N Scarth doc. Ref:IP-04-04-23

To: The Independent Police Complaints Commission, 90, High Holborn, LONDON WC 6BH

Tel: 0845 3002 002.  Fax: 0207 404 0431.  Fax for complaints: 0207 242 4695

23^rd April 2004

1. I write in the hope that you may prove MORE independent - & less corrupt – than your predecessors, The Police Complaints Authority.
2. On Sunday afternoon 8^th August 1999 I was sitting at home, alone, a completely law abiding Old Age Pensioner, a World War 2 veteran of 73, doing no wrong in any shape or form.
3. There came to the door no less than SEVEN police [nine in all] demanding entry -  without even the PRETENCE of a lawful excuse!  They were acting as a private army!  I knew they were breaking the law, & though in terror & shock, I told them so.  Their answer?  ‘So What’!”  Few men of my age would not have had a heart attack or stroke!
4. They radioed for a battering ram & riot shields, but did not use them, as concerned neighbours were watching.  Instead, they laid siege to the hose for three hours, finally backing off saying “We have decided this is not a police matter” – just as I had been telling them from the start!
5. In fact there wasn’t even a ‘matter’, police or otherwise!  However, they also said “We’ll be back!” – repeated several times, in very threatening matter.  I had tape recordings of those words - & much else beside!
6. After the threats I did not dare go to bed for 48 hours, & faxed desperate calls for help to every watchdog in the land – INCLUDING the PCA – with not even a word to acknowledge receipt.  A copy of one of them is enclosed, also a copy of a letter from Councillor Amanda Carter.
7. I then sent a transcript of the tape recording of the attack & siege, & soon afterwards another transcript with my comments inserted to aid understanding.  I believe I also sent another copy of the latter after a week or so.
8. The Welfare Officer of the Royal Naval [veterans] Association also wrote, but never a single word from the PCA to them or me.  It would appear they were in collusion with West Yorkshire Police, & just as Fascist.
9. The consequences of the failure of eth PCA have been horrific.   They were effectively giving licence to W Y Police to renew the attack.  I only dared leave the house three times during the next eleven months, imprisoned by fear - & I am NOT a timid man.  My fears were proved well justified on 20^th July 2000 when they renewed the attack.  This time they DID smash the door in, & gave me a brutal kicking which put me in hospital.  No action whatsoever was taken against my attackers, but I was stitched up for a supposed ‘crime’, perjury used to obtain a conviction.
10. My lifelong law abiding record is second to none [though it does have one very doubtful blot on it now.]  I served my King & Country in world War 2, lucky to survive bloody battle on the terrible Russian Convoys, brave men [of both sides] dying around me in large numbers.  This was followed by 60 years of honest hard work [harder than ever now.]  My single-handed success in the European Court of Human Rights [33745/96] brought a much needed change in British law [incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act.]
11. My reward for than is that I am now, as [one of] the oldest prisoner[s] in Britain, suffering incredible physical brutality, unrelenting mental torture, sneers, jeers, goading, provocation & starvation in a succession of British Belsens until I die in one of them.  I will be proud to do so – but it will be to the eternal shame of the poppy wearing British people if they aloow it to happen!
12. In her Coronation Oath the Queen swore before Almighty God “To Deliver Justice with Mercy’.  All those who have the power of life or death over me are supposed to act in her name, & thus are bound by that oath.  If I cannot have justice, can I not at least have mercy?  Imperial Britain could be brutal, with flogging, hanging & the massacre of hundreds of innocent men, women & children at Amritsar, but still had enough respect for that oath to release Mahatma Gandhi & the Suffragettes from prison when they were close to death.
13. Will the Blair regime show the same mercy to me?  I fear not.  My General Election Manifesto of 1997, my book ‘Cause for Concern’, & especially the change in British law brought about by me must have upset them.
14. I would be grateful if you would be kind enough to send to me copies of the correspondence from myself [& the RNA] to the PCA – especially the transcripts of the tape recordings, as soon as possible [I cannot survive much longer under this treatment.]  Whether you do anything beyond that is a matter for your own consciences.

From Norman Scarth, Political Prisoner GV 5409, HM Prison Wolds Gulag, BROUGH, HU15 2JZ, East Yorkshire, England.  See www.petitiononline.com/nscarth/petition.