Alison Saunders DPP
Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge
London
SE1 9HS
Tel: 020 3357 0000
CC
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe (Met Commissioner)
Det Chief Superintendent Alaric Bonthron
(Head of the Metropolitan Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards)
Commander Neil Basu (Head of Operation Elveden)
Detective Inspector Daniel Smith (Operation Elveden)
John Whittingdale MP
George Eustice MP
John Whittingdale MP
Sir Gerald Howarth MP
5 November 2013
Dear Ms Saunders,
In your role of Chief Crown Prosecutor (London) I have been copying you into the correspondence relating to my complaints against Piers Morgan and others which I made to Operation Elveden in January 2013. I now write to you in your new role of DPP.
To recap. I have presented Elveden with a prosecution on a plate. I have supplied Elveden with a letter from Morgan to the PCC when he was editor of the Daily Mirror. In it he admits receiving information from the Met Police in circumstances which can only have been illegal. In that letter Morgan writes “The police source of our article (whose identity we have a moral obligation to protect…”. A facsimile of the letter is attached. I would be willing to stake my life on that being the only letter the Met have ever had which has a Fleet Street editor admitting to illegally receiving information from a Met officer.
My complaint has been in the hands of Elveden for over nine months, while Det Chief Superintendent Bonthron has been sitting on the complaint for several months. I have not heard from him since 23 September.
I am asking you to intervene because we are in who shall guard the guards territory here. The police are ignoring cast iron complaints and their only plausible motive for doing so is the power and influence of those accused. I would welcome a meeting with you to discuss the matter.
The complete correspondence relating to my complaints is below.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
I received no reply to this email
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Ms Alison Saunders DPP
Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge
London
SE1 9HS
Tel: 020 3357 0000
CC
Mr Dominic Grieve (Attorney-General)
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe (Met Commissioner)
Det Chief Superintendent Alaric Bonthron
(Head of the Metropolitan Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards)
Commander Neil Basu (Head of Operation Elveden)
Detective Inspector Daniel Smith (Operation Elveden)
John Whittingdale MP
George Eustice MP
Sir Gerald Howarth MP
mark.lewis@thlaw.co.uk
9 December 2013
Dear Ms Saunders,
I wrote to your predecessor Keir Starmer on 25 July (copy below) asking him to intervene in Operation Elveden’s failure to investigate rock solid evidence which I had supplied to them in January of serious crimes ranging from the illegal supply of information by a Met Police officer or officers to the Daily Mirror when Piers Morgan was editor to perjury, misconduct in a public office and a perversion of the course of justice.
On 16 August Gregor McGill, Head of Organised Crime Division of the CPS replied “ The CPS has no power to instruct the police to carry out an investigation. That is a decision entirely within the discretion of the police.” A copy of his letter is below.
I did not believe that answer at the time and a case has arisen which contradicts Mr McGill. In December Acting Detective Constable Hannah Notley was convicted and jailed for four months for failing to investigate a claim of rape. Action was only pursued by the police after a third party (not the police) approached the CPS directly. The Daily telegraph article directly below contains the details.
My complaints against Piers Morgan et al have suffered the same fate. I have submitted cast iron evidence to Operation Elveden which has not been acted upon. Consequently, once again I ask you to take up this case and ensure that my complaints of serious crimes are investigated fully. I also seek a meeting with you to discuss the matter because it has implications which extend beyond my complaints, namely, the seeming willingness of those within the police and justice system , including the CPS, to deliberately suppress complaints which involve those with power, wealth and influence.
I have been copying you into the complete correspondence surrounding the case , both in your previous role as Chief Crown Prosecutor (London) and as DPP. Hence, you should have the full picture available to you. If for some reason you have not kept details, please tell me by return and I will supply you with the complete correspondence relating to the affair.
I have attached the Piers Morgan letter in facsimile in which he admits receiving information from a Metropolitan Police Officer in circumstances which can only have been illegal. I do this because it is the most dramatic and readily accessible piece of evidence in the whole affairs. That Operation Elveden have not acted on such clear evidence long ago tells you something is seriously amiss.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
Daily Telegraph
Detective jailed after failing to investigate alleged rape
Acting Detective Constable Hannah Notley never submitted papers on the case to the Crown Prosecution Service
By Rosa Silverman, and agencies
2:32PM GMT 06 Dec 2013
An alleged rape victim attempted suicide after a detective failed to properly investigate her claims and told her the case was being dropped, a court has heard.
