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Brian was pro-active and on 8 July 2009 he fired off an email to his
solicitor, Angela Shaw. It is reproduced below:
“…APPEAL
application
Dear Angela,
I trust that you’re
well.
Since the Judge at Southwark decided to join
the two cases together, I have had a number of conversations with a good number
of my friends, colleagues and associates.
Every single one of
them has ‘protested’ at the Judge’s decision because of its lack of ‘fairness’
- joining the two cases together prejudices me in no uncertain terms and flies
in the face of fairplay and justice.
Since it is also completely obvious that the ‘Paedophile Police’ charged
me on the basis of me having already been charged for a ‘sexual’ offence, it
would seem that my friends are right in their assertion that this is not fair
at all.
Bearing this in
mind, I would like to enter an Appeal against the Southwark Judge’s decision,
and to start the process with immediate effect.
No doubt you will
need to revert to Dominic, so I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Kind regards…”
She sent back the following reply on the same day:
“…Dear Brian
I am well thank you.
I agree with you entirely. I was shocked to
learn that both cases had been joined. I have forwarded a copy of your email to
Dominic who will look into and let me know.
On another point, I’ll be away from 13 to 17
July so if you have any other queries, please get them in, if you can before
the end of the week.
Kind regards…”
It must be recorded that Dominic Bell failed to initiate an Appeal against Joinder and that Angela Shaw failed to follow up on these emails upon her
return from holiday.
You might like to ask yourself why Brian’s legal team had been so
negligent.
Angela Caroline Shaw (Solicitor
ID: 349377) undertook her legal training at the University of Westminster in
1997, where she undertook an LLB (Bachelor of Law) before undertaking her LPC
(or Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice) which is the final vocational stage
for becoming a solicitor in England and Wales.
In September 2005 she began
working at Elliott Stern solicitors in north London. On 1 November 2005 she was
admitted on to the register of solicitors. Ms Shaw left in May 2008 and then
started work at AA Mirsons Solicitors in Temple Chambers in EC4 in June 2008,
the time of Brian’s arrests.
Ms Shaw, who describes herself
as a ‘criminal defence advocate’ on LinkedIn, became a Higher Rights advocate
in November 2009 and a team manager in December 2009. We pose the question:
“Did she achieve these promotions on the back of Brian Pead’s trial?” We ask
this because she only attended the trial on one occasion, she failed to call
witnesses in Brian’s case and she also failed to enter 125 exhibits into Court.
In January 2012, she commenced
work at Leslie Franks Solicitors in Camden. As of May 2013, she was listed on
the City of Westminster duty solicitors list for the extradition rota.
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Now that he was unemployed and with no income other than State
benefits, Brian decided to rent out his house and find a room elsewhere. He
approached three estate agents and one, Belvoir! in Station Road, Sidcup, were particularly
keen to find him tenants.
In June 2009, Richard White, manager of the Sidcup branch
of Belvoir!, called round to Days Lane, and
informed Brian that he had ‘the ideal tenants’. It transpired that White had
four female tenants on his books who were all drama students at Rose Bruford (the very same college that the females at 62
Days Lane in the Exposure case apparently attended) and living in the Halls of
Residence at the University of Greenwich in Avery Hill Road.
Richard White was keen to place these females within Brian’s
house, but Brian was not particularly interested because of his experience with
the female tenants at 62 Days Lane. White, however, was almost desperate to place four females in
the house and said that the student nurses had paid their deposit and that
their parents would act as guarantors and underwrite any losses.
Against his better judgment, Brian accepted the contract. He met with
the parents of the students and the students themselves with Maya Walker – his lover – present. A DVD was created of
the property. Brian continued to put some finishing touches to his
almost-completed refurbishment programme prior to the females moving in. He
also sought a room to rent in a house in Eltham.
During the week commencing 13 July 2009, two of the females began to
move in. Thus Emma Jesse Catalan and Joanne Warrener became tenants at 89 Days Lane. Jennifer ‘Jenny’ Campbell and Liz Essex were still on holiday and thus did not move in
at this time.
