COMING SOON: Pie 'n' Mash Films are proud to have filmed at this event.  '4Ward 4Ever The Heroes' will be available soon from Pie 'n' Mash Films and 4wardeveruk.org.

Families United4Justice

Families & Friends Unite

adapted from original article by Harmit Athwal of IRR
22nd May 2010 (see footnote)

Families and campaigners gathered in Leicester to pay tribute to those that had died in custody.

At a meeting and event organised by the 4WardEver UK Campaign in association with the Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign for Justice, Habib Ullah Campaign and the Leicester Civil Rights Movement, there was no mistaking the serious issues being addressed. See Picture Gallery >

Banners and posters of dead loved ones adorned the walls and stage, the hall was crowded with stalls of books and DVDs and information on families and organisations campaigning on deaths in custody, films were shown and family members and campaigners gave speeches. And, in a grand finale to the evening, entertainment was provided by Yaz Alexander, Lennox Carty, The Trooperz, Genesis Elijah and The Broombusters – which went down a storm.

Priya Thamotheram, the manager of the Highfields Centre, opened proceedings by talking about the centre having a history as a base of community campaigns and how the Leicester Civil Rights Movement (LCRM), which will be celebrating its tenth birthday later this year, was established at the centre to meet the needs of vulnerable asylum seekers being dispersed to the area. Asylum seekers are still there and now, increasingly, experiencing destitution as a result of inhumane asylum laws.

The day marked what would have been the forty-fifth birthday of Mikey Powell, who died in September 2003 after being detained by police in Birmingham. Mikey, who was suffering from mental health problems, was knocked down by a police car, restrained with batons and CS spray and taken to Thornhill Road police station where he was found not to be breathing. In November 2009, an inquest jury found that Mikey died as a result of the position the police officers had placed him in the van.

Tippa Naphtali from the Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign for Justice and 4WardEver UK asked the meeting a simple question, ‘why are we here?’ He went on, ‘the people we pay are killing members of our families. They have a duty of care to people in detention.’

He also paid tribute to other May anniversaries of people that have died in custody, on death row and by police assaults including Delara Darabi, Brian Douglas, Police bombing of The MOVE HQ, Kebba ‘Dobo’ Jobe, and John Maloney.

Jane Deighton, solicitor for the family of Mikey Powell, commended the inquest jury for having seen through the evidence presented by the police to bring in a verdict that had helped the family gain some sort of justice. The family of Mikey Powell, in turn, paid tribute to the hard work and support of their solicitor and barrister.

Deborah Coles from INQUEST, the organisation which assists the families of those who die in custody, paid tribute to the families of those that die and the anti-racist campaigns which support families in their long fights for justice. She also spoke about the history of INQUEST, which was established following the death of Blair Peach in 1979, and the long campaign by his family to find out how he died. That campaign, led by his partner Celia Stubbs, had now, thirty-one years after his death, been vindicated in the publication of an internal police investigation report which found that police officers from the Special Patrol Group were responsible for Blair’s death.

The day also marked the second anniversary of the death of Pauline Campbell. Ken Fero’s moving interview with her outside the Houses of Parliament was a fitting tribute to a mother who transformed herself into a determined and dogged campaigner on the issue of deaths of women in prison after her daughter died at Styal prison in January 2003. Pauline was arrested on fourteen occasions while protesting outside prisons where young women died. In the film, Pauline talked about her motivation for campaigning and criticised her prosecutions for public order offences as ‘political trials’, commenting, ’shame on the establishment for seeking to criminalise a mother who has lost her only child at the hands of the state’.

Bishop Jonathan Blake from campaign group When No-One’s Watching spoke about their work to have all officers dealing with the public fitted with body cameras, including police cars and vans.

Bill Maloney spoke and presented a video report on the death of Ian Tomlinson by Pie ‘N’ Mash Films  as was a film on the campaign following the death of Habib Ullah in High Wycombe in July 2008. Zia Ullah, Habib’s cousin called on the ‘courts to recognise that that there are trained professional people committing murder’. He also called on families to ‘come together’ in solidarity over the deaths of loved ones.

The families of Paul Coker who died after being restrained by up to fifteen police officers at the flat of his girlfriend, and Sean Rigg whose tragic death rocked a community; also spoke movingly about the deaths of their loved ones, and their determination to hold the police and other authorities to account for the degrading and inhumane treatment of their loved ones. A short film was shown on Sean’s case.

Harmit Athwal from The Institute of Race Relations commented; ‘Some campaigners and the public at large often find the issue of deaths in custody a difficult one to address. People who die may have been serving sentences for criminal offences, may have been under arrest on suspicion of criminal offences or may have been suffering from mental health problems or been under the influence of drugs. ‘But what emerged so strongly from the gathering at Leicester, composed of both family members and legal fighters, was that despite whatever human frailties the deceased may have had, their human rights had not been preserved. The families felt violated on behalf of their loved ones. They carry on fighting so that others may not suffer the personal indignities that were imposed on their family members’.

Adapted from original article by Harmit Athwal of IRR >

At a meeting and event organised by the 4WardEver UK Campaign in association with the Friends of Mikey Powell Campaign for Justice, Habib Ullah Campaign and the Leicester Civil Rights Movement, there was no mistaking the serious issues being addressed.  SEE THE FULL REPORT

Bill Maloney was a guest speaker at this event. Pie 'n' Mash Films are currently working on a video report of the day's events.

The angry voter who ‘heckled’ Nick Clegg in Blackheath is award winning documentary film director Bill Maloney who has recently himself come forward as a victim of institutional child abuse.

Maloney’s Question to Nick Clegg began: “I want to ask you the same question that made David Dimbleby call for me to be ejected from the BBC Question Time that followed the first leaders debate.

“What are you going to do about Institutional paedophile rings that are operating in this country now? Also, when are we going to open up the secret family courts?

“What are you going to do about private companies like Serco who are receiving up to £200K per year for each child that the courts incarcerate into their care?

All these children come from the lower classes; they are stealing our children.”

Nick Clegg’s reply was “Well firstly, I don’t understand what you mean by institutional child abuse”.

Maloney replied: “You don’t know what I’m talking about? You look as shaken as David Dimbleby was by the question”. The crowd began to heckle by singing “We agree with Nick! We agree with Nick!”.

Maloney began to shout his questions again but was drowned out by the crowd. Maloney left of his own accord as security moved towards him.

Nick Clegg did not answer the question.

Award winning documentary filmmaker Bill Maloney’s account and explanation for his ejection from BBC Question Time by David Dimbleby following the first ‘Leaders Debate’ 15 April 2010

By Bill Maloney

I applied to attend the audience for Question Time as a documentary filmmaker who has been investigating institutional child abuse for the last ten years. i.e. children in care, young offenders institutions, secret family courts etc. I wanted to exercise my right to speak as a British citizen and as a victim of institutional child abuse and believe it is my democratic right to freedom of speech.

There is currently a grave mistrust of our politicians. During this election campaign I have not witnessed any lower class citizens whom I represent have their right to speak up about their social concerns. This election is not just about economics, which our politicians are willing to talk about in intricate detail whilst skipping over questions on the lower class’s social dilemmas and the prejudice that is coming from the government and many middle-class voters against the lower classes.

Dimbleby Rocked By Questions Of Paedophilia And Murder

Just moments before Question Time went live David Dimbleby introduced the panel asking each of them what they would be doing the next day. Michael Gove (Shadow Secretary of State for Children Schools and Families) said it was his wife’s birthday and Dimbleby asked if he had bought her a present to which he replied, “I actually bought her four presents”. Asked what the presents were Gove replied “A linen suit, a designer hand bag and two other presents that I’m not prepared to divulge”.

I shouted “Did we pay for them Mr Gove?” which raised a laugh from the panel and audience. Dimbleby concluded with Nigel Farage MEP of UKIP who made a sanctimonious remark to which I shouted, “I don’t know why you’re so flippant, you’re guilty of stealing expenses the same as all the rest”. Dimbleby shook his finger and shouted directly at me: “If you are going to behave like this when we go on air I will have to tell you to leave.” 

I responded by shouting: “If you want me to leave David tell me to leave. Don’t talk to me like I’m a piece of shit! You’ve got an angry electorate here and you select only five questions from 150? This is a biased audience which does not represent the lower classes.

“I'm a documentary filmmaker and I investigate Institutional child abuse; the restraining techniques that are killing lower working class kids in Young Offenders Institutions; and paedophile rings in government that are fucking our kids! You don’t like talking about the children do you David?”

Security was then called. As I was led out I turned to the panel shouting, “I’m here about the children, not about the economy. I've got more bollocks than all of you! Shame on you!" My producer and wife, who accompanied me continued by shouting: "Everyone in this audience should google Hollie Greig G.R.E.I.G and realise that the government does nothing!"  

The security guards didn't touch me; in fact they looked quite shocked by the questions I had asked. We were then led out by the Producer

We submitted two questions to the show which were not selected:

1. Considering the government has given £840 billion to bail out the banks, how much have they spent on getting 3.5 million children out of poverty? Give the £3.4 billion promised to get children out of poverty which ‘breeds’ crime.
2. Considering it cost Australian taxpayers 200 million Australian dollars for the Popes visit there in 2008, how much is the government spending on the Pope’s visit to the UK? And should we allow the Pope, whose Vatican City has the lowest age of sexual consent in Europe of only 12 into the country at all?

