Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor on trial: 9.00am Aldershot Magistrates Court 20/2/15
UPDATE 15/2/15: CAROLINE NOKES MP CALLED AS WITNESS BY DEFENCE TEAM
After four months and three hearings, join Matt O’Connor at his final trial as he takes on @HantsPolice and @conservatives in a trial scheduled for an entire day over his politically motivated arrest & prosecution.
The Fathers4Justice founder faces a Section 5 Public Order Act charge after he was arrested outside his former home in September last year. His arrest came just days after Hampshire Police published a report into a cover up concerning the involvement of Caroline Nokes MP at a violent incident at O’Connor’s house in February of last year. After 8-months of denials, the MP admitted driving a colleague to O’Connor’s home. She was interviewed by Police at the scene and her colleague was arrested.
There then followed a 9-month campaign of harassment which targeted O’Connor’s 8-yr-old son and eventually drove the family from their home in Hampshire.
O’Connor has argued that there was no evidence to support the charges and that this was a politically motivated arrest and prosecution. O’Connor cited previous CPS attempts to ban him from the London 2012 Olympic Games.
He also referred the court to video of his arrest and the background to the case involving Caroline Nokes MP, death threats, hate-mail threatening to have his children removed and attacks on his family’s car.
Said Matt O’Connor, “I welcome the opportunity to present the facts of our case in open court. This is a malicious prosecution by Hampshire Police and the CPS who failed to protect my family and bring the perpetrators responsible for intimidating my family to justice.”
“They lied about the involvement of Caroline Nokes MP in the incident at my home and days after producing a report accepting she influenced the investigation, deliberately arrested me within yards of my home after I was challenged by a Police officer about our complaints.”
“The actions of the Police and CPS are more akin to that of Putin’s Russia than a British democracy, but after seeing the injustice in secret family courts these last 15 years, nothing is a surprise anymore.”
O’Connor said UKIP County Councillor Tony Hooke would give evidence about the coaching of the prosecution witness by the CPS.
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Court Details: http://magistrates-court.co.uk/aldershot-magistrates-court/
Picture On Right: Matt O’Connor being violently assaulted by PC Robinson, as his head was banged against a wall at on 4th September 2014, at 08.00am on Stockbridge High Street outside his home.
Picture on Left: After cuffing Matt O’Connor he was marched to Stockbridge Police Station, before being taken to Basingstoke Police Station where he was detained for 11 hours.
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