Note to Report Writer:  This assessment should cover the period that the prisoner has been in Prison Service custody for this sentence or should update a previous parole assessment written for this sentence.  A copy of the Sentence Plan & Parole Initial Profile, Initial Sentence Plan & Sentence Plan Review Reports should be included in the dossier & referred to where appropriate.

THIS FORM WILL BE DISCLOSED TO THE PRISONER.

HM Prison/YOI:       Wolds.         Prisoner’s Name:        Norman Scarth. 

Prison Number:  GV 5409.      Parole Review No.

Date of last Prison Parole Assessment:     None.           PED:                               NPD:

Period this assessment covers:     From:                                  To:

1)       Establishment where current term ahs been served.  Add comments if any transfers had been made for reasons which might be relevant to suitability to suitability for parole (e.g. reclassification following escape attempt) & indicate what category the prisoner is.
Establishment:  WOLDS.                                           Prisoner Category:  Cat. C.   ALL Prison Rules, Standing Orders, the Security Manual, common sense & common humanity say that as (one of?) the oldest prisoner(s) in England, if in prison at all, it should be Cat. D (see last paragraph at ‘2’).                              

Date of Arrival:                           Reasons for change:   

Comments:

PRISON BEHAVIOR

2)      What is the prisoner’s attitude towards staff – has he or she accepted & co-operated with authority? 

Asked by the Appeal Court to report on me, Dr Barrington Barber of Dovegate Prison wrote, “He is a frail, likeable man.  I refer you to his book, which makes fascinating reading” (‘horrific’ would have been a better adjective).

In her Report, Lesley Shackleton, Curriculum Manager of Dovegate Prison College wrote, “Norman Scarth has been attending education since his arrival at HMP Dovegate.  Norman has chosen to come to education every day (am & pm) & also attends the evening programme for recreational activity each evening.  Although he is not working towards any accreditation he has developed his computing skills considerably.  Norman makes full use of the facilities in education, particularly IT … He also makes good use of the library facilities, in particular the full range of legal texts available.   He works quietly & IS ALWAYS RESPECTFUL TO STAFF & PRISONERS ALIKE”. 
Several education staff came specially to give me a ‘going away present’ when I was suddenly being moved to Stocken Prison.  Supposedly better, staff were much nastier - though not as bad as Armley Gaol, where I am now.
During my first10 days at HMP Wolds I said to ALL the staff I met, “Compared to other prisons, this place is Heaven - & you are angels”.  Flowery language, but I even put it in writing, & was thanked for doing so!   I AM respectful to anyone who treats me with respect.  ALL reception staff, & most Wing staff will say the same as Lesley Shackleton (above).

However, I do protest strongly when crime is committed against me (as happened later at Wolds).  It is not only my right, but my duty to do so!   Undoubtedly, those who are committing crime will write bad reports on me, & label me as ‘difficult’.  
EVEN SO, Prison Rules, Standing Orders & the Security Manual specifically state that being a ‘difficult prisoner’ does not necessarily make him more likely to escape or re-offend, & should not affect categorization, parole, or Release on Licence, Temporary or otherwise (those who refused me ‘Category D’ used my ‘attitude’ to staff as an excuse.)

3)       How does the prisoner relate to other prisoners? 
Virtually all the prisoners treat me with respect; many as a Hero.  From my point of view, finding myself in prison for the first time at the age of 75 (then), my fears about being locked up with vicious criminals were relieved as I found that most prisoners are far better human beings than many with the keys. I have made some very good friends among prisoners.

4)       Number of offences against prison discipline occasioning punishment by the Governor (including during time on remand where appropriate).
One of my protests about crime against me was treated as an ‘infringement’.  In fact, the conduct of the Governor-Controller, (turning a blind eye to shocking brutality against me) was itself crime.

5)       Number of occasions where Additional Days have been awarded:  None – though are not Additional Days now unlawful?

6)       Total Additional Days awarded:    None.

7)       Number of offences committed in custody dealt with by the courts:    None.

8)       Number & length of additional custodial sentences awarded by the courts for the offences committed in custody:      None. 

9)       Brief description of the most serious offences committed in custody (e.g. those involving violence, drugs or absconding), at what point in the sentence were they committed & indicating any patterns or possible causes of misbehaviour:               None.

10)    If the prisoner as been granted any form of temporary release, please give details (i.e.: when & or what purpose, did the prisoner comply with the conditions of release & return on time?                              

