08/03/15
A First Open letter to Senator Sir Philip Bailhache,
Member of the States of Jersey. With Tribute to Jersey’s local media and
citizen’s who’s articles are referenced in this letter,( and although those in
power can dismiss the citizens who are intelligent and brave enough to look at
the counterpoint as ‘conspiracy theorists’ they obviously are not) This letter
and it’s links will take the average reader some hours to get through:
Dear Philip
Bailhache,
I thought
that I would write to you together as you have extensively worked to vilify me
and clear the Dean and wrongdoers in the Deanery of Jersey.
It is the
second anniversary of the Bishop of Winchester’s foolhardy launch in the press
of my case and the Dean’s suspension. I do not condone his incredibly wrong
actions, but nor do I condone your response.
Before I
continue, I will just mention that it is 9am in the morning here, and although
this letter may not be finished this morning or today, because my adoptive Mum
is coming over today, there is a vigil for abuse survivors in St Helier at 11am
today, and I am sure that you will be
proud to see Jersey represented there as a caring and supportive island, not
one that covers up abuse and stops inquiries at all costs or with the excuse of
costs. Jersey has such a bad name for cover-ups now, what with Victoria
college, Roger Holland, the care abuse and cover ups, and of course my case. So
I do hope that you were back from your
trip to Brussells in time to support the Vigil today.
I will just
add links to the case I mention above, for people who do not know about how
things work in Jersey:
The comments
on this next article refer to my case and are enlightening:
And the BBC
Jersey article, which is surprising considering that the press and media in
Jersey are very biased.
I must get
back to writing to you directly, but I will just provide 3 more links for
online readers, please do read the comments:
Senator
Bailhache, I understand that you do not want the care abuse inquiry to go ahead
because of cost, but what about the cost to the victims? And didn’t you spend
rather a lot of taxpayer’s money in ensuring that my case was stitched up? For example,
money was spent on legal services for the Dean and Deanery? While I was left
voiceless, just as you are intending to leave care abuse survivors voiceless by
removing their inquiry because of costs, and a cost figure that seems to come
from nowhere?
Don’t you
think that rather than you spending money on trips to other countries as
external affairs minister, that money would be better spent on promoting Jersey
by showing that Jersey cares for it’s own, by funding the inquiry?
Oh, that
sounds a bit rude of me Senator Bailhache, but I recall that you have never met
me, but have maligned and defamed me publicly in an open letter giving your
opinion that I am a troublemaker. You failed to state in the letter that you
were a churchwarden and on the Deanery Synod alongside my abuser, you also omit
the other conflicts of interest in the Jersey Deanery, which appear to be
exhaustive, and you abused your dual roles in the Church and in the States to
persuade people to support your cause, and you misled people with the
defamation of me and your inaccurate version of my past and my life since I
left Jersey. Have you ever interviewed me? No, and Bob Hill quite rightly
brought this up at the ‘Grouville meeting’ A meeting which showed just how lost
the Church are, to still claim to be Christians while behaving as they have and
are doing,and still thinking, believing, that this is how to serve God! This is the Grouville Meeting:
Here you are
showing that you are prepared to publicly slaughter an abuse survivor for your
own agenda, and also you incredibly talk about me needing psychiatric
treatment, when even the report to the court in Jersey said that that would not
be appropriate, and even before and since, the opinion of professionals is that
Psychiatric Treatment is not suitable for me. I need therapy, psychological
help as I am profoundly damaged, but sadly the UK health services do not help
me and I can barely afford food, let alone therapy.
You also
claimed that I had made previous complaints in Guernsey and Twice in
Winchester, seeing as that is untrue, where did you source that information? And
why was it in the press as if it was true? And even if I had made previous
complaints, do you really believe that I, or other vulnerable people or
children can only be abused once? Or are simply making the abuse up, because
that suits you? That certainly appears to be your track record now, with your
recent efforts to close the Jersey care inquiry down.
