Category: Media Matters

Could Convicted Killer Luke Mitchell Actually Be Innocent?

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.

A campaign remains ongoing in that matter and after also taking up the botched Essex Police investigation into the March 2001 rape and murder of Stuart Lubbock at the home the since disgraced television ‘personality’ Michael Barrymore, we have also delved into the many issues surrounding other potentially unsafe convictions. Amongst those we’ve repeatedly highlighted are that of the October 1986 jailing of Jeremy Bamber – whose case is currently with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) – and that of the clear victims of parental abuse, the jailed for all of eternity Menendez brothers, in America also.

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 30^th 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 16^th 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.

Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

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 30^th 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 30^th 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?

November 15, 2022
From Loser To Lord – Should Shameless Shaun Bailey Be Elevated To House of Lords?

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.”

Going further, in 2005, Bailey made a berk of himself by claiming “accommodating Muslims and Hindus” in the UK was “robbing Britain of its community.” His nonsense was clearly shown to be such given the 2011 census revealed that 40.2% of London’s population to be non-white.

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?

Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

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.

November 12, 2022
Grim, Gobby Grimes Gone – Bombastic Brexit Bore Darren Grimes Axed By GB News

As ghastly, gobby and grim Darren Grimes gets axed by GB News, we call for the complete cancellation of a bombastic Brexit bore known best for pulling a Diane Abbott in wearing mismatching footwear

Self-declared “Northerner that says it how it is” Darren Grimes fits into the same category as Tom Harwood, Owen Jones and Omid Scobie in terms of being considered utterly irksome. With his nasty nasal twang and a Priti Patel-like use of language when he’s “scramblin’,” “wavin’” and “invadin’,” here is a tedious twerp who made even right-wing viewers of GB News turn off.

Now “abruptly cancelled” – according to Wikipedia – by GB News, Liberal Democrat turned right-wing Brexiteer Grimes took to Twitter on 4^th November and declared:

“Sadly, my GB News show, Real Britain, is ending in a few weeks. I want to make its last few episodes on air the best of all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to those who have loyally tuned in and supported me and the channel – it has been the greatest ride of my life!”

Responding on the social media network, most were unsympathetic of the plight of this County Durham born 29-year-old. One observed that GB News had “caused distress to his one viewer” whilst another added: “Good riddance to @Darren_Grimes: A vile racist and sh*t stirrer. May they all tumble, one after the other.”

Whilst Christine Hamilton proved herself a lone voice of support in stating: “You will be much missed” and adding “you will succeed whatever,” the cancellation of the founder of the since disgraced BeLeave campaign is something that has unsurprisingly been widely celebrated. It is now simply time for something else and that is to banish dimwitted Darren Grimes to Siberia for once and for all.

Pictured top – Darren Grimes (left) on a beach with what appears to be a small man running up his arm and a “coming soon” sign behind him; mockery of this “half-witted t***er” is unsurprisingly widespread on social media (right).

Rather like Diane Abbott, here is a tedious twerp who doesn’t appear able to match his footwear. Pictured at his beloved Newcastle United Football Club in a white shoe and a black shoe, Grimes has also been repeatedly subjected to widescale discussion of what he used to get upto whilst in the classroom as a child in year nine. “I’m not messing about,” he whimpered before not doing anything about his accusers.

Mocked widely on social media channels, the now axed GB News presenter is nothing but a disaster and a joke.

The diatribe of drivel that came from the mouth of ‘Grim Grimes’ clearly made viewers of even the right-wing news channel GB News turn off. His “I’m English and I’m damn well proud to be so” message didn’t even resonate with Brexiteers and BNP and EDL fanatics and now it is time that he was simply cancelled permanently.

Darren Grimes on Twitter…

Though he thought his time presenting ‘Real Britain’ the “greatest ride of my life!” the viewing public clearly felt otherwise and hence GB News unsurprisingly axed this very boring berk.

His Twitter handle speaks volumes… “Media personality” is hardly the way someone with a viewing audience of just the “mam” he bangs on about so much would be described by anyone with half-a-brain.

Though ‘Dim Dazzer’ seems to find most of his ‘fans’ on Twitter, he slammed it on the 6th November with the remark: “You virtue signaling cesspit.”

