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Good morning everyone.
The
Jersey Inquiry in Historic Child Sex abuse at the Haute de la Garenne
and other municipal establishments on the island continues in St
Helier. This week, former Jersey Deputy Police Chief
Lenny Harper has been
giving evidence, highly critical of the States and the Jersey
“establishment” accusing them of deliberate obstruction of his
investigations and his subsequent “removal” from the case.
Harper also alleged that no charges were ever brought against police
officers when his evidence was submitted to the Law Officers
department went on to state that there was, "a culture emerging
in Jersey of systematic child abuse" which was "far worse"
than a single paedophile ring. Responding to Harper's testimony,
Frank Walker, who was Chief Minister between 2005 and 2008, said that
was ‘totally untrue’ and that he and the Council of Ministers
gave Mr Harper and police chief Graham Power ‘our full and
unequivocal support’. (He
would say that wouldn’t he).
It
is interesting to
note that
those investigating the abuse and those originally exposing it, Lenny
Harper, Graham Power and former States Member Stuart Syvrett (to name
just three) have been subjected to the most vindictive
campaign of abuse, smear and judicial persecution the island has ever
witnessed. Perhaps the wall of secrecy is finally beginning to
crumble.
City and Country
have lodged a planning application to
build 190 homes and commercial units on the site of the former
Dorchester county town jail. The prison was sold off as part of a
“job lot” of sites for the equivalent of around £1.5 million. It
seems that there have been a number of objections to the plan (all
responses have been negative apparently). The Council have therefore
extended the cut off date for comments on the application, presumably
to allow time for someone to actually indicate agreement with the
proposals. Which ever way you look at it, acquiring a prime town site
for £1.5 million to build 190 homes at say just £250k each, still
makes “a nice little earner” even after building and other costs.The row about the railways and train fares and whether or no to take the railway system back into public ownership rumbles on. They said that "Privatisation will drive down costs, improve services and result in lower fares" The reality is completely different. Which ever way you look at it, we have the most expensive train fares in Europe, where most railways are publicly owned, and the services in the United Kingdom are appalling too. Ipso facto, the case for renationalisation is compelling.
Still cold, wet and miserable, but its getting warmer they say. We shall see.
Have a nice week
John
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