No one told us it would be like this.

Tena ra tatou katoa.

He korero na Alistair Te Ariki Campbell e pa ana ki te ANZAC pakanga i tu ki Gallipoli

Ka awatea ka tineia te kamokamo o te mata o te kanohi, katahi ka timata matou ki te whawhai o taua rangi nei. Ko nga Taitama o te pamu, o te kohao whenua, o te taone, o te kura ranei, i matea i te puke pupu rere a i matea hoki matou i te puke tupapaku i takotokoto ai. Kihai te tangata i pohehetia ai
Ka maumaharahara kia ratou ma.

New Zealand poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell wrote this about the ANZACs in Gallipoli:

"The light of adventure that shone so brightly in our eyes when we set out was extinguished that day. Young men from the farms, the mines, the cities, the public schools, we died in a vast quagmire of blood and broken bodies. No one told us it would be like this."

We will remember them.

While John Key mumbles inanely about sending Kiwi troops to Iraq to fight against "ISIS" and "ISIL" etc, because of "alleged atrocities" Key is socialising with the Saudis, despite the fact that there have been over forty beheadings in Saudi Arabia so far this year.

Nicholas Taiaroa Stevens - Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

Nicholas Taiaroa Stevens was found this morning.

Hamilton Police finally announced yesterday that he was missing, earlier today his father issued a desperate plea for information and assistance with the search for Nicholas.

The volunteers who run the Hamilton Homeless Trust pointed out that Nicky wasn't homeless, but he was greatly loved by all who knew him, they've been raising awareness that he's missing for days on social media etc, and asking for information.

This message is shared from Nicky's dad - Dave Macpherson -  with great sadness.

"Sadly, we have to tell you that our youngest son Nicholas (Nicky) has passed away.

He was found dead in the Waikato River this morning.

We have just seen him, and he looks very peaceful. He had some tortured times recently, but one consolation is that these are now over for him.

We want to thank the many, many people – family, friends, old schoolmates and others that have reached out to us in the last couple of days with messages of support and hope – Nick had a LOT of friends who wanted him to stay with us and to be well; sadly that won’t be the case, but we know he will be missed.

We want to also say that Nicky’s death was preventable on this occasion, and when we have had time to grieve as a family, we will be taking this up with the medical authorities who have failed to properly exercise their duty of care over Nicky.

We ask you to respect our privacy in the short term, and we will advise future arrangements for Nicky.

Dave and Jane"

Nicky was just 21.  Hey was born in the town where I live.

In light of the recent report from the IPCA regarding the manner in which Police treated a woman suffering from a mental health condition who was sexually assaulted by a hospital security guard, who then went on to sexually assault a second woman because Police did absolutely nothing about the first complaint, and the evidence of other serious problems regarding the treatment of mental health patients in Aotearoa New Zealand, it's clear that Nicky Tairoa Stevens is not the only one who's been let down.

Nicholas Ward Harris was killed in a prison cell after he was arrested, for being homeless in Hamilton basically.  It's not just Police, it's prison staff, mental health professionals, the so called justice system and the Courts, vulnerable people are being let down right across the board, while the meagre, taxpayer funded resources that are supposed to be spent treating, helping, supporting people who genuinely need care, are instead being spent on corrupt persecutory vendettas.

UPDATE - 16 March 2015:

Kia Ora whanau - as I have posted all week re Nicky - I would like to inform you of a public statement made by Nicky's whanau - I would also like to acknowledge the whanau for what they have gone through and are going through at this time , Nga mihi Alvina, Hamilton Homeless Trust.

Shortly after Nicky died his family began to speak up about what was happening to them, and they're co-ordinating discussion and constructive action among others who've been treated the same way and other human beings with basic empathy.

Nicholas Taiaroa Macpherson Stevens, 26.4.93 – 9.3.15 

A Preventable Death 

The Victim of Medical and Bureaucratic Malpractice 

Public Statement by his parents Jane and Dave, and brother Tony. 

~ 

Our family completely rejects a Waikato Hospital’s sham ‘investigation’, and calls for Hospital authorities to be held accountable by an independent investigation. 

Our son’s death was preventable, had proper and common sense procedures been followed. 

The day following the discovery of our son’s body in the Waikato River, our family received an email letter from the Waikato Hospital Manager stating the Hospital was going to conduct a 70-day internal investigation into the “service and care delivery issues” that the family had raised BEFORE Nicholas’ body was discovered. 

A mid-level manager of the Hospital was to conduct the ‘investigation’ – and the family was not asked for input into the personnel or brief for the investigation, and was told in the letter it would be offered “an opportunity to meet and discuss the findings following “ its completion. 

We will not participate in such a sham ‘investigation’. 

We demand a complete, independent investigation run totally outside Waikato Hospital, where the family has opportunity for input at all stages. Waikato Hospital should initiate and pay for this. 

The Hospital letter also refused us access at this point to documents showing communication between the Hospital and Police following the discovery that Nicholas had gone missing. 

FACTS ABOUT NICHOLAS’ CARE AT WAIKATO HOSPITAL

Nicholas was in Hospital under a compulsory care order under the Mental Health Act. He was admitted less than 3 weeks before his death after trying to commit suicide, requiring several hours of urgent surgery – which the family was not told about for several days. 

Against strong and repeated opposition from the family, Waikato Hospital granted Nicholas ‘unescorted leave’ from the Hospital grounds. 

The family warned Waikato Hospital staff and management on a number of occasions that Nicholas was in high danger of harming himself again.  

He had described to family members and friends two other suicide attempts while in Hospital on ‘unescorted leave’ – these had been passed on both to Ward staff and to management. 

Hospital authorities chose not only to ignore our opposition to ‘unescorted leave’, but planned to extend it on the very day he disappeared. 

When he disappeared, he was on his second period of unescorted leave in less than 2 hours. Nicholas’ care Management Plan stated that leave was for a maximum of 15 minutes – it seems he was absent for at least 90 minutes before he was discovered missing.  

He was only discovered missing when friends came to see him and he couldn’t be found. 

CCTV footage of the Henry Bennett Centre entrance and lobby show Nicholas being in the vicinity, going in and out of the door for a period well after his leave period ought to have expired. 

There is no (active) system of keeping records as to when patients in the Henry Bennett Centre go on leave, escorted or unescorted, or when visitors enter or leave the Wards. 

Nicholas’ situation is not the first instance like this at Waikato Hospital.

Had Nicholas been on escorted leave, as his family stated was the only safe option at that time, he would almost certainly have been alive today. 

Failing that, had his leave maximum period of 15 minutes been adhered to, and staff been sent to look for him, again Nicholas would almost certainly have been alive today. 

It is for these and other reasons that we assert malpractice on the Hospital’s part.

When he was discovered missing, Police tell us that the missing notice received by Hamilton Police from the Hospital did not mention anything about a suicide alert, or any danger to his health. 

Police therefore did not accord the report any high priority, and in fact did not even contact the family until almost two days after Nicholas’ disappearance – despite us lodging with their website missing person’s report system (we could not get to speak to ANY officer) our extreme concerns about his safety. 

We were finally contacted by Police AFTER we sent emails of complaint to the Minister of Police, the Police Commissioner and the District Commander of Police. They have claimed that timing is a coincidence. 

We believe the Police should be far more proactive when first receiving ANY such missing persons reports – this is not the first case where very prompt action may have prevented a disaster. 

We stress however that in no way do we blame the Police for what has happened, and we would like to especially thank Det Stephen Stokes for the sympathy and support he has shown us. 

The farewell service for Nicholas will be held at the Hamilton Gardens Pavilion, at 11am on Wednesday 18th March. 

Dave Macpherson

Dave Macpherson, Jane Stevens, Tony Macpherson-Stevens 

021-477 388 dave.macpherson@xtra.co.nz

There is no "compulsory care order" under the Mental Health Act.

There is a Compulsory Treatment Order though.  It's under Part 2 of the Mental Health Act, from section 17,  section 28 states this:

Every compulsory treatment order shall be either—
(a)  a community treatment order; or
(b)  an inpatient order,—
- and on making a compulsory treatment order the court shall specify the kind of order it is.

Section 31 establishes the Responsible Clinician as the person responsible for granting leave.  Certain so called responsible clinicians are extremely irresponsible indeed.  It hasn't been established who is culpable for the death of Nicholas Taiaroa Macpherson Stevens yet, but questions have most certainly been raised - the unacceptable thing is, that they were raised a long time ago, they've been repeatedly raised for a very long time.  Nothing was done about it.

Dave Macpherson said the family had written to the hospital at least 12 times before and after Stevens went missing, expressing "real concerns" about his care.

"What we're saying to the hospital is 'we've done the complaints, you didn't respond, and it's too late for an internal investigation'," he said.

The family wants Waikato DHB to call in the Health and Disability Commissioner or a similar independent body to head the investigation and wish to be consulted on the inquiry's brief.

Since Stevens' death, David Macpherson had been contacted by members of the public expressing concern about the care their family members had received at Waikato Hospital.

"We're more familiar with bureaucracies and systems than most people and we still couldn't make it work for our son. What hope have people got without our backgrounds?"

Good question.

In recent weeks the stain of Nicky's death has spread and darkened.

Jane, Dave and Tony are speaking up and calling for accountability, and being opposed and hindered by a system that is seriously dysfunctional now, due to the years and years of erosion of integrity, competent management and governance, and basic humanity, logic and fairness.

The Health and Disability Commissioner is in the business of 'resolving' complaints by employing strategies of 'damage control' - minimising complaints and fabricating excuses for the perpetrators instead of removing them from the system and forcing them to get a job in the real world - if they can.

Shall we dance? John Key wants to change the flag:

Many people believe that John Key and his mates at the TTP Tea Party have already resolved to change the New Zealand flag, Gareth Morgan's buying a seat at Ratana and the Orewa Rotary Club in between Don Brash and Georgina Beyer and telling everyone we should change the name of the country to the worst pronunciation of Aotearoa anyone's ever heard). And the referenda have been structured very cunningly indeed.

A panel has been appointed to chose just four designs for the referenda.

You can't win if you're not in, and it's basic art of war strategy to use the momentum of the enemy against him. This idea - please note that I didn't affix any specific comment about how we should change the NZ flag to this - links the two nations that founded this country (such as it is), it symbolises the partnership, or at least the intention of the partnership, with all the ties and obligations that inferred. Including the old with the new, and focusing on this partnership with each other, not Key's Tea Pee Pal's -Pissing-in-each-others-Pockets Party.

And particularly bearing in mind the recent decision of the Privy Council. Who are caught between a rock and a hard one really - who in their right mind would recommend a retrial after the travesties that were the first two trials of a gang glove puppet, used for political purposes.

We need to retain a little of the status quo until certain past agreements have been honoured because we can't trust our politicians, our Police, or our so called justice system.  Cutting ties with the Privy Council and the Treaty partner is dangerous and reckless. It has been established that Ngapuhi never ceded sovereignty, and Ngapuhi are presently politely telling the government where they can shove their unlawful 'mandate' also. This idea represents a binding of the partners to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and holds them to account for the past as we head into the future.

Honour the Treaty.
God save the Queen
Tihei Mauriora

Anyway, here's my humble contribution to the panel convened by Mr Key to choose the designs for his little referenda, if we were to change it to anything I think we should change it to this:

Copyright Katherine Raue 2015

Or, for the more traditional:

Copyright Katherine Raue 2015

Remember, remember, the 11th November - 2011, and a certain little tea party.

This is the government that grossly bungled the raid on Kim Dotcon, who legalised chemical "party drugs" because Peter Dunne's son was a stakeholder in the million dollar con run by Matthew Bowden and his mates - and were then forced to UN-legalise it less than 12 months later - how much did THAT cost again???

This is the same Prime Minister who was forced to "apologise to all New Zealanders" for illegally spying on Dotcon and the rest of us, but proclaimed that if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear - while running off to bleat to Police about Bradley Ambrose leaving a tape recorder on a table at a media stunt organised by Key and John Archibald Banks - who was convicted of electoral fraud after taking what amounted to bribes from Kim Dotcon - because that's the only way this sly talker can get 'elected' - even with all the help from Warwick Lampp and his mates at ElectioNZ.conjob.

Look at the photos below and tell me key didn't see this black bag - and what about his security staff???

"Gosh, is that your little handbag Johnny? 
No.  
Oh, must be mine then,  no worries eh, cheers mate, your shout?"

"Do you think we invited enough reporters to make sure I get in?"
"Hope so,  hard to tell, does my make up look ok?"
"Yes darl, the plastic surgery was a good touch too.
A real investment in your future"

I wouldn't buy a used car off either one of those two.

But I digress.  This design for our flag was inspired by my tupuna, and my whanau, whenua, maunga.  And from this design, created by Jamie Hurikino, representing our tūrangawaewae, Te Rawhiti.

- Jamie Hurikino

Our Original Flag:

UNITED TRIBES FLAG
The need for a flag to represent New Zealand was first raised in 1830, when the Hokianga-built trading ship Sir George Murray was seized in Sydney by Customs officials. Australia, New Zealand's major trading market, was subject to British navigation laws under which every ship was required to carry an official certificate detailing its construction, ownership and nationality. As New Zealand was not a
British colony, ships built there could not sail under a British flag or register. Without a flag, trading ships and their cargoes were liable to seizure.

Busby takes up the cause

James Busby
Soon after arriving in the Bay of Islands in 1833 to take up the position of British Resident, James Busby wrote to the Colonial Secretary in New South Wales suggesting the adoption of a New Zealand flag.

