"I HAVE CRIED MANY A TEAR OVER THE WAY YOU ARE BEING TREATED, THINKING YOUR COUNTRY WAS SO GRAND" ( JON, AMERICA )
ON THE 13 SEPTEMBER 2008, THE COMMUNITY BUS DRIVER' BROUGHT MUM HOME FROM THE DAY CENTRE ARRIVING NEARLY AN HOUR EARLY. AS NOBODY WAS THERE, HE SMASHED THE FRONT DOOR AFTER ASKING A GARDENER COULD HE LEAVE MUM 'SAT ON A WALL'. A NEIGHBOUR TOLD HIM HE HAD A 'DUTY OF CARE' THEN WENT BACK INTO HIS HOUSE. A WITNESS SAID THE DRIVER SHOUTED 'I'M GOING TO BREAK HER DOOR DOWN' HE THEN TOOK A TERRIFIED LADY AGED 91 WITH 'DEMENTIA' BACK ACROSS THE ROAD, AND SMASHED THE FRONT DOOR WITH HER HANDBAG, WITH KEY INSIDE IT'? HE THEN LEFT HER SAT NEAR THE DOOR IN THE DEBRIS, AND DROVE OFF. THE DRIVER HAD BEEN TOLD TO ASK MOTHER FOR THE KEY IN ANY 'EMERGENCY' OF THAT KIND. BUT THE COMPANY IS OWNED BY STOCKPORT COUNCIL, AND SOME OF THE DRIVERS HAD NOT BEEN 'TRAINED' OR EVEN 'LICENSED' PROPERLY. - THEY DID ALL THISAFTER OUR COMPLAINTS?
WHEN I TELEPHONED THE MANAGER OF THE BUS COMPANY AND EXPLAINED WHAT HIS DRIVER HAD DONE HE REPLIED, "WELL! IT HIGHLIGHTS THE FACT THAT YOUR FRONT DOORIS NOT SECURE"!! WHEN I PHONED HIM AGAIN AND ASKED FOR AN APOLOGY HE REPLIED "NO WE ARE NOT SAYING SORRY, OR PAYING FOR THEDAMAGES, AS THE POLICEHAVE TOLD US 'WEHAVE DONENOTHING WRONG'? I TOLD WE WOULD REPORT HIM TO 'SOCIAL SERVICES' AND CHARITIES COMMISSION, AND GET A POLICE INVESTIGATION STARTED. WE WERE THEN BROKEN INTO AGAIN?
THIS WAS THE 'SECOND' BREAK-IN' WHERE THE INTRUDER WENT IN 'MOTHERS BEDROOM' AND BROKE INTO AND RUINED AN ANTIQUE CHEST OF DRAWS, SCATTERED HER FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OVER HER BED??? THEN LEFT. THE INSPECTOR SAID IT WAS 'INTIMIDATION' AND 'LINKED' IT TO THE BUS COMPANY. THE MAN FROM 'FORENSICS' FOUND A 'FINGERPRINT' AND WHAT HE TERMED AN 'EXCELLENT 'FOOTPRINT ' ON THE SIDEBOARD (ABOVE). BUT POLICE DID NOT FOLLOW UP ON THE INVESTIGATION. THEY HAD ONLY A 'FEW SUSPECTS'?
THERE WERE MANY REASONS THEY DID NOT WANT 'BAD PUBLICITY.'THESE WERE NOT ISOLATED INCIDENTS WITH THE BUS COMPANY. (SEE LETTERS). THEY DID NOT WANT THESE PICTURES IN THE PAPERS?NONE OF THE AUTHORITIES WE HAVE BEEN TO HAVE INVESTIGATED? NOR HAVE THEY INVESTIGATED 'POLICE AND COUNCIL' OFFICERS FOR BREAKING'STATUTORY LAW'. THERE WAS ANOTHER BREAK-IN THROUGH THE 'FRONT DOOR' A FEW NIGHTS LATER. THAT IS 'FIVE CRIMES' NOT INVESTIGATED, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE 'LOG' NO'S FOR ALL OF THEM?
ABOVE WAS THE 'ATTEMPTED' BREAK-IN ON THE'CONSERVATORY'. IT HAPPENED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING AROUND 12.30 am. WE HEARD SOMEONE KICKING IT. I WENT DOWN AND PUT THE CONSERVATORY LIGHTS ON. THEN THE BANGING STOPPED. THE FOLLOWING EVENING WE WERE BROKEN INTO THROUGH LIVING ROOM WINDOW .
THE 'THIRD' BREAK-IN WAS THROUGH THE SAME DOOR. MOTHER AND I NOTICED A BUS FROM THE COMPANY PARKED ROUND THE CORNER ON THE WAY OUT TO THE POLICE STATION. POLICE ADMITTED IN WRITING 'THERE WASBUSIN THE VACINITY ON'BOTH' OCCASSIONS' BUT AGAIN DID NOT FOLLOW UP ON THE INVESTIGATIONS ? - THEY EVEN TRIED TO BLAME ME, BY SAYING I HAD FORGOTTEN TO LOCK THE DOOR ? A GLAZIER TOLD ME SOMEONE HAD FORCED THE LOCK? THE POLICE WERE NOT INTERESTED. THESE CRIMES WERE NOT ISOLATED INCIDENTS.
Alice and Eric on their 60th Anniversary. Just before they received a 'card' from the Queen.
My grandson Oliver has been 'serving this Country' for eight years, in the 'Royal Marines.'
' MY FATHER 'SERVED' THIS COUNTRY ' DURING THE WAR. HE WOULD 'TURN IN HIS 'GRAVE' IF HE KNEW HOW HIS 'WIFE AND DAUGHTER AND GRANDCHILDREN' WERE BEING TREATED BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THIS GOVERNMENT.