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— Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh (@SubVersatile) December 30, 2013
Today I made a plea on twitter,
the plea was to Anonymous to help me in my fight for justice which I
have desperately seeking since 2008.
My plea came out of desperation, I have tried
everything, I have gone through all the correct channels I know of in
regard of my case, I have even written to two UK Prime Ministers, other
MP's, the BBC, many mainstream media out lets, ombudsman, & Liberty,
the IPPC, & the European court of Human rights asking for advice
and help,and a fair hearing & trial. But I am getting ahead of
myself so I will go through my story now, from when it began & how
it began, with as much detail as I can remember without getting out the
boxes of documented evidance,that I can cite in a court of law to
support my allegations.
Here I will present just the timeline of events & facts.
In September 2006 I enrolled at the TCAT campus of
Wolverhampton university to study for a foundation degree in health
& socail welfare & social policy. After an interview I was
accepted onto the course as a mature student & made the applications
for student loans , grands & funding.
I contacted my Social Landlord & Telford &
Wrekin Housing trust & informed them of my change in circumstances.I
informed my housing officer that I was not sure how much housing
benefit I was going to be entitled to but that I knew I would have to
pay a percentage but I wasn't sure how much.
I contacted the benefits office & told them of my
change in circumstances, & I contacted my sons schools &
informed them as my sons would no longer be entitled to free school
meals.
I was informed by Jill Nicolls my housing officer at
the housing trust, that there may be some delays the benefits office
making any adjustments in them sorting what i'd have to pay towards my
rent but not to worry and deficit or whatever could be adjusted later
when my student funding came though.
I had know Ms Nicolls for a long time I had lived in
the house since 2001, even before Jill worked at that office, but she
had dealt with my case since about 2002/3 and had been aware of my
previous changes in circumstances and indeed a great deal about my
domestic circumstances and the various changes they'd gone through
regarding relationship changes, daughter leaving home, work, all the
usual that you have to inform these offices off each time your
circumstances change.
Indeed she also knew some of the circumstances of my
private life and mental health conditions related to depression &
anorexia, and that my home was very important to me as a mother of three
with no extended family in the area or support system, I had told her
on several occassions through the years that if & when I had a
decent job that would like to buy the house, indeed I had moved in when
the right to buy existed and as a long term tenant still had that right
under the old terms, I would have occupancy discount options that would
make it a very favorable option, if I left that house I would of course
loose those options as they don't carry over.
This may seem like irrelevant info but the reasons I include it I hope will become apparent later.
In or around February 2007 I received notification from
the benefits office telling me I was being investigated for defrauding
the benefits system as I had been claiming housing benefit I was not
entitled to
I was called into the councils offices and interrogated
by two housing officers who said I was making fraudulent claims on my
benefits, I told them they were wrong I was told by both advisers at the
university and the housing officer I would be entitled to some help
with my rent,although not all, and explained I had been waiting on being
informed by the housing department of any difference that had to be
paid, in short I explained what Jill Nicolls told me, they did not
believe me and I left the council offices in tears and went straight to a
solicitor and sought advice.
After the solicitor had contacted them I received a
letter saying I was no longer under investigation , they dropped the
allegations of fraud but that I would have to pay full rent which was
£380 a month & council tax, when in fact I had been informed as a
full time student I was except from council tax.
I contacted Jill Nicolls who said she'd look into it,
who then put me on to someone called Brenda who was the benefits rep for
the council & after requesting all my financial details regarding
funding and indeed my banking records they both insisted I was not
entitled to a reproduction in my rent & would have to pay full rent.
I insisted they were wrong, because I had made
inquiries both before signing up for my FDA, and since at the university
& with other students with similar and indeed some with better
financial circumstances than me who all agreed I was entitled to a
percentage of housing benefit.
On top of these issues I also received notification
that my eldest son would not be entitled to his EMA for collage as my
income was to high, ( it later turned out that the LEA, the same one
that dealt with my funding and my sons appeared to have it down that my
income was in excess of £94thousand pound, despite this being the same
local authority who I had been getting free school meals from while on
benefits directly before going to university and who were dealing with
my student grants and funding.
I agreed to pay the full rent as I had been told but
continued to insist that an error had been made and that they should
keep checking as I knew I was entitled to some housing benefit &
council tax , but they kept saying no and threatening me with eviction
each time my rent was late.
I asked if it would be possible to make an arrangement
that gave me some scope with my payments to work round when my funding
went into my account which was quarterly and even offered to pay my rent
upfront when my grants & loans were paid but was told I ws not
allowed to do that. Additionally I was told that they had to take me to
court each time it was late as it was policy even though they knew it
was paid as soon as my payments reached my account.
