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It became apparent to some lesbian & gay persons that aspects of Cornwall's LGBT social, gay health, equality & campaigning history were being re-written. Certain inconvenient truths about Cornish LGBT life of the late C20th & early C21st were being airbrushed out & erased entirely by those now in control & running the 'official'? recording of Cornwall's LGBT history. 'One Queer Gay Life' is a referenced record drawn from the Sprocket Trust small archive (press cuttings, documents, letters, photos, publications, etc.) of aspects of LGBT life in Cornwall others might prefer you simply did not know.

Wednesday 27 May 2015

2012 - ENDEMIC NATIONWIDE CHILD SEX ABUSE COVERED UP BY POLICE

2012 - ENDEMIC NATIONWIDE CHILD SEX ABUSE
COVERED UP BY POLICE

2012: The Jimmy Savile story started to break of hundreds of his sex abuse victims, many ignored & covered up by the authorities. 
It quickly became apparent that police had treated many complaints by Savile’s alleged victims with contempt & ridicule.

More & more cases of historic child sex abuse previously reported, ignored & covered up by police began to emerge of endemic nationwide police catastrophic failings, wholesale misconduct & probable widespread criminality by police in child sex abuse cases

etc. etc.

Despite the growing above list of Child Rape & sexual abuse covered up by police there are still
cretins who 'trust' the police. The above list does not include Devon & Cornwall police ignoring for years
one of their own PC Bryant or Devon & Cornwall police ignoring victim/survivor Lidbury reporting
by name HOPKINS & the pedophile ring operating in Tarpots, Essex in the 1960's -70.

Lidbury was a Child Sex Abuse survivor from having been raped from age 6yrs through to age 10 yrs
by a (Freemason) teacher, clergy & police accomplices, amongst others in a pedophile ring involving
up to a dozen or more boys, including Lidbury aged 6yrs. All mostly under 16yrs of age. 

He could relate entirely to other CSA survivors who were beginning to speak out publicly. In particular
how police nationwide had further victimized & mistreated CSA survivors like Lidbury.  Lidbury had
been raising with Devon & Cornwall police his having been sexually abused as a 6-10yr old child
(1966-1970) with numerous  multiple Devon & Cornwall police officers since 1987, but always ignored, threatened,
ridiculed, victimised, by EVERY police officer EVER encountered.

Lidbury had not only experienced Devon & Cornwall  police abusive attitudes towards him as a CSA survivor, but also had to contend with endemic & routine Devon & Cornwall police year-on-year-on year & still on-going vindictive homophobia towards him as a gay man.

In Cornwall nearly every LGBT group (Intercom Trust, Healthy Gay Cornwall, Cornwall Pride) had attacked, ostracized & excluded  Lidbury for speaking out about police misconduct, homophobia & as CSA survivor.

These LGBT groups have all exhibited anti-victim prejudice or AVP

Meanwhile in the rest of the United Kingdom a Himalayan like mountain range of growing evidence & testimony of CSA survivor victims across the UK of police collaboration, police dishonesty, police criminality & police failings in duty of care on an wholesale scale across the United Kingdom in regard to child sex abuse which police had ignored & aided & abetted in covering up for decades.

The police in Cornwall far, far more intent on persecuting to silence Lidbury as an 'out' & outspoken gay man publicly critical of police, than police were in dealing with the catalogue of criminal acts AGAINST Lidbury as a victim of hate crimes or as a CSA survivor. 

Police completely & repeatedly ignoring Lidbury bringing up 'he' was a victim survivor of child sexual abuse, him having been raped as a 6-10yr old child over a period of many years, by multiple persons, (inc. by a police officer).  Police DID NOT & DO NOT want to know then or now when it involves members of their own police cozy fraternity.

Of growing particular concern the number of cases nationwide involving freemasons & person of influence in govt. establishment, institutions & organizations.  Still senior police, ACPO, HMIC, IPCC, CPS, turned a blind eye & deaf ear, compounding victimization & persecuting of CSA & institutional homophobia whistleblowers!

Lidbury had reported repeatedly (from 1987) over a period of decades to numerous Devon & Cornwall police officers his having been sexually abused & raped as a 6yr old, through to the age of when he was 10yrs old (1966-1970). Lidbury since 2004 had become louder & louder about both homophobic hate crimes & historic CSA. Devon & Cornwall police ridiculed, laughed off, dismissed, threatened, bullied, victimized, persecuted & abused him as an adult gay man & as a historic child rape victim to try to silence Lidbury.

Police had even had Lidbury  assessed to make out Lidbury was mentally ill to try to further discredit him.  Police were unsuccessful in their attempt to slate Lidbury as the clinical forensic psychology report commissioned by police found Lidbury both ‘logical & rational’

  • Previously in 2007 Devon & Cornwall police sent back the information Re: ‘historic child rape’ Hopkins Legacy - saying it was not their (police) job.
  • Police legal department threatened legal action unless information removed from internet (including Lidbury having been raped as a child)
  • Raised again repeatedly with numerous Cornwall police officers encountered (always belittled & ignored)
  • Lidbury raised the historic child rape on the 6hr videotaped witness evidence given police in Feb/Mch 2010 against multiple criminal, abuse & misconduct carried out by named & identified Devon & Cornwall police officers (Devon & Cornwall police buried the tape, despite a Freedom of Information Act requests to access it).

