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Sunday, June 20, 2021

Oakham Rutland 'religious' festival 'disturbance' as town store staff complain of abuse and looting by those attending the event at The Rutland County Showground.

Oakham Rutland 'religious' festival 'disturbance' as town store staff complain of abuse and looting by those attending the event at The Rutland County Showground.

Police have been called to the site to investigate complaints over the alleged behaviours of its participants and others.

Hundreds of complaints and related comments have been posted on social media concerning the event.

Last Night, Rutland Showground issued an apology. 

Message to members of Rutland Agricultural Society, issued at 20.00 on 19 June 2021, by CEO, Kevin Tighe

“We are currently hosting a religious festival on our site which we are aware is causing disturbance to our neighbours.  We wholeheartedly apologise for this.    We agreed to the booking after assessing the organisers risk assessment and with the belief that this was an event primarily about Christian worship.  However there is a minority of people who are disrupting the event and causing some significant problems in and around the showground.  We have been working with the organisers to stabilise this situation.    Our priority is to help maintain public order and minimise disruption and allow the event to refocus on its Christian worship as quickly and quietly as possible.  We have been in contact with the police who have been onsite today.“

Paul Kitson

Company Secretary

Shortly afterward the show ground published the following on it Facebook page

Rutland Showground issued an apology on its Facebook Page.

The apology said: "We are currently hosting a religious festival on our site which we are aware is causing disturbance to our neighbours. We wholeheartedly apologise for this.

"We agreed to the booking after assessing the organisers risk assessment and with the belief that this was an event primarily about Christian worship.

"However there is a minority of people who are disrupting the event and causing significant problems in around the showground.

"Our priority is to help maintain public order and minimise disruption and allow the event to refocus on its Christian worship as quickly and quietly as possible. "We have been in contact with the police who have been onsite today."

A whole range of behaviour is cited in response to the post.

This includes many forms of anti social behaviour, some comments from local shop workers who have been abused. 

Staff at Lidl this morning have had to ask people to leave the store after entering with no masks and  being abusive to colleagues.

The show ground have apologised for local disruption. Local shops closed and bars have closed and  at one point this included McDonalds, after a lot of those attending decided they were not required to pay for anything. The bypass was used as a race track last night. This morning it is very slippery covered in mud. It is reported local residents called Leicestershire police many times and none attended. Some residents contacted the newly elected police and crime commissioner  and the Chief Constable Simon Cole  responded via twitter. Maybe now the police and crime commissioner will take his role seriously and sort out the lack of policing here in Rutland instead of his daft idea supported by our MP Alecia Kearns to rename Leicestershire Police once again. The force a few years ago wasted money rebranding itself from Leicestershire Constabulary now PCC wants to call the three combined forces Leicestershire and Rutland. Forgetting Leicester? 

The trustees of the Showground should be sacked. They wont let us have a scaled down county show this year, cancelling at very short notice due to covid. No fears appear to have been applied, to the consideration of this event or other events they are hosting. People are coming and going from the field accessed from gates  2 and 3. Many are visiting nearby businesses and many if not all appear to be exempt from wearing face masks. Local residents have also complained of intimidation. I passed gates 2 and 3 one of the stewards at gate 2 wished me a good morning as I approached gate 3 a car pulled out at speed and some one  shouted foul abuse from inside the car. Gate 1 remains locked a number of littering young boys kicked it and climbed it were very quickly chased out by the stewards.

Earlier this morning, Rutland MP Alicia Kearns said on twitter: "I’m aware of concerns around reckless driving and incidents in Oakham today related to a large event at Rutland Showground. "I am liaising with the Council and the Police regarding compliance to COVID regulations and monitoring concerns."

Leicestershire Police chief constable Simon Cole responding to  Mrs Kearns, commented today: "@LP_Rutland have been working hard on this with the event organisers, venue and council."