On Saturday 18 July 2009, Brian walked from his room in Eltham to
Avery Hill Park to read the paper before moving on into Sidcup to view a
possible new room in a road off Days Lane. He viewed the room and then walked
along Days Lane in the direction of Welling to visit an internet café run by
Darren Worton. He spent four hours there
preparing a manual for the students which covered all aspects of how to run the
house and conducting research into his criminal cases.
He then received a text from his lodger friend, Marek Trefny, an intelligent Czech. The
two men had only recently met at the house in Eltham and become friends. Marek
invited Brian to the pub for an evening meal.
Brian left the Internet café and walked along the entire length of
Days Lane towards the 286 bus stop in Halfway Street, Sidcup.
What happened next is so extraordinary that we have decided to
reproduce an almost minute-by-minute account of the extreme brutality.
Saturday 18 July 2009
11:00 Brian left new place of residence
Walked to Eltham High
Street
Sat in Avery Hill Park
reading newspaper
12:00 arrived at 1, Hambledown Road, Avery Hill to view a possible
new room
13:00 left 1, Hambledown Road
walked to Internet
Cafe, Welling
13:41 phone call from Maya Walker
13:50 arrived at Internet cafe
did research on cases
sent emails
17:50 left Internet cafe
walked along Days Lane
to 286 bus stop
18:23 noticed a grey-haired PCSO coming out of a house at end
of Days Lane and getting on his bike
18:25 arrived at 286 bus stop in Halfway Street, Sidcup
sat down
18:30 bus arrived
simultaneously the
PCSO arrived said, “There has been an incident at 89 or 91 Days Lane today and
the police need to speak with you in relation to the incident.”
Brian P: What kind of incident? And how do you know who I am?
PCSO: I don’t know what kind of incident.
BRIAN: Are you arresting me, or stopping me or what?
PCSO: No, none of those. I have been asked to tell you that you are
wanted for questioning regarding an incident at 89 or 91 Days Lane today.
That’s all the information I have. Do you live at 89 or 91 Days Lane?
BRIAN: No.
PCSO: The officers should be here in about one minute.
Brian uses his mobile phone to call Maya
Walker, his lover. BRIAN gives Maya Walker the
PCSO’s badge number, and leaves his mobile on.
About 15 minutes later another 286 bus arrives and leaves.
At approximately 6:40 a police car arrives. It is unmarked, except for
the ‘Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhoods’ sticker affixed to the
side. [Authors’ note: This is an oxymoron given the events that were about
to unfold.] Two officers get out, along with a second PCSO, a much younger
male.
With his mobile phone still on and with
Maya Walker still listening in and taking notes, BRIAN
gives her the numbers of the two officers. The taller and slightly older
officer, who Brian later knew to be the ARRESTING OFFICER [AO]and RY166 spoke first. His colleague, about 28-35
and shorter was identified as RY562. This officer was particularly vindictive,
Brian later learned.
AO: Can you identify yourself?
BRIAN: I’m Brian Pead. What do you want with me?
AO: Can you tell me your bail conditions?
BRIAN: What is the point of this and what do you want with me?
AO: You have broken your bail conditions by not continuing to stay at 89
Days Lane.
BRIAN: I do not believe that to be true.
AO: When were you last in Court?
BRIAN: Around May/ June this year.
AO: You were in Court on 18 June 2009 and a condition of your bail was
that you must always reside at 89 Days Lane.
BRIAN clarifies this for MAYA WALKER -
that the officer is telling him that he has breached his bail conditions and he
has informed the officer that he does not believe that to be the case.
BRIAN: I do not believe that to be true and I want time to check
with my solicitor. [into phone]
Maya, please check with my solicitor for me. Can you call them now please
while I wait?
AO: I am arresting you for breaking bail. Anything you say [etc]
RY562: Give me the phone!
BRIAN: [Holding phone away from his
lunge and high into the air] No, I’m awaiting confirmation from my
friend who is calling my solicitor.
RY562 lunges at Brian in an attempt to
grab the phone.
BRIAN instinctively brings up his right arm to protect his face.
Both AO and RY562 man-handle Brian, grab the phone, grab his laptop bag; each
officer takes an arm and pushes it far up his back.
