City of London Police in the spotlight

As I showed in yesterday's blog, when we were robbed of all our money and documents (including birth certificates, passports, academic qualifications, etc) in the Sisters of Mercy's Dellow Centre, the Metropolitan Police wrote to Declan a year later in such a manner that someone could have made out that the robbery didn't even take place. Moreover, the opposition to us obtaining new documentation is so great that Broadway Homelessness and Support, a premier homelessness organisation in London, haven't even been able to get Declan's birth certificate from Dublin in over a year of trying, and have yet to agree to assist me with requesting my birth certificate from Madrid.

Throughout our more than 2 1/2 years sleeping rough on the streets of London we were also dealing with the City of London Police. This is an email from the head of the City of London Police, Commissioner Michael Bowron, threatening us with physical removal from the porch we were sleeping in the very same day we came off the street (see also blog of 12 July 2009 Police threaten us with physical force at the place we sleep, Salters):



In this two-minute extract from our first YouTube video (see blog of 4 September 2010 Sisters of Mercy revisited - our first YouTube video), Declan speaks at Salters' Hall of our dramatic exit from the street. (Declan mistakenly states in this extract that we slept in the porch at the back of Salters' Hall for near on a year "from December to January", when he meant to say from December to July. Well, as he says at the outset, this is a draft video!)



When I also explained in the previous blog that we came to England from Dublin in 2003 and for two years attempted to start a network of those abused by church with our own money and how the opposition we encountered was so strong that we had no choice but to go on benefits in 2005 - a year later we were forced to the street - I wasn't joking. In August 2004, for example, we woke up one morning to find that the people living in the flat above us (our flat was the one that doesn't have its windows open) had flooded our kitchen and bathroom. If Declan hadn't been able to disconnect the electricity in the bathroom in time, who knows how things might have turned out.







Well, we all know what happens when the state decides to target somebody. Just ask Julian Assange of Wikileaks. In the UK, we have the example of MI5 whistleblower David Shayler - as Declan mentions in the video clip above, we are actually tenants in the same house Shayler lived in for a couple of years - who now goes by the name of Delores Kane, and has declared himself to be Jesus (see blog of 2 June More electronic harassment? Fifth TV rendered useless for a still of the shocking photo of Shayler that flashes up in the video clip). According to the BBC's Panorama programme, Shayler “caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair”. Of course, ordinary folks are supposed to be under the illusion that the west is progressive and freedom of speech is the norm. Well, how threatening can a network of those abused by church be that has 33 Honorary Associates, scholars of every sort - scientists, theologians, sociologists, literary critics, philosophers and more?

Broadway Homelessness and Support

Broadway Homelessness and Support, a premier homelessness organisation in London, has been trying to obtain Declan's birth certificate from Dublin for over a year (since August 2009) and they have now confirmed that they are going to try again for the third time - on 18 June 2008 we were robbed of all our money and documents, including birth certificates, passports, academic qualifications and references, in the Dellow Day Centre of the Providence Row Charity run by the RC Sisters of Mercy (see blog of 4 September Sisters of Mercy revisited - our first YouTube video). Declan has repeatedly asked Broadway to request my birth certificate from Madrid but they have yet to agree to do so. This afternoon Declan upped the ante with this email to the organisation - copied to just about everyone! - with zero effect (click to enlarge):



The then head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, in his capacity as Archbishop of Westminster, was informed of the robbery in the Dellow Centre and the fact that the nuns had refused to provide the police with CCTV coverage of it (see blog of 4 July 2008 Second Request for Priority to the European Court). The police got back to Declan in writing a year later (see below). But instead of stating that they closed the case because the nuns wouldn't provide them with the CCTV footage they needed, they go and write that there was not enough evidence! If Declan hadn't emailed the chief executive of Providence Row at the time of the robbery - her office is almost next to the canteen where the robbery took place - the point could be made now that maybe the robbery never even happened...





By the way, in the video contained in the blog of 3 September I explain that we came to England from Dublin in 2003 and for two years attempted to start a network of those abused by church with our own money and how the opposition we encountered was so great that we had no choice but to go on benefits in 2005. Of course, a year later we were forced to the street (see previous blog). But didn't I say we encountered tremendous opposition?

This short clip exposes how the police, the Catholic church and the state conspired to cover up a priest's suspected role in one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland Troubles.