Dear Mr. Moore,
I am not satisfied with Mrs. Tyler's response dated 25th October 2013 to my
complaint that councillor Cheryl Bacon unlawfully excluded me from a public
meeting on 19th June and this email is my request for a review.
In other correspondence (not all of it addressed to me) Mrs. Tyler and
Mr. Hollier have accused me of shouting, waving papers, remonstrating, refusing to
leave the building at the request of the Hallkeeper and eventually being ejected
by the police on 19th June, all of which is totally untrue. Mrs. Tyler has
concluded that councillor Bacon has not, by her own almost completely false
account of the evening, breached the members' code of conduct.
Mrs. Tyler's reasoning is puzzling. She finds councillor Bacon was not in error
when she decided against a vote before moving into Closed Session. This is
irrelevant, I did not mention or complain about voting.
Mrs. Tyler has said that councillor Bacon was not in breach of any Standing
Order. Once again irrelevant as I made no such complaint.
Mrs. Tyler makes reference to a "debacle" and a "member of the public reading
the guidance about attending public meetings issued by the Secretary of State
for Communities and Local Government". My complaint did not include the word
debacle or the phrase about the DCLG nor did I make any reference to "councillor
Bacon prevented the meeting from continuing". Not a word of Mrs. Tyler's summary
is true, a fact easily confirmed by reading my complaint again. Mrs. Tyler would
appear to be creating fictional complaints to suit her lame excuses.
My complaint was that councillor Bacon had written untruthful statements about
myself and others and that these were being sent to other members of the public
labelling me a trouble maker when the fact is I sat quietly and said absolutely
nothing during the meeting.
As you know from other correspondence, I have written support for that statement
from members of both political parties.
Mrs. Tyler is clearly not the diligent person acting with integrity to whom
Mr. Hollier referred. She has not addressed any part of my complaint and, not for
the first time, has failed to seek corroboration of my claim to have said and
done nothing and that my exclusion from a public meeting was unwarranted. If she
had done so she would find councillors willing to speak the truth. Her continued
misconduct through the deliberate placing of obstacles in the way of justice
will inevitably lead to action elsewhere.
If I may summarise the position, councillor Bacon accused a group of people
including myself of creating a disturbance, none of your chosen witnesses
confirmed it and more than a handful of witnesses are ready to confirm that the
disturbance described by councillor Bacon did not take place. Two senior council
officers have strenuously supported councillor Bacon's account despite neither
of them being at the meeting and having only councillor Bacon's account to fall
back on. This is as stupid as it is dishonest. I trust you will be the first to
explore the avenues I have indicated to arrive at the truth.
Yours sincerely,
Malcolm Knight
5th November 2013