Phillip Hammond
Foreign Secretary
Parliamentary House
of Commons
London, SW1A
10th November 2015
Dear Mr Hammond
The
Foreign & Commonwealth Office has known since September 2010 that 18 year
old Yang Dany was still a virgin, despite allegedly having raped by twice by Mr
Fletcher in March 2009.
The
Foreign & Commonwealth Office has known since 20th June 2010,
when Andrew Drummond’s article (“Preying On The Garbage Dump Children”) was published, that Yang Dany referred to Mr Fletcher as
a ‘good man’ and as her ‘fiance’ just a week before he was arrested in
Thailand.
The
Foreign & Commonwealth Office has known since 28th June 2010
(through Ray Keen) that Mr Fletcher was not arrested in Thailand as a result of
charges against him in that country but at the request of Cambodian
authorities. No reason was given to the Thai authorities or the British Embassy
for the arrest, at least not officially. It would take a few more weeks for
Cambodian authorities to decide on the charges it wished to lay – rape.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office has also known,
since June 2010, that Britain’s own Child
Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
(CEOP) had found no evidence of wrongdoing on Mr Fletcher’s part,
despite two years of looking for it. The same applies for SISHA and Action Pour
les Enfants (APLE).
Quite
simply, CEOP, APLE and SISHA were engaged in a wild goose chase inspired by a
blog (Khmer440) and scuttlebutt spread by Scott Neeson and lapped up by
Drummond:
“There is little doubt Fletcher devotes his time to grooming young
girls….The fact is these children can be bought. It’s difficult to stop it. The
British Embassy have been told about Fletcher. Many organizations have files on
him, but nothing has happened. If you can get this guy sent packing you are
doing a service to the children here.”
Mr Fletcher was ‘sent packing’ a week later, arrested without charge in Thailand. He has
been in jail ever since.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office has also known
since 2011 that Mr Fletcher’s trial, held in-camera, and with the accused not
even aware that he was being tried in absentia, breached pretty well every part
of the Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure.
In short, the trial was illegal in accordance with
Cambodian law.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office has known for five
years that Mr Fletcher has never been interviewed by the Cambodian police in
relation to the charges laid against him; that he he has never been interviewed
by an Investigating Judge; that he has never been allowed to present any
evidence at all to any court in his own defense.
For five years the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has done
nothing to safeguard Mr Fletcher’s right to a fair trial. Indeed, the FCO willfully
destroyed evidence that consular officials knew was relevant to his defense if
he were ever be granted a fair trial. Instead of sacking those responsible for
the destruction of Mr Fletcher’s passport, the FCO came up with a variety of contradictory
explanations and rationalizations for what happened to it that would make for a
wonderful Monty Python skit if it were not for the disastrous impact this
perversion of justice has had on Mr Fletcher’s life.
It seems that no amount of evidence that there has been a
blatant miscarriage of justice in Mr
Fletcher’s case will induce the FCO to utter the simple words:
“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office requests of the Cambodian
Minister of Justice that Mr David John Fletcher be provided with a trial in
which he is able to present a defense.”
This would not constitute ‘interference’ with the
supposedly ‘independent’ judiciary of a sovereign nation. Such a statement
would be in keeping with the FCO’s mission statement, the opening words of
which are:
“The FCO
promotes the United Kingdom's interests overseas, supporting our citizens and
businesses around the globe.”
Mr
Fletcher is a British citizen clearly in need of support.
Under the
heading ‘responsibilities’ is to be found:
“…supporting
British nationals around the world through modern and efficient consular
services”
Your “modern and efficient
consular services”, Mr Hammond, have failed to even monitor Mr Fletcher’s
various court appearances. No representative of the FCO ever shows up at court
to witness the ways in which Action Pour les Enfants (APLE) manipulates the
legal system to deny Mr Fletcher a fair hearing of any kind.
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| Thierry Darnaudet |
Let me add some more evidence in support of the
proposition (to be tested in a properly constituted court, of course) that Mr
Fletcher is innocent of the charge of rape.
On 23rd June 2010 Thierry Darnaudet submitted
a report to the ‘Director of Department of Anti-Human Trafficking and Minor
Protection.”
In this document Mr Darnaudet, President of APLE, refers
to Mr Fletcher as someone:
“who was suspected that he may have sexual relationship
with minor girls.”
It is clear that Mr Darnaudet, despite APLE’S two years
of investigation, had not come up with evidence of misconduct on Mr Fletcher’s
part. He had suspicions only.
“On 30 May 2010, Mr Fletcher had built a relationship
with a new girl at Stoeng Meanchey named Yang Dany, aged 17 (according to
Residence Book). At that day, he took her to visit Prey Veng. According to questioning
Dany told that Mr Fletcher was her sweetheart, and he proposed marriage to her
by promising that he would give bride price in the amount of $5,000.
On 07 June 2010 Mr Fletcher took some items like glasses,
plates, wardrobe to Dany’s house and stayed there till over midnight without
returning.”
Mr Darnaudet’s suggestion that “Mr Fletcher had built a
relationship with a “new girl” on 30th May 2010 does not sit
comfortably with the allegation that Mr Fletcher raped Yang Dany 15 months
previously in March 2009. Nonetheless, allowing for some confusion on Mr
Darnaudet’s part (despite his two years of investigating) lets presume that Mr
Fletcher had met and raped Yang Dany 15 months preciously. If so, why did she
accept his invitation to drive on motor bikes to Prey Veng (along with others) on 30th May 2010? This is not the
kind of invitation one would normally expect a rape victim to accept from her
rapist!
Mr Fletcher denies that he offered to pay a bride price
of $5,000 but even if he had, isn’t it a little odd that Yang Dany would be
seriously considering marriage to her rapist/’fiance’ and ‘good man’ in June
2010 and then, a few weeks later, be requesting $30,000 compensation for the
pain and suffering she endured at Mr Fletcher’s hands in March 2009?
Mr Darnaudet acknowledges in his submission that APLE had
interviewed Yang Dany in relation to Mr Fletcher. As of 23rd June 2010
Yang Dany had not provided APLE with any information that would lead Thierry
Darnaudet and Samleang Seila to believe that she had been raped. Yang Dany
claims that APLE kept coming back to her and her mother, Sekun, asking for
evidence. It was not until after she and her mother were told that they could
receive $30,000 in compensation that Yang Dany provided APLE with the
‘evidence’ it so badly wanted – that she had been raped 15 months beforehand.
This $30,000 figure has not been plucked from thin air.
It is to be found in court documents.
If there had ever been a fair trial Mr Fletcher would
have produced evidence that on 7th June, when he gave away all of his
furniture and other possessions (some of it to Yang Dany and her mother) he was
planning to leave Cambodia. He had, as Thierry Darnaudet, Salmeang Seila, SISHA
and CEOP knew, closed his bar – Rick’s bar – in preparation for his departure
from Cambodia a month before he left; 3 weeks before Andrew Drummond’s article
was published.
On 28th June SISHA published a press release
that stated, in part:
“On Friday 25th of
June 2010, as a result of media articles published, Fletcher fled Cambodia and
travelled across land into Thailand.”
SISHA knew this to be a lie but it became an important
part of the narrative developed by SISHA and APLE to defame Mr Fletcher. That he
had ‘fled’ was evidence of his guilt.!
As with so much else, this ‘fleeing’ lie would be exposed
in a properly constituted court and reveal those who have perpetrated it as
liars.
Towards the end of his 23rd June 2010 report
Mr Darnaudet writes:
“Based on the claims made by those girls and on that
foreigners actions, Action Pour les Enfants, is very concerned that this
foreigner may cause danger to the girls or other Cambodian children. As stated
above Action for Children Organization has the honor to inform this information
to His Excellency Mr Director for investigation and necessary legal actions in
order to protect the children from sexual exploitation in any form.”
