British Police Punching Restrained Victim

British Police use force, fist blows & tazer (twice)



Citizen Journalisim Youtube footage.

It is only due to members of the public that increasingly police abuses are being exposed in Britain today.

A man apparently being shot twice with a Taser gun by police in Nottingham in a mobile phone video taken by a citizen journalist.

The footage has prompted calls from human rights groups for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to investigate the incident and review the use of Taser guns by police. Like the buckets of whitewash from the IPCC will help?

The video shows four police officers converging on a man outside the city's Theatre Royal in an attempt to arrest him. One of them tells the other officers to stand back and fires a Taser at the person as he lies on the pavement. One of the officers then punches the man repeatedly.

Bystanders gather round and a policeman fires the Taser again at the man on the floor, while shouting: "Taser, Taser, Taser." The Taser gun consists of two darts on the end of wires containing a 50,000 volt electric shock.

Hundreds have died in the USA from use of Taser weapons.

The video was posted on YouTube.

Nottinghamshire police told the Press Association that officers were trying to arrest the 40-year-old man after they were called out by door staff at one of the city's nightspots; he was later charged on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm.

Assistant Chief Constable Peter Davies said: "We understand that some members of the public may be concerned about this ... which is why we have referred this ­matter for an objective investigation to the IPCC."

Unfortunately, those of us with first hand experience of the IPCC will not be reassured by them slapping around yet more white paint!

Cornwall Lesbian Line Closes after 20yrs

The Sculpture:- The Three Graces

Cornwall Lesbian Line Closes after 20yrs

Cornwall Lesbian Line

It seems strange for me, a gay man, to be writing about Cornwall Lesbian Line, but I feel the passing of this piece of landmark Cornish GLBT history must be recorded.

Cornwall Lesbian Line was a genuine real volunteer project. The Cornwall Lesbian Helpline started in 1989 back when the Cornish Authorities hardly bothered to hide their homophobia & contempt for gay persons.

Today, the laughable Cornwall Council Equality & Diversity Committee, LGBT PACT & Healthy Gay Cornwall all PRETEND to be gay friendly in their ‘spin’ & ‘mirrors’ but they still actively exclude gay persons who are not STR8 compliant & those with experience of the abuses carried out both in the past & the present in Cornwall by the authorities against gay persons!

The Cornwall Lesbian Line WAS genuinely a REAL gay support project, and strangely NOT just for women. Some of the callers were transsexuals & gay men who felt more confident speaking to a lesbian where there was no sexual conflict.

Bless the supporters of CLL & the Acorn Women’s Group in Penzance, who rallied to support my own dear partner Andy Smith, when he was diagnosed terminally ill with AIDS in 1994.

The Lesbian Line supporters (unlike some of the people involved in the loathsome Cornwall Health Authority, Probation Service run Gay Men’s Health project) really gave support, even holding an evening for Andy of panto, music & talent. The Women’s local rock group. ‘Out of the Blue’, playing some of Andy’s favourite songs, but that was back in the 90’s when Cornwall had a real sense of Gay & Lesbian community.

In the 1990’s I had run & published the ICT, a local Cornwall Lesbian & Gay newsletter, with a GLBT subscription base which rose to 1,000. Sue B (aka often known as Sue Books) was my women’s editor. I had to give up the ICT to care for Andy, who was by then blind & extremely ill. Sue B went on to help create along with Kate & other women, the lesbian newsletter OUTBACK.

OUTBACK newsletter worked hand in hand with CLL and ran as a women’s newsletter from 1996 to 2008.

But with the theoretical advances in Gay & Lesbian equality & the impact of the internet, times changed. The perception being, things were ‘supposed’? to be getting better for gay people. (The painful reality? Read the STONEWALL report on Homophobic Hate Crime in the UK and police reports of a 60% increase in violent hate crime carried out against GLBT persons last year).

The need & perception for an independent, genuinely Lesbian run helpline in Cornwall for lesbians (& other GLBT persons as it happens) changed. The closets, who had sat quietly saying & doing nothing through the difficult years of HIV/AIDS impact & the Conservative party section 28, started to crawl from beneath their stones. Many through having kept quiet were now in a position (thanks to the courage of those who had been out & campaigning) to get involved in running authority run & controlled GLBT projects.

With equality legislation & authorities no longer (in theory) able to discriminate against gay persons, these new GLBT projects started & rapidly diluted the effectiveness of former solely gay run projects.

These new projects run, controlled & influenced…not by the GLBT persons who had been battling away for decades, in support of gay people, but by pseudo ‘newbies’ in so-called gay equality & diversity’, who have very efficiently & effectively dismissed the work carried out by genuine, often unfunded & financially unsupported gay persons like Kate, Sue & Jo of CLL, Acorns Women’s group & OUTBACK.

The STR8 sanctioned newbies even re-writing history, like the ridiculous claim made last year that the Pride event in Cornwall 2008 was the 1st gay Pride in Cornwall…IT WAS NOT!

The Cornwall Lesbian Line, Women’s Acorn Group, ICT, Cornwall AIDS Council all helped in Cornwall GLBT Pride events in Cornwall way back in the 1990’s, even featuring in Gay Times. But when have the facts ever been of interest to Cornwall’s Police & Authorities when it comes to gay people.

Organisations like the loathsome “Intercom Trust” bulldozed over the history & experiences of gay people & gay groups with knowledge of abusive police & other authorities in Cornwall, so great was Intercom’s desperate haste to get into bed with these previously (and still) homophobic organisations & Cornish authorities.

Watching the Intercom Trust sell out local gay people in Cornwall & Cornish gay history has been a little like watching a Jewish Rabbi desperate to appease the former SS Nazi.

Intercom Trust have ISOLATED, OSTRACISED & EXCLUDED any GLBT person who does not comply or cowl to Intercom’s fawning mantra of how wonderful Devon & Cornwall police are too gay people

…Get it in your heads ‘Intercom’, the Devon & Cornwall police have NOT changed their leopard spots and are EVERY bit as bloody homophobic in their practises & attitudes towards & against gay persons today, as police have ALWAYS been in Cornwall!

The decision to close CLL & OUTBACK I know was a very difficult one by the women concerned. Cornwall Lesbian Line & OUTBACK organised over many years such diverse activities for women in Cornwall as Pantomimes, live bands, discos, cabarets, line dancing, belly dancing, quizzes, treasure hunts, walks, football, soft ball, rounders, b-b-q’s, etc. as well as being the essential support at the end of the CLL phone.

It made me feel better knowing that there was an Independent gay community run organisation, which had NOT succumbed to selling out GLBT persons in return for funding. So we are now seeing the death of probably the last truly gay community project in Cornwall & rise of commercial & authority led interests only over those of GLBT persons

…a sad, sad day!

I want to say thank you to Jo, Kate & Sue & others who have participated in CLL over the Twenty years.

I want to say thank you, in memory of my deceased Andy & for support, the Lesbian community of Cornwall gave us, when all the gay mens at the Op’s Room did was spat & harassed Andy when he was blind, for his daring to be seen in public when living with HIV/AIDS.

