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Letter from Royal Courts of Justice confirming my Renewed Grounds of Appeal were submitted on 24th May 2019 – Part A
Letter from Royal Courts of Justice confirming my Renewed Grounds of Appeal were submitted on 24th May 2019 – Part B
Letter from Royal Courts of Justice confirming my Renewed Grounds of Appeal were submitted on 24th May 2019 – Part C
Reply from Metropolitan MET Police Regards Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood Part A
Reply from Metropolitan MET Police Regards Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood Part B
Reply from Metropolitan MET Police Regards Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood Part C
Hypnotist Alex Smith aka Jonathan Royle Seeks Second Chance for Justice in his and many others Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood “News of the World” related Sting Story Convictions
Crown Prosecution Service Reply regards Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood avoiding issues of CPS Non Disclosure
Crown Prosecution Service Reply regards Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood avoiding issues of CPS Non Disclosure Part B
Rochdale, Greater Manchester based British Hypnotist Alex Smith aka Jonathan Royle to Appeal Fake Sheikh Convictions
British Hypnotist Alex William Smith aka Jonathan Royle Seeks Second Trance for Justice in Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood Convictions Appeal Cases for himself & Other Victims.
In Parliament Again with Hacked Off on Tuesday 20th March 2018 to Lobby for Leveson Part 2 to Occur!
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Guilty Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
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SAMPLE GROUNDS OF APPEAL ONLY
THIS MAY BE UPDATED BEFORE SUBMISSION
ONCE FUNDING FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ADVICE HAS
BEEN SUCCESSFULLY OBTAINED
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
(CRIMINAL DIVISION)
REGINA
-V-
ALEX WILLIAM SMITH
GROUNDS OF APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION
AND APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME
LIMIT WITHIN WHICH TO APPLY FOR LEAVE
TO APPEAL & FOR LEGAL AID
INTRODUCTION
1. The applicant appeals against his convictions of 2 counts of delivery of counterfeit coins pursuant to Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 s.16 (2)
2. The applicant applies for Legal Assistance given that he was granted Legal Aid at the time of the original proceedings and that his current financial situation is modest to say the least.
3. The applicant also applies for an extension of time within which to apply for leave given that when the application (which the single Judge His Hon Mr Justice William Davis turned down in a decision dated 9th May 2016 with the reference of 201503661 B2 JMC) was first submitted around 29th July 2015, it was approximately 16 years after the date of conviction. It is now June 2019 and thus a little over 20 years since date (1st March 1999) of conviction to which these grounds relate.
4. The applicant was informed of the Single Judges decision by his then Lawyer Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law by email on 17th May 2016. Within this same email he was informed that his case had that same day (before he had been contacted and told the single judges decision) been submitted on his behalf to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
5. After his CCRC application (Ref: 01192/2016) being passed from one case worker to another, eventually on 25th May 2018 a provisional decision was made that the CCRC would not refer the applicant’s case back to court.
6. The applicant submitted further information to the CCRC asking them to reconsider their decision, however on 11th June 2018 a final decision notice was issued again stating that the CCRC would not refer the applicant’s case back to court.
7. Upon close examination it becomes clear that the CCRC overlooked many of the matters and evidence raised in the applicant’s submissions and so it seems largely just copied and pasted what the single judge had said in his decision notice.
8. Around the 27th June 2018, the applicant was kindly given some free advice by The Secret Barrister of www.secretbarrister.com and also by Matt Stanbury of www.appealsbarrister.com. Both Barristers kindly advised the applicant that although the single judge had rejected his application, it should be quite possible for the applicant to renew his application to the full court.
9. The applicant informed his previous Lawyer that this should be possible and was told that as she had been working pro-bono for several years she could no longer afford to spend any further time on the matter.
10. The applicant searched high and low in an attempt to find a Solicitor to help him resubmit his application to the full court of appeal and on 10th July 2018 had a meeting with Mark Lake of Cartwright King.
11. Although extremely busy with other matters, Mr. Lake kindly agreed to help the applicant and the weeks since that meeting have been spent by the applicant obtaining what documents he could from various sources by way of GDPR subject access requests and in preparing these new grounds of appeal for submission.
11a. Ultimately during this time the applicant has obtained a reply from the Royal Mint confirming (in stark contradiction to claims made by the Crown Prosecution Service that the alleged Counterfeit Coins in this case were confirmed as fake by The Royal Mint) that in fact the Royal Mint has and does keep records from the time period in question but that there is absolutely nothing on file relating to the applicant’s case and thus this indicates that the CPS never had the coins confirmed as “Fake” despite them proceeding against the applicant on the basis that the coins were they stated counterfeit, something it has now become clear was never proven or confirmed by the CPS.
11b. Given that the Journalist Mazher Mahmood who was the main Witness for the CPS case against the applicant back in 1999 has now been convicted for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice and proven to not be a witness of truth and someone prepared to tamper with and alter “evidence” in the course of fabricating his stories, it is the applicants belief that it would now be impossible for the Crown Prosecution Service to defend their former position and claims of this being a “Safe” conviction in light of all the new evidence that has come to light, not least of which was illustrated by the conviction of Mazher Mahmood whilst facing prosecution from Sarah Forshaw QC whose offices the applicant notes originally (prior to Mahmoods Conviction) considered his conviction “safe” and also claimed that the coins had been verified by the Royal Mint as being “fake” which we also now know to be untrue and incorrect.
11c. It has now become blatantly clear that the Modus Operandi of deception, lies, deceit and manipulation of evidence used by Mazher Mahmood in the creation of his Stories was in the case of the applicant almost identical in structure to that used in the now famously collapsed Tulisa Contostavlos case and indeed in many other similar cases the safety of which has been questioned by many prominent figures since the collapse of the Tulisa trial.
11d. Investigation by the applicant has shown that not only did Tulisa Contostavlos and her friends/colleagues complain that they they believed their drinks had been drugged or spiked by Mahmood and/or his associates, but also that many other famous victims of Mahmood have made the same assertions including the applicant himself as is illustrated on his website at www.circusofthemind.net
11e. Advice obtained on the applicant’s behalf by Solicitor Mark Lake led to the conclusions of which we quote here:
*The Applicants Conviction is Unsafe and he should be allowed to withdraw his (albeit tendered at the very last moment) guilty plea on the bases as laid out by R v Asidu [2015] EWCA Crim 714:
**The defendant tried and failed to get evidence excluded. Faced with the evidence, the defendant was forced to plead guilty despite truly believing and being innocent.
**The trial was an abuse of process, and never should of taken place. Per Lord Hughes “[i]f the trial process should never have taken place because it is an offense to justice, a conviction upon a plea of guilty is as unsafe as one following trial” – and as is now clear important evidence regarding Mahmood’s Lack of credibility as a “witness of truth” was not disclosed to the defendant by the Police or CPS, at either time of trial or later at anytime up to this application being submitted.
11f. The advice sought on the applicant’s behalf by Solicitor Mark Lake concluded that the following things are significant when considering these grounds of appeal:
*Mr Coombs (Co-Defendant with Tulisa Contostavlos) pleaded guilty. His conviction was quashed once Mazher Mahmood was caught in a lie when giving evidence in Tulisa’s trial, having interfered with the evidence of a another witness.
*As a result the CPS dropped the other prosecutions it had in the works at the time which were based on Mazher Mahmoods Stings.
*Mazher Mahmood was then convicted of Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice. During his trial for Conspiracy, Sarah Forshaw QC for the prosecution, referred to Mazher Mahmood as “the master of Subterfuge and deception”, inter alia. The prosecution knew all about his role as agent provocateur. The methods used against Tulisa by Mazher Mahmood reflect the modus operandi that was used against the applicant of these grounds.
*Accordingly, the CPS well knows that Mazher Mahmood’s evidence is unreliable. Given that evidence exists indicating that the CPS and/or Police may have been aware of Mahmood’s links to Southern Investigations and dishonest actions and/or dealings as far back as 1997, it should be possible to argue that the applicant’s case should never have been brought to court in the first place.
12. Ultimately as further explained later, the applicant did not appeal his conviction or sentence back in 1999 due to bad legal advice wherein he was falsely given the impression he had no grounds for appeal and if he did it could result in a longer sentence being issued.
13. The delay from the single judges rejection to this resubmission & reapplication was caused again by the applicant following professional advice from his then lawyer. Indeed his case was sent to the CCRC to consider for appeal before he was even informed that the single judge had turned his application down.
14. The main thread to all matters raised in these grounds is the integrity and character of former News of the World & Sun on Sunday investigative journalist Mazher Mahmood (MM) – (“The Fake Sheikh”) who was the sole progenitor in this matter.
15. In July 2014 the trial of British pop singer Tulisa Contostavlos relating to a Sun on Sunday published investigation into Tulisa and her alleged drug dealing activities collapsed when HH Judge McCreath uncovered dishonesty by Mazher Mahmood (MM) and his driver Alan Smith (AS). Miss Constantavlos was ultimately cleared of all charges.
16. In January 2015, as a result of the findings made by HH Judge McCreath, the CPS sent disclosure packs to 25 defendants (including the applicant) who had either pleaded guilty or who had been convicted as a result of evidence provided by Mazher Mahmood (MM). In nearly all cases complaint was made about the methods employed by him in the obtaining of ‘evidence’, the veracity of that evidence, the disclosure regime (lack of it) that he operated in, as well as his hiding of ‘sources’ from the court, police and the defence via journalistic privilege. There is now also evidence to show that he (MM) had been involved on a long term basis with associates whose activity can only be properly described as criminal.
17. Furthermore, as a result of research, investigation and witnesses coming forward, it is submitted that on the face of it, not only has MM lied in a staccato fashion to a number of courts over the years, it is clear that he misled the Leveson inquiry.
18. As of 16th June, 2015 the CPS were studying a file on the Sun on Sunday’s investigative reporter Mazher Mahmood prepared by the Metropolitan Police which subsequently led to Mahmood and his driver Smith being charged with Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice.
19. MM was suspended on full pay by News UK although it continued to fund all of his legal representation, including litigation in the High Court and his attempted defence of his ‘Not Guilty’ plea when he was brought to trial at the Old Bailey in 2016 leading to a unanimous decision of Guilty by the Jury and a sentence of 15 months imprisonment being handed to MM by HH Judge Gerald Gordon on 21st October 2016.
20. The central theme of these grounds is the overarching integrity of a man and his methods which have now been largely exposed and led to his conviction & incarceration for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice along with a string of MM related cases collapsing due to the CPS no longer being able to rely on MM as a witness of truth. It is therefore now crystal clear that whatever apparent merit a prosecution may have seemed to have had in the past, it is now obvious that no conviction should stand.
THE BACKGROUND FACTS
21. The applicant was born on 13th August 1975 into a circus family. He received early national notoriety at the age of 3 performing professionally as a clown. During his adolescence he would appear regularly in newspaper and magazine articles as well as on the radio and television. As his career progressed, he found himself performing as a psychic and stage hypnotist, the success of which was largely dependant on publicity.
22. In more recent years (Circa 1993 to 1998 approx) and of relevance, the applicant struck up a relationship with a man called Alan Breeze (AB), a freelance journalist, who was a close associate of MM. Between them they concocted media pranks which generated an enormous amount of publicity, airtime and tabloid copy, culminating in the applicant gaining the moniker, ‘Britain’s Biggest Media Prankster’
23. As is the nature of the media industry, the applicant and AB strove to come up with more and more outrageous stunts to fuel the oxygen of publicity that was mutually beneficial financially.
24. The corollary of this lifestyle brought MM into the equation. By now he had established himself as a ‘shock journalist’ uncovering sensational stories and acclaimed wrongdoing. Circa March 1998, AB suggested to the applicant that a story could be engineered whereby the News of the World Journalist MM would appear to expose the applicant as being a pimp, but that no laws would be broken as the applicant could just ring an Escort Service from the local newspaper and arrange for some girls to attend at the hotel room of MM when he himself was not there.
25. Following these discussions with AB, the applicant who had heard rumours that AB was ‘ready to stitch him up and sell him out’ as he had fulfilled his usefulness following a stunt on BBC Televisions Kilroy Chat Show, decided that he would send MM an anonymous letter claiming that that the applicant was criminally connected, worked as a pimp and could supply guns. The end game was to ‘play a prank’ on the journalist who took the bait, pulling the plug at the last minute before anything illegal ever occurred and thereby generate further copy and publicity by being able to give details of his prank and the techniques used by MM in creating stories to a rival publication.
26. A week later MM contacted the applicant (on a number which only existed for the purposes of the prank thus meaning the applicant knew the nature of the caller when they rang) calling himself ‘Perry Khan’ (PK) – (a name he has used subsequently on other stings). It was claimed by the caller that he was a porn film producer and that he needed a supply of girls for some films. A meeting was arranged at Manchester’s Piccadilly Hotel.
THE FACTS
27. Unfortunately, in this case, the CPS has destroyed the case papers, and any documentation which may have been held by the Police, Courts and the applicants own Solicitor and Barrister of the time also have been confirmed as destroyed. Consequently there is no independent recollection of the facts (except some quotes from a Manchester Evening News report of what was said in court published on 2nd March 1999 which quote various parties & collaborate the applicants account of events) and therefore what there is comes purely from the applicant himself.
28. During the afternoon of Thursday 2nd April 1998, MM masquerading as Perry Khan met the applicant and AB (who had unexpectedly shown up under the excuse he was in the area to visit a relative) at the Piccadilly Hotel. Unusually in this case, the applicant claims that he knew that he was meeting an undercover journalist (because of the anonymous letter and previous discussions with AB which helped reveal the identity of MM) with both parties recording the conversations, although MM had video evidence as well as audio. It was the applicant’s intention to ‘expose’ the methods of MM and hence generate publicity by potentially selling the story to a rival publication.
29. On this occasion, MM portrayed himself as a rich businessman making reference to a ‘Rich Sheikh’. He claimed he needed girls, drugs, guns and counterfeit money. Playing along with the scenario, the applicant embellished the story, bragging that he could supply all of the above. As the afternoon drew to a close, and after having been heavily plied with Alcohol (which the applicant believes was drugged) the applicant agreed (in character) to supply everything that Perry Khan desired.
30. When counterfeit money was mentioned the applicant removed 3 genuine £1 coins from his pocket and gave these (Count 1 – 2nd April 1998) to PK pretending that they were fake (which was filmed) in order to appear ‘connected’ and to add an extra element to the story.
31. Before leaving the hotel room, the applicant upon the request of MM rang from the hotel room phone of MM a local massage parlour and escort service and arranged for 2 Ladies to visit MM later that night at his room in the Piccadilly Hotel. As the applicant would not be present when they arrived and had only made a phone call he knew that he had not committed any offence and indeed had absolutely no intentions of ever doing so.
32. The applicant was surprised when that Sunday no story appeared in the News of the World and instead he got another call from MM posing as Perry Khan.
33. During the next week there was another meeting with MM (where the applicant was once again plied with Alcohol) posing as Perry Khan and numerous telephone calls took place both from MM to the applicant and also from associates of MM all intended to encourage, manipulate and intimidate the applicant into supplying the illegal items that had been discussed and which on numerous occasions over the course of the week the applicant had kept on making excuses as to why he was unable to obtain such.
34. Indeed during the course of that week as it became blatantly clear that the applicant did not have access to guns, drugs, counterfeit money or girls to take part in porn films, the behind the scenes intimidation and manipulation increased with AB suggesting that it would be wise to take things to the next stage as well as suggesting where it would be possible to ‘buy’ some counterfeit money from an acquaintance in a pub prior to his next meeting with PK. This information of where to obtain coins was also supplied by another MM associate who was posing as his body guard along with the veiled threat that it would be best to keep his boss PK happy and give him what he wanted.
35. On the morning of Thursday 9th April 1998, the penultimate meeting with PK took place. The applicant again made various excuses as to why he had not been able to supply any of the items discussed in previous meetings and telephone conversations. It was then that PK ramped up the pressure even more and handed the applicant £400 in cash, the exact amount that the applicant had been told by AB & another MM associate it would cost to obtain 1,000 fake coins from the person they had mentioned in the pub they had suggested. In his role as PK Mahmood was also making lavish promises of fame & fortune stating that he would ensure that his rich “Sheikh” boss would employ the applicant as a highly paid Television Presenter and Entertainer if the applicant helped him get what he wanted.
36. Having been given the details of a supplier and a rendez-vous by both AB and another MM associate, the applicant sourced the 1,000 pound coins, which after incurring additional expense to himself (taxis etc) left the applicant out of pocket by approx £30. These 1,000 coins were supplied to PK later in the same day (Count 2) on 9th April 1998. Once again these events were filmed by MM.
37. Although the applicant had absolutely no intention of ever doing anything that could be deemed illegal in any manner, he did after much behind the scenes intimidation & manipulation obtain the 1,000 coins for MM. It should however be noted that the applicant was only able to afford to do such because MM provided the funds in advance (taken from a table stacked with wads of banknotes which was in the applicants eyeline but just out of camera view) and even then the applicant was left out of pocket. Further the applicant was of the belief that as MM would be (and was) afforded the ‘Lawful Excuse’ of his story being in the public interest to allow him to incite someone else to commit a crime and to allow him to purchase counterfeit coins, that as he could (and did) prove to the police, CPS and ultimately the courts that he himself (the applicant) was operating in the course of formulating an intended public interest story about MM and his methods that he too would (and should) have been afforded the same ‘Lawful Excuse” and so called ‘journalistic privilege’ and thus the applicant should never have been charged or brought to court in the first place.
38. Three days later on Sunday 12th April 1998 the applicant appeared in the News of the World newspaper under the headline ‘Kiddies TV Star is a drug dealing pimp and he also rakes in the cash with counterfeit coins and gun sales!”
39. The applicant voluntarily attended Rochdale police station on Sunday 12th April 1998, the day the article appeared in an attempt to explain what had occurred, only to be told that there was no complaint of a crime and that as such the police were not interested. However in a little over a week after the article the police contacted him and again he surrendered himself to be interviewed under caution, making a full comment interview, explaining exactly what had happened.
40. It is of interest to note that it seems Mazher Mahmood did not hand his evidence or the pound coins he had bought to the Police until Sunday 19th April exactly one week after the story about the applicant appeared within the News of the World Newspaper. It should also be noted that the police were only ever given a total of 1,000 coins as opposed to 1,003 which should have been the number of coins given to them in total.
41. A video tape containing heavily edited “highlights” of the footage MM had filmed along with some audio tapes was given by him to the Police as evidence, however as has since become clear was standard practice in MM cases, these tapes were heavily edited and largely out of context in many sections to give a purposely false & misleading version of events to the police.
42. Fortunately the applicant himself had audio recordings of some of the meetings (tapes ran out during them) which in its unedited form helped the applicant to prove his real intentions, something that was indeed accepted by the Police, the Judge and all relevant parties and is confirmed by comments quoted in the Manchester Evening News report of 2nd March 1998.
43. The applicant recalls that after being interviewed at length by Constable 02058 Ian Elford & Constable 08608 Lee McCrory, that he was charged with delivery of 1,000 counterfeit coins to another, namely Mazher Mahmood. This is confirmed by records provided by Rochdale Police reference crime report 126962B/98 which states that on Thursday 9th April 1998 at 5pm at the Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester the applicant committed the stated offence.
44. Oddly when the applicant obtained a copy of his DBS/CRB it stated that he had been convicted of 2 Counts, both of which apparently are meant to have taken place on 9th April 1998 and that both of which resulted in a sentence of 6 months imprisonment (to run concurrently) along with the forfeiture/confiscation of the alleged counterfeit (they were never forensically tested) pound coins. How can coins possibly have been confiscated from the applicant when on the 9th April 1998 they became the property of Mazher Mahmood when they were handed to him?