Signed Thierry Darnaudet 23rd June 2010
At the risk of belabouring the point, four days before Mr
Fletcher was arrested in Thailand (at the request of the Cambodian authorities)
APLE had no evidence that Mr Fletcher had raped Yang Dany or any other young
woman or that he had been engaged in any form of sexual exploitation of
Cambodian children.
It is not just APLE that had no evidence of Mr Fletcher’s
guilt. Nor did SISHA or CEOP. What were they going to do? Without an arrest, a
conviction, their two years of investigation would be in vain! Money and time
wasted! Something had to be done!
It is possible (though not probable) that in the 3 days between
23rd. June (receipt of Darnaudet’s report) and 27th June
(Mr Fletcher’s arrest) that the ‘Director of Department of Anti-Human
Trafficking and Minor Protection’ conducted such a thorough investigation that
requesting his Thai colleagues to arrest Mr Fletcher for raping Yang Dany was the
appropriate course of action to take. If so, why did it take Yang Dany a
further 17 days to lay the charges against Mr Fletcher that had led to his
arrest…17 days beforehand!?
To make this as simple as possible:
“Why was Mr Fletcher arrested for the rape of Yang Dany
17 days before she made a statement to the Cambodian police alleging that she
had been raped?”
It may be that APLE’s lawyers could, in a properly
constituted court, provide logical explanations for a sequence of events that,
on the surface of it, defies logic. Unfortunately, there has been no trial and
APLE is doing all it can, right up to Nov 2015, to guarantee that there will be
no trial and that Mr Fletcher will die in jail.
And the Foreign Commonwealth Office is, through its
silence, though turning a blind eye, giving its imprimatur to this blatant
miscarriage of justice. And, through its destruction of Mr Fletcher’s passport,
the FCO is complicit in perverting the course of justice.
If I were Mr Fletcher’s defense lawyer I would put the
following question to Mr Thierry Darnaudet and Mr Samleang Seila in court; if
Mr Fletcher were ever granted a trial:
“I put it to you that between 23rd June 2010
and 27th June 2010, with no evidence that Mr Fletcher had raped Yang
Dany or any other Cambodian girl, you
entered into an arrangement with the Cambodian authorities to have their
counter-parts in Thailand arrest Mr Fletcher. I put it to you that over the
next two weeks, as Mr Fletcher was imprisoned in Thailand, with no charges
laid, that APLE induced Yang Dany and her mother Sekun to perjure themselves by
telling Cambodian police that Mr Fletcher had raped Yang Dany in March 2009.I
put it to you that with malice aforethought you have perverted the course of
justice.”
The FCO’s nightmare now is for Mr Fletcher to receive a
fair trial; for evidence of the kind I have uncovered to be scrutinized in an
open court and to become public knowledge. Worse still, if Mr Fletcher were to
be found innocent of the crime of rape, the FCO would not have a lot of egg on
its face but face legal action for its complicity in seeing an innocent man
jailed.
The same applies for SISHA, CEOP and APLE. An ‘innocent’
verdict for Mr Fletcher would not only be highly embarrassing for them but raise
serious doubts about the competence and integrity of these Keystone Cops
investigators.
best wishes
James Ricketson
Mr Hammond is way to busy in his high profile life to care about what his people are doing;
ReplyDeleteThis issue of destroying David's passport is enough to cause any thinking and caring person to pause and ask his people what happened? Why did it happen?
You don't just destroy someone's passport; no matter; if its a current passport, you file it away because the person is going to need it.........and as in the case of David, it proved he was innocent; someone knew that;
Now if this was not the case then the passport would help to prove his guilt by proving that he was in the country at the time of the supposed crime; either way, you do not destroy a passport that is put in your keeping..............
then to lie over and over about where it is, who has it. all the while knowing that it had been destroyed.
Heads should have rolled and someone should have been held accountable; it should have been made right; the issue it seems is that the passport was destroyed by someone for a reason............I am sure its because it proved David to be innocent. Mr; Hammond or his trusted staff of employees have failed and they failed to hide it well enough.........and so the haters will know who they are insulting...........this is Wes
James,
ReplyDeleteMany people in Phnom Penh will not tell you to your face, but, at this stage, people think you should consult a psychologist, a priest, or a rabbi.
Your flaunting of your strange obsession long ago made you the laughing stock of the Cambodia journalism community -- I know as I ran the the Cambodia Daily newsroom for a while in 2014.
Now it is merely tiresome.
I will now treat your emails as spam.
In that light, you should wrap it up -- and find something productive and constructive during your last years on earth.
Sincerely
James Brooke
Managing Editor
The Khmer Times
No. 7, Street 252
2nd Floor
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Jim
DeleteI didn’t go looking for this story. It found me.
Unlike you, my first thought was not “Will this make me a laughing stock within the journalist community in Cambodia” but “I wonder what is going on here. A virgin claims she was not raped, there is no evidence that she was and yet here are Scott Neeson, Naly Pilorge and Steve Morrish saying that he is guilty and a large contingent of expats baying for blood.”
What is going on here, I thought!
Jim, laughing stock though that may make me, this was a story worth pursuing. And then to find that the FCO destroyed Mr Fletcher’s passport; that APLE’S lawyer doubts that Mr Fletcher raped Yang Dany; that Samleang Seila says this question is not important because Mr Fletcher got some paperwork to the Phnom Penh Municipal court late and must now serve his entire 10 year sentence without every having been given an opportunity to present a case as a result of an administrative error that was not his fault.
These are not just wild assertions of mine. They are all verifiable facts, Jim. Most of them are to be found in court documents and would have been available to any journalist who went looking for them.
You can make what you will of the facts. This is what I have been trying to do this past year. It is called journalism, Jim. Journalism is not a beauty contest in which journalists think about whether fellow journalists are going to laugh at them or not. Apart from reporting the news, journalism (or at least that branch that requires investigation) is about asking questions, putting together piece of a jig-saw puzzle, holding people in positions of power and authority accountable for their actions and publishing witout fear or favour. It is not, as you seem to think, about taking sides and only telling those stories that you believe to be ‘productive’. You clearly see your job not as asking Scott Neeson, Thierry Darnaudet or Samleang Seila difficult questions and following these through to wherever they may lead. Your commitment to journalism in the case of APLE and CCF is to publish cut-and-paste versions of APLE and CCF press releases and call it news. I wonder whether this makes you a laughing stock within sectors the journalistic community?
As for how I spend my remaining productive years, thanks for the advice, Jim. Much appreciated. My advice in return: “Try practicing some journalism in the last productive years of your life that remain.”
Journalism is clearly not the forte of the Kymer Times or of James Brooke!!
DeleteSo a man who professes to be a journalist, proves that he is not, by ignoring all facts and attempting to shoot the messenger! A new low for Cambodia!
DeleteAnonymous 7:02, don't forget that these papers are likely controlled by the NGOs.
DeleteSeems The Khmer Times has ignored you for over a year, and done nothing to advocate for a fair trial for Fletcher. What would make Brooke make this statement more than a year in? Could it be at APLE'S request now that your timeline indicates APLE had nothing when Fletcher was arrested??
DeleteHahaha. Finally one of the dozens of respondents of Ricketson's interminably tedious emails breaks the code of silence to say what all of us who receive them, think. Well said JB
DeleteCould the EiC of Khmer Times really have such poor judgement as to make childish insulting comments like this on a local blog, or even comment at all on a blog like this. (Or to cite his embarrassingly brief stint at the Daily where, with his deep insights into newsroom opinion, he was quickly ousted by the 'anti-smile' brigade.) But if that is really James Brooke posting here, your paper might be better served spending your time trying to rein in your publisher's shallow pro-CPP op/eds pretending to be news/analysis rather than posting half-baked insults against local bloggers.
