarah, Duchess of York and with Hillary Clinton – whom she references her as having “hosted” and “supported the presidential bid” of. Here is a ‘journalist’ whose close connections clearly muddy her mind when it comes to interviewing her subjects. When she conducted her January 2023 interview for ‘Jeremy Kyle’ alongside Kevin Maxwell, why didn’t this ‘journalist’ ask mucky madam Maxwell about ‘Killary’s’ husband taking at least 27 flights on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ and his convicted sex trafficker co-collaborator attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding? Curious that; very curious indeed.
    Jeffrey Epstein Prince Andrew Virginia Roberts Giuffre
    The Duke of York may have settled – for a sum unknown that has been estimated as high as £12 million – with Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre, but questions remain as to whether he and his live-in ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York ever repaid loans and other benefits taken from the one-time friend he invited to Balmoral, Sandringham and Windsor Castle. Whilst the prince will never be able to live down this chapter, until he shares the real truth (and not nonsense about being able to remember a visit to a Pizza Express many years ago), he will remain a disgraced laughing stock.
    Jeffrey Epstein Bill Clinton
    Both President Donald Trump and President Bill Clinton still have yet to properly explain the truth of their relationships with Jeffrey Epstein. Both politicians met with the maniac on many occasions and both flew on his ‘Lolita Express’ private jet. Clinton certainly spent more time with the Ponzi scheming paedophile, but Trump went as far as to call the since croaked monster a “great guy.”
    Jeffrey-Epstein-body-10th-August-2019
    The body of the late paedophile, sex trafficker and suspected espionage expert Jeffrey Epstein will forever remain the actual last known photographs of him. Though conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted him alive and well in New Mexico and elsewhere, this evil cretin will hopefully and most likely never ever be seen again.
    Jeffrey-Epstein-cell
    The cell of the perverted child abuser in the wake of his alleged “suicide.” Epstein did NOT share the cell will Tartaglione at the time of his second, successful ‘suicide’ attempt.
    Jeffrey-Epstein-noose
    The noose created from bedsheets that Prince Andrew’s close chum supposedly used to kill himself on 10th August 2019.
    Channel 4 Andrew The Problem Prince
    Channel 4’s ‘Andrew: The Problem Prince’ is a two-part must watch for anyone interested in this sordid story.
  • Moron of the Moment 2023 – Pugnacious Pillock Phillip Schofield

    Moron of the Moment 2023 – Pugnacious Pillock Phillip Schofield

    As pugnacious pillock Phillip Schofield’s brother is found guilty and named and shamed as a paedophile, Matthew Steeples calls for this queue jumping utter plonker to be finally cancelled

    Peddler of poisonous plonk Phillip Schofield is one of those people the nation quite rightly loathes. Aside from the fact that he queue jumped with his soppy sidekick Holly Willoughby as the rest of the nation respectfully mourned the late Queen Elizabeth II, this moronic menace has now incurred the wrath of the mums of Mumsnet after he allegedly failed to report his paedophile brother to the police.

     

    With the conviction of Timothy Schofield for sexual offences involving a child yesterday came deserved outrage against the ITV1 This Morning host and comments that included: “I do hope he faces the consequences of failing to speak out. More kids could have been affected because of his silence.”

     

    Going further, after the noxious nuisance took an unexpected “leave of absence” from the telly box, another added: “I would be appalled if they have him back. He’s admitted he knew his brother was abusing a boy and he took no action to intervene.”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Pictured Top – Phillip Schofield in happier times with Holly Willoughby and his now supposedly former ‘chum’ Matt McGreevy (left) and a mugshot of his evil, criminal paedophile scumbag brother Timothy Schofield (right).

     

    Phillip Schofield brother Tim Schofield
    Phillip Schofield with his now convicted criminal 54-year-old paedophile brother Timothy Schofield in happier times. After yesterday’s verdict in a case where the television presenter’s civilian police officer sibling was convicted of three counts of causing a child to watch sexual activity and three counts of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, Phillip Schofield remarked: “If any crime had ever been confessed to me by my brother, I would have acted immediately to protect the victim and their family. These are despicable crimes and I welcome the guilty verdicts. As far as I am concerned, I no longer have a brother.” Timothy Schofield was also found guilty of three counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two of sexual activity with a child at Exter Crown Court and had told the television presenter that he’d “had time together” (including watching porn and masturbating) with a child whilst the ‘This Morning’ host was doing the washing up in his very own kitchen.
    Phillip Schofield wine plonker Matthew McGreevy
    Instead of skipping queues and upsetting the nation, the all-round-angry man and ‘This Morning’ host and ex-sidekick of Gordon the Gopher should quit his ITV job and focus on improving his deservedly slammed boxed wines (right). He thought his red “perfect with olives” whilst the public decided it “better poured down the plughole.” Alternatively, he could put some effort into ‘making up’ with his missing from our screens for quite some time now former close friend, Matthew McGreevy.
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    What a Plonker – The television presenter with his former ‘friend’ Matt McGreevy on another occasion.
    Phillip Schofield Ferne McCann
    The ‘This Morning’ host is known for being a very angry and bitter man. Like Ferne McCann (pictured right), he is also known for being incapable of owning his own mistakes.
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    ITV1’s ‘This Morning’ co-host Phillip Schofield cringed and looked as if he was about to snap when approached outside his West London home by GB News presenter Ben Leo in November 2022 about the ‘Queuegate’ scandal that utterly disgraced him. Here is a mouse-not-a-man who wrongly assumes that he’s some kind of national treasure worthy of not a jot of criticism.

