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No complaints ever get investigated properly at Stockport Council, which is why we had the town hall protester atrocity.

Email sent 22/08/2009

Dear Mr Majothi

As there are plans to declare me vexatious with knobs on on1st September (I forget the correct terminology), I had better get everything out in the open before then.

Please see the attached. On October 5th 2005 the proposed school was to cost £5.5 million. On December 12th 2005 it had risen to £7.5 million. Why? I can't see from any of the FOI documents I have seen (after a massive battle in which Mr Andrew Webb said it would take 84 hours of council officer time to read and redact what turned out to be about four folders, which I knew from the outset to be a lie) anyone explaining or querying this massive jump.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards

Mrs Sheila Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner

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Email sent 27/08/2009 at 17.55

Dear Mr Majothi

There will be more evidence of wrongdoing to follow shortly. I simply haven't had the time to send it to you. As soon as it has all been sent to you, it will be sent off to the Standards Board, the Audit Commission and the media. So, if the Council wants to try to take a decade to deal with the issues - as with Mr Parnell - you will have to do so under scrutiny.

Be very, very careful how you brand me or anyone else on 1st September. I suggest the agenda item is removed. I have already been told of my terms and conditions under this vexatious with knobs on policy, so I know it was to apply to me. Incompetence to tell me and impose it before it is passed by committee, I think.

Yours

Sheila Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: Vexatious with knobs on
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I acknowledge receipt of your recent emails. I will be considering the information as part of my investigation of your complaint.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 24/08/2009 at 20.03

Dear Mr Majothi

When the school closure notice was published, (copy previously sent to you) a place was promised to every child who wanted one. This was an untrue statement as soon as it was made because I think even with temporary classrooms placed on the site there were circa 5 children who wouldn't have a place anyway. Temporary classrooms were to be used till the pupil numbers fell. Please see the attached - the birthrate is rising sharply in the area. Sport England's demands (bless 'em) mean that there is no room for any temporary classroom, so the school which is massively overbudget and has no room to expand (as the DCSF would like for new schools) is nowhere big enough for the pupils who need to attend and were promised a place. There must a financial knock on effect in providing schooling for those children somewhere else, perhaps with the cost of providing temporary classrooms at other schools. Why is this site still being considered if it is not big enough?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner

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Email sent 27/08/2009 at 20.10

Dear Mr Majothi

The Council told the DCSF's lawyers that it couldn't find the owner of the inches wide ransom strip at the side of its proposed entrance to the proposed school on a former toxic dump in North Reddish, which the Council needs to compulsory purchase . This is jolly funny because if you look at the strip, it is obvious it belongs to the house next door to it. The original owners of the house planted trees and shrubs on the ransom strip land, the newer owners, who have been there for donkey's years themselves, also did the same. As there has been no challenge to their doing this over the years, they now own the land. Why didn't the Council contact the owners of this house to ask them who owned the ransom strip? Answers on a postcard please! When I asked to see the CPO documents, my further FOIA ban was enforced (after the first illegal one was overturned). The Council did all it could to make sure I didn't find out about this embarrassing ransom strip and start asking why the Council has lied to the DCSF. Well, we Stockport council taxpayers have to be a resourceful lot and I do know about the ransom strip. Your comments please.

In the light of this misinformation, presumably sent to the DCSF by Mr John Hill, I must point out that I do not feel I can trust Mr. Hill to deal honestly and impartially with my village green claim, which is a legal requirement. I also made clear to him and Mr Rhodri Price Lewis at the outset that I didn't want Mr Price Lewis to hear my village green claim - that I wanted someone to look at the claim with fresh eyes. Mr. Price Lewis heard the previous claim on the adjacent land. I feel I must insist that Mr. John Hill and Mr. Price Lewis have no further input or influence over the village green claim. I look forward to your comments.
More evidence of more possible wrongdoing to follow.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner

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Email sent 21/09/2009 at 16.24

Dear Mr Majothi

Thank you for your non-response.

As I informed you the Audit Commission made that decision prior to my receiving the information I now hold. I was previously banned from obtaining that information due to the lies told by Andrew Webb that it would take 84 hours to read and redact what turned out to be about four folders on a current issue.

Irrespective of your position of complaints officer, given the information I have supplied to you, with you are under a duty under the Council's fraud and irregularity policies to refer those documents to Steve Houston and I hope for your sake you do. I have tried and tried to raise this issue with Schulz, Weldon, Webb, Sager et al and been continually ignored.
Thank you for your response. That will be submitted to the Audit Commission.

Yours
Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
Free Mr Parnell, victim of a corrupt council.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Your complaint

Dear Mrs Oliver
I have attached my response in relation to your complaint. Please let me know if you wish to receive a postal copy of the same.
For your information, I will be on annual leave from 25 th September 2009 returning to the office on 5 th October 2009.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 23/09/2009 at 17.39

Dear Mr Majothi

But Council policies state you should, as I understand it. The issue has passed through your hands, I have the documentary evidence.

Given that people who complain about Stockport Council seem to be committing suicide in rather large numbers, do you think you need to revise the way you do your job?

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: Your complaint
Dear Mrs Oliver
I write following the two emails you sent on 21 st September 2009.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 25/08/2009 at 16.29

Dear Mr Majothi

Many thanks for your reply.

I shall get back to Ms Re shortly - I am a little busy at the moment. I think I need to do an article on FOI abuses in Stockport, so I need to go through her comments one by one and get answers or not as the case may be. All will be detailed in the article - replies or not.

As I understand it the single point of contact issue has not yet been passed by the Executive. I am not making a financial claim against the council's insurers for the defamation that has gone on previously and am in contact with them regarding that, but any defamation that occurs from now on I will make a financial claim for. That would include branding me vexatious with knobs on or whatever is intended on Sept 1st, when the Council failed to comply with its own fraud and irregularities policy, the fact being I should have only had to raise that issue once. The subsequent questions and repeated FOI requests are largely as a result of the Council failing to comply with its own policies.