DeleteRicketson they (APLE and the FCO) will hate you for this. How dare you having access to original APLE Documents signed by the master of collateral destruction, Mr. Thierry Darnaudet himself and display them on your blog ?
ReplyDeleteOf course Darnaudet has since long tried to distance himself from Aple Cambodia and feels no longer responsable for ANYTHING he did to make his Business Model profitable. Truth is something that he considers a luxury for those that can financially afford it. The rest have to bite the bullet and serve his Mother Theresa like status as the saviour of the children. Darnaudet tries to distance him from his ACTT (all children together trust) and his buddy Andres Torres' BSSK home for street childern which are both in Calcutta's Lake Garden district like he's never been involved in the NGO.
The subject of sexual child abuse is such a hot and very destructive issue that most men don't want to talk or even hear about it or recognize the problems that lies within the Darnaudet APLE Business Model. Playing loose with the truth in order to show RESULTS and thereby secure future donations.
I am certain that Darnaudet's judgement day will come one day and my hope is that he will suffer as much as the victims that he created. For that day every precaution should be taken in place that he cannot have another go at a suicide attempt of which he already has two on his record (one in 2007 in a 4 star calcutta hotel and another one in Puri). How can the British Government claim that such an unstable person is suitable for child protection ??
Im not the biggest Jim Brooke fan but he is spot on. I recall meeting you james some time ago during the riots, I was there with an NGO trying to keep innocent people from being injured in the fracas, I remember when i formed my first opinion of you when i was attempting to help several people out of the way of oncoming government forces when you requested i get out of your frame as it would ruin your video. I think it is highly suspect that you choose to be loud and obnoxious with others peoples lives but when it comes to your own family you do nothing of the sort. in the case of your nephew whom you did not make any public blogs and harass publicly government officials i would imagine this is due to you and your family wanting a favourable outcome. as you well know all of the very loud noise you have made has only condemned fletcher to eternity as no government official will come anywhere near this now. well done for killing David Fletcher.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous 3.21
DeleteCan you please provide me with a little more detail about what you allege I did or said regarding wanting people to get out of my frame? I have no recollection of this and it would not be in character for me to do so. Please refresh my memory.
As for you being 'loud and obnoxious' I am merely doing what journalist do - following a story to see where it leads. As is the case for all journalists who ask questions that others do not want to answer, shooting the messenger is one tried and true tactic. The problem with people such as yourself is that you never identify what it is you are referring to. You make generalised statements such as "to be loud and obnoxious with others peoples lives" without providing any examples. Here is an opportunity for you to be quite specific and make a list (shot or long, your choice) of examples in which I have been unduly 'loud and obnoxious.'
As for the tragic death of my nephew a year ago now what does this have to do with the subject of this blog? Nothing.
I can assure you that government officials have been 'harassed' but, again, this has nothing to do with the subject in hand.
As for my having "condemned Fletcher to eternity", let me ask you this:
"Given that no-one was going to advocate on Mr Fletcher's right to a fair trial before I met him by chance, how do you think he might have got out of jail?"
This is not a rhetorical question. How was it going to happen?
I would love to hear your answer!
As for your comment "no government official will come anywhere near this now" are you suggesting that some government official might have intervened had I not come along? How and why would this have happened.
It is just unconscionable that your own Embassy would conspire to have you arrested when there were no charges! To continue on that path to hide evidence, destroy evidence of innocence and then remain mute during his quest for a fair trial, beggars belief!! British citizens had better hope they are never in a position where they could need help from the British Embassy!! This is so low, it is hard to comprehend.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you and Ricketson actually believe that the Embassy and all the other players have conspired and fabricated evidence in a deliberate frame up of 1 dirty old man is in itself laughable. Why on earth would all these good people that Ricketson continually defames, waste time, energy and more importantly risk their reputations and possibly livelihoods just to get Fletcher arrested. Seriously, you all need to stop using drugs.
DeleteAnonymous 7:17, find a hole in the facts, not just your verbal diarea. Ricketson has the facts and the proof. Where are yours?
DeleteHere are the facts? - fact 1 - Fletcher was convicted in the UK for having sex with an underage girl, fact 2 - Fletcher was convicted in Cambodia for sexual related crimes with an underage girl.
DeleteThe discussion is about his conviction in Cambodia. Are you intelligent enough to keep up?
DeleteHahaha you question my intelligence when you believe that the UK Embassy, British Police, Cambodian Police, Thai Police, NGO's and Cambodia Courts (have I missed anyone?) have all sat around a table and conspired to have Fletcher placed in jail.
Deletepeople also forget to mention that fletcher did not have an approved or registered charity in Cambodia. He was asking for donations from people and fleecing a lot of the money. Why didn't he register his charity. if he is so intelligent, then why wouldn't he do some risk management and think that having a prior conviction for sex with a child in the UK and then working in an environment surrounded by children, whilst not being approved to do so, might place him in a difficult situation. The answer is he didn't do these things because he was up to no good - he was surrounding himself with children because he is a dirty sick individual who loves young girls. I applaud Cambodia for looking him u and protecting numerous potential victims that fletcher would of abused. Sunday, funny how none of his children have ever mad testaments in the newspapers asking asking for his releases or spent to the UK Government pleading for his release or even commented on this shit big - I wonder why?
DeleteSo now on top of your ignorance about Fletcher's conviction, you believe that all of the charities in Cambodia are registered?
DeleteNo, they will not all be registered. It is interesting though to note that invariably the charities in Cambodia that have problems with sex abuse claims with the children they are "taking care of" appear to be described an non registered, Do you see a common thread anon 9.28
DeleteWhere are your FACTS?
Deleteanon 9.53pm - you are clearly retarded.
Deleteanon 9.53pm - its funny how you have refused to answer the question posted by anon 9.16pm - why is that Fletchers children haven't been a voice to get him out of jail. Why is it that they haven't even made statements in newspapers claiming his innocence and demanding he be released? Could it be that they are fully aware of his predatory nature and just dont want anything to do with him or perhaps they are also involved in your fairy wonderland conspiracy? Oh yes, thats rights, Fletchers children were also at the conspiracy table and helped the police, the embassy, the NGO's and every other person in the world who conspired to stitch up a dirty low life like Fletcher.
DeleteThat question has to be a wind up Anon 9.53- correct ?
DeleteFletch the Letch would have to be number 1 prime example. Like all the other child abuse scum he thought he had find a great way of getting close to kids undetected by law enforcement agencies. Like all those before him he was too stupid to realise they knew his game. I seem to recall Garry Glitter was also involved with an unregistered "charity" Fletcher knew if background checks were done he would be caught out, I somehow think that any previous experience he might have had with children would preclude him from registering a charity. Besides which if it was registered then I think he might have to explain where all the donors funds went instead of saying he was bad with book keeping.
Please confirm your question was a wind up and at least recover a minute amount of credibility
Dear Anonymous 7.17
DeleteYou have the memory of a goldfish. I have explained several times now how it came to be that several people were involved in Mr Fletcher's arrest. I could explain it again but you'd simply be back again in a week or two making the same foolish observations.
Dear Anonymous 8.23
DeleteYou've chosen only two facts from a long list of facts.
The fact that Mr Fletcher had sex with an underage girl in 1998 has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not he raped Yang Dany in 2009.
Yes, Mr Fletcher was convicted in 2011 in a secret trial (in camera) without being present to present a defence. He was found guilty of raping a young woman 15 months before he met her, whilst he was not in Cambodia. Yang Dany was, according to court documetns, a virgin and she herself (backed up by her mother) declare that she was not raped. They also claim (again, to be found in court documents) that they were told there was a $30,000 pot of gold waiting for them if Mr Fletcher was found to be guilty of rape.
Leaving these 'facts' out (all of them to be found in court documents) makes it very easy for you to make the foolish statement you have made here and which I have not doubt you will continue to make.