I want to say thank you, because I don’t want 20years of genuine GLBT history, campaigning & support by the women of CLL for gay people by gay people to simply slide unmarked into obscurity, over shadowed by the newbie STR8 run & dictated GLBT organisations in Cornwall.

It leaves me feeling very sad that with the demise of CLL & OUTBACK GLBT people in Cornwall are effectively being assimilated yet another step into the STR8 run hive collective Borg.

OUTBACK WEBSITE http://www.outback.org.uk/cornwall.htm

Useful Women’s Links http://www.outback.org.uk/links.htm

OUTBACK YAHOO Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/outback_cornwall/summary

Corrupt police are untouchables

(Above:- adapted from an original painting Cornwall police tried to destroy & prosecute the artist based on Devon & Cornwall Constabulary homophobic values & practises still protected by Chief Constable Stephen Otter)

Corrupt police are untouchables
Jason Bennetto Crime Correspondent The Independent Newspaper
Independent Newspaper Article Thursday, 10 July 1997

The chief constable of the country's second biggest police force has corrupt officers working for him but is powerless to sack them.

Edward Crew, head of West Midlands Police, said that some of his staff would have been automatically dismissed for dishonesty if they worked for a supermarket, but he was forced to keep them on because of protective practices.

"There are people working in this force that wouldn't be employed by Sainsbury's," he told The Independent. His concerns are shared by other chiefs throughout the country and the police complaints watchdog, who are urging the Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, to change the law.

Mr Crew, and fellow chief constables in England and Wales, have asked Mr Straw to reduce the standard of proof to allow forces to sack police officers considered corrupt or grossly incompetent. At present, it is extremely difficult to remove anyone - last year only 98 were sacked. To sack a police officer, evidence that proves "beyond reasonable doubt" that they are guilty is needed - a far higher standard than in civil cases or industrial tribunals. Instant dismissals are also prevented except in the most exceptional cases.

Mr Crew said: "In Sainsbury's, if they have a man whose hand is caught in the till they will release [sack] them. I couldn't do this, I have to prosecute and prove it beyond reasonable doubt. There are a very small number of officers in this force, and in the police service nationally, who I suspect of having been involved in serious breaches in the criminal law, where it's not possible to obtain evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt they were involved in that behavior."

He continued: "I have officers in this force who should not be serving police officers. If we were assessing their standards of behavior to the standard required of other employers, these people would not be working."

He added: "I have officers who have been to court and have been found not guilty of criminal offences by a jury and they continue to serve in this force because I cannot, in the current arrangement, [use] evidence that was given to the court."

Earlier this week, the West Midlands Police became the second force to set up a confidential internal telephone hotline for staff to pass on information about suspected corrupt officers. The call for reform of the system by Mr Crew, and the Association of Chief Police Officers has the support of the independent Police Complaints Authority (PCA). The Home Secretary has agreed to re-examine the issue.

The Police Federation, which represents all ranks below superintendent - the vast bulk of the 127,000 officers in England and Wales - is furious at the action by chief constables and have accused them of reneging on early promises.

Sir Paul Condon, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has already criticised what he believes is a growing trend among police officers accused of serious corruption and malpractice of avoiding disciplinary hearings by taking sick leave and retiring on grounds of ill health with index- linked benefits.

Mr Crew is also critical of the "double jeopardy" system, whereby evidence used against a police officer in a criminal trial cannot be re-used at a disciplinary hearing. The Crown Prosecution Service has privately admitted that it sometimes fails to bring charges against a police officer because it fears a jury will acquit him or her and thereby deny an opportunity for the evidence to be heard at a disciplinary hearing.

Mr Crew also believes that the high level of proof prevents him from sacking some officers who he believes have sexually harassed female colleagues.
Peter Moorhouse, chairman of the PCA, yesterday agreed that there are some corrupt officers who are being protected by the system, but said they were a "small minority". A PCA spokesman said: "We sympathise with Mr Crew and would like to see changes to the system."

The Police Federation argues that the police need extra protection against malicious complaints. Ian Westwood, vice chairman of the federation, said: "If chief constables believe officers are corrupt they should be dealt with at court and sentenced to imprisonment. We are concerned that people will be got rid of without proper evidence just because someone suspects they are corrupt."

Pink Pasty Opinion & Experience. In Cornwall, unfortunately the above sort of police corrupt misconduct is ignored by senior rank as acceptable police abuse misconduct practise.

My own experience is of a wide scale homophobic culture within the police. My experience started with DC Woods in 2004 and has continued relentlessly as numerous other Cornwall police officers have contributed homophobic abuse & personal violations directed at myself as a gay man.

This homophobic Cornwall police abuse attitudes & practises now in fifth year. Below just a few of the FOI questions now being asked.

PC Treloar & PC Fuller of Helston
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_5

DC Crowe of Camborne
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo

X3 Cornwall Police Officers Flora Day Helston 2006
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_2

Sgt. Rowe of Helston
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_3

PC Alexander & PC colleague abuse of gay teenager & pensioner
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_4

DC Parker
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_9

The problem is the IPCC is biased in favour protecting police misconduct & abuses & ignores complaints, evidence & witnesses. The Police Authorities no better & turn the other way & ignore complaints & the senior rank within the police are just as corrupt in refusing to address the problem.

If you want to start to reduce the horrific level of homophobic motivated life violation & hate crime in the UK ….start with those working within the police forces who repeatedly fail gay victims of homophobic crime & police prejudicial attitudes & practises!

I am most willing to testify & provide a list of Cornwall police officers names & incidents in Cornwall to start off with.

REASONS "NOT" TO TRUST DEVON & CORNWALL POLICE CONSTABULARY!

A catalogue of REASONS "NOT" TO TRUST CORNWALL POLICE!


(Above: from an original Art image Cornwall police have tried to DESTOY through their HOMOPHOBIC attitudes & practises)


VIDEO REMINDERS BELOW WHY CORNWALL POLICE ARE STILL COMPLETELY UNTRUSTWORTHY WHEN IT COMES TO GAY PEOPLE & HOW CORNWALL POLICE CONTINUE TO HOMOPHOBICALLY ABUSE & VIOLATE US.

Just a few videos to remind people just how HOMOPHOBIC & LOATHSOME the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary REALLY are...and still are in 2009!

CORNWALL POLICE HOMOPHOBIA TOWARDS ART!
(This video below a reminder of the depth of HOMOPHOBIC thinking of Chief Constable Stephen Otters Camborne & Helston police officers in Cornwall)



CORNWALL POLICE HOMOPHOBIA DRIVING GAY SUICIDES!
(This video below is a reminder of the impact & affect of the HOMOPHOBIC practises & attitudes PROTECTED within Chief Constable Stephen Otters Devon & Cornwall Constabulary)



CORNWALL COUNCIL & CORNWALL POLICE LIES & HOMOPHOBIA!
(The video below a reminder of the embedded HOMOPHOBIC attitudes & practises of the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary & the Cornwall Council AGAINST gay people in Cornwall)



CORNISH AUTHORITIES HOMOPHOBIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS GAY PERSONS!
(This video below is a reminder of the attitude of Cornish Liberal Denocrat MP Andrew George towards homeless GLBT youth in Cornwall)



DEVON & CORNWALL POLICE ABUSES!
(This video below is official figures released under the Freedom of Information Act...KNOW HOW CORRUPT & ABUSIVE the police REALLY are!)



