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Some scholars of Wales have maintained that until relatively recently, Wales was a land peopled by a 'gwerin', a population of rural dwelling folk indigenous to Wales who formed a sort of classless society in which there was no sub-group in a dominant social position. Other people have maintained that the notion of a gwerin is silly – I think the person who was ruder about the idea of a gwerin than most was Kim Howells, I imagine that he had some very harsh words for the gwerin once he'd stopped rolling around laughing – and that Wales was as much of a class-based society as most other societies. There was indeed a class structure in Wales and quite a rigid one, but it was not one that equated very well to the class structure used by sociologists who wrote about England. This used to cause Brown and I a lot of problems when journal articles that we had written about the recent history of Wales were peer-reviewed by people who very obviously had a great deal of experience of urban English sociology but did not know much about rural Wales fifty years ago. Rude comments would be returned such as 'the authors state that these were disadvantaged people. Farmers are not disadvantaged people.' Well no, barley barons in Lincolnshire aren't, but they are not quite in the same situation as certain Snowdonia hill farmers were in the 1950s…
The excesses of journal reviewers notwithstanding, I cannot really subscribe to the notion of a gwerin, but I know that some of those who were very influential in UCNW (Bangor University) in previous generations absolutely maintained that a gwerin existed and indeed that they were members of the said gwerin. A number of the gwerin who ran UCNW also ran a trafficking gang along with Dafydd, which targeted, er, the lower orders. Which sounds rather to me like a class structure.
I was dwelling on the gwerin the other day when I was reading Dr David Roberts's 2009 book on the history of Bangor University. Dr Roberts's volume names a few who most definitely believed themselves to be of the gwerin and the names were familiar to me; I can remember some of them from my days as an undergrad and I was aware of others because parts of Bangor University are named after them etc. Dr Roberts's book gives detailed accounts of some legendary events in the recent history of Bangor, including those which set the scene when the cohort of students of which I was one arrived.
I have mentioned in previous posts that UCNW was in danger of shutting down in the 1980s after an onslaught from the UGC. I had always believed that the axe was wielded by Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer in the mid-1980s (see previous posts), but Dr Roberts's book informs us that a near killer blow was inflicted upon UCNW by the UGC in 1981, which shattered the paedophiles' friends who were running UCNW at the time. It was when the axe was about to be wielded again a few years later that someone thought to remind Thatch's Gov't that this institution was full of people who were facilitating the Westminster Paedophile Ring or were keeping quiet about it. The member of the gwerin who actually reminded the UGC of that was a man called Alwyn Roberts, a PVC whom I have been told also spent time as a missionary. According to Dr Roberts's book, Alwyn Roberts worked as a senior lecturer in the Dept of Social Theory and Institutions (the Dept where I worked after finishing my PhD, but it was known by then as Social Sciences), but in the late 1970s when UCNW was in deep financial difficulty, a reorganisation took place and Alwyn Roberts became Director of Extra-Mural Studies.
The Waterhouse Report provides much information about the qualifications and work histories of those accused of abusing kids in north Wales or colluding with abuse. I have mentioned previously that a great many of those who abused the kids qualified at Cartrefle College at Wrexham, which became NEWI and then Glyndwr University. I received information from a former Cartrefle student telling me that standards were very low there and that the social work course tutors had an arrangement with Nefyn Dodd and Lucille Hughes to identify students who were potential whistleblowers and either remove them from the course or to force them out of their jobs after they had qualified.
A number of other people named in the Waterhouse Report as abusers held either degrees from UCNW – Lucille Hughes was a UCNW graduate – or social work qualifications gained from UCNW, particularly those people in more senior positions. They will have been students in the Dept of Social Theory and Institutions. Alwyn Roberts will have known them – UCNW was and is still small enough to ensure that people in Depts do know each other – and he knew who they were working with after they qualified and what was happening to the children in their care.
Dr Roberts's book mentions that Alwyn Roberts had served as Principal of Pachhunga Government College in India, as a member of Gwynedd County Council and as a Governor of the BBC. So Alwyn Roberts had all angles covered. He worked in the Dept which trained the social workers who were then employed in children's homes run by Gwynedd County Council, in which a paedophile ring was operating. Or they could pop over to the children's homes in Clwyd, which were part of the same ring. I have mentioned previously how many journos in BBC Wales were networked with Dafydd or even knew him personally and were happy top broadcast what they knew were lies about his alleged expertise and the state of the mental health services and other parts of the welfare system in north Wales. At the same time Alwyn Roberts was one of UCNW's senior managers.
The Vice-Principal of UCNW from 1981 onward was Professor Geoff Sagar, who was a member of staff in the Dept of Plant Biology and who taught me. Geoff Sagar knew virtually everything that I have blogged about staff in Plant Biology colluding with Dafydd's gang. He knew that some of the staff in his Dept were married to people who were members of the gang because they were married to social workers or Top Doctors and he knew that one of his lecturers, John Wilson, was having sex with local school girls and that this was openly discussed. It was of course openly discussed in terms of people's concerns that John was going to get caught, rather than with any degree of concern as to what was happening to the girls. The girls whom John had been seen with were described by Dr Adrian Bell's wife Alison, a technician in Plant Biology, as 'rather slaggy girls'. Well they won't have been conducting themselves in the way that most of the children of the UCNW staff were, but the kids of UCNW staff hadn't been removed from their families and been forced to live in a children's home where they were violently assaulted, raped and coerced into working as prostitutes. If the kids tried to make complaints to the police, the police refused to record the complaints or threatened to arrest the kids themselves.
In the 1980s, one of the Gwynedd social workers responsible for the area of Bangor in which the Ty'r Felin children's home was located was Meri Huws (see eg. post 'People With Energy'). Meri later became a lecturer at Coleg Menai – where many of the non-academic staff employed by UCNW trained – and the Normal College, which trained teachers and was also colluding with Dafydd's gang. Then Meri was employed by Bangor University as the Director of the Dept of Lifelong Learning, which was the then incarnation of the Dept of Extra-Mural Studies previously run by Alwyn Roberts…
By the way Alison, I sat in your husband's office distraught and told him that Brown was receiving death threats. He blanked me. As did your mate Dr D.G.E. Wood, but then Wood was facilitating the trafficking ring anyway. If two intelligent adults had gangsters after them, I don't rate the chances of 14 year old girls. As for the student whom you described as 'obnoxious' after he was sectioned in Ysbyty Gwynedd by the gang, well part of his distress was that his girlfriend was being targeted by them.
Just how stupid were you all??? The undergrads were being terrorised by a criminal gang but all you could do was obsess about nonsense like them wearing alternative clothes or blowing dope, it was ridiculous. As for Dafydd famously telling the Welsh Baptist Union that learning Bible verses in Welsh as a child can protect against a serious moral collapse in later life (see post 'A Serious Moral Collapse'), just about the only people in Bangor who hadn't suffered from a serious moral collapse were the students and even some of them succumbed, such as the psychology and social work students.
Somebody reminded me recently that Adrian Bell's hobby was vintage cars, he collected and traded them. I have been told that all areas of the lives of Dafydd's Little Helpers were used to shore up the gang, so someone ought to take a look at who in the vintage car world had links with Adrian and others who worked at Bangor University or in north Wales.
Geoff Sagar's son was a vet. My post 'The Wretched Of The Earth' described how targets of Dafydd's gang were refused treatment for their pets by the local vets in Gwynedd. Dr Katz, a Polish vet in Llanfairfechan who dared treat the pets of those who had spilt the pints of the paedophiles, was hounded out of the area during the years after the millennium.
In June 1994, Alwyn Roberts led a Joint Working Party which held discussions with a view to merging UCNW with the Normal College. Dr Roberts's book states that Alwyn was a 'skilled negotiator' 'in whom officers and staff of Coleg Normal had considerable confidence'. They probably loved him because they and the teachers that they trained were also colluding with, or at best simply ignoring, the trafficking ring which Alwyn Roberts knew a great deal about.
I will return to the other people involved in these negotiations in future posts…
Dr Roberts's book discusses the time – or rather one of the times – when key figures at UCNW all started hitting each other. I knew that things had become very fraught at UCNW in the late 1970s, which was when Dafydd had Mary Wynch illegally arrested and imprisoned; Mary worked as secretary in the massively dysfunctional Agriculture Dept, so I guessed that Mary had found something out about that Dept… What everyone knew at the time, even the students, was that the UCNW farm, which was under the domain of the Dept of Agriculture, was so badly mismanaged that it went bankrupt, plunging UCNW into severe financial difficulties. UCNW bailed College Farm out and a few years later it went bankrupt again. It was no advert for the Agri Dept or UCNW.
Lord Kenyon, the President of UCNW, 1947-82, considered his two big interests to be agriculture and health services. Lord Kenyon held numerous public positions, including that of Chairman of Clwyd Health Authority in the 1970s. Lord Kenyon's son Thomas was known to be sexually abusing at least one boy in care in north Wales and was eventually caught red-handed in the late 1970s. The boy was sent to a detention centre after Thomas Tyrell-Kenyon made a complaint of theft against him. Among many other things, Lord Kenyon was a member of the North Wales Police Authority, a JP and the most senior Freemason in north Wales. Thomas faced no charges. Thomas died of HIV/AIDS in 1993. See previous posts for further details.
Dr Roberts's book explains that UCNW became increasingly troubled during the latter half of the 1970s. There was much friction on the basis of language, with some students and staff feeling that there were far too many students from England who were overwhelming Welsh speaking students. This was a sore point for many because UCNW was proud of being a local, Welsh institution which had been established for people in north Wales.
Sir Charles Evans, the Principal of UCNW, 1958-84, was Welsh in that he grew up in north Wales and had learnt Welsh as a boy, but Sir Charles is the sort of person that demonstrated the myth of a gwerin. Sir Charles was 'Welsh' but he was posh. He was sent away to a public school at a young age – Shrewsbury – and then went to Oxford where he studied medicine. Charles Evans was completely unsympathetic to the concerns and protests of the Welsh language students and took a highly confrontational approach to them. The students enjoyed a lot of support from some of the gwerin on the staff, including those in very senior positions and the gwerin went to war with Charles Evans in an attempt to force him to retire.
In April 1981 – three months before the UGC wrote to UCNW telling them that they were going to be clobbered financially – a group of fourteen senior academics at UCNW signed a letter to Lord Kenyon stating that Sir Charles Evans could no longer 'carry the burden' of leadership. Non-professorial staff also wrote about their concerns re the 'present leadership'. By April 1981, Mary Wynch had begun legal action against Dafydd and the gang and it was clear that everyone could find themselves in a lot of trouble.
Sir Charles had been in a wheelchair for a long while having developed MS when he was quite a young man, which was why he gave up his job as a Top Doctor in Liverpool to become Principal of UCNW in the 1950s and he was becoming increasingly disabled. However Evans was a member of the successful 1953 Everest expedition so he was made of stern stuff and was fuming at being told that he wasn't up to it any longer, although he was fully aware that he wasn't able to do the sorts of things that he had even just a few years previously. Evans maintained that the College was being subjected to 'wanton efforts at disruption by small groups of misguided people'. Which it was, they were assisting a trafficking gang which Evans had ignored because many of his Top Doctor colleagues had been involved for years, but now the gwerin were at each others throats.
Lord Kenyon was most concerned at the escalating civil war and consulted his Vice-Presidents, Sir Elwyn Jones and O.V. Jones.
I discussed Sir Elwyn Jones and his wrongdoing in my post 'How Much Greater Is A Man Than A Sheep?'. Sir Elwyn was a solicitor who also served as the Labour MP for Conway. Sir Elwyn Jones was a member of the Caernarfonshire County Council, 1945-69. Lucille Hughes worked as a children's social worker for Caernarfonshire County Council. Sir Elwyn knew about Dafydd's gang in its early days and indeed the abuse in the region which pre-existed Dafydd's gang upon which Dafydd built. Sir Elwyn's son Elwyn Jones was also a solicitor in Bangor and served as the Treasurer of UCNW. Elwyn Jones the son of Sir Elwyn was most definitely a crook, he was fully on board with Dafydd and the gang and was involved with the fitting up of innocent people who were targeted by the gang (see previous posts). David Jones, the present Tory MP for Clwyd West, worked in Elwyn Jones's practice in Bangor in the 1980s when Elwyn Jones helped the gang frame people.
O.V. Jones had served as a senior Council member and was one of those who was supportive of the Welsh language protests on the part of the students. In 1976 four students officers of the Cymric Society were suspended from UCNW for their role in the occupation of a College building and this was followed by a massive student protest in the town of Bangor which was addressed by that well-known member of the gwerin, Dafydd Iwan. Dafydd Iwan later became a Gwynedd County Councillor and then leader of the Council when the gang raged within the Council's children's homes. Another student occupation followed and the College authorities applied for a High Court order to repossess the building. O.V. Jones, a Welsh speaking obstetrician, was right behind the students and raised concerns at the harsh treatment of the four who had been suspended from College. O.V. Jones asked for clemency to be shown and was joined in this by the Archbishop of Wales, Gwilym Williams, a man who was fully on board with Dafydd's gang (see previous posts).
Gwilym Williams was one of those who, along with Alwyn Roberts, used his knowledge of Dafydd's gang to twist the arm of the Thatcher's Gov't with regard to Welsh language issues such as the creation of S4C and the passing of the Welsh Language Act, 1993. Thatcher was utterly unsympathetic to these matters that were dear to the hearts of the gwerin, but a few words in the ear of Willie Whitelaw and others about that gang soon did the trick (see posts eg. 'The Cradle Of Filth' and 'A Bit More Paleontology').
O.V. Jones also knew about the grim reality of Dafydd's gang and was part of the nuts and bolts of that gang. Previous posts (eg. 'I Predict A Riot', 'Yours Truly, Angry Mob' and 'It's Bachman Turner Overdrive – Not Arf') have detailed how all the Top Docs in north Wales co-operated to unlawfully ensure that no woman in north Wales could access NHS abortions, even years after the Abortion Act 1967. However any woman with the money would be referred on demand to a private abortionist in Chester who was known to have put women's lives at risk. When freshers enrolled at UCNW, one of the first things that they were given was information on to how to access a private abortion via a referral from the Student Health Centre. Brown and I thought that this was rather unsavoury and a strange thing to prioritise, but we didn't realise that a trafficking ring was operating in the region, targeting female students as well as other people and that the people running the ring were the very same Top Doctors who denied women NHS abortions but referred them to their mate in Chester for a fee, no questions asked. Less privileged women who didn't have the dosh for the butcher in Chester were sent to stay at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh to be 'assessed' by Dafydd, where the view was taken by everyone who sexually exploited them there that they couldn't get more pregnant and they were then denied an NHS abortion anyway because everyone was. The women did not emerge from Denbigh with a baby, yet a great many of them went through the doors pregnant.
O.V. Jones will have known what was happening to those babies. He will also have known about the babies who were unlawfully removed from some adult women with full capacity who gave birth at St David's Hospital during the 1970s after their families had conspired with Top Doctors; he will have known about the obstetrician working at St David's in the 1970s and 80s who was so dangerous that he left several babies brain damaged or dead and who was smuggled quietly out to begin a new career in Australia after he inflicted serious injuries on the baby of a policeman who was not going to keep quiet about it; he will have known about the forced sterilisations of Denbigh patients to avoid any problematic pregnancies as a result of them being abused by mental health staff and prostituted by the gang; he'll have known about the girls in the children's homes being fitted up with contraceptives at the age of 13 or 14; he'll have known about the kids in children's homes becoming pregnant and catching STIs; and he'll have known about the underaged girls who were not in care but became pregnant being denied abortions and told 'you got yourself here, you can now look after the baby' when they very obviously couldn't cope with a baby and the baby would end up being taken into care during the early years and handed over to the trafficking gang… See previous posts eg. 'The BMA And It's Ethics'.