My application for ROTL to (a) progress & attend High Court actions which will bring to light crime by the most ruthless bunch of gangsters in the land, & (b) to care for my 76 year old only brother during his bouts of deep & serious depression, have been ignored – as have virtually ALL my applications – in gross contempt of Prison Rules – whatever about humanity
or mercy.
DOMESTIC CIRCUMSTANCES

11)    What is the prisoner’s present marital status?    78 year old widower.

12)    What is the prisoner’s relationship with members of his or her family (including efforts to strengthen relationships where appropriate)?  
My only brother & I have been on the best of terms all our lives, but see (10 b) above.

13)    What ties, if any, does the prisoner have with persons outside the family circle? 

Fellow Human Rights activists/watchers in Britain & abroad are horrified at the gross abuses inflicted on me, & are doing their best to waken this fast asleep nation.  Knowing that this ‘Parole Assessment’ is a grotesque pantomime, my only hope is that they will restore my good name after my death.
    
“Good name in man or woman is the very jewel of their soul.  He who steals my purse steals trash, ‘twas mine, now his, ‘tis something, ‘tis nothing, & has made slaves of thousands.  But he that filches from me my good name, takes that which not enriches him, but leaves me poor indeed.” (Iago, in Othello).  
Shysters have taken my purse, little though it held.  They have taken my liberty, & soon my life.  I give them all proudly in what is a worthy cause, but I do grieve that the evil ones have taken from me my good name   –  earned over 78 years!

14)   Have any current or potential welfare problems been identified?

The only ‘welfare problems’ are the unrelenting mental torture, & unbelievable physical brutality inflicted upon me by the sadistic despots within the Prison Service (there are more than a few).  After one & a half years of ill-treatment by 'barbaric' guards in a succession of  'Hell Hole' prisons (vide Sir David Ramsbotham & Martin Narey), the savage sentence was quashed completely, & I was sent to the more humane Newton Lodge Secure Hospital, in the care of psychiatrist Dr. Patrick J.G.Quinn.  From the witness box in Sheffield Crown Court on 4/4/03, he told Judge Goldsack "Sending him back to prison could have CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES ON HIS MENTAL HEALTH".   The thought of this pleased Judge Goldsack, & with the greatest malice he DID send me back to prison.  Only a psychopath could do that!  Prison staff –  especially at Armley  -  are doing their absolute best to make Dr. Quinn’s predictions come true!

15)    Please give details & duration of work on which prisoner has been employed during this sentence.  How has the prisoner worked during his or her time in custody (e.g. work effort & degree of supervision necessary)?

Effort?  For 9½ months at Dovegate I was on Education, morning, afternoon, evening, Saturday & Sunday mornings, improving my computer skills & legal knowledge, to aid me in the fight against crime.  Apart from that, during the whole of my time in prison, I have been working 18 hours a day, harder than any human being should have to, much less an old man of 78, when I should be enjoying a well earned retirement.   I do so in the foolish hope that I may help to restore Democracy & the Rule of Law to Britain. 
Supervision?  None necessary – but I have met the most fiendish obstruction!  The Prison Service is terrified of the truth – especially the printed truth!

16)    What are the prisoner’s stated plans for employment on release, & is this linked with work during this sentence?   The answer to the last question is ‘YES’. 
My plans?  To continue the mission stated in my manifesto when I stood for Parliament in 1997:  To arrest the horrifying increase in two sorts of crime in Britain (a) Violent & murderous attacks on the vulnerable & the old, &  (b)‘Fraud In The Legal System’ (now endemic in the courts).  Both worthy objectives, surely?  –  but the second one has earned me very powerful enemies!  (I put down my last £500 as deposit to stand, knowing I would lose it.  Would Parole Board members do as much?)

In a letter dated 3^rd July 1995, Paul Boateng MP, Legal Affairs spokesman for the Labour Party (then in opposition), wrote, “We will put an end to fraud in the legal system” (so it DOES exist!)  After he came to power I wrote to him pointing out that ‘a system’ is incapable of committing fraud, that fraud is crime, committed by criminals WITHIN the legal system, & sent him examples, with evidence.  He did not reply. 
Boateng forgot his promise, did nothing, & now holds high Cabinet Office.  I DID do something, & am to die in prison, put here by the ’fraudsters’ I set out to expose - while the news media deny the public knowledge of it!

Those WOULD be my plans if I did get out alive, but you know as well as I do that it will never happen, which makes this Parole Assessment an obscene farce (see 19, below).  In the unlikely event that I DO get out alive, the fraudsters will ensure there is an ‘unfortunate’ road accident or something similar.  The only thing that will save me from that is if the British people wake up to what is going on in the nation.      

17)   What classes, courses, vocational training or private study (including the library) have been available to the prisoner during the period of this report?  What has been undertaken, & what has been achieved?