I have yet more possible corruption evidence to send you.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:21 PM
Subject: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I acknowledge receipt of your two emails dated 20 th August 2009; one of which is detailed below.
I should point out that the decision outlined in Ms Re’s email had nothing to do with me. Indeed, as detailed in Ms Re’s email, if you are unhappy with the decision taken regarding the single point of contact, please raise this with me. I will then investigate this matter, along with the two issues detailed in my email to you dated 20 th August 2009 (see below).
Yours sincerely,

Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 20 August 2009 17:16
To: Anwar Majothi; Jen Re
Cc: Michael Warburton; alan.rusbridger@guardian.co.uk
Subject: Re: Your complaints
Dear Mr Majothi
ICO reference: FS50205853
Firstly, may I say how offensive I found the comments by Ms Re and, I think, you in her recent email. I am a respected environmental campaigner nationally, have appeared on two Radio 4 programmes, Channel 4's Dispatches, in The Observer, the Mail, the Guardian, News at Ten, Greater Manchester Radio, Granada Reports and Channel M.
I supplied vital information, using the FOIA, to Friends of the Earth which was then submitted in their document requesting a Competition Commision inquiry into abuses by supermarkets. I also asked a FOI request of the Highways Agency the response to which had questions asked in Parliament and which led to an National Audit Office inquiry which exposed £3 billion of waste at the Highways Agency. I have exposed that £870,000 sustainable transport money was left by this Council lying in Sainsbury's bank account for almost a decade and had removed 22 lorry loads of soil contamined with heavy metals from a housing development. I helped expose the true cost of the SEMMMS roads as not £425 million but £1 billion. I have done much, much more. I represent over 800 people in North Reddish, which I am in a position to prove.
How dare the two of you public servants make those comments? It is a pity you yourself couldn't have done your own job a little better regarding Mr. Parnell, and then the taxpayer wouldn't be facing a bill of presumably hundreds of thousands of pounds.
I shall respond to your comments below in another email, but don't you dare speak to me like that again.
Yours
Sheila
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I understand that you have now received a response from Ms Jen Re, Head of Corporate Information Services. No doubt you are considering this response and I await further contact from you regarding the Council’s decision outlined in Ms Re’s email to you.
The other two issues you have asked me to look at include the following:
You have raised a complaint about financial irregularities; this concerns the illegal theft of public open space for financial gain.
You have not received replies to an official complaint you have made to Mr Barry Khan, Council Solicitor, et al, and mentioned on numerous occasions during Council meetings.
Regarding issue 2 above, it would be helpful if you could tell me what question you have asked Barry Khan et al, in order that I can look at this as part of my investigation of your complaints.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 11/09/2009 at 16.28

Dear Mr Majothi

More stalling tactics, I see. Why should I repeatedly send things that I have already sent and be labelled vexatious for repeatedly contacting you. I shall send everything to the Audit Commission. I have sent you personally details of financial anomalies - including the apparent miscalculation involving over a quarter of a million pounds and an almost 50% jump in the cost of the school in the two month period from 5th October 2005 and 12th December 2005. That is evidence enough of financial anomalies, but there are others - on that basis alone you should disclose all financial documents requested immediately in line with the Council's fraud and irregularities policy. I shall send my previous emails to Scullion and Khan to the Audit Commission. I am not repeatedly jumping through your hoops.

I note from the front page of today's Guardian regarding the sports price fixing scandal that offences under the Fraud Act carry an unlimited fine and a possible 10 year prison sentence. It is my fervent hope that when we get to the bottom of this the Executive councillors will be held responsible for this cover up.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:51 PM
Subject: FW: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing further to our recent email exchanges.
As a corporate complaints officer, I need to establish what outcome you are seeking regarding the issues you raised below. I therefore need to know whether you are actually complaining about these issues or whether you are seeking further information. If it is the latter, this would fall outside my remit as I am solely responsible for the investigation of corporate complaints. As you know, any requests for information would have to be made to our FOI team in the first instance. If you are dissatisfied with the information provided to you under FOI, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.

However, if you are pursing a complaint, I would ask you to clarify what you are actually complaining about. To this end, I think it would be useful if I met with you to go through any issues you would like to be investigated under Stage 2 of the corporate complaints procedure. If you are agreeable to the meeting, please let me know of your availability and I will book a meeting room at the Town Hall.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I understand that you have now received a response from Ms Jen Re, Head of Corporate Information Services. No doubt you are considering this response and I await further contact from you regarding the Council’s decision outlined in Ms Re’s email to you.
The other two issues you have asked me to look at include the following:
You have raised a complaint about financial irregularities; this concerns the illegal theft of public open space for financial gain.
You have not received replies to an official complaint you have made to Mr Barry Khan, Council Solicitor, et al, and mentioned on numerous occasions during Council meetings.
Regarding issue 2 above, it would be helpful if you could tell me what question you have asked Barry Khan et al, in order that I can look at this as part of my investigation of your complaints.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 11/09/2009 at 16.33

Dear Mr Majothi

I am complaining about what has gone on and seeking release all financial documents. This is not rocket science. The council is failing to comply with its fraud and irregularities policies. and possibly is in breach of the Fraud Act 2006 if it wastes millions of pounds of taxpayers'/council taxpayers' money The Chief Executive would appear to be part of the problem, as he is banning public questions on the subject, the Executive councillors are complicit, Mr Khan is a complete waste of council taxpayers' money as he never replies.

The Council has a legal duty. I couldn't care less if it is your job or not. Sort it out or find someone to sort it out for you.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Freedom of Information Campaigner, Stockport
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:57 PM
Subject: FW: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
Further to my email below, I would be grateful if you would send me copies of your original complaint to Jane Scullion and any further complaints you made to Barry Khan.
Kind regards
Anwar
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

From: Anwar Majothi
Sent: 11 September 2009 13:51
To: 'Sheila Oliver'
Subject: FW: Your complaints

Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing further to our recent email exchanges.
As a corporate complaints officer, I need to establish what outcome you are seeking regarding the issues you raised below. I therefore need to know whether you are actually complaining about these issues or whether you are seeking further information. If it is the latter, this would fall outside my remit as I am solely responsible for the investigation of corporate complaints. As you know, any requests for information would have to be made to our FOI team in the first instance. If you are dissatisfied with the information provided to you under FOI, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.
However, if you are pursing a complaint, I would ask you to clarify what you are actually complaining about. To this end, I think it would be useful if I met with you to go through any issues you would like to be investigated under Stage 2 of the corporate complaints procedure. If you are agreeable to the meeting, please let me know of your availability and I will book a meeting room at the Town Hall.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I understand that you have now received a response from Ms Jen Re, Head of Corporate Information Services. No doubt you are considering this response and I await further contact from you regarding the Council’s decision outlined in Ms Re’s email to you.
The other two issues you have asked me to look at include the following:
You have raised a complaint about financial irregularities; this concerns the illegal theft of public open space for financial gain.
You have not received replies to an official complaint you have made to Mr Barry Khan, Council Solicitor, et al, and mentioned on numerous occasions during Council meetings.
Regarding issue 2 above, it would be helpful if you could tell me what question you have asked Barry Khan et al, in order that I can look at this as part of my investigation of your complaints.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 11/09/2009 at 16.56

