Thursday, 7 June 2018
Update letter from Operation Seabrook - Medomsley Detention Centre 04/06/2018
Update letter from Operation Seabrook - Medomsley Detention Centre 04/06/2018
Sunday, 3 June 2018
Operation Seabrook - Medomsley Detention Centre Update!??
Operation Seabrook - Medomsley Detention Centre
16/01/2018
‘Operation Seabrook’ is the criminal investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse perpetrated by staff against detainees at Medomsley Detention Centre near Consett, County Durham.
It was launched in August 2013 and is investigating incidents which happened over many years, principally the 1970s and 1980s.
The three main aims of the investigation are:
* to ensure support is provided for victims so they are in a better place after contacting the police
* to gain the fullest understanding of how Medomsley operated during those years
* to secure evidence so that any potential offenders are brought to justice.
Anyone needing to make contact with the team in writing can email operation.seabrook@durham.pnn.police.uk
Latest news update - Seven men appear at crown court charged with abuse
SEVEN
former prison officers have appeared in court following an
investigation into allegations of abuse of young men at a former
detention centre.
The men, who are all former staff members at Medomsley Detention Centre, near Consett, appeared at Teesside Crown Court today (Tuesday, January 16).
Christopher Onslow, 71, John McGee, 73, Brian Johnson Greenwell, 70, and Neil Sowerby, 61, face charges of misconduct in a public office, physical abuse and sexual offences.
David McClure, 62, Alan Bramley, 69, and Kevin Blakey, 65, face charges of misconduct in public office and physical abuse only.
No pleas were entered and a provisional trial date was set for September 3. The trial is expected to last between 12 to 14 weeks.
All defendants were released on bail.
The court heard there will be around 15,000 pages of material linked to the case, along with 235 witnesses. Of these, 70 are likely to be complainants.
The investigation – named Operation Seabrook – was launched in August 2013 and is one of the largest of its kind in the UK.
So far, more than 1,500 men have contacted the Operation Seabrook team to report allegations of either sexual or physical assaults while detained at Medomsley from the 1960s to when the centre closed in 1988.
Anyone who believes they are a victim and has not already contacted the police should call Durham Constabulary on 101 or email operation.seabrook@durham.pnn.police.uk
Durham Constabulary continues to work with various organisations to
provide the best possible support for victims. Access to support is
available without the need to contact the police for those who feel
unable to do so.
Independent Psychotherapist Zoe Lodrick
The following organisations can be contacted independently of the police for support .
NSPCC FREEPHONE HELPLINE (24 hrs):
The helpline is available for anyone who has concerns about a child
or anyone including adults who wish to discuss their own experience of
abuse as a child or young person.
Contact can also be made via e mail : help@nspcc.org.uk or by text 88858
Contact can be made anonymously if the caller so wishes.
NAPAC
Freephone from all landlines and mobile networks 0808 801 0331.
Calls do not show on your bill; lines are open 10am to 9pm Monday -
Thursday, and 10am to 6pm on Friday. NAPAC is unable to take messages
or ring back.
The Meadows:
0191 372 9202
The Meadows will accept calls between the hours of 9am-3.30 pm Monday to Friday and can arrange one-to-one counselling sessions and can make referrals to similar centres throughout the UK.
The Meadows will accept calls between the hours of 9am-3.30 pm Monday to Friday and can arrange one-to-one counselling sessions and can make referrals to similar centres throughout the UK.
Counselling does not involve discussing what has happened in
relation to the assault, it aims to help you work through your feelings
to aid the healing process.
Staff at the Meadows will not contact the police without your
consent unless there are current concerns in respect of a child or
vulnerable adult.
Dates have now been scheduled for seven former officers at Medomsley Detention Centre to face trial for physically and sexually assaulting inmates during the 1970s and 1980s.
The Teesside Crown Court made an order that there will be three separate trials involving these men.The first trial will begin on 3 September 2018 and will involve charges against
Mr Christopher Onslow.
He is charged with two counts of buggery without consent, two counts of wounding, two counts of wounding with intent, three counts of assault and one of indecent assault.
This trial is scheduled to last for 6 weeks.
The second trial will begin on 5 November 2018 and will relate to
Mr Johnson Brian Greenwell, charged with buggery without consent, false imprisonment and two counts of assault;
Mr John McGee, charged with four counts of assault, two counts of indecent assault, buggery without consent and wounding:
Mr Neil Sowerby, charged with three counts of buggery without consent, two counts of assault and four counts of indecent assault.
This trial is scheduled to last for 5 weeks.
The third trial will centre on the prosecution of
Mr Kevin Blakey, charged with two counts of wounding and two of assault;
Mr Alan Bramley, charged with wounding and two counts of assault; and
Mr David McClure, charged with wounding and four counts of assault.
