Police Corruption & Child Abuse in Nottingham
The Facts by Michael Robert Summers.
140 ROSSITER RD ROCHESTER,
NEW YORK, 14620 USA
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FLAT 14 BROWSIDE COURT
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DURING MY TIME IN A DETOX CENTRE IN BECKENHAM KENT IN MARCH AND APRIL 2003 HAVING MADE A DECISION TO TURN MY LIFE AROUND, I CONTACTED NOTTINGHAMSHIRE POLICE TO REPORT WHAT THEY CLASSIFY AS A HISTORIC CHILDHOOD ABUSE CASE AGAINST A JOSEPH CROSBY, WHO HAD SEXUALLY ABUSED ME FROM AROUND THE AGE OF 9 OR 10, UNTIL AROUND THE AGE OF 17. HAVING RANG FROM THE DETOX, I GOT A CRIME REFERENCE NUMBER AND WAS INVITED BY OFFICER WASSIM CHOUDRAY OF NOTTS POLICE TO ATTEND CANNING CIRCUS POLICE STATION IN NOTTINGHAM.
I TRAVELLED TO NOTTINGHAM WITH A FRIEND SOME TIME AFTER LEAVING THE DETOX, WHO I RECENTLY RE-ESTABLISHED CONTACT WITH WHO WILL CONFIRM THE FACTS OF THE FIRST INTERVIEW. WE WERE MET AT NOTTINGHAM MIDLAND BY OFFICER CHOUDRAY AND ANOTHER OFFICER IN A GREY “Y” REG FORD MONDEO AND WENT TO CANNING CIRCUS POLICE STATION.
AN INITIAL STATEMENT WAS MADE OUTLINING THAT MY ALLEGATIONS WERE TWOFOLD IN THAT THERE WERE 2 INVESTIGATIONS NEEDED, BUT AS THEY WERE UNCONNECTED AT THAT TIME, AS STATED, ONE WAS ABOUT JOSEPH CROSBY AND THE OTHER ABOUT MY TIME IN THE CHILDREN’S HOME. THIS HAD BEEN SUGGESTED BY A THERAPIST TO GIVE CLARITY TO BOTH ACCOUNTS. WE WENT ON A TOUR OF MANY OF THE PLACES JOSEPH CROSBY HAD LIVED AND THE PLACES I KNEW HE HAD WORKED AT. I WAS ASKED IF I COULD IDENTIFY THOSE CHILDREN’S HOMES AND WE DID WHILST VISITING VARIOUS LOCATIONS. WE VISITED HAZELWOOD AND BEECHWOOD CHILDREN’S HOMES.
HAVING TOURED THE CITY WE WENT BACK TO CANNING CIRCUS POLICE STATION AND A 2ND STATEMENT WAS MADE IDENTIFYING FROM THE FIRST TIME I WAS GROOMED BY COSBY TO MY LAST CONTACT PRIOR TO JOINING THE ARMY IN NOV 1970.
AS A POST SCRIPT IN THAT STATEMENT I IDENTIFIED CROSBY’S SON ANTHONY BETTER KNOWN AS TONY AND SUGGESTED THEY COULD GET A LEAD ON THE SON VIA MUNDELLA GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN NOTTINGHAM ADDING THAT WHEN PEOPLE LEAVE SCHOOL THEY GET A NATIONAL INSURANCE/SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, THEREBY MAKING THE SON TRACEABLE TOO, A FEW MONTHS PASSED BY AND I WAS TOLD THAT ALL ATTEMPTS TO TRACE JOSEPH CROSBY VIA EMPLOYERS RECORDS, SOCIAL SECURITY RECORDS, POLICE PNC CHECKS AND A CHECK OF DEATHS IN THAT NAME HAD GOTTEN NO RESULTS AS SUCH AND THE CASE COLLAPSED. I DID MAKE A POLICE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS COMPLAINT AT THAT TIME WHICH WAS NOT UPHELD.
