Inside Broadmoor with Jimmy Pt 2

Broadmoor what do we know about Jimmy Savile's role there ? How strange that most of us only became aware that Jimmy had an association with this institution after his death, when claims of sexual abuse were made against him in September 2012 !

But, my friends, this was NOT the first time that the Hospital was to be the focus of such claims.  Jimmy Savile was still very much alive in early 2003 when stories of abuse of women patients, not by staff but by other patients emerged in the press two years after a staff member first reported her concerns.

 Two days later, the Guardian also ran the story.

Ms Wassell had been collecting her data on abuse of female patients for THREE YEARS !

 http://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/mar/08/mentalhealth.prisons

 The Guardian calls it's article 'Broadmoor Cover-up - another whistle blower suffers'.  How many 'whistle blowers' have there been ? and, how many, if any, raised concerns about Jimmy Savile ?  Let's not underestimate the seriousness of this inquiry, which resulted in talk of the removal of women patients altogether from the hospital !

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BROADMOOR+SEX+SCANDAL.-a098460488

All that data collecting over THREE YEARS surely the whistle blower would have heard SOMETHING about the most famous member of staff ? Well, it looks as though she did not !

This week Cllr Wassell said she has been contacted by several newspapers and TV stations to give advice about the historic culture at Broadmoor.
And the Liberal Democrat told the Bucks Free Press: "It didn’t surprise me when I heard that Jimmy Savile had been accused of abuse at Broadmoor in the 1980s...
"When I was at Broadmoor there was a macho, old-fashioned culture in a closed institution. Clearly if male offenders had managed to get access to women patients then it wouldn’t be difficult for a celebrity with keys to do so.
"I believe the accounts of women who are now speaking out about Broadmoor. I find it ironic that when I properly reported my concerns I had my keys to Broadmoor removed, but that Jimmy Savile was given keys." 

 http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/healthnews/10007523.print/


This was not the first time that Cllr Wassell's opinion about women in Broadmoor was sought post 2003.  Indeed, the press were still reporting the imminent relocation of Broadmoor's women in September 2005.

 The final sentence in the following extract from the same piece struck a chord with me !

The same "names" "over and over again".  You would think that had Jimmy been involved in any abuse here, this woman would have heard something ?

One 'Senior NHS Executive' to voice an opinion about Jimmy's role at the hospital was Ray Rowden.  Here's what he had to say in October 2012 !

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9623089/Jimmy-Savile-Questions-for-Edwina-Currie-and-the-BBC.html

I'm seeing a pattern emerging here - Mr Rowden like Ms Wassell also had an opportunity to raise any concerns he may have had about Jimmy in 2003.  He did not !

http://www.psychminded.co.uk/news/news2003/march03

I find it hard to believe that the Press, the Prison Officers association, one of the largest Public Service Unions (Unison) and all the other bodies involved in the 2003 scandal would failed to uncover the fact that Jimmy Savile was abusing patients in Broadmoor Hospital.  

So what was Jimmy doing in Broadmoor and how did he come to be there in the first place ? Join me next time and I'll tell you Moor !

BTW, the header photo comes from -

 http://dunka.deviantart.com/art/Broadmoor-Lunatic-Asylum-83034847

Inside Broadmoor with Jimmy !

I see that Slater and Gordon are soliciting for more claimants to come forward ! This time, Ms Dux has Broadmoor Hospital in her sights !

Ms Dux, you may recall appeared on a Panorama program last year called 'After Savile - No more secrets' which included a story of a 12 year old girl being raped in a public area of Stoke Mandeville Hospital.  I've blogged about this before, so I won't repeat myself, but you might want to read these blogs posts !

 http://rabbitaway.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/after-savile-no-more-tears-enough-is.html

 http://rabbitaway.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-jubilee-lie.html

 Ms Dux intimated in the program (produced by Meirion Jones, nephew of the headmistress at Duncroft School from whence the claims about JS first came ) that there was so much more for the public to know about JS in relation to his hospital work ! So, I guess it was inevitable that she followed up her success in the High Court on Wednesday with another call for more 'victims' to come forward

I can't imagine why Ms Dux would believe that there were any more potential claimants out there after all, it's not as if everyone, including former patients of hospitals etc cannot now be unaware of the opportunity that has been provided for their voice to be heard !