45. Documents obtained from Arco, the Police National Computer show that their records state that the applicant was charged with 2 counts, both of which according to them happened at 5pm at the Piccadilly Hotel on 9th April 2018. How exactly is it possible for 2 identical offences to have taken place at exactly the same time and place, when only one bag containing 1,000 coins was ever handed over to Mazher Mahmood on that date?
46. As a result of a GDPR subject access request to the CCRC the applicant has obtained a copy of the documents submitted by the CPS to the single judge outlining why they at the time (Late 2015 to early 2016) argued that the applicant’s conviction was safe. These raise several points as follows:
i. The CPS document states that according to them the applicant was indicted on the 2nd September 1998 (indictment number 06.A3.1393.98) to one charge of delivery of 1,000 coins on the 9th April 1998.
ii. It seems that on the 21st October 1998 (to which the applicant has no recollection) that a judge applied to have the indictment (indictment number 06.A3.1393.98) changed into two counts, one for delivery of 3 coins on 2nd April 1998 (these being the 3 genuine coins the applicant pulled from his pocket) and a second count for delivery according to the CPS document to CCRC of 996 coins (this conflicts with mention of 997 coins elsewhere & on the actual indictment document) on 9th April 1998.
iii. The CPS document however confirms that the applicant entered Not Guilty Pleas up until according to the CPS the 1st February 1999 when they state (incorrectly) that he changed his plea to Guilty.
iiii. The CPS’s own documents sent to the CCRC include a section quoting a response from the applicants Barrister of the time Anthony Morris who confirms that it was not until the first day of trial after having been advised by him to change his plea to guilty (with mitigating circumstances) that the applicant did so following such (as we now know bad) advice. The first day of trial as confirmed and reported by Manchester Evening News article published on 2nd March 1999, was Monday 1st March 1999.
iiiii. This document from the CPS which was submitted to the single judge as their argument of why (at the time) they considered the applicants conviction to be safe (this being before MM was convicted and other evidence coming to light) originated from the chambers of Sarah Forshaw QC & Mark Heywood QC on behalf of the CPS. This is of note as Sarah Forshaw QC later in 2016 led the prosecution case for the CPS against Mazher Mahmood in the Old Bailey leading to his conviction and during the course of preparing her case and based on what the applicant heard discussed in court both with and without the jury present (as he attended each day of the Old Bailey trial against MM) it is clear that Sarah Forshaw and the CPS must now be fully aware of Mahmood’s long term dishonesty and arguably illegal actions. It is also submitted that they no longer have any excuse for not disclosing important facts about previous investigations into Mahmood and others in which he was implicated.
iiiiii. In short is is argued that it would now be impossible for the CPS given Mahmoods Conviction together with the new evidence that has come to light and the exposure of MM’s long term dishonesty and arguably illegal activities to conclude anything other than the applicants conviction as being unsafe. Numerous trials relying on MM’s evidence have now collapsed and the CPS themselves have been quoted as stating that MM can no longer be relied upon as a witness of truth in any matter.
47. To the dismay of the applicant, he was charged with delivery of counterfeit coins pursuant to the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 s.16 (2). At Bury Magistrates Court he pleaded Not Guilty and the case was committed to Manchester Crown Court for trial.
48. It was the applicant’s contention that MM had lied profusely in his witness statement. He further accused MM of editing the recordings, failing to disclose all of the conversations which took place as well as refusing to disclose other evidence on the grounds of ‘journalistic privilege’ including whether or not he (MM) knew the man in the pub who handed the coins over to the applicant. (It is now known that Southern Investigations with whom MM was regularly working at the time had the ability to obtain drugs & counterfeit currency)
49. It was also noted by the applicant that at each and every meeting MM and his associates would ply him heavily with drinks, and that after such meetings the applicant would feel far drunker than he normally would or indeed should have and then awoke the next day with a very hazy recollection of the previous days events, indeed with some bits seemingly gone from his memory altogether. With what has now come to light it is suggested that MM or one of his associates acting on his behalf at best spiked the applicants pints of beer with stronger alcohol or as is increasingly looking likely drugged his drinks with something akin to the date rape drug GHB to make him more suggestible and compliant.
50. The applicant also to this day fails to understand how Mahmood could possibly justify his actions and/or the subsequent resulting story as being in any manner in the public interest, something it would have to be to give him lawful excuse to act in the manner he did.
51. On the first day of trial, 1st March 1999, the applicant changed his plea to guilty (with mitigating circumstances) and was sentenced to an immediate custodial sentence of 6 months imprisonment, concurrent on both counts by His Honour Judge David Owen, on the basis that he knew that the coins were counterfeit and that he had no reasonable excuse.
52. One of the key factors for his change of plea was that he was given, what he now knows to be ‘bad advice’ by his Barrister of the time who advised him on the first day of trial that he did not feel confident that an entrapment or similar defence would work (although as we now know it did work for others who were and have been acquitted after almost identical modus operandi was undertaken by MM) and also that AB had by now, provided a statement strongly supporting MM’s version of events. It was now clear that MM and AB had been working together on this sting but was unprovable given MM’s protection under journalistic privilege.
WAIVER OF PRIVILEGE
53. For the purpose of this application, Alex Smith gives his full permission for any legal professional privilege to be waived. A signed document is on file with those instructing me should it be required.
EVENTS AFTER TRIAL
54. The applicant decided at the time not to appeal either conviction or sentence after having been told in the holding cells (straight after being handed his sentence by the Judge) at Manchester Crown Court by his Solicitor of the time that he had no defence and that his sentence could be increased.
55. The applicant, who was previously (and since) of good character and without any Criminal charges or convictions of any kind, was unsurprisingly a ruined man after he came out of prison. Those doors which were wide open to him prior to April 1998 were clearly shut and it was impossible for him to find work on television or in the media at large.
56. As per the Court’s guidance in R v McCook (2014) EWCA Crim 734, those who represented the applicant when his appeal was submitted (Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law) who did not act for him in 1998, have tried to contact his previous solicitor (David Feingold) who says that he remembers very little of this case and retains no paperwork. His counsel Anthony Morris has, regrettably, not responded at all to requests of assistance by Lewis Nedas Law.
SUBMISSIONS
57. For the purpose of the indictment against the applicant, Counterfeit and Forgery Act 1981 s.15 (2) deems:
“It is an offence for a person to deliver to another, without lawful authority or excuse, anything which is, and which he knows or believes to be, a counterfeit of a currency note or a protected coin.”
58. It is submitted that the convictions against the applicant are unsafe. The one glaring evidential omission in this case was any actual proof that the coins supplied were indeed counterfeit in that:
i. The Crown proceeded against the applicant on the basis that he knew (as opposed to believed) that the 1,000 coins were counterfeit. The likelihood, in hindsight, was that the coins were most likely real.
ii. The applicant received erroneous advice from his lawyers in the absence of such proof.
Iii. The 3 coins supplied in Count 1 were in fact always known by the applicant to be genuine as they were genuine coins that he removed from his pocket.
Iiii. A document has now been obtained in late 2018 by the applicant from the Royal Mint within which they state they do keep and have records from the time period of 1998/1999, but that they have nothing in their records relating to the clients name or case.
APPLICATION FOR AN EXTENSION OF LEAVE PERIOD
59. Having been contacted and given a disclosure pack by the CPS in January 2015, the applicant sought fresh legal advice from Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law who had appeared on the BBC Panorama documentary “The Fake Sheikh” Exposed which was broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday 12th November 2014. Following this contact it transpired that:
i. Original trial counsel advised the applicant that there were no grounds of appeal, nor were there any grounds to launch an application to stay proceedings at the time. It is submitted that such advice was not correct. Having been told that his sentence may have been increased if he tried to appeal and failed, the applicant decided to do nothing further.
ii. The applicant’s Solicitor (from Jan 2015 to June 2018) Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law was also engaged by several other Mazher Mahmood victims including London’s Burning Actor John Alford, Champion Boxer Herbie Hides, Cricket Agent Mazhar Majeed, The Earle of Hardewicke Joseph Yorke & his business partner Stefan Thwaites and the modus operandi used by MM was, it became clear, in all cases practically identical. Further the numerous similarities between the Modus Operandi used by MM in these cases (including the applicants) and what happened to Tulisa Contostavlos is glaringly obvious.
60. In all of the above mentioned cases which were being handled by the applicants former Solicitor, Siobhain Egan at Lewis Nedas Law, complaint has been made that MM manipulated the evidence and on occasions the witnesses in a patterned manner of non-state entrapment as now defined by Goldring J in Saluga. (Council of Healthcare Professionals v Gurpinder Saluja [2006] EWHC 2784 [admin] 1 WLR 3094). It is submitted that all of those who have been subject to this style of investigation (including the applicant) were entrapped by an agent provocateur with a highly questionable track record – where crimes occurred, these were crimes created purely and simply by an investigator, in this case MM.
61. It is clear that on occasions those representing the defendants mentioned earlier in point 59 did apply to stay the proceedings but often it was difficult to demonstrate evidentially that MM had behaved (in that isolated case) in such an offensive manner that was provable, so as the court to intervene in the prosecution.
62. On each and every occasion, as in the applicant’s case, MM would invoke his journalistic privilege to hide the identities of others at the heart of the sting to shield any further scrutiny (even from the judge). Unfortunately for MM His Honour Judge McCreath uncovered the dishonesty of MM in the July 2014 Tulisa Contostavlos trial which collapsed and ultimately led to MM being convicted and jailed for 15 months on 21st October 2016 for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice.
63. An appeal was submitted by the applicant in 2015, but was rejected by single judge His Hon Mr Justice William Davis in a decision dated 9th May 2016 with the reference of 201503661 B2 JMC.
64. The applicant was advised of the Single Judges decision in an email from his then lawyer Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law dated 17th May 2016. Within this same email he was informed that his case had that same day (before he had been contacted and told the single judges decision) been submitted on his behalf to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
65. After his CCRC application (Ref: 01192/2016) being passed from one case worker to another, eventually on 25th May 2018 a provisional decision was made that the CCRC would not refer the applicant’s case back to court.
66. The applicant submitted further information to the CCRC asking them to reconsider their decision, however on 11th June 2018 a final decision notice was issued again stating that the CCRC would not refer the applicant’s case back to court.
67. Upon close examination it becomes clear that the CCRC overlooked many of the matters and evidence raised in the applicant’s submissions and so it seems largely just copied and pasted what the single judge had said in his decision notice.
68. Around the 27th June 2018, the applicant was kindly given some free advice by The Secret Barrister of www.secretbarrister.com and also by Matt Stanbury of www.appealsbarrister.com. Both Barristers kindly advised the applicant that although the single judge had rejected his application, it should be quite possible for the applicant to renew his application to the full court.
69. The applicant informed his previous Lawyer that this should be possible and was told that as she had been working pro-bono for several years on the matter she could no longer afford to spend any further time on the matter.
70. The applicant searched high and low in an attempt to find a Solicitor to help him resubmit his application to the full court of appeal and on 10th July 2018 had a meeting with Mark Lake of Cartwright King.
71. Although extremely busy with other matters, Mr. Lake kindly agreed to help the applicant and the weeks since that meeting have been spent by the applicant obtaining what documents he could from various sources by way of GDPR subject access requests and in preparing these new grounds of appeal for submission. As the applicant has been unable to raise funding, Mr. Lake has been unable to advise any further, other than obtaining this professional advice on the applicants behalf:
*The Applicants Conviction is Unsafe and he should be allowed to withdraw his (albeit tendered at the very last moment) guilty plea on the bases as laid out by R v Asidu [2015] EWCA Crim 714:
**The defendant tried and failed to get evidence excluded. Faced with the evidence, the defendant was forced to plead guilty despite truly believing himself to be (and being) innocent.
**The trial was an abuse of process, and never should of taken place. Per Lord Hughes “[i]f the trial process should never have taken place because it is an offense to justice, a conviction upon a plea of guilty is as unsafe as one following trial” – and as is now clear, important evidence regarding Mahmood’s Lack of credibility as a “witness of truth” was not disclosed to the defendant by the Police or CPS, at either at time of trial or later at anytime up to this application being placed in June 2019.
11f. The advice sought on the applicant’s behalf by Solicitor Mark Lake concluded that the following things are significant when considering these grounds of appeal:
*Mr Coombs (Co-Defendant with Tulisa Contostavlos) pleaded guilty. His conviction was quashed once Mazher Mahmood was caught in a lie when giving evidence in Tulisa’s trial, having interfered with the evidence of a another witness.
*As a result the CPS dropped the other prosecutions it had in the works at the time which were based on Mazher Mahmoods Stings.
*Mazher Mahmood was then convicted of Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice. During his trial for Conspiracy, Sarah Forshaw QC for the prosecution, referred to Mazher Mahmood as “the master of Subterfuge and deception”, inter alia. The prosecution knew all about his role as agent provocateur. The methods used against Tulisa by Mazher Mahmood reflect the modus operandi that was used against the applicant of these grounds.
*Accordingly, the CPS well knows that Mazher Mahmood’s evidence is unreliable. Given that evidence exists indicating that the CPS and/or Police may have been aware of Mahmood’s links to Southern Investigations and dishonest actions and/or dealings as far back as 1997, it should be possible to argue that the applicant’s case should never have been brought to court in the first place.
AREAS OF POTENTIAL INVESTIGATION
72. Since the ruling by HH Judge McCreath in the Tulisa case, the spotlight has been shone into a number of areas that have either been known about by the prosecution and not been disclosed, or not known about them concerning MM. More pertinently, there have been a stream of witnesses that have contacted the applicant’s original appeal Lawyer that have indicated that they are in possession of documents and information undermining the credibility of MM. Some have expressed a genuine belief that their livelihoods may be adversely affected by the ‘Murdoch Machine’ without the buffer of the CCRC investigating under the Court of Appeals direction, something which the applicant’s original appeal lawyer asked to have occur. This list of potential witnesses includes journalists and former police officers.
73. Furthermore despite the 2014 Attorney General’s request of the BBC not to screen it and MM making several unsuccessful attempts in the High Court to prevent it, a Panorama documentary in November 2014 reported into the nefarious practices employed by MM, some of which were illegal. In the documentary, people who worked with MM gave interviews implicating him in illegality so much so that Lord Goldsmith, the former Attorney General commented on the programme that, “the fact that somebody who has been accused by a judge of apparently not telling the truth may be instrumental in those convictions would certainly be a reason to look at those convictions again and to examine whether they are safe.”
74. The programme also featured interviews from reporters who worked with MM including one who confessed that, “the only real criminal was Mazher Mahmood. He gave me the money to buy the Cocaine.” Another describes him as ‘Pinocchio on speed.’ It is respectfully submitted that there are several lines of enquiry that deserve to be investigated by the CPS, Court of Appeal & CCRC, questioning the truth of previous testimony that MM has given in various courts and in various statements (including the applicant’s) over the years.
75. It is not the first time that MM’s integrity has been questioned in individual cases leading to the collapse of cases at first instance. In recent years, the trials of Dr Majeed Ridha and pharmacist Murtaza Gulamhusein (illegal supply of abortion drugs), Leon Anderson (drug dealing), DJ Campbell, Ian Goodison, Akpo Sodje, Christian Montano, Sam Sodje, Stephen Sodje and another 7 footballers (football match fixing) have all been terminated when the veracity of MM’s evidence was called into question. In the case of Anderson, the Crown abandoned any reliance on MM as a witness of truth post Tulisa Contostavlos.
76. Perhaps of more concern to the applicant and all who have been prosecuted as a result of MM’s investigations, is the Crown’s ‘case by case’ approach to his over-arching integrity. By adopting that approach it is apparent that any disclosure touching MM has been by-passed. One of the most glaring examples can be found in Besnik Qema who was an Albanian immigrant with British Citizenship. He was arrested in February 2005 following a News of the World sting operation masterminded by MM. It is linked to several other Mahmood stories that relied on “assistance” from Florim Gashi, a Kosovan asylum-seeker whose intial evidence in several trials in the past years has been discredited. Mr Gashi admitted that he had been used by MM frequently in his sting operations. He admitted playing key roles in a number of sting operations ranging from intermediary to inciter/organiser of offences including that of Mr Qema.
77. Mr Gashi was first associated with MM as a result of information that he supplied leading to the prosecution of Shalin Begoli for offences of forged passports in January 2002. In August 2002, protected by Journalistic privilege, Gashi was the same source of information that a private management traffic enforcement agency was supplying drugs in their network of traffic wardens. This ultimately led to Gashi providing further information to MM about a group of Eastern European men who were looking to sell stolen goods at Sotherby’s auction house. MM did not consider this newsworthy enough so Mr Gashi claimed that he encouraged him to entrap these men (statement of Gashi from Turcu v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2005] EWHC 799 [QB] ) in order that he could publish a story about infiltrating and foiling a plot to kidnap Mrs Victoria Beckham, the wife of the England soccer captain (The Beckham Kidnapping Trial).
78. According to Gashi, MM believed that since these men were criminals anyhow, they could be pursued and entrapped by persuasion to adopt this idea. To this end Gashi recorded various conversations with the men, with his leading the conversations and MM photographing them carrying out ‘reconnaissance’ to lend the story credibility. Two days prior to their arrest, MM informed the police of the plot. Having been charged and remanded in custody for 7 months, the men were acquitted when Brian Altman QC, prosecuting counsel, concluded that it was quite impossible to have a realistic prospect of conviction following differences between Gashi’s testimony and MM’s. It became apparent that MM had misled the court regarding a payment of £10,000 that he had made to Gashi for the story, which he denied.
79. The Crown were also by this stage cognisant of the ‘traffic warden’ back-story, which the police ceased investigating. The Police interviewed Mr Gashi and in those interviews he made various allegations against MM acting illegally and in an underhanded manner. His disclosures led to Operation Canopus, which sought to establish if there was a case to answer against MM for perverting the course of justice. It was ultimately concluded by the police that there was insufficient evidence to proceed further.
80. In September 2005, Gashi contacted the police to express his surprise that his information had not been acted upon, offering more information to them. MM was due at that stage to appear as the main witness at the CCC in R v Martins and others (Operation Allegra), having allegedly exposed a plot to purchase a substance called ‘Red Mercury’, which he claimed was going to be used in London, designed to scatter radioactive material and cause mayhem. Given the sensitivities of the ‘7/7’ London bombings, this was a major news story.
81. Mr Gashi’s further contact led to Operation Canopus II. Part of the documentation provided to the applicant includes allegations against MM of obtaining and the distribution of counterfeit currency for self-gain, possession of a handgun, corrupting prison officers, blackmail, false accounting and the possession of drugs. He also alleged that Operation Allegra was a ‘set up.’
82. MM was interviewed under caution. Broadly he denied all the allegations made by Gashi and claimed that there were people in the industry who wanted to bring him down. He defended his methods claiming that the CA had upheld convictions (See Shannon et al). He maintained that he ‘never ever named informants and throughout when apparently faced by difficulty questioning retorted to the same monologue.’ He said that Gashi helped him on 20 or 30 stories but denied that he did not really pay him other than for expenses.
83. When asked about his method of not handing over all tapes of evidence or selective disclosure he denied this yet later is vague as to the whereabouts of other tapes, suggesting the NOTW retained them or possibly his technician.
84. Crucially he reveals his approach to his sources when he says, ‘So I’ve got bent police officers that are witnesses that are informants. What does that mean. Who’s credibility do you take. As I said to you it doesn’t matter if it’s Saddam Hussein I don’t care. (sic) He went on to say that ‘ ..It’s exactly with me. It doesn’t matter if it’s a villain or what, I mean some of the best stories come from villains.’ Interestingly, he admits that ‘ …No I’m just giving you an example or a drug dealer. I will sell him some drugs get a bit of fame in the paper…’ Ultimately, charges against MM were not levied in the absence of independent evidence.
