Cllr Charles Haworth
Oakham Cllr Adam Lowe "being got at" for not supporting Cllr Charles Haworth,
Whilst I recorded this video. What did they want him to do? Break the law?
Judge Temperley said: ‘I don’t agree. Some of the material goes way beyond satire. They are crude and crass and homophobic.’ And the judge said other claims made by Howarth against Brookes were ‘exaggerated’.
(I prefer to use the description Dishonest & Liar)
Why would any councillor want to support any councillor who admits carrying out
criminal actions in their private capacity?
It is shocking any member of Oakham Town Council continue to support Homophobic
Hate Crimes.
Cllr Adam Lowe won't tell me which councillors are attacking him for his lack of support.
Maybe it's the Mayor Jayne Woodcock, who attempted to stop me filming
and questioning Cllr Haworth before a meeting back in May, She said she found
my actions "offensive"?
After many years of harassment, most homophobic and disgusting Cllr Charles Haworth and
his six friends a year ago succeeded in corrupting the local police and I found
myself in court and after five long days I was found not guilty.
Despite the district judges final comments there has been no resolution.
Cllr Gene Plews who lied to police and claimed I had "destroyed Oakham"
was push out of the local Tory Club.
Cllr Haworth does not attend meetings after I filmed him back in May even though admits crimes, He states all were committed in his private capacity.
He is so confident in the local police corruption and knowing he they would not take action
against him, he repeated his admissions in his police statement and at court.
It would appear the seven principles of public life don't apply here in Oakham.
In one statement he claims I have mental problems, he deduced this through things he had heard
from other people.
In court he added further to this insult my telling the Judge I was a male prostitute who funded
my move to Oakham by sleeping with Gay MP's and Clergy.
Two other friends of Cllr Haworth's were named in court.
Former Mayor's Jim Harrison and Paul Beech both were described by a former Melton Borough
Council employee as Cllr Haworth's 'Partners in Crime'
Cllr Charles Haworth conveniently, could not remember the names of his other four friends when
questioned.
I would suggest Sgt Chris Wharton, the officer who claimed he was scared of me!
his case against me was thrown out. He was this year found guilty by police standards
for bringing the force into discredit and more.
Cllr Joyce Lucas BEM who has many times lied to the police and had two odd cases
dropped by the CPS.
Ex Mayor Paul Beech also had bizarre claims thrown out by the CPS
Ex Mayor Jim Harrison has never asked the police to do his disgusting dirty
work, he is a cowardly bully who prefers to use other people like the vulnerable
Philip Quinton.
Another friend of Cllr Charles Haworth is Inspector Monks who used
to visit him at the library whilst he was carrying out his many on-line illegal
activities.
Cllr Maureen Dodds was named in messages along with Harrison.
Messages shared between Wendy Miller and Philip Quinton
in which she incites violence. Leicestershire Police say this is acceptable
conduct because Philip is now dead and the messages were private.
Finally the Clerk Richard White who's catch phrase is "leave it with me"
Other extracts from Cllr Haworth's statement:
In this part Cllr Charles Haworth refers to use of various chat rooms used to attack myself
and others.
He claims he referred to me as a "idiot" a term often used by Tory Roger Begy, Terry King and Helen Briggs CEO at Rutland County Council.
He and other councillors used many more offensive words to describe me and others in their
chat rooms. The only chat room I have ever seen was the Rutland Chat Forum, run and closed down
by Rutland County Council.
The conduct of Cllr Charles Haworth and others was disgusting:
I was first directed to this forum when Oakham Town Councillor and Rutland County Councillor
Alan Walter posted a comment for reply, "who the fuck is Martin Brookes" the responses from
mainly local councillors who at the time I did not know was shocking.
http://www.rutnet.co.uk/forum/
Due to an increasing amount of inappropriate, offensive and defamatory postings, the decision to remove the public forum from www.rutnet.co.uk was jointly taken by ROL Solutions and Rutland County Council.
Due to the nature of a web forum, ROL are unable to provide round-the-clock support to this facility, and offensive postings were in some cases not removed for 24-48 hours. This prompted complaints from local residents.
Despite repeated warnings during recent weeks, those using the forum continued to ignore forum guidelines and the decision was taken to shut the forum facility.
The Rutland Chat forum turned very nasty after the arrival of Helen Briggs CEO a fact
that can be proved by viewing internet archives of the site. People stopped using their
real names. Cllr Haworth became Lardboy and ex Mayor Harrison became Carpet Burns
and his posts often reflected the nature of that name and most seemed to enjoy a few bottles of wine
whilst or a case or two of cider, whilst trolling on-line.
2009/2010, I started complaining about the conduct of our local councillors and friends most of them
ex councillors, my troubles really started in the community, they started posting lies calling me a risk to children, those false allegations still remain on-line today.
By 2012 they had corrupted Leicestershire Police and false charges were brought against me.
The head of the CPS Nigel Chapman was horrified and threw out all the cases.
