‘The Steeple Times’ backs respected humanitarian Terry Waite CBE’s calls for a review “without further delay” of the conviction of Mark Alexander; the now 35-year-old was found guilty of killing his conman father on “circumstantial evidence alone” in 2010
Mark Alexander has been a prisoner for more than 12 years, but was deemed to exhibit “no historic or current issues of concern” after completing 45-hours of therapy and counselling in October 2015. In September 2018, the Offender Assessment System observed he had shown “no evidence of negative or pro-criminal attitudes,” yet simply because he has refused to take a guilty plea, a 2-years and 8-months (16%) penalty was added to his sentence in September 2010.
Subsequently, in spite of being recommended for being transferred to an open prison in October 2021 and March 2022 at Sentence Planning Review Meetings (SPRM), Alexander currently remains in closed conditions because the Public Protection Casework Section (PPCS) has deemed his maintenance of his innocence undermines “public confidence” in the justice system.
When The Steeple Times first delved into this case in May 2020, we asked: “Could Mark Alexander be innocent?” In our article, we highlighted flaws with the safety of the conviction of a law student currently locked up for 16 years for supposedly murdering his 70-year-old “controlling” conman father, Samuel Alexander, in Buckinghamshire on a date unknown between September 2009 and February 2010. The then 22-year-old Mr Alexander was found guilty “by a majority verdict and on the basis of circumstantial evidence only” in September 2010.
Yesterday, sharing his continuing belief that there has been shown to be “further doubt on the safety” of this conviction, a message was shared from the greatly respected humanitarian Terry Waite CBE on the Twitter handle that communicates the “thoughts and journey” of Mark Alexander via “tweets from prison via letter.”
In it, this “long-standing advocate for justice in Mark’s case” suggested: “[This] case certainly raises reasonable doubt in my mind, and ought to be reviewed without further delay.”
The full text of Mr Waite’s missive follows below. It is well worth reading.
Mark Alexander (left) in happier times prior to his September 2010 and Terry Waite CBE’s 22nd November 2022 missive sharing his views on why he views this case needs to be “reviewed without further delay.”
Terry Waite CBE’s 22nd November 2022 message in full:
Over the course of my life I have been in contact with many prisoners who claim they have been unjustly convicted.
I fully appreciate that not all who approach me are truthful, but it is said that between six and seven percent of those convicted are innocent and ought not to be in jail.
I fully understand what a difficult task it is for an innocent prisoner to appeal. It is a long and costly process. It is also difficult for those who have to determine the fate of a man or woman claiming wrongful conviction.
I have known Mark Alexander for almost ten years. I have studied his case and spoken personally with him many times. The evidence against him was circumstantial, as was pointed out by the judge in his case.
I find it difficult to believe that a complete forensic examination was conducted before the jury found him guilty by majority verdict. In recent years, new evidence has emerged which throws even further doubt on the safety of his conviction.
Alas, the wheels of justice grind exceedingly slowly and Mark, still a young man, remains incarcerated – denied access to an open prison because, in the eyes of the authorities, he refuses to accept his guilt.
In the past 12 years, he has achieved academic distinction, but his continued imprisonment in a secure establishment means he may not be able to study for a doctorate.
Mark’s case certainly raises reasonable doubt in my mind and, ought to be reviewed without further delay.
Issues with the 2010 murder conviction and jailing for life with a minimum of 16 years of Mark Alexander:
Not one iota of forensic evidence links the convicted now 35-year-old to the murder and much of the police case against him was based on the word of “suspicious neighbours” with attitudes akin to characters from the TV drama series Midsomer Murders.
On the homepage of the campaign supporting him, it is stated: “Mark has always maintained his innocence… Mark was found guilty on the basis of doubt created about his version of events rather than any evidence of his involvement in a murder. No such evidence exists. There is no known cause, or date, of death – and there were no traces of DNA, blood, or even fingerprints linking Mark to the crime.”
The convicted man’s father, Samuel, had a string of at least eleven aliases and was a known confidence trickster.
The deceased man was cautioned for shoplifting in 1995 and had been involved in mortgage frauds involving a number of properties. He was described by his son tellingly when he remarked: “Dad always seemed to be running or hiding from something.”
Samuel Alexander lied also to his son about what had happened to his mother and cruelly told him she had died of cancer. The pair were only reunited after Mark Alexander’s arrest and it then became known that Samuel Alexander had also cheated her as part of a property scam also.
Mark Alexander has produced evidence showing that there were four potential suspects working at his father’s home around the time of his death. Police never spoke to these suspects and the jury were never made aware of them.
The convicted man has never admitted his guilt of this shocking crime in spite of the fact that in doing so he could have seen his sentence reduced.
Using human rights laws, Mark Alexander was, in March 2020, able to finally obtain files documenting his father’s multiple identities from Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs. He became supposedly the first person in Britain to achieve such access and now also, according to the Daily Mail’s Alice Cachia and Robin Eveleigh: “[The Justice for Mark Alexander’ campaign] are also developing new mobile phone cell site evidence which they hope will provide proof of Alexander’s movements around the time of his father’s death.” They hint that this will show he could not possibly have been present at the time of the murder and burial.
Mark Alexander told The Mirror’s crime editor Tom Pettifor in May 2020: “I’ve always always maintained my innocence, you just assume the system will work, but we didn’t have enough time or evidence to prove it, particularly against the story the prosecution were spinning… Nothing will ever justify what they did to [my father], but I just need some answers.”
Mark Alexander and his late father Samuel Alexander.The scene of the burial (but not necessarily the killing) of Samuel Alexander – 2 Prospect Close, Drayton Parslow, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK17 0JB.An aerial shot of the property.Documentary evidence of Samuel Alexander using aliases that show him to have been a man capable of perpetrating fraud and deception.On Friday 28th September 2018, Mark Alexander played at a charity concert for The Howard League of Penal Reform at HM Prison Coldingley in Bisley, Surrey. Terry Waite CBE read from ‘Out of the Silence,’ his book about his 1,763 days in captivity from 1987 to 1991 in Lebanon.
As a 25,000 strong petition is set to be delivered to the Scottish Parliament, we join those asking: “Could convicted killer Luke Mitchell be innocent of the murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones?”
After hostage-turned-humanitarian Terry Waite CBE highlighted flaws in the September 2010 conviction of Mark Alexander, The Steeple Times examined that case and joined those campaigning for, at the very least, a review of the evidence gathered by a police force who we believe simply wanted a quick and easy conviction.
Often highlighted wrongly as the “Scottish ‘Black Dahlia’ case,” the case of the brutal murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl named Jodie Jones in Dalkeith, Scotland on 30th June 2003 is another example of a case that continually attracts claims that the convicted perpetrator could actually be innocent.