BRIAN: I am making you aware that that hurts and you shouldn’t be
using excessive force on me.
RY562: You just elbowed me in the face and you’re resisting arrest!
BRIAN: I am not resisting arrest! [This was definitely heard by MAYA WALKER on mobile phone]
AO: You just punched me in the face and you’re resisting arrest!
Brian is handcuffed, both arms behind
his back and feels a punch/ knee/ truncheon in his lower back. The cuffs
are far too tight and RY562 continues to force the arm higher up Brian’s back,
despite it being handcuffed.
BRIAN: [staying calm] I am informing you that I have not resisted
arrest and the handcuffs are far too tight. Please slacken the cuffs now.
RY562 frisks Brian. Finds nothing. The CPSOs search his laptop bag
on the pavement by the bus stop.
Both the AO and RY562 push Brian against
the glass back wall of the bus shelter and then force his face even harder
against the glass.
At this point a woman known to Brian as
Adrienne drives up the dropped kerb and across the
pavement next to the bus shelter and on to her front drive. With Brian’s
face continuing to be pressed against the glass back wall of the bus shelter,
he sees her drive up to her house.
Also at this point, another 286 bus comes along. Cars slow down and shout
abuse at the Police for their brutality. One driver shouted, “Fucking cunts!”
AO [to CPSO] Get that driver’s plate. We’ll follow that up later.
AO: As you’ve resisted
arrest, I’m calling for a van to take you to the station.
Brian continues to complain in a calm yet assertive manner about the
excessive use of force and the use of handcuffs. Brian also complains
about the tightness of the handcuffs and
requests from both officers separately that they either remove the handcuffs
completely or slacken them off so that they do not cause him injury.
RY562: Only the Arresting Officer can do anything about the cuffs.
BRIAN implores the PCSOs to do
something, but they say nothing and look away.
BRIAN repeats that he is no threat and that he willingly co-operated by waiting
for the officers to arrive so that he might answer their questions.
A van arrives.
Brian is roughly man-handled into the back of the van. There is little
space in the back. It has a male driver [bald, around 40] and a female
escort [blonde, 35-45]. BRIAN later learnt that this woman was known as Constable Edwards. The AO sits behind them.
BRIAN is driven to Bexleyheath Police Station along an extremely
convoluted route.
Eventually, upon arriving in the car park at the rear of the Police Station,
the female escort - Constable Edwards - gets out and opens
the door.
BRIAN: The cuffs are too tight and I want them removed.
There is no reason for me to be handcuffed any further. I have not
resisted arrest and I can hardly escape, being surrounded by all these police
and 15 foot high walls.
CE: [extremely sarcastically] Aaaah, are they too tight for
you? O well....
BRIAN: I want the handcuffs removed. I am offering you no physical
threat whatsoever and I can’t see the need for cuffs when I am in the back of a
van and in the back yard of a police station with walls fifteen feet high.
CE: I can’t take the cuffs off, only the AO can and he’s not here.
BRIAN: Where is he then?
CE: I don’t know.
BRIAN: Can you not go and get him then?
CE: No, I don’t know where he is.
BRIAN: Well, he can’t be very far.
CE: I can’t take off the cuffs. [Closes back door of van and goes back to sit in front of van]
It is now 19:15. There is no sign of anything happening.
At approximately 19:25 CE opens the van door and tells Brian to get out and sit
under the porch which covers the rear door to the Police Station.
BRIAN: The cuffs are far too tight. Please remove them or loosen them.
CE: [again very sarcastically] Awww, they still too
tight? No, I’m not taking them off.
Brian
sits on a chair outside of the rear door to the Police Station.
At approximately 19:30:
BRIAN: I need the toilet.
CE: I’ll have to see about that.
The
AO and RY562 come out. The AO takes the cuffs off. RY562 manhandles
Brian.
BRIAN: Please take your hand off me. There is no need for
you to hold me.
RY562: Are you going to behave this time?
BRIAN: [Pauses ... thinking time about how best to respond]
RY562: [shouting] Answer me! Are you going to behave this
time?
BRIAN: Please don’t shout at me. I was going to answer, but you
didn’t give me a chance. [Slight pause] I am going to behave as you
put it and I have always behaved. I co-operated by waiting with the CPSO.