Aside from solving the impediment to trans-Tasman trade, Busby also saw a flag as a way to encourage Māori chiefs to work together, paving the way for some form of collective government. The Australian authorities were enthusiastic and some months later forwarded a possible design, four blue horizontal bands on a white background with the Union Jack at top left. This design was deemed unsuitable by Busby as it contained no red, 'a colour to which the New Zealanders are particularly partial, and which they are accustomed to consider as indicative of rank'.

The senior New Zealand-based missionary of the Church Missionary Society, Reverend Henry Williams, was enlisted to design an alternative flag. Williams drew on his experience as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy to draw up three designs, which New South Wales’ Governor Richard Bourke had sewn up and forwarded to Busby on HMS Alligator.

Maori chiefs choose a flag
On 20 March 1834, 25 Far North chiefs and their followers gathered at Busby’s residence at Waitangi to choose a flag to represent New Zealand. A number of missionaries, settlers and the commanders of 10 British and three American ships were also in attendance.

Maori beneath United Tribes flag
Maori beneath United Tribes flag
Following Busby's address, each chief came forward in turn to choose a flag, while the son of one of them recorded the votes. The most popular design, a flag already used by the Church Missionary Society, apparently received 12 votes, with the other two options preferred by 10 and three chiefs. Busby declared the chosen flag the national flag of New Zealand and had it hoisted on a flagpole to the accompaniment of a 21-gun salute from HMS Alligator.

The new flag was then sent back to New South Wales, from where – after some tweaking – it was despatched to King William IV. The King approved the rejigged flag, a drawing of which was circulated via the Admiralty with instructions to recognise it as New Zealand's flag. It came to be known as the Flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand, the title adopted by the group of northern chiefs at subsequent meetings.

South African War medal
United Tribes flag on Sth African War medal
Busby's hope that the flag would encourage Māori to act collectively was partially fulfilled when many of the chiefs involved met again to sign a Declaration of Independence in 1835. To northern Māori, the United Tribes flag meant that that Britain recognised New Zealand as an independent nation, and thereby acknowledged the mana of their chiefs.

The flag continued to fly in various places around the Bay of Islands, and on ships trading with Sydney. Ships calling at other ports spread it around the rest of New Zealand. The United Tribes flag remains relevant and important to Maori, particularly northern Māori, into the twenty first century.  This was the flag under which many Maori and British entered into a partnership, in good faith.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_tape_scandal

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/pm-meet-banks-epsom-cw-104125# - Key has 'cup of tea' with Banks in Epson

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/election-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503012&objectid=10768539 - Election 2011 - Key to win despite tea tape actions

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/election-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503012&objectid=10794733 - Lawyer - Ambrose didn't act illegally

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/election-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503012&objectid=10776366 - Crown should pay it's own tea tape bill

Mrs Y v NZ Police officers A B and C -

Have NZ Police learned nothing from the Louise Nicholas saga, the Malcolm Rewa fiasco, and all the other damning indictments on their competency and integrity in recent years?

Despite the glowing whitewash job of Phillipa Smith, the Attorney General, the NZ Police are getting worse, not better.

Since the Bazely report, which identified serious problems within the Police administration, culture, management and governance, confidence in the Police has continued to plummet.

Click on this link to view the report of the so called independent Police Conduct Authority regarding a sexual assault on vulnerable women by a hospital security guard, and the utterly disgraceful manner in which the NZ Police dealt with her complaints.

Police treated her with utter contempt, and did nothing whatsoever until another woman made a complaint against the same security guard and one of the officers involved realised that his senior officer had allowed this offender to continue his sleazy activities after the first victim had complained. 

- References -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Evc9gAoXg9cElsdHhReUhfcjA/view?usp=sharing

http://www.oag.govt.nz/2015/police-conduct

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00057.htm

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0704/CIPCVol1.pdf  - Link to Vol 1 of report

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0704/CIPCVol2.pdf  - Link to Vol 2 of the report

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0704/S00050.htm - Police Complaints Bill

http://laudafinem.com/2015/02/12/christchurchs-aborted-cyfs-sexual-abuse-trial-serious-prosecutorial-misconduct-or-simple-bungle/

The curious case of Lovelock and Lobb - How to get away with murder:

21st February 2015

THE CREWE MURDERS – THOMAS CASE

- STILL FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE AFTER 45 YEARS -

POLICE REPORT

AXLE EVIDENCE

In the Crewe Homicide Investigation Police Review Report dated 2014, Detective Superintendent Andrew. J. Lovelock states:

"The 1928 Nash standard Six, 420 series front axle, located in the Waikato River, was attached to Harvey Crewe’s body to weigh him down."

This axle beam was not attached to Harvey Crewe’s body when it was recovered by the police, but was found on the Waikato River bed.