HAVING BEEN TRAUMATIZED BY THE POLICES FAILURES, I TRIED CONTACTING NOTTINGHAM CHILDCARE CITY SOCIAL SERVICES 2 OR 3 TIMES A WEEK AROUND SEPT/OCT 2003 FOR AROUND 5 OR 6 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS. NO ONE BELIEVED ME, AND FURTHER TO THAT NEITHER THE POLICE NOR NOTTINGHAM SOCIAL SERVICES EVER CONTACTED ME. AS A CONSEQUENCE I HAD A SHORT DRUGS RELAPSE ON THE 22ND DEC 2003, AND HAVE NOT USED DRUGS SINCE THEN.
IN THE TIME SINCE I HAVE WORKED A 12 STEP TREATMENT PROGRAMME AND DONE LOTS OF THERAPY MOSTLY AROUND MY CHILDHOOD. ALSO IN THAT TIME FRAME I ALSO PIECED TOGETHER THE JIGSAW OF MY CHILDHOOD. I PERSONALLY TRACED TONY CROSBY BY THE MEANS SUGGESTED TO THE POLICE IN 2003 AND AS SUCH PASSED THIS INFORMATION ONTO OPERATION DAYBREAK AS THERE WERE STATEMENTS FROM THAT CASE THAT I VIEW, OVERLAP THIS INQUIRY. A DAMNING INDICTMENT OF NOTTS POLICE IN NOT FULLY INVESTIGATING CROSBY EMERGED RECENTLY AFTER I GAVE OPERATION DAYBREAK THE MEANS TO CONTACT TONY CROSBY AFTER I HAD TRACED HIM RESULTED IN THEM TRACING JOSEPH CROSBY AS DECEASED IN 1993 GIVING ME CLOSURE AFTER TEN AND A HALF YEARS WHEN IT COULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED IN 2003.
IT ALSO EMERGED I FILED A COMPLAINT TO POLICE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF A FAILURE TO FULLY INVESTIGATE IN 2003 THAT WAS NOT UPHELD, THAT HAS BEEN ADDED TO IN RECENT TIMES BY AN ACCUSATION OF CORRUPTION AND COVER UP IN THE LIGHT OF 2 STATEMENTS THAT REFERENCE BEECHWOOD IN 2003 WERE NEVER ACTED ON OR FOLLOWED UP, A SIMILAR INDICTMENT DAMNING NOTTINGHAM CITY SOCIAL SERVICES WHO RECEIVED NUMEROUS CALLS AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THAT INVESTIGATION, WHERE I REPEATEDLY TOLD MY STORY TO THE SOCIAL WORKERS WHO TOOK MY 2003 CALLS. ACCORDING TO IAN CURRYER, THESE CALLS WOULD HAVE BEEN RECORDED AND LOGGED.
NO ONE EVER FOLLOWED THROUGH TO INVESTIGATE FURTHER SO IN LAYMEN’S TERMS BOTH THE POLICE AND NOTTINGHAM COUNCIL KNEW OF THE ALLEGATIONS OF OPERATION DAYBREAK IN 2003 AND BOTH FAILED ME WHICH COMES AS NO SURPRISE. TODAY I ACCUSE BOTH THE POLICE AND NOTTINGHAM COUNCIL OF A WIDE SCALE COVER UP, AS PART OF MY CURRENT DEALINGS WITH IAN CURRYER. I DEMANDED THE LOGS AND TAPES BUT JUST LIKE THE POLICE STATEMENTS THEY TO HAVE DISAPPEARED JUST LIKE MY CHILD CARE SOCIAL RECORDS I OPENLY ACCUSE NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL OF HAVING A WIDE SCALE PAEDOPHILE RING AT THE CORE OF CHILDREN’S SERVICES FROM THE 60s NOT THE CLAIM OF THIS INQUIRY CENTRES AROUND A FEW PLACES AND A FEW INDIVIDUALS FROM 1973 TO 1989.
