Interview transcript Brian and Janice Docherty

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DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT
The Brutal Protection of Paedophiles—a ten-part interview
(covering the events of 2014 to 2016)
The repeated theft of Brian and Janice(1) Docherty’s children
by Scotland, and by Scottish agents in Northern Ireland and
the Republic of Ireland,
for refusing a demand to give their son to be abused
by a protected paedophile ring
Below is just the table of contents which serves as an outline and timeline of events in the Brian and Janice Docherty case.

(1) née Janice F. McLaren

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Contents

Introductory material ................................................................................................................. 12
A UK Column viewer’s letter to Scotland’s Chief of Police ................................................................ 12
A UK Column viewer’s letter to the Scottish Government................................................................. 14
A UK Column viewer’s letter to the Irish Government ...................................................................... 16
Beginning of transcript ............................................................................................................... 18
Introduction to the subject and interviewer ....................................................................... 18
The Dochertys’ life prior to the demand made for their son ............................................................. 20
The suspected paedophile makes his demand, August 2014 ........................................ 24
The threats begin .............................................................................................................................. 26
Viscount Petersham’s threat to have the children taken .................................................................. 29
Viscount Petersham attempts to evict the Dochertys ....................................................................... 31
The Dochertys’ first attempts to report the suspected paedophile ............................ 33
UK National Crime Agency refuses to take a report ......................................................................... 33
Emergency meeting of the Viscount’s high-status associates .......................................................... 34
Local police sergeant tells the Dochertys not to report the threat ................................................... 36
Local sergeant colludes with the alleged paedophile and protector ................................................ 39
Alan Low immediately digs up the Crimonmogate Estate at night .................................................. 39
Attacks on the Dochertys’ house and garden ................................................................................... 40
Aberdeenshire authorities take an interest in the Dochertys’ children ................... 41
Police Scotland instruct Aberdeenshire Social Services to investigate the Dochertys....................... 42
Social work managers lie about “not having received” the Dochertys’ paperwork ......................... 45
Social Services demand to “assess” the Dochertys ........................................................................... 46
Fast-forward to the outcome of the police complaints procedure ................................................... 48
Return to 2014 chronology: No lawyer in Scotland would touch the case ....................................... 49
The Dochertys flee to Ireland ................................................................................................... 50
Tipperary Gardaí show up ......................................................................................................... 53
Gárda superintendent had claimed Interpol wanted the Dochertys ................................................ 53
No trace of the claimed Interpol alert ............................................................................................... 54
The Dochertys stay on in Ireland, moving to Mayo .......................................................................... 55
Dossier of senior corruption allegations handed to the subjects of the allegations ......................... 57
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Cross-border surveillance, November 2014 ....................................................................... 59
Bullied by Gárda Armed Response Unit, January 2015 ................................................... 63
No court documents, constitution “doesn’t apply”, no lawyer, no legal rights ................................ 64
Irish social workers continue Dochertys task force with Scotland and drive a new UK car .............. 65
A pack of lies from Scotland ...................................................................................................... 68
“Risk of abuse” by the children’s long-dead grandfather ................................................................. 69
The children seized for the first time, 28 January 2015 ................................................. 72
Referred to a psychiatrist by a local doctor, by pre-arrangement .................................................... 75
If you report paedophilia, you must be mentally ill .......................................................................... 75
Social workers spotted pre-cooking the psychiatric assessment ...................................................... 76
Trying to find a psychiatrist in Ireland .............................................................................................. 77
Children returned for the time being, February 2015 ..................................................... 79
After Irish judge finds for the Dochertys, intimidation increases ............................... 81
Mental health nurse using bogus name offers “free psychiatric assessment” ................................. 82
Irish judge strikes out Scottish claims; Police Scotland complains about the Dochertys .................. 83
Scottish claims nevertheless revived through Irish guardian’s report .............................................. 84
Following children’s return to parents, Police Scotland want to arrest parents ... 87
Wall of silence from Scottish authorities .......................................................................................... 89
Frantic correspondence is futile ........................................................................................................ 90
Gárda Ombudsman finds Dochertys’ complaint admissible ............................................................. 91
Gárda Ombudsman wants to arrest the Dochertys .......................................................................... 92
