Jan Britton - No Perjury Charges!

There is no need for the general reader to plough through all the documentation set out below as I will provide details of the salient points. But all the evidence is here. And, as we shall see, this is one of the reasons Jan Britton, the joke former Chief Executive of bent Labour Sandwell Council, was forced out of his job without a pay-off (simply receiving his contractual compensation.) The Council took the view that documentation set out below is evidence of active collusion between (at least) two of the witnesses in my criminal trial - Britton himself and Paul Reeves - and that this was a very serious matter. Indeed they were so concerned at what Britton had done THEY themselves reported the matter to the police - a very rare act of decency by them. But, as we shall also see, Britton's mates at corrupt West Midlands Police (WMP) take a different view.

There are one or two spaces from the way the original documents are scanned and so please keep scrolling down to the end!

For any new readers, after the Mayor-Making Ceremony at Oldbury Council House in 2018 I referred to Jan Britton was a "c*cksucker" to a bystander. The comment was overheard and the matter referred to WMP who attended the scene. They were told by Paul Reeves (blogs passim) that I had shouted the word more than once and in front of children - which was a lie on both counts. I left the scene.

In the "real" world, ie outside Sandwell, this should have been the end of the matter. But at this time the then political leader of the Labour Council, Steve "Squealing" Eling was hounding his local Sandwell police puppet Chief Super "Rich" Baker to commence criminal proceedings against me*. Ever anxious to, well you know the word, Britton demanded further action and I was hauled into the police station. Nothing happened and so Britton pressurised his own lower-ranked puppet, Sgt Gary Capewell, to press charges. Despite serious failings in the procedure (set out before in this blog) the cops charged me and the CPS went along with it. Thus I appeared for trial before Dudley Magistrates Court in January, 2019. Jan Britton, Paul Reeves and three other employees gave evidence against me.

In their police statements Britton and Reeves both stated that I had shouted "c*cksucker" at Britton in front of children - a blatant lie as the videos clearly showed. Both then went into the witness box and repeated this lie under oath/affirmation. (The other three council witnesses made no reference to children being present.)

Once the video evidence - which the police and CPS had not bothered to view - was shown to the Court I was immediately acquitted. It turned out that the hearing was not recorded and there was no shorthand transcript but the Clerk to the Court's notes were eventually made available to me showing the references to children being present in the evidence of both men. A number of people in the public gallery also attest to this.

Although I have a Birmingham address I live 30 metres inside Worcestershire. Given that WMP have (a) deliberately and corruptly pulled investigations into the bent Labour Council and (b) tried to stitch me up on several occasions, I approached West Mercia Police and provided them with a statement (Document A below) alleging perjury by both Britton and Reeves. Despite my protestations that I had no confidence in WMP for the reasons stated West Mercia nevertheless transferred the matter to them.

As I expected, as soon as the bent blues In the West Mids were involved, I was duly informed that no action would be taken against this pair. Indeed they would not even go so far as to give this matter a crime reference number and actually investigate it despite a clear prima facie case! I complained to WMP Professional Standards Department which resulted in them sending me a further knock-back (Document B).

I do not propose to go through the sloppily-written document (eg local MP "Jason" Spellar etc) in detail as the hard-core skidderati can read it themselves if they can't get to sleep but here are some salient points.

The groveller off his knees for once!

Britton gave his original written statement to the cops just three days after the incident when one might have expected his memory to be fresh. This is what he signed as his true statement and it is absolutely explicit that children were present:

Reeves who, like Britton, has been trying to harm me for some years didn't sign his statement until nearly a month later on 21st June, 2018 but he was able to sign as being true, comments that children had been present:

Document B also contains the WMP log of the night:

It is interesting that I am named with no description which suggests that the bent blues had referred to me elsewhere in the log!

The reason this was important is that (a) Britton was trying to heighten the seriousness of the alleged offence by lying that children were present and (b) he knew I occasionally did work with children and was a registered child chaperone thus he could cause me maximum damage. My trial was due to take place on 23rd October, 2018 and, as we have seen in a recent post, he colluded with Squealing Eling to have this letter sent to Birmingham City Council shortly before the original trial date:

It should also be remembered that at this time a new troll appeared on Twitter pretending to be me and set about trying to prejudice my trial. Throughout this period there was a single, solitary, follower - Mr Jan Britton - who continued to follow the account even when it was clearly shown to be a troll account. Indeed Britton was following the troll account when it was brand new and only following one account itself. It put this up the day before the original trial date:

[Note that George Makin continues to follow this troll account to this day even though he is a publicly-funded journalist via a BBC scheme. Of eight other followers we have some familiar accounts - Dave Hosell (before suspension by Twitter for abusive conduct), Shirley Hosell, Cllr Caroline White. three troll accounts one of which appears to be clearly connected to David Hosell and Linda Harper-Hocknull (whose creepy husband mysteriously appeared at the eventual trial!)]

The trial was postponed until January, 2019. Britton gave evidence that children were present when I used the word "c*cksucker". My solicitor started to cross-examine him on this on the basis that this was a lie when the District Judge hearing the case said to stop as, by law, that was irrelevant to a finding under s.4 of the Public Order Act (the vindictative charge the Oldbury cops dreamt up to screw me.) Thus there was no further questioning on this but Britton had heard what the Judge had said and began to get cold feet - backtracking on his evidence under oath - as well he might given what is coming below.