Whilst Lothian and Borders Police successfully pinned the blame of Miss Jones’s murder on her boyfriend, Luke Mitchell, and secured his conviction in January 2005, tomorrow, Wednesday 16th November, his legal team will deliver a petition signed by 25,000 individuals to the Scottish Parliament demanding “an urgent and fully independent inquiry.” They believe the conviction to be unsafe and cite that “upto 122 items gathered as part of the investigation into the death were never forensically tested.”
Mitchell – who had been dating Jones for four months prior to her murder – was found guilty of killing her by hitting her on the head and body, compressing her neck, restricting her breathing and stabbing her both before and after she died in January 2005. He was sentenced to serve a minimum of twenty years in prison and though several attempts to overturn his conviction have failed, he continues to protest his innocence.
Recently, Scott Mitchell, who has been the lawyer for Mitchell since 2010 but also involved with the case since 2003, remarked:
“Forensic science has improved dramatically. I believe DNA samples that went untested will overhaul the conviction if we can examine them now. Without a doubt, that will prove Luke Mitchell did not kill Jodi.”
A full statement regarding the alleged failings in the case brought by Lothian and Borders Police follows after the videos and photographs beneath this article. It has been compiled by supporters of Luke Mitchell, a dedicated group who have been in touch with The Steeple Times for many months now.
To join the official Facebook group focused on highlighting the supposed flaws in the police investigation that led to the conviction of Luke Mitchell, click here.
To join the 25,400 people who have already signed the Change.org petition requesting a “full, independent review” of the Luke Mitchell case, click here.
Pictured Top – Luke Mitchell with his mother, Corrine.
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If the wrong man is indeed in jail for the 2003 murder of Jodi Jones, her killer is likely still alive and still at large and still evading justice. If that is the case, Lothian and Borders Police have a lot of questions to answer as to why they didn’t correctly deal with the evidence available to them.
It’s easy for police to pin the blame most especially on young men and in the case of the 2010 conviction of Mark Alexander – pictured here with hostage-turned-humanitarian Terry Waite CBE on the day he graduated in jail – the complete lack of forensic evidence in his conviction for his deviant father is very, very, very troubling. His case deserves to be revisited given all the new evidence that has been found.Two cases involving that of the 1986 conviction of Jeremy Bamber (left) and the 2001 murder of Stuart Lubbock (right) raise questions as to how Essex Police bungled the investigations by mismanaging evidence and making countless errors. We believe both cases should at the very, very least be reinvestigated due to the clear incompetence of this particular police force.In America, the July 1996 jailing of brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez for life without parole rightly continues to be condemned as an outrage given that the evil parents they slayed were clearly both guilty of having abused them consistently until their 20th August 1989 deaths in Beverly Hills, California. These repeatedly sexually abused brothers should have been convicted of manslaughter and they should now be freed.
Text supplied by a member of the Facebook group supporting Luke Mitchell that explains their take on why they believe him to be innocent of the 2003 murder…
The murder of Jodi Jones, a 14-year-old girl, took place in Dalkeith, Scotland on 30th June 2003. Her 14-year-old boyfriend, Luke Mitchell, came under suspicion, but it was several months before he was arrested.
Mitchell was tried for the murder and after Scotland’s longest single-accused trial at that time, Mitchell was convicted by a majority verdict in January 2005 despite there being no direct evidence against him. He was sentenced to a detention without limit of time with a minimum punishment part of 20-years. He has always maintained his innocence.
Jodi Jones left her house after exchanging a series of text messages with her boyfriend Luke Mitchell at around 5pm. She was found horrifically mutilated in a woodland strip behind a six-foot high wall at 11:35pm.
Her boyfriend Luke Mitchell and his dog Mia found her along with Jodi’s sister, Jodi’s sister’s boyfriend and her gran while they searched the path together.
Upon arrival the police separated Luke from the rest of the search party and took him to Dalkeith police station to be forensically examined. The police did not consider the rest of the search party as important witnesses until almost five hours into the investigation. Their clothing would not be taken for examination until around six days after the murder. By the time they were handed in they had either been laundered or different items to the ones said to be worn on that night were handed in to the police.
Forensics arrived at the scene at 8am the following morning, some time prior to this, two identification officers had gathered up all Jodi’s clothing and belongings but they didn’t record how they were collected or packaged.
Jodi was rolled onto a plastic sheet, branches were cut down to make the scene more accessible and the body was not covered leaving any potential evidence exposed to the rain. No attempt was made to estimate the time of death, there are no records of liver temperature, or signs of rigor or livor mortis.
Bin collections still went ahead that day, as did council hedge cutting, and the high school very close by was open as normal with students using the surrounding paths to access the school, while Jodi’s body still lay there uncovered.
Due to the way the crime scene was managed, a lot of potential evidence was destroyed. Despite this there was one full DNA sample recovered from Jodi’s clothing which was a match to another member of the search party, Jodi’s sister’s boyfriend, one semen sample from a condom nearby Jodi’s body and three full samples of DNA which have yet to be matched to anybody. There were many other partial samples found made up of blood, semen and saliva. There was no DNA from Luke Mitchell found.
Despite having other leads to follow and forensic evidence from the scene pointing away from Luke Mitchell, the investigation remained focused on him throughout. The general feeling in the area was that Luke Mitchell would be arrested any day now. In fact, it would take ten months for the police to make an arrest, one which was based on a wholly circumstantial case. During those ten months the media reported almost daily coverage of the case. Luke Mitchell and his mother, Corrine were shot to infamy overnight.
With no direct evidence linking Luke to the crime, the investigation focused in on music and ‘goth culture’ in an attempt to explain why Luke might have murdered Jodi. Both Luke and Jodi were a part of the ‘nu-metal wave’ that was popular during the early 2000s as were many of their friends. The police thought this was important to the investigation and told the media, only five days after the murder;
“We will be looking at what Jodi and her social circle were interested in and an obvious area will be their ties to the Goth movement. We will be examining if the manner in which she was killed has any links to the violent world that many Goths find fascinating and will be speaking to all her friends who had similar interests.”
Fear swept through Dalkeith and the rumour mill went into overdrive. Luke’s school jotters, with quotes from popular video games scrawled across the front were used to imply he had a fascination with the devil.
Police statements reveal that they were asked to search Luke Mitchell’s house for anything related to the singer Marilyn Manson. The police investigation believed that Luke was obsessed with Manson and in particular a series of paintings done by the artist depicting the body of murder victim Elizabeth Short, more commonly known as ‘The Black Dahlia.’
The crown put to the jury that Mitchell was attempting to replicate the killing of Elizabeth Short. In contrast to this, the pathologist who examined Jodi’s body said that there were markedly dissimilarities between the injuries sustained by Elizabeth Short and Jodi Jones and any similarities were superficial.
The only things related to Marilyn Manson that were found during the search of Mitchell’s home was a torn-up calendar and a CD that he had bought two days after the murder. There was no evidence found on Luke’s computer that he had accessed these paintings and the officer who found them online said they were not easy to find.