Dear Anonymous 9.16
DeleteWhat does Mr Fletcher's failure to register his charity have to do with whether or not he raped Yang Dany? Your lack of logic is a quality you share in common with most of those who wish to find any reason at all they can think of to deny Mr Fletcher a fair trial. If he is as guilty as you and others think him to be why not advocate loudly his right to a fair trial - if only so that you can applaud when he is found guilty.
This is all about Mr Fletcher's right to a fair trial.
Dear Anonymous 10.32
DeleteMr Fletcher is alienated from his children. Given the treatment given to him by the media it is not unsurprising that they would wish to sever contact with a man whom they believed raped a young Cambodian woman. Perhaps, if Mr Fletcher were to ever receive a fair trial and to be found innocent some family relationship repairs might be possible.
Dear Anonymous 10.34
DeleteYour reference to 'Fletch the Letch' and use of the phrase 'like all the other child abuse scum' makes it clear that you do not believe Mr Fletcher to be deserving of a trial. You have made your mind up. I wonder if you have ever met Mr Fletcher or if you have any evidence other than scuttlebutt that he raped Yang Dany?
Fletcher has been alienated from his children ever since he raped his first child in the UK and was sentenced to prison for it. Get your facts right James.
DeleteSorry anon 8.23 but you forgot the most important fact:-
ReplyDeleteFact 3 - Fletcher is in jail and likely thankfully to stay there. (because of the way James pisses everybody off Fletcher is more likely to be staying there for a long time. Ricketson should have kept his nose out in the first place.
I do not blame Fletcher though to be clutching at straws and not realise James is just trying to revive a failed career through his upcoming movie. Haha, I bet like everything else James puts his hand to the supposed movie will be a miserable failure.
No need to wait to see Ricketson's film-making talents. If you want to see one of the most embarrassingly bad films of all time - even by Australian film standards - take a look at "Blackfellas" that our own James Ricketson made 20 years ago. Seriously, like his blogs, it is so bad that you watch it simply for a good laugh!
DeleteThe film industry in Australia won't touch Ricketson with a 50 foot barge pole - apparently when you make a complete fool of yourself and upset every person in the world, you get labeled 'a cunt' and your career options tend to diminish.
DeleteYou are correct anon 9.39pm - Fletcher isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. In fact when you read his so called posts, it is very obvious that the guy is borderline retarded. Its no wonder Ricketson latched onto the and exploits Fletchers lack of IQ to try and benefit his own agenda. And lets face it, Ricketson has an agenda and that is to give himself ratings.
DeleteTeam Neeson, talking to yourself again?
DeleteHey, you guys making unflattering remarks about my talents as a filmmaker. What have they got to do with whether or not Mr Fletcher is deserving of a fair trial? These comments (all, I suspect, made by the one person) are the weakest attempt at shooting the messenger to appear on this blog so far. Come on, guys, you can do better than that.
DeleteIt is of no relevance but BLACKFELLAS was nominated for four AFI Awards (a reasonably big deal in Australia) and won two of them. The fact that you did not like the film is neither here nor there
Seriously, Blackfellas is great for a laugh. It's appalling and sadly Ricketson's only claim to fame. Classic that such losers think they can raise themselves by bringing down the good and the accomplished.
DeleteDear Anonymous 2.42
DeleteThe topic is Mr Fletcher's right (or lack thereof) to a fair trial. If BLACKFELLAS were a masterpiece it would be irrelevant to the question being discussed. That you persist in making observations about the film is your very crude attempt to shoot the messenger. Why do you bother? You clearly do not believe that Mr Fletcher deserves a fair trial. Why not just leave it at that! Have you nothing better to do with your time?
Anon 9:39 - "Fletcher is in jail and likely thankfully to stay there. (because of the way James pisses everybody off Fletcher is more likely to be staying there for a long time. Ricketson should have kept his nose out in the first place."
DeleteI doubt Ricketson has had any impact on Fletcher's legal or prison status. Fletcher is in the same place and same situation he would be without Ricketson's 'help.' But someting that James has done is kept Fletcher's name and case alive in the local conversation and perhaps even the media. The Daily follows the case in a way they dont follow other similar case, in part due to Ricketson's efforts to keep it in the public eye. Even the editor of the Times is posting here. And James has successfully managed to manipulate you and Steve and Mr Eureka and even a few Fletch-hating 440ers to help him by posting here and keeping the discussion going. If James is so stupid, what does that make you for being manipulated by him into helping?
Are unregistered charities keeping houses that are gifted to the poor then renting them to to impoverished (where they have to walk through raw sewage), or is it only a registered charity?
ReplyDeleteHaving seen the state of the Global Village Housing slums Anon 12.11 I can understand your need to ask this question. Indeed they are a disgrace and should be reported to the authorities
DeleteOh but it is CCF that keeps houses that were gifted to the poor.
DeleteIt is CCF that then rents them and
It is CCF where the residents walk through raw sewage to get to the homes.
The "Khmertimes professional Journalist and editor in chief"
ReplyDeleteFunny that: the Khmertimes headline reads : Philippines Pledges "ARM" Welcome for China's Xi Despite Sea Row. See headline here: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17668/philippines-pledges-arm-welcome-for-china---s-xi-despite-sea-row/
Now that's what i call "professional journalism" of khmertimes standard. The casual reader may get the message that the Philippines are now going into an armed conflict with china and do not provide a "W..arm welcome" to china.
The clear message to the Khmertimes is: You made yourself the laughing stock of the entire Journalist World. Thank's for the fun !!
The hidden hands in Cambodia's Politics
ReplyDeleteNGO's play a powerful role when it comes to support Regime Change in Cambodia. It's no surprise to learn their motives.
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In a way, many nongovernmental organizations and international agencies have become the opposition’s covert partner. That is not so surprising when the likes of Human Rights Watch and local NGOs like LICADHO, ADHOC, Future Forum, Mother Nature, and CCHR, are often at the forefront in efforts to run down the government and do the work of the opposition in highlighting social ills.
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http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17678/hidden-hands-in-cambodian-politics/
The "deny fletcher a fair trial" initifada.
ReplyDeleteMany of the Neeson Team bloggers remind me of the state initiated pro-israel propaganda on blogs. Israeli students get paid 2000 USD to suppress the paelstinian solidarity movement in blogs around the world. That is pretty much the same system that we can see here with the Team Neeson. I just wonder how much they get paid ?
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook
wow, I'm amazed that people as dumb as you survive infancy. So in your strange little world Neeson Team (sic) pays people to suppress something or other, like the Israeli's to the Palestinians. We have reached geopolitical status. Genius!
Deletetypically when people side with terrorist groups their arguments are lost
Deleteokay, here we go again; this is Wes and I know a lot more about David than most of you;
ReplyDeleteI know the girl in England that he was involved with...........a nice young lady that made her self available to David; at the time she was supposed to also have a regular boyfriend with whom she was also having sex with but that is not the point............David's mistake then would have taught him a lesson and he confessed to me that he would never make that mistake again.........as to David's kids; well they are good kids; Adults now; both are over 40 and for what ever reason, they do not have a lot to do with David; Fact is, they have not in a very long time.............way before he moved to Cambodia; I spoke with his daughter about six or seven years ago and she informed me that her Dad was dead to her; I have known both of David's children since they were young children; often hosted them in my home in Oklahoma; I don't know all the reasons they separated form David but it was not because he did not love them...........this will not satisfy David's enemies. will no doubt bring on the insults towards me; but I would ask everyone to keep in mind that this business of destroying a valid passport needs to be kept in the limelight.
