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Darren Laverty Before reading on, please read my PDFs: ‘DIGGING INTO JIMMY’S SOCKS’ http://sharonkilby.co.uk/site/DIGGING_INTO_JIMMYS_SOCKS.php ‘AN ELITE PAEDO RING’ http://sharonkilby.co.uk/site/AN_ELITE_PAEDO_RING_AND_THE_ABU SE_OF_CHILDREN_IN_THE_NORTH_WALES_CARE_SYSTEM.php ‘ANNA RACCOON’ http://sharonkilby.co.uk/site/ANNA_RACCOON.php ‘CHRISTOPHER BOOKER’ http://sharonkilby.co.uk/site/CHRISTOPHER_BOOKER.php ‘SHEVATWO BURTON’ http://sharonkilby.co.uk/site/SHEVA_BURTON.php ‘CHARLIE FOULKES’ http://sharonkilby.co.uk/site/CHARLIE_FOULKES.php See also: The Beast of Bryn Estyn! https://trollpatrolblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/the-beast-of-bryn- estyn/ In Darren Laverty’s 31/1/15 article http://darrenlaverty.blogspot.co.uk/2015_01_01_archive.html he says: “Little piece just to remind anyone who doubts my conviction to the eradication of child abuse. Well straight away that’s a whopping lie. This guy is just another gatekeeper for the child raping filth in power. Read on. Think back to 1997. What were you doing that year? Who got married? Who died? I went to London. I was asked to speak to some of the countries most prominent childcare providers, executives, judges, MP's and a host of other interested parties. What did I choose to speak about? The pain I'd caused and the pain I'd suffered. Below are a few bits from the debate.” I highlight and comment in red. “Listening to Children Debate 17th November 1997 In the introduction it states that there was a short formal presentation from, amongst others, Darren and Carla, both of whom are young adults who spent substantial parts of their childhoods looked after by local authorities and have given evidence to the North Wales Tribunal of Inquiry into Child Abuse. Darren – I’m not sure what I can say. I have written some things. Some words will be shocking. Everywhere it’s happening [abuse in residential care] and no-one is listening to the little people. At the tribunal I gave evidence. Here are first some of my thoughts. My turn “Have you seen this statement?” I was asked as if I was window shopping for something. “No” I replied. “I’ve not seen any of the lads’ statements.” The next five minutes were what can be described as the Hovis tune. I just started to cry. Tears were flowing off the end of my nose onto the statement which read, “I remember once when a lad called Laverty, he was a bit of a bully, made a lad lick an ashtray, twice if I remember rightly and then because Laverty wasn’t happy he had the lad sit on a chair leg so the leg went up his backside.” I haven’t given that incident a thought for 13 years until that moment. So that incident happened in 1984. The little boy’s name was Peter Wynn. He ended up taking his own life. More on that coming up. It made me realise that I was not the only person who had suffered humiliating abuse from someone who was no better, if not worse, than myself. Oh fuck I thought, they’re going to love this, they’re going to go to town on this one. In all I was expecting to be cross examined by roughly 4 of the smartly dressed well spoken QCs, it turned out that 12 wanted to grapple with the truth. None of them did any damage, not even that bastard who through threw that statement at me. My partner was there as normal, eyes glaring at the suits trying to make me out to be a conspirator, liar, non-person. She knew the truth so it didn’t really touch either of us or the facts!!! that I had been broadcasting for the previous 7 years. I was so confident I slept like a log the night before my first days evidence. The next 2 days were brilliant, I didn’t want to leave the witness box, this was what I’d been waiting for the previous 14 years. I’d told most of the idiots who abused me “I’ll get you when I’m older”, well this was it. I was at that time in my life which so many haven’t reached yet. I’m not able to express my feeling of sadness and I’m not sure that there is anything that could even come close. Peter Wynne, Simon Birley, Brendan Randells, Little Mickey, Mark Humphreys, Chris Roberts, Mike Gory, Paula Wilkinson to name a few of the dead care kids who never got the chance to explain the reasons why they were the way they were as well as how the Inquiry won’t cure the hurting, the stuff that’s deep, deep inside us. The Inquiry team are ummmmmm OK. From the outset they said that they were independent of any