O.V. Jones and his mates were responsible for a bloody nightmare of the sort that laypeople believed had died out decades previously in mainland Britain. Everyone conspired to keep quiet about this, including the gwerin.
The gwerin continued fighting each other at UCNW and in June 1982 Charles Evans announced that he would retire in 1984, but by then he would have reached retirement age anyway. In Oct 1982 the gwerin forced Lord Kenyon out of his position as President and another paedophiles' friend of the highest order was parachuted in to replace him, Sir William Mars-Jones, a corrupt High Court judge from a Denbighshire farming family and a friend of Sir Ronald Waterhouse. See previous posts.
In Jan 1983, O.V. the family butcher became Chair of Council at UCNW and it nearly ended in tears very shortly afterwards. In May 1982 UCNW had advertised for a new Registrar but the selection committee did not appoint any candidate. The post was readvertised in Jan 1983 and in March 1983, the selection committee, led by O.V. the family butcher, recommended the appointment of Frederick Smyth, then Registrar and Deputy Secretary of Stirling University, a non-Welsh speaker. The UCNW Council then blocked the appointment. The warring gwerin on the Council had appointed Gwyn R. Thomas as Acting Registrar in Dec 1982 and although the appointment was confirmed at a later date, O.V. the family butcher threatened to resign as Chair of Council. The gwerin somehow persuaded him not to. I would not be surprised if that was related to the havoc that had broken out in the Student Health Centre by the summer of 1983 as a result of the chaos resulting from Dr D.G.E. Wood and his colleagues being far more interested in running a trafficking ring than caring for their patients. If the ship lost the family butcher there is no telling what would have happened.
Gwyn R. Thomas must have been the long thin man who was the Registrar whom I went to see in 1984 to raise my concerns about Gwynne the lobotomist forging medical records and libelling me. The long thin man just freaked after about two minutes and threw me out of his office, because I suspect he knew how far this would unravel if anyone tugged at a few of the threads.
People like Lord Kenyon – who didn't speak Welsh and was based in Shropshire – did not equate to any aspect of the gwerin's notion of what the gwerin was, but this gwerin were all in it together, literally. That is what really bound the gwerin together rather than any Welshness or classlessness. Gwerin like Sir William Mars-Jones – who fulfilled the qualities of a member of the gwerin in that he was rural and Welsh – and Dafydd, who was quite happy to lay claim to being a member of the gwerin when it suited him although he was accumulating vast wealth by procuring child sex workers for Thatcher's friends, were essential to the working of a huge machine that the rest of the gwerin were depending on for a comfortable life. After all if the gwerin didn't have jobs for themselves and their families as teachers, lecturers, social workers, Angels etc they'd be in the same boat as those who were being fed into Dafydd's machine along with their children, which was not an appealing prospect.
Previous posts have discussed at length how the member of the gwerin which was Dafydd networked with corrupt professionals and elites in England which was what completely protected him, while he really shafted the locals as well as the kids in the children's homes in north Wales, many of whom were disadvantaged kids imported from English metropolitan Councils.
Before Dafydd and John Allen ever went into business big time in the late 1960s, Dafydd and Gwynne the lobotomist had a sound track record of serving the interests of the most unlikely gwerin, such as Bertrand Russell and his friend Sir Clough Williams-Ellis's bohemian mates of the Bloomsbury Set in England who holidayed at Croesor in north Wales. See previous posts eg. 'The Village' and 'So Who Was Angry About What?'.
So let's meet yet more of those very grand powerful gwerin who doubled up as really grand Top Doctors, upon who's support Dafydd's gang in north Wales were 100% dependant. O.V. the Welsh family butcher could never have kept this show on the road alone.
Dafydd's gang's powerbase lay in Liverpool and London. Liverpool was known as the 'capital of north Wales' for a long time; there was/is a big Welsh community in Liverpool and in north Wales the influence of Top Doctors who trained at Liverpool exceeds the influence of Top Doctors who trained at Cardiff. Liverpool Medical School saw itself as superior to Cardiff Medical School, but both institutions were concealing the serious crime committed by Dafydd and the gang.
Dr Roberts's book on the history of Bangor University noted that Prof Fergus Lowe massively expended the Psychology Dept in the late 1980s and 90s by 'working with health authorities'. Yes, Fungus knew what the Top Docs were up to and he knew what they had done to me and my friends, including killing one of them and Fungus had them all over a barrel. The research funding poured in…
Let us start with a lifelong and close friend of Sir Charles Evans himself, a Lady Doctor, Anne McCandless.
McCandless's biography gives every indication that she knew about the trafficking ring in north Wales with which Sir Charles Evans colluded throughout the years that he was Principal of UCNW, 1958-84. Although much of this blog discusses paedophile/trafficking gangs, I am not someone who believes that every other person is a paedophile; the problems is rather that the many, many relatives/friends/colleagues/associates of those who are sexually abusing or exploiting people collude with, or cover-up, for them, even when they are fully aware of what is going on. That has caused the real rot. I imagine that Anne McCandless fell into this category.
Anne McCandless was a fellow medical student of Charles Evans who lived in the same house in Liverpool as Evans did when he was appointed as a surgical registrar to the Northern Hospital. Like Evans and Denise Morin, whom Evans married, Anne McCandless was a keen mountaineer. She will have climbed in Snowdonia, it is the mecca for the day to day climbing activities of mountaineers in the north west of England and is used as a training ground to prepare for the big expeditions to places like the Himalayas.
The Royal College of Physician's 'Lives of the Fellows Online' as usual provides an interesting account of McCandless's life.
Anne will be remembered for her mischievous sense of fun and the way she loved to shock.
The tributes in 'Lives of the Fellows Online' always describe the most unacceptable conduct on the part of Top Docs in a very euphemistic way, so I suspect that Anne McCandless was probably deeply unpleasant to many people.
This she did expertly with her characteristically tongue-in-cheek outrageous comments.
As I thought. Anne was a Top Doctor so it was just tongue-in-cheek outrage. If she was a patient she'd have been refused treatment on the grounds of her 'offensive behaviour'…
She was born in Baltimore, USA. Her father, Joseph McCandless, was an industrial chemist… Some three years after Anne was born, the family moved to Southport, Lancashire, where Anne attended Southport High School and then the University of Liverpool where she graduated in 1939…
Liverpool University doesn't seem to have been too fussy with regard to the Top Doctors whom it allowed to qualify throughout much of the 20th century, after all Dafydd qualified from Liverpool in the 1950s. McCandless and Evans were of the earlier generation of Top Docs who were the senior colleagues of Dafydd and his contemporaries. No-one felt obliged to reign in anyone else no matter how appalling their misconduct. Many of the Docs of Evans's vintage were, as was Evans himself, very much gentlemen for whom medicine was an interesting side-line while they got on with the real business of the rest of their life, which in Evans's case was mountaineering.
|Sir Robert Charles Evans
He wanted to get to the top of Everest, he wasn't even going to bother with 'now don't you worry dear, we'll look after you'. Although it was refreshingly honest of Evans to admit that he was far more interested in trekking in the Himalayas than in looking after patients. However, even an Everest hero should have woken up when he was told that there was a massive sex abuse ring in operation in north Wales and the Top Docs in his Student Health Centre were at the centre of it. Indeed when I told that Registrar Gwyn R. Thomas that all was not as it should have been, I hadn't got much further than 'I wish to raise my concerns about the conduct of a man called Dr Gwynne Williams in the Student Health Centre' and there was an explosion…
I didn't even mention the words 'greasy old pervert propositioning the female students' because I knew that I'd be told that I'd 'misunderstood', so I stuck to the libellous comments and the altered medical records…
The corruption in medical circles in Liverpool was probably embedded by the time that Charles Evans and Anne McCandless came along, but they certainly added to the party. Their generation of Docs are well-remembered by people of my age and many of them were obnoxious with truly dreadful attitudes to their patients or at least those who were members of the lower orders. When Ed Miliband waxes lyrical about his Uncle Harry's dedication to the NHS, Ed fails to mention the entrenched social snobbery that Docs of Uncle Harry's generation showed, that they had in turn learned from the generation before them. I picked up a copy of S. Mervyn Herbert's 1939 book 'Britain's Health' from a second hand book shop recently and it is a fine example of the thinking of Top Doctors of McCandless's generation, who trained Uncle Harry et al. S. Mervyn Herbert's book has a foreword by Lord Horder.
Lord Thomas Horder was 'an English physician recognised as a leading clinician and diagnostician of his day'. He was educated privately and at London University and Bart's Hospital, London. Horder began his career at Bart's and, when still quite young, successfully made a difficult diagnosis on King Edward VII which made his reputation. His patients included every British monarch from Edward VII to Elizabeth II (except Edward VIII), as well as two PMs, Ramsey MacDonald and Bonar Law and Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskill.
Horder was involved in many official committees including advising the Ministry of Food during WW II. After the war he opposed many of Nye Bevan's plans for the NHS and may have helped modify some of those less palatable to the medical profession. Horder held the positions of Deputy Lieutenant County of Hampshire; Extra Physician to the Queen (formerly Extra Physician to King George VI); and Consulting Physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital (1912–1936). Horder served as President of the British Eugenics Society, 1935-49 and as President of the Cremation Society of Great Britain, 1940-55, when he died.
In 1902 Horder married Geraldine Rose Doggett. Their son was the publisher Mervyn Horder, who died in 1997. Their daughter Joy Horder was mother to architect Edward Cullinan and married to a chief physician at Bart's.
Some senior staff at Bart's were facilitating organised abuse very long time ago. Dafydd's mate Professor Linford Rees added to the fun considerably in the 1990s, but there was a problem at Bart's decades before that. Lady Juliet Bingley concealed abuse in her capacity as a leading light in MIND from the 1970s onwards but seems to have been involved in colluding with abuse in High Places previously as well and was the daughter of a Bart's surgeon who worked as an almoner (social worker) at Bart's.
Lord Horder dripped with contempt for the plebs as did Top Docs like McCandless and Evans. In many ways they were admirably tough which is how Evans got to the top of Everest, but that didn't equip them very well for being Top Doctors to the masses, particularly as so many of those Top Docs came from such privileged backgrounds themselves. By the time that people of my generation encountered them, the impression gained was 'this person really should never have thought that medicine was a suitable career for them'. I understand that it is an historical phenomenon, but Ed et al need to stop banging on about those kindly Top Docs of yesteryear who Loved Their Patients and the Poor. Most of them didn't.
[Anne McCandless] spent the war in Paddington and Hackney…managing 150 medical and paediatric beds…
Hackney was a site of serious disadvantage and organised child abuse, which included the welfare state transporting kids to Australia knowing that they were going to lives of slave labour and cruelty and, by the 1970s of course, sending them into the arms of Dafydd's gang in north Wales.
she held house officer appointments in anaesthesia at Derby City Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary,
There were long-standing paedophile rings in Derbyshire and Leicestershire which by the 1960s/70s had linked up with other rings including Dafydd's…
but returned to Liverpool to undertake training in paediatrics under Norman Capon. She was neonatal paediatric register at the Liverpool Oxford Street Maternity Hospital and was then appointed lecturer in child health in the newly formed department of child health with clinical duties mainly at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. In 1950 she was appointed consultant paediatrician at Warrington, but after about a year she was appointed consultant paediatrician at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital and also neonatal paediatrician to the maternity units at Sefton General Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital.
So McCandless was back in the nest of vipers and the facilitators of abuse in Liverpool by the late 1940s and in 1950 she was appointed to a senior position in paediatrics in the region. Dafydd's mate and umbrella Professor Robert Owen who concealed very serious crime on the part of Dafydd et al in 1989 (see post 'Enter Professor Robert Bluglass CBE') was a leading light in orthopaedic surgery in Liverpool in the generation which followed McCandless. Robert Owen was a consultant at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Broadgreen as well as at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Gobowen. Owen was a farmer's son from Pwllheli and a key figure in the network of corrupt professionals who caused such problems in north Wales and facilitated the trafficking ring. Owen was busy calling the shots virtually until the day he died in March 2018. See post 'In Memoriam – Professor Robert Owen'.
Her pioneering work began in Warrington.
There was abuse in children's homes and other institutions in Warrington and the staff/abusers were part of the wider network covering the north west of England/north Wales. By the 1960s/70s, no politician in the region would do anything to tread on the toes of the ring, even when kids in care under 16 years old who were victims of the gang were fitted up and found dead in Risley Remand Centre, which was located in Warrington. After all, their constituents were those facilitating the ring. See eg. post 'Include Me Out'.
At the time 20 per cent of all infants admitted developed gastro-enteritis and five percent died not from the original complaint but from cross-infection. To combat this Anne encouraged family doctors to keep infants out of hospital. Treating sick children out of hospital was not easy. It meant 30 domiciliary visits every year, often after midnight. The infant mortality rate was 80 per 1000 when she went to Warrington and 40 per 1000 a year later due to keeping sick infants out of hospital. When they had to be admitted to hospital, their mothers were admitted with them. In Warrington she used the private wing of the hospital to accommodate the mothers and at Alder Hey her two side wards. She also encouraged daily visits of patients to her wards, a practice which was years ahead of its time.
So, as is de rigueur, a Top Doc who knew about a growing problem of organised abuse facilitated by a criminal gang whom she remained silent about until the day that she died – seven months after the publication of the Waterhouse Report – has been constructed as a Pioneering Paediatrician who achieved Great Things. It is difficult to judge the achievements of the Top Docs because accounts of their lives are just so dishonest.
Her interest was in epilepsy and in the early 1950s she started an epileptic outpatient clinic at Alder Hey. Her neonatal unit at Sefton General Hospital was the first in the region to monitor the true glucose levels in premature babies. In 1953 she introduced endotracheal intubation and insufflation with oxygen treatment for birth asphyxia. This led to the establishment of a resuscitation centre at Alder Hey and this was the first of its kind in the country.
So whatever McCandless colluded with, her reputation was enormous and she will have been untouchable. Nothing that she did will have been questioned and if there were complaints about student or more junior staff such as Dafydd and Robert Owen, they will have been blown out of the water and the person who dared raise concerns marked for ever…
She was a general paediatrician. She married late. She met her husband Tom Rimmer (a County Councillor) when they were both members of the Liverpool Children's Regional Hospital Committee.
This was and still is the scale of the problem…
Following retirement in 1974 Anne moved to St Andrews in Scotland where other members of her family were living.
By 1974, Dafydd's gang were running Liverpool and north Wales was positively a production line for child sex workers. Anne's pal Charles Evans was presiding over UCNW which by then was a deeply troubled institution and an essential part of the ring . Gangs across the whole of the UK had linked up into one big network which had also spread into mainland Europe. These criminals were untouchable and received protection from the highest levels of Gov't. Anne McCandless will not have disappeared when she retired. Top Docs remain available long after retirement to give their unfailing support to other Top Docs who might be in trouble and to use their influence to the maximum. St Andrews is a hub of elite Top Doctors. Dafydd's mate Bluglass is an alumnus of St Andrews University and by 1974 Bluglass was Chair of Forensic Medicine at Birmingham University and Mr Big himself. Hundreds of kids from the West Midlands were being sent to children's homes in north Wales. St Andrews is such a hub of elite Top Doctors that the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews doubles up as a networking base for them. Lord Robert Kilpatrick had a great time at the R&A. Kilpatrick was President of the GMC, 1989-95, during which time he colluded with a great deal of crime carried out by Top Docs including Dafydd et al. Prior to that, Kilpatrick had been Dean of Leicester Medical School when that institution had facilitated the trafficking ring which operated in Leicester which had links to Dafydd's gang in north Wales and involved Greville Janner. For more information on Kilpatrick see post 'Remember Girls – Never Get Into A Car With A Stranger!'.