On the 5th November also, one of his videos was unsurprisingly removed from TikTok after it was deemed to be “hate speech.”

Trying to make out he’d actually had messages offering him “support and encouragement,” on the 5th November ‘Dopey Darren’ declared: “Don’t worry, I’m not going to stop making videos! I’ll be on your screens in some format!” God help the viewing public if that proves true.

Returning to type a day later, the opinionated oaf took his fury out on those calling him out and childishly branded someone who’d condemned him as “Mr Britain-loathing Liberal Democrat.”

This morning, very predictably, the now axed presenter got very, very, very upset over the cancellation of Boris Johnson’s pet project ‘royal yacht’ replacement by Rishi Sunak’s government. “Could it be that the left just doesn’t like anything associated with Britain?” he whined.

Reaction to ‘Crafty W*nk’ being cancelled and removed from television screens…

November 8, 2022
Senseless Scobie Slammed – Disgraceful PR Peddler Omid Scobie’s Bullsh*t Called Out

As respected BBC News and Sky News journalist Simon McCoy slams the “hypocrisy” of Omid Scobie for “trashing” real journalists, we remind ‘MeGain’s Mouthpiece’ that he is nothing but a pathetic PR peddler whilst the Duchess of Sussex’s very own sister Samantha Markle claims him to be “throwing out red herrings to deflect from the truth”

Omid Scobie doesn’t like making friends in the press; actually, he doesn’t like making friends full stop. Though he attempts to pretend to be a real journalist, he’s now being called out by real journalists and yesterday respected former BBC News and Sky News newsreader Simon McCoy became the latest to slam the tittle-tattling Finding Freedom ‘author.’

On Sunday, McCoy – who married the Dynasty star Emma Samms MBE in 2021 – politely tweeted: “Dear Omid, if I may. Your hypocrisy is astounding. You are no better than those of us who tried – honestly – to report on the Royal Family for years. But you apparently know better. Stop trashing those of us who have been this profession for a while. We see you.”

Responding to his comments, Twitter users subsequently told McCoy: “Shout it from the rooftops” and “he’s not a reporter, he’s a paid shrill.” One claimed: “Scoobie [sic] really is the pits!” whilst another added: “He knows zilch.” Labels of “trash media” and “he’s thick” came of the Duchess of Sussex’s PR peddler also and someone going by the handle ‘Juju Bean’ surmised: “He only speaks when Markle has something to say and gives him permission to say it.”

Sensibly, another account in the name of one Audrey Johnson concluded: “If @scobie titles himself as a ‘royal journalist,’ I’m the bloody Queen of Sheba. He is under some kind of illusion that the British public are stupid! We are well aware he is MM’s mouth piece, what she orders him to report he reports!!”

Elsewhere, corresponding via email with The Steeple Times over the weekend further to her exclusive interviews with us last week, the mendacious menace formerly known as Meghan Markle’s very own sister, Samantha Markle, poignantly observed:

“It seems Omid Scobie is in denial and throwing out red herrings to deflect from the truth and what transpired [when Meghan Markle embarked on joining the royal family].”

“No one can say she didn’t know what to expect from royal life because her PR made it clear that she went through ‘duchess school.’ She knew what the expectations were, and what the protocol was.”

“It was reported that she only spent 72 days total in royal duty before quitting to allegedly pursue a life in ‘Hollywood.’ Not surprisingly, she never gave up her agent and manager in Hollywood, or her citizenship.”

“Could leaving have been a plan from the beginning? Omid Scobie was also noted as being a close personal friend, so perhaps he knew about it.”

“I think Omid Scobie’s credibility has been called into question several times especially after he allegedly admitted that Megan lied in the Oprah interview.”

“All things taken together, it seems that it’s not that they didnt accept her, but it seems more the case that she didn’t like rules, truth and protocol, and it seems like she wanted to jump to the top of the hierarchy after only putting in 72 days of royal duty.”

“Maybe what they couldn’t accept was the constant breaking of protocol, disrespect, and the lying. Who can blame them for feeling betrayed and not accepting that? But apparently Omid Scobie can’t seem to wrap his brain around the fact that betrayal and dishonesty have consequences.”

