I came 'out' as a gay man in 1989 (23yrs ago)
I quickly became a gay equality & HIV/AIDS awareness campaigner.
FACT: In 1995 Gay Times magazine did me the honour of naming me in their 200th celebratory edition as my being one of the top 200 gay people in the UK. In 1997 the readership of national LGBT newspaper 'Pink Paper' voted me as one of the 500 people who had most influenced gay life in the United Kingdom. (No 119). In 2007 QueerWest publication named me a person of gay influence in the south west (No.3).
It's little wonder therfore my being so critical of the FACTUAL dishonesty & homphobia I have encountered from so many Devon & Cornwall police officers that they wish to discredit & silence me.
Many will remember how police tried to discredit Charles de Menzes after police had butchered, slaughtered de Menzes in a Stockwell Station tube train & how police have tried to character assasinate police victim Ian Tomlinson after he was 'UNLAWFULLY KILLED' having been beaten to the ground by police thugs attending the G20 protest.
In fact only last week it was revealed that police had been criminally involved in selling information to the News of the World newspaper, which in itself over shadowed the several police officers in Wales on trial for falsifying evidence in a case where the victims of police dishonesty have now been proven...but not until after the victims of that police corruption had spent several years falsely incarcerated in prison.
I rapidly became aware due to the Richard Perry killing (I officiated his funeral), the Terrence Sweet Murder & the Truluswell Falmouth police entrapement of gay men, not to mention an assault carried out against me in 2006 (I finally won that case in court DESPITE the obstruction & homophobia of the vile Cornwall police who has ASSISTED the assailants into a taxi to leave the scene of the assault) of the embeded homophobic attitudes & practises of the Cornwall police....very much on going STILL in 2011.
In 2004 Cornwall police had begun a concerted effort to discredit me as a gay equality campaigner after I had co-organised a forum on 'policing in the gay community'. Due to police reaction the forum had to be relocated.
Since then my home has been raided by police twice & I have been arrested twice!
ON BOTH OCCASSIONS POLICE HAVE LATER HAD TO ADMIT 'NO FURTHER ACTION' & 'NO CRIME' ON MY PART.
However the misconduct of homophobic police officers (DC WOODS, DC ANNING, DC MAGNUS SCOT...and many other dishonest police officers subsequently involved) did result in my attempted suicide.
FACT:
Since I came 'out' as a gay man in 1989 (23yrs ago) I have NOT been charged with any criminal offence. I have not been prosecuted for any criminal offence & in those 23yrs I have NOT been convicted of any criminal offence...and thats a FACT!
FACT:
However, I have been subjected to repeated homophobic attitudes & prejudicial practises of numerous Devon & Cornwall police officers, which neither the IPCC or the professional standards unit have bothered to interview witnesses or examine the physical evidence.
It is because of the FACTS, I know Devon & Cornwall Constabulary remains a deeply dishonest police force in which homophobic attitudes & practises remain protected along with the dishonesty & corrupt practises of the numerous police officers involved.
I welcome contact from investagative journalists interested in the failings & dishonesty of the police complaint system & continued homophobia within Devon & Cornwall police, who simply play lip service to equality & diversity.
POLICE - They ARE the criminals we are warned about!
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