BRIAN is led to a cell. The
handcuffs are taken off in such a way to inflict more pain. This process
lasts approximately 1-2 minutes and is deliberately prolonged.
Brian urinates. Asks where the sink is to wash his hands.
Both AO and RY562 cannot find one. Eventually BRIAN uses the sink
opposite the entrance to the cell.
AO puts handcuffs back on, this time in front.
Brian taken back to chair in porch outside rear door. The driver
of the van and his female escort [CONSTABLE EDWARDS] are nowhere to be seen,
but the tyre to their van is being pumped up. The AO and RY562 are
present.
At approximately 19:50 the Desk Sergeant [RY7] comes out and speaks with
Brian.
DS: Please confirm your name, date of birth and your place of
residence.
BRIAN: Brian Pead. 12 June 1953. 182 Eltham Palace Road,
Eltham.
DS: Do you know the full postcode?
BRIAN: Sorry, I don’t. I’ve only just moved there temporarily.
DS: How long do you expect to live there?
BRIAN: I don’t know. I just went to view a new room today and
so I don’t know yet. I’m considering my position.
DS: OK. Well, I have checked out your bail conditions on the Police
National Computer and it does not say you have to stay at 89
Days Lane, so you have been wrongfully arrested and you are free to go. Because
you have not actually entered the police station and been processed, there will
be no official record of this, but I am making up a Custody Sheet.
BRIAN: I’ll need a copy of whatever it is you’re recording.
DS: That’s fine.
The AO gives the DS the serial number of
the handcuffs he used and explains that they were used behind the back.
BRIAN: [to DS] I need a word with you in private.
BRIAN: I informed the officers all along that they were wrong to
arrest me and that the information they claimed to have was wrong. I was
on the phone to a friend to check out the details via my solicitor but these
officers used excessive force and wrongly arrested me and searched my bag and
confiscated my mobile phone.
I wish to make a formal complaint.
DS: If you wish to make a formal complaint, you will have to go to the front
desk.
BRIAN: I’ll do it via my solicitor on Monday. However, I want you to
record my verbal complaint on that sheet.
DS: Yes, ok.
BRIAN: Two more things. (1) I want a full copy of that written
record and (2) I’d like a lift back.
DS [to AO, RY562 and both PCSOs] Can you give him a lift back?
AO: Yes.
Brian checks his laptop bag - it has no
laptop in it - to see if his wallet and mobile phone are there. The bag
contains a bottle of water, a half-full bag of peanuts in the shell and various
papers which form part of his research. It is obvious from even a cursory
glance that his wallet and laptop bag have been rifled through, since some things
are not in the same position as he left them.
BRIAN confirms to the Desk Sergeant that his wallet is there and also his
mobile phone.
BRIAN tells the Desk Sergeant that he has not thoroughly checked to see if
anything is missing or if anything has been planted.
BRIAN gets into the police car - the same car as they drove up to the bus
shelter in.
The Arresting Officer drives; the PCSO (RY7214) sits alongside. BRIAN sits behind
the PCSO and RY562 sits behind the driver.
No words are exchanged except for the AO asking BRIAN where he’d like to be
dropped off.
BRIAN initially tells him “Eltham Palace Road”, but then changes his mind and
says “Old Farm Avenue, Sidcup”. (BRIAN has a friend, John Callow, who lives there. Brian thinks it
would be sensible if he takes photos of Brian’s injuries.)
The right wrist in particular is swelling up. There are deep ‘rings’ cut
around the whole wrist and they are very red.
The hand is extremely hot, and BRIAN cannot make a fist.
There are also marks on BRIAN’s left wrist, though the injuries are not as
severe.
BRIAN has a good deal of pain in his lower back, and at the elbow joints and
his shoulders.
The police car pulls up in Old Farm Avenue. Just as BRIAN is about to get
out, the AO speaks.
AO: Erm, just before you go, I want to say sorry for your wrongful
arrest. I was acting on information about you which turned out to be
incorrect.
BRIAN: What was this information and where did you get it?