This is the most obscene question of all.  See question 2.  Apart from Dovegate, ALL my applications for work, classes, education, library etc. are completely ignored, or answered with monstrous lies & fiendish excuses – ESPECIALLY at Armley, where I am ‘banged up’ 23 ½ hours a day, threatened, insulted, provoked, goaded, terrorised & taunted by staff. 

18)     Does the prisoner use time in class or training course to the best advantage?  What is the prisoner’s general conduct in class?    See above, & Lesley Shackleton’s words at question 2. 

19)    What use is the prisoner likely to make use of the educational/training skills acquired in prison upon release?

I would LIKE to try to make Britain a better place for the law abiding, the old, the vulnerable, - & yes, for prisoners, to the benefit of all.  The Prison Service does harm not only to the prisoner victims, & the good officers (see PRISONGATE), but to the nation, releasing not reformed characters, but resentful & embittered ones.  It COULD & SHOULD be different.     
Sadly for the nation, that will not be allowed to happen; the ‘fraudsters’ who put me here like things the way they are (see first & last paragraphs of 16)

20)    Taking into account available facilities, what are the prisoner’s main leisure interest & physical education activities & interests (in association or in cell)?

Another grossly obscene question (see 17, about Armley).  Leisure?  My attempts to reduce crime, & restore the Rule of Law to Britain (see 16), take up my every waken moment! 

21)   Have there been any opportunities for the prisoner to be involved in community activities (outside or inside prison)?  If so, what has been achieved?
Achieved?  The most fiendish crime is being used to prevent me bringing another vital change in British law - such as I have done already.  Via the ECtHR (case 33745/96), it was incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act (see letter of 1/9/98 to Jacqui Lait MP from Geoffrey Hoon MP (then Lord Chancellor Irvine’s spokesman in The Commons).  I did this single-handed.   One might have thought this would bring respect from the legal professionals.  Sadly, no.  The change is much hated by them, & I am hated for it.

22)    Has the prisoner attempted to use his time in prison constructively?
Nobody in the land, prisoner or not, has tried to do more! 

23)    Does the prisoner accept responsibility for the offence?
MOST CERTAINLY I DO  -  but the crimes against  me (before that offence, & since), were (& are), a million times worse!   Even if I were a monster (I am not), the grotesque ‘trial’ (my witnesses, my evidence & the press banned) was sufficient for the conviction to be quashed.  A TEN YEAR sentence (more than double my life expectation), on a World War 2 veteran with an honourable record of service to my King, my Queen, & my country -  for a first offence at the age of 75 (then).  Such savagery SHOULD have set alarm bells ringing - but our puppet ‘ watchdogs’ were deliberately deaf.

Others who have done MUCH more harm have received probation, community service, suspended sentences, three months, six months etc.  Even killers have been out in less than two years. Those who deliberately killed two completely innocent men (Harry Stanley & James Ashley) only had to say ‘we were in fear at the time’ to escape scot-free, without a stain on their characters!   The sadistic sentence on me proves the hatred of Judge Bentley, apart from the lies he fed to the jury (see 25).  If there is a monster, it is he, not I.   Sadly, he is not the only one (see Goldsack, 14).  WHY should they hate me?  An extract from my book ‘CAUSE FOR CONCERN’ is enclosed.  Please read it.

24)    What explanation is given by the prisoner of the reasons for his criminal behaviour?
  Trying to expose crime a million times worse - & thus prevent more of it to others! 

25)   

IF the Parole Board wants to know more of the REAL truth, let them attend Leeds Courthouse at 10am, 8th January 2004, for a hearing of High Court action LS 190 197, N.Scarth v G.Moore.  It is my Claim for £1,000,000 damages for the attack on 8th August 1999,  & other crime by W. Yorkshire Police.  Deliberately delayed for more than two years already, there will undoubtedly be more.   I am mortal, & it cannot be long before I suffer a heart attack, a stroke, enfeeblement, or death, one or the other rapidly being brought closer by treatment in prison, ensuring the case will never be finished, & the crime remain covered up for ever.

What is the prisoner’s attitude towards the victim, if any, of his or her offence? 

