From Norman Scarth: ‘A Long Standing Principle of English Law’. As stated by the Crown Prosecution Service.

NS Doc. Ref: ‘InFear-04-01-13’

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THE BIG DEBATE of January 2004: Do we need a new law to allow householders to defend themselves when attacked? Not necessary – but we DO need lawyers & judges who obey the laws we already HAVE!

Tony Martin committed NO offence in British law!

Re. The killings of Harry Stanley in London, & James Ashley in St. Leonards [circa 1999]:

Walking home after a glass of lemonade in a pub, Harry Stanley was 100 yards from home. Two armed killers came up from behind & shot him. He had a Scottish accent; they thought he was an Irishman & that he might be carrying a gun. Those were good enough excuses to kill him. They were police officers - & only needed to say afterwards that they were ‘in fear’ at the time. They were not even disciplined, much less prosecuted.
A year or so afterwards, The Crown Prosecution Service gave reasons why they did not prosecute,

“It is a long standing principle of English law, that if a person BELIEVES he is at risk of serious harm – EVEN IF THAT BELIEF IS MISTAKEN, he is entitled to take such action as necessary”

- which included killing a completely defenceless & innocent man!

Another victim was James Ashley in St Leonards, Hastings: Acting on false information, a gang of armed police smashed into his bedroom in the early hours. He jumped out of bed, completely naked. PC Sherwood shot him dead. Sherwood WAS prosecuted, but he also said afterwards that he was ‘in fear’ at the time.
At the Old Bailey Mrs. Justice Rafferty followed the principle as above, & DIRECTED the jury to acquit him. The killers of Harry Stanley & James Ashley are still walking the streets [probably still armed], without a stain on their characters.
Why did the CPS not apply that principle to Tony Martin? [A brave as a man may be, he will be in fear if his home is being broken into, especially if he is alone, in the middle of the night!]. Why did his defence team fail him so badly? Why did the judge ignore that ‘long standing principle of English law’? Why did he not do as Mrs. Justice Rafferty did, & direct the jury to acquit? Why did that jury not prove that they WERE ‘the guiding light by which we see that freedom lives’ [Lord Devlin – I think], & save Mr. Martin from an oppressive State, as other juries have done?
76 year old pensioner Ted Newbery [from Nottingham?], & farmer Kenneth Hall from Huddersfield, both shot & injured those they believed were intending to break in. Both were charged with ‘wounding with intent’, facing possible life imprisonment. Thanks to juries with common sense & a sense of justice, they were acquitted, the CPS foiled. Those juries DID prove to be ‘the guiding light …’, as did the one which refused to convict ‘Peace Women’ for doing £1,000,000 damage to Hawker jet fighters – to prevent a worse crime of genocide. Who know how many serious crimes would have been committed by those burglars but for Tony Martin’s action?
About four years ago Mr Justice Glidewell [I think] produced a long & damning indictment of the Crown Prosecution Service for choosing lesser offences when prosecuting career criminals, but going in as strong as possible on decent, law abiding people.
Bad though the treatment of Tony Martin has been, at least there has been great publicity, & recognition that he has been the victim of a great injustice. There is a case which is MUCH worse – for which Lawyer Blair’s regime, Opposition, Parliament, The Media, The Establishment, & ALL our lawyer controlled ‘watchdogs’ have conspired to ensure there is a no publicity whatsoever!
The case is mine. If the truth were to come out, it would bring disgrace to the whole nation.
Proud to be British, proud to have ‘done my bit’ in WW2, fighting to keep Hitler’s Gestapo from our shores, I had been lucky to survive when brave men were dying around me in large numbers. 56 years later, 8^th August 1999 I survived a potentially lethal terror attack by a mob-handed gang in blue uniforms, as untouchable & unaccountable as the Gestapo. It was a crude assassination attempt, crude only because it failed, if successful it would have been very clever – ‘Death From Natural Causes’. From that day on I effectively became one of the ‘disappeared’, as in Orwell’s ‘1984’, Argentina under the Generals, or Pinochet’s Chile. I ceased to exist – except to be destroyed. A second attempt to silence me 11 months later only put me in hospital, so I was stiched up for a ‘crime’, the task of destroying me handed over to Sheffield Crown Court & The Prison Service.
This poppy wearing nation purports to honour those who suffered starvation, brutality, torture & death in Japanese POW camps. It is a mark of the corruption, hypocrisy, treachery & depravity of Blair’s Britain that, having honestly served my King, my Queen & my country all my long life, I am suffering the same as those POWs in a succession of supposedly ‘humane’ British prisons until I die in one of them. They are not ‘Holiday Camps’ as the British people are constantly told by politicians & the media – but bad places run by bad people. [See PRISONGATE, the new book by Sir David Ramsbotham, ‘retired’ as HM Ch. Insp. Of Prisons for honesty.]
