Reblogged from Rico Sorda
DEPT/SUPT MICK GRADWELL - THE SECRET RECORDINGS - THE CULTURE OF CONCEALMENT -9
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| DEPT/SUPT MICK GRADWELL - SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICER OF OPERATION RECTANGLE BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 2008 & SEPTEMBER 2009. GRADWELL WAS LEAKING TO JOURNALIST DAVID ROSE - THE MAN WHO WAS TRASHING THE JERSEY INVESTIGATION LONG BEFORE GRADWELL CAME TO JERSEY - WHY WOULD HE DO THIS? THE INVESTIGATION WAS STILL LIVE. THE VICTIMS OF ABUSE WERE TRUSTING THIS MAN. HE LET THEM ALL DOWN. BUT WHY DID HE DO IT? |
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CULTURE OF CONCEALMENT - 9
THE JERSEY CHILD ABUSE COVER-UP
THE SECRET RECORDINGS.
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT MICK GRADWELL TALKS TO ABUSE SURVIVORS
MiICK GRADWELL TELLS ABUSE SURVIVORS :
" WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU FROM THE BEGINNING THROUGH TO THE PRESENT TIME HAS BEEN FAR FROM FIRST CLASS"
THAT HAS GOT TO BE THE BIGGEST UNDERSTATEMENT I HAVE EVER HEARD.
HE SHOWS THEM EVIDENCE DURING A LIVE INVESTIGATION
HE MENTIONS CELLARS - I THOUGHT THEY WERE VOIDS????????
HE TALKS ABOUT SHACKLES FOUND IN HAUT DELA GARENNE
HE TELLS THE ABUSE SURVIVORS THAT - "NOT EVEN LENNY HARPER IS SAYING THEY ARE RESTRAINTS"
THE PRESS
CONFERENCE ON THE 12TH NOVEMBER 2008 ACCORDING TO MICK GRADWELL GOT
MISS REPRESENTED - BY WHO? THE JERSEY MEDIA? UK MEDIA?
GRADWELL StATES:
"People are doing all sorts of weird things and lying"
Who could he be referring to?
I have come
into possession of over 2 hours of secret recordings. These were made
between November 2008 and November 2009. For legal reasons I'm only
publishing the first 6 minutes of Mick Gradwell. The rest has gone off
Island for safe keeping. They will appear at the forthcoming Committee
of Enquiry as long as the terms of reference are fit for purpose. I will
not mention or hint at what is contained in these recordings. They
cover a number of different issues regarding Operation Rectangle.They
were taken covertly. They were taken as Insurance against future lies
Mick Gradwell
was the Senior Investigating Officer of Operation Rectangle (Jersey
Child Abuse Investigation) between September 2008 and September 2009
having taken over from Lenny Harper who left at the end of July 2008.
On the 12th November 2008 the Jersey Authorities suspended the Chief of
Police Graham Power. This coincided with a press conference held on the
same day by Deputy Chief Officer David Warcup and Mick Gradwell.
Between the
12th November and 15th November 2008 Mick Gradwell started up a working
relationship with the one journalist who was hell bent on trashing the
Jersey Investigation. That Journalist was none other than David Rose of
the Daily Mail. It is well documented on my previous postings how Mick
Gradwell was caught leaking selective information to David Rose. The
essential reading on this can be found here:
On the 15th November 2008 David Rose wrote this article in the Mail on Sunday:
Then, on the
18th November 2008, Abuse Survivors were asked to attend the States Of
Jersey Police Station meeting at 2pm on the former Summerland site.
Dept/Supt Mick Gradwell wanted to explain to the survivors why they had
called the press conference on the 12th November 2008. The meeting
lasted for about 30 minutes. They were shown evidence and asked to
comment on it. The ones I have spoken to have all said how crazy they
found the situation.
The Audio you
can hear below is from that meeting. It starts off a little noisy. I
would suggest best listened to with headphones if you find it hard to
hear.
Recorded on the 18th - November - 2008
6 days after the illegal suspension of Police Chief Graham Power.
I have also asked Lenny Harper for his reply on this audio. I produce his response below.