Dear Mr Majothi

I fail to see how I can meet you when the Council will only correspond with me once a week. There is no need to further waste my time in meetings. Simply disclose all the financial documentation I have requested over a long, at least 18 month period. Failure to do so may well be a criminal act, and please be sure I shall see everything through to the very end

Is today the one-day-a-week the Council will be responding with me because if it is it is the 3rd one-day-a-week this week.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:51 PM
Subject: FW: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing further to our recent email exchanges.
As a corporate complaints officer, I need to establish what outcome you are seeking regarding the issues you raised below. I therefore need to know whether you are actually complaining about these issues or whether you are seeking further information. If it is the latter, this would fall outside my remit as I am solely responsible for the investigation of corporate complaints. As you know, any requests for information would have to be made to our FOI team in the first instance. If you are dissatisfied with the information provided to you under FOI, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.
However, if you are pursing a complaint, I would ask you to clarify what you are actually complaining about. To this end, I think it would be useful if I met with you to go through any issues you would like to be investigated under Stage 2 of the corporate complaints procedure. If you are agreeable to the meeting, please let me know of your availability and I will book a meeting room at the Town Hall.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I understand that you have now received a response from Ms Jen Re, Head of Corporate Information Services. No doubt you are considering this response and I await further contact from you regarding the Council’s decision outlined in Ms Re’s email to you.
The other two issues you have asked me to look at include the following:
You have raised a complaint about financial irregularities; this concerns the illegal theft of public open space for financial gain.
You have not received replies to an official complaint you have made to Mr Barry Khan, Council Solicitor, et al, and mentioned on numerous occasions during Council meetings.
Regarding issue 2 above, it would be helpful if you could tell me what question you have asked Barry Khan et al, in order that I can look at this as part of my investigation of your complaints.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 30/08/2009 at 16.20

Dear Mr Majothi

Mr. John Hill, who has a legal duty to be impartial in my village green claim, asked me to provide a map to such a specialist scale for my village green claim that it caused consternation in the specialist map shop and would have cost me £334 as I recall (evidence available on request). Please provide documentary evidence that for the last three village green claims in Stockport before mine maps to this scale were requested, or was this just something that was applied to me to prevent me proceeding further with my village green? If you can't provide the evidence - and I shall make this request under the FOIA and EIR 2004 just to be on the safe side - then I don't think the Council can claim Mr. Hill has acted impartially.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner

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Email sent 27/08/2009 at 19.49

Dear Mr Majothi

Another irregularity - Mr John Hill demanded a map from me to a certain scale for my village green application. So, I took a day's holiday from my work in a busy cancer department and went to a specialist map shop in Manchester to get it. "What on earth do you want this for?" asked the lady in the shop incredulously - "it will cost over £300" (she gave me a written estimate to use as evidence). "Stockport Council demanded it for my village green claim", I replied. There ensued much speculation as to whether Stockport Council was corrupt. A chap from a developers who has exensive experience of planning who also happened to be in the shop said Stockport Council was well known for asking people to jump through more and more ridiculous and expensive hoops until eventually they gave up. I have seen something of this kind with regards to planning.

I was furious and went to the very nice Council cartographers who said they could provide a map to the Council but not to me for £5.

Why was a asked to provide this ridiculously expensive one sheet of paper map?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner

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Email sent 20/09/2009 at 16.31

Mr Majothi

You are missing the point. I have tried and tried over an 18 month period to raise these issues, in emails, letters and public questions. For this I have been branded rude, offensive and liar and vexatious. I am none of these things. I am hopeful that the school can't be built, so I can take my time in exposing what has gone on. I have raised these issues with you and sent many pieces of supporting evidence. You have a duty to bring this matter to the attention of Stephen Houston.

Play all the stallling games you like, as the Council did with Mr. Parnell. All the evidence is going to the Audit Commission.
I hope the spotlight will be thrown on your department's dealing with complaints with Mr Parnell's case, hopefully not following his untimely death in prison.

Yours

Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
Free Mr Parnell, victim of a corrupt council.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 3:06 PM
Subject: RE: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver
Thank you for your email of 11 th September 2009.
I am considering the issues and hope to be in a position to provide a decision regarding your complaint. In the meantime, please could you provide me with a copy of the official complaint you made to Barry Khan? If you don’t have a copy, please could you briefly summarise what this complaint was about?
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 11 September 2009 17:29
To: Anwar Majothi
Cc: Syd Lloyd; mike carroll; Cllr Martin Candler; John Schultz; Jennifer Williams; DAVID PENKETHMAN; Cllr Sue Derbyshire; Cllr Stuart Bodsworth; Cllr Mark Weldon; Cllr David White; Cllr Dave Goddard; Cllr Sheila Bailey(EXT); peter.devine@gmwn.co.uk
Subject: Re: Your complaints