If a girl still being a virgin after two rapes does not prove his innocence the passport would have........someone needs to be held accountable for this;
Sorry Wes but this is not the story James publishes, he tells readers that Fletchers children will have nothing to do with him because of the story Drummond published based on the supposed statement Neeson made. James tells us that Fletcher partly wants a trial so that if found innocent he can repair the relationship with his children. James tells us that his children have nothing to do with him because of the story Drummond published. Yet more cracks appear in the Ricketson version of events, which one of you is lying I wonder.
DeleteNot to mention the "nice young lady" that supposedly had a regular boyfriend when she made herself available to Fletch the Letch. Maybe your idea of a nice young lady but not mine.
Dear Anonymous 2.56
DeleteI see Mr Fletcher on a fairly regular basis and talk with him about all sorts of things. There is no real contradiction between what Wes is saying and what I have reported about Mr Fletcher's relationship (or lack thereof) with his children.
In any event, what is the point you are making? That men who are alienated from their children are rapists?
You, like members of Team Neeson and other who, for their own reasons, wish to see Mr Fletcher die in jail without a trial, never engage with the facts that are available to anyone who looks at thew court documents. You find totally unrelated facts and use them to justify your wish that Mr Fletcher never receive a fair trial. Why do you put so much effort into pushing this line? Are you just a casual bystander who hates Mr Fletcher (have you ever met him?) or are you one of those who, having failed to find any evidence at all of Mr Fletcher having committed any crime, now feel threatened by the revelation that you were either incompetent (if he were committing crimes and you never noticed) or that you intended to set him up and now feel threatened by the possibility of being exposed as having set him up for rape charges with an inducement of $30,000 held out to Yang Dany as a bribe?
No real contradiction ? You blame the Scott Neeson and Andrew Drummond for the fact Fletchers children want nothing to do with him and Wes claims they were estranged even before Fletcher came to Cambodia. I ask again James (and please try not to deflect the question this time) Which one of you is lying ? Personally I suspect it is you, after all you never let the truth get in the way of a good blog.
DeleteMaybe you forgot to take your medication this morning James if you think there is no real contradiction. Are you a liar James or is Wes (or maybe both)
DeleteJames Ricketson version "Mr Fletcher is alienated from his children. Given the treatment given to him by the media it is not unsurprising that they would wish to sever contact with a man whom they believed raped a young Cambodian woman. Perhaps, if Mr Fletcher were to ever receive a fair trial and to be found innocent some family relationship repairs might be possible."
Wes version "as to David's kids; well they are good kids; Adults now; both are over 40 and for what ever reason, they do not have a lot to do with David; Fact is, they have not in a very long time.............way before he moved to Cambodia; I spoke with his daughter about six or seven years ago and she informed me that her Dad was dead to her"
Seems that the situation with David's children went from estranged to now most likely irreparable as a result of Neeson's comments.
DeleteHaha Anon 4.50 - I think " I spoke with his daughter about six or seven years ago and she informed me that her Dad was dead to her" sounds pretty terminal to me.
DeleteThe other option of course that might be setting alarm bells off in James head is that maybe Fletcher is a little careless with the truth when it suits him and he thinks there is a chance his pack of lies will be a little more believable if he embellishes the truth. I still look forward to hearing from James who it is that is telling lies though.
Yea, you are totally believable Anonymous 4:57! About as believable as Scott Neeson!
DeleteBelievable Anon 5.11 ? I am merely republishing supposed "facts" previously posted by Wes and James Ricketson. As you appear to want to voice your opinion, which of the two do you consider believable and which one do you consider is lying because one of them is certainly telling porkies.
DeleteWho made the $30,000 offer, Rickets? I bet you don't have the balls to name him
DeleteOf course Rickets doesn't have any balls - he is very careful what and how he writes material about people. he knows he is defaming people so instead of writing it directly himself, he creates this blog and then lets his fuckwit followers write absolute rubbish about anyone who isn't sitting at the lower expat table. Rickets is a gutless coward.
DeleteIt is really weird to read the comments from people who are fanatical "anti fair trial". Instead of commenting the obvious facts in Mr. Fletchers case, they babble about what he did in the UK and guessing about what his intentions were in the dump site etc. Why are they so much against giving a person a fair trial?
ReplyDeleteThey are most likely people collecting salaries from NGOS.
DeleteYes, Anonymous 6.37
DeleteIf Mr Fletcher is guilty of raping Yang Dany he deserves to be in jail.
In order for Mr Fletcher to be found guilty he needs to be tried in accordance with Cambodian law.
My Fletcher has not received a trial held in accordance with Cambodian law.
Mr Fletcher deserves a fair trial. So too do all in Cambodia accused of a crime. This does not occur.
Those who wish to deny Mr Fletcher a fair trial have another agenda.
You keep harping about a trial for Fletcher. He has been found guilty by the courts and now he is doing time - there is no other argument. There is an old saying that i like - a leopard never changes its spots. So he gets convicted for sexual activity with a child in the UK and doesn't change his ways - what doe he do? He targets a young asian girl with little education. A predator that is sitting where he belongs and lots of cambdian children are safer because of it.
ReplyDeleteRickets - please tell me what the difference is between you, that prick Peter Hogan and that other dog Andrew Drummond. All 3 of you wrote blogs that look to defame people. Is there a certain coward gene that you keyboard warriors have that makes you absolute low cunts? But karma is a beautiful thing - Hogan dies a painful death. Drummond gets arrested for defamation and is chased out of Thailand, you have been arrested in Cambodia and convicted of deflation = 3 fucking losers!
ReplyDeleteAnd let's not forget the Cambodian judiciary which has been shown to be one of the most corrupt in the world, James McCabe who went to prison for felonies and Steve Morrish was outed in the Oz press as a violent thug gone rogue in Cambodia. Plenty of peas in this karma pod. What might fate have in store for APLE? Any guesses?
Deletewell at least we know you are one of the USA fuckwits anon 11.06pm. Felonies? Morrish gone rogue - what the fuck is that supposed to mean. I think you have been watching too many CIA movies.
DeleteWhats the bet that anon 11.06pm comes from the loser bar fly expat pod. Plenty of peas in that pod dickhead. Whats common with the rickets loser team is that they are all jealous and very spiteful of people who are actually successful. McCabe is running the CPU and doing very well. Neeson has built an NGO that is booming, Morrish built an NGO and now has a private company which operates in 4 countries and the list goes on. What do ricket supporters do = school teachers, bar owners and generally low life sexpats.
Delete12:48
Delete"well at least we know you are one of the USA fuckwits anon 11.06pm. Felonies? Morrish gone rogue - what the fuck is that supposed to mean. I think you have been watching too many CIA movies."
Yankees. God bless 'em.
"Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too. "
1:07 What about the facts in Fletchers case? You don't like to comment on the missing passport, the intact hymnen, the video recording were the girl and her mother both denies that he raped her, APLE being biased or other suspicious aspects of his conviction. Who are you really?
DeleteAple's Business Model - and the problems it creates:
ReplyDeleteWe now know the timeline of David Fletchers ordeal which ended up in a unjustified denial of a fair trial, a 10 year sentence, the unwillingness of the FCO to face Facts and APLE's role in playing loose with the truth in order to justify it's existence. (stalking people over years, brainwashing and intimidating children and locking them up in so-called shelters from which they cannot escape, offering Parents incredible amount of money if they cooperate with no consequences to be feared because the real Victim will be expelled and blacklisted in Cambodia forever.)
APLE's Technical Advisor, founder and former President (Thierry Darnaudet) and it's Country Director Samleang Seila would do well to wake up to Freud’s insights and recover the pioneering empirical work of cognitive psychologists like Elizabeth Loftus, Stephen Ceci and Maggie Bruck, who amply demonstrated that human memory can all too easily be falsified by suggestion. Indulging malicious, compo-seeking liars and encouraging the production of increasingly florid delusions in psychotics can never be a sane path to a just outcome. Securing convictions is no measure of justice; establishing the truth beyond reasonable doubt is. The latter should result in the wrongfully accused walking free, not being banged up in some sordid tomb for the living or forced, as is now the case, to prove their innocence if accused of a sexual offence.