I have been
asked by Rico Sorda to comment on the recording of Mick Gradwell talking
to Abuse survivors in Jersey in 2008. I have to confess that I have
found this a fairly difficult thing to do. The recording reveals
bizarre and scarcely credulous behaviour from someone who rated himself
very highly as a detective and who of course was championed by the
journalist David Rose who spends a great deal of his time rubbishing and
smearing victims of child abuse.
I do not think I
have ever heard anything like this from a senior investigating officer
ever before. Why he felt the need to plead, rather pathetically, that
he “is not bent” I cannot imagine. It is almost as if he realised that
the misinformation and untruths which he spouted at that Press
Conference in November 2008 in relation to the cellars and more, had
been well and truly nailed and that he had to try and somehow deflect
the criticism from himself. He couldn’t very well come out and say that
he had been directed to say what he had said by senior figures in the
Jersey establishment, but most certainly he and David Warcup had a very
different relationship with William Bailache and senior politicians from
those that Graham Power and I had. Indeed, David Warcup spent several
hours more with the AG in deep discussion than he spent with me before I
left, and it was me he was taking over from.
Not much of
what he says in response to those at the meeting makes sense or indeed
rings true. Let me comment on just a few of those things he said.
He states that
“evidence Lenny Harper gathered indicates no murders.” In this he is
telling the truth. The only thing is that I had been saying that for
some months before him. He and Mr Warcup told the public and media that
I had been saying the opposite. This is despite the vast amount of
open source media evidence that proves otherwise.
He makes a
comment about Jersey “not paying his wages.” I am not sure about this.
He was interviewed for the job from a shortlist of six. You may recall
that he was the only one of the six who could not be bothered to speak
to me before the process was completed. Coincidence? Or did he know
something we didn’t? He says his salary and other aspects had nothing
to do with Jersey. Was he not interviewed by them and are we expected
to believe that he was cost neutral to the island?
He also made
the comment that “People in court are being linked to things that did
not happen.” This was a rather sad and lame attempt to justify the
press conference during which he spread the misinformation about the
cellars, bones, shackles, teeth, and my claims to the media. The truth
is that NONE of those in court were being linked in any way to the finds
at HDLG. Scan the evidence as long as you wish. You will find no such
link. Gradwell must have known this. His comment that this was the
only reason the press conference was held is garbage.
He also utters
the untruth that no human bones were found. Here he conveniently
ignores the evidence of Professor Chamberlain, whose statement
incidentally, seemed to vanish in the world according to Gradwell.
Similarly the evidence about the teeth from, I think, Mr Lidwell.
Gradwell also
claims that “Lenny Harper’s own scientist” also now believed there was
no human bone. This is a total fabrication as a quick perusal of the
Anthropologists’ worksheet will show. This document incidentally has
been published on Rico’s blog.
I also take
exception to his claim that some people had come forward who “had never
been to HDLG in their lives.” We certainly had some people claiming
abuse at HDLG who were not shown on any official records and who had
been labelled as liars by some corrupt senior police officers in the
past. However, we knew that the records at HDLG were incomplete, indeed
worthless, and we had proved the activities of those police officers in
trying to destroy evidence and obstruct a proper investigation.
Gradwell must have been aware of this. To attempt to portray the
investigation as having a large number of false allegations stinks of
the smear attempts made by David Rose and other so called journalists in
recent weeks.
This recording
gives a real insight into the mind and the capability of the so called
(self labelled) top detective. It is a pity he has not been so quick to
come forward and explain himself to the Scrutiny Panel as he was to try
and smear the investigation and those victims of the Jersey care system
that the enquiry was trying to obtain some small measure of justice
for.
Lenny Harper
This is
Dept/Supt Mick Gradwell showing the BBC the evidence on the 12th
November 2008. This upset many victims. What exactly did Dept/supt
Gradwell do during his year secondment? Remember, when I went to the
Home Affairs Sub Panel with my evidence the only person who refused to
take part was Mick Gradwell. The man who would not stop in trashing
Lenny Harper had the perfect opportunity under cross examination to
explain his actions. He refused to take part. Yup, really had the Abuse
Survivors close to his heart.
Rico Sorda
Part Time Investigative Journalist
Tomorrow at 7.30pm the BBC should have a programme going out about the Jersey Child Abuse Investigation.
read more ans see video at http://ricosorda.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/deptsupt-mick-gradwell-secret.html
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