2004: LIDBURY- AFRICAN HIV AIDS CHARITY PAINTINGS
Lidbury had painted some watercolour paintings to be sold in aid of Global Natural Health Care Trust, an African HIV/AIDS charity. The police having seized the artist (Lidbury) computer prevented the HIV/AIDS charity sale of the paintings.
Gscene publication ; Art on Ebay
West Briton Newspaper: Artist auctions pieces to raise funds for AIDS work in Africa
Lidbury’s art businesses entirely destroyed by police actions of withholding Lidbury’s computer unnecessarily (fact established by IPCC) after it had been examined by forensics & been given the all clear as having no illegal material. Lidbury had identified no less than fourteen persons (tenants, tenants friends & friends of Lidbury) who at one time or another had use of the computer unsupervised.
Lidbury’s Amenity Horticultural business was irreparably damaged by relentless police intimidation. Despite being acknowledged by the IPCC this has never been addressed by Devon & Cornwall police.
NO criminal charges resulted against Lidbury, however not before Lidbury had again attempted suicide by alcohol & Carbon Monoxide poisoning. This was due to abusive & relentless persecutory police misconduct over false allegations made against Lidbury by police. In the failed bid at suicide Lidbury had attached a vacuum cleaner pipe with gaffer tape to his car exhaust leading through the car widow.
Over a decade of protracted period of conflict has followed from 2004 by homophobic Devon & Cornwall police from when Lidbury initially reprimanded DC Woods for homophobic comments. Lidbury being repeatedly & relentlessly targeted as a gay man by police.
GAY COMMUNITY COMPLAINT TO
INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION
Sept 2005: Other gay/bi men, friends of Lidbury were concerned at the way police complaints from gay people were ignored. Over x200 signatures were collected in a petition, primarily gathered from within the Cornwall LGBT community at the ‘Eclipse gay nightclub’, Truro. All 200+ signatures almost without exception expressing ‘NO FAITH’ in the Devon & Cornwall police complaints system. The LGBT petition provided to Ian Bynoe Commissioner of the Independent Police Complaints Commission
…and was promptly ignored by IPCC. (Copy of the LGBT petition to IPCC held in the Sprocket Trust Cornwall LGBT history archive)