Dear Mr Majothi
More stalling tactics, I see. Why should I repeatedly send things that I have already sent and be labelled vexatious for repeatedly contacting you. I shall send everything to the Audit Commission. I have sent you personally details of financial anomalies - including the apparent miscalculation involving over a quarter of a million pounds and an almost 50% jump in the cost of the school in the two month period from 5th October 2005 and 12th December 2005. That is evidence enough of financial anomalies, but there are others - on that basis alone you should disclose all financial documents requested immediately in line with the Council's fraud and irregularities policy. I shall send my previous emails to Scullion and Khan to the Audit Commission. I am not repeatedly jumping through your hoops.
I note from the front page of today's Guardian regarding the sports price fixing scandal that offences under the Fraud Act carry an unlimited fine and a possible 10 year prison sentence. It is my fervent hope that when we get to the bottom of this the Executive councillors will be held responsible for this cover up.
Yours
Mrs S J Oliver
Stockport's Freedom of Information Campaigner
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:51 PM
Subject: FW: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing further to our recent email exchanges.
As a corporate complaints officer, I need to establish what outcome you are seeking regarding the issues you raised below. I therefore need to know whether you are actually complaining about these issues or whether you are seeking further information. If it is the latter, this would fall outside my remit as I am solely responsible for the investigation of corporate complaints. As you know, any requests for information would have to be made to our FOI team in the first instance. If you are dissatisfied with the information provided to you under FOI, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.
However, if you are pursing a complaint, I would ask you to clarify what you are actually complaining about. To this end, I think it would be useful if I met with you to go through any issues you would like to be investigated under Stage 2 of the corporate complaints procedure. If you are agreeable to the meeting, please let me know of your availability and I will book a meeting room at the Town Hall.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: Sheila Oliver
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Your complaints
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I understand that you have now received a response from Ms Jen Re, Head of Corporate Information Services. No doubt you are considering this response and I await further contact from you regarding the Council’s decision outlined in Ms Re’s email to you.
The other two issues you have asked me to look at include the following:
You have raised a complaint about financial irregularities; this concerns the illegal theft of public open space for financial gain.
You have not received replies to an official complaint you have made to Mr Barry Khan, Council Solicitor, et al, and mentioned on numerous occasions during Council meetings.
Regarding issue 2 above, it would be helpful if you could tell me what question you have asked Barry Khan et al, in order that I can look at this as part of my investigation of your complaints.
I look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Improvement & Performance Officer (Complaints)
Stockport MBC
Tel: 0161 474 3182

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Email sent 29/03/2012 at 20.22

Dear Mr Majothi

This is a ridiculous situation. If I were to make an official complaint against you - and I have very, very good cause to do that - then would you also deal with the complaint against yourself? Well, this is Stockport Council so you might!

I might submit a complaint against you to see how that gets dealt with, unless you come to your senses regarding this one. Obviously, if you spent years and years pussyfooting around not dealing with a simple, cheap-to-solve complaint about the statutory duty to provide counselling from troubled children adopted from Stockport Council resulting in multiple imprisonments of an innocent man at a cost to the taxpayer of probably hundreds of thousands of pounds, then I don't have much confidence in your ability to do anything either compentently or honestly.

All this is going up on websites, Mr Majothi.

Pass this complaint to someone competent to deal with and also someone uninvolved with the abuses that have been perpetrated against a completely innocent man.

I look forward to hearing from you. It was stated publicly that Steve Houston deals with complaints against the Monitoring Officer. Tell him to get off his bottom and do just that.

Sheila
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Cc: Adrian Moores
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Your Stage 2 complaint
Dear Ms Oliver,
Thank you for your email. I have discussed this matter with my line manager, Mr Adrian Moores, whom I have copied into this email. Mr Moores agrees with me that the investigation of Stage 2 complaints is solely assigned to me and it would therefore be inappropriate for the complaint to be passed to someone else to investigate.
In light of this, you can either give me the go head to investigate your complaint at Stage 2 or you can escalate your complaint to the LGO (although I have already advised you that it is unlikely that the LGO will investigate your complaint at this stage).
Please let me know how you wish to proceed.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 27 March 2012 18:28
To: Anwar Majothi
Cc: MICHAEL PARNELL; Steve Houston; Leader; Eamonn Boylan
Subject: Re: Mr Parnell
Dear Mr Majothi
I have absolutely no confidence that you will investigate this complaint in a proper fashion. Over the many, many years this has been going on you could have solved the problem of Mr Parnell by providing the statutory help that he was entitled to for his troubled daughters adopted from Stockport Council and you could have done this at minimal cost possibly five years ago.
It would be ludicrous for you to investigate this complaint. A complete whitewash.
I look forward to hearing the response from someone senior to deal with this matter. This case is being taken to the Inspectorate for the CPS, who are again today highly critical in the press of the prosecutions they are bringing. Mr Parnell's prosecutions didn't even meet the CPS's own basic, legally binding guidelines for prosecuting a case.
All responses from the Council will be posted up in the public domain and forwarded to the very many enemies of the LibDems. Rupert Murdoch seems to be cleaning up politics now (it is a funny old World), and I can contact him directly via Twitter about what is going on here. I think the Council needs to make sure all its actions stand up to close scrutiny, because Mr Murdoch is hell bent on revenge on dodgy Coalition politicians. Just think of the human rights the Council has abused in this case, not only of Mr Parnell but his daughters and wife. The Council has a track record of driving vulnerable people to suicide. You should have helped him - that is your job. The LibDems believe in human rights; they are against waste of public money. Well, this must have cost me as a taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds and I am jolly annoyed about it. Just think how this case would look splashed everywhere highlighting their double standards. Rupert Murdoch would love this one.
Yours
Mrs Oliver
PS I have told you why I am unhappy with the Stage 1 complaint. Here we go again around in never ending circles, just as we did with what I correctly stated was the school on a dangerous toxic waste dump.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Cc: Steve Houston ; Info Services
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: FW: Mr Parnell
Dear Ms Oliver,
I write to confirm that your email below (and your email of 22 nd March) have been brought to my attention. I note that you have requested that Mr Houston investigates your complaint further at Stage 2. I should inform you that this would be inappropriate given that I am specifically tasked with investigating complaints at Stage 2 of the corporate complaints procedure. Mr Houston has already investigated and responded to your complaint at Stage 1.

If you still wish to proceed with your complaint I would be grateful if you would let me know why you remain unhappy following the Stage 1 response? I look forward to receiving your comments within the next 10 days. I will then investigate your complaint and aim to provide you with an outcome within 20 working days.

