Dear Peter
Before I move on
to your co-conspirators in the plot to bring down Fletcher I have more
questions for you in relation to statements you have made on the Khmer440
website.
How many of the
accusations you level at David Fletcher are true (based on facts, evidence) and
how many are the product of your fertile imagination, Peter? This is what I am
seeking to find out with these questions. The reason for my asking you all
these questions will become apparent in due course. You will, of course, refuse
to answer any of them. I will leave it to others to decide what your silence
signifies.
You might like to
think of my questions as being of the kind that might be asked in a proper court
of law if it should happen that you are sued by David Fletcher for defamation
when he is released from jail.
On Friday Sept 11th,
2009, at 8:47 pm you posted the following in response to an article published
by what you refer to as “the most widely circulated newspaper in Spain”:
“a Briton who is being investigated by agents
from (APLE). His organization is dedicated to distribute food, in the main
landfill of the Cambodian capital, a mountain of garbage which employs hundreds
of families without resources, and many families, and many children. Several of
the contributors to this British sounded the alarm on his anomalous behavior
with the smaller ones. The investigation showed that this man had been living
for several months with a girl of 17 who claimed to be his partner. But as in
many cases the girl refused to testify against him and there is no evidence
beyond photographs that he is especially affectionate with children.”
You preface your post with a question: “I wonder who they could be
talking about” but just who is being referred to is clear given the
context and the fact that the thread is entitled “Dump Charity Briton Under
Investigation for Pedophilia”
QUESTION: Did you at the time and do you now have any
evidence that ‘this man’ (Fletcher) had been “living for several months with a
girl of 17 who claimed to be his partner.”?
QUESTION: Do you have any evidence that ‘the girl’
refused to testify against Fletcher?
QUESTION: How is it that you were privy to the details of
whatever ‘investigation’ was taking place?
QUESTION: Did you initiate this investigation?
QUESTION: If you had some legitimate reason to be kept
informed about the details of the investigation by APLE, did you have
permission from APLE to be publishing details of the investigation online? Did
it occur to you that publishing such details might compromise whatever
investigation was taking place?
(As it happens, your eagerness to rush into print with what you
knew to be taking place behind the scenes did alert David Fletcher to the fact
that he was ‘under investigation’. In the event that David Fletcher was in fact
guilty of some crime against children your announcement.
Kit Hargreaves,
whilst at times a voice of reason and common sense in his Khmer440 posts, makes
an interesting observation about the role that the site plays in the lives of readers.
The following comments by Kit, posted on 3rd July 2009, were inspired
by complaints about ‘deleted posts’ on 3rd July.
NOTE: I should add here that when I was a Khmer440 subscriber my
posts were regularly deleted – especially those having to do with Scott Neeson.
I was eventually banned entirely and, in October 2014, am still banned despite
Khymer440 having a new owner. The new owner, who remains anonymous, insists
that the rumour going around that he is Scott Neeson, is not true.)
“There
is no "phantom deleter", it was probably KiR (Peter Hogan) and if
not, it was GM doing what he thought KiR would want.
It
doesn't matter. You see, for all your whinging and moaning, I know as well as
you do that you'll keep reading the site regardless of who deletes what. It's
one of the great things about khmer440, everyone reads it, even if it's only so
that they can complain how crap it is. Take Koastal for instance; he's been
wronged so many times by the board it's not even funny, yet every time someone
suspends his account and edits his posts he patiently skypes me to ask to be
allowed back for more.
If you
don't like it, you can stop reading anytime you want. The thing is, you don't
want to stop, you simply love it too much.”
What Khmer440
followers want is to be entertained. The want drama. And, as the proprietors of
tabloid newspapers discovered long ago, there is nothing like a juicy scandal
to titillate readers and keep them coming back for more. Facts, truth
and evidence are of little or no interest. Why let such details get in the way
of a good story? And if the story being told destroys someone’s life, so be it.
As with gladiators of old, there are plenty of readers who get a vicarious
thrill out of seeing blood spilled – whether the victim is innocent or guilty.
I am not sure who
GM is but I suspect that it is ‘gavinmac’, one of Khmer440’s ‘moderators’. (Given how immoderate he and others
monitoring Khmer440 have been, the word ‘moderator’ can only be used in an
ironic sense!)
“Graham
Adler, alias ‘LaudJohn’ is one of many on Khmer440 who use spurious logic to
convince themselves, along with others, of Fletcher’s guilt. This, from Graham
on 3rd July 2009
The
tourist police have a file an inch thick on DF, but they're as weak as camel
piss. The fact of the matter re DF's bullshit challenge to confront him at his
bar is a nonsense. It's typical of the arrogance of the man. You just don't get
it! It won't be a court of law. There's just no point. If he's proved guilty of
either accusation, and there's irrefutable evidence, what's he gonna do? give
himself up to the police for a mandatory sentence? HE KNOWS he's guilty.”