    Mumsnet reacts to Phillip Schofield’s paedophile brother’s conviction…

  • Heroine of the Hour 2023 – Matilda Walden

    Heroine of the Hour 2023 – Matilda Walden

    Matthew Steeples salutes home educated Matilda Walden, an impressive teenager whose enthusiasm knows no bounds and whose video about steeplejack Fred Dibnah is a must watch

    When The Steeple Times featured the story of “Britain’s most inaccessible home” – which is now somewhat surprisingly “sold subject to contract” through agents Fisher Hopper – in February this year, I included footage shared on YouTube that had been filmed by a young lady I labelled “charming and enthusiastic.”

     

    In the time since, I have watched a number of subsequent videos by Matilda Walden – a young lady who aged just 13 years old last year won the world record for assembling a ‘Mr Potato Head’ in just 5.69-seconds – and most recently was impressed by one she made after visiting the former home of the late telly box titan Dr Fred Dibnah MBE.

     

    In the 6:03-minute sequence, Walden (pictured top dancing outside it) toured Dibnah’s former home in Bolton, Lancashire – last featured in this publication in October 2012 when it was offered for sale for the somewhat staggering sum of £1.25 million ($1.54 million, €1.42 million or درهم5.67 million). She shared lively commentary and even performed a song she has written about the legendary Lancastrian steeplejack.

     

    In doing so and in also sharing video footage she has filmed about steam trains, music and many other things, this inquisitive youngster provides an example of a Generation Z mind put to good use. Walden’s passion is clear and she is someone I do believe who will go far.

     

    Thrice married father-of-five Fred Dibnah himself was himself known for his bluntness. He described himself as “just a bum who climbs chimeys” and once stated of his work: “If you make, it’s half a day with the undertaker.” He had no time for “fancy London types” and took the view that: “We’ve become a nation of conmen, living by selling double-glazing to each other.” His type sadly won’t be seen again and as Matilda herself concludes: “They don’t make them like Fred Dibnah anymore.”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Join Matilda Walden’s 2,700 followers on Facebook by clicking here and join the 1,200 who subscribe to her YouTube channel by clicking here.

     

    David Harper
    Matilda River Walden with David Harper, one of the ‘stars’ of ‘Antiques Road Trip’ and ‘Bargain Hunt.’
    Tyson Fury
    The teenager with the boxer Tyson Fury (in a ‘bread section’ in a Morrisons supermarket).
    Richard Jupp Elbow
    And with Richard Jupp, former co-founder, songwriter and drummer of the band Elbow.
    The Sun Mr Potato Head record
    In March 2022, the vlogger featured in ‘The Sun’ and was described as the “spud toy teen girl” who “smashed the world record for the fastest assembly of a Mr Potato Head toy.” She “put the pieces together in just 5.69 seconds” and “beat the previous best of 6.62 seconds, which stood as a world record for 12 years.”
    Fred Dibnah
    Bolton born Dr Frederick Dibnah MBE (1938 – 2004) described himself as a “backstreet mechanic,” but in essence it was his role as an entertainer that resulted in his becoming a genuine national treasure. Of meeting the late Queen Elizabeth II, he remarked: “I was slightly nervous shaking hands with the Queen. She asked me if I was still climbing chimneys. It beats me how she keeps tabs on everybody. I never thought I would be receiving an MBE.” Of wanting to meet the now King Charles III, he added: “I’d like to meet [him] because we share the same views about modern architecture.” Dibnah appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ on 1st December 1991 and chose tracks by amongst others Gary and Vera Aspey, Neil Diamond, James Galway, Elaine Paige, Sergey Rachmaniov, Jennifer Rush and Johnann Strauss II.
  • Murder in Mayfair – 2008 Martine Vik Magnussen – Farouk Abdulhak Murder Case; BBC Documentary Just Creates More Questions

    Murder in Mayfair – 2008 Martine Vik Magnussen – Farouk Abdulhak Murder Case; BBC Documentary Just Creates More Questions

    Matthew Steeples suggests the BBC’s ‘Murder in Mayfair’ provides the family of 2008 murder victim Martine Vik Magnussen with no concrete answers and certainly leaves them no closer to justice; cowardly cokehead Farouk Abdulhak should now be dragged to Britain kicking and screaming

    Last night’s BBC documentary Murder in Mayfair was somewhat ambitiously billed as a “gamechanger” in some quarters and lauded as likely capable of resulting in billionaire playboy Farouk Abdulhak being “extradited to Britain within a year” for the alleged murder most foul of Martine Vik Magnussen in London on 14th March 2008.

     

    In reality, whilst some will quite rightly argue that the programme’s presenter Nawal Al-Maghafi has brought something new to this tragic story by engaging with the on-the-run in Yemen only suspect in the case via Snapchat, I’d say that sadly she stopped engaging with Abdulhak at just the wrong moment and should have gone further.

     

    In what was described to me afterwards as “teen drama stupidity presentation with all that Snapchatting” and a presentation that “cracked the nut open, but didn’t follow through and get a conclusion” by two beady eyed viewers with knowledge of the case, Al-Maghafi produced a documentary that The Sun’s Katy Docherty rightly pointed out “left more questions than answers.”

     

    During the show, Abdulhak – the son of a deceased business tycoon named in the Panama Papers nicknamed ‘The King of Sugar’ and a rat himself prone to vulgarly using the moniker ‘DP’ because of his penchant for consuming vast amounts of Dom Perignon champagne – was shown to engage with Al-Maghafi and shared remarks that included:

     

    • “I don’t know what happened, it’s all a blur.”
    • “I have flashbacks every once in a while.”
    • “If I smell a certain female perfume, I feel uncomfortable.”
    • “I deeply regret the unfortunate accident that happened. I regret coming here [Yemen]. Should have stayed and paid the piper.”
    • “It was just an accident. Nothing nefarious.”
    • “Like told you, just a sex accident gone wrong.”
    • “No one knows because I could barely piece together what happened.”

     

    He subsequently added that he blamed cocaine for what occurred and added: “Trust me I’m legally f**ked… Leaving the country and the body was moved.” Asked: “Why did you move the body?” by Al-Maghafi, Abdulhak cryptically answered in a very convenient “recollections may vary” style: “I don’t remember.”