No one in
Guernsey has ever abused me. I have thus never made a complaint about them. And
The only other abuse complaint in Hampshire came to light as a result of the
Jersey Deanery trying to liase with a man in Hampshire who abused me, in order
to do the same as you have done, make me out to be someone who goes around
falsely accusing people, as well as distorting what actually happened in that
situation. I suffered that slur while I was in Jersey, and all the last two
years of dirty war have done, is magnify the same mistreatment of me again, and
bad behaviour of the Jersey Deanery.
Here is my
letter to the Jersey Deanery from 2013, at the height of you slandering and
destroying me while I was still homeless and massively traumatized, the fact
that I survived is incredible, and the reaction by Gavin Ashenden to this
letter was also incredible, he claimed that the Bishop should ‘apologize to me
and the Dean’ – No thought of apologizing himself!
Sir Philip,
I think as well as speaking to survivors (if any would actually speak to you) and
beginning to understand abuse and it’s after-effects, you need to educate
yourself on abuse, vulnerability, psychological effects of abuse on behaviour,
and the psychology of cover-ups – well maybe you don’t need to do the last bit.
But the fact that you are and have been in high positions in Jersey judiciary,
law and government, and yet, as is apparent from your track record, you have no
understanding of abuse or it’s effects, and certainly in the Roger Holland
case, that shows. So, sadly, it is not abuse that is denigrating Jersey’s
reputation, it is your lack of understanding that abuse is wrong and harmful,
and when someone is abused, they should be able to speak up, and they should be
able to see their abuser punished and be safe from them. Have you any thoughts
on the fact that the churchwarden who abused me was a serial abuser and yet is
supported by the town church and allowed to take a visiting woman home since
this matter broke in the news?
Unfortunately
the Jersey way does the opposite of justice for victims, it sees abusers left
free or freed to distress their victims and strut, often protected to do so,
and vulnerable people and childhood abuse survivors living in fear, not daring
to speak up for fear of ‘the Jersey way’ that sees the brave who speak out
punished by smears, bankruptcy, deportation, imprisonment, homelessness,
shunning in the small closed community, threatened, and other punishments. Some
Jersey people speak to me in secret, afraid of what would happen if people
found out. That says it all.
There are so
many blogs and articles on this matter, and the views are those of the people
who write and contribute, but I found this one, because if you type ‘Philip
Bailhache, Jersey’, so many of these articles come up:
As a Jersey clergyman said to me on this
subject ‘In Jersey you keep your friends close and your enemies closer’. I am sure if you truly believe yourself to be
a Christian, you must be able to see how very wrong this is. And no, this
opinion is not the ranting of someone deranged, because it is an opinion and an
experience shared by hundreds, some of whom are not just very sane, but some have
also held or hold positions in the police, government and other services in
Jersey.
Do you feel that the Dean has
made any improvement to the culture of cover up and secrecy in Jersey? I think
his position as the ‘Christian leader’ in Jersey means that he should have been
working on making Jersey more equal in his time there. And something else about
Jersey’s church continues to surprise me, I have never heard a single person
speak out against the fact that there is a statue to the devil on the North
Coast of Jersey.
you need to
even things out and bring Christianity into the situation by maybe apologizing
to the care abuse survivors for putting costs first and not even appearing to
think of them as they see long awaited justice suddenly snatched from their
hands after so many let-downs, and then you need to interview me and ensuring
that the general public know both sides and the conflicts of interest in my
case.
Including the conflicted Ian LeMarquand,
former magistrate, Home Affairs Minister, Church of England Reader, friend and
colleague of my abuser, said it was a sad day when he was sacked from their
church for previous misconduct; Bridget Shaw, Magistrate, wife of a Jersey
clergyman; Your own position as a church member, States member and member of
the judiciary, your brother’s conflicts of interest the same; Michael Birt,
former Bailiff, member of the Dean’s church; Gerard LeFeuvre, churchman,
prominent member of church and famous musician, also my abuser’s nephew; Gavin
Ashenden, former lawyer, former chaplain to the Queen, Jersey clergyman, has
never met me but has used his legal experience to influence the Steel report
and was interviewed for it despite never meeting me. unfortunately this list is
exhaustive and these conflicts are hidden from any report.
