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NS doc. Ref. Hol-04-06-02  Wed 2nd June 2004

 

PETITION to The House of Lords.

 

From Norman Scarth, World War 2 Hero,

Currently Victim GV 5409 in;

Her Majesty’s Prison Wolds Gulag,

BROUGH HU15 2JZ,

East Yorkshire, England

[born 1925, succumbed to torture 2004]

 

To The Principal Clark, THE JUDICIAL OFFICE of

THE HOUSE OF LORDS, LONDON SW1A OPW

Tel: 020 7219 3111.  Fax: 7219 2476.  www.parliament.uk

 

Dear Sir,

Today, Friday 4th June 2004 I posted to you two copies of a Petition, ref. [Hol-04-6-02]

 

You may or may not have received them by now.  Working under enormous pressure, meeting great obstruction from Prison Managers, I may have neglected to include the Judgments which are the subject of the Petition.  I send them now, & apologise for any confusion.

I also take the opportunity to repeat in type the words I was forced to write by hand on the back of page one of the Petition.

 

 

“This Petition is about Terrorism, Torture, & murder by THE STATE, along with corruption in the courts.  I am THE expert on that subject!  It DOES exist – see letter from Paul Boateng dated 3rd July 1995 [when he was legal spokesman for the Labour Party, then in opposition.] He wrote, “We will put and end to … fraud in the legal system.”  Regrettably, he did nothing, & now holds high Cabinet Office.  I DID do something, & am to die in prison! 

 

All are INFINITELY more important than any shortcoming in this document, its presentation, or procedure.  [I am unable to print on both sides, as you instruct.]

 

Should any such shortcomings be used as an excuse to dismiss the Petition, the House of Lords will be complicit in those crimes, & their cover-up.

It will prove that Britain is a Police State, just as bad as Hitler’s, lawyers being the new ‘Master race’, the preservation of their power being much more important than the death of innocent victims.  I trust you will prove otherwise.

 

If I live & retain strength long enough, I will try to send more of the mass of evidence I hold. 

 

One example is the document enclosed, marked [12] ‘WILL SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE?’  There came not help, but brutality & depravity beyond belief!”

 

 

I attach a copy of the Petition as sent, but now stapled all down one side [as you instruct], in case you use the lack of 2 staples in the original as an excuse to throw it out.  There is also an added sentence at the end, & I ask you to replace the original with this one.

 

In submitting this Petition, I respectfully remind you that you act in the name of the Queen, & thus are bound by her Coronation Oath [sworn before Almighty God], “TO DELIVER JUSTICE with MERCY.”

 

Following the potentially lethal attack on me by a private army in blue uniforms on 8th August 1999 [eleven months BEFORE the ‘crime’ of which I stand convicted], not an ounce of mercy has been shown to me.  From that day, I became one of ‘The Disappeared’, as in Orwell’s ‘1984’, Argentina under the Generals, or in Pinochet’s Chile.  I ceased to exist, except to be destroyed, a task which is almost completed.

 

Perhaps the House of Lords will save me?

 

 

I ask that the matter be expedited.  At the age of 78, my life expectation is already short.  It is rapidly being shortened even more by the physical brutality & mental torture inflicted on me in prison.  They are NOT ‘Holiday Camps’, as politicians & the news media constantly tell the public!  They are certainly not fit places for a World War 2 Veteran whose record of service to my king, my Queen & my Country during the whole of my life [from the age of 17 onwards] is exceeded by few.  I can stand it no longer, & seek escape by the only means available to me, as used by Mahatma Gandhi & the Suffragettes.  They were released when close to death.  Will the same mercy by shown to me?

 

 

I also request an extension of time in making the Application.  See end for reasons.

 

 

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HOUSE OF LORDS

 

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF Norman Scarth,

 

currently at Her Majesty’s Prison Wolds Gulag, BROUGH, HU15 2JZ, East Yorkshire, England,

 

PRAYING FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1968 CRIMINAL APPEAL ACT, the 1960 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT, the 1968 HUMAN RIGHTS ACT, THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

 

& the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture & Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Prisoners.  1987

 

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS,

 

ON APPEAL FROM HER MAJESTY’S COURT OF APPEAL [CRIMINAL DIVISION]

 

BETWEEN

 

Regina V Norman Scarth

 

[Criminal Appeal Ref. No 2001/02818/Y3; 2002/00269/Y3, &

 