Pictured top – Twitter users really dislike the ‘Finding Freedom’ author and regularly create memes of his plastic not fantastic face.

Allegations have swirled in recent months that the woman then known as Meghan Markle spent time on yachts in 2012 and in the years before. Here is a picture of her with someone alleged to be Omid Scobie in Cannes around that time. If the man in the sunglasses is genuinely the ‘Finding Freedom’ author, it is one of the only known photographs in the public domain of the pugnacious pair together. One is left asking: “If they are as close as Scobie likes to brag and boast, why do they avoid being seen in public together?”

Twitter responds to Omid Scobie’s diatribe of drivel about what he claims to know about Prince Harry’s disgraceful diatribe of drivel that is his forthcoming tittle-tattling tome ‘Spare’…

November 7, 2022
Moron of the Moment 2022 – Twittering Twerp Diane Abbott MP

That motormouthed MP Diane Abbott took to Twitter to defend a migrant rapist simply shows her as an utter twerp; perhaps, instead, she should focus on controlling her own son – a brat who likes to go around exposing himself – instead first

In January 2020, Diane Abbott MP’s son, James Abbott-Thompson, was charged with nine assaults, exposure and racially aggravated criminal damage. By March that year, aside from having exposed himself, this then 28-year-old had also spat at and punched one police officer and bitten the thumb of another, yet now his mother thinks she can wade into the migrant crisis and share her views on alleged sexual assaults.

Ms Abbott, a woman well known to be of mind stir-fried, took to Twitter last week and announced: “Teenage boy raped at hotel housing refugees. Terrible case. But it is what happens when you demonise migrants take NO responsibility for safeguarding migrant children.”

Going further in spite of very rightly being condemned for sharing such a glaringly inappropriate and morally repugnant excuse for rape, she continued: “My earlier tweet regarding the rape of the teenager in the migrant home may have been slightly raw in context but I maintain my theory, you treat migrants like rapists then they are going to behave like rapists.”

Strangely, this mother of a clearly wayward wastrel, then deleted the second tweet. Strange that, very strange indeed; shame on Diane Abbott and shame on all those who’ve subsequently come out and excused her wicked words.

The weird, weird words of the Labour Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington

On the ex-Labour leader, who she used to ‘enjoy’ sexual relations with, Jeremy Corbyn:

“Jeremy is always right.”

On his replacement as Labour leader (but not as her lover, allegedly) Sir Keir Starmer MP:

“Talks nonsense… Is quite strange.”

“On the question of Keir Starmer, I think we have to look at some of his advisors. It now seems that Peter Mandelson is a top advisor to Keir Starmer.”

“We only have to look at Peter Mandelson’s life and times to understand where he stands in relation to the wealthy and the powerful.”

“I think Keir Starmer’s problems are his advisors and he needs to be listening to his own party and grass roots party members more.”

“Keir Starmer’s people are spinning it, but in 2017, people forget you know, Jeremy got more votes than any other Labour leader and, you know, if he hadn’t had most of the PLP attacking him night and day, he might possibly have won in 2017.”

Responding to be accused of not being able to add up:

“I do know my figures.”

“Of course, I think things through.”

“I’m here, of course I’m here. I’m doing a media interview, I’m going on to do another media interview. There’s no truth that I’m not in the media talking about what happened.”

“I think I’m Shadow Home Secretary.”

Diane Abbott on the cost of recruiting 10,000 police officers:

“If we recruit 10,000 police officers, men and women, over a four year period, we believe it will be about £300,000… Sorry, I mean, they will cost, it will cost, erm, about £80 million.”

“We will be paying them the average, it’s been thought through. Of course it’s been thought through.”

“What we said is, of course, we’ll find the money to recruit the 10,000 police people by cutting the, cutting the money… I think that would give us 170, erm, sorry… We would find the money by restoring levels of capital gains tax.”

On racism:

“The British invented racism.”

“White people love playing divide and rule. We should not play their game… I don’t think saying that is racist… It was part of a sequenced debate that I said that.”

“We need unity between black, Asian, minority ethnic and Muslim people – we need the maximum public show of unity. Because time after time, in the past 32 years, I’ve seen efforts of people to organise disrupted by white people.”