     

    Going further this spoilt brat former Regent’s Business School (RBS) pupil – who supposedly now spends his days playing on the Internet with just two bodyguards as ‘friends’ – arrogantly tried to justify his actions. He claimed he had not returned to Britain because:

     

    “I don’t think justice will be served. I find that the criminal justice system there is heavily biased.”

     

    “I think they will want to make an example of me, being the son of an Arab. Being a rich son.”

     

    “I don’t know what answers they want to get. Nothing is going to bring their daughter back. There’s nothing that’s going to change what happened.”

     

    Speaking to the presenter – who sadly missed an opportunity to delve deeper because she rather pathetically didn’t seem to feel comfortable doing such – subsequently, the victim’s father Odd Petter Magnussen shared that he had been offered £41 million ($50 million, €46 million or درهم184 million) to drop the case and “move on.” This courageous man remarked that he had rejected that and told Farouk Abdulhak: “You cannot hide forever.”

     

    Today on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Today after airing of @BBCNawal’s ‘Murder in Mayfair’ documentary on @BBCTwo last night about the 2008 slaying of Martine Vik Magnussen by alleged fugitive from justice Farouk Abdulhak, I ask: “Shouldn’t the presenter have gone further in her questioning?” As of 13:30am on Wednesday 29th March 2023, the majority of answers favoured the answer: “She was muzzled by the BBC.”
    Nawal Al-Maghafi Odd Petter Magnussen
    Nawal Al-Maghafi with Odd Petter Magnussen (left) and the latter speaking at a conference about his late, murdered daughter.
    Snapchat message exchange Farouk Abdulhak Nawal Al-Maghafi 1(1)
    Snapchat seems to be one of the ways that fugitive from justice Farouk Abdulhak keeps himself entertained whilst evading the British courts; the first in the series of messages between him and Nawal Al-Maghafi.
    Snapchat message exchange Farouk AbdulhSnapchat message exchange Farouk Abdulhak Nawal Al-Maghafi 2(1)ak Nawal Al-Maghafi 2(1)
    Further missives reveal the arrogance of this son of a deceased billionaire.

    Elsewhere, in a post on Facebook on 18th December 2022 on the ‘Justice for Martine Vik Magnussen’ group but something not examined in any real depth in Murder in Mayfair unfortunately, it was stated:

     

    “On 7th December 2022, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that on 19th November Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt had a conversation with Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak in the Yemeni government-in-exile about Martine’s case.”

     

    “Ahmed bin Mubarak confirmed that he had sent a letter to the Ministry of Interior for the authorities to do what they could to arrest Farouk Abdulhak. This also means that an arrest warrant has been circulated to the airports in the country. Following the meeting on 19 November, the Norwegian Foreign Service received a verbal note from Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirming that this has been done.”

     

    “Foreign Minister Bin Mubarak also expressed great sympathy for Martine’s family.”

     

    Going further, in January, lawyer Patrick Lundevall-Unger remarked in a post shared on the same Facebook group:

     

    “The controversial state act by the then Sahle regime to harbouring an Egyptian fugitive wanted for rape and murder, should be corrected by the present authorities in Sanaa.”

     

    “Most of all, however, we appeal to the suspect himself to voluntarily return from his residency in Sanaa to the UK.”

     

    “Potential escape routes, such as going by speed boat from Yemen to Djibouti onwards to family in Ethiopia, will not work in the future.”

     

    “Farouk, I therefore appeal to you to come to your senses and deliver on fundamental justice for Martine and beyond. Without justice in the world, we cannot have peace – the two are intertwined. The same applies to you Farouk! Farouk: you can contribute to justice thereby finding your own peace!”

     

    Mr Lundevall-Unger is bang on the nail; it is time for Farouk Abdulhak to put away the Snapchat and the coke and it is time instead for him to man-up and face the fact that he’ll never be free of this saga until he returns to Britain and finally tells the truth about what happened that fateful night.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Pictured Top – Coldblooded cokehead Farouk Abdulhak pictured in 2022 (left) and innocent victim Martine Vik Magnussen (right).

     

    Anyone with information that may assist in achieving justice for the Vik Magnussen family should telephone the Metropolitan Police on +44 (0) 20 8358 0300 or Crimestoppers anonymously on +44 (0) 800 555 111.

     

    To watch ‘Murder in Mayfair’ on the BBC iPlayer, click here.

     

    To support the Justice for Martine campaign, click here, or join the 71,000 followers on Facebook, here.

     

