Dear DS Nicholas,
I received your letter this morning and I am writing to let you know that I will
not be taking the matter further. You have thrown a great deal of light on what
happened and you have acknowledged that things could have been handled better. I
can see that DI Marshall was placed in an invidious position when pressured by
Bexley councillors and their chief executive Will Tuckley.
It was shocking to read how close their lies had come to having me charged but
the Criminal Prosecution Service would have had little option given the
seriousness of the falsehoods presented to them by Bexley council which they
channelled through DI Marshall. I am grateful to him for taking a more
considered view of the facts and downgrading things to a mere Harassment Letter,
wrong though that may have been. I fully understand how DI Marshall was put in
that position by an overbearing and corrupt council. All of the claims they put
before DI Marshall are now totally discredited and that fact has become widely
known.
I can confirm that there was at one time an understanding with DI Marshall for
us to meet and discuss the matter, but he deferred it when he suddenly announced
that he was going to be away for a couple of weeks. As you know, he
unfortunately disappeared from the scene at that time.
You have assured me that the Form 9993 gives you no power of arrest, in spite of
what it appears to say on the form. Thank you for that.
If you get the opportunity I would like you to assure DI Marshall that I fully
appreciate his difficult position and totally accept that any failure there may
have been was probably inevitable given the circumstances and I wish him well
for his recovery. I feel less sympathy for whoever it was at Bexleyheath who
sent the unsigned first response to my complaint; that was clearly an attempt to
cover up for the mistakes made under the pressure exerted by Bexley council.
Finally I would like to thank you for taking my complaint seriously and getting
closer to the truth than we have been before.
Yours sincerely,
Malcolm Knight