I continued to try to explain that I had expected to
pay about £100 pound a month on my calculations before going to
university and had worked my finances around this, & that I was now
paying 3times more than I believed I should be so it was very difficult
as it was almost a £300 deficit per month to my expected budget on the
figure I believed I should be paying , this affected everything else, I
was £300 a month down on my income , but they wouldn't work round the
couple of weeks towards the weeks my grans and loans were due help me
out and took me to court about ever 3 months which meant I insured about
£200 court cost which was added to my rent arrears bill each time. The
financial distress was unbearable, and I was threatened each time I was
taken to court with eviction,and I knew I had no where for me & my
two sons who lived at home to go should that happen.
Additionally I was receiving demand letters for council
tax that I believed I should not be paying because I was exempt, and
with these also came threats of court action telling me I could loose my
home.
I became quite ill physically, I couldn't eat because
of the stress & also because of the financial stress, I had two sons
to feed, & gas & electric and other bills to pay also.
In 2008 when I was taken to court I read a statement to
the Magistrate McDonald of Telford & Wrekin magistrates court
saying I was going to challenge these issues and would take legal action
against every department involved and cited various acts of law
relevant to the case including the human rights act and mental health
act as there was no doubt in my mind of what these abuses & bullying
tactics were doing to my mental & physical health.
The magistrate told me he felt I had grounds to take action but that he had to deal with the case in hand.
On that July day 2008, I was there on the pretext of of
rent arrears in the region of £900+ that had been paid directly to the
Telford and Wrekin housing trust a few days prior to the hearing, in
other world I had no rent arrears at the time I was in court, but I was
made to pay court cost of £235 which was added to my housing &
council tax arrears bill, and before I left the hearing room the housing
officer who was in attendance handed me a bill for rent due in 2weeks
advance of that day 28th July as I recall, and told me in front of the
judge if I was late they'd have me back in court and request my
eviction.
The judge told me I could leave and to find a lawyer ,
and asked the housing officer to remain after I had gone as he had thing
to discuss with her.
I left and tried to find legal representation , no one would take on my case.
I wrote to the ombudsman , liberty and various other
agencies seeing advice , I have copies of all communications I made. I
contacted various advisory agencies, they all said they couldn't help or
I was wrong. I was becoming increasingly frustrated depressed and
desperate.
I contacted various tv & media outlets, including
this morning itv, bbc, Rughters, almost every uk news paper I could
think of and even some American ones, I contacted Zane lowe at the BBC
as I had heard he was involved with amnesty and I presumed he was a
human rights activist, I contacted Gordon Brown and pleaded for help
twice, after the 1st time I wrote to mr Brown it seemed like there were
even more demand letters arriving thought the door everyday form places I
couldn't even associate with debts I had, I was going out of my head
with worry about being evicted, I was trying to hide it from the boys,
and I was having menstrual bleeding that didn't stop for about 4-5
months, so I was really tired.
I have no doubt I was behaving irrationally and this impacted on my sons behavior.
I had what I can only describe as a break down.
My youngest son was removed from my care , without my consent or even proper consultation or investigation.
He went to live with his sister in scotland temporally
but returned later, I had various problems with social supervises
regarding their behaviors during this period as they did not fulfill
proper procedures, this I know to be fact as I previously worked in
residential child care and had knowledge of child care legislation,
& procedures regarding child protection issues.
I was late making my registration for my BA year at
university as a result and this cause various other problems with my
registration and funding.
I wrote to Brown again in November 2008.
By this time only my youngest son was living at home
and he was having various problems at school and with the police
regarding minor issues related to graffiti tagging.
In November 2010 I was after much inquiry proven to be
correct and that Telford and Werkin Housing Trust had in fact been wrong
I should have been paying £80.00 a month towards my rent as I was
entitled to housing benefit of £300month and was indeed except from
Council tax as a full time student.
I was repaid some monies, i DO NOT BELIEVE i WAS PAID THE FULL ANOUNT I WAS OWED.
I did not receive a proper formal appology, and I was
denied my right to bring action against then for negligence, extortion
harassment bullying & the health problems they caused me for the
duration of their harassment for the rent I was made pay that I was not
in fact liable to pay during my time at university from 2006-2009.
I tried to bring legal action through Telford Magistrates court twice and was struck out I believe on false grounds.
I have all paperwork and documentation pertaining to all of these incidents.