I regret that the victim suffered an injury.  I regret that he was gullible enough to allow the real villains to push him forward to break into my home to attack me.  I also regret that Judge Bentley told the jury that he was permanently disabled, when the consultant who treated him said under oath from the witness box that such little stiffness as remained from a comparatively minor injury would soon disappear (see the transcript).   That was only one example of Judge Bentley’s  lying.                            .       The real villains?  They were members of the same gang that tried to assassinate me eleven months before – because I was being successful at exposing ‘fraudsters in the legal system’!
    I feel much more sorrow for my part in sending 1,867 very brave German sailors to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean 60 years ago this Christmas.  We picked up a handful of survivors.  I grieve especially for those who were still calling for help from the black of the winter Arctic night as (obeying orders) we steamed away, leaving those men to certain death in the icy waters.  Far from being punished, we got medals for that, & a Hero’s welcome as we steamed into Scapa Flow harbour on New Year’s Day 1944.  It is perhaps Rough Justice that my own desperate calls for help (ever since the attack of 8^th August 1999) are also being ignored.  We had an excuse.  Hove to, searchlight on, U-boats all around, staying a moment too long could have ensured we joined those unfortunate men.  Those who have ignored my calls for help have no excuses.     

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26)    What courses or programmes are appropriate to tackle the prisoner’s offending behaviour?  Please give details of any courses or programmes that have been available (e.g. alcohol, drugs, sex offender course). 

Nonsensical  jargon, padding & garbage.  Having committed my first ‘offence’ at the age of 75, I will be 150 before I am tempted to commit another, & then only if another gang smash into my home to attack me!   

27)    Which courses or programmes has the prisoner attended, what degree of participation has he or she made, & how much benefit has been derived from them? 
This is preposterous.  I have been blocked from attending courses or programmes.  

28)    Has it been established that such courses or programmes identified in question 26 will be available on release? 

On release?  Grovel as I may, the ’fraudsters’ who put me here are determined I will never be released.

29)     Does the prisoner intend to continue with such courses or programmes, or undertake those identified as necessary but not available in prison?                              As above.  
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RELEASE

30)    What, in your view, is the likelihood of the prisoner co-operating with supervision while on licence & avoid re-offending before the sentence fully expires?

As above.  Of course, I might ‘re-offend’ – by writing another book, winning another case in the ECtHR, or bringing another much needed change in British law!  Whatever about my guilt, those are the REAL reasons for my incarceration.

31)   What do you consider to be the possible effect of a continued stay in custody? 

Prison doctors are among those who have never even heard of the UNSMR (see Preface).
Paragraph 25(2) says:  “The Medical Officer shall report to the Governor whenever he considers that a prisoner’s physical or mental health has been, or will be, injuriously affected by continued imprisonment, or any aspect of imprisonment”.                                

NOTHING is more likely to do harm to an old man of 78 than physical brutality & unrelenting mental torture such as I have suffered in prison!   Even in ‘humane’ Wolds Prison, as a special treat for my 78^th birthday I was brutally dragged to the Punishment Block – for daring to complain about serious crime against me!  Dr. Stevens knows about para. 25(2), because I told him.   Why does he ignore it?   

See the words of Dr. Quinn (at 14).  They warrant repetition.  From the witness box on 4^th April 2003, he told Judge Goldsack, “Sending him back to prison could have catastrophic consequences on his mental health”.  Goldsack (a psychopath surely?) DID send me back to prison, where management & staff are doing their best to make Dr. Quinn’s predictions come true!

”They whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad” said Euripides (480-406 BC).  “It is not necessary to use the rack or hot coals to drive the ordinary human being out of his mind” said Alecksandr Solzhenitsyn.  That is a crime worse than murder, a punishment worse than the gallows.   A bullet in the back of the head would be more humane.

The self proclaimed ’Gods’ who put me here (just as bad as those who had power in Hitler’s Germany – but less honest), are not only determined that I will never get out alive, but that I will suffer torment & torture while I live – a warning to others who might think to ‘impugn the integrity of the judiciary’ – as I had been doing!   So far, my mental strength (suffering paranoid delusions though I may be ?), has proved stronger than could be expected of a human being, but it cannot hold up much longer.

32)    Where does the prisoner state he or she intends to live if granted parole?  (Give address & brief details about type of accommodation).
You play with me, cat & mouse style, giving hope of escape to the poor creature, but never intending to release him - & you would be kicked out of the house by your Masters if you did!  (I hope you can recognise an analogy).

33)    Please give any other relevant information you feel the Parole Board should have when reaching a decision.

