Roskov book 26, p.1
Roskov, Book 26, page 1
Ricky Roskov
Book 26
Copyright © Geoff Wolak
This book is a work of fiction, technically accurate in the detail of geographical locations, and the time period history. It is young adult romance, conspiracy and murder-mystery.
Causing trouble
Bonza had a few social issues for me to discuss during a radio show, but I had just seen Sky News, a famous BBC presenter sacked because of sexual allegations against him. Somehow, I knew he was innocent.
I summoned Laz, and I sent him off to find our BBC presenter and to get the story, the real story.
When Laz returned, many hours later, he informed me that the man was indeed innocent. And he handed me a girl’s diary, a page marked.
Laz began, in an oddly pompous courtroom voice, ‘This woman, who was a girl of sixteen at the time of the alleged incident, had what you call a sexual crush on TV presenter named Mark Gilham – they were in the same school in the city of Brighton.’
I tried not to grin.
Laz continued, ‘The girl was obese, she still is, she received state medical assistance for self-harm, and she spoke with child psychiatrists on a regular basis. She generally had a bad odour and was an outcast in the school - everyone avoided her.
‘Mark Gilham was two years older and very popular, he played guitar in a band, and he was quite noticeably in a relationship with the most sought-after girl in school, who he married and is still with, they have three fine children.
‘The accuser, Rosy, made a complaint to Brighton Police five days ago, but made no complaint at the time of the alleged incident, not least because no one would have believed her, and her parents never let her out at night.
‘She told the police that she had been sexually assaulted outside of a local nightclub at 1am, despite the fact that she lived on a remote farm and had no way to get to the nightclub and back.
‘The police decided that there was no evidence, and they also noted that the lady was currently a medicated mental health patient, but then an Inspector Clements sold the story to your friends at The Sun newspaper for three thousand five hundred pounds, an illegal act.
‘At the same time, this inspector sent an official letter to the head of the BBC, warning that manager of pending police action against the accused presenter, but no action was pending, the inspector wanted to cause the maximum publicity for his contact at The Sun, Andy McGuire.’
‘I think I know that man, he’s quite senior at the paper.’
‘Senior, yes, but also a child molester.’
‘Really? Get me some solid evidence against him, please, I have some people to crucify. And Laz, why do you sound like a barrister all of a sudden?’
‘I … was in character, as you say. Was it not fitting?’
‘Fitting, yes, if you had been in a courtroom.’
Two days later, I sat down in the studios of Radio Leicester, Bonza sat listening in, David Hutton to be on the show but he was not nervous these days.
Mic adjusted and tested, technician ready, and my green light came on to start recording.
‘This is Ricky Roskov, Radio Leicester, and a big welcome and hello to all those people listening far and wide around the UK, and down on the Falkland Islands, because they can apparently get these British shows down there of a cold night, the sheep warming up next to a real log fire.’
Bonza laughed loudly as David looked shocked, then I realised that my “sheep” comment could have been misunderstood.
‘We start with a social and criminal issue, from the city of Brighton down on the south coast.
‘Thirty years ago … there was a certain girl in school in Brighton, a girl that lived on a remote farm. She walked half a mile each day and then got the bus, her parents not driving her to school. In the summer she sometimes cycled to school.
‘And this particular girl … she was very fat, she had a serious body odour problem as well as mental health issues, she was a self-harmer and … someone with an odd relationship with her parents, both parents now dead.
‘So this girl, an outcast - fat and ugly and badly smelling, was known to the cruel kids in the school by various nasty names, and she was shunned by all – especially the boys.
‘When she was sixteen years old she had a crush on an older boy by the name of Mark Gilham, the same Mark Gilham that was until recently reading the BBC News … before he was wrongfully dismissed from the BBC.
‘Mark was two years older than this particular girl, and he was very popular in school. He played the guitar, he played soccer for the school team, he was tall and handsome, and he was dating the best-looking girl in school – whom he later married.
‘They’ve been together for thirty years and have three great kids, all grown up and now and producing grandkids.
‘But Mark was just fired by the idiots running the BBC, because a week or so ago our fat smelly girl with mental problems made a complaint to the police in Brighton, that when she was sixteen she was sexually assaulted by Mark Gilham outside a local nightclub.
‘Now, for those of you out there with a keen mind, you might have noticed that she lived on a remote farm and had a strained relationship with her parents - they would never let her out at night, certainly not to a pub or a nightclub.
‘So it begs the question … as to how the most loathed, most smelly fat girl from the school got herself to that nightclub and back, and just happened to be sexually assaulted by the school’s most popular boy.
‘We spoke with her sister, who says that there’s no way in hell that our smelly girl went to a nightclub, or was allowed out, or that any boy would go near her, not least for the smell.
‘We spoke to girls that knew her in school, and they were amazed that our smelly girl would have the cheek to make such a false statement to the police, since no boy in school would ever go near her – and the girl never went out at night anyway.