THE HOMOPHOBIC INTERCOM TRUST
(This video below a reminder of the HOMOPHOBIC attitudes & prejudice embedded within the loathsome Intercom Trust. The 'Intercom Trust' ABUSES gay victims of Hate Crime & HOMOPHOBIA!)



HOW POLICE REALLY TREAT GAY HATE CRIME!
(This video below is based upon the findings of GLBT equality organisation STONEWALL...Know the gay enemy, they ARE still the police & homophobic judicary, CPS, etc. who turn a blind eye to hate crime AGAINST gay persons!)

REMEMBER Micheal Causer & if you don't know who this gay 18yr old was who was murdered...JUST GOOGLE IT!)




...and remember GLBT persons who DARE raise awareness of this catalogue of Cornwall Police & Cornwall Authority ABUSES, VIOLATIONS, TRAUMA & VICTIMISATION of gay persons ARE EXCLUDED FROM :-

Cornwall Healthy Gay Cornwall
Intercom Trust
Cornwall GLBT PACT

The IMPACT & ABUSIVE AFFECT of Cornwall police vile FIVE YEAR homophobic vendetta continues under the protection of Chief Constable Stephen Otters Devon & Cornwall Constabulary!

...and you wonder why some gay people DO NOT TRUST the HOMOPHOBIC police in Cornwall?

Police Complaint Commission refer Homophobia Complaint

(Windscreen following latest homophobic attack upon our property)

Independent Police Complaint Commission refer HOMOPHOBIA complaint

I have received notification that the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) have finally (10th June 2009 yesterday) acknowledged complaints regarding Devon & Cornwall Police & have referred them to the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary Professional Standards Unit.

This has come about following a resolute dogmatic campaigning & questions through the Freedom of Information website http://www.whatdotheyknow.com about Devon & Cornwall Constabulary homophobia (including some questions from Lord Mc Dowell) about numerous un-investigated homophobic complaints regarding abusive practises & attitudes of multiple Cornwall police officers since 2004.

Not that we have ANY faith in ANY honesty of that particular branch of Devon & Cornwall Constabulary. My experience of the lies & deception of Cornwall police based on years of experience of police homophobic culture is that it is firmly embedded & hard wired into Police thinking throughout Devon & Cornwall Constabulary.

To our angst & considerable anger these complaints have also all been previously ignored when sent to:-

• Cornwall LGBT PACT…and ignored!
• The GPA (Gay Police Association) …and ignored!
• STONEWALL…and ignored!
• Devon & Cornwall Constabulary website…and ignored!
• Devon & Cornwall Diversity Unit…and ignored!
• Chief Constable Stephen Otter…and ignored!
• Cornwall Police Authority… and ignored!

• … even previously to the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission)
…and ignored!

These are just SOME of complaints & the FOI enquiries ignored previously by the above groups & organisations, there are others not yet mentioned.

Sgt Rowe of Cornwall, Helston Police

PC Alexander & ‘unnamed’ police colleague, Cornwall, Helston Police

DC Crowe Cornwall, Camborne Police

DC Anning Cornwall, Camborne Police

DC Parker, Cornwall, Camborne Police

PC Fuller & PC Treloar Cornwall, Helston Police

PC Piper Diversity Cornwall Police

DC Scott Cornwall Camborne Police

refused names of x3 police officers Cornwall, Helston Police

PC Cannon Cornwall Police

Chief Constable Otter Devon & Cornwall Constabulary


This is by no means a complete list nor does it cover ALL the Devon & Cornwall police officers involved in the impact, trauma & violating practises & the affects against gay persons who have been victim of this catalogue of abuse, in particular it does not identify senior police officer (who hide behind rank) with in theory, responsibility to manage subordinate officers conduct & behaviour.

All the above named (& those yet to be named) police officers have directly contributed to my experience of complete justifiable distrust in any honesty, integrity, impartiality or transparency of conduct of Cornwall police officers towards GLBT persons.


It has only been due to the ability to ask questions using FOI legislation, persistence through this Pink Pasty blog and over ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND views of Pink Pasty videos on YOUTUBE raising awareness of continued Cornwall police homophobic attitudes & practises, that the complaints have finally been acknowledged.

It has however; seriously almost cost me my very life, having been driven to attempted suicide SPECIFICALLY & DIRECTLY due to the combined practises, attitudes & multiple abusive misconduct of numerous Cornwall police officers, including that of Cornwall diversity officers!

Indicative of the depth of obstruction & homophobic values & practises still embedded & protected within both the police services and the complaints system towards complaints regarding gay peoples experiences, impact & trauma of police abuses.

The lies, disinformation, bullying, intimidation carried out by Cornwall police & experienced by complaintents from numerous vile & loathsome Cornwall police officers conduct (including conduct by some police Diversity Officers) & some gay organisations like the equally loathsome Intercom Trust (based in Devon) with the intent to bully, put off & brow beat gay victims from making legitimate complaint against police abuses

...is most sinister!

I was taught to stand up to bullies…no matter what uniform they wear, be it Nazi or police, but quite frankly in my experience there is precious little difference in the ideology of those wearing either uniform…at least in Cornwall!

(Of equal grave concern are the 60,000 people in the South West who voted in the recent European Election specifically for a neo-fascist political party. I have NO DOUBT whatsoever that quite a few westcountry police officers will have been amongst those who have voted for & supported the neo-fascist ideology sympathetic to that of the Jew Gassing, homosexual & black ethnic hating Adolf Hitler).

With police like many of those I have encountered in Cornwall & people willing to vote for neo-fascists…GLBT people are yet again one step nearer the gas chambers.

In Cornwall police have been allowed to take control & being given input into GLBT community groups and activities in Cornwall and have efficiently ostracised, isolated & marginalised any gay persons or dissident voice critical or have legitimate complaint against the police.

I genuinely feel less safe & more at risk to homophobic abuse & attack as a gay person than I have at any other time in the preceding two decades I have been ‘out’ as a gay person!

Only recently last month following yet another homophobic attack upon our property (see above photo), reported to police immediately, the new local beat officer ONCE AGAIN demonstrated police willingness to blind eye complaints regarding other police officers, by POINT BLANK refusing to hear ANY complaint or criticism regarding his police colleagues leading up to the latest homophobic attack.

I am left with no doubt here is yet another Helston police officer who would happily blind eye even ‘water boarding torture’ if carried out by his chums in the police!

The Police in Cornwall REMAIN in my considerable experience very much the homophobic problem & enemy of GLBT persons despite police ‘spin & mirrors’ spouted by Chief Constable Stephen Otter on equality & diversity issues.

Police might talk the gay equality talk... but they DO NOT walk the gay equality walk!