On dogs:

“I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.”

On her own marriage:

“I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn’t.”

On “outsiders” and “insiders”:

“Outsiders often have an insight than an insider doesn’t quite have.”

On being an MP:

“Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children – clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?”

“I want power. I suppose that’s the story of my life – seeking power.”

“I’m in politics to be a voice for people who don’t have a voice.”

On the Kurdistan Workers’ Party:

“There is no difference between the PKK and ISIS.”

On the vile piece of toerag and one-time friend of Ghislaine Maxwell and the late croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that is Naomi Campbell:

“I am a fangirl of Naomi Campbell.”

On why she wanted to be Labour’s candidate to be Mayor of London:

“One of my advantages, if I was Labour’s candidate, is that loads of people know me. I’m not just talking about politics – they’ve seen me on Come Dine With Me, they’ve seen me on Pointless.”

“I am not associated with the past.”

On women in Northern Ireland:

“Women in Northern Ireland are second class citizens.”

Diane Abbott on supporting the IRA:

“Defeat for the British state would be a great liberation. A defeat in Northern Ireland would be a defeat indeed.”

On supposedly changing her views on supporting the IRA:

“It was 34 years ago, I had a rather splendid afro at the time. I don’t have the same hairstyle, I don’t’ have the same views. It was 34 years on. The hairstyle is gone, some of the views are gone.”

On supposedly changing her views about MI5:

“At that time, I and a lot of people felt MI5 needed reforming. It has since been reformed and, of course, I would not call for its abolition now. That MI5 has gone. It’s been reformed, it’s a different MI5 and that’s why so many of us are able to support it now.”

Diane Abbott on Mao Zedong:

“I suppose some people will judge that on balance Mao did more good than harm… He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now. I was just putting the case for Mao.”

Insulting white mothers:

“West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.”

On being a mother:

“I put being a mother ahead of being a politician.”

On the son she sent to a private school, who went on to commit various criminal offences:

“I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.”

On abortion:

“Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.”

“I believe every abortion is a tragedy.”

Diane Abbott on sex:

“Of course, sex is great. We don’t have to pretend otherwise.”

On masculinity:

“There is a crisis of masculinity in Britain because of the pressures rapid economic and social change have placed on masculine identity. A generation of men are in transit and unclear of their social role. They are also under pressure to live up to pornified ideals.”

Diane Abbott on her decision to send her criminal son to a private school:

“[It was] indefensible and intellectually incoherent.”

“I’m not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school, but I’m the only one who’s questioned about it.”

On parenting:

“When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the Internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with the latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.”

“Tackling obesity is key… Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.”

On being demoted to the backbenches:

“I was a backbencher for a few years and there is an awful lot to do on the backbenches.”

On her political strategy:

“[I am going to stop Labour going into a] dead end.”

“In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.”

On defending the indefensible:

“You can’t defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.”

On her many mistakes:

“You learn from your mistakes.”

On her future plans:

“I want to write a best-selling book.”

On being intensely disliked:

“[I am the] most abused of any Labour MP ever.”

And a final word from Diane Abbott herself:

“This is going round in circles… I’ve got nothing more to say, I’ve got nothing more to say.”

One of several recent tweets by the Labour Member of Parliament for Hackey North and Stoke Newington that rightly enraged members of the public. With a mouth larger than China and more front than Harrods, here, yet again, is just another example of why this ridiculous woman is totally unfit for high office.

Twitter reacts to Jeremy Corbyn’s former lover @HackneyAbbott making a twerp of herself yet again on Twitter…

November 6, 2022
Spare Us Senseless Scobie – Omid Scobie Talks Nonsense About ‘Spare’

As Omid Scobie claims that drippy Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ will reveal “the real truth” about him and his mendacious menace wife ‘MeGain,’ we say: Please spare us

“Unless I’m missing something, what really would be a revelation would be for Harry to admit that, all things considered, he’s led a rather cushy, privileged life and if one of the worst things that happened to him was that he was born only second in line to the throne, then he might have done better not to have taken a reported £20 million for a four-book deal – does anyone want to read Harry on leadership and wellness? – and to have sucked it up and not made such a fuss” remarked John Crace this morning in The Guardian in his ‘Digested Week’ column.