Of course by 1974, Liverpool had become famous as a result of the popular culture which had grown up in the city some 15 years or so previously – Cilla, The Beatles etc… Dafydd's gang produced sex workers for celebs and the explosion of 'talent' in Liverpool, talent which was world famous and very rich by the mid-1970s, meaning that Dafydd had a whole new market and was now rubbing noses with celebs. As indeed Dafydd's family boasted about when they hurled abuse at Empowered Service Users in north Wales. Dafydd knew Really Famous People and was going to have us nutters arrested!
I usually visited St Andrews annually in August and renewed a 60 year old friendship with Anne. At my last visit in August 2000…She died suddenly later that month.
Thought as much, McCandless received regular visits, being on the Elite Top Doctors circuit until the very end. This account of McCandless's life and work was written by one of her Top Doctor colleagues, Robert McLaren Todd.
Robert Todd died in May 2008 and his obituary appeared in the BMJ.
Robert McLaren Todd was very active in the Church of England, in the world of classical music and in medicine. Todd was born in 1915 at Syston in Leicestershire. Robert attended the local Syston Church of England school (1920 to 1926) before going to Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys (1926 to 1934).
A combination of Leicester and the Anglican Church…
Todd then went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1934 to 1937) and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1937 to 1940). Bart's again then. Dafydd's mate Professor Linford Rees was able to take things at Barts to a new level when he took up his Chair there in the 1990s because Linford moved in celebrity circles as a result of his daughter, the 1970s 'Poldark' actress Angharad Rees and her showbiz husband Christopher Cazenove, who starred in 'Dynasty' with Joan Collins et al…
Dafydd knows really famous people!
After qualification in 1940, Todd worked as a house surgeon at Bart's, then as a senior house physician post at Bart's and St Albans. This was followed by a stint as resident medical officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary and house physician at the Children's Hospital in Leicester, 1942 -45.
Barnett Janner, a lawyer from south Wales, served as the Liberal MP for Whitechapel, 1931-35 and as the Labour candidate for Leicester West, 1945-70, after which he was succeeded as MP by his son Greville.
In 1946 Todd became medical registrar at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney. Previous posts have named various members of Dafydd's network were based in and worked at Hackney and specifically the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children.
In 1947 Todd relocated to Liverpool in the new Department of Child Health. Todd ran the MRC trial on the treatment of tuberculous meningitis at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. In 1953 Robert Todd spent a short spell at Harvard as a Fulbright scholar. Otherwise he continued working as consultant paediatrician at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and also at the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, where he was responsible for creating the first special care baby unit in the Merseyside region. In 1949 Todd founded the Liverpool Paediatric Club and he was its first Secretary.
Robert Todd was yet another member of the network which later protected Dafydd who was constructed as An Eminent Top Doctor. Establishing that special care baby unit will have meant that Todd was a Top Doctor who Touched People's Hearts. Bless!
Todd retired from Top Doctoring in 1979. Not that his influence waned of course. Todd was present at celebrations relating to Top Doctoring in 1999.
Throughout his life, Robert Todd exerted influence in the Church of England, which we now know concealed organised abuse. As a Top Doctor, Todd will have known about that and he may well have been consulted as to what to do with those clergymen who had been caught molesting. That was very often how the Church dealt with abusers in the Church.
In 1941, Robert Todd became a reader in the Church of England in the Cathedral of St Martin in Leicester and was licensed to serve in the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Syston. He had previously been appointed assistant organist at Syston Parish Church (in 1930) and at the age of only 15 Todd had became a Sunday school teacher.
While Todd was resident medical officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary, 1941-45, he continued to be reader at Syston and on Sunday afternoons he took services at various churches in the Leicester diocese, often two services each Sunday. Towards the end of 1946, when Todd began work at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hackney, he became reader at St Olave's Church, Woodbury Down, which was in the Finsbury Park area of London.
Finsbury Park is just down the road from Harringay which is yet another area with a history of the welfare services facilitating the exploitation and abuse of vulnerable people going back decades. By the time that Haringey Borough Council was making headlines as an example of all that was ridiculous in the 1980s, Dafydd's gang in north Wales were working in partnership with them. See previous posts.
Todd's reader ministry at Finsbury Park lasted for about 18 months before Top Doctoring took him to Liverpool. In 1948 Robert Todd became a reader at the Parish Church of St Mary, Wavertree, Liverpool. In 2001 Robert Todd celebrated his 60 years as a reader and at the beginning of 2002 he was appointed reader emeritus to 'mark his long and distinguished ministry' in this church. In September 2001, a week before Todd celebrated 60 years as a reader, he was interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside for the religious affairs programme "United in Song" by Hazel Bradley.
When a medical student, Robert Todd was in much demand as a wedding organist. Throughout his life he played the organ in church and he gave organ recitals regularly in Merseyside.
Todd regularly attended the midweek evening concerts given by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool for 25 years. For several years Todd travelled to Sheffield to watch the later stages of the Snooker World Championships at the Crucible Theatre. He supported the football clubs of Aberdeen, Leicester City and Liverpool.
Todd 'became a good friend of' Calday Grange Grammar School on the Wirral and supported their hockey teams whenever they played against Liverpool College. He was a regular member of the audience at Calday Grange concerts and was the guest adjudicator of their annual house music competition in February 1999.
Todd enjoyed travelling abroad, particularly to visit his daughter, Rosemary, in Ibiza. He loved visiting Scotland, especially Pitlochry in Perthshire and Todd also enjoyed travelling throughout England, visiting friends at Padstow in Cornwall. Todd was friendly with and regularly visited Professor Conor Ward.
Conor Ward is an Irish paediatrician who is the son of another Top Doctor who was also an Irish politician and member of Dail Eireann. Conor Ward studied at University College Dublin where he was involved in Irish language activism. He became auditor of 'An Cumann Gaelach' and Editor of 'An Iodh Morainn', the Irish language annual. Some of Dafydd's network have links with people involved with Irish language activism eg. Meri Huws.
Following graduation in 1947, Conor spent seven years working at Alder Hey. In 1956 he was appointed Paediatrician and Paediatric cardiologist at the newly founded Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Dublin. In 1970 he was appointed Professor of Paediatrics at UCD. Ward was the first paediatric cardiologist in Ireland and one of the first internationally and he spearheaded the development of cardiology and cardiac surgery services for children in Ireland. Conor's wife Pauline was an Angel and worked with Conor. Ward 'championed' care for children with Down's syndrome and he received lifetime service awards from the Down's Syndrome Associations in Ireland and the UK. Ward also worked on SIDS.
Todd was also a good friend of Barbara Miroy, who was a high profile figure in the All Women's Hockey Association.
When Robert Todd married in 1945, the Bishop of Leicester performed the ceremony. Todd had three children and two grandchildren. His granddaughter Laura studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge as had Todd and began her research career at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Todd's other granddaughter Stephanie is a social worker, as were her parents.
Robert Todd died in May 2008, so he was another member of Dafydd's Liverpool network who lasted until well after the Waterhouse Report. Furthermore Todd was a high profile figure in the Church. The Church colluded with Dafydd's gang and Theresa May, the daughter of a vicar who has made much of her active membership of the Church of England, served as a Councillor for the Borough of Merton, 1986-94, when Dafydd's associates at St George's Hospital Medical School and Springfield Hospital facilitated the trafficking ring in south London which was linked to the ring in north Wales/Cheshire. Merton was served by St George's Hospital Medical School.
The biggest and best gwerin were of course to be found in the London Medical Schools and Dafydd knew many of them, partly because of his stint 'training' at the Maudsley in the early 1960s, but also because one the biggest trafficking rings linked to Dafydd's gang in north Wales/Cheshire was the ring based in south London which was largely facilitated by the psychiatrists at St George's Hospital Medical School. It was as much of a stronghold of organised abuse as the Maudsley was.
The beginning of the empire at St George's was Desmond Curran. Desmond was the corrupt Top Doc to the stars. Norman Scott was sent into the caring embrace of Demond Curran in the 1960s after making those outrageous allegations about Jeremy Thorpe.
The Royal College of Physicians 'Lives of the Fellows Online' tells us all about Desmond:
Desmond Curran was one of the most distinguished clinical psychiatrists of his generation, and many of his pupils were to fill eminent positions in clinical practice and teaching in this country, and in many other parts of the world.
That will be the problem, those who learnt at the knee of Des will be in positions across the globe in which they are wielding influence and ensuring that the gory truth about Des and what was really going on in his flagship Dept at St George's never ever becomes public.
He was born in Devon, grew up near St Andrews and was educated at Wellington and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St George's Hospital medical school. He chose psychiatry, regarded in those days as a lowly walk of life in medicine, and was appointed house physician at the Bethlem Hospital in 1928.
No matter how much gushing was done about Des in later life, when he and his colleagues were wielding enormous power because of their roles in the Westminster Paedophile Ring, we need to remember that psychiatry – which has never been a speciality attracting the brightest and best – when Des was young was what one did if one had blotted one's copybook in a major way and was not going to be accepted in any other field. Psychiatry has been in such a bad way for so long that the few capable people who were interested in it nearly always changed their minds after a stint in psychiatry as a student or a junior doctor. I know why that was, it was because the whole field was dominated by abusive professionals and good Top Docs could make no impact and they walked away. Research carried out in the 1980s showed that virtually every medical student who had wanted to take up psychiatry changed their minds after doing their psychiatry placement. No-one dared publish the reason for this. But then the medical students in Cardiff were all telling each other not to, under any circumstances, take a job as a junior doctor in Bangor.
'We didn't know.'
It was because there was no nightlife in Bangor and ooh these whippersnappers want a certain lifestyle, I mean they're young professionals!!!
Oh no it wasn't. Never mind, the Welsh Gov't will offer them more and more and more money to solve the Recruitment Crisis in north Wales! Golden handshakes, golden handcuffs, yet another expensive advertising campaign telling them how great it is being a Top Doc in north Wales. You will still find that
When Desmond Curran worked at the Bethlem Hospital in 1928, conditions and practices were truly dreadful and at that time the Maudsley, the hospital linked to the Bethlem, was dominated by the Top Doctors such as Sir Aubrey Lewis who were viewed as the early pioneers in psychiatry and gosh were they mad and dangerous. Many of them were eugenicists and a few of them worked with some of the Top Doctors who later carried out human rights abuses in their role as Nazi Top Doctors. This should of course be viewed in the appropriate historical context, but my point is that some of the Maudsley crowd were considered mad and dangerous for their time, a la William Sargant, Dr Death's old boss at Tommy's (see post 'Dr Death'). Previous posts eg. 'A Galaxy Of Talent' and 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…' provide an overview of some of their excesses. Because psychiatry was considered to be a dustbin for unemployable Top Docs – in many regions of the UK it is still viewed as such – Aubrey et al were isolated from other Top Doctors' specialisms and they did exactly what they wanted to patients whom very few people were prepared to defend. Psychiatrists are fond of suggesting that their profession has been smeared by overblown horror stories of stereotypical mad doctors running amok, but I suggest that the situation was and still is far, far worse than has ever been admitted. Abuse of psychiatric patients is endemic, the law is routinely flouted and there is no effective protection for patients.
[Desmond] received powerful encouragement from Edward Mapother and, after a period in neurology at Maida Vale Hospital, he proceeded with a Rockefeller travelling fellowship to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
This is why when the going gets tough even the Obamas will give a helpful interview re the Miracles of Modern Medicine (see post 'Right To Reply').
He came under the influence of Adolf Meyer whose wide-spanning concept of psychiatry did a great deal to enrich and humanize the clinical practice of what had previously been a narrowly organic and descriptive speciality.
This is not true. Psychiatric patients remained on the receiving end of the most appalling brutality and neglect until the asylums closed down and after that they were left to become destitute or die in the community or of course go to prison for the most bizarre and ludicrous of reasons.
[Desmond Curran's] leading disciples in Great Britain included Desmond Pond; Aubrey Lewis; R D Gillespie and D K Henderson.
Sir Desmond Arthur Pond (2 September 1919 – 29 June 1986) graduated from Clare College, Cambridge and then studied at UCL and at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina. Pond was Senior Lecturer at the Maudsley, 1948-52, then consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley and UCL, 1952-66. In 1966 Pond was appointed the first Professor of Psychiatry at the London Hospital. He was a founder member of the Institute of Religion and Medicine in 1964. Pond served on the Neurosciences Board of the MRC, 1968-72 and was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1978-81.
Pond was a senior member of staff at the Maudsley when Dafydd 'trained' there at the knee of Dr Bob Hobson; Hobson was abusing patients. The activities of Hobson and his team were widely known and Pond spent his career protecting Hobson, Dafydd et al. Pond was knighted in 1981, which will have been at about the time (or soon after) that Mary Wynch began her legal action against Dafydd and the gang. Pond was further rewarded for his valiant defence of people traffickers when he was appointed Chief Scientist at the DHSS, a post he retained until his retirement in 1985, serving under Secretary of State Norman Fowler. My posts 'Socio-Political Context Of The North Wales Mental Health Services In The 1980s' and 'The Old Devils' describe how people who were known to be involved with the organised abuse of children and vulnerable people were systematically appointed to senior positions in the DHSS with responsibility for mental health. My post 'Always On The Side Of The Children' describes exactly the same process at work with Gov't advisory posts regarding children's social work.
The London Hospital is located in the East End and facilitated abuse and by the late 1960s/70s it was linked to Dafydd's gang. The Councils of the East End sent numerous kids in care to children's homes in north Wales where there were complaints of serious abuse which were ignored. Desmond Pond had an 'interest in the social psychodynamic and biological aspects of personality development, which he considered to be inextricably entwined'. As a result of this interest, at the London Hospital, Desmond Pond established a 'mother and child unit' which conducted 'research for investigating the formative years' and 'became a community service station for the treatment, social support and guidance of problem children and their mothers in Tower Hamlets in the East End or London'. Which presumably included recommending that those 'problem children' should be sent on placement into the hands of John Allen and Dafydd in north Wales. Little wonder that when Mary Wynch went into battle, Desmond Pond was given a K and an advisory position in the DHSS.
Can anyone explain why everyone accepted a situation in which an 'expert' in the 'social psychodynamic and biological aspects of personality development' who was carrying out cutting edge research into 'problem families and children' was recommending that those problem children were placed in the care of the associates of a man whom he knew to have a history of sexually exploiting vulnerable people and continued to place the children with those people even after complaints of the most serious abuse were made? And why did Thatcher's Gov't think it appropriate to give the expert in personality development a K after someone began legal action against the man in receipt of the problem children and the following year appoint him as a Gov't adviser, keeping him in that post until the legal action against his fellow 'experts' had been successful after clinical negligence was admitted?
|The Lord Fowler Kt PC
Pond served as a member of committees and ecclesiastical commissions which 'explored problems that arose within marriage' and from escalating rates of divorce. Problems arising from clergymen who were molesting children perhaps?
While helping Dafydd during his time as a DHSS adviser, Desmond Pond 'succeeded in strengthening some bonds between the DHSS, the Medical Research Council and the Royal Colleges and in creating some new ones.' So Desmond created yet more links between corrupt professional people.