    A post-mortem examination gave Martine Vik Magnussen’s cause of death as compression to the neck. In November 2010, an inquest recorded a verdict of unlawful killing. On a website seeking justice, her friends paid tribute to her life in a video shared on YouTube that also included a contribution from a Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize winner.
    Martine Vik Magnussen (6th February 1985 – 14th March 2008) was last seen leaving the Maddox Club, 3 – 5 Mill Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 2AU with Farouk Abdulhak (born February 1987 and also known as Farooq) around 2am on 14th March 2008. Her body was found in the basement of a residential building at The Armitage Apartments, 222 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5QR – where he rented a serviced apartment – two days later at 10.30am on 16th March 2008. She had been raped, beaten, strangled and attempts had been made to conceal her body in rubbish and rubble.
    Farouk-Abdulhak-and-Martine-Vik-Magnussen
    Both the suspected rapist-murderer and his innocent, tragic victim were students at Regent’s Business School – known also as ‘RBS’ and a place which frankly should have its lavatorial areas tested daily for cocaine as it’d likely be found to have more on the premises than the Houses of Parliament even.
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    Martine Vik Magnussen was a bright, attractive 23-year-old lady whose life was so reprehensibly taken from her. The courage and tenacity of her family in campaigning to bring her rapist-killer to justice is to be saluted.
    Farouk Abdulhak
    Farouk Abdulhak (also known as Farooq Abdulhak) lived a playboy lifestyle in London and no doubt lives in luxury courtesy of his family’s wealth. His alleged victim’s life was cut short when she was just 23 and it is beyond disgraceful that this spoilt tyke has not yet been prepared to assist police as they seek to solve the rape-murder that at occurred in the property where he lived in 2008.
    Farouk Abdulhak
    The arrogance of this scion of a billionaire is clear. Here is someone who lived off his father and was clearly never taught anything about developing a moral compass or the concepts of right, wrong and taking responsibilities for your own actions.
    Missing-Items
    Items missing from the victim’s body that were with her when she left the Maddox Club but not with her body when it was discovered, according to Scotland Yard, included: Christian Dior earrings, snakeskin shoes, a Marc Jacobs handbag, a Guess watch, a silver costume diamond ring and her jeans (described as blue and of a ‘skinny’ fit).
    Shaher Abdulhak
    Shaher Abdulhak (1938 – 2020) was a prominent Yemeni businessman and the founder of Shaher Trading. Nicknamed the ‘King of Sugar,’ this “media shy” individual “held a great deal of political influence” and “never granted interviews.” He died in Germany from cancer and is buried in Cairo, Egypt and in the wake of his son being accused of rape and murder in London, quite rightly amongst others Daimler AG ended their relationships with a man who harboured and protected a fugitive alleged killer.
    Odd Petter Magnussen
    In 2016, it was reported that the victim’s father had “received an offer of the arrangement of Abdulhak being handed over to Interpol on the eighth anniversary of her death in exchange for Norway hosting peace talks when the Yemeni civil war was at its height.” Though this was unsuccessful, Mr Magnussen later remarked: “I found this encouraging. This was a strong message to the suspect that he can no longer rely on the total support of his own people. I hope he is not sleeping so well these days.”
    Funeral
    The funeral of Martine Vik Magnussen – a young lady whose life should not have been cut short at 23 and whose rapist-killer must be brought to justice.
  • More Front Than Frogmore… Will Prince Andrew Pen Memoirs To Pay For £1m Royal Lodge Paintjob

    More Front Than Frogmore… Will Prince Andrew Pen Memoirs To Pay For £1m Royal Lodge Paintjob

    Matthew Steeples asks if rumours are true that Prince Andrew might be penning his memoirs to pay for a £1 million façade paintjob for his ritzy Royal Lodge residence

    Impudence and effrontery are ‘qualities’ that the non-sweaty Duke of York are known for and now, illustrating he’s got more front than Pamela Anderson, Brighton, Harrods and Barbara Windsor combined, this rotten ratbag royal is supposedly asking for the astounding sum of £1 million ($1.2 million, €1.1 million or درهم4.5 million) to paint the front façade of Royal Lodge, Windsor. Goodness only knows what a Dulux job for the rest of said building would cost in addition.

     

    Whilst rumours abound that the prince and his grifting ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York might still yet be forced to leave the £30 million ($36.7 million, €34.1 million or درهم134.7 million) mansion and could end up in Frogmore Cottage instead after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex having conducted ‘#FROGXIT,’ it appears that Jeffrey Epstein’s former ‘bestie’ still doesn’t want to move yet.

     

    Prince Andrew Melania Trump Jeffrey Epstein
    If he were to pen a memoir, will Prince Andrew touch on his friendship and what benefits he got from associating with the since croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?
    Prince Harry Spare half price
    As always “unnamed sources” are claiming that the Duke of York has been inspired in his idiotic idea for a memoir by the financial success that has resulted from his nephew, the Duke of Sussex, writing ‘Spare.’ He might do better to consider the negative kickback from not only the public that resulted, but also the rifts that have followed with other members of the royal family.
    Daphne Barak
    Is the “toady twaddler” Daphne Barak an appropriate person to write a book on behalf of the brother of King Charles III? Given she has been involved with the convicted nonce sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell for over 30 years and given she has been involved with the Clintons for a long time also, is this associate of the foolish and feckless Sarah, Duchess of York to be trusted with the secrets of the royal household?
    Royal Lodge
    Grade II listed Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, Windsor, SL4 2JD has been home to Prince Andrew since he took a 75-year lease on it from the Crown Estate in August 2003. He paid around £1 million for it and had to agree to spend £7.5 million at September 2002 prices excluding VAT on the building’s renovation. In January 2022, the building was valued as being worth a sum of £30 million on the open market.
    Frogmore Cottage
    Frogmore Cottage received a £2.4 million ‘MeGain makeover.’ At the time, a predictably unnamed “royal source” told the ‘Daily Mail’ of the two orangeries added: “Natural light is important for the Sussexes as Meghan misses the LA sunshine.” A new kitchen at the property was said to have cost in excess of £100,000 whilst the predictably ‘woke’ wench formerly known as Meghan Markle also demanded all paints used must be from the vegan and chemical free £74 a tin Auro range. Somehow, however, one could not imagine Prince Andrew and his live-in grifter ex-wife feeling suitable for their occupation considering how pretentious the pair of them are.

    Instead of accepting that he really doesn’t need a Jeffry Wyatt designed, 30-room mansion in 98 acres at the age of 63 when his two children have long since quit the crib, Catherine Meyer-Funnell for the Express recently reported that “Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson [are] lobbying [the] King for more money through leaks.” She added that the Express royal correspondent Richard Palmer had stated: “There are ‘deals that can be done’ to make sure Andrew gets the support he needs.”

     

    Turning to how the alleged ex-lover of Ghislaine Maxwell might be able to fund a continued residence at Royal Lodge, both The Sun on Sunday and Mail on Sunday covered allegations that the prince is “in talks with US authors to write a tell-all autobiography” this morning.