I was hoping to hear from the political representatives on the panel of their disgust at having three children a week dying in our care institutions. I wanted to debate the brutal restraining techniques that guards and carers are using against children as young as eight. i.e. nose distraction, wrist restraints, double-seated embrace etc. There are serious injuries i.e. broken bones, suffocation etc every day. I also wanted to talk to them about institutional paedophile rings that have been and are still operating in this country. For example: google ‘Hollie Greig’.

Child prisons for profit

I would have been interested in the panel’s opinions on child poverty in this country along with the privatisation of our childcare homes and institutions, baring in mind 99% of children in care come from the lower classes. In my latest documentary Adam Rickwood & The Medomsley Heroes, I highlight the case of young Adam Rickwood who five years ago at the age of 14 was found hanging in his cell after being restrained by four guards at the young offenders institution now known as Hassockfield (formerly Medomsley) – google ‘Neville Husband’. Hassockfield is run by private company Serco, who receive £178,000 per year for each child. There are 57 places for children at Hassockfield, there are other institutions that hold up to 800 offenders. The lower class children have become very profitable to companies such as Serco. Many of the child prison guards and carers come from the military, police force etc. Many of these have severe psychological drug and alcohol problems and some of the highest divorce rates. Our childcare system has become more brutal than our adult prisons.

Vulnerable children used to pay mortages

Children from babies are being taken from poverty stricken families at birth and given to middle-class couples that receive a minimum of £380 per week per child and much more if the child is an infant or has special needs. Many foster parents foster more than one child – it appears that vulnerable parents are having their children stolen by the social services and being used to pay mortgages. The private companies who foster out our children do not have to inform their local council where the children have gone if they run away or leave care. Then we could go into institutional fostering – this is a broad intricate subject, which is never allowed to be debated passionately and openly with the involvement of past victims, their families and perpetrators by the national broadcasting companies. There is a massive movement building around the globe via the Internet on these subjects. Many former victims have now become professionals, i.e. documentary filmmakers, so the children have now become strong men and women motivated by their empathy for the unfortunate that are living it now. The victims are producing their own heroes – I use the term ‘Government Funded Child Abuse’.

As far as being removed from the Question Time audience my feelings are this:

The Questions and the debate that I managed to get from David Dimbleby in the Green Room before the show and during rehearsals would not have been allowed on air. I believe if I had attempted to debate the above issue on air the BBCs security response would have shut me down. I didn’t want to be buried under a mountain of guards while trying to get my point across. So I took the decision to challenge Dimbleby and the panel during the rehearsal. There were approx 150 people in the audience.

During the rehearsal my producer and myself submitted our questions, which we were told to write down on cards. These cards were then collected from the audience. Ultimately, our questions were not selected, bearing in mind, in the green room before rehearsals David Dimbleby said the question I had asked him was a good question. That question which I had to shout from the back of the green room went as follows:

MALONEY: David! Are you telling us that out of all these people here you are only going to allow five questions to be asked in one hour – all of which are being handpicked by the BBC?

DIMBLEBY: Have you seen Question Time before?

MALONEY: Oh yes! I’ve seen Question Time before David, but as you just said in your introduction, this is an historic moment. Question Time is going out after the first ever live debate of the three main candidates who want to run our democracy. Why can’t we have an open debate? For example I would like to know when Gordon Brown is going to give the £3.4 billion that they promised to the children to get 3 million children above the poverty line, as we all know that poverty breeds crime, dysfunctional families etc bearing in mind Gordon Brown has just given £840 billion to the greedy bankers.

DIMBLEBY: Well that’s a very good question so write it down and we’ll see what we can do.

When Dimbleby left the green room I stepped forward and shook his hand I said to him “Thank you David, I’m not hear to sit and watch, I can do that at home – I just want to ask a question and open a debate.”

Dimbleby said “Good!” and walked out.

By the time we had gone through rehearsals I realised that my question had not been selected, nor that of my producer as referred to above: “Considering it cost Australian taxpayers 200 million dollars for the Popes visit there in 2008, how much is the government spending on the Pope’s visit to the UK? And should we allow the Pope, whose Vatican City has the lowest age of sexual consent in Europe of only 12 into the country at all?”

I therefore took the decision to question the panel before the show went on air. It was a very difficult decision to make on the spot and I understood the likelihood of missing out putting myself across live on air. This way I had clear straight dialogue with the panel and audience.

Being asked to leave for asking these questions did not surprise me as I had previously been asked to leave BBC Asian Network Radio a year ago for asking similar questions about child trafficking and child prostitution.

I would just like to emphasise it was David Dimbleby who gave the order for me to be ejected.

I knew I would be ejected but at least we have evidence of the lack of any intervention by any of the panel during the programme about the plight of our abused and lost children.

The case of Hollie Greig is a strong example of the cover-ups that are going on within government. The MPs expenses scandal is just the tip of the iceburg. On behalf of all abuse victims , all I wanted were our questions raised and debated as no politicians are willing to discuss these issues.

I am absolutely disgusted with the BBC, David Dimbleby and the rest of the panel. The children deserve a voice. God bless all victims.

For further information or to arrange an interview with Bill Maloney Please contact Maria Maloney Tel: 07710 416470 or email:maria@pienmashfilms.com

Maverick award winning filmmakers Bill Maloney and Lilly Starr expose Jack Straw clearly lying about children in care - Hear Straws lies on tape! VIDEO: Jack Straw CAUGHT lying about children in care - Bill Maloney Reports

In the lead up to the general election 2010 the Sun newspaper has introduced a regular slot for a London Black Cabbie to ask major politicians questions from 'the man on the street'. The Cabbie happens to be a personal friend of Bill Maloney who trained him to act almost five years ago.  Jack Straw recently took the back seat in the London cab and answered a number of questions. The Cabbie had recently seen and been outraged by a video report by Maloney and was keen to hear Jack Straws answer to this question:

Cabbie: "JACK! I HAD THIS FILMMAKER BILL MALONEY IN THE BACK OF MY CAB YESTERDAY. HE'S DOING A DOCUMENTARY ON CHILD ABUSE AND HE TOLD ME THAT LAST YEAR YOU CHANGED A LAW SO THAT IS NOW MAKES IT ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN IN CARE TO SPEAK OUT, EVEN IF THEY FEEL THEY ARE BEING MALTREATED - IS THAT RIGHT JACK?"

Jack Straw: "NO! NO! ........ ONE HAS SO MUCH TO REMEMBER, OCCASIONALLY YOU HAVE MEMORY LAPSES AND I THINK I WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THAT!"

Watch the full report to believe it. BILL MALONEY POINTS THE FINGER DIRECTLY AT JACK STRAW.

Angry documentary filmmaker Bill Maloney was thrown out of the Leader’s Debate Question Time Special Audience for speaking about Institutional child abuse, the restraining techniques used in YOIs and government paedophile rings.

Just moments before Question Time went live David Dimbleby introduced the panel asking each of them what they would be doing the next day. Michael Gove (Shadow Secretary of State for Children Schools and Families) said it was his wife’s birthday and Dimbleby asked if he had bought her a present to which he replied, “I actually bought her four presents”. Asked what the presents were Gove replied “A linen suit, a designer hand bag and two other presents that I’m not prepared to divulge”. Maloney shouted “Did we pay for them Mr Gove?” which raised a laugh from the panel and audience. Dimbleby concluded with Nigel Farage MEP of UKIP who made a sanctimonious remark to which Maloney shouted, “I don’t know why you’re so flippant, you’re guilty of stealing expenses the same as all the rest”. Dimbleby shook his finger and shouted at Maloney “If you are going to behave like this when we go on air I will have to tell you to leave.” 

Maloney responded by shouting “If you want me to leave David tell me to leave. Don’t talk to me like I’m a piece of shit! You’ve got an angry electorate here and you select only five questions from 150? This is a biased audience which does not represent the lower classes.”

“I'm a documentary filmmaker and I investigate Institutional child abuse; the restraining techniques that are killing lower working class kids in Young Offenders Institutions; and paedophile rings in government that are fucking our kids! You don’t like talking about the children do you David?”

Security was then called. As he was led out Maloney turned to the panel shouting, “I’m here about the children, not about the economy. I've got more bollocks than all of you! Shame on you!" Maloney’s wife continued by shouting "Everyone in this audience should google Hollie Greig G.R.E.I.G and realise that the government does nothing!"  

The security guards didn't lay a finger on Maloney as he was led out by the Producer - in fact the security guards looked like they wanted to pat him on the back!

Maloney submitted two questions to the show which were not selected, one on the issue of crime:

1. Considering the government has given £840 billion to bail out the banks, how much have they spent on getting 3.5 million children out of poverty? Give the £3.4 billion promised to get children out of poverty which ‘breeds’ crime.

The second was on the issue of institutional child abuse:

2. Considering it cost Australian taxpayers 200 million dollars for the Popes visit there in 2008, how much is the government spending on the Pope’s visit to the UK? And should we allow the Pope, whose Vatican City has the lowest age of sexual consent in Europe of only 12 years, into the country at all?

All Maloney wanted was his questions answered, as no politicians are willing to discuss these issues.

For further information or to arrange an interview with Bill Maloney Please contact

Maria Maloney Tel: 07710 416470 or email: maria@pienmashfilms.com

Maverick South East London Filmmaker invited to speak at 'Remembrance' event.

