The Evidence I Shall Give Shall Be The Bollox, The Whole Bollox and Nothing But The Bollox

Last updated on May 8th, 2023 at 11:35 am

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Well, it’s nothing to do with Evidence really, I just fancied the Title, but it does have an awful lot to do with BOLLOX with a a CAPITAL B.

I’ve been nice to the Met for a couple of days now, so I guess it’s time for a change, so this one’s for you…….or at least your SMT and/or Decision Makers.

I’ve been mulling for a few days now, mulling about the Met Police’s Facebook post about it’s latest Passing Out Parade. It’s a cracker.  On 14th July 2014 the 144 latest recruits Passed Out at the end of their training at…….West Ham Football Club

Passing Out

I’m sure they all felt very proud, they have survived 25 long weeks at Henditz, and as a special reward they get to Pass Out not on the Parade Square at Hendon but in a Car Park at West Ham FC.

The reason for this?

“This was only the second time the parade has been held in a public place. The break with tradition is part of the Met’s bid to open doors to it’s traditions and give members of the public the opportunity to take pride in their police service.”  Totally admirable if I believed a single word of it.

I may just have the answer, remember Henditz, and it’s fantastic Parade Square?

 

Well, now it’s more like this

peel centre

So maybe a Car Park in Upton Park suddenly seems more appealing??

MPS Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said “…..Their family and friends should be extremely proud of them all. The parade recognises their commitment and I wish them every success for the future.

“The idea for holding the parades in public originally came from Toronto and as a public police it makes sense to hold the parade from time to time for all to see.”

Nothing to do with a chuffing great Building Site then Bernie?

And why West Ham?

Serious lack of judgement there by somebody I suggest.  Does nobody do their homework any more.

Chris Hobbs (@obbsie) does, he does his homework and sometimes I get to see it, and thank you Chris for showing this particular piece:-

West Ham FC is owned by David Sullivan and David Gold.

David Sullivan has recently made it into headlines writ large for loaning £1million of West Ham’s money to a man called David Hunt. On the 4th May 2014 The Independent carried this headline:-

West Ham owner’s £1m loan to crime boss

The wealthy co-owner of a Premier League football club made a £1m loan to a company controlled by David Hunt – three months after a High Court judge named Mr Hunt as the head of an organised crime network.

David Hunt – nicknamed “Long Fella” – was officially exposed last summer in a judgment by Mr Justice Simon after the crime boss brought an unsuccessful libel action against The Sunday Times.

A catalogue of damning claims emerged during the trial, including allegations that Scotland Yard viewed Mr Hunt’s gang, which had operated with impunity for more than 20 years, as “too big” and “too dangerous” to take on. During a covert operation codenamed Blackjack, the Metropolitan Police placed bugging equipment in a car showroom, which picked up an attack by Mr Hunt in which he had slashed the face of a man named Paul Cavanagh, who had upset an associate.

Mr Justice Simon also concluded that Mr Hunt had attacked and threatened to kill Billy Allen, a property developer, in 2006. He also ruled that Mr Hunt had engaged in money-laundering.

Two months after Mr Sullivan’s company made the loan to Mr Hunt’s firm, our sister newspaper The Independent revealed a secret Metropolitan Police report – codenamed Operation Tiberius…….The report by the Met’s anti-corruption team names four Met detectives “associated” with the syndicate, one of whom is high-profile and has given evidence to Parliament. Operation Tiberius reported that corrupt officers betrayed the Met by telling the Hunt syndicate about tracking devices placed on its vehicles, leaking information about police inquiries and carrying out checks on police intelligence databases.

I don’t normally have much time for the Daily Mail but they have previously reported this:-

A vicious crime boss, his corrupt police cronies and a scandal that could have been buried for ever

As the Sunday Times revealed, three Met detectives are claiming that David Hunt, an East End businessman named by a judge last week as the head of an organised crime network, had used corrupt officers inside Scotland Yard to help him evade justice for some three decades.

Astoundingly, the Met had tried to throw the book at these three detectives who finally got onto his tail — one of whom, DCI David McKelvey, the former head of the crime squad in Newham, East London, had his career ruined and suffered a nervous breakdown as a result.

These detectives had warned Scotland Yard that Hunt had taken out a contract to kill them and that he had links to corrupt officers and council officials.

But instead, the three found themselves the target of what Mr Justice Simon called a ‘misdirected’ inquiry into baseless allegations of corruption — an inquiry which had ‘undoubtedly assisted’ Hunt in his efforts to avoid prosecution after he was arrested for blackmail, threats to kill and witness intimidation.

You can read much, much more in either or both of these items together with the Sunday Times, I apologise for the heavy use of Copy/Paste but they can tell the story so much better than I can.

The Grauniad reports the libel action like this

Criminal boss loses libel case against journalist who exposed him

David Charles Hunt appeared mild-mannered and courteous giving evidence at the high court. He felt crucified, he said, by the accusation that he was the head of a criminal gang whose associates included Terry Adams and Reggie Kray.