Lidbury had BEGGED the Independent Police Complaints Commission to examine the tape
....the IPCC simply ignored Lidbury!

Lidbury’s complaints routinely buck passed by the IPCC back to Devon & Cornwall police Professional
Standards Dept. where Mrs Bowden, Insp. Chudely & Insp. Swift routinely through obfuscation &
misfeasance slipped the complaints under the carpet.

Nov 2012:  With the appointment of Police Crime Commissioners Lidbury tried raising the historic child
rape he had experienced at 6-10yrs old & catalogue of homophobic police misconduct with newly
appointed Tony Hogg Police Crime Commissioner.

Tony Hogg PCC ignored multiple correspondence & even blocked Lidbury on internet on both Twitter &
the PCC public forum.

NB: March 2015: A posting on the Tony Hogg PCC forum 23 Jan 2013 - Post by: Malcolm Lidbury
on 23/01/2013 19:45:16 ... has subsequently suddenly disappeared/erased from the PCC forum. 

Likewise a persecutory page previously on Devon & Cornwall police force website Equality &
Diversity page for YEARS directed specifically against Lidbury by name also suddenly disappeared
and suddenly showed as an internet ‘404’ error.

There is NO shadow of doubt in Lidbury’s mind Tony Hogg Police Crime Commissioner office has
compounded & aided in covering up of police homophobia, police misconduct, police criminality &
police historic child rape,…. as has Lidbury’s Lib Dem Mp Andrew George & Devon & Cornwall Police

Lidbury "Personally there is not the width of a rizla paper between those who raped me when I was a 6yr old boy & those in the police & LGBT groups in Cornwall & Exeter who have aided in covering it up for decades by bullying, intimidating, ostracising & victimising me for speaking out as a gay adult & CSA survivor"

Lidbury not one to be put off...but finally completely frustrated & exasperated at dishonesty, homophobic attitudes & corruption withinDevon & Cornwall Constabulary, ACPO, HMIC, IPCC & DC-PCC office  & the total lack of support from LGBT groups in Cornwall & Exeter, Lidbury tried an entirely different police force.

In just one week Essex police did more than corrupt Devon & Cornwall police had from 1987!

Jan 19th 2013: Lidbury contacted Essex police PC Levene about the historic child rape Devon & Cornwall police had repeatedly ignored & dismissed since 1987 (email correspondence with Essex police held by Sprocket Trust LGBT archive)

Jan 26th 2013: Detective Sergeant Lorna HENDERSON replied & confirmed they (Essex police) had located information regarding one of the child rapists Lidbury had identified - ‘HOPKINS’

Feb 2013: The second Clinical Forensic Report was submitted by Lidbury in HM Court evidence to DWP tribunal. This resulted in the awarding of Lidbury, disability benefits & placed in the DWP ESA benefit support group as a cognitively disabled person as a result of ‘Catastrophic Trauma’, Agoraphobia, PTSD & suffering from high levels of cognitive anxiety. Lidbury now never left his home without a witness escort whom he trusted against further Cornwall police targeting, abuse, victimization & intimidation towards him.

March 1st 2013:  Temporary Detective Sergeant Craig Wiggins of Essex police confirmed by email that not only had the teacher (Hopkins) who Lidbury had been identifying by name, address & profession for decades to homophobic Cornwall police (but had been ignored & ridiculed by EVERY SINGLE ONE of the corrupt dishonest officers ever encountered in this vile Cornwall police force & by HMIC, & by the Police Crime Commissioner Office & the IPCC , & by most of the LGBT groups in Cornwall & Exeter) as the person who sexually abused & raped Lidbury as a 6yr old child....

….but that Hopkins had been convicted of sexual abuse of six other children under the age of sixteen.  


Lidbury was still in contact with another of Hopkins victims (who also named yet another victim) these further two victims child sexual abuse pre-dated 1966, the period span of conviction Hopkins was sentenced for (1966-1970)!  Lidbury also mentioned to Essex police Hopkins being a Freemason & having accomplice Clergy & police officer child rapist associates!  Further investigation was dropped by Essex police, Devon & Cornwall police had also stuck their oar in saying there would be no further investigation.

March 2013: Lidbury now in his fifties..... had finally received written email police acknowledgement (To that which homophobic Devon & Cornwall police have ALWAYS tried to cover up since 1987) of Lidbury having been raped & sexually abused (*by multiple persons) from when he was a child from the age of six through to age ten (1966-1970).

Devon & Cornwall police have yet to acknowledge any correspondence sent to them regarding this matter including directly to their Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer. (Police probably busy shredding evidence & deleting emails…yet again)

Now why would Devon & Cornwall Constabulary try so hard to cover up for decade’s historic sexual abuse?

Lidbury had repeatedly been told by Devon & Cornwall police ‘he’ was the only person complaining.  