MY ACCOUNT IDENTIFIES BY NAME 6 INDIVIDUALS BY FULL NAME FROM VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND IS VIA LEGAL DEFINITION A PAEDOPHILE RING SOMETHING IAN CURRYER AND NOTTINGHAM COUNCIL REFUSE TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE BASED ON A PACK OF LIES TOLD TO THE MEDIA THAT THE COUNCIL WERE ORDERED BY THE POLICE TO MAKE NO MEDIA COMMENTS AT THE DIRECTION OF OPERATION DAYBREAK AND OR THE HEAD OF NOTTINGHAM POLICE, HAVING GOTTEN TO A POINT OF DISTRUST I CONTACTED OPERATION DAYBREAK NOT ONLY LAST YEAR ON NO SUCH DIRECTIVE HAS EVER BEEN MADE BY OPERATION DAYBREAK I FURTHER CHECKED WITH THE P.A TO THE CHIEF CONSTABLES OFFICE ONCE AGAIN NO SUCH DIRECTIVE.
UNDETERRED I SPOKE WITH THE POLICE PRESS OFFICE WHO ALSO CONFIRMED NO DIRECTIVE FROM THEM, I ALSO IDENTIFIED A FURTHER CHILDREN’S HOME NAMELY HAZELWOOD AND A REMAND HOME ASHLEY HOUSE, INITIALLY THERE WAS DENIAL OF HAZELWOOD THIS CENTRED ON ALLEGEDLY NO KNOWLEDGE THIS PLACE EXISTED AND ACCORDING TO MEDIA REPORT A LEGAL CHALLENGE AS TO OWNERSHIP OF ASHLEY HOUSE REMAND HOME.
ALREADY EMERGING IS THAT MY INPUT DISCREDITS WHAT IS WANTED TO BE PUT OUT IN THE PUBLIC EYE BY NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL. TO START, AS TO HOW I BECAME KNOWN TO THE FORMER CHILDREN’S DEPT OF NOTTINGHAM CORPORATION RENAMED NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL.
HERE IS MY STORY WHILST A PUPIL AT WELBECK SCHOOL ON QUEENS DRIVE.
I WENT ON A SCHOOL TRIP TO LONDON ON THIS TRIP WAS SCHOOL HEADMASTER PETER HOWITT AND A TEACHER FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL NAMED MR BOWLEY WHO WAS BETWEEN THE KIDS ON THE COACH REFERRED TO AS BUMMER BOWLEY, ON THE RETURN TRIP FROM LONDON I HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF HAVING TO SIT NEXT TO BOWLEY AND AS A CONSEQUENCE WAS TEASED AS BOWLEYS MATE BUMMERS SUMMERS. I REACTED AGAINST THIS AND WAS PUNISHED BY HOWITT USING A LEATHER STRAP AND ON AT LEAST ONE OCCASION A CANE.
THINGS CHANGED, ON ONE DETENTION WHEN HOWITT HAD ME IN HIS OFFICE AND WHILST HAVING HIS PENIS OUT YANKED MY SHORT TROUSERS DOWN AND TRIED TO FONDLE ME. I RAN INTO THE PARK NEXT DOOR TO THE SCHOOL AND WAS A CONTINUAL TRUANT. THEREAFTER THIS CULMINATED IN ME AND MY MOTHER BEING SEEN BY THE TRUANCY OFFICER AND THEN THE CHILDREN’S DEPT.