But than, even Human Rights Orgs like Licadho don't give a fiddlers fart about justice when it comes to a foreigner that is accused of rape while his victim NOT is still a virgin.
The UK and US are the modern Inquisition.
http://www.inquisition21.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=400
Both you and Wes appear to be very quiet on the question of which one of you is lying James, looks like you have been caught out fabricating the truth
ReplyDeleteIf one of them is wrong, it doesn't necessary make it a lie. And what does it matter anyway?
DeleteOf course it makes a lie, what else does it make. James appears to be using an Andrew Drummond style of reporting to make things look a lot more sensational than they are.
ReplyDeleteWhat does it matter if James is lying ? Now you show yourself to be a total moron, it shows his blog has zero credibility when he makes it up as he goes along
James has tried to lead us all (several times) to believe that Fletchers lack of relationship with his children can be blamed on Neeson and Drummond. This is simply not true, and if James has lied about this then what else is he lying about.
As Wes states Fletchers children disowned him long before he came to Cambodia. Come on Ricketson what is your reason for lying, I suspect that if we dig deeper we will find a lot more cracks in your story. You know you have been caught out and that is why you will not answer the question.
Sounds like Alan Lemon trying to make a case when there is none.
DeleteRicketsons blog is full of lies and over dramatised bullshit. If he didn't make things up he outdent have anything tow rite about. He makes that fuckwit andrew drumming look like an angel.
DeleteThere is one thing that is common amongst people who create blogs that look to defame people = they are under achievers, in many cases loners who are jealous of others and have a hatred of people who succeed. You can decide if I am correct in my comment or not but here is a list of people affiliated to Cambodia who have blogs that defame people - James Ricketson, Peter Hogan, Andrew Drummond, Robert Jamieson
DeleteDear Team Neeson, Team APLE
ReplyDeleteGiven that you are all saying much the same I’ll save a little time and energy wiring you all of you at once.
As for my making things sensational, in the style of Andrew Drummond, please point out to me where I do so? None of you will do so because for the most part I write about facts that can be verified from court documents. Yes, the court declared Yang Dany to be a virgin still. Yes, as of 23rd June 2010, APLE, SISHA and CEOP had no evidence at all that Mr Fletcher had raped Yang Dany or anyone else. If they had had such evidence he would have been arrested.
No, it would take another 17 days and a $30,000 offer of compensation to Yang Dany and her mother before the rape allegations were made. (This is from court documents). So, it is a fact and not just a theory of mine that I am trying to push for sensational reasons, that for 17 days Mr Fletcher was held in a Thai prison with no charges laid – at the request of the Cambodian authorities. Why do you think that such are quest was made at a time when the Cambodian authorities had no evidence that Mr Fletcher had committed a crime?
Please take the facts that are known, and about which there can be no dispute, and write out for me, for others reading this, your own theory as to how these facts can be put together in a story that makes sense?
You will not. None of you will. You hope that if you continue to shoot the messenger that those who are following this blog will abandon their critical faculties and common sense, as you do. No doubt there are some reading this blog who will be influenced by the nonsense you spout (ad nauseum) but I suspect that most will look a the facts and (even if they disagree with me) arrive at their own opinions about how and why it was that Mr Fletcher was set up by a variety of people and organizations.
...to be continues...
James you fuckwit, you are claiming Fletch the Letch's children will not speak to him because Drummond "stitched him up" and Wes..... clearly tells us that Fletchers children disowned him prior to his coming to Cambodia.
DeleteYou are clearly a liar, I am not shooting the messenger but pointing out that the messenger does not tell the truth.
One of the facts in dispute is the $30,000, if it was genuinely offered then who offered it ? If you cannot answer this question then once again your post should be taken as bar room innuendo, rumour and scuttlebut
"Please point out" James, OK I will point out that your story is not the same as that of Wes, you are sensationalizing lies in the same way as Drummond and Hogan did. You are no better than both of them you lying scumbag
Delete....continuing...
ReplyDeleteBefore you jump onto your keyboards to accuse me of being a ‘conspiracy theorist’ let me say, again, that when it comes to a choice between a conspiracy and a cock-up, it will usually be a cock-up. I have no evidence that at some point all the people involved in the persecution, pursuit and prosecution of Mr Fletcher got together to hatch a plan. No, various people played their own small role and before long they (collectively) reached a point of no return.
When Scott Neeson defamed Mr Fletcher by telling Andrew Drummond that he was grooming little girls, he was picking up where Peter Hogan had left off. Hogan hated Mr Fletcher in much the same way he hated a lot of people. Others were hurt by Hogan’s particular virulent brand of journalism. He went after others such as Steve Morrish with the same glee.
Neeson wanted to get rid of Mr Fletcher because he was ‘competition’ in the rubbish dump. Scott wanted to be king of the castle – the sole savior of the poor children at the dump. He did not take kindly to having Mr Fletcher on his turf. I doubt very much that Scott made his grooming comment in the hopes that Mr Fletcher would wind up receiving a 10 year jail sentence. Still, when it came about (and Scott knew full well that Yang Dany was a virgin AFTER she was allegedly raped) that Mr Fletcher was jailed for 10 years, this suited Scott. He was definitely rid of Mr Fletcher. His conscience was (and still is) untroubled by the role he played in Mr Fletcher being jailed.
As for Thierry Darnaudet and Samleang Seila and the role they played I don’t think I need to join the dots. They knew that Yang Dany was a virgin. They knew that she had never, prior to Mr Fletcher’s departure for Thailand, accused him of rape. It suited their agenda (APLE’s agenda) to keep pursuing Mr Fletcher and to do what needed to be done to guarantee that he remained in a Thai prison until Yang Dany could be convinced to make her rape allegation.
And so it goes. The British Embassy in Bangkok played its role also with the destruction of a key piece of evidence – Mr Fletcher’s passport. And the Phnom Penh Municipal court played its part but guaranteeing that the 2100 trial would be held in secret and that Mr Fletcher would have no opportunity to present a defense.
These are all facts that can be gleaned from court records, press releases and statements made by key players in the drama.
As for the oft repeated accusation that I am a coward I would be quite happy to meet with any of those of you who think that I am sensationalizing the facts. I will lay the documents out in front of you and encourage you to offer me your own version of what happened that takes into account the facts about which there can be no dispute.
I am in Phnom Penh right now so if anyone wants to nominate a time and a place to meet with me, please do. Such a meeting could occur in any one of a number of cafes around Phnom Penh on any morning that suits.
Good post James. As the anti-Ricketson crowd gets more virulent and aggressive, Ricketson gets less sensationalistic and clearer in his presentation. Interesting effect. Now, if James could just link those concisely made points with the supporting evidence (just a link or referencable cite would be sufficient), I think he'd have an excellent new front page post here, summing everything up in an easily accessable, non-offensive way.
DeleteWhen time permits I will try to lay it all out in chronological sequence so that it is as crystal clear as is possible. There are literally hundred of documents so it is not possible to reference them all. Often, what I do is make a reference to the relevant part of a document. For instance, the doctor's report pertaining to Yang Dany's intact hymen is somewhat long-winded and I have quoted only that part which is really relevant to the the matter in hand.
DeleteI have just got holed of another document from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office relating to Mr Fletcher's passport. It is a fourth version of what happened to his passport but is only subtly different from one of the other three.. I may well publish the entire letter but it would be very boring for 99% of readers to plough through it, and other documents. You must take my word for it when I say I have a documents that says such and such. If I am lying this will come out eventually and I will look like a fool.