Information?  Reaching a decision?  The Parole Board have got their orders  –  from the same people who ordered the attempt to silence me on 8^th August 1999. 
Below is an extract from my letter of 29 Sept. 03 to Home Secretary Blunkett -  he who was still wearing a poppy as he said, “We will get rid of ‘airy-fairy’ Human Rights” –  rights for which millions of men died, including my own brave young shipmates!  Needless to say, there has been no reply - not even acknowledgement from an office boy.                                          I am one of the ‘disappeared’, just as in Orwell’s ‘1984’, Argentina under Galtiari, or Pinochet’s Chile.  Only my physical presence remains – but for how much longer?
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Among the outrageous words from the 'great' Lord Denning (in gross contempt of his own judicial oath & that of the Queen) were, "BETTER THAT INNOCENT MEN SHOULD REMAIN IN PRISON THAN THAT THE INTEGRITY OF THE JUDICIARY BE IMPUGNED".            Those who promote or follow that precept are committing crime.  They include not only present members of the judiciary, but Home Secretaries, Home Office, Prison Service, Parole Board & ALL our puppet 'watchdogs'. 
They purport to act in the name of the Sovereign, & are thus (supposedly) bound by her Coronation Oath (sworn before Almighty God) "To Deliver Justice with Mercy".  Whatever about Justice, they have shown as much Mercy to me as was shown to Lesley Downey by Myra Hindley & Ian Brady.  There were only two of them:  Lesley was a defenceless little girl.  I am a caged & defenceless old man.  The whole of this brutal, lawyer controlled Police State are determined to destroy me.   Why?   In my 1997 manifesto, my book, my pamphlets, etc, I HAD been ‘impugning the (supposed) integrity of the judiciary – with evidence!   I had set out to expose ‘fraud in the legal system’ - & was being successful !. 
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The diabolical treatment meted out to me is the highest compliment they could pay me, proving they are terrified of the truth.  It is no disgrace to be in prison.   I am proud that God has decided that I should follow in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, the Suffragettes, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Pastor Martin Neimuller, Deitrich Bonhoffer, Alecksandr Solzhenitsin,  Andrei Sacharov, Martin Luther King, Mohammed Ali, Fred Hill, & so many others, some who survived, many who did not.  Those with power in Britain have proved they are totally without mercy, & I will be proud to die in prison, but it will be as great a disgrace as ever was on the people of ‘Perfidious Albion’. 

 Perhaps the Parole Board will say, ”Nothing to do with us, not our remit”.  Tony Blair & Jack Straw both condemned the ‘Walk on by Society’, the attitude which allows crime & depravity to flourish.  This IS to do with anyone who claims to be a human being!  Those who can turn their backs on an old man being brutalised & tortured both outside & inside prison could equally turn their backs on children suffering the same. 

Stop Press: (I learn about the type of person employed by the Probation Service):  Tues. 16 Dec. 03.   Banged up 23½ hours a day in that evil place Armley Gaol.  Doctor’s orders are that I keep my feet up whenever possible, & about 11.20am I was sitting up (with difficulty) in my cramped bunk doing legal work.  There came a shout through the peephole.  I went to the door.  A face said she was ‘Liz’ (turns out she was Elizabeth Ralcewicz, Senior Probation Officer).  She reminded me that we had met once before, at an unremarkable meeting to decide whether I should be on suicide watch.  “I have a message for you from Ann Malloby (one of my legal advisers).  She wants you to ring her”, & ‘Liz’ pushed under the door a Memo to Prisoner Scarfe (sic).  I said they would not let me out to ring anyone.  “Nothing I can do.” said she.  Officer Portrey was outside, & could have opened the door for us to speak.  I asked Ralcovicz if we were forced to shout at each other through the door as though I were a caged animal?”  Her reply - “You are acting like a caged animal”!!!!).   This, to a man old enough to be her grandfather (my contribution to this nation being a million times greater than hers), from a woman who was seeing me (for only the second time ever) through the peephole, working quietly on my bunk.                 She is a disgrace to her profession, quite unfit to have power over ANY human being.  It is terrifying that she should be a senior officer.  Later I complained to Senior Prison Officer Fawley & PO Portrey, who both condemned her conduct.  Mr. Fawley promised he would take the matter up officially, & write to me at Wolds.  Can I expect mercy - never mind justice - from a service which employs such a person?

Norman Scarth (aka Winston Smith), 2am, 19^th December 2003 (‘1984’ plus 19)

Now back at HMP Wolds, where some of the staff have a little humanity,

compared to the professional sadists at Armley Gaol.

Report completed by:     Signed:                                                          Grade:
Name (caps):                                                                                          Date:                                   

Countersigned (by Governor V level or above):

Signed:                                                                                                    Grade:   

Name (caps):                                                                                            Grade (sic)                                                   5,066 words.

See my documents WW2 & GB2003B;  BoatengLetter;  HoonLetter;     Norman ‘ousts’ top judge(YEP);  ‘Killers should not have to serve life’(Woolf, The Times); my book ‘Cause for Concern’, & extracts from David Ramsbotham’s book ‘PRISONGATE’.