85. During the trial of the ‘dirty bomb’ trial, a protracted Abuse of Process argument was launched by the defence centring on MM’s integrity. Counsel for the defence alleged that he routinely distorted the truth, concealed pertinent facts from the police and was primarily concerned not with justice, but with sales and viewed his engagement with the criminal justice process as simply a necessity to give his articles a moral tone. Despite his Honour Judge Beaumont allowing the case to go to jury he was critical of MM upon the jury acquitting all defendants.
86. In January 2011, following revelations from Canopus I, II and other cases MM had been criticised from all quarters, the CCRC took the ‘exceptional circumstances’ step and referred the guilty plea by Mr Qema to this court. It is of interest to note that the Crown did not contest the reference.
87. The Panorama documentary also outlines as far back as 1992 or 1993 MM’s association with a private investigation firm that featured in the Leveson Inquiry, Southern Investigations (‘SI’).
88. The murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan remains one of London’s most notorious unsolved cases. On March 10, 1987, the 37 year old father of two was hacked to death with an axe outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham. It had been suggested that Daniel was close to exposing a group of corrupt police officers, but five investigations have failed to provide an answer or bring his killers to justice. Daniel Morgan ran the detective agency SI. The night he was killed he had a 90 minute meeting with his business partner Jonathan Rees at the Golden Lion. At 9pm he left by a back entrance to get to the car park, a Rolex watch on his wrist and £1,100 in his pocket. He was later found lying on the ground near his car with an axe embedded in the side of his head. The Rolex was missing but the cash remained.
89. The following month Rees, his brother in laws Garry and Glenn Vian and Sid Fillery, one of the Catford Police station detectives initially assigned to the case, were arrested, only to be released without charge.
90. At the inquest in 1988, the bookeeper at SI alleged that Rees and Fillery planned the contract killing. By this time Fillery had retired and joined the agency as Rees new partner. The pair went on to carry out work for a number of tabloid newspapers including the News of the World and are said to have provided the information for exposes of celebrities, politicians and royalty, It is here where they first came into contact with MM.
91. A second inquiry by Hampshire Police began on 24 June 1988 following a complaint by the Morgan family to the Home Secretary Douglas Herd. Rees was again arrested, but the charges were dropped. Between June 1988 and May 1999 Police monitored the offices of SI as part of a third investigation. Although it did not assist the murder inquiry, it did provide evidence that Rees was in a plot to frame model Kim James with drugs to help her husband win custody of their son. In December 2000 he was jailed for six years at the Old bailey for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
92. It was expected the trial would take place in April 2009. Two years of Legal wrangling over disclosure of evidence and police handling of witnesses followed. In February 2010 a judge stopped the case against Sidney Fillery after excluding the evidence of a key witness. The charges against Cook were dropped in November. The entire case collapsed in March 2011 after prosecutors accepted they could no longer guarantee that full disclosure of evidence could be made to the defence. The Metropolitan Police have since admitted that the original investigation in 1987 was tainted by police corruption.
93. On 10th May 2013 the Home Secretary Theresa May announced an independent judge led inquiry would look into the circumstances of the case. The remit of the panel involves addressing questions related to “police involvement in the murder, the role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption, the incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and alleged corruption involved in the linkages between them.” Presently Baroness O’Loan is chairing the inquiry.
94. During the course of the Leveson inquiry, MM provided several witness statements and was allowed to give screened evidence, albeit on oath. He admitted that he worked with SI 20 or 30 times and was provided protection by them, yet he told the inquiry that he never paid for the services of a private investigator. In the Panorama documentary, a member of that company, a police officer says that they worked with him on at least one sting. Furthermore, the applicant is in receipt information proving that he (MM) misled the inquiry on this.
95. It is submitted that, prima facie, this was not the only topic that MM misled the inquiry on. It is clear from the statements from Professor Roy Greenslade and Paddy French that he lied (under oath) to the Leveson Inquiry on various matters.
96. During the course of his evidence MM contended that he had been responsible for 261 prosecutions. Issue was taken of this claim by Paddy French who invited MM and News International to assist (silent) with documented proof. He endeavoured to painstakingly research all archives of prosecutions and concluded that the figure could only have amassed to 80 at the most. Linklaters were tasked to assist the inquiry with the figure and concluded that there were 134 criminal offences by 94 individuals.
97. Similarly, Professor Roy Greenslade testified that the evidence given by MM of his leaving the Sunday Times in 1988 was at best, gravely misleading. Junior counsel to the inquiry had asked MM if he had left under a cloud, to which the answer was a disagreement. Incredulous about this, Professor Greenslade set the record straight evidencing that MM had jumped before he was sacked for lying to the editorial staff and then attempting to further lie by altering computer records. When confronted by this evidence, MM conceded that he had lied but claimed that he was a very junior reporter and was keen to impress.
FINAL SUBMISSIONS
98. As is illustrated on the applicants website of www.circusofthemind.net numerous victims of MM’s activities have stated that they believe that at the very least their drinks (with which they were just like the applicant heavily plied by MM & his associates) were spiked with even stronger alcohol or as many have (including the applicant) some hazy and/or missing memories of events that a date rape drug such as GHB may have been used in order to make them more suggestible and compliant. Other people who have stated such include London’s Burning Actor John Alford, Model Emma Morgan, The Directors of Newcastle United, Snooker Player John Higgins, The Earle of Hardewicke & Stefan Thwaites, former England Rugby Captain Lawrence Dallagio, Tulisa Constantavlos & also Jeremey Dein QC (defending Tulisa) accused MM of such as indeed has Civil Lawyer Mark Lewis on Television. It is suggested that such drugs may have been obtained through MM’s contacts at Southern Investigations.
99. The applicant certainly can’t think of any other logical reason for why MM would not have just picked up the hotel room phone and rang room service to deliver drinks, but instead sent one of his staff to go down to the bar and get drinks (thus giving time to possibly tamper with them) especially when your not in a normal hotel room, but rather are in one of the expensive Suites and thus far more likely to get speedy VIP Service.
100. It has recently come to the applicant’s attention that evidence has come to light to illustrate that the telephone of fellow Fake Sheikh victim, London’s Burning Actor John Alford was hacked before & around the time of his trial. It has been suggested that it is highly likely that this was MM’s standard Modus Operandi so he could monitor what state of mind his targets were in and if need be have more pressure and intimidation applied behind the scenes to help ensure his story resulted in a conviction at court.
101. Had the applicant known about MM’s links to SI and his suspected dishonesty etc, which it seems the Police did prior to him being charged and yet never disclosed such to him, then the applicant feels it is highly likely that his case would never have reached court in the first place, but had it done so that he would have been far more likely to continue pleading Not Guilty and feels given what has now come to light that he would have been acquitted in such circumstance.
102. At the very least the level of MM’s dishonesty, criminal connections and criminal activities that did become known by both the Police and CPS since the applicants conviction in 1999 should surely have been disclosed to both him and others in the same position in the same manner that the Tulisa Constantavlos related disclosure packs were issued in January 2015. Had this been done it is highly likely the applicant would have submitted an appeal against his convictions many, many years earlier than occurred.
103. Evidence galore of the allegations made about MM, SI & their associates which is now heavily in the public domain after years of being repressed and hidden can be seen online at the links that can be found on the applicants web page of www.circusofthemind.net
104. The applicant wishes to draw your attention to these quotes from various people which have appeared in the media and which further illustrate how unsafe his conviction is. The sources of all of these quotes in various National Media Publications along with links to the original articles and/or official statements/letters can be seen on the applicant’s website of www.circusofthemind.net
It is as we have long suspected that the Met knew and repressed information about corrupt relationships between their officers, employees of The News of the World and Southern Investigations. This information was deliberately repressed by the Metropolitan police and should have been disclosed to those representing defendants in the so called “stings” orchestrated by Mazher Mahmood. It is information which should be immediately disclosed to those lawyers advising relevant convicted individuals whose cases are now before the CCRC, and the Daniel Morgan Investigation Panel. – Siobhain Egan – Lewis Nedas Law
“People who have been locked up in the past are now able to say there is compelling evidence that this man was prepared to lie on oath in order to secure a wrongful conviction, so there’s now a platform for others to come forward and say ‘the same thing happened to us.’” – Jeremey Dein QC
There were “strong grounds for believing that the underlying purpose of these lies was to conceal the fact that he (Mazher Mahmood) had been manipulating the evidence in this case” by getting another witness to change his account” Judge Alistair McCreath told the jury.
“Mahmood has now been exposed by my lawyers openly lying to the judge and jury. These lies were told to stop crucial evidence going before the jury.” She added: “Thankfully, the lies have been uncovered and justice has been done.” – Tulisa Constantavlos
Judge Stuart Fish formally acquitted Mr Giggs, then asked whether charges of inciting to supply drugs and illegal possession had been considered against the reporter, Mazher Mahmood.
Mr Quinn Hawkins prosecuting said: “The position is that the Crown can no longer rely on Mr Mahmood as a witness of truth in this case, and for that reason, I offer no evidence against Mr Gordon on behalf of the Crown.”
“Curiously, he’s (Mazher Mahmood) never been charged with the illegal purchase of cocaine, although there are no legal grounds on which he can do this to perpetrate a sting.” – Peter Burden – Author of Fake Sheikhs & Royal Trappings.
“I am responsible for innocent people going to jail. I tricked them, (to help Mazher Mahmood) and I’m ashamed. It’s time to tell the truth.” Florim Gashi – Former Colleague of the Fake Sheikh
“We’ve had the case of Mazher Mahmood, the ‘fake sheikh’ who perverted the course of justice to secure his ’scoops’ and left scores of previous convictions unsafe.” – Tom Watson – Labour MP
“One is mindful about the fact there is little regulation on undercover newspaper work and citizen investigators which perhaps needs to be looked into.” – Nazir Afzal – Former Chief of CPS in Northwest.
The other thing you might want to look at though is the PCC code: “Clandestine devices and subterfuge. The press must not seek to obtain or publish material acquired by using hidden cameras or clandestine listening devices or by intercepting private or mobile calls, messages or emails…” etcetera, etcetera. And of course it goes on to say: “… unless there’s a clear public interest.” – Alistair Campbell – MP
“The fact that somebody who has been accused by a judge of apparently not telling the truth may be instrumental in those convictions would certainly be a reason to look at those convictions again and to examine them to see whether they are safe,” (Goldsmith told the Fake Sheikh Exposed Panorama Documentary) Lord Peter Henry Goldsmith – Former Attorney General
“I will first deal with unlawful and improper conduct within News International and other newspaper organisations. The Conviction of Mazher Mahmood also raises issues of an entirely different species of unlawful and improper conduct” – Sir Brian Leveson QC
Steve Grayson, who worked with Mahmood on numerous stories in the 1990’s including this one, said of the takedown: “He is a drug dealer, we’re drug dealers, we have paid this guy to supply the drugs to give to her.” – Steve Grayson – Former Mazher Mahmood Associate.
“The CPS special prosecution team, as it was then, dealt exclusively with these prosecutions and in my view did not seek to test the weight or the veracity of the evidence.” “As I say, there was a certain MO Mahmood would employ. The same assertions were made by reputable defence teams time and again to the CPS, which were ignored.” “You also have the Met Police. We now know there were internal investigations by the anti-corruption team at New Scotland Yard into Mahmood’s relationships with serving police officers.” – Siobhain Egan – Lewis Nedas Law
“Over the last 25 years, innumerable lives have been ruined by the dishonest actions of Mazher Mahmood. People have lost their livelihoods, their homes and relationships, with some spending time in prison.”
“When the public used to read “Fake Sheikh” articles in British newspapers, they would know there was a criminal at the heart of the story. Until now, readers didn’t realise that the criminal was the “Fake Sheikh” himself.” – MARK LEWIS – Lawyer
“The real scandal in this case is that Mahmood was allowed to operate as a wholly unregulated police force, ‘investigating’ crimes without the safeguards which apply to the police. As a journalist, he was able to rely on unnamed ‘sources’ and was not required to give full disclosure of his investigation to the defence. As Tulisa’s defence lawyers, we were prevented from properly testing the strength of his evidence.”
“It was obvious from the outset that Tulisa should never have had to go to court. If Mahmood’s evidence had been properly stress tested instead of accepted wholesale by the CPS, we are confident it would have come to the same conclusion.” – Ben Rose – Hickman & Rose
“Red flags were raised about the reliability of Mazher Mahmood’s stings over decades but the police ignored them.” – Dr. Evan Harris
“It appears perverse that, while the law protects against the state causing citizens to commit illegal acts, it does not protect against private parties doing the same thing, where often the participation of the private ‘entrapper’ goes beyond that which would be deemed appropriate by law enforcement officers. Many newspapers stings involve an expensive and targeted campaign on one individual, based on limited or no intelligence, where the inducement is persistent and the primary incentive is to sell newspapers, not to prevent crime.” David Sleight – Kingsley Napsley Solicitors
“Mahmood’s methods debase journalism. They often amount to entrapment and, on occasion, appear to involve the use of agents provocateurs. People have been encouraged to commit crimes they would not otherwise have conceived. As if that wasn’t enough, the public interest justification advanced for such activities by the NoW is almost always highly debatable.” – Professor Roy Greenslade – Journalist
“Panorama increases the strength of the case considerably for a new inquiry… There is a severe question mark over over the tactics he [Mahmood] used… We are dealing with convictions which may not have been properly obtained.” – John Whittingdale MP
“There is a huge danger of accepting Mr Mahmood’s word in respect of any matter.” Stephen Solley QC
“I am minded to refer the whole of this matter to the Attorney General to consider the temptations to which money being offered in return for stories, in particular about celebrities, gives rise to – and the way in which newspaper investigations may have a detrimental effect on – the ultimate court proceedings.” – Judge Simon Smith
“There must also be a review of Mazher Mahmood’s previous work. There is a long rap sheet of complaints from Mahmood’s previous targets. All those claims previously dismissed as ‘special pleading’ now sound eerily similar to Contostavlos’ reports, namely that either:-
Mahmood offered inducements to ‘create’ the commission of a crime that would never otherwise have been anticipated,
Mahmood manipulated or ‘spliced’ audio recordings, thus providing police with inaccurate impressions about what was said, or the context of it,
Mahmood misled law enforcement about the ‘originator’ or ‘instigator’ of a criminal enterprise when in fact the origin was either Mahmood, or someone in his pay.
Alistair Parker of Brett Wilson Solicitors
105. It is respectfully suggested that extremely strong grounds of appeal exist in the applicants case and that the prosecution may now in light of MM’s conviction and other dishonesty that has recently come to light, take the view that they can no longer oppose the applicant’s appeal on the grounds of public interest and that relying on his (MM’s) evidence in any way to secure a conviction, particularly given their recent stance post Tulisa that MM can no longer be relied on as a witness of truth is no longer possible and itself brings the safety of the applicants convictions into question.
106. Further to the above the applicant further feels his conviction is unsafe given that documentary proof now exists that the CPS never had the alleged counterfeit coins tested or verified by the Royal Mint despite having made claims which indicated otherwise and therefore proceeded against him in 1998/1999 on the basis that he knew the coins to be fake when they had zero proof that the coins were anything but real.
*DVD-ROM containing copies of all the documents referred to in these grounds of appeal, together with a PDF copy of the applicant’s website where he lays out the evidence that his conviction is unsafe which is located online at www.circusofthemind.net
*DVD-ROM containing a copy of the BBC Panorama Documentary “The Fake Sheikh Exposed”
SAMPLE GROUNDS OF APPEAL ONLY
THIS MAY BE UPDATED BEFORE SUBMISSION
ONCE FUNDING FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ADVICE HAS
BEEN SUCCESSFULLY OBTAINED
(c) Alex William Smith 15th April 2019.
PLEASE CONSIDER CONTRIBUTING TO MY FIGHT TO HELP NOT ONLY MYSELF BUT ALSO OTHER VICTIMS OF THE FAKE SHEIKH MAZHER MAHMOOD AND ALSO OTHER VICTIMS OF MEDIA ABUSE, LIES & ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES IN GENERAL BY VISITING THE LINK BELOW
Did the UK Government cancel The Leveson Inquiry Part 2 into Media Corruption, Dishonesty & Illegal activities to help cover up the rabbit hole that is Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood?
Was it perhaps to hide the Fact he Drugged, Hacked, Blagged & Lied about me, John Alford & numerous others including both Celebrities & Royalty?
Is that why Police & CPS did NOT disclose vitally important evidence to us?
Is that why CPS despite saying that evidence was checked by experts, it has now been proven (at link above) never actually had certain so called evidence validated by any experts…
Is that why it has now come to light that the CPS and POLICE both Knew Mahmood was dishonest & involved/associated with Illegal activities as far back as 1997 and yet never disclosed such to victims like me, John Alford, Herbie Hides or countless others?
Is that why despite having been given undeniable evidence that Mazher Mahmood Perjured himself at the first part of the Leveson Inquiry and had also Perjured himself in various cases before, that no action for this was ever taken against him for such?
Could it be that Murdoch has “Kompromat” on members of the current Government and kind of “blackmailed” them into cancelling Leveson Part 2 despite the fact that Sir Brian Leveson said the inquiry should go ahead and what it should look at should be widened including LOOKING AT MAHMOODS ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES ??
The Rabbit Hole of “Cover Ups” – Lies, Dishonesty, Corruption and Illegal Activities is massively deep, so deep that The Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood’s name is even linked/associated to the Daniel Morgan Murder which is Englands Most Investigated and as yet unsolved Murder Inquiry, the evidence of which is at link below..
THE PAGE BELOW CONTAINS THE RESULTS OF MY RESEARCH ON MURDOCH’S FAKE SHEIKH MAZHER MAHMOOD WHICH I HAVE DONE OVER THE PAST 24 YEARS FROM 1998 UP TO AND INCLUDING JANUARY 21st 2022ANY NEW EVIDENCE OF HIS DISHONESTY & ILLEGAL ACTIONS OR ASSOCIATED RELEVANT INFORMATION DISCOVERED FROM JANUARY 2022 ONWARDS WILL ALWAYS BE POSTED ON WHATEVER THE CURRENT UPDATED PAGE IS LOCATED AT OUR ORIGINAL DOMAIN NAME OF – http://www.circusofthemind.net/
LATEST VIDEO UPDATE ON MY COURT OF APPEAL CASE DATED 1st OCT 2021
DISCOVER MORE ABOUT HOW FORMER CORONATION STREET STAR BRUCE JONES aka LES BATTERSBY IS HELPING JONATHAN ROYLE & JOHN ALFORD WITH THEIR LAND MARK LEGAL CASES AGAINST RUPERT MURDOCH’S DISGRACED & JAILED FAKE SHEIKH MAZHER MAHMOOD
Watch the short video above which implicates Rupert Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood in Illegal Activities against Prince Harry and then also check out the first article in the Eleven (11) part series on The Byline Website located here:
RENEWED GROUNDS OF APPEAL = At the Link which follows you can see my self prepared final “renewed” grounds of appeal exactly as they will look when they are submitted by signed for tracked postal delivery to the Courts of Appeal in London on Friday 24th May 2019 in the continued quest to get my 2 “Fake Sheikh” related convictions overturned.
The Official Press Release Dated 24th May 2019 along with a link to copy of the Letter I have sent the various relevant authorities demanding an Inquiry into Mahmood is here:
UPDATE: The Revised Respondents Notice from the Crown Prosecution Service dated 15th August 2019, along with my Reply and Corrections document which illustrates all of the many glaring errors and omissions they have made can all be viewed and/or downloaded in PDF format from this link:
Court of Appeal 19th May Say Still Awaiting Summary Writer Before Case can be scheduled for a Hearing
QUOTED FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL 19th MAY 2020 EMAIL ABOVE
(As with all images on this page click on them for larger version to appear)
Dear Mr Smith,
Thank you for your email.