After ten months of press coverage naming 14-year-old Luke Mitchell as the only suspect and portraying him as a Satanist obsessed with Marilyn Manson, black magic and the occult, was there any need for evidence to convince the judge and jury?
At appeal the crown decided that the Marilyn Manson and Black Dahlia evidence was not to be founded upon. The evidence that had been the backbone of the investigation into Luke Mitchell for ten months, kept the focus on Luke when all other evidence was pointing away from him, and had led to a 14-year-old child being portrayed as already guilty in the press before he was arrested and charged was not to be founded upon.
Discarding the evidence that had been used to portray Luke Mitchell as a killer obsessed with occult rituals and the devil, the crown set out three main pillars of evidence with twenty adminicles of evidence interwoven between these main pillars, that they believe the jury was entitled to base a guilty verdict on. The guilty verdict was based on broad presumptions and inferences in the crown’s case which contradicts exculpatory evidence put forward by the defence.
The circumstantial evidence that was used to convict Luke Mitchell does not hold up to scrutiny.
Pillar one is concerned with guilty knowledge. The crown claimed that Luke Mitchell had knowledge of where Jodi’s body was and that he led the search party straight to it. During the trial the other three members of the search party claimed that on the night of 30th June, Luke had led them to the body and that he was cold and emotionless.
During the first month of the investigation statements taken by these other three members of the search party were consistent with Luke’s version of events – that he had walked past the V-break in the wall, his dog was ‘air sniffing’ and jumping up at the wall so he doubled back and climbed over the V-break. All of the statements began to change after that first month in similar ways to imply that Luke led them right to Jodi’s body.
Pillar two was the evidence of witness ‘AB’ who claimed she had seen a male and a female at the Easthouses end of the path. Despite the descriptions she gave not matching Luke or Jodi and the timing of the sighting contradicting two other witness sightings by people who knew Jodi and the witness herself failing to identify Luke Mitchell in the dock, this sighting was accepted by the jury and is used to infer that Luke Mitchell was at the Easthouses end of the path and in the company of Jodi before her death.
Pillar three, Luke’s alibi. Luke claimed that he was at home cooking dinner at the time of the murder, this is corroborated by two landline telephone calls until 16:25, and his mother and brother [Shane Mitchell, hereby referenced as ‘SM’] from 16:25 to 17:30. He left his house at around 17:30 to wait for Jodi at the end of his street, where he was seen acting normally and wearing the same clothes he had on earlier at school that day, by a couple of boys who knew him. The investigation would not accept Luke’s alibi.
Luke’s mum and brother were charged with perverting the course of justice. These charges would later be dropped without the jury’s knowledge, just before Luke’s mother gave evidence in the trial.
When he was arrested for perverting the course of justice, ‘SM’ was subjected to the same nature of questioning that the police had used on Luke.
At appeal, judges described the nature of this questioning as “abhorrent,” saying “at times the nature of the questioning was such that the questioner did not seem to be interested in a response from the appellant, but rather endeavouring to break him down into giving some hoped for confession by his over bearing and hostile interrogation” (2008 appeal).
‘SM’ was told that if he didn’t tell the police what they wanted to hear he would go to jail for three years. At trial, ‘SM’ told the court, not that his brother was not in that evening but that he couldn’t be sure. The actions of the liaison officer that was assigned to the Mitchell family and who took ‘SM’s’ statement also came under fire at trial. She refused to accept what ‘SM’ was telling her instead using leading phrases like “picture this” and telling ‘SM’: “I can’t accept that.” She eventually conceded on the stand that the investigation was a “shambles.”
This is a case where the police focused in on a suspect based on lifestyle and image, despite having knowledge of exculpatory evidence and ignored or at the very least did not thoroughly investigate incriminating evidence pointing to others.
Should a 14-year old child be imprisoned for life based on a weak circumstantial case when there is DNA evidence found on the victim that doesn’t match him and is yet to be identified?
When you see through the moral panic that swept through the police investigation and the small town of Dalkeith is there really enough evidence to convict Luke Mitchell of murder and can it really be said that justice has been served for Jodi Jones?
As smugger-than-smug “grinning” Cheshire Cat Ferne McCann parades around as if she’s done nowt wrong, her nemesis ‘Lady Whistledown’ again quite rightly calls out this apologist for an acid thrower as the toxic toerag that this wicked wastrel truly is
Feckless freak Ferne McCann is undoubtedly a piece of trailer trash capable only of spouting tripe.
Here is a wastrel-not-even-a-woman with a brain so clearly stir-fried that it wouldn’t even have interested Jeffrey Dahmer to experiment with. Here also is a monster whose wicked words about the sixteen, yes sixteen, innocent victims the father of her child mercilessly hurled acid all over in 2017 in a London nightclub illustrates her as nothing but a noxious narcissistic.
Now, yesterday, thinking that the scandal of her vicious voice notes – featured in The Steeple Times last week and to which one victim of her evil ex-lover Arthur Collins responded: “Thank you for showing her for what she truly is; evil” – ‘Cheshire Cat-like’ Miss McCann was pictured in the MailOnline in what someone named Kenzi Devine pathetically promoted as a “picture exclusive.”
Of a “victim shaming” disgrace who shockingly called out one of Collins’ victims simply as a “silly b*tch,” Devine enthused that McCann “appeared in high spirits” as “she enjoyed a stroll around Essex.” Going further, this supposed ‘showbiz reporter’ toadily observed: “The former TOWIE [‘The Only Way Is Essex’] star, 32, flashed a grin while wrapping an arm around her other half’s neck and giving him a loving gaze, opting for a bare-faced look while heading to her local shops.”
Instead of calling out these clearly planned and posed for pictures of someone who excused an acid attack that wrecked the lives of sixteen innocent people, Devine turned her ‘feature’ into a fashion parade and continued:
“Heading out this weekend, Ferne kept comfortable in a pair of dark brown leggings and a light grey, quarter-zip sweater. She added a pair of colourful trainers with white crew socks over the athleisure, which had the word ‘ugh’ stitched into the ankle in black.”
“Ferne kept close to Lorri, who showed off his large collection of leg tattoos with a pair of black sport shorts, a long-sleeved black top and grey Nike gilet.”
“They appeared to be enjoying the trip out, sharing a laugh as the former TOWIE star leaned in close to her man and wrapped around his neck.”
Frankly, Kenzi Devine should be ashamed of herself for writing what should only be referenced as ‘dire drivel’ and rightly last night, the nemesis of Ferne McCann that is ‘Lady Whistledown’ came back at the TV twerp and told her Instagram followers:
“I think everyone should email a complaint to ITV about [Ferne McCann’s] behaviour. This woman has been given a huge platform influencing the younger generation and by the looks of it ITV are condoning this woman fat shaming and now using derogatry words to a poor, innocent victim who has been through enough.”