Alternatively, if you do not wish for me to investigate your complaint you can escalate your complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO); however it is unlikely that they will investigate as your complaint has not been exhausted locally. The contact details for the LGO are as follows:
Local Government Ombudsman
PO Box 4771
Coventry
CV4 0EH
Telephone: 0845 602 1983
Text: 0762 4804323
Email: advice@lgo.org.uk
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 26 March 2012 20:27
To: Steve Houston
Cc: Anwar Majothi; MICHAEL PARNELL; Eamonn Boylan; Leader
Subject: Mr Parnell
Dear Mr Houston
Regarding the letter sent by you on 8th March 2012, I can't request Mr Majothi carries out the stage 2 complaint process because he is up to his neck in this case. He should have realised the Council had a statutory duty to help Mr Parnell and got off his bottom and done something. He didn't - year after year after year. He is a massive part of the problem. You will have to deal with the Stage 2 complaint.
I have heard nothing back from Mr Parnell, so the letter of authority stands until you send me written confirmation that he doesn't want me to act for him or I hear further from him. I am happy not to act on his behalf as I have a lot on my plate, but I wonder if the two council officers you mention are the same ones who threatened to kill him, kick his f*cking head in and ram his phone so far up his backside he would be sh*tting phone parts for a week, or, indeed, the ones who attacked him. Or, I wonder if they are officers who knew all this was happening (I sent you the video evidence) and did nothing about it. I hope you don't mind if I don't take the word of anyone at Stockport Council. Documentary evidence is needed before I stand down.
I am taking the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, who have recently been very critical of the CPS. I didn't know they existed. Mr Parnell's case should never have been taken by them to court as they failed to prove the five statutory tests they need to establish before taking a case forward, and they took a huge number of cases forward against him.
So, no whitewashes please. Just do your job and do it properly and every step of the way I shall keep interested parties informed of your responses.
Just some points from your letter which need raising:-
1) "this letter has addressed the issues raised under Stage 1 of the Council's corporate complaints procedure." No, it hasn't!
2) "I have decided not to uphold your complaint". This is not surprising but nevertheless disappointing. You were, of course, always likely to support Mr Khan.
3) "It would be inappropriate for the Council to investigate the complaints you have raised on behalf of Mr. Parnell.....he subsequently spoke to two Council Officers to retract the consent."
This comment is unacceptable. It is vital to know who these supposed council officers are? Please detail their names and the circumstances of this alleged encounter.
4) "As you no longer have authority to act on behalf of Mr Parnell, the Council is not obliged to investigate the issues you have raised on his behalf." I do have authority unless you prove otherwise.
I have experience of the Council's complaints system which is innavigable. I raised with Mr. Majothi the fact that the school which I correctly stated had a £5 million black hole in its funding, was to be put on unremediated toxic waste. I got nowhere with Mr. Majothi and I think you will realise that I am no quitter. He is impossible to deal with. There are entire websites devoted to the sheer incompetence of our Local Ombudsman and as they employ former senior council officers, their impartiality is in doubt.
5) I have repeatedly raised this matter with the former Chief Executive, the Leader, the Current Chief Executive, Khan, Webb and all the Executive Councillors. I have the email evidence. To say I have not raised this matter before is an untrue statement and I wonder why you should claim that despite a large amount of documentary evidence to the contrary. I have been branded vexatious for contacting the Council repeatedly. If the Council stopped sending innocent council taxpayers to prison and failing to investigate their valid complaints, there would need to be less contact.
6) "Mr Parnell should have complained about these issues sooner". Mr Parnell tried and tried and tried, as can be confirmed by the local reporter. He was repeatedly arrested for trying to enter council buildings. I have had to plead with the police not to arrest him for trying to leave a council meeting early. You forget there is masses of documentary police and court evidence. Please do not insult my intelligence by making such ludicrous statements which are ill-befitting to a senior and highly paid Council officer.
Your letter is full of shoulds and mays and inappropriates and when you say it is difficult to investigate Mr Khan you mean you really don't want to.
Please proceed with this complaint and do so in an honest and professional matter, bearing in mind the close scrutiny to which your replies and indeed the whole complaint process at Stockport Council will be put.
Yours
Sheila

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Email sent 27/03/12 at 17.27

Dear Mr Majothi

I have absolutely no confidence that you will investigate this complaint in a proper fashion. Over the many, many years this has been going on you could have solved the problem of Mr Parnell by providing the statutory help that he was entitled to for his troubled daughters adopted from Stockport Council and you could have done this at minimal cost possibly five years ago.
It would be ludicrous for you to investigate this complaint. A complete whitewash.
I look forward to hearing the response from someone senior to deal with this matter. This case is being taken to the Inspectorate for the CPS, who are again today highly critical in the press of the prosecutions they are bringing. Mr Parnell's prosecutions didn't even meet the CPS's own basic, legally binding guidelines for prosecuting a case.
All responses from the Council will be posted up in the public domain and forwarded to the very many enemies of the LibDems. Rupert Murdoch seems to be cleaning up politics now (it is a funny old World), and I can contact him directly via Twitter about what is going on here. I think the Council needs to make sure all its actions stand up to close scrutiny, because Mr Murdoch is hell bent on revenge on dodgy Coalition politicians. Just think of the human rights the Council has abused in this case, not only of Mr Parnell but his daughters and wife. The Council has a track record of driving vulnerable people to suicide. You should have helped him - that is your job. The LibDems believe in human rights; they are against waste of public money. Well, this must have cost me as a taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds and I am jolly annoyed about it. Just think how this case would look splashed everywhere highlighting their double standards. Rupert Murdoch would love this one.

Yours

Mrs Oliver
PS I have told you why I am unhappy with the Stage 1 complaint. Here we go again around in never ending circles, just as we did with what I correctly stated was the school on a dangerous toxic waste dump.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Cc: Steve Houston ; Info Services
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: FW: Mr Parnell
Dear Ms Oliver,

I write to confirm that your email below (and your email of 22 nd March) have been brought to my attention. I note that you have requested that Mr Houston investigates your complaint further at Stage 2. I should inform you that this would be inappropriate given that I am specifically tasked with investigating complaints at Stage 2 of the corporate complaints procedure. Mr Houston has already investigated and responded to your complaint at Stage 1.

If you still wish to proceed with your complaint I would be grateful if you would let me know why you remain unhappy following the Stage 1 response? I look forward to receiving your comments within the next 10 days. I will then investigate your complaint and aim to provide you with an outcome within 20 working days.

Alternatively, if you do not wish for me to investigate your complaint you can escalate your complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO); however it is unlikely that they will investigate as your complaint has not been exhausted locally. The contact details for the LGO are as follows:
Local Government Ombudsman
PO Box 4771
Coventry
CV4 0EH
Telephone: 0845 602 1983
Text: 0762 4804323
Email: advice@lgo.org.uk
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 26 March 2012 20:27
To: Steve Houston
Cc: Anwar Majothi; MICHAEL PARNELL; Eamonn Boylan; Leader
Subject: Mr Parnell

Dear Mr Houston

Regarding the letter sent by you on 8th March 2012, I can't request Mr Majothi carries out the stage 2 complaint process because he is up to his neck in this case. He should have realised the Council had a statutory duty to help Mr Parnell and got off his bottom and done something. He didn't - year after year after year. He is a massive part of the problem. You will have to deal with the Stage 2 complaint.