"The Nash axle was the same one fitted to the trailer made by Charles Shirtcliffe, and in 1959 sold to Allan Thomas."

The fact is this axle was never, ever, on the Charles Shirtcliffe or Thomas trailer.

Evidence given at the Thomas Commission shows the stainless steel welding on the two stub axles and axle beam was not carried out by A.G. Thomas or the previous owners of the trailer. When the tack weld on the left hand stub axle is secured to the axle beam, an all important kingpin cannot be inserted.

This welding conclusively proves that the axle found under Harvey Crewe’s body was never part of the Thomas trailer.

Court Transcripts show that Rod Rasmussen, who carried out the work on the trailer in 1965, could not remember the job he did for Mr. Thomas until Detective Johnston showed him the axle and Detective Johnston came up with the stub axles.

Court Transcripts show that Mr. Rasmussen was again seen on the 15th Oct and

certain facts were put to him. Then he said he recalled a chap Thomas.

From Mr. Rasmussen’s own evidence he stated he had no memory of the work he did

on the Thomas trailer, until he was shown the axle and Detective Johnston came up

with the stub axles.

On the 15th Oct 1970 Mr. Rasmussen has memory of the work he did on the Thomas

trailer. So this conveys to us that he was shown by Detective Johnston the axle and

the two stub axles.

Who supplied what, we are not sure but it fits with the Thomas scenario that Detective Johnston got the two stub axles that fitted the welds on the Harvey Crewe axle, and planted them in the Thomas dump on this day.

Detective Johnston went and saw Arthur at the farm where they both conducted a search of the farm dump. Arthur went to milk the Cows. This gave Detective Johnston the opportune time to plant the stub axles.

This was Detective Johnston’s first farm dump search.

Rod Rasmussen has also stated publicly that when shown the axle by the police on the 12th October 1970, he didn’t recognize it. He also stated he was then seen again by Detective Johnston two to three days later, whereby Detective Johnston had the stub axles and the axle.

This proves that the axle and stub axles were together on the 15th October 1970.

This is five days before the stub axles were found on the Thomas farm dump.

Court Transcripts show that Detective Johnston did not find these stub axles until

his second Thomas farm dump search, on the 20th Oct 1970.

Detective Andrew Lovelock has deliberately omitted this crucial evidence from his

Police Report. This shows more corruption by the NZ Police.

Court Transcripts show Rod Rasmussen had in his possession two stub axle’s exhibits330 and 331.

The Thomas family wants to know how these stub axles off someone else’s trailer got from his workshop and into the Thomas family dump.

During the police review of the Crewe murders the Thomas family requested in writing to Detective Andrew Lovelock that the axle and stub axles and the associated parts be brought up from NZ Archives, Wellington.

The Thomas family requested a meeting with the police with these parts present, to discuss the fabrication and lies told in regard to these exhibits.

Detective Andrew Lovelock was not at all interested.

Andrew Lovelock states in his police report:

Two wheels, exhibit 393 and 394, consistent with coming from the trailer in question were found on the Thomas farm.

These rims were discarded years earlier because they were defective and had spilt.

This is what we wanted to show Detective lovelock if he had produced these parts at our meeting. To this day the wheels and tyres and thirty seven additional parts that Rod Rasmussen took off the Thomas trailer have never been found on the Thomas farm.

No-one had seen these parts or the stub axles on the farm, including vintage enthusiasts who were searching for parts like these.

This proves Rod Rasmussen is mistaken when he stated all the parts he took off the Thomas trailer were sent back to the farm.

RIFLE

Detective Superintendent Andrew. J. Lovelock states:

"In the final analysis of the 33 rifles, with the appropriate barrel characteristics the only one identified as having potentially fired the fatal bullets is Arthur Thomas’s Browning rifle, police exhibit 317."

When Jeanette Crewe’s body was recovered from the Waikato River in August 1970, and found to have been shot with a .22 rifle, the police collected some rifles in the Pukekawa area.

Arthur Thomas’s rifle was test fired and the bullet was microscopically examined under a comparison microscope, alongside the bullets recovered from Jeanette and Harvey Crewe in 1970.

Dr Nelson the ballistics examiner wrote down in his test notebook: - RIFLING CLASS IDENTICAL BUT NO MATCH SEEN.

This means the Thomas rifle never fired the fatal bullets that killed the Crewe’s.

Detective Andrew Lovelock has obtained additional evidence which showed the Thomas rifle produced trough scores, a distinct marking on every bullet it fired.

No such scoring was found on the largely intact bullet removed from Jeanette Crewe’s body.

