Cleveland Police: Corruption Extradition

No UK trial to establish evidence of supplying global crystal-meth labs By Billy Briggs.

A SCOTS couple who have four children face the possibility of prison and extradition to America next month despite having not stood trial in a court for the crime of which they are accused.

In a case that highlights the controversial impact on British justice of the post-9/11 extradition treaty signed between the UK and the US, Brian and Kerry Howes of Bo’ness, West Lothian, are facing extradition to America on allegations of supplying chemicals over the internet in a conspiracy to produce crystal meth.

The couple, who deny the charges, face a preliminary extradition hearing at the high court in Edinburgh on January 14. They fear they will be remanded in custody and their four children will go into care ahead of their removal to America.

Under the terms of the treaty, the US can apply to have someone extradited without any trial taking place in the UK. On signing the Extradition Act 2003, the then home secretary, David Blunkett, removed the obligation on US law enforcement agencies to present British courts with prima facie evidence of criminality. Thanks to the Royal Prerogative, the treaty became law without parliamentary debate, which means that the US must only provide “written information” relating to an alleged wrongdoing.

Crystal meth – a form of amphetamine that has been crystallised so that it can be smoked – is a highly dangerous and addictive drug that has pervaded the poorer sections of American society for the past 20 years. Pseudoephedrine, iodine and red phosphorus are the three main chemicals required to make the drug, which produces a high that may last 12 hours or more.

Brian Howes – an amateur pyrotechnician who sold chemicals in the UK legally – denies that he and his wife broke the law by selling iodine and red phosphorus through their internet business. But federal prosecutors at the Drug Enforcement Agency in Arizona allege they were part of a drugs racket supplying a global network of meth labs in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries.

Howes said their children will have to go into care if they are remanded in custody and that his wife, Kerry, is 23 weeks pregnant and faces giving birth to their fifth child on a chain gang in Arizona. “We just want a fair trial in the UK but that is not going to happen as the extradition treaty replaces the word evidence’ with information’ – and information is accepted as true, that is the wording of the act. We have no faith in these proceedings as the files from our previous solicitors have not arrived with our current solicitors after three months, so no defence has been able to be mounted.

“In England, people are bailed right up to the House of Lords and then the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), but we will be remanded during or after the high court hearing in Edinburgh. We need help with a fund to fight in the ECHR and then we may have a chance of bail. The Scottish legal aid system does not pay for this – in England it is even afforded to people who have confessed to a crime.”

While a passionate debate raged across Britain about the 42-day limit for terror suspects, Brian, 44, and, Kerry-Ann, 30, previously spent 214 days on remand in prison, a detention that lasted five times longer than the proposed terror suspect threshold passed by the House of Commons in June but recently rejected by the House of Lords.

People can be held on remand indefinitely under the extradition treaty.

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During the retrial, the jury heard from two medical experts who said an epileptic fit was most likely to have been the cause of death.
But the court also heard baby Kyle had bruising and marks to his head.

A message for Corrupt Middlesbrough Police Officers

A message for Corrupt Middlesbrough Police Officers

Cleveland and Middlesbrough Police have been called the most corrupt police force in the UK and for years have tried to give themselves a better appearance of honesty.

Cleveland Police have cheated the statistics by not generating a statistic for every crime, for instance if a car is broken into and no insurance claim is made then a crime reference number might not be created so to keep the crime figures falling.

One of the most common areas of statistic fixing is in Arson even when the fire Brigade make it quite clear to the Police in Cleveland that it is Arson Cleveland Police often record it as an electrical fault or some other accident, that way no crime has been committed and the figures come down.

I had reported many incidents of crime in the Lawson Industrial Estate Middlesbrough up to 2003 and so had many other Businesses like Swale scaffolding and others. I contacted the local Gazette and other papers and over a 1 month period over 30 crimes had been reported to Cleveland Police but when asked by the newspapers they said they had no reports of crime for 3 months.

After that I got a visit from the local officer in charge of policing the estate who waited until my employees had gone home and then threatened me and said I was not to call the newspapers again as I should contact him I just agreed as he was being very aggressive in his manor.

Then in 2003 my Business was attacked by Arson but Cleveland Police said it was an electrical fire even though the fire brigade had said it was Arson and there was a strong smell of a fuel.

I quizzed the officer of Cleveland Police who liaises with the fire brigade who told me on a telephone conversation that he was under pressure to keep the Arson figures down so if like in my case there was no chance of solving the crime it was better to mark it as an Electrical fire and not to worry he said that the insurance company would pay out.

Before all this began I was raided at the same premises by Cleveland Police and my home and my mother’s home too! It happened after walking in to Middlesbrough Police station to report a crime for which I had an appointment but instead I became the arrested.

A law suit began in 2003 of which some paperwork remains and is posted on this and other sites. I had a claim for false arrest false imprisonment and Assault and I had video evidence of Illegal searches and I was wired during my arrest and the digital device was still in my property on release.

I had no business so I was on legal aid which was abruptly stopped after officers from Cleveland Police visited my solicitor to see the footage of them breaking the law. Then my solicitor who I will not name yet said she had been told to give me all my video and other evidence back to look after it myself.

In March 24^th 2005 we were raided again by the same Police on the pretence that we had firearms but the main reason they were there was to retrieve the evidence against them which they did with a van load of Business and personal property.

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