This trial is due to begin on 28 November 2018 and is scheduled to last for 5 weeks.
All seven men also face charges of misconduct in public office.
Durham Police are still fielding a number of enquiries relating to physical and sexual assaults which took place at Medomsley. If you have been subjected to such assaults, call 101 and ask to speak to the Operation Seabrook team at Durham Police.
Jordans act for a significant number of clients who suffered sexual and physical abuse at the hands of former officers at Medomsley. If you have been affected by this and would like to speak in confidence to one of our expert abuse lawyers, please call us on 0800 9555 094.
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Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Monday, 5 February 2018
Medomsley Detention Centre (Memo)
"Believe Nothing” Or Who Has Said It..!
Unless It Agrees With Your Own Reason and Your Own Common Sense.!
And It Is Fully Supported By Documented Facts..!
Our Testimonies Will Convict And Imprison All Accountable For Inhuman Crimes Committed Against Medomsley Victims....!
Not a Screw Looking For a Deal !
No Deals Have Been Tabled As a Option” And Do Not Exist...!
Our Same Moto Stands Today” As It Was Many Years Ago” Our Quest For Justice”
Will Not Be a Battle.” But a Long Fought War..!
And If We Can’t Find a Way’ We Will Make One...!
For The Eyes of The Future Are Looking Back At Us..!
And They Are Praying For Us To See Beyond Our Own Time..!
It’s Not Who.”It’s Not When.”Its Right Now’ And It Is Us ! Medomsley 1500.
We are more concerned regarding the
6 Suspects That weren’t Charged”!
So if Any Screws Have Turned Queen’s Evidence”
And That’s a Big If..’ They Will Consist Of The 6’ Suspects.”
This Is Just 1’ Reason To Why We Must Challenge The CPS.!
Though The Initial Challenge’ Is The CPS Get Out Of Jail Card..”
“Therefore We Believe’ No Further Action Will Be Taken” As It Is Not In The Publics Interest”
The Suspects Defence Barristers” But For The Exception Of 1” Suspect.
Don’t Give a Shit For The Screws.”
They Are Representing Both The Prison Service and The POA.!’
The Prison Officers Association’ For Ref:
Is The Screws Union !
And Like 2003 Neville Husband Trial At Newcastle Crown Court.”!
The Barristers Instructions Will Be Damage Limitations.
The very first 2 suspects to be questioned in relation to Medomsley commenced in August 2015”
Simultaneously officers from Seabrook attempted to make 2 arrests !
1” was still a working in The Prison Service.
1” was retired.
One living in Manchester and the other in Liverpool.
But when Durham turned up at they’re homes to bring them in for voluntary questioning !
Durham got caught off guard’
As both gave the same brief statements !
We have been advised to make no comment and advise yous to contact The POA’ and closed they’re doors on Police.
Durham were stunned and returned back to HQ”
The head SIO’ of OperationSeabrook at the time:
Paul Goundry had to seek guidance from The CPS.
The CPS sent 2 of they’re Crown Prosecutors to join the
OperationSeabrook Team’ to assist and give guidance, to ensure no legal
technicalities were breached.
The exact date Durham went these doors was
Monday 4th August 2015
How do I know this information ?
2 Days Later:
Both my MP and myself were given this update at a meeting with Durham’s SIO’s on Wednesday 6th August 2015”
The meeting was headed by
SIO Brad Howe !
As although Paul Goundry was present’ he had just returned back
from annual leave on that very day, and was not up to date with
Investigation.
Confirmation of the above information and meeting by my former
MP Michael McCann.
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Monday, 29 January 2018
Medomsley detention centre abuse: 17 may face charges
Up to 17 former custody officers could
be charged with sexual abuse and other crimes after a police
investigation into Medomsley Youth Detention Centre in Consett, Co
Durham, involving more than 1,500 victims.
The Sunday Times understands the Crown Prosecution Service is preparing to issue “multiple charges” against the suspects by March, after one of the biggest investigations into abuse at a state-run facility seen in the UK.
Operation Seabrook has involved dozens of officers — thought at one point to be up to 100 — looking into mass complaints of abuse committed at Medomsley in the 1970s up to 1988.
The investigation has uncovered evidence that 14 boys had reported abuse at Medomsley to police officers immediately after they left the centre. One officer alone took complaints from five separate boys. It is thought that no action was taken.
The Sunday Times understands the Crown Prosecution Service is preparing to issue “multiple charges” against the suspects by March, after one of the biggest investigations into abuse at a state-run facility seen in the UK.
Operation Seabrook has involved dozens of officers — thought at one point to be up to 100 — looking into mass complaints of abuse committed at Medomsley in the 1970s up to 1988.
The investigation has uncovered evidence that 14 boys had reported abuse at Medomsley to police officers immediately after they left the centre. One officer alone took complaints from five separate boys. It is thought that no action was taken.
