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Corruption in North Yorkshire
CORRUPTION
An ‘In My View’ article – by Nigel Ward
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Let me introduce you to Transparency International (the global body whose remit it is to achieve a world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.
Transparency International now maintains a presence in more than 100 countries. The movement works relentlessly to stir the world’s collective moral conscience and bring about changes in the way that public affairs are regulated. Much remains to be done to stop corruption, but much has also been achieved, including:
- the prosecution of corrupt leaders and seizures of their illicitly gained riches
- companies held accountable for their behaviour both at home and abroad
Transparency International defines CORRUPTION thus:
- “CORRUPTION is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It hurts everyone who depends on the integrity of people in a position of authority.”
As Transparency International states on its website:
- “Corruption hurts people all over the world every day. Victims or witnesses of corruption need to speak up to challenge it. Transparency International offers help and advice through our Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres.”
The Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP, (as readers of the Financial Times will be aware), has been forced to confront some difficult ethical decisions recently in regard to the forthcoming elections for Police & Crime Commissioner – the position that will take over the present remit of the Police Authorities (including, of course, the North Yorkshire Police Authority – present Chair: Councillor Jane Kenyon).
The decision to prohibit Magistrates (Justices of the Peace) from taking part in the election process has now been taken.
Why?
The received wisdom is that it is defensible, even desirable, to insist on a separation between the bench in court and the police force that hauls people before it. This is an important refinement of the more general principal of separation of interests where those interests may readily be seen to conflict with one another.
In the past week or two, three prominent prospective Police & Crime Commissioner candidates have been obliged to forego candidacy, contingent upon extremely minor criminal convictions, as teenagers, of some rather commonplace young persons offences:
- Simon Weston, the well-respected Falklands War veteran, was apparently convicted, as a teenager, of being a passenger joy-riding in a ‘stolen’ car.
- Alan Charles, Vice-Chair of Derbyshire Police Authority, was apparently convicted of an unspecified ‘non-violent’ offence, when aged 14. Fined four quid.
- Bob Latchford, a former Director at the Youth Justice Board, was apparently fined a total of £5 for an air-rifle offence (although he did not actually handle the weapon), aged 13.
These very minor infractions have prevented the three candidates in question from throwing their hats in the ring for the democratic process of electing Police & Crime Commissioners – whose remit closely overlaps with that of the present Chairs of Police Authorities throughout the country.
One can only wonder about the facts that informed the decision of North Yorkshire Police Authority Chair Councillor Jane Kenyon to withdraw her candidacy shortly after the publication, here on Real Whitby, of an ‘In My View’ article of mine, entitled “Jane Kenyon; North Yorkshire Police Authority”.
I suspect, though, that Councillor Kenyon had seen the writing on the wall.
I am unaware of any juvenile (or mature) convictions that may presently stand on her record.
I am aware, however, of a great number of as-yet un-investigated matters that may well result in convictions far more serious than joy-riding in a ‘stolen’ car, or standing in too close a proximity to a youth who unlawfully discharging an air-gun toward a tin can positioned on a railway embankment.
Let us not forget that Standards investigations at both Scarborough Borough Council and the North Yorkshire Police Authority have already determined (and stated in the public domain) that Councillor Jane Kenyon has been guilty of failing to fulfil her statutory obligations regarding her involvement with Whitby Regatta Limited on her Registers of Interests with each of those bodies respectively – criminal offences, under the Localism Act 2011, arising from conflicting interests punishable by a fine and/or exclusion as a Councillor for up to five years. Quite why neither authority felt it necessary to take any further action in respect of Councillor Kenyon’s criminal breach of the law remains unclear in the extreme
- Could it be that undue influence has been brought to bear to suppress the matter?
Then there is the matter of the failure, by Councillor Jane Kenyon, Mr Stephen Knight (the then Deputy Head of Legal & Democratic Services at NYCC) and the entire membership of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park Standards Committee, to report their agreed conclusion that the signature purporting to be that of ‘Jane M. Kenyon’ on the Companies House 288a Appointment to Company Secretary document was, in fact, a forgery – which it clearly is.
Is it acceptable to these people that the Chair of the NYPA (whose conclusion that a forgery had taken place must, perforce, have preceded the Standards Committee’s conclusion) was acting lawfully in withholding that information from the North Yorkshire Police, whose duty it is to investigate crime – whether joy-riding or forgery? And we need waste no second on pondering whether or not forgery is a serious crime or whether or not the Chair of the North Yorkshire Police Authority knew of her duty to report it.
- Could it be that undue influence has been brought to bear to suppress the matter?
