Fucking bullshit. I’m incensed. Anarchists have opposed the idea of ‘police’ for centuries and when one gets fucked we smile. Get real and rub your bullshit out.

Then he will not honestly be able to claim, as he did in his 2007 report http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/terrorism-act-2000/lord-carlile-report-07/lord-carliles-report-2008?view=Binary section 145, that nobody has complained to him about this. The posting here would do as the basis of a complaint.

He will still demonstrate that he is out of touch with the real world which campaigners live in by writing things like section 159 of that report.

The code of practice the police are supposed to follow is at http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/terrorism-act-2000/Code-of-Practice-for-Examin1.pdf?view=Binary and may provide further things to complain about.

Firstly, it is very interesting to note the dates of the discovery of the grave disturbance. The Burton Mail (Nermin Oomer) reports that Police believe ‘the grave (of Gladys Hammond) was dug up on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning…’

The BBC reports ‘Ms. Lister, who first reported the matter to police on Thursday…

So when was it reported?

Apparently, Jenny Lister was notified of the grave problem by a parishoner.

Unfortunately, the following media stories seem to have disappeared from the online archives. I have searched but they appear to be missing.

Report 1:

Burton Mail 9.10.04 OAP TELLS OF GRAVE FIND by NERMIN OOMER – A PENSIONER has told how she discovered the grave of an elderly woman which is believed to have been dug up by animal rights activists. Police and church leaders have condemned the ’sick and despicable’ criminals who ’seriously desecrated’ the grave of Gladys Hammond ? the mother in law of Newchurch guinea pig farm owner Chris Hall?. (story)

Report 2

The BBC story that appeared, possibly on the 8th October, in which Rev. Jenny Lister describes how a woman parishioner of outstanding (or was it ‘upright’) character alerted Jenny to the grave disturbance.

How strange that both stories are missing. There must be copies somewhere?

Firstly, it is very interesting to note the dates of the discovery of the grave disturbance. The Burton Mail (Nermin Oomer) reports that Police believe ‘the grave (of Gladys Hammond) was dug up on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning…’

The BBC reports ‘Ms. Lister, who first reported the matter to police on Thursday…

So when was it reported?

Apparently, Jenny Lister was notified of the grave problem by a parishoner.

Unfortunately, the following media stories seem to have disappeared from the online archives. I have searched but they appear to be missing.

Report 1:

Burton Mail 9.10.04 OAP TELLS OF GRAVE FIND by NERMIN OOMER – A PENSIONER has told how she discovered the grave of an elderly woman which is believed to have been dug up by animal rights activists. Police and church leaders have condemned the ’sick and despicable’ criminals who ’seriously desecrated’ the grave of Gladys Hammond ? the mother in law of Newchurch guinea pig farm owner Chris Hall?. (story)

Report 2

The BBC story that appeared, possibly on the 8th October, in which Rev. Jenny Lister describes how a woman parishioner of outstanding (or was it ‘upright’) character alerted Jenny to the grave disturbance.

How strange that both stories are missing. There must be copies somewhere?

The allegations made against the Reverend Peter Lister (formerly of Morpeth, Northumberland, and Yoxall) were made verbally to Northumbria Police before October 2004, i.e. before the Gladys Hammond events began; the allegations were first raised against him in September and recorded on paper and on video tape in November 2004.

There was clear evidence against Rev Peter Lister, so the case was taken on by the Crown Prosecution Service to be heard at Newcastle Crown Court. The judge stopped it on the morning of the trial, in November 2005, saying that the events could never have happened.

A policewoman wrote up the allegations made by the victim against Rev Peter Lister; these allegations were of serious sexual abuse were then transcribed and written up by the policewoman as the victim’s statement.

At court, it became clear that something was wrong.
The policewoman somehow managed to put into the statement ‘the wrong dates’. She did this despite being told the correct dates (we have a CD copy of the verbal statement made to Northumbria Police that proves that the correct dates were given to the policewoman). It appears that she was somehow unable to type in the correct dates, but she did mange to put in the wrong ones.

This is how the Rev. Peter Lister managed to avoid trial at Newcastle Crown Court.

It is extremely unusual for a case to be aborted at the last minute in terms of the prosecution offering no evidence.

The evidence was there. That’s why the CPS took the case all the way to Crown Court.

During the investigation, the Police (Staffordshire and Northumbria) appeared to fail to arrest the Rev. Peter Lister until after Christmas 2004 as they, allegedly, ‘didn’t have enough police officers’.

2 Independent Police Commission Complaint investigations have led to the police denying every one of 20 or so charges of incompetence made against them relating to their investigation of Peter Lister.

The Gladys Hammond events happened in the church graveyard of the parish run by Rev Peter Lister and his wife the Rev Jenny Lister,. and occurred at the same time that the Rev Peter Lister was accused of sexual abuse against a child.

After the case of sexual abuse against the Rev. Peter Lister was dropped, he was reinstated as the Director of Education, Lichfield Diocese, looking after hundreds of schools.

He then took ‘early retirement’.

We believe that the Police investigation of the case aginst Peter Lister was flawed. They’ve admitted that they got the dates wrong yet refuse to accept liability. The roles of both the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service in the case of R. vs Rev. Peter Lister need to be reviewed.

The problems in reviewing the case are several, not least

1/ double jeopardy (the same evidence can’t be heard twice).

2/ The Police and CPS both investigate themselves – it is not an independent process.

3/ There is very little help and financial assistance for people who didn’t get a fair crack of the whip at the hands of the prosecution authorities.

We firmly believe that, for whatever reason, the police and the CPS in the investigation of the Rev. Peter Lister messed up.

Church Victims
Contact email: churchvictims@yahoo.co.uk