Malcolm Lidbury
aka Pink Pasty
http://www.pinkpasty.blogspot.com
Over ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND views of Pink Pasty videos, raising
awareness of Cornwall police continuing homophobic attitudes & practises
http://www.youtube.com.thepinkpasty

PS:_ NEW BOOK Search “HOMOCENTRIC ART” on http://www.amazon.com
The Male Art that the loathsome & vile homophobic Cornwall Police (like DC Magnus Scott) tried to ban & breach the European Human Rights Act freedom of artistic expression!!

Police accused of Torture, IPCC to investigate (LOL)

(A safer London...for who? Not newspaper salespersons or Brazilian's)


Police accused of Torture, IPCC to investigate (LOL, chuckle & wink)

Six Metropolitan Police officers have been suspended or placed on restricted duties following allegations of ill-treatment after a police raid.

Given the G20 police conduct, the public execution of Charles De Menezes & my own personal experience of the inherent homophobic attitude, practises & conduct of the majority of Cornwall police officers I have personally encountered, should we, the public really be surprised at this recent report of Police using torture techniques?

I for one am not!

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating the Enfield-based officers' conduct, according to Scotland Yard.

How can we tell the IPCC are investigating?
Perhaps Dulux Brilliant White Emulsion sales have suddenly shot up?

I am sure the 100 lawyers who withdrew their services from the IPCC due to concerns about IPCC favourable bias towards the police had their good reasons?

The alleged police offences said to have taken place during two drugs raids on 4 November last year.
The Met said the allegations were serious and raised "real concern".
(Yes, no doubt they are really damned annoyed that someone should have found out!)

But they said they could not comment on the exact nature of the complaints.
(Presumably, the IPCC are giving the police concerned enough time to alter their pocket books & notes…or was that just the Charles De Menezes killing?)

However, some national newspapers are reporting that the officers used water torture techniques such as ducking a suspect's head under water.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said a police employee had raised concerns about the conduct of a number of officers, (Ah! That must be THE honest police officer we sometimes hear about?), during an internal investigation into allegations of mishandling of property.

The BBC reports
"The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) received information from a Metropolitan Police Service employee which raised concerns about the conduct of a small number of officers in Enfield borough," he said.
"The Met's DPS then initiated a thorough investigation and as part of this made a referral to the IPCC in April 2009.
"The IPCC is independently investigating the actions of six officers during the arrests of five people in November 2008."

An IPCC spokesman added that it was "not appropriate to make assumptions" while the investigation was ongoing.
(We have to wait until the IPCC white paint has dried presumably?)

"That said, these are serious allegations that do raise real concern," he added.
(Seems the IPCC are also ‘pissed off’ people have found out about their police mates alleged conduct)
"The Met does not tolerate conduct which falls below the standards that the public and the many outstanding Met officers and staff expect.
"Any allegations of such behaviour are treated very seriously, as this case illustrates, and if found true the strongest possible action will be taken."

Yes, just like (tears of laughter) ‘strongest possible’ action in the G20 campaign & Charles de Menezes killing & my own experiences of Cornwall’s abusive police…Faith in the IPCC & honesty of the POLICE

…I have NONE!

I personally DO NOT BELIEVE THAT ABOVE POLICE STATEMENT for one moment. No doubt this latest news of police conduct & alleged torture abuse will interrupt police celebrations in canteens up & down the country at the news of two BNP members getting voted into European Government.

Well if these coppers get the push, given their skills I am sure there is a Neo-Fascist organisation which can use their services.

The IPCC said the case was being handled by a team of investigators.

Well excuse me whilst I role around belly laughing on the floor. Like is that REALLY supposed to reassure the public…my own experience of the IPCC investigation is that they ignored (by their own admission x14 witnesses) ignored whole aspects & entire complaints & physical evidence & witness statements.

The Metropolitan Police Authority said it would not "tolerate behaviour by Met officers that impacts negatively on community confidence and trust in their police service, and falls below the standards required from serving officers and those rightly expected by the public".

Oh! P_L_E_A_S_E! I think the public are starting to get a picture of the type of liars, thugs & killers that are protected within the police ranks these days!

Therefore, I guess these (allegedly) abusive coppers will simply be shunted out in a transfer to another regional police force. God, I hope they don’t come to Cornwall, we have in my experience enough dishonest Cornwall coppers already!

Scotland Yard has said the borough commander in Enfield is moving to a new job, where he will be working to the Deputy Commissioner on strategy and policy.

When asked whether the move resulted from Scotland Yard's internal investigation, it said it would be inappropriate to pre-empt the ongoing inquiries.

Perhaps the Deputy Commissioner & borough commander of Enfield are considering a policy & strategy bid on space at the Madam Tussauds Torture Chamber premises?

Police Jokes : Homophobic Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

Police Jokes about Homophobic Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

(Mainly based upon FACTUAL experience of Cornwall police violation, abuse & corruption towards gay persons)

Q:- How do you know a Cornwall CID officer based at Camborne police station is lying?
A:- The police officers lips are moving & sounds come out of their mouth

Q:- What do you call a NON-Homophobic Cornwall Police Officer?
A:- Wishful thinking!

Q:- How many Cornwall police officers help cover up homophobic police misconduct?
A:- That depends on just how many Cornwall police officers there are in total in the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary?

Q:- How many witness statements will Cornwall police ignore for the defence?
A:- That depends on how many defence statements are gathered (in my case 48 defence written defence statements ignored by Cornwall police)

Q:- What happens if you complain about Cornwall police homophobia?
A:- Your house will subsequently get police raided (in my case twice)

Q:- What happens if you complain about Cornwall police homophobia?
A:- You get threatened with prosecution by Cornwall Police in writing (in my case twice)

Q:- What happens if you complain about Cornwall police homophobia
A:- Like Dr Kelly, one gets driven by authorities to attempt suicide (in my case twice)

Q:- When the authorities refuse to tackle Cornwall Police Homophobia what can one do?
A:- Start a blog & a youtube channel (ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND have viewed my videos raising public awareness of Cornwall police homophobia) http://www.youtube.com/thepinkpasty

Q;- What do you call it when a gay man is threatened with extortion/attempted blackmail?
A:- The result of normal homophobic Cornwall police procedure

Q:- What do you call it when a gay household is subjected to vandalism?
A:- A result of normal homophobic Cornwall police procedure

Q:- What do you call police who ignore text evidence of false allegation against a gay man?
A:- A Member of Devon & Cornwall CID

Q:- What do you call police who ignore witness evidence of false allegation against a gay man?
A:- A Member of Devon & Cornwall CID

Q:- What do you call police who ignore physical evidence of false allegation against a gay man?
A:- A Member of Devon & Cornwall CID

Q:_ How many Cornwall police officers contribute by silence to homophobic hate crimes?
A:- Just how many Cornwall police officers are there?

Q:- If a gay man is homophobically assaulted in public how do Cornwall police react?
A;- Cornwall police help the assailants get in a taxi and leave the crime scene (thats is what Cornwall police did when I was assaulted)

Q:- What do you call an honest police officer in Cornwall?
A:- A visiting tourist or a figment of your imagination?