It is worth remembering that forgery falls within the remit of the North Yorkshire Police Major Fraud & Financial Investigation Unit whose DC Neil Jefferson not so longer ago told the press that “The Proceeds of Crime Act is a great way of ensuring that criminals do not benefit from their illegal activities.”
And it should also be remembered that, under that Act, it is not only an offence not to report the crime of forgery; it is also an offence to ‘tip off’ a suspect that the crime has been reported. (And what about ‘tipping off’ the prime suspect that the crime of forgery has not been reported?).
So who could be said to be a legitimate suspect in the 288a ‘Jane M Kenyon’ forged signature case? Who is known to have handled the document? Clearly, the authentic signature of T W Miller places Councillor Kenyon’s life-partner – Councillor Thomas William (‘Bill’) Miller – at the top of any list of possible suspects. He may conceivably be the only suspect.
North Yorkshire Police Major Fraud & Financial Investigation Unit interviewed any suspects? Has the Police Graphologist conducted any tests?
- Could it be that undue influence has been brought to bear to suppress the matter?
Recently, I have become privy to copies of Companies House documentation, contemporaneously annotated by Karen Miller – daughter-in-law of ‘Bill’ Miller – that demonstrate (supported by Jeremy and Karen’s personal testimony) that Jeremy Peter Miller’s company, Agricultural Fencing & Groundwork Suppliers Limited (AF&GSL), was taken over by Councillor ‘Bill’ Miller, without consent, on the same occasion that the 288a Appointment of Jane Kenyon as Company Secretary 288a document was submitted (with its forged ‘Jane M Kenyon’ signature), and the Company name was changed to Dales Timber Limited (DTL). As far as the layman may judge, the only authentic and genuine signature on those documents is that of ‘T. W. Miller’.
Further repetition of the question “Could it be that undue influence has been brought to bear to suppress the matter?” verges on tedium. Yet seven weeks have now elapsed since Real Whitby published my ‘In My View’ article entitled “Jane Kenyon and The Forged Signature – Who Done It” and no word has been forthcoming that any police force is investigating the forgery of her signature.
Above and beyond the evidence of the Public Record, my own files contain allegations of illegality (going back to 1981) on the part of Councillor Jane Kenyon and Councillor ‘Bill’ Miller’ – by people who have known them personally on a day-to-day basis and who have declared their willingness to testify in a court of law.
Are all of the people who have spoken out against illegality and criminal conduct practising (as fellow Conservative Robert Goodwill MP has suggested) mere ‘vindictiveness’ – notwithstanding the fact that their allegations are supported by reams of documentary evidence?
Is the clergyman’s widow a liar? Is the Whitby Town (Parish) Councillor who has corroborated her testimony a liar? Is the man who was conned in California a liar? Is the former Town, Borough and County Councillor a liar? Are ‘Bill’ Miller’s wife and their own son Jeremy liars? Are they all liars who have conspired to be ‘vindictive’ against those paragons of virtue Jane Kenyon and her life-partner ‘Bill’ Miller?
I think not.
In every case, complaints were lodged at the time – with the police and the local authorities – but evidence has ‘gone missing’, investigations were ‘inconclusive’ and never once have charges been brought.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights confers upon me the right to form an opinion and to express it freely, through any medium, without regard to national frontiers.
It is my opinion that Newby & Scalby Parish Council, Scarborough Borough Council, the North Yorkshire Moors National Park Authority, North Yorkshire County Council, the North Yorkshire Police, the North Yorkshire Police Management Board and the North Yorkshire Police Authority itself have all been brought into disrepute – and continue to be brought into disrepute – by the astonishing arrogance and complacency that has allowed Councillor Jane Kenyon and Councillor ‘Bill’ Miller to indulge in rampant abuse of the public trust over three decades, with apparently total impunity.
In my view, if Councillor Kenyon and Councillor Miller are unable or unwilling to provide a comprehensive rebuttal – or sue me – or resign, then a Multi-Agency-Meeting must be convened immediately so that these matters can be resolved once and for all, and public confidence can be restored.
Where is the man or woman who will grasp the nettle?
Who will seek redress for the victims?
Think on. Transparency International defines ‘corruption’ thus:
- CORRUPTION is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It hurts everyone who depends on the integrity of people in a position of authority.