I have updated our system with your contact details.
Your application is currently in a queue for a Criminal Appeal Office Summary to be completed. When the summary is completed, our list office will then be in a position to schedule a hearing date.
Unfortunately at this stage, I am unable to give any indication as to when your case will be scheduled for a hearing.
THEY HAVE HAD THE RENEWED GROUNDS SINCE 24th MAY 2019
The Crown Prosecution Service have made Errors and Omissions Galore in their Respondents Notice of 15th August 2019
NOTE = Evidence of Such is mentioned at above link, however there is much more hard evidence of Police Corruption Linked to Mazher Mahmood further down this page.
Sunday Times Self Confessed Blagger John Ford stating that I was drugged & framed by Mahmood.
Former News of the World Journalist Graham Johnson Comment on Mazher Mahmood Hacking Blagging Spoofing
Jonathan Royle – Photo Copyright & Courtesy of Karl at Healeylife Photography. As Taken for a Charity Fundraising Calendar.
Discover The Real Truth about Murdoch’s Disgraced Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
UNTOLD – (The Daniel Morgan Murder Podcast) – My Friend & Fellow Fake Sheikh Victim Actor John Alford discusses how Mazher Mahmood set him up in this podcast first broadcast on 10th August 2017 –
Criminal Cases Review Commission – CCRC – Letter to Alex Smith
QUOTE A: “One or more Commissioners will consider your case. They will decide whether there is any new evidence or argument that would allow them to refer your case to the appeal court”
(As Shown at Link Below CCRC have helped overturn Fake Sheikh Convictions before)
QUOTE B: “The decision to refer can only be made if the commissioners consider that the new evidence/argument would lead the court to overturn your conviction.”
(As shown at the link below none of our cases would ever make it to court today)
COMMENT = Please take a look on this blog page at all of the videos, facts, evidence and external third party links to even more cast iron evidence of the “Fake Sheikhs” dishonesty and of the very real fact that our cases should never have made it to court in the first place had the truth, facts and evidence that is available to us now been openly known to us then as it is arguable it should have been.
CLICK ON ANY IMAGES & THAT WILL MAKE THEM LARGER & READABLE
Criminal Cases Review Commission – CCRC – Letter to Alex Smith
BREAKING NEWS: The “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood was Jailed for 15 Months on Friday 21st October 2016 for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice.
In the Video Above my Good Friend and Fellow Fake Sheikh Victim John Alford gives a statement outside The Old Bailey on behalf of Me Jonathan Royle aka Alex Smith, Himself, Boxer Herbie Hides, Actress & Model Emma Morgan and indeed on behalf of all the innocent individuals out there who have been victims of the “Fake Sheikhs” Lies, Dishonesty, Deceit & Deception.
The Above Video Shows Me featured on BBC’s “Newsnight” TV Show on the evening that Mahmood was Sentenced to 15 months in Prison, namely Friday 21st October 2016 and the following video shows how the ITV News reported on this:
Whilst this is how the BBC Television News which was broadcast and syndicated all around the world reported on the matter:
To Read The Official Statement That Actor John Alford Released Through Our Mutual Lawyer Siobhian Egan of Lewis Nedas Law please do take a look at the following link and then read the rest of this blog for the full background on this along with CAST IRON EVIDENCE & TRUTH REGARDS ALEX SMITH aka JONATHAN ROYLE
WERE WE DRUGGED BY THE “FAKE SHEIKH” MAZHER MAHMOOD ??
Media Lawyer Mark Lewis has, once Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood was jailed mentioned at least twice on Television News Programmes that His Victims may have been Drugged.!!!
Well one thing I can say for certain is that he did NOT call room service to bring us drinks on the occasions I met with him..
Instead he sent his “BodyGuard” or “Personal Assistant” down to the bar which meant leaving the Hotel Suite we were in, going along the corridor, down several floors in the lift, then finding the bar, queuing up and getting served and bringing the drinks all the way back upstairs (or in lift) the same way.,..
WHEREAS he could just have picked up the phone and ordered the drinks by room service and they would have been brought up and no doubt got there quicker…
Could it be the reason for this was so that one of his behind the scenes staff could tamper with the drinks in some way???
John Alford on his Twitter Account Stating that he, just like me & others were drugged by the Fake Sheikh.
I certainly can’t think of any other logical reason for why you would not just pick up the phone and ring room service, especially when your not in a normal hotel room, but rather are in one of the expensive Suites and thus far more likely to get speedy VIP Service.
My research shows that various Fake Sheikh Victims experienced the same, namely that rather than use room service, he instead sent someone down to the bar to get the drinks.
My research also indicates a number of occurrences where extreme reactions to “drink” are involved in the reports of cases…
My research also shows that date rape drugs like GHB can and have in the past been used by people to make others more compliant both in what they say, do and can easily be manipulated into doing and saying where they would not normally have done so.
Self-Confessed Blagger for the Sunday Times John Ford via his Twitter account accuses Rupert Murdoch & Les Hinton of knowing that Mazher Mahmood was drugging his victims.
And a simple internet search reveals other Fake Sheikh Victims who strongly believe that they were drugged by Mazher Mahmood and his team as far back as Jan 1998 (before I was targeted) as is illustrated by this example:
Similar doubts have been raised about Mahmood’s Newcastle directors‘ expose. Hall and Shepherd claim the NoW had set out to prove they were cocaine users. When that failed they suspect Mahmood, or else a member of his team, ‘spiked’ their drinks in order to elicit their indiscretions.
Similarly, the snooker player John Higgins, who rarely drinks, was suspicious of drinks provided to him when he was enticed in 2010 into saying he would be prepared to fix matches in return for a large payment. No matches were fixed and Higgins protested his innocence. A subsequent tribunal set up by a World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association withdrew all charges of match-fixing.
“The tenth Earle of Hardwicke was lulled into a false sense of security at London’s Savoy Hotel, plied with Champagne, possibly “spiked” with the date rape drug Rohypnol, and questioned about his social connections”
Suspicions have been raised that Lawrence Dallaglio – Former England Rugby Captain may have been drugged by Mazher Mahmood. Indeed his girlfriend said he seemed odd after seeing the reporters. “He has no recollection of what happened. It’s all a blank to him.”
Then came the sting. After drinks, which John Alford – like so many other of Mahmood’s victims – believed were spiked, he was asked if he could obtain drugs for the prince and his cronies.
Giving evidence from behind a screen Mr Mahmood was today asked whether he or his associate, known only as ‘Nish’ had spiked the singer’s drink or offered her any money.
Jeremy Dein QC continued: ‘You and Nish spiked her drink didn’t you?’
The witness firmly responded: ‘That is absolutely outrageous.’
Mr Dein continued: ‘You spiked her drinks to get her to incriminate herself.’
“Tulisa Contostavlos has concluded, in view of the extreme and unpleasant reaction she, GV and Michelle experienced, that the drinks of all three of them must have been spiked,” the document stated.
FOR THE FULL BACKGROUND ON HOW I TRIED TO EXPOSE “FAKE SHEIKH” MAZHER MAHMOOD OVER 20 YEARS AGO READ THE REST OF THIS BLOG
With My Good Friend John Alford
Welcome to this rather long informational page (please bear with me) which you have most likely arrived at after having seen some of the Vicious, Vindictive and downright disgusting allegations and outright lies that various childish, jealous, perhaps even mentally ill individuals have been posting about me in various places on the internet.
NEWS UPDATE: Following the collapse of the Drugs Court Trial against British Pop Star Tulisa Contostavlos, during which Former Under Cover Journalist for the now shut down and shamed News of the World, Mazher Mahmood was shown to have lied in his statement and also on the stand whilst giving evidence during her trial:
Fake Sheikhs & Royal Trappings by Peter Durden. A Great Book Revaling many truths behind News of the World, Mazher Mahmood and their Stories!
And also following being sent a disclosure pack by the Crown Prosecution Service as of January 2015 things went in action to appeal my conviction with the aim of it being overturned and revoked.
For the record I was sent one of the disclosure packs and am one of the cases that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) talk about at this link:
Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood in His Disguise – How Close Was he to Scotland Yard?
More details about this will follow later on this page, but for now this article from The Heywood Advertiser entitled “Hypnotist Set To Appeal Fake Sheikh conviction”
On the rest of this page you will find CAST IRON EVIDENCE that all the Negative Lies and B.S. they have been posting are indeed exactly just that, Negative Lies and B.S. and I strongly encourage you to check out the validity of all the evidence presented on this page to prove to yourself THAT THESE IDIOTS & TROUBLE CAUSER’S ARE NOTHING BUT LIARS.
So to start I would suggest you watch this video within which the REAL TRUTH behind every perceptively Controversial element of my Career and Life to date is discussed, examined and revealed during this video where I am interviewed by Fellow Hypnotist Robert Temple.
Having watched that video I shall now, starting with the Perceptively worst allegations and B.S. that gets posted about me, deal with each aspect in turn, providing you with all the CAST IRON EVIDENCE you need to fully understand and realize how guilty these sick and sad individuals are of trying to spread Lies, Rumors and Bullshit (B.S) whilst also at the same time trying to incite Hatred and Violence towards me, collectively meaning that many of them are Guilty of breaking either Civil Laws or Criminal Laws and in actuality on many occasions these people are Guilty of breaking both CIVIL & CRIMINAL LAWS.
So let’s begin with an Article that appeared in The News of The World British National Sunday Newspaper on Sunday 12th April 1998.
This is an article that only appeared as a result of me engineering a Media Hoax and Sting against The News of The World in my quest to both Expose them and also the Illegal and dodgy tactics and methods used by many unethical Journalists at the time.
Fabricated News of the World Article Sunday 12th April 1998.
NOTE = At The time of writing this blog page (Saturday 19th October 2013) that Fabricated Article is currently Over Fifteen Years Old and as such could hardly be called Breaking news on any level.
NOTE = You can see the entire text of this Fabricated Article which appeared as part of my Media Sting and Hoax against the News of the World and other dodgy publications and Journalists at the link that follows. JUSTREMEMBER – I never said or did the vast majority of what they FALSELY CLAIM in this article. The link to see the full text of the article prior to seeing the evidence here that IT WAS ALL JUST A MEDIA STING & HOAX ON THEM and also that they printed many things that I NEVER SAID OR DID is – http:jrnotw.wix.com/jrnotw
EXTRANOTE = That link of http:jrnotw.wix.com/jrnotw is a Free Website company that has been used by some anonymous moron to post the wording of the FABRICATED News of the World Article upon, so that they can then post it around COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTEXT and without any mention of the Real Truth and the Real Facts Behind it, obviously in some kind of vindictive attempt to incite Hatred & perhaps even violence towards me, which ironically with those intentions, would mean THEY ARE COMMITTING A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
NOTE: Mazher Mahmood is listed at the reporter on the article and credits also appear for Conrad Brown & Les Chudzicki for the pictures and such like.
Anyhow the simple fact is that I engineered that article in a quest to expose The News of The World, whom you should remember have now BEEN PUBLICLY EXPOSED AND SHUT THEIR DOORS FOREVER as detailed here –
An image I used the day the disgraced News of The World shut its doors for good. That weekend I gave my book away exposing them and other journalists for 48 hours.
Further it should be noted that this closure and expose of “The News of the World” led to the UK Government starting the Leveson Inquiry into the often Illegal and unethical techniques and methods used by some journalists and publications further details of which can be seen here – http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/
Ultimately it is true that for about 30 minutes I had what I had been led to believe at the time were some Fake Pound Coins in my possession, HOWEVER I KNEW THEY WOULD NEVER GET INTO PUBLIC CIRCULATION as I knew I was giving them to The News of the World as part of the Sting/Expose that I had engineered against them.
I also knew that what I had been led to believe at the time were Fake Coins would be passed to the Police and that ultimately I would reveal the source of the coins to The Police leading to arrests of those guilty of making and supplying them.
Having worked in the past briefly as a freelance undercover journalist, it was my experience that such action would be excused by The Police and Crown Prosecution Service on the basis that I could prove I has engineered the whole media article to occur, knew that the coins would never be publicly distributed and would rather be handed to the Police and lead to investigation and arrest of some real criminals.
However unfortunately for me, as I was doing this all independently and was not on the payroll of a National Media Publication at the time of doing such, it was deemed that I would not be allowed “Journalistic License” for having the coins in my possession for a short time, despite the fact that I gave all relevant information to The Police in order that they could investigate and catch the real criminals.
UPDATE A = At no time were the coins that Mazher Mahmood eventually gave to the Police claiming them to be the ones I handed to him ever Forensically Tested, Yes indeed as unbelievable as that might sound the coins were never tested and there was absolutely no documented evidence or proof that the coins were anything other than 100% Genuine given to the Police or Courts other than Mahmoods testimony which has now been completely discredited following him being Jailed for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice.
UPDATE B = Originally I had absolutely no idea where to obtain such coins from in the same way that I had no idea at that time where to source drugs or anything else that was spoken about in the fabricated “News of the World” article. But then as I kept demonstrating that I was unable to get things, pressure was put on me by one of Mahmoods associates to get him some coins and indeed it was this associate who informed me where I could get them from and pressurized me into collecting them using the money that Mahmood gave me upfront in order to make this possible.
UPDATE C = In other words without Mahmood having given me the money upfront to pay for the coins and without his associate having informed me where I could go to obtain such, it would have proved impossible for me to be able to carry out the transaction which I was pressurized into doing by Mahmoods associate.
UPDATE D = Ultimately I was charged with two separate counts of delivery of counterfeit pound coins, one charge was for delivery of 3 coins and the second for delivery of 997 coins, a total of 1,000 coins between the two charges. Now this is very odd as the videos showed me giving 3 coins to Mahmood on one occasion (these I know were 100% Genuine as I just gave him 3 coins from my pocket, told him they were samples and he said they were the best fakes he had ever seen) and then on the next occasion the videos showed me giving him a bag which I was sold (by the person Mahmoods associate put me in contact with) as being 1,000 fake coins. That would make 1003 coins in total that should have been sent to the Police and yet they only ever got sent 1,000 by Mahmood – why was that I wonder?
UPDATE E = Just like in the John Alford Case (and many others) featured on the 2014 “Panorama” documentary after the collapse of the “Tulisa” trial during which Mahmood was exposed as a Liar and in time was found Guilty and Jailed for this, I was offered the promise of Fame and Fortune, the chance to Present my Own Television Series and that all my wildest dreams would come true if I just “bent the rules” and helped the “Fake Sheikh” to get what he wanted.
UPDATE F = And just like in the John Alford case, things were printed that I do not recall ever saying and coincidentally some parts of the meetings with Mahmood were so they claimed at the time, not captured on tape which again seems to occur in many of Mahmoods “Stings”
UPDATE G = Mahmood and his associates plied me with Alcohol from the moment I arrived and as mentioned earlier never used room service despite being several floors up from the bar area, opting instead to send his “Body Guard” down to the bar during which time the drinks could possibly have been tampered with.
UPDATE H = My research shows that the use of certain Drugs placed into someones drink can make them highly suggestible and compliant to orders and instructions from others which would certainly give a logical explanation to as why in my case, that of John Alfords and others, Mahmood often stated things as Orders and Strict Instructions to us rather than as polite requests.
UPDATE I = Although I thought I had engineered the entire situation and original meeting, bearing in mind that it is now clear that my former publicist was a close associate of Mahmoods and that I had previously had discussions with my publicist about how I could possibly go about pulling a media prank on Mazher Mahmood, it now appears that Mahmood and his team were always one step ahead of me and that they at the very least would have held suspicions that I was going to try and expose their dishonest, unethical and arguably illegal techniques. No wonder they printed so many things that I either never said, never did, never gave them and most certainly was never reprimanded, charged, cautioned or convicted over. I honestly believe they were trying to ensure that they had protected themselves and that I could not expose them at the time.
UPDATE J = That may well also explain why I was never telephoned before the article appeared. Usually just before a Story was about to appear in “The News of the World” they would either confront the subject of the story face to face or would contact them by telephone and inform them that on Sunday an article about them doing XY or Z was about to appear and that this was their chance to make comment on why they did it. Well I can 100% honestly state that nobody ever came to confront me in person and nobody ever contacted me on the phone before the article appeared in the newspaper. But there again why would they contact me if they had realized (likely through their double agent my former publicist) that my intention had been all along to expose their techniques?
UPDATE K = When I was finally sent to Prison after being pressurized in many manners by various people & sources behind the scenes into changing my plea from Not Guilty to Guilty, oddly the “News of the World” never published a story bragging about how they had secured a conviction against me. My educated guess is, that this is because in Manchester Crown Court as you will see in a few moments time below, it was accepted & stated that my intention was nothing more than to create a Publicity Prank, so it would not have looked good for Mahmood or the “News of the World” to report on what was said in the Manchester Crown Court.
UPDATE L = Given the additional information, facts and evidence that has come to light since Mazher Mahmoods Conviction & Jail term for his proven Conspiracy to Pervert the course of justice in the Tulisa Trial, it has become clear that it is highly likely that serious levels of non disclosure of relevant data & facts may well have taken place by the Crown Prosecution Service. Had such knowledge and facts been available to our legal teams it could be argued that charges would never have been brought against us in the first place, or that in the unlikely event that charges had still been pressed, with such facts & information disclosed to us (rather than hidden) I would have been (as would others) far more likely not to bow to behind the scenes pressure, threats and manipulation from Mahmood’s Associates which is the only reason I changed my plea from NOT GUILTY to guilty with mitigating circumstances at the very last minute.
UPDATE M = Finally please remember that it has now become clear through many sources (see other links on this blog page) that Mahmood had a long track record of Lying, Dishonesty & Fabricating False Stories whilst often engineering people into situations where he could then make it look as though they had committed a crime, when in truth the real criminal was it has now become clear the Fake Sheikh himself.
UPDATE O = Whilst it is true to say that I went into that first meeting with Mahmood knowing who he was, I had absolutely no intentions of doing anything illegal in any manner at any time. I merely intended to ring some escorts from the local newspaper for him then make my excuses and leave (which I did) expecting a story to appear that Sunday, never did I expect continued contact from Mahmood along with threats and intimidation from behind the scenes from his associates.
UPDATE P = It is also very important to remember that I pleaded NOT GUILTY from the very start all the way up to the first day of trial at Crown Court. I only changed my plea at the last minute to guilty with mitigating circumstances after receiving what I now know to be bad advice from my legal time at the time. This was further compounded by the behind the scenes intimidation & threats I had been getting from Mahmoods associates.
UPDATE Q = When all of this is balanced with the fact that in recent years since the Tulisa trial collapsed (July 2014) more and more whistle blowers have come out and admitted that it was regular practice for illegal activities to take place on the part of reporters at “The News of the World” and other Rupert Murdoch owned publications. Also the fact that stories were often stage managed, completely fabricated and made up or distorted to contain only a tiny grain of real truth are also common themes that these various whistle blowers including (but by no means limited to) The Camera Assassin “Ian Cutler” and his Friend Bobbie Cummins O.B.E. have stated.
Camera Assassin Book Cover
ALSO CHECK OUT THE EVIDENCE OF CAMERA ASSASSIN IAN CUTLER & ALSO BOBBY CUMMINES O.B.E. THAT PROVES THAT STORIES WERE REGULARLY FABRICATED, FAKED & FALSIFIED FOR MURDOCH’S PAPERS
Pictured is Gerry Brown a former Colleague of Mazher Mahmood and Father of Conrad Brown who became Mahmood’s Assistant
Consider this quote about Gerry Brown who is pictured above:
“News of the World reporter Gerry Brown was behind many a fake story including Sardine Hostels, the Beckham kidnapping and the Bullets Wizzing Past My Ears rubbish he concocted with Mazher Mahmoud.”
