An update on Beechwood Child Abuse Victim and Whistleblower Melanie Shaw - her suffering reveals the State of the Nation.
Let’s deal with reality. Melanie Shaw sits in Sodexo high security prison Peterborough. She has been there on remand since her trial at Nottingham Crown Court on 25 July 2014. Members of the public who attended that first trial, report that Nottinghamshire Police and the Crown Prosecution Service produced no substantive evidence against Melanie on charges of Arson Reckless and Criminal Damage. The public also state that in mumbled exchanges with the Judge the CPS promised that they would have evidence in the near future. Melanie was represented by a Solicitor’s Clerk.
At a further court hearing at Nottingham Crown Court on 27 August 2014 the same Judge, His Honour Gregory David Dickinson QC, removed public from the publicly listed Court and then presided over a secret ‘directions’ hearing. Melanie was not present.
An application for Bail on the 4th September 2014 at Nottingham Crown Court was apparently ‘withdrawn’ after the same Judge Dickinson asked for a psychiatric assessment. It is understood there is now some delay with providing a psychiatrist due to legal representation problems. Melanie was not present at the hearing. The court was held before the Courts were open to the public.
Melanie was cruelly led to believe that there was a further hearing in Nottingham Crown Court Friday 12 September 2014. No such hearing had been listed at the Court. But no hearing or a secret hearing? It’s difficult to tell with British justice. It’s also difficult to find out, as the CPS refuse to give any details of the case, including simple ones such as “can you confirm there was a hearing and a legal representative of the CPS took part.” Why are they so nervous?
Alison Saunders Director of Public Prosecution is clearly not concerned with the CPS's abuse of Melanie Shaw. Her declared priority in the Indpendent is 'Stalkers.' Meanwhile Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for Nottinghamshire Janine Smith, who must bear heavy responsibility for Melanie Shaw's imprisonment, sent out a letter dated 11 September 2014 full of praise for her own organisation. It stated.."I appreciate that you remain unhappy with the decision to prosecute Ms Shaw. However, I can assure you that the decision was made in accordance with the Code [for Crown Prosecutors]."
Strangely, the Code clearly states at 3.3 that the CPS...should work to identify and where possible rectify evidential weaknesses and subject to the Threshold Test they should swiftly stop cases that do not meet the evidential stage of the Full Code Test. So the CPS have failed to produce the damning evidence against Melanie Shaw after 54 days but consider this abuse victim such a threat that they keep her locked in a high security prison.
We ask again what are these people so frightened of? There can only be one answer, that Melanie Shaw's witness to and evidence of the vile sexual and physical abuse of children and their suicides, and likely murder is terrifying to the Establishment and British Government. She must be silenced. The threats made over recent weeks to people supporting Melanie add veracity to this suggestion, as do the threats made to key individuals supporting Melanie when she first whistleblew Beechwood abuses to Nottingham Police.
The next Court date swimming in the murky pond of British justice is 13 October 2014. Rumour has it that this is a plea hearing. By then abuse victim Melanie Shaw will have spent 81 days in prison. Not bad for a person still not proven guilty of any crime.
Having now sacked her incompetent law firm Melanie plans to act as a Litigant in Person and represent herself. Intelligent, articulate and with an accurate memory for names, places and dates, she is well capable of her own defence.
Of course Melanie Shaw is not only a child abuse victim she is also a very brave Whistleblower on child abuse. It was her testimony to Nottingham Police in 2011 that unleashed Operation Daybreak, an investigation into some 100 child abuse victims at Beechwood and later yet more at Bracken House, of Thames Street, together with Bulwell, Ranskill Gardens, Bestwood, Wood Nook, in Beechdale Road, Beechdale, and Risley Hall, Derbyshire. So possibly 1,000 new abuse cases alongside the 1400 in Rotherham. Media for Operation Daybreak was controlled by Matt Tapp.
What reward has she received for her courage in coming forward as a vulnerable woman who has suffered more than most of us can imagine? Under the care of Sodexo HMP Peterborough and thus Sodexo CEO Debbie White, Melanie has been bullied by prison staff and inmates, she has had her long term medication withheld and reduced, her leg ulcer treatment stopped, she has been placed in solitary confinement and denied food, and she has had her mail withheld. Not bad for Sodexo justice services which boasts it is “Preventing the next victim” and “Changing lives for the better”, whilst making a profit of course. Not bad for the CPS which boasts under Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders that it helps protect vulnerable victims.
Melanie Shaw was abused as a child at home by her family and then whilst in the so called care of the Beechwood Children’s Home Nottinghamshire. As soon as I re-read this sentence I focus on the word abuse. It was a natural word for me to use because I have heard from Melanie first hand some of the abuse she suffered. Rapes, physical and sexual assault, psychological bullying and more. Some of the truth she has kept hidden inside as just too painful to bring into the light. Extreme abuse that would make middle England people feel sick.
Strange again then that suddenly as more and more abuse cases reach the public eyes and ears, the mainstream press and media distort our language to blur both meaning and our understanding. Children become ‘residents.’ Cruel and vicious abuse becomes ‘child exploitation’. Did the young boys who were raped at Beechwood within a few days of arrival as a matter of course, to break them in, feel exploited? Melanie reports that they were terrified, distraught and traumatised. The older girls tried to comfort them. The young girls suffered the same.
Is it me or is there a slide by the media to water down the abuse and our perception of that abuse? In the public sector the Rotherham and Nottingham authorities gush nu-speak of ‘historic abuse’, ‘lessons learned’, ‘compensation’, ‘moving forward’ and ‘child protection services have moved on and are now working.’ The hypnotic language is a lie. The people, authorities and charities that were tasked with protecting children have not just failed. They are infiltrated with paedophiles who use the very services we believe are there to protect children to entrap and abuse children. It is people of course who commit the crimes, not organisations. The crimes are criminal be they physical and sexual abuse, or malfeasance in public office. Why then are we constantly told that the problems are all in the past and that now lessons have been learned we can move forward? The answer is straightforward. The nu-speak is to move us to ‘compensation and cover-up’ rather than full police investigation, courts, juries and full criminal justice. It is, after all justice and closure that the victims seek - not the cheap £10,000 per person buy-off offered by Nottinghamshire Authorities.
Ultimately, the vile treatment of brave Melanie Shaw has been facilitated and executed by a collaboration between Nottingham City and County Council, Child Protection Teams and Charities, CPS and Legal Teams and Nottinghamshire police. Melanie caught the police lying over investigations in their Daybreak Operation. She also spoke of children ‘suicided’ and murdered. Small wonder they want her silenced.
Her testimony is reinforced by another Beechwood victim, Mickey Summers. Also a brave whistleblower, Mickey has now been told by the Nottingham authorities that his records have been lost. Coincidence? Maybe but since the government has already closed the Beechwood records for 75 years does it really matter?
But it is our children who will suffer if we, the public allow this blatant perverted and criminal corruption of justice to continue. I get no pleasure in saying that the industrial abuse of children in the UK and the obvious and ongoing cover-up of that abuse by MPs, Police, Courts, the UK Government and the Establishment will, unless stopped, lead us to the dark ages of Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. Who will deal with this? There is only us - just decent ordinary good people in these British Isles and we need to be shouting to expose this sick disease in the Establishment, Westminster and Society as fast as possible.