Quite right in his analysis, Crace hit the nail bang on the head, yet elsewhere yesterday the House of Sussex’s always predictably toady tin-banging twerp Omid Scobie decided to claim “the media’s got it all wrong about Prince Harry’s memoir.” Doing as he was no doubt told, as he always does when the mendacious menace formerly known as Meghan Markle no doubt put in a call, this PR peddler went further and declared to his extremely limited Yahoo! News UK audience: “Here’s the real truth.”

Whilst anyone with a quarter of a brain would admit that senseless Scobie wouldn’t know “truth” it gnawed him repeatedly in the arse, the Finding Freedom ‘author’ whined about the “angered reactions” to the forthcoming diatribe of drivel that is Spare and suggested the media were claiming “quelle surprise, ‘all Meghan’s doing.’”

Lauding the title of the tittle-tattling tome as a “punchy choice,” the unsophisticated former Heat gossip columnist and onetime mate of glamour ‘model’ Jodie Marsh continued his arse licking and declared:

“So far, only the smallest official details about the book’s 416 pages have been released by the publisher. They describe SPARE as a title written with ‘raw, unflinching honestly,’ a book that is filled with ‘insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom.’ I’d expect nothing less from prolific ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer, who is famous for encouraging his subjects to switch on the lights in the darkest parts of their story.”

Going further and bragging that he’s allegedly already seen the finished product, Scobie added:

“Among those who have already had sight of the book’s manuscript, Harry’s journey of being the spare, plus that difficult decision to change his destiny and start a new life elsewhere, serve as significant parts of the book. Filled with the prince’s trademark cheekiness, this memoir also tells a surprisingly relatable life story. Sure, its opulent royal backdrop is far beyond a world any of us will ever know, but themes explored in SPARE should resonate with readers from all backgrounds.”

“For all the tabloid reports about Harry supposedly ‘trashing’ his family (spoiler alert: he doesn’t), the book actually offers a more sympathetic look at the realities of their near-impossible existence. There were also no last-minute rewrites or edits after the Queen’s death. SPARE’s manuscript was completed almost five months before the monarch’s passing, a detail that will be acknowledged in a note at the start of the book.”

“Hundreds of journalists, including myself, have written versions and fragments of the duke’s story over the years. It’s a story that, as a working member of the Royal Family, he has long been unable to tell himself. Now, having created an independent life away from the confines of the royal institution, Harry finally has the chance to set often-inaccurately reported records straight. The freedom of speech. And no matter how you may feel about the man, it’s hard not to agree he should have the right to that.”

Elsewhere this week, speaking exclusively to The Steeple Times, the wicked wench formerly known as Meghan Markle’s somewhat more sensible sister, Samantha, declared of Spare: “’Spare’ us all the hypocritical pity party.” She is right and this book deserves only one thing; pulping.

Pictured top – Twitter users unsurprisingly loathe and detest the mouthpiece of the Duchess of Sussex and mocked his ‘Finding Freedom’ as ‘Finding French Fries’ recently.

Attempting to move the story onto his never-sorry-self, the ‘Finding Freedom’ PR peddling pillock shared news about how he’d been on the stage at Web Summit 2023 in Lisbon. He tweeted: “This year’s @WebSummit was the first to include stages focused on media, publishing and journalism so I was excited to be invited to speak, share stories, and discuss some of the challenges our industries are facing (from cancel culture to misinformation) and how to tackle them.” It was a shame he didn’t share that he’s the queen of misinformation himself.

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. Maniac Scobie is someone who most definitely would like his past forgotten, but here again we remind him that he’s actually just a two-faced twerp who spins nothing but nonsense.

Twitter reacts to Scobie’s diatribe of nonsense about Prince Harry’s nonsensical ‘Spare’…

November 5, 2022
Moron of the Moment 2022 – Immigrant Hater Natalie Elphicke OBE MP

Immigrant hater Natalie Elphicke OBE MP should be reminded that she, the wife of a convicted sex offender, is the noxious nasty who actually deserves to be hated

In March this year, The Steeple Times slammed the “total plonker” Conservative Member of Parliament for Dover, Natalie Elphicke, over her pathetic handling of the sacking of 800 P&O ferry workers by Zoom after she deservedly got heckled at a protest in support of their rights.

