From Norman Scarth, Political Prisoner GV5409, (born 1925, the oldest - & most ‘dangerous’ - prisoner in England).     

Current address, Her Majesty’s Prison, Wolds Gulag, BROUGH, HU15 2JZ, East Yorkshire, England.    

To the Parole Board, Probation Service & others.         Cc. The whole wide world.

1)      A 47 page dossier entitled ‘APPLICATION FOR RELEASE ON PAROLE’ handed to me on Wed. 14^th January 2004 contains Reports from various different people.  It invites me to comment on the Reports (which I do later), &

2)      That is grossly offensive:  The only people ‘at risk’ would be the gangsters with wigs & robes who infest the judiciary, ‘at risk’ because of the mass of evidence I have of their skullduggery.  Your orders, specific or just understood, are that you play your part in preventing that evidence ever coming to light!  Please do not insult me by pretending otherwise. 

3)      Further offences?  The only blot on my lifelong record was put there by those gangsters, because I was being successful at exposing them.  ‘Lead a law-abiding life’?  I have done for 78 years, working harder than any of you would know how to – harder than ever now, when I should be enjoying a well-earned retirement! 

4)      Sadly there is no time for retirement or rest when such evil is abroad.  It is an honour that God should chose a little old man like me to lead the fight against it, but I am disappointed that He should decide I must do so almost alone.  Never in the past would I have claimed to be better than anyone else – but I do so now!

5)      I have given infinitely more to this nation than the whole lot of you put together, from fighting in WW2, to bringing a vital change in British law 53 years later, (incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act).   Yet you have been given the power to decide whether I live or die, & where.  I have no wish to die in prison, but will be proud to do so if you decide that must be my fate.  My blood will be on your hands, my death on your consciences – or it would be if you had consciences! 

6)      Standing for Parliament in 1997 as an Independent Old Age Pensioner, the two main points in my manifesto (& in my book ‘CAUSE FOR CONCERN’ were my concern at the LACK of concern by regular politicians at the horrifying increase in two types of crime:

.            (a) Violent & murderous attacks on the vulnerable & the old (a national disgrace, unheard of at one time), and

(b)‘Fraud In The Legal System’ (of which I had newly become aware).  Rampant & rife in the courts, it flourishes unchecked & unreported!!.              ^{Footnote [1]}

My mission was to reduce the number of each.  Worthy objectives, surely?  –  but the second one earned me very powerful enemies!                                        

I had put down my last £500 as the election deposit, knowing I would lose it.                                                             Would any of you do as much in the fight against crime? 

7)      Two years later I was to be the victim of both crimes – by this ruthless, merciless & lawless Police State, OF WHICH YOU ARE PART! 

8)      Two Probation Officers I would trust (see paras. 41/42).  The three most recent ones I would trust as much as Adolf Eichman (the Nazi hung for being a ‘desk murderer’).  They have a depraved appetite for lies (copography), but a phobic aversion to the truth.  ^{Footnote [2]}   Peter Lowden’s only meeting with me was during a surprise visit in Armley Gaol.  Cut short by brutal guards, he had nothing on which to base his Report, so just copied the monstrous lies & gross distortions of the truth fed to the (specially selected) jury by Judge Bentley.  He condemned me for saying “If I had killed him it would not have been a crime”.  I was trying to state what IS the law of the land, forced to use the plainest words because of the gross misconduct of Bentley.  The few present at that grotesque ‘trial’ will tell you there was never one like it since the days of Judge Jeffries.

9)      Much of British law is based on precedent, & I was trying to quote a binding precedent (see para. 32, & my document ‘InFear’).  With hate in his eyes, Bentley pounced on me, “You will NOT quote other cases, but deal with this one only!”  Such blatant contempt for the law is beyond belief.

10)   The dead eyes of these Probation Officers only lit up when they uttered the favourite stock question, “Do you feel remorse for your crime”, as did the eyes of Parole Board member P. Palmer when he asked the same.  At his only visit on 16/01/04 (another surprise), he expressed disappointment that I did not accept his proffered handshake, telling him I would do so if he proved he had a conscience and courage. 

11)   That favourite stock question from people like you has resulted in many innocent people spending many years in prison after they could have been released on parole, because they would not compromise their integrity by expressing  ‘remorse’ for a crime they did not commit.  A notable one was Robert Brown who spent 25 years in prison before his innocence was proved, corrupt police being responsible for his conviction.  Do you not feel shame?  Would that you had Robert Brown’s integrity!

12)   I THROW THE QUESTION BACK AT YOU:  Do YOU feel remorse for crime against me a million times worse?  (see para. 6).  It started eleven months before the offence of which I stand convicted. 

