Lancashire County Council and Organised Crime

The first in this series began with the corruption of the Local Government Ombudsman's office in York for which see http://www.criticalreader2006.blogspot.com/
The LGO was covering for corruption within Lancashire (LCC).
Court corruption compounded that original sin for which see related links, the last one being http://www.woodsresearch04.blogspot.com/ The links between the first and last are shown. The jigsaw is being pieced together.

The last entry showed a repeat performance of Manchester Tribunals (MET) corruption and within that other related events took place which are recorded here and take us to the end of the year 2003.

Throughout the time of struggling with court corruption (see MET, EAT and Lancaster County Court, Preston County Court links) I was also trying to get some support from various public bodies including the Tribunals For Users Programme, The Information Commissioner, The PCA (forerunner to the IPCC which link will be added), the Bar Council and the Law Society (links to be added later.)
They should have seen how unfit their registered members and public officials were.
The organised crime even at that early stage was easy to see, any reasonable minded person would see it. I wasn't dealing with reasonable minded people though, I was dealing with ".... monsters, super creeps" (apologies to Dave Bowie).

Other courts played minor parts e.g. Cumbria Magistrates, they referred me back to Lancaster Magistrates when I tried to lay information on two perjurers from LCC
(see link MET http://www.criticalreader2007.blogspot.com/)
Magistrates Courts in the Manchester area also wrote saying that they had sent my submitted papers to Lancaster Magistrates Court without asking if that was what I wished.
Cumbria wrote in acceptable manner but others wrote abrasively and collusively with LCC.
A JOHN ROBINSON for Lancaster Magistrates and ANTHONY EGERTON his Justice Chief Executive added their pieces to the jigsaw and were equally nasty and smug.
RICHARD COOPER from Oldham Magistrates was the same. He was to enter the picture via another piece of the jigsaw later for which see link to be added, Greater Manchester Police.

In November 2003 I had been off work with stress, only two weeks. At the time I was part-time lecturer for the ADULT COLLEGE in Lancaster and researcher for various universities. I was also Research Fellow of Lancaster University.
The Adult College was under the umbrella of LCC and one of my roles was as work-place basic skills
co-ordinator and team leader whereby I taught off site in different work places teaching staff S4L and IT.
One of my places of work was CARTMEL DAY CENTRE in Morecambe, a day care centre for the elderly and I taught staff there every Wednesday afternoon.
DAWN SIDDLE was the Centre manager.
PETER GARROD was the college Principal.

On Nov. 19th 2003 I had just returned to work after the sick leave and went to Cartmel as usual. All visitors sign in the Visitors' book on gaining entry.
Midway through the teaching session Ms Siddle came into the teaching area and told me that P GARROD had called to see me.
That was highly unusual and I queried her information. After a short time she convinced me that P Garrod was wanting to see me whilst I taught the students. I asked her to show him in.

A man (or a poor excuse for a man) entered the room, I had never seen him before and he wasn't the sort I associated with. He was similiar to ones seen near my house, watching, stalking, harassing me (all being witnessed by neighbours).
I told Ms Siddle that I had never seen him before and to get him out - he was ejected.
We checked the Visitors' book and he had signed in as an LCC employee and shown Ms Siddle a letter introducing himself as my college Principal. The letter was unsigned; anybody could have typed it.
He had impersonated the college Principal to gain entry to the building clearly with assistance from LCC in gross breach of confidentiality for me as an employee and for service users in the Centre. Health and Safety legislation was also breached.

The 'man' told D Siddle that he was a bailiff and that I owed money (see link Lancaster County Court Sept 03 http://www.criticalreadercw.blogspot.com/ and Preston County Court http://www.woodsresearch03.blogspot.com/ ) and he would serve papers on me.
A staff member from college arrived to assist, he was a former police officer who asked to see the 'bailiff's' badge and ID. The 'bailiff' was not certified thus he had no insurance and no indemnity lodged with Lancaster County Court. All involved had known except me.

His name was GEOFFREY CUNNINGHAM and he worked for ACS INVESTIGATORS, MILLER HOUSE, PRESTON, and they knowingly employed him to impersonate a bailiff and the college Principal. (Rather as LCC employ PATRICIA ALLEN who works with a false CV and false claims to qualifications that do not exist. More of her later.) Actually, Garrod had known all of that and helped to set it up with others. And that is also conspiracy for the sceptical.
I took the usual junk mail from Cunningham after his ranting and raving (later described by my colleague as the worst serving he had ever seen). I was to go to Lancaster County Court and answer questions as to assets I had so that the costs illegally imposed in Sept 03 (see link as above GORDON NUTTALL and STEPHEN SAINSBURY of Lancaster County Court) could be paid by me.
It was amazing this ignorance of theirs. I was an employee of LCC. If I owed them monies why wasn't there an earnings attachment order on my salary? Why was there no Garnishee Order on my bank account, they knew where I banked because they paid my wages into the account? It was because it wasn't legitimate. And they thought I wouldn't know.
I had less than no intention of paying anything or answering their questions but I was quite prepared to go and tell them that formally. The date was Dec 12th 2003 and SAINSBURY as court manager would question me. He didn't get very far.