Today, we echo these sentiments and urge readers to email [email protected] to offer condemnation of this sicker-than-sick shameless piece of toxic toerag. Ferne McCann should be cancelled and she should be taken off the air for once and for all. There is no room in Britain for this kind of cretin; in fact, there’s no room for her anywhere at all.
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The smugger-than-smug friend of the creepy Christian crooner Sir Cliff Richard and the queue jumper Philip Schofield pictured with her latest foolish fiancé Lorri Haines – who obnoxiously declares himself as a “family man, on a journey, quantum thinker, introvert geek, health is wealth, grateful to be alive and for everything I have” to his 170,000 followers on Instagram – in pictures so clearly planned and posed. Does this hapless harridan have no sympathy for the victims she so clearly insulted? Clearly, the answer to that is only: “NO, NO AND BLOODY WELL NO.”The ‘MailOnline’s’ Kenzi Devine clearly thinks it correct to write about the fashion of Ferne McCann and Lorri Haynes rather than actually focusing on victims. Her “picture exclusive” deserves calling out for the tripe that it truly was. The pictures included are clearly posed and were clearly planned and she ought to acknowledge that these images did not come about by chance.The Instagram account @ladywhistledown195 quite rightly told its 68,900 followers to email ITV to demand the taking down of a woman who has so viciously attacked 16 victims of a vile acid attack (left) whilst in another image taken previously Ferne McCann’s vicious behaviour to others was shown when she launched into a tirade against fellow ‘TOWIE’ participant Gemma Collins. It is time that this wicked woman was cancelled for once and for all.
Twitter users take a view on the shameless self-publicist Ferne McCann…
Though Tory twerp Shaun Bailey got away with partying with billionaire Nick Candy during the 2020 lockdowns, that this ludicrous loser and electoral disaster area might now get a seat in the House of Lords courtesy of his chum Boris Johnson is utterly outrageous
Whilst the dimwitted dunce Emma Dent-Coad was shown to be an abhorrent bigot when she described Shaun Bailey, the subsequently trounced and utterly inept Conservative London mayoral candidate in May 2021, as a “token ghetto boy,” that he might now make it to the House of Lords is frankly ludicrous.
Beyond batshit bonkers Bailey, who partied with the billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy in December 2020 at Conservative Central Office in spite of strict lockdown rules being in place at the time, it was yesterday revealed was subject to no action. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police shared that “there was not enough to ‘disprove the version of events provided by attendees,’” The Guardian’s political correspondent Peter Walker yesterday reported.
Whilst countless ordinary folk were fined and named and shamed, that the hapless police force then headed by the disastrous dimwit Dame Cressida Dick opted to let off the pontificating pillock Bailey is an utter outrage, but what is worse is that it has also been suggested that Boris Johnson has nominated him for a seat in the House of Lords in his resignation honours list.
A self-declared “different dude” who has branded himself “gobby and dangerous,” Bailey not only lost to Sadiq Khan but also offered idiotic policies such as giving free burglar alarms to pensioners. He once also suggested that the 60,000 plus “homeless people in the capital would be able to save up for a £5,000 deposit to buy a share in a newly-built affordable home.”
Another blunder came in since quite rightly removed comments he left on the Conservative Women’s Organisation website. There, he observed: “If you could get girls to accept less of men’s rubbish then men would have to change because ultimately men are after a girl.”
Is this moronic man fit for elevation to the House of Lords? The answer is unequivocally: “NO!”
Pictured top – This likely future Lord claimed to offer “a fresh start for London” yet the electorate simply thought he was selling washing powder. They didn’t like the quality of his powder and they universally rejected this gobby goon and sent him packing; why then is he suitable for the House of Lords?
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Who’s more stupid and who is ghastlier: Shaun Bailey or Owen Jones? During a 16:29 minute YouTube feature in May 2019, Bailey declared: “Nobody has a monopoly on common sense,” but then went on to prove he’s totally lacking in even an ounce of such.Shaun Bailey pictured with Nick Candy and others at a Christmas party during lockdown 2020 at Conservative Central Office at 4 Matthew Parker Street, London, SW1H 9HQ. Shaun Bailey with Boris Johnson. The fact that the pair “get on well” was proof enough that the loopy wannabe Mayor of London was unfit for high office.That Shaun Bailey was also snapped “minglin’” with Priti Patel illustrated the low qualities of those he chose to associate with him. That a woman voted a “snitch” and a “neighbour from hell” was someone he opted to be snapped with on the campaign trail was proof enough that he simply didn’t have his finger on the pulse.The now former London mayoral candidate with former Prime Minister David Cameron. The smug look on this duo’s faces sums up the “f**k the rest of you” attitude of these opportunists; here is a pair whose involvement in politics has caused nothing but disaster for everyone whilst their own pockets get deeper.In January 2019, ‘The Red Roar’ reported Bailey was forced to return donations to his campaign from an “impermissible donor” linked to the Paradise Papers scandal. His judgment is so piss poor that quite rightly now the public are quite rightly outraged that he could be elevated to the House of Lords.
The Just Stop Oil ‘protestors’ who attacked a Van Gogh yesterday should be branded as what they truly are: Moronic vandals; that their organisation is funded by a member of the Getty family is even more outrageous
Vexatious vicenarians Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer are due at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today after being charged with criminal damage to Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ (1888) oil painting at the National Gallery in London.
At 11am yesterday, these Just Stop Oil ‘protestors’ (as they’d like to brand themselves; we’ll instead term them ‘brainless vandals’) entered Room 43 at the gallery and threw an orange substance believed to be Heinz tomato soup at the painting. They then glued themselves to the wall beneath it and started shouting.
The pink haired half of this deranged pair of deviants launched into what Metro termed a “rambling tirade” and ranted:
“What is worth more, art of life? Is it worth more than food, worth more than justice?”
“Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”
“The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis. Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup.”
“We cannot afford more oil and gas. It is going to take everything we know and love. We will [unintelligible]…”
At this point security guards cleared the room to spare other visitors listening to these attention-seeking, moronic maniacs and to allow the Metropolitan Police access to arrest 20-year-old Newcastle resident Holland and 21-year-old Clapham resident Plummer.
Valued at a sum of at least £75.3 million ($84.2 million, €86.6 million or درهم309.2 million), the painting was fortunately protected by a piece of glass but National Gallery sources later confirmed: “There is some minor damage to the frame, but the painting is unharmed.”
In a statement late Friday, scumbags associated with the duo raged: “The art establishment, artists and the art-loving public need to step up into civil resistance if they want to live a world where humans are around to appreciate art.”
Subsequently, however, Holland and Plummer were deservedly condemned for their totally irrational and utterly pointless prank. On Twitter, one user called the pugnacious pair “Hooray Henrietta thugs” whilst broadcaster Janet Street-Porter added: “[Does] vandalising a masterpiece make a point about the cost of living? Well done Phoebe and Anna – you are just a couple of twerps.”
Another, Russ Jones, sensibly concluded:
“What on earth has Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ got to do with oil? Why not shove Michelangelo’s ‘David’ into the sea to stop oil? Pound a mammoth skeleton into dust to stop oil? Stab a dolphin? Piss onto a puffin? I’m completely behind stopping oil, but this seems mad.”
The disgraceful duo behind this pointless protest must have alerted members of the media in advance as cameras were present to capture their disgraceful action. Shame on the media present for not alerting the police and National Gallery. This disgrace clearly could have been prevented.The Metropolitan Police, for once, did a great job and swiftly dragged Holland and Plummer down to the nick – along with their can of Heinz tomato soup.In a separate incident yesterday afternoon, another member of the same group sprayed orange paint over the New Scotland Yard sign outside the Metropolitan Police headquarters. Lora Johnson, 38, of Southwold was subsequently also arrested and charged.Hypocritical heiress Aileen Getty’s wealth stems from oil, yet she spends her wealth funding morons who go around attacking oil paintings. She ought to consider the ridiculousness of her position given that she lives off wealth created from oil – the very thing those she funds are so hateful of.
Twitter reactions to the mindless vandalism of a Van Gogh…
As new theories about Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell’s connections emerge, further new stories about the grubby groper’s deviancy follow involving Donald Trump and a Scottish madam
Like the case of the boy who repeatedly cried wolf, grubby groper Ghislaine Maxwell is someone whose word simply cannot be trusted.
Now, as she experiences the realities of her 20-year prison term, maybe, just maybe this wicked wench might name names before a June 2023 deadline if she wants to see her sentence reduced – and now, also, it seems powerful people are starting to get worried.
Yesterday, the jailed sex trafficker and mucky madam Miss Maxwell – AKA Mrs Scott Borgerson, ‘Jennifer Ellmax,’ ‘Jen Marshall,’ ‘Janet Marshall’ and just plain old ‘G’ – returned to the news when the Mirror’s United States editor Christopher Bucktin revealed that she supposedly “asked the Elon Musk to ‘destroy the Internet’ before [appearing with him in a now] notorious party photo.”
Taken in 2014 at a Vanity Fair party, the aforementioned snap of the billionaire Tesla CEO being, as he has claimed on Twitter, “photo-bombed” by the since disgraced pension pot plunderer’s daughter, it “has [also] been claimed,” captured a moment witnessed by an unnamed Vanity Fair employee.
Of it, this ‘source’ told the New York Times: “The pair chatted. Ms Maxwell asked if Mr Musk if there were a way to remove oneself from the Internet and encouraged Mr Musk to destroy [it].”
Continuing, Bucktin added that this unnamed magazine worker claimed that “Maxwell also allegedly asked why aliens had yet to make contact with humans.”
The source curiously claimed: “Musk replied that all civilisations eventually end – including Maxwell’s hypothetical alien one – and raised the possibility that humans are living in a simulation.”
Previously Musk has stated “don’t know [her] at all” of Jeffrey Epstein’s hideous henchwoman, whilst earlier this month The Guardian reported that a new book has suggested that Donald Trump has been doing his best to distance himself from the deviancy of his former friend.
According to the paper, author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America Maggie Haberman suggests that Trump asked campaign advisers at a meeting in July 2020 in the Oval Office: “You see that article in the [New York] Post today that mention me… She [GM] say anything about me?”
The paper’s Page Six story concerned quoted Steven Hoffenberg, the since deceased convicted Ponzi scheming mentor of Epstein, as saying: “Ghislaine thought she was untouchable – that she’d be protected by the intelligence communities she and Jeffrey helped with information: the Israeli intelligence services, and Les Wexner, who has given millions to Israel; by Prince Andrew, President Clinton and even by President Trump, who was well-known to be an acquaintance of her and Epstein’s.”
Elsewhere in other news, a Scottish madam has claimed she once received a call from Ghislaine Maxwell, but “refused to provide women for Jeffrey Epstein” according to the Daily Record.
Anna Gristina, from Kirkliston, West Lothian – who herself spent four months on remand at the Rikers Island prison in New York in 2012 for her involvement in a £6 million vice ring – told Radar Online “she ran a legitimate matchmaking service” and stated: “[Maxwell] called up from London to say she had a gentleman friend in Florida who likes company, but he likes younger girls and she heard I was very reputable and had the best models in the industry.”
She added: “”I was at a hockey game with my kids when the call came in. Afterward, I did a little digging and my friend told me to stay away. If I had known more at the time I would have turned him in.”
The fake and staged photographs associated with the mucky madam and her cohort Jeffrey Epstein
29th April 2021 – Lawyers for Maxwell issue an image of her purportedly which they claimed to be her with a black eye. It turned out that the wicked wench had simply had an eye infection.
5th December 2010 – Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew walking in New York. Of this the journalist who tracked the pair down with photographer Jae Donnelly, Annette Witheridge, told the Mirror: “My theory is Epstein wanted to be pictured. Why go out in the bitter cold for a quick walk around Central Park? I think Epstein was relying on the fact a photographer was outside. He would’ve known we were there, we weren’t trying to hide. He had been in prison and he wanted to rehabilitate his reputation. Who better to be seen with than the Queen’s son? He was saying to the world that Prince Andrew is my friend.”
10th March 2001 – Forever world-famous photo that cost Prince Andrew a payment of circa £12 million to a woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, he claimed never to have met taken at Miss Maxwell’s Kinnerton Street, Belgravia mews house. This infamous image has never been discredited in spite of claims from Prince Andrew and others.
This anything but fake photograph of “chubby fingered” Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell on the first-floor landing of 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8ES on 10th March 2001 quite rightly remains in the public domain in spite of the royal and others such as Lady Victoria Hervey claiming it to have been a doctored creation.A walk in New York’s Central Park in December 2010 in matching jackets illustrated the deviancy of Jeffrey Epstein; the by then convicted paedophile clearly wanted to be snapped with a royal as he sought to attempt to restore his reputation – a ‘quality’ clearly shared by his former lover and the woman he most likely funneled dirty stolen pension pot money for.Prior to her arrest at the curiously named ‘Tucked Away’ using the invented name ‘Jen Marshall’ or Janet Marshall,’ woman-of-multiple identities Ghislaine Maxwell’s associates allegedly released faked images of her at an In-N-Out restaurant in August 2019. The advert in the background at the bus stop had never been at that location.Another example of deviancy came about when the mucky madam’s then lawyers tried to make out their client was being abused in jail and released a picture of her with what they claimed to be a black eye. It was simply an eye infection and now they’re probably regretting helping her as she’s not even paid their bills.That Fox News thought it funny to share a faked picture of a judge with connections to both the cases of Trump and Epstein with Maxwell was a further curious example of deviancy at work in this sordid saga.Trump and Maxwell’s history goes back decades. He clearly sent her a message with his “I wish her well, whatever that may mean” message when asked about her during his presidential term.