  1. I refer you to the front page of the Criminal Appeal Court JUDGMENT of Monday 25th November 2002 [As Approved by the Court.]
  2. It states that Mr. Barlow was sitting as Vice President of the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division.
  3. It ALSO states that ‘Mr M Barlow appeared on behalf of the APPELLANT’.  A silly mistake?  Perhaps so, where it states that Mr Barlow was Vice President of the Court, but SURELY such a vital document  ‘APPROVED BY THE COURT’ should not contain silly mistakes?  That alone must call into question the competence of the court - & the accuracy of the remainder of the Judgment.
  4. However, there is much worse.  It was NOT a silly mistake where is states that Mr Barlow was acting for the Appellant [me]. 
  5. Please see the judgment dated Monday 11th November 2002.  Again is says on the front page, ‘Mr M Barlow appeared on behalf of the APPELLANT’.
  6. To go back a bit:  I had prepared my own grounds for appeal [cast iron, with a multitude of them] against conviction & sentence, & the application for leave to appeal was listed to be heard on 31 July 2002.
  7. Many months before, Mark Barlow had tricked me into appointing him, saying, “Knowing what Judge Bentley [the trial judge] is like, I am concerned for your fate.”  [Perhaps he should expound on exactly WHAT Judge Bentley is like?]
  8. That was all from Barlow:  No further communication, by letter, telephone, or conference.  The ONLY thing he did – at short notice, without any reference to me, was to ask the Appeal Court to put the application back to another date.  At the age of 76 [then] time is not on my side, & it was serious misconduct to delay my Application.  I wrote to the Appeal Court saying I no longer wanted Barlow [or any other lawyer] to represent me, repeating it several times in writing during the months which followed.
  9. The delayed hearing took place on 11th November 2002, - Armistice day, ironically – when thousands were marching past the Cenotaph in memory of those who fought in WW2.  Not a soul in court to see what was being done to me!
  10. Mark Barlow was in court, & claimed to be acting for me.  I told the court, “Under no circumstances do I want to be represented by that man.”  Lord Justice Rose, threatened that if I said another word, he would have me dragged back to the cells.
  11. At the end of the hearing he asked me if I understood.  It appears I was only to be allowed to say yes or no, & when I tried to say more he DID have me dragged back to the cells!
  12. Paragraph 2 of the ‘Judgment’ of 11th Nov. says “… Mr Barlow, has indicated that he cannot advance arguments in support of that renewed application [for leave to appeal against conviction].”  So, my cast iron grounds for appeal against conviction & sentence were never EVER heard!  That was monstrous.
  13. It was the grossest possible violation of article 6 of the 1998 Human Rights act & the European Convention on Human Rights, both of which require that for a hearing to be ‘Fair’, a person is entitled to ‘defend himself in person, or through legal assistance of his own choosing’, & that hearings be before an ‘independent & impartial tribunal’.
  14. None could have been LESS impartial than LJ Rose, unless it be Judge Bentley at my original ‘trial’, where he banned the press, my witnesses & my evidence.  He too had me dragged back down to the cells [three times] when I protested.  It was also in breach of Articles 3 [mental torture], & Article 5.  A breach of Article 2 has not yet occurred, but it is imminent.
  15. Such discrimination as there may be in the courts against Asians, Blacks, Muslims, Asylum Seekers or other minorities, is as nothing compared to that against the L.I.P.  As Honorary Secretary of the Litigant In Persons Society, travelling to courts all over England, I have much more experience than just my own.
  16. The rest of the written judgement of 11 Nov. was as ridiculous as the front page of the document of 25 Nov.  LJ Rose purported to read out just a few of my grounds for appeal, but they were grossly distorted by him [sometimes the opposite of what I put forward], & deliberately leaving out the cast iron grounds.
  17. That document [25 Nov.] says at paragraph 9, “Furthermore, so far as the future representation of this defendant is concerned, we order that a transcript of this judgement shall be supplied to the Crown Court, in order that the Crown Court can consider the making of an appropriate representation order as & when the matter again comes before the Crown Court.”  I had specifically said that I did not want to be represented by ANY lawyer – particularly after the Mark Barlow experience!
  18. Paragraph 10 says, “So far as the matter being dealt with by the Crown Court is concerned, we order that the sentence in this case will be reviewed by the Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Goldsack… …”
