28 March (Part 1) - Things are getting interesting
The phone rang last Sunday afternoon and it was the police officer in charge
of the obscene blog investigation. He said the investigation was now completed
and a file had been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service. I didn’t like to tell
him that Chief Superintendent Stringer had told me the same thing ten days
earlier and I thanked the Detective Sergeant very much.
I haven’t asked who is in the frame because they wouldn’t tell me anyway and I
have no more idea as to which of Will Tuckley and Teresa O’Neill’s associates is
the chief suspect than you have.
When the investigation was prematurely closed down in August last year a
Freedom of Information request seeking information was rejected. Not in the
public interest to say anything was the official answer. I suspect it was not in
the public interest to reveal that the police had done nothing rather than not
in the public interest to give any clues about any well known name that might be
involved. The pessimist in me suspects the latest developments will take a similar route.
On the other hand if the evidence has come from Google it will surely point at
one source without a lot of scope for doubt. At the meeting with the police
officers they indicated pretty strongly that they were in a waiting mode at that
time. I have heard from numerous sources that all Google based investigations
are sent to the City of London police for processing as they have the expertise
and links to Google and there is a waiting list for their assistance.
Whatever the CPS decision, it is real progress. Our top policemen now believe they know who
published the obscene blog. They are unlikely to look upon Bexley councillors in the same way
they did before. They are not only pretty sure they know who did it, they will
know who tried to cover it up; who was economical with the truth during their investigations.
Already the top officers are treating Elwyn Bryant and his fellow Bexley Monitoring Group members (and
me) in a noticeably more friendly way. They must have at last realised where the real wrong
doers are to be found. At the highest levels within Bexley council.
Indications are that the CPS will make a decision within days rather than weeks
and I am sure Olly Cromwell will share in a certain amount of schadenfreude at
the thought that somewhere not far away from here someone will be jumping at
every knock at the door, and every ring of a phone, fearing that his time has come.
Bexley council: dishonest, incompetent, vindictive. Criminal.