     

    Citing the “success” of Prince Harry’s tittle-tattling tome Spare, the papers both termed Prince Andrew’s book to be Spare 2.0 in the making. They also referenced the likely ‘author’ to be Daphne Barak – a pugnacious PR peddler who recently conducted interviews for them with her chum of 30 years Ghislaine Maxwell and a woman who has also had a long association with Hillary Clinton.

     

    Speaking to The Sun, “a source” – as usual unnamed – claimed:

     

    “Andrew was the original spare and there’s plenty of material. Compared to Harry, he has a far greater depth of history to draw from.”

     

    “Writing a book would give him the opportunity to fully explain his association with Jeffrey Epstein and the resulting fall-out. But it would also be a fascinating insight into the inner workings of the royals and their relationships. But mainly he wants to set the record straight. If he doesn’t change the narrative, no one else will.”

     

    Given, after we asked: “In comparing her tawdry bonkbuster books to Sherlock Holmes, has grifter Sarah, Duchess of York shown herself to be beyond bonkers?” yesterday, 55.9% decided her to be “offer her merry rocker” and 40% argued her to “just £££ grabber,” the prospects of the dimwitted dunce Prince Andrew reaching the dizzy literary heights of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle seem equally grim. Instead, the Duke of York might do better to ask one of his few remaining chums, the awaiting a £400 million fraud trial dwarf Bernie Ecclestone, to bail him and ‘Freeloader Fergie’ out one more time.

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “If he does pen a non-sweaty “tell-all” memoir, do you think the grifter Prince Andrew will also compare his book to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as his live-in ex-wife has said of hers?” As of 11:30am on Sunday 26th March 2023, the clear majority of respondents favoured the option: “Yes; he’s arrogant enough.”
    Sarah Duchess of York novel Sherlock Holmes
    Yesterday’s poll, which asked: “In comparing her tawdry bonkbuster books to Sherlock Holmes, has grifter Sarah, Duchess of York shown herself to be beyond bonkers?” produced the result that 55.9% believed her to be “offer her merry rocker” whilst 40% argued her to “just £££ grabber.” Only 4.2% in total felt to the contrary.

    Twitter reacts to our Prince Andrew memoir poll…

  • Shut-Up ‘Sherlock’ Sarah – Sarah, Duchess Of York’s Comparison Of Her Bonkbusters To Sherlock Holmes Is Beyond Bonkers

    Shut-Up ‘Sherlock’ Sarah – Sarah, Duchess Of York’s Comparison Of Her Bonkbusters To Sherlock Holmes Is Beyond Bonkers

    In comparing her tawdry bonkbuster books to Sherlock Holmes, Matthew Steeples suggests Sarah, Duchess of York to be beyond bonkers; elsewhere another billionaire chum of hers has been accused of financing a sex trafficking ring

    Earlier this month we joined those highlighting the latest grifting activities of Sarah, Duchess of York. ‘Freeloader Fergie’ has now added fuel to the fire and ludicrously, in reference to her bag of bilge bonkbuster ‘writing’ for Mills & Boon, compared her ‘literary works’ to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beyond brilliant Sherlock Holmes in terms of style.

     

    Whilst Sir Arthur initially struggled to find a publisher, he was eventually accepted for publication of his first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, A Study in Scarlet, aged 27 in November 1886. He went on to have a career that deservedly brought him fame and fortune and remains loved by millions.

     

    Sarah, Duchess of York, meanwhile, has lived off her royal name, associated with crooks, taken loans from paedophiles including Jeffrey Epstein (and presumably not repaid them) and now thinks herself a top-drawer author. Here, indeed, is a woman clearly having a laugh (and being deservedly laughed at) and that she declared her books to be a cross between “Sherlock Holmes and Peaky Blinders” is just further evidence of how delusional she truly is.

     

    Elsewhere late last week, came further revelations that on top of her having taken loans and other benefits from the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, one of the dimwitted dunce formerly known as Sarah Ferguson’s “billionaire associates” has been accused of “bankrolling a sex trafficking ring” in a lawsuit in California.

     

    Featured in the Daily Mail on 19th March, Daniel Bates revealed:

     

    “Trammell Crow, 72, who Sarah Ferguson has reportedly struck up a friendship with, is alleged to have financed the enterprise which led to two women being abused.”

     

    “The Texan property tycoon and environmental philanthropist, who is worth £6 billion ($7.3 billion, €6.8 billion or درهم27 billion), is accused of a string of lurid claims in the court papers filed in California.”

     

    “The lawsuit was filed by two women, Julia Hubbard and Kayla Goedinghaus against Crow and his associates in a court in November. They claimed that the ring was run by a man called Richard Hubbard with the ‘with the essential financial assistance and influence’ of Crow.”

     

    “Fergie and Crow are said to have bonded over their shared interest in environmental issues. Their friendship was first reported at the beginning of the month.”

     

    “The lawsuit claims that Crow used ‘force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion to compel Hubbard and Goedinghaus to engage in commercial sex acts.’ The case was filed under laws governing racketeering and it claims that the defendants ‘conspired together’ to commit offences including human trafficking. The women claim that Crow forced the alleged victims to take drugs like Xanax ‘in order to force them to participate in sex acts.’”

     

    “It is alleged that Crow was ‘key to the venture’s existence and long running success’ as he invested in it.”

