There’s a story on the Gazette online (click here to read it) about an online message saying that someone ‘wishes that someone would assassinate Ray Mallon’.
Now for the truth that the Evening Gazette will not tell, because it’s a truth that Ray Mallon does not want you to hear.
It was one of those self-same ‘politically obsessive people’ who alerted the Mayors office to the comments currently under investigation in the first place.
Below is a transcript of an email sent to ray_mallon@middlesbrough.gov.uk at 10.36am on July 17 2012.
“Mayor Mallon,
Despite your recent attempts to associate internet bloggers such as myself with the sort of scum that attacked councillors’ property outside their own homes, I feel compelled to make you aware of a recent interaction on Facebook.
Obviously, I do not know if you are already aware of the person concerned. If you are, then fair enough. My own conscience will not allow me to remain silent, lest he should carry out his threat and I was aware but those who could act to prevent him from doing so were not. As much as I don’t particularly like your politics, Mayor Mallon, and I’m often critical of you, your executive and your council, I firmly believe that anyone attacking or threatening to attack someone for doing their job should feel the full force of the Law, irrespective of who their intended target may be.
The following are extracts from posts on the Facebook group [Name Removed], which can be found by searching the Facebook website.
[Name removed]: “mark hello just to reitterate we as a town have the most corrupt political figure within the whole of england i wish someone would assasinate him honestly i hate him he is feathering his own nest while he is in power… robbing normal people of a good standard of living impedeing the free movement of its citizens by introducing stupid unenforcable 20 mph speed limits thruout the whole area for what we never get trafic jams we never have we dont have traffic we are not anywhere near london.”
[Name removed]: “Does anyone know if there is anything that publishes mallons whereabouts or engagements for the coming months I’ve got something for him”
The second comment, coupled with the stated desire to see you assassinated really gave me cause for concern. Additionally, ‘Stephen Scott’ has contacted me via the messaging system. Here’s a transcript of our ‘conversation’.
The email then goes on to detail a few exchanges done via the private messaging service on Facebook.
While I have to agree with his desire to see the change of leadership that Middlesbrough needs, I cannot justify anyone who threatens to physically assault others or to damage public property, despite your recent attempt to associate people like me with people like this. Therefore, please accept my assurance that should you need it, you will have my full co-operation in any investigation into this persons comments.
Regards,
[Name Removed]
So, there you have it. One of those people that the mayor refers to as ‘politically obsessive’ alerted him to the potentially threatening comments made online. One of the same people that cllr Steve Bloundelle wanted silencing, their internet forums and blogs closing down, their letters to the Evening Gazette censored to remove any criticism of the council. How does the mayor respond? He carries on this demagogy of linking his political opponents to terrorist activity and now to this guy who clearly has a personal, not political, axe to grind.
If Superintendent Ravenscroft wants assistance in identifying the person responsible for these online messages, she might be better off contacting me than listening to the fantasist rantings of our paranoid mayor!
My case is a case of deception,interference with evidence,manipulation of evidence,fraud,falsified evidence,detectives following mallons ways,serious corruption by this mayor and his authority,how did police get the blood they said they found in a £50,800 burglary,why did the detectives help the landlord get £160,800 insurance fraud,its all evidence,for my case against
mallon,already sent to the judicial departments for a review of my conviction,I don’t need to make threats like mallon, [EDITED]
Thanks for that John king I think you have twisted what I said and it was you who contacted me I’m not going to be your fall guy I’m going into the police station to talk to the superintendent you must have been in the frame for damaging those cars or you wouldn’t have wrote that rubbish
You must be really desparate to be out of the frame for damaging those cars to use me as a fall guy which isnt gonna happen by the way John you contacted me remember what you have commented on was a private conversation after you invited me on because you liked what I was talking about I have my own reasons for hating Mallon least of which was the physical attack on my brother by Mallon and seven of his police apes for just for the record none of them were political he is scum because he breaks the laws fact but never gets punished for it the trouble with he knows how to push the line stands on it but doesn’t go over it no one sees him I’m going in to see the superintendent myself to set the story straight not bend it like you
Ste,
The comments that I expressed my concerns to the mayors office about, regarding “wishing someone would assassinate him” and that you have “something for him”, were made in a public Facebook group where anyone could read them. I’m not going to apologise for making the mayors office aware of comments which I regarded as quite sinister and threatening. If someone was online making threats about me, I would hope that any sane, decent person reading them would contact either myself or the authorities.