Inspector Monks was moved from Rutland LPU and was replaced by Inspector
Inspector Kam Mistry who started off well. His non corrupt approach made Cllr Haworth and his
friend "ill"
Of course this did not last long and he was eventually corrupted and brought about the court case of
2013.
He was a disgrace, joining the circus group, attending court and dropping Rutland Rutland County
Councils Chief executive right in it, by giving evidence in court that proved she was a liar.
Not only regarding my case, but also when giving evidence at the inquest into the death of Aman Mehra. I am surprised this has never been followed up with criminal proceedings against her. Especially as what was said in court is a matter of public record.
Below is a extract from Cllr Haworth's statement where he mentions, how he periodically shut
down laughing stocks, this happened every time I or other people complained about content
to Leicestershire Police, to me it shows they had full knowledge of Cllr Haworth and others
criminal activity for a very long time.
He also mentions his arrest, prompted only when "he started taking the mickey out of us" the police,
Inspector Kam Mistry's assistant Sgt Shellard told me.
He and the Inspector turned up at Cllr Haworth's home with van arrested him and took away
all his computers.
This extract shows Cllr Haworth's reaction when I checked a computer, a public computer I looked at usage history at Oakham Library. No Breaking any law as he suggests
"Secret" "terror" are words he uses in his statement.
For court my advocate researched the sites and clips viewed by Cllr Charles Haworth
many are far right and extreme, including Nazi and Jewish, that would explain his anti
Jewish attacks and other racist attacks carried out using the Rutland Chat Forum.
I think local people should be very concerned about the people who run our town council and county.
Gay blogger threatened and branded ‘pedophile’ for challenging politicians
Martin Brookes has won a court case accusing him of harassing local political leaders, but his nightmare isn’t over
20 OCTOBER 2013 | BY TRIS REID-SMITH, OMAR KUDDUS
Martin Brookes: Has been harassed and falsely called a pedophile for challenging political power in his local area in Central England.
A secret gang have made life hell for a gay man who exposes wrongdoing by local politicians – by harassing him and branding him a pedophile.
Martin Brookes’ blog into local politics in Central England has uncovered embarrassing facts for his area’s local councils that have been picked up by the BBC and Private Eye, the UK satirical and investigative journalism magazine.
But rather than being thanked, he’s been hounded – sent hate mail and left anonymous phone messages threatening him. He’s even been taken to court himself, accused of stalking and harassing two council bigwigs.
Brookes, 47, moved to Oakham, the main town in the landlocked county of Rutland, in the heart of England, seven years ago.
He got involved in the online Rutland Chat Forum but says people there attacked him because he is gay.
When, in 2009 he realized some of those people were involved in the local councils, he became interested in politics.
He says he uncovered ‘small wrongdoings’ by local politicians, including his criticism they spent £60,000 ($97,000 €70,000) of council money on a private gym.
He even got a seat on Oakham Town Council twice but stood down the first time after a few months because the attacks on him became too much.
He was kicked out the second time after posting an indecent image on a council noticeboard – he said he had been sent the picture and thought it was ‘bullying’ but accepted he should not have put it up.
His approach to challenging the council, however, led to a series of hate crimes against him.
From 2010 he was sent numerous letters branding him ‘Pedophile Brookes’ with ‘disgusting, homophobic and sexually explicit’ content. He was even falsely accused of his partner’s murder.
He told Gay Star News: ‘They have called me a sponger, prostitute and a pedophile.
‘They sent me emails and messages saying things like I bet you are glad your partner was cremated after you murdered him, you are the only man in Rutland who has had sex with a dead man.’
The false claims of pedophilia were spread online too.
Brookes said: ‘The police had to come and tell my neighbors I am not a pedophile because I was challenged outside in my street by people saying we don’t want pedophiles living here.
‘The police had to go to the local youth club to tell the young men there – and one of them assaulted me – “Mr Brookes is not a pedophile”.’
But he claims police ignored the actions of the people harassing him, even throwing away hate letters left with them as evidence.
He said: ‘Over the years I reported hate crimes to local police they did nothing. One police officer suggested if I didn’t like Rutland I should consider moving.
‘I own my property here and I don’t have a job, I can’t get a job, so I can’t move. If I could move, I would. But then I think why should I?’
Then two people, Rutland County Council chief executive Helen Briggs and Oakham Town Councilor Charles Haworth accused Brookes of stalking and harassing them, the police prosecuted and he went on trial.
He was found not guilty at Leicester Magistrates Court on Monday (14 October).
District Judge John Temperley said Brookes was not harassing Briggs by repeatedly emailing and blogging about her, just using his freedom of expression.
He also accepted Brookes had phoned and texted Haworth because he was trying to find out who was attacking him on a website which had been set up anonymously by the councilor.
As the Rutland Times reports, Judge Temperley said: ‘Freedom of expression is an essential function of a democratic society. It is applicable also to those who offend and shock.
‘Some of the comment is harsh, shocking or personally offensive, but that does not mean it is criminal.’
Haworth had argued in the trial his attacks on Brookes on his Laughing Stocks website were satirical.
