2006/7/8         Who is behind this extraordinary protection of the neighbours and Carmarthen Council's planning officers? 


With such deceit and cover-up of planning 'favours' being given to these people, coming from Carmarthen Council's Head of Planning, and the cover-up by the now former CEO, the avoidance by officers to answer questions it begs the question what is being hidden here and why are we being stigmatised.

A still picture taken from the actual CCTV footage of AT coming onto our property.

Dai Thomas (ex Detective Inspector) from Police Complaints was visiting us regularly - on average three times per month over three years, and spent hours of his time with us.   Needless to say we got to know him very well and he knew us also, very well.  I have many quotes recorded in my diaries of his comments when with us, regarding police conduct and his commitment to us that all would be honestly acted upon and that his final report would be condemnatory of the police.   It absolutely should have been.


During these deeply upsetting times I had meetings with various Inspectors where I would produce clear evidence of bias towards us with police officers accepting obvious untruths from the Thomases where they failed to investigate, but I was always the one to be arrested.   When I made an allegation supplying video or cctv footage of criminal damage, even eye witnesses, staggeringly the Thomases were never arrested! It is eye opening as it would be obvious to all and sundry that unless these people were stopped from intimidating and threatening us, as they had done to others who had lived here before us, it was going to continue.  We were suffering dreadfully as we lived here on our own, two pensioners with no family around us, but the neighbours on the other hand were part of a large group of men and were extremely menacing.

The police also failed time and again to view the Thomases own CCTV, even though they always viewed mine.  Had they viewed their CCTV they would have witnessed the criminal conduct which should have put a stop to the harassment of us.  They didn't want to see it!.   The Police and Crime Commissioner had visited our cottage to see for himself  how isolated and cut off we were, which left us vulnerable to all manner of false allegations from our neighbours. He at least was sympathetic but had no control over policing matters. That was for senior police officers


These were very frightening times as with Carmarthen Council's officers treating us with disdain adding to our suffering - so did the police.  I will always believe someone senior in this council was abusing their power and using undue influence to have me discredited, and the more arrests of me, the less support I had, and with the obvious mear campaign raging against me by the council, with accusations of 'these people are troublemakers' 'these people are being malicious' these people are making unfounded complaints'  and more, coupled with exceedingly biased and strange comments from police officers themselves such as 'why don't you stop complaining then you wouldn't be arrested' and 'why do you put your sunchairs where the neighbours can see them'. and more... It was quite obviously discrimination and persecution of us.


The theory behind the false arrests was obviously to discredit me in order to invalidate all I was accusing the council of, but in reality it didn't work due to the filmed evidence I held which totally discredited their actions and eventually with the help of the media also, they were exposed for the devious means being used.  No-one has ever been held to account.


 I had meetings with the Police and Crime Commissioner to discuss how and why the police were ignoring our plight and defending the neighbours against all evidence that screamed abuse of us.  I didn't go empty handed, I always provided unambiguous evidence.  I never relied upon ' he said she said'.   There was a marked difference in how the police treated us and how they treated the Thomases, it was unmistakable.


 11th September 06   I looked at my CCTV as I almost always did in the morning, when I would normally see the five bar gate and the top of our driveway,  but all I saw was leaves.  I walked up to where the camera was and it had been twisted around now facing the hedge.  I ran the footage back to and was shocked to see Andrew Thomas entering our property at  5.52 a.m. and as he passed the small camera, pushed it sideways so that it was facing into the bushes.   This obviously meant we wouldn't have any idea how long he had been lurking around our property for, nor what he had been doing!

 

Dai Thomas happened to be visiting that very day, and when he arrived I duly showed him the footage.   As I hadn't put it onto disc yet, he viewed it directly from the camera. This meant it was as clear as a bell and it was plainly Andrew Thomas. He was rightly alarmed on our behalf and advised me to report it to the police - which I did. He also told me to report suspected criminal damage.  I still have the records.  Needless to say by now I knew that no matter what the Thomases did they were above the law and no action was ever going to be taken against them, and I said as much to Dai Thomas.


Let us remember I was being arrested on someones frivolous accusations with with zero evidence. (six in all)  It was deeply distressing, disturbing, and left me believing that no matter what the Thomases intentions against us were they would always be protected against the law.  I did ask how is it you can arrest me without evidence - the answer was  - if your neighbour accuses you of anything at all we can arrest you.  That was that then!  Strange it didn't ever happen in reverse. 

The protection at this level for the Thomases raises huge questions as to who was behind the targetting of us, me in particular.   Throughout 2006 I had reported countless incidents of severe intimidation.   There were no consequences for the neighburs leaving them to carry out more threats without fear of the law.


 January 2008    Civil case..............

At last. We were in court to have the maliciously erected gates removed and to have our Right of Way widened to a reasonable width.     Success would mean we would not be molested in this area any more, and hopefully much of the intimidation would also be stopped, not just against ourselves but also friends and visitors could also visit without being abused which often took the form of filming them or shouting across at them. 

The case was resolved via our solicitors without going into court.   The outcome was that the intimidation had to cease - the Right of Way had to be widened to a sensible width and the gates had to be removed.  We didn't manage to get the crash barriers removed., however, such relief!  At least part of our nightmare, hopefully, was over.  We could now drive in and out in relative peace.  

During these months Dai Thomas our Police Complaints Officer was continuing to visit us writing up his report on incidents whilst telling us that police officers were acting agsinst us and were clerly displaying bias towards us.

I would ask him why this investigation into our complaints was taking so long as our initial complaints were now almost three years old.    His explanation was that due to ongoing incidents between us and our neighbours meant his investigation would continue.   It was nonsense as we found out later.    Our solicitors were alarmed to say the least that this was dragging on for so long.  It was yet another ploy to keep us floundering, to use a way of denying us any justice for what was taking place here, to allow the Thomases to continue threatening us as they were never even spoken to, and he was part of that conspiracy as we later found out.  It became quite obvious that the police were just another arm of Carmarthen council.

I had absolute faith in Dai Thomas and would always ask him if I was wrong to assume the police were not carrying out their duties as I needed to know if I was being paranoid, not seeing things clearly as I should, as being under such a strain that could be possible, but each and every time he would assure me I was not wrong, the police were most definitely failing us and his report would be reflecting that fact.  He showed me how to make a log for myself in order to protet myself from lies and deceit from police officers, and gave me the entire list of 'storm logs' to enable me to put together a comprehensive very detailed trail of daily events involving all police officers who called upon us, time they visit, what they said, what they did, or didn't do, and the outcomes of all that had been logged.  It did ultimately protect me from the most appalling lies that did eventually surface.  He allowed me to see letters and internal emails that were relevent and were also damning of the police.  He spoke openly about other senior officers and how he viewed them. This of course gave us confidence in his support of us.