“There were no bullets wizzing around anybody’s ears. I set this picture up at Bisley rifle range in Surrey.”
“Years later after Brown’s death, Mahmoud wrote his obituary for the News of the World. In it the lying bastard used this photo claiming he had taken it.”
Pictured above on the left hand side of the photograph is Conrad Brown the Son of Gerry Brown. Prior to his death Gerry worked alongside Mahmood concocting stories as exposed by The Camera Assassin Ian Cutler on his site at the link given earlier.
Consider this quote from Guardian Newspaper:
“But the key to Mahmood’s success is the prowess of his technical team and the endless cast of characters at his disposal. Gerry Brown, a former NoW reporter, and his son Conrad, are the ‘sound and vision’ experts, hiding microphones and cameras in vases and picture frames in hotel rooms. Freelance journalists and editorial assistants play the parts of minor Arab royals, minders, chauffeurs and prostitutes.”
Indeed Mazher Mahmood himself talked about working with Gerry Brown on many stories in a tribute piece after Gerry’s death in which he said:
“After a recent job in Marbella, where Gerry and I were exposing an Arab terrorist selling a dirty bomb, he turned to me and said, ‘You know something, Maz, you and I could never become top executives because we’ve got investigations in our blood.“
Once Gerry Brown had died, his son Conrad Brown became even more important to the Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood as illustrated by this quote:
“Of inestimable importance to Mahmood is Conrad Brown, son of a former NoW reporter, who operates the concealed video cameras and microphones that provide the vital “proof” of Maz’s investigations.”
Mahmood’s long term driver and often accomplice was none other Alan Smith who pictured above right was found guilty along with Mahmood of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice in regards to the collapsed Tulisa Case and whom it was stated in court already had an extensive Criminal Record.
The more you dig the more obvious it becomes that Mahmood was surrounded by dishonest people and those with a provable track record of Stunting, Faking and Fabricating Stories with a complete disregard for reality or the truth.
Former News of the World Executive Greg Miskiw Supplied Phone Hacking to Mazher Mahmood via Glenn Mulcaire
Pictured above is Former News of the World Executive Greg Miskiw who openly admits that he on behalf of Mazher Mahmood arranged for Glenn Mulcaire to illegally hack phones for him on many occasions as quoted here:
Seriously look at the rest of the information, facts and evidence on this page and it becomes even clearer that Mahmood operated in an environment surrounded by colleagues for whom fabricating stories and/or acting illegally was to them second nature and so it would seem an everyday occurrence.
Panorama Producer Speaks about Mahmood on Twitter
Above a post from Meirion Jones Producer of the BBC Panorama “Fake Sheikh Exposed” documentary which is on Twitter.
Indeed when you consider this quote from the Independent newspaper it starts to become even clearer the kind of person Mahmood was and is.
“After the trial collapsed, Mr Gashi made allegations which led police to launch an investigation into Mr Mahmood, codenamed Canopus. When Mr Mahmood was interviewed under caution he was asked why he relied on people like Mr Gashi. He told detectives he got information from prostitutes and drug addicts, adding: “I’ve got bent police officers that are witnesses, that are informants.”
And below is a Tweet from a Former New Scotland Yard Detective about Mahmood’s activities.
MOST IMPORTANT POINT OF ALL = Perhaps the most important thing of all to consider and realize at this moment though is the very real fact that I was never Cautioned, Reprimanded, Charged or Convicted in any manner for anything mentioned in that article with the exception of having some fake coins in my possession for a short period of time.
Bearing that in mind, what follows are two Newspaper Articles from the Manchester Evening News who covered the Manchester Crown Court Case relating to the Fake Coins..
Manchester Evening News Jonathan Royle Alex Smith Leroy Article Tuesday 2nd March 1999.
The Above Press Article (You can see a bigger image of it by clicking on the photograph) was taken from Page Seven of The Manchester Evening News – Early Edition – Tuesday March 2nd 1999.
You can obtain a clear copy from your local library if you wish to confirm what I am about to quote from the article as being true.
QUOTES FROM ARTICLE…
*He Knew That The Fakes WOULD NOT be circulated Publically.
*His meetings with the reporters were a PUBLICITY STUNT.
*Judge David Owen Said “I Limit This Sentence because IT IS NOT AN ORDINARY CASE”
*It was a PUBLICITY STUNT to gain media recognition which had backfired.
*Anthony Morris defending said “One of the men he dealt with was Smiths former Publicity Agent, they had been concerned together in earlier SCAMS aimed at getting Smith Publicity, and he knew whatever he said or did would get newspaper exposure!”
*He Has done many outlandish things TO GAIN PUBLICITY“
*Smith Knew the Fake Coins WOULD NOT be circulated Publically in what was a ONE OFF offence by a Man of Good character.
EXTRA POINTS TO CONSIDER…
*In the actual Court Case, the Judge, Crown Prosecution Service and also the Police ALL CONFIRMED IN COURT that having seen all the evidence that they 100% KNEW that it was all a PUBLICITY STUNT & MEDIA STING engineered BY ME to help gain Publicity for myself and also TO EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS AND JOURNALISM.
Unfortunately Court Documents are of Crown Copyright and they told me I could not post such here, BUT PLEASE DO GET YOUR OWN COPY of the Court Transcripts and you will then see that:
*In Court it was proven and accepted beyond any reasonable doubt that the News of the World article was and is complete and utter BS…
*It was mentioned by all (Police, Judge and CPS) that the entire article came about due to me engineering it as a PUBLICITY STUNT and also a way to EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS.
*It was noted that many things that were printed I HAD NOT EVEN EVER SAID OR DONE IN ANY MANNER.
Feel free to obtain a copy of the Court Records and check this out for yourself.
*In court both the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and Probation Service all spoke on my behalf and recommended a NON CUSTODIAL Sentence due to it all being a Publicity Stunt to expose the newspaper.
*When the Judge gave a custodial sentence, everyone agreed I SHOULD BE RELEASED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, hence I only spent 46 days inside.
*The Court records will show that I had character references from The Local Rochdale MP of the time, also the Head of the Local Military Police of the time, hardly what you’d expect if any of the other BS they printed in that NOW SHUT DOWN AND SHAMED Newspaper were in any way true.
The Court Hearing was at Manchester Crown Court on Monday 1st March 1999.
It was The Crown “vs” Alex William Smith.
The Judge was David Owen.
Prosectutor was Stuart Duke.
Defence Lawyer was Anthony Morris.
Manchester Evening News Tuesday 1st March 1999 – Late Edition.
Taken from Page Seven of The Manchester Evening News – Late Edition – Tuesday March 2nd 1999, again as with all images on this page you can see a bigger version of it by clicking on the image above to see the larger version.
You can obtain a clear copy from your local library if you wish to confirm what I am about to quote from the article as being true.
QUOTES FROM ARTICLE…
*He Knew That The Fakes WOULD NOT be circulated Publically.
*His meetings with the reporters were a PUBLICITY STUNT.
*Judge David Owen Said “I Limit This Sentence because IT IS NOT AN ORDINARY CASE”
*Smith was a man of good character and had been involved in earlier SCAMS aimed at getting PUBLICITY.
EXTRA POINTS TO CONSIDER…
*In the actual Court Case, the Judge, Crown Prosecution Service and also the Police ALL CONFIRMED IN COURT that having seen all the evidence that they 100% KNEW that it was all a PUBLICITY STUNT & MEDIA STING engineered BY ME to help gain Publicity for myself and also TO EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS AND JOURNALISM.
Unfortunately Court Documents are of Crown Copyright and they told me I could not post such here, BUT PLEASE DO GET YOUR OWN COPY of the Court Transcripts and you will then see that:
*In Court it was proven and accepted beyond any reasonable doubt that the News of the World article was and is complete and utter BS…
*It was mentioned by all (Police, Judge and CPS) that the entire article came about due to me engineering it as a PUBLICITY STUNT and also a way to EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS.
*It was noted that many things that were printed I HAD NOT EVEN EVER SAID OR DONE IN ANY MANNER.
*In court both the Police, Crown Prosecution Service and Probation Service all spoke on my behalf and recommended a NON CUSTODIAL Sentence due to it all being a Publicity Stunt to expose the newspaper.
*When the Judge gave a custodial sentence, everyone agreed I SHOULD BE RELEASED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, hence I only spent 46 days inside.
*The Court records will show that I had character references from The Local Rochdale MP of the time, also the Head of the Local Military Police of the time, hardly what you’d expect if any of the other BS they printed in that NOW SHUT DOWN AND SHAMED Newspaper were in any way true.
Feel free to obtain a copy of the Court Records and check this out for yourself.
The Court Hearing was at Manchester Crown Court on Monday 1st March 1999.
It was The Crown “vs” Alex William Smith.
The Judge was David Owen.
Prosectutor was Stuart Duke.
Defence Lawyer was Anthony Morris.
You can also find full details of the entire SCAM and attempt to EXPOSE DODGY JOURNALISTS along with the court case in my book which can be got from Amazon:
OTHER NEWSPAPER ARTICLES WHICH ARE RELEVANT AND PROVE THIS WAS INDEED ALL A PUBLICITY STUNT AND ATTEMPTED EXPOSE OF DODGY JOURNALISTS ARE:
Other Articles Proving my SERIAL MEDIA HOAXER PAST (and lack of truth in any of the BS people are currently posting about me on a certain Websites and other places)
*Chat Show Favourite Was A Serial Hoaker – April 30th 2002 – Sunday Times by Nicholas Hellen & Mark Macaskill (Half Page)
*Chat Rat Nailed – News of The World – April 30th 2000 – by Paul McMullan
*Joke Was On Me In The End – Heywood Advertiser – Thursday May 18th 2000 – by Alison Pilkington
*The Knack – How to Hoak Your Way onto a Chat Show – by Susannah Prain and Jonathan Royle – The Independent – Friday review Section – May 5th 2000
*on Sunday 28th January 2001 The Sunday Sport ran another half page feature “Trisha Guest was a Dirty Hoaker!”
*Trishas Welcome For A Serial TV Hoaker – The Daily Mail – Wednesday 24th January 2001 – by Mark Reynolds & Tony Bonnici or it could have been – on 24-01-01 a half page feature appeared in The Daily Mail “Trisha Show Turns Blind Eye to Serial Hoaker”
NOTICE = Even the “News of The World” ran an article in their paper on April 30th 2000…
FACT = If there was any truth in the BS that the News of the world previously printed about me (back in 1998) Don’t you think they would have mentioned it again in this article of 2000??
That’s aside from the fact that they NEVER did any follow up article to their 1998 “expose” (which was another of my media hoaxes and was engineered by me to expose them and other dodgy journalists) mentioning me getting charged or convicted for anything serious.
AND THAT IS BECAUSE I WAS NEVER CHARGED, REPRIMANDED, CAUTIONED OR CONVICTED OF ANY OF THE SERIOUS BS THAT LIERS AND TROUBLE CAUSERS ARE ACCUSING ME OF ON THE INTERNET.
Indeed Here are a Few Copies of Images of those National Media Articles exposing my Past as A Serial Media Hoaker which further illustrate all of the above things I have stated to be True…
Joke Was On Me In The End – Heywood Advertiser – Thursday May 18th 2000 – by Alison Pilkington
The Article Above Makes it quite clear that I only ended up in prison for a short time (46 days) due to A PUBLICITY STUNT SLIGHTLY BACKFIRING.
Chat Rat Nailed – News of The World – April 30th 2000 – by Paul McMullan
Chat Rat Nailed – News of The World – April 30th 2000 – by Paul McMullan
If there was any Real Truth in the News of the Worlds Article from 1998, don’t you think they would have made mention of their Expose of me in this article from the year 2000.
The reason they don’t make mention of such is quite simply because it had already been PROVEN IN COURT that there was no truth in their article from 1998 and that in fact it was all part of an attempt by me to Expose Them and Their Illegal Techniques.
Hence obviously they could not make mention of it, as it would have made them as a newspaper look stupid.
Its for the exact same reason that The News of The World NEVER DID A FOLLOW UP ARTICLE after the 1998 Article (the fabricated one) following the Manchester Crown Court Case as to do so would have made them look stupid given the facts and evidence that came out and were presented to the Court which PROVED BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT that it was all a Media Hoax and Sting engineered by me in an attempt to expose The News of The World.
Further proof that The News of the World Never did any follow up article bragging about having got me convicted for the coins can be seen along with Proof that Mazher Mahmood “The Fake Sheikh” committed Perjury during Part One of The Leveson Inquiry at this link where you can find the statement of Paddy French:
Trishas Welcome For A Serial TV Hoaker – The Daily Mail – Wednesday 24th January 2001 – by Mark Reynolds & Tony Bonnici or it could have been – on 24-01-01 a half page feature appeared in The Daily Mail “Trisha Show Turns Blind Eye to Serial Hoaker”
In conjunction with the other articles, this one above further proves my long-term past hoaxing and scamming the media, all of which was part of my research for my book “Confessions of a Psychic Hypnotist” within which I name, shame and expose the often Illegal and very dodgy techniques and tactics used by many journalists and publications and also the unethical approaches and disregard for the truth displayed by many others.
Chat Show Favourite Was A Serial Hoaker – April 30th 2002 – Sunday Times by Nicholas Hellen & Mark Macaskill (Half Page)
This article above, from the Respected “Sunday Times” Newspaper actually plugs the release of my autobiography within which I name, shame and expose dodgy journalists and reveal the full detailed diary of events of how I went about exposing the News of the World which led to their article of complete and utter rubbish, much all of which I never actually said or did in any manner at any time.
Sunday 28th January 2001 The Sunday Sport ran another half page feature “Trisha Guest was a Dirty Hoaker!”
The Above Article from The Daily Sport, a newspaper whose famous headlines include such Comedy Classics as “Statue of Elvis Found on Mars” and “Adolf HItler Was A Woman” and is generally regarded as more of a Comic and Joke Publication than a serious credible newspaper, leads me nicely into showing you the video of a slot I did for a TV Show called “The Dark Side of Stage Hypnosis” which was originally broadcast on UK Channel Four and since has been broadcast around the world on The Discovery Channel.
They link together in so much as the alleged Porn Movie that The Daily Sport article makes reference to WAS FAKED FOR PUBLICITY…
A Glamour Model was paid to pose for the camera AND EVERYTHING WAS JUST SIMULATED (E.g. No Real Sex Ever Took Place) indeed I have on file the signed Model Consent and Release forms from the Glamor Model.
And even if it were in any manner true (WHICH AS JUST STATED IT IS NOT) the article makes it clear as do all other media articles in the past were it says I have apparently hypnotized women for sex, that in all cases THE WOMEN WERE OF WELL ABOVE LEGAL AGE AND WERE ALL CONSENTING…
But as I say the real truth is, they were all really Actresses paid to speak to the media to create and fabricate a Controversial Sounding Story to gain more Print Media, Radio and Television Publicity and Exposure.
So Enjoy the video, but remember I AM ACTING and playing the part of a “Controversial Edgy Over The Top Adults Only Hypnotist” – I AM NOT LIKE THAT IN REAL LIFE.
HELL REMEMBER THIS IS SHOWBIZ…
So with reference to the above video, one other point you should bear in mind is that despite the way they try to portray things I HAVE NEVER BROKEN ANY HYPNOSIS LAWS.
Yes there are Legal Loopholes in the UK’s 1952 Hypnotism Act which in the past I have on occasion used, however using them in the manner that I did is FULLY LEGAL & LAWFUL and means that I was 100% operating WITHIN THE LAW.
NOTE = Also it should be noted that at the time of writing this blog, (Saturday 19th October 2013) that the TV Show from which this clip is taken was broadcast back in September 2003 which is Over Ten Years Ago Now, Once again not exactly breaking news is it, despite what some people on the internet would like to have you believe!
NOW FOR SOME MORE EVIDENCE THAT WHAT THEY POST IS UNTRUE…
Basic Disclosure Showing No Criminal Convictions At All for Alex Smith aka Jonathan Royle.
This was obtained from – http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/ and shows that at time of getting it I HAD NO CURRENT OR RELEVANT CRIMINAL RECORD WHATSOEVER.
This is further illustrated by the next few closer up images of the document…
Basic Disclosure Showing no Relevant or Current Criminal Cautions, Charges or Convictions on file for me.
And here’s another image….
Basic Disclosure Showing no Relevant or Current Criminal Cautions, Charges or Convictions on file for me.
And Another Relevant Image….
Basic Disclosure Showing no Relevant or Current Criminal Cautions, Charges or Convictions on file for me.
As you can see in the above images Nothing Showed up on my File as at time of getting this done I had (and still have) no current or relevant Criminal Charges, Cautions or Convictions in any manner…
Because of this being a 100% CLEAN DISCLOSURE I was granted a Personal Alcohol License as follows:
Personal Alcohol License as granted to Alex William Smith due to Clean Disclosure Documents.
And here is another relevant image of proof….
Personal Alcohol License as granted to Alex William Smith due to Clean Disclosure Documents.
For the record I no longer Live in or Reside at the address shown on these documents (and yes The Local Council Know my New Address) that address shown is the property that I did indeed purchase outright for Cash, with no mortgages, loans or indeed any form of borrowing being required before I was 30 years of age.
I now live in a HOUSE whilst the Apartment is producing a rental income.
Personal Alcohol License as granted to Alex William Smith due to Clean Disclosure Documents.
Once again the above document confirms that I have no Current or Relevant Offenses on file, the simple fact is, if even a tiny element of that 1998 News of the World Article held any truth in it, then I would most certainly never have been granted a Personal Alcohol License.
Personal Alcohol License as granted to Alex William Smith due to Clean Disclosure Documents.
It seems however that the above proof and evidence was not good enough for some of these vindictive and perhaps even mentally unbalanced Cyber Bullies and they have posted pointing out that a Basic Disclosure does not show Convictions Which are Spent.
If your not aware of what a spent Conviction is then I suggest you look at this page:
Well they are correct, spent convictions would not show up on a Basic Disclosure, and given the date on my Disclosure is Over Seven Years from the date that I received the Custodial Sentence mentioned earlier which saw me spending JUST 46 DAYS IN PRISON that would indeed not show up.
They also post trying to make out that I may have been Cautioned, Reprimanded, Charged or Convicted of something else since…
What they seem to forget, is that if that were the case and it were to be anything serious THEN MY PERSONAL ALCOHOL LICENSE WOULD HAVE BEEN REVOKED and yet it is still 100% Current & Valid in All Manners.
They also seem to forget that the Conviction that would have been given to anyone who was actually Guilty of anything to do with Drugs, Guns, Pimping of Underage Girls and such like WOULD MOST CERTAINLY HAVE BEEN WELL ABOVE SIX MONTHS.
And as such had I ever done such things, then as is illustrated at the link of:
Then I would most certainly have been given a conviction of Above Six Months and as such it would remain Unspent and on File and show up on a Basic Disclosure for TEN YEARS and thus would have appeared on the documents that are shown above.
After all the Basic Disclosure shown above was issued on the 6th of June 2007, I was given the Fake Coins Sentence on 1st March 1999, so obviously that does not show as it was by 2007 Spent, however The Basic Disclosure issued on and dated 6th June 2007 would show any Convictions of over six months (if there had ever been any) dating back to 6th June 1997 thus also proving that I have never been found Guilty or done anything of the nature people keep lying about during that time scale either.