  19. So, having received only the garbled ‘Judgment’, from an appeal ‘hearing’ which was in gross violation of article 6 of the 1998 HRA [which I had a part in drafting! 1998 Human Rights act – see letter from Geoffrey Hoon MP, dated 1/9/98, when he was Lord Chancellor Irvine’s spokesman in the Commons], & the ECHR, Judge Goldsack was to see NONE of my grounds for appeal against my unbelievably savage sentence!  He of course was equally savage.
  20. After psychiatrist Dr. Patrick J G Quinn had told him from the witness box, “Sending him back to prison could have catastrophic consequences upon his mental health,” he did exactly that!  LITTLE ‘MERCY’ THERE!  He was of course hoping that I would be driven insane [to ensure I did not publish another book or stand for Parliament again [as I had done in 1997], or bring another important change in British law, via the ECtHR], knowing that prison staff are experts.  Obviously Dr. Quinn knew it too, which is why he spoke as he did, hoping to save me from such treatment.
  21. To deliberately cause someone to be driven to insanity [as Judge Goldsack was seeking to do] is a crime worse than murder.  As a punishment, it is worse than the gallows.
  22. Though this Application concerns the ‘impartiality’ [or otherwise] of the court, & the impropriety of Mark Barlow being forced upon me, it also concerns the accuracy of court records.  Mention should be made of the official transcript of one of the hearings before Judge Goldsack.  It quoted me as saying, “A bundle of forged documents.”  In fact I had said, “A bundle of COURT documents”!  This was just one of about a score of equally ridiculous mistakes in that transcript.
  23. Re Permission to Apply to the House of Lord:  My request to the Appeal Court for permission, has been neither granted nor refused, just ignored.  Regrettably once more, this is common practice, a weapon regularly used against the L.I.P. This must count as a refusal!
  24. I trust the faulty ‘Judgment’ documents, & forcing Mark Barlow on to me are on their own sufficient for this Petition to go forward, but there is MUCH more.  Your Practice Directions [4.1] say, “Supporting documents will only be accepted under exceptional circumstances.”  Never were there MORE exceptional circumstances!  They start with the attempted assassinations of a completely law abiding old man by ‘Gestapo’ Police in 1999 & 2000, followed by the nationwide cover-up of that police crime, conviction & imprisonment being part of the cover-up.  However, time is not on my side, & I may not survive to send all the supporting documents, so send only 5.
  25. Reasons for extension of time: [a] Regrettably, there has been misconduct, &/or incompetence by the Appeal Court itself, keeping from me for several months the judgments enclosed: [b] Regrettably again, the Prison Service are hostile to the prisoner who claims to be the victim of injustice, especially to the prisoner who seeks to prove it without a lawyer.  Perhaps it is because they are anxious not to lose the £35,000 income that each prisoner brings, but whatever, they do their best to frustrate his appeal [or other court actions] by frequent moves, for no other purpose than to disorientate the victim.  I have suffered 19 moves during my three years of incarceration, ten moves in the last year, during which they have separated me from many of my court documents.  They also use the most devious means to deny the LIP prisoner the ‘Equality of Arms’ to which he is entitled under law.
  26. They also use quite FIENDISH means to drive the victim to mental breakdown.  The large number of so-called ‘suicides’ in prison is evidence of this.

 

The facts in this WITNESS STATEMENT are true to the best of my knowledge & belief [E&OE]

Signed:  Norman Scarth

                                    Current address:  Norman Scarth, Victim GV 5409, HM Prison Wolds Gulag, BROUGH, HU15 2JZ, East Yorkshire, England.

 

Enc:  Pages numbered [11]; [12] & [13] only came to me a few months ago, from the West Yorkshire Police solicitor, responding to my request for disclosure for my High Court action against the Chief Constable.  That action has been DELIBERATELY delayed for three years, in the hope that my death would prevent the matter ever coming to light.  Document number [12] “Will somebody help me please?” is the most important, supported by [11], [13] & others, including [1] & [2].   [2] showed photos of injuries inflicted on me at the 2nd attack.  They are all the proof one needs of the murderous attack on a completely law abiding old man, without even the PRETENCE of a lawful excuse!

 

There came not help – but brutality & depravity beyond belief! – from the police, the courts & the Prisons Service – with total silence from ALL our supposed ‘Watchdogs’!