So, referencing ALL documents would cause most readers of this blog to yawn and lose interest. I must be selective. I am, however, quit3e happy to show them to whoever is interested. So far no-one is taking me up on my offer to meet and show them the documents.I wonder why this might be?
Anon 3.09. The problem is that James has NO supporting evidence as we all know.
DeleteHe has lost a lot of credibility over his "Wes Vs James" claims to be telling the truth and this is coming back to haunt him until he admits he is a liar.
Yes James, we have all yawned and lost interest over your same story being repeated and repeated. It is not surprising that one of the nicknames everybody has for James is etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Then I have 3 other examples of him not telling the truth to come back and hit him with. Stand by to see the Ricketson house of cards come crumbling down over his constant lies and hidden agendas.
"The problem is that James has NO supporting evidence as we all know."
DeleteThat is not true. He has already published several pieces of it throughout this blog, especially that virginity report (way too many times.) But his presentation has been scattered, repetitive, often offensive, and imo, poor. Nevertheless, he clearly has supporting evidence. Whether it is enough evidence is a different issue.
"He has lost a lot of credibility over his "Wes Vs James" claims to be telling the truth and this is coming back to haunt him until he admits he is a liar."
That's just silly. Even if he was wrong about that one point, it's just one point and not even directly related to the main issue. There are probably some other things that got over sensationalized and exaggerated in his presentation as well, but its not even close to "losing all credibility." This is just slight step above quibbling over grammar. If you want to 'destroy his credibility' you are going to have to do much more than this. First you need to find something relevant to the questions of whether Fletcher received a fair trial and whether he is deserving of one. And then show that it is wrong or unsupported or misrepresented or fabricated or whatever.
Though this does highlight is one of the problems with talking too much when trying to make a case or present an argument, especially a legal argument. The more you talk, the greater the chance of sticking your foot in you mouth. Especially if you are trying to say the same thing in different ways. It just the nature of the beast. It's best to stick to directly relevant points, make them concisely, include unobtrusive but comprehesive references, avoid extraneous issues and weaker secondary arguments, deliver the conclusion, then stop talking. It limits your chance of saying something stupid and helps keep your opponent on topic.
So Just answer the question James, which one is a liar, you or Wes ?? Personally I have a feeling it is you, and until you answer the question it will be posted every time you spew out more of your anti Scott venom. You are simply a liar James so why not admit it so we can move on
ReplyDeleteJames Ricketson version "Mr Fletcher is alienated from his children. Given the treatment given to him by the media it is not unsurprising that they would wish to sever contact with a man whom they believed raped a young Cambodian woman. Perhaps, if Mr Fletcher were to ever receive a fair trial and to be found innocent some family relationship repairs might be possible."
Wes version "as to David's kids; well they are good kids; Adults now; both are over 40 and for what ever reason, they do not have a lot to do with David; Fact is, they have not in a very long time.............way before he moved to Cambodia; I spoke with his daughter about six or seven years ago and she informed me that her Dad was dead to her"
James,
DeleteWes and you are correct concerning the estrangement of my children.
It is 8 years since the village idiots started their bile.
You are correct as always, but as you are obviously not explaining the issue in very simple terms and our blogger insists I am simple, perhaps I can explain in my very simple terminology.
This subject is hardly worth blog space but I guess we have to spell it out for the academic that assures me I am dim. Fortunately I am just about able to add figures together and on a good day subtract, if they are under 10. Stephen Hawkins appears only just able to read.
So, on the subject of my estrangement with my children, not my family, as you assume wrong again Stephen Hawkins!
Trash such as yourself have been using Google for your bile against me since 2007, so put your fingers in front of your no doubt fat ugly face and count to 15! Dont rush, you have the rest of your dull uninspiring life. Now ! take away 8 from 15, very slowly now, how many do you have left? Good boy! A lollipop for you! The exact number you and your ilk have wasted your life in front of Google.
You see, brightness, it is trash like you that put your stink on google, and why the Cambridge dictionary deals in accuracy. So am sure you can work out why I use my home town facts. Now be a good little boy and sulk in your corner for a day or two before you think to repeat yourself for the umpteenth time.
As you and your ilk do not care for me, why do you waste your valuable two brain cells on this blog?
David Fletcher.
My first brain cell asks how Wes is correct when he says your children understandably wanted nothing to do with a mentally sick man like yourself even BEFORE you went to Cambodia. My second one asks how Ricketson can be correct if he says your children have alienated you because of comments from Drummond and Neeson AFTER you got to Cambodia.
DeleteIf I had a third brain cell I would most likely ask why don't you tell us personally which one is lying Fletcher - or maybe it is you.
My first brain cell asks how Wes is correct when he says your children understandably wanted nothing to do with a mentally sick man like yourself even BEFORE you went to Cambodia. My second one asks how Ricketson can be correct if he says your children have alienated you because of comments from Drummond and Neeson AFTER you got to Cambodia.
DeleteIf I had a third brain cell I would most likely ask why don't you tell us personally which one is lying Fletcher - or maybe it is you.
Dear Anonymous 3.41
DeleteIf you had more than 3 brains cells you would be aware that your observations are so many red herrings. (Google it!)
What has Wes' version of Mr Fletcher's relationship with his children got to do with whether or not he raped Yang Dany?
What has my version of his relationship got to do with whether or not he is guilty of rape?
You, like others in Team Neeson and Team APLE, simply use such observations to draw attention away from the central premise of this whole blog, as it related to David Fletcher:
"Is Mr Fletcher entitled to a fair trial?"
The best answer you can come up with is:
"No, he is not entitled to a fair trial because he is alienated from his children."
Really! This is the best you can come up with.
If the expression "clutching at straws" does not mean anything to your 3 brain cells, Google it.
So why not simply answer the question James, did you lie or did Wes. It has nothing to do with Fletchers guilt but a considerable amount to your credibility on this blog, Did you lie or did Wes ?
ReplyDeleteWhy must either Wes or I be lying? When it comes to family relationships there is rarely one immutable truth. There are levels and layers of complexity. And, again, why is this relevant? Why are you so concerned about whether or not Wes' version or my version is 'the truth'? Why do you have no concern for the flagrant lying engage din by Scott Neeson? He claims to be 'gifting' homes to poor people when in fact he is gifting them to CCF and then renting them out to poor families? Why do you not concern yourself with the fact that Scott Neeson lied in telling Andrew Drummond that Mr Fletcher was 'grooming' young girls? Why do you not concern yourself with Scott Neesons lie that CCF spends $4,000 per year to keep one child in residential care and going to a CCF school?
DeleteThese lies of Scott's are relevant. Whether Wes' version of Mr Fletcher's relationship with his children or my version is 'the truth' is of no relevanace at all to the fundamental question of whether or not he raped Yang Dany; whether or not Mr Fletcher is entitled to a fir trial
If you were too thick to notice the first time I said it James.
Delete"It has nothing to do with Fletchers guilt but a considerable amount to your credibility on this blog"
If you made this up as you went along what else have you made up to embelish your so called facts on your blog. You constantly blame Scott Neeson and Andrew Drummond based on your "facts" but it appears not all your facts were correct. So again James I repeat the question, which one of you is lying. Did Fletchers kids dis-own him before of after he was legally convicted and imprisioned of a sex offence in Cambodia.
Neither James nor Wes lied. Time heals wounds, but Neeson's comment exacerbated the wound and the court followed it up by throwing out the rule of law.
DeleteLies are like Neeson saying that the homes he rents are high and dry, when we are looking at photos of raw sewage that people must walk through to get to their homes.
Lies are like World Housing saying that they are gifting homes to the people, and then keeping the homes to rent out.
So did Fletchers children disown him prior to or after him coming to Cambodia. None of team Ricketson seem to be able to answer his question. You for one seem to think it is Wes that was correct and that James is lying, I tend to agree unless it is Fletcher that is lying to Ricketson. Talk about James grasping at straws
DeleteLies are like Scott Neeson saying David Fletcher was grooming young girls. Neeson is the one with NO credibility!!