Andrew Lovelock deliberately omitted this crucial evidence from his Police Report, so has kept this important issue from the public and the Thomas family.

Detective Lovelock also failed to mention in his police report another rifle, exhibit C3B. The test bullets from this rifle were microscopically examined under a comparison microscope alongside the bullets recovered from Jeanette and Harvey Crewe in 1970.

The Ballistic Examiner Dr Nelson wrote down in his test notebook ‘Can’t exclude’.

Testimony to his findings is a test bullet from this rifle, held in Archives NZ Wellington, exhibit 209.

This rifle is more likely to have fired the fatal shots than the Thomas rifle which fired a scored bullet.

A considerable amount of conclusive evidence has been presented to show the frequent user of this rifle is more likely than any other person to be involved in the murders of Jeanette and Harvey Crewe.

He has not been finger printed or checked against the twenty-five unidentified prints left in the Crewe house and car, which are in the Crewe homicide file.

WIRE

Jeanette and Harvey Crewe’s body’s when found in the Waikato River had wire which was used to truss up the bodies. With this knowledge the police collected wire from only nine farms in the Pukekawa area.

They only took one or two samples off these farms, except Arthur Thomas’s farm whereby they took at least thirteen pieces of wire.

This is not a thorough police investigation. This is entrapment.

KARL LOBB

During the Thomas Commission of Inquiry in 1980 Karl Lobb gave evidence that near the Crewe farm gate, at the time of the murders in 1970, he saw Arthur Thomas’s car and trailer. The trailer had in it two covered bundles.

During cross examination evidence was produced which proved Karl Lobb to be wrong.

Karl Lobb accepted he was wrong. In other words he lied.

He lied to make a completely innocent man look guilty of a brutal double murder.

Why hasn’t Karl Lobb been charged with perjury?
 

Now Karl Lobb is involved in a suspicious workplace death of Murray Christensen.

There has been corrupt handling of the Thomas case and now with the Murray Christensen case. Is it because they are connected?

During the Crewe murder review Detective Andrew Lovelock has obtained a lot more new evidence. Most of which he has not recorded in his report. So it has been withheld from the public and the Thomas family.

The NZ Police do not believe in transparency, the truth, or justice.

Detective Andrew Lovelock has written up a police report, ignoring all the major facts that prove beyond doubt that nothing from the Thomas farm points back to the Crewe murders. This is turn is endorsed by the NZ Police.

Detective Andrew Lovelock states at the end of his review report that the review team has identified clear failings on the part of the 1970 police investigation team.

The Thomas family believes now that it is time to rectify these failings.  (They are not alone in that.)

We would be prepared to meet someone with authority, with justice in mind, at Archives NZ Wellington, where the axle, stub axle, trailer parts, and Arthur’s rifle test bullets are held. We could then demonstrate all the factual evidence which proves that none of the Crewe murder evidence points back to Arthur or the Thomas farm.

There is some evidence left in the homicide file that was not destroyed, floor sweepings etc, which may yield DNA. There are also the twenty-five unidentified prints left in the Crewe house and car.

I have personally asked Andrew Lovelock to get this evidence out of the file and compare with suspects for these brutal murders.
 
Police have admitted planting evidence to frame Arthur Allan Thomas.

Politicians tell us they cannot instruct police on operational matters.

The Thomas family are not asking them to do that. What we want now is a full public inquiry.

The Thomas family has been seeking justice now for 45 years.

This report will be updated.

The findings of the 1980 Royal Commission are at this link, and in the even that the Police move the Crewe report as so often happens, to make it less accessible, it can be found at this link.

Joe Karam weighs in here

Knock knock, who's there?

Corrupt EX Police Constable David Gallagher can expect a knock on the door any day.

The Crimes Act 1961 is quite clear in regard to bringing false accusations, it says this:

Section 115 - Conspiring to bring false accusation:

    Every one who conspires to prosecute any person for any alleged offence, knowing that person to be innocent thereof, is liable—

        (a) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years if that person might, on conviction of the alleged offence, be sentenced to preventive detention, or to imprisonment for a term of 3 years or more:

        (b) to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years if that person might, on conviction of the alleged offence, be sentenced to imprisonment for a term less than 3 years.

    Section 115(a): amended, on 26 December 1989, by section 3(4) of the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 1989 (1989 No 119).

Which is interesting when you take a good long look at some of the false accusations being flung around by local Police prosecutors:

Note how corrupt prosecutor Garry Wilson crossed his own name out and wrote the name of Sgt Jodie Lawrence?  Jodie Lawrence is a friend of mine, and she had more sense than to play any part in this matter, after the last time I won an appeal against her prosecution, after she told Judge Hobbs that we were friends and for that reason she did not wish to proceed.