Was it all part of giving us false hope and confidence in him, or was he genuine and his report was finally written up by someone else?? 

Every step of the way the same pattern has been adopted.  Keep everything dragging on- keep paperwork mounting -keep their minds full of 'did they didnt they will they wont they' - but give no answers.  It has been the most horrendous phsychological abuse of one person against an army of artillery consisting of legal experts firing off deceit - police force persecution - CPSabuse of  power - and brute force from the neighbours.   This is what I've been up against for years, on my own.   All the while being threatened and severely intimidated on a daily basis with no intervention from any agency. We were on our own and at everyones mercy. Three years later in 2008 Dai Thomas's report finally came to fruition.   It was everything that was a betrayal of all he had been telling us over the three years he'd been visiting.  He'd found nothing wrong with how the police had behaved towards us in his report, even though the clear evidence spoke a different language.   

Worst of all he wrote an entire page on the incident of the neighbour coming onto our property at 5.52 a.m. in the morning.

If there is anything at all that would make anyone doubt that this report was a total travesty this was it.  

Where is the mop of white hair?

He wrote in his report- that it wasn't our neighbour at all as seen in the CCTV footage, going back on every word he uttered at the time,  that it was Eddie, and we had conspired and planned this whole episode.  We were devastated.  This was a man who knew the truth as he'd been coming here for three years, had lunch with us on many occasions, had invited us to visit him at home and more.  He had befriended us and we trusted him implicitly.  He had also viewed reams of footage on our neighbours activities and had seen my neighbour walking down this right of way countless times which meant, as a police officer, he would have noticed his gait - surely?  He knew the build of the man, the fact he had no hair on the top of his head only a band around the lower part, the clothing he wore, as it was the same blue kbhs t-shirt every single day - with the same trousers tied with a belt.  He also knew he walked slightly knock-kneed throwing his left out as he walked.    He'd seen this a hundred times in the years he'd visited us.

Eddie had exceedingly thick white curly hair, wore glasses, and his gait was entirely different. CCTV at night will make eyes glow as one has seen in animals caught on camera.  As my neighbour passed the camera the infra red picked up his eyes and Dai Thomas wrote this was proof it was Eddie as the person in the footage was wearing glasses and Eddie wears glasses. 

Where was the white hair, where were the glasses Eddie always wore.   Eddie would have had to have worn some form of head covering in order to cover up his mop of hair.  His glasses would have been very obvious from an infra red camera and so on, and if we'd plotted this whole charade, why would Eddie have even worn his glasses if petending to be Andrew Thomas who doesn't?  It was so preposterous and laughable, it read like something out of a childrens comic book.


He also wrote that the man in the video was wearing a beige coloured  t-shirt with dark trousers, held with a belt and he said Eddie often wore a light shirt with dark trousers and used a belt.  This was coming out of the mouth of an ex Detective Inspector.  How on earth could you tell from this footage the t-shirt was 'beige'.   As everybody knows infra red actually reverses colours. i.e. a dark shirt can look light and vice versa it also picks up on fabric and can distort light from dark accordingly.    This footage was in black and white.   This was such a blatant falsification of the truth this man should have been sacked on the spot. 
  
We actually made a reconstruction of this incident to show how Eddies hair could never be concealed, how his gait was entirely different and the clothes Dai Thomas accused Eddie of wearing in the film footage were in fact reversed from the colouring of the clothing A Thomas was wearing.  

It was the most shocking example of wilfull perversion of the truth by the police and a total betryal of us I have ever been involved in on a personal level.
  

Most importantly questions should have been raised as to who was behind this flagrant corrupt version of events to smear our names - again!.  Who on earth was behind this dirty business taking place next door to us, as it could not have been clearer this was everything to do with the protection of the neighbours and their involvment with Carmarthen council, and why this most perverse conduct by an ex Detectve Inspector who had pretended to be our friend. 

Needless to say I spoke with cctv experts and was willing to pay over a thousand pounds to have this verified as my neighbour.  They can look at the gait of a person and can take visual images of faces and determine it was most definitely not Eddie but our neighbour.   Of course, Dai Thomas knew that anyway.  What a despicable callous act to play out on two people who were already suffering the most appalling discrimination from those in authority, but he has to live with what he did. 

I never did have to pay to have the footage analysed,  as the video evidence was accepted as genuine by the Police Commissioner and the Chief constable.   Dai Thomas was never reprimanded over his blatant lies and his attempt at perverting the course of justice for falsely accusing us of plotting a scene that anyone would realise would be impossible to do unless you were a film maker and expert in infra red images.  It became  part of the apology I eventually received from Dyfed Powys Police. 

Dai Thomas is now retired thank goodness, as he can do no more harm to innocent people. It begs the question though how much harm  his lies may caused to innocent people over the years he has served as a police officer.   It is hugely frightening that such people are allowed to work within the police force.   It should never happen to anyone.

It was manifestly clear that something quite sinister was taking place against us.   It was more smear to discredit us. My question throughout this fifteen of deceit, lies, smear, conspiracies to thwart every attempt I have made to have the truth exposed, by people in positions of power and influence who we are led to believe we should trust, is WHY?  What has taken place at Blaenpant and with whom?  It has been and still is extraordinary! 

There will be more to come!

  

2007    Friends step in.......



The CEO and his Head of Planning might have put me on a gagging order but friends took up the gauntlet and continued advising them of the shenanigans and malpractice which was continuing to be ignored. 

The council had not achieved the silence they so desperately wanted as they still had to answer letters and questions from people who were not on their archaic policy. 

It would have been far easier for the council to admit their failings, follow procedures and planning regulations and take some form of action to curtail the industrial operations which should never have been allowed to begin in the first instance, but how could they; this would be an admission that officers were deliberately failing in their statutory duties, favouring a particular individual which according to their own Code of Conduct is corrupt practice.  Very serious. 

To give 'favour' to an individual is to be 'corrupt'.  That is written into officers Code of Conduct.  If  it is not favour when an officer is overlooking and assisting in wilful breaches of planning regultions, then what is it? 

Part of Officers Code of conduct       

13.0 Corruption

13.1 Employees must be aware that it is a serious criminal offence for them corruptly to receive or give any gift, loan, fee, reward or advantage for doing, or not doing anything or showing favour, or disfavour, to any person in their official capacity. Allegations of this nature will be investigated/dealt with in accordance with the Council’s disciplinary procedure.