Award winning maverick South East London film director Bill Maloney has first hand experience of Institutional child abuse. As such he has turned away from a promising 'fiction' filmmaking career to use his skills to expose the culture of concealment that exists in the UK's corridors of power. Fighting for the protection of children, he returns into the affray that decimated his whole family.

Cockney speaking Irishman Maloney is part of a growing public movement to seek truth and justice for national stories such as:

• The death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests;
• The growing number of children being taken away from parents in secret family courts;
• The child abuse/murder allegations at Haut de la Garenne on the Channel Island of Jersey
• Abuse of young offenders
• The case of Hollie Greig

... to name but a few.

Due to Maloney's 'championing' for victims of Institutional child abuse and for victims of abuse and death in custody, he has been invited by 4wardEverUK as a main speaker at the 'Remembrance... (United 4 Justice)' Event in Leicester 15 May 2010.

Fellow main speakers include:

• Deborah Coles  - INQUEST
• Bishop Jonathan Clive Blake - When No-One's Watching

The majority of the public would rise up and challenge our Government against the culture of concealment that is evident in today's corridors of power if only they were aware of the real implications on their own lives. Human nature shows that the majority of compliant citizens only rise up and challenge issues when they have been directly adversely affected in some way.

Further Information:

Bill Maloney: Please contact Maria Maloney, Pie 'n' Mash Films Ltd. Tel: 07710 416470; Email: maria@pienmashfilms.com

4WardEverUK: http://remembrancevent2010.eventbrite.com/

Inquest: http://www.inquest.org.uk/

The story of Hollie Greig: http://www.ukcolumn.org/2010/02/02/child-rapists-protected-by-the-state/

Bill Maloney and his courageous camera woman Lilly Starr join the grieving family of Ian Tomlinson to pay their respects on the anniversary of his death. Ian Tomlinson was innocently making his way home from work through the G20 protests in London on 1 April 2009. Videos and CCTV footage showed an unprovoked assault on Mr Tomlinson by a police officer striking him from behind with a baton then proceeding to thrust him, also from behind pushing him with force to the ground. The police made no attempt to help Mr Tomlinson. He died shortly afterwards on the pavement in the street. Bill Maloney exposes the fear that Ian's family have of speaking out against the Establishment, this is corroborated by Ian Tomlinson's son 'Paul' in this video.
Interviews are held with supporters: Anna Bragga (The Green Party), Raj Ullah (Brother of vicitm Habib 'Paps' Ullah) and Paul King, Son of Ian Tomlinson bringing this tragic story up to date.

VIEW THE VIDEO REPORT: Death of Ian Tomlinson 1 year on - Bill Maloney Reports

Pie 'n' Mash Films are showing support for the family of Ian Tomlinson to commemorate his death. We are attending the laying of flowers today at the spot where Ian was brutally pushed to his death by a police officer at the G20 protests, London 1 April 2009. A video report will be available soon.

Comment posted on The Times article

'Family court reforms face opposition from judges and childrens' groups': http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article7036939.ece

I was brought up in the care of Lambeth and Southwark Councils, as were my seven siblings. It was closed courts and dealings between middle-class lawyers and social workers that decided the fate of my family, who were from the lower working class culture.

I am now a 54 yr old multi award winning documentary filmmaker specialising in institutional child abuse. I would like to say to you all that taking babies away from their Mother at birth destroys lives for decades. To truly understand the working class culture you have to have been born and educated within it. The ‘professionals’ are mistaking passion for aggression. 90% of all children taken into care are from the lower working class culture.

This morning I was at the Inner London Family Proceedings Court investigating a case where a baby was taken from it’s Mother and Father five hours after giving birth. The baby was returned to the parents for a few weeks. The parents had learning difficulties and could not manage the bureaucracy of their benefits. To put it in a nutshell, the baby was taken away because the Mother or Father could not fill in the forms, or were late for meetings etc.

Recently there is a health problem with the child, which has not been investigated. The parents are distraught. Foster carers are receiving £390 per week to look after the baby. The parents were given just £69 per week when the child was in their care.

Open up the courts - Free the children - God Bless all victims and survivors.

BILL MALONEY

"We've ALL got to shout about this horrific story and the outrageous abuse of justice."

Legal aide to Hollie’s family in abuse claim appears in court

man accused of breaching the peace

By Leanna MacLarty

Published: 16/02/2010

Robert Green, 63, appeared from custody at Stonehaven Sheriff Court yesterday accused of an offence spanning eight months.

The political hopeful represents the mother of Hollie Greig, a 30-year-old woman with Down’s Syndrome.

Hollie claims she was sexually assaulted by a Scottish sheriff, who is still serving, and a senior Grampian Police officer who is now dead.

Green is alleged to have committed a breach of the peace between June 9, 2009, and February 12 this year in the Ferryhill, Bridge of Don, Bieldside and Woodside areas of Aberdeen.

A handful of Green’s supporters gathered at the court for yesterday’s hearing, while a few more arrived at Aberdeen Sheriff Court expecting him to appear there.

Green, of 4 Birchdale Road, Warrington, Cheshire, appeared in private on petition before Sheriff James Hendry.

He made no plea and was released on bail.

He was represented during the brief hearing by Stonehaven solicitor Denis Daun.

Green was arrested on Friday as he made his way to the centre of Aberdeen to hand out leaflets.

He is understood to have been heading for Union Street to tell people about Hollie’s case and his plans to contest the Aberdeen South parliamentary seat as an independent candidate.

Green had been staying at a bed and breakfast in King Street.

The B&B was searched by police following the arrest.

Hollie claims she was abused for 14 years from the age of six and has given the police the names of some of the men she alleges assaulted her.

campaign

The 30-year-old and her mother, Anne, have been campaigning for criminal proceedings since 2000.

The abuse is alleged to have taken place in Aberdeen, and Hollie and her mother claim to have made a statement at Bucksburn police station in July that year naming those involved.

The family moved to Shropshire and two Grampian Police officers travelled to Shrewsbury in September last year to re-interview Hollie at a special facility.

Last month, the Crown Office said there was not enough reliable evidence to proceed with the case.

At Pie 'n' Mash Films we have a motto: 'Black & White Unite'.

Recently we have been watching members of parliament spending 48 hours living on Council Estates ('Tower-block of Commons' - channel 4). The programme shows clearly how out of touch our politicians are with working class people. One thing they all agreed on was that they could not survive on the jobseeker's allowance.

I was brought up in Brixton, Peckham and Lewisham, I am of Irish descent (a cockney-speaking Irishman if you like). For me, one of the worst things was to see children fight children because of creed and colour. Many Irish people left their beloved Country while it was brutalised by different political fractions: The British Empire/Government played a major part in this.

As the British Empire reforms itself into the New World Order, indigenous populations continue to bear the brunt of corrupt so-called leaders. While black and white fight each other our eyes are taken from those at the top. If WE all stop fighting each other the real criminals would begin to stick out like sore thumbs.

The New Cross fire victims are very rarely talked about. When I was at school racism was encouraged by many adults to their children. Many of those children (now adults) preach the same views to their own. I would like to see a full investigation, involving the public, into the outrageous New Cross fire deaths.

The victims and their families have the right to some kind of disclosure; I completely understand why the black population still feel they are suffering from this horrific event that happened in New Cross (my own manor).

I shared the grief with my many black and white (integrated) brothers and sisters. It has always niggled at me, not only what, or who started the fire but why they were protected by the Establishment?

When we were children we were powerless, now many of us have gone on to become professionals, while continuing to live amongst the many mixed cultures that we grew up in. As a documentary filmmaker I am prepared to offer forward my acquired skills in an attempt to show the true story. I offer this in respect of the victims, their families and all ‘good’ people who struggle to maintain their sanity while watching ‘out of touch’ world leaders and their entourages continue to pit different cultures against each other, thus weakening our attempts at building a peace-loving and empathetic world.

So who else out there, who has the skills (be they financial, legal, marketing etc) will join me? As a white man who grew up and continues to live amongst the love, creativity and comradery of black people – who else will join me? Talk is cheap, let’s do it!

“BLACK AND WHITE UNITE”

Bill Maloney

“Love ya”.

‘Gritty’ film tells of Burnley boy’s death in custody by Tyrone Marshall

A HARROWING documentary looking at the death of a Burnley teenager in a young offenders institute is to be released later this year.

The hard-hitting film, by award-winning director Bill Maloney, focuses on the suspected suicide of Adam Rickwood, 14, at Hassockfield Secure Training Centre in County Durham in 2004.

It features interviews with members of Adam’s family, who are angry at his treatment at the centre and do not believe he killed himself.

A second inquest into his death is due to take place this year after a five-week inquest in 2008 found he had hanged himself with his own shoelaces.

Adam’s mum, Carol Pounder, approached Mr Maloney while he was working on a documentary about the centre in the 1970s and 1980s when it was called Medomsley Detention Centre.

Mr Maloney, who runs Pie ‘n’ Mash Films company, said: “It is a gritty piece of work.

“I gave the people involved the right to say what they want. I didn’t want to dumb it down in any way. It was harrowing talking to Carol and Adam’s family. There were times I had to leave the room to compose myself.

“Carol really opens her heart and it is so powerful. None of the family believe Adam killed himself.”

Mrs Pounder watched the documentary for the first time earlier this week and said she was pleased with the finished film.

“I totally agree with the film and how it comes across,” she said.

“I think it shows exactly how we feel and covers most of the issues about Adam.

