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Report into prolonged criminality and request for investigation.
From: Roderick Macpherson
Date: 2 February 2022 at 14:01:34 GMT
To: command.mailbox@northumbria.pnn.police.uk
Cc: enquiries@northumbria-
Dear Chief Constable,
I write to you because I do not know who to contact about the deceit,
collusion, coercion and downright criminality that my family have been
embroiled in for the last 4 years.
I come to you, because my story involves a Local Authority, Social Services,
care homes, mental health hospitals, law firms and barristers and possibly
the Court of Protection as well as the various carers, nurses, and social
workers that have been directly involved. I have copied in the Police
Commissioner, because what I am saying involves too many public and
government organisations for her to be ignored. Remember please that the
following is very brief.
18 months or so ago, my wife and I visited Gateshead Police Station to meet
with a policeman who’s name was William Kent. His boss Alan Cairns has
been involved. ( Crime Ref No. 57058x/20) They agreed to look into the care
home mentioned below, but nothing has been done. Court involvement meant
that the Court was contacted, and information was passed over to the Police,
but nothing has happened except Mr Kent visited my daughter in hospital and
she confirmed everything about the poor care and other allegations that we
are still making. It all seems to have been blocked. Mr Cairns does not even
answer messages now. The Attorney General has sent us an email stating
that perjury is a criminal offence and must be investigated by the Police.
Wilful neglect is also a criminal offence.
I must keep 4 years of Court hearings, statements, and associated paperwork
and emails to myself for now, and write a precis of events. For the moment, I
shall name no names, places, or organisations as I am bound by the Court’s
unreasonable cloak of secrecy, as well as injunctions and impositions,
designed solely to prevent us discovering properly what has been going on.
But crime is crime and must be investigated. I can give examples of perjury,
theft and physical assault that your own force has been silenced from
investigating.
Fortunately for us, there are too many people involved, and things are stated
unwittingly in conversation. I believe that I can provide positive proof of the
ring of corruption that must be broken. I can give you extracts of
conversations from nurses, social workers, social services, hospital
management and finally another nurse who brings the other comments into
some sort of order.
I can tell you of “lost” and missing records, and legally required documents not
kept. I can tell you of an illegally registered care home. I can tell you of a
barrister who has worked only for the opposition throughout these hearings. I
can tell of solicitors and barristers who sit back and allow the wrongdoing to
happen. The Mental Capacity Act has been totally ignored. My daughter has
been silenced by a fictitous mental condition and is kept unwell by wrongful
administration of medication.
I must start at the beginning, with my stepdaughter. Born abroad of mixed
race in 1986 with Cerebral Palsy which only affects her mobility. Entered
Britain legally with Mum and I , and both are now British Citizens.
In 2012, she contracted Meningitis, which left her with epilepsy and
schizophrenia. The epilepsy is easily controlled with medication. The
schizophrenia has been more difficult to control, I believe initially because of
the very weak Mental Health care that we have. Constant adjustments and
variations left her in a state of being well, and then climbing the walls, and this
has gone on since she entered the first care home and came under the
control of Social Services..
She lived in her own Housing Association property, but was struggling with
her illness and lack of confidence. We saw a brand new care home being
built, made enquiries, and in September 2017 after a period in hospital, she
moved into her own flat. We knew the social worker and we knew the care
home manager as we had met them in respite care with never a problem or
concern about anything at all.
The care home was brand new, not fully occupied, nor fully staffed. The
manager asked Mum to continue with daytime care. There was no time limit
set on that. Things soon started to go wrong. Items of food were disappearing,
with the crockery being found in staff areas. Liquid medication was spilled on
the floor every night, and left there, sticky, for Mum to clean in the morning.
Even one use medicine pots were thrown into the sink for Mum to wash! The
heating was always turned up on maximum, the music always played very
loudly, Items of jewellery disappeared, Medication mistakes were made,
Delicate fabrics were washed on long hot washes, destroying the clothing. No
“Life Skills” education took place. The LA later admitted very quietly in court
that they had underfunded the care.
Complaints were made, and rejected, despite all being recorded in the daily
log books. So it was sort of acknowledged but completely ignored. The place
was illegally registered by the Local Authority instead of CQC. Not corrected
until Spring 2020. The LA was told by the Ombudsman to properly follow
procedures, so they employed a small ex social worker’s company to
investigate, and the report is a litany of lies and false allegations against Mum
and her behaviour. There is no consistency through the sections. At the end
summary, the LA was requested to make a series of changes, none of which
have been delivered 4 years on.
We are now in May 2018. The social worker is writing outrageous statements,
and the LA approach the Court of Protection claiming that Mum is working
against daughter’s interests. Apparently there were concerns about mental
capacity which were never mentioned before that. Mum has highly expressed
emotions. It is impossible for carers to care properly etc etc etc. Hospital
notes were produced with claims of similar behaviour translated into them.