Head of Planning E Bowen's rehearsed phrase would always be.....    a..... there is no evidence of haulage or anything else....... b.......I only saw one lorry......c.......I didn't see anything that was shown on your video footage  or  even if there were three or four lorries there , it wouldn't be expedient to take any action....

It is unbelievable!

It was perfectly plain for all to realise that shady deals had taken place and from that there is no going back.  During a chance meeting with E Bowen I pointed out to him that it was quite apparent he had taken a road of no return.      The deceit and flagrant lies coming from this council's officers could only be attributed to 'special arrangements'. 

On his site visits to Blaenpant E Bowen couldn't see any sign of haulage operations even tho our filmed evidence proved otherwise. He couldn't see thirty coloured horses in a shed which would have warranted a change of use  - he couldn't see any signs of maintenance on HGVs even though our filmed evidence showed otherwise - he couldn't see signs of quarrying even tho our filmed evidence showed otherwise, and according to him, the scrapped vehicles and other pieces of junk on another area of agricultural land was all 'agricultural equipment'.  

The Head of Planning was carrying out site visits to this area (see picture) due to many complaints of a burgeoning scrap site and witnessed this huge pile of material being laid.   Instead of enforcing against the obvious, he just turned another blind eye allowing it to be laid as a hardstand on agricultural land; no questions asked of the landowner.  

This was agricultural land adjacent to a Special Site of Scientific Interest and undoubtedly required planning permission.  The evidence of scrap was unmistakable and given the council's own files housing many complaints of haulage, quarrying and lack of agriculture this required urgent action from the council's Head of Planning.  

Beginnings of a scrap yard.

He wrote - these pieces of metal were going to be 'pens for livestock'.    I personally don't believe these flimsy pieces of metal would hold any form of farm livestock and whats more there was no livestock at Blaenpant as he was fully aware. 

He wrote -  a scrapped fire engine was agricultural equipment because............."it can be used to hose down a yard area".  I had to point out to him that to use a fire engine to hose down a yard, it's tanks would have to be filled first and foremost by the 'very tap' on the yard, (unless you are going to attach the fire engine to your kitchen tap) which is normally used for hosing down the yard!!     He wrote the scrapped flo gas containers were for catching rainwater.   Again I had to point out that this would have required literally horizontal rain for these containers to catch rainwater, as their only small opening was at one end, not on top!! 

It is such shocking deceitful underhandedness coming from a Head of the Planning Department and warrants serious investigation.  His cover-up for all he allowed to take place is in my view criminal conduct.    Somebody else had to suffer for these abuses of the system and it was us!!!    For a supposedly intelligent individual to be spouting such utter nonsense proves beyond any doubt cover-up and duplicity.

A growing scrap yard

As we were now on the council's gagging policy 'reviews' should have been regularly taking place in order that we were not being treated disproportionately and prejudicially.   We absolutely were. We had valid complaints as borne out by two former owners of our property who had also complained about these terrible disturbances from Blaenpant and who had subsequently been driven out by severe intimidation and harassment.   As well as that several others had also complained to the council, before we had ever heard of Pantycastell Fach and Blaenpant.   It is clear that our complaints and evidence deserved action.  What was also clear was the council's lies and deceit.  We were being treated with utter contempt by this authority.

A Fresh Issue

My point of contact was Dave Gilbert (Director of Regeneration) who was ignoring all correspondence fro me.  However, according to CCCs gagging policy 'fresh issues' must be addressed.

Following two weeks of horrendous noise and the obvious creating of yet another very large hardstand - this time facing us, I wrote to my sole point of contact as I was deeply concerned as to what this area was going to be used for given that this was an unauthorised haulage yard with HGVs in abundance and zero agricuture.  I duly informed him of the engineering works and asked if planning permissions had been obtained.     No reply!      These works continued.  Two weeks later I reminded Dave Gilbert I had written to him on a 'fresh issue' and could he please respond.    No reply!.  This hardstand was by now practically finished and it was a substantial area and yet another eyesore for us.   I wrote again to my sole point of contact - the Director of Regeneration Dave Gilbert reminding him I had now informed him twice of this obvious 'fresh issue' and that according to his own policy it must be addressed and I needed to know if planning permission had been obtained.   His response was typical of how a corrupt organisation operates. He totally ignored the subject of my correspondence and simply wrote  'all issues had been addressed and there would be no further responses on this matter'. thus leaving me with unanswered, valid, questions and clearly this huge hardstand did not have the planning permission it obviously required.  Another 'favour'.

I tried asking him to elaborate on his ambiguous answer, but of course he wouldn't nor couldn't.  Honesty is not something one can expect from this council.     The corrupt planning continues unabated and unimpeded for my neighbour and we are watching on as our property becomes ever more blighted.

Another yard area with no planning consent.

Dave Gilbert should hang his head in shame - he is part of this culture of deceit and cover-up - and paid handsomely for being what he is!

(He went on to receive an OBE and became a member of the advisory board for the
Port Talbot Waterfront Enterprise Zone).

He was criticised heavily by the Ombudsman for his part in this charade.

The Ombudsman's advisor said (in report) 'the fact that enforcement action is discretionary and used only when it is expedient, should not be taken as condoning the wilful breaches of plannng control'. 

The life we had planned was in ruins and we were now existing in a most miserable, depressing and hopeless life that officers of this council had forced upon us, with no escape.   The abiding question must be...'why is this council's officers aiding and abetting so many wilful breaches of planning?


Lessons must be learned by all who knew our lives were in tatters due to their council's officers wilfully aiding and abetting a plethora of dodgy planning abuses.









 

2006/7

The psychological toll is immense.   

We now face the prospect of added noise and disturbance on top of what we already are expected to cope with, as yet another shed goes up.  This will certainly impact upon our cottage visibly which will inevitably influence the saleability of our property, but will also affect us psychologically as the true purposes of these sheds are not for agricultural use at all, but for the haulage and it's ancillary operations. This will lead to more disturbance from this industrial business with the range of noisy activities impacting upon the enjoyment of our home.

Our civil case to have these gates removed drags on as does the intimidation whenever we drive out and drive back in. We desperately need to have the obstructions removed.  When that is done we will have only our gate to open which means we won't be subjected to any more abuse.  However the neighbours did everything in their power to obstruct the case from going to court as more excuses for delays kept coming.  It took three long and torturous years for the case to be heard.   

