FAO: Mr Jackson of Panorama - My statement on a programme
you say you are doing on Chris Fay
On 21 December 2012 I was forced to put a set of documents
on www.legalaidcuts.blogspot.com.
The documents consisted of court exhibits from a 1982 court case regarding a
raid at Elm Guest Hse.
The documents were namely: a signing in book, a receipt
book, a book where the names of guests and the rooms they stayed in were
clearly marked out and some evidence of VIP business bookings.
Aside from this 1982 court evidence, I obtained while
working as development officer of the National Association of Young People in
Care, I did not have my own notes on the case apart from what I had already
published on www.youthparliament.co.uk
on many of the cases, as NAYPIC had been raided in 1993.
During the seizure of the NAYPIC files, and contents of the
organisation’s Camden office, most of my casework notes were taken by
unidentified men arriving in unmarked vans. I did, however, retain a number of
files as I arrived during the raid of the office and seizure of
documentation.
Among these were the notes of a former volunteer, a Labour
councillor for Greenwich, Mr Christopher Fay. These were more elaborate than my
own in that Fay named abusers and how they were allegedly connected, according
to pieces Fay had put together with his journalist contact, John Oakes, and
were based on meetings between Carol Cazier, owner of the Elm House Guest
House, held at NAYPIC where she spoke to me in my office, and where Mr Fay had
access to her.
I believe the information I was told by Carol Cazier is
responsible for the demise of the organisation. It led also to the drugging and
rape of one of its workers and perhaps the killing of two others.
By 2012 it had been some time since these events and I had
meanwhile established two successful art galleries. I could not understand why
so many years later the issue had raised its ugly head again.
In 1990 I had asked Christopher Fay to leave NAYPIC
following a conversation with a senior colleague official, about his
untrustworthiness. During this exchange I was advised in the strongest terms to
disassociate NAYPIC from Mr Fay.
Christopher, an adult advisor, Sarah a NAYPIC management
committee member and I had co-written a NAYPIC publication called, Abuse in the
Care System, and another document called, The Therapy of Fear, the compilation
of which had offered him unlimited access to the organisation’s case files.
Mr Fay was bitter when I sacked him and I believe remains
so, due to events that have later transpired. He has appeared hostile towards
me. I do not know Fay, Tom Watson, Exaro or those sensationalising these events
without due process or presenting of evidence in a court of law.
I did not have the permission of my clients and service
users, to whom I have a duty of confidentiality under the Police and Criminal
Evidence Act 1984, to give the NAYPIC files to the police. I believed that the files were of
public interest and that the files contained some evidence that may be helpful
to substantiating allegations of abuse. Due to my duty to
protect the confidentiality of victims named in the files I objected to the
files being taken from me.
I am saddened that Elm Guest House victims have not had
justice. The raid by police on my
house, during which my files were removed, has so far not proved helpful in
achieving justice for victims. I
have worked tirelessly to give these people justice as you can read on Youth
Parliament website. I feel that I have been hijacked at a point when there was
an opportunity to establish a class action.
Further information: ITV News UK Editor, Lucy Manning, interviews Mary Moss about child abuse that took place at
Elm House Guest House, which is currently the subject of a police
investigation. http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-02-06/elm-guest-house-child-abuse-ring-investigation-arrests/
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