“Bill was great to work with, he was very supportive and has done a great job on the film.”

Adam Rickwood and the Medomsley Heroes is due to be released on DVD soon.

View source article: http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/4884152.___Gritty____film_tells_of_Burnley_boy___s_death_in_custody/

A service helping prevent deaths and inhumane treatment of people held in police custody in Lambeth is under threat, according to its chair.

Cuts to the Independent Custody Visit (ICV) service across London were made by the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) this month.

The volunteers – who make random visits to custody suites in the borough’s three main police stations at Streatham, Brixton and Kennington – can now only report its findings to the MPA four times a year.

Lambeth’s ICV panel chair, Jane Warwick, said the move will “neuter” the service’s effectiveness and is the latest in a string of attempts by the MPA to weaken and eventually remove the independent service.

Previously it was able to pass on its findings to the MPA – responsible for maintaining conditions in police cells and custody suites – monthly.  READ FULL ARTICLE: http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/streathamnews/4841841.Police_custody_monitors_fear_service_will_be_axed/

BILL MALONEY'S RESPONSE:

It is imperative that the Independent Custody Visit service (ICV) has complete freedom to do an essential job. Any institution or organisation, which incorporates violence into its agenda, be it restraining techniques or solitary confinement (which is violent to a detainees psychological makeup) should be independently monitored. Many of these institutions are literally getting away with murder. The reason these institutions don’t like to deal through the criminal courts is because there are so many cases it would severely affect the courts timetables - and more importantly to them, their self-inflated integrity.

Let’s do away with the ‘mask of respectability’ that they hide behind. The police essentially have to be aggressive in their nature as the two biggest frighteners to the average person would be violence and incarceration. There are many young offenders whom, at their point of arrest, would have been let off, had they not been ‘cheeky’ to the police, this is evident in many of the police documentaries we see on our television screens.  I watched a police officer in one these documentaries say to a kid “If you hadn’t have been so cheeky to me you wouldn’t be going to court!” Are we really allowing police officers to send young offenders into the jaws of the Young Offenders Institutions because of their inflated egos?  Will we all be sending our children into danger because they ‘cheek’ us? As a parent I would say absolutely not. Would we as parents use the nose distraction technique against our children? (Which is basically a punch to the nose) If we did we would be sent to prison, and rightly so. Restraining techniques within our YOIs and child-care homes are commonplace every day. Children are regularly taken to hospital with injuries caused by these restraining techniques.  The Police Force and Army have a higher ratio of drink and drug abuse, divorce and domestic violence than any other professions. Many ex-soldiers with psychological dysfunctions are being used as guards to take care of our children. Our prison population has 20,000 ex-military personnel serving prison sentences.

The ICV is an absolute requirement in any correctly run democratic nation and its ethos should be practised and strengthened in all cases of detainment whether they be babies, children or adults.

In the documentary films that we make we persistently ask for a ‘social’ police force and not a ‘paramilitary regime’ that would appear to be a wall around the powerful elite.

Sex abuse boys relive nightmare for film  retribution

By Kate Mead - 17 December 2009

Pie 'n' Mash Films, a family-run company based in Beckenham and Lewisham, were approached by former inmates at the Medomsley Detention Centre, in the North East, who suffered horrific sexual abuse at the hands of depraved prison officer Neville Husband.

Former Christian Minister Husband, now 71, from County Durham, was convicted in 2003 for abusing five inmates at the young offenders' institution during the '70s and '80s and was later convicted for further attacks after four more victims came forward.

Last month, two of his victims Kevin Young, 50, and Richard Hall, 48, who feature in the documentary, were awarded some of the £500,000 in compensation from the office after the High Court ruled more should have been done to protect them.

The landmark case ruled that 12 men were entitled to compensation despite more than 30 years passing.

Yet the victory was bitter-sweet for victims as they learned that Husband was released in the same month that they were awarded compensation.

Their stories are told alongside the moving account of the family of Adam Rickwood, who became the youngest person to die in custody, aged just 14, at the facility which is now the privately-run Hassockfield Secure Training Centre.

Director Bill Maloney said the victims came to Pie 'n' Mash Films through support group Justice4Survivors after they saw the film Sun, Sea and Satan which investigates the sex abuse scandal at Haut de la Garenne in Jersey.

He said: "We look at the historical abuse that took place at Medomsley, but we don't like the term historical abuse because for the victims they have to live with it every day."

Mr Maloney spent three months living in County Durham while shooting the film, which is more than two hours long.

He added: "I really got to know these people and I let them do it their way, to have their say. Imagine what it is like to have been through this kind of abuse and they haven't been heard for years and years, imagine that frustration.

"This is them saying how they have been affected by what happened to them and showing people exactly what harm abuse like this does.

"I wanted it to be gritty, I wanted to shock people so that something would be done about it. I want this government funded abuse against children to stop."

Mr Maloney, who was physically abused himself when in care as a boy, took on the project within months of his own battle to find out the truth behind his sister Dyana's sudden death.

An inquest in January this year failed to rule the cause of death of Miss Maloney, who was found dead at her Wandsworth home on June 12 last year, and her brother is convinced there was foul play.

Miss Maloney, who claimed to have been abused herself in Haut de la Garenne in the 1960s, had funded her brother's film which had been completed just weeks before her death, as reported in the Times.

He added: "It was quite daunting doing this film. My sister had recently died and I was still grieving for my sister when I was asked to do this film.

"But I couldn't refuse it, myself and all my family had been in care and every single one of us suffered abuse, how could I refuse?"

Adam Rickwood and the Medomsley Heroes is set to be released on DVD and for download pay per view after Christmas.

To pre-order or for more information, go to www.pienmashfilms.com.

19/11/2009

'Cockney- Irish' director wins Waterford award

‘Billy & Lilly Go To New York' has been awarded Runner up Best Feature at the Waterford Film Festival 2009. By Shelley Marsden - 19/11/09

The film is about a British filmmaker whose outspoken condemnatory aggressive style got him and his courageous camerawoman Lilly Starr shot to death on the streets of New York. Screened to a full house, the audience reaction was amazing.

A gun was pulled on Billy on the streets of Harlem but Billy and Lilly stood their ground, they held their nerve ignoring the terrifying threat; Maloney quoted: “There goes a sick man and an angry man!”

Festival Round-Up: Waterford

The Waterford Film Festival

The third annual Waterford Film Festival will take place from Friday, November 6th, to Sunday, November 8th, in the Greyfrairs Art Gallery Waterford. Festival organisers have reported a scaling down of the festival as a result of reduced funding but still received hundreds of submissions from across the globe.

The festival programme will include the screening of eight feature films and documentaries and 30 short films from filmmakers from around the world. Dublin-born filmmaker Joseph Delond’s independent film will launch proceedings on Friday, November 6th. The film, entitled ‘Bitterness’, is Delond’s debut feature film and is a story of a man who is jilted at the altar thus which leads to a new bitterness in him which is intensified by the happy lives of his friends.

British feature fiction film ‘Billy & Lilly Go to New York’ will enjoy its world première at the festival. The film is made by director Bill Maloney (Lunatic). The dockumentary sees Bill playing himself (a cockney –speaking Irishman) who goes to New York to represent his nominated feature film at a NY Film Festival. He decides to bypass the festival glitz in favour of shooting a documentary about the homeless people of NY which leads to a tragic close.

Feature documentaries that will screen at the festival includes ‘Clown around Lesotho!’, a film made by Irish filmmaker Mike Casey (Des Bishop: Joy in the Hood) about a troupe of Irish clowns who travel to Lesotho, one the poorest countries in the world. Another documentary being screened comes from debut feature documentary filmmakers Cian O ‘Laoi and Oliver Knowles. The documentary is called ‘Pipe Down’ and it documents Shell Oil’s plans of laying down gas pipes off the Mayo Coast, an action which threatens to endanger the environment and the lives of local farmers and fishermen. Also screening is ‘Obama's Irish Roots’ directed by Gabriel Murray (The Lost World of the Crystal Skull). This Docudrama tells the story of President Obama's Irish roots which can be traced back as far as Brian Boru.

Closing this year festival is a low budget independent American/Irish production called ‘Manband’, which was shot on location in Los Angeles California by debut director Dermott Petty. ‘Manband’ is a comedy film about two music promoters hoping to find the next big thing in pop music who end up creating a boyband made up of middle aged men.

This year’s festival sees a new event - a short screenplay competition for which organisers received over one hundred submissions which have since been narrowed down to twenty finalists. The overall winner of the competition will be announced on the last day of the festival as will the winners in the categories of Best Feature Film, Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Film. 1st and 2nd place certificates will be awarded in each category and a cash prize of €600 will be awarded for 1st place in the short film and the short screenplay category.

Festival Director, Stephen Byrne, tells IFTN "All of us here at the Waterford Film Festival are excited about this year's programme. Filmmakers and Screenplay writers from across Ireland, U.K. and several European Countries are travelling to the festival. We are delighted by the response by filmmakers and the quality of work that has been submitted to us. We will be screening films that come from different backgrounds, from debut filmmakers to award winners. We found all these films to be entertaining in different ways and there is a subject to suit everyone's taste."

The Waterford Film Festival’s full list of events can be seen on http://www.waterfordfilmfestival.com/programme.html

Full article at The Irish Film & Television Network

The New Supreme Court (formerly the House of Lords) are preventing the proposed vetting procedure which could include an enhanced CRB check, if individuals have frequent or unsupervised contact with a child.  

