From ‘Tortured by the State’
You may think that if you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about. Although that may be a logical statement, the reason I worried is because, despite the fact that I had done nothing wrong, they began fabricating evidence, almost immediately.
The practice of fabricating evidence cannot be attributed solely to this MI5 counter-terrorism squad who I encountered in that fateful summer of 2017. Far from it, in fact. Numerous undercover police officers from The Metropolitan Police have also been involved in this deception, whereby they have created artificial situations to create evidence under false pretexts. I have seen so many officers involved in this practice that I’ve actually lost count. This method of accumulating evidence by deception, also known as perverting the course of justice, did not last a few days, weeks or months, but it has gone on for years. The impression that I am left with is that this is not the work of a few bad apples, rather the entire orchard appears to be rotten. It came as no surprise to me that the Daniel Morgan Panel concluded that The Metropolitan Police are “institutionally corrupt”.
The ‘rotten apple approach’ to dealing with corruption does not meet the needs of a police service seeking to minimise, and even prevent corruption, in its rank. The Metropolitan Police’s focus on corruption as a ‘debilitating’ factor… and a ‘significant factor; in preventing the Metropolitan Police from bringing those responsible for Daniel Morgan’s murder to justice, mainly centred on the alleged corrupt behaviour of one officer, DS Sidney Fillery. This had the effect of deflecting attention from the multiple wider organisational factors.
Report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel (2021)
The confidence with which these MI5 counter-terror people have attempted to manufacture evidence, and their readiness to do so, including the longevity of this illegal practice, suggests, to me at least, that this is a common working practice. What’s more, such was their readiness to falsify evidence, it is not unreasonable to ask this rather pertinent question: if they have done this to me, then who else have they done this to? In the interests of truth and justice, the answer to that question should be known. However, as the Daniel Morgan Inquiry highlighted, the Metropolitan Police operate on a policy of denial and cover ups.
The failure to acknowledge corruption means that associated management issues are not dealt with…
Report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel (2021)
The truth is that only once the history of this MI5 counter-terrorism unit, the people I encountered in August 2017 who have so ruthlessly and relentlessly pursued me without good reason, only once they have meticulously been examined, only then will we really know the truth.
And as yet, it gets worse – far worse: In the autumn of 2018, I discovered that my computer had been accessed. Two images had been placed on my computer. More accurately, they had been placed on my memory stick. That memory stick would later mysteriously disappear. In the spring of 2020, I had documents removed from another memory stick. That memory stick also disappeared. This practice they use, of remotely accessing computers, to either delete or add material, surely deserves further scrutiny.
It is said that when trust is lost there is no legitimacy. How do you trust people who work for just but who fabricate evidence, who lie under oath, who are prepared to deceive a court of law? It’s simple: You don’t. Quite remarkably then, I’ve spent five years contending with people whose preferred method of working is to obtain evidence illegally, by deception. These people have at hand the tools of the state: access to the media, to helicopters, to the dog squad, to uniformed police, to undercover police, even to a foreign police (I was followed absolutely everywhere I went when I was in Mexico), in fact, they have access to pretty much whatever they want – all in the interest of “national security”. Where the checks and balances are, I have yet to find out.
“The Metropolitan police’s culture of obfuscation and a lack of candour is unhealthy in any public service. Concealing or denying failings, for the sake of the organisation’s public image, is dishonesty on the part of the organisation for reputational benefit. In the panel’s view, this constitutes a form of institutional corruption.”
The Report of the Daniel Morgan Panel (2021)