Unsurprisingly called out then also as a “stunningly stupid woman who once ludicrously suggested “border issues at Dover were not a problem created by Brexit, but were Brussels’ fault,” this 51-year-old first took her seat in December 2019 and now, this morning, she showed herself up when she penned yet another of her regular rants for The Mail on Sunday.

Previously, Dover had been the domain of her husband, Charlie – a cretinous creep known for running around the marital home yelling: “I’m a naughty Tory” as he went about groping horrified visiting ladies. Mr Elphicke was subsequently thrown in the slammer in July 2020 after being convicted of three counts of sexual assault against two women.

In today’s column, which was titled: “When will The Left admit this is no refugee crisis… but simply illegal immigration,” Mrs Elphicke blamed everyone but her own party for refugees landing daily on British shores. “They are not fleeing wars,” she raged, before adding: “The injustice affects everyone… Not that you’d know it from the handwringing rights industry, the charity sector and the skewed reporting of the issue from the Left-wing media and the BBC.”

Instead of seeking a solution on British shores, this heartless multi-millionaire mother-of-two simply offered: “It is undoubtedly the case that more can be done in France” before demanding “an immediate solution.” Idealistic, yes, realistic no and achievable, most definitely not.

Frankly, all this latest column does is to provide further indication that here is an impractical woman unfit to represent the 72,000 people of her constituency. It is now jolly well time for ‘Nasty Nat’ to finally do the decent thing – resign and make way for someone who might actually help work towards a solution to this very real problem; a very real problem that affects both those arriving in Britain and those already living in Dover and beyond.

Immigrant hater Natalie Elphicke OBE MP turned up to court regularly with her husband during his trial for sexual assault. She openly supported him and smiled for the cameras willingly alongside him, but as soon as he was convicted she took £25,000 from ‘The Sun’ for a negative story about him. Just days later, she changed her mind yet again and claimed her criminal hubby had been punished for being “charming, wealthy and successful – attractive, and attracted to, women.” She dismissed the claims of his accusers as nonsense and then, along with four other MPs (Sir Roger Gale, Theresa Villiers, Adam Holloway and Bob Stewart), were censored for using parliamentary notepaper to improperly pestering the judiciary with “naughty notes” trying to get the rotten sex offender off in November 2020. Here is a woman incapable of making up her mind and sticking to a single belief; here is a woman wholeheartedly unfit to be a Member of Parliament.

I came across a discarded small boat on the beach in Dover earlier.

Many more illegal arrivals again today.

We must get a grip on the small boats crisis and stop boats like this arriving on our shores. pic.twitter.com/8y7bvapk0q
— Natalie Elphicke Ross OBE (@NatalieElphicke) October 29, 2022

Yesterday, the MP shared a video in a tweet caption: “I came across a discarded small boat on the beach in Dover earlier. Many more illegal arrivals again today. We must get a grip on the small boats crisis and stop boats like this arriving on our shores.” Instead of telling those poor souls seeking asylum to “get a grip,” she ought first to “get a grip” and deal with the continuing fallout from her husband’s convictions and her efforts to clear this filthy pervert’s rotten name.

Twitter reacts to the Member of Parliament for Dover’s latest antics…

October 30, 2022
Dopey Dent Coad Ditched – Kensington Labour Rejects Emma Dent Coad

Matthew Steeples suggests mouthy ex-MP Emma Dent Coad’s latest moan about how Labour have ditched her as a future candidate show her for what she is; a sore loser and a far-left hectoring harridan

Ten days ago, ex-MP for Kensington Emma Dent Coad – a hectoring harridan with a penchant for using the block button on Twitter to anyone who dares calls out her diatribe of drivel – issued a statement after she was excluded from being on Labour’s longlist of prospective candidates for the next election.