A series of police investigations, surveillance operations and intelligence reports on Hunt were referred to in evidence during the libel case.

One such intelligence report – Operation Houdini, dated 7 August 2006 – into Hunt, Terry Adams, the head of the Adams family, and two others, laid bare the alleged scale of Hunt’s activities.

So, to return to my Bollox, who on earth at the Met thought it was a good idea to enter into a contract with a businessman who has lent money to an alleged, if not proven, corrupter of police and head of a serious and organised crime syndicate?  Was that really your finest hour?  Were there no other football clubs available on that date.  Wembley, Spurs, Arsenal?  Any number of places in Norf Larndarn would have been more suitable and convenient I’m sure. Not Criminal but Naivety at its very best, surely?

I am in no way saying that the owners of West Ham United FC are engaged in any kind of criminal activity, but I do expect the Met to be scrupulous in its dealings with others. Mr Sullivan has seemingly entered into a business transaction with someone who has been labelled a crime syndicate boss, corrupter of police and allegedly ordered the killing of 3 police officers.  Those are the allegations, I have no idea where the truth lies, but does it seem like an appropriate transaction for the Met to enter into.

David Gold seems to have no part to play in this as far as I can see, but he was previously married to a lady called Beryl Hunt.  I have no idea if she is related to David Hunt or if it is a mere coincidence.

All I do know is, it’s Bollox.

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13 thoughts on “The Evidence I Shall Give Shall Be The Bollox, The Whole Bollox and Nothing But The Bollox”

  1. Dearest Grandma B

    Please, please, please put RetiredAndCynical straight. Before your influence, he used to be just Angry. Why, why, why did you do it?

    Ever since his 1st pension payment, he’s been holding back – despite his award. Now look at him. More and more, he’s becoming more and more like Jimmy Henditz (aka Kabibonokka)..

    Once the fierce Kabibonokka
    Issued from his lodge of snow-drifts,
    From his home among the icebergs,
    And his hair, with snow besprinkled,
    Streamed behind him like a river,
    Like a black and wintry river,
    As he howled and hurried southward,
    Over frozen lakes and moorlands.

    Grandma B, can’t you turn his clock back, back to those angry but innocent Long Fella days?

    1. Dear ideb8, I’ll have a pint of whatever you’re drinking. Haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about, but it made me laugh. Hopefully Granny B will be laughing too

  2. Dearest Grandma B

    Please, please, please put RetiredAndCynical straight. Before your influence, he used to be just Angry. Why, why, why did you do it?

    Ever since his 1st pension payment, he’s been holding back – despite his award. Now look at him. More and more, he’s becoming more and more like Jimmy Henditz (aka Kabibonokka)..

    Once the fierce Kabibonokka
    Issued from his lodge of snow-drifts,
    From his home among the icebergs,
    And his hair, with snow besprinkled,
    Streamed behind him like a river,
    Like a black and wintry river,
    As he howled and hurried southward,
    Over frozen lakes and moorlands.

    Grandma B, can’t you turn his clock back, back to those angry but innocent Long Fella days?

    1. Dear ideb8, I’ll have a pint of whatever you’re drinking. Haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about, but it made me laugh. Hopefully Granny B will be laughing too

  3. I wonder how many members of the public attended the parade?
    Hendon was a great day for family & friends to see where you had spent so much time.

  4. I wonder how many members of the public attended the parade?
    Hendon was a great day for family & friends to see where you had spent so much time.

  5. Oh no. There we were, assuming this was just another case of bog standard police top brass corruption – when along comes a perfectly innocent idea, to hold the passing out parade where King Richard III might have passed out himself, thus providing a truly authentic royal perspective, had a Leicester car park not thought the idea just the ticket already.

    Dear RetiredAndCynical,
    Isn’t this another example of Lessness? Your hypothesis is all very well but surely the evidence for gross financial misconduct, once suitably lost, won’t stand up in a court of law(+Lessness)? I just can’t see why you’ve become so cynical..!
    Ho hum

  6. Oh no. There we were, assuming this was just another case of bog standard police top brass corruption – when along comes a perfectly innocent idea, to hold the passing out parade where King Richard III might have passed out himself, thus providing a truly authentic royal perspective, had a Leicester car park not thought the idea just the ticket already.

    Dear RetiredAndCynical,
    Isn’t this another example of Lessness? Your hypothesis is all very well but surely the evidence for gross financial misconduct, once suitably lost, won’t stand up in a court of law(+Lessness)? I just can’t see why you’ve become so cynical..!
    Ho hum

  7. Anonymous in East London

    The whole senior ranks of the Met care more about their promotions and careers than their staff. Know a Sgt. Who was asked to go on the Higher Development scheme they were advised easiest way to get promotion was too instigate disciplinary against Officers as it’s a saving to the job! 10 officers= £1 million saving! Explains the lack of investigation or media appeals when a colleague and I were ambushed during the disorder!

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