My wife followed Britton out to make sure he didn't speak to Paul Reeves who then also gave evidence that children had been present. Obviously my Solicitor was unable to push this since the Judge and already ruled that, for legal reasons, it was irrelevant but Chief Inspector Howat in Document B makes great play on the fact that the Judge had not made a ruling on whether perjury had been committed. As he ruled against hearing evidence on this there was, unsurprisingly, no further evidence on the matter.

Howat also implies that I was not sure whether children had been present because I asked my companion, local activist Darryl Magher, whether he had seen any children present. All I can do is refer the reader to the first 40 seconds of this video of our live reaction to the police on the night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feUO9eh25Us

Howat suggests that we might not of been aware of children being present in the vicinity eg behind us but the event was over and there was no-one about except the odd person at the bus stop and passing traffic. This is complete bollocks which has just been made up.

He also suggests that my memory was somehow deficient (paragraph 12) but he is blatantly twisting my evidence which was absolutely consistent throughout that I did not shout c*cksucker at anyone (perhaps he should have checked the police interview tape!) It transpired on viewing the evidence that I had said it to Mr Dougie Bennett, a local man, and it had been overheard which is precisely what I told the police and the CPS throughout. A statement from Mr Bennett was voluntarily submitted by me to the CPS weeks before trial.

After referring to it, CI Howat makes no further reference to the written evidence. Indeed he completely ignores it by again dreaming-up evidence that children might have been present earlier in  the evening! Yes, of course, children attended the event but they had long gone by the time of this incident and I thought I was being tried about a specific incident FFS! What does it matter who was around earlier in the afternoon/evening?

Now it gets really interesting!

Sandwell Council sent me eight pages of documents which they themselves sent to WMP on the basis that they showed clear collusion between Britton and Reeves. The most relevant two pages are here and clearly there has been some communication between Britton and Reeves beforehand ie "Paul Reeves has asked me to email me to email the following statement to you":

Leaving aside that this was even closer to the incident and Britton lies about children being present  again, the vital thing here is that Britton emails his statement to Reeves before the latter has given his own statement to the bent blues. It is not even clear who actually wrote the statement but what is clear is that Britton has given the full thing to Reeves so that he can tailor his own evidence accordingly! This was never mentioned to their police puppets or the CPS and Reeves gave his own written satement sometime later but closely following Britton's version of events.

There followed a bizarre email correspondence between Britton and Reeves as the cops asked him to add a description of me for the finalised statement. Now I have been turning up at Sandwell Council meetings since 2014 and Britton has seen me (and pictures of me) frequently but he asked Reeves to prepare a description of me! Reeves sent him a photo and Britton prepared his description from that. Quite what was going on there is anyone's guess.

People who know me will know that I have clear scarring above the nose and up the forehead - and a wonky nose-  but neither Britton nor Reeves mentioned this! Britton described me as "a bit paunchy" which is perfectly true but a bit rich coming from that quivering bag of sh*t! (See photos.)

They managed to get my dress wrong too! Presumably they just didn't care as they were confident that with five witnesses I was going to get potted.

Many locals will also note that Sandwell Police refuse to attend domestic burglaries and many other serious offences but were able to prepare a s9 statement for the great Jan Britton in 3 days. This shows yet again the contempt the force had at this time for local folk and their determination to help Ch Supt Rich Baker finally nail me.

I hand delivered the eight pages to WMP HQ at Lloyd House in Brum with this note pointing out that Britton's son works for WMP:

This brought forth an almost surreal response for CI Howat. Please remember that he is blocking this outright. He is refusing to even give this a crime reference number and investigate it. His force have compelled me to "voluntarily" attend police stations (saying I would be arrested otherwise) on four occasions on complete trivia to be interviewed under caution but this pair are not even to face questioning! Just by way of example, a Detective Sergeant working under "Rich" interviewed me under caution about a single tweet concerning The Squealer being under investigation by the Labour Party saying "you can run but you can't hide". Squealing told the credulous cops that this was a threat of violence against him and they ACTUALLY inverviewed me on that (post passim!)

Once again Howat sticks to the nonsense about children being present earlier etc. He is more direct in having a go at me this time about the comment I made that I hadn't called anyone a c*cksucker - which is absolutely true, shown on the video and accepted with alacrity by the trial judge. It seems that I am supposed to remember something I said to a bystander in conversation when the police unfairly appeared at the location to intimidate me! There is a big difference is saying the word to someone in a chat and "calling" a person that ie directing it at them! (As the Judge found.)

Incredibly, CI Howat seems to approve of witnesses in criminal trials colluding with their written statements. In a classic comment the Chief Inspector says:

"It is not an offence in law to write statements together, police officers have often done this."

For once I agree with him - its called FITTING PEOPLE UP!!!

He goes onto to quote Counsel Magazine on the "very obvious benefit of conferring...". WTF!!!! No wonder the reputation of WMP stinks. Did they learn nothing from the Birmingham 6 and much else?
But there we are, that's now the official line from on high - and clearly Detective Chief Superitendent Chris Todd agrees with him!

The only good thing to come out of all this is that with Eling deposed the new regime could see what Britton actually did and viewed it far more seriously than the bent blues. Unfortunately there is a very nasty rumour (and it is only a rumour) going round that despite his lies and misbehaviour SMBC themselves "fitted-up" Paul Reeves and have just had to pay him compensation! (Any info on that welcome as, if it is true, heads must roll. Current Chief Executive David Stevens has declined to comment!)

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE CESSPIT!

DOCUMENT A

DOCUMENT B

DOCUMENT C

* http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.com/2019/01/technical-blog-elingbaker-emails-in-full.html

  

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