Customs Rogues

Customs Rogues

Describes the underhand and fraudulent methods used by HM Customs & Excise (now UK Border Agency) and Police to secure drug convictions for "mescaline" and how the BBC used a staged police photo of powdered cactus with the label concealed to reiterate their lies.

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Customs Rogues.pdf

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Customs Criminals and their Accomplices Named and Shamed

Wanted for kidnapping, burglary, unlawful imprisonment and giving false evidence:

Andrea Scott - "general Customs official", gave false evidence to magistrate to obtain search warrant
Julian Marcus Crook (very apt!) - Arresting Officer, Job Title "6", Criminal & Financial Investigation
Christopher John Getley - "witness to arrest"
Gary J. Rodgers - Custody Officer
Joanne Hayley Woodland - "Officer in the case", Job Title "6", Criminal & Financial Investigation, Customs burglar
Mark James Brice - "Officer in the case" (grade HO), Customs burglar
Annabel Mahala Fuller - "general Customs official", Customs burglar
Richard James Robbins - Interviewing Officer (Interview.mp3) - claims to be a UK Border Agency Officer although he had police ID
Katy Philpott - Interviewing Officer (Interview.mp3) - claims to be a UK Border Agency Officer although she had police ID
David Phillips - ("job" unknown)
Elizabeth Sharp - ("job" unknown)
P. Stockhall - "on call Review Officer"
Sarah Jane Wilson - "Charging Officer", "Case Officer", Criminal & Financial Investigation - see False Testimony above
Malcolm Bragg - Assistant Director, Criminal & Financial Investigation

Clive Edward Llewellyn - Detective Constable 7774 - "assisting HMRC officers to execute a search warrant"
Daniel Rose - A/DS 9269, Folkestone Police Station - "assisting HMRC officers to execute a search warrant"
James Unwin - Detective Constable 7793 - "assisting HMRC officers to execute a search warrant"

Dr David Geewater of The Butchery Practice(!), Sandwich - Customs doctor - see bruise above

Louise Frances Matthews - a forensic fraudster from the Forensic Science Service, 109 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7LP
Her report omitted to mention the word cactus anywhere.
Robin Clive Edmunds - "Digital Forensic Techician" for CCL-Forensics Ltd - another freeloader
Andrew Philip Norcliffe - Customs translator - yet another freeloader
Michael Rabolt - Customs Officer, ZBI, Frankfurt Airport Germany who intercepted the "mescaline"

BBC Liars Named and Shamed

Lucia Fortucci, BBC Complaints: "These reports are based on information passed by the Police and BBC News is satisfied that this information is perfectly accurate."

Claire Jordan: "They replied that these reports are based on information passed by the Police and BBC News is satisfied that this information is perfectly accurate."

Ciaran McConnell: "I have discussed your complaint with those responsible for managing content on the BBC website and as previously stated the content of both articles are based on information passed by the police authority. Furthermore, they confirm also the photo as seen in both articles was supplied by the police and is of mascaline (sic). They have nothing more to add on this matter."

Richard Hutt, Complaints Director: "I spoke to Northumbria Police, who confirm that the image in the article shows the material seized in the raid described in the article, and that laboratory tests have confirmed that this substance is mescaline. "Considered as a generic illustration of mescaline, I do not believe that the picture would have served to seriously mislead audiences. "While the website you have sent details of offers a 900 gram bag of powdered cactus for $99 (which I assume to be USD) the same page also states "we do not ship to Europe". I do not feel able therefore to consider this to be a reliable indication of the likely value of the substance the UK".

Francesca O'Brien, Head of Editorial Standards: "You have not produced any evidence to suggest that mescaline was not seized by the police but it seems to me that in the context of a news story on arrests for possession and supply of a class A drug the difference between mescaline and the cactus powder from which it is derived is not significant."

I rest my case!

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