ALL INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE FREQUENT OR UNSUPERVISED CONTACT WITH A CHILD SHOULD BE CRB CHECKED - It looks as if Jack Straw and his colleagues in the New Supreme Court are doing everything in their power in favour of predatory paedophiles .....

The following article appeared in The Daily Mail today - 

New vetting checks designed to protect children have gone 'too far', judges rule

By James Slack, Home Affairs Editor
Last updated at 9:41 PM on 29th October 2009

Overhaul: Lord Neuberger says criminal checks designed to protect children have gone 'too far'

Criminal record checks have gone 'too far' and must be tilted back towards those wanting to work with children, the new Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

In a victory for campaigners fighting the rise of the Big Brother state, the Justices ordered an overhaul of enhanced criminal records bureau checks against anybody seeking a job with a vulnerable adult or child.

In particular, the presumption in favour of disclosing 'soft intelligence' against an applicant came under attack.

Each year, around 20,000 people have details of this type of information disclosed to potential employers, in many cases scuppering their hopes of gaining a job.

But Lord Neuberger said soft intelligence may constitute nothing more than 'allegations of matters which are disputed by the applicant, or even mere suspicion or hints of matters which are disputed by the applicant'.

In future, where there are doubts about the information, Chief Constables should allow the individual affected to make representations before the information is released to employers, the court ruled.

Police must also show much greater consideration for the private lives of job applicants.

The ruling follows widespread alarm about the new Independent Safeguarding Authority, which will vet all 11million adults who wish to work with children or the elderly.

This vetting procedure could include an enhanced CRB check, if they have frequent or unsupervised contact with the child.

Lord Neuberger said: 'The widespread concern about the compulsory registration rules for all those having regular contact with children demonstrates that there is a real risk that, unless child protection procedures are proportionate and contain adequate safeguards, they will not merely fall foul of the Convention, but they will redound to the disadvantage of the very group they are designed to shield, and will undermine public confidence in the laudable exercise of protecting the vulnerable.'

Lord Hope said that, in many cases, disclosing details about an applicants private life 'goes further than is reasonably necessary for the legitimate object of protecting children and adults'.

The same information will be released to a succession of employers, in what Lord Hope described as a 'rigid, mechanistic system that pays too little attention to the effects of disclosure on the applicant.

More than 200,000 enhanced CRB checks on each of the last two years, around ten per cent of which included 'soft intelligence'. The judge said this is a cause of 'very real public concern'.

Lord Hope said past rulings had 'tilted the balance of the system' against the applicant's right to privacy.

He added: 'It should no longer be assumed that the presumption is for disclosure unless there is a good reason for not doing so'.

Last night, the civil liberties group Liberty welcomed the ruling.

Legal officer Anna Fairclough said: 'The Supreme Court has thankfully brought some wisdom and balance to the current frenzy around employment vetting.  

'At a time when more people than ever before have been made subject to CRB checks, and the police seek to hold information forever, this judgment strikes a welcome note of caution and fairness.  

'Our children are better protected by a rational and balanced scheme than by one that disclosed gossip and rumour without safeguards.'

The judgment originated from the case of a woman who was prevented from gaining a job as a school playground assistant, when 'soft intelligence' about her teenage son was disclosed to her would-be employer.

In the woman's case, the judges decided disclosure had been fair, but that it had raised wider issues.

As of April this year, because of a change in legislation introduced by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, made it illegal for any children currently in care to speak out, even if they feel they are being maltreated.

Read the full story

Senator from Jersey accused of leaking police report wants asylum after fleeing trial

A leading Jersey politician accused of leaking a police report is claiming asylum at the House of Commons because he believes he will not be given a fair trial on the island.

Senator Stuart Syvret, a former Jersey health and social security minister described by supporters as a ‘voice of the people’, fled to London shortly before he was due at a court hearing on Wednesday.

He has moved into the home of Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, who is backing the senator’s case for ‘legal asylum’.

Support: Mr Syvret, right, with Lord Wallace, left, and Mr Heming who has given the senator a place to stay

As a Channel Islands citizen, Mr Syvret has an automatic right to live in Britain, but the senator will tomorrow ask the British Government for ‘protection from harassment’ from the Jersey authorities.

He was arrested and charged in April for data-protection offences after he made public a police report into an aborted investigation into the conduct of a male nurse on the island.

On Friday, Jersey magistrates made an order for Mr Syvret’s arrest when he failed to turn up to two court hearings.

But Mr Hemming, MP for Birmingham Yardley, along with Labour MP Austin Mitchell and Lib Dem peer Lord Wallace of Saltaire, are supporting the senator’s application for protection from the Jersey judiciary.

They say the British Government should intervene because Jersey is a Crown dependency and Britain has a responsibility for its good governance.

Mr Syvret was the ‘whistleblower’ who previously claimed island officials covered up child abuse at Jersey’s Haut de la Garenne children’s home.

Arrests and charges were made. But when Mr Syvret called for an independent inquiry into the handling of that case, he was accused of damaging Jersey’s reputation and dismissed as health minister.

Mr Hemming said: ‘He is staying in my London flat as my guest and they can arrest him over my dead body. He is a brave and principled politician.

‘Jack Straw must act. The Jersey establishment care more about covering up their failures than protecting patients. Stuart has revealed a botched investigation into a major crime, but the authorities are prosecuting him rather than investigating the allegations about the nurse.

‘It is quite clear that the judicial processes in Jersey are skewed against Stuart. We should not allow him to be extradited, to be prosecuted in a kangaroo court.’

In March this year Mr Syvret, Jersey’s longest-serving senator, published details of a police investigation into a registered nurse in what he described as an effort to challenge ‘the Jersey way of constant cover-ups, a toxic culture of concealment’.

He claimed police feared the nurse was obsessed with death and that further investigation was needed, but that officers had been obstructed from interviewing witnesses by the island’s health services and senior officials.

The nurse has previous convictions and was sacked from his post after having sex with a seriously ill patient.

He was also arrested after a girlfriend claimed he had gone to her home and hidden stolen hospital drugs, for which he was convicted.

Police reports confirm that detectives found drugs at her house.

Background checks revealed further grave concerns, including complaints by relatives who claimed they had discovered him turning up morphine doses and a senior nurse who found that he had blocked a heart patient’s life-saving drip with a bung.

Following Mr Syvret’s publication of details of the investigation, Jersey police asked the Metropolitan Police to review its handling of the case.

A report by former Detective Chief Inspector Keith Eldridge of the Met’s Specialist Crime Directorate, which reviews unsolved homicides, confirmed that the nurse was ‘potentially a danger to women’ and prone to ‘predatory and violent sexual behaviour’.

He recommended that Jersey police ‘carry out an up-to-date risk assessment with a view to prevention of offences against vulnerable members of the Jersey community’.

However, he added that there were ‘no grounds to invite the Crown to review its position as there is no new evidence’.

Despite the report, Mr Syvret, 44, is still facing the possibility of a jail sentence should he be found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act.

But he claims he fled Jersey only after he was advised that he may be barred from mounting a public-interest defence in court.

Mr Syvret said: ‘My home was raided in April by ten police officers, my parliamentary email account downloaded and I have even been billed thousands of pounds in court costs. I haven’t even been allowed legal aid so I have had to represent myself.

‘It has been a travesty of justice. During the past three months I have made around 50 different applications before the judge – relating to disclosures of evidence and the calling of witnesses – and every single one has been rejected.’

Mr Syvret intends to give himself up to police at the House of Commons tomorrow and then go through the unprecedented process of claiming the right to a fair trial on the mainland.

Lord Wallace claimed the Jersey government was attempting to silence its critics. He added: ‘Senator Syvret is a leading member of the States of Jersey. As an elected representative, it is his job to investigate the quality of public administration in Jersey and to respond to what those who voted for him have told him about past administrative actions.’

In today's Evening Chronicle: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2009/10/12/pervert-neville-husband-released-from-prison-72703-24909986/3/

NEVILLE HUSBAND, a former senior Prison Officer at Medomsley Detention Centre and former Church Minister who systematically sexually abused his victims at Medomsley Detention Centre from 1974 to 1984.

Neville Husband is being released from prison tomorrow (9th Oct '09). Of the 22 victims only a small minority have had their claims against the Home Office heard in court.  The victims formed themselves into a support/campaign group justice4survivors. Pie ‘n’ Mash  Films are working on a documentary ‘Adam Rickwood & The Medomsley Heroes’ containing interviews with the victims of Medomsley Detention Centre (Now Hassockfield Secure Training Centre) where in 2004 Adam Rickwood (14) was the youngest ever alleged suicide victim in UK custody.

Video trailer ‘Adam Rickwood & The Medomsley Heroes’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D34cshT2vto&feature=channel_page

Here are further links to the story:

Sex abuse church minister jailed:
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2763045.stm

Dossier of Depravity:
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/tm_headline=dossier-of-depravity&method=full&objectid=18171993&siteid=50081-name_page.html

Damages hope for sex abuse victims:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=87899&in_page_id=34

Justice4survivors:
http://www.justice4survivors.org/

Today's article The Irish World:
http://www.theirishworld.com/article.asp?SubSection_Id=2&Article_Id=11507

We are an independent film company working with the victims. Film director Bill Maloney, himself a former victim of institutional abuse, was approached by justice4survivors to tell their stories because they trusted him to allow them to tell the truth.