You are
certainly aware of the distress caused to me, and also the distress caused to
the family of one of Roger Holland’s victims, but do you know the impact of
your recent public effort to close the inquiry, do you know how it affects
survivors and people fighting for justice? If not, please read this links:
I am aware
that you usually crush your opponents, with the help of your circle in Jersey,
but I am not in Jersey and you have already crushed me, so I am writing you an
open letter, just as you wrote one about me, and I am only following your
Christian example in enlightening people about you, just as you gave people
your opinion of me. The difference is, I am an abuse survivor, in a position of
weakness and at serious risk, and you are a very powerful man. Now, what would
Jesus say about this? I am sure that you, as a Christian can answer that.
You can buy
the press, but you cannot change the truth, and as yet, as well as denying me a
fair inquiry into what has happened to me, you are also trying to deny the care
survivors an fair inquiry. In my case, a lot of taxpayers money was spent on
legal advice for the Dean, in the case of the care survivors, you want
taxpayers money to be denied so that there is no inquiry. Paradoxical. I mean,
a huge amount of money was used from the criminal confiscation fund to buy Plemont
Headland, did that restore lives and bring justice? Human lives, those of
victims, are priority, those people have
been wronged in a system that you preside over, they are deserving of taxpayers
money.
The problem
is, you have done as you do, mislead the public, put a figure of 50 million on
the inquiry and asked the public, these who do not care, those who keep their
heads down and want to keep things sweet, if the inquiry is worth the money to
pay mainly the lawyers. It was a
weighed, misleading question, very unfair, and again from your position of
power and influence.
On the
subject of power and influence. You and
Dame Steel are close, you are colleagues, you have published law books together
and you have asked her to speak at one of your events before. If you want the
report that you engineered, why don’t you bypass the Bishop of Winchester, who
is a rudderless and inexperienced Bishop who has truly and utterly screwed up,
and just simply get the report from your friend, Heather Steel? That would get
Dakin out of a situation where he keeps lying through his PR firm. Although I
am not giving you consent to get or release the Steel report, it is an illegal
document, forged from alledgedly illegal actions, by you and your conflicted
colleagues and friends in the Jersey Deanery, who are or were also in judiciary
and law and the States.
Here is a
link to one of many articles that help to educate on the effects of abuse on
victims:
You were
allegedly seen on an airplane, reading documents about my case, in full public
view, including police documents that you (and Dame Heather Steel) had no right
to. No consent from me has ever been given to you or Dame Steel or Officer
Stuart Gull, who was not in Jersey when I was and only has inaccurate and
misleading police documents to go by, for any of you to view my police record
or notes or to use them in an inquiry or take them to England to meet with
anyone.
And yet,
when you were confronted by these two businessmen and their local deputy, you
accused them of malice and lying. When further confronted, you made up a story
that wasn’t very convincing, and Senator Gorst allowed this, and then had you
promoted to external affairs minister. The Jersey way again, (also a church of England
model of behaviour, they promote wrongdoers) a serious data protection breach,
illegal access to police records in order to clear the Dean, and you get
promoted, and spend a lot of money flying to other countries when Jersey has
little or nothing to export or trade any more, but you would like to deny the
survivors of abuse in Jersey the money for an inquiry.
Here are
links to the case of you breaching the data protection act on a plane, it
remains a criminal matter, and one that the police are obliged to look into,
but Jersey Police are well known for being selective in what they look into, or
record, and who’s side they take, in much the same way as you, you are seen as
above the law in Jersey. I know you and your circle try to close the blogs down
too, but, as they are saying what the JEP and Media need to say but forget to
in favour of a more biased approach, I think it is great that people have
access to the other side of the story through the blogs, please note, I had no
knowledge or say in the matter of the business men on the plane, nor had I been
in touch with deputy Pitman :
Now,
although there is apparently criminal activity on your part, in having
documents you have no right to, and in breaching the data protection act, and
in libelling me and inciting hatred and smears against me, Jersey’s police and
safeguarding board have not yet acted on this, despite the safeguarding board
being made aware of your actions and the harm they did. This shows again why
the committee of inquiry into care abuse must not be closed down, because this
is a pattern. Abuse victims in Jersey have been threatened, defamed, made out
to be mad, repeatedly.