HOWEVER THEY KEEP SAYING SHOW US A PROPER CRB DOCUMENT…
They Keep saying this as such a document provided by The Disclosure and Barring Service formerly known as a Criminal Records Bureau Check will indeed show everything including both Spent and unspent convictions, cautions etc as is detailed here –
So in an attempt to shut up these idiots I contacted http://www.acorndirect.org.uk/ and got them to get me my CRB Check Done, images of which you are about to see below..
CRB DBS Document for Alex Smith – October 2013.
As stated earlier you can click on the image to see a larger version of it…
CRB DBS Document for Alex Smith – October 2013.
Remember when you see the information relating to Fake Coins that has all already been fully explained earlier on this page (And was all a Media Hoax and Sting Engineered by me) and I ONLY SPENT 46 DAYS INSIDE A PRISON…
CRB DBS Document for Alex Smith – October 2013.
And finally I remind you once again you can click on any images on this page to see larger versions of them.
CRB DBS Document for Alex Smith – October 2013.
As you can see in the Above Images of my CRB Document provided by The Disclosure and Barring Service and dated 7th October 2013, a document that shows ALL and Everything that could have been on file about me (Both Spent and Unspent) the only thing it shows is the Fake Coins Conviction which has already been dealt with and explained in depth earlier on this page.
Now more recently (early 2016) I have been summoned to take part in Jury Service as can be seen in the image below..
I would not be allowed to do Jury Service if even a fraction of the Rubbish Some Vindictive Liars post about me on the Web were true in any manner!
As it states above, the simple fact is that I would not be allowed to ever do Jury Service if I had ever been convicted of any of the other nonsense (stuff other than £1 coins) that the fabricated News of The World Article made false claims about.
For the record the date of my service has been changed from that shown above, and the actual date has been blanked out of the image below for obvious legal & security reasons.
The simple fact that I have been accepted for Jury Service proves that I do not and indeed never have fallen into any of those categories and is further proof that what the idiots and liars have been saying about me in various places on the web is complete and utter B.S.
Now for those who may believe the idiots who are claiming that I have photo shopped these documents or forged them in some other Illegal manner, can I please remind you that by contacting Rochdale Council you can confirm my Personal Alcohol License to be genuine and Valid, by contacting Acorn Direct http://www.acorndirect.org.uk/ and quoting my birth name of Alex William Smith and the certificate number of 001420818776 you can also confirm that my CRB Document is Genuine and Valid and same can be said about the Basic Disclosure shown earlier.
It is a Simple manner for anyone who values THE TRUTH to check out and prove to themselves that everything I have stated above is 100% Genuine, Factually and Truthfully Correct and consequently easy for you to discover that all the B.S. People post about me in various places on the internet is exactly that complete and utter Bullshit and Lies.
DESPITE WHAT THESE IDIOT’S SAY I AM NOT SOME UNDERWORLD CRIMINAL
Indeed a couple of final things to consider on the subject of that 1999 Fabricated News of the World Hoax & Sting on them which I engineered are:
*Since the time of the Manchester Crown Court Case I have Traveled to and worked in such Places as California, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Florida and Las Vegas in the United States of America. Also I have been to places such as Barbados, Bahrain and other places around the World. Many of these places have very strict entry requirements and I would never have been granted either Visa’s or Esta’s to legally enter any of these places if even a tiny element of that News of The World Article had any basis in truth. The Same applies to various other Countries around the world that I have both traveled to and work within over the past 15+ years since that article.
*Finally consider the fact that NO NEWSPAPER OR JOURNALIST HAS EVER SUED ME for the contents of my book originally entitled “Confessions of a Showbiz Celebrity” which has recently been expanded and re-released under the title “Confessions of a Psychic Hypnotist” around the world as follows:
That is despite the fact that I name and shame various Journalists and also explain exactly how (with easily verified evidence) I engineered things to expose the News of the World and other dodgy unethical Journalists.
Given that the publication of my exposing these people and publications was publicized in various National Newspapers and also led to various Television and Radio Interviews and also because I sent copies to all those I named and shamed in the book, I know for a fact they are all aware that I expose them and their often illegal antics within the pages of my book.
The Simple reason none of them have ever sued me is because the evidence against them is without question!
Oh and take a look at this image which is a screenshot taken from one of the many websites where people often post nasty and untrue stuff about me:
My Ex-Wife Confirming that I was fully Vetted by the UK Social Services Prior to having a vulnerable child released into my care.
Long Story cut short, when I was with my Ex-Wife, I helped her to get the biological daughter of herself and her ex-partner released from Social Services care into my care.
As part of this process I had to be vetted by Social Services who did Police, Court and indeed every other check you could possibly imagine to verify whether or not I was a safe person to release a vulnerable child into the care of.
This happened AFTER the Fabricated News of the World Article and also AFTER the Manchester Crown Court Case and so all of the Evidence relating to those matters was examined and taken into account also.
BOTTOM LINE = They found me to be absolutely no danger or threat in any manner either to the general public or indeed more importantly in this context to a vulnerable child. Further details and facts and evidence relating to everything I have mentioned on this page so far can be found in my book “Confessions of a Psychic Hypnotist”
AND FRANKLY REGARDS THAT ARTICLE I REST MY CASE THE PROOF IS ALL ABOVE THAT WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE CLAIMING IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
Observant ones amongst you will also realize that the above provides proof of the Truth relating to any and all media articles and stories that may have ever appeared about me of a controversial nature anywhere in the world.
The simple truth is they were all Manufactured, Fabricated and Engineered for Publicity and in many cases involved actors or actresses being paid to play parts and say certain things to the media to create an illusion of truth to fool the media into publishing the article, thus creating media exposure for me and ultimately increased demand for my talents and services as a Comedy Stage Hypnotist, Magician and Psychic Entertainer which on all occasions they most certainly did.
Following the Collapse of The Drugs Trial involving British Pop Singer Tulisa Contostavlos, the former undercover Journalist for the now shut down and shamed “News of the World” Newspaper Mazher Mahmood has been suspended from The Sun on Sunday Newspaper and is currently being investigated by the Police as detailed at these links:
As a result of this Trial Collapsing the Crown Prosecution Service decided to put together Disclosure Packs and to issue these to some of the people who had in the past been given a conviction which involved evidence being given by Mazher Mahmood as the result of one of his “Stings” as is detailed here:
I was one of the people referred to at that link, one of the people the CPS sent a full disclosure pack to and having received such, and also due to new evidence in my favor that has recently come to light, I have now applied (Jan 2015) to the Criminal Cases Review Committee to appeal my case with the aim of getting the conviction revoked and overturned.
With this in mind I am delighted to say that British Super Lawyer Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law has agreed to represent me relating to the appeal of my conviction and the civil law side of things will be handled as I understand it by Mark Lewis of Seddons.
Both Siobhain and Mark were instrumental in the Phone Hacking Legal Cases against News International and are the best people I could possibly wish for to represent me in these matters as they truly are at the top of their game.
The following link confirms that Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law is acting for me in these matters:
At this moment she is also representing Former “London’s Burning” and “Grange Hill” Actor John Alford and Former Boxing Champion Herbie Hides in a similar manner:
For obvious legal reasons I am currently unable to say anymore on this matter, which could possibly even take years before it is rectified and concluded one way or the other.
But for those of you who may have missed the Expose on Mazher Mahmood and the highly dodgy and unethical techniques he uses (some would argue even illegal) that was broadcast as a BBC Panorama investigative documentary, then please do take the time to watch this video…
The week after that BBC Panorama “The Fake Sheikh Exposed” documentary aired my lawyer Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law can be heard discussing these matters on BBC’s “The World at One” show alongside Conservative MP John Whittingdale.
BREAKING NEWS: The Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood was Jailed for 15 Months for Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice on Friday 21st October 2016, fuller details are at the link which follows which is BBC Televisions official report of events:
Jonathan Royle aka Alex Smith with his Friend and Fellow Fake Sheikh Victim John Alford
And Here is how The Financial Times Reported on the event, where you will notice I am referred to as Alex Smith the Magician within their article at this link:
This is how the Daily Mail reported on Mahmood’s Prison Sentence, notice you’ll see they have used a picture of me stood outside court with John Alford:
With Fellow Fake Sheikh Victim Actress & Former Page Three Model Emma Morgan
The Third Picture down in the following Daily Mirror Article on his Prison Sentence shows me outside The Old Bailey as Mahmood arrives to find out his fate.
With John Alford outside the Old Bailey Waiting for Mazher Mahmood to Arrive to discover his Fate!
Here is the Telegraph newspapers report on it, within which you will see a video which I can be clearly seen in as John Alford delivers a statement on behalf of us all
IF YOU MISSED IT EARLIER HERE I AM ON BBC’s NEWSNIGHT TV SHOW
Some Other Resources that you may wish to look at which all contain much invaluable information and evidence and facts about Mazher Mahmood and his past Lies and unethical, immoral and arguably illegal actions and behaviours are as follows:
My Friend Former East 17 Pop Star Brian Harvey in Parliament trying to expose how Murdoch Lied About Him & used illegal techniques.
Brian Harvey has evidence that appears to implicate “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood and his right hand man Conrad Brown in the fabricated stories that were made about him and indeed such is mentioned in the video with Peter Jukes below.
In the audio recording above Journalist Peter Jukes of Byline is heard speaking with Brian Harvey about documents and evidence he has in his possession. It seems that this shows a direct link between Mazher Mahmood and Phone Hacking and/or tapping.
With James Doleman Who Live Tweeted the Mahmood Trial
On Thursday 19th April 2018 the Press Gazette Newspaper ran an article about Dr. Akbar Ali Malik who was a close associate of “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood and indeed it is said he played the part of a 2nd “Fake Sheikh” alongside Mahmood on some occasions in the past.
Dr. Akbar Ali Malik of the now closed down Malik Law Chambers. A close associate of Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood
This article which appears at the following link, states that the Law Firm run by Dr. Akbar Ali Malik has been shut down over dishonesty suspicions.
In the video above you can see Rebekah Brooks speaking at The Leveson Inquiry and she admits that she has paid Police (which is Illegal) for information in the past.
And in the video below you can hear Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood speaking at Leveson and admitting that he does overstep the line and break the law, however he insists that he is covered by it being for “Public Interest”
Remember this is the same Mazher Mahmood who has in the past been quoted as openly stated that he has “bent Police officers” in his pocket.
When Mahmood thinks nothing of using bent Police Officers and Brooks has admitted paying Police for information, it makes one wonder if that is why the Police & CPS were so often so willing to arrest and then charge people who in truth had not really done anything wrong and who were clearly set up, which would have become obvious to all at the time had the alleged “evidence” been properly stress tested which most often it has now become clear it was not.
You will also no doubt find these two videos of great interest as well…
And Part Two…
I would also suggest that anyone wanting to learn more about how the mainstream media manipulates and brainwashes people with so called “Fake News” – Propaganda and “Social Engineering” should listen to this podcast recording:
And then listen to this even more eye opening recording as well in which I reveal more about “Media Brainwashing” – “Social Engineering” and such like:
I also think people should remember that “The News of the World” was shut down for the Dishonest & Wholly Illegal Actions of Phone Hacking including Hacking the phone of Murdered School Girl Milly Dowler and that despite what he would obviously say to the contrary to protect himself, it seems hugely unlikely that the Owner of at the time “News International” and now “News Corp” namely Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch would not have known what was going on.
Indeed as you will have seen at earlier links on this page, there is mounting evidence that Murdoch knew exactly what was going on with his chief investigations reporter “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood and was, some say in regular contact with him.
Certainly Murdoch says things behind the scenes which contradict what he may be saying at the same time in public as is illustrated by this video:
The image that follows is of a short excerpt from an article that appeared in the Scottish Daily Mail on the 6th October 2016 after Mazher Mahmood had been convicted.
The article was entitled “Stars Could Sue for 800m as the Fake Sheikh Faces Prison” and within it there is mention that my application to the Court of Appeal has been turned down, but remember this occurred before Mahmood was convicted and also before further evidence came to light which of course has now been given to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) who are currently reviewing mine and several other Mahmood “Sting Victims” cases.
These four images which follow below are of the document from the “single judge” who decided in early 2016 to turn down my appeal, it should be noted that this occurred before Mahmood was found unanimously guilty by the entire Jury at The Old Bailey of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice in the Tulisa case and that importantly the Judge confirms within these documents that based upon the available evidence he believes that I knew who Mahmood was and that I believed the coins (that I was manipulated into collecting & supplying by one of Mahmoods associates) would never get into Public Circulation. It is important to remember that without Mahmood having provided the money upfront to pay for the coins and without one of Mahmoods associates manipulating me behind the scenes and pressurizing me into supplying the “Fake Sheikh” something, then the truth is that I would never have been in a position to supply such at the time.
Also remember that the coins were never forensically tested and as such there was actually no evidence of any kind at any time to prove whether they were real or fake.
Further as the astute ones who study this page will notice below, the judge here mentions 997 coins, and yet in actual fact a total of 1003 coins were handed to Mahmood during the course of events and of those at least 3 were 100% genuine as they came from my pocket as explained earlier on this page. In other words he made it happen, however as previously stated, although I was pressurized and manipulated behind the scenes by Mahmoods associates, I knew that I could prove (as I did to the Police, CPS & Courts at the time) that I knew I was dealing with Mahmood, that I had absolutely no Criminal Intent and that I was of the opinion that as I knew the coins would never get into public circulation and would get handed to the Police that I, like Mahmood would be covered by Journalistic License. Unfortunately as I was not directly on the payroll of a National Newspaper at the time, and was not, at the time a member of the National Union of Journalists, I was not afforded the same “Journalistic License” that Mahmood was despite the fact that the Police, CPS and Court accepted the fact that I knew who Mahmood was and that my intention was to help expose his unethical, immoral and arguably illegal methods.In truth I feel that the Judge did me a massive favor, as by turning down the appeal application in early 2016, it means that since then there has been time for more & more truths to come out about Mahmoods Dishonesty and also it means that I was then able to apply to the CCRC to have my conviction sent for appeal, the outcome of which is currently still being considered and investigated by the CCRC along with numerous other similar cases where Mahmood followed essentially the same modus operandi.
And most significantly on the 21st October 2016, “Fake Sheikh” Mazher Mahmood was jailed for 15 months for Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice.
I think it is fair to say that the transparently obvious and very crystal clear facts and evidence speak for themselves…
Sadly though as exposed in the BBC Panorama Documentary entitled “Last Chance for Justice” which was broadcast on BBC One here in England on Wednesday 30th May 2018, it seems that many experts are now saying that they have discovered that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) may well not be fit for purpose and that many who deserve justice have been wrongly denied it.
The Crown Prosecution Service aka CPS has been accused of regular Non Disclosure of Key Evidence in Court Cases
The article published on Tuesday 5th June 2018 at the link which follows shows that it has now been discovered that the Crown Prosecution Service has on numerous occasions failed to disclose key evidence and information which had it been disclosed would most likely have led to the trial collapsing or at the very least the person accused (often wrongly) being found NOT GUILTY.
Whilst those articles are largely focused on Rape Cases, it does beg the question of how many other cases have been affected by Non Disclosure by the CPS and could any of the Fake Sheikhs Victims possibly have suffered also due to non disclosure?
It certainly seems that the CCRC is heavily under budgeted and under staffed by mainly by people who have no legal qualifications.
Nazir Afzal former Chief of the Crown Prosecution Service in Northwest of England.
“One is mindful about the fact there is little regulation on undercover newspaper work and citizen investigators which perhaps needs to be looked into.” Nazir Afzal – Former Chief of CPS in Northwest.
Lord Peter Henry Goldsmith QC, British Barrister & Former Attorney General
“The fact that somebody who has been accused by a judge of apparently not telling the truth may be instrumental in those convictions would certainly be a reason to look at those convictions again and to examine them to see whether they are safe,” (Goldsmith told the Fake Sheikh Exposed Panorama Documentary) Lord Peter Henry Goldsmith – Former Attorney General
“I will first deal with unlawful and improper conduct within News International and other newspaper organisations.”
“The Conviction of Mazher Mahmood also raises issues of an entirely different species of unlawful and improper conduct”
Above comments are quoted from Sir Brian Leveson’s letter to the UK Government dated 23rd January 2018 within which as you can see at link below he made it clear that he felt that Leveson Part 2 should go ahead and indeed its remit should be widened.
The Crown Prosecution Service issued me and many other Fake Sheikh Victims with Disclosure Packs and invited us to appeal our Fake Sheikh Convictions following collapse of Tulisa case.
“The CPS said it was in the process of providing the defendants in 25 cases with material that “might cast doubt upon the safety of any convictions”. It said there were no cases in which defendants were still in prison, but that it had identified three live cases where “there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction” after reexamining evidence provided by Mahmood”
Returning to the subject of the Police and/or Crown Prosecution Service not disclosing things to people which would have helped them to be found NOT GUILTY this BBC Panorama documentary entitled “Getting a Fair Trial” is eye opening indeed.
Next let’s take a closer look at what Mazher Mahmoods former Photographer had to say about how the Fake Sheikh Fabricated, Manufactured & Engineered his Stories.
Steve Grayson worked with Mazher Mahmood for years and has now blown the whistle on how Mahmood entrapped people and manipulated them into doing things they would never normally do.
Steve Grayson, who worked with Mahmood on numerous stories in the 1990’s including this one, said of the takedown: “He is a drug dealer, we’re drug dealers, we have paid this guy to supply the drugs to give to her.”
Jonathan Rees who was Daniel Morgans business partner at Southern Investigations a firm Mazher Mahmood used many times.
It seems the Police knew that Mazher Mahmood was an unreliable witness for over a decade before the Tulisa trial collapsed due to his links to the Private Investigation firm Southern Investigations as illustrated here:
I recently discovered that back in 2012, Channel Four Television here in England ran a documentary called “Undercover at the News of the World” within which jockey Kieren Fallon and politician George Galloway help to show how dishonest Mazher Mahmood always was and how his “stories” cannot be considered anything but works of fiction.
In 2012 Channel Four ran a documentary called “Undercover at the News of the World” exposing Mazher Mahmoods tactics.
Unfortunately I have not been able (as yet) to find a copy of that documentary online, (perhaps legal action was taken by Mazher Mahmood to stop it being shown?) however I have found these 2 relevant newspaper article features:
Lawyer Siobhain Egan said: “The CPS special prosecution team, as it was then, dealt exclusively with these prosecutions and in my view did not seek to test the weight or the veracity of the evidence.”
“As I say, there was a certain MO Mahmood would employ. The same assertions were made by reputable defence teams time and again to the CPS, which were ignored.”
“You also have the Met Police. We now know there were internal investigations by the anti-corruption team at New Scotland Yard into Mahmood’s relationships with serving police officers.”
“Over the last 25 years, innumerable lives have been ruined by the dishonest actions of Mazher Mahmood. People have lost their livelihoods, their homes and relationships, with some spending time in prison.”
“When the public used to read “Fake Sheikh” articles in British newspapers, they would know there was a criminal at the heart of the story. Until now, readers didn’t realise that the criminal was the “Fake Sheikh” himself.” MARK LEWIS – LAWYER
Ben Rose is the Lawyer that represented British Pop Singer Tulisa in her case which collapsed in 2014 and exposed Mazher Mahmood for the Serial Liar, Manipulator of Evidence and Fabricator of Stories that he most certainly is and at the following link he gives his insights into the whole matter.
Quotes from the link include:
“The real scandal in this case is that Mahmood was allowed to operate as a wholly unregulated police force, ‘investigating’ crimes without the safeguards which apply to the police. As a journalist, he was able to rely on unnamed ‘sources’ and was not required to give full disclosure of his investigation to the defence. As Tulisa’s defence lawyers, we were prevented from properly testing the strength of his evidence.”