The
independent inquiry into child sex abuse, set up in 2014 to look at
abuse of children in care, is examining how the “scale of abuse” at
Medomsley could have gone “undetected for so long”.
John McCabe, 52, who was abused at the detention centre by a guard and whose campaigning work helped to trigger the inquiry, said: “The police at the time knew about the abuse going on. Some of those complaints are before I was sent to Medomsley.
“If they had listened, what happened to me and others like me might never have happened.”
The detention centre, which closed in 1988, was used for teenage offenders who had typically committed minor crimes. The boys, aged 17-21, were usually held for six to eight weeks.
Separately, officers have been investigating a suspected paedophile ring operating at the establishment centred on the notorious Neville Husband, who was in sole charge of the kitchens at Medomsley. He later became a church minister.
In 2003 he was jailed for eight years for committing sex attacks on five young Medomsley inmates from 1977 to 1984. His sentence was increased to 10 years in 2005 after new victims came forward and he admitted attacks on four more boys. Police believe the true number of his victims could be in the hundreds.
Paul Goundry, the former senior investigating officer for Operation Seabrook, wrote to one victim, saying: “Husband took numerous inmates off site to be abused by others. I believe this was a paedophile ring and that those involved could have come from a number of associations that Husband had.”
Husband’s former colleague, Leslie Johnson, a storeman, was also jailed for six years in 2005 for sexual offences. Both men have since died.
Detective Inspector Andy Smith, of Durham constabulary, said Operation Seabrook was one of the largest investigations of its kind in the country.
In another development, seven men have been charged with misconduct in public office and physical abuse. Some have been charged with sexual abuse. Their trial is due to start at Teesside crown court in September. They are Christopher Onslow, 71, Brian Johnson Greenwell, 70, Alan Bramley, 69, John McGee, 73, Kevin Blakely, 65, David McClure, 62, and Neil Sowerby, 61.
When McCabe was sent to Medomsley it was designed to be a “short, sharp shock” for stealing two rings from a pawn shop. He got a job in the kitchens, but faced abuse and rape by Husband. “I want to see justice for everybody who went through hell at Medomsley,” he said. “We will never forget.”
Anyone who believes that they are a victim and has not already contacted the police should email operation.seabrook@durham.pnn.police.uk
Source
John McCabe, 52, who was abused at the detention centre by a guard and whose campaigning work helped to trigger the inquiry, said: “The police at the time knew about the abuse going on. Some of those complaints are before I was sent to Medomsley.
“If they had listened, what happened to me and others like me might never have happened.”
The detention centre, which closed in 1988, was used for teenage offenders who had typically committed minor crimes. The boys, aged 17-21, were usually held for six to eight weeks.
Separately, officers have been investigating a suspected paedophile ring operating at the establishment centred on the notorious Neville Husband, who was in sole charge of the kitchens at Medomsley. He later became a church minister.
In 2003 he was jailed for eight years for committing sex attacks on five young Medomsley inmates from 1977 to 1984. His sentence was increased to 10 years in 2005 after new victims came forward and he admitted attacks on four more boys. Police believe the true number of his victims could be in the hundreds.
Paul Goundry, the former senior investigating officer for Operation Seabrook, wrote to one victim, saying: “Husband took numerous inmates off site to be abused by others. I believe this was a paedophile ring and that those involved could have come from a number of associations that Husband had.”
Husband’s former colleague, Leslie Johnson, a storeman, was also jailed for six years in 2005 for sexual offences. Both men have since died.
Detective Inspector Andy Smith, of Durham constabulary, said Operation Seabrook was one of the largest investigations of its kind in the country.
In another development, seven men have been charged with misconduct in public office and physical abuse. Some have been charged with sexual abuse. Their trial is due to start at Teesside crown court in September. They are Christopher Onslow, 71, Brian Johnson Greenwell, 70, Alan Bramley, 69, John McGee, 73, Kevin Blakely, 65, David McClure, 62, and Neil Sowerby, 61.
When McCabe was sent to Medomsley it was designed to be a “short, sharp shock” for stealing two rings from a pawn shop. He got a job in the kitchens, but faced abuse and rape by Husband. “I want to see justice for everybody who went through hell at Medomsley,” he said. “We will never forget.”
Anyone who believes that they are a victim and has not already contacted the police should email operation.seabrook@durham.pnn.police.uk
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Sunday, 28 January 2018
Up to 17 former custody officers face sex abuse and other charges as police probe paedophile ring at youth detention centre
- Up to 17 former custody officers may face charges of sex abuse and other crimes
- Medomsley Youth Detention Centre became the centre of a police investigation
- Evidence indicates that 14 children reported the abuse after they departed
- However it is believed that the complaints were not followed up
- As part of a different investigation, police are looking into a potential paedophile ring at the detention centre
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