Desmond Pond, who ensured that an enormous paedophile ring carried out their business unhindered, was married to another Top Doc, Helen, a consultant physician and they had three daughters. Two of the daughters 'have proved to have outstanding musical talent and a third is a gifted zoologist'. How fortunate that Desmond's own children's social psychodynamic and biological personality development did not affect them in such a way that they were best served by living with a vicious criminal gang who beat and raped them and forced them to work as child prostitutes! Sir Martin Roth, another Top Doc who protected Dafydd, observed that these talented children of Pond's had obviously inherited Desmond's genes. Call me naive, but I suspect that the main reason why the three Pond girls turned out all wonderful is that Pond and his wife did not send them to live with Dafydd and John Allen. That was for the Problem Families of Tower Hamlets, as recommended by an Expert.
Pond died in Torquay, in 1986. Perhaps somebody ought to find out what was going on in Torquay when Pond was living there.
Another one of Desmond Curran's leading disciples was the aforementioned Sir Aubrey Lewis of the Maudsley, who was famously very mad and very unpleasant.
Dr R.D. Gillespie, yet another leading disciple of Curran's, trained as a Top Doc at Glasgow and then worked at the notorious Royal Mental Hospital in Glasgow. After a stint at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Gillespie returned to England and worked at the Cassel Hospital and then spent a period of time as a research student at Cambridge. After that, Gillespie was appointed as a Top Doctor and lecturer at Guy's. During WW II, Gillespie worked as an RAF psychiatrist. His obituary in 'The London Times' stated that he considered that 'his essential job was to get the air crews back at work when the mental strain threatened a breakdown'. Was Gillespie ever driven to a near breakdown himself with the stress of carrying out bombing missions? Er, no, because Gillespie was safely on the ground and his life was not at risk. Ever. But do you know, poor Gillespie suffered even more than those young men whom he forced back into the cockpit even when they could take no more. It was explained in his obituary that 'the strain for him certainly undermined his health and illness troubled him'. Thank God Gillespie was a Top Doc, because had he been an Other Rank he could well have found himself accused of Malingering!!! Fortunately Top Doctors don't Malinger, they are 'troubled by illness' for which sympathy is obligatory. Sadly although Gillespie was one of Desmond Curran's leading disciples, the distinguished expertise of Curran et al were unable to prevent the eminent Gillespie dying at the age of 47. It must have been his genes.
Professor D.K. 'Dave' Henderson was the fourth person who was considered to be a 'leading disciple' of Desmond Curran. Henderson co-authored with Gillespie, before Gillespie's genes bit him on the bum. Henderson was born in Dumfries and in 1913 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis "Cerebral syphilis, a clinical analysis of twenty-six cases, seven with autopsy". He co-published – with Gillespie – A Textbook of Psychiatry (first edition 1927), which became internationally influential for several decades. A series of lectures that Dave Henderson gave in New York were published as Psychopathic States in 1939 and 'ended up contributing to a narrowing of the public understanding of psychopathy as violently antisocial, though Henderson had described various different types, many of which were not violent or criminal'. Yes, there'll be a Type for every occasion if someone needs discrediting. The Henderson Hospital, a specialist national unit in London set up to manage and treat 'psychopathic' personality disorder, was named after him.
Such is the Pressure On Services for the many different Types described by Henderson that some people Slipped Through The Net:
Dave Henderson was physician-superintendent in charge at the Gartnaval Royal Hospital in Glasgow, 1921-32. Henderson's textbook on psychiatry has been described as the key to the 'Glasgow approach' to mental illness, and Henderson in turn credited the approach of Adolf Meyer with whom he had worked with in America. Henderson also studied for some months in Germany with a key founder of modern psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin, whom he admired but found lacking in sensitivity to patients. I can only wonder what Henderson must have witnessed when he worked with Kraepelin.
Henderson was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1949-51. He died on 20 April 1965 in Edinburgh.
Henderson taught Donald Ewan Cameron, who also worked at the Gartnavel Hospital. Cameron became President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Association and World Psychiatric Association, but is mostly remembered for conducting harmful experiments on psychiatric patients as part of the MK Ultra project.
Henderson's approach as expressed in his textbook 'is also thought to have influenced R.D. Laing'. I presume that Henderson was one of those people who convinced Laing that there was something terribly wrong with psychiatry, because Laing always maintained that what he saw at Glasgow Medical School and at the Gartnaval Hospital was brutal and gross. Sadly Laing seems to have taken the Prof Fergus Lowe approach to a clean sweep. In the way that Fungus overthrew Dafydd in the Psychology Dept at UCNW but replaced Dafydd's regime with his own which was equally as toxic and destructive, it is now very clear that R. D. Laing had feet of clay. While Laing attained the status of a guru and was feted by the world's media, he abandoned seriously ill patients and had others banged up in the very hospitals of which he was so critical. Laing's own daughter ended up in Gartnaval and it was said that he basically just let her rot in there although he knew how bad the conditions were.
Someone who knew both Laing and Dafydd told me that they were very similar people. They built up a media presence and promoted the notion that they were radical critics but it was all a cover for the abuse and exploitation of very vulnerable people. One of the Hergest Unit patients had worked with Laing when the patient had been a radical in London in the 1960s – I'm not sure that the staff of the Hergest ever knew this, it wasn't as if most of them took any interest in their patients – and he told me that Laing treated patients very disrespectfully. This man said that there would be a queue of desperate people hanging around in the waiting area, all booked in to see Laing, some of them having travelled many miles and paid a lot of money for the privilege, all wondering where Laing was. They would then be given a message that Laing had been seen in the UK a few days previously so he 'might' be coming to see the patients. Everyone would hang around for hours, Laing would not show and there would be no apology or explanation. Which is exactly what happened at nearly every 'clinic' that Dafydd held, except of course for his 'substance abuse' clinics, where he would flog the prescriptions, or his 'sex therapy' clinics…
Having said that the Hergest staff might not have even realised that they had a patient in their midst who had been at the centre of Laing's circle in the 60s, I wonder if someone somewhere did realise that this man had dirt on Laing? I noticed that this man was as neglected as any other Empowered Service User at the Hergest Unit and although he was quite seriously distressed he was herded into ridiculous inappropriate 'group activities' and 'therapies' which were so obviously ineffective, but he was far too polite to point this out. He was really well-read, had done a great many interesting things when he was younger and had known a lot of famous people but had just been dumped in Felinheli and was largely ignored. He also had a serious back problem which left him experiencing intractable pain and whenever he had sought advice for this in Gwynedd he was told to practice Mindfulness. Including by Tony Francis, who practised Mindfulness himself but took strong pain killers – opiates – as well and killed himself nonetheless.
I wonder if it was no coincidence that the man who had observed wrongdoing in Counter-Cultural Places had washed up at the Hergest Unit at a time when the Empowered Service Users were dropping like flies? Particularly as I was told by a few people that at one point Dafydd et al at Denbigh (!) were styling themselves as Laingians…
Laing's detractors used to maintain that Laing was getting through an awful lot of sexual relationships with female patients too.
Laing has been dead for a long time now and he lost interest in psychiatry a long while before he died, but a great many people would have had an interest in keeping that man whom I knew at the Hergest Unit quiet because of all the celebs and other Thinkers whom Laing hung out with whose reputations need to be upheld. Laing's old colleague Joe Burke continues to practice and is well-embedded within north London psychotherapy circles, all of whom know a great deal about some of those whom I have named on this blog.
I wondered if Laing had links with Bertrand Russell and the crowd at Croesor (see post 'The Village'), who knew what Dafydd and the gang were doing. Many of them had doings with the Dartington crowd and Laing used to make guest appearances at Dartington Hall. Indeed I was going to try and get to one such event myself in the early 1980s, because when I was young I was quite attracted to that sort of thing, but Brown and I subsequently realised that many of those involved weren't all that they were cracked up to be and that there was a great deal of fuckwittery involved. The Dartington website is currently emblazoned with a message telling us that 'Dartington is not just a beautiful place to visit. It attracts people with big ideas who want to change the world'.
I won't hold my breath, we've been here before.
Could the Artistic Director at Dartington please do something about Dafydd as well as Universal Credit while she changes the world? Diolch yn fawr.
To return to the daddy of them all at St George's, Desmond Curran.
Desmond was too level-headed to espouse any teaching in doctrinaire fashion and, although influenced by Meyer, developed his own pragmatic style of clinical exploration and practice in psychiatry. He achieved the feat of being appointed as consultant to St George's Hospital at the age of 31.
This was the beginning of something terrible.
With the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the Royal Navy, and established within it a worldwide specialist service in psychiatry – becoming its youngest surgeon-captain.
During that time, Curran gained knowledge of the shenanigans of those in Very High Places including Lord Louis Mountbatten, as described in my post 'The Defence Of The Realm'. It was concealing this which provided the powerbase for so many Top Docs as well as others, including politicians, who for the rest of their careers colluded with serious organised crime but were nonetheless considered untouchable. As a result, more than 40 years later, when I complained about a terminally ill lobotomist who was Of Them, some of the biggest names in psychiatry colluded to have me banged up for life, one of my best friends was murdered and there were attempts to murder Brown and his brother.
Sorry the Giants Of Psychiatry, but you're fucking mad. Even Lord Louis wasn't worth all this.
And what do you do?
We run a murderous sex abuse ring!
At the end of the war he returned to St George's and began work on what was to become the most important endeavour in the course of his long and distinguished career: the creation of the teaching hospital department of psychiatry at St George's Hospital.
Which by the 1980s was nothing more than a vehicle to facilitate a pan-European trafficking ring and the associated network of serious organised crime.
He had attracted to his side a number of men of clinical maturity and insight, including 'Bird' Partridge and Paul, later Sir Paul, Mallinson.
I will return to these men later in this post.
Desmond's exceptional clinical skills were the product of discriminating observation, an abundance of tolerance and compassion
Top Doctors excel in 'discriminating observation'. It is what allows them to carefully note that their patients were involved in benign school pupil pranks at the age of 17 which indicated that they were serious criminals in the making, while ignoring the fact that gangsters who are friendly with their Top Doc colleagues are trying to murder their closest friends. Furthermore, the only tolerance and compassion existing was that extended to Top Doctors who should never have been allowed to practice.
and an understanding of human personality progressively enriched over years of painstaking first hand study of patients.
Thus Desmond became an Expert who's conclusions could not be questioned by mortal souls, only by other Top Doctors. Who, Surprise Surprise, would always find themselves in agreement with Desmond when faced with a patient who was in possession of evidence that Well-Respected Men (or women) were doing things that they should not have been doing.
The force of his example in practice was emulated by his colleagues and students, and St George's became pre-eminent among the medical schools for its department of psychiatry. Its national and international renown increased steadily during the three decades in which Desmond served it.
Well fancy that. One can only wonder how, in the 1990s, after all those decades with Dessie and his Eminent Colleagues at the helm, that the most damning comments were made at a Public Inquiry about Springfield Hospital, the mental health unit attached to St George's where Dessie's colleagues housed their patients and carried out their global-leading ways. The Inquiry was held in the wake of a series of incidents at Springfield in which patients had murdered staff as well as each other and a number of sexual assaults on patients. Comments were made by the Chairman of the Inquiry that Springfield was in such a bad way that it was irretrievable and should be closed. At about the same time, a newly appointed Director of Nursing at St George's/Springfield resigned after a very short time, telling people that the situation at St George's was so serious that she could not 'turn it around'.
I had been a member of staff at St George's and a patient at Springfield (see previous posts) not long before that Public Inquiry took place. From what I saw, I could only conclude that the towering reputation of St George's and Springfield was predicated on bare-faced lies being told by a great many people and even more people feeling completely unable to say 'this is nonsense, have you seen what is actually going on here?'
His textbook Psychological Medicine, 1943, was written in collaboration with Erich Guttmann, one of the small group of eminent psychiatrists who sought refuge in this country from persecution in Nazi Germany.
It is an irony that many who fled Nazi persecution who were Top Doctors or became Top Doctors, were involved with the gross abuse of patients.
Including Sir William Asscher (who was really called Sir Adolph Asscher), who, after many happy years concealing the crimes of Dafydd et al in Wales, relocated to St George's where he subsequently spent many enjoyable years concealing the serious criminality in London which was linked to Dafydd's gang. Sir Adolph was called on to become Dean of St George's after Ollie Brooke, the Prof of Paediatrics at St George's, was jailed for the possession of child porn in Dec 1986 and the person who had been running St George's was deposed to show everyone that Lessons Had Been Learned. Ollie's mates, who were up to their eye-balls in it with him, remained at St George's and enjoyed full protection from Adolph. See previous posts. Top Docs were not the only professional group who exhibited this phenomenon, a great many lawyers who maxed out on their roles in fighting the Nazis or who even took part in the Nuremberg trials colluded with the organised abuse of which Curran, Dafydd et al were part, including that proud son of Wales, Lord Elwyn-Jones (see post 'Lest We Forget').
[Curran and Guttman's textbook] was to appear in numerous editions, including one with Maurice Partridge in 1955; recent ones having been edited by Curran's pupil, Peter Storey.
I'll be coming on to Partridge and Storey soon.
In 1961 Desmond was appointed the first professor of psychiatry at St George's Hospital. He developed a many sided academic department, including a large unit devoted to psychotherapy, the latter notwithstanding his reservations about psychoanalysis.
The Top Docs all 'had their reservations' about the whole field because they knew that much of it was nonsense. Nonetheless they developed their expertise in the field because tying everyone up in knots using discredited theory from the psy disciplines is the only thing that is going to save anyone's bacon in situations such as when a member of staff at St George's has been terrorised and then arrested on trumped-up but very serious charges by Dafydd and his colleagues and Dafydd admits that he wants to get his leg over her and his other patients. The sky's the limit for wacky theorising in the event of the St George's crew realising that some of their friends are mates with Dafydd et al and are not going to be able to get themselves out of trouble if anyone says anything like 'there needs to be a major criminal investigation into this'.
So I take my hat off to Dr Alice Levinson who excelled when she wrote her final report about me in 1991, in which she admitted that I showed no signs of psychosis at all, that I was suicidal as a result of what Dafydd et al had been doing to me, that I would be offered no care and discharged immediately but would be referred to the forensic team 'for containment' because it was agreed by everyone that I was Very Dangerous. The forensic team told me to move back to north Wales because Dafydd was my doctor and He Knew Me. See previous posts.
As everyone at St George's and Springfield had agreed with Dafydd that I was Very Dangerous and planning to murder him, I can only assume that Alice et al were secret agents who wanted me to kill the old bastard and give everyone a break. Sorry that I let you down on that one Alice.
Few senior psychiatrists burdened with manifold duties could have devoted themselves with such unswerving determination and energy to the professional advancement of those of his juniors whose clinical or scientific ability had earned his respect.
Now there's an admission. Des trained up a load of criminal junior Top Docs who had toadied to him and could be forever relied upon to keep the lid on the barrel of crap and then Des made damn sure that they rose to the very top of the medical establishment themselves… And, as Nicholas Parsons always stresses on 'Just a Minute', 'not just in this country but Around The World!!!'
His clinical eminence, and the publications he devoted to the classification of personality disorders, sexual deviation and antisocial and violent conduct, generated wide demand for his services.
Paedophiles In Distress, Paedophiles In Distress, an urgent referral to Des is required. No wonder that Norman Scott ended up in the hands of Des after his unpleasant experiences with Jeremy. The Jeremy who boasted of having had sex with both Ma'am Darling and her husband, Lord Snowdon.
I can't believe that I'm in the same category as Norman Scott, I and my friends were wowed by the Thorpe trial in 1979. I'm from Somerset and then I went to live in Bethesda and now I'm up with the nobs as the expression in Somerset always was. As would be said in Bethesda, Jesus Christ. I can only hope that this blog has delivered a crippling boot to their collective groins. Have this one on me Norman, Thorpe should have been inside, as the whole of the West Country agreed at the time, in spite of all the bollocks printed in the Torygraph about how no-one believed you. Oh yes they did.