“It was obvious from the outset that Tulisa should never have had to go to court. If Mahmood’s evidence had been properly stress tested instead of accepted wholesale by the CPS, we are confident it would have come to the same conclusion.”
“It appears perverse that, while the law protects against the state causing citizens to commit illegal acts, it does not protect against private parties doing the same thing, where often the participation of the private ‘entrapper’ goes beyond that which would be deemed appropriate by law enforcement officers. Many newspapers stings involve an expensive and targeted campaign on one individual, based on limited or no intelligence, where the inducement is persistent and the primary incentive is to sell newspapers, not to prevent crime.” – David Sleight – Kingsley Napsley Solicitors
“Panorama increases the strength of the case considerably for a new inquiry… There is a severe question mark over over the tactics he [Mahmood] used… We are dealing with convictions which may not have been properly obtained.” – John Whittingdale MP
“I am minded to refer the whole of this matter to the Attorney General to consider the temptations to which money being offered in return for stories, in particular about celebrities, gives rise to – and the way in which newspaper investigations may have a detrimental effect on – the ultimate court proceedings.” Judge Simon Smith
Alistair Parker of Brett Wilson has said that more immediately and specifically, there must also be a review of Mazher Mahmood’s previous work. There is a long rap sheet of complaints from Mahmood’s previous targets. All those claims previously dismissed as ‘special pleading’ now sound eerily similar to Contostavlos’ reports, namely that either:-
Mahmood offered inducements to ‘create’ the commission of a crime that would never otherwise have been anticipated,
Mahmood manipulated or ‘spliced’ audio recordings, thus providing police with inaccurate impressions about what was said, or the context of it,
Mahmood misled law enforcement about the ‘originator’ or ‘instigator’ of a criminal enterprise when in fact the origin was either Mahmood, or someone in his pay.
“We’ve had the case of Mazher Mahmood, the ‘fake sheikh’ who perverted the course of justice to secure his ’scoops’ and left scores of previous convictions unsafe.” Tom Watson – Labour MP
The other thing you might want to look at though is the PCC code: “Clandestine devices and subterfuge. The press must not seek to obtain or publish material acquired by using hidden cameras or clandestine listening devices or by intercepting private or mobile calls, messages or emails…” etcetera, etcetera. And of course it goes on to say: “… unless there’s a clear public interest.” Alistair Campbell – MP
“Curiously, he’s (Mazher Mahmood) never been charged with the illegal purchase of cocaine, although there are no legal grounds on which he can do this to perpetrate a sting.” – Peter Burden – Author of Fake Sheikhs & Royal Trappings.
“I am responsible for innocent people going to jail. I tricked them, (to help Mazher Mahmood) and I’m ashamed. It’s time to tell the truth.” Florim Gashi – Former Colleague of the Fake Sheikh
William Southcott at Ashcott Solicitors has successfully defended a serving police officer from allegations of ecstasy dealing brought following an apparent undercover investigation by the now infamous Mazhar Mahmood (he of the ‘Fake Sheik’ fame) of the (joyously now defunct) News of the World.
Journalists and a Photographer from the News of the World claimed to have the unfortunate target on tape and film supplying them from a bag containing up to 50 ecstasy tablets. Mr William Southcott was however able to expose lies, half truths and errors within the Crowns evidence resulting in an acquittal of all charges,
David Friesner, for the prosecution, told the Crown Court in Manchester that the CPS had serious concerns over evidence relating to tape recorded and telephone conversations between Mr Rhodri Giggs and the News of the World.
Judge Stuart Fish formally acquitted Mr Giggs, then asked whether charges of inciting to supply drugs and illegal possession had been considered against the reporter, Mazher Mahmood.
Mr Quinn Hawkins prosecuting (pictured above) said: “The position is that the Crown can no longer rely on Mr Mahmood as a witness of truth in this case, and for that reason, I offer no evidence against Mr Gordon on behalf of the Crown.”
Serious questions have been asked by many about The Crown Prosecution Service along with suggestions that they may have had far too close of a relationship with Mazher Mahmood & The News of the World.
And if you have any doubts whatsoever that Mazher Mahmood in the majority of his stories used dishonest, unethical and illegal techniques to entrap people and manipulate them into apparently doing things they would never normally do then be sure to watch the BBC Panorama Documentary “The Fake Sheikh Exposed” again
Bearing in mind everything we have looked at so far, may I now draw your attention to the one and only single thing that I was charged of as follows:
I was given two charges under Part Two of Section 15 of the act which covers “Offences of Passing Etc. Counterfeit Notes and Coins” and which clearly states:
“It is an offence for a person to deliver to another, without lawful authority or excuse, any thing which is, and which he knows or believes to be, a counterfeit of a currency note or of a protected coin.”
You will also notice at the above link that according to the Law, the action of Mazher Mahmood purchasing Counterfeit Coins was itself Illegal on his part unless he could prove he had lawful reason and/or excuse, which in short would mean proving that he had acted in the Public Interest and that the story and his actions to get it were truly in the public interest which as I am sure you already realize having watched the Panorama documentary and looked at this blog page, they most certainly were not.
The above is an image of my DBS aka CRB or Criminal Records Bureau check document which shows quite clearly that according to the Police Charges and Court Records I was charged for TWO separate offences of “delivering Counterfeit coin to another” and that they say BOTH took place on the same date of Thursday 9th April 1998 and I was then convicted on the 1st March 1999 after changing my Not Guitly plea at the very last minute to Guilty with mitigating circumstances due to the behind the scenes pressure and intimidation I had been facing from Mahmoods associates and also due to the what I now know to be bad legal advice.
FACT: The above is inaccurate as on Thursday 9th April I only delivered one package of coins to Mahmood, namely the 1,000 pound coins that he had provided the money for up front and his associates had provided the information of where to obtain and placed pressure upon me to do such, thus it was Mahmood who made it both possible for this to happen and also manipulated, engineered and intimidated so that it did.
As you can see above the Manchester Evening News who reported on my case printed their report on 2nd March 1999 which was the day after I was convicted.
However The Single Judge who turned down my application to the Court of Appeal in 2016 INCORRECTLY states that I was convicted in February 1999.
He also incorrectly gives the impression that I was only convicted of delivery of 997 counterfeit coins, when in fact as mentioned earlier on this page on one day (which was not the 9th April) I gave Mahmood three (3) Genuine coins from my pocket as apparent “samples” these being the ones he said were the best fakes he had ever seen.
Then on another later meeting on 9th April 1998 AFTER being given the money by Mahmood to enable the purchase of the coins and AFTER being given the information from his associate of where to obtain such along with intimidation that I better get them and keep his boss happy, I finally delivered 1,000 what I was led to believe at the time were fake coins to Mahmood.
It does not take a Math’s Genius to work out that 3 coins plus 1,000 coins = 1,003.
So why did the Police only ever get sent 1,000 coins in total from Mahmood???
And why was I then charged so it seems with delivery of 3 coins on one visit and just 997 on the second?
Plus how exactly did the Police get the impression that both things took place on the same day (which they did not) of Thursday 9th April?
Close-up (click on it for larger image) from the Manchester Evening News Court Report Published on 2nd March 1998
Could this be pointing towards manipulation of evidence on the part of Mahmood?
Might it be highly likely that he edited video and/or audio footage to DISHONESTLY give the impression that both events happened on the same day?
And how exactly could any of his or his associates actions be considered as “in the public interest” which they would have to be to give him as a Journalist working on such a story lawful excuse to buy counterfeit coins?
Oh and why were the coins never forensically tested, but instead it seems they just took Mahmoods word for it that they were counterfeit?
On the 25th May 2018, the Criminal Cases Review Commission came to a provisional decision that they would not refer my case to the Court of Appeal, but they gave me until 23rd of June to submit anything new I may have for them to consider.
Those observant ones reading this will easily spot the various errors that the CCRC have clearly made both whilst carrying out their review (my case was passed to numerous different people over the years) and also making their decision.
Click on any of the images and that will make them enlarge so you are then able to read them and spot the various errors made by the CCRC.
One clue I will give you is to look earlier on this page at the images of the Single Judges decision from the Court of Appeal which I got before the CCRC looked (or claim to have) into my case properly and you will notice that for the most part it just looks like they have lazily copied and pasted what the single judge said.
Anyhow they gave us until 23rd of June to submit anything we felt was new that they should consider and in that regard the following letter was sent to them from my Solicitor Siobhain Egan of Lewis Nedas Law.And along with that letter was a document prepared by my wife which laid out relevant points that the CCRC seemed to have ignored in making their initial decision.
As mentioned earlier by clicking on any of the images on this blog page you will find they enlarge and thus it makes them easier to read.
That was all sent to the CCRC on Monday 4th June 2018, amazingly they have they claim looked at everything and considered all the points fully in just one week as their FINAL DECISION arrived dated Monday 11th June 2018 and again they have stated they will not be referring my case to the Court of Appeal.
On a side note back on Friday 18th May 2018 the CCRC wrote to me stating that they were coming close to the end of their review and that my case worker would be passing my file to a decision maker sometime soon.
Then on Friday25th May they sent me their provisional decision. Given that 18th May was a Friday and they are off at weekends, do they honestly expect me to believe that the decision maker considered everything fully in less than a week??
Unless of course it is possible that the case reviewer (of which I have had several over the years) did not give them a huge amount of material to consider?
For example I have recently contacted Journalist John Sweeney who made the BBC Panorama documentary “The Fake Sheikh Exposed” and he has confirmed that the CCRC have not contacted him about my case, which as I am sure you will agree is ridiculous given what he uncovered during the making of the show.
I have also contacted Meirion Jones who was the Producer of the “Fake Sheikh” Panorama Documentary and he also has confirmed that the CCRC have never contacted him despite him being named in the documents I submitted both to the Court of Appeal and also the the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
The same pattern of the CCRC having not contacted the people I mentioned in the documents I submitted to them as being able to confirm Mahmood’s long term dishonesty also continued with Tim Fenton who runs the Zelo Street Blog Page.
I have also confirmed with Journalist Professor Roy Greenslade, and a whole host of other people who I named and mentioned to the CCRC in support of my application that they have not been asked for anything specific to my case from the CCRC.
All of the above just being further evidence (and I have even more on file) that proves that the CCRC have not properly looked into or investigated the information and evidence that I submitted to them.
For the record, back in 2015, the likes of Professor Roy Greenslade, Panorama Producer Meirion Jones, Investigative Journalist Peter Jukes and also Paddy French who runs the Press Gang Blog Page all kindly gave detailed statements which were submitted with my original over 500+ page bundle to the Court of Appeal.
When you realize that it also starts to illustrate how the Single Judge for the Court of Appeal missed the point entirely and so it seems totally ignored many of the issues raised in my “bundle” including but not limited to the issues of Non Disclosure by the relevant authorities at the time of me being taken to court in this matter in 1998/1999. May i once again draw your attention to the BBC Panorama documentary entitled “Last Chance for Justice” that was broadcast on Tuesday 5th June 2018 as per:
Sadly i Can relate to the complaints made in that investigation about how the CCRC may not be fit for purpose, for several main reasons:
a) They seem to have been extremely Lazy and just Copied and Pasted things the Single Judge said to compile their decision.
b) There are factual errors in their documents such as saying I was convicted in Feb 1999 when it was in fact 1st March 1999 and also the number of coins mentioned etc is also wrong as explained earlier on this page.
c) They have not contacted the vast majority of people who are mentioned on this blog page and linked to on this page. This is important as this page and its contents DID form part of my application to be reviewed and it seems to have largely been ignored.
d) They have concluded that everything I sent them was already considered by the single Judge in my earlier appeal which again is NOT TRUE as new information regarding the fact I and other Fake Sheikh Victims were drugged has come to light since the single judge looked at my case.
e) Other important things have occurred and come to light since the single judge looked at my case not least of which is Mahmood was convicted for Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice.
f) Despite several assurances over the years that my case would be looked at in conjunction with all the other Fake Sheikh victims cases that were/are with the CCRC at the same time, it seems that only the case of Boxer Herbie Hides was actually considered along with mine, despite the fact Mahmood used the same Modus Operandi with all of us.
Ultimately I do not believe for one second that my case has been looked at properly and/or investigated fully.
As I type this latest update on Thursday 14th June 2018, it is now Twenty Years & Nine Weeks exactly since Mahmoods work of fiction about me was published in the now shut down News of the World.
Rest assured I/we shall NOT be giving up until Justice has been achieved and my conviction (and those of my fellow victims mentioned on this page) are overturned.
Even if that means getting a Judicial Review into how the CCRC made their decision, whatever it takes this fight for Justice and Truth is not over yet.
The image above from 2016 shows that the Single Judge turned down my application for appeal before Mahmood was found Guilty of Conspiracy to Pervert the course of Justice in the Tulisa trial. It also shows that as I have extremely good reasons why I did not renew the application to the court in 2016 (as I was advised to go directly to the CCRC) that arguably I could now apply directly to the court of appeal for an extension of time. Indeed Two Barristers have kindly confirmed this to me also as follows:
The image above dated 27th June 2018 shows some Free Advice that The Secret BarristerKindly gave me via his twitter account of https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret
I have also been fortunate enough on 24th June 2018 to have kindly been given some Free Advice from Barrister Matt Stanbury who runs the excellent informative website of https://appealsbarrister.com/ within which he stated to me:
“I think it is fair to say that this is something of a grey area, but I did a case only last week where the client had applied for leave in 2011, been refused by the single judge, and the Court agreed to list the case for a renewal hearing in 2016 when we received some fresh evidence. This eventually resulted in the case being referred to the full court.”
Another Solicitor who wished to remain nameless for now kindly also spoke to a Barrister colleague of his about my case during September 2018 and as you can see in the above image which will enlarge when you click on it, the opinion is that I most certainly have a route back to the Court of Appeal to get my conviction cancelled out.
It is also wise to remember that since I was given the advice above during September 2018, that as you will see below I now have evidence from The Royal Mint that despite what the CPS claimed, the coins were never sent to the Royal Mint for testing and thus were never proven to be counterfeit in the first place.
Also since being given the above advice, more and more extremely strong albeit as yet circumstantial evidence that many of us (including me) were Drugged and/or Spiked without our knowledge by Mahmood’s team on his instruction has come to light as can be seen much nearer the top of this blog page.
The document above dated 2nd September 1998 shows that originally I was only charged with one count of delivery of a total of 1,000 Coins.to Mazher Mahmood which took place on Thursday 9th April 1998. However for some reason as shown by the above document dated 21st October 1998, this was later changed (without my knowledge as far I can recall) to two charges, namely that on Thursday 2nd April 1998 that I gave three £1 Coins to Mazher Mahmood and so they say on Thursday 9th April 1998 then gave him 997 coins, making a total of just 1,000 coins between the two charges.
The above document shows that the records kept by the Courts and CPS seem to be extremely inaccurate to say the least as the above document indicates two charges, one for 3 coins and a second for 996 coins which would be 999 coins total.
In truth it was 3 Real Coins from my pocket on Thursday 2nd April 1998, followed by 1,000 coins which were supplied from the person Mahmood’s associate put me in contact with and for which Mahmood provided the money to get them upfront.
Between these two meetings there had also been other contact both via the telephone and also physically in person both with Mahmood (posing as Perry Khan) and with his associates which included veiled threats & direct intimidation.
The above document (from Courts & CPS records) proves that my Barrister Advised me to change my plea from Not Guilty to Guilty with Mitigating circumstances on the first day of Trial at Manchester Crown Court (something I only did both due to bad advice and behind the scenes intimidation I had been getting from Mahmood’s associates) which was as reported by Manchester Evening News on 1st March 1999, in other-words their documents saying I plead guilty on 1st Feb 1999 are wrong just like many other errors they seem to have made along the way.
It turns out as illustrated by the above image that the Crown Prosecution Services decision submitted to the Single Judge within which they stated they believed my conviction to be safe was from the Chambers of Sarah Forshaw QC.
This is interesting when you consider that SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER submitting such document to the Single Judge, it was Sarah Forshaw QC who on behalf of the CPS Prosecuted Mazher Mahmood & Alan Smith resulting in them being convicted at the Old Bailey.
As someone who was present at every day of that trial, I know first hand that Sarah Forshaw QC must now be aware of the non disclosure issues that myself and other Mahmood victims have faced, along with the immense evidence available of Mahmoods long term dishonesty & illegal techniques, and so I sincerely trust that she would see things differently now should my case of appeal cross her desk again in the near future.FINAL NOTE = Look at the above CPS document again and bear in mind that in truth I never knew (and still don’t) whether the coins were real or fake as they were never forensically tested at any time, I merely stated that I was led to believe that they were counterfeit by Mahmoods associate who informed me where to obtain them, something I was only able to do AFTER having the money given to me upfront, AFTER being told were to obtain them from and AFTER being heavily pressurized & intimidated into doing such.
Oh and the coins were never seized from me, how could they be as Mahmood had apparently “bought” them from me and so at that point they were HIS COINS…
Royal Mint Proof Coins were never tested or proven to be Counterfeit
Click on the image above and you can see the email dated 16th August 2018 that I got from Mr. Chris Inson the Legal Counsel and Data Protection Officer for The Royal Mint within which he confirms that they do have records on file of any Counterfeit Currency sent to them for testing & authentication from the time period in question and that they are sent stuff by Law enforcement and CPS etc to confirm if it is real or not and yet THEY HAVE NO RECORDS AT ALL relating to me or the coins that I picked up from the contact suggested by Mazher Mahmoods associate.
As the Crown proceeded against me on the basis that they said & alleged that “I Knew” the coins to be Fake (which I did not ever know for sure) as opposed to “I believed” surely they should have been liable to provide proof that the coins were indeed fake and that would have meant contacting the Royal Mint which the proof now illustrates did NOT ever take place!.
This also illustrates further how the Legal Advice I was given at the time was “bad” as surely this lack of any existence of evidence of the coins either being real or fake should have been flagged up by my representation at the time as illustration that the CPS did NOT do what they should have done.
The document shown above is from a document showing what details Arco has about me on the Police National Computer (PNC) as of 25th July 2018. As you can see according to them I was charged & convicted for two offences of delivery of counterfeit coins. However they INCORRECTLY state that both offences took place at 5pm on the same day of Thursday 9th April 1998.
Firstly how could I possibly commit 2 identical offenses at exactly the same time in the same location?
Secondly please note that no coins were ever seized from me, indeed once in Mahmood’s possession I never saw them again, they were by him handed to the Police and thus never in any manner seized from me as he at that time was the owner of them having “bought” them from me.
Thirdly, as other documents on this page illustrate I gave him 3 coins (real ones) on Thursday 2nd April 1998 and then another 1,000 coins (supplied via the contact his associate gave me) were delivered on Thursday 9th April 1998. As such there was never any possibility of two offences taking place on the same date, same time and at same location proves the errors on the Arco Police National Computer and also thus the errors with the information on my CRB documents shown earlier on this page.
I also recently got sent my Subject Access Request file from Rochdale Police Station where I was finally arrested well over week after the News of the World article dated Sunday 12th April 1998 appeared in the publication.
The only document relating to Counterfeit Coins that they have sent me and thus the only one they say they have is as per the above image and relates to one offense of 1,000 coins only.
You will notice that although the article was published on 12th April 1998, the offense was not reported by Mazher Mahmood and the coins not handed over to the Police by him until Sunday 19th April 1998, why exactly did he wait a week to give them the Coins (they only ever got given 1,000 coins in total so 3 were missing as explained earlier) and to hand his files over to the Police?