I WAS PLACED IN BEECHWOOD IN AUG 1966 ACCORDING TO THE ADMISSIONS REGISTER/LOG BOOK HOWEVER I WAS THERE SEVERAL OTHER TIMES AND DURING THOSE TIMES WAS WARNED TO STAY OUT OF THE GARDENS ‘SHED’ AREA, THE RECREATION ROOMS AND TO AVOID ALBERT LOWNDES AN MARTIN O’REARDONAS THEY WERE PAEDOPHILE CHILD MOLESTERS. THE ATMOSPHERE BY STAFF WAS ONE OF INTIMIDATION MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSES, I WAS AWARE OF THE GOINGS ON BUT WAS NOT SEXUALLY ABUSED THERE, BUT THE ABUSE WAS KNOWLEDGEABLE FROM THE DISTRAUGHT ACCOUNTS OF OTHERS. TO MY SHOCK AND HORROR, THERE WERE ALSO TEACHERS WHO CAME FOR ALLEGED SCHOOL LESSONS IN THE RECREATION ROOM. ONE OF THE VISITORS I SEEN WAS MY FORMER HEADMASTER PETER HOWITT AND ITS MY BELIEF HE RECOGNISED ME AND MAYBE WHY I WAS REMOVED AND SENT TO HAZELWOOD .
AT HAZELWOOD THINGS WERE NO DIFFERENT. LOWNDES AND O’REARDON WERE OFTEN THERE. I BELIEVE THEY MOSTLY DID MAINTENANCE BUT THEY ALSO DID OTHER JOBS. AT HAZELWOOD THERE’S AN ADDITION TO THE LIST OF PREDATORS IN ‘ARTHUR HUNT’, THE HUSBAND OF MARJORIE, WHO RAN HAZELWOOD TOGETHER.THE MAIN TARGET OF THIS TRIO WAS A YOUNG LAD AGED ABOUT 8 WHO WAS MENTALLY CHALLENGED HE WAS REGULARLY MOLESTED BY THIS TRIO AND I’M STILL HAUNTED BY THE DORMITORY SOBS OF THIS LAD RODERICK G.
MY FIRST TRAUMA THERE WAS ONE SATURDAY MORNING WHEN I ENTERED THE LIVING QUARTERS AND WITNESSED ARTHUR HUNT MOLESTING RODERICK. FROM THE COMPROMISING POSITION I WOULD STATE TODAY HE WAS PROBABLY RAPING HIM.
TRAUMATISED I RAN TO NEARBY FOREST FIELDS RETURNING LATE AFTERNOON. NOTHING WAS EVER SPOKEN. THERE WERE OTHER KIDS MOLESTED BY THIS TRIO BUT ITS ONLY RODERICK WHOSE NAME I’VE NEVER FORGOTTEN. RODERICK WAS ALSO A TARGET OF LOWNDES AND O’REARDON, ALTHOUGH I NEVER WITNESSED THEM. WITH HIS LIMITED VOCABULARY, RODERICK WOULD CRY HIMSELF TO SLEEP TELLING US “MY NAMES RODERICK G THEY HURT ME”.
47 YEARS ON THIS STILL HAUNTS ME AS NIGHTMARES AND FLASHBACKS ARE PART OF MY PTSD. AFTER THE EVENT I WITNESSED WITH HUNT, THERE WAS ANOTHER SATURDAY MORNING INCIDENT THIS TIME I WAS THE VICTIM WHERE I WAS SUMMONED TO HUNTS QUARTERS AND THEY PULLED MY TROUSERS DOWN AND TRIED GRABBING AT MY GENITALS. I ESCAPED AND RAN OUT AND HID IN A WEEPING WILLOW TREE IN THE COURTYARD.
I WOULD SAY THAT THE MAIN PLACE FOR MOLESTING KIDS WAS AN OUTBUILDING USED AS A SHOES AN CLOAKROOM, USED BY LOWNDES AND O’REARDON AND THE LIVING QUARTERS FOR HUNT. ON THE MONDAY I WAS TOLD BY HUNT HE WANTED ME IN HIS QUARTERS AT 6PM. THIS WOULD BE A TIME WHEN MARJORIE WOULD HAVE BEEN AT ONE OF HER CHURCH FUNCTIONS. ON THAT MONDAY I WENT TO CLAREMONT SCHOOL, LEAVING AT THE AFTERNOON BREAK INTENT ON RUNNING AWAY MORTIFIED AS TO WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN. I WOULD HAVE RAN TO MY MOTHERS BUT SHE WAS IN WAKEFIELD AT MY GRANDPARENTS.
