23 June - Misconduct in Public Office. A family affair?
Someone closely acquainted with Bexley police and their crooked associations
with Bexley council (†) asked me why I was so sure that Police Constables Shaun
Kelly and Peter Arthurs would have to be
pressurised into making false
statements in support of Bexley council, maybe they were happy to be associated
with liars was the unstated suggestion.
Probably I am naive but that was something that had never crossed my mind encouraged by the
fact that the police refused to let Mick Barnbrook have a copy of the two PC’s statements, merely
giving assurances that their statements supported Bexley council’s false allegation about
five members of the public refusing to leave the council chamber. Being only too
well aware of how senior police officers lie as a matter of course I rather
thought the statements didn’t actually exist.
But what if the two PCs are wrong ‘uns happy to associate themselves with liars, cheats and crooks?
Research into Shaun Kelly’s history did not get very far. He is the
Neighbourhood copper on Teresa O’Neill’s ward which doesn’t prove a lot. Maybe
he feels he can’t afford to upset the great lady.
Looking into Peter Arthurs’ history proved to be a bit more interesting but maybe
not entirely productive. A Peter Arthurs
married an Eileen Hayes in 1983…
…and a Peter and Eileen Arthurs live - or maybe lived - together in Bexley.
With the same names and middle initials it’s not impossible they are the same couple.
So where is this leading you might ask. Well it’s probably just wishful thinking but a PC Eileen Arthurs was
jailed for two and a half years last year for Misconduct in Public Office.
There is a
pre-verdict report on the News Shopper’s website.
It includes the little gem of information that PC Eileen Arthurs lived at the
same address as Lee May, “suspected of involvement in the 2006 Securitas Heist
which was the biggest in British criminal history”.
It’s too much to hope for that PC Peter Arthurs is in some way linked to this and heading in the same direction as Eileen all because
councillor Cheryl Bacon is one big liar
and the indications are unfortunately that it is all coincidence. But it does
serve as a reminder that one can be too trusting of the police and maybe I
should stop giving PCs Kelly and Arthurs the benefit of the doubt.
† It was John Kerlen as long term readers may have guessed. For newcomers
I should explain that in 2011 John Tweeted “What sort of c*** lives in a house
like this?” alongside an identified house. It was councillor Melvin Seymour’s
house but it was Bexley council that identified it, not John. They then
persuaded an obedient Bexley police chief to prosecute him claiming without a shred of
evidence that John had encouraged people to post dog faeces through Seymour’s letter box.
Will Tuckley repeated the same lie in a letter to John.
Below is part of councillor Seymour’s less than truthful statement to the police…
Where did Seymour get that idea from? No one mentioned dogs but when does the
truth ever bother the average Bexley Tory? Seymour repeated the same lies in the
witness box. Fortunately, albeit after ten thousand pounds’ worth of barrister’s
fees, John was found not guilty. Yet another example of the dishonest steps
certain Bexley councillors will take to avenge criticism.
Perhaps Melvin Seymour would like to thank Cheryl Bacon for providing the
opportunity to rake up that old story for the benefit of a new audience?