To: Rt Hon Theresa May MP
Home Secretary
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
CC Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP (Attorney-General)
Alison Saunders (DPP)
G McGill (CPS Head of Organised Crime Division)
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe (Commissioner)
Commander Neil Basu (Head of Operation Elveden)
Detective Inspector Daniel Smith (Operation Elveden)
John Whittingdale MP
George Eustice MP
Sir Gerald Howarth MP
9 March 2014
Dear Mrs May,
Operation Elveden are failing to investigate serious crimes committed by Daily Mirror staff despite having cast iron evidence. I provided the evidence.
The full story is in the correspondence I reproduce below -. However, I realise that you are an immensely busy woman, so to take you to instantly to the heart of the corrupt behaviour of Operation Elveden please read first the attached facsimile letter Piers Morgan sent to the PCC whilst editor of the Daily Mirror. In this letter he admits receiving information from the Metropolitan Police in circumstances which can only be illegal, viz: “The police source of our article (whose identity we have a moral obligation to protect)…”.
The other document you need to read is my initial email (dated 21 January 2013) to the then head of Operation Elveden Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh – see first document below this letter. That will give you the background to and the range of crimes Elveden are failing to investigate.
I have provided Eleveden with a copy of Morgan’s letter, together with other evidence of criminal behaviour on the part of the Mirror’s erstwhile Chief Crime Reporter Jeff Edwards, in receiving information illicitly from the police. I have also supplied Elveden with evidence that both Morgan and Edwards perjured themselves before the Leveson Inquiry. Finally, there is the misconduct of the police in not investigating these crimes for which they have cast-iron evidence.
Despite having the Piers Morgan letter (amongst other very strong evidence), DI Daniel Smith (see letter dated 13 June 2013) informed me that no investigation would be undertaken without giving any meaningful explanation.
The Metropolitan Police’s ’ Directorate of Professional Standards is now supposedly investigating the failure of Operation Elveden to investigate the crimes I have reported to them. However, they have had my complaint for more than seven months and have not come to a judgement.
As you will see from the correspondence, I have also tried without success to get the DPP to act on what is a clear failure on the part of the police to investigate serious crimes .. They have made the spurious excuse that they cannot direct the police to investigate a complaint. The excuse is spurious because in a recent case of rape they had done just that. That involved Acting Detective Constable Hannah Notley who wilfully mishandled the investigation. After a third party intervened with the CPS the matter was taken up by the police, viz: : “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.” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10500744/Detective-jailed-after-failing-to-investigate-alleged-rape.html).
Since I made my complaint to Eleveden I have not been interviewed by any person from Elveden, the DPS or the CPS, this despite my frequent requests to be interviewed and to give a formal statement. This is a very strong indication that all of those in the police and justice systems who have been involved with the matter know very well that my complaints are exceptionally well founded. They will not meet me because they do not know how to tell me to my face that black is white.
I ask you to take up this matter and to use your influence to get my allegations of criminality investigated thoroughly. I would greatly welcome a meeting with you to discuss the matter.
If the police are not brought to book over this, it will mean they are a law unto themselves.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
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To: Rt Hon Theresa May MP
Home Secretary
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
CC
Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP (Attorney-General)
Alison Saunders (DPP)
G McGill (CPS Head of Organised Crime Division)
Det Chief Superintendent Alaric Bonthron (Directorate. of Professional Standards)
Detective Chief Inspector I Tim Neligan (Directorate of Professional Standards)
Chief Inspector Andy Dunn (Directorate of Professional Standards)
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe (Commissioner)
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
18 March 2014
Dear Mrs May ,
My email to you of 9 March concerning the criminality of Piers Morgan, Jeff Edwards and D-Supt Jeff Curtis jolted the Department of Professional Standards (DPS) into a decision. After months of prevarication it provoked an immediate and definite response from the DPS in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Tim Neligan ‘s email which you will find below (https://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/piers-morgans-criminality-the-met-polices-directorate-of-professional-standards-prodded-into-action/). I doubt whether any disinterested third party would think it anything other than a panicked reaction to the stimulus of superbly founded complaints of extremely serious police misbehaviour being circulated to influential people.
DCI Neligan’s email to me bears all the hallmarks of having been cobbled together in a tremendous rush, resting as it does very heavily on cut and pasting from the previous correspondence arising from this case and the reiteration of spurious reasons why no investigation is to be made. He rejects my complaints by ignoring the conclusive evidence of both the initial offences of which I complained and my further complaints about the behaviour of Operation Elveden officers who have failed to investigate the clearest of evidence of serious crimes.