Q;- When a gay man commits suicide how do Cornwall police react?
A:- Notify ‘in writing’ the gay mans x-partner of police intent to prosecute the corpse

Q:- What do you call a Cornwall police diversity officer?
A:- A Falmouth radio show DJ

Q:- What do Cornwall police do when responsible for delivering Crown Court papers?
A:- Cornwall police withhold threequarters of the legal court paperwork from the defendant (fact established by the IPCC)

Q:- What do Cornwall police do when a complaint is made?
A:- Lie about a non-existent signature in a police pocket book (fact established by the IPCC)

Q:- What do you call a decent honest police officer in Cornwall?
A:- An endangered species or simply wishful thinking?

Q:- What happens when you report a homophobic incident involving police to Cornwall police?
A:- Nothing positive, absolutely nothing constructive, SFA, zilch!

Q:_ How do Cornwall police destroy legitimate gay owned businesses?
A:- Seize a computer & business records, but not return them immediately when a case was finalised (fact established by the IPCC) leading to destruction of the legitimate businesses

Q:- How do you know a Cornwall police officer is giving false evidence against a gay person?
A;- The Cornwall police officer is speaking in a court witness box

Q:- What are the two benchmarks of Cornwall police homophobic attitudes & practises?
A:- What Cornwall police do & what Cornwall police say

Q;- If the definition of ‘DISCRIMINATION’ is treating differently a person from those around them, how is it Cornwall police have ‘TWICE’ arrested ‘ONLY’ an openly gay man from two separate different groups of people who were ALL taking part EQUALLY in lawful & legitimate conduct.
A;- Because Cornwall Police ARE BLATANTLY HOMOPHOBIC & discriminatory!

Q:- When do you know a Cornwall police officer has become a homophobe?
A:- They have finished their basic police training & accepted their Devon & Cornwall warrant card

Q:- What do you call a ‘gay’ Cornwall police officer?
A:- I don’t know, what did the Jews call other Jews who collaborated with the Nazi?

Q;- How many Cornwall police officers contribute to suicide & attempted suicides of gay men in Cornwall?
A:- I don’t know, how many Cornwall police officers are there, but there were four gay male suicides in Cornwall in 2008 & several more unrelated attempted suicides by gay men, including my own

Q:- What does a Cornwall Police inspector call homophobic verbal abuse shouted in the streets and false allegation that a gay man has HIV/AIDS when they do not?
A:- I call it Homophobia but Inspector Mark Bolt formerly of Helston police stated in writing this WAS NOT harassment of a gay man!

Q:- What can a gay person arrested & detained by Cornwall police for over seven hours expect following a dawn raid on his home?
A:- Just One drink (established by the IPCC)

Q:- What do you call an armed homophobe?
A:- A Cornwall police officer with a tazar gun or Sir

Q:- What do Cornwall police probably call the four gay male suicides in Cornwall in 2008?
A:- A reasonably good start to 2009?

Q:- How many Cornwall police officers does it take to homophobically persecute, violate & traumatise a gay person?
A:- Just one, but they will have the full & unconditional support for this homophobic abuse from the rest of the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary & senior rank, right up to Chief Constable

Q:- What do you call it when a Cornwall police officer refuses to take a statement from a gay eye witness to a homophobic incident crime.
A:- I call it homophobia, Cornwall police call it normal police procedure

Q:- What do you call it when a Cornwall police officer ignores physical evidence, eye witnesses & text messages that a person has made a false allegation against a gay man?
A:- I call it police homophobic practise, Cornwall police call it normal police procedure

Q:- What is the difference between Dulux Brilliant White Emulsion Paint & an IPCC enquiry into Cornwall police homophobic misconduct, abuse, violation, intimidation, persecution, victimisation & criminality carried out by police against a gay person.
A:- Nothing, they both cover up cheaply blemishes, faults & cracks

Q:- What is the similarity between an honest non-homophobic Cornwall police officer & a natural diamond.
A;- Both are extremely rare and most unlikely & improbable to be found in Cornwall

Q:- What is the difference between the BMP stance on gay people & most Cornwall police officers?
A:- No, seriously...what IS the difference!



The following not directly Cornwall related, but indicative of the corrupt police in Britain today in 2009.

Q:- How can you tell when a Brazilian is not a terrorist?
A;- By the numerous execution style bullet holes in the back of his head, blood stains on the tube train floor, all the eye witnesses in the tube carriage, subsequent alterations made to police notes, CCTV footage he DID not jump a ticket barrier and the complete absence of a NON–existent bulky coat. THE POLICE LIED AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN!

Q:- How can you tell when a lawful civil protest is peaceful?
A:- When the corpse of a newspaper salesperson has stopped convulsing & twitching

Q:- How do Nottingham police train their police dogs to lie still?
A:- Suffocate the dogs to death by cooking them in a car in a heatwave!

Police in London should be informed that laundering drugs money does not involve the holding a suspects head underwater!

How many more dead will it take before the British public to learn that Police & in particular senior police officers do not take ANY responsibility for the abuses & violating actions of police officers.

Police and are simply NOT to be trusted anymore & the IPCC is an ineffectual toothless eunuch poodle of a watchdog which does little or NOTHING to protect the pubic from police abuses of power, criminality, failure of duty & corruption, widespread throughout police if my personal experience of Cornwall police is anything to go by.

Only through determination & continued public awareness will the police abuses of power, thuggery, & violations of lives of persons abusively targeted by police prejudice be exposed. We cannot rely upon the 'Old Boy' network police chums in Police Authorities or the ineffectual & useless IPCC to protect the public.

MP's & Cornish Authorities have failed & abused us long enough in Cornwall!

Dear friends

In the wake of the political crisis around MP expenses and the BNP wins in the
Euro elections, I've got involved with 38 Degrees, a new people powered
campaigning organisation.

Many of you will know my complete disgust at police corruption & my experiences of police homophobia in Cornwall & the failings of my useless Mp Andrew George to support a homeless 15yr old gay youth abused by police & Cornwall social services. The IPCC is toothless & ineffectual, the Ombudsman office turns a blind eye...its all become a 'old boys network' with nobody acting on behalf of you & me
...or taking any responsiblity for their high salaries, but monumental failings.

It feels like politics in the UK has lots its way.

The Labour government which inspired for many such hope twelve years ago is no longer trusted and torn by conflict. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have also had their share of scandal and as a gay man I remember the Thatcher years, that anti-gay ideology remains embedded within the Conservative party.

Last week most of us chose not to vote for any of them, whilst the BNP made alarming gains. Right now we can't rely on the Westminster parties to sort this crisis out on their own. But People Power can force their hand. There's never been more need for us to come together to demand politicians sort out our political system.

Please take part in our poll to help decide where we focus our efforts next.

Please click here to have your say: http://38degrees.org.uk/page/s/June2009poll

In two weeks almost 6000 people have got involved with 38 Degrees. Our campaign
for a recall law has moved the issue right up the agenda. This shows that we do
care about sorting politics out, and that by working together we can force politicians to respond. What should we do next?

We were planning to hand our petition in this week, but events have moved fast and we feel we should decide together what our next steps are. Together we are powerful, so let's agree together how to take things forward from here.

Polls tell us that three quarters of us now believe that big changes are needed
to the UK political system

[1]. The current crisis presents us with an opportunity to demand changes which could make politics better, for good. But what the most important change to focus on? Should we keep all our attention on demanding a Recall Law that would mean politicians couldn't ignore voters between General Elections?

Should we campaign for changes to the voting system to ensure parliament better reflects who we voted for?

...Or should we be doing something else entirely?

We're most powerful when we work together, so we need to decide together what we work on.

Please click here to get involved: http://38degrees.org.uk/page/s/June2009poll

Thanks for getting involved



PS: The more people involved the more powerful we are, so please forward this
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ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND views in total to date of PinkPasty videos on youtube raising awareness of Cornwall police & Cornwall Authority CONTINUING homophobia in 2009

http://www.youtube.com/thepinkpasty

Police 'concern' over growing public awareness of gay murders

(Police violent abuse, lies & corruption on the increase?)


Police 'concern' over growing public awareness of gay murders
... and a rise in homophobic hate crimes

Police have expressed concern over a 60% rise in homophobic violence following a number of murders of gay men.

Scotland Yard statistics show a nine per cent rise in homophobic and transphobic offences to 1,372 in the year up to April 2009. Greater Manchester police saw a 63 per cent rise in homophobic crime.

Acting Detective Superintendent Gerry Campbell, of the Metropolitan police, said: "Homophobia cannot be considered a thing of the past, it's on the increase."

Where as in the past police would have been able to turn a blind eye to homophobic violence & hate crime, it is becoming increasingly difficult for police to look the other way as citizen journalism is raising awareness of police criminality & abuse where the regular commercial media choose not too.

Let us not forget it was Citizen Journalism which exposed the catalogue of abuses & violence carried out by thugs & scum protected within the police ranks at the G20 campaign. Abuses, which just like in the police lies surrounding the police public execution? of Charles De Menezes, have in effect become the shoddy corrupt benchmark of British police abuse & lies in recent years.

However there are those, primarily with commercial interests in relieving gay persons of their pink pound, who would much prefer gay people in or visiting Cornwall were kept in complete ignorance of the reality of police abuses & homophobic hate crime and that blogs like the Pink Pasty & my youtube channel did not exist!

MORE than ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND views to date of Pink Pasty videos on youtube raising awareness of homophobic police conduct & practises in Cornwall... and this, my blog & youtube channel exists because the IPCC failed to bother to investigate the interconnected nature of the catalogue of homophobic police abuses, & the traumatising & violating impact & affect upon gay persons victimised by Cornwall police.

The Police ARE & REMAIN the primary enemy of gay people despite the spin & equality propoganda put out by Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

Even the Devon & Cornwall police have threatened in writing twice to prosecute me for reporting homophobic experiences & incidents of abusive Cornwall police through this blog to a Human Rights Enquiry.

Any gay person who niavely believes after decades of police abuse & victimisation of gay persons that the homophobic police leopard has suddenly changed its spots is fooling nobody but themselves and they probably also believe the BNP is not racist!?

I can personally identify homophobic serving police officers in the Cornwall police force today who have absoloutly no place being there.

Stonewall equality organization reported that of all homophobic incidents reported to police only 1% result in a prosecution & conviction...such is the embedded homophobia STILL within the sloppy & prejudicial homophobic police & judicial system still loaded AGAINST gay persons.

Gay people as victims simply DO NOT MATTER to the police!

Especially police like the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, especially when the perpetrators of homophobic conduct & practices ARE police officers and complaints are routinely disregarded & swept under the carpet by police, Police Authority & the equally biased in favour of police...the ineffectual police watch poodle eunuch which is the IPCC!

I have been taught by my own experiences of numerous Cornwall police officers by their conduct, attitude & practices prejudicially targeting me as a gay man, that Cornwall police are as an organization untrustworthy, lying, dishonest, prejudicial, homophobic, abusive & corrupt on a wide scale. I have no reason to believe that Cornwall police are unique amongst police forces in embedded homophobic attitudes & practises against gay persons.

A briefing note for Scotland Yard's LGBT advisory group, is said to have stated that nine "critical incidents" were recorded in the force's area since March 2008, compared with five incidents from 2001 to 2005.

Last month, a gay man was stabbed to death in Tottenham, north London. Daryl Phillips, 39, had been stabbed in the leg and was treated at the scene at Avenue Road, but was later pronounced dead.

In March, Gerry Edwards, 59, was stabbed to death at his home in Bromley, south London. His partner, 56-year-old Chris Bevan, was taken to hospital with stab wounds.
A gay couple in Bradford were shot in April. Neville Corby died at the scene at Ashbourne Road while his 31-year-old partner Craig Freer survived with gunshot wounds to the chest.

According to Crown Prosecution Service figures, prosecutions for crimes involving homophobia rose 60 per cent over the past two years to 995 cases. You can multiply that figure by x100 for the crimes against gay persons not reported or simply ignored by police, especially those where there is direct police involvement in the abuse of a gay victim.

It is unquestionably police homophobic attitudes & practice like that I have personally experienced from numerous Cornwall police officers that most threaten gay persons.

The traumatic impact & affect of multiple police abuses is simply disregarded & treated with utter contempt by police diversity officers keen to play down police homophobia which is too me clearly widespread as acceptable practise throughout the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary under the protection of Chief Constable Stephen Otter, which make police still the front line problem facing gay people in 2009.

Put simply, British police like the vast majority of those I have encountered in Cornwall remain unprofessional & prejudicial in their attitudes towards gay persons in 2009

As a gay man living in genuine fear of yet more & further police reprisals in Cornwall, the police remain the primary & most dangerous of Homophobic abusive organizations. Police clearly remain in complete denial mentality as to the severity of the problem of homophobia embedded & protected within their ranks.

UK BNP: Gays, one step nearer gas chambers???

UK BNP: Gays, one step nearer gas chambers?

A few years ago I knew an octogenarian gay man called ‘Charles’, Charles had lived through both WWI & WWII. Whilst campaigning against the Thatcher Conservative party abhorrent anti-gay ‘section 28’ he said too me:-

“As gays we are only ever one government away from the gas chambers”

Last night with the 2009 election of not one, but two members of the British Fascist Party too European Parliament,… and the gay population of the UK moved one step nearer to gas chambers.

BNP Holocaust Denial


The BNP, its former leaders and present leader, Nick Griffin, have promoted anti-semitism and Holocaust denial or revisionism in the past. In 1996, writing in his own publication, The Rune, Griffin stated that:

"I am well aware that orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated or turned into soup and lampshades. I have reached the conclusion that the 'extermination' tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria".[37]

The following year, during a Cook Report documentary he stated:
“There is no doubt that hundreds, probably thousands of Jews were shot to death in Eastern Europe, because they were rightly or wrongly seen as communists or potential partisan supporters. That was awful. But this nonsense about gas chambers is exposed as a total lie”.[38]

In 1988, The Sunday Times revealed that Holocaust News, a publication that claimed the holocaust was an "evil hoax", was being published by the BNP's then deputy leader, Richard Edmonds, on behalf of a BNP front organisation, the Centre for Historical Review, and distributed by members. John Tyndall, the party's leader, said he was not involved in the publication but that it had his full support.[39]

The 2002 Channel 4 documentary Young, Nazi and Proud featured hidden-camera footage of the then BNP youth leader Mark Collett stating his admiration for Adolf Hitler, and stating "I'd never say this on camera, the Jews have been thrown out of every country including England. It's not just persecution. There's no smoke without fire." It also featured footage of visitors to the party's annual 'Red White and Blue' festival, some of whom wore the legend "88" (code for HH, "Heil Hitler").[40] Collett resigned from the party after the documentary's filming, but rejoined shortly afterwards, with Nick Griffin's approval, on the condition that Collett changed his views on the subject.

In 2006, the party's deputy chairman Scott McLean was shown on the TV documentary "Nazi Hate Rock"[41] making Hitler salutes at a white-supremacist cross-burning ceremony where intensely racist songs were sung and jokes made about Auschwitz.

38. ^ "YouTube - Nick Griffin, Cook Report, 1997". Youtube.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8QQwU00Jk. Retrieved on 2008-09-19.
39. ^ Jon Craig and Jo Revill, "Holocaust hate sheet alarms British Jews", Sunday Times, 6 March 1988
40. ^ "Channel 4: Young, Nazi and Proud (Archive)". Archived from the original on 2006-02-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20060219052402/http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/special_reports/young_nazi_proud.html.
41. ^ "SMG Productions". Smgproductions.tv. http://www.smgproductions.tv/content/default.asp?page=s2_3_23. Retrieved on 2008-09-19.



Anti-homosexuality
The BNP is said to have a policy of tolerance to homosexuality in private, but states that homosexuality "should not be promoted or encouraged".[115] The BNP opposed the introduction of civil partnerships in the United Kingdom.[116] BNP spokesman Phil Edwards said homosexuality "is unnatural" and "does not lead to procreation but does lead to moral turpitude and disease". Alongside its suggestion that homosexuality "undermines social/marital cohesion by adding confusion", the BNP would make it unlawful to promote homosexuality and "return it to the closet where it belongs".[117] The BNP is particularly worried about the possibility of equality & education regarding homosexuality being taught in schools.[118]

In the run-up to the 2005 general election, it was reported that Richard Barnbrook, the BNP candidate for Barking, had produced and directed a homoerotic student art film in 1989. The story was picked up by the mainstream press after the 2006 local elections, when Barnbrook became a councillor and the BNP's London leader.[119] Although some portrayed this as gay pornography, Barnbrook and the BNP claimed that the film was artistic, and about "sexuality, not homosexuality".[120]
Mark Collett, former chairman of the Young BNP, described homosexuals as "AIDS Monkeys", "bum bandits" and "faggots" and said the idea of homosexuality was a "sickening thought".[121]
114. ^ "Countering the smears", BNP Website, 3 December 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
115. ^ "BNP applaud Western Isles Registrars" BNP Website. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
116. ^ "Emails to/from the BNP". Manchester University Labour Club. Archived from the original on 2006-05-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20060506040028/http://www.umu.man.ac.uk/labour/bnp.html. Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
117. ^ 'Tony Wentworth "'Gay Rights' Lobby Target School Children", BNP Website. Retrieved 3 October 2008
119.^ BNP: Homosexuality could become compulsory Pinknews. Retrieved 9 June 2006.
120. ^ 'Gay porn' movie raises ripples on far right The Guardian, 11 May 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2006.
121. ^ RE:Brand Episode 2 "Naziboy" [Part 2 of 3] [1]

The concern must be that so many people in the United Kingdom have now in 2009 voted for an openly racist neo-fascist party in Britain.

The German Nazi National Socialist Party came to power as the result of people voting on the back of economic fears & recession in the 1930’s and eventually lead to a bitter world war costing millions of lives.

Is this the thin edge of the wedge...and only one government away from the gas chambers?

Despite serving police officers not being allowed to be members of BNP, I have no doubt due to my personal experience of the homophobic conduct & practices of so many Cornwall police officers I have encountered that there will be considerable applause & support in the Camborne & Helston police canteens for the rise of the fascist right in the UK today!

In recent years as a direct result of the Cornwall police vendetta & homophobic campaign against me & my relentlessly being attacked and slagged off by many gay people in Cornwall blissfully ignorant of the facts, I take some comfort from the words of Tony Benn

“It’s the same each time with progress. 1st they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you”
Tony Benn

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_3#incoming-26789 Sgt Rowe of Cornwall, Helston Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_4#incoming-26791 PC Alexander & ‘unnamed’ police colleague, Cornwall, Helston Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo#comment-2394 DC Crowe Cornwall, Camborne Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_8#comment-2395 DC Anning Cornwall, Camborne Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_9#comment-2396 DC Parker, Cornwall, Camborne Police


http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_5#comment-2400 PC Fuller & PC Treloar Cornwall, Helston Police


http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_10#incoming-28834 PC Piper Diversity Cornwall Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_11#comment-2554 DC Scott Cornwall Camborne Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_2#incoming-29396 refused names of x3 police officers Cornwall, Helston Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_12#comment-2676 PC Cannon Cornwall Police

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/devon_cornwall_constabulary_homo_13#outgoing-23421 Chief Constable Otter Devon & Cornwall Constabulary

For those Cornish LGBT Gay's who think its getting better....?

For those Cornish Gay men & others who blindly think its getting better....?



Michael Causer's Parents Speak Out
Published: 2 June 2009

So many Cornish gays have their head in the sand & believe everything is rosey & worse they believe the piffle & twaddle that police spout about "being gay friendly". The truth is there has been a 60% rise in homophobic 'hate crime' in the UK not to mention an unprecidented rise in gay suicide & homelessness. Even homophobic crime which is reported, only 1% results in a conviction according too LGBT equality organisation Stonewall.


Micheal Causer's parents have resently spoken out about their son, his murder, the trial, homophobia and their hopes for the future.


A year ago an ordinary Merseyside couple like Marie and Mike Causer probably wouldn’t have expected to become spokespeople for gay rights.

But it’s been a dark year for the Causer’s one full of tragedy, disappointment and lies.

On Thursday 24 July 2008 their son - Michael Causer (18) - was out with acquaintances at The Crown Pub in Prescot, Merseyside. Those acquaintances included James O’Connor (19), Michael Binsteed (18) and an old school friend of Michael’s - Kyle Kennedy.

After the pub the group went on to a party at a house on Biglands Drive in Huyton which belonged to Binsteed’s Grandmother. The group were joined at the house by Gavin Alker (19), a friend of O’Connor’s.

Homophobic Attack

From this point on the events took a more sinister tone. Michael was upstairs asleep in one of the bedrooms when O’Connor and Alker came into the room and subjected Michael to a sustained and brutal beating which would leave him unconscious.

Throughout the early hours of Friday 25 July, the pair continued to assault Michael and shout homophobic language at him. The boys turned on Michael after they had seen pictures of him on his mobile phone with his boyfriend George. After the attack it is alleged that Alker said: “He’s a little queer, he deserves it.”