AO: Erm, just that you had broken your bail conditions. I got
the information from the PNC (the Police National Computer).
BRIAN: [recognising that this is clearly another lie because the Desk
Sergeant had already told Brian that there was no such bail condition, and that
Brian was free to go, wishes to give the AO another opportunity to speak the
truth] The PNC?
AO: Yes, the PNC. [He repeats his lie]
BRIAN: [getting out of car] Goodnight gentlemen.
Brian walks down Old Farm Avenue to JOHN
CALLOW’s house. His lover, Maya Walker, is already there.
Several photographs are taken of Brian’s injuries.
After a cup of tea at John Callow’s house, Maya
Walker drives Brian back to the bus stop in Halfway
Street, Sidcup where Brian was arrested.
BRIAN calls at Adrienne Tear’s house and asks her what she saw.
AT: I saw the police use
excessive force on you. You didn’t resist arrest. You appeared calm to
me. I called my daughter to watch from my front window. It’s
disgusting. We are both prepared to write a statement about what we
saw. I will have them typed out and ready for you to collect on Monday.
Maya Walker then drives Brian to the Accident and Emergency
Department at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup.
BRIAN is seen by a female wearing a dark blue uniform. He informs her
that he has been wrongfully arrested by the police and that he was physically
man-handled with the use of excessive force.
She examines Brian’s wrists.
She takes his blood pressure on 3 separate occasions. It is very
high. “It’s only to be expected after your trauma.”
She tells Brian that he needs to be seen by a doctor because of the police
involvement.
Brian is examined by a male Doctor.
Dr: What injuries do you have?
BRIAN: Both wrists - particularly the right one. My arms are painful where
they were forced up my back. My kidneys/ lower back is very painful. I
think it was punched, or a knee or truncheon was jammed into my back.
Dr: You will need X-rays on the wrist and you need to provide a urine
sample for traces of blood.
Brian has X-rays. No fracture.
Brian provides a urine sample - no blood.
Brian goes back to doctor.
BRIAN: [to Doctor] I’d like a copy of these notes for my personal
records.
Dr: We send a copy to your GP, so you need to apply to him/ her for a
copy. We will also send a copy to the police if they request it.
Brian leaves hospital at approximately
9.30
Monday 20 July 2009
Brian visits Adrienne Tear’s house and collects statements from her
and her daughter.
Statement 1:
I
arrived home on Saturday just before 6.30pm and noticed a police officer on a
bike talking to a man at the bus stop outside my house.
I went into the house and 2 minutes later looked out of my bedroom window to
see that there was now 4 police officers and a police car (but it was not a
squad car) outside and they had a man handcuffed behind his back and were
pushing him against the glass on the back of the bus stop.
The man was not putting up a fight and did not look like he wasn’t
co-operating, but one particular police officer was being very rough with him
and holding his arms tight back, even though they were handcuffed.
Another police officer then went through his pockets and brief case in full
display of the road/ houses and emptied everything out.
As I was getting ready to go out, I didn’t continue watching anymore, however,
Mr Pead saw that somebody was watching and came back later to show us his
injuries inflicted, which he then felt needed hospital treatment.
The handling from the police officers did seem very extreme considering Mr Pead
was surrounded and also handcuffed and I am therefore registering a formal complaint.
Miss Victoria Tear
Statement 2:
As
I was driving home just before 18:30 on Saturday evening, I turned into my
drive at 253 Halfway Street to witness a commotion at the bus stop outside my
house.
A number of police officers were treating a man very harshly and pushing him
forcibly against the glass bus shelter. He was outnumbered by about four
officers to one man, and in my view the nature of the restraint used against
him was completely unnecessary.
I am therefore registering a formal complaint against your officers for the
very rough handling of Mr Brian Pead, who called at my home later in the
evening to show me his injuries.
Mrs Adrienne Tear
So, just four months before two criminal trials, Brian was
unceremoniously beaten up by four officers from Bexley Police. These officers are paid by
the taxpayer to uphold the law – but
all four of them broke the law.
However, whilst Brian was held in the back of a van at Bexleyheath
Police Station, other officers were at 89
Days Lane, informing his tenants that he “...is a dangerous sex offender and
you should leave this house immediately…”
They moved out the next day.
