Readers who have been following the shambles and out-right injustices the former Police Chief has been subjected to at the hands of our - out of control - government will not be shocked or surprised at this latest turn of events.
It appears that Mr. Graham Power QPM has received word that the Home Affairs Minister, Senator Ian Le Marquand, will be releasing the full redacted version (if that makes sense) of the Wiltshire Report some time tomorrow. In response Mr. Power QPM has issued a Press Release, re-produced (un-redacted) below.
The Wiltshire Report, as regular readers will know, is nothing more than unfounded and unproven allegations against Mr. Power. The same allegations that the Chief Minister, Terry Le Sueur has conceded in the States that Mr. Power is innocent of!
So why start dragging this Wiltshire Report up again? It's finished, over with. It's a million quids worth of tax payers money that Ian Le Marquand has been able to squander on something that is looking more and more like a "personal vendetta" by the day.
Yet again Mr. Power has been denied any notice of this release of the Wiltshire Report, just as he was denied notice, or knowledge of, the first time Senator Le Marquand come out with it.
Furthermore, since Mr. Power has not been consulted, then his agreement to the 62,000 word defence to Wiltshire being published could not have been sought.
Surely Ian Le Marquand has not been allowed to get that "out of control" that he is able to release the Wiltshire Report AGAIN without a single word of Mr. Power's defence being published AGAIN!!?
Furthermore, since Mr. Power has not been consulted, then his agreement to the 62,000 word defence to Wiltshire being published could not have been sought.
Surely Ian Le Marquand has not been allowed to get that "out of control" that he is able to release the Wiltshire Report AGAIN without a single word of Mr. Power's defence being published AGAIN!!?
MEDIA RELEASE ISSUED BY GRAHAM POWER QPM, FORMER CHIEF OFFICER OF THE STATES OF JERSEY POLICE. THURSDAY 10TH MARCH 2011.
This media release has been issued following information which I have received indirectly from friends in Jersey. I have been told that the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Ian Le Marquand intends to issue a copy of what is known as the “Wiltshire Report” concerning the abandoned disciplinary investigation into my role in relation to the Historic Abuse Enquiry. I have been told nothing about this release by the Minister or any section of the Jersey Government. In common with the established practice of Ministers in this matter I have been offered no information on what is to be alleged, no representation or any opportunity to respond to what might be said.
I am given to understand that the Minister may attempt to falsely claim that the document he is to release is some form of “independent report” which contains “findings” in respect of my role in the enquiry. None of this is true. The document which I am told is to be released is the “prosecution case” in respect of the disciplinary investigation which produced no disciplinary charges, no disciplinary hearing and was abandoned by the Minister after he had spent over one million pounds of public funds in pursuit of unfounded allegations regarding my role in the attempt to bring justice to the victims of the systematic child abuse conducted by Jersey Government institutions over previous decades. In 2009 I provided the Minister with a comprehensive written response to everything alleged in the Wiltshire report, prior to his abandonment of all disciplinary proceedings. Subsequent to the abandonment of disciplinary proceedings a number of key witnesses in the Wiltshire enquiry have been publically discredited in the Napier report and other revelations.
The Chief Minister has subsequently confirmed in the States that I am to be regarded as innocent of everything which was alleged against me.
Having lost his disciplinary case against me the Minister is now using Ministerial Office and public funds to pursue a personal vendetta.
In some jurisdictions this would be called “Corruption.” In Jersey it appears to be “Government as Usual.”
Graham Power. QPM.
North Yorkshire.
Thursday 10th March 2011. (End)
Why hasn't/doesn't Ian Le Marquand spend as much time and money attempting to bring some justice to the victims of Abuse, as he does on doing everything he can to discredit the very people who tried to do just that?