EX Constable Gallagher couldn't wait to resign from the Police after they lost these two defended hearings after I represented myself - after Police unsuccessfully tried to have me incarcerated in a loony bin and ruled "not fit to represent herself" under the Mental Health Act.  Gallagher is a malicious liar and his resignation is long overdue.  He will be getting his come uppance any day now, when he will be served with a summons for perverting the course of justice - watch this space.

Behold!  Here's the Prosecutor's submission to the Court which accompanied his sudden announcement that Police intended to offer no evidence against me on the charge of perverting the course of justice, and after wasting the time of the Court and me for months, here he is grovelling to the Court to withdraw the charge because there is no evidence - despite the fact that EX Constable Gallagher sat right next to Garry Wilson right through the defended hearing of the other charge, from start to finish!  They withdrew the charge and offered no evidence because they knew damn well they would be done for perjury and didn't want to make it any worse than it already is!:

Sgt Garry Anthony Wilson laid a prosecution which he knew was corrupt on the basis of a claim by a malicious liar, David Gallagher.  Both of them knew perfectly well that I hadn't assaulted Gallagher or anyone else. There were over a dozen witnesses.  Not one of them would back up Gallagher's lies. Gallagher is best mates - or was until they both put themselves in the firing line for criminal proceedings for perjury - with the Police witness in the other unsuccessful assault charge, Barry Dixon. The Judge didn't believe any of them - it was perfectly clear that they were lying.

20 Corrections staff who could have been prosecuted over the death of Jai Davis

Posted on February 3, 2015 by rogerbrooking

 

What’s wrong with the police? For the second time, they have announced they will not be charging anyone over the death of Jai Davis in Otago prison. Davis died two days after he smuggled drugs into the prison by ‘internal concealment’ in February, 2011.
At the coroner’s inquest in November last year, Detective Inspector Steve McGregor said charges against Corrections officers had been considered – for manslaughter and criminal nuisance – but eventually claimed the evidence didn’t meet the threshold for a successful prosecution.
In reality, there is no threshold – the Solicitor General just made that up. But after the inquest, Inspector McGregor announced police would reconsider their decision not prosecute. Today, two months later, the coroner, David Crerar (right), announced the police have advised that no charges will be laid afterall. It seems the evidence still doesn’t meet the non-existent ‘threshold’.

The prison protocol
How is this possible? The Corrections Department has a written protocol called: “Management of prisoners suspected of internally concealing unauthorised items”. It says that the prisoner should be placed in a ‘dry’ cell – one without a toilet. When the prisoner needs to ‘go’, they give him a cardboard potty. Officers then examine the contents so they can retrieve the drugs and charge the prisoner with bringing in the ‘unauthorised item’. The policy also says that “a Medical Officer must be informed”. The reason is obvious – a prisoner with drugs inside might die. He needs to be examined and, if necessary, sent to hospital for an x-ray.
The Customs Service has a similar protocol and they advise that “no person has ever died while being detained by Customs” when following this policy.

Three prison managers involved
In Davis’ case, there were at least 20 employees at the Otago prison who ignored the protocol. Three of them were prison managers. The most senior was acting prison manager, Chris Gisler, who had been with Corrections for 21 years. Believing that Davis would be concealing drugs when he arrived, Gisler gave the order to segregate him in a dry cell ‘for the purpose of security, good order, or safety of the prison’ under section 58 of the Corrections Act. He probably could have saved Davis’s life by using section 60 of the Act – ‘segregation for the purpose of medical oversight’.  But he didn’t think of that.
Gisler was off duty when Davis was brought in so he delegated the task to Operations Manager Ann Matenga and Security Manager Michael Fitzgerald. On Friday 11th February, 2011 when Mr Davis arrived at the prison, Ann Matenga signed the segregation order stating:

“I will notify the Medical Officer of the prison of this segregation within the applicable timeframe after the above named prisoner is placed in a cell…”

The applicable timeframe was three hours. Ms Matenga was on duty all weekend but never called the doctor. At the inquest she claimed she didn’t know that ‘medical officer’ meant ‘doctor’.
Michael Fitzgerald was the Security Manager. He briefed the security team that Davis was coming in with drugs on board. One of his team then went to the prison health centre and advised the nurses on duty of the situation. The reality was that Gisler and Fitzgerald were totally focussed on security issues – preventing Davis passing the drugs to other prisoners – so they didn’t even think about calling the Medical Officer. Nor did they check with Ann Matenga to see if she had done so. Not one of these three managers thought it necessary to advise the prison doctor that a man was being brought in who was at risk of dying from a drug overdose. It wasn’t even discussed.