‘And to top it all off, we have her diary. Apparently, she made a diary entry every single day of her life, I guess after she learnt to read and write and not use crayons, and that diary mentions her crush on Mark Gilham. It also has an entry for the night in question, when this alleged sexual assault took place.
‘It says … got a head cold, took some tablets and cough medicine … to bed early. The next entry, the next morning, is that she feels worse and will stay in bed.
‘Now, this could, of course, be used to prove that she was never sexually assaulted that night, or any other night.
‘But the police did not investigate the matter because they had already checked the police computer, and our smelly lady had a history of shoplifting as well as many stays in mental health facilities.
‘They considered her a nutcase, to be accusing a well-known BBC presenter … for an incident that occurred thirty years ago.
‘Brighton police took the statement, but did nothing with it, which brings us back to the previous show and … do our police take these things seriously and respect women and respect rape and sexual assault claims as they should?
‘Given the mental health issues, and the thirty-year lapse, I agree with Brighton Police … that they should not have taken such a claim seriously, it was very light on detail and on some handy evidence.
‘If she had claimed rape, a baby born, a witness or two available, something, then I’d hope that Brighton Police would have reacted in the correct manner and investigated a little further.
‘And that brings us to our next issue, a low-life gutter crawling scumbag of a police officer called Inspector Richard Clements down in Brighton Police.
‘What this scumbag did … was to notice that a false complaint of sexual assault had been made against Mark Gilham at the BBC. He then sold the detail to his good friend Andy McGuire at The Sun newspaper for three thousand five hundred pounds. Which is illegal, of course, police officers cannot sell confidential complaints or statements.
‘And what our scumbag police inspector then did … was to write an official letter to the head of the BBC, stating that a serious complaint had been made against Mark Gilham, and that charges may be brought soon – which was a lie, the case had been dropped.
‘Our scumbag of an inspector did so in order to see Mark Gilham sacked, a story that The Sun newspaper claimed as an exclusive, because they bought the detail from Inspector Clements down in Brighton Police.
‘Now, here’s the thing. I think that I read somewhere … that a person is innocent till proven guilty in a court of law. But as far as the BBC are concerned, any allegation made – obviously not an allegation against Jimmy Saville – must see the presenter sacked straight away, which is wrong.
‘BBC morons, listen up and pay attention. Sometimes allegations are made-up against famous people. You ignored ten thousand allegations against Jimmy Savile, now you get one false claim and foolishly act on it in haste.
‘So, being the kind of person I am, I’ve contacted Mark Gilham and I’ll be funding his very expensive High Court legal battle against the BBC, at the end of which the BBC will be left with a bill for about four million quid. And I hope that the man that sacked Mark Gilham in haste is sacked for doing such an unjust thing.
‘Listen up, BBC managers and senior BBC dickheads. Your presenters are all innocent till proven guilty, or until the evidence is overwhelming. Pay attention, this next part is going to hurt.
‘The letter you received from Inspector Clements was false, a lie, a fabrication that you never bothered to investigate or follow through on.
‘But here’s the kicker, listen carefully. Inspector Clements sold his story to The Sun, to his friend Andy McGuire, and the BBC – a news service – failed to notice that Inspector Clements of Brighton Police, and Andy McGuire of The Sun newspaper and also of Brighton, are both long-standing and practised sex offenders.
‘They both like nothing better than driving to isolated toilets around Brighton and the south coast of a dark evening and sucking off teenage rent boys, some as young as twelve years old.
‘When Andy McGuire was sixteen, he raped and stabbed a fourteen-year-old boy after sex, and he then spent time in borstal and in various mental health places.
‘When he was twenty-six he crashed his car, drunk, a teenage rent boy in the car and hurt, McGuire telling the police that he was just giving the lad a ride home, and not sucking him off.
‘And how do I know all that? Because someone at The Sun newspaper sent me the detail,’ I lied. ‘And we checked it, which begs the question as to how someone at The Sun newspaper knew for twenty years what Andy McGuire got up to in his spare time.
‘I was sent photos, secretly taken, of Andy McGuire and Inspector Clements stood side-by-side being sucked off by young boys outside of isolated countryside toilets.
‘I will, of course, send them on to the police, and Inspector Clements and Andy McGuire will both get themselves a nice twelve-year stretch in a shit old prison, not in one of my nice new prisons I hope. But at least they’ll have some drugs to buy from the prison guards.’
David Hutton shook his head as Bonza smiled widely.
I continued, ‘If you two scumbags are listening, expect a knock at the door in the morning, some time in a cell, in fact a lot of time in a cell. Buy yourselves a paperback or two.
‘Now, there’re many aspects to this case, not least how the hacks at The Sun could think that they’re sharp operators, yet Andy McGuire had worked there for twenty years and was senior.
‘But someone did know, I received some the evidence detailed on Sun Newspaper headed paper, and a fax from their offices regarding Andy McGuire. Perhaps it was an honest reporter. Ha, just kidding, of course.
‘And how many police in Brighton knew about Inspector Scumbag Clements, and his fondness for sucking off young boys? If they did know … they were not telling, another example of British police officers doing a great job of closing ranks.