He was a member of the Franklin Committee on punishment in prisons and borstals, the Wolfenden Commission on homosexuality, and he became adviser in psychiatry both to the Foreign Office and the Home Office.
Put this crooked lying bastard in every position possible where he can do real damage.
'There is no evidence that there was a paedophile ring in north Wales/Cheshire which was concealed at a high level'.
Brown always told me that Dafydd would have been in possession of a Home Office licence to be flogging all those prescriptions for Class A drugs and that a great many careers and indeed the whole Home Office would be dependent upon concealing Dafydd's activities. For years I thought that Dafydd was the only madman whom the Home Office had foolishly embraced, but no, they actively selected for madmen and they did it for decades, it wasn't just a case of one bad appointment..
He was president of the psychiatric section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1951-52, and of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association in 1963-64. Although Desmond did not originally favour the secession of psychiatrists from the Royal College of Physicians, he gave the new Royal College his full support once it received its Royal Charter in 1971. Many of its officers have reason to be grateful for his sagacious advice and support, and the exercise of his wide influence on its behalf during the early formative years.
I get the picture. Dafydd's been found in the women's dorm at 2 am again and someone won't shut up about it, can you ask Des to help out?
Desmond Curran was a man who knew his own mind; integrity, personal simplicity, sharp wit, keen sense of humour and unfailing kindness rounded a personality of rare distinction.
In no way was he a sadistic, crazed offender with links to serious organised crime. He was only ever a Nice Young Doctor.
It explained, in part, the undivided loyalty and affection he inspired in his many pupils.
One doesn't argue with a Mafia boss. Neither does one ever leave the Mafia.
The clinical excellence of those who trained under him, the scientific distinction of many, and the fine thriving department he created at St George's commanded respect for the subject he professed, as well as for himself,
This can only be an obituary published by the Royal College of Physicians…
among many colleagues in many disciplines, and enabled him to leave a lasting imprint upon the psychiatry and medicine of his time both in his own country and wider afield.
To quote Roobarb and Custard, 'they stood back – and gawped at the mess'.
He married Marguerite Claire Gothard in 1938. She survived him, with their two sons.
Oh God. Desmond Curran bred. There's descendants out there who will be flying the flag…
In March 2015, Professor Andrew Curran was appointed as Chief Scientific Adviser and Director of Research at the UK's Health and Safety Executive. Whether Andrew Curran is a relation I do not know but it would be worth someone finding out. Andrew's career highlights include his time as Deputy Chief Executive at the Health and Safety Laboratory and as Scientific Chairman of PEROSH (Partnership for European Research in Occupational Safety and Health).
Des died in 1985, so he was around for long enough to give Dafydd et al a helping hand in concealing serious crime after Mary Wynch and Alison Taylor raised the alarm and Des might just have heard that I had joined in the racket in his final days as well. Des was very much with us in 1979 when Jeremy Thorpe stood trial for incitement to murder and Norman was roundly insulted by the Presiding Judge, Sir Joseph Cantley, during the summing up. Des will have known that Norman was being hung out to dry by a corrupt old judge and that the trial had been very carefully rigged. It was admitted by Thorpe that one reason why his bent barrister George Carman QC was able to prevent some highly incriminating material from making an appearance at the trial was that it would have caused embarrassment to the Royal Family. Cherie Booth worked in George Carman's chambers until 1988 and Miranda was a junior barrister under Carman.
In 1976, Charles had been appointed Chancellor of UCNW (in fact Chancellor of the whole of the University of Wales, that was at the time made up of a number of colleges, including UCNW at Bangor), which was facilitating a branch of the same sex abuse ring that Desmond and his colleagues at St George's were concealing/had concealed for years.
In October 1975, Andrew Newton, who claimed that he had been paid to kill Norman Scott, made a bungled attempt to shoot Scott that resulted in the killing of the Norman's dog Rinka. Newton was arrested on charges of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, yet the press remained muted, possibly awaiting the bigger story that they hoped would break. Their reticence ended in January 1976 when Scott, in Court on a minor social security fraud charge, claimed he was being hounded because of his previous sexual relationship with Thorpe. This statement, made in court and thus protected from the libel laws, was widely reported.
On 16 March 1976 Newton's trial began at Exeter Crown Court, where Scott repeated his allegations against Thorpe despite the efforts of the prosecution's lawyers to silence him. Newton was found guilty and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, but did not incriminate Thorpe. The erosion of public support for the Liberal Party continued, which their former Leader Jo Grimond attributed to increasing lack of confidence in Thorpe. On 14 March, The Sunday Times printed Thorpe's answer to Scott's various allegations, under the heading "The Lies of Norman Scott". Harold Evans was Editor of 'The Sunday Times' when that article was published.
Scott was threatening to publish personal letters from Thorpe who, to forestall him, arranged for the Sunday Times to print two letters from 1961. Although these did not conclusively indicate wrongdoing, their tone indicated that Thorpe had not been frank about the true nature of his friendship with Scott. On 10 May 1976, amid rising criticism, Thorpe resigned the Party leadership, "convinced that a fixed determination to destroy the Leader could itself result in the destruction of the Party".
David Steel succeeded Thorpe as Leader of the Liberal Party.
My God, no wonder the distress flares were going up at UCNW. In 1976 Carlo was appointed Chancellor in favour of Dai Francis, the father of Dr Hywel Francis, Labour MP for Aberavon, 2001-15. Hywel Francis has remained on excellent terms with the paedophiles' friends and Top Docs throughout his entire life despite boasting of his dad Dai's Communist past and leadership of the South Wales NUM throughout the years of industrial unrest in the 1970s. Like his dad, Hywel was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. So Hywel and Dai knew all those other members of the CP of GB who knew about George Thomas, Dafydd's gang etc, including those English radicals/intellectuals who spent their summers in Llanfrothen/Croesor and had the best gen of all re Dafydd and Gwynne the lobotomist, including the gen on Bertrand Russell. See previous posts, including 'The Village'.
In 1974 Dai became the first Chairman of the Wales TUC. So although Dai gained much kudos from being a miners' leader when the miners did battle with Ted Heath and brought him down, Dai's role as Chairman of the Wales TUC will have given him the most powerful muscle of all – his knowledge of what the NHS/social care trade unions were concealing. Dafydd and the associated gangs…
Dai also knew that the beginnings of the NHS were rather more sordid than we are told, because he was involved with the miners' welfare associations before the NHS came into being. Dai will have known about Nye and Jennie buying off the Top Docs while Nye and Jennie shopped at Harrods. They didn't hang around south Wales for long.
For the full gen on Dai and Hywel see previous posts eg. 'Don't Mess With Daddy' and 'Hey, Hey DAJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?'
Hywel Francis was succeeded as MP for Aberavon by the Windbag's son Stephen, who, having spent nearly all of his life outside of Wales, many of his adult years outside of the UK and had managed to marry the PM of Denmark, returned to south Wales where his true heart lay, straight into a safe Labour seat. See previous posts.
All part of one big happy classless Gwerin! Bechod!
On 5 April 1976 Jim Callaghan became PM and governed by courtesy of the 1977 Lib-Lab Pact. While everyone kept quiet about Cyril Smith, what with Jeremy Thorpe being more than enough to deal with. Jim's wife Audrey Callaghan colluded with the abuse of children when she was a member of the London County Council and for the many years that she sat on the governing body of Great Ormond Street Hospital (see post 'Cry, The Beloved Country').
George Thomas was appointed Speaker of the House on 3 Feb 1976, the month before Andrew Newton appeared in Court after trying to shoot Norman. George Thomas was a child molester and this had been widely known in Parliament and in south Wales for years. George Thomas's close friend was Leo Abse, a bent lawyer who served as Labour MP for Pontypool and then Torfaen, 1958-87 and Abse bribed and threatened victims of and witnesses to Thomas's offences for years to protect Thomas (see post 'It Wasn't On Our Radar'). Abse was succeeded as Labour MP for Torfaen by Paul Murphy, who when he was Secretary of State for Wales took receipt of the Waterhouse Report and declared that he was delighted to have been reassured by Ronnie Waterhouse after an exhaustive and extensive Inquiry that there had been no paedophile ring in operation in north Wales involving VIPS, there was just a few local dirty old men. Paul Murphy is a Roman Catholic who is a Bachelor and has not been blessed with children.
Leo Abse came from a legal and medical/psychoanalytical family. His brother Dannie Abse was a well-known poet and Top Doctor. There was another brother Wilfred, who was a psychiatrist. Dannie and Wilfred both trained at Westminster Hospital and Dannie at least studied at Cardiff University first. Dannie also studied at King's College, London.
Dannie Abse was taught by George Thomas when Dannie attended Marlborough Road Elementary School. Dannie Abse mentions in his autobiography that George Thomas very obviously favoured boys from Jewish backgrounds – the Abses were a Jewish family – although Dannie Abse claims not to know why this was. Just to add to Dannie Abse's cultural mix, after he attended Marlborough Road Elementary School, he went to St Illtyd's College in Splott, Cardiff, which is a Catholic School. So Dannie Abse, by the time he was Top Doctoring as an adult, will have known about organised abuse in the Methodist, Jewish and Catholic communities in south Wales and elsewhere.
Paul Flynn, who has been the Labour MP for Newport West since 1987, also went to St Illtyd's. Flynn stood for election as the Labour candidate for Denbigh in the 1970s and in the 1990s he used to appear on Vincent Kane's TV programmes arguing with Dafydd with regard to Dafydd maintaining that the youth of Wales were suffering from reefer madness. Yet Flynn has never uttered a word about Dafydd's vast crime network although he does know about it. See previous posts.
When I was involved with work on the sociology of religion when I was working at Bangor, I too found links between Methodists – George Thomas was one of the UK's leading Methodists – and the Jewish community. I attributed this to both groups having a lot in common in terms of their socio-cultural values and aspirations and I later found out that the Jewish community in the north west of England actively recruited school teachers from north Wales because of the Nonconformity which dominated north Wales politically and culturally.
I cannot believe that there is anything about Methodism or Jewishness that promotes organised abuse, but close links between the two religious groups would provide a very big umbrella for abusers within the network. Nonconformists formed a regional elite in north Wales and they occupied most of the professional positions; as well as being Ministers of religion, they were the teachers, the doctors, the politicians, the lawyers, the scholars and for a long while they controlled the press. Nonconformists in north Wales were usually Liberals. There were Jewish communities in north Wales and some members were influential people, but there was a much bigger and more powerful Jewish community in south Wales, of which the Abses were a part. Their roots were often in poverty, but they gravitated to the professions, particularly law and medicine. There were of course many more and much bigger Jewish communities in England, again containing many people who worked in law and medicine, as well as in the financial services and politics. There was much anti-semitic comment regarding Margaret Thatcher's first Cabinets, because of the number of Jewish Ministers. (Thatcher was brought up as a Methodist and it was this that formed the basis of her good friendship with George Thomas.) The vast network of Jewish and Methodist professional people could have been very effectively used to protect abusers and I very much suspect that it was. How many of those within the network understood the full extent of what had developed I do not know.
I am wondering whether that network holds the clue to something that I've been puzzling over for months now, which involved Sir Martin Roth, another one of Dafydd's umbrellas. When the Royal College of Psychiatrists was established in 1971, there was much opposition by other Top Doctors who viewed psychiatrists as a laughing stock and not being deserving of a Royal College all of their own. However, Roth and a few others including Curran and co who were concealing organised abuse in High Places bulldozed ahead with a Royal College and got one. Then Martin Roth wanted a really grand building in which to house his Royal College, although the newly created Royal College had absolutely no money at all. Martin Roth however was able to acquire a building for his Royal College that even other Top Doctors envied; Roth bagged the palatial 17 Belgrave Square. Roth was only able to acquire 17 Belgrave Square because Marks & Spencer had given the Royal College a substantial unsecured loan on very favourable terms, a deal which Roth somehow thrashed out single-handedly with M&S. I have not been able to find out why M&S were so generous to Roth and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, although in subsequent years the Royal College moved out of the building which everyone knew that they could not afford and was feared would bankrupt the Royal College. I note that the widow of the late Chairman of M&S has been involved in initiatives of the paedophiles' friends. M&S were famously a Jewish company. I can only imagine that Roth called in a few favours. Which M&S might well have subsequently done as well after handing over all that dosh. See posts 'The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Connection'.
In the 1980s and 90s, I was told by lawyers in Bangor that there was no M&S in Bangor because local big wigs had got together and 'wouldn't let them in'. The lawyers obviously knew why this was but they wouldn't tell me. I was told that M&S were banging on the door of Bangor as hard as they could, but the Councillors Who Said Ni would not entertain the notion of an M&S in Bangor, although there was one in Llandudno. I'm fairly sure that this ban on M&S will be tied up with Dafydd's gang in some way, because everything was, but I have yet to find out how. One would have thought that Dafydd and the paedophiles would have ensured that M&S was the only place where one could shop… Or was there a fear that if M&S arrived, the rather hopeless little shops in Bangor would die a death???
In the 1980s and 90s, Bangor was OK for hippyish clothes and jeans and jumpers, but for the sort of 'Daily Mail' reader who in those days favoured M&S, it was a desert. For Ladieswear, there was really only 'Megan of Bangor', near the Cathedral, which was the butt of many a joke. 'Megan of Bangor' sold really, really naff clothes but at top prices. I theorised with Brown that 'Megan of Bangor' had purchased the clothes from suppliers of crimplenes and nylons but were flogging them at high prices pretending that they were of superior quality. One day Brown and I were sitting on the bench outside of the Cathedral and some elderly tourists walked past and one of them looked in the window of 'Megan of Bangor' and said 'oooh look at those prices, you can get those in the market at home for half the price'.
In my first year at UCNW, some of the other girls in our hall went out and purchased a truly vomit-worthy dress, I think from 'Megan of Bangor' and one of them put it on and she was photographed wearing the dress and the photos were posted up in the kitchen under the title of 'M&S Lady Of The Year'.
'Megan of Bangor' closed down in the early 1990s, but the premises continued the fine tradition of selling crap disguised as something special. It was replaced by a shop called 'Saks' that sold kitchenware and 'Saks' tempted people in by putting nice stuff in the window. Once inside 'Saks' however, rip-offs could be spotted. For example, 'Saks' were trying to flog, at high prices, those tartan blankets for inside of cars, which at the time were going free with petrol purchases. I went in there with Patient F and we just pissed ourselves laughing at this scam. We were frozen out of the shop, but our mirth had obviously touched a nerve, because when we next went past, a handwritten notice had appeared on top of the rugs saying 'Real Wool. You don't get this quality with petrol coupons'. Which just made us laugh even more. Over the following weeks, all the items in the window of 'Saks' were decorated with similarly snooty labels, explaining to the customers that it wasn't really rubbish, it was worth paying through the nose for.
There was another Ladieswear shop nearby in Menai Bridge that was owned by the wife of one of the lecturers in the School of Plant Biology, the lecturer known as The Most Boring Lecturer On Earth. He 'did' mosses and bryophytes and one of my mates did her final year project with him and I asked 'oh God how can you bear it?', but she said that he was actually very nice, but he really hated lecturing which is why he read his lecture notes out in a monotone without looking at the audience. Like everyone else, The Most Boring Lecturer On Earth will have known about his colleagues facilitating a paedophile ring. He had contacts at Oxford, one of whom then gave my friend a place to do her PhD there.