On February 6th 2009 after an argument with my youngest
son he sad he was going to Scotland for a couple of weeks to say with
his sister. I didn't want him to go for various reason, like school, it
had become his habit that when he wasn't getting his own way he would
say he was going to his sisters, I felt that this was not good as it
interfered with his education and also because it meant every time, I
pissed him off he'd go up there , come back behave a couple of weeks
then start playing up again , he was a teenager, that's not unusual, I
felt if she kept allowing him to do this it was counter productive to me
being able to enforce boundaries and deal with his behaviors that were
getting out of order, I admit I wasn't coping as well with his problems
that I might normally have done I was really stress with the ongoing
financial & housing problems I was depressed but I felt his pissing
off when ever it suited him was not the correct way to deal with it
either. His brother had sent him a ticket though so there was little i
could do to stop him. I was very upset, I think when I took him to the
bus station I said if he went I was finished with him I couldn't cope
with this, I was hoping he would give in and not go , he didn't, he got
out the car and went for the bus. I drove home in tears.
When I got home I called my daughter and said words t
the effect of I had had enough, I couldn't take anymore I was gonna end
up topping myself.I was very distressed.
She called the police, they came and asked me to go for
a mental health assessment to the hospital as my daughter was worried I
was going to kill myself, I said I wasn't and explained to them what
had happened earlier and they asked would I go for the assessment to put
my daughters mind at rest , I agreed to do so. I went with the two
policemen in the police car to the princess royal hospital for a mental
health assessment.
At the hospital the police checked me in then left.
I was put on a trolly in the corridor to await a doctor.
I was a mess I hadn't slept the night before, I hadn't
washed that morning , or combed my hair, I weepy, I felt very
embarrassed and self-conscious as I lay waiting on the trolly , people
passing and looking at me.
After what seemed a very long time, though it probably
wasn't I informed the staff I was leaving I was fine , I was under no
obligation to be there I wasn't a risk to my self or anyone else and I
was going home. i left and walked the short distance home.
When I got home I took two of my prescribed tablets for sleeping and went to bed.
I had been having regular counseling from my doctor
since the problems began, I did not take anti depressants I don't like
them , I had had them in the past and they had not helped my condition ,
they made me lethargic , and irritable, I coped with my depression by
doing yoga, meditating writing & studying for my degree, I had
sleeping tablets for emergencies for when I was really exhausted &
couldn't sleep and to help as relaxants for the stress in my shoulders I
rarely used them, But o this occasion I just wanted to sleep I felt it
would help calm me.
I went to bed.
At around 4pm I was awakened by someone at the door.
I got up went downstairs and answered the door . There were two policemen there. I invited them in.
I showed them into the living room and put the dog in
the kitchen because he has a tendency to sit and stare at strangers
looking to get stroked, its distracting.
I went back to the lounge.
The one doing the taking ,McIntosh was very
confrontational from the offset ,removing a torch that was on my chair
next to me from where it was , when I questioned why he said in case I
used it as a weapon against them, I asked why would I do that,I had not
been aggressive or given any reason for him to think I might be violent,
I had no history of incident with police ever, no police record, charge
or even warning against me.
I then said for all you know its like a comfort blanket
to me you had no right removing it, I had not been threatening, he said
the hospital had sent them and I had to go back as I had left without
being discharged . I said no I didn't I was not under any section to be
there I had went volentarly and could leave the same way, he said I had
to go back to sign out,I said again I didn't have to do anything , and
explained I had gone in the first place to put my daughters mind at
rest, I didn't need to return, he said I did, I said if they tried to
force me to go back it would be kicking and screaming.
I then explained the circumstances that had caused me
to be there, why I was depressed making reference to the letter to Brown
Zane lowe ect, there were papers beside me on the table regarding it
all which I threw on the floor while explaining saying I wrote all these
, McIntosh was continuing to be confrontational , I picked up the paper
saying , they were important and put them back on the table, still
trying to explain whey I was depressed. I was talking with my hand's and
swearing, i swear a lot, particularly when Im wound up, McIntosh said
he was going to arrest me for being threatening and abusive, I had not
threatened anyone, I had refused to go back to the hospital which I was
under no obligation to do, and I can use whatever language I like in my
own home, McIntosh stood up and grabbed me by the arm and put my arms
behind my back about to cuff me , I kicked him in the shin, with my bare
feet , i had got out off bed I had no shoes on. He released me there
was more talking to calm me down the other one got me a coffee and a
cigarette. I was now sitting at the other side of the room on the sofa
McIntosh was at my left, I called him a fascist bastard. Gurman to my
right.
