Happily, Darren Cooper himself - incredibly the Chair of West Midlands Police and Crime Panel - enjoys the full protection of West Midlands Police. Many of you will be familiar with the history of Cooper and the trolls but it needs restating since some fine day all this is going to come tumbling out and there will have to be an enquiry into the Police's very deliberate inactivity (also in respect of another leading Sandwell (aka "Sadwell") councillor.)
Wannabe West Midlands Mayor (ROFLMAO) Cooper and his (ex?) bezzie mate from Unite the Union, Brian Rickers, deliberately interacted with these troll accounts which, after much effort from the victims, were eventually suspended by Twitter. They were used to harass and (to try to) intimidate me and my wife and also to attack UKIP:
@crow_ian; @colinduval10; @OoOctavius; @bhamskidder; @brumskidder; @tiviskidder; @kingsnortonlady; @Gemmawool15; @the1nformer; @mrsskidder; @julesnlinda and @notukipinsandwell.
One of the particularly vile accounts had only ONE follower BEFORE it went live alleging, inter alia, that I had committed fraud and killed a child whilst drink-driving. You will not be surprised to know that the sole follower was Cllr Darren Conrad Cooper!!!!!!
There are two dormant accounts which Cooper and Rickers were interacting with which have not been closed down: @wmskidder and @westbromskidder
Another troll account - @clownjames - was set up to intimidate a friend of The Skidder and such is the arrogance of these jokers and their knowledge of immunity from any police action they called the account "Wayne" to deliberately mock one of the detectives involved in the fraud inquiry into Sadwell Council.
With sterling work from The Skidder's archivist a database for use in future legal action (already in hand) is a current work in progress and will be an invaluable reference source for anyone moronic enough to ever consider voting for Darren Cooper either in Soho and Vic or for Metro Mayor. There is a lot more to come on the site but do take a look:
http://trollnemesis.blogspot.co.uk/
We know that Cooper teamed up with the brother/half-brother of the mysteriously-named Cllr Steven "Frear", SMBC employee Paul Kerton to harass and intimidate myself and my wife:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/twitter-troll-no-2-double-header-darren.html
Darren Cooper used his own account to try to intimidate my wife (eg threatening to confront her for unknown reason at her place of work; eg lying that he had been in contact with a charity of which she is a trustee; eg using Sandwell Council to write letters to try and get her suspended or, preferably, sacked from her current job etc). He also teamed up with Unite's Regional Officer to harass my wife's employers:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/labour-leader-unite-officer-harass-arts.html
Of course, Cooper uses the sexist terms "wifey" to describe my wife and the more derogatory "Mrs Skidmark". He has also used his account to put up a covertly-obtained photograph of me.
We don't know when Andrew Hipkiss first came on the trolling scene. We now know that he was the troll "OdgenW" which was eventually suspended by Twitter. He did have an account in his own name @AndrewHipkiss which appeared in some of the trolling.
Here is a (part-redacted as it was also sent to two charities) Tweet from the vicious troll account @kingsnortonlady which Cooper regularly interacted with:
(You will note that Rickers is mentioned as is an account purporting to be that of SMBC employee and Unite member, Paul Reeves).
There has been much hoopla in the press this week about an alleged "change in the law" relating to trolling but this is lazy journalism as the law has not changed. It has been a criminal offence to troll for sometime (Protection from Harassment Act and Malicious Communications Act) but new guidelines to prosecutors are being set out. West Midlands Police initially took the harassment of myself and my wife as the even more serious offence of witness intimidation (bearing in mind that I was supplying information - quite openly - to the Sandwell Council Regional Fraud Team enquiry.) Even though Twitter have allegedly made it easier for law enforcement officers to obtain information, a senior officer apparently decided that WMP would not commit "resources" to seeking information on the troll network. Whether this was genuinely a decision made with regard to cost (fairly minimal) or another attempt to protect the Chair of the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel remains to be seen..... The moral of the story, of course, is don't openly try and help the police.
Incidentally, West Midlands Police have been well aware for some considerable time that Darren Cooper frequently interacted with the numerous troll accounts via his Sandwell Council iphone and yet they failed to secure the records even though the Regional Fraud Team were actually in the Kremlin investigating the dodgy land sales by Jan Britton's out of control staff!