I had already gone into the Police Station in Rochdale the moment the newspaper came out on Sunday 12th April 1998 and was told they were not interested until such times as the offense was reported by Mazher Mahmood & News of the World.
indeed I’d mentioned I was going to be meeting an undercover reporter to members of the Rochdale CID & Police whilst drinking with them the week before in The Flying Horse Hotel where they used to meet on a Friday for drinks.
For the record it was members of Rochdale Police who in the Flying Horse gave me the information on prices of Drugs, Guns and such like so I could try to look convincing whilst attempting to expose Mahmood’s dodgy, unethical and arguably illegal techniques.
This is one of the reasons they happily gave me a character reference to present to the Judge as they knew I had absolutely no Criminal Intentions in any manner.
Rest Assured this Legal Battle for Truth and Justice is far from over yet…
It seems that as far back as 1998 (possibly earlier) that The Police and Crown Prosecution Service were already aware of Mazher Mahmood’s dishonesty, illegal activities and fabrication of fake stories.
These are things that were never disclosed to me (or other Fake Sheikh Victims) by the Police and/or CPS before or after our cases came to court.
The photo above shows Jeremy Wright QC who is the current Attorney general at the moment of typing this in June 2018.
At the following link in an article dated 14th June 2018 he is quoted as saying:
“Nothing is more important in the criminal justice system than that principle.(disclosure) I will be as clear as I can be, that we have got to get to grips with this at a senior level. We have been behind the curve.”
In response to the question whether the thought of innocent people being wrongly convicted kept him awake at night, Mr Wright said: “Yes, and it should, and to what extent we can sort out the system.”
This is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT given that the Metropolitan Police (and arguably the CPS) both knew of Mahmood’s dishonesty & illegal activities as far back as early 1998 as is illustrated at this link:
Sir Richard Henriques’ has stated that Police must stop training ‘presumption of guilt’.
His comments follow the collapse of three rape cases in which it was found that the police had withheld evidence from defence lawyers or failed to investigate them properly.
Although these were Rape Cases it is becoming clear that the issue of Non Disclosure by the Police and/or CPS is relevant to many other issues including many of the “Fake Sheikh” convictions which are now clearly unsafe and should be overturned.
Pictured above is Lord Justice Peter Gross who on 19th June 2018 gave a speech on the subject of Non Disclosure which he stated is summed up briefly as follows:
My theme tonight can be summarized in a number of propositions:
The law is satisfactory; the application of the law is not
Disclosure must be seen as integral to the criminal justice process – not as a tiresome add-on
The police need an “investigative mindset”
Terminology needs to change, differentiating where appropriate between “complainants” and “victims”, while treating all with respect
There is no place for lingering fallacies
Resources must be addressed
Robust case management is and remains essential
Technology created some of today’s problems; technology/ AI will very likely solve them but not imminently
On 25th June 2018 Michael Mansfield QC opened the evening by reflecting on his 50 years as a barrister. ‘I reckon, probably more than most, I’m entitled to have observations about what has happened during my working lifetime,’ he said. “When I started things were going wrong then. There were problems with legal aid, problems with disclosure and representation. What I find shocking is that things have got worse.”
The human rights lawyer flagged up the recent Crown Prosecution Service review launched in the wake of a series of collapsed rape cases starting with the Liam Allan case before Christmas. The CPS revealed that problems with disclosure had been identified in 47 of 3,637 cases reviewed. ‘That is a lot,’ Mansfield said. ‘We know it is not restricted to sex offenders.’
Indeed let’s not forget that the evidence of Professor Roy Greenslade proves that Mazher Mahmood has had a total disregard for honesty & truth throughout his career.
in 1988 some 10 years before his sting on me and some 26 years before his sting on Tulisa, Mahmood tampered with evidence at The Sunday Times to try and cover his tracks to hide the fact he had either made mistakes or purposely misinformed about elements of a story he was working on.
He resigned just before Professor Roy Greenslade could sack him as per:
There were “strong grounds for believing that the underlying purpose of these lies was to conceal the fact that he had been manipulating the evidence in this case” by getting another witness to change his account” Judge Alistair McCreath told the jury.
She said: “Mahmood has now been exposed by my lawyers openly lying to the judge and jury. These lies were told to stop crucial evidence going before the jury.”
She added: “Thankfully, the lies have been uncovered and justice has been done.”
Jeremy Dein QC who was Tulisa’s Barrister on Thursday 6th October had this to say about other Mazher Mahmood related convicitons:
“People who have been locked up in the past are now able to say there is compelling evidence that this man was prepared to lie on oath in order to secure a wrongful conviction, so there’s now a platform for others to come forward and say ‘the same thing happened to us.'”
When you take the time to investigate what was revealed about Mazher Mahmood during the Leveson Inquiry then it starts to open up a massive can of worms.
And there is strong evidence that a Leveson Part 2 would have had much more to investigate in relation to the Fake Sheikhs Activities as outlined here:
Indeed when you also realize that the Police & CPS knew that Mahmood could not be trusted for many, many years (close to two decades) before the Tulisa trial collapsed the Can of Worms gets even bigger…
Lets also not forget that Mazher Mahmood has a long track record of blatantly lying in his stories just as he did when he wrote about obtaining Fake Passports in the Czech republic where he purposely misled the reader as he has done many times before & since.
Indeed Mahmood’s own “autobiography” is arguably the biggest work of Fiction you are ever likely to read, I defy anyone to read it after having watched all the videos (especially the Panorama “Fake Sheikh Exposed” Documentary) and looked at all the evidence and links on this blog page which expose the real truth behind his lies, fabricated stories & long term dishonesty.
The above image is of page 46 of Mahmoods book and by clicking on the image above it will enlarge making it easier to read.On this page Mahmood reveals his views on how he practiced to be able to give “a good performance before the jury” when in a court of law and how he considers courts to be “pure theatre” amongst other such comments.
The image above is from page 102 of his book “Confessions of a Fake Sheik” subtitled “The King of Sting Reveals All” where Mahmood reveals that after the Beckham Kidnap Story related Court Trial, John Kelsey-Fry QC once told him that his performance in the witness box was the best that he had ever seen in his career.
As such I wonder why, when in 2016 John Kelsey-Fry QC ended up defending Mazher Mahmood in the Old Bailey against charges of Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice (which he lost) that Mahmood was never called to the witness box?
Seriously look at every link on this page, read all the evidence at the links provided, watch all the videos and then read Mahmoods book and you will see just how often he blatantly lies and/or drastically distorts the truth again and again within the pages of his so called autobiography.
The Story surrounding Mahmood’s Sting on Footballer & TV Presenter John Fashanu is a most interesting one and raises many questions in itself.
As mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grobbelaar in 1994 The Sun Newspaper ran a story about Match Fixing, but ultimately in 1997 all involved were found innocent and cleared at trial as detailed here:
It comes as no surprise that Fashanu would be seen as an ideal target for the Fake Sheikh and his team and indeed in July 2003 the “News of the World” published a story claiming that Fashanu had offered to do various things, however BEFORE the article was published he went to the Police himself as explained here:
What I find interesting is fact that here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Grobbelaar it mentions that Bruce Grobbelar pleaded NOT GUILTY claiming that he was only gathering evidence with the intent of taking it to the police.
Having been the subject of a Sun Newspaper Sting some years earlier, I am sure Fashanu would have been even more on guard than normal and so I suspect there may well me more truth to Fashanu’s claims that he was collecting evidence for the Police than Mazher Mahmood and his colleagues at “News of the World” would ever have admitted at the time or would ever want anyone to realize now for obvious reasons.
Pictured above is Barrister Daryl Hutcheon of Matrix Chambers who at the link that follows gives his Professional Legal Opinion on how those who were lied about by Mazher Mahmood and/or entrapped, pressurized & intimidated into doing things they would never normally have dreamed of doing could go about seeking damages & redress in relation to what was done to them.
However at the next link Celebrity Phone Hacking Lawyer Mark Lewis is quoted as stating that the Civil Claims could easily dwarf Phone Hacking compensation claims.
Despite a period of around 10 years having passed by, Sven it appears is one of the first people to have successfully taken Legal Action and obtained financial damages and compensation in relation to the Mazher Mahmood News of the World story which was run about him as detailed here:
On Sunday 14th April 2019, the Daily Mail Reported that The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson’s Damages Case against Rupert Murdoch’s Company in relation to the “Sting” that the Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood conducted on her had collapsed.
However I suspect that may be misleading when you look at this quote:
“In a document filed at the High Court, both parties agreed ‘the claimant discontinues all of her claims against the defendants’.”
Another quote from the article of interest is:
“No order was made regarding who would pick up the bill.”
Surely if the case had collapsed, a case which she instigated, then surely costs would have to be paid by her??
But there is no mention of that making me think that some kind of “Secret” keep it out of court type settlement deal may well have been agreed??
After all when you consider that just like Sven Goran Erikson she did say the things that were claimed, the cases seem similar and he has already been paid out a settlement as shown earlier above.
Royle in Parliament April 2016 #HackedOff
As shown in the picture above on Wednesday 20th April 2016 I attended Committe Room 14 within the Houses of Parliament in London after having been invited by #HackedOff to come along to their “Lobby Your MP for No More Broken Promises” Event.
In Parliament Again with Hacked Off on Tuesday 20th March 2018 to Lobby for Leveson Part 2 to Occur!
To fully understand the importance of this event I would suggest that you take a look at the information on their own Website and also sign the Petition to demand that Leveson Part 2 is allowed to take place as previously promised at this link:
About to enter Parliament with Hacked Off to Lobby for Leveson 2 to Occur – 20th March 2018
Then having looked at that page, if you have not already done so, please take a few moments to visit the following link and complete the form to Contact Your Local MP and ask them to lobby The British Prime Minister to ensure that victims of Press Abuse get Justice and that Leveson Part Two Actually takes place to investigate and expose the Media & Press Corruption (and likely even worst) that has been going on for years.
Take a few moments to help make a real difference in the World:
As illustrated by the short video above of Labour MP Tom Watson speaking in parliament on Tuesday 5th June 2018 and also by the news article at the above link, it seems that the Tory Government are choosing to ignore the very real and shocking truth about Rupert Murdoch, his businesses and his employees & colleagues illegal activities.
Rupert Murdoch with his right hand man of many years Les Hinton
On Monday 4th June 2018, Rupert Murdoch’s right hand man of many years Les Hinton held his book launch in London. My friend, Fake Sheikh Victim John Alford was there as was former Sunday Times Blagger John Ford, Daniel Morgans Brother Alistair and others who had some very interesting questions to ask & points to raise which it seems Les Hinton was not prepared to answer as illustrated here within this article where you will also see me mentioned:
Murdoch’s Right Hand Man for many years Les Hinton claims to know nothing of illegal activities
He claimed at his book launch and in many interviews that he knew nothing about the illegal activities taking place behind the scenes at Rupert Murdochs papers and yet the information at the following two links illustrates that to be a massive lie it would seem.
Rebekah Brooks known to be well liked by and close to Rupert Murdoch was many say a close friend of Mazher Mahmood
The picture above shows Rebekah Brooks who basically was in charge of running The News of the World newspaper when it shut down following the public’s discovery that the publication had illegally hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Put on trial for Phone Hacking she was found Not Guilty and has always claimed no knowledge of Illegal activities and yet evidence is now coming out to show this is most likely untrue to say the least as shown at next link:
Many insiders have told me that they understand that Brooks and Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood were in regular contact and that she knew exactly the kinds of things he was doing which were unethical to say the least and often illegal as well.
Piers Morgan was appointed editor of The News of the World in 1994 aged 29.
In 1994 Piers Morgan was appointed editor of The News of the World newspaper by Rupert Murdoch, many have accused him of massive dishonesty as illustrated at these few links which follow..
So It Would appear from what you have seen above, that the vast majority of Key Players at The News of the World during the time Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood worked there all knew each other and all seem to have been involved in or at very least known about dishonest, unethical and/or illegal activities taking place.
The Daniel Morgan Murder
If I were to say to you that News International (who Published The News of the World) were implicated in the Murder of somebody you would probably laugh your socks off and think that I was mad…
But let me tell you that the Story of Daniel Morgan’s Death (the most investigated Murder in British History to date with Five Police Investigations so far) reveals Police and Media Corruption of the highest order.
With Alistair Morgan the brother of the Late Daniel Morgan
And now that Mazher Mahmood has been found Guilty in Court the team behind the Untold Murder Podcast can now reveal that the “Fake Sheikh” was implicated as follows:
Daniel’s brother Alistair has been campaigning for years to discover the truth, shocking truths that are slowly but surely coming to Public Light and indeed he was present and spoke at the Hacked Off “No More Broken Promises Event” in London which I attended on 20th April 2016.
I also mention him here as I contributed to the Crowd Funding Campaign so that he and Journalist Peter Jukes could make this extremely eye opening Series of Podcasts uncovering the Real and often Shocking Truths behind Daniel Morgans Murder.
Watch the short video and read the background facts on their page here:
Buy UNTOLD – The Daniel Morgan Murder Exposed http://tinyurl.com/lq5tjn4 and you’ll see that Mazher Mahmood’s name is mentioned numerous times as you discover more proof on how dishonest and dodgy he is.
On Thursday 18th May 2017 the Conservative Party released their Manifesto for the General Election taking place on 8th June 2017 and within it they revealed that they intend to scrap Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry and also Section 40
This would have investigated Police & Media Corruption at the highest level’s and also looked into the Daniel Morgan Murder and further into the Engineered and Fabricated Stories of Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood, Let’s just hope the Tory’s don’t get in.
At this moment I cannot explain to you how all these things seem to inter-link as I do not want to become Guilty in any manner of Contempt of Court, but rest assure I am convinced that within the next couple of years some massive and truly shocking revelations will finally become Public Knowledge, rather than just being known by those of us with Skilled Lawyers and Researchers to investigate and get to the bottom of things.
What I can say is that based on my many years experience of Selling Stories to Newspapers and Media Outlets, together with my time investigating and writing such for them, it is my honest belief, experience and understanding that the Vast majority of “Stories” in Newspapers and Magazines contain little if any truth at all.
Following our day in Parliament The Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport was asked various questions in the House of Commons as detailed at this link:
Now at first sight you might think that all seems fair enough, but what about when I make you aware that John Whittingdale himself has recently been exposed by the Media with Various Scandals as follows:
Heck along the way the “Establishment” not suprisingly tried to smear the reputation of some of those trying to get Justice for Victims of Press Abuse such as Hacked Off as is illustrated in this article here:
The Rabbit Hole in relation to Media Lies, Distortion, Corruption and Law Breaking is it seems way bigger than anyone could ever have realised.
Shortly after The Tories won (to everyone’s surprise) the British General Election in 2015 I published this eye opening and thought provoking article on my blog:
Take a look at it and consider it in relation to everything else I have revealed to you here and you may well start to open your eyes and see how much bigger the real picture is and how massively deep this rabbit hole does indeed go.
Finally just before I get back to addressing the other Rubbish, Lies and Bullshit that some people have posted about me on the internet here is a video of Evan Harris who is one of the main people at “Hacked Off” touching on some raw nerves that seem to make Journalist Piers Morgan squirm.
1st MARCH 2018 = DAY CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT SCRAPPED LEVESON 2
Despite assurances that it would go ahead, on Thursday 1st March 2018 Matt Hancock the Culture Secretary for Theresa May’s Conservative Government announced that Part 2 of the Leveson Inquiry is officially being scrapped by them and that they will not be activating Section 40 of the Crimes & Courts act which would have helped victims of Press Abuse to get Justice and protect themselves from Corruption & Media Lies.
Indeed he announced they intend to repeal “Section 40” at the earliest chance possible.
These few links will give you some more insight into this tragic day for victims of Media Abuse, Corruption and Lies.
Thursday 29th November 2018 and sadly the verdict in the Judicial Review about Leveson having been cancelled has been decided in favor of the Government. However it is not over until the fat lady Sings and both “Hacked Off” the Campaigning Group and also numerous Media Abuse Victims will never give up trying to expose the truth.
Sir Brian Leveson has on 21st June 2019 now come out and confessed that he knew various people were lying to him during Part One of the Leveson Inquiry which itself illustrates further why we need Part Two to take place more than ever.
On Monday 18th February 2019, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published the “Disinformation and Fake News – Final Report” and as a result these eye opening articles appeared.
In relation to the mention of Russian interference in Brexit, voting for the US President and other matters including “Cambridge Analytica” and how private data was stolen from Social Media Users (I being one of them as of Feb 2019 engaged in legal action against Facebook) this blog by my friend Neil Sanders is well worth reading:
Self-Confessed Blagger for the Sunday Times John Ford via his Twitter account accuses Rupert Murdoch & Les Hinton of knowing that Mazher Mahmood was drugging his victims.
His lawyer Siobhain Egan said of our investigations:
It is as we have long suspected that the Met knew and repressed information about corrupt relationships between their officers, employees of The News of the World and Southern Investigations. This information was deliberately repressed by the Metropolitan police and should have been disclosed to those representing defendants in the so called “stings” orchestrated by Mazher Mahmood. It is information which should be immediately disclosed to those lawyers advising relevant convicted individuals whose cases are now before the CCRC, and the Daniel Morgan Investigation Panel.
Jonathan Rees Southern Investigations Mazher Mahmood
The Man pictured above is Jonathan Ree’s one of the people who ran Southern Investigations a company and person implicated into the murder of Daniel Morgan and also whom worked closely with Mazher Mahmood for many years.
He has an extensive criminal record and has also been linked to Police Corruption in much the same way as Murdoch’s Fake Sheikh also was over the years.
This video and the links that follow explain more about such things.
Another thing to consider is that back in January 1994 “The Sun” Newspaper as published by Rupert Murdoch ran a double page spread on my Hypnosis Show with the headline “Dirty Trancing”.
This article was written by now deceased Journalist Chris Blythe and seemed to prove that I was Hypnotizing Women at shows into having Sexual Relations with me, something which most certainly was and is NOT true on any level.
Indeed various routines in my show at the time which visually were quite innocent, when written up in a sensationalized manner with no respect for the truth by Chris Blythe suddenly seemed to make me out as some kind of monster.
The lady quoted in that article was an actress that I paid to talk to Chris Blythe and say that she had experienced amazing consensual “Hypnotic Fantasy” style sex with me after a show, however when he wrote it up, what was published bore zero relation to what my paid actress friend had actually stated and thus back in January 1994 I was to get my first taste of journalists at Murdoch papers who have no regard for the truth and just distort & fabricate things to then publish whatever they so desire.
I had informed my former publicist Alan Breeze (an associate of Mazher Mahmood as mentioned earlier on this blog page) that I had recordings of my meetings with Chris Blythe (which at that time I did) which proved that he published fabricated defamatory lies and NOT what was actually said by me and the paid actress he interviewed.
Now in hindsight I suspect Alan Breeze would not only have tipped off Mazher Mahmood that I was intending to expose his dishonest & illegal activities (although he may have discovered that himself through hacking my mobile phone conversations) but also he would no doubt have mentioned that I had evidence at the time of Chris Blythe’s 1994 Sun Newspaper Story about me having been fabricated and full of untruths.
Chris Blythe was certainly a friend of Rebekah Brooks as illustrated here:
The two links above show that Chris Blythe died in an accident in 1996 and also that he has been compared to Mazher Mahmood in terms of his dishonesty and fabrication of stories for Murdoch owned newspaper publications.
The article above headed “Look into my Thighs” was published in the News of the World Newspaper on Sunday 12th August 2007 and the Hypnotist who helped the newspaper expose the sick Private Investigator was/is one of my Hypnosis Students Chris Lee.
How I was approached first by the Private Investigator, but the News of the World did not want to deal with me, as they knew this was a REAL STORY and did not want it associated with the rubbish they had run about me back in 1998 so instead I ended up just consulting and advising behind the scenes to help ensure the ladies safety.
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