Subject: Staffordshire Police and David Southall
Wednesday, 12 July 2000
Dear Mr Gregory,
I
do believe that our paths have crossed before in relation to allegations of collusion
between David Southall and Senior Social Worker Martin Banks, I actually find all
this a bit disconcerting that allegations I have been making over a very long period
of time about Southall, police and social services and collusion, all seem to fall
in the one lap. Is it not contravening regulations to undertake this type of self-investigation?
To
the matter in hand; My children were originally questioned by DS Durbar on February
5th 1999, this took place in my sitting room whilst I was voluntarily making a statement
to another female police officer from the child protection team in the kitchen. In
the sitting room were my twin girls then aged 8 and my other two daughters Olivia
and Rebecca aged 5 and four, the idea was that DS Durbar would keep the children
occupied in order to speed up the process of me making this VOLUNTARY statement.
Interestingly
the day before I had been at Staffordshire Police HQ with DI Noden and DS Durbar
to submit evidence of police collusion and the unauthorised use of CVS at North Staffordshire
Hospital and making allegations that a child was allowed to be assaulted under CVS
on many occasions without intervention by the four doctors watching the unauthorised
covert taping. I had asked DI Noden on Thursday 4th Feb to immediately instigate
a full police investigation into what I deemed to be criminal negligence resulting
in serious harm being inflicted upon an innocent baby in the name of research.
The
evidence I had was a police witness statement made by David Southall in September
1992. This document had a confidentiality order put on it back in 1996, I don't suppose
it was ever supposed to surface in the public domain. I wonder now how much this
had a bearing on the way in which I have been treated given Noden's involvement with
Southall. However back to my complaint, whilst I was giving my statement DS Durbar
returned into my kitchen and stated "it's amazing what children tell you when you
ask them questions" I looked up and stared hard at him, he went bright red and said
"only joking" I actually at that point thought it was a veiled threat, as in "your
children have told me the truth, I hope that you have told the truth" not for one
minute did it cross my mind that a child protection officer would do what he did.
The
statement was finished and I subsequently let the officers out of my home and it
was at that point that my children, all crying babbled out that the policeman had
been asking them lots of questions about Natasha Alexander and when they had become
uncomfortable he had prevented them from coming to see me. My daughter Charlotte
was quite hysterical as he had physically prevented her from coming to see me. This
all took place BEFORE I was arrested and charged.
Then some months later in April
I think I was arrested and 6 police officers entered my home and whilst I was away
from my children, getting dressed I think, yet again they were questioned without
my knowledge or consent by Staffordshire Child Protection. Now I have to ask that
as the child who had been missing was in the care of Sunderland LA by this point,
what was Staffs child protection doing in my house at all? This was now purely and
simply a CID matter, my children weren't at risk - well not from myself anyway. Then
some time later again I was arrested again, this time by uniform however the warrant
was signed off by DS Bufton again child protection.
Then we have the horrendous situation
in which after I first made a police statement, prior to my arrest parent's houses
began to be raided by police officers from around the UK. Mothers who had been accused
of MSbP who had no knowledge of the family of the missing child all had their premises
searched. Based on what evidence? From whom? The only person that had all the names
and addresses of parents was their accuser David Southall, so in essence David Southall
picked up a telephone and subsequently made allegations with no evidence and as a
direct result mothers who had already been victimised once, were revisited on the
instigation of a doctor who had his cohorts in Staffordshire Police Child Protection
to obey his every wish. This is an utter disgrace and I want immediate action taken.
I
will be copying this letter to various official bodies.
Penny Mellor
www.slimeylimeyjustice.org