Thankfully, the silent majority also have a platform should they decide to start speaking up for Sir Jimmy.  The recent Yewtree trials showed us the importance of character witnesses, so let's start shall we, let's raise our voices and see who can shout the loudest ! I'll start with a story, and that is all it is so far, a story, hearsay evidence of the good that Sir Jimmy did at Broadmoor Hospital.  Hang on to your hats guys and gals, this could be the start of something wonderful !

BTW, this particular story began with an innocuous enough tweet from Barbara Hewson last night !

After further exchanges about the institution's history along with it's current security provisions, the conversation naturally got round to JS.

 The  lady went on !

 

 This lady has more than one story to tell from her meetings with Broadmoor folk !

She goes on !

By way of background information this same lady tells me that she is a showbiz person herself and, whilst she never actually met JS, she does have first hand knowledge of security provisions at the BBC even in the 70's *

She went on !

Ok, back to Broadmoor, anyone wanting to know moor about the place should check out the video film Ms Hewson intially mentioned, in it I found a layout of the place, it's a big place isn't it !

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26335033

Obviously, that's an old map, it refers to Broadmoor as a 'Criminal Lunatic Asylum' ! It's a nice film though, the folk who built such institutions obviously had the best of intentions.  Goodness, the Law even said that the building had to have views that were 'uplifting and healthy' !  Broadmoor was described as having "a benign, moral regime and it imposed a regulated day with time for work, leisure activities and, in that manner it put an order into lives that had previously been chaotic"
 
We know that Jimmy Savile was part of a task force established to oversee changes in the regime at the hospital in 1988. Whoever, made the decision that these changes had to be made obviously had the same good intentions as their predecessors !  

Some time ago Moor Larkin mentioned in his blog about how the film 'Inside Broadmoor' made in 1989 as part of the forty Minutes series and featuring Jimmy, appears to have disappeared from public access.  Surely, this film should be available for us all to see, if not, shouldn't we be asking WHY ?

 
Looking forward to hearing Jimmy's friends voices in the not too distant future .... Guys and gals ! xx

* Addendum 2nd March 12.30 pm GMT

Ms Walters advises me that whilst she has worked in television, she has never actually worked for the BBC.



 



 

Would you Adam and Eve it ?

It was Moor Larkin who alerted me to the fact that the Report that ACPO, the Press and the NSPCC were presenting as newly published was actually dated Sept 2013 !

 http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/victims-seek-compensation-from-jimmy-savile-s-will-1-6458638

Just to be doubly sure, I checked !

This is the NSPCC press release dated 24th Febuary 2014

I had some questions to ask the NSPCC and the Police Chiefs, and I did ! First stop, the cops !

Not on the ball are they those Police Chiefs - how many reports called 'Would they actually have believed me' are there ?

I heard nothing more from the cops, but the NSPCC obliged me with moor responses !

Things really started to heat up when I saw the BBC tweet !

'Victims' being "laughed at" where the hell was this in the report ? By the next response 'victims' had become 'participants' !

Here's part of page 7 

My tweet at 6.40 am (twitter time) was in 3 parts here's the second

And here's the final part

Sorry, it can be difficult to follow twitter conversations at the best of times, but I think you get the picture of what I'm trying to say !


I always say that there are no such things as coincidence. There is NO way that a report deemed to be important for child protection and written up ready for publication would be delayed for 5 months. I was not the only one asking questions, Channel 5 appeared miffed too but for very different reasons !

 What's going on here then ? BTW, Matt Hopkinson is the is the head of Press for the NSPCC !  Mr Drucker was still not happy, and I thought I'd add my tuppence worth in the hope he might see a possible 'exclusive' in this !