Some victims & observers will rightly believe there is a root & branch failure throughout police from HMIC, ACPO, and Chief Constables down to PCSO’s ‘Tesco value hobby bobbies’ to investigate complaints against police with even a modicum or a pretense of professional honesty or integrity.

This became apparent when a Devon & Cornwall police officer was finally imprisoned for child sexual abuse as a result of a private prosecution, because the police were not going to lift a finger themselves initially to prosecute one of their own child sex abusing police buddies from the lodge.

The denial mentality by Devon & Cornwall police to child abuse victims of PC Bryant the same crock of blatant police dishonesty & police lies  Lidbury had been repeatedly spun by every corrupt Devon & Cornwall Constabulary PSD, police legal dept. & multiple senior & rank others throughout the Devon & Cornwall police force he ever communicated with. This includes numerous correspondence by post & email via the force website to various chief constables of Devon & Cornwall Constabulary over years. Maria Wallace, Nigel Arnold & Stephen Otter. ALL have collaborated by at least 'failure of duty of care' or at worst collaboration misconduct aiding & abetting in covering up CHILD RAPE & POLICE HOMOPHOBIA

The endemic failure goes to the very heart of the Devon & Cornwall Chief Constables Office right through Exeter Middlemore & down through their COG, PSD, BCU, CID, Equality & Diversity Unit, Camborne & Helston police stations, & through every rank & file

…but it is a wider dishonesty to cover up police abuses & includes IPCC, HMIC, ACPO, Tony Hogg Police Crime Commissioner officeCrime Panel.  ALL of which Lidbury had written to & emailed on more than one occasion over the years about both police homophobia & historic child abuse…ALL of which have ignored & collaborated to cover up for those within these deeply corrupt institutions.


LIDBURY - “When I say that every Devon & Cornwall police officer I have encountered since 2004 has by their homophobia, misconduct, dishonesty & actions been complicit & contributed too more abusive violations of me than that which was carried out by the multiple child rapists who raped me from the age of six through to age ten

...I really DO mean it”.

Lidbury’s every experience as a gay man & as a survivor of multiple child rape is of Devon & Cornwall police an entirely negative one of police homophobia, police misfeasance, police obfuscation, police corruption, police dishonesty, police criminality & protectedpolice arrogance from Chief Constables office down.

Malcolm Lidbury 2015:  "would no more trust any Devon & Cornwall police officer in my home than I would a convicted rapist, murder or drug trafficker”.

NB: Since ‘coming out’ as a gay man in 1989 Lidbury has been targeted persistently & relentlessly by Devon & Cornwall police as an outspoken gay equality campaigner & as critic of police homophobia.

Since coming out as a gay man in 1989 Lidbury has NOT been charged, NOT been prosecuted & has NOT been convicted of ANYcriminal offence in a court of law.  This is contrary to the disinformation, obfuscation & misfeasance widely & publicly circulated by Devon & Cornwall police & others at instigation of senior Devon & Cornwall police. (Including previously on the Devon & Cornwall force website, since removed March 2015 since Lidbury contacted the secretariat of the Goddard CSA inquiry & National Police task force on CSA)

May 2013: Civil court gagging order against Lidbury to prevent him speaking out about various issues

2013: Teresa May Home Secretary announced an inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.  Due to the court gagging order on Lidbury, he was one child sex abuse survivor (among many) who pressured for the CSA inquiry to be a statutory inquiry.  Only a statutory inquiry would enable Lidbury to speak on those issues covered by 2013 court gagging order.

Feb 2015: Lidbury as a CSA survivor extricably intertwined with being a homophobic hate crime victim of police misconduct/criminality submitted written witness testimony to the secretariat of the statutory Child Sex Abuse Inquiry.

Lidbury since informed in writing by the Goddard CSA Inquiry secretariat Lidbury may be called upon to give further evidence to the inquiry
   
Lidbury “Even a little 6yr old boy raped from 1966 to 1970 …. can still cast a very long shadow”

2015 the CSA inquiry under Judge Goddard was made a statutory inquiry.  Lidbury having already made initial submissions to the secretariat of the CSA inquiry & received written acknowledgement.

Lidbury initially naming & identifying twenty three Devon & Cornwall police officers to start with (tip of corrupt police iceberg) who by their conduct have compounded & collaborated in covering up historic child rape & subsequent catalogue of police abuses homophobic & police dishonesty he, Lidbury  as a gay man (& others) have been subjected too from police.

"Every single Devon & Cornwall police officer I've every encountered or communicated with, ever, has acted through their arrogance, misconduct & dishonesty in covering for other police officers as an accomplice & aided in covering up & compounding multiple Child Rape & Homophobic Hate Crimes....without one single exception. 

Lidbury if called to give further evidence will also name to Goddard Inquiry others inc. individuals within LGBT orgs. (ie. Intercom Trust, Cornwall Pride, Healthy Gay Cornwall, Rainbow Source FM who have collaborated by silence or in hate campaign against Lidbury with the police in them covering up & compounding child rape & homophobia