Did you notice that sleight of hand? This is how the police tactics
work:
(i)
arrest Brian and beat him up before his trial
(ii)
tell his tenants to leave and run him out of
money
(iii)
cause him as many problems simultaneously as
possible
(iv)
have a police presence in the neighbourhood in
order to turn his neighbours against him
(v)
defame Brian at every possible opportunity
(vi)
cause him disruption before his trial
And, of course, all this deceit and corruption is being paid for by
the taxpayer and real criminals are left free to commit their crimes.
Do you really want such a police force? If not, what are you going to do about it?
Now, Brian was beaten up by four officers and had his tenants leave
his house.
And if that were not enough, now read the following text exchanges
between Brian and his daughter, Sorrel:
July 22, 2009 at
11:59
“...Hi. I hope
you’re feeling better and the kids are doing well. I thought you should
know that I was arrested and roughly treated on Saturday night while at bus
stop in Halfway Street. I have witnesses to police
brutality. I went to hospital. Just so you know what is REALLY going
on. Love to all...”
Notice the reply
that he received:
July 22nd 2009 at 19:14
“...What exactly were you doing then to
warrant being arrested? ...”
July 22, 2009 at 19:38
“...Nothing at
all. The police admitted it was a false arrest. Solicitor said open and
shut case of abuse. Two members of the public have made official complaint
about police brutality...”
July 22, 2009 at 19:56
“...To clarify, I was sitting on my own,
minding my own business waiting for the 286 bus when 4 police surrounded
me. They later admitted at Bexleyheath that it had been a false arrest...”
July 22, 2009 at 20:01
“...How’s the other court situation going?
Any news?...”
July 22, 2009 at 20:14
“...Trial
postponed after police tried to blacken my name by putting article in local
paper. Moved from Woolwich to Southwark in December. Am working hard
on my defence, but it’s difficult without a computer. Look up my
barrister, DOMINIC BELL and the Orpington postman...”
The authors
believe that no real comment is necessary here because, we believe, the texts
speak for themselves.
Brian received no
enquiry from his daughter about his condition after he told her he had been to
hospital, that he had been beaten up by the police, that he had no access to a
computer, that he was working hard on his defence to two criminal trials and
that he was innocent. Sorrel Pead offered no assistance. She had other plans
and was busy preparing to change her name by marrying the father of her
children in Barbados. Her father was not invited to the wedding.
The authors wanted
to approach Sorrel Pead (now Sorrel Birch) but on 1 November 2011 at Bexley
Magistrates’ Court, Brian was ‘found guilty’ of the
harassment of his own daughter by sending her a letter about police corruption
and of his grand-daughter, Emily, then aged 12, by sending her a
birthday card.
There was no trial
bundle in Court. No evidence against him. Neither
Sorrel Birch nor Emily Birch were in Court to give evidence – but
still Brian was dragged from Belmarsh Prison (where he had been incarcerated on an
unfounded allegation of the witness intimidation of Emily Birch who has never been a witness in any case
at all) to be found guilty of a crime which he was never guilty of.
But this is all
part of the overall police strategy – it was well-known that Brian had forged a
great relationship with his grand-children. His daughter claimed that he gave a
lot of his time to them and their overall development as human beings, more
than any other of their grand-parents, according to his daughter. In order to
break Brian, they wanted to remove him from his family and isolate him.
This also has the
added bonus that they could lie to Sorrel, show her false documents which
appeared to incriminate her father, tell her he is ‘a paedophile’ and then
threaten to remove her children if she maintained any contact with her father.
Even though the
18-month ‘restraining order’ was due to end in May 2013, the authors took a
decision not to contact Sorrel or her family on the grounds that we wanted to
protect Brian.
In time – and with
this book available freely on the internet – the truth will eventually come
out.
Neither Brian nor
the authors apportion any blame whatsoever on to Sorrel Birch. She was placed in an impossible
position by the police and Bexley Social Services, which was made worse by her
already strained relationship with her father, whom it would appear, she had little
emotional understanding of and no understanding, it would appear from the
evidence, of her father’s intellectual ability.