On my complaints about Morgan and Edwards receiving information illegally from the Met , DCI Nelligan simply ignores the damming evidence I have supplied, most notably the letter from Morgan to the PCC in which he admits to receiving to receiving information from a Met officer in circumstances which can only have been illegal. With my accusations of perjury by Morgan and Edwards, he unquestioningly accepts Detective Inspector Daniel Smith’s opinion that perjury had not been committed despite the fact that DI Smith provided no meaningful explanation of why he had come to that conclusion. The transcript of the Leveson hearings which I gave to Elveden points very strongly to perjury.
As for D-Supt Jeff Curtis, the fact that he did not interview Morgan, Edwards or anyone else at the Mirror is conclusive evidence of a wilful and criminal failure to investigate. The failure of the then Police Complaints Authority to Act when I complained of Curtis’ failure is clear evidence of a wilful and criminal failure to address my complaint honestly. The refusal of Operation Elveden to start an investigation of D-Supt Curtis when faced with such strong evidence of criminality as the Morgan letter and a tape recording of Curtis promising me that he would interview Morgan is clear evidence of a wilful and criminal failure to act on clear evidence of criminality on Curtis’ part. The failure of the DPP to act on the spurious ground that they cannot direct the police to investigate is clear evidence of a wilful and criminal desire to stop this matter becoming public knowledge.
In short, all DCI Nelligan has done is accept unquestioningly what previous officers and authorities have claimed was the case. He has made no attempt to assess the evidence I have provided.
This scandal comes down in the end to the age old question of who shall guard the guards? At every stage of the complaints I have submitted there has been a wilful determination by those within the police and justice system to ignore evidence which on its own is enough to bring charges. Right from the time I made the initial complaint to the Metropolitan Police (which was eventually dealt with by Jeff Edwards) there has been a failure to investigate not because of an absence of evidence but because of the strength of the evidence and the people involved.
I could get nothing done while Labour was in power because the story behind Morgan’s letter and the Mirror article which led to Morgan writing the letter to the PCC leads ultimately to Tony and Cherie Blair. The Blairs attempted to have me prosecuted on charges , which as lawyers they must have known were bogus, during the 1997 General Election. Having failed ignominiously (the CPS returned the papers marked “No Crime” within hours of receiving them) the Blairs set Special Branch and MI5 on to me (the Mirror article about me fingered Special Branch and using the Data Protection Act – DPA – I subsequently proved that both they and MI5 have files on me). I then suffered ten years of harassment which ranged from death threats to a persistent ostentatious opening of my post. The harassment ceased as soon as Blair left office.
Sounds fantastic? Well, this should dissolve your scepticism. The Conservative MP Sir Richard Body put down this Early Day Motion of my behalf:
CONDUCT OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR SEDGEFIELD 10:11:99
Sir Richard Body
That this House regrets that the Right honourable Member for Sedgefield [Tony Blair] attempted to persuade the Metropolitan Police to bring criminal charges against Robert Henderson, concerning the Right honourable Member’s complaints to the police of an offence against the person, malicious letters and racial insult arising from letters Robert Henderson had written to the Right honourable Member complaining about various instances of publicly-reported racism involving the Labour Party; and that, after the Crown Prosecution Service rejected the complaints of the Right honourable Member and the Right honourable Member failed to take any civil action against Robert Henderson, Special Branch were employed to spy upon Robert Henderson, notwithstanding that Robert Henderson had been officially cleared of any illegal action.
This motion is now part of the official House of Commons record – see http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=16305&SESSION=702
Any prosecution of Morgan and Edwards when I made the original complaint would have caused serious problems for the Blairs. That explains why I could not get the police to act then. The police will not act now, doubtless partly still because of the Blairs’ involvement and that of other powerful people who have come into the story over the course of the past 17 years , but also because of the failure of senior police officers who have comprehensively failed to do their duty.
Please reflect upon this. If you do not act and I get story into the public fold you will have become part of the corrupt behaviour which has been the dominant and persistent feature of this case. Ask yourself how you would stand before the media and explain with a straight face why no investigation was made when the police have the Morgan letter to the PCC.
Is it likely I will get the story out? Well, Piers Morgan lost his CNN job four days after I circulated. to the mainstream media in Britain and the USA his letter to the PCC in facsimile with a covering note – a copy of that email is below DCI Nelligan’s email. I do not like coincidences at the best of times and in particular I do not take to them when the coincidence involves, as this does, a complicated sequence of events to occur if it was just a coincidence.
I call upon you again to act directly as the police are unambiguously refusing to act not because they do not have evidence but because the evidence is hideously dangerous to them.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Henderson
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