‘And it was Roman Emperor Hadrian himself who said: my legions close ranks like professionals, but not as good as the British police, of course, no one closes ranks as well as they do. And that was written in stone two thousand years ago and has survived the test of time.
‘Now, as stated, one aspect to this sad story … is that a person is innocent till proven guilty in court. Supposedly. A second aspect is our police, and the quality of our officers – many on the make, it seems.
‘I will be assisting Mark Gilham to take High Court legal action against the BBC for wrongful dismissal, and High Court legal action against Brighton Police, for the false statement sent officially by Inspector Scumbag Clements.
‘So, Chief Constable of Brighton, you’ll need to set aside three million quid for the legal action and settlement, so maybe you should cancel some overtime, sell some cars, take more bribes, sell the force helicopter.’
Now, David Hutton was both laughing and shaking his head at the same time.
‘You also, Chief Constable, need to deal with what Clements and McGuire got up to at remote toilets around the region, a bit of a stain on your good reputation, and not just a stain on your man’s trousers.’
The technician, the manager and Bonza, rocked with laughter.
‘And here’s the kicker. Scumbag Clements and Scumbag McGuire are both married with grown kids. So I think their wives might have something to say about the news tomorrow. Raised voices might be heard, because wives generally don’t like it when their husbands suck off teenage rent boys and come home with stains on their trousers.
‘But the one ray of light in all of this mess … is Mark Gilham, because I did have him checked out carefully, going back thirty years, and he is very squeaky clean and innocent, a good man, a great father and husband, and someone that everyone in the country can feel safe around.
‘People of Britain, Mark Gilham is a great man and an even greater husband and father, and if you read the story in the papers … then you must now know that you were lied to and played. He’s a saint, I know – I checked carefully, his accusers are the scumbags here.
‘Yet despite being saint … Mark is the victim of this story, he and his lovely wife and kids hurt by the false statement, and then he gets sacked by the idiots in the BBC based upon the quick read of a false statement, a statement that they never checked, a statement sent by a sex offender of a police officer.
‘This is a … dirty, nasty, grubby story of bad men, of corruption and illegal payments, bad police officers, and of a man sacked when he was innocent.
‘And the Editor of The Sun newspaper may have to explain why his newspaper paid a police officer using a company cheque, not cash, an evidence trail left behind.
‘But let’s take a moment to consider the tabloids, and if they go too far sometimes. Parliament … is the home of our democracy, but Parliament does not defend our British democracy, our free Press does that, our tabloids defend our democracy by reporting on corruption and on the rich and famous trying to get away with murder.
‘But what did the tabloids do in this case? They encouraged police corruption, and instead of reporting it they made use of it to release a false story, the newspaper getting itself played.
‘Instead of the newspaper investigating child abusers … they gave jobs to child abusers and paid off sex-offender police officers. Not quite what the defenders of freedom and democracy are supposed to do, the tabloids are supposed to investigate and then to embarrass the rich and famous – those who are up to no good.
‘The tabloids … are supposed to expose the corrupt police officers, not help them, to expose the sex offenders not aid them with money – a cheque written. So the tabloids need to look again at their unofficial role as defenders of democracy in this country.
‘I would like to think that they continue their role, of reining in the rich and famous and the corrupt people, but that they might – now and then - check the accuracy of what they’re reporting.
‘And, finally on this story, I have handed Mark Gilham some money and sent his entire family on a great holiday as our legal teams get ready to roast a few idiots, starting with Brighton Police and the BBC.
‘As to the fat smelly lady that made the false allegation, we’re not naming her because she’s been suicidal for thirty years, we don’t want to push her over the edge.
‘But what the nation has to consider, what our lawmakers and judges and police have to consider, is how they handle a complaint from a vindictive nutcase of a woman, and should she be sent to prison?
‘And what of the BBC managers? Are they protecting the integrity of their service by immediately sacking someone like Mark Gilham without a proper investigation? Are we all guilty by accusation, or guilty when proven so in a court of law?
‘I think I saw it written down once, innocent till proven guilty unless you work in the BBC. Perhaps in the Bible.
‘And to those fee-paying BBC viewers that like Mark Gilham, keep liking him, he did an excellent job as father and husband, and he’s completely innocent of all accusations, just that his boss at the BBC is a bit of a moron.
‘And to those people that read about Mark Gilham and were shocked, pay attention: you were duped, fools. Start to realise … that sometimes you’re fed a pack of lies in the wrapping paper for your fish and chips.
‘And if The Sun newspaper really is the champion of the working class man in Britain, run the apology, and put blame where blame is due, take the right side of history here and keep defending our democracy for us.
‘Don’t stop investigating the rich and famous up to no good, but don’t pay-off corrupt police officers - they’re the ones making this country a bit shit for us all. And if you do pay-off a corrupt police officer, don’t use your company cheque book.
‘So, solicitor David Hutton: are the police required to notify someone’s boss when a man is arrested or investigated?’