I was informed I was now being arrested for assaulting a
police officer. I knew I had by kicking him, so I agreed to go with
them to be charged, but said I wanted to go put out food for the dog and
cats as I had never been arrested before and didn't know how long this
would take, I also wanted to go put clothes on and have a pee they said I
couldn't they would feed the animals, I said they didn't know where
anything was, and I had to get dressed anyway,
I stood up and went to walk toward the living room door
and McIntosh grabbed me from behind turning me round and pushing me
onto the sofa face down. I had the cup of coffee in 1 hand the cigarette
in the other cos I was going to put the cup in the kitchen when i went
to feed the animals, the cup flew out my had as did the cigarette. He
was pushing my arm up my back to my shoulders twisted I was face down on
the couch with his knee in my back screaming with the pain , Gurman
continued to sit on the sofa watching as he was dong this I screamed at
him to get hm off me he was breaking my arms.
Eventually my shoulder clicked and he released me, I
stood up and went faint, I arm was limp hanging, They sat me down and I
said I was gong to be sick I say down on the carpet still crying I
couldn't move my arm, from my shoulder it was limp and painful, I don't
if I lost consciousness, Next thing I remember is the paramedics being
there and examining my arm my shoulder , but my elbow was really painful
too , they put me in a chair and took me by ambulance, I kept saying to
them he did this to me, don't leave them in my house, but they did.
Next thing I remember was being at the hospital I was
seen right away, I vaguely remember seeing someone from mental health
apparently, but its vague, I remember being x-rayed cos the girl kept
asking me to move my elbow and I couldnt , I kept telling her what he
done, I was taken to a room with Gurman,to wait for the x-ray result,
then Mcintosh came to the corridor and Gurman left the doorway where
he'd been standing to go speak to him in the corridor, then he came to
the room and said there was nothing wrong wth my arm and they were
taking me to the station to charge me. they took me out a back door into
a paddy wagon and put me in the back, every bump they went over sent
pain through my arm, and every round about seemed to send my sliding off
the seat and banged my arm.
I was then put ina cell where I was left for 19 hours. I
was allowed to see the doctor , who said I was fine, and gave me 2
paracitomal.
At 3pm the next day I was introduced to the duty
solicitor who said she wanted my arm photographed which it was, during
the interview, someone came in and the tape was stopped the person spoke
to the copper interviewing me then they started again, by now my arm
was completely disfigured black and really badly swollen, I kept saying
this isnt right he did this to e, i want to bring charges. they wouldn't
let me . I was told I could request a copy of the tape at any time , at
a later date i did I never to this day received a copy.
I was charged and bailed pending inquiry.
I had no coat, and was taken home by two police men who
were really nice to me , one commented in the car , we'r not like that,
don't judge us all the same.
when I got home I took pictures of my arm.
I was in shock I think for about a week maybe more...
I cried a lot, I couldn't do anything, I couldn't sleep
for the pain, but the hospital said it wasn't broke so i had no cause
to doubt them, so I put up with it. My head was fucked , I couldn't
understand what had happened , how it could have happened, it didn't
make sense , it was a concern for welfare call , how could this happen
on a concern for welfare follow up...
In the weeks that followed before the bail appearance i
got a letter from the lawyer,what it said was not accurate and I wrote
to tell her , i got no answer , then she didn't turn up the day I was to
attend the bail thing at the station, so I sacked her and sought
different legal representation. When I went to the bail thing the first
time i was told the date had been changed they'd informed my lawyer but
not me , nor had she informed me. same second time, both times I said I
wanted to make a complaint and each time I was told there was no one
available at that time to take my complaint. I was til wearing a sling
my arm still wasn't right.
Eventually I went to the hospital about 6 maybe 8 week
later cos things were still not right my arm was misinformed , the
treage nurse actually commented on it.
The doctor x rayed me and said he felt my elbow had
been chipped and referred me for a second opinion, which confirmed these
findings. they said their was no need for surgery as it had healed
itself.
I was offered physio , I refused. I could do that
myself , they had already let me down by getting the original diagnosis
wrong and releasing me into police care on the 7th feb with a chipped
elbow , having attended originally on a concern for mental health call, I
had no fiath left in them.
I sought legal representation. I was given a solicitor
to pursue the complaint against the police the, solicitor I asked to
take action against the hospital said she would not take the case as I
could not win.
This was only the beginning of a very long journey...
I will write more tomorrow, I can't write anymore about
this tonight , what i'v written so far has wakened a lot of sleeping
demons I have been trying to keep at rest for 4 years...
TO BE CONTINUED...
