News and Comment November 2011

17 November (Part 2) - Coincidences and lies?

Returning to Chief Superintendent Stringer’s failed investigation of this crime I feel it is worth bringing to your attention something that may not have been much mentioned before. Both Elwyn Bryant’s MP and my own, Teresa Pearce, have been very helpful to us. In mid-July both agreed to ask Commander Stringer how things were progressing. Three weeks later there had been no reply and I was told that Stringer had been “prodded”. At the same time Elwyn’s MP, James Brokenshire, told mine that he had “been assured it is being investigated”. On 10 August, I, my MP and presumably Mr. Brokenshire too, received near identical letters from Commander Stringer. He said to Teresa Pearce, “I am very sorry that this investigation has been very lengthy but unfortunately these matters do take time. Enquiries are still ongoing”.

So what should we make of that? Will Tuckley says he is not aware of any police investigation, Chief Superintendent Stringer says that enquiries are still ongoing when he writes on 10th August, but according to a signed statement by the policeman who laid the charges against Olly Cromwell, the enquiries were abandoned after he visited Will Tuckley on 7th July.

What sort of Chief Executive sits through a meeting with Detective Chief Inspector Alison Funnell and is unaware of it and goes on to say so in a Freedom of Information request? What sort of Chief Superintendent tries to pull the wool over the eyes of the Minister for Crime and Security?

Councillor Seymour has done us all an enormous favour hasn’t he?

Note: The reference to Coincidences in the blog title is because another Bexley Councillor began blogging at the same time as the purveyor of obscenities and suspicions briefly fell on him. He was entirely innocent of the crime and the reference to his blogging activities were removed.