I should mention that in 2018, daughter went to a solicitor to write Lasting
Powers of Attorney for Mum. to look after things. Quite rightly, the solicitor
knew of the schizophrenia and asked for an assessment of mental capacity to
be carried out. This was done with no problem or concerns and the LPAs
were signed. Social worker was well aware of these arrangements and raised
no concerns. Later in her Statements to Court, she claimed that she had
conducted three assessments within a week at the same time and had
concerns. Nobody can remember these assessments, and social worker
produced no legally required records!
Now Mum finds herself in Court, simply for trying to protect her daughter. She
was banned from entering the care home or daughter’s flat. Contact was to
be supervised and limited to prevent Mum giving daughter over the counter
medication, and to allow the staff to properly look after daughter. A picture
was painted!
I then supported Mum at a hearing, and stood up to request that I be allowed
to represent myself. This was accepted.
There came a three day hearing late in the year. Apart from the usual agenda
being put forward, the social worker suddenly took early retirement when she
left the witness box, and a Court expert claimed that daughter had no mental
capacity to understand her care needs, where she lived, and who to meet.
He used the social worker’s statement about capacity assessments to claim
that the LPAs were illegal. He had made his decisions in complete denial of
the Mental Capacity Act 2005. As a result, the Judge declared that daughter
lacked capacity, so the Court had jurisdiction to proceed, and that she should
lose her liberty to leave the care home, and that the LPAs were invalid. She
effectively split our family. Who was punished the most? Daughter, with no
other friends or blood relatives nearby, and needing her Mum. Her only
comment was “Why would professionals lie”? My answer is because they can!
Now let me try to explain the “Independence” of the various parties.
The LA illegally registered the care home which they defended despite the
evidence.
Social services is an LA department.
The LA appointed a Mental Health Advocate for daughter. He works for a
separate company, but digging easily shows that any complaints process
goes back to the LA.
He appointed a solicitor who appointed a barrister. Those people have never
defended daughter and family, but fully supported the LA in every word and
action, even ignoring serious failures by the LA and Social Services. Not one
word in favour of the family or that would benefit their client.
They appointed the Court Expert, who does a lot of work for Social Services
at the LA.
Where is the independence? It is shown later, by the Advocate declaring a
conflict of interest when he was expected to stand for daughter against a
social worker. How can that even be possible? Another Advocate from the
same company was provided!
We went through Christmas without seeing daughter. Confined in the care
home in virtual isolation because she did not want to be in a half hearted
party.
Some months later, a 6(?) day hearing was held. Two barristers in Court, plus
one for Mum. LA and daughter’s barristers working in unison to attack Mum,
and also attack me! I had never been accused of anything! Mum’s barrister
saying very little. Yet I as a layman was making things uncomfortable for
some witnesses, especially a carer who’s story could have come from Alice in
Wonderland. She was rewarded with a nice new job for that, yet should have
been prosecuted for perjury! It was nothing but a waste of time and public
money, and to see a LA barrister sitting in Court trying to work 2 computers at
the same time, proved the farce. He was not in a high profile fraud or murder
trial.
Daughter spent from 9 January 2020 in a mental health hospital where she
was titrated onto a new for her medication. By May, the results were
alarmingly good. The old daughter was back, bright and bouncy and looking
forward to a new life. However, a new social worker continued her lies,
claiming impossible events at the hospital, claiming that daughter’s telephone
was never available because she was taking the batteries out. That as you
will know is impossible in modern phones. Also claiming that both Mum and I
had been screaming obscenities down the telephone at her. It was she who
was screaming! She also confused and destroyed a potential meeting
between myself and the care home area management, that I had worked so
hard for in Court at the last hearings. False information in three directions, and
then blamed us for not turning up! More perjury ignored!
Daughter returned to the care home against her wishes on May 26th. A
Section 17 Care Plan was in place to ensure her return to hospital if even one
tablet was missed in the first 7 days. On 28th May, her birthday, she went
into deep psychosis. In the next 35 days she was given 29 doses of
Lorazepam to knock her out. Not a word was reported to hospital and on the
7th day she was discharged from hospital care! The medical records for the
next 5 weeks were requested by the LA, obtained and distributed by
daughter’s own solicitor, and then completely ignored. They make horrific
reading, but the LA and Daughter’s own legals did not even present them to
Court. I have done so at least twice, and they have been ignored. Positive
evidence of wilful neglect against the care home, nurses, social worker, and
all ignored completely. Not a single word of protest for his client’s poor
treatment from her barrister!
At the end of this period, she was taken to A&E where it was found that she
had not been given her new med. She went back to the mental health
hospital where they said the same, then transferred to a second MH hospital
who agreed once more. Three hospitals saying the same thing. A&E claimed
to have been mistaken after involvement from the Social Worker.?????