Neighbours called this 'our metal enclosure'.

Writing to councillors on the advice from the Welsh government was totally in vain.  The Leader Cllr Madge paid no heed to our dire situation and simply wrote back saying he'd pass my concerns onto the appropriate persons.   In other words he would inform the deceitful and dishonest E Bowen, the cause of our problems, that I was seeking help.   It is akin to an abused person/s (which is what we were) being told by someone who is there to assist - to prevent any further abuse from taking place, - to act upon evidence of wrongdoing - that he will inform your abuser of all you are accusing him of.  It is shocking conduct from a Leader of this council.    Councillors who pass the buck or turn a blind eye are not carrying out their civic duties to the public. 

As for the other councillors of which there are 74 - I had two other acknowledgements only but no further interest in our ordeal.  When councillors ignore the plight of a member of the public who is clearly suffering due to their officers misconduct they are wilfully turning a blind eye.  That is in my view irresponsible and ignoring their own Code of Conduct- the Nolan Principles and showing an indifference to all they originally stood for.

Councillors should be reminded from time to time of their responsibilities to the public they purport to serve.  The documentaries alone should have prompted a backlash from all of them.  There is no excuse.  

The obvious favours being given to our neighbours continued with ever more unauthorised and illegal quarrying and ever more rock being exported off-site.   The noise was unbearable. Again I informed E Bowen that quarrying and the exportation of the rock off-site was continuing.   Another site visit!!   Alarmingly I was told that there was no evidence of quarrying; of course not - it was all in my imagination! 

No evidence of quarrying

I clearly had to film - again.   I did not want, nor should I have had to film, to gain further proof  officers were lying and that I was telling the truth!  It is most shocking and deeply disturbing that I was alone in fighting what can only be described as a deep-seated culture of deception and duplicity within Carmarthen Council. (in plain language - corruption).  We were in shock and deeply distressed at what was being perpetrated upon us.   How on earth was I supposed to obtain truth and justice when I was left fighting alone against a council who were deeply entrenched in deceit and cover-up of all that was wrong.

As K Thomas (neighbour) was interfering with friends and visitors as they left, (trying to negotiate the gates on our Right of Way) by either filming them or entering the Right of Way to deliberately 'get in their way' it was obvious she intended to do this to any potential customers we would have for our intended cattery business.  We were witnessing our smallholding becoming unsaleable - our plans for the cattery was already in ruins - we were suffering financially and we were never going to be able to pay back the borrowings we had made which would ultimately mean losing our home.

My Victim Support lady who had visited me once at home wrote telling me she felt so intimidated by the neighbours filming her, with several of their lorry drivers watching on, we would have to meet somewhere else in the future.  Everybody who came here was in some way made to feel uncomfortable.  All that was taking place here including the abuse and intimidation of ourselves and visitors, the council were made aware of, and without doubt should have stepped in as it was they who had created this nightmare for us. 

My local farmer who was going to cut our fields had previously been threatened by K Thomas that he would suffer consequences if he did any work for us.     He very bravely refused to be intimidated by her and did cut our fields all the while K Thomas was filming him doing so.   During this period he had parked his Land Rover in the road opposite us which is a very quiet country road where not much traffic passes through.    Upon returning to his vehicle he found to his horror that two of his tyres had been cut.  He had to call a friend of his to take him back to his farm.    This was reported to the police but as always any evidence from obvious CCTV cameras was not viewed therefore there was zero evidence of who had so vengefully caused him fear and also money.   How much more obvious was it that our plans were in shreds.

K Thomas filming a local farmer who had just been cutting our fields

Even though our lives were in tatters I was determined to continue proving the corruption taking place, as I always lived in hope that one day, somebody, would put a stop to this vicious abuse of us from the council.  We managed to film lorries loaded with rock being transported off-site and being driven down towards Llandeilo.      E  Bowen continued his protection of all that was wrong and refused to acknowledge this evidence and took no action except to accuse me of making more unfounded allegations.

Through Freedom of Information I had found these disgusting slanderous and probably libellous accusations.   All in the name of discrediting and gagging me.  How desperate were officers including Mark James CEO to silence me, going to such extreme lengths; and is this normal behaviour from a CEO and Head of Planning of ones local authority?     These are just a few of the shocking accusations made and used against me..............I was accused of being ......

'psychotic - unstable - vicious - vindictive - sly - devious - a bully- a complete nutcase -  she has harassed and bullied people throughout her entire life - take everything she says with a pinch of salt -  she intimidates officers - she edits evidence- she doctors evidence - she makes unsubstantiated complaints - makes malicious complaints - she has a personal vendetta - she has psychiatric problems she has a twee idea of the countryside being about skylarks and primroses’ etc

The Ombudsman had this to say........"by refusing to accept the evidence they implied the complainants were dishonest"    

The Ombudsman referred to these disgusting comments in his report saying "the council took views about the complainants they had no right to take and made those views known to other agencies". 

August 2007


As I had written 12 letters from December 2004 - July 2005 to the council I was deemed to be a 'persistent complainer'.  This apparently warranted putting me on the Council's Persistent Complainers Policy (PCP)  As far as I understand it had never been used before.  It has to be justified and entails firstly writing to the complainant advising them of the policy and that they potentially could be put on it -  giving them one point of contact - advising them that nothing would be addressed unless 'fresh issues' arose - and regular reviews are supposed to be undertaken to monitor your correspondence.    In other words 'we are now going to ignore you and all that you have been advising us of '. 

Senior officers were desperate to silence and discredit me as I was very aware of all that was taking place and had a plethora of evidence to prove all I was complaining of.  Clearly the police and CPS hadn't achieved their objectives, therefore another strategy had to be found and this was to be their master plan!    However, the council failed to inform me that I was on this policy which is against regulations - they failed to address 'fresh issues' and failed to have regular reviews.   Not that it mattered to anyone except when I eventually took my complaints to the Ombudsman in 2012 the council were heavily criticised on all points. 

We were on this gagging order for three years whilst the industrial, quarrying and all other manner of unauthorised operations continued and we continued to be abused and threatened on a daily basis.  I was being silenced in order these industial operations could continue unimpeded.


Although my political representatives had all the evidence of unauthorised and illegal operations and were aware of the threatening behaviour of our neighbours towards us, had seen the TV documentaries, for some rason unbeknown to me, they were impotent in taking any action against the council.   My own local councillor throughout this exceedingly distressing  time was cowardly making every excuse for officers.  He behaved like a rabbit caught in headlights!    I was beginning to believe officers employed by local authorities were above the law!