This is weird, because I bumped into this Bangor grad when I was out walking in Bethesda in the early 1990s, after I had been hounded out of St George's and had returned to Bethesda. She came back to my place in Rachub and we exchanged Horrific Experiences. I told her about St George's and she told me that after she'd finished her PhD, she got a job in Oxford and was very badly bullied, so much so that she developed clinical depression and was forced of her job. It all sounded very familiar. She subsequently became very ill and told me that as far as she could see, she was being left to kill herself by the mental health services in Oxford, she said they really were negligent. She never had any problems when she was a student at Bangor, but she did know how I and others had been (mis)treated. Furthermore, she originally came from Bristol, which is where Dr D.G.E. Wood's family ruled over the medical services. I wonder – did those we know and love realise that this was another student who knew that not all was as it should be and who was gunned down in the Massacre of 1991, when so many of us Who Knew were stuffed over?
One person whom this Bangor grad did know was the student in the Dept of Plant Biology who became engaged to a Muslim girl who's family had lined her up for an arranged marriage and who threatened to kill him. This was common knowledge, they went into hiding as soon as they graduated, but just like when I told Wood and Adrian Bell that someone was threatening to kill Brown, their plight was simply ignored…
The Ladieswear shop that wife of the The Most Boring Lecturer On Earth owned in Menai Bridge sold even fewer clothes than 'Megan Of Bangor', in fact it sold so few clothes that the wife of the Most Boring Lecturer On Earth covered the windows in that yellow cellophane stuff that prevents clothes going off when they've been in the window for years. But at least the Most Boring Man On Earth and his wife weren't receiving murder threats. Or I presume that they weren't.
Another shop that provided much entertainment a few years later was a shop in Bethesda owned by a lady known as Mrs Racist, because she was rather, er, racist. After Diana was killed in the tunnel, Mrs Racist filled the shop with naff but very expensive Di memorabilia. One of my friends from the Hergest Unit – someone else who had been targeted by Dafydd and the gang – invited me to go to the shop to marvel at the overpriced Di mementos. F and I knew that Mrs Racist was a racist but I didn't think to warn my friend, so we all went to Bethesda to take the piss out of Mrs Racist's stock. My friend's brother was getting married in South Africa, so the story that she span to Mrs Racist was that she was looking for a present for her brother's bride. Mrs Racist's ears pricked up when my friend said that she was going to South Africa for the wedding and that her brother was marrying a South African girl. Mrs Racist looked at my friend and said 'White? White? Is she white?' So my friend said 'no she's black actually' and I thought ooh I should have given an advanced warning… Mrs Racist's expression fell and she then conducted an interrogation of my friend regarding as to who was going to the wedding, which simply consisted of repeatedly asking 'White? White?' As there were far too many guests going who were dangerously black, we were pushed out of the shop.
Mrs Racist probably thinks that I don't know this, but her husband was an electrician who was involved in a building scam with local builders and building societies. Corrupt surveyors would be commissioned by building societies in Gwynedd to compile reports stating that work needed doing on houses for which people had put in offers. If the purchasers didn't agree to have the work done, the building society would not lend the money for the purchase. Everyone knew that the surveyors reports were coming back saying that all the houses needed a damp proofing course even when they didn't and usually a demand was made that the house should be rewired. I caught them red-handed, a twat arrived at a house that I knew had been damp-proofed and said 'it needs a damp proof course..' No-one offered an explanation when I provided evidence that it had already been damp-proofed.
So perhaps Mrs Racist aka the wife of the man who owned Dob Electrical in Tregarth could tell us all what was going on. If Mrs Racist and Dob are no longer with us, then their son can fill us in, because he was the one who sat in my house drinking a paned for TWO HOURS before he even lifted a finger – the idea, Dob junior, is that you drink the paned while you work – and while supposedly rewiring my intended house which did not need rewiring, did a really, really bad job, left wires sticking out of walls and did not bother to finish the plastering. Nevertheless, I was charged thousands so that Dob senior, Dad, could sign on the dotted line as required by the building society to ensure that the dosh would be released.
The building societies in Bangor participated in the scams and included National & Provincial.
We knew what was going on scumbags, but you had the whole of Gwynedd rigged…
Particularly Bethesda. Corrupt police officers, corrupt builders, open drug dealing in the Royal Oak in Rachub – by the one favouritised client of Slob Ingham the CPN from the Arfon Community Mental Health Team – was ignored, class A drugs as well, not just a bit of mari-jew-ana – attempts to set fire to houses of those who had crossed the path of the gang…
Dafydd grew up in Bethesda.
In terms of rigging in High Places, Jeremy Thorpe's family were friends with David Lloyd George's family. Ronnie Waterhouse also came from a well-known Liberal family in north Wales and Waterhouse's dad was friends with the Lloyd Georges. The Lloyd Georges were of course a family of lawyers. The Deputy Principal of the Normal College in Bangor knew Lady Megan Lord George; the Deputy Principal also knew Dafydd. The Normal College trained and employed a great many people who colluded with the North Wales Child Abuse Scandal. There was only the occasional Normal College alumnus who was actually caught and convicted and I don't believe that the place routinely produced child molesters, but the problem was that most of them knew at least some of what was going on and turned a blind eye, which led to enormous problems with an operation like Dafydd's at work in the region.
The man who wrote a pack of lies for the Royal College about the world's greatest Nice Young Doctor, Desmond Curran, was Sir Martin Roth.
Sir Martin Roth (6 November 1917-26 September 2006) was Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, 1977–85, then Professor Emeritus and was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1977. He was one of the pioneers in developing psychogeriatrics as a sub-specialty. Roth was also a Trustee of the Schizophrenia Research Fund, a charity founded by Miriam Rothschild. Not only did Martin Roth know about Dafydd and the gang, but there was a big network of people in the Cambridge area with links to Dafydd, including Jonathan King, Baroness Jean Trumpington and Tuppence and his fragrant wife Lady Mary Archer. Roth lived for years after the publication of the Waterhouse Report to keep the lid nailed down. See previous posts for info on these people and Roth.
Carlo went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where Rab Butler was appointed as his special counsellor. Rab knew Trumpers and the rest of the network… See previous posts.
Among the many things omitted from the account of Curran's life provided by Martin Roth was Curran's involvement in some extraordinary matters in the late 1930s, of which I found details in some very interesting letters written by Curran from his Wimpole Street address that are stored in the Wellcome Library in the Eugenics Society Archive. One letter, dated 8 May 1939, concerns a patient who is engaged who wishes her fiance to undergo sterilisation because she does not consider him suitable to breed as a result of some of his relatives having conditions such as epilepsy or 'psychosis'. She is requesting Curran's help – whether her fiancé actually knows that she has approached Curran regarding this matter is unclear, it is simply mentioned that the young man is currently in South Africa. It is not impossible that the young man himself knows nothing of this plan, because Curran is involved in some almost unbelievable plans with certain patients.
Another letter from Curran is dated 11 March 1938 and is addressed to a Dr C.P. Blacker at 28 Weymouth Street. It concerns a patient whom Curran describes as 'a Jewess' who is caring for 'an elderly whining Jewish mother'. The patient is married to a man who is unfaithful and who contracted gonorrhoea. Curran writes that the gonorrhoea has been treated but 'his seed is not active'. Curran explains to Dr Blacker that Elliot Slater had suggested 'artificial impregnation'. Curran writes 'if the King was not willing to provide active seed, she could possibly get some from a distinguished scientist or author or whatever quality she wanted'.
Yes, Curran seems to believe that there is a possibility that the KING might be willing to donate sperm to a well-to-do patient of Curran's whom he seems to be helping acquire elite sperm. Before I receive e mails demanding that I be thrown into the Tower for making this up, go online to the Wellcome Library, go to the archives of the Eugenics Society and see those letters for yourselves – there are photographs of them. It is there in black and white, there is no doubt about what is written, it is crystal clear – Curran was going to approach the King to see if he would be willing to donate sperm. That would have been George VI, the present Queen's father. This really puts Charles, Diana and Camilla into perspective…
Did the King offer this sort of service regularly? It couldn't have been completely unthinkable or Eliot Slater would never have suggested it.
For further details of the plans that Desmond Curran and others had for the King's sperm, see post 'The Case Of The King's Sperm', which I wrote some time ago before I realised quite what an enormous crazy bizarre mess the Top Doctors had created.
One of Curran's closest colleagues at St George's was Maurice Partridge. Now let's see what the Royal College of Physicians 'Lives Of The Fellows Online' says about Maurice Aubrey Partridge.
Maurice Partridge was educated at Shrewsbury School
Sir Charles Evans went to Shrewsbury School, although he was a bit younger than Partridge. However Top Docs do love alumni networks.
and Balliol College, Oxford.
Ted Heath studied at Balliol and under Ted Heath's Gov't, Dafydd and the gang expanded their business unimpeded. Heath was PM when Barbara Kahan, a senior social worker who had colluded with child abuse in the Oxford area, along with her husband the child psychiatrist Dr Vladimir Kahan, was appointed a Gov't adviser on children in care (see post 'Always On The Side Of The Children').
He did his clinical studies at Guy's, for which he retained much affection and where he lived in bachelor rooms in the Warden's House for many years, although a consultant at St George's.
So Partridge had a foot planted firmly in both camps, Guy's and St George's and was a Bachelor as well. Ted Heath was a Bachelor who was not blessed with children. Dafydd's mate Professor Robert Owen trained at Guy's.
After Guy's he trained at the Phipps Clinic (Johns Hopkins) where, like many British psychiatrists of that generation, he was deeply influenced by the psychobiological approach of Adolf Meyer. Following service in the RNVR during the war, where he rose to the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander
Here we go again, Hello Sailor and of course Hello First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Louis Mountbatten…
he spent a short time at St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton,
St Andrew's was an asylum with a terrible reputation. St Andrews featured in the media in 1986 when the Evil Jeremy Bamber was convicted and imprisoned for shooting and killing his sister and her two children. Bamber has always denied the murders. Sheila was the former model known as Bambi who had been a patient at St Andrew's. Top Doctors from St Andrew's gave evidence for the prosecution at Bamber's trial although it later became clear that they did not have as much knowledge of Sheila as they claimed, having quite seriously neglected her. Jeremy Bamber is someone else whom many believe has been the subject of a serious miscarriage of justice (see post 'Family Annilihation') but was convicted of a crime so 'Orrible that he was convicted and imprisoned amidst a tidal wave of emotion and tabloid headlines involving Murder, Sex, Models, Insanity, Evil Sons Who Stood To Inherit Millions, Children and Top Doctors Who Cared and Could See Into People's Hearts.
In recent years St Andrew's has served as a privately owned hospital taking state-funded patients who are adults with learning difficulties, who have often been removed from the care of their families by Top Docs and social workers against the wishes of them and their families. There has been scandal after scandal at St Andrew's, with allegations made of brutality towards learning disabled patients and at least one man died after Angels 'restrained' him, or more accurately 'choked him to death'.
before his appointment to St George's Hospital, where he was one of a triumvirate with Desmond Curran and Sir Paul Mallinson. These men made St George's pre-eminent in psychiatry in the post war years; with a well developed department of psychiatry within a teaching hospital at a time when similar hospitals were in a string-and-sealing-wax stage.
Whereas St George's was a well-oiled machine for concealing Naughtiness in High Places.
Maurice was only involved in one major research project,
But he became Eminent nonetheless
a follow-up of 300 patients after prefrontal leucotomy, but that was splendidly carried out and led to an influential publication, Pre-frontal leucotomy, Springfield,Ill.,Thomas, 1950, the only one of its kind at that time.
I haven't read this contribution to medical science yet, but I am wondering whether any of Gwynne the lobotomist's victims were among the 300 followed up and whether Partridge was one of the nutters who advocated lobotomy on the grounds of the beneficial effects that it conferred upon patients in that the Angels found it so much easier to Manage Them after the 'operation' – they no longer objected to being physically and sexually assaulted, being capable of doing little more than vegging out in a chair all day – or whether Partridge was one of those who found that lobotomies had such dreadful consequences for most people that the procedure pretty much died out by the early 1960s. Except at the North Wales Hospital Denbigh of course, where Gwynne continued to enthusiastically wield the pick in the direction of anyone who objected to Dafydd and others joining them in bed. Cardiff University remained lovingly attached to lobotomies, so attached that in Sept 1999 – four months before the Waterhouse Report was published – they gave Lena Zavaroni one and she died shortly afterwards. Lena's death was followed by some not very honest explanations from the University Hospital Cardiff. Not that Lena or her nearest and dearest were told that she was being given a lobotomy, they were told that she was having a 'new treatment for depression'. After I blogged about Lena's case, I received an e mail from a Top Doctor telling me that the operation that Lena had was a cingulotomy. I appreciated the explanation but I remembered this e mail that I had received previously from someone who has spent years watching Top Doctors harm their patients:
'Once upon a time the people who had been neglected, mistreated or sexually interfered with in the care of the health or social services could be lobotomised before they started complaining too loudly. Eventually, that started to become unacceptable even if you tarted it up by saying that you were going to remove an epileptogenic lesion or were going to give them a cingulotomy or something like that. This then leaves you with the problem of all those people who might complain about what's going on. You might succeed in calling them 'substance misusers' and refer them to Dafydd (for goodness sake make sure that none of them have the chance to speak to that man from Liverpool) then they can be plied with whatever drugs they ask for. Maybe you can get them arrested and once they've been inside no-one will believe them anyway. Maybe you can make them very dependent and withdraw care so they're likely to kill themselves. Maybe you can style yourself an expert in pharmacology and give them drugs in mixtures and dosages that violate the manufacturer's recommendations and put them at risk of choking, heart attack, etc. If you get really desperate you can invite them all to a party and then throw a petrol bomb into the building. You can be a bit more selective and just sexually abuse people to whom you suspect that it's already happened so they've already been softened up by someone else and if they say you've done it to them as well you can say it's just transference or some sort of post-traumatic psychosis. The fact that you can't lobotomise them anymore doesn't mean the party's over, you just have to get a bit more creative. If Dafydd really was prescribing morphine, heroin and the like to people, there must have been a lot of folks helping him. To give drug users heroin for example you'd need a Home Office licence. However there are a few doctors in this country equipped to do this and who do so. Indeed, maintaining people on prescribed doses of heroin is sometimes referred to as the 'British System' abroad and it's been going on since the early 20th century. So people in senior positions would have been involved in enabling Dafydd to gain the licence and make sure that he stayed out of trouble to keep it. A lot of people's careers, livelihoods and even liberty depended upon Dafydd doing this job. So no wonder they were propping him up. And, apparently, still are.'
Which sums it up nicely.
[Maurice Partridge was also] co-author with Curran of their textbook Psychological Medicine, Edinburgh:New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1980, in which he managed to incorporate some very amusing footnotes.
The humour of Top Doctors often pivots upon the distress that they have caused patients, so there'll have been plenty of material for Partridge's stand-up at the St George's Christmas Review.
At St George's, Partridge was a popular teacher, and he and his two consultant colleagues provided lectures on psychiatry to all comers, at Hyde Park Corner, alternating with neurology given by Denis Williams and Hamilton Paterson.
Except it won't have been to 'all comers', I would be surprised if, for example, patients and their relatives attended those lectures.
Maurice Partridge was an extremely amusing man: dry, ironic, and with a superb gift of timing when telling stories.
There will have been many stories, particularly on the patients' medical records.
He became a well known after-dinner speaker in rather limited circles, because he was basically a shy man and turned down invitations to larger gatherings.
Bechod! So Partridge's stories were only shared among a discerning few then. They weren't the sort of stories that after-dinner speakers like John Humphrys can tell to a packed room who have paid him thousands for the privilege which might well appear in the press a few days later.
Everyone called him 'Bird', and his signature when writing to friends was a little wavy line which looked like the outline of a seagull. His holidays were always spent in extraordinarily remote places. Long before there were package tours to the Himalayas, 'Bird' was already sending cards and letters from places like Nepal.