Director Bill Maloney is also available for interview Tel: 07710 416470

Neville Husband's victims are now scattered across the country: Newcastle/York/Wales/South Coast. Husband had the potential to abuse young offender victims for a total period of 27 years and Justice4survivors urge other victims to have the courage to come forward. If we can't find justice for the victims of historic institutional child abuse how are we to protect and move forward with the growing number of abuse cases we are currently experiencing.

If you require any further information or wish to arrange interviews please don't hesitate to contact us.

ONE of Jersey’s biggest banks is reported to be under investigation by UK tax authorities following an undercover inquiry.

A journalist from the BBC’s current affairs programme, Panorama, went into Lloyds TSB Offshore in St Helier posing as a customer wanting to deposit millions of pounds.

It is believed that the programme, to be screened tonight at 8.30 pm on BBC One, will show that their reporter, who said he did not want to pay UK tax, was told to invest the cash in such a way as to dodge the UK taxman.  See full article: http://www.thisisjersey.com/2009/09/21/jersey-bank-to-be-probed-by-uk-tax-authorities/

So the UK government gets involved with Jersey when they're losing taxes but not when they are losing children!

Also in today's Jersey Evening Post:

Haut de la Garenne dig was ‘waste of time’

By Diane Simon

Det Supt Mick Gradwell.

THE excavation of Haut de la Garenne was a complete waste of public money, time and effort, the senior police officer who led the historical abuse inquiry for the past year has said.

Det Supt Mick Gradwell, who left the Island yesterday when his contract ended, told the JEP that there was no justification for the police excavating at Haut de la Garenne as part of the abuse inquiry.

Mr Gradwell said that there had been no hard evidence or intelligence indicating that such a search should take place.

Until that decision was made, the inquiry, led by his predecessor, deputy police chief Lenny Harper, had been run more along UK policy lines, he said.

Mr Gradwell said that once the excavation was begun, things started to go wrong and he was left with a ‘poorly managed mess’ to sort out.

WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS! GOOD RIDDANCE.

SEE SENATOR STUART SYVRET'S BLOGSPOT INCLUDING 'THE SURVIVORS SPEAK OUT' ALONG WITH ORIGINAL SENIOR POLICE OFFICER (LENNY HARPER'S) RESPONSE: http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/

Moves to vet every adult who works with children are set to be watered down after the Government ordered a last-minute review of the controversial anti-paedophile scheme.

Ed Balls, the Children's Secretary, acted amid fury that the criminal record checks would affect parents who give lifts to children on behalf of sports teams or voluntary organisations such as the Scouts. The move comes after The Independent revealed that prominent children's authors, including Philip Pullman and Anthony Horowitz, have threatened to stop visiting schools rather than subject themselves to the "insulting" requirement.  See the full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-retreat-on-child-database-1787322.html (please copy and paste in your url if link doesn't work!)

Bill Maloney's response:

I can’t see the problem with vetting all people that have contact with children who are not their own - in a professional, semi-professional, voluntary or temporary capacity. National statistics tell us that one in every four of us have paedophilic tendencies. So these excuses for denying children their statutory human right of protection in these areas are verging on outrageous. What is becoming of our society and what do we expect in the future from all the victims who, in the majority, move on in to completely socially dysfunctional lives?

Jack Straw’s brother was on the sex offenders register for assaulting a 16 year old girl who was a family friend. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/jack-straws-brother-found-guilty-of-indecent-assault-on-girl-16-698881.html  If we can’t trust our Minister of Justice’ Brother who can we trust? Vet them all.  And while we’re at it, what about a sex offenders register for our MPs?  There’s over 600 of them.

PRESS RELEASE                                                                                            8 SEPTEMBER 2009

“GOVERNMENT FUNDED CHILD ABUSE”

Chief Executive of Dr Barnardos, Martin Narey, employed Neville Husband: Prison officer and notorious child sex offender from Medomsley YOI.

The national press is awash with the disturbing comments from Martin Narey, Chief Executive of Dr Barnardos. He stated: “Take more babies away from bad parents at birth”

Last year Dr Barnardos income topped £215 million. They are responsible for the care of approx 100,000 children. This equates to an income of £215,000 per child per year.

Martin Narey was Governor at both Frankland maximum-security prison and Deerbolt Borstal for young offenders (both in Co Durham), when a known paedophile ‘Neville Husband’ was employed as a senior officer at Frankland and seconded as an officer at Deerbolt. Husband had been forced to leave Medomsley Detention Centre for young offenders after torturing and abusing boys. He was subsequently convicted and is currently serving a ten-year jail sentence. Prior to his conviction Husband was also a Church Minister for the United Reformed Church.  Many of the victims have not received justice yet and Husband is due to be released from prison next month.

Cravings for young boys
Statements given to police by prison officers who worked with Husband suggest suspicions were rife about his cravings for young boys, who he went on to molest in the kitchens he ran.
One statement by an officer who served at Medomsley in 1978, reads: "I don't know why but all the governors thought very highly of Husband and seemed to look after him.”

As a Prison Governor, Martin Narey either ignored or was grossly negligent by failing to observe Husband’s employment records: That he was arrested in 1967 whilst at Portland young offenders centre for the illegal importation of homosexual pornography.  That the case was silenced and Husband was moved to Medomsley Detention Centre where he continued to import pornography direct into the Centre. That he was investigated by the police on numerous occasions but without further actions. That Husband then embarked on his horrific sexual torture of countless young boys. These boys are now men and want their story told.

Victims want their stories told
The victims of Neville Husband formed themselves into a group: justice4survivors. They recently approached award winning working class film director Bill Maloney (who has himself stepped forward as a victim of abuse whilst in YOIs and Borstals back in the 1970s – his whole family were abused in care).  Maloney was horrified but not surprised by their stories of abuse and injustice as the hands of the UK Establishment. He decided to work with them to make a hard-hitting gritty documentary ‘Adam Rickwood & The Medomsley Heroes’ without any funding.  He stated, “We’re going to let these brave men tell their stories without sanitizing the documentary for the middle-class driven media”. The victims are currently pushing for a public enquiry.

Adam brings the horrors up to date
Whilst researching Medomsley detention centre (now Hassockfield Secure Training Centre) Maloney discovered that as recently as 2004 Adam Rickwood (14), became the youngest prisoner to commit suicide in the UK. Adam’s family and friends all believe that Adam did not kill himself and that there has been a massive cover-up; this is truthfully and emotionally displayed in the documentary. Adam was found hanging in his cell with a broken nose, broken wrist and covered in bruises.

99.9 per cent of young offenders in the UK stem from the lower working classes. As Bill Maloney states in his documentary “You can’t keep bashing our kids like this, we’re not going to allow it any more”.

Now Martin Narey wants to rip lower working class baby’s from their mothers at birth. The effects on Mothers and Fathers and their families for the loss of their babies will be devastating. The huge funds invested into Dr Barnardos each year should be put to helping these young parents, it is immoral to suggest taking these young children into care when the care system continues to abuse them and profit from them.  Successful and trusted families from within these peoples’ own culture and communities should be funded to adopt a support role to help ‘bad parents’ by befriending them, gaining their trust and encouraging and motivating them forward, they would also be better placed than an overworked inexperienced graduate social worker to recognise whether a child is in danger or neglected. Further funding should also be supplied to support the education, environment and welfare of the family.

Apparently, Philippa Stroud of the thinktank Centre for Social Justice reacted cautiously to Narey's comments. “What we recommend is the model of the mother and baby going into care, filling that hole and giving the whole family a chance. "With child protection, all the legislation is actually in place: it's the implementation that is the issue." – Even this recommendation would require huge bureaucratic funding. The money needs to be spent at source - at the home and within the family with trusted support and guidance.

Maloney’s outspoken and unsanitised documentaries appear to be too controversial for major broadcast networks, but the public need to know what is happening to their taxes when private security companies such as Serco are looking after our children and receiving approx £178,000 per year per child.

And Dr Barnardos? A charity that has the Queen as it’s Patron and which the majority of the population appear to respect and believe in, acquires its funding of £215,000 per child per year through, government funded fees and grants, property development, donations/gifts and fundraising, and trading.

How is this right?
Unemployed parents receiving statutory benefits receive on average an additional £3,744 per year towards the care of one child (calculating child tax credits together with Child benefit). Plus one off payments in the child’s first year totaling approx £440. Dr Barnardos receive £215,000 per year per child.

Through Vicarious Liability Martin Narey has contributed to the destruction of vulnerable children’s lives through his negligence. He should not be telling us that our children should be abducted at birth.

The trailer for Maloney’s documentary ‘Adam Rickwood & The Medomsley Heroes’ is now available for viewing at: http://www.pienmashfilms.com    or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D34cshT2vto&feature=channel_page

- Ends -

Further information sources:
THE MEDOMSLEY HEROES: http://justice4survivors.com
ADAM RICKWOOD: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/jun/02/youthjustice.politics
MARTIN NAREY STATEMENT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/06/children-babies-parents-care-barnardos
MARTIN NAREY CV: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/may/24/childrensservices.guardiansocietysupplement
NEVILLE HUSBAND: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/tm_method=full&objectid=18171993&siteid=50081-name_page.html
NEVILLE HUSBAND:http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/tm_headline=charges-dropped-against-pervert-preacher&method=full&objectid=19681946&siteid=50081-name_page.html
 
For further information, or to arrange for an interview with Bill Maloney please contact:  Tel: 07710 416470 Email: pieandmashfilms@hotmail.com

Just had a good interview with Steve Knight from 'Kent on Sunday' Newspaper about our current project: Adam Rickwood & The 22 Crew, and our creative connections with Kent. The article should be included on Sunday 6th Sept. I'd like to thank the Kent on Sunday for their continued support and coverage outlining our independent cutting edge films and documentaries.