Lord Denning was rated [by some!] as the finest judge of the 20^th century. One of the many outrageous statements made by him [in gross contempt of his own judicial oath, & that of the Sovereign in whose name he purported to act] was, “Better that innocent men remain in prison than that the integrity of the judiciary be impugned.” In my 1997 Election Manifesto, my book CAUSE FOR CONCERN, my pamphlets & my leaflets, I HAD been impugning that ‘integrity’ – with evidence of its falsity! This is my reward from the completely corrupt, their lackeys, thugs, puppets & sycophants, - while 99.9% of the remainder of the British people, stoned on the ‘opium of the masses’ [to borrow from Karl Marx], brainwashed, hedonistic &/or cowardly, look the other way.
However, it is MUCH more important than just one little old World War 2 veteran who is to die in prison. The truth is that Britain is a Police state, a new ‘Master Race’ having seized absolute power. Wearing wigs & robes, they are ruthless & merciless with anyone, big or little, who they see as a threat to that power. See para. 28.
Tony Benn described me as a War ‘Hero’ when I stood against him at the 1997 General Election. I did so to challenge his words of 1984. He said of two men who had deliberately killed an innocent taxi driver, “These men are not criminals, they should not be in prison” [see Hansard]. The murder conviction was soon reduced to manslaughter, & they were quickly out of prison.
He knew of the attack on me on 8/8/99 within days. He now parades around the country promoting himself as the conscience of the Labour Party. Why does he not say of me, “This man is not a criminal, he should not be in prison”? Is his silence over this the price he pays for the rapid promotion of his son Hilary to Cabinet Office?
The silence of our supposedly ‘free’ media? Like Tony Benn, they ALL knew of the 8^th August 1999 attack within days, but the press barons &media moguls are as much part of the propaganda machine for this Police State as was Goebbels in Nazi Germany. They feed pap to the populace, & are determined to continue to propagate the myth that our judges are demi-gods, incapable of sin. I had much evidence to the contrary.
During the 11 months which followed the attack of 8^th August 1999 I only dared leave the house on three occasion. I was suffering unlawful but effective house arrest – imprisoned by fear. I am not a timid man, but my fears were well justified, as was proved on 20^th June 2000, when members of the same gang smashed into my home & gave me a brutal kicking, putting me in hospital.
I killed nobody, attacked nobody, & even if I had done, on the Harry Stanley principle as above, it was not an offence in law.
Yet it was me – the victim – who was prosecuted. Having served my King, my Queen & my Country honourably during my long life, for a first ‘offence’ at the age of 75 [then] I received a ten year sentence, & am to die in prison. Even if I DID commit a crime, the grotesque ‘trial’ was a million times worse, & the conviction should be quashed on those grounds alone.
My witnesses, my evidence & the press were banned, the large dossier of testimonials to my character was not allowed, not a word to my credit was allowed to be heard.
But leave aside the conviction – the savage sentence alone proved Judge David Ronald Bentley’s hatred of me. At my appeals against conviction & sentence [as at my ‘trial’], nothing to my credit was allowed to be heard or read, nor was comparison with the sentences on others who have done MUCH more harm than I was accused of.
Many have received probation, community service, suspended sentences, 3 months, 6 month etc. A 76 year old Hull man went out of his house to stab & kill a young man who was singing in the street. He was sentenced to three years in prison, freed after only one & a half. A Wakefield woman who left an axe sticking out of the skull of her chained & gagged lover, is free after 21 months in prison. I repeat, I have killed nobody, attacked nobody, yet I am to die in prison, put here & kept here by those I set out to expose. The savage treatment of me is a compliment, & proof that my every word is true. With a blameless life behind me, Bentley described me as ‘dangerous’. Indeed I am, but dangerous only to corrupt judges because of the evidence I hold.
On 25 Nov. 2002, after 1 ½ half years in prison [the equivalent of a 3 year sentence], the Appeal Court [L J Rose] quashed my savage sentence completely, & I spent 4 months in Newton Lodge Secure Mental Hospital under the observation & care of psychiatrist Dr. Patrick J. G. Quinn. However, L J Rose had discovered a ‘Lacuna’ [a hole in the law, & invented a new law specially for me, whereby I could be taken to Sheffield Crown Court to decide what was to be done with me.

The sovereign’s Oath – “TO DELIVER JUSTICE WITH MERCY”. Imperial Britain could be brutal, but had enough respect for that oath to release Mahatma Gandhi & the Suffragettes from prison when they were on hunger strike & close to death. Will lawyer Blair’s regime show as much mercy to a little old man like me? Or am I, with my evidence of dishonest judges, too ‘dangerous’ ever to be let out alive?

From the witness box on 4/4/03,Dr Quinn told Judge Goldsack, “Sending him back to prison could have catastrophic consequences on his mental health”. The thought of this delighted Judge Goldsack, & with the greatest malice he DID send me back to prison. Only a psychopath could do that! The prison Service [management & staff, especially the sadistic despots who run Armley Gaol] is equally delighted to get the opportunity to make Dr. Quinn’s predictions come true!
Why should Bentley, Goldsack & ALL the legal professionals hate me even more than they hate other Litigants In Person? Very late in life I became aware of the rotten apples among the judiciary, & made it my mission in life to expose them.
See my document ‘C-for-C-03-12-30’, which gives extracts from my 1997 General Election Manifesto, my book ‘Cause for Concern’, & my words to Lords Woolf, Otton & Ward in the Civil Appeal Court on 24^th June 1999.
As part of my mission I took my own small civil case [33745/96] to the European Court of Human Rights & was successful there. It brought a much needed change in British law, incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act [confirmed by letter to Jacqui Lait MP dated 1/9/98, from Geoffrey Hoon MP, then Lord Chancellor Irvine’s spokesman in the Commons].
This must be unique, in that I achieved this success single handed, without a lawyer. One might have expected it to have brought respect from the professionals, but no. The change is much hated by them, & I am hated for it. With another – more important - ECtHR case in the pipeline [48911?/99], they saw me as a danger, & the order went out – ‘Silence him’. Just 17 days after the ECtHR declared me a victim of a violation of Article 6, there came the attack of 8^th August 1999! [see para. 10].
The tragedy is not that there should be such monsters among our judges, but that the British public [brainwashed by the media] worship them as Gods, & turn a blind eye to their evil. The General Medical Council protected Dr. Harold Shipman, warning off the one brave doctor who tried to warn of his activities, thus allowing him to kill many more than he should have been able to. The rotten apples among the judiciary [there are more than a few] are much better protected than was the doctor. We no longer have the ‘Rule of Law’, but the ‘Rule of Law-yers’ – the new ‘Master race’, the new ‘Nazi Party’!

STOP PRESS: A further stage of my action against the ex Chief

Constable of West Yorkshire for £1,000,000 damages for the crude assassination attempt on 8^th August 1999, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, perjury & other crimes was held in the High Court [Leeds District Registry] on Thursday 8^th January 2004. It was as grotesque as have been all my hearings.