How Graham Adler
knows that David Fletcher knows that he is guilty is anyone’s guess, unless, of
course, Graham Adler is blessed with psychic powers!
Adler has nothing
to go on other than the rumoured existence of “a file an inch thick”
being held by the ‘tourist police’. For reasons that no-one has explained or
bothered to look into, this ‘file’ was never produced in evidence at Fletcher’s
trial. Perhaps the file is not quite an inch thick? Perhaps there is nothing in
it that was deemed worth mentioning in court? Perhaps there is no file!? It
doesn’t matter to you, Peter, does it? The story you wish to tell is much more
persuasive, much more sensational, if there is an inch thick file that the
Cambodian police refuse to act on.
The fact that this
“inch thick file” has never seen the light of day speaks for itself of just how
a rumour, started on a site like Khmer440 by yourself, Peter Hogan, along with
your co-conspirators, can be passed along like a Chinese whisper until it
acquires the status of fact. This fact can then be embellished upon and later
accepted unquestioningly by hack journalists like Andrew Drummond who fly in
for 72 hours to do a sensational expose for a British tabloid. And then
Drummond’s Chinese whispers are embellished upon further by journalists like
Richard Shears who do not even bother to fly into Cambodia for 72 hours to make
even a cursory investigation into the facts. Once these Chinese whispers have
been handed by one journalistic hack to another, they acquire the status of
fact. And once the ‘facts’ have been established, no journalist, no human
rights group feels the need to establish whether or not any of these facts are
correct. An extraordinary state of affairs.
In your eagerness, Peter, to rush into print with what you knew
to be taking place behind the scenes, you alerted David Fletcher to the fact
that he was ‘under investigation’. In the event that David Fletcher was in fact
guilty of some crime against children your announcement of the investigation gave
him ample opportunity to (a) cover his tracks and (b) to take extreme care in
future to do nothing that would attract the attention of APLE or any of the
other investigators who took an interest in the allegations made by yourself.)
It is (b) that is of particular interest here given the role
that APLE played in the apprehension and conviction David Fletcher – all the
while knowing court documents revealed that the ‘victim’, Yang Dany, was still
a virgin AFTER she had allegedly been raped by Fletcher. APLE was prepared to
proceed with the prosecution of Fletcher and be pleased with the outcome despite
the fact that Yang Dany’s hymen was intact; despite the fact that Fletcher was
not legally represented in the secret trial held whilst he was in Thailand;
despite knowing how many breaches of the Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure
were occurring in the process.
New developments relating to Mr Fletcher’s 27th Oct
hearing necessitate that we leave you, Peter Hogan for the time being, to ponder
these many questions. There will, of course, be no answers from you. In the
pursuit of whatever pleasure it gives you to engage in the blood sport of defamation,
you have no interest at all in facts, evidence or the truth.
NEXT: A letter to Thierry Darnaudet – the man behind APLE. My 16th
Oct letter to Ana G. Pinheiro, Legal Coordinator APLE (Action Pour Les Enfants)
is to be found at:
http://cambodia440.blogspot.com/2014/10/8-what-role-did-aple-play-in-having.html
James Ricketson going in to bat for pedophiles! Mmmm. nothing more needs to be said really!
ReplyDeletePeter Hogan is dead. He's dead for a reason. The same reason why ALL sociopathic criminals die early deaths. The official story is that he "fell and had blood in the head" (Phnom Penh Post). The much more likely cause was that finally reached the final threshold of enemies which can be managed in a country like Cambodia, and someone did the world a favor and took him out. RIP (Rot In Pergatory) Peter Hogan. You were 10x more of a hopeless basket-case than ANY of the MANY people who's lives you negatively effected in ways which violated the most basic laws of human decency. With animals like you, the deader, the better.
ReplyDeleteI hope that Peter Hogan suffered huge pain before he died. He was a fucking cunt of a person and deserved everything he got. He is now worm food and the world is a much better place.
ReplyDeleteWas just flicking through this blog and came across this piece - as much as i hate Ricketson, I have to say that this is his best seller blog about that low life cunt Peter Hogan. It must be early time to celebrate 1 year since the rodent tripped over in a drug fuelled slobber and banged his fucking head on the deck and died. He was a piece of shit floating on the top of the toilet bowl just waiting to be flushed. Thanks Ricketson, I was having an average day and now I am smiling and laughing with happiness.
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