Scottish police complaint handling ................................................................................................... 93
Dochertys targeted by Dublin- and London-based hackers .......................................... 93
Dochertys’ dogs tortured .................................................................................................................. 94
Unsafe to leave the house to earn money ........................................................................................ 95
Continually in both fight and flight mode ......................................................................................... 96
Publicity drawn to the case ....................................................................................................... 97
Irish journalists and Prime Minister’s staff “set up” to cultivate the Dochertys ............................... 98
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Poisoning of the Dochertys’ water .......................................................................................... 99
Dochertys never given the notes used to take the children ............................................................ 100
Mail tampering ............................................................................................................................... 101
15 December 2015 letters trigger overwhelming raid the day after their delivery ........................ 102
The children seized again, 17 December 2015 ................................................................ 104
No warrant produced by Donegal Armed Response Unit ............................................................... 105
No pretence now that this is a child protection case ...................................................................... 109
Eldest daughter mocked for an hour for being a Christian ......................................... 109
Not just an unlawful kidnapping; also a holding to ransom ........................................................... 110
First court hearing, 21 December 2015 ............................................................................. 112
Hearing held after hours; only the janitor informs Dochertys of testimony against them ............. 113
“Investigating your allegations” means reporting Dochertys as mentally disturbed ..................... 114
Threat of imprisonment without charge ......................................................................................... 115
Tip-off: Mary Malee is very close to the Scots ................................................................................ 115
Malee sent from Mayo to Donegal to respond to Dochertys’ surveillance complaint ................... 116
Three key witnesses for the State are subjects of a criminal complaint by Dochertys ................... 116
Scottish-allied social worker’s “testimony”: Docherty is the paedophile ............... 117
No child protection evidence; only arguments about delusion ....................................................... 118
No solicitor in Donegal would touch the case ................................................................................. 119
Prima facie judicial corruption ............................................................................................. 119
Disallowed PIRC report undid the basis for the initial “concern” that triggered all since .............. 121
The State’s lawyer formulated the judge’s ruling ........................................................... 121
First ruling: Never mention this hearing ......................................................................................... 121
Second ruling: Evaluation by a psychiatrist chosen by the other party .......................................... 121
Third ruling: Stop naming those you have complained about ........................................................ 121
Rulings made by this nocturnal “Family Court” that mentioned the children: zero ....................... 122
Attacks on house and dogs intensify ............................................................................................... 124
Raid timed for Christmas to obviate an appeal within the allowable timeframe ........................... 125
The other party’s lawyers have the court transcript monopoly ............................... 126
Court papers withheld after hearing ............................................................................................... 126
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Donegal Social Work relocated to hospital for this case only .................................... 127
A priest refers the Dochertys to an ominous councillor .............................................. 129
Councillor recommends a particular lawyer ................................................................................... 132
The recommended lawyer refuses to meet the Dochertys pre-trial ............................................... 132
A staggering court hearing, 13 January 2016 .................................................................. 133
Hearing held in recess time as before ............................................................................................. 133
Dochertys “agreed” in absentia to their children being taken ........................................................ 134
Attempts to remedy the illegal hearing ............................................................................. 134
Lawyer misrepresents Dochertys as consenting to confiscation .............................. 135
Threatened with prison for the videos ............................................................................................ 136
Dochertys’ e-mails to supporters read out by the judge .............................................. 136
Frogmarched to delete the videos on the spot ............................................................................... 137
Police Scotland’s response regarding Dochertys: “Fuck!” ............................................................... 137
Tracking e-mails sent ...................................................................................................................... 137
Outstanding appeal not heard before District Court resumes proceedings ................................... 139
Scots set the Dochertys’ house in Ireland on fire, 17 January 2016 ......................... 141
Gárda forensic conclusion: Arson .................................................................................................... 144
Drunk policeman tries to steal Mrs Docherty’s handbag at Mass ............................. 144
What documents the police were after: the high-status incriminations ........................................ 145