parties from whom they would be gathering any information from. Well not quite true. I found them to lean slightly in our [victims] favour. How could any human not? Well I don’t know, but what I do know is that there’s a lot that do go out of their way to create a stink if a member of the North Wales Tribunal Team were seen in discussion with one of ‘them’ meaning a complainant, usually me. The most hypocritical questions come from the richest. “I suggest you’re doing this for financial reasons, Mr Laverty.” Do I look fucking rich? Does any victim who complained of abuse look fucking rich? If so I missed them giving evidence, maybe while I was hitching from Anglesey. So on we go via a large number of barristers to the legal representative for a social worker [whistle blower]. I told him and the world what I thought of her and if only there were more like her, call her what you like, and I have, but I’ll stand in her defence any day [or night]. Darren Laverty 1997.” Further down the page he publishes the following under his 23/1/’15 post: “I had no intention of sharing this correspondence with the public until I'd reached a suitable conclusion to my request for some sort of retraction/apology. It looks like I won't be getting one using the legal tools available at present. This being the case, I'm attempting to shame the paper into some sort of resolution. There are two names on the article by-line. David Rose and Brian Johnson Thomas. Rose denies any memory of any involvement, BJT has yet to be traced and asked about the article. He's a NATO arms specialist apparently. I'm doing this for my kids and theirs and theirs etc. I'm hoping that anyone accessing the article will be forewarned about my attempts to rectify this outrageous situation. Worth remembering this: It could be anyone of you who's been accused. These News propagandists shouldn't be allowed to potentially destroy innocent lives. Time limits on legal resolutions are also out dated and in favour of the rich. How long would it take for me to get an apology if I was able to pay a top lawyer to act for me? Not long.” Brian Johnson-Thomas is the freelance journalist who had written an article about Supt Gordon Anglesea in Private Eye in January 1993. More on this here http://www.seancopland.com/articles/More_Lord_McAlpine_Child_Abus e_The_British_Media_and_The_Tory_Grandees_That_Protect_Them.ht ml and in my ‘AN ELITE PAEDO RING’ PDF. “The Editor Observer 23.10.2014 Sir A matter of extreme seriousness has been brought to my attention which has its origins in your newspaper. On the 12th September 1992 Brian Johnson Thomas wrote/created an article that was published by The Observer which alleged that I had been a rapist and sexual abuser during my time in care. This I refute absolutely. That article is copy/pasted further down this page. It is clearly part of the same publication as two other articles which are also published – on spooky Spiv’s site http://chrisspivey.org/laverty-a-clarification/ WHY DIDN’T LAVERTY PROVIDE A LINK TO IT??? The first article is dated 13 September 1992 and the authors are Brian Johnson-Thomas and David Rose. It states: “continued on page 6”. The next article states it is “continued from page 1”. The third article follows on. Under the title ‘A tearaway who was terrorised for six years’ it tells Lav’s story: “The culture of abuse was so pervasive that I myself was guilty on one occasion of sexually abusing someone else, but at the time I thought there was nothing wrong with what I was doing. I became an awful bully when I was in care. When I was 11 I moved to home B and there I took part in a rape. One of the girls in the home was raped by five or six local boys – she was just 14. But when one of the boys told me it was my turn to get on top of her, then I did.” Laverty himself states that he caused pain, to at least one lad. He says that whilst giving testimony at the North Wales tribunal [which was in 1997 and is confirmed here https://drlaverty.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/fantastic-fabrications-to- discredit-witnesses-of-child-abuse-believe-it/comment-page- 1/#comment-220 ] he was reminded of an incident whereby he’d made a lad lick an ashtray, twice and then he “had the lad sit on a chair leg so the leg went up his backside”. I was not aware of the article until some days later on the 21st September 1992.
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