With regard to the rest of the blog, there are a few points that I think you have missed.
First, I’m not the one trying to connect your comments with the torching of councillors’ cars. I’m sure that Mallon is aware of both yourself and your brother, therefore he is aware of the back-story to the comments that you made, and he is aware that they were NOT made from a political perspective. Your problem with Mallon is personal to the pair of you and Mallon knows this. Instead, he, the Evening Gazette and Angus Hoy (Mallons PR consultant and former chief reporter at… the Evening Gazette!) are trying to suggest links to the arson attacks as some sort of propaganda exercise. The connections are suggested in the Gazette article, not on the betterMiddlesbrough blog.
Second, I’m not in the frame for the arson attacks. Mallon tried to suggest that they were the work of ‘internet obsessives’ who had stepped over the line into terrorism, despite having not a single shred of evidence. The chair of his council went on to demand that any dissenting voices against the council or the mayor should be silenced. That included blogs, forums, and letters to the Gazette. While the gazette has since been compliant to cllr Bloundelles demands, myself and other bloggers and commenters have been active in showing this propaganda stunt for what it is… a pack of lies designed to either isolate or silence anyone who disagrees with Middlesbrough Borough Council. The way that Mallon and his PR advisor have twisted my genuine concerns for his safety into more bullsh to support the original bullsh demonstrates that he’s lying to the public to gain public support and sympathy.
Finally, when the arson attacks were first reported, well before you made your comments on Facebook, I stated quite clearly here on the blog that, despite cllr Bloundelle and Mayor Mallon trying to associate these attacks with bloggers such as me, if I was made aware of any information regarding these attacks, then I would pass it to the relevant authority because I don’t believe that anyone in public office (or, indeed, in any job) should have themselves or their personal property attacked or damaged because of the job that they do. Your comments conveyed a desire to inflict harm on someone for the job that they have done / still do. Not only can I not condone or support such comments but I felt compelled to make others aware of your comments.
I haven’t used you as a fall guy – I have no need to.
I haven’t twisted any of your words, they were passed on verbatim. Any connection to other issues has been made by the Evening Gazette, Ray Mallon or his PR advisor. it is this attempt to connect you with his previous outbursts about terrorism, despite Mallon being aware of you, that this piece is written to expose.
The ‘private conversation’ on Facebook was instigated by you, not me, with a comment regarding ‘land-grabbing’, which I responded to in a balanced manner. I didn’t invite you to the Facebook group either. I did direct you to this blog and both yourself and Neil are still welcome to submit comments as long as they are not offensive, abusive or potentially libellous.
After 23 failed false arrests,I won 22 cases against me so they falsified the 23 arrest with forensics involved,16 witnesses involved 5 judges involved,my defence involved,that’s how corrupt Ray Mallon is,I met ray Mallon at a station whilst he was acting chief super in south bank police station,with his listed 8 operation lancett officers I was assaulted,mallon denied this happened,anything happened that night yet the officer actuaLly made claim for two broken ribs realising it after two weeks on active duty,it didn’t happen did it,so mallon said,judge fox through out my case on a jury,on the fact the officer lied,all components to this case lost,,again,like the CCTV footage of what shows blOod was not found at a burglary it was taken at a station by G4S staff statements at the ready for anyone who wants to investigate corruption in the Ranks of lanc ett officers still existing at Cleveland police force under ray MaLlon the worst criminal of Middlesbrough council,tax payers beware