Ah, a Doctor was never off-duty in those days! They were always there for patients and the hours were long and the pay not very good, Duw, it was hard. When Bird, Charles Evans and Anne McCandless weren't having a great time trekking in Nepal that was.
His appearance was a little eccentric.
Dafydd et al always took notes re their patients' appearance. Dafydd noted that F was 'a man with pleasant manners and casual attire', so one wonders why there were so many allegations about F striking fear into the hearts of Top Doctors, Angels and social workers. When I asked F what he thought of Dafydd, F replied 'I thought that he was a bit of a twat'. I caused WW III when, after I read the libellous crap that Dr D.G.E. Wood and Gwynne had written about me, I sent Wood a letter asking if Gwynne's medical notes recorded that he had false teeth, trousers with the crotch down by the knees and a liberal covering of Brylcreem. Wood denied that anything libellous had been written about me and then they altered the records. I could see the tippex, it was hilarious. Brown then wrote to Wood saying 'I note that a number of crude alterations have now been carried out on Sally's records' to which Wood replied 'there have been no alterations made to any records'. Brown and me could SEE THE TIPPEX and the retyping. Well I've acquired even more copies of amended and forged documents now, dozens of them.
I still do not know if Gwynne's records noted those teeth, trousers and Brylcreem, but I do hope so. My records contain evidence of all sorts, an Afghan hat, a mini-skirt, hiking boots, a rucksack, Doc Martens, although not all at once of course. I wonder why they didn't just document that I'd arrived at the Hergest Unit naked, riding a horse, Lady Godiva-style. It's not as if anyone ever worried about complete fiction appearing on the records.
The Royal College of Physicians were obviously as experienced in the art of observation as Dafydd et al:
He was short and rotund, untidy, usually wore thick tweed suits even in summer, and always had a large, coloured handkerchief in his breast pocket which he used to flourish and then mop his brow. He looked rather like Pickwick, but plump rather than fat. He was a good squash player and took part in matches with the students, and others. On the hottest days he would wear a white sweater on the court, and on occasions would leave the court between sets and return wearing an extra sweater; which was usually worth two or three points against a student opponent.
I am someone who will defend anyone's right to wear however many jumpers they wanted to wear in whatever climate, but I can only imagine to what ends Bird's attire would have been used if he had been an Empowered Service User…
Maurice was a kindly and cultured man, helpful to his juniors, much respected as a clinician and colleague and his death has saddened many.
He also facilitated a VIP trafficking ring. Maurice pegged out in 1984, which was also the year that George Thomas was hospitalised as a result of an STI and Leo Abse and the Top Docs lied to the press about the reason for Thomas's hospital stay. Dafydd lost a valuable ally when Partridge croaked, no wonder Sir Charles Evans was forced to retire in that year and the rather better camouflaged paedophiles' friend Professor Eric Sunderland was installed as Principal of UCNW.
This account of Bird and his life was provided by Peter Storey, 'a distinguished consultant psychiatrist at St George's Hospital, London, greatly respected as a clinician and teacher and author of the later editions of the classic textbook 'Psychological medicine: an introduction to psychiatry'. Rather than yet another dishonest crazy butcher who was completely out of control.
Peter Brett Storey is now in that great consulting room – or more probably bar – in the sky, along with so many others who provided the many umbrellas under which Dafydd sheltered. Storey died in 2008, at the end of yet another life dedicated to serving the cause of Dafydd and the gang. Storey was one of Desmond Curran's students.
The Royal College of Physicians 'Lives Of The Fellows Online' has of course published an account of Peter Storey's life and works.
Peter Storey was a distinguished consultant psychiatrist at St George's Hospital, London, greatly respected as a clinician and teacher, and author of the later editions of the classic textbook 'Psychological medicine: an introduction to psychiatry'. He was born in Whitley Bay, where his father, Henry Storey, was a master builder and company director. He was educated first at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Storey got in early to avoid the rush. Newcastle-upon-Tyne hosted the trafficking ring which like so many others was preceded by organised abuse which went back a long way. The ring in Newcastle supplied Dafydd's gang with both staff and children from the 1970s onward.
During the war the pupils were evacuated to Penrith, and when they returned he changed to Mill Hill School, which had also been evacuated nearby. He then moved with it when it returned to London. He qualified in 1953 at St Mary's Hospital Medical School.
St Mary's isn't really posh like Tommy's, but it likes to think that it is quite posh enough to be pompous about it. St Mary's has got a Posh Bit, namely Lindo Wing, which was sufficiently posh to be deemed to be acceptable for the delivery of Prince William. Di suffered unnecessarily nonetheless, not because of the insufficient poshness, but because Sir George Pinker screwed up. Pinker was a colleague of Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain, the Prof of Obs and Gynae at St George's who was a friend of Ollie Brook as well as of Cilla Black. Chamberlain was colluding with Dafydd et al as well as Ollie's gang in London. Despite Di being less than happy, more Royal babies have been delivered at Lindo Wing. Whether that is because the Royal Family haven't realised the cock-up re William's birth or whether it is because St Mary's are considered to be a Safe Pair of Hands for other reasons I don't know. See previous posts for info on George Pinker.
Subsequently he spent three years in the Army and was promoted as captain in the RAMC, having enlisted at the time of National Service.
He then completed three years in acute general medicine in Portsmouth and six months in neurology at Atkinson Morley Hospital, associated with St George's Hospital.
They were fully on board with Dafydd et al at Atkinson Morley by 1990…
He trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, where he passed his London University academic diploma in psychological medicine (DPM).
Dafydd 'trained' at the Maudsley. Dafydd didn't pass through the Maudsley until the early 1960s, but there was already organised abuse at the Maudsley by the time that Dafydd arrived. Dafydd 'trained' under Dr Bob Hobson, who was notorious. Hobson's obituaries make no mention of him being known as someone who, along with his team, was shagging patients, but other Top Docs had coded ways of writing letters to each other to flag up patients who had the dirt on Hobson's lot. Hobson decamped to Manchester University in 1974 and his colleagues at London claimed to be surprised and not know the reason why. Hobson of course set up a trafficking ring at Manchester. Tony Francis worked with Hobson's lot at Manchester as did Sadie Francis. For the Drs Francis it was then from Manchester straight over to Dafydd's gang in response to the distress flares which were sent up after the Mary Wynch case when reinforcements were called for. See post 'The Mentor' for more information on Hobson and Manchester and 'A Galaxy of Talent' for information on the grandiose idiots who held the fort at the Maudsley. 'The Discovery of a Whole New Galaxy…' provides the background of the gang at Manchester who preceded Hobson and who subsequently spread their wings taking their toxicity with them far and wide.
He spent two years as a research fellow at Atkinson Morley's, where he carried out at an important study showing major psychiatric, personality and emotional sequelae from subarachnoid haemorrhage. He had previously undertaken the first well-controlled study using air encephalography to investigate chronic schizophrenics, which, although small in size and failing to demonstrate abnormalities, can be seen today as a forerunner of later studies using CAT scanning and other modern imaging techniques to show abnormalities.
Oh classic Top Doctors' hype, 'although small in size and failing to demonstrate abnormalities' it was of course a forerunner. If I had conducted a piece of research which was small in size and didn't show anything at all I don't think that I'd bother to publicise it, I'd get on with something more fruitful.
But then Dafydd was Europe's Leading Forensic Psychiatrist.
He was then a senior lecturer in psychiatry at St George's for four years and in 1969 was appointed as a consultant psychiatrist at St George's and at Springfield Hospital, near St George's in Tooting, and then becoming closely linked.
So THIS is the Mr Big who blended the Knightsbridge Crooks To The Nobility with the south London trafficking gang which had been in operation for many years in the Wandsworth/Tooting area. I wondered who did that. I suspected that when Harold Wilson's Gov't drew up plans to relocate St George's from Hyde Park Corner to Tooting that it was something to do with the ring at Tooting, but I didn't realise that the St George's trafficking psychiatrists had made the link to Springfield as long ago as 1969, when they were still all living it up at the Hyde Park Corner site.
In 1971, with the foundation of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, he was awarded the MRCPsych.
They all were, at the time the Royal College put in strategies to ensure that every consultant psychiatrist came out with a prize, even Dafydd, because it was acknowledged that so many of them were hopeless and would not pass an exam under normal conditions. In the same spirit that Brown and me were systematically marked down because we had this annoying habit of doing quite well in exams having crossed the path of Dafydd's gang. Oh shit they've both topped 90% again, MOVE THOSE GOAL POSTS…
He was greatly respected as the best psychiatric clinician at St George's, and was also elected by his colleagues for six years as medical administrator at Springfield, where he brought about many improvements and greatly fostered the link with St George's, which culminated in Springfield being recognised as a university hospital. For nine years he also saw students at Imperial College.
Of course Mr Big was 'the best psychiatric clinician at St George's' he was organising the whole ring and bringing more and more Distinguished Eminent Doctors on board, including those at Imperial, which was under the rule of Lord Brian Flowers, who grew up in Swansea (see previous posts)…
Harold Wilson's resignation was undoubtedly something to do with this ring and I suspect that it was related to Jeremy Thorpe's activities getting so out of hand that Harold though that this was all going to blow up on his watch and in a very big way, but I need to do some more digging…
Harold Wilson waved through a huge investment to build the new St George's Medical School at Tooting, it was a flagship development. Planned for and given to a gang of people traffickers to run…
[Storey] developed a large and successful private practice. He saw many survivors of three major disasters with post-traumatic stress – the sinkings of the cross-channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise (March 1987) and the Thames pleasure cruiser Marchioness (August 1989), and the Lockerbie plane crash (December 1988).
As these events were all in the recent past, I suggest that someone takes a fine toothcomb through everything related to them. They were all famous cock-ups that took place on Thatcher's watch with legal implications of nightmarish proportions.
He was invited to become a co-author of a widely-used textbook, Psychological medicine, written by two eminent St George's figures, Desmond Currran and Maurice Partridge seeing through its 7th to 10th editions (1972 to 1986), and ultimately becoming its sole author. He retired from the NHS, but not from practice, in 1987.
So Storey had everything completely sewn up with Curran and Partridge and the three of them dominated the scene and trained Top Doctors up to those of my generation. Not that Storey even bade a fond farewell in 1987; well he didn't dare, Brown and I had started mouthing off about Dafydd by then and furthermore we were two postgrad students rather than kids in care…
In 1991 he retired completely, and with his wife decided to return to his earlier roots, in Penrith.
No, he won't have gone completely, although 1991 was the year in which his mates at St George's forced me out of medical research. This bastard was never going to go, there was far, far too much at stake…
A few years later he developed progressive Parkinson's disease. He was however for some years able to be a member of Penrith Golf Club, where his father had been captain in 1958, and to continue with fell walking. In retirement he also took a variety of evening classes, in French, conversational Italian and pottery, and completed two Open University courses in literature and history.
None of this will have been benign. I would not have thought that one could make much mischief at Penrith Golf Club, but Peter Storey will have and when he was fell-walking and when he was in his French evening classes and at the conversational Italian and at the pottery and while he was in his OU classes, he will have been networking and organising throughout all of it… Who played golf at Penrith and was in those evening classes with Storey???
Two possibilities: Willie Whitelaw and William Bingley. Whitelaw concealed the crimes of Dafydd et al in every position that he held for years and years and he had a house in the Lake District. William Bingley – who's parents Admiral Sir Alec Bingley and Lady Juliet concealed abuse involving Mountbatten et al in an earlier era (see post 'The Defence Of The Realm') – colluded with Dafydd and all associated gangs when he was Legal Director of MIND and then when he was Chief Exec of the Mental Health Act Commission. After that, Bingley was Professor of Mental Health Law and Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire (2000–04) and was non-executive Director of Morecambe Bay Primary Care Trust (2000-06), which also managed local mental health facilities, then Chairman of North Lancashire NHS Primary Care Trust. Morecombe Bay was the Trust who concealed dangerous midwives whose idiocy and lies resulted in the deaths of many babies. Bingley resigned as Chair of North Lancashire NHS Primary Care Trust three weeks before he died, after he was exposed as running a financial scam with the NHS from which he personally benefited. Bingley died in Aug 2011 in a fell-walking accident. Perhaps someone gave him a shove, after all Operation Pallial had just been launched and there was going to be a review of the Waterhouse Inquiry.
|The Viscount Whitelaw
I have only just realised that Bingley's mum Lady Juliet did her social work training in Liverpool. Which is where Lucille Hughes trained and where Dafydd studied medicine… Lady Juliet was appointed Chairman of MIND in 1979. Which was the year that Mary Wynch languished in the North Wales Hospital Denbigh, illegally imprisoned…
Willie Whitelaw was appointed Home Secretary in 1979. He served as Lord President of the Council, 1983-88, which meant that during those years he was the visitor to UCNW…
Willie believed in getting tough on young thugs and giving them a short sharp shock. It didn't work on the boys from Bryn Estyn because they were already accustomed to being gang raped at gunpoint, although Willie knew that, he'd worked very hard to cover it all up for years.
Willie wasn't a Bachelor and he had been blessed with children, but I wouldn't have put anything past him frankly.
[Storey] was a man of many interests, cultural and sporting, with a positive outlook and a dignified presence. In his London years he was very much engaged in opera, and a regular attender at Covent Garden. He was a keen golfer, squash player, mountain walker and skier, continuing into his 60s.
He picked up a few more elite mates at the opera then. Nicky Mitchell-Heggs, the corrupt occupational health physician at St George's Hospital Medical School, liked going to the opera. See previous posts.
At St Mary's he was a rugby player, until an injury with two prolapsed intervertebral disks ended his rugby career. He married in 1952, while still a student, Ann Geraldine Murray. He was survived by his widow, two sons and two daughters, and seven grandchildren.
Oh God. Seven grandchildren. They are myriad, they are legion… They won't be working in MacDonalds.
Peter Storey died in 2008, so he was on hand to help with Waterhouse… Storey was also alive and kicking when all those people were trying to remove Merfyn Jones from his job as VC of Bangor University.
Did you know anything about it all Miranda?
There is another old fossil that I need to cover in this blog post as well, another of Desmond Curran's colleagues, Sir Paul Mallinson, who was with us until 1989.
Paul Mallinson came from two worlds, the timber trade and farming, and made medicine his calling. A shy and private man, he blossomed within his work where his kindness and infinite capacity to care could be formalized. Generations of patients and trainees have cause for gratitude.
Another shy, private bunny who always hid his light under a bushel throughout his entire life, which was somehow spent Caring, while working hand in hand with a bunch of ruthless gangsters of the finest pedigree.
He went to school at Westminster before studying medicine at Oxford and St Thomas' medical school, and entered psychiatry in 1937.
So Mallinson predated Dr Death at Tommy's…
He spent the war years in the Royal Navy working under Desmond Curran and afterwards joined him at St George's Hospital in London.
What better introduction to his future career could Mallinson have had?
The service and teaching programmes he and Curran developed, together with Maurice Partridge, became pre-eminent amongst the London teaching hospitals. For many years the Saturday morning postgraduate teaching at Hyde Park Corner, combined with neurology contributions, was the basis of formal training for countless young psychiatrists aiming at the DPM.
Curran and his mates infected the whole profession…
The outpatient department became famously located at No 15 Knightsbridge, and the inpatient unit at Atkinson Morley's Hospital in Wimbledon.
