Monday, July 29, 2019

Declan's appeal against the decision by the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's TST not to uphold his complaint. He too is told that his unreliable support is satisfactory

From the updated complaint to the UN below:

"This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!"
-Don Collins Sr, President, ISAF, Washington DC

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan


Declan and I are housed in a flat that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. It has been acknowledged by the Greater London Authority in court papers that both Declan and I can live independently – we do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Our needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination, intimidation and victimisation we routinely face. Last week I posted my previous blog post, I appeal the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's TST. The St Mungo's Quality Team will decide by 5 August whether my complaint about the so-called reference sent to St Joseph's Hospice will progress to a stage 2 of their complaints process. For over a year we have been battling St Mungo's to stabilise our tenancy. Now Declan too is told that his unreliable support is "satisfactory", thereby further placing our tenancy at risk (a threat to life). As soon as he received this finding from St Mungo's TST last Wednesday, he appealed to the Quality Team at St Mungo's.

24 July 2019

Dear Quality Team,

I wish to appeal the decision of St Mungo's TST not to uphold my complaint. Please find attached response letter detailing the outcome of the investigation.

I wish to complain on appeal that I did not get a fair response. I am not happy because the response I received is not consistent with the available evidence. My TST caseworker has the correct email address for [full name and email address withheld]. Furthermore, it has been long agreed with my TST caseworker that I would be copied into any supporting email. I have not received any email from my TST caseworker addressed to Ms Mitchell.

Please note that I have never communicated Ms Mitchell's email address in a telephone conversation. I provided my TST caseworker with Ms Mitchell's email address by email on 8 July and again on 10 July. On both occasions I provided my TST caseworker with the correct email address for Ms Mitchell, evidencing on 10 July an email I had received from her earlier that morning.

I confirmed in writing during the investigation that my complaint was not and is not confined to 10 July but pertains to the entire week commencing 8 July. The investigating manager has not produced any evidence to show that my TST caseworker's supporting email to Ms Mitchell bounced on 10 July. Nor has she explained why this caseworker ignored my email to him on 10 July showing that he has the correct email address. In fact, my TST caseworker had an entire week to make contact with Ms Mitchell before the opportunity became untenable on Monday of the following week.

I repeatedly explained to the investigating manager why I believed it was unfair and unreasonable for her to have expected me to meet with her in the absence of an explanation for why my TST caseworker did not complete his side of our agreement for support. My explanation, included, inter alia, the nature of outstanding issues taking my wife's complaint against her TST caseworker into account.

As this matter stands, I have support from St Mungo's TST that is unreliable. The fact that in this instance such support is deemed "satisfactory" by the investigating manager places my and my wife's tenancy at risk (a threat to life). I therefore request that you uphold my Appeal or inform me of my right to further appeal so that these issues are put right. Should my request to go to a stage 2 of your complaints process be turned down, it is my intention to bring this matter to the attention of the Housing Ombudsman.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

In re St Mungo's TST

Paragraph 36 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

36. The Applicant and his wife's tenancy agreement was renewed like-for-like for the second time last year, but only when court proceedings against St. Mungo's were imminent two months after the Applicant complained that the decision not to reissue another tenancy for two former rough sleepers with support needs amounted to a type of harassment and a death threat. Since then, the Applicant has been battling St. Mungo's from pillar to post to stabilise his and his wife's tenancy (see Annex 16, pp. 39-41). First it was problems with inaccurate case notes, which got more serious in August 2018 when the Applicant discovered that notes St. Mungo's assured District Judge Avent the year previous had been rectified by them were in fact being held under the Applicant's wife's name. Last year the Applicant also had to battle St. Mungo's for his own Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) caseworker and to stave off enforced joint visits. This year the Applicant has already had to twice battle St. Mungo's to have removed outrageous notes that were inputted into their system on both occasions without his knowledge or consent. Last month, in June 2019, the Applicant's professional referee observed: "This obscene disregard for your rights seems to continue unresolved!" (emphasis added). The following week, the Applicant's wife received from her TST caseworker a completed volunteer reference form that had been sent to St Joseph's Hospice. This caseworker left blank a question relating to the Applicant's wife's "honesty, reliability and temperament", and has not explained her reason for not completing this section of the form. The Applicant's wife's application was not successful.

12 July: Threat to life: Updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's highlighted

Last year St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.


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We were evicted from our previous flat in March 2013 because according to our then live-in landlady's ex-husband, Dr Nigel McKenzie, a consultant psychiatrist in Highgate Mental Health Centre, our flat was needed for somebody with a mental illness. As Declan states in paragraph 8 of his updated complaint to the UN earlier this month, former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler also lived with human rights activist Belinda McKenzie in the same political 'safe house' for a couple of years until 2007. According to BBC Panorama, Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair"; he was jailed for seven weeks in 2002 for breaking the Official Secrets Act. It's unfortunate that Shayler declared himself the Messiah in 2007, became a squatter, and was subsequently ridiculed in the press for changing his name to Delores Kane. A New Statesman article published in September 2006 featuring Shayler and Belinda gives no indication that Shayler believed he was the Messiah at that time; whilst a Daily Mail interview with him the following year reveals he believed himself to be Jesus by June 2007. He has never regained his normal self.
The Esquire article below* is mentioned in a Guardian article dated 27 March 2012. It's an eye-opener, highlighting the monitoring and surveillance that Shayler had to live with back in 2000, and the contradictory briefings and slanders that were coming out of the British establishment and the media. The author, Dr Eamonn O'Neill, is a lecturer in journalism at Strathclyde University.

*On 2 May 2013, Issuu removed this pdf from my Issuu account following a copyright complaint by Hearst Communications. I had uploaded the article to my Issuu account in December 2012. In March 2013, when last I checked, the article had been viewed more than 15,000 times. It can be read here.

BBC PANORAMA: The David Shayler Affair (August 1998)

Former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair", according to BBC Panorama. He was jailed for seven weeks in 2002 for breaking the Official Secrets Act.

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