Names in the firing line most obvious from Ghislaine’s filthy ‘Little Black Book’ as she seeks to minimise her sentence
Ghislaine Maxwell has until June 2023 to cooperate and thus “name names” if she wishes to see her sentence reduced.
Those Scott Borgerson’s estranged wife has been known to associate with – none of whom The Steeple Times is suggesting at this time as having been involved in any of her crimes, but whom she might seek revenge against for not offering her what she might consider enough public or even private support – include:
Alexander Acosta
Woody Allen
Ehud Barak
Tom Barrack
Scott Borgerson (estranged husband, facing legal woes in connections with the non-payment of his wife’s vast legal bills)
Jean-Luc Brunel (deceased)
Naomi Campbell
President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary
Alan Dershowitz
Glenn Dubin and his wife Eva
Bernie Ecclestone
Bill Gates
Geordie Greig
Countess of Iveagh (AKA Clare Guinness, Clare Hazell)
It looks as if there might be more woes to come for Prince Andrew as Ghislaine Maxwell is given until June 2023 to dob those she sex trafficked to in; the FBI should get ready to do some arresting
Whilst the Daily Mail’s Ephraim Hardcastle effectively somewhat ludicrously suggested on Thursday that there might be a way back for Prince Andrew or at the least the saving of his HRH title because of his daughter’s “virtues,” the DailyMail.com’s Harriet Alexander and Jamie Phillips were quite contradictory in arguing: “This isn’t the end of the story” for him in a separate article.
With Ghislaine Maxwell given until June 2023 to cooperate with authorities over naming which famous faces she and Epstein actually sex trafficked her victims to, now comes the possibility that the royal’s mucky madam mate may be amongst others to get a visit from the rozzers.
In July we reported Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer for several of the Epstein and Maxwell victims, telling the Mirror that the non-sweating favourite child of the late Queen would be “one of the targets” of the FBI for potential prosecution in the wake of Maxwell’s sentencing, he went further this week and claimed: “She really holds all the secrets.”
Bashed yet again in a new documentary titled Prince Andrew: Banished, the bestie of currently on trial for fraud Bernie Ecclestone was also slammed as an “idiot” and a “spoiled brat.” Amongst other comments made of him were that he was a “narcissist” and “there’s always onerunt of the litter, and Andrew was it… Couldn’t keep his trousers closed.”
In the programme, of a braggart and bully who paid circa £12 million to a woman he claimed never to have met, ex-press secretary Dickie Arbiter shared: “The problem is, the man’s an idiot” whilst ‘royal author’ Phil Dampier added: “His one big thing is sex.”
Going further, of why King Charles’s much loathed brother chose to associate with Epstein, Kirwan-Taylor suggested: “The moment he met Epstein, Andrew said hurrah… Because Epstein was every dodgy businessman or sheikh that Andrew had ever wanted” whilst former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown pointedly added:
“The other great glue between them was Andrew’s sex life… Epstein was very good at making him feel like he was incredibly important… For Andrew it was heaven [being with Epstein in New Mexico, New York and Palm Beach). He could behave as he liked behind closed doors… His decision to do that interview [with the BBC’s Newsnight] was the most unbelievable act of self-destruction… Andrew strapped on a suicide vest.”
It is now time for the sidekick of the help-herself-to-anything-that-is-not-pinned-down grifter Sarah, Duchess of York to do the decent thing. It is time for this international embarrassment to fly to America and it is time for him to tell the truth what he knows about his chums – including also Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Donald Trump – to the FBI. Given his previous form, we all know that of course he won’t.
Arresting Andy – That neither Prince Andrew nor Jeffrey Epstein supposedly ever smoked, drank alcohol or took drugs is one thing, that they wore matching coats is another (as pictured when they walked in Central Park, New York in 2010); now, though, it seems the randy royal may face have to deal with more serious woes caused by his similarities of character to the croaked paedophile.The Duke of York was rightly included in the funeral of his majestic mother, though also rightly not in a prominent manner. That he was snapped waving at photographers and public as if he was Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton, however, was indicative that this the rotten ratbag is just as arrogant as he has always been. He should now not be seen and most certainly not heard.Arresting Andy – In February 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported on croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s chum (and his wife Sarah, Duchess of York’s financial sponsor) Prince Andrew having alleged fraudster Bernie Ecclestone – who is currently on trial for allegedly trying to hide £400 million in assets from HMRC – over to Royal Lodge, Windsor to celebrate his birthday. Whether this man “with qualities that would make Leona Helmsley look generous” brought Sloppy Giuseppes from Pizza Express (Woking branch) for the bash remains still unknown. It is clear that the duke’s choices of friends, amongst them also despots and those of questionable financial means, remains as questionable as his arrogant behaviour to those he views to be beneath him.Whilst Lady Victoria Hervey may peddle her belief that the photograph taken of Prince Andrew, the then Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell at 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London, SW1 on the evening of the 10th March 2001 is a fake, others including the photographer who photographed the original photograph in 2011, New Zealander Michael Thomas, takes an entirely different view. Speaking to the ‘New Zealand Herald’ in February, Thomas remarked: “As I have said before, it was just an ordinary photo you would have got from a chemist in the days of negatives. Surely, if it was fake, every media outlet in the world would be getting sued for using it. The fact that isn’t happening, to me says everything.” Of the image, previously in 2019, Thomas commented: “It wasn’t like she pulled the photo of Prince Andrew out, it was just in among the rest of them. They were just typical teenage snaps. There’s no way that photo is fake.”Lawyer Spencer Kuvin has claimed that the FBI will be going after the Duke of York and others over their links to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. It seems unlikely that any charges will be brought against the rotten royal, but others might well get thrown under the bus including Woody Allen, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Kevin Spacey, Donald Trump and Leslie Wexner.
As Gerry and Kate McCann lose their libel case in the European Court of Human Rights, it is time for the pointless and totally wasteful £14 million search for their daughter to finally wind down
Bringing an end to an almighty and very costly charade where costs and damages will likely run into the hundreds of thousands for the McCanns and their foundation, Mr Amaral’s victory in this highest of courts ends the prospects of the British couple being able to pursue him further.
In a judgment issued online, “the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: no violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Going further, the court added:
“The case concerned statements made by a former detective inspector – in a book, a documentary and a newspaper interview – about the applicants’ alleged involvement in the disappearance of their daughter, Madeleine McCann, who went missing on 3 May 2007 in southern Portugal. Before the Court, the applicants alleged that there had been a violation of their right to reputation and to their right to be presumed innocent.”
“The Court considered that, even assuming that the applicants’ reputation had been damaged, this was not on account of the argument put forward by the book’s author but rather as a result of the suspicions expressed against them, which had led to their being placed under investigation in the course of the criminal investigation (the prosecutor’s office decided to take no further action in July 2008) and had led to intense media attention and much controversy.”