13)   On Sunday afternoon, 8^th August 1999, I was alone at home, a completely law abiding old age pensioner, doing no wrong to anyone.   I was subjected to a potentially lethal terror attack by a gang of untouchable, unaccountable British Gestapo - without even the pretence of a lawful excuse.  This was followed by eleven months of unlawful but effective ‘house arrest’, imprisoned by fear of further attack. 

14)   It came on 20^th July 2000, when I received a brutal kicking which put me in hospital on intravenous antibiotics.  Then followed a malicious prosecution, with perjury in sworn affidavits, & at my grotesque ‘trial’.  My witnesses, my evidence & the press were banned by Judge David Ronald Bentley.  That should have set alarm bells ringing.  After the savage sentence of ten years – on a WW2 veteran (a War Hero said Tony Benn) - for a first ‘offence’, the alarm bells were enough to waken the dead, but ALL our lawyer controlled ‘watchdogs’ were (& are!) determined to be deaf & blind. 

15)   The nationwide cover-up of the police crime has been total.  Conviction was followed by physical brutality & unremitting (still continuing) mental torture, in a succession of British Belsens.  The public are constantly told by politicians & the media that our prisons are ‘Holiday Camps’.  You are insiders & know they are not!  Why do you not speak up, as Sir David Ramsbotham has done in his new book, ‘PRISONGATE’?  This sadistic pretence that you may give me parole is itself cat & mouse torture. 

16)   I work through the night (as now), still foolishly searching for just one person with power who has NOT sold his/her soul to The Devil.  Prison Wing Officers do have a spark of humanity.  They ALL say that a man like me should not be in prison at all, but admit that they fear for their own futures if they dare to speak up.  Who can blame them, when they see what happens to one who does?  But, it did not end happily for the German people when they turned a blind eye to the excesses of the Nazis.  There was a heavy price to pay.  There will be again.

17)  Even brutal Apartheid South Africa had enough mercy to release ‘terrorist’ Nelsen Mandela when he was 72.  The Lockerbie Bomber will be out when he is 75.  At 78, I am too ‘dangerous’ ever to be let out alive (but see my reference to an ‘unfortunate accident’, question 17 in the PRISON ASSESSMENT FOR PAROLE BOARD, my document ‘Parole-03-12-16’). 

18)   Much of what is below is already in my ‘InFear’& ‘Parole’ documents, but so great is your fear of the truth, I doubt you will have read them, nor my many unacknowledged official complaints of the gross mistreatment meted out to me by ‘barbaric ‘ guards in ‘Hell Hole’ prisons. ^{Footnote [3]} 

19)   Nor will you have read my book ‘Cause For Concern’, & other documents with proof of corruption in the courts, & criminality in the Prison Service, especially those to Home Secretary David Blunkett - he who was still wearing a poppy two days after Armistice Day 2001 as he said on TV, “We will get rid of ‘airy-fairy’ Human Rights”.  ^{Footnote [4]}      Only the gullible believe we still have them, only the gullible believe we still have the Rule of Law.  Instead we have the Rule of Law-yers - the new ‘Master Race’, the new ‘Nazi Party’.  They have seized absolute power, & will destroy anyone they see as a threat to that power!  (I am ashamed to admit that until the age of 70 I lived in a fool’s paradise, & was as gullible as any).

20)    You most certainly have never read my cast iron grounds for appeal against the savage sentence by Judge Bentley.  Though it was quashed completely in the Appeal Court on 25^th November 2002, it was unlawfully re-imposed by Judge Goldsack on 4^th April 2003.  My appeal against that sentence is being completely ignored, in the certain knowledge that if ignored long enough, my death will solve the problem. 

21)   Nor have you read the dossier of glowing testimonials from about 40 eminent & worthy people, which chronicles 60 years of my life from the age of 17. 

22)   You will have fought shy of reading in my Grounds for Appeal, the very long list of those who have done much more harm than I was accused of, but whose punishment has been probation, community service, suspended sentences, 3 months, 6 months etc.  Many violent killers have served much less than me.

23)   Hull pensioner John Martindale, who charged out of his house & stabbed to death a young man who was singing in the street, was freed after only 1½ years in prison.  Wakefield woman Janet Charlton ‘rained at least 20 blows’ to kill her naked, gagged, handcuffed & blindfolded lover, leaving the axe sticking out of his skull.  She served only 1 yr. 9 months.  A drink-driving woman who crashed, & killed her daughter was given 3 months, but at an emergency appeal a week later the sentence was suspended.  There are many others

24)   I killed nobody, attacked nobody, but after a long lifetime of service to my King, my Queen & my Country, I am to die in prison – put here by the fraudsters I was exposing.  You deify & worship them blindly, fearful of repercussions if you show the mercy you are sworn to deliver.

25)   The conduct of the hearings & savagery of the sentences by Bentley & Goldsack is proof enough of their hatred of me.  Not surprising, when my mission to expose their crooked chums was being successful, but the blatancy of the hatred IS surprising..  IF the law of the land means anything at all (see Hoffman/Pinochet, & Hewart CJ in R. v Sussex Justices) - even if I was a serial killer like Pinochet - that hatred should result in the conviction being quashed. 

26)   You will of course say, “Nothing to do with us”.  The presence in the judiciary of monsters worse than Dr. Shipman is to do with anyone who claims to be a human being.  ^{Footnote [5]}

27)   Shipman was convicted of murder, but equally culpable were those who turned a blind eye & covered up his crimes, thus enabling him to kill many more than he should have been able to.  He would not have been able to kill ANY in the way that he did, had not the General Medical Council given him licence to do so, & access to the necessary drugs.  They also gave licence to gynecologist Richard Neale(?) (struck off in Canada) to destroy the lives of hundreds of women with his butchery – & even now allow him a senior position where he oversees the work of other surgeons!!  Am I more dangerous to the public than he is?

28)   Predictably, you ignored my invitation to attend Leeds Courthouse on 8 Jan. 2004, for a hearing in N.Scarth v G.Moore, ex Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, where you could have begun to learn the horrific truth, instead of the same lies & gross distortions of the truth fed to that specially selected jury.  “A half truth is a whole lie” says a Jewish proverb.  “A truth told with false intent beats all the lies man can invent”, said William Blake. 

29)   The two most dangerous madmen in the world are Bush & Blair, yet they are free to destroy what is left of civilization with their own ‘weapons of mass destruction’.  When they maim & murder innocent men, women & children they call it ‘Collateral Damage’.   The little boy with his arms blown off is one example. 

30)   The very minor ‘collateral damage’ suffered by the bailiff who smashed into my home was because he was stupid enough to allow himself to be pushed forward to do the dirty work of the real villains, the private army of Gestapo police.  After the Stansted aircraft hi-jacking (& similar situations) much pride was shown by the police, & much praise heaped upon them, because the incidents had been resolved with no harm to anyone, thanks to the ‘professionalism’ of the police.  Why didn’t my attackers use the same ‘professionalism’?

31)   I use the word ‘Gestapo’.  Until the attack of 8/8/99 I still trusted the British Bobby, in spite of the far too many scandals, & have gone to their assistance more than once.  Late in life I learned the truth.     

32)   Those who deliberately shot & killed Harry Stanley & James Ashley (two innocent & defenceless men) are completely free, still armed, without a stain on their characters (see my document ‘InFear’.  

33)   I have killed nobody, attacked nobody, yet I am suffering incredible physical brutality & unrelenting mental torture until I die in prison - because I stood for Parliament & wrote a book in 1997, brought a momentous change in British law in 1998/99 (single-handed!) via the European Court of Human Rights, & intended to stand against Lawyer Blair at the 2001 General Election. 

34)   Those who ignore the blindingly obvious, & persist in saying otherwise are motivated by their own malice, or fearful of the consequences if they fail to deliver what is expected of them by the Blair regime – just as in Hitler’s Germany or Stalinist Russia.

35)   I could of course grovel before you, say all the things you are programmed to accept (much good it would do me), but Democracy, Truth, Justice, & the Rule of Law are much more important than my fate.  In 1943 I was prepared to give my life to defend them, lucky to survive when my brave young shipmates did give theirs. 

36)   They died in vain, that which we were fighting against then is here now.  I am again prepared to give my life in the hope that it may help to restore those precious things to Britain.  A foolish hope, so powerful, so numerous are the corrupt, so brainwashed or spineless the rest of the nation.  My apologies to the few who are not.   

37)   Having had 60 years longer than my shipmates, my sacrifice will be small compared to theirs.   Anyway, what decent person would want to live in this ‘1984’ Police State?  Sadly, there are millions who enjoy being part of it, just as in Hitler’s Germany, all but a tiny handful too brainwashed/apathetic/cowardly to speak up.  ‘Look after number one’ is the National Motto.

38)   Her Majesty’s Government, Opposition (??), Prison Service, Probation Service, Parole Board et al purport to act in the name of the Queen, & thus are bound by the Sovereign’s Oath, sworn before Almighty God, “TO DELIVER JUSTICE WITH MERCY”. 

39)   Mahatma Gandhi & the Suffragettes fasted when imprisoned.  Imperial Britain could be brutal, but still had enough respect for that oath to release them when they were close to death.  For the Suffragettes, the government of the day quickly passed the 1912(?) ‘Prisoners (Temporary Release from Custody) Act’.  Known as the ‘Cat & Mouse Act’, it was used to drag them back to prison as they gained strength.     

40)   Whatever about Justice, those who are part of Lawyer Blair’s regime have as much mercy for me, a caged & defenceless old man, as was shown by Myra Hindley & Ian Brady to Lesley Downey, a trapped & defenceless little girl.  There were only two of them.  It is taking tens of thousands to destroy me &, with licence to commit any crime, they are close to complete success. 

