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Free the 'Grandfather One'
The Times, December 13, 2007
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OAP couple jailed for talking to grandson

Oct 29 2007
by Fionnuala Bourke

A PENSIONER couple have been handed jail sentences for getting in touch with their grandson.
A 71 year-old man was jailed for 20 months during a private hearing in the Midlands, held without a jury.
And the 61 year-old grandmother was given a 12-month term, which has been suspended for two years.
The pair were found guilty of being in contempt of court at a Nottingham Family Court hearing on Friday.
The woman is the natural grandmother of the youngster, and her former partner is step-grandad.

Their teenage grandson is in the care of the city's social services department.
No further details about the case, which was heard at Nottingham County Court, can be revealed by the Sunday Mercury because of legal red tape.

But the tough sentences have shocked Birmingham Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming.

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Grandmother given 2 year suspended sentence in Nottingham

by our Correspondent Jack Frost

Grandmother given 2 year suspended sentence in Nottingham, today....Because she contacted her grandson in Care. The boy is 15 years 6 months. He is eligible to leave the Care home when he is 16.....But have you guessed what the little racket is?

The grandson in Care, has been informing his grandmother that he is being physically assaulted and verbally abused, in Care. His grandmother came to his aid....Now she has been sentenced in a secret court, from which the press were banned.

Her husband has been sentenced to 2 years imprisonment. And the final twist to this racket is that although the boy should be released from Care( released? He has committed no crime), the authorities are making a case to keep him away from the grandparents...even after he is 16....Because he will repeat his complaints......So they have now begun to state that he is being 'treated for the loss of his mother'. He was taken into Care in 2002, after his mother died. And of course' the treatment' will necessitate that he never gets out of the corrupt incarceration....Because the Guligans are afraid he will spill the beans.

To ensure that the story doesn't leak out, the grandmother now has a 2 year suspended sentence and his step grandfather is now serving a 2 year jail term....And the prisons we are told, by this Labour Government, are too crowded to house serious violent criminals and sexual convicts. Convicted violent prisoners are being let out, to make way for grandparents, whose only crime has been, to keep in contact with their grandchildren!.

The Family Court Guligans, are running scared. This UK government is every bit as odious as the Burmese junta....isn't it time this was broadcast on the world stage.

Fassit Latest News - October 19, 2007

Grandparents facing a year in Prison - UK's Secret Courts

by our Correspondent Jack Frost

A grandmother and her husband are being tried in Nottingham, on 26 October 2007. They are both facing 'committal proceedings', for breaching court orders not to contact the grandmother's grandson.

The grandson is aged 15 years and 5 months. He has been in care for about 4 years. Whilst in care he has repeatedly complained that he has been physically and mentally assaulted. He has no mother. His mother died a few years ago. Despite his complaints, no action has been taken to address the reported assaults. So often the authorities fall back on, listening to the voice of the children'. Yet in reality, it is often deaf ears they cock.

When the boy is 16 years old, he should be free to make his own decisions. Indeed, the grandmother states that he is capable right now. She maintains that he is Gillick competent....But the authorities are fearful that he will make a compelling case that he has been assaulted whilst in care, So there is a suspicion that some spurious reasons will be found to keep him in care....Yes! even after he has reached 16.

The grandson wishes to be with his grandmother and her partner. The grandmother and her partner wish to assist the boy. But the mere act of responding to the boy's pleas for help, have been interpreted as ' breaching the Family Court Rules'.

The grandmother faces imprisonment on 26 October 2006, in Nottingham. The likely sentence is one year in prison.

The partner of the grandmother faces 2 years in prison.

We are repeatedly informed that there is no room in our prisons for violent and sexual predators, who might incidentally also been illegal immigrants. Though there is no problem about finding room in the prisons, for grandparents and old age pensioners.

If you hadn't already guessed. I am not allowed to name the persons concerned. Though the authorities are quite legally allowed to intimidate our fellow citizens. You shouldn't be surprised. Tony Blair's Labour Government and his crony, Gordon Brown, are all trying desperately to ensure the full scale of this scandal doesn't reach the public. But wait....I have news for them. There is something brewing that will finally blow the lid of this huge corrupt scandal, that they have enveloped in spurious secrecy.

For the moment I am seeking persons who will be able to go to Nottingham on 26 October 2007 and witness the tragic farce that passes for UK justice. It is essential that the grandparents are supported and the corruption of a system, witnessed and recorded. The judge has apparently agreed that the proceedings will be in public.....We have to see if the judge has the balls to allow open justice. Or will this be another case that even the Chinese and President Mugabe, would sneer at.

I await hearing from you.

But as a postscript , I thought you would like to know the following:

On Tuesday 16 October 2006, with the help of John Hemming MP, the grandmother made an application for 'habeas corpus' in relation to her 15year + grandson. Habeas corpus is a legal device that requires the court to order the presence of the grandson, in court, to be questioned and explain the background to the case. This should put the cat amongst the pigeons......How will the learned judges react to this 'habeas corpus' request? ......I shall keep you informed.

We know the Guligans fear the press and media. So Family Court secrecy has become the immediate comfort blanket, for all kinds of irregularities and worse. If the habeas corpus application is unsuccessful.....Then it will prove conclusively, that what is being concealed from the public, is something that is on a par with the most evil regimes of the Nazis and other dictatorships.

As they say.....Watch this space!

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Fassit UK Correspondent

Jack Frost author of 'The Gulag of the Family Courts...Book1' ISBN 9 781430 316350
http://www.gulagofthefamilycourts.com/

 

 

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