DeleteSo did Fletchers children disown him prior to or after him coming to Cambodia. None of team Ricketson seem to be able to answer his question. You for one seem to think it is Wes that was correct and that James is lying, I tend to agree unless it is Fletcher that is lying to Ricketson. Talk about James grasping at straws
DeleteDon't put words in my mouth Anonymous 8:15! By any chance, do you wear lipstick?
DeleteAnonymous 8:15, any chance that you were living with James McCabe when he was stealing drugs at gunpoint and then reselling the drugs?
DeleteSo did Fletchers children disown him prior to or after him coming to Cambodia. None of team Ricketson seem to be able to answer his question. You for one seem to think it is Wes that was correct and that James is lying, I tend to agree unless it is Fletcher that is lying to Ricketson. Talk about James grasping at straws
DeleteWas McCabe's current wife 15 years old when when he started dating her from a hostess bar? Could he work around children in Oz?
DeleteChildren, children, please! Must you squabble so?
ReplyDeleteYour point-scoring certainly boosts the number of people who log on to witness the verbal hisicuffs but do nothing to address the central question:
Is David Fletcher entitled to a fair trial?
I have never met Wes. I have never met or communicated with Mr Fletcher's children. I have no reason to doubt the truth of what Wes recalls having been told - namely that Nr Fletcher was 'dead' to one of his daughters. I am not sure what year this was but let's say it was 10 years ago. Let's say it was the result of Mr Fletcher's 1998 court case. (I am making a few guesses here that may not be correct.)
So, very angry with her father this daughter decides she wants to have nothing to do with him anymore. Such things do occur within families for a variety of much less dramatic reasons than a family member being charged with and found guilty of a crime.
As some above has already observed, time can heal all sorts of wounds...
...to be continued...
...continuing...
ReplyDeleteHowever, it is not easy for time to do its work when, a decade later, a sensational UK tabloid quotes Scott Neeson as saying that David Fletcher is grooming young girls.
Scott Neeson was lying. He had no evidence at all that Mr Fletcher was grooming young girls. Nor did CEOP or SISHA. Indeed, Scott knew that Yang Dany was a virgin (in Sept 1010) and that it was highly unlikely that Mr Fletcher had raped her. He, along with many others, decided to keep this knowledge to himself and so it would almost certainly have remained had I not got copies of court documents.
Now that their leader had been shown, on many occasions and in many ways, to be someone who plays fast and loose with the truth, Team Neeson needs to find some way to (yet again) shoot the messenger. The seeming contradiction between Wes' version of events and my own enables Team Neeson to crow, "See, James is lying. You can't believe anything you read on this blog."
In so doing, Team Neeson hopes that readers will fail to notice that Neeson never answers any questions- despite his and CCF's 100% 'transparency' rating on 'Charity Navigator'
Finally, if Mr Fletcher's children were fully supportive of him and advocating his right to a fair trial, would this tell us anything about his guilt or innocence? No. So why is their lack of clamouring relevant?
Thanks Wes for bringing a bit of truth to this fucking blog. You have proven once and for all that Ricketson is a lying cunt. You knew Fletch the Letch when he was fiddling kids back in the UK and his kids knew it too which is why they didnpt want to have anyting to do with him. Ricketson is not just a moron but tries to make out that until the shit hit the fan in Cambodia Fletch the Letch had a good relationship with his kids. Now we know for sure if you hadnt guess already that Ricketson is a liar and rvetything on theis blog is bullshit
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of horse shit you bring Anonymous 2:36!
DeleteDear Anonymous 2.36
DeleteTeam Neeson really does need to recruit trolls with more intellectual clout than you reveal with your eternally stupid comments.
But I do have to thank you for your stupid comments because they provide some comic relief and also add a little drama to this blog. Each and every time you, and others from Team Neeson, try to prove with verbal gymnastics that Mr Fletcher must be a 'child rapist' or that I must be a liar for giving an account of Mr Fletcher's relationship with his children that is at variance with Wes', I get a dozen more page views. I suspect that these are people who follow Khmer440 and who come here looking not for enlightenment but for drama: Team Neeson just delivered a knockout blow to Ricketson! No, Ricketson is back on his feet with a right hook to Team Neeson's lack of logic. How will Team Neeson deflect this blow from Ricketson? How will Ricketson deflect Team Neeson's next attack?
All very silly.
A fair trial for Mr Fletcher, for the rape of Yang Dany, is all that is required. This is a right that is enshrined in Cambodian law. The fact that he is alienated from his children is as irrelevant to the question of whether or not he raped Yang Dany as would be his children's active advocacy on behalf of their father.
I think that any person with minimal intelligence can see that Mr.Fletcher hasn't got a fair trial, just like so many other people in Cambodia. Its nothing new. The new in Mr. Fletcher's case is that so many, here on this blog and among "respectable" NGOs, obviously are trying to sabotage a persons right to a fair trial. It is quite disturbing actually and I believe that the only reason for this is that they all have something to hide. Why else would they resist it to such a high degree?
ReplyDeletewow, my last comment kind of set off a firestorm; very much unintended I might add; it does serve to prove my point about a lot of the people who come on here looking for something to say...and it seems I gave them just that.
ReplyDeleteit was not my intention to leave it as my statement implied..........so let me clean up some things; first, the statement had nothing to do with the article that Andrew Drummand wrote.............this had to do with his daughter being mad at her Dad and saying things that I am sure she did not mean...........but as it made the point that every child at some point hates their parents; that was the only point in intended;
Next was the comment about the "nice young girl" seems everyone missed the fact that it was said so as not to slander her but to point out that she was not a nice girl; she knew exactly what she was doing............you all missed that.
So, I don't care how any of you respond to this post, I am not wasting any more time with you people. My friend David can stand up for himself and is doing a great job;
James is great with words........I envy that talent as I am not; most of you are not; When one is not the best at writing, they often end up being misquoted........
I am having what is probably fatal computer issues and my work (yes some of us work) is keeping me very busy...........so write what you wish, I will not see it.
I apologize to both James and David that I was unable to get back and answer the village idiots but had no clue that so many people must have had perfect relationships with their kids; good for them.
ROFL, what a reversal Wes, you should go into politics. It is OK though as I think many readers will go back to your original version and realise the true facts as you first published them. Good to see you falling on your sword though in a futile attempt to try and give Ricketson some credibility over the matter.
ReplyDelete....... at least....we....will....not....have...to....put....up....with....your.....irritating writing.....style again.
"as to David's kids; well they are good kids; Adults now; both are over 40 and for what ever reason, they do not have a lot to do with David; Fact is, they have not in a very long time.............way before he moved to Cambodia; I spoke with his daughter about six or seven years ago and she informed me that her Dad was dead to her"
Dear Team Neeson
ReplyDeleteIt never occurred to me that David's relationship with his children would be dissected as it has been and I have never enquired too deeply of Mr Fletcher.
Under the circumstances I have delved into this and can assure you that (a) Mr Fletcher's daughters comment was not in relation to his 1998 conviction and (b) that it is private (and complex) family business that is of no relevance to the question of whether or not Mr Fletcher raped Yang Dany. And it is of no relevance at all to the question of whether or not Mr Fletcher is entitled to a fair trial.
Scott Neeson and Alan Lemon's obsession with this arises from their vain hope that they can deflect attention away from their multiple scams - the most obvious of which is the World Housing scam, about which I have written again on blog # 166.
The trolls had a field day. Don't feed them.
ReplyDeletePat
DeleteThe Neeson Trolls tell us much about Team Neeson so it does not bother me that they persist with their increasingly lame attempts to shoot the messenger.