Dear Councillor White
There was no spitting incident as I understand it and no evidence of mucus on the security guard. We shall see how the court case pans out and get the transcript under the FOI if possible. If the Council drops it again further wasting police and court time, I assume there will be no doubt it was all lies and compensation payments will large.
You seem to treat political opponents, whom I assume don’t agree with you, with contempt in the local newspaper.
Can you justify the police having been called 64 times to Mr. Parnell, once I believe in response to his making a comment from the public gallery at a full council meeting that Councillor Derbyshire had sneezed and should be arrested? No-one from the Council would even wait after the meeting for the police arrive and Mr. Parnell had to wait alone outside for the police to come to explain why they had been called, so as not to further waste police time.
I think as an Executive Councillor of a Council which has been unreasonably harassing a peaceful protester and who was informed twice at public meetings what was going on, then, of course, you are involved.
I hope to obtain evidence from the police and the courts under the FOIA of this utter and malicious waste of police and court time, and will hopefully expose this in the press.
As further evidence of this rotten borough council, when it was pointed out at the last full council meeting that the names, addresses and signatures of questioners had been up on the Council’s website for months, no action was taken to correct that Data Protection abuse and remove those details till the following Monday afternoon, and even then this was only done because a council taxpayer affected contacted the police and the Information Commission. At that meeting were all the senior council officers, executive councillors – even one who worked in a senior position at the Data Protection arm of the Information Commission, yet no-one took anything seriously because basically no-one senior at the Council ever listens to the public.
I think the contempt I feel for LibDem councillors and MPs, always spouting their concern for the environment yet simultaneously wanting to put a £1billion bypass through the Goyt Valley, is very justified.
With warmest best wishes
Sheila
—– Original Message —–
From: David White
To: ‘Sheila Oliver’
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 2:54 AM
Subject: RE: Mr Parnell
Sheila,
Having heard the Security Guards view of the event I am disgusted by this “inflicting and a cold”, my description would be very different and Council staff should not be subjected to this.
Spitting on someone is not a “gentle, peaceful” act.
If he has been arrested, I have neither been involved or partaken in the event. Let justice take its course.
Like yourself you are entitled to your opinion but you treat people who don’t agree with you with contempt and never listen to them.
Dave
David White
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 01 May 2009 20:46
To: David White
Cc: peter.devine@gmwn.co.uk; cleggn@parliament.uk; lambn@parliament.uk
Subject: Re: Mr Parnell
Dear Councillor White.
How can they lack one thing among many?
I sent you masses of evidence over Harcourt Street – I don’t suppose you bothered to read any of it.
I asked at the Executive meeting twice about him. Maybe you had nodded off. I gave all Executive councillors the chance to condemn what was being done to him. Not one did.
He has had the police called to him 64 times. He is in court on May 14th charged with assault with a sneeze with intent to inflict a council employee with a cold. He has been taken to court before by the Council only to have the case dropped on the day it was to be heard. He is a gentle, peaceful man. I don’t suppose you have ever taken the trouble to actually talk to him. A High Court judge has ruled that he mustn’t have his case heard by magistrates, as they won’t be impartial. So his case is to be heard by a judge.
Suicide is a possibility for him and his daughters – the compensation costs would be massive, never mind the toll of human misery.
Take the trouble to find out – I pay you enough.
Yours
Sheila
—– Original Message —–
From: David White
To: ‘Sheila Oliver’
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:21 PM
Subject: RE: Mr Parnell
Sheila,
Your emails always just lack one thing, among many.
I don’t know about Mr Parnell, my only dealings with him have been his appearing at my Area Committee asking a public question.
Evidence!
Dave
From: Sheila Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 01 May 2009 20:11
To: Cllr Dave Goddard; Cllr Mark Weldon; David White; cllr.sue.derbyshire@stockport.gov.uk; cllr.shan.alexander@stockport.gov.uk; cllr.stuart.bodsworth@stockport.gov.uk; martin.candler@stockport.gov.uk; cllr.john.pantall@stockport.gov.uk
Cc: cleggn@parliament.uk; lambn@parliament.uk
Subject: Mr Parnell
Dear Executive Councillors
I have twice in the past drawn your attention to what is happening regarding Mr. Parnell. All of you refused to express any concern whatsoever.
Please see the attached. I would appear there is a legal right to peaceful protest. I think the damages the Council will have to pay Mr. Parnell will be huge for the 64 times the police were called and his repeated stay in police cells. I assume your insurers won’t cover this illegal activity, as they have financial problems of their own, and that this compensation will have to come from council taxpayers’ money.
What a shame none of you acted to stop this abuse within reasonable timescales.
I hope neither Mr Parnell nor his daughters commit suicide, which is a possibility; in that tragic eventuality the Council will have to pay out tens of millions of pounds.
Yours in disgust at what you allow to continue in this rotten borough.
Sheila
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