It sounds rather posh for the likes of Empowered Service Users, but from what I remember, Jeremy Thorpe or someone close to him payed for Norman's 'care' at the hands of Curran. Before Ed's Uncle Harry's NHS Looked After The Poor, wealthy people who had found themselves in a tight spot often footed the bill for the Top Doctors to 'care' for a distraught person who was making worrying allegations about them. Reading biographies of posh people who suffered at the hands of other posh people I've been quite taken with how often Top Doctors were paid good money by charitable abusers to cause their victims even more distress and I'm not just talking of Freud and The Case Of Dora, which is always the example given when questions are asked about Freud and his motivations. Lord Lucan's wife always maintained that 'her' Top Doctor – a Private Psychiatrist – was working on behalf of her husband, not her. Where did poor Lady Lucan end up when someone bludgeoned her over the head after/before killing the nanny? St George's Hospital. Where she was accused of being mad. In true Top Doctor style, Lady Lucan was noticed to be distraught and not making much sense tch tch and making the most extraordinary claims about her husband, that lovely man who did nothing but gamble the family fortune away while hanging out with John Aspinall who kept wild animals who kept eating their keepers. Oh please, someone marry off a few of the Top Doctors to some grade A gits and let the gits bludgeon them over the head after murdering someone else, admit the bludgeoned Docs to St George's and let me know when all this happens. I'll turn up and film the fun and then show screenings free of charge to every Empowered Service User who has ever been on the receiving end of this lot.
Paul's beloved Rover car always proudly bore the registration plate '15K AMH'.
Dafydd's corrupt policeman friend Elfed Roberts drove a penismobile with a number plate with the letters EWR, so I always knew when Elfed had turned up at Bangor University to cause problems for me, even when he wasn't actually sitting in his penismobile shrouded in the 'Daily Post' as he so often was.
The professional and intellectual climate in the department was second to none,
Oh don't titter…
sceptical yet benevolent to a marked degree. Training as a registrar in these circumstances was a joy,
Nay, nay and thrice nay
so that the author of this tribute [I'll come to him shortly] had no qualms about turning down a post at the Maudsley Hospital when the opportunity arose to work at St George's instead.
I can imagine that many people would have been torn having to choose between two such opportunities…
Neither Mallinson or Curran did much research themselves, though their consummate clinical knowledge and skill led to several memorable publications of a clinical kind.
This is a familiar story re those Distinguished Eminent colleagues of Dafydd's. As with David Davies, who was the Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley when they let Dafydd in, the Davies who built his global reputation as an expert in alcoholism after conducting a study of seven alcoholics, a number of whom Davies later realised weren't actually alcoholics after all (see post 'The Discovery Of A Whole New Galaxy…'), Mallinson and Curran will not have done very much of anything except pompousing and gunning down anyone who might have acquired dirt on the rich and powerful, but they'll have written a few things on the back of their zilch knowledge and that will have been enough for them to have been lauded as Outstanding Clinicians and Clinical Teachers.
The ludicrous thing is that the students and juniors whom this lot lorded it over were fully aware that they were the King's New Clothes, but because most of those students and juniors would go on to build their own careers on the basis of the King's New Clothes themselves, no-one ever did the job of the little boy in the crowd who yelled out 'look they've got no clothes on'.
Almost every registrar working with them was inspired to become embroiled in clinical research within a year or two, and the subsequent publications are still sometimes quoted thirty years later.
Yes, I've just commented on how it works…
At least five of their registrars eventually went on to established university chairs.
And it is highly likely that they won't have actually been robust academics, although they'll have done the right favours for the right people and continued to do so. Some decades ago, FIVE PROFS trained at the knee of a trafficking gang who had no knowledge of psychiatry. What does that tell us about the state of psychiatry? Those profs will have been turning up in court as expert witnesses, they'll have been taking decisions as to who to section for months on end or who to send to live with Jimmy Savile in Broadmoor or who to deny treatment on the grounds that they were 'not ill' when they were too ill to function. It is a nightmare and it is why when Dafydd put on his best grave voice and said to me years ago 'Everyone is saying the same thing about you. Can we really all be wrong?', I replied 'yes, because you're all mates and you're all a bunch of liars.' Furthermore Dafydd, you'd previously rung me up and offered me a place at Liverpool Medical School in return for dropping my complaint about you after telling me that I was a 'remarkable person' and Brown was listening in to that call…
As were MI5, but no, they weren't going to interrupt this fuckwittery.
'We are all saying the same thing'. Take your pick:
Paranoid schizophrenia; Process psychosis; Manic depressive insanity; Bizarre personality disorder; Paranoid personality disorder; Homicidal; Remarkable Person; Attractive and seductive; Anti-social Personality Disorder; Bipolar I; Bipolar II; Borderline personality disorder.
Anyone want to give the tombola another spin???
Brown once suggested a few diagnoses that Dafydd could use, such as Chapel Psychosis and Cottage Ignition Syndrome. We were having a laugh at the time, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if someone in Denbigh ended up with being diagnosed with those syndromes.
Dafydd mustn't worry, I know what is wrong with me. It's a wandering womb and over-education for my feminine state, it really has turned my mind.
Paul used to go to endless trouble to help his juniors in their careers – more often by simply being empathic to their aspirations and a sound judge of their abilities, coupled with his wish to help them fulfil themselves.
This translates as 'he ensured that those who kept their mouths shut and toadied to him were given a boost, which resulted in his lackeys and partners-in-crime holding key positions of responsibility to keep the show on the road.'
His own conscientious approach, his endless clinical curiosity, open mindedness and modesty, provided a model which was irresistible.
I never encountered this man, but I encountered those whom he 'influenced' and 'mentored' and 'inspired'. In no way did they live up to this spin.
Trainees subject to his influence changed
I saw them post-transformation. It was not a pretty sight.
– as did countless patients. Many young doctors were privileged to share something of his home life. They would spend summer holidays, with their wives and children, at his lovely Bembridge home, where Paul indulged his love of cricket, sailing and gardening.
Bembridge is on the Isle of Wight. So Paul Mallinson invited his coterie and their families for upmarket holidays at his place. It would be nice to think that shameless toadying to a crooked old git in return for crumbs from his table would not be so common as to pervade medicine and effect practice, but from what I saw it does. Geoffrey Chamberlain held summer garden parties at his place in Wimbledon to which everyone was invited, which I think were designed to rub in how important and influential Chamberlain and his wife were. At least Chamberlain and his wife did make pleasant chit chat to their guests though. Chamberlain's friend Cathy Wilson, the Reader in Reproductive Physiology in the Dept of Obs and Gynae, owned an even more impressive place than Chamberlain. Cathy lived at Notting Hill Gate and she too held parties there where the catering could not be bettered. What did Cathy do at her parties? She got pissed and hurled abuse at people. But they returned, time after time. People were aghast when I told them that no, I really would not be wasting my free time chez Wilson. It was simply emphasised what I would me missing – ooh she's got such a beautiful house, the food will be fantastic etc. Well yes that was true, but it came with Cathy Wilson. One day after there had been a great deal of frostiness towards me because I really was not going to go to a party at Cathy's – I tolerated her appalling conduct at work because I don't think that one should cause WW III with one's colleagues when one is being paid to do a job – I was interested to hear what had happened at the Notting Hill Gate party. Cathy had got pissed and screamed racist abuse at a Yugoslavian junior doctor and she'd had a screaming row with a consultant. Well that was a surprise.
For the same reason I turned down all the invitations to join the St George's Wine Club. It was finally noted by Nicky Mitchell-Heggs that I 'didn't really fit in with the rest of them'. No and I was most relieved that I didn't and I had no intention of doing so. They were a bunch of vacuous tossers who wasted their money on bottled water and courgettes, treated people like turds and furthermore they were facilitating a paedophile gang. But at least they partied with Cilla and Prince Edward and Nanette Newman turned up to their ball, which for some baffling reason actually meant something to them.
In his day he was president of the St George's medical school club, and also of its cricket club, and he knew most of the undergraduates fairly well. He eventually retired from St George's in 1969 but continued to practice privately until he was 70 years old.
Mallinson was probably in Wine Club as well.
He was the third baronet and succeeded his father in 1943.
Cathy and Chamberlain would have moved so fast to attend his parties that they'd have broken their legs.
He was married first to Elia Mary Guy in 1940 and they had a son and two daughters; one daughter is a doctor.
They are myriad…
The marriage was dissolved in 1968. His second marriage was to Dr Margaret Cooper Bowden, a former pupil of his
I wonder if Margaret Cooper Bowden was any relation of Bluglass and Dafydd's mate Paul Bowden, another Eminent Distinguished London-based psychiatrist who was also colluding with serious organised crime?
There is a great deal of shagging the boss in medicine. I don't have a problem with that if the people involved actually like each other, but medicine is so dysfunctional that very often they don't. It all looked like a very high risk activity to me. Top Doctors become very traumatised if you are not participating in the shagfest, it's an even worse crime than not going to Wine Club.
and her care – and his stoicism and good humour -made bearable his prolonged final illness. She survived him, together with the three children of his previous marriage.
So the old bastard had someone to look after him when he spent a few years with Parkinsons and she'll have inherited the dosh. There'll have been a fight over the will – after all, where there's a will there's a relative – and the children of the dear departed loving father will all be using the old git's network to bag themselves powerful positions.
Who wrote this tribute to the trafficker who invited those assisting in the crime to live it up with him on the Isle of Wight? One Professor Arthur Crisp. Crisp is now dead, but Arthur Crisp was very much alive when I was working at St George's and when I was a patient at Springfield in early 1991. Crisp was a specialist in anorexia and like everyone at the phenomenal Psych Dept at St George's, Crisp was a towering figure, 'with the best clinical outcomes' of any eating disorder specialist. I know how Crisp achieved his phenomenal results. An Angel who worked at Springfield told me and was remarkably honest about the magic formula. Crisp discharged any patients who refused to eat when they were in the unit and he would not treat them again. So the most seriously ill patients who er, didn't eat, were refused treatment. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, even higher than manic depression. One of the symptoms of anorexia is a refusal to eat, no matter how malnourished one is or how much pressure is put upon one. So Crisp didn't actually treat anorexics, he treated patients with less serious eating problems who could bring themselves to eat.
Any cardiac specialists out there who fancy improving their outcomes by not treating people with heart problems? Your patients will make a fantastic recovery if they're not actually ill.
Arthur Crisp will have been discharging those patients to die and everyone knew that. One outcome of sexual abuse in some people is the development of eating disorders. Crisp and his colleagues were facilitating a paedophile/trafficking ring. So which patients was Crisp treating??? Or refusing to treat?
Crisp's junior doctors are now to be found in the most senior positions re eating disorders. One of his juniors, Adrienne Key, became the Director of Eating Disorders for The Priory Group. I remember Adrienne Key, she was working as a junior doctor in Springfield when I was there. I and other patients watched Adrienne routinely slam the door shut in patients' faces when they tried to talk to her. She wouldn't even reply to the desperate greetings of 'oh hello Dr Key'. Adrienne would march through the ward, straight into the nurses office, slam the door in the face of anyone who dared approach and if they stood patiently waiting outside of the door, an Angel would emerge and shout at them to go away and leave Dr Key alone. The callousness was breathtaking.
Not long after I left St George's Adrienne Key and Tom Burns featured in a TV documentary called 'Minders', which Showed Life In A Mental Hospital, ie. Springfield. I presumed that it would be yet another PR piece, but incredibly enough it wasn't. The documentary makers had not edited as the Top Docs usually bank on them doing. They screened everything and my, did Adrienne and Tom look bad. They actually did exactly what I remember them doing to patients, but I don't think that they ever expected it to be shown on TV. Adrienne turned up on the doorstep of a vulnerable man accompanied by the police, with no warning and snapped at him that he was coming with her, NOW, or these police would handcuff him and she carted the man off to Springfield. He was terrified and confused, there was no attempt at communication with him, simply Adrienne snapping 'you are ill and you are coming with us'. The problem was that the man had a belief that his hair was blue. However it was very evident that this was the only 'symptom' that he had. He had been coping at home, he was OK, he wasn't even distressed, but he did think that his hair was blue. At Springfield he was sectioned and forcibly injected with massive doses of anti-psychotics. He reacted very badly to them, began dribbling uncontrollably and shaking. He continued to maintain that his hair was blue, so they upped the dose. He sat there repeating 'look what you've done to me, look what you've done'. Tom said 'yes we have done this to you because you think that your hair is blue and it is not'. There was no attempt to titrate the dose yet alone give him any side-effect medication, which should be routine.
The grim reality of what Tom and Adrienne did to this poor sod caused uproar and there were a great many complaints about bad practice at Springfield Hospital. Tom Burns demanded that he be allowed onto Channel 4 to defend himself. Burns was filmed saying 'you made us look like the Gestapo'. Indeed they did Tom. Because they filmed what you actually did to people rather than take orders from you as to only show the bits where you were keeping a civil tongue in your head.
I was ordered to see Tom Burns myself by Nicky Mitchell-Heggs, in the wake of me refusing to drop my complaints about Dafydd et al when ordered to by my colleagues at St George's. Nicky told me that Tom Burns was the loveliest man that she knew. Tom Burns was very personable until halfway through the interview, after I'd told him what was happening in north Wales. Burns interrupted me and said 'you think I'm an idiot don't you? You think that I don't know that this is going on and that I'm naive. Well I do know and I believe everything that you've told me about them'. Burns then told me that psychiatry 'attracts disturbed people' and that this was causing great problems.
After I left Burns's room I never heard from him again. Years later, when I acquired my medical records, there was the documentation from Mitchell-Heggs and Burns. Burns had told Mitchell-Heggs that I wasn't psychotic but that I might have a paranoid personality disorder. He told her that I was not a danger to anyone. After Dafydd et al tried to have me imprisoned and I was given bail on condition that I stayed in Springfield, Mitchell-Heggs had written to Burns again. He told her that he 'didn't think that he had anything to offer'.
Burns admitted to me that he knew about the serious criminality in north Wales. Tony Francis, Dafydd and Lucille were directly in contact with Wandsworth Social Services and Springfield Hospital with regard to me, I have all the documentation to prove it. Burns's colleague Dr Robin Jacobson stated in writing that Dafydd was sexually exploiting patients and that he thought that Tony Francis was as well. No-one mentioned a word of this to me. I was discharged from Springfield with no follow-up care and told to go back to north Wales because Dafydd was my doctor no less.
Tom Burns was later given a Chair at Oxford University. Burns is in the same Dept at Oxford as Professor Mark Williams, who left Bangor University for Oxford at about the turn of the millennium. Mark Williams worked with Dafydd and the gang for years and he knew what they were doing. See post 'The Biggest Expert Of The Lot'. I think that Williams got his Chair first and then Burns, from the London branch of the same ring, joined Williams at Oxford.
Tom Burns was a mental health adviser to Blair's Gov't. It was Burns who recommended that the Gov't impose Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) on thousands and thousands of people. When Burns came up with that terrifying proposal, he was told that it would result in mental health patients who were not guilty of any crime being pinned down in their own homes by the police and forcibly injected with anti-psychotic medication that they did not want. Tom sneered and reminded everyone that Top Docs don't behave like that.
Tom has now admitted that CTOs 'haven't worked as he expected' and that yes rather a lot of them have been issued and er OK, there have been some rather worrying incidents. Involving the police forcing their way into people's homes and pinning them down while they are injected… Some Empowered Service Users have run away from home and disappeared to escape CTOs.
What did Miranda think was going to happen when he appointed a member of a trafficking gang as his adviser on mental health? Miranda will have known what was going on at St George's, because he and Cherie had both worked in George Carman's Chambers when Carman was concealing the trafficking ring…
And we were supposed to believe that Merfyn was the problem!
Whoops, looks like you've been caught out Miranda!
It's the fucking Welsh again as Miranda is no doubt shouting at the TV right now…
For more information on Arthur Crisp, Adrienne Keay, Tom Burns and the other funsters who ran a pan-European trafficking ring while working as Top Doctors and Gov't advisers, see previous posts…