“The information had thus been brought to the public’s attention in some detail even before the investigation file was made available to the media and the book in question was published. It followed that the national authorities had not failed in their positive obligation to protect the applicants’ right to respect for their private life.”
“The Court also considered that in the Supreme Court’s judgments of January and March 2017 – concerning the civil claims lodged by the applicants – it had not made comments implying any guilt on the part of the applicants or even suggesting suspicions against them with regard to the circumstances in which their daughter had disappeared. The applicants’ complaint concerning their right to be presumed innocent was thus manifestly ill-founded.”
Responding, journalist and anti-corruption in charity campaigner Matthew Steeples, who has written extensively about the case since 2007 and who was introduced to Mr and Mrs McCann by the “Chanel-clad” former charity boss Baroness Meyer remarked:
“The vexatiously litigious McCanns have failed in their efforts to sully the name of Gonçalo Amaral. They have, with clear tenacity, gone after this Portuguese police officer again and again since 2008 and when Portugal’s highest court ruled that he was entitled to ‘freedom of expression’ in 2017, they still did not give up.”
“Today, having wasted yet more money in regard to a case of a ‘missing person’ who will likely never be found on top of the £14 million ($16 million, €15.9 million or درهم58.8 million) of public money already squandered, I suggest that it is time for this merry-go-round to stop and it is also time for Mr Amaral to be left in peace.”
“Whatever occurred on the evening of 3rd May 2007 in Praia da Luz, Portugal was most certainly a tragedy and a tragedy most definitely for Madeleine McCann – a 3-year-old child who had a full life ahead of her. It was right that the case was investigated, but over 15 years have passed.”
“As I have said again and again, there are other missing people out there and there are cases that with resources could and can be solved. These cases get little to no support and the disproportionate allocation of resources to the search for Madeleine McCann – a child who would by now be an 18-year-old adult – is clearly never going to lead anywhere.”
“Enough is enough. The end of the road has been reached and it is time that the Metropolitan Police finally wound down the disgraceful waste of money and resources that is Operation Grange.”
Meanwhile elsewhere, again today, we remind readers that Christian Brueckner – the current main ‘suspect’ in the case – has still not been charged. Strange that; very strange indeed.
Pictured top – ‘Missing’ since 3rd May 2007 Madeleine McCann (left) as a child and her parents out running in the days after their daughter supposedly vanished off-the-face of the planet.
Gonçalo Amaral was again victorious after the ECHR decided in favour of the Portuguese civil courts being right in their decision.The European Court of Human Rights tossed out Mr and Mrs McCann’s case against Portuguese detective Gonçalo Amaral on Tuesday 20th September 2022 as utterly meritless. This undignified pair should now see sense and put up and shut up.The information shared by the court prior to judgment clearly explains the details of the longstanding dispute in question.
Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers
Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:
Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?
Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?
Why were relevant mobile phone records never handed over to the authorities in spite of them potentially being useful to the search?
Why did the couple not use the babysitting service on offer in the holiday resort on the evening of 3rd May 2007 when they went out on the razzle dazzle with friends?
Why was the door to the apartment – which opened directly onto a public highway – left unlocked with three children aged under three years old alone inside?
Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?
Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?
Why did the McCanns repeatedly try to discredit the work of the sniffer dogs and their handlers?
Why did Mr and Mrs McCann go jogging and play tennis in the days after their daughter’s disappearance?
Was it acceptable for Mr and Mrs McCann’s mortgage to be paid by the fund established to search for their missing daughter?
Why have the McCanns attempted to ‘gag’ anyone who disputes their version of events – most especially Gonçalo Amaral?
Why given over £14 million has been spent on this search to date has nobody come forward with any sighting of ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann given the rewards on offer?
In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in September 2022, with that sum now well in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest.
As it emerges that the Germans are taking the biscuit and the prospect of Christian Brueckner being charged in the Madeleine McCann case has slimmed further, isn’t it time that this pointless £14 million investigation was closed down?
After Matthew Steeples of The Steeple Times and Alexis Parr and Richard Eden of the Daily Mail shared an appeal for a missing friend, William Cookson, useful leads poured in that helped lead to his location being identified. Wonderfully, William was subsequently found, but meanwhile the Metropolitan Police – a force rightly currently being analysed for its gross incompetence – continue their charade of ‘investigating’ the ‘disappearance’ of Madeleine McCann.
With £14 million thrown already down the Thomas Crapper by that incompetent set of officers on a search for a child that would have been found given some nefarious sort would have come forward to trade some other nefarious sort in given the rewards on offer, it wasn’t surprising this morning when The Mirror – one of the few papers to report honestly on this case – shared news that the chances of the definitely vile sex offender Christian Brueckner has slimmed further.
In an “exclusive” article about how the German – referenced in many titles just as ‘Christian B’ – likely faces charges of a number of other sex offences, Patrick Hill and Rob Hill for the paper claimed: “There is no end in sight for the Maddie probe itself.”
Hans Christian Wolters, the head of the inquiry into the ‘disappearance’ of the child of Gerry and Kate McCann in Germany, added: “The investigation into Maddie is still ongoing. A conclusion is not insight. I really can’t say how long the investigation will take. It is also not certain whether an indictment can be made in the end.”
Previously and also writing for the red-top, Jerry Lawton and Ryan Merrifield revealed: “There is no evidence that the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case was responsible for her disappearance, claims an investigator. Ex-detective Mark Williams-Thomas says the then-toddler’s real abductor will now likely get away with it due to the narrow-minded focus on Christian Brueckner.”
Will Christian Brueckner ever be charged with the kidnapping/abuse/murder of Madeleine McCann or is this just another distraction to suit the narrative of Gerry and Kate McCann, the Met Police and others? #MadeleineMcCann#McCann#ChristianBrueckner#ChristianB#MetPolice
Missing Madeleine – Questions STILL without Answers
Many questions about what happened on the evening of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann remain. Some that have been highlighted by the press and discussed online include:
Why did Kate McCann refuse to answer 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese police?
Why were certain records of phone calls on the evening of the disappearance “whoosh-clunked” from the memories of the phones of Mr and Mrs McCann and the ‘Tapas 7’?
Why did a British sniffer dog sense the smell of a corpse in a cupboard in the apartment from which Madeleine McCann disappeared?
Why did a sniffer dog also supposedly sense the smell of a corpse in a vehicle hired by the couple a month after the disappearance of their daughter?
Why did Mr and Mrs McCann go jogging and play tennis in the days after their daughter’s disappearance?
Was it acceptable for Mr and Mrs McCann’s mortgage to be paid by the fund established to search for their missing daughter?
