15 April (Part 5) - More about Friday the 13th
Friday 13th April 2012 was not the first day on which I watched a Bexley
councillor stand in a witness box and take a Bible in his hand and promise to
tell the truth. On the first occasion I saw Bexley council’s deputy leader swear that
a
cafeteria within the council owned Thames Innovation Centre (TIC) was not
open to the public. I was sure it was as it was advertised in the road outside
and on the web (and this was subsequently confirmed) but he insisted that was
untrue. It may seem like a bit of trivia but it was important to hear the truth because
deputy leader Colin Campbell was defending Bexley council’s decision
to employ a charged (and subsequently convicted) paedophile as manager of the
TIC and allow him access to areas where mothers and children were encouraged to visit by virtue of the
services offered at the TIC. Children were able to run around the cafeteria
either because their mothers had legitimate business at the TIC or because they had
merely popped in for a coffee. I don’t believe that councillor Campbell was
happy with the decision of Bexley’s Human Resources Department but he was there
to defend the council and he felt compelled to say something under oath which wasn’t
true. When the Judge, who admitted to having been employed by Bexley’s Legal
Department before taking up her judicial employment, was given the evidence
that councillor Campbell was mistaken she refused to accept it.
In the picture above, councillor Seymour’s house is on the left and Olly’s is
hidden behind the foreground tree. On the satellite view it is the block in
the top left corner. Councillor Seymour’s front door is right opposite Olly’s.
You can see how Olly, playing with his new camera, might take the fateful picture
because it was the easiest subject around.
Councillor
Seymour said under oath that Olly had slammed the door in his face
when Olly as a newly moved in neighbour was advised by him where he could safely
park without receiving a penalty notice. There is no way of knowing if Olly
slammed the door or not but he said he didn’t and slamming the door for no
reason sounds implausible but it did help do the required damage in the Judge’s
mind. Seymour said he was warning Olly of double yellow lines but
there are none in their little cul-de-sac but the patch
outside his house may have been relevant to his comment.
Something that concerns me about Friday is that the Judge was given an unedited
version of the charges against Olly because no other was available. The
prosecutor read an edited version from the original but no edited copy actually
existed and he gave the original to the Judge to read over lunch. And why should they be edited you
may ask. Because the charges were those prepared from the original false allegations that included
flaming torches, pitchforks, petrol bombs and Olly writing on Bonkers. All of
that was untrue; made up and distorted stories by Bexley council aimed at getting both Olly
and me in trouble. The prosecution could find no evidence for any of those allegations which is what
you might expect since they were all false and Olly was found not
guilty last December. All the nonsense invented by Bexley council was put before
the new Judge as fact. Worrying.
Banner photos from Google Street View and Google Earth.