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Bungled Jersey child abuse probe branded a '£20million shambles'.
iruka:
Wouldn't like to be at the breakfast table in the Harper household this morning. Bet his blood pressure will be sky-high. Might tip SS over the edge too ;)
I particularly like the bit about dinner in London at a cost of £699.
A three-month investigation by The Mail on Sunday has revealed:
* The main witness behind Harper's decision to begin the search for bodies was a woman with a known history of psychotic fantasy and alcoholism. She named children she said she had seen jumping to their deaths from Haut de la Garenne windows and hanging from trees in the garden, where she said she also found a severed hand. None of these claims were true.
* Eddie the sniffer dog - the animal that had supposedly found the 'scent of death' in the Portuguese flat where Madeleine McCann disappeared - no longer had a licence for UK police forensic work when Harper started using him in Jersey. Eddie, whose owner, Martin Grime, was paid £93,600 for less than five months' work, triggered the first excavations by barking at a spot where Harper's team then unearthed what was claimed to be part of a child's skull. In fact, as a Kew Gardens expert has now confirmed, it was a piece of coconut shell.
* Financial investigators have spent months poring over the inquiry's costs. They have found they were massively inflated - not only by Harper's mismanagement, but by frequent trips to London, where he and his colleagues claimed expenses for lavish meals.
* Harper also retained the island's only police car equipped with a numberplate recognition device for his own personal use, and its driver, PC Andrew Linsell, as his chauffeur. He ordered Linsell to pick him up from home each morning, and sometimes kept him on duty late in the evening to ferry him around.
* Earlier this year, Harper defied a Jersey Royal Court order to return to the island to give evidence in an Haut de la Garenne abuse trial and to produce his 'day books' - the notes every UK Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) is required to make about everything he does and to store with inquiry records. Harper claimed they did not exist because Metropolitan Police security experts had advised him not to keep day books. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman denied this, saying the Met told Harper they were essential.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217863/Bungled-Jersey-child-abuse-probe-branded-20million-shambles.html#ixzz0SwmIr8Ou
rico sorda:
Hi Iruka
I bet the JTM breakfast table was buzzing this morning lol so many hard-ons bet the table was off the ground.. You particularly like the bit about dinner in london oh yes when you rolled over and looked into jtm eyes or was it a mirror the sexual tension must have been amazing...
We all know the the The Mail stance on this..
What is your take on Harpers reply on stuarts blog this mail article is nothing new....
Yes you can have your point of view but you seem to get off on this and what about the victims.. Yes abuse happened fact lenny harper has 3 convictions fact...
So when you and JTM have finished and cleaned up go smell the feckin coffee ....
cheers
rsx
oh and what about ACPO
Ciao
iruka:
Ouch - touched a nerve have I?
I'll get back to you when I have considered my response to your rather intemperate posting. You appear to making a few allegations about me, which I'm not sure you can substantiate.
Do you wish to retract anything? Your postings are normally fairly well reasoned.
Cheers
I
iruka:
--- Quote from: rico sorda on October 04, 2009, 09:01:13 AM ---I bet the JTM breakfast table was buzzing this morning lol so many hard-ons bet the table was off the ground.. You particularly like the bit about dinner in london oh yes when you rolled over and looked into jtm eyes or was it a mirror the sexual tension must have been amazing...
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No idea what you going about here, but I bet Lenny's Arbroath smokies didn't taste so good today.
--- Quote ---We all know the the The Mail stance on this..
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Duh - yeah.
--- Quote ---What is your take on Harpers reply on stuarts blog this mail article is nothing new....
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My take is that Lenny's alleged reply on Stuart's blog is nothing new either. He has not so far addressed the Mail's article today, but I expect he will, in the usual long winded way that Stuart also likes.
In his response a number of things make me uneasy.
1. His claims of doctored emails - easy to prove either way through examination of server records and or course, his sent items. Unless of course the Masons got there first and the Illuminati amended them. Interesting how it now seems that his secretary sent the emails on his behalf...
2. His rants about records - rather a detailed lot of recollections for someone who doesn't have any records of relevance to the court proceedings, and no 'day book'.
3. Increasingly it looks to me, further supported by the revelation about his dinner with a journalist in London, that his whole rush for publicity may not have been in the best interests of the enquiry, and possibly may have been self-serving. Again, I direct you to the interview with Fergal Keene on Radio 4. Listen to what he says about the RPGs.
--- Quote ---Yes you can have your point of view but you seem to get off on this and what about the victims.. Yes abuse happened fact lenny harper has 3 convictions fact...
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Yes, I am entitled to my point of view, as are you. Your suggestion that I get off on this is grossly offensive and I ask you to retract that.
There have been three convictions for abuse, yes, but nothing on the scale that Lenny was making out. Not even in the same ball park.
--- Quote ---So when you and JTM have finished and cleaned up go smell the feckin coffee ....
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Not worthy of you. Clearly you are blinded by your hero's rantings. Try a dispassionate look at the evidence and try to make a rational argument, but cheap and smutty innuendo. You may find your comments are taken more seriously.
--- Quote ---oh and what about ACPO
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What about ACPO? Could it be that Lenny got himself confused with NPIA? He doesn't mention them visiting...
Later, Anne Harrison, the NPIA's head of operational support, paid several visits to Jersey with a former Met commander, Andre Baker. In his website article, Harper says these visits are evidence that his conduct of the case was 'fully endorsed' at UK national level.
However, asked whether he had 'endorsed' Harper's actions, Baker said through a spokeswoman: 'The investigation remains the sole responsibility of the investigating force, the Senior Investigating Officer and the chief officer.'
As for Harrison, said Neyroud, she was appalled to see Harper had completely ignored crucial parts of the Murder Manual and the NPIA's advice about dealing with the media. Neyroud said: 'Working out and sticking to a media strategy is also vital. Harper simply didn't have one.'
Our course The Mail may be wrong, but Anne Harrison is a Detective Chief Superintendent in the NPIA.
I
danrok:
The Daily Mail are infamous liars and are paid money by the States of Jersey. What else is there to know?
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