Memoirs of a Troubled Individual Date
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May 2013
In the Manx Independent of 18/04/2013, “journalist” Adrian Darbyshire reported – “ Appellant Stephen Holmes was described in court as giving the impression of being a 'troubled individual' who had an unhappy time in a custody and contact battle with his ex-wife over the couple's two children.”
It was in the newspaper, so it must be true! Actually, it was stated in a judgment issued on 23 rd October 2012 (by Deemster Sharon Roberts) – “ As I said, I feel very much for Mr Holmes. He has clearly not undergone a very happy time in his life over the last few years and he gives the impression of being a troubled individual. I echo the sentiments of Deemster Doyle when he said Mr Holmes should put matters behind him. I note he has had a diagnosis and very much hope that life for Mr. Holmes can be better in the future.” [J1296 on courts.im]
So why did it take from 23 rd October 2012 to 18th April 2013 for a comment to be reported? And why did Darbyshire assume that there had been a “custody and contact battle”? There are 96 families in Liverpool who had “unhappy times” between 16 th April 1989 and 12th September 2012 because “all and sundry” accepted that “the fans were to blame”. “No contemporaneous documents have been disclosed concerning the briefng given by SYP to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Home Secretary Douglas Hurd when they visited Sheffeld on 16 April 1989. The Prime Minister’s Press Secretary later revealed, however, that he had been informed on the day that drunkenness and violent crowd behaviour were significant causes of the disaster. ”
“What followed, over an 11-year period, were various different modes and levels of scrutiny, including Lord Justice Taylor’s Interim and Final Reports, civil litigation, criminal and disciplinary investigations, the inquests into the deaths of the victims, judicial reviews, a judicial scrutiny of new evidence conducted by LJ Stuart-Smith, and the private prosecution of the two most senior police offcers in command on the day. “Despite this range of inquiry and investigation, many bereaved families and survivors considered that the true context, circumstances and aftermath of Hillsborough had not been adequately made public. They were also profoundly concerned that following unsubstantiated allegations made by senior police offcers and politicians and reported widely in the press, it had become widely assumed that Liverpool fans’ behaviour had contributed to, if not caused, the disaster.”
There are a number of survivors who have “sworn on Oath” that on the afternoon of 15th April 1989, within a couple of hours of 95 people having died in appalling circumstances, police officers “blamed the fans”. The “mantra” began on the afternoon of 15 th April – the fans are to blame. Reporter Adrian Darbyshire couldn't even check what had made me give the impression of being “a troubled individual” because it was not a “custody and contact battle” with my ex-wife; it was in fact the malfeasance (wrong-doing) of officers in the General Registry and several Deemsters; especially the former High Bailiff AK Williamson (who became “Deputy Deemster” on 1 st September 2002). This man was a charlatan, and he is responsible for causing the distress which leaves me giving the appearance of being a troubled individual; (possibly Chief Registrar Angela Humphrey had something to do with it – probably not). Deemster David Doyle was far more cutting on 14th December 2011 [J1149: CHP 2011/83] – Unfortunately the Claimant's obsession continues and it has now become irrational. We are, yet again, here in court in 2011 dealing with matters which arose in 2004 and which have been ventilated in court on many previous occasions. It is in nobody's interests to permit these ill-founded and misconceived claims to go any further. The Claimant must now do his best, with all the help he can obtain, to rid himself of his irrational obsession referred to at the outset of this judgment.
[I was the Claimant in matter CHP 2011/83: the appellant in matter 2DS 2012/40 – J1356, and the Respondent on 5th November 2004]. The High Court Office is in such a state of utter chaos that it doesn't know what to call people – it -1-