After reporting my concerns about the NSPCC's apparent lack of transparency in regard to the publication of their latest Report, to the Charity Commission, I ended my day, more or less back where I started asking that same question but this time to a firm of solicitors *

There is no such thing as a coincidence, the same day this new/not new report was being used as a weapon against Sir Jimmy Savile, by those who would prosper by establishing his post death guilt, an interesting case was just beginning in the High Court. Our friend, Anna Raccoon has written a fine blog piece and I urge anyone who has not already done so, to read it !

http://annaraccoon.com/2014/02/23/the-cobra-and-the-mongoose/

In May last year the Barrister Barbara Hewson remarked about

how 'the police and NSPCC assume the roles of judge and jury.'

 http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/13604#.Uw1sI4Wk3Sh

In the unlikely even that a child or indeed any vulnerable person came to me claiming that they were being mistreated, I certainly would not laugh, and I would certainly listen to them and try to help as best I could, but, do I believe the line that is being spun here by a National Charity, a large firm of Solicitors, and the kow towing enclave that is ACPO ?

No 'actually' - I do not !

Well done Moor BTW for spotting the date on that report !

"Onwards" !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Io6gK5b1MU


*Amendment 15.21 26th Febuary 

I removed my pic detailing a tweet I sent last night on the grounds that the originating tweet I had responded to had been deleted by the sender. 

Cometh the Hour !

Short and sweet this Guys and Gals, just wanted to share with you the great news that Steven Vullo, the man who defended Dave Lee Travis has taken Silk. Well, I think that's how they, put it !

So raise your glasses or your mugs of Yorkshire Tea to Mr Vullo QC for his part in the joy we all felt last Wednesday !

 Cometh the hour, cometh the Man !

The Presumption of Guilt !

 

Everyone has a picture in their minds eye when they think of a place and, for most, the thought of the Central Criminal Court - The Old Bailey, conjures up the iconic image of Lady Justice with her scales in one hand and sword in the other ! This is what that statue is supposed to represent !

 Lady Justice is most often depicted with a set of scales typically suspended from her right hand, upon which she measures the strengths of a case's support and opposition.^{[citation needed]} She is also often seen carrying a double-edged sword in her left hand, symbolizing the power of Reason and Justice, which may be wielded either for or against any party.^{[citation needed]}

Instead of using the Janus approach, many sculptures simply leave out the blindfold altogether. For example, atop the Old Bailey courthouse in London, a statue of Lady Justice stands without a blindfold;^[7] the courthouse brochures explain that this is because Lady Justice was originally not blindfolded, and because her “maidenly form” is supposed to guarantee her impartiality which renders the blindfold redundant.

Up until 1868, the Old Bailey was a site of public execution and above is a photo of 'Dead Man's Walk ' Not a very pleasant experience, for moor reasons than one !

Worse still, up to 1868 you had an audience !


The wealthy could afford to rent 'window boxes' in the galleries that overlooked the gallows, so they could see the hanging without being crushed and enjoy a better view.
Such was the popularity of seeing criminals hang, 28 people died in a crush in 1807 after a crowd grew out of control.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341560/Behind-locked-doors-Old-Bailey-Exclusive-pictures-reveal-363-year-old-dead-mans-walk-Britains-evil-killers-led-gallows.html

The artist known as 'Banksy' had another image for Lady Justice, he made his own statue and invited the public to view it's unveiling in Clerkinwell in 2004 !

 

http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/Banksy_justice_monument.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3537136.stm


On the morning of the 29th November 2012, an image described as a 'Banksy style mural' appeared just outside the entrance of BBC Televison Centre in Shepherds Bush London !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2240304/Banksy-style-mural-child-throwing-Jimll-Fix-It-badge-drain-removed-near-BBC-Television-Centre.html

I guess that this would have been around the time that the Newsnight fiasco was brought to the nations attention by our glorious main stream media. Interestingly enough, the article contains this line !

 However a spokesman for the artist denied it was his handiwork.