Nobody cared that we were trapped in a hell not of our making and if this continued we were ultimately going to lose our home as well.

2007


More deceitful planning applications and another helping hand from the Head of Planning  E Bowen?

Just as before when someone influenced the Planning Inspector in order to obtain the first enormous shed for my neighbours, (no doubts who that would have been)  the Head of Planning simply ignored the Planning committee's decision to refuse planning for another shed of the same size and told the neighbours to build it anyway.  No worries for them putting in an appeal to the Inspectorate, that's for others who are not 'friends' of the council, they might just not uphold another appeal.  This shed has no planning permission, but no concerns for Head of Planning as it only affects us - it only imposes upon us - it only affects the value of our property. What can I do about it?  Tell my M. P. my A. M. my councillor?   I did!  

This shed when built, was used for all manner of unauthorised activities of course, as there was zero agriculture at Blaenpant only industrial activities and that is precisely what this shed was built for and used for.  Upon informing E Bowen that this shed was not used for agriculture only noisy industrial activities, I was informed he'd carried out a site visit and that I was making 'unfounded accusations'. 

In between times, the neighbours had already erected another substantial building (stable for the stallion) alongside their dutch barn, (without planning) again ignored by E Bowen, and were putting in yet another application to build on its thumbprint. (replacement building).   Of course, as the substantial stable was now included in the overall size it meant this building could be much larger than it's original size!  I pointed out to the council that yet another building had been erected without planning (stable)  I was informed "it is not another building it is just an extension"?  Amazingly when the plans were drawn up, they clearly indicated the extra building as a 'stable' not just an extension.

E Bowen knew this land opposite us was a Special Area of Conservation, was being raised enormously with tonnes of concrete being poured onto it, knowing precisely how high these sheds would ultimately be and were obviously going to tower over us. 

These three imposing monsters are within 50 meters of our cottage and built on a SSSI/SAC area.

There have been at least eighteen planning applications from this so-called farm and all under the guise of agriculture where there were only industrial and equine businesses operating.

I've learned so much about Carmarthen Council's planning and enforcement department over these years, and it's shocking conduct by officers who are paid to uphold planning regulations, abide by the law, their codes of conduct and indeed the Nolan Principles;  how they abuse the system for some, and destroy those who attempt to defend their own investment, their quality of life, in exposing the obvious flaws in planning. 

These three sheds were all built under agricultural justifications.    First shed - used for stabling of the many horses being bred and sold plus other activities not associated with any form of agriculture.   The second shed used for the haulage businesss many HGVs and cutting of scrap  The third shed houses a pit, and used for maintenance on HGVs, other vehicles and also used for welding. 
 

As I was accused so many times of making 'unfounded and malicious accusations' I filmed the activities in order to prove I was not malicious nor was I making unfounded accusations.   I was simply trying to protect our quality of life, our financial investment, and our plans for our future.  

When the Ombudsman interviewed twelve officers following my complaints to him in 2012, unsurprisingly not one could could provide any evidence of their accusations that I was being 'malicious'.  These accusations came from Brian Canning (Enforcement Manager) E Bowen (Head of Planning) and the CEO Mark James.   The Ombudsman went on to say that all of their 'malicious' accusations against me were passed onto every other agency who became involved in this case. 

Carmarthen council have a lot of explaining to do.

June 2006     Shouting through glass - the police and another 'Wales This Week' documentary.



Following the airing of the second documentary, the Thomases showed their fury.  Eddie left for work to the sounds of clapping and name calling.  When he reached the top gate he was met by our neighbour who was sitting in his vehicle staring menacingly whilst Eddie negotiated exiting onto the main road.  This had become our life, and as traumatic as it was, it was expected.  The local police clearly had taken a side and it was not ours.  Their attitude towards us was so similar to that of Carmarthen council, they could have been one and the same organisation.  Our life was hell.  We had nowhere to turn.  

We had lost all chance of having the two small businesses we had planned, and no chance of selling.  We were trapped with all control over our lives ruled by Carmarthen council, the neighbours, the police, and the CPS.  The funds we had set aside for the businesses were being swallowed up with legal bills.

The officer who was visiting us regularly from Dyfed Powys Professional Standards Police had watched the documentary at his brother in laws house.  He was appalled, as was his sister who voiced her opinion that the Thomases were trying to steal our home.  His wife was equally shocked and said no one is lifting a finger to help.  Opinions came flooding in, in support of us, but the very authorities who should have been showing support were silent. As both documentaries proved a haulage business was operating and that we were being victimised because we had voiced our deep concerns,  it was abundantly clear that Carmarthen Council were going to continue ignoring the proof both programmes had produced.  I was up against cover-up, at the highest level, but had no escape as we didn't even have the option of selling.

With more clear evidence of corruption, I believed that someone somewhere would put a stop to our nightmare and insist on an investigation into the growing scandal that was 'Blaenpant'.  Surely Ministers, who had been informed by my A.M. would ask questions of CCC.   It didn't happen.  Being the second documentary, plus the publicity these two programmes had generated, within the media overall, something was seriously wrong with the system in Wales when nobody in power asks one question following such exposure.   How could those in positions of power stay silent?  The team at Wales This Week were in total support of us as they were shocked at the silence from those who were very aware of the injustice we were suffering, and of course, had seen our evidence first hand.  It seemed to be the case that our neighbours were being supported by CCC who were being supported by the police who were being supported by the CPS!  We didn't have any support at all, we were left defenceless and on our own.

The intimidation showed no signs of abating, in fact, it became worse.  It was summer time and our fields needed cutting and we had asked our local farmer to come again.   He was obstructed from entering our driveway and told by Karen Thomas NOT to cut our fields - or else.   Even this didn't prompt a reaction from our local police.  There appeared to be no line over which the neighbours could not tread.  There were no boundaries for the Thomases.  They appeared to be exempt from all planning regulations and the law.  We felt like pawns.

Mr Dai Thomas from Police complaints was very concerned at the lack of support from the local police and regularly took statements from us about the way in which the police were behaving towards us.  Each time he visited I would always ask for his opinion.  I desperately needed to understand why we didn't have any support and why the Thomases were treated differently to us by all agencies.  I would always ask him to be absolutely honest with me and to tell me if I was wrong in my assumptions.   Without hesitation, he would say that I was not wrong, we were being treated differently, and that when he finished his report it would be damning to the police.

