I have received your 2 page letter from The Registrar, dated 19 August 2004, along with application form.  This was in response to my letter ref. ECHR 13Aug 04.  It tells the essence of the case in few words.  I ask that you  read it again before reading the detail which follows.  (Because my brain makes too many mistakes when writing by hand, I have written the bare minimum on the Application Form itself, & expand the details in this document, which is in the same format). 

PREFACE.   This is much more important than one individual case, MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY OWN FATE!  Proud to be British for 70 years, it is with shame, sadness & sorrow that I inform you that Britain has become a ruthless, lawless & merciless Police State, with total contempt for it's own laws, International Conventions, common humanity or natural justice.  Only a nauseating pretence remains.  

Drafted under great difficulty, this document may need additions & amendments, but at the age of 78 (the oldest man in prison), I may not survive long enough.  So, I send it as it is, hopefully with more to follow.  

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APPLICATION

I.  THE PARTIES

A.  THE APPLICANT:  1. Surname:  SCARTH.     2. First name: NORMAN.    Male.     3. Nationality:   BRITISH.

4.  Profession: Retired farmer, now full time exposer of corruption.        5. Date & place of birth:  9th October 1925.  England.

6. Permanent address:  In some English prison or other, until I die in one of them.   7. Tel. No. -----------.                                          

8. Present address (if different from 6).  Currently Political Prisoner GV 5409, Her Majesty's Prison Wolds Gulag, BROUGH, HU15 2JZ, East Yorkshire, England.      9. Representative:  None .      10, 11, & 12:  Not applicable.

B.  THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTY    13.  THE UNITED KINGDOM.

II.  STATEMENT OF THE FACTS    14. 

(a).    For more than five years I have suffered continuing terror, physical brutality & unrelenting mental torture from the United Kingdom Government, up to & including the present day, in gross, blatant, deliberate & continuing violations of the European Convention of  Human Rights & Fundamental Freedoms:  

(b).  The violations have been able to continue so long because, following the desperate call for help in my document "WILL SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE?" (9th August 1999) (copy enclosed), I became one of  'The Disappeared' - as in George Orwell's '1984'.  I became an 'unperson', ceased to exist - except to be destroyed, which task is almost completed.   There came not help, but brutality & depravity beyond belief!  It has continued ever since, & is STILL continuing!

(c).  There are many more facts than I have time to detail here, but in truth, little detail is needed, any more than one needs a Laboratory Report to know whether an egg is bad.  The stench is unmistakable.  Equally so is the stench of corruption.  One fact alone should be enough: - the savagery of the sentence imposed on me at my grotesque Kangaroo Court 'trial' (the Press, my witnesses & my evidence banned),.  It indicates pure malice, from Judge Bentley, & those who have followed since.  To understand the malice, please read my document, 'WW2; The Cause, the End, & the Seizing of ABSOLUTE POWER by a new 'Master Race', which will follow in a day or two (I do not want to distract you from reading V,19).   

(d).  The press being banned, Bentley made no attempt to hide his hatred for the Litigant In Person, me in particular.  When I protested at his gross misconduct, he had me dragged brutally back to the cells on three occasions.  This is a man who wears a poppy on Armistice Day, in memory of those who fought & died in WW2, & to give thanks to those who fought & survived (as I did)

(e).  Most blatant, provable perjury was not only allowed by Judge Bentley, but he himself repeated it to the (specially selected) jury, & virtually directed them to find me guilty.  They gave him the verdict he wanted.  He then gave me a TEN YEAR SENTENCE - for a first 'offence'  - at the age of 75 (then) - after a long lifetime of honourable service to my King, my Queen & my Country.  My record is infinitely better than those who are determined I will never get out of prison alive.

