Saturday, October 24, 2020

Known For The Company They Crave

"I can only testify to what I know and the fact [Guffre] has lied about me from the beginning to the end."
"I'm a very loyal person and Jeffrey was very good to me when my father passed away."
"One of the lies she told was that President Clinton was on [the] island where I was present. Absolutely one thousand percent that is a flat out total fabrication and lie."
"I never saw any inappropriate underage activities with Jeffrey, ever."
Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite, charged with criminal recruitment and grooming of underage girls for sex

"The unsealing of this transcript has resulted in the public dissemination of salacious questions and answers that can linger in the minds of potential jurors."
Brian McMonagle, criminal defence lawyer, Philadelphia

"[The unsealing of Maxwell's deposition is] a long time coming and a welcome step toward revealing the evidence of the scope and scale of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking ring."
Sigrid McCawley, lawyer for Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
 
The guilt charges of the underage sex network that was set up by and for the former financier Jeffrey Epstein did not die with his prison suicide. The British socialite who was his long-time associate, one-time lover, and accused pimp of underage girls whom she is said to have selected and groomed to be shared among Mr. Epstein and his friends and colleagues in upper-class sexual adventurism. For some reason known only to herself Ms.Maxwell left her native Britain to purchase a palatial getaway home in New Hampshire secretively but not so much so that her presence was unknown to authorities.

She was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, despite her shielded identity on July 2nd and locked into a prison in Brooklyn when the justice in her criminal case judged her to represent an unacceptable flight risk. Ms.Maxwell, 58 pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that she gave assistance to Epstein in recruiting and grooming underage girls for illegal sex acts in the mid-1990s. She is also accused of having lied under oath. 

A 418-page deposition she had composed for the scrutiny of the law court in 2016 was not meant for public consumption and the speculation that would follow, given the recognizable names of those involved with Jeffrey Epstein who died in Manhattan in August of 2019, awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. He had pleaded guilty to charges out of Florida state for a non-prosecution agreement in 2007 and was imprisoned for 13 months. Virginia Giuffre, now 37, and underage when she claims she was Epstein's sex slave and who has sued Maxwell, urged that the deposition be released.
 
Prince Andrew has suggested that the photo of him with his arm around 17-year-old sex slave Virginia Roberts is fake
 
Now it has been, through the decision reached by U.S.District Judge Loretta Preska, at the insistence both of Giuffre's lawyer, and the Miami Herald newspaper. Her trial is on schedule to begin July 2021. In the deposition almost all those she named had been blacked out and her lawyers had fought to keep it that way, insisting release might violate her right against self-incrimination and resulting publicity could make it difficult to put an impartial jury together in her criminal case.
 
At one time, U.S.President Donald Trump, former U.S.President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of the British royal family were among Epstein's friends; he moved in high society; wealth and notoriety is a great opener of doors. According to Ms.Giuffre, Epstein took her to London in 2001 where he introduced her to Prince Andrew, and she counted that trip as one of three events when, according to her account, the prince had sex with her,
 
Virginia Roberts Giuffre. (Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press)
Ms.Maxwell was grilled under oath for over nine and a half hours by lawyers representing Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in April of 2016 when the civil defamation lawsuit against her was settled. She had explained that her connection with Epstein included aiding him to hire architects, cooks, decorators, gardeners, pool cleaners and other service people in the maintenance of his six luxury properties which included a townhouse in Manhattan, a home in Palm Beach, and two islands in the U.S.Virgin Islands group.
 
In this Sept. 2, 2000 file photo, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is seen leaving a wedding in Salisbury, England in a car driven by Britain's Prince Andrew. (Chris Ison/PA/The Associated Press)

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posted by Pieface @ Saturday, October 24, 2020

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Stunning Justice Miscarriage

"Standing here, before all of you, I honestly thought I would be addressing you following a very different verdict."
"I am, for the second time in the space of one year, utterly shocked and appalled."
Lissie Harper, outside Old Bailey, London England
PC Andrew Harper and his wife
PC Harper got married to his fiancée Lissie just four weeks before he was killed   PA Media

Death delivered to a British police officer engaged in the line of duty, protecting the public from the human scum that also lives and works within that same society, people who prey on others, proudly perform criminal acts, defy law and order, and make life and limb unsafe for others in their pursuit of a life based on the avails of crime. Lissie Harper, wife of British Constable Andrew Harper, hoping for due justice on behalf of her husband whose "barbaric" murder shocked the country was left instead once again "shocked and appalled".

She sat in court during the trial of three teens accused of first-degree murder of her husband, at the Old Bailey. All the while the three who murdered her husband smirked, laughed, dozed off and obviously were not the least bit concerned while the trial was presented with evidence against them. One juror was removed when she was seen to be continually smiling at the three killers throughout the judge's charge to the jury.

Andrew Harper
Andrew Harper, 28, died of multiple injuries  August 2019. Photograph: PA


And when the jury returned to deliver their verdict it was not the expected conviction of murder but that of the lesser charge of manslaughter. According to a former policing minister, the jury choice was sufficiently off-kilter given the situation and the evidence, to convince him to refer the trial to the Attorney General, concerned that the jury may have been tampered with; some among them under duress of threats.

Henry Long, 19, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, 18, reacted after the jury delivered its verdict by hugging, laughing and displaying all the mannerisms of people completely divorced from the realities of crime and punishment.  A gang had been seen stealing a quad bike and Constable Harper responded, becoming entangled in the tow rope attached to the car driven by Henry Long. Enabling the three to conclude their exciting criminal escapade by dragging him for over a mile to his death.

Albert Bowers smiles as he arrives at court
Albert Bowers smiles arriving at court Hyde News & Pictures Ltd

"With his ankles caught in a strap that was trailing behind a car being driven at speed along a country lane, he was dragged for over a mile along the road surface, swung from side to side like a pendulum in an effort to dislodge him, losing items of his police uniform along the way, with the rest of his uniform being quite literally ripped and stripped from his body."
"When, at last, he became disentangled, he was left with the most awful injuries, from which he died there on the road, surrounded by colleagues who tried in vain to save him."
'[The jury heard that he died naked apart from his socks and boots and some shredded remnants of the trousers he was wearing]. This was a completely senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty."
"As [Henry] Long floored the car to make good their escape, PC Harper was lassoed around his ankles by the loop of his strap. It is the prosecution case that Long drove that car knowing full well that PC Harper was entangled in the strap, as he drove in a manner calculated to dislodge him, and to make good their escape, as had been the plan all along."
Brian Altman QC, prosecuting attorney


Albert Bowers (left) and Jessie Cole (centre) leaving Reading Magistrates' Court on September 19, 2019
Albert Bowers (left) and Jessie Cole (centre) leaving Reading Magistrates' Court on September 19, 2019

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posted by Pieface @ Sunday, July 26, 2020

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