the travel costs they incur, both the claimant and his wife have been refused their travel costs to date. DWP Provider Guidance states: “It is your responsibility to pay the participant’s travel costs as travel expenses are included within the funding received from DWP as part of the overall contract package.” 9.
The claimant submits that the harassment and discrimination he and his wife continue to experience is politically motivated, that it is the product of directed surveillance, and that both the harassment and discrimination are certain to continue. For example, the claimant commenced an ECDL Part 2 IT course at the Working Men’s College on 31 October 2011, having successfully passed the New CLAIT 2006 course in April 2011. As soon as the claimant logged into the online courseware on 3 November, he and his wife lost their home internet access, which they have yet to regain. According to the claimant's tutor, Ms Gillian Burton, it is highly unlikely that he will be able to pass his first of three online exams on 21 November not having had home internet access. The last time the claimant and his wife lost their home internet connection, they did so for six weeks commencing on 4 July 2011.
10. The claimant and his wife were forced to go on state benefits in July 2005 due to the level of opposition they encountered to their establishment of a network of those abused by church, now a non-profit organisation called Network for Church Monitoring (N4CM) at churchandstate.org.uk. In September 2006, the claimant’s joint claim for Jobseeker’s Allowance was terminated by the DWP because he did not 'sign on' on 27 September, two days before he was in fact due to sign, on 29 September pro forma. A simple check of the date of the claimant’s previous declarations would have confirmed that he signed every second Friday, not on a Wednesday, yet subsequent letters from the claimant to his jobcentre and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pointing out the mistake and requesting a review went unanswered, in breach of the Jobseeker's Allowance Regulations 1996. The claimant and his wife were subsequently forced to live rough on the streets of London for more than 2 1/2 years, where the claimant’s case was dismissed by the High Court (Judicial Review), the Court of Appeal and the European Court of Human Rights. 11. The claimant argues in his application to the European Court of Human Rights concerning the interception of his communications and directed surveillance that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal’s conclusion of 1 September 2011 that his complaint and Human Rights Act claim was “obviously unsustainable” lacked credibility. Within two weeks of the claimant’s dispatch of his claim to the Tribunal on 10 August 2011, Facebook disabled his wife's account; their web host, SiteGround, twice blocked their IP address; their live-in landlady, human rights activist Ms Belinda McKenzie, served them with backdated notice to vacate what has been their home since 13 July 2009; and their local housing authority, Haringey Council, left the claimant with the first of what has now amounted to a fourth £76.92 shortfall in rent to pay. The claimant was particularly aggrieved that the Tribunal dismissed his claim without calling additional evidence, which he had described in his complaint as “wide-ranging”, including third party witnesses. It is noteworthy here that MI5 whistleblower Mr David Shayler lived in the same house as the claimant and his wife for a couple of years, until around 2007. According to the BBC, Mr Shayler “caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair”. Around 2007, Mr Shayler changed his name to Delores Kane, declared himself to be Jesus, and became a squatter. A New Statesman article published in September 2006 featuring Mr Shayler and Ms McKenzie, titled “Meet the No Planners”, gives no indication that Mr Shayler believed he was the Messiah at that time; whilst a Daily Mail interview with Mr Shayler explicitly shows he believed himself to be Jesus by June 2007. He has never regained his normal self.
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