Dochertys’ car sabotaged; Gárda uninterested ............................................................... 146
RTÉ investigative journalists change their tune ............................................................. 146
Enthusiasm evaporated within a week ........................................................................................... 147
Journalists attempt to acquire Dochertys’ e-mail passwords ......................................................... 147
Journalists have a particular person to recommend for “psychiatric help” .................................... 147
E-mails to Information Commissioner had been wiped ............................................... 148
Lead journalist attempts damage containment on photo of black-eyed toddler ........................... 149
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Multiple injuries sustained by toddler while in “care” ................................................. 150
Photographing injury immediately terminates Dochertys’ last ever child contact ......................... 150
“Playing mind games with the children” ............................................................................ 152
The ransom: Be mentally “assessed” in the presence of the Social Services
manager, or never see the children ..................................................................................... 152
Appeal only possible by petitioning multiple court districts ........................................................... 153
Appeal held on a day when Irish Circuit Courts do not sit .............................................................. 153
No lawyer in the Irish Republic would handle the appeal ............................................................... 154
Egregious corruption at appeal hearing, 1 February 2016 ......................................... 154
Appeal hearing includes unannounced fresh testimony from Police Scotland ............................... 154
Chief Justice Denham’s novel ruling is prayed in aid to deny an appeal ......................................... 155
No Registrar present; court clerk, acting as Registrar, farcically produces “just typed up” rulings of
two weeks earlier ............................................................................................................................ 155
Judge from two weeks earlier is “just walking by” the otherwise deserted courtroom to sign an
assertion that the Dochertys had ‘agreed” to confiscation of children .......................................... 155
Appeal judge O’Hagan foresees that the Dochertys will lose the next appeal ............................... 156
Dochertys feel unsafe in the Republic ................................................................................ 156
The “most surreal ten days” of the Dochertys’ life: Northern Ireland, February
2016 ................................................................................................................................................ 157
Someone cancels house-moving van booked by Dochertys ............................................................ 157
Northern Irish holiday homes are staggeringly hard to come by ... in February ............................. 157
Possessions thrown out of home; Dochertys blocked inside ........................................................... 157
Hostage-takers go off to liaise with Northern Irish police .............................................................. 158
It becomes apparent the men are after the Dochertys’ possessions .............................................. 158
The assailants have locksmithing and base tower spoofing capabilities ............................................ 158
Upshot: No children, no home, no possessions, no money .......................................... 159
The men were specifically after the Dochertys’ camera—because Brian Docherty had let his
previous property agent (across the border) know just the previous day that he had been caught
letting burglars in ............................................................................................................................ 159
A different Northern Irish hotel each week; animals being attacked again ................................... 161
Menacing Scots call Northern Irish hotel ........................................................................................ 161
Car broken into for legal paperwork during a Dublin trip and returned to the car in NI ................ 162
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In despair, the Dochertys seek sanctuary in a monastery ........................................... 162
NI policemen call at monastery in middle of night to talk cross-border psychiatry ....................... 163
NI police know the Dochertys were at the monastery from constant surveillance ........................ 164
Escape over field and wall ....................................................................................................... 164
No car, no friends—no choice but back to the “lion’s den” of Scotland ................... 166
Policemen combing the ferry port ................................................................................................... 166
Police Scotland harass Scots in contact with Dochertys ................................................................. 167
Police roadblock in Scotland ........................................................................................................... 167
Tailed in Edinburgh, Dochertys move to England, February 2016 .......................... 167
Entirely dependent on the kindness of strangers ............................................................................ 168
Strangers give Dochertys a car because they believe them ............................................................ 168
Replacement car is bugged ............................................................................................................. 169
After three weeks in Britain, back to Ireland, despite port closure ......................... 169
Gárda watching for foot passengers (as Dochertys had given Police Scotland the slip by being foot
passengers) ..................................................................................................................................... 170
Dochertys have found Scottish and Irish surveillance to be a bungling affair ................................ 170
As a respondent in such non-cases, it is better not to show up ...................................................... 171
Psychiatrist lurking in court to cart Dochertys away, March 2016 ................................................. 172
Why have Irish social services never applied for a Care Order proper? .......................................... 172