It is unknown to what extent Michael Binsteed and Kyle Kennedy were involved in the attack, but they did not intervene and help Michael. Kennedy left the scene in a taxi at 9am knowing that Michael was badly injured. While Binsteed along with Alker and O’Connor moved Michael’s body from the house to waste ground on nearby Tarbuck Road.

Binsteed fabricated a story to the Paramedics, Police and Michael’s family that Michael had been attacked in the street by random men and that they had helped fight them off. Meanwhile, Alker absconded for the next five days.

When Marie and Mike were at the hospital they had no idea how bad Michael’s injuries were, Marie told outnorthwest: “We believed Michael just had a clot and it was going to be removed. We didn’t know he had a broken jaw, upper and lower. We knew his nose was broken, he had black eyes, his mouth was horrendously swollen. But we didn’t know he had internal and neck injuries until Crown Court.”

On August 2 2008, Michael Causer died from serious head injuries which he sustained in the attack; he was only 18 years of age.

No Justice

Nine months on from Michael’s murder, of the four people who were present as this dreadful act of hatred unfolded; only one has received a custodial sentence. Leaving huge question marks over the effectiveness of the British judicial system and their understanding of homophobic hate crimes.

James O‘Connor pleaded guilty to the murder of Michael Causer, on the basis that homophobia was not his motivation, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but is eligible for parole in eleven and a half years. Judge King accepted that it was not a homophobic attack; he offered no alternative saying that he did not know what had motivated O’Connor.

Michael Binsteed pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice, despite being originally questioned about wounding with intent. He was used as a prosecution witness and was given a suspended sentence of 34 weeks and 200 hours community payback.

Despite being present throughout the attacks Kyle Kennedy was not charged, and was used as a prosecution witness.

Most shockingly, Gavin Alker, who was described by the Crown Prosecution Service as the “prime mover” in the attacks, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Michael Causer and walked free.

Where did the trial go wrong?

The CPS were so confident of the case they had assured the Causer’s that Alker would be sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Marie and Mike talk of the perjury and dreadful errors that took place in the court room, which they feel prejudiced the jury against Michael.

Marie explains: “The lies that Kennedy and Binsteed were coming up with saying that Michael was some sort of hooligan to cover themselves to make them look good. They said that Michael had spent the evening smashing telephone boxes, phone boxes that weren’t even there…bus stops, cars…nobody made any reports.”

“From day one as soon as we knew that they were using Kyle Kennedy as a witness we might as well as not had any court case.”

Marie can’t understand why the CPS used Kyle Kennedy as a witness, when they had Stephen Baines’ statement - a barman at The Crown - who saw Michael that night and stated that he was not drunk or depressed as alleged, but was his usual self, singing Karaoke and having a dance.

Marie highlights the terrible errors that were made over the course trial by the CPS, Judge King and the Coroner; not only was her Victim Impact Statement virtually ignored, but “even on the day of the sentence Judge King didn’t know how old Michael was.”

She continues: “Even the Coroner who did Michael’s post mortem came into Court saying that Michael was six foot one. Michael was five foot four - I ordered his coffin which was five foot six and that was to allow for a blue cushion with “The Prince is Sleeping” on it. Michael didn’t stand a chance - there was nothing in that Crown Court that went his way".

Mike adds: “We were in there nearly three weeks and the whole court case was a farce.”

The trial left them feeling cheated; they can’t live with the Jury’s decision and feel that Alker, Binsteed and Kennedy are laughing at them.

Marie says: “Justice is just a word; it’s a word that means nothing. Even if they did get 30 years, even if they got 50 years, even if they spent the rest of their lives in prison. It still wouldn’t compensate for what they’ve taken from us as a family.”

Hope for the future

However, they are determined to keep fighting for Michael and are currently considering further legal action. Marie continues: “There is no way of appealing against Alker…he will fall on his own admissions.” But they are in the process of appealing Binsteed’s sentence, and feel they have a case against Kennedy as, allegedly he helped Binsteed clean Michael up and dispose of DNA evidence.

Throughout the aftermath of Michael’s death and the trial, the Causer’s have somehow stayed strong, and pay tribute to the community who have rallied to support them. Marie comments: “We’ve had wonderful support from the LGBT Network in Liverpool, Matty Fox, Tommy, Andy and Jenny. There are around 7000 people on the Michael Causer facebook group writing comments. We get donations for Michael’s Fund and cards through the door.”

“Also, the police have been amazing Jay Halpin, Ritchie Carr. Absolutely wonderful, couldn’t fault Merseyside Police. It’s just a shame that the CPS weren’t the same in presenting Michael’s case with different methods instead of using people as witnesses who should have been prosecuted.”

Along with Liverpool’s LGBT Network and Merseyside Police, Marie and Mike are determined that nothing like this will ever happen again.

Marie says: “At first we were told that we could speak out, but anything we might say could jeopardise Michael’s trial. So we kept quiet. Then after the trial and the sentence, we said we’d speak out.”

Mike regrets not doing it earlier: “We should have done before, because then they’d have known what Michael was really like.”

Marie continues: “We’d do anything to stop this from happening again. We know gay people, we go to the pub, we go to the Trigger Pond and Chris Wallace is there and he so reminds you of Michael, his mannerisms, everything. I look at Chris and he’s the same build as Michael.”

“I find with the gay community, that I’m more supportive towards them because you look back and see what has happened to Michael. We knew he’d be vulnerable when he came out, because of the size of him - 5 ft 4 and 7 stone. We knew he’d be more vulnerable than his brothers. He was the baby of the family. I think gay people are more vulnerable, because of the way people react to them.”

“We’ll keep speaking out and hopefully go into schools and educate young people that gay people don’t have two heads, they are the same people that they are. It’s just wrong that some people won’t accept them.”

“Then there’s the Fund. We’ll keep fundraising and doing different things for a lasting memorial, and then maybe go on to books to educate the children of today. You look back at Binsteed’s, O’Connor’s and Alker’s generation of “89 and then this next generation…will they show more hate towards gay people?”

“This generation of infants need to be educated. You hear youngsters as young as four and five saying “go away you’re gay”. It might be a word to them, but their parents need to pull them up and tell them that it’s wrong. They need better education to let them know that gay people are no different.”

Mike and Marie Causer are determined to keep Michael’s story alive and there are offers from This Morning and The Oprah Winfrey Show. But it’s the private things that take the most strength.

Marie and Mike have taken the handle off Michael’s bedroom door and haven’t been in since Michael passed away. Marie says: “That was his private place”. Mike adds: “It’s hard, but we’ll get there one day…We’ll do whatever we can to stop this from happening to someone else."

To read the full outnorthwest interview with Michael's parents, including their memories of the real Michael, and comments from the Chair of Liverpool's LGBT Network Thomas Mcilravey, and Richie Carr, the Senior Investigating officer into Michael's murder, click here.

Show your support: You can donate to the Michael Causer Fund by clicking here. Alternatively, you can call 0151 227 5177.

Walk Against Homophobia: Stand up to homophobia and join us in the Walk Against Homophobia on 13 June 2009 in Manchester....just don't expect too much support from Cornish gay people for victims of both police homophobia & gay hate crime!