I like to believe that Mr Banksy whoever he is has more intelligence than to be fooled by a televison program. More importantly, I hope that Lady Justice does not lose the use of one of her arms. Justice needs all the help it can get, eh Mr Banksy !

 

 

Mandatory Reporting - the big sell !

According to her tweets, Ms Dux of Slater and Gordon Solicitors will be on the radio tomorrow night !

The person retweeting Ms Dux's message is Rachel Johnson a journalist and author of the following article in todays Daily Mail newspaper !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2554772/RACHEL-JOHNSON-A-celebrity-fiasco-ordinary-women-end-paying-for.html?ico=home^editors_choice

I only became aware of this article because of this !

 I feel very uncomfortable with this article on a number of levels, the first being the fact that it refers to a case that is STILL in progress, indeed the trial is BEING HEARD with a verdict expected in the nest few days !

But let’s pause to recap where we are on the showbiz trial front: Freddie Starr, Paul Gambaccini and Jimmy Tarbuck remain on bail, Bill Roache and Michael Le Vell have been acquitted, Max Clifford and Rolf Harris are awaiting trial, and the Dave Lee Travis trial is ongoing.

The 'showbiz trial front' ? This is NOT a game Ms Johnson, these men's lives will never be the same again.

Perhaps Ms Johnson means well, she is, after all, interested in 'ordinary women' and the negative effect high profile acquitals may have on any potential case/claim they may have ?

Was it 'ordinary women' who attended the prep schools Ms Dux refers to later in the article ? I don't remember the last time I heard of a lass from Barking reminising about her Tina Brown's Schooldays !

Ms Johnson swiftly responded to the above tweet which in turn, led to an interesting exchange !

Not wishing to confuse the reader, my response at 3m, is my attempt to bring Sir Jimmy into the exchange. Ms Dux says the following in the mail


‘One person coming forward isn’t enough,’ she says. ‘You need documentary evidence, a past conviction, for courts to find evidence cogent.’ 

Ms Dux appeared to be a tad put out by our questioning !

 Ms Dux has not as yet, responded to the bottom tweet - perhaps she will publish the dated letter before she takes to the airwaves tomorrow evening !

Amendment 10th Feb 2014


Mistake - the LBC interview was aired at 6.40 am ! We missed it !

 

Crown Court Regina V Bolton 1972

Goodness, remember this great TV series from the 70's ? I do, because it was on nearly every time I went home from school for my dinner (we couldn't afford free school dinners !!!).

The interesting thing about this court room drama was, that, whilst the cases were fictional, the Jurors were real - if you know what I mean. However, one thing that I did not realise until now, was that two endings were rehearsed!

 A court case in the crown court of the fictional town of Fulchester would typically be played out over three afternoons in half-hour episodes and the most frequent format was for the prosecution case to be presented in the first two episodes and the defence in the third, although there were some later, brief variations. Although those involved in the case were actors, the jury was made up of members of the general public from the immediate Granada Television franchise area taken from the electoral register and eligible for real jury service: it was this jury alone which decided the verdict. Indeed, production publicity of the time stated that, for many of the scripts, two endings were written and rehearsed to cope with the jury's independent decision which was delivered for the first time, as in a real court case, when the foreman was asked by the actor playing the judge, while the programme's recording progressed. However, the course of some cases would lead the jury being directed to return "not guilty" verdicts.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Court_%28TV_series%29

Granada Televison, fictional court cases, real jurors - this was too good an oppotunity to miss, I had to blog !

 I've been burrowing out of sight but not out of mind for the last few weeks chums, but I thought I'd put this wee post up, I wouldn't want anyone to think that I'd given up !

Great news for the Savile family this week BTW

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/leeds-star-jimmy-savile-s-dna-does-not-match-any-historical-major-crimes-1-6417971

Back to 1972 and a highly appropriate episode of Crown Court - Enjoy ! Below, is part one of six, I won't tell you the verdict - wouldn't like to be in contempt of the Court of Fulchester !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H43hqjBMSV8