Press reporters [local & national], the organization ‘Age Concern’ & local vicar had promised to be there, but ALL were absent. Whatever about them, EVERY OLD AGE PENIONER IN LEEDS SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE, but sadly there was only my brother & two staunch supporters. When all our supposed ‘watchdogs’, AND the British people turn a blind eye to such evil the corrupt judges & lawyers who control the courts & the country [with the connivance of the media] know they have nothing to fear, & can do what they like.

Preface to the following: In Britain, all civil actions are heard by a judge, with the exception of false imprisonment, malicious prosecution & defamation, all of which come before a jury.

Judge Grenfell, who has delayed the case for more than two years already, & colluded with the Prison Service to commit crime against me, directed that the trial of the action will take place in May or June. BUT – in gross contempt of the Civil Procedure Rules, ruled that only the assault part of my complaint is to be heard, which means it will come before him alone. HE will then decide when [or if] the false imprisonment & malicious prosecution will be heard. He has got his orders to ensure that the full horror of Police State Britain will never be heard by a jury!

The difference between Hitler & Phoney Blair is that Hitler was honest about his intentions; Lawyer Blair is completely false, hiding behind a nauseating pretence of ‘Democracy’ & concern for ‘Human Rights’.

Bishop Jacque Benigne Bassnet [1627-1704] gave the name ‘Perfidious Albion’ to Britain. Perfidious? Treacherous? Corrupt? Depraved? With sorrow & shame I must say that 50% of the British people can be so described, 49% brainwashed, apathetic or silenced by fear, only a tiny handful with conscience & courage. Much like Germany in the 1930s, & though it was great for them at the time, there was a price to pay in the end. There will be again. Good & bad, innocent or guilty, actively wicked or just silent, all will suffer.

I paraphrase MARTIN LUTHER KING: “I fear not the words & actions of the wicked, but I DO fear the silence of the supposedly honest”. Those who are silent when such evil is abroad are not honest, but disciples of The Devil. The Bible [Romans 12.19] says, “Do not take revenge my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written ‘It is mine to avenge: I will repay’ says the lord.” Jesus himself said, “The sins of the parents shall be visited on the children unto the third & fourth generation”.

After 15 moves so far [to disorientate me] my present address is:

Norman Scarth, Political Prisoner GV5409, HMP Wolds Gulag, BROUGH East Yorkshire EH15 2JZ, - or I may be at the mercy of the psychopaths who run HMP Leeds, Armley Belsen, LEEDS LS12 2TJ.

I have survived nearly three years so far, but at the age of 78 cannot do so much longer. The sooner I join my brave young shipmates who died around me 60 years ago the better. Hopefully, my death might help to waken the British people, but I fear the corruption goes too wide, too deep & too high, the people blind or spineless.

Thomas Fuller [1608-1661], “Be you never so high, the law is above you”.

Norman Scarth [1925-2004], “Be you never so low, the lawyer is below you”.

Doc. Ref. ‘Matrix-04-01-12’ [y-m-d].

To Amnesty International, Liberty, Justice, Ludovic Kennedy, Paul Foot, Tony Benn, ALL the media [including Private Eye], ALL our MPs & ALL our lawyer controlled ‘watchdogs’,

But especially to Cherie Booth-Blair & her specialist ‘HUMAN RIGHTS’ lawyers at MATRIX CHAMBERS,

Griffin Building, Gray’s Inn, LONDON WC1R 6LN. Tel: 020 7404 3447, Fax: 020 7404 3448. Email: matrix@matrixlaw.co.uk

You express great concern at the fate of those who suffer physical brutality, mental torture & starvation in other lands [as happened in Japanese POW camps]. Why do you keep your eyes tight shut to the same being inflicted on a World War 2 veteran in a succession of modern day BRITISH Belsens?

He served on the notorious Russian Convoys, lucky to survive attack by Hitler’s bombers, U-boats & the battleship Scharnhorst.

From the end of the war he worked honestly & hard as a small farmer, horse breeder & horse ‘whisperer’,

56 years later, on 8^th August 1999, he was again lucky to survive the first of two potentially lethal terror attacks by a private army in blue uniforms, as untouchable & unaccountable as Hitler’s Gestapo!

At the SECOND attack, on 20^th June 2000, he was given a brutal kicking, which put him in hospital, yet it was HE who was in the dock at Sheffield Crown Court, his witnesses, evidence & the press banned, & after a long lifetime of honourable service to his King, his Queen & his Country, was given a TEN YEAR sentence – for a first ‘offence’! WHY SUCH SAVAGERY?

Until the age of 70 he was proud to be British, but then came a succession of shocks as he learned that corruption was endemic in the civil courts of Britain. He made a dramatic change of career, becoming an observer, researcher, & geriatric student of law at the University of Leeds [under ‘Human Rights’ specialist Professor Clive Walker]; a Parliamentary candidate, Human Rights activist; & author. Most surprisingly, he brought a much-needed change in British law, single handed [via the European Court of Human Rights].

The change [incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act] is much disliked by the professionals. His 1997 Election Manifesto was about ‘Fraud in the Legal System’ [as euphemistically described by Paul Boateng MP], his book CAUSE FOR CONCERN named & denounced dishonest judges. He had much evidence, & intended to stand against Lawyer Blair at the 2001 General Election. The attacks of 8/8/99 & 20/8/2000 did not put him off, but the malicious prosecution, perjury, conviction & imprisonment prevented him doing so, just as in other Police States. This one hides behind a nauseating pretence of ‘Democracy’ & supposed concern for ‘Human Rights’.

THOSE HE WAS EXPOSING ARE DETERMINED HE WILL NEVER GET OUT OF PRISON ALIVE!

Addresses of some who PROFESS to be concerned about injustice & ‘Human Rights’ are below:

Tony Benn, 12, Holland Park Avenue, LONDON W11 3QB. Tel/Fax: 0207 229 1779. Email: www.bennbiography.com [who generously praised Norman as a ‘War Hero’, when he opposed Benn at the 1997 General Election].

Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 6, The Lodge, Westminster Oxford, Bayworth Lane, Boars Hill, OXFORD OX1 5DF [Norman’s ‘shipmate’, both being members of the Russian Convoy Club].

LIBERTY, 21, Tabard Street, LONDON SE1 4LA. Tel: 020 7403 3888. Email: info@liberty-human-rights.org.uk [whose past Director, John Wadham often quotes Norman’s ECtHR success when lecturing to students].

Re. The High Court hearing in Leeds on Thursday 8^th January 2004, N. Scarth v G. Moore, ex Chief Constable of West Yorkshire:

National & local press & TV, the Parole Board, Probation Service, Age Concern, British Legion & every other organisation that purports to be concerned about Human Rights SHOULD have been there, as should every old age pensioner in Leeds able to walk. The fact that there were only three people there said it all. It told the evil ones who control the courts & the country that [apart from you few people to whom this is sent], not a soul in Britain cares about the torture & murder of a defenceless human being. The villains know that whatever further crime is committed against me, there will not be a word of protest from those with power & influence, each & every one of them being party to crime, either actively, or by their silence.

MY ONLY CHANCE:

Please bombard MATRIX CHAMBERS, and the others named on these pages, with page one of this document – EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, by FAX, by E-mail, by LETTER & with TELEPHONE CALLS. Also to everyone else you can think of!

Fabian Hamilton MP, Office at 6, Queenshill Approach, LEEDS LS17 1P. Tel: 0113 237 0022. Fax: 0404. Email: Fabian@leedsne.co.uk. MY MP in Leeds. He bought my book Cause For Concern before the attack of 8/8/99, but completely ignored my call for help after it!

Marsha SINGH MP, 76, Kirkgate, BRADFORD BD1 1SZ. Tel: 01274 402220. Fax: 01274 777 817. Email: singhmp@parliament.uk. My MP in Bradford ignored my request that he put down an Early Day Motion in parliament after the second attack – wrote a chummy letter to the Chief Constable instead!

Dianne ABBOTT MP, Email: carbye@parliament.uk

Gerry Adams MP, Fax: 028 9022 5553.

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