18 February (Part 3) - Turning up the heat
Tomorrow I am going to meet Mick Barnbrook to discuss the next move in the Cheryl Bacon business. There is no doubt now that someone lied rather when she could have simply acknowledged a mistake and now Lynn Tyler, Akin Alabi, Nick Hollier and Will Tuckley have had to lie in an attempt to cover the tracks. It’s not worked, they have contradicted themselves too many times as liars always do. Their stories make no logical sense either and more than 20 people know that what is attributed to Cheryl Bacon is a lie, well they would do if they read Bonkers, so maybe 15 councillors are in blissful ignorance.
I
think Mick might suggest just bundling up the most damning of the papers and
passing them to the police. He has already said that he expects Chief
Superintendent Peter Ayling to dismiss the case to protect his council friends the same
as Stringer and Olisa before him and now under investigation by their Department
of Professional Standards for succumbing to the political pressure already admitted
by their own officer. Then an eighteen month long cycle of complaints followed by
allegations of police corruption will ensue, I know the path all too well. I had yet
another email this morning from the Deputy Assistant Commissioner relating to
the Craske corruption.
My inclination is to tell the DAC that I have another case of Misconduct in
Public Office which I fear will eventually lead to CS Ayling being implicated in
a cover-up and seek advice as to where else I might send my file. Then I would name
as witnesses the five other members of the public who know that Cheryl Bacon
lied - or the Legal Department did on her behalf - when I was accused with others of misbehaviour in order to justify the
law breaking. More importantly I would name the 15 councillor witnesses who were at the meeting and also know that
the Cheryl Bacon account is fabricated. Actually I am far more concerned that four senior Bexley
council officers have refused to seek out witnesses other than Bacon but for now please regard that as a mere detail.
The trouble with naming the 15 councillors is that they may know nothing about
what Bexley council has been up to over the past seven months and would be
willing to come forward as witnesses if only they were asked, thereby
simplifying the case going to the police considerably. Consequently I have been
toying with the idea of emailing them all to make sure they know what they have
been implicitly supporting. The email would go something like this…
Dear Councillor,
You were present at the Public Realm Scrutiny meeting on 19th June 2013 when
Nicholas Dowling asked permission to audio record it and the Chairman eventually
announced that the meeting would be held in Closed Session and in the event no
member of the public was able to attend it.
You may not be aware that since then the Chairman of the meeting, the Chief
Executive, the Human Resources Manager, the Legal Team Manager and the
Monitoring Officer have all made statements about the events of that evening
which are entirely false. If you have read them you will know they are false too.
Over the intervening months I have accumulated a great deal of documentary evidence,
for example I know which councillor barricaded the reconvened meeting from inside.
In the fairly immediate future an allegation of Misconduct in Public Office will
be made to the police against councillor Cheryl Bacon, the four Council Officers
and the Independent Person and I intend to name you as a witness. You
may know nothing of what has happened since last June and if so may I suggest
you make yourself familiar with it. The evidence I now have against councillor
Cheryl Bacon is damning.
I am sure that if you are honest you
will be able to confirm every one of the following
statements and I will expect you do so to the police if so asked. If you can
confirm the statements now it might save a lot of police time in the future.
1. Mr. Danny Hackett sat alone in the public gallery and said absolutely nothing
and did absolutely nothing throughout the proceedings but was not able to attend
the reconvened meeting because it was announced it was to go into 'Closed Session'.
2. Mr. Knight sat alone at a table placed no more than five feet from the
nearest councillor, and said nothing, waved no papers and remained in his seat
throughout and was not allowed entry to the meeting. Mr. Tuckley has confirmed
that is the case and justified the illegal exclusion because he is known to Mr. Dowling.
3. Mr. Gussman said nothing throughout the meeting and was denied entry.
4. Mr. Barnbrook said nothing except that he specifically asked permission to
attend the reconvened meeting and was refused.
5. Mr. Bryant said nothing except during the adjournments and was denied entry
to the meeting.
6. Mr. Dowling was polite throughout, never raised his voice and did not put his
microphone within six inches of councillor Bacon's face or anything remotely
similar, contrary to the statement by the Deputy Leader on BBC television.
7. Councillor
Mrs. Bacon when directly addressing Mr. Dowling and standing
immediately before him while he was seated in the public gallery did not address
other members of the public and certainly not Mr. Hackett or Mr. Knight who were
sitting elsewhere.
Yours etc…
Mick says that when he was a police Inspector the penalty for making a false statement to the police
was two years in prison but he doesn’t think my plan would work as there is not
a single honest councillor who isn’t scared rigid of the leadership. He’s
probably right but it would only take two or three to crack and together with
all the documentary evidence already in my possession the others would all be
exposed for what they are as well.
I think I shall sleep on it for a day or two and listen to what readers think.
The Cheryl Bacon index.