But Judge Temperley said: ‘I don’t agree. Some of the material goes way beyond satire. They are crude and crass and homophobic.’
And the judge said other claims made by Howarth against Brookes were ‘exaggerated’.
Now, finally, the police have approached Brookes about investigating his claims he has been harassed and threatened – though it is not clear exactly who all the anonymous messages and calls have come from.
Brookes told GSN: ‘In general, the people who live in Rutland who are not involved in politics are very nice people.
‘I have had people coming up to me in the last few days to congratulate me on my win.
‘There are good, honest people on the local councils too.
‘If you look at the people themselves doing this, they do not share one political allegiance. It is a very small core of hardened Rutlanders who will attack in a foul way.’
But despite his court win, the nightmare isn’t over. Brookes’ announcement he will seek criminal prosecution of his persecutors has been met with more anonymous phone threats – telling him to back off.
His house in Willow Crescent, Oakham is under 24-hour CCTV surveillance as the false claims he is a pedophile have made him a potential target.
He said: ‘They have ruined my life in this town. It is scary to be intimidated. Friends are scared to be seen with me. I can’t explain how much this has affected me. And you think what on earth have I done?’
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A man accused of harassing and stalking a council chief and councillor has been cleared in court.
Martin Brookes, 47, of Willow Crescent, Oakham was found not guilty of stalking and harassing Rutland County Council chief executive Helen Briggs and Oakham town councillor Charles Haworth at Leicester Magistrates Court on Monday.
District Judge John Temperley said Mr Brookes, a former Oakham town councillor, was exercising his freedom of expression when repeatedly e-mailing and blogging about Mrs Briggs and it did not constitute harassment.
He also said Mr Brookes had phoned and texted Coun Haworth because he was trying to find out who was attacking him on a website which had been set up anonymously by the councillor. The judge accepted Mr Brookes was at his wits’ end.
Giving his verdict at the end of a five-day trial, Judge Temperley said: “Freedom of expression is an essential function of a democratic society. It is applicable also to those who offend and shock.”
Mr Brookes had been accused of making allegations on his blogspot about Mrs Briggs’ professional role and personal integrity and sending e-mails to her which he copied to other members of the authority, police and Rutland MP Alan Duncan.
Judge Temperley pointed out that Mrs Briggs had told the trial she expected to be challenged and criticised, but disagreed with her view that it was a personal vendetta.
Judge Temperley said: “The defendant is right to confront if he thought she was not doing her job well. He questioned her relationship with the local police and press.
“But as all the evidence indicated everything (Mr Brookes says) is already in the public domain. Some of it has been reported in Private Eye and by the BBC.
“Some of the comment is harsh, shocking or personally offensive, but that does not mean it is criminal.
“I do not consider it as a personal vendetta. She is one of many people against whom the defendant vents his spleen.”
He concluded: “I’m left in no doubt that the defendant’s conduct caused Mrs Briggs distress. But freedom of expression does not constitute harassment.”
In finding Mr Brookes not guilty of stalking and harassing Coun Haworth, Judge Temperley said the councillor had been “economical with the truth” which “undermined his credibility as a witness”.
The trial heard there was a long history of animosity between Coun Haworth and Mr Brookes.
Coun Haworth had attacked Mr Brookes on his website Laughing Stocks and had told the trial the comments were satirical and lampooning.
However, Judge Temperley said: “I don’t agree. Some of the material goes way beyond satire. They are crude and crass and homophobic.”
Mr Brookes had been accused of making silent phone calls and sending numerous text messages to the councillor.
The judge found not all the texts were from Mr Brookes and there was “nothing derogatory or offensive” in them. Their purpose was to find out if Coun Haworth was the author of the Laughing Stocks.
Mr Brookes was accused of stalking Coun Haworth after “causing disruption” at a councillors surgery and waiting with a camera outside a police station where Coun Haworth was making a complaint against him.
The judge said based on the evidence from police in both instances, Coun Haworth’s claims were “exaggerated”.
The judge concluded that while he could not be certain how many texts were sent to Coun Haworth, he was satisfied that Mr Brookes’ motivation was to expose Coun Haworth as the author of blogs which had “understandably caused him distress over a number of years”.
Judge Temperley said: “I accept he was by now at his wits’ end.”
The court had also heard that Mr Brookes had gone on a computer used by Coun Haworth in Oakham Library and traced the history and sent the details to the councillor and a number of other people.
The Judge said: “The main purpose was to cause embarrassment. In my view it was deliberate and calculated.”
He said the library incident was “the most serious”, but it was not enough evidence on its own to convict.
Prosecuting solicitor had argued that Mr Brookes’ allegations were all “without any foundation and baseless and vacuous rumours” which fell foul of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997’s “reasonable comment” yardstick.
But defence solicitor David Swingler argued Mr Brookes’ allegations in his blogs, tweets and e-mails were all information that was already “out there”.
Mr Swingler said: “If everyone is asking these questions of whether or not something is ‘rotten in Rutland’ why on earth should Mr Brookes think he is in the wrong?”