At the time, the far-left royal hater whined that she was “devastated” and “angry.” She moaned also that her party had “unjustly” prevented her from “standing for the seat I won just five years ago, the seat I came agonisingly close to holding even in 2019, despite the trade union backing which should have seen me longlisted automatically.” The now 67-year-old had won in 2017 by just 20 votes over Tory Lady ‘Call me Victoria’ Borwick and lost by 150 in 2019 to Felicity ‘Flicka’ Buchan, also a Conservative.

Dent Coad – who was deservedly slammed in 2017 for having used the racist description “token ghetto boy” of the then Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey in 2010 – is now being made into a martyr with Novara Media’s Andrew Fisher describing her exclusion as “factional manouverings” that will be a “self-defeating… slap in the face” for Labour and Sir Keir Starmer. He titled his ridiculous rant: “Labour’s cult of factionalism is going into overdrive. Emma Dent Coad is the latest scalp.”

Speaking to the Communist Morning Star, a Momentum spokesperson added:

“It is a travesty of justice that passionate, popular advocates for their community like Emma are being blocked en-masse by Keir Starmer’s Labour on spurious grounds, so loyalists from outside the area can be parachuted in.”

“This is a deeply damaging episode for the Labour Party in Kensington, and one that local people are unlikely to forget.”

Instead now, if Labour actually want to make headway given Rishi Sunak somewhat steadying the Conservatives in just a few days in office, it is time that the party woke up and smelt the markets. The days of trade unionism and Jeremy Corbyn are dead; Britain needs a centrist opposition that genuinely opposes, but one that actually works with business rather than supports strikes against it.

Pictured top: Jeremy Corbyn apologist Owen Jones and Emma ‘Dense’ Dent Coad – a footnote in history who (along with Jones) has blocked ‘The Steeple Times’ on Twitter; here is a woman who plainly cannot cope with any discussion where she’s not hectoring all others.

Here is a privileged Kensington resident – who was married to Sir Hadley Gregory D’Oyly, 15th Baronet from 1978 to 1972 – who likes to play the card that she’s a woman of the people. She’s incapable of dialogue with anyone who doesn’t totally agree with her and simply blocks that dares question her on Twitter.

The far-left, Corbynite socialist councilor for the Globorne ward of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Council since 2006 is proud to be trade union backed and also has a book just out that she clearly wants to promote and profiteer from.

Dent Coad’s statement in full:

I am devastated that the Labour Party has blocked me from standing to once again represent my community in Parliament, the community I have spent the last 20 years of my life fighting for.

At the same time, I am angry that local members and our local community in Kensington have been denied the opportunity to vote in a free and fair contest, which has been sacrificed for the sake of factional intrigue from Labour officials.

This campaign has never been about me. I stood to offer dedicated representation for the people of Kensington in Parliament, from someone who knows and cares for our communities.

From my role as a local councillor and Labour Group leader, to my campaigning efforts as Kensington’s MP on housing issues so dear to our hearts, I have only ever sought the chance to champion our people, whose voices all too often go unheard.

If I have been outspoken in my politics, it is due to my passion and care for Kensington – for my neighbours and friends – and because of my burning desire to stamp out injustice and build a fairer, more equal society.

Upsettingly, unaccountable Labour officials have exploited this outspokenness to unjustly prevent me from standing for the seat I won just five years ago, the seat I came agonisingly close to holding even in 2019, despite the trade union backing which should have seen me longlisted automatically.

It is plain as day that the candidate selection process now being run by the Party is being factionally abused and is not fit for purpose.

I deplore injustice, and through my 16 years on the Council, various reports and my recent book, ‘One Kensington’ I have done my utmost not only to draw attention to the very real inequalities in our community but to actively fight it, from the council chamber to the House of Commons.

Above all, my driving ambition has been to combat the inequality which scars our community, the systematic disregard for working-class people which led to the atrocity of the Grenfell Tower fire, and which has led many to lose faith with the political process.

These people deserve and need representation in Parliament. I hope that Labour’s eventual candidate will gain the respect and trust of all communities in Kensington. It won’t be easy.

Solidarity,

Emma

The ex-Labour MP for Kensington’s full statement. It clearly illustrates her lack of respect for democracy and how she is instead totally unfit to be a Member of Parliament again. In October 2019 whilst still an MP, she was forced to apologise after liking a Facebook post that claimed: Israel “disgraces all of us Jews worldwide,” according to the ‘Jewish News.’