Asked about this, the Irish state invents in April 2016 having “applied” in February ..................... 172
Back to the peripatetic holiday home existence ............................................................................. 173
Legal escalation in Ireland ...................................................................................................... 173
Meanwhile, the third appeal date has summarily been cancelled ................................................. 174
The manager who illegally refused Legal Aid has been promoted to continue refusing it ............. 174
Several of the Dochertys’ persecutors have likewise been given tailored promotions ................... 174
Also meanwhile, Judicial Review denied by Irish High Court .......................................................... 174
Judicial Review files from April are “still in limbo”, never having been presented ......................... 176
The day Habeas Corpus became a corpse in Ireland: 25 May 2016 ......................... 176
Judge Haughton coordinates with the previous Donegal judge and the Chief Justice ................... 176
Haughton’s legal reasoning for refusal of Habeas Corpus: “That’s all ... stop protesting” ............ 177
Bogus reference to the “other side of the story” ............................................................................ 177
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The Dochertys review their experiences and request specific help from the public
.......................................................................................................................................................... 180
The interviewer reviews the most pressing questions of authorisation in the case ....................... 181
End of transcript ......................................................................................................................... 183
Discussion of rule-of-law issues ............................................................................................ 184
Rollover of interim care orders........................................................................................................ 184
Arbitrary theft of children is now a reality in Britain and Ireland ................................................... 185
Solzhenitsynesque use of “mental health” repression .................................................................... 185
No public authorities appear to help the victims ............................................................................ 185
“We have to stand up for each other” ............................................................................................ 186
Rediscovering human sympathy and empathy ............................................................................... 186
Appendix: Correspondence .................................................................................................... 188
Police Scotland Professional Standards findings, issued “on the balance of
probability”, March 2015 ........................................................................................................ 189
Police Investigations and Review Commissioner’s report, September 2015 ....... 198
The Scottish Government’s “responses” to the Dochertys .......................................... 212
March 2015 ..................................................................................................................................... 212
May 2015 ........................................................................................................................................ 214
Letter from Brian Docherty to Scotland’s police complaints commissioner, July
2016 ................................................................................................................................................ 218
Response to Brian Docherty ............................................................................................................ 222
Brian Docherty’s letter to Donegal Social Services, July 2016 ................................... 223
Brian Docherty’s description to UK Column of the Irish appeal arrangements .............................. 227
What happens when you write to the UK Prime Minister about corruption in the
Scottish Government ................................................................................................................. 228
Further letters by UK Column viewers summarising the case ................................... 229
51 questions for Scotland’s Chief of Police...................................................................................... 229
31 questions for Aberdeenshire’s social work director ................................................................... 232
To the (UK-wide) Minister for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime ...................................... 234
To the head of prosecutorial policy (COPFS) in Scotland ................................................................ 238
A follow-up to COPFS ...................................................................................................................... 240
To the Children’s Commissioner for Scotland.................................................................................. 242
To the clerk of the Irish court which confiscated the children ........................................................ 244
To the First Minister of Scotland ..................................................................................................... 246
To Scotland’s Chief of Police ........................................................................................................... 248
An e-mail thread between Police Scotland and one UK Column viewer ......................................... 250
How not to be fobbed off the first time .......................................................................................... 253
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Brian and Janice Docherty’s most urgent requests for public tip-offs as of August
2016 ................................................................................................................................................ 254
Contacts — Scotland and Northern Ireland ...................................................................... 256
Contacts — Republic of Ireland and London .................................................................... 257
A closing suggestion .................................................................................................................. 258

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Full text including a transcript of the interview with Brian and Janice Docherty in the pdf file:

   http://www.ukcolumn.org/sites/default/files/documents/Docherty.pdf