Jersey’s so-called safeguarding board pulled a
publicity stunt recently over an elderly man who died, but they are
ineffective, on their board is the same officer Gull who has rubbished me and
who has illegally liased with Heather Steel when the Bishop publicly ‘appointed
him’ despite the fact that Jersey police have committed misconduct in my case
and are thus conflicted and I did not agree to any officer being ‘appointed’ by
the Bishop to look into my case and certainly didn’t grant access to my
inaccurate records by people who were not also taking my side of things, and isn’t it a co-incidence that he was
appointed by the Bishop when he is also on the sham safeguarding board and also
was not in Jersey when I was, has never met me and has only inaccurate records
and your circle who are against me to tell him one side of things. Do you see
why the Care inquiry needs to continue? Because conflict and bias is
recurrently preventing justice for children and the poor and vulnerable in
Jersey, which isn’t acceptable in this day and age.
And apparently the sham safeguarding board
decided, without meeting me that Jersey police had done nothing wrong, which
again is incorrect, which is why the care inquiry needs to look at how Jersey’s
systems can be changed for the better, so that victims can be heard, believed,
and see justice, not be defamed and smeared and denied justice.
Should a
serving police officer be able to act in a conflicted way, being appointed by a
hostile party to act illegally at the same time as influencing a serious case
review to make a decision without any input from the victim? I am sure you are
quite happy with all that conflict and unprofessional behaviour, but that doesn’t
make it right or just, and in my case, when you are in a position where your
impartiality and professional behaviour are very important, you have behaved
extremely unprofessionally, in the public eye. And because Jersey is Jersey,
nothing has been done, not by police, safeguarding, your chief minister, or
anyone else, because you have more power than any of them.
As a man of
great wealth and power, who has been privately educated at great expense,
please show some compassion for those who have suffered such deprivation that
they ended up in the hands of abusers of one kind or another, and still deserve
to see justice and/or closure. After all you claim to be a Christian, and sit
on the Jersey Deanery Synod as a result, and Jesus consistently teaches
compassion, mercy, justice and also what the rich and powerful should do for
the poor.
When Jesus
was teaching this, he caused much dismay to the Pharasees, who were also well
off because they ran the church and also conflicted church and judgement and
government. The Pharisees didn’t like anyone speaking contrary to them, so they
crucified Jesus, much as you and your circle have crucified me.
I am 33, and travelled homeless for three
years, condemned by the Church, and although it is looking unlikely that I will
ride up to Winchester on a donkey in two weeks time, your circle have recreated
the story, and you and they need to change direction and start looking to the
abuse survivors with compassion not contempt, and listening to them, and making
Jersey a more fair and just place. Turn back to Jesus, Sir Philip, you and your
Deanery of Jersey, and support the survivors, don’t keep denying them justice.
As this
letter has now reached 8 or 9 pages, I will have to end it, and call it the
first letter to you, as there is so much simply not covered by it. But in
conclusion, You are doing wrong, even if you are coercing people to support
your efforts to close the inquiry, just as you misled people to support the
re-instatement of the Dean and sent not only an open letter misleading people
and defaming me, but also a circular letter misleading people.
Unfortunately,
while you influence people to a certain extent, you are misleading people and
causing anger and distress and stirring trouble against people who have already
suffered enough, as you have a pattern of doing. And eventually there must be
an end point to what is effectively abuse of power. A new article came out today regarding this
matter:
The Question
is now: Do you leap to slandering me in the press and media and risk them actually
publishing some of this letter rather than doing as they do and calling it my
madness, slander and lies? Do you go all out to get the Steel report released?
Or do you coldly ignore my letter but in the knowledge that other people will
read it, not in the JEP where they read your letter about me, but through other
media, because Jersey’s media and press are very select about who’s side they
publish, an example being Teri Bond, who had met me once but was close to the
Dean and his wife, usually having the Dean over for supper when his wife was
away, having uncensored lies about me published as if they were fact in the
JEP.
Sincerely,
HG
Related
articles:
Some of the
Church abuse survivors story, told here as the Jersey media consistently only
report on Senator Bailhache and the Jersey Deanery’s side:
A recent
letter to the Dean of Jersey:
Blogs regarding the Jersey Deanery and their engineered report:
