Ahead of tonight's instalment of : Savile was guilty - I know because I investigated him when he was dead. I thought I'd avail my readership of a few facts about ex-D.S Gary Pankhurst. I'll listen to what comes out of his mouth later, for now I'm only interested in his credentials, his background and his mindset as reflected in what he's already told us about himself.
Here's his online CV.
Gary is now a PH.D student and runs his own consultancy business. Nothing wrong with that and at least he was a real detective for some years, unlike the one ITV hired nine years ago. But burrow down just a little, and ominous signs present themselves. Just how many minutes of police detective school must one endure in order to know that the word here. should be complainants ?
In summary, the adherence to basic principles is not only fairer but leads to a more effective investigation and clearer outcomes. Officers valued and displayed the principles of good practice, yet this was not consistent across all interviews analysed. Sexual offences are emotive and difficult allegations to investigate. Interviewers feel a clear responsibility to investigate thoroughly and effectively but to also provide a good response to victims. This work shows the relevance of exploring issues around the wellbeing and mental health of those tasked with interviewing in such investigations given the emotional content described by officers.
To be fair suspect vulnerability at least, considered !
There are potential gaps within the extant literature including: interviewer behaviours within a sexual offence interview, the impact of suspect vulnerability, the effect of personality and trait empathy levels on interview behaviour, and the impact of emotional valence and arousal on the parties within suspect interviews and any influence on interview outcomes. The purpose of the following study was to understand behaviours that were occurring within the interview rooms of sexual offence investigations and how congruent these behaviours are with research findings and practice recommendations.
I wonder if Gary will consider the vulnerability of the dead, when he delivers his opinions about Savile tonight ? Let's see if we can gauge the chances of that, pre-watershed, shall we ?
What he said to the press.
Oh dear ! Not looking good is it ? A 'terrorist' ?
Obviously ex-police officer's have to eat out, get their children through school, as well as themselves through a post-graduate University degree. They have to somehow scratch a living on their 30-year Police pension. But, do they really have to take part in television shows like this ? Had the subject been fairly and conclusively been convicted of a crime, I might applaud their input into my night's entertainment. But Sir Jimmy Savile was not even arrested by the Police during Gary's tenure as a D.S in South London (2007-11).
Rolf Harris on the other hand, was arrested, charged and convicted of a series of offences and Gary was up to his eyes in that case. He was one of two Police officer's sent to Australia as part of the investigation prior to a charging decision. He gave evidence at the eventual trial. What exactly did he do in Operation Yewtree ?
Tomorrow night’s documentary takes a fresh look at the sickening story of Savile who, from 1955 up to his death in 2011, had sexually abused at least 72 people, raping eight including an eight-year-old.
A total of 450 claims of abuse and rape were made to 13 police forces — but with the passing of time and Savile’s death, not all of them could be proved.
The press/media don't have to count on ALL of us being thick. They know that a fair proportion of our population is. The same idiots who think doctors deserve to be attacked, will lap up the drivel handed to them by the likes of the scum.
Ten years ago the idea of accusing Jimmy Savile of being anything other than a much-loved television star, without good solid evidence, was dismissed by sensible heads at the BBC. How Meirion Jones must have felt when his little project was scuttled and replaced with this ! LOL ! As I generally say on Twitter.
"Onwards" !
Pankhurst - A good feminist name anyhow
ReplyDeleteDave Lee Travis case:
ReplyDelete"Detective Sergeant Gary Pankhurst told the court "thousands" of police hours had been spent on the investigation into Mr Travis.
Cross-examining the officer, Mr Vullo said: "There are some very troubling things that have happened in this case.
"I don't suggest you have done anything wrong but I don't absolve all police officers of wrongdoing."
Mr Vullo told the jury there was "evidence" that an alleged victim, who claims she was assaulted by Mr Travis at a pantomime, had been "tipped off" by police that the Chuckle Brothers could not remember an incident she reported."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29140886
Jim Davidson case:
"We agreed that our disclosure to the police had prompted them to revisit Wag and inform her it could not have been the Palladium. She then 'remembered' it was the Slough Pavilion. That's cheating, isn't it? We had to make the police aware of our displeasure with this, because an attempt to be as truthful and helpful as possible has come back to hurt us." (No Further Action by Jim Davidson, John Blake, 2015, p. 128)
Stephen Vullo was Rolf Harris's barrister for his subsequent trials and appeal. Something odd may also have happened in the Rolf Harris case. The Australian accuser Tonya Lee, who sold her story to the Australian media pre-trial, had a story, as told in a TV interview that went straight to YouTube in May 2013, that not only had numerous points in common (17 by my count) with Caroline Robinson's This Morning interview about Jimmy Savile, that had gone straight to YouTube in October 2012, (cf. paragraphs 83 and 84 of the Rolf Harris appeal judgment) but also echoed Rolf Harris's main accuser's allegations in crucial ways: both Tonya Lee and the main accuser claimed to have been groped on Rolf Harris's lap and molested intimately outside washing facilities, a shower in the main accuser's case, pub toilets in Tonya Lee's case, after he had been lurking outside. The main accuser claimed she was only 13 when that alleged abuse outside the shower happened, the earliest age at which she appears to have claimed he molested her, so it was one of her most serious allegations. Tonya Lee's claims related to when she was 15. The main accuser accounted for 7 out of the 12 charges and Tonya Lee 3. How Tonya Lee could have produced a story identical in multiple points to that of Caroline Robinson yet also echo the main accuser in crucial ways seems odd.