Six prison nurses involved
Six different nurses were on duty over the weekend – three of them on the day Davis died. They all knew Davis was in the dry cell because he was suspected of concealing drugs internally.
None of them called the doctor – not even on the Sunday morning when the prison officers on duty noticed Davis had deteriorated and looked seriously unwell. So unwell, that one said:

“He looked like a corpse. His eyes were sunken and he had the cold sweats. .. his breath smelt like faeces… and he had slurred speech as well. He looked as though he should have been in hospital.”

Because the officers were concerned, nurses checked on Davis three times that morning but did nothing. One of them, Gayle Catt, told Corrections Inspector David Morrison, that…

“(Davis) seemed to slightly deteriorate from 7-30 to 8-30am. My concern was that he would go unconscious but officers would think he was asleep.”

Three years later at the inquest, she’d forgotten she said this and claimed: “He was well; he was absolutely well every time I saw him. I had no concerns about his physical safety whatsoever.”
Then there’s Janice Horne, the last nurse to see Davis alive. She was on the afternoon shift on Sunday and only went to see Davis once in her eight-hour shift – at about 4 p.m. Even then, she didn’t go into his cell to examine him. She spoke to him though a small flap in the cell door. Afterwards, she made an observation in his Medical notes that he appeared to be under the influence of drugs…

“because of the slow movements that he was making… she had a conversation with the unit officer where she stated to the officer, Mr Davis ‘looks stoned’.”

Nurse Horne didn’t seem to realise how serious the situation was. She carried on with her other duties, knocked off work at 8 p.m. and went home. Davis appears to have died two hours later. His last recorded movement on the CCTV tape occurred at 10.01pm. A few months after Davis died, Janice Horne resigned and went to live in Australia.

The health centre manager
Despite the risk posed by internally concealing drugs, not one of the six nurses on duty over the weekend called the prison doctor. Not one of them even bothered to consult with the health centre manager, Jill Thompson, who was the head nurse. If they had, Ms Thompson could possibly have saved Davis’ life. When she was interviewed after his death, she said:

“As there was clear knowledge that this person was concealing drugs, why did he come here in the first place? The prison is 45 minutes away from a hospital. If drugs had exploded in a prisoner’s gut, we would not be able to get (him) to the hospital in time…”

That’s her clinical opinion on what should have happened. But it didn’t happen – because Jill Thompson wasn’t at work on the Friday afternoon when Davis was brought in. She wasn’t away at a managerial seminar. She wasn’t sick. Three years later when asked by lawyers at the inquest where she was on that Friday, Ms Thompson claimed she didn’t remember.
The police didn’t seem to realise the significance of Jill Thompson’s unauthorised absence. In the course of a three year investigation, they never even asked her where she was that day. Perhaps she went shopping. The point is she abandoned her legal duties and Mr Davis died. That’s called negligence and it’s potentially a criminal offence. But Ms Thompson was never prosecuted. She didn’t lose her job. She wasn’t reprimanded by Corrections. She wasn’t even questioned by police.

Ten prison officers involved
At least ten Corrections officers were also aware that Davis had drugs on board – and could have called the doctor. Five of them escorted Davis from the prison gate to the At Risk Unit. One of them, Chris Dalton, wrote on Mr Davis’s At Risk management plan “information received from operational intelligence unit that prisoner is concealing drugs on person.” He told police it was his role to ensure the safety of both staff and prisoners and “if anything needs to be done when there is no manager, it falls upon me to action that request.” There was no manager, at least no health centre manager. But Dalton didn’t call the doctor either.
Another officer, James Neill testified that he was briefed by security manager Michael Fitzgerald. He said he then went over to the prison health centre and advised two nurses that “a prisoner was coming in suspected of concealing drugs”. Mr Fitzgerald showed one of the nurses a document titled “Advice to Prisoner Suspected of Concealing” and said “a medical officer is required to sign it.” But the medical officer wasn’t there. Mr Fitzgerald took the form away – so no one signed it. (The medical officer was hardly ever there. See Prison deaths linked to Corrections refusal to employ sufficient doctors.)

There were also half a dozen other prison officers on duty in the At Risk Unit on the day Davis died. Two or three of them were concerned that Davis had deteriorated and should have been taken to hospital. But none of them made the call – they all thought it was the nurses’ job.

The police have a job too – to prosecute those responsible when their negligence contributes to someone’s death.   At the inquest, Senior Sgt Colin Blackie who conducted the police investigation, gave the impression that, at the very least, he would have prosecuted some of the nurses. But he was taken off the case. The harsh reality is that no one in the Corrections Department has ever been prosecuted over a so-called ‘unnatural death’ in prison.