One could argue that some of the daily incidents could be classed as petty.   However, when such incidents/taunts take place every single day, and sometimes several times a day, over an eighteenth month period, they cease to become petty.  They affect every aspect of your own mental well being from the moment you wake as the awareness that something will happen that day takes over and puts you immediately in an anxious state of mind.   The overall effect of daily intimidation has a huge impact on your mental well being, where each day becomes a struggle through and through.   The cumulative effect of the intimidation took a huge toll on us both physically and mentally. We worried about our future, as we had no control over it now.

7th. October 06.      Karen Thomas and I had an altercation at the lower gate.  I wanted it open to go out and she wanted it closed so that I could not.  She had also put a number of ponies into the right of way to prevent me from leaving.    During this altercation, she accused me again, of assault.  Two police officers did attend this time, and I had the opportunity of showing them my own CCTV footage which proved no such assault took place.  PC Treherne viewed the footage and agreed there was no assault, and I recorded him admitting such. So that was that - or so I thought.  

20th. November 06    Another nasty incident occurred in Carmarthen whilst Eddie was working, which ended in AT assaulting two females who had become involved in the threatening behaviour of our neighbour.  He was arrested and charged with assault - and later found guilty.  He did appeal but unfortunately for him, the witness who was primed to conjure up a story for his appeal,  hadn't done his homework thoroughly, made several serious errors whilst telling his story to the Judge, and was found to be lying to the court.  The Judge said "people have come into court today to try and pull the wool over the court's eyes"   The Judge then doubled my neighbour's previous penalty.   

Speaks for itself

27th. November 06      My fifth arrest....I was told to attend Carmarthen Police Station to be interviewed under caution, where I was arrested for the fifth time on Karen Thomas's allegation of assault, (7th October) even though the arresting police officer had previously conceded that having seen the CCTV footage no assault took place.  I took with me the DVD evidence and asked that both police officers view the footage on my portable disc player, which would prove I should not have been arrested nor should I be in this interview.  They refused to view it.   I was placed on bail - again - for months.   Eventually told the CPS were not going to prosecute.  

26th. March 07  Cockerels began to appear under our bedroom window now that the pigs had gone.


The neighbours continued with their intimidation and the police continued to turn a blind eye to their threatening behaviour towards us. One such incident was the keeping of our very old little Beddie dog.  Karen Thomas had spotted her at the top of her drive and decided to keep her. Of course, we didn't know this, we thought she had gone missing. We were beside ourselves.  Eventually, she let her go but only after one very sleepless night.  Other incidents included cockerels appearing under our bedroom window, floodlights directed at our bedroom and so on...Other incidents included more tailgating, attempts to run us off the road, slurry deposited at our gate,  horse dung and mud smeared over gate handles, the list is shocking.

What had Carmarthen council unleashed upon us? It makes it all the more shocking that on the council's files there were reports of violence and intimidation towards others who had lived here before us.  The council had no excuse for not protecting us from this vile conduct of our neighbours. Of course, they were very aware why it was happening  (due to their corrupt practices) so it was either admit corruption or keep it covered up at our expense.  Every day was stressful and we were deeply unhappy/depressed.

2nd. May 07  My sixth arrest................It was a beautiful day and I was planning to go out.  I opened the gates in preparation as I always did.  The Thomases top gate was closed as usual, so I would still have to have stopped to negotiate that one.  I began walking away from the gates to collect my car when I heard a huge crash and kerfuffle.  I turned around and saw that Andrew Thomas had thrown open the top gate and had literally dragged a pony into the right of way.  As he did this he let go of the halter rope, shouted whilst waving his hands at the back of the pony and sent it running down towards me.  I was so shocked I couldn't gather my thoughts.  This is all played out on my own CCTV and camcorder footage.  The now very frightened pony tried to go back towards  Karen Thomas, who was also now in the right of way with her stable hand, but Andrew Thomas had other ideas and he shouted again at the pony whilst whipping its back-end forcing the poor thing onto my garden. The pony was very distressed and running all over my garden trying to get back up to the right of way area.   I wanted to get back to the cottage to ring the police but before I had reached my door Karen Thomas along with the other girl had marched down onto my garden area.  I believed Karen Thomas was going to push me as she was standing within inches of my face in a very threatening manner. 


I put out my hand telling her 'not to come into my space', to which she replied 'you've just assaulted me'.  and then rang the police on her mobile phone.  Once I'd gone inside, I pushed my police panic button and rang them too.  I believed the neighbours had gone too far and the police would support me in this, as this had been a very frightening scenario, and I could have been seriously hurt.    As the police had visited the Thomases first I fully expected they would have viewed their CCTV to confirm what had actually taken place.  When the police arrived at my door instead of supporting me, I was arrested - again, for assault, put in handcuffs and driven away.   As we reached the top of the right of way Karen Thomas and her stablehand were watching the police car drive me away and were laughing.   I was placed in a cell - again, this time for eight hours.  The police served another section 18, to search my home - again.  For what?  They took away our CCTV recording box. When Eddie had arrived home he noticed my camcorder in the kitchen and when he had looked at it and seen my ordeal, he took it immediately to my solicitor.  When my solicitor told me they had handed over the camcorder footage to the police, I believed I would be de-arrested and released.   Will they now arrest the Thomases?  Of course not.  I was put on bail - again, for months.  Having spent more months in an anxious state of mind the CPS decided not to prosecute. 

Shockingly, the Thomases were never arrested for what they did that day even though the filmed evidence was inarguable.

The CCTV evidence and my camcorder evidence proved the Thomases to be deliberately driving a pony at me, on my own property, and behaving in a very threatening manner.  It is shocking behaviour by police officers to have deliberately ignored evidence and not arrested both Thomases for endangering my life. This can be seen on one of the television documentaries.  I would find it hard to believe if this was happening to someone else!  This unjust treatment of me was a witchhunt and was designed to discredit me and break me down.   This type of smear has been used from time immemorial when certain people have knowledge that could harm those in positions of authority..

With the amount of clear actual evidence from witnesses, CCTV and camcorder footage, it is staggering that the Thomases were never arrested for the shocking things they did to us over this period of time. 

Sixth arrest

August 07    Another planning application for yet another (agricultural) shed. The reasons for this shed were identical to those given for the first shed......'storage of hay and agricultural implements'. 

I had opposed this application stating that as Blaenpant had already been given approval (on appeal) for a shed in which to store hay and agricultural implements, why the need for another shed. 

However, just like the first shed - it was refused by the planning committee due to very little agriculture.  We were justified in feeling absolutely relieved that yet again the planning committee had refused this application on the grounds of very little agriculture.