Related Reading:
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/north-yorkshire-police-chief-on-gross-misconduct-charge
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/mr-problems-for-chief-constatble-maxwell
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/more-corruption-at-north-yorkshire-police-peter-hofschroer
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/maxwells-silver-in-my-view-by-nigel-ward
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/jane-kenyon-north-yorkshire-police-authority-in-my-view-by-nigel-ward
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/whitbys-jane-kenyon-the-mulberry-bush
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/north-yorkshire-police-authority-rip
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/north-yorkshire-police-crime-commissioner
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/chief-officer-corruption-in-north-yorkshire-police-by-timothy-hicks-fca
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/cllr-kenyon-nypa-admits-misconduct-tim-hicks
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/letter-to-jeremy-holderness-nypa-ceo-in-the-public-interest
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/jeremy-holderness-north-yorkshire-police-authority
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/north-yorkshire-police-musical-chairs
IMPORTANT NOTE: Anyone feeling that they may hold information pertinent to this and related matters may approach Real Whitby in confidence, in the first instance by email, at the following address:
8 Responses to Corruption in North Yorkshire
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Danny Pettersen
August 19, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Put some money in those jane kenyon buckets over Regatta
Sarraceniac
August 19, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Careful Nigel or you will end up seeking refuge in a South American embassy.
Kathleen Parker
August 19, 2012 at 5:49 pm
I wonder if Jane has the brass neck to lead the regatta parade tomorrow morning? Mmm…. I certainly wouldnt if i was in her shoes.
Peter Hofschröer
August 19, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Intersting article.
Grandma B has been keeping TI UK fully briefed on her case, as have other victims in the UK on theirs.
This has helped TI UK decide to set up an ALAC (Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre) in the UK as soon as is feasible.
That puts the UK on a par with Zimbabwe, South America, etc., as far as the perception of official corruption is concerned.
peter anderson
August 20, 2012 at 2:01 pm
with rudundancy looming, jane and bill are asking everyone to dig a little deeper to help fill the buckets.
Nigel Ward
August 20, 2012 at 10:09 pm
—– Original Message —–
From: Nigel
To: Richard FLINTON ; Cllr.Tom Fox ; Jim.Dillon@scarborough.gov.uk ; JEREMY HOLDERNESS ; Weighell, Cllr.John
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 4:14 PM
Subject: IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Councillor WEIGHELL – Leader – North Yorkshire County Council
Mr Richard FLINTON – CEO – North Yorkshire County Council
Councillor Tom FOX – Leader – Scarborough Borough Council
Mr Jim DILLON – CEO & HPS – Scarborough Borough Council
Mr Jeremy HOLDERNESS – CEO – NYPA
Gentlemen,
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
I am sure that, as I, you aspire to the highest standards of moral probity in public life. How could you do less? – or be seen to be doing less?
Transparency International defines ‘corruption’ thus:
“CORRUPTION is the abuse of entrusted powere for private gain. It hurts everyone who depends on the integrity of people in a position of authority”.
It must now be apparent to you that, in the course of making public my examination of the Public Record (insofar as its concerns itself with the actions and inactions of NYCC & SBC Councillor Jane Margaret KENYON and Newby & Scalby Parish Council Chair Councillor Thomas William ‘Bill’ MILLER), a number of members of the public (including members of the aforesaid Councillors’ family unit) have come forward to offer statements and supportive documentation that together comprise a thirty-year indictment of Abuse of Office and betrayal of the Public Trust.
The reluctance of the authorities to address these matters in an open and transparent manner surpasses the comprehension of a burgeoning number of citizens, who, quite rightly, feel that only an impartial investigation, conducted by auditors and detectives of a force geographically remote from the subjects’ extensive field of influence, can determine whether or not crimes have been committed and charges need be brought.
Meanwhile, three-and-a-half months and more into my published exposé of the many disturbing anomalies in the Public Record – and it should be remembered that the authorities have been aware of my concerns considerably longer – we now stand at the threshold of a sea-change in the way in which my voluntary work in the public interest must now proceed.
But let us first consider the extraordinary circumstance that now prevails. The 2010/2011 figures from your three authorities reveal a disturbing fact.
http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=11138
http://www.scarborough.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=12242
http://www.nypa.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=736
A cursory inspection of the linked documents confirms that, for that period – 2010/2011 – Councillor Jane Margaret KENYON received at least £42,246.34.
I hope you will accept that figure, since the 2011/12 are not presently to hand. Still, a reasonable expectation would surely be that the 2011/2012 figure is perhaps more likely to be more, rather than less. The same can surely be said for the first quarter of the 2012/2013 financial year.