Kate McCann – a woman who went running, played tennis and dined on chicken and mushroom risotto and egg and watercress salads washed down with strawberry vodka with the paedophile Sir Clement Freud in the days after her daughter ‘disappeared’ – has a clear touch of the Duchess of Sussex about her. Like ‘MeGain,’ whom banged on that “not many people have asked if I’m OK,” Mrs McCann said in 2011: “Officers walked past us as if we weren’t there. Nobody asked how we were doing, whether we were okay. Our child had been stolen and I felt as if I didn’t exist.”Living it Large – Gerry McCann enjoying a round of golf (left); Kate McCann at Downing Street, London hobnobbing with Missing People CEO Martin Houghton-Brown, the Duchess of Gloucester and the then Home Secretary Theresa May on 23rd May 2012 (right).Amongst those to have supported the McCanns have been especially gobby attention seekers including job wrecker Sir Richard Branson, “Chanel-clad” charity begins at home tin banger Baroness (Catherine) Meyer and her pompous arsehole late ex-husband Sir Christopher and job wrecking grabber Sir Philip Green.
In December 2017, when £11 million of British taxpayers’ money had been spent towards the search for ‘missing’ Madeleine McCann, 86% of viewers of ITV1’s ‘Loose Women’ said the public purse should cease to fund the investigation. Now, in September 2022, with that sum now well in excess of £14 million (aside from the millions in private money also), it is time to allocate resources to the search for missing people who actually can be found, we would suggest.
Oxford born former secretary of Ghislaine Maxwell sues ‘Miami Herald’ journalist Julie K. Brown for defamation; actress Emmy Tayler, daughter of a retired Oxford professor, perhaps should have been in ‘Inspector Morse’ instead of getting involved with the mucky madam
Whenever Oxford is mentioned, one naturally thinks of the oldest university in the English-speaking world, its eponymous dictionary and Inspector Morse, amongst other things.
Whilst the latter conjures images of Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse’s involvement with classical music and calamitous murders, the county town of Oxfordshire – which dates back to the Saxon period and has been the principal site for the production of Mini cars since 2000 – this 17 square mile city represented by Labour’s Anneliese Dodds MP’s connections with Ghislaine Maxwell were further revealed this week.
Now, on Tuesday, another of Maxwell’s Oxford connections, her former secretary, Emmy Tayler, announced via lawyers AXS Law Group, PLLC that she is to sue the Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown and the publisher of her 2021 book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, HarperCollins Publishers LLC for “publishing false and defamatory statements.”
Seeking a sum of in excess of £62,700 ($75,000, €73,600 or درهم275,400), Ms Tayler – who describes herself on IMBD as Oxford born and the daughter of a “recently retired professor” from there – claims Brown to have caused her “to suffer shame, humiliation, mental anguish and hurt feelings.” She adds that the journalist’s statements have “severely impacted and affected [her] mental health” in a 7-page document filed at the United States District Court Southern District of Florida on Tuesday 19th July 2022.
Going further, in the filing and denying Brown’s accusations that she aided in Epstein’s abuse, Tayler states that she was employed in London and then New York by Ghislaine Maxwell between 1997 and 2001. She specifically states that she did not work for Maxwell at the time of an incident Brown alleged her to be involved with Jane Doe 1 in Palm Beach, Florida in 2005 and demands the book be recalled.
Aside from having grown up in the same city as Ghislaine Maxwell, it is not known how the two actually met. Ms Tayler, who supposedly now lives in London according to her undated IMBD biography but potentially has lived somewhere else entirely since August 2020 if the New York Post is to be believed, “studied at Millfield School, where she was a Music Scholar. She pursued her passion for the violin, piano, singing, horseback riding, drama and karate. She attended The University of Westminster where she achieved a B/A Honors and a Degree in Commercial Music that was followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Shortly thereafter Emmy immigrated to New York, then to Los Angeles.”
Pictured top (left to right) – Former secretary and actress Emmy Tayler, incarcerated nonce Ghislaine Maxwell and late actor John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse.
‘Miami Herald’ journalist and author Julie K. Brown, 61, has long had deep involvement in the Epstein-Maxwell story. She was included in ‘Time’ magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2020’ and saw her book ‘Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story’ published in July 2021. Emmy Tayler claims statements made in the book falsely identify “her as a co-conspirator, aider and abettor, facilitator and/or assistant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse pyramid scheme” and argues that she lived in Los Angeles and not Palm Beach in 2005 – the year in which Brown references her as “[arranging] Epstein’s massage schedule.”According to a tweet sent by @CultStateDotCom on 1st December 2021 and taken from flight records that have been disputed by some, Maxwell’s PA Emmy Tayler flew on Epstein’s planes 190 times whilst the since croaked paedophile’s PA Sarah Kellen took 350 flights. His former girlfriend, Eva Andersson Dubin, took ‘just’ 36 flights whilst the since croaked paedophile sex trafficker Jean-Luc Brunel is said to have taken 34 flights, Gleen Dubin 27 and President Bill Clinton an astonishing 26.Both Ghislaine Maxwell and Dame Cressida Dick grew up and were educated in the ‘City of Dreaming Spires.’ Though Dame Cressida does not appear in the former’s address book, their connections during their formative years surely must have meant that their paths crossed – especially since the former Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis’ father was the senior tutor at the very college, Balliol, where both ladies studied.Headington Hill Hall was the scene of many an event hosted by the Maxwell family during their 32 years of renting it from the local council. It was built in 1824 for the Morrell family, local brewers, and was visited by Oscar Wilde – “gaudily dressed as Prince Rupert” – for an “all-night fancy dress May Ball” on 1st May 1878. The building now has housed a law school since 1992.Others who made connections with the wicked wastrel woman we believe to be the controller of the sex trafficking and blackmail operation in the city where she grew up and was educated were Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his journalist sister, Rachel Johnson. In November 2021, in ‘The Spectator,’ Ms Johnson remarked: “It’s hard not to feel a batsqueak of pity for Ghislaine Maxwell… As a fresher I wandered into Balliol JCR one day in search of its subsidised breakfast granola-and-Nescafé offering and found a shiny glamazon with naughty eyes holding court astride a table, a high-heeled boot resting on my brother Boris’s thigh. She gave me a pitying glance but I did manage to snag an invite to her party in Headington Hill Hall – even though I wasn’t in the same college as her and Boris. I have a memory of her father, Bob, coming out in a towelling robe and telling us all to go home. I’m sure fairweather friends would not reveal they went to a Ghislaine Maxwell party: as Barbara Amiel’s brilliant memoir ‘Friends and Enemies’ proves, you only know who your real chums are when you’re in the gutter.”John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Morse – based on the novels of Colin Dexter – starred in 33 two-hour episodes produced between 1987 and 2000. Based primarily in the university city, the detective drama featured a theme and incidental music by Barrington Pheloung and was followed by spinoffs including ‘Lewis’ and ‘Endeavour.’ What the detective would have made of Ghislaine Maxwell – whom if he had been real, he’d surely likely have encountered – would have been most fascinating.