I GOT A BUS TO VICTORIA STATION AND WALKED TO HUNTINGDON ST BUS STATION WHERE I CAUGHT EITHER A TRENT 64 OR EAST MIDLANDS 36 BUS, DESTINATION DONCASTER, AND GOT OFF AT THE REDHILL ROUNDABOUT NEXT TO A JET PETROL STATION AND FROM THERE HITCH-HIKED TO WAKEFIELD AS A DESPERATE 13 YEAR OLD.
MY FIRST RIDE WAS IN A LORRY TO THE WHITE POST TRANSPORT CAFE. FROM THERE A CAR TO OLLERTON ALONG THE A614 FROM THERE TO THE A1 DONCASTER BYPASS. FROM THERE TO THE END OF THE BYPASS TO THE A638 WAKEFIELD TURN OFF, FROM THERE TO THE BEVERLEY ARMS ACKWORTH ROUNDABOUT AND FINALLY A LIFT TO THE BULL RING IN WAKEFIELD. AFTER THAT I GOT THE 111 BUS TO EASTMOOR GETTING OFF BY THE TOP OF LINTON RD. I WALKED FROM THERE TO BARDEN RD AIMING FOR MY GRANDPARENTS PREFAB NUMBER 34. I GOT THERE AND THINGS TOOK A TURN FOR THE WORSE.
I FOUND THERE HOME HAD BEEN DEMOLISHED AND UNBEKNOWN TO ME THEY’D MOVED WEEKS BEFORE. PANIC SET IN AND I THEN WALKED TO WHERE A NEARBY AUNT LIVED AND TOLD HER I HAD RAN AWAY FROM A CHILDREN’S HOME AND WAS LOOKING FOR MY MOTHER. AFTER GIVING ME SOMETHING TO EAT MY AUNT AND UNCLE TOOK ME TO WOOD ST POLICE STATION IN WAKEFIELD WHERE THEY WERE INFORMED I HAD BEEN REPORTED AS A MISSING CHILD TO NOTTINGHAM POLICE.
IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT MY AUNT AND UNCLE DAPHNE PESTELL AND GEOFF PESTELL TAKE ME HOME AND RETURN AT LUNCH TIME THE FOLLOWING DAY WHICH WE DID. ALONG WITH A POLICE OFFICER WE WALKED ACROSS TO THE CHILDREN’S DEPT WHERE IT WAS ALL EXPLAINED TO A CHILD CARE OFFICER BY THE POLICE, DAPHNE AND GEOFF, ARRANGEMENTS HAD BEEN MADE FOR ME TO GO BACK TO HAZELWOOD.
THE FOLLOWING DAY I WAS COLLECTED BY THE SOCIAL WORKER JOHN SMITH. AT NO TIME DID SMITH EVER ASK ME WHY I’D RAN AWAY. AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, I’D SAY HE KNEW WITHOUT ME TELLING HIM. HAZELWOOD OVER THE FOLLOWING WEEKS BECAME A HOUSE OF HORRORS. THERE WAS NEVER A DAY WENT BY WHERE SOMEONE WAS NOT ABUSED.
MY MENTAL CAPACITY TO COPE WAS AT BREAKING POINT AND ONCE AGAIN I RAN AWAY WITH ANOTHER CHILD WHO CAME FROM BESTWOOD, NOTTINGHAM. ON DAY ONE WE WENT ON A TRAIN TO DERBY AND CHANGED FOR ONE TO MATLOCK BATH. WE SLEPT IN SOME CAVES AND EARLY IN THE MORNING HITCH-HIKED BACK TO NOTTINGHAM, HEADING FOR THIS KIDS MOTHERS HOUSE. WE WERE TOLD THAT THE POLICE WERE LOOKING FOR US AND WERE COMING BACK SO WE HUNG AROUND A FEW OF MY FRIENDS MATES HOUSES. WE COULD’NT STAY AT HIS MUMS AS WE KNEW THE POLICE WOULD BE BACK LOOKING FOR US SO WE SLEPT IN A PART DEMOLISHED ABANDONED PREFABRICATED BUILDING.
I HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO GASH MY ARM IN THERE BUT FORTUNATE TO FIND A FIRST AID BOX IN A BIN AND USED 2 BANDAGES FROM IT FOR MY INJURIES. THE FOLLOWING DAY WE WERE MOSTLY IN HYSON GREEN WHERE WE WERE PICKED UP BY THE POLICE BELIEVED TO BE THE 2 RUNAWAYS. WE WERE TAKEN TO CANNING CIRCUS POLICE STATION WHERE I WAS SEEN BY JOHN SMITH WHERE I BLURTED OUT THE CATALOGUE OF THINGS I HAD BEEN WITNESS TO AND HAD BEEN DONE TO ME.
HE DID ASK ABOUT THE INJURY TO MY ARM AND I EXPLAINED HOW IT HAD HAPPENED. SHORTLY THEREAFTER A POLICE OFFICER CAME IN TO THE ROOM, AND DURING THE DIALOGUE SMITH INSISTED THAT IN ORDER TO PLACE ME IN SOMEWHERE MORE SECURE HE WANTED THEM TO CHARGE ME WITH THEFT OF THE BANDAGES. THE POLICE OFFICER EXPLAINED THAT AS THEY WERE TAKEN FROM A BIN IT WAS CLASSED AS RUBBISH AND NO ONE KNEW WHO OWNED THE BUILDING.
SUCH WAS THE MANIPULATIVE PERSUASION OF SMITH I WAS CHARGED WITH THEFT OF 2 BANDAGES, PROPERTY OF PERSONS UNKNOWN. AND APPEARED IN COURT THE NEXT MORNING AND WAS REMANDED BACK TO LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE. I WAS TAKEN TO THE OFFICE ON MANSFIELD RD FROM THE COURT AND DESPITE THE FACT THERE WAS SEVERAL CHILDREN’S HOMES USED AS SECURE UNITS, I WAS PUT INTO SMITHS CAR, A VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE. I BELIEVED I WAS AT LAST GOING TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
WE HEADED OUT OF NOTTINGHAM ON THE A453 AND NEAR TO WHERE YOU WOULD TURN OFF FOR THE MEASHAM CAR AUCTIONS. A ROUTE I WAS FAMILIAR WITH AS MY FATHER WAS A CAR TRADER. WE PULLED INTO A TRANSPORT AREA, WHERE IN THE FAR CORNER OF A BIG CAR PARK, SMITH FORCED ME INTO THE BACK OF THE CAR REMOVING MY TROUSERS AND FORCING ME TO PERFORM ORAL SEX ON HIM AND WAS THEN RAPED BY SMITH AND TOLD NO ONES EVER GONNA BELIEVE YOU SO YOU’D BEST SAY NOTHING OR YOUR NEXT STOPS AN APPROVED SCHOOL.
WE TRAVELLED ON TO LANGPORT IN SOMERSET TO BROOKLANDS REMAND HOME IN LANGPORT WHERE I WAS CONSTANTLY BULLIED AND INTIMIDATED BY STAFF MEMBERS AND OLDER KIDS REMANDED THERE. THE NEXT TIME I WAS TO APPEAR IN COURT I WAS COLLECTED BY A MR HENDERSON, LODGED OVERNIGHT AT BEECHWOOD AND APPEARED IN COURT THE NEXT DAY WHERE I WAS REMANDED BACK BY THE COURTS TO LOCAL AUTHORITY CARE.
SMITH CAME TO COLLECT ME FROM THE CELLS LAUGHING AND TELLING ME OF HIS INTENT ENROUTE BACK TO SOMERSET. I ATTACKED HIM AND WAS RANTING THAT IF I WAS MADE TO TRAVEL WITH HIM I WOULD MAKE HIM CRASH HIS CAR. I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT FROM THEREAFTER I WAS TAKEN THERE AND BACK BY THE POLICE IN A WHITE TRIUMPH POLICE CAR WITH MOTORWAY PATROL OFFICERS, WHO HAD WHITE PLASTIC COVERS ON THEIR POLICE CAPS. I EVENTUALLY APPEARED IN COURT AND WAS SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS IN AN APPROVED SCHOOL.