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “In comparing her tawdry bonkbuster books to Sherlock Holmes, has grifter Sarah, Duchess of York shown herself to be beyond bonkers?” By 11:30am on Saturday 25th March 2023, the majority of respondents had taken the view: “Yes; off her merry rocker.”
    Garney Nicholls
    Responding to the poll, Garney Nicholls was very direct in his views about Sarah, Duchess of York. He didn’t share his thoughts on her comparing herself to Sherlock Holmes, but he did state: “She was a tart when she was a teenager, mummy ran off with a polo player and daddy had it way in a plane I once read. Just ‘cos they got money, don’t mean they bad cop, bad lot.”
    A Most Intriguing Lady
    The latest drivel from Sarah, Duchess of York (written ‘with’ someone named Marguerite Kay) is due out on 30th March 2023. It is titled ‘A Most Intriguing Lady’ and is published by Mills & Boon. The grifter’s ‘novel’ is priced at £14.99 and she has been out doing the rounds comparing it to Sherlock Holmes and ‘Peaky Blinders.’ The loon is clearly having a laugh (or just, as most would actually rightly assume, off her merry-rocker).
    Trammell Crow
    Sleazy looking billionaire Trammell Crow has brought further shame on ‘Feckless Fergie’ and her non-sweating hubby Prince Andrew after being accused of being involved in sex trafficking. One is left asking: “What was it about this creepy looking creature that first attracted the former Sarah Ferguson to him?”

    The Weird Words of “Greedy” and “Needy” Freeloader Wannabe Sherlock Holmes Sarah, Duchess of York… They Get Weirder By The Week…

    Given the live-in ex-wife at Royal Lodge, Windsor of supposedly skint ‘Randy Andy’ – a non-sweating nuisance who got his long-suffering relatives to pay a supposed sum of circa £12 million to Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a woman he has previously claimed to have met – is in on a world tour to prattle on to anyone who pays to listen, perhaps she should be reminded of her own weird and even weirder warblings. They number:

     

    Of sex, her and goats: “One of the worst headlines said 82% [of the population] would rather sleep with a goat than Fergie. It’s never left me.”

     

    Of her writing novels and her style: “Sherlock Holmes meets Peaky Blinders.”

     

    Of the royal family: “They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.”

     

    Of her own family: “I do believe in family unity. I think forgiveness is key.”

     

    Of the Duke of York: “A good man… In 1986, I married a very good man. Zip.”

     

    Of whether she might remarry Prince Andrew: “Oh bless your heart, no. I think we’re great as we are.”

     

    Of supporting her disgraced ex-husband financially: “I will always be there [for Prince Andrew].”

     

    “When Andrew went through a hard time, I used to be able to throw it to ‘The Boss.’”

     

    “Since he stepped back [from royal duties] he doesn’t actually take taxpayers’ money and I’m in a position where I can support him and the rest of the family through my work. And I’m really pleased and proud to do that.”

     

    “All I will say is that for many years now – it started with Budgie the Little Helicopter – I’ve really pushed to look after my girls and to contribute to the York family life.”

     

    Of where she and the Duke of York will end up living in the future: “Honestly, I operate from living in the present. You never get complacent and it makes for a better day because you never get disappointed, then. You look at life and you go, we can adapt, we can be flexible.”

     

    Of whether she might remarry someone else: “I think I’ve got too much baggage. I look at today and if suddenly I find love again, well, that’s another bonus, isn’t it?”

     

    Of her daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie: “Exceptional… I love my girlies, I’m so proud of them. They are exceptional children… If mum’s OK, they’re OK.”

     

    “My daughters come first in my life, they always have. Because I lost my mum so early, I’m subconsciously very present with them. When I brought them up, I always left my problems at the door. Your problem is not their problem – it’s not their fault. We laugh together a lot. We are just very close.”

     

    Of her grandchildren: “I’m ‘Super Gran’… When my grandchildren see me, they immediately laugh because they know I’m going to be up to something, up to no good somewhere.”

     

    “Every time I think about about co-parenting and co-grandparenting and about divorce, marriage and all these different things, I still come back to the principle that the sun will come up tomorrow, and be grateful, just get on with it.”

     

    Of the late Queen Elizabeth II: “For me, she was more a mother than my own mother. Aren’t I the luckiest person alive to have had that great honour? When I was with her, I used to say: ‘I can’t believe it. People wait and put on their best dress to have an audience with you, and I’m wandering around the garden in wellies!’”

     

    “For the whole nation, for the world. Steadfast, consistent, iconic. [She had an] extraordinary ability to put someone at ease. I still now think it was such an honour [to have known her].”

     

    “During the last three years, her poor son [was] going through such a tumultuous time… And I think HM was very relieved I could help her with him, so we became even closer, then.”

     

    “I’m so lucky. All my life, I was lucky enough to know ‘The Boss,’ HM. Like the nation and the world, she was always there. It was like having a hand at your back. It just made you always strive for being better and trying to be better, learning from her, whenever you were with her just taking everything she said as a memory. She was such an incredible legend for us all.”

     

    Of the late Queen’s corgis: “They’re very good boys, they’re very gentle. I think they knew that they weren’t to jump up and be naughty. They used to sit and watch the racing with her. And when you give them a biscuit, they don’t snatch. They’re very special, they’re national treasures.”

     

    “They really make me laugh and the follow me around. Sometimes I break a little ‘biccie’ – a digestive biscuit – in the same way the Queen broke it into little pieces, and give it to them and tell them to remember their boss.”

     

    Of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex: “I have been judged all my life, and I have no judgment on the Sussexes.”

     

    “It must be hard for Meghan and can I relate to her. I believe she is modern and fabulous. She was famous before. She is great. Why can’t Meghan be great? Why can’t she be celebrated? I have been in Meghan’s shoes, and I still am. There’s always a twist of negativity and it just gets so sad and tiring… I abhor bullying and I feel desperately sorry for the pain they must be going through.”

     

    “I believe very strongly that I have absolutely no judgment on any other person’s life, and I look at how much she [Meghan] loves him [Harry] and loves the children and gives him a love that he’s never had before. That’s how I look at it… The most important thing is, Diana would be so very proud of Archie and Lili. She would have adored every moment of it.”


    Of King Charles III: “It’s incredible what he’s done for the environment. He was a trailblazer and many years ago, everybody said: ‘What’s he talking about?’ But he’s right. I’m a great believer and supporter of him, as I am of the Queen Consort.”

     

    Of herself and her life: “I have been in the gutter.”