October 27, 2022
Wally of the Week – The Rt. Hon. Liz Truss MP

That Liz Truss appointed an adviser who’d previously worked for the mate of paedophiles Prince Andrew sums up her complete lack of sense and good judgment; that she’s almost unpopular as the rotten ratbag royal is also telling

George Canning lasted just 119 days in office from 12^th April 1827 until his death on 8^th August that year and now Liz Truss needs to ‘survive’ until 3^rd January 2023 if she isn’t to replace him as the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history. Frankly, her chances of that seem a little bit beyond ‘Slim Shady.’

Truss – a schoolgirl-like being akin to a cross between the lisping limpet Violet Elizabeth Bott and the hectoring harridan with a mission to make the nation fat that is Mary Berry – faces woes on all fronts. However, what was most telling was that her adviser Jason Stein, who was forced out yesterday, had previously been an adviser to the man who paid a sum commonly purported to be £12 million to a woman he claimed to have never met, the non-sweaty friend of paedophiles Prince Andrew.

A clear case of “the truth being stranger than fiction,” the choices of Truss – a woman whose own lack of loyalty was illustrated most clearly when she had an affair with the now former MP Mark Field in 2006 – in also both her also-now-gone Chancellor and Home Secretary are most definitely indicative of someone who simply doesn’t have her finger on the pulse in any regard.

Elsewhere yesterday, the booze loving Felicity ‘Call Me Flicka’ Buchan, was called out by the acidicly acerbic blog From The Hornets Nest for being a “rare voice of support” for Ms Truss. Quoting an article from The Times, the blog observed that the Kensington MP was “out on a limb in supporting [the] hapless” Prime Minister and claimed it was “as if Truss was working for the Labour Party” and “was unfit for purpose.”

Going further, it was observed of a meeting of the One Nation Group:

“One obsequious murmur came from the minister Felicity Buchan, who offered a rare voice of support. But otherwise, the MPs filtered out of the room, and to their various disconsolate dinners, in a state of open hopelessness. ‘It was 99 per cent unsympathetic, 1 per cent Felicity Buchan,’ one said.”

Update – 2pm, 20^th October – ‘Slim Shady’ Liz Truss proved to come and go even quicker than expected and now the shortest serving PM in British history has gone after just 44 days in office; God only knows what calamity comes next.

Pictured top – Two of the most unpopular people in Britain right now, Liz Truss and the Duke of York. What a pair of berks!

The former lover of Liz Truss, the now ex-MP Mark Field, came under fire in June 2019 after he grabbed a female protester by the neck at a bankers’ banquet. He was subsequently suspended from his Foreign Office position for manhandling Greenpeace activist Janet Barker. Rabbit loving farm dweller Ms Barker, 38, subsequently suggested Field “should consider anger management lessons” but did not comment on what she thought of the then Westminster MP’s sexual antics with the now (for the moment) Prime Minister he had enjoyed intimate relations with.

Once lauded as ‘Lioness Liz,’ but now more widely considered to be ‘Loopy Liz’ and ‘Ludicrous Liz,’ here is a Prime Minister who is nothing but an international laughing stock. King Charles rightly muttered “oh dear, you’re back again” on encountering her recently and soon she’ll no doubt be consigned to where all political careers inevitably end – the dustbin of failures. Poor, laughable lassy Liz Truss.

Will the current Prime Minister beat George Canning in having a record for being the shortest-lived Prime Minister in office? Given her current predicament, she looks most likely to be the ultimate winner.

When you’ve got the backing of the current MP for Kensington – who won by just 150 votes at the last general election– you know you’re onto a loser. Boozed-up Felicity Buchan – a woman who has failed to reply to a letter sent to her by her constituent Matthew Steeples in July 2022 – is someone no one in their right-mind would want the backing of. Lazy and ludicrous, here is someone who can’t even deal with the potholes in Walton Street, the very street she lives in in Knightsbridge let alone judge the mood of the nation.

October 20, 2022
Arresting Andy – More Woes For Deplorable Duke Of York

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.

October 7, 2022