Getting my

MP involved

I wrote to my MP Fabian Hamilton.

 

He contacted me shortly afterwards to ask for copies of documents I held, which I duly emailed to him, a few days later he wanted to meet me, so I went to his surgery late one evening to meet him privately.

 

His secretary was present for the meeting to take minutes and I told my story from the beginning, after around ninety minutes, it was obvious that Fabian was visibly upset on hearing my story, angry my victim status had been denied, incredulous at the statement that I could not have witnessed what I claim (Savile with the dead woman) because procedures were in place to prevent such an occurrence, and determined to help me as much as possible.

 

It was my opinion that Fabian and his secretary had never heard a story like mine before and would never forget what they had heard.

 

Fabian Hamilton waited a few weeks for Jeremy Hunt to make a further statement about Savile in the house, and asked questions on my behalf, this can be seen recorded in Hansard.

 

Fabian received a letter from Jeremy Hunt shortly afterwards, it was non-committal, dismissive and did not offer much hope, however it contained two things which were in my favour, it stated that he had read my letter, further, it had a handwritten codicil, a few words of hope by the signature, asking for a meeting with Fabian.

 

Shortly after my MP met the Health Minister, it was agreed that Kate Lampard would be asked to investigate the circumstances of how the meeting between myself and the Speaking Out inquiry team had been conducted.

 

She wanted details from me giving her direction and the scope of my complaint, I wrote to her directly detailing how the meeting had been held for forty minutes without notes or recordings, prior to tearing me apart in the recorded formal session that followed.

 

I detailed to her that the inquiry had published its intentions and scope prior to holding interviews, these included the fact that the inquiry did not have the scope to determine civil or criminal liability, yet the meeting I attended had been used to determine the DOH civil liability in my case.

 

I advised her that the same document detailed that all meetings with victims and witnesses would be digitally recorded, transcribed and copies supplied to said witnesses/victims for checking prior to anonymous inclusion in the final report, this clearly did not happen with my meeting as forty minutes were not recorded or transcribed.

 

I went on to say why I felt my encounters with Savile had met Savile’s MO and that this was borne out in the witness testimonies provided to the multiple inquiries into his abuse and cited witness statements from DOH and BBC inquiries describing sexual abuse of minors, in his car, in public.

 

Finally, I once again advised her of my primary complaint, my case was rejected on the grounds I could not have witnessed what I claim because procedures were in place in hospitals which prevented this. I read the sections of the inquiries into Leeds teaching hospitals and Stoke Mandeville hospital detailing Savile’s behaviour with cadavers and morgues, both had permitted Savile inappropriate access. I copied no less than twelve witness testimonies from these two published inquiries. Some were compelling and showed that Savile did not follow hospital procedures around the handling of the dead.

 

One was a story from Stoke Mandeville in which a mortuary attendant raised a formal recorded complaint against Savile for transporting the body of a young boy to the morgue in a pram.

 

Another was an eyewitness account of a ward sister on night shift who, returning from a break, witnessed Savile pushing a deceased patient by himself off the ward, she asked him “where are you going with that” only to be told by Savile without stopping “the morgue”, she then stated that she called after him asking how will you get in it’s closed, and Savile just waved a bunch of keys then continued out of the ward.

 

Only about a week later, Kate Lampard met with Jeremy Hunt and Fabian Hamilton to advise them that she was sure that the meeting between myself and the Speaking Out team had been held correctly and that she upheld the conclusions they had reached.

 

It seemed I had reached the end of the road with my complaint, I was not fortunate enough to have funds to take on the NHS/DOH in court, and as I wished to remain anonymous such action would be public and therefore precluded. Further, I did not wish to contact the press, as typically my story would become their story and twisted/redacted/changed to suit their agenda.


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