     

    “I’m a brilliant mother. The best mother.”

     

    “I don’t believe that any single person has the right to judge another person. I’m not in a position myself to make any judgments.”

     

    “I’m very steadfast and stoic… I won’t let anyone down. I’m very loyal.”

     

    Being rather wishy-washy: “The most important thing is that the sun will come up tomorrow and the day will move on.”

     

    Of food, family and dining: “As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, it’s fine with me.”

     

    “With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!”

     

    “We all sit round the table and eat together. Andrew and I believe in total parent unity. We’re best friends.”

     

    On the coronation of King Charles III: “Well I’ve decided the best thing about British around a coronation – although I’ve never been to one – I think we should, I should set up a tea room at the bottom of the drive with bunting and cakes.”

     

    “Never presume, never assume. I don’t know. But I’ll be there at the end of the drive with a cup of tea if I’m not there.”

     

    Of wanting to be a television star: “I would quite like to go on Dancing With The Stars. I would like somebody to teach me to tango. I do know the show and my children would be so proud of me.”

     

    On Americans: “I divorced, went to America, wrote a book, went on Oprah and did 12 years as the longest running spokesperson of Weight Watchers. I looked to America to support me and to help me and I really can’t thank the American people enough for what they gave me and what they did for me.”

     

    Of when she decided she wanted to bag a royal: “I met [Prince Andrew] when I was 12, and I said: ‘I’m going to marry him.’”

     

    Of marriage, divorce and work: “I left my marriage knowing I’d have to work. I have.”

     

    “I didn’t want a divorce, but had to because of circumstance.”

     

    “I wish we’d never got divorced. He and I both wish we’d never divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can’t.”

     

    Of her many, many mistakes: “I felt that I ostracised myself by my behaviour, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake. Why have I made so many mistakes?”

     

    “You look at the devil in the face, which you do. Then you forgive, and you say: ‘OK, I’ve made almost a mistake that will never be forgotten,’ and forgive.”

     

    “I think the obstacles are the way, as opposed to in the way. I feel very strongly that I completely and utterly own my very naïve self and made endless different wrong decisions, whatever they may be, but in the end, it’s got me to today as an author. I’m a person in my own right, I’m Sarah.”

     

    “I was so out of control with desperation… I was looking for quick fixes in the places I wouldn’t normally look… I’ve been a huge overtrusting, idiotic, stupid woman that went to look for the perfect situation, and that’s all I can say really.”

     

    “I’ve done the work to get to myself. I’ve done masses of mental therapy. I probably reached to the wrong places and the wrong people and made, as you call it, mistakes. I don’t call them mistakes. I call them enormous learning curves.”

     

    Hello-Corgis
    Desperate, as ever, for attention, there appears to be no opportunity that Sarah, Duchess of York will miss in her quest for constant publicity. Even the late Queen’s dogs have to be dragged out for a bit of personal profiteering courtesy of ‘Hello!’ magazine.
    Duchess-Dishes-The-Dirrt
    The decidedly dodgy duchess appeared in another article recently that was shared on social media. It was titled: “Duchess dishes the dirt!” and is indeed representative of how tawdry and tacky and tastleless this tittle-tattler truly is. Shame on Sarah, Duchess of York.
    Omid-Scobie-NFT-Fergie
    In January, Omid Scobie, the pugnacious pillock PR peddler for the Duchess of Sussex revealed that the ‘Duchess of Deviancy’ had moved into the world of NFTs and would be selling digital works “by established and emerging artists.” Is there any medium that will escape “the new world” of this tedious toerag?
    Daily-Mirror-toe-sucking
    On Thursday 20th August 1992, the ‘Daily Mirror’ shared what they called “the pictures they didn’t want you to see.” In them, a topless Duchess of York was shown having her toes sucked in the South of France by a Texan millionaire named John Bryan. Of the incident, the ‘Mirror’ later reported: “Royal writer Richard Kay claimed in the ‘Daily Mail’ that he received a message via pager from Princess Diana the night before the photos hit the newspaper stands. Diana’s message was simple: ‘The redhead’s in trouble.’”
  • Obscure Maxwell… Ian Maxwell Reduced To Spinning Yarns On Obscure TV News Channels

    Obscure Maxwell… Ian Maxwell Reduced To Spinning Yarns On Obscure TV News Channels

    As noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell’s batshit bonkers brother Ian Maxwell bizarrely bangs on about the ‘murder’ of Jeffrey Epstein on an obscure San Francisco news channel, Matthew Steeples suggests this desperado would do better to learn the art of silence

    As she rots in the clink, further evidence comes that Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother is getting increasingly desperate. This week, illustrating he isn’t being taken seriously elsewhere, Ian Maxwell turned to an obscure San Francisco news channel named KRON4 to tell yet more yarns about his mucky madam sex fiend sister.

     

    In comments, subsequently shared only by the now little read website MSN, Mr Maxwell supposedly told KRON4’s Vicki Livakis:

     

    “She wishes she had never met Jeff Epstein, and because the havoc that relationship has caused, not just Ghislaine, but really everybody that came in touch with him.”

     

    “Basically, it was a stitch up from after Jeffrey Epstein died in US government custody when Bill Barr was Attorney General.”

     

    “The only person to actually take the fall is Jeff Epstein, and he’s dead of course.”

     

    “We don’t really know, the extent of what happened [on the night of 10th August 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York]. There, his own family thinks he was murdered. My sister thinks he was murdered.”

     

    “If there are other people that have not yet come into the prosecution’s orbit, and who may be powerful people and don’t wish to be involved in this, somehow that they would find it. An ability to murder my sister or cause her to have an accident that looks like an accident but isn’t.”

     

    “We are her family. We love her, we miss her, and we will support and defend her.”