I have heard nothing back from Mr Parnell, so the letter of authority stands until you send me written confirmation that he doesn't want me to act for him or I hear further from him. I am happy not to act on his behalf as I have a lot on my plate, but I wonder if the two council officers you mention are the same ones who threatened to kill him, kick his f*cking head in and ram his phone so far up his backside he would be sh*tting phone parts for a week, or, indeed, the ones who attacked him. Or, I wonder if they are officers who knew all this was happening (I sent you the video evidence) and did nothing about it. I hope you don't mind if I don't take the word of anyone at Stockport Council. Documentary evidence is needed before I stand down.
I am taking the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, who have recently been very critical of the CPS. I didn't know they existed. Mr Parnell's case should never have been taken by them to court as they failed to prove the five statutory tests they need to establish before taking a case forward, and they took a huge number of cases forward against him.
So, no whitewashes please. Just do your job and do it properly and every step of the way I shall keep interested parties informed of your responses.

Just some points from your letter which need raising:-
1) "this letter has addressed the issues raised under Stage 1 of the Council's corporate complaints procedure." No, it hasn't!

2) "I have decided not to uphold your complaint". This is not surprising but nevertheless disappointing. You were, of course, always likely to support Mr Khan.

3) "It would be inappropriate for the Council to investigate the complaints you have raised on behalf of Mr. Parnell.....he subsequently spoke to two Council Officers to retract the consent."

This comment is unacceptable. It is vital to know who these supposed council officers are? Please detail their names and the circumstances of this alleged encounter.

4) "As you no longer have authority to act on behalf of Mr Parnell, the Council is not obliged to investigate the issues you have raised on his behalf." I do have authority unless you prove otherwise.

I have experience of the Council's complaints system which is innavigable. I raised with Mr. Majothi the fact that the school which I correctly stated had a £5 million black hole in its funding, was to be put on unremediated toxic waste. I got nowhere with Mr. Majothi and I think you will realise that I am no quitter. He is impossible to deal with. There are entire websites devoted to the sheer incompetence of our Local Ombudsman and as they employ former senior council officers, their impartiality is in doubt.
5) I have repeatedly raised this matter with the former Chief Executive, the Leader, the Current Chief Executive, Khan, Webb and all the Executive Councillors. I have the email evidence. To say I have not raised this matter before is an untrue statement and I wonder why you should claim that despite a large amount of documentary evidence to the contrary. I have been branded vexatious for contacting the Council repeatedly. If the Council stopped sending innocent council taxpayers to prison and failing to investigate their valid complaints, there would need to be less contact.

6) "Mr Parnell should have complained about these issues sooner". Mr Parnell tried and tried and tried, as can be confirmed by the local reporter. He was repeatedly arrested for trying to enter council buildings. I have had to plead with the police not to arrest him for trying to leave a council meeting early. You forget there is masses of documentary police and court evidence. Please do not insult my intelligence by making such ludicrous statements which are ill-befitting to a senior and highly paid Council officer.
Your letter is full of shoulds and mays and inappropriates and when you say it is difficult to investigate Mr Khan you mean you really don't want to.

Please proceed with this complaint and do so in an honest and professional matter, bearing in mind the close scrutiny to which your replies and indeed the whole complaint process at Stockport Council will be put.

Yours

Sheila

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Email sent 30/03/12 at 16.24

Dear Mr Majothi

OK, take it to a Stage 2 complaint, you can investigate and I will make sure I publicise your involvement with the original problem.
I think I will forward a complaint about you to Adrain Moores. You failed to investigate my correct claims of the school being put on unremediated toxic waste and the £5 million black hole in its funding.

The evidence is now available that I was correct in those two assertions.