He had all his paperwork ready and pen poised. I said he was wasting his time. He was red and angry and shouting, "You're refusing to answer my questions".
"No, I am not refusing, I am unable to do so becasue to do so would be to collude with the corruption of this court and I can't do that".
I repeated that parrot fashion until he believed me and he asked me to put it in writing then and there which I did taking a copy for myself.
I was very nice about it all.

He told me I would have to appear in front of a more senior judge, that suited me, they couldn't all be corrupt. (I know, I know, I was that naive.)
I was to wait for a date for another hearing. Meanwhile I had to carry on in college and Cartmel as if nothing had happened. But it was happening, behind my back.
Garrod with a sidekick from college, JOYCE DALTON had begun the usual witch-hunt and were soliciting detrimental remarks about me. They were unsuccessful, "Carol Woods is brilliant" was one emai and one email I was deprived of seeing for almost 2 years (see link to be added, another on MET.)

Lancaster Magistrates needed dealing with. I knew that if I got just one card in this fragile house then I would have the building.
Anthony Egerton, Justices Chief Executive from Garstang wrote well enough at first saying that John Robinson must afford me my rights and let me lay my informations. Robinson obviously told him who I would lay information against. Egerton then began to write in bullying, hostile manner as was usual when the corrupt are discovering they could be exposed. He made a feeble attempt to 'scare me off'. He failed.
Robinson started sending backdated letters.

There were things I didn't know about Lancaster Magistrates court at the time, those pieces of the jigsaw were still in the box then.
Finally after a great deal of hassle there was a turn about and I was told I could lay my information on 23rd Dec 2003 at 2.30pm.
As a former probation officer I wondered if the court would be sitting so near to Christmas and was assured that it would be. I was to report at 2.30pm.

At 2.15 pm I crossed Dalton Square when the clock was striking the quarter hour, 2.15 and via the back of the Town Hall crossed to the court. A youth was on the steps. There were only security lights on, everywhere was locked, there was no one around. The youth waited with me as witness.
On the door we saw the notice saying what Christmas and New Year times of opening would be, they court was always going to be closed at 2.30 on the 23rd just as I surmised. The notice had been prepared two weeks earlier, I was lied to again, they had known there would be no court sitting.
I went to Lancaster library and emailed a contact who emailed back saying she had waited for me but I hadn't shown up, liar that she was. Elaine, another to want the pat on the back by the 'big men' involved.
When I complained to ROBINSON he said that she didn't work for him after the New Year so that was that.
No it wasn't, vicarious liability is law whether they like it or not. Another Head of Legal Services in a court and ignorant of the law, or just hoping I was.

Falconer knew about that as well and did nothing. ADRIAN TUTTON as Falconer's sidekick had the same personal standards as those people and he couldn't see what my problem with them was.

There was nothing else for it, I wrote to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) after finding out that BOOTLE STREET STATION was the nearest to MET and a Justine Corran wrote to me. My claims were to be investigated: perjury, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and fraud etc. I was to wait an assigned officer to contact me. The link for GMP to be added.

The unexpurgated version of this organised crime will be published in the book now being written.

LCC were still bombarding me with their junk mail and I was still responding but now I could deal with their rants much better than previously.
Lancashire's Chief Executive's office had written to me via ELIZABETH SMALLWOOD, my repsonse was to quote Turgeynev and Flaubert and D H Lawrence. It was necessary to point out that they were writers.
I was dealing with Lancashire's Corporate Clowns after all.

The Tribunals For Users Programme ignored all my letters.
The ICO and IPCC etc will have their own entries. Despite their putting Private and Confidential on their letters to me I own the copyright and publishing rights to all data generated with myself as data subject.
Case law Mark Thomas v Whitehall.

Thought for today, "Who's Mr Mason and why is he held captive?"
Next entry http://www.criticalreadercw2.blogspot.com/ and will cover the period of Jan and Feb 04.
There are so many pieces in the jigsaw that fit together all at once, the picture doesn't become clearer but it does begin to make what will be the picture.
Carol Woods Lancaster