(f).  Others who have inflicted injuries similar to that alleged against me have been sentenced to Probation, Community Service, Suspended Sentence, three months, six months etc.  Even those who have deliberately killed with extreme violence have been free from prison in less than two years (see newspaper reports).   I have killed nobody, attacked nobody, though it is true that one of War Criminal Blair's Secret Police assassins who smashed into my home to attack ME did suffer a minor injury.  (My document 'In Fear' is most relevant.  It too will sent in a day or two).

(g).  It is a tragedy for Europe & the world that Britain, which had a major part in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights, has in the intervening years become a ruthless, lawless & merciless Police State, differing from that of Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Goebbels & Co. only in that the victims are fewer - as yet - & that they had a degree of honesty.  They declared their intentions, whereas Britain hides behind a nauseating pretence of Democracy, Freedom, Justice & the Rule of Law. 

(h).  At 78, the oldest man in prison, my expectation of life - already limited - is rapidly being reduced by mistreatment in prison, & I ask that you treat this as urgent.  The favourite victim of the new Master Race which controls Britain is the Litigant In Person (the person who goes to court without a lawyer). 

(i).  The legal professionals (from top to bottom!), are consumed with a hatred for the LIP which equals that of the Nazis for the Jews.  Being Honorary Secretary of The Litigants In Person Society I have much more experience than just my own.  One would hope for a lessening of that hatred when the lawyer swears the Judicial Oath.  Sadly no, it increases, & he has the power to indulge it.  That being so, no LIP in Britain will ever find a tribunal which is 'Independent & Impartial', as required by Article 6. 

(j).  I am hated 10 fold:  For my 1997 General Election Manifesto; my book CAUSE FOR CONCERN, (with evidence of 'fraud in the legal system') - (see letter from Paul Boateng, enclosed);  for my single handed success in the ECtHR (33745/96), bringing a vital change in British law (incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act);  for giving lessons in law & a beating to Lord Woolf (then Master of the Rolls) in the Civil Appeal Court in March/June 1999, when I boldly told him, Lord Justice Otton & LJ Ward: "Her Majesty the Queen, whose courts these are, is badly served by the shysters who now infest the judiciary"; for being Hon. Sec. of the Litigants In Person Society; for being a Founder Member of the Article 6 Group; & because I intended to stand against Prime Minister Blair at the 2001 General Election.  I WOULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE!    The claim by lawyers that 'judges bend over backwards to help the LIP' is not made true by constant repetition. 

(k).  The hatred of the LIP from lawyers, though inexcusable IS understandable, in that he is doing work which they believe should be theirs.  Less understandable (at first),  the Prison Service (that other branch of the Police State) shares that hatred.  They dislike any prisoner who claims to be innocent (anxious not to lose the £35,000 a year he brings to them), but they especially dislike the one who tries to prove it without a lawyer.   

(l).  Prison Service management, like the courts, use fiendish means to block, frustrate or delay his appeal, or other court actions which can bring the truth to light.  Deliberate delay to anyone is deplorable, to someone of my age it is diabolical, the purpose being  to delay until my death, to ensure the serious crime against my by this Police State will never come to light. 

(m).  The Prison Service has total contempt for the their own rules, the law of the land, & the UNITED NATION STANDARD MINIMUM RULES FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.  Serious breaches of those rules occur every day, to a criminal degree.  Not surprising, in that few prison officers, from Governors downwards, have even heard of the UNSMR - much less abide by them! 

(n).  Those rules are excellent in many ways, but there are glaring omissions.  They assume that EVERY prisoner is a criminal, when there are all too many in Britain who are completely innocent.  Some are convicted because of  mistakes by the police, the Crown Prosecutions Service, or the courts, but many of the 'mistakes' are deliberate!

(o).  Lord Denning was rated (by some!) as the finest judge of the last hundred years, but he made many diabolical rulings & statements, in gross contempt of his own Judicial Oath, & that of the Queen, in whose name our judges purport to act.  Denning said "Better that innocent men should remain in prison than that the integrity of the judiciary be impugned".  Perhaps that was when the rot set in?  Regrettably, ALL our judges follow that creed, protecting each other, to ensure the 'integrity' of none of them is 'impugned', declaring themselves to be Gods, incapable of sin (i.e.'bias').  The Queen's Coronation Oath, sworn before Almighty God, was "TO DELIVER JUSTICE WITH MERCY".

(p).  In his book 'L'esprit des lois', the noted French jurist Baron de l' Montesquieu defined the three elements of State power: 'The Legislature, the Executive, & The Judiciary'.  He is often quoted.  NOT quoted is his rider "Judges must be controlled because of their venality".  See also the words of Thomas Jefferson about British judges, after his new nation had become free of them!

(q).  Another ruling by Denning (in Sirros v Moore) was: "No matter that (a judge) be motivated by the utmost malice, greed, envy, & all uncharitableness, he is not liable to any action".   This self proclaimed immunity was falsely proclaimed, but accepted as the word of God ever since.

(s).  So - WHO JUDGES THE JUDGES?  Regrettably, the ECtHR will not do so.  It appears that the ECtHR follows the diabolical creed of Lord Denning as staunchly as do our own courts.  Your own '40 Year Survey' showed that (apart from the odd Court Martial) not one case complaining of the 'bias' of a British judge has even reached the Court, much less been decided.  I personally know at least 20 LIPs who tried to complain on those grounds (& there must be hundreds), but ALL were blocked & kept out by the British lawyers who acted as gatekeepers for the discredited & now defunct Commission.

(t).  Success as a LIP in my earlier case (33745/96) does not disprove it, but in fact gave me much to confirm it.  Karen Reid (one of the 'gatekeepers') even refused my request for an Application Form -  taking it upon herself to tell me the case had no chance!   Many would give up at that stage, but I asked a lawyer to write on my behalf.  He admitted he had no experience with ECtHR cases, & had to borrow my books, but he did write, using the same words as me.   He got the form by return, & my eventual success proved Karen Reid's gratuitous opinion to be wrong.. 

(u).  Only by persistence (& paying out £100 to the lawyer!) was I able to get past the obstruction, & eventually become successful, bringing a much needed change in British law.  Though successful in that one important part, the Commission completely ignored the most important part - serious misconduct by judges.  They invited me to send any new evidence, & I did send some which was cast iron, but the Commission completely ignored that too, following the practice of our own courts when challenged on that which is unanswerable!

(v).  In April 1999 I put forward another complaint.  It was declared admissible, & given the case No. 48911/99(?) (or 49811/99?).  Blocking this new - & much more important case - was undoubtedly one of the reasons for the potentially lethal terror  attack of 8th August 1999.  It failed to silence me completely, but - suffering unofficial, unlawful, but very effective House Arrest (imprisoned by fear) - I was not able to concentrate on this new case, unable to counter the obstruction coming from a different direction 

(w).  It came from J.S.Phillips (I think that was the name) in Strasbourg, who was trying to have the case struck out.  When I spoke to him on the telephone, telling him of the terror attack, he showed not the slightest concern..  When I said that my success in 33745/96, indicated that I do not make frivolous complaints, his voice had note of  triumph as he said "Ah, but you only won part of it!" 

(x).  The oldest man in an English prison, soon to be 79, I may not survive long enough, or retain strength enough  to complete this Application, particularly being obstructed, frustrated & delayed by the Prison Service.  Accordingly I will send it in instalments - THOUGH HOPING THAT THE INFORMATION SO FAR MIGHT BE ENOUGH!.

III.  STATEMENT OF ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF THE CONVENTION &/OR PROTOCOLS & OF RELEVANT ARGUMENTS

15.  ARTICLES 1; 2, (imminent), 3; 6; 13,14, 17,18, 34 & 53 of the Convention, & Article 3 of The First Protocol.  Furthermore, in consequence of those violations I have suffered violations of Article 5;  7; 8; 10 & 11 of the Convention itself; Article 1, 3 & 5 of The First Protocol; Article 2 of Protocol 4;  Article 2 of Protocol 7;  Article 1 of Protocol 12. 

Relevant Arguments?  Because my life expectation is so very  short, I do not have time to list the relevant arguments.  I hope they are self evident.  If I survive, I will try to list them in a later instalment.

IV.  STATEMENT RELATIVE TO ARTICLE 35 SS 1 OF THE CONVENTION.  Final decision (date, court or authority & nature of decision).

16.  Order of the Court of Criminal Appeal,  22/1/2004, refusing my appeal against sentence. 

The Appeal Court did not tell me that the 'hearing' was to take place, nor that it had taken place.  Not until 20 July 2004 did I see the Order, when a copy was sent to me by the Judicial Office of the House of Lords with their letter dated 19 July 2004.

17.  Other decisions (list in chronological order, giving date, court or authority & nature of decision for each of them).

As stated already, the far too many transfers (designed to disorientate me), disorientate me), gave the Prison Service opportunity to steal many of my documents.  My life expectation being very short, I do not have time to try to recover them & list them all.  They started with my conviction on 27 April 2001, at a grotesque Kangaroo Court 'trial', until the latest one, as in 16 (above).

18.  Is there any other appeal or other remedy available to you which you have not used?  I have TRIED to use several,  but have been ignored or rebuffed.  See VI  (20).

V.  19.  STATEMENT OF THE OBJECT OF THE APPLICATION.

To open this festering can of worms as soon as possible (it WILL explode one day!) I suggest you start with my document "WILL SOMEBODY HELP ME?" (9/8/99, enclosed).  There came not help, but brutality & depravity beyond belief, continuing ever since, right up to the present day!  There has been collusion (tacit or otherwise) between the Police, the Judiciary, & the Prison Service!   The automatic fax number at the top of the document shows the date as 9/8/99 - 11 months BEFORE the crime of which I stand convicted.  The jury were not allowed to see it at my 'trial'.  Deprived of it from my incarceration, it only came into my possession recently as part of  'disclosure' from the solicitor for the Chief Constable in my High Court action against him for the terror attacks & the nation-wide cover-up of those crimes.  That action has been deliberately & criminally delayed by Judge Grenfell for three years, again in the hope that my death will ensure the cover-up continues. 

If you DO act according to Article 38(1a), I will be only too glad to review the belief I have formed since my success in case 33745/96, that the ECtHR was created by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers, the victim - alive or dead - being only the necessary vehicle for their activities, the LIP being an interloper, a trespasser.  Having been successful once (bringing a much needed change in British law), there appears to be determination that I will not succeed again!

If you do NOT act according to Article 38 (1a), you will prove yourselves to be totally without shame, conscience, mercy or soul, little different to that previous Master Race which used Belsen, Dachau, Auschwitz to silence their victims.  It was wonderful for the German people who were not victims at that time, but there WAS a price to pay in the end.  There will be again! 

VI.  STATEMENT CONCERNING OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROCEEDINGS.  20.  Have you submitted the above complaints to any other procedure of  international investigation or settlement?  If so give full details. 

Since the first attempt on my life, I have sent desperate calls for help to the much praised Mary Robinson, United Nations Commissioner on Human Rights, to her successor, to the President of the Council of Ministers of Europe, Amnesty International, & to every other body I could think of.  Not  even acknowledgement from any!  Following my incarceration, I also sent desperate calls for help to THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR THE PREVENTION OF TORTURE & INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT.  See my documents ECPT-26Feb02 & ECPT-4Mar02, copies of which were also sent to you at that time, but completely ignored by you.  The response which finally came from  Hanne Juncher of the ECPT could well have been written by Lewis Caroll, to follow on from ALICE IN WONDERLAND!  I will send another copy to you in the next few days.

That is apart from my desperate calls for help to ALL those in Britain who purport to be our 'watchdogs'.  There has been not a single word of acknowledgement from them either.  They all claim to be independent, but  the news media in particular are as essential to this Police State as was the Propaganda Ministry of Josef Goebbels in Nazi Germany.  Controlled by the Press & Broadcasting Advisory Committee (the 'D'-Notice Committee) they will allow the public to know only that which The State wants them to know.    

VII.  LISTS OF DOCUMENTS. (If you do not have copies, you should obtain them.  If you cannot obtain them, explain why not.

21.  The Order of the Criminal Appeal Court of 22/1/2004 is already in your hands, (along with the letter from the Judicial Office of the House of Lords, which shows that I did not receive the Order until 20/7/04).   I have already told how the Prison Service has used fiendish methods to steal many of my documents.  Right now I do not have the time or strength to overcome the obstruction & delay from the courts if I try to obtain copies, but I will do so if I survive long enough.

I do enclose the most vital document of all, my desperate call for help "WILL SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE? (see V.19 above).  Also, letter from Paul Boateng MP, now a Cabinet Minister.  I will send my document WW2-2Aug04 (which explains the malice of the judiciary), in a couple of days, but do not want to distract you from speedy action under Article 38(1a), whereby you may save me from further torture, & possibly save my life.       

VII.  DECLARATION & SIGNATURE.

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE & BELIEF, THE INFORMATION I HAVE GIVEN IN THE PRESENT  APPLICATION FORM & THE PAGES ATTACHED IS CORRECT.

Their are volumes more to tell than in this document, & masses of evidence, but that must wait for now.  If you block this Application, you will soon have MORE evidence -  the corpse of a man who fought to preserve Democracy, Justice, Mercy, & the Rule of Law in World War 2, & died trying to restore those precious things to Britain, the land of which I was so proud for so long!

Signed by Norman Scarth, Victim GV5409 Her Majesty's Prison, Wolds Gulag, BROUGH HU15 2JZ, East Yorkshire, England.

Enclosed are documents "WILL SOMEBODY HELP ME PLEASE?" (9/8/99);  Letter on behalf of the Chief Constable (9/8/99), & letter from Councillor Carter (11/8/99).  Others mentioned in this document will be sent within a day or so.  As stated, I do not wish to distract you from the urgent action I ask for under Article 38 (1a) - investigation by you!

TO BE CONTINUED, if I retain strength enough.

3,934 words.

Continuation of Scarth v UK Government, ECtHR File No. 30078/04

This is instalment 2, commenced 13th September 2004

Wed. 15th 2004.

There IS a crime worse than murder, a punishment worse than the gallows,  as described by Euripides, (480 BC - 408BC).  "They whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad".  Those who claim to be Gods (they certainly have the arrogance) have been trying for five years to do just that to me, ably supported by their lackeys, thugs, puppets & sycophants.  Perhaps they have succeeded?  Perhaps these are the rantings of a lunatic?  (see later!)

I say again: There are STILL volumes more to tell than in this document, & masses of evidence, but management at Wolds Prison are still using fiendish means to drive me mad.  I am exhausted, & must recover strength before sending more detail, & more evidence, so this must do for now. 

Signed by Norman Scarth, Victim GV5409 Her Majesty's Prison, Wolds Gulag, BROUGH HU15 2JZ, East Yorkshire, England.

Continuation of Scarth v UK Government, ECtHR File No. 30078/04

THE ORIGINAL OF INSTALMENT THREE WAS HANDWRITTEN.

Below is a typed copy.

TO THE REGISTRAR, The ECtHR, STRASBOURG  CONTINUATION OF ECtHR FILE No. 30078/4

INSTALMENT 3.

(1).  with a blameless life behind me, sent to prison for the first time in my life at the age of 75, I was of course worried at being locked up with thugs, thieves, sadists, psychopaths &a