Monday, March 23, 2015

# 103 UK Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond keeps his eyes averted and his head buried in the sand!


Phillip Hammond
Foreign Secretary
Parliamentary House of Commons
London
SW1A                                                                                                   

23rd March 2015

Dear Mr Hammond

re David Fletcher

Following on from my letter of 19th Feb – my 35th to you!

It is a sad reflection on the government of which you are a part that the welfare of UK citizens in foreign countries is of no concern at all.

Your indifference to the plight of a UK citizen rotting away in a foreign country would, to a certain extent, be understandable if said citizen had been found guilty of a crime, in accordance with the laws of the country in which he or she allegedly committed an offence. What I do not understand, however, is how you and your government can stand by and allow a UK citizen to be given a 10 year jail sentence without the benefit of anything even vaguely approaching a fair trial!  Especially in an instance in which it is virtually impossible for the accused (Mr Fletcher) to have committed the crime he is accused of – the rape of a woman whose virginity remained intact; a woman who insists that she was not raped; a woman who was whisked away to China by APLE so that there would be no chance she could tell the truth either in court or to curious journalists!

I have had enough to do with diplomats and diplomacy this past 20 years to know what takes place behind the scenes in situations such as the one that prevails here. I know that you could, if you so chose, pick up the phone and ask the Cambodian Minister for Justice to please allow Mr Fletcher to be provided with a trial in accordance with the Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure.

The Minister for Justice may or may not act on your request but the chances are, given the aid provided to Cambodia by the United Kingdom, that he would.

And, when and if a trial takes place at least one representative of the UK Embassy could (and should) be present in court to see to it that the trial is a fair one. And if it is not, if it appears that there have been serious breaches of the Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure, these can and should be pointed out to the Minister as diplomatically as is necessary.

Without providing any support of this kind to UK citizens you leave them at the mercy of corrupt non government organizations such as APLE – NGOs that can and do manipulate the Cambodian judiciary to achieve their own particular ends. David Fletcher is but one of many men whose lives have been sacrificed on the alter of Thierry Darnaudet’s and Samleang Seila’s greed. Money flows into APLE’s coffers only for as long as the NGO provides donors and sponsors with a constant stream of ‘pedophiles’ it can claim to have succeeded in prosecuting and putting in jail.

It would certainly seem that APLE has been successful in pursuing and seeing brought to justice some genuine pedophiles. This is a good thing. However, APLE has also pursued many men against whom there is no substantive evidence of their having committed any crime at all. And it has done so with the tacit approval of (amongst many) the British Embassy in Cambodia, various senior members of your Ministry and yourself.

In adopting this approach you reveal yourself to be morally bankrupt, along with all those working under you who have revealed through their actions (their lack of actions) to have no concern at all for Mr Fletcher’s welfare.

The FOI documents Mr Fletcher was told he would receive in Jan 2015 have still not been delivered to him and, it seems, never will be. The reason for this is clear – a fear on the part of those whose job it is to provide them that they will contain yet more evidence of both incompetence and malice on the part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

As for the first lot of documents provided to Mr Fletcher, there are many he requested that he has not been provided with. You have clearly instructed your staff to be as obstructive as possible and to force him, under the most difficult of circumstances, to keep asking and asking and being given the runaround.

I hope that one day Mr Fletcher will have his day in court – not merely in Cambodia but in the UK. I trust that one day you and your obstructive staff will be asked, under oath, to explain why the FCO destroyed evidence of Mr Fletcher’s innocence and then told a variety of contradictory lies about what happened to his passport.

best wishes

James Ricketson

8 comments:

  1. I heard David Fletcher killed himself. Is this true?

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    1. He tried but failed I heard. Can't do anything right can you Fletcher?

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    2. What an ignorant a$$hole you are anonymous 2:59!

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    3. Anonymous 2:59. Sometimes I wonder if it can be justified to say that some people don't have the right to live. After reading your comment I'm convinced though. In my opinion creatures like you should not be allowed to exist.

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  2. I am not a British citizen, but I had always thought that Great Britain was a country that stood by and protected all of its citizens. I have been aware of David Fletcher's situation from the time he first went to Cambodia, and he has been a friend for many years. I knew that David had been framed by APLE and some of their corrupt cohorts, as was later confirmed by the alleged rape victim and her mother. In any fair court, the case would have been immediately dismissed, based on the doctor report that the alleged victim was still a virgin.

    The British Government has been informed many times of the fact that David has never had a fair trial in accordance with Cambodian law, as well as the law of any civilized country. The lame excuse that they cannot interfere with another country is ridiculous. It is done all of the time in warranted cases such as David's.

    I have seen on newscasts that a large number of British citizens have left Britain to fight with ISIS in the Middle East. I found that hard to believe at first. In retrospect, I have thought that maybe they feel abandoned by the British Government for some reason, much as David must.

    All errors can be corrected, and I hope that Mr. Hammond or someone with authority will have the moral strength to assist David.

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  3. This Phillip Fucking Hammond and his boy-slut Nigel Fucking Eustace should be sent (without a trial) to Prey Sar for the next 10 years. They're a fucking disgrace!

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  4. The British Embassy in Cambodia reveals, time and time again, that it has no interest at all in the welfare of British citizens who get caught up in the evil web spun by Action Pour les Enfants and other corrupt NGOs that feed off the hysteria surrounding pedophiles. Whilst acknowledging that that Matt Harland received no fair trial the British Embassy does not at all to help him secure one. The same applies for David Fletcher. Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond's Foreign & Commonwealth Office is bereft of any moral values and ignores its duty of care to British citizens in favour of providing moral (and financial) support to APLE and NGOs like Scott Neeson's Cambodian Children's Fund that exploit the poverty of Cambodian families for their own financial gain. Shame on you all!

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