But then the situation changed. Twitter finally suspended Andrew Hipkiss's @OdgenW - which Darren Cooper regularly interacted with. In a beautiful "sting" operation, myself and A.N.Other caught Cooper out and he admitted that he knew the identity of @OdgenW (now known to be Hipkiss) and also that he was passing information to the foul troll @Gemmawool. Two detectives of West Midlands Police read my famous blog on the sting and took the trouble to contact me to say that this was a "gamechanger" and that there was now a clear prima facie case to, at the very least, investigate Councillor Cooper's contacts with the trolls (assuming, of course, that he is not actually one or more of the trolls himself). But yet again, West Midlands Police declined to investigate their old chum.
For anyone who thinks Cooper is a fit and proper person to be either a councillor, the Chair of West Midlands Police and Crime Panel or, even more improbably, the new West Midlands Mayor you MUST MUST MUST read my blog on the sting operation which exposed some of Cooper's activities:
http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/cooper-exposed.html
Back to Hipkiss who likes to think he is very clever. Eventually even Twitter could not stomach the @OdgenW account - which Cooper was so actively supporting and interacting with - and suspended it. The very next day Hipkiss morphed his above-mentioned @AndrewHipkiss twitter account into @Ennabran. This was a big mistake by the great man since we were eventually able to ascertain his identity (which he initially tried to keep secret whilst continuing to troll myself, my wife and UKIP.) We were then also able to identify him as the troll @OdgenW.
Please again see the excellent work from the Skidder archives at:
http://trollnemesis.blogspot.co.uk/
Twitter are not really concerned about trolling and Hipkiss knew that if he got enough followers they were unlikely to shut him down as they are more concerned with making money than protecting trolling victims. He set about contacting all of the vociferous Corbynistas accounts etc and, almost overnight built up over 3,000 "followers" (he has plenty of time to do this as he does not work). Twitter have locked his account at least once and also suspended him once but they still refused to close the abusive account even though they KNOW he was previously the troll, @OdgenW!!!!!!
As my archivist put it Twitter, "once a troll - always a troll!"
When West Midlands Police tried to close down this blog I gave them certain other evidence ON TAPE including the full addresses of Cooper, Rickers and Hipkiss in respect of the trolling. Despite trying to exercise my legal right to obtain a copy of the tape by sending them a recorded delivery letter (which they did receive) they have failed to send a copy of the tape to me. Perhaps they don't want some of the content to get into the public domain........
When I exposed his identity, Hipkiss "came out" and the idiotic Cooper (plus the likes of Cllrs Edwards, Sandars, Gill - aka Shergill - and even Sandwell Council itself all started interacting with and encouraging him!) made a very public display of "welcoming him to the Labour family" (pass the sick bag, Alice):
If this wasn't enough evidence of Cooper's total lack of judgement he followed this by having a go at the travelling community and offering to use his influence to favour his "guru":
The unemployed Darren Cooper is still a registered nurse with a background in mental health. Hipkiss repeatedly states that he is mentally-ill and so one must wonder whether it is morally and professionally appropriate for "Nurse Cooper" to have repeatedly egged him on with his destructive trolling and blogging.
Hipkiss continued his trolling until Thursday night when he made this non-guru-like utterance:
Both the Twitter account and the highly libellous blog have disappeared (at least for now):
Let us hope that Nurse Cooper's massive encouragement of Hipkiss's trolling has not caused "Andy" to have some sort of medical emergency..... I sent an email to Cllr Cooper yesterday asking for his comments of the demise of his "hero's" accounts but he has declined to respond to date. I also tried to ask him about this when he was leaving The Oldbury Kremlin yesterday but he just drove off without comment.
A new troll account recently appeared (being followed by Unite the Union's Brian Rickers) @Brummys1 (see the trollnemesis site again) and as the troll started to attack my wife's employers again the matter has been referred to West Mercia Police. It will be interesting to see if they take a more robust approach to all this than "Darren's" mates at WMP!
(Incidentally, to take the piss the trolls are often copying in the new WMP Chief Constable via Twitter. He knows "Darren" via the Police and Crime Panel and is apparently prepared to be held up to public mockery by "the Leader's" [sic] associates. How weird is that?)
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