MY FATHER VIA HIS SOLICITOR HARRY CLEGG, LAUNCHED AN IMMEDIATE APPEAL, NEVER-THE-LESS, I REMAINED IN CUSTODY AND WENT ON TO RISLEY HALL APPROVED SCHOOL VIA ASHLEY HOUSE AND AN ASSESSMENT CENTRE IN NEWTON AYCLIFFE. AT ALL OF THESE PLACES I WAS LIVING IN AN ATMOSPHERE BEYOND THE WORD TERROR. ALL OF MY ATTEMPTS AT WRITING TO MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER FLORENCE SUMMERS, TO TELL HER EVERYTHING, NOTHING EVER REACHED HER, AS I WAS TOLD I’M NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE A PACK OF LIES.
AT RISLEY HALL I WAS IN YELLOW HOUSE AND THE HOUSEMASTER HAD A GROUP OF BOYS WHO DID EVERYTHING THEY WERE TOLD BY HIM INCLUDING BULLYING AND SEXUAL ASSAULTS. ALTHOUGH HEARSAY THE HOUSE-MASTER WHO USED TO STAY OVERNIGHT IN A ROOM NEAR THE DORMITORY, OFTEN HAD THE YOUNGEST MOST VULNERABLE CHILDREN BROUGHT TO HIS ROOM, WHERE BASED ON DIALOGUE WITHIN THE DORMITORY THESE CHILDREN WERE SUBJECTED TO MOLESTATION AND RAPE.
UNDETERRED I CONTINUED TO TRY TO WRITE TO MY GRANDMOTHER AND IN THE SPACE OF A FEW DAYS WAS PUNISHED TO BREAKING POINT I WAS MADE TO SCRUB THE COURTYARD ON MY HANDS AN KNEES AT LEAST TWICE, BUT THE FINAL THING WAS AFTER MY LAST LETTER WRITING ATTEMPT I WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOUSE-MASTER AND SERIOUSLY BEATEN AROUND THE BODY BY THE HOUSE-MASTERS BULLY BOYS. THIS RESULTED IN ME BEING TAKEN TO NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL WHERE THE HOUSE-MASTER TOLD THEM THEY BELIEVED I MIGHT HAVE APPENDICITIS. I WAS WARNED OF CONSEQUENCES SHOULD I SAY ANYTHING TO THE DOCTORS.
IT WAS SUGGESTED TO ME MY INJURIES WERE NOT AS A RESULT OF APPENDICITIS, HOWEVER I WAS ADMITTED FOR 4 OR 5 DAYS AT NOTTINGHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL. IN SEPT 1967 A FEW WEEKS LATER MY APPEAL WAS HEARD AT THE NOTTINGHAM CITY QUARTER SESSIONS APPEALS COURT AND THE CASE WAS DISMISSED ABSOLUTE DISCHARGE.
I THEN WENT TO STAY WITH MY MATERNAL GRAND PARENTS IN WAKEFIELD AS A WARD OF COURT. AFTER LEAVING SCHOOL IN 1969 I WANTED TO RETURN TO NOTTINGHAM BUT THE SOCIAL WORKER SMITH, OBJECTED AND HAD ME PLACED IN A HOSTEL IN BRACEBRIDGE LINCOLN. I LEFT THERE RETURNING TO MY MOTHERS IN NOTTINGHAM AND WAS PLACED WITH VARIOUS FOSTER CARERS UNTIL NOV 1970 WHEN I JOINED THE ARMY
TO BE CONTINUED WITH MY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST NOTTINGHAM COUNCIL’S AND THE POLICE ON A SEPARATE DOCUMENT
signed
Michael Robert Summers