So without descending into pedantry, we can surely agree that one quarter of Councillor Jane Margaret KENYON’s 2012/2013 allowances (amounting to a sum in excess of TEN THOUSAND POUNDS) have trickled from the public purse, through the hands of the authorities – and into Councillor Jane Margaret KENYON’s bank account – whilst, all the while, she and her life-partner face a mounting demand for an impartial investigation of serial breach of the Public Trust.
This cannot be permitted to continue; the good standing and repute of all three authorities is in grave jeopardy.
Honest, honourable elected members and paid public servants are finding their integrity tainted by mere association; this cannot be permitted to continue.
Having diligently and compliantly pursued my concerns through all of the prescribed channels – in vain – I have resolved to resort to public opinion to encourage ‘the authorities’ to grasp the nettle that none wishes to grasp.
Hence, and henceforth, as a consequence of duress of circumstance, I will continue to publish the testimony of members of the public who considers themselves victims of confidence-trickery, and who have themselves been failed, as I have, by the complaints procedures, as implemented at all three of your institutions.
Some of these ‘victims’ testify to bribery, coercion and blackmail – in some cases of an intimate nature – and, of necessity, have implicated other elected members and paid public servants. I would hope that this, too, need not be permitted to continue. Some of these ‘victims’ are members of family.
In my view, the vast preponderance of evidence supports the contention that Councillor Jane Margaret KENYON’s record in office and in business renders her totally unfit for any form of elected representation – never mind office of a high order.
Councillor Jane Margaret KENYON very probably would contend otherwise.
But the Public Record is the Public Record, and the testimony and evidence of members of the public and members of family is not to be lightly dismissed – nor easily discredited.
Gentlemen, this is a call to action. The public expects you to do your duty.
I look forward to a courteous and prompt response from each of you ahead of publication of my next article on Friday 24th August 2012. Thank you.
Kindest regards,
Nigel
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/jane-kenyon-in-her-own-words
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For your special attention:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/1896534.pdf
A plain English guide to the Localism Act
Abolition of the Standards Board
Through the Localism Act, the Government has abolished the Standards Board regime. Instead, local authorities will draw up their own codes, and it will become a criminal offence for councillors to deliberately withhold or misrepresent a financial interest. This means that councils will not have to spend time and money investigating trivial complaints, while councillors involved in corruption and misconduct will face appropriately serious sanctions. This provides a more effective safeguard against unacceptable behaviour.
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Nigel Ward
August 21, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Hmmm.Is something moving? Just had these two emails come in:
To: SNA Scarborough
Subject:Fraudulent 288a Document-NFRC120800335704
Hello,
I am writing to you with regard to the forgery of a Companies House 288a document. I’ve attached four documents that show the forgery in full. The first document is titled ‘Kenyon288a.jpg’. The second document is titled ‘CompanyNameChange.jpg’. The name of the company changes from ‘Agricultural Fencing & Groundworks Suppliers Ltd’ to ‘Dales Timber Ltd’. The third document is called ‘Kenyon288b.jpg’ and shows the company secretary being terminated.
The fourth document is titled ‘KenyonDunn1.jpg’. Jane Margaret Kenyon is a Councillor at North Yorkshire County Council. There was an investigation into her Register of Interests in 2007. The result of the investigation was that Jane Margaret Kenyon denied she had ever been the Company Secretary of Dales Timber, the document was deemed not to be authentic and no action was brought with regard to her Register of Interests.
It has since transpired that the document was forged by her partner, Mr T. W. Miller. They both still live at the same address. Apparently this is not the only 288a and 288b document that has been forged by T. W. Miller for companies ‘Agricultural Fencing & Groundworks Suppliers Ltd’ and ‘Dales Timber Ltd’.
This information has also been reported to the Police via Action Fraud, report number is NFRC120800335704, but it wouldn’t allow the upload of the documents. Please can you start an investigation into this fraudulent document?
Regards,
John Wilson
and:
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012
Subject: RE: Fraudulent 288a Document – NFRC120800335704 [NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED]
To: ‘John Wilson’
Classification: NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
Sir
Thank you for your information
This has been forwarded to our Force Control Room for allocation
Many thanks
John Jackson
Collar Number 4461
Operational Support Officer
Business Administration Services
Eastfield Ext 5101
North Yorkshire Police
Dial 101, press option 2 and ask for me by my full name or collar number.
If using my collar number please state each number individually
http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk
NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED
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Looks like the forgery of the ‘Jane M Kenyon’ signature on the Companies House 288a document is now in the unimpeachable hands of the North Yorkshire Police. Let us see how far it goes . . .
Ron L
September 1, 2012 at 8:58 am
Sarraceniac – Wishful thinking indeed.