The first shed which was being used in an unauthorised manner (horse stabling) had already devalued our property due to its size and situation.  It was very worrying, therefore, that another shed of a similar size was going to impact upon our property even further if approved.  Two different estate agents had publicly stated that due to the sheds and the neighbour's record of intimidation upon whoever lived here, devalued our property by a third.   This was prior to another gigantic shed being approved. 

25th. November 07      It was a very cold night and suddenly our heating stopped working.  As it was oil fed and we had recently had an oil delivery, it was a cause for concern.  Eddie went to check the oil tank.  It had been vandalised.  There was a small piece of wood caught in between the pipe and the outlet suggesting that a long piece of wood had been used, hit with something like a sledgehammer, and a piece had broken off.  There was no oil left in the tank, it had all drained away.  I wonder who could have been responsible?   Obviously the police were called, but of course, there was no evidence to suggest who had criminally damaged our oil tank. Whoever had done this had caused £1.800 worth of damage.  We were without heating for weeks until the insurance claim went through and we had a new tank. 

Broken and twisted pipe showing a piece of wood broken off from whatever was used to break the pipe.

As Andrew Thomas had previously torn my camcorder away from me and stamped it into the ground, with no consequence, ( even though this could be also be observed on CCTV, albeit not clearly,) he would have presumed he didn't have to fear the law.  He had criminally damaged our gate (on CCTV) with zero consequence.  The police let us down of that there is no doubt.  


Our problems continued with haulage operations continuing - weekends spent listening to welding - power hosing of HGVs - maintenance continued and as did the unauthorised quarrying.  I for my part desperately tried to get some form of monitoring carried out from the council, especially as the haulage operations had been proven, not just by myself with filmed evidence, but also from the Vehicle Operator Services Agency who did monitor and confirmed that lorries were being operated from Blaenpant.  I'd also sent the council Karen Thomases admission in court that she was using Blaenpant as a haulage yard and our representative from country Landowners had also informed the council that she had witnessed a haulage yard as well as confirming that they were definitely not operating from their official address.   Letters together with more evidence were regularly sent, but I was shouting through glass. It couldn't have been more obvious that Carmarthen Council had given the Thomases carte blanche to carry on regardless of planning regulations. It stands to reason that as Carmarthen council were embroiled in shady deals with Blaenpant, they had to lie to anyone who questioned the activities taking place there.

With our civil case still ongoing against the neighbours to have our right of way unobstructed, life for us was exceedingly pressurised and stressful, watching ever more of our funds being dwindled away, and our own lives out of our control.

December 2007    It was abundantly clear that once more the planning committee's decision was irrelevant as on both occasions it was ignored. They had rightly refused this second shed in the same way as they had refused the first shed.  But......there is always someone waiting in the wings to pull the strings for the Thomases to make sure they have what they want.

In stepped the Head of Planning, Eifion Bowen and just as before with the Planning Inspector, he made sure that the Thomases would have all they wanted.  He simply overruled the planning committee's decision and gave the go-ahead for the second enormous shed.  Just ticked it off!!!!! 

Threats - blackmail -three more arrests and my BIG RED BOOK!

My big red book!

February 2006

Telephone calls from my solicitor advising me to drop my appeal - CPS solicitor wanting to 'horse trade' - something was very wrong.

The solicitor prosecuting was threatening to bring further charges against me if I appealed his win over me.  These were going to be charges of harassment.  I knew I wasn't guilty of any such offence, as I had never at any time instigated any form of confrontation, and harassment being a course of conduct, there would have to have been numerous incidents which I was guilty of.  I was completely comfortable in my belief that his threats were just that, empty threats, but why?   I also had a detailed log of every incident that had taken place.   In my view, this was most unprofessional behaviour and a very alarming turn of events.   For some reason, he didn't want me appealing against his victory.  To make these threats it would be natural to most people to presume he did have evidence and had received a file from the police on which to prosecute. I knew this couldn't possibly be correct.  I knew he did not have any genuine/truthful evidence against me - I knew!   As the police had not issued any warning against me nor had they mentioned any such accusations on their many visits to us, it reinforced my opinion that the threat was just a way of attempting to stop me from proceeding with an appeal.   I decided to put his threat to the test, and force him into producing evidence - if he had any.   I contacted Dyfed Powys Police and asked for the incidents my neighbours had been supposedly reporting to them. I wrote three letters but with no response.  After three weeks I telephoned them. 

Procedure....... Each and every time we reported incidents to the police, without fail they would contact the Thomases to explain the nature of the complaint and they were then given the opportunity to deny the accusation.  We would then be told that our accusation had been countered and no further action would be taken as it was 'our word against theirs'.  We were told that this was the procedure the police were bound to follow. 

Given this practice by the police, it would be perfectly reasonable to presume that these same procedures would be followed regarding any complaints/allegations made by the Thomases against us, and we too would be afforded a visit from the police, notified of any allegation made, and would have the same opportunity of either admitting, explaining or denying, any such allegation. This never happened.  At no time throughout our ordeal were we informed of any accusation against us. We were being treated differently by the police, it was obvious.  The other view would be that no allegations were being made against us, and therefore the police would have no reason to pay us a visit.    If this was the case it begs the question as to why the CPS solicitor so heavily involved in my case was threatening to bring charges of harassment at all?


On the 1st March, I received a phone call from an Inspector saying they would be visiting that day to show us the list of claims. This was going to be very enlightening in more ways than one.  It was!  I recorded this meeting and it can be viewed on one of the documentaries made by ITV. It was astounding.

They produced, on a plain sheet of A4 seven dated incidents, which shockingly were the very incidents that we had logged with the police.  Not only were they our own accusations of threatening behaviour from the Thomases, but we had also produced filmed evidence to support our ordeal.  This evidence proved beyond doubt that we were being bullied and intimidated on a daily basis by the Thomases.  This intimated some kind of collusion.  It was plain. Being that this list consisted of the very allegations of intimidation and threats we had advised the police of, accompanied with our filmed evidence, it also begged the question - why weren't the Thomases being prosecuted? 

Shockingly - exceedingly important details depicted on the filmed footage had been totally ignored in favour of what I can only describe as warped, seriously flawed and dishonest accusations. I was totally confident that this evidence would be ridiculed by a judge if it ultimately ended up in Crown Court.    My reservations were, that due to being found guilty of assault on evidence that should have been thrown out of court previously, I had lost all faith in Magistrates.  The Magistrates could find me guilty against the evidence, and I would be forced yet again to go to appeal which I would be prepared to do on this travesty. It was going to be even further pressure and stress, with no end in sight. However, it would ultimately play into my hands as Crown Court is far removed from the shenanigans that can take place in the Magistrates Courts. The sleepless nights that followed were twofold. Obviously, the mental turmoil of having to defend myself again, in court, with more visits to solicitors, but more than that - what and who was behind this?.  Was I a threat to someone or someones as it was certainly feeling very much like a witchhunt?

