Melia P*sses On Deputy Judge Dhaliwal

The Government constantly bang on about supporting victims of crime but many such folk find their journey through the criminal justice system profoundly dispiriting. And is it any wonder when, for example, a local Magistrate, Deputy District Judge Dhaliwal, uses her position to traduce a journalist assaulted whilst doing the job he has been doing since 2014?

Most readers will now be aware that Cllr Steve Melia of bent Labour Sandwell Council was convicted on 10th February, 2022 of assaulting me at the full Council meeting last December.

Since 2014, my journalism has taken me to Oldbury Council House to interview Councillors before full Council Meetings, Labour Group Meetings (now online only) and some other occasions. Usually I fire questions concerning the ongoing corruption at bent Labour Sandwell Councillors - usually alighting on a particular topical incident. As in this written blog, I very frequently ask individual Councillors why they are not speaking out against the corruption, cronyism and incompetence that their Party has - and still is - visiting on the rotten Borough. Neither the Police nor the Courts have yet to be involved in what has been going on in the rotten Borough for eight years to my knowledge. But, of course, this has now got so bad that in March, the Government put the corrupt Council into "special measures". 

Melia is a ludicrous comedy act who usually stops and gives me the benefit of his ignorant views - many of which I have video'd and some of which are in the public domain (see further below). On one hilarious occasion which, alas, was not caught on camera, this moron opined that "he didn't believe ANYTHING that he hadn't seen with his own eyes", to which I responded, "Oh, so you don't believe the Battle of Stalingrad happened then?" In any event, it is impossible to see things if you keep your eyes firmly shut. And he has kept his mouth and eyes shut throughout YEARS of Labour corruption in the poverty-stricken Borough.

At Court, Melia's Solicitor produced a sheaf of letters suggesting, I sh*t ye not, that he was a hard-working Councillor and the Mother Theresa of Friar Park. Of course, Cllr Simon Hackett (a corrupt coward who has cost the Borough at least half a million pounds through his deceit) and other local Labour cronies organised a mass "mail in".  But since 2014 many residents of his actual ward, Great Barr and Yew Tree, have told me a very different story, stating in robust terms that lazy Melia is "useless" and does absolutely "f*** all". Nevertheless, there was no opportunity at Court to counter this portrayal of the latter day Saint, and the Deputy District Judge accepted this evidence without question. She appears to have accepted the sheaf of letters as a spontaneous eruption of support whereas it was, of course, an organised campaign.

In our encounters at Oldbury Council House (OCH) the ignorance of this man about what has been going on over the years is truly startling. He claims, Manuel-like, to "know nothing" and glorifies in his own ignorance. I present the following - and if you don't want to watch the actual video I am supplying a transcript - my comments in square brackets:

Question to Cllrs Zahir Hussain and Melia:

Me: Come on gentleman, can you answer this. Should Jacqui Smith get the bullet from the Children's Trust? Do you think she's doing a good job - multi-million pound losses and all that?

Melia: I've got no input into the Children's Trust [this is totally wrong, of course]

Me: Don't you care?

Melia: We do care but we don't know what's going on throughout the Council. That's one of the problems as you've been highlighting for a couple of years.

Me: But you're giving money to her to blow up the wall.

Melia: I personally am not. [Another absurd statement where he is personalising a policy issue.] I know nothing about it [as usual]. I told you last night ...

Me: Five million quid bail-out?

Melia: I told you last night [before the Labour Group meeting] we don't all know what's going on.

Me: You'd better start asking hadn't you?

Melia: We do keep asking but what to we get?

Me: You're not getting answers ... [sarcastically] This is good, this is good.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vFgUTdS4s6c

Other films on YouTube are available via "terminustrading" and "OCH Encounters".

There is a mostly audio tape where he sits on the fence regarding former Leader Eling even when that monster was exposed, though the sound policy is poor. Nevertheless, it confirms that (a) he was a fully paid-up supporter of Eling, despite the widespread corruption, cronyism and incompetence of that period and (b) that he was always prepared to voluntarily give me the benefit of his opinions.

Interestingly he caused an ugly scene at OCH a couple of meetings before he assaulted me when he bravely took on a seven-year old boy who was with one of the protests outside OCH. The parent objected to Melia picking on his kid and saying he was brainwashed! The tail end was caught here:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kr7PhxfjIIk

In the same clip, Melia argued with me when I told him there was an extraordinary meeting of the full Council after the main meeting and he fiercely disputed this. It was quite obvious that this supposedly "diligent" Labour Councillor "lol" hadn't even read the Agenda for the evening, let alone the supporting documents!

