I am aware (as you are)
that for Summonses to be issued, it is only necessary (at this stage) to give the Statute or Common Law description
of the offence, with sufficient information to enable the Defendant to identify the circumstances complained of. However, this being a most important matter (more for the nation than myself),
I start with a Preface:
In 1984 the United Nations laid down the
‘Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners’ (UNSMR), as the MINIMUM for civilised nations.
It is astonishing &
horrifying that very few members of the Prison Service (from Governors downwards) have even heard
of those MINIMUM rules, much less read them - or abide by them!
They are flouted regularly, to a seriously criminal degree. Flouted equally
are the European Convention on Human Rights & the 1998 Human Rights Act. Those
who do not themselves actively commit crime turn a blind eye to those who do, which is itself crime.
Equally horrifying
is the fact that the whole of the Prison Service are hostile to any prisoner who dares to claim innocence - & especially
so to one who seeks to prove it without a lawyer. They will obstruct him in the
most fiendish ways.
In this they match
the legal professionals, by whom they are protected. Such discrimination as there
may be against Asians, Muslims, Blacks, Gypsies or Asylum Seekers in the courts is as nothing compared to that against the
‘L.I.P’. As Honorary Secretary of the Litigants In Person Society
I have much more experience than just my own.
“Cells of despair:
our treatment of young offenders is a criminal act”.
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Earlier, on The TV
Frost Programme 22/7/01, he spoke of ‘barbaric’ prison officers! |
For their own strange reasons, politicians & The Media are constantly
telling the public that British prisons are ‘Holiday Camps’. Sir
David Ramsbotham’s new book ‘PRISONGATE’ tells otherwise – with horrific revelations of the criminality
of the Prison Service.
Extracts were in The Times, T2, from 2nd October 2003 onwards.
Front page, box headline:
It is FAR worse than even he describes! All political parties compete in their aims to ‘Clamp Down on Crime’. Why are the big criminals in the Prison Service never prosecuted – only the
lesser ones receiving a very rare slap on the wrist? The book was reviewed by
his predecessor as HM Ch. Insp. of Prisons, Sir Stephen Tumim, each of them sacked for being too honest!
In 2001, Martin Narey (then Director General of the Prison Service) condemned his
own service for ‘a litany of failure & moral neglect’ in ‘Hell Hole’ prisons! Prison staff only need use the word ‘Security’ – no matter how farcically - then make
their own rules & laws. The ‘Complaints Procedure’ is an obscene
farce, designed & used to drive the victim to despair, often to take their own lives, when it is
described as ‘suicide’, rather than the very nasty form of murder which it is.
Such censure as occasionally comes from inquests or the European Court of Human Rights are
only the tip of the iceberg. The ECtHR ruled that the deaths of Mark Keenan at
Exeter Prison, & Mavis McGlinchey at ??? resulted from violations of Article 3 (Torture & Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment), but no action has been taken against those who inflicted it.
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I, Norman Scarth (address
below), hereby LAY INFORMATION against Stacey Tasker, Governor of Leeds Prison, Armley, LEEDS LS12 2TJ, as below:
INFORMATION ONE: that from 24/10/03 up to date she, along with others under her control,
did commit against Norman Scarth the Common Law offence of ‘Obstructing & Perverting the Course of Justice’,
INFORMATION TWO: that during the same period (& previously), she & others did inflict
terror, oppression, starvation & extreme mental torture on Norman Scarth (an old man of 78), contrary to Statute
law.
INFORMATION THREE: that personally or vicariously, she did commit the Common Law offence of ‘Misconduct
in Public Office’ by failing to investigate an official complaint of assault (an attack with a fire hose) on
Norman Scarth, which took place on or about 16/7/03. (Regina v Dytham,
CA, 1974, ruled that omission (failure to act) can be as culpable as the commission of an offence).
Norman Scarth (born
1925). After a long lifetime of honourable service to
my King, my Queen & my Country, I am currently a prisoner at Her Majesty’s Prison Leeds, Armley, LEEDS LS12 2TJ
The facts in these
INFORMATIONS are true to the best of my knowledge & belief. Signed:
Norman Scarth 3rd Dec. 2003
Note: I do not make frivolous or wild accusations. My case in the
ECtHR (33745/96) brought a much needed change in British law, incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act (confirmed by
a letter to Jacqui Lait MP dated 1/9/98 from Geoffrey Hoon MP, then Lord Chancellor Irvine’s spokesman in The Commons). Tony Blair & Jack Straw both condemned the ‘Walk On By Society’
(those who turn a blind eye to crime). It is not only my right, but my
duty (& yours)to bring these matters to light.