Sheila
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:51 PM
Subject: RE: Your Stage 2 complaint
Dear Ms Oliver,
Thank you for your email.
A customer can complain about me if they wish and such complaints would be forwarded to my line manager, Adrian Moores, to investigate.
Please get in touch with me by 3pm Tuesday 10 th April to confirm whether you want me to investigate your complaint further at Stage 2. If you do not confirm this by the given date, I will proceed to closing your case and you will be advised to escalate your complaint to the LGO.
Please note that I will not enter into further correspondence with you regarding your request for the complaint to be investigated by someone else.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 29 March 2012 21:22
To: Anwar Majothi
Cc: MICHAEL PARNELL; e-mail iwwall; DAVID PENKETHMAN; Steve Houston
Subject: Re: Your Stage 2 complaint
Dear Mr Majothi
This is a ridiculous situation. If I were to make an official complaint against you - and I have very, very good cause to do that - then would you also deal with the complaint against yourself? Well, this is Stockport Council so you might!
I might submit a complaint against you to see how that gets dealt with, unless you come to your senses regarding this one. Obviously, if you spent years and years pussyfooting around not dealing with a simple, cheap-to-solve complaint about the statutory duty to provide counselling from troubled children adopted from Stockport Council resulting in multiple imprisonments of an innocent man at a cost to the taxpayer of probably hundreds of thousands of pounds, then I don't have much confidence in your ability to do anything either compentently or honestly.
All this is going up on websites, Mr Majothi.
Pass this complaint to someone competent to deal with and also someone uninvolved with the abuses that have been perpetrated against a completely innocent man.
I look forward to hearing from you. It was stated publicly that Steve Houston deals with complaints against the Monitoring Officer. Tell him to get off his bottom and do just that.
Sheila
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Cc: Adrian Moores
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Your Stage 2 complaint
Dear Ms Oliver,
Thank you for your email. I have discussed this matter with my line manager, Mr Adrian Moores, whom I have copied into this email. Mr Moores agrees with me that the investigation of Stage 2 complaints is solely assigned to me and it would therefore be inappropriate for the complaint to be passed to someone else to investigate.
In light of this, you can either give me the go head to investigate your complaint at Stage 2 or you can escalate your complaint to the LGO (although I have already advised you that it is unlikely that the LGO will investigate your complaint at this stage).
Please let me know how you wish to proceed.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 27 March 2012 18:28
To: Anwar Majothi
Cc: MICHAEL PARNELL; Steve Houston; Leader; Eamonn Boylan
Subject: Re: Mr Parnell
Dear Mr Majothi
I have absolutely no confidence that you will investigate this complaint in a proper fashion. Over the many, many years this has been going on you could have solved the problem of Mr Parnell by providing the statutory help that he was entitled to for his troubled daughters adopted from Stockport Council and you could have done this at minimal cost possibly five years ago.
It would be ludicrous for you to investigate this complaint. A complete whitewash.
I look forward to hearing the response from someone senior to deal with this matter. This case is being taken to the Inspectorate for the CPS, who are again today highly critical in the press of the prosecutions they are bringing. Mr Parnell's prosecutions didn't even meet the CPS's own basic, legally binding guidelines for prosecuting a case.
All responses from the Council will be posted up in the public domain and forwarded to the very many enemies of the LibDems. Rupert Murdoch seems to be cleaning up politics now (it is a funny old World), and I can contact him directly via Twitter about what is going on here. I think the Council needs to make sure all its actions stand up to close scrutiny, because Mr Murdoch is hell bent on revenge on dodgy Coalition politicians. Just think of the human rights the Council has abused in this case, not only of Mr Parnell but his daughters and wife. The Council has a track record of driving vulnerable people to suicide. You should have helped him - that is your job. The LibDems believe in human rights; they are against waste of public money. Well, this must have cost me as a taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds and I am jolly annoyed about it. Just think how this case would look splashed everywhere highlighting their double standards. Rupert Murdoch would love this one.
Yours
Mrs Oliver
PS I have told you why I am unhappy with the Stage 1 complaint. Here we go again around in never ending circles, just as we did with what I correctly stated was the school on a dangerous toxic waste dump.
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Cc: Steve Houston ; Info Services
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: FW: Mr Parnell
Dear Ms Oliver,
I write to confirm that your email below (and your email of 22 nd March) have been brought to my attention. I note that you have requested that Mr Houston investigates your complaint further at Stage 2. I should inform you that this would be inappropriate given that I am specifically tasked with investigating complaints at Stage 2 of the corporate complaints procedure. Mr Houston has already investigated and responded to your complaint at Stage 1.
If you still wish to proceed with your complaint I would be grateful if you would let me know why you remain unhappy following the Stage 1 response? I look forward to receiving your comments within the next 10 days. I will then investigate your complaint and aim to provide you with an outcome within 20 working days.
Alternatively, if you do not wish for me to investigate your complaint you can escalate your complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO); however it is unlikely that they will investigate as your complaint has not been exhausted locally. The contact details for the LGO are as follows:
Local Government Ombudsman
PO Box 4771
Coventry
CV4 0EH
Telephone: 0845 602 1983
Text: 0762 4804323
Email: advice@lgo.org.uk
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 26 March 2012 20:27
To: Steve Houston
Cc: Anwar Majothi; MICHAEL PARNELL; Eamonn Boylan; Leader
Subject: Mr Parnell
Dear Mr Houston
Regarding the letter sent by you on 8th March 2012, I can't request Mr Majothi carries out the stage 2 complaint process because he is up to his neck in this case. He should have realised the Council had a statutory duty to help Mr Parnell and got off his bottom and done something. He didn't - year after year after year. He is a massive part of the problem. You will have to deal with the Stage 2 complaint.
I have heard nothing back from Mr Parnell, so the letter of authority stands until you send me written confirmation that he doesn't want me to act for him or I hear further from him. I am happy not to act on his behalf as I have a lot on my plate, but I wonder if the two council officers you mention are the same ones who threatened to kill him, kick his f*cking head in and ram his phone so far up his backside he would be sh*tting phone parts for a week, or, indeed, the ones who attacked him. Or, I wonder if they are officers who knew all this was happening (I sent you the video evidence) and did nothing about it. I hope you don't mind if I don't take the word of anyone at Stockport Council. Documentary evidence is needed before I stand down.
I am taking the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, who have recently been very critical of the CPS. I didn't know they existed. Mr Parnell's case should never have been taken by them to court as they failed to prove the five statutory tests they need to establish before taking a case forward, and they took a huge number of cases forward against him.
So, no whitewashes please. Just do your job and do it properly and every step of the way I shall keep interested parties informed of your responses.
Just some points from your letter which need raising:-
1) "this letter has addressed the issues raised under Stage 1 of the Council's corporate complaints procedure." No, it hasn't!
2) "I have decided not to uphold your complaint". This is not surprising but nevertheless disappointing. You were, of course, always likely to support Mr Khan.
3) "It would be inappropriate for the Council to investigate the complaints you have raised on behalf of Mr. Parnell.....he subsequently spoke to two Council Officers to retract the consent."
This comment is unacceptable. It is vital to know who these supposed council officers are? Please detail their names and the circumstances of this alleged encounter.
4) "As you no longer have authority to act on behalf of Mr Parnell, the Council is not obliged to investigate the issues you have raised on his behalf." I do have authority unless you prove otherwise.
I have experience of the Council's complaints system which is innavigable. I raised with Mr. Majothi the fact that the school which I correctly stated had a £5 million black hole in its funding, was to be put on unremediated toxic waste. I got nowhere with Mr. Majothi and I think you will realise that I am no quitter. He is impossible to deal with. There are entire websites devoted to the sheer incompetence of our Local Ombudsman and as they employ former senior council officers, their impartiality is in doubt.
5) I have repeatedly raised this matter with the former Chief Executive, the Leader, the Current Chief Executive, Khan, Webb and all the Executive Councillors. I have the email evidence. To say I have not raised this matter before is an untrue statement and I wonder why you should claim that despite a large amount of documentary evidence to the contrary. I have been branded vexatious for contacting the Council repeatedly. If the Council stopped sending innocent council taxpayers to prison and failing to investigate their valid complaints, there would need to be less contact.
6) "Mr Parnell should have complained about these issues sooner". Mr Parnell tried and tried and tried, as can be confirmed by the local reporter. He was repeatedly arrested for trying to enter council buildings. I have had to plead with the police not to arrest him for trying to leave a council meeting early. You forget there is masses of documentary police and court evidence. Please do not insult my intelligence by making such ludicrous statements which are ill-befitting to a senior and highly paid Council officer.
Your letter is full of shoulds and mays and inappropriates and when you say it is difficult to investigate Mr Khan you mean you really don't want to.
Please proceed with this complaint and do so in an honest and professional matter, bearing in mind the close scrutiny to which your replies and indeed the whole complaint process at Stockport Council will be put.
Yours
Sheila

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Email sent 06/04/2102 at 08.47

Dear Mr Majothi

What a surprise! You didn't give that much thought, did you?