Acting Detective Constable Hannah Notley, 30, visited the woman at her home in February last year and told her she was “gutted” about the apparent decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to bring a prosecution.
Everyone in the office believed her, she said, and even gave the woman a kiss and a hug.
But in fact Notley, a specialist trained in handling cases involving sexual offences, had never submitted the papers on the case to the CPS.
Instead, she fabricated a report to her superiors and failed to correct an assumption that the case had been investigated and passed on to prosecutors.
She also blamed the alleged victim for taking too long to report the allegations.
In April 2012, after an independent representative supporting the alleged victim contacted the CPS, Notley finally confessed, and last month admitted a single charge of misconduct in a public office.
The Essex Police detective was found to have committed a “gross breach of trust” in neglecting to look into the rape claim between July 6, 2011 and February 21 last year while based at Rayleigh Police Station.
She was jailed for four months at Southwark Crown Court today.
read more at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10500744/Detective-jailed-after-failing-to-investigate-alleged-rape.html
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From: Enquiries <enquiries@cps.gsi.gov.uk>
To: “‘anywhere156@yahoo.co.uk'” <anywhere156@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, 13 December 2013, 13:39
Subject: Re: Operation Elveden
Dear Mr Henderson,
Thank you for your email of 5 November 2013.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is responsible for reviewing and, where appropriate, prosecuting most criminal cases in England and Wales , following an investigation by the police. The CPS has no power to investigate allegations of crime and will only advise the police if a police file is submitted to it. It is for the police to decide whether or not, or how, they will investigate an allegation that is referred to them.
I note your dissatisfaction with the way the police have handled your concerns. If you wish to complain about the police you should contact the complaints and discipline department of the relevant police force. You can also write to the Independent Police Complaints Commission at 90 High Holborn, London , WC1V 6BH .
I hope that this information is of assistance and I apologise for the delay in responding to your enquiry.
Yours sincerely
Parliamentary and Complaints Unit
Public Accountability and Inclusion Directorate
Crown Prosecution Service
Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS
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Alison Saunders DPP
Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge
London
SE1 9HS
Tel: 020 3357 0000
CC
Mr Dominic Grieve (Attorney-General)
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe (Met Commissioner)
Det Chief Superintendent Alaric Bonthron
(Head of the Metropolitan Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards)
Commander Neil Basu (Head of Operation Elveden)
Detective Inspector Daniel Smith (Operation Elveden)
John Whittingdale MP
George Eustice MP
Sir Gerald Howarth MP
mark.lewis@thlaw.co.uk
17 December 2013
Dear Ms Saunders,
You will find below the CPS’ answer to my email to you of 9 December (not 5 December). The first thing to note is it has no name attached. That would not be acceptable in any state agency. It is particularly reprehensible in one which is at the heart of the justice system.
The second angering thing about the email is this:
”The CPS has no power to investigate allegations of crime and will only advise the police if a police file is submitted to it. It is for the police to decide whether or not, or how, they will investigate an allegation that is referred to them.”
As I supplied a recent example where the CPS did intervene after being approached by a third party following the failure to bring a charge of rape, the claim that the CPS cannot instruct the police is demonstrably false. This is what I wrote in my previous email:
“In December Acting Detective Constable Hannah Notley was convicted and jailed for four months for failing to investigate a claim of rape. Action was only pursued by the police after a third party (not the police) approached the CPS directly. The Daily Telegraph article directly below contains the details.” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10500744/Detective-jailed-after-failing-to-investigate-alleged-rape.html).
I want you (yes, that you Ms Saunders) to explain to me why so blatant a piece of police misconduct as the failure to investigate Piers Morgan after I supplied the police with a letter written by Morgan in which he admits receiving information from the police in circumstances which can only have been illegal does not warrant the same action by the CPS as that taken in the case involving Hannah Notley. Please write to me with your explanation by return.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
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