15 December (Part 2) - Get Out of Jail Free
At the beginning of the week
I was forecasting that two threads of the police
investigation into the crime perpetrated via councillor Peter Craske’s phone
line would reach a conclusion. The prediction was based on police promises and
at the 11th hour it has come half true. This morning the postman delivered a
letter from the Met. Police Directorate of Professional Services (DPS) in response to my
complaint of 7th June 2012.
Late on Wednesday evening the new investigating officer who has shown herself to
be infinitely more aware of the requirement to keep victims informed than her
predecessors emailed to apologise for another week of unavoidable slippage to her current enquiries.
Today’s letter from the DPS comes up with an ingenious excuse for last year’s investigation coming to
a premature end.
It may even be true. When the Met’s Intelligence Bureau (MIB) - the name
suggests they keep all they have in one place -
was asked to attempt a trace on the obscene blogger they were told it was posted
on 21st February 2011 instead of 21st May.
Inevitably the MIB found nothing and the investigation crumbled as a result. If
Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer had told us that when we met on 10th February
2012 instead of wittering on about new evidence coming to light we may well have
thought far more of him. As it is his reluctance to be truthful allowed various
other theories to evolve. There was no new evidence.
Maybe because of pressure from MPs; on 23rd September 2011 a new
DCI was asked to review the case and spotted the mistake. Effectively the
case was restarted then and with such alacrity that the culprit was allowed a
whole 13 months to ditch his computer and lose as much evidence as possible.
Every policeman involved has been deemed to have acted in a wholly professional
manner. The fact that the two who interviewed the council Chief Executive regarded Elwyn
Bryant‘s complaint as a counter allegation” when he had nothing to counter,
rather than a legitimate crime report in its own right is ignored.
However the DPS’s report does helpfully repeat the fact that Bexleyheath police issued me with a
Harassment
Form 9993 (after reporting
what an Erith blogger said about Teresa O’Neill) at the request of
Bexley council in error and it is “withdrawn” which reminds me that Bexleyheath
police has never written to tell me. Perhaps they haven’t come to terms with
being duped by council leader Teresa O’Neill & Co. and it was helpful to use it as a plank on which
to build their false claim against John Kerlen. He hadn’t even referred to the Erith blogger, let alone
pen what he was initially charged with writing.