41)   The two decent Probation Officers?  One was the blond woman in Leeds who helped me to obtain bail pending trial.  The other was Simon Welsh of Sheffield, who wrote a Pre Sentence Report dated 30/5/01.  Though he stated he could not produce a full report because of lack of information, he being from Sheffield, me from Leeds, he did ask one question which screamed out loud for an answer!    “… WHY HE APPEARS TO HAVE BREACHED A LIFELONG ADHERENCE TO A LAW-ABIDING LIFESTYLE IN SUCH SPECTACULAR FASHION”.  Why indeed?  Judge Bentley & the shysters who infest the judiciary were, & are, determined the truth of that will never come out – because it would bring disgrace not only to the police, but to their own profession! 

42)   Mr. Walsh also said, “I would be concerned that at his age the alien environment of a long period of incarceration would be detrimental to him, both physically & mental”.  Without doubt, Judge Bentley did take notice of those words, & gloated as he gave a sentence which he hoped would destroy me physically & mentally!   “They whom the Gods wish to destroy, the first drive mad”, said Euripides (480-406 BC).  That is a crime worse than murder, a punishment worse than the gallows. 

43)   Exactly the same depravity was shown by Judge Goldsack two years later.  Psychiatrist Dr. Patrick J.G.Quinn told him from the witness box at Sheffield Crown Court, “Sending him back to prison (from a secure hospital) could have catastrophic consequence on his mental health”.  Hoping for those ‘catastrophic consequences’, Goldsack DID send me back to prison, confident that the Prison Service would do its best to drive me to mental breakdown, and/or to take my own life, as they do to many other victims. 

44)   No death penalty in Britain?  We may not have the gallows, but we do have more fiendish ways, when it is called ‘suicide’ or ‘self harm’.  Though the brutality inflicted on me brings concern from only a tiny few, perhaps my death may waken the rest of the nation, & the people of ‘Perfidious Albion’ will prove the title (bestowed by Bishop Jacque Benigne Bassnet 300 years ago) to be unjustified.  Perhaps not. 

45)   Perfidious? Treacherous? Corrupt? Cowardly? Dishonest?  Depraved? It is hard to find words to describe Britain today.  Proud to be British for 70 years, all my lifelong beliefs have been shattered.  It is with the utmost shame that I am forced to say that Mohammed Ali was closest to the truth when he said “The white man is The Devil”.  None more devilish than Peter Lowden. 

46)   I paraphrase Martin Luther King, “I fear not the words & actions of the wicked, but I DO fear the silence of the (supposedly) honest”.  Those who see the devil’s disciples at work, but remain silent & turn their backs, are far from honest! 

This decision by a faceless & nameless ‘Board’, was signed by ‘D.Smith’ who I have never ever met.  There was no indication of his position or rank.   

48)    I am eligible for parole in April, & the Parole Board are supposedly considering it.  Yet, according to this ‘Board’, (who will be submitting their views to the Parole Board), with only three months to go, I am not even deemed fit to be in a Category D prison!   Why do they play such sadistic games?                          

ADDENDUM:

49)    Page N2 of the Parole Dossier tells one version about my prison ‘offence’ (punished by 3 days loss of association): ‘in the library he was rude & loud to Education staff, & refused to leave’.  The truth:  Lesley Shackleton, Head of Education at Dovegate Prison was asked by the Appeal Court to provide a written Report on me.  In it she said, “He works quietly…  & is always respectful to prisoners & staff alike.”  Library staff at Wolds will say the same, as will all prisoners. 

50)   On the day in question I was, as always, working away quietly, but there was criminal misconduct against me by a temporary woman officer from Education, substituting for library staff.  (It was obvious she was acting on the orders of Education Manageress Pat Wilcox).  It is not only my right to complain, but my duty to do so, which I did, respectfully, but then Education staff came in mob-handed, compounding the crime, adding sneers & insults.  I returned to my work & continued quietly, though badly shaken by the vicious verbal assault, till it was time to return to my cell on the Wing.  I set off to do so, but as a special treat for my 78^th birthday, I was brutally dragged to the punishment block.  Whatever the excuse, there was no justification for such treatment (se page one for my Election Manifesto). 

51)   Many complain of, & fight against ‘the system’.  I do not:  Better a bad system, run by good people, than a good system, run by bad people.  We have a bad system, run by very bad people.  It is they I try to expose.   This document tells only a tiny part of the horror.  It WILL get worse!                                             4,336 words. 

The facts in this WITNESS STATEMENT are true to the best if my knowledge, belief & recollection, E&OE.
      Signed:                                                 Norman Scarth (aka Winston Smith), 22^nd January 2004 (‘1984’+ 20)