We'll post the article as soon as it's up.
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Bill Maloney is currently working on a documentary 'The Story of Adam Rickwood & The 22 Crew'.

It's tragic the way our 'civilised' society treats children in care. We're currently investigating the brutal techniques used in Young Offenders Institutions and Childcare homes. Check out: http://justice4survivors.org,

Bill Maloney and Pie ‘n’ Mash Films have been working on a documentary with 22 guys who were all sexually abused back in the 70s who are now in the process of taking the Home Office to court. We also found out that the youngest child in custody Adam Rickwood (14) committed suicide at the same detention centre only four years ago. Check out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6709135.stm  We have interviews with Adam's family who do not believe he committed suicide and with four of the guys who were abused back in the 70s at the same centre. Ligatures and torture techniques were used!

If you have any information regarding abuse within UK child care institutions please email us and we will get back to you.

Please feel free to push our information out to any links/forums you think relevant.

If we all pull together we CAN make a difference.

Kind regards
Pie 'n' Mash Films
http://www.pienmashfilms.com

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Bill Maloney and his camera person Lilly Starr joined protesters at the G20 Summitt 2009. They filmed over two days and were held captive outside the Bank of England on 1st April and again on 2nd April when they attended along with other protesters, to pay their respects to Ian Tomlinson (47) who tragically died at the the protest after being aggressively pushed over by a Met Police officer.  Our condolenses go the family of Ian Tomlinson a London Newspaper seller and Millwall fan.

Pie 'n' Mash Films have produced a brief tribute to Jade Goody. Her courage and honesty throughout her short life with her brave exposure of the effects of Cervical Cancer will help to raise the awareness of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) which causes over 90% of cervical cancer. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her loved ones. She was a good'n.
Rest in Peace Jade - Pie 'n' Mash Films Love ya ....
WATCH OUR TRIBUTE HERE:

Bill Maloney's report on the Inquest of his sister Dyana's death held on 9 January 2009 at Southwark Coroner's Court will be up soon. The Coroner delivered an 'Open Verdict'.

Bill Maloney interviewed by Sam Eversden at the South London Press (23 Dec 08 Issue)...
Sam is leaving SLP and we wish him every success with the future and thank him for his support.

Bill meets up with the people in Bromley. Go to our new 'Street Gallery' page and see if you're there ...

Bill with his friends 'UsPlus' performing in Bromley - "Hello Winston!"

 Bill Maloney takes to the streets of South East London to meet his kind of people. Go to our new 'Street Gallery' page and see if you're there ...

Bill Maloney meets the 'Easy Riders' of Lewisham!

Sun Sea & Satan Interview in THE IRISH WORLD - CLICK ON IMAGE for more of INTERVIEW ...

Bill Maloney, reportedly a 'Good Egg' according to The Bromley Times - CLICK ON IMAGE for FULL INTERVIEW...

Working class award winning film director is manhandled by Senior Broadcast Journalist at the BBC after being told by BBC Asian Network DJ ‘Nihal’ “Why do you keep on about this working class shit?”

On 19 November 2008 Award winning British film director Bill Maloney (who champions the causes of child sex abuse victims and the plight of the lower working classes) was invited to participate, along with a panel of invited guests, in a forum on BBC Asian Network Radio’s live ‘Nihal’s Forum’, to discuss currents issues. Bill has been a regular contributor to BBC Asian network in the past. His credibility has been built by producing low budget working class films and cutting edge documentaries. His latest documentary ‘Sun Sea & Satan’ catalogues the child sex abuse allegations at Haut de la Garenne in Jersey Channel islands and introduces fresh evidence to the case. In Sun Sea & Satan Bill Maloney presents his own investigations into the dark secrets that surround vulnerable children in care. The uniqueness of his investigation stands in the fact that he himself and his six brothers and sisters were bought up in the care of British social services, most of them were sexually abused and all were physically and psychologically abused by their social workers and carers. Two of his sisters and a brother were taken to Haut de la Garenne on bogus holidays from their London care homes. His mother was herself a prostitute and left the family home when Bill was four years old.

The issues to be discussed included: Prostitution and paying for sex; Baby P and the social services; Contraceptive jabs; Organ donation laws; and Swearing on TV.

After other forum members had provided their opinions, Bill opened up the subject of prostitution to include child prostitution, male prostitution and the influence of drugs within prostitution.  Bill fought to have his opinion heard stating:
Bill: “No, no Nihal, you can’t push me off this one, drugs are predominant amongst prostitutes”,
Nihal: “I can Bill and I will”
Bill: “Well go ahead, go ahead, this is the BBC, you’re in charge, but they do control their girls with drugs, don’t tell me that pimps don’t control their girls with drugs because I know they do!”
Nihal: “You are going to have to be quiet for a second”
Bill: “Okay Sir! Shall I sit in the corner?

This section of the forum concluded for a music break and Bill Maloney challenged Nihal off air as to his comments and his reluctance to allow Bill to speak freely. The DJ’s response was to state
“Why do you act like this?” Bill asked the DJ not to patronise him to which Nihal replied “I’m not patronising you, if I was you would know it, I’ve had people a lot tougher than you in here so if you want to bring it on, bring it on.” at which point the Senior Broadcast Journalist who runs the show went into the studio.

After discussions it appeared that the incident was diffused and the forum was to continue but when Bill was about to resume his seat the DJ provoked him further by barking
“Why do you keep on about all this working class shit?”
Bill responded vocally and by throwing a crumpled serviette towards the DJ; he felt that the DJ was trying to incite him further and got up to leave. The Senior Broadcast Journalist returned to the studio and physically tried to manhandle Bill from the room but he stood his ground. Bill told Nihal that he was insulted and called him ‘racist and prejudiced against the working class’, he told the Senior Journalist “Don’t lay another fucking finger on me as that is assault”.  Both Bill’s Producer/Wife and his PA who were accompanying him witnessed the incident along with all radio staff and guests present.

A member of staff called for Security but the Senior Broadcast Journalist accompanied Bill (who went of his own free will) off the premises. Along the way, Bill was vocal stating that the BBC are receiving £3.4 billion from license fee payers, paying exorbitant salaries to DJs and newsreaders only for them to insult non-paid guests that had been invited on to their show.  (Bill had been offered £50 or a taxi; he declined the £50 and opted for the taxi.)

Bill Maloney is being pushed by and supported by working class people who he felt were being ridiculed by the DJ. When are the BBC going to recognise that to operate as a democratic and unbiased broadcasting company, they have to include the colour, humour and opinions of the lower working class culture, who make up the bulk of society and who have re-built this country on more than one occasion.

Bill Maloney expects a formal and public apology from BBC Asian Network. He was trying to express his opinions, which he was invited on the show to do. He was asked not to swear on air, which he respected, but found it insulting to be asked, as he has never sworn on air before and would not. But he was not going to be silenced on such important and provocative issues so close to his heart.

If the BBC were prepared to sack Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand for injecting their colour, humour and ‘Laddishness’ which resulted in hurting the feelings of one actor ‘Andrew Sachs”, then the least they can do in this latest insult to Bill Maloney and the millions of working classes that he represents around the world, is apologise.

Courageous Whistleblowing Jersey Politician Senator Stuart Syvret (the former Health Minister who was sacked for exposing child abuse claims at Haut de la Garenne) reviews all comments before posting them to his Blog page. His Blog is gathering in popularity for those who want to find truth and justice for the victims of Haut de la Garenne.  He carefully selects the Blogs that are posted and accepted the following from Bill Maloney: http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/2008/09/marking-time.html
 See post dated 2 November 2008.

Stuart Syvret’s Blog Comment 1 Nov 2008

Bill Maloney – Film Director of ‘Sun Sea & Satan’. 
Subject: Haut de la Garenne and St Saviours Mental Institution.

For those of you who have been following the mysterious death of my sister ‘Dyana Maloney’, http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/00,news,12156,440,00.htm/  you may be interested to know that the Coroner’s Court dealing with my sisters case is also the venue for the ‘Jean Charles de Menezes’ killing, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/3192792/Jean-Charles-de-Menezes-inquest-officer-admits-changing-evidence.html where there are strong allegations of an Establishment cover-up. Since our unceremonious ejection from Southwark Coroner’s Court and after presenting new evidence to the Coroner, we have still had no word from the Coroner or the Police involved in my sister’s case; adding fuel to the fire of our own allegations of an Establishment cover-up. A very embarrassing situation for Southwark Coroner’s Court and the Establishment to have both cases so close to each other.

In my documentary ‘Sun Sea & Satan’ we are suggesting: “If a child was required ‘Haut de la Garenne’ was the venue; if an adult was required ‘St Saviours’ was the venue” (in 1962 a resident of Haut de la Garenne was told by a Psychiatrist that “If he continued his allegations of abuse he would be sent to the Mental Hospital”; the victim now lives in the UK.  The film is a compassionate and thought provoking piece of work, which takes entirely the side of the victims. Since 2004 it has been legal to practice Satanism in HM Royal Navy even though she is the head of The Church of England’.