What was amazing to me as a victim was that DDJ Dhaliwal couldn't even be bothered to view the film of Melia attacking me! In its various iterations the video has had well over 100,000 views. The overwhelming response from probably 99% of the public was one of shock and disgust at Melia's behaviour. One per cent - which seemingly included the DDJ as she felt able to suggest that I had somehow provoked the attack - was that journalists deserve this sort of thing.

Here is the video that the Judge did not have played in Court. Note how Melia deliberately drops his hand to conceal his fist before striking me:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G2jjpZzdwrc

For days before the hearing the whining Melia had his solicitors plead with the Police and CPS to drop the case. When this didn't happen he pleaded guilty. He was not even fined (see further below) and was given a 12-month Conditional Discharge plus payment of £200 compensation to me and £130 costs.

The Deputy District Judge not only thought - on no evidence but that from his Solicitor's plea in mitigation - which no-one challenged - that I provoked him, but was apparently also "overwhelmed" by the letters of support - again which no-one else got to see or to challenge. Any reader of this blog would be able to reel off a list of names of his "supporters" aka "the usual Labour suspects". The Judge was also mislead that I was part of the Save Brandhall Green Space protest and so "a protester" when I was not. I was there as a journo as I have been through rain, wind and shine since 2014.

In particular, Melia's Solicitor made great play that Melia's political career (if he ever had one) was over. The Express and Star quoted one passage:

"He will not be able to serve after so many years. He will lose his council-nominated positions. In effect this is the end of his political life."

The Judge gave every impression of swallowing this guff hook, line, and sinker and took it into account in giving him such an incredibly mild sentence. But this was Melia p*ssing all over the Judge as he knew his Labour cronies would "see him alright".

You may have heard one Sir Keir Starmer MP, the Leader of the Labour Party, screeching on and on about Boris Johnson to the effect that even if the PM gets a fixed penalty notice he must resign. Remember his "is he still here jibe" the other day?" 

Starmer said he was going to "sort out" Labour in Sandwell and what a disastrous mess he has made of it (see other posts)! But I heard soon after Judge Dhaliwal slapped Melia on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf that his suspension from the Party would quickly be lifted. Now Starmer has approved the useless criminal standing again in the May Elections! One rule for Boris, one for this nasty git!

It became obvious what was going on in March when Hackett put this p*ss-take picture up on social media mocking me, the Court and the people of Sandwell:

If the good folk of Great Barr with Yew Tree are stupid enough to vote this useless criminal back in he will get around £50k of taxpayers' money (at least). Yet he didn't get fined by DDJ Dhaliwal as he is a poor old pensioner (with £20k a year via pensions!)

Voters - like the Court you are being treated with utter contempt. You know what to do on May 5th!

ADDENDUM 23rd October, 2022

Firstly, of course, the morons of Great Barr with Yew Tree DID prefer a useless criminal to anyone else last May!

Secondly, far from showing remorse Melia has been explaining why he was not guilty - which is a bit of a joke as he, er, pleaded guilty to a criminal assault.

It is true that Melia’s Solicitor in her plea in mitigation claimed that: “he said what he did was wrong and he regrets what he did”. However, she lied to the Court - presumably on Melia’s instructions - that the case marked “the end” of Melia’s political career.” (Birmingham Post 10.02.22 and other media.)

It is also true that the Deputy District Judge made disparaging remarks about me based on the plea in mitigation by Melia’s Solicitor (and neither the Police nor CPS interviewed me in respect of Melia’s comments). Further as above, and incredibly, the DDJ did NOT even bother to view the video of the incident. She couldn't be arsed but then had a pop at me.

The newspapers accurately report that: ‘Mr Saunders, 63, could be heard in the video saying to councillors [plural] “Back to the future? More corruption? More cronyism? More incompetence.” This is precisely what I have said all along that this was a specific reference to a return to the politics of the corrupt Eling era. None of this was explained at all to the DDJ.

Once Melia had deceived DDJ Dhaliwal (via his Solicitor) he immediately started to backtrack on his alleged acceptance of wrongdoing stating in local media:

“I have been widely congratulated by everyone for how I was in Court”. This is absurd since due to Covid regulations only three members of the public were allowed into Court - a mate of Melia’s, me and a member of the Conservative Party. Melia only spoke ONE WORD in Court: “Guilty” - otherwise his Solicitor did the rest!

Melia also stated to local media: “No one I have spoken to said I did anything wrong. They said it had no right to go to court, and I have the support of all sections of the community.” He certainly did not get the support of the community across social media and was heavily criticised in publications as diverse as The Skwawkbox and Private Eye (including, again, in the current issue at the time of writing).

Melia’s comments show that he does NOT consider that he did anything wrong - which begs the question why he pleaded guilty to the assault at Court. Any alleged remorse, as expressed by his Solicitor, was, and is, completely fake.

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