She then spent 17 months in hospital and her Consultant fiddled with every
one of her medicines, including imposing a contraceptive implant on her. He
dabbled and meddled and achieved nothing. He put her on a medication
known 3 years previously to cause her distress and psychosis, and he has
kept her suffering now for over a year. He has faced criticism from a previous
Consultant, and her GP. He has agreed to stop the use, and ignored it. He
has promised daughter to change it, and ignored it. She has suffered daily for
more than a year and that is not just neglect, it is deliberate torture! No other
word fits.
Following on from the lies about screaming phone calls earlier, and despite a
Court order not to record telephone calls, all calls have been recorded in self
protection.
There are voice recordings of conversations where nurses have stated that
they know of something untoward going on. A ward manager stated the
same. Social worker the same, Out of hours Social Services the same. Social
Services Manager the same. Also the Consultant makes similar statements,
very briefly and then cutting the call. Recently, a psychiatric nurse, who has
been involved since the start, stated that “ It was agreed a long time ago, by
several people, to keep daughter ill”!
All of these inconsequential statements that add together to show the pattern
that we have observed and commented on as an engineered condition to suit
an agenda. Here we have the real reason why our claims to conduct
toxicology tests were met with uproar by her own Barrister, with claims of
causing trauma! Then the hospital cut her hair shorter than it has ever been! It
is why nobody will discuss medication even with daughter.
There are consultants who have stated that there is no problem with capacity,
but because the Court has ordered otherwise, they are ignored. A social
worker has rewritten the Mental Capacity Act after describing daughter’s
perfect reasoning and method of making a decision.
It has all been too easy. Go to Court. Claim a lack of mental capacity,
completely block all conversation, forbid Mum and daughter discussing
medication or care, refuse to allow the use of their native language. Make
outrageous claims against Mum. Prove nothing, discuss nothing. Refuse to
mediate. Keep on making allegations in Court that are unfounded. What does
the Judge say? Why would professionals lie? My answer is because they
can, and it has all been done to avoid Ombudsman scrutiny and involvement
with the LA. FOUR years of public money and Court time. Two social
workers gone. LA solicitor gone. So many people gone. Too many people
removed from the scene for knowing too much, or just “making waves”. Did
they jump or were they pushed? I say pushed, with a nice golden handshake
because they know too much.
Even your own officers are coerced and confined by the Court. Two counts of
physical assault, theft, 4 counts of perjury, all hidden under a cloak of
confidentiality. But crime is crime and still must be punished even in open
Court where secrecy can be maintained, just as I have maintained secrecy
here.
Now we have the medication problems which cannot be ignored. The Mental
capacity Act must not be ignored regarding tribunals, medication reviews,
and second opinions, as well as regular tests of capacity. All of this has been
denied from daughter. Her Human Rights have been squashed, far in excess
of what a Court may legally do.
Now she has moved into a new care home. The new nursing staff are
concerned at what is going on. A new set of doctors only prevaricate and
allow the suffering to continue. Nobody will join the dots to see the picture,
because they are all new, except of course the social worker with her
agitation, and the nurse who has prompted my actions in this letter.
I plead with you to try to understand the problem. This case involves far too
many organisations and people that we trust with our lives. It cannot be
ignored. The Court must be informed of our concerns, and your interests with
immediate effect, or will daughter end up incarcerated in an empty room as
we have seen so many times in the name of Mental Health treatment.
My wife and I will of course furnish you with full and accurate sworn
statements, and include all names of everybody and every organisation.
However, your own Mr Cairns will soon identify my name and what he knows
by his own involvement. I know of no other way to get the ball rolling on this
much needed investigation. There will certainly be a press interest, but we
have restrained ourselves from contacting them in respect of Court Orders.
I respectfully request that you put into place an investigation. Too many
people know the truth. Too many are sitting in nice jobs as rewards. The
Court must be told that you are investigating serious claims regarding the
maladministration of Justice. Wilful neglect, theft, perjury, and such like that
can be laid at so many doors. Everything is hidden under the guise of the
Court. Nobody must be allowed to wriggle away. Even CQC, who have not
had replies to their own concerns, only say that “We will pass on your
concerns.” Yes, they report directly back to the LA! Even the Police have
raised safeguarding concerns and not received replies. The whole set up is
not fit for purpose, and corrupt to the core. I have all of the names,
organisations, and companies which I shall give you when you start an
investigation. The next Court Hearing is three days at the beginning of March.
Why another three days? What for??? Only to heap more allegations on
Mum, and place more Court Orders and restrictions on the family. We have
not see her now for the last four Christmases. Where is her Human Right to a
family life. We have not had any contact meetings since before Christmas.
Please get something moving in a small way, before more damage is done to
my daughter. What has 4 years of psychosis inducing medication done to
her? She is in desperate need of good care, treatment, food and relaxation
and it will take her a long time to recover from this. All of what I have said is
recorded in Court Documents.
Yours sincerely
R Macpherson
L Macpherson