11 September (Part 1) - Everyone loves a scandal
It’s
not often that councillor Peter Craske does anything worthwhile but boosting
yesterday’s site visitors to the highest level since
Olly Cromwell triumphed over Bexley
council’s lies a month ago deserves recognition. Reporter Jim Palmer’s News Shopper story was
their ‘most shared’ too. There’s probably a lot of people out there rubbing
their hands together gleefully and wondering what Craske may have done - apart from
ripping off motorists with his
false accounting
for Residents’ Parking Permits.
The following is necessarily speculative but the obscene blog investigation went
nowhere in the first six months when the police seemed more interested in
protecting Bexley council that chasing a criminal. Following that (February) there was a
clear reference to the time it takes to work through the police department that
liaises with Google and for forensic experts
to check over computers. But seven and a half months? Surely that is pushing credulity a
bit?
In an email to the investigating officer last Friday I said that
I could see only two reasons for the further delay until October. I suggested he
was either messing us around or he was on to something big. Or as I put it only
slightly more politely, “you are under pressure to find a way out for your
suspect/s but as time goes by that looks less likely as there are quick and
obvious escape routes at your disposal, or that you are pursuing enquiries that
go beyond the initial complaint”. True to form the policeman refused
to comment.
Fifteen months in total to pursue one homophobic hate crime. There must be more to it
than meets the eye. It would be good if councillor Peter Craske turned out to be
the obscene blogger. We might be rid of one nasty individual but it might also
expose leader Teresa O’Neill and Will Tuckley’s denial that were involved in the
removal of the obscene blog only a couple of hours after they were informed of it. And
the denial that there had been any police investigation into it involving Bexley council.
Click image for News Shopper report.