@LeicsPCC Rupert Matthews PCC - “I have received several complaints about the event at Rutland showground, and I am distressed to hear how little regard has been given to the residents of Oakham. There’s been intimidation and dangerous driving, not to mention breaking the covid rules.”1/2

Replying to 
@LeicsPCC
“I have contacted the Chief Constable demanding an update now and a meeting tomorrow. Of course, I fully support the work that Rutland Police do in the action they are taking and urge residents with concerns to please dial 101.” 2/2

Oakham Bypass outside the Rutland County Showground is very slippery with mud from showground fields. The area is now being patrolled by Leicestershire Police.

Leicestershire Police  @leicspolice

Leicestershire Police Tweeted this afternoon Sunday 20th June 12.50pm 

We are aware of reports of anti-social behaviour linked to a religious event at Rutland Showground. Extra patrols and units are in the area and we will ensure event is covid safe. We are working with the organisers.

To report visit https://www.leics.police.uk/ro/report/















 



Monday, September 13, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI visits both Scotland and England later this week

Pope Benedict XVI visits both Scotland and England later this week, but unlike Pope John Paul II in 1982, he will not be going to Wales

I am reminded of the visit of Pope John Paul II  I was only 15

I am not a catholic but was interested in that visit because the Popemobiles were built for Pope John Paul II’s UK tour in the town I grew up in Letchworth Garden City. They were built by local firm Ogle Design  now called Ogle Noor. As a boy I alway's wanted a Chopper bike and looked at one on display in the reception. The bike was designed in Letchworth for Raleigh. I watched the transformation of the Range Rover into what we now know as the Popemobile.

This time I have no interest in the visit of the Pope, although I am lending a friend rechargeable batteries so they can use them in a loaned camera to take some photos of him later this week.

I have watched Panorama and Peter Tatchell and The Trouble with the Pope.

After watching these programmes I can only assume this pope will require the same security.

Personally I blame all religions there are more than a thousand  religions, so I can not list all of the cases of abuse here.

This is one of the latest news stories:

Church minister Robert Dando faces US child sex charges

Robert Dando was senior minister at Worcester Park Baptist Church A British Baptist minister has been charged with child abuse in the US.
Robert Dando, 46, from south-west London, has been charged with attacking two boys in Fairfax County, Virginia.


Jewish Orthodox Church Suspected abuser Avrohom Mondrowitz in an Israeli court in 2007. He is still fighting extradition back to the US

Looking back in time

Timur Dykes Mormon: Clark had called Dykes a "pied piper" earlier in the trial for filling his apartment in the early 80s with things such as exotic pets, an aquarium and games to attract boys from a Scout troop organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Former Mormon missionary Arthur Gary Bishop, 36, was executed on June 10th  88 in Utah for killing 5 boys (ages 4-13) for sexual gratification, saying he was "misled by Satan."

The BBC reported on the controversy around Jehovah's Witnesses child abuse in July 2002, in the Panorama program "Suffer the Little Children"

And last month the BBC reported this.

15 August, 2010   BBC Sinhala.com
Boys 'abused' in Buddhist temple

Four boys are in hospital after being sexually abuse in a Buddhist temple
Three suspects, including a Buddhist monk, are missing after four under age boys were admitted to a hospital in eastern Sri Lanka with injuries, police said.

You can find issues in all religious groups, so I won't be going to shout at the Pope.
I just hope all the churches improve and protect young people.






www.irwinmitchell.com//neglectabuse


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www.NSPCC.org.uk  Call 0808 800 5000 to help a child or give whatever you can online NSPCC


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/policy-differences-not-hurting-support-for-pope-2077947.html   Support for the Pope among British Roman Catholics remains high despite most disagreeing with their Church's stance on controversial issues, a survey indicated today.

Vatican inquiry into Irish paedophile priests to meet victim groupsTop-level Vatican investigation into Irish Catholic church's handling of clerical child abuse begins after Pope's visit to Britain