     

    Bizarrely also, Brian Basham, we can today reveal that the PR peddler the deviant daughter of the pension pot plunderer became so reliant on to push out piffle on her behalf prior to her conviction, has gone remarkably quiet in recent months. He appears to have given up on the paramour of his pen and left the donkey work to Ian and Kevin Maxwell instead.

     

    In spite of threatening to confront me at the 2022 edition of CrimeCon in London (and then being a Cowary Custard no-show), Mr Basham seems to have given up on Twitter. Though not exactly popular there – a tittle-tattling spinner during the era of the British Airways ‘Dirty Tricks’ campaign against the equally rambunctious Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic – has not tweeted since 2nd July 2022 and not replied to a tweet since 14th September that year also.

     

    Of this development, I today ask:

     

    1. Is Brian Basham still ‘working’ and is he in the pay of Ghislaine Maxwell?
    2. Has Basham been fired by the Maxwell family or did he quit before he was pushed?
    3. Does Basham still believe in the innocence of the convicted criminal sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell?
    4. Has Basham had an epiphany and realised that the wicked woman he so enthusiastically supported is actually just a monstrous sex trafficker and a boob groping audacious abuser?

     

    Elsewhere on Thursday, in the wake of Jes Staley being sued by his former employers J. P. Morgan over his links to Epstein, the comedian Rosie O’Donnell was asked on TikTok: “Did you go to ‘Epstein Island’? Weren’t you on the flight log?” She curtly answered: “F**k no.”  

     

    Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

     

    Brian-Basham-Jeffrey-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell
    Brian Basham (left) is a man who previously had no qualms about defending the sex fiend Ghislaine Maxwell – a batshit bonkers bisexual woman whose nefarious activities with the croaked Ponzi scheming paedophile Jeffrey Epstein resulted in the ruination of the lives of countless young girls and boys even. Mr Basham has been remarkably quiet in recent months. One is left wondering: “Why?”
    Brian Basham Twitter
    Mr Basham isn’t exactly popular on social media. On Twitter, he has just 240 followers in spite of following 57 accounts also and having previously shared rather a lot there.
    Brian-Basham-John-Sweeney-Twitter-spat-1
    After the deservedly respected journalist and author John Sweeney shared a “current list of people who don’t like me” in 2020, Brian Basham attempted to belittle him by suggesting him to be an alcoholic before adding he “despised” rather than “disliked” him. He added: “I despise you for coating your investigation with the slime of click bait untrue sensationalism.”

    The Truth & The Lies About Visitors To Little Saint James (AKA ‘Paedo Island,’ ‘Island of Sin’ and ‘Orgy Island’)

    Jeffrey Epstein liked to call his island home ‘Little Saint Jeff’ rather than Little Saint James. He also owned the adjoining island of Great Saint James. Both remain for sale and though the price was £94.5 million ($125 million, €113.8 million or درهم459.1 million) in March 2022, it has now been revised to “price upon request.”

     

    Rumours abound as to what went on the ‘Islands of Sin’ and false lists of names continue to do the rounds on social media. An analysis of such follows below:

     

    Who has most definitely visited the ‘Paedo Islands’…

    The following are confirmed to have been on the islands. This does NOT mean that they participated in anything nefarious, though, of course, several amongst their number have been convicted of exactly such:

     

    • Miles and Cathy Alexander – who ran the islands’ management for the since croaked paedophile between 1999 and 2007 and who later claimed: “Our job was about discretion.”
    • Prince Andrew.
    • Ehud Barak.
    • Per Bloomberg.
    • Jean-Luc Brunel (deceased).
    • Naomi Campbell.
    • David Copperfield.
    • Alan Dershowitz.
    • Clementine Hambro.
    • Stephen Hawking.
    • Victim Virginia Roberts-Giuffre.
    • Lawrence Knauss.
    • Adam Perry Lang – who, for a time, was Epstein’s chef and who is now known as a “celebrity chef” in California.
    • Lord Mandelson and his partner Reinaldo Avila da Silva.
    • Ghislaine Maxwell.
    • Victim Sarah Ransome.
    • Claudia Schiffer.
    • IT contractor Stephen Scully – who has identified various famous names he supposedly spotted whilst working there.
    • Kevin Spacey.
    • Jes Staley and his wife Debbie.
    • Leslie Wexner.

     

    Who may or may not have visited the ‘Paedo Islands’…

    The following are often listed amongst those “rumoured” to have visited. Some names suggested are more far-fetched than others. These people may or may not have actually visited, but these people have neither confirmed nor denied either way:

     

    • Enemim.
    • John Glenn.
    • George Mitchell.
    • President Obama.
    • Itzhak Perlman.
    • Roger Stone.
    • Chrissy Teigen.
    • Chris Tucker.
    • Oprah Winfrey.

     

    Who has been accused of visiting but publicly denied having been to the ‘Paedo Islands’…

    These individuals have been very clear in their comments about accusations they visited Little Saint James:

     

    • President Bill Clinton – who Virginia Roberts Giuffre recalls seeing there, but who has denied ever visiting.
    • Rosie O’Donnell – who went as far as to say “f**k no” when asked.
    • Kathy Griffin – who responded to suggestions by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers that she’d been there with comments that included: “YOU GUYSSSSS? Ok, I guess I just gotta #laugh #Ridiculous… STILL WITH THESE NUT JOBS…I know. I know. I guess I just gotta laugh.”
    • Chelsea Handler – who has, however, admitted to having had dinner with Epstein at his New York ‘Paedo Palace.’

     

    Who has been falsely accused of visiting the ‘Paedo Islands’…

    These peoples’ names regularly do the rounds as having visited, but though they have not publicly responded, evidence suggests they did not actually visit:

     

    • Bill Gates – who did meet Epstein on several occasions, but did not visit the islands.
    • Tom Hanks.
    • Madonna.
    • President Donald Trump – who did, however, fly on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ and who spent time with him in Palm Beach on multiple occasions most definitely.