20 February - Harassment, a minimal report
Normally Tuesday would be a relatively free day which would allow Bonkers to
catch up on recent Council meetings but as always recently there are other things to
do. Since Kent Police decided to charge me with harassing a Councillor after virtually proving innocence of the Code of
Conduct charge brought by Bexley Council no day has been anything
like normal. The totally factual reporting of a lost libel case
together with some of the documents shown to the Court didn’t go down well either.
I have seen or spoken to three solicitors and one barrister in recent weeks. One of the
solicitors is prepared to be my witness should the case go to trial and has
already told the police that he believes they have themselves run foul of various laws.
The barrister suggested it might be wise to remove the blogs relating to the
Code of Conduct issues and the Libel case and they now reside behind a password.
It is frustrating to be unable to keep readers informed of developments but that
is the way it has to be right now.
So moving on to other things…
Councillor Craske is very proud of his new street cleaning machine which seems
to be unable to venture far beyond Tory wards but it will take much more than a
few whirring brushes to clean up Bexley.
Long term Bonkers’ supporter Michael Barnbrook has secured the agreement of the
police to investigate potentially criminal activity by a Bexley Conservative
Councillor. In view of recent events I had better not suggest who he might have
in his sights. One harassment Charge is quite bad enough.
From a totally different source comes yet another case of a Bexley Conservative
Councillor being up to no good together with what seems to me to be good evidence.
It has all gone off to the police requesting they take action. If they do I
would guess that someone might be in very great trouble. We shall see, the
Craske obscene blog case (still with the IPCC seven years later) showed that the
police tend to find ways of letting Councillors off.
What did they do for him? Oh, yes I remember now, they convened a meeting aimed at
“resolving Councillor Craske’s ongoing situation”.
Is there an honest policeman out there anywhere? Well there just may be.
Support for me against the Councillor’s false claim has come from an unlikely
source, a serving officer in the Metropolitan Police who seems to know the
culprit better than I do.