17th. March - just over two weeks after being given the infamous list of erroneous allegations - two officers arrived, I was arrested and taken to the police station.  I was put in a cell for five hours, interviewed and then charged with harassment against the evidence we had previously produced.

I was now facing the prospect of having to defend myself again, in two separate court cases - one in Crown Court for my appeal against the assault charge and another in Magistrates, again, for the charge of harassment, which in my view could be construed as so seriously flawed it could possibly amount to 'perverting the course of justice' by a CPS solicitor.   I was placed on bail. Carmarthen Council has a lot to answer.  If they had carried out correct planning procedures none of this would be happening to me.  Nor would the two previous owners of our property gone through the ordeal of threats and intimidation from the Thomases either. 

A few weeks later, through Freedom of Information, I found a very interesting letter directly related to the threats made to me by the CPS solicitor in court. Karen Thomas had written to the Traffic Commissioner and in her letter advised the Commissioner that the CPS was going to bring charges of harassment against me.  The reason this is interesting is that this letter was dated TWO MONTHS before the threats were even made which shows that there was some unethical familiarity between the CPS, the police and the Thomases. Not only that, NO incidents of any kind had been recorded with the police by the Thomases - against us.  My question, therefore, is this....with no incidents logged by the Thomases, a plethora of incidents logged by us with filmed evidence, what on earth were the CPS relying upon to charge me with harassment!  What's more, if the CPS had evidence against me and were confident that these charges would be upheld, why would they pressure me to drop my appeal in favour of dropping charges against me.  It does not make any sense at all and gave me and my solicitor great cause for concern.

On the 20th. April I was arrested for the 3rd time.  This time it was for breach of bail.  I had apparently opened the boarded over gate five times over a two week period - unnecessarily - according to the Thomases complaint. I was again placed in a cell - this time for thirteen hours, before being charged.   During my time in custody, I was advised the police were serving a section 18 which meant they were going to search my home.  For what I asked myself.   I've never felt so frightened and vulnerable in all my life.  This had turned into a nightmare. What on earth was happening to me?  My son and Eddie were at the police station not knowing what to do.  I made the one phone call allowed to me.  I rang a close friend and told her that the police were going to take things from my home and I asked her if she could ring Eddie and tell him to safeguard all my filmed evidence as this was going to be vital to my defence.  I had such mistrust of the police and CPS and was reliant on my filmed evidence to prove the charges of harassment to be false.  I was now facing three different charges and three separate court cases. 

As soon as I put the phone down I was arrested again.  This would be my 4th arrest for 'attempting to pervert the course of justice'.  I was stunned.  I can't put into words my feelings of utter despair , helplessness and hopelessness. My life had fallen apart.  Could I cope with all that happening to us?  We were not young people and had never been involved with police - CPS - Courts - dishonest councils - ever!  I blamed Carmarthen council for everything that was happening to me.  How could they not be to blame?  Due to planning corruption, and the deceit I was being faced with, our property was totally unsaleable and our businesses were never going to materialise. They had taken over our lives and it was spiralling out of control.  We had no control at all over our lives - Carmarthen Council - the police  - the CPS and theThomasess were in total control of us!

21st. April I was to appear in Carmarthen Magistrates court for the charge of breach of bail.   I hadn't slept all night and felt weak and nauseous as soon as I began getting ready to attend my court hearing. These feelings grew worse and worse, and I knew I couldn't attend court.  I was in a very bad place.  Eddie rang my solicitor, who told him to ring my GP.  My GP wrote out a note to the court which was delivered to my solicitor to present to the Magistrates.  The Magistrates set another date, but the CPS solicitor wasn't at all happy.  He told the Magistrates that I was 'faking it'.  He was very angry at my non-attendance and was demanding that the Magistrates issue an order for my arrest and have me remanded in custody.   In other words to be put in prison whilst awaiting the next court date.  Thank goodness the Magistrates showed common sense and didn't issue a warrant for my arrest, and set a new date for the 26th. April.

In the interim period, I had written to the head of the CPS as had my solicitor asking very probing and pertinent questions as to the evidence they were attempting to rely upon etc. 

26th. April  My plea hearing...  Woke up feeling very nervous.  A group of friends met us at the court, and the friendly usher found a room for all of us which was which was great. My solicitor advised me that the CPS solicitor who had threatened, blackmailed and wanted me to be put on remand, was not in court, he had been replaced.  I believe that to was due to pressure from my solicitor and possibly the Head of the CPS.   My solicitor said the atmosphere in court was 'good today' - 'laid back and quite different'. The charge of 'breach of bail' (opening the gate) had been dropped and been replaced with another charge of harassment, this time for 'banging the gate'  Not 'opening the gate' but now 'banging the gate'.  My solicitor said you will plead not guilty - you will be given bail, but this time - sensible bail conditions, unlike before, which compromised my living at my own address!  Another date was set for the 12th. May for my case to be tried.   Between these dates, there were many visits to my Bristol based solicitors and several more letters sent to the Head of the CPS. 

12th. May  The morning of the court case against me I received a phone call from my solicitor's secretary saying that I didn't need to attend court as the Head of the CPS had rung to say the harassment charges had been dropped. What a relief.  My solicitor had worked his magic and shown them they had a fight on their hands if they proceeded with this nonsense.   In a way, I wasn't surprised as the Head of the CPS had become heavily involved, and if he'd taken it upon himself to look at the evidence against me he would have quickly realised there was no case. The breach of bail charge had not so far been dropped, (banging the gate) but in view of my own evidence, I felt perfectly confident it would be.  I was now facing only two court cases.  Crown Court for my appeal and the so-called breach of bail.


19th. May  I went into hospital for an operation, and before I had even gone down to theatre I was given the news that the breach of bail case had also been dropped.  Two down one to go.  I now only had one case pending that of my appeal which was scheduled for the 13th July at Swansea Crown Court.

29th. June  I received a phone call from my solicitor cancelling our prearranged meeting as the Head of the CPS had rung him to advise that the CPS were not going to defend their case against me and it was to be quashed. 

What an ordeal and it was now over - or was it???      Little did I know that I would be arrested twice more! 

Log of every single incident that took place.