As you are no doubt aware, your Island of Jersey is owned by the Crown and not the UK.

During the making of our film Stuart Syvret seemed to be the Politician that came out with the most credibility. When bullying tactics are used it is highly unlikely that the motive behind them is honest. This is one of the reasons why I have decided to add this piece to Mr Syvret’s Blog.

It is our belief that St Saviours Hospital should be investigated in conjunction with Haut de la Garenne at least; and possibly many other Institutions within the Island of Jersey, the UK, and anywhere else in the free world. It has also come to our notice that the sexual age of consent in the Pope’s City of The Vatican is (12), even though he has recently apologised for the Catholic Church’s worldwide child sex abuse.  How many victims from children’s institutions were moved on to mental institutions? It doesn’t take a lot to understand the insinuations and horrific implications of this possible and plausible conjecture. Jersey does not come out favourably in this documentary; we think that this can be rectified with time. I found a fear amongst many of the people on your Island. Haut de la Garenne seems to be the beginning of a fight against something that goes a lot deeper than the actual highlighted child abuse and possibly exposing the dark forces that the Queen spoke of to Paul Burrell, Butler of Princess Diana.

I can only wish the people of Jersey a peaceful and truthful outcome wherever the journey may take them.

Bill Maloney.

On 24 September 2008 Dyana Maloney, sister of Bill Maloney, had the Inquest of her death adjourned pending further investigations. Maloney refused to present his information at a 'secret meeting' and believes his sister was murdered because of the work is doing to expose child abuse in care homes. He is happy to contribute in an open court. Here's Bill's commentary outside Southwark Coroner's Court.

Bill Maloney's 49 year old sister Dianne Maloney tragically passed away recently. Pie 'n' Mash Films are currently working on a Docu-Drama spoof 'Billy & Lilly In NY' making comparisons  between those living rough in Harlem and London. Dianne lived on the streets for two decades from the mid seventies to the mid nineties. She was the victim on constant child abuse whilst in care, as were many of her family. She was a strong woman, an activist and a compassionate individual who always looked out for the vulnerable. Tommy(76), who she loved and cared for, was her salvation in her later years. Pie 'n' Mash Films set up an NSPCC charity page in memory of Dianne. If you are able to donate a little to the cause of neglected and abused children who need help please visit:  http://www.justgiving.com/diannemaloney    THANK YOU
'Billy & Lilly in NY' will be dedicated to Dianne in her memory.

When Pie ‘n’ Mash Films returned from the Island of Jersey with their documentary film concerning child abuse allegations at Haut de la Garenne they named their edited footage ‘Sun, Sea & Satan’. Award winning film director Bill Maloney began to piece together the story that he had shot. Slowly the maverick director started to understand the horrors that had taken place went beyond the reporting of the case by the national media. His conjecture of Satanism, murder, sex abuse, sacrificing children and the paedophilic involvement of the hierarchy i.e. royalty, MI5 and the police state in the UK as well as Jersey, caused him to inform everyone involved with Pie ‘n’ Mash Films to be alert for the safety of themselves and their families.

Eight weeks after Bill’s return from the Island he had instructed his company to send the final edit ‘Sun, Sea & Satan’ to Channel 4 and the BBC. Two weeks after releasing the film Bill’s 49 year old sister Dyana, who was brought up in care, and had spent time in the late 60’s and early 70’s at the children’s home Haut de la Garenne, where she was sent on paedophilic sailing holidays, was found dead in her apartment, just off the Walworth Road, South East London. Cause of death could not be determined, she was found at the foot of her bed wedged between the bed and the wall on all fours. The Coroner gave Bill’s family permission to bury or cremate the body, even though cause of death could not be substantiated. The family was told by the Coroner that they had retained samples of Dyana’s liver, which they believe would determine the cause, as there were no suspicious circumstances.

In the early 70’s Bill’s brother Peter allegedly took his own life at the age of 16 in a squat at Tonbridge Wells, which is a very opulent area. The Coroner’s verdict was suicide; they found a half drunk half bottle of brandy next to him on the floor and an empty bottle of barbiturates. Peter had also been taken to Haut de la Garenne. Geoffrey Pilkington, part of The Pilkington Glass Empire at that time, developed a close relationship with Peter. Geoffrey Pilkington used his wealth and connections to promote young artists. In 2006 Bill contacted the Pilkington Glass family asking for his brother’s works of art to be returned to his family. Geoffrey Pilkington was of old age and ill and Bill was told the family and the company had no knowledge of his brother’s existence. Geoffrey Pilkington died in July 2007.

Bill and his brothers and sisters were born to Irish immigrant parents, Bill is 52. When the children weren’t in care, they resided at 112 Astbury Road, Peckham, South East London in a slum. They were a decent Irish Catholic family but ignorant to the powers of the Establishment. Bill believes his family were used by the Establishment as part of their paedophilic ring (empire) to help quench the thirst of their cruel, sadistic and satanic appetite.

Two days after Dyana’s funeral fresh stories from Haut de la Garenne were published in national newspapers. The stories exposed by Bill were duplicated by the national press. The resistance of broadcasting establishments adds further speculation to a massive establishment cover-up.

Sun, Sea & Satan has still not been allowed viewing to the public even though it has fresh clear evidence in its content. A number of years ago Bill’s surviving sister, who has changed her name for security reasons handed VHS snuff movie tapes of children in care being abused and killed to the UK police, she has to date had no response. There has been nothing reported in the news.

More to follow …. Learn more about the pioneering work of Pie 'n' Mash Films, visit: www.pienmashfilms.com

AWARDS NIGHT FOR NYIIFVF 2008: We're delighted to announce that tonight LUNATIC officially received the Award for 'Best International Feature Drama' at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2008. You can get a copy of Lunatic from all leading online dvd outlets: play.com; amazon.co.uk; hmv.co.uk; savvi.co.uk etc.

Director Bill Maloney also shows a unique, no-nonsence approach to corporate Direction.
His latest work includes working with Knorr  to update their website with new tips from Marco Pierre White  on his recommendations for the perfect BBQ.

Bill and Marco worked well together. As hoped for, the sun shone, the BBQ was hot, but the air was for most of the day off camera, 'blue'!

Knorr will be updating their website with the latest tips from Marco very soon.  We'll keep you updated.

Jersey!  Home of  the recently publicised  'Haut De La Garenne', a children's care home with dark secrets. Film director Bill Maloney has a sensitive and strong link to the plights of children in care. His whole family were descimated by the care of the Social Services with the majority of his  seven brothers and sisters receiving similar abuse to those in the care of Haut de la Garenne.  He felt compelled to travel to Jersey to witness first hand the general feeling of the inhabitants and to investigate why a children's care home (housing primarily working class children) should be located in the remote and opulent area of St Martin on Jersey's holiday island.

When he returns to the UK it is his mission to inform the normal loving human being as to the horrors that go on behind the windows and doors of the afluent, influential, sadistic members of our society who  lay no value on the life of a lonely, scared and vulnerable child imprisoned in a system that holds nothing but horrors and who dreams of a hero to save them.  If the normal loving human beings in society pull together as a force for change, then we as a whole may become heros for those thousands, if not millions of children around our planet who fall victim to predatory paedophiles and physical and mental abusers of babies and children.

LUNATIC HAS PROMISE OF AWARD...
At the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival 2008. We're delighted and would like to say a big 'Thank you' to everyone at the Festival who showed their support. http://www.nyfilmvideo.com

The Pie  'n'  Mash promotion team are on their way back from NY as we speak.  The festival was a buzz and they did everything they had to do to represent London. I can't say it sounds like they particularly enjoyed the rest of their experience in the City that never sleeps,  apart from the documentary filming that they did in the depths of Harlem and on the streets of Manhattan.  We'll be putting this all together to share with viewers over the next few weeks.

We'll keep you all posted...

There was freezing pouring rain in NY today but like the troopers they are Bill and Lil pounded the streets to gather more information that we will share with you all upon their return.

Thy had a great meeting with the heads of the festival today and we're keeping our fingers crossed for a possible award nomination.  We won't know until Thursday. We'll let you know as soon as we do if LUNATIC has been successful.

Bill and Lilly are over the jet lag and they're now on the streets on NY comparing our societies filming  the  underprivileged and the  homeless who  seem to be completely neglected . They've met disabled guys living on the street in wheelchairs, left to depend on the few dollars they get begging.  A real eye-opener from the land of prosperity and the land of the free; the  fluffy dogs of the rich are given more respect and I bet they've got  full health insurance too!

Anyway, enough of that for now!  Feedback on the film continues to be positive with a number of press contacts requesting further  press packs and screener dvds.

LUNATIC screened at  the NYIIFVF  last night to a great reception. 

It's bitter-cold in NY at the moment and  the Pie 'n' Mash  crew wrapped up in their thermals to hit the streets of NY to promote the screening of  LUNATIC.  It worked,  we had a great turn-out and applause  at the end of the film. 


In  Summary:

Opening night party was huge success with  Bill Maloney, Lilly Starr and Tony Resta all being interviewed by the Festival News team. 
Screening night was a huge success. Bill introduced the film to the cinema audience  to laughter and intrigue.
The last I heard they were off to the after-screening party to network with US Press, Distributors and Filmmakers from across the globe.
We've already been approached by three US distribution companies so we'll make any important decisions after careful reflections  when the Festival concluded.
As soon as  the  press interviews are up and live I'll add to our website along with the countless images they're taking.