Off to the internet. Lots of LibDem huffing and puffing about how they defend civil liberties. Hope you don't mind if I mention your part in all this.

Sheila
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Your Stage 2 complaint
Dear Ms Oliver,
Please find attached my decision letter. Please let me know if you wish to receive a paper copy of the same.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk

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Majothi's reply

Email sent 06/04/2012 at 18.19

Dear Mr Majothi
Please provide me with evidence that Mr Parnell has retracted his authority for me to act on his behalf.

Yours

Sheila
----- Original Message -----
From: Anwar Majothi
To: 'sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com'
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: Your Stage 2 complaint
Dear Ms Oliver,
Please find attached my decision letter. Please let me know if you wish to receive a paper copy of the same.
Yours sincerely,
Anwar Majothi
Corporate Complaints Manager
Stopford House
Stockport Council
SK1 3XE
Tel: 0161 474 3182
Fax: 0161 474 4006
http://www.stockport.gov.uk

The Council has launched its Big Green Borough initiative to show how we can make Stockport cleaner and greener. For all the latest news visit the new web pages at www.stockport.gov.uk/biggreenborough

Confidentiality:- This email, its contents and any attachments are intended only for the above named. As the email may contain confidential or legally privileged information, if you are not, or suspect that you are not, the above named or the person responsible for delivery of the message to the above named, please delete or destroy the email and any attachments immediately and inform the sender of the error.

I was correct about the site being seriously contaminated - the Council, in full knowledge that it was tried to pretend it wasn't:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/contamination.html

I was correct about the school not being big enough. The Council knew it was never going to be big enough and they lied about this and committed an offence under the Fraud Act 2006. Majothi and Moores - along with others - have tried to cover up this fraud:_

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/not-big-enough-one-year-on.html

I was correct about the drainage problems:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/drainage-problems.html

I was correct about the traffic dangers:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/traffic.html

I was right about the multi million pound financial irregularities:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/financial-irregularities.html

Corruption in planning at LibDem run Stockport?

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/how-did-it-pass-planning-.html

Mr Majothi was also largely responsible for this digusting human rights atrocity in his failure to solve a simple problem for a council taxpayer:-

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/town-hall-protester.html

Something he is paid highly to do. This case must have cost the taxpayers possibly hundreds of thousands of pounds. Is Mr Majothi fit to hold public office? Not in my opinion. Will he or his line manager Adrian Moores apologise to me for the defamatory lies told about me across the entire country and possibly even further than that? So far they have both refused.

I shall keep this site updated on developments.
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Email sent 08/03/2013 at 12.24

Dear FoI Officer

(for the lawsuit)

When Mr Majothi told the Information Commission about the hundreds of requests I had made, implying I was vexatious, did he include in that total the ones about Tesco at Portwood? You may or may not know that I was intstrumental in getting Tesco a £1 million fine. I think it is proven that I was quite justified in asking those questions:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4911468.stm
http://www.blatantworld.com/documentary/tesco_the_supermarket_thats_eating_britain.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/feb/22/supermarkets1
http://www.tescopoly.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=100
Looking forward to your response.

Kind regards

Sheila

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Email sent 08/03/13 at 13.28

Dear FoI Officer

(for the lawsuit)

When Mr Majothi told the Information Commission about the hundreds of requests I had made, implying I was vexatious, did he include in that total the ones about Offerton Precinct?

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/offerton-precinct.html

Kind regards

Sheila

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Email sent 08/03/13 at 12.32

Dear FoI Officer

(for the lawsuit)

When Mr Majothi told the Information Commission about the hundreds of requests I had made, implying I was vexatious, did he include in that total the ones about Trident Foams at Foggbrook where I continually had to write and write to the council that houses were being put on unremediated toxic waste yet the council refused to act, and in the end after writing and writing I got 22 lorry loads of soil contaminated with heavy metals removed from the housing estate? I haven't posted that up on the website yet, but believe me, I shall.

Kind regards

Sheila

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Email sent 8/3/13 at 12.35

Dear FoI Officer

(for the lawsuit)

When Mr Majothi told the Information Commission about the hundreds of requests I had made, implying I was vexatious, did he include in that total the ones about the £1 billion PFI A6 bypass that the Council wanted to build? - and we all know now how discredited PFI is Was he classing those as nuisance emails too?

Kind regards

Sheila
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Email sent 08/03/13 at 12.47

Dear FoI Officer

(for the lawsuit)

When Mr Majothi told the Information Commission about the hundreds of requests I had made, implying I was vexatious, did he include in that total the ones about the fact that Mouchel Parkman, paid to do the SEMMMS Environmental Impact Assessment, had written to the various wildlife groups in such an offensive manner that most of them failed to respond, with the outcome that very large animal and nature groups were being totally missed out. If I have to write to the council due to the incompetence of their highly paid consultants in getting them to do their job correctly, I fail to see why Mr Majothi should consider those in any way nuisance emails. I can assure you I have kept all the evidence of that safe to produce in court.

Kind regards

Sheila

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Email sent 98/3/13 at 12.55

Dear FoI Officer

(for the lawsuit)

When Mr Majothi told the Information Commission about the hundreds of requests I had made, implying I was vexatious, did he include in that total the ones protesting about an innocent man suffering hundreds of custodies, dozens of arrests, multiple court cases, many dropped on the day of the hearing, many hanging over him over Christmas, multiple incarcerations in a tough Manchester prison, 8am to 8pm 2 years house arrest and falsification of alleged but non-existent council tax arrears to further the Council's vicious vendetta against this proved to be completely innocent chap? If he did, he was covering up his own failings in regard to this matter, and that again is something to be brought up in the court case.

Kind regards

Sheila

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My "vexatious" decision notice

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/if-i-beat-you-up.html

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/council-taxpayer-sworn-at-by-council-employee.html

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/we-re-going-to-kick-the-f-ck-out-of-them.html