MARIA WALLIS

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Deputy Chief Constable Maria Wallis was at Sussex police during a period of High Court litigation where Wealden council officers were desperately seeking to use their authority to repair a defective Enforcement Notice from 1986 after it had been tested in the Crown Court in Lewes and found to be wanting.

Christine Nuttall was brought into the frame as a solicitor who, it appears from the evidence, was prepared to bend the rules as much as David Phillips and perhaps should not have been allowed to practice law, let alone handle cases where she was in a position of trust, where her deviousness routinely strayed into malfeasance territory, in that she also knew that an Enforcement Notice her council had been obtained by officers (George White and Thomas Hoy) lying to Inspector Raymond Dannreuther between 1986-1987 was a fraudulent instrument.

Council officers had been harassing Nelson Kruschandl since 1982 seeking to devalue the generating buildings in Lime Park to the benefit of influential neighbours, where Mr Kruschandl was seen to be the weaker subject and of no consequence in terms of transparency or accountability. In other words Wealden's officers thought they could eliminate him fairly quickly and move on to other pastures scott-free.

On several occasions David Phillips had tried to force his way into the generating buildings unlawfully using the fraudulent instrument as a legal battering ram. On one of these 186 recorded site visits he tried to push past Nelson Kruschandl, in the process assaulting his person. The objective was to prevent their target from closing the door to a workshop from where these civil servants were barred from entry. All Mr Kruschandl had to do was stand firm, which he did. It was Mr Phillips who needed to push Mr Kruschandl to effect entry - and that is a common assault and Mr Kruschandl knew that, and the fact he knew his rights enraged these council operatives who'd been in their jobs far longer than they should have been and had developed what is commonly known as a God complex as many civil servants in positions of authority tend to do.

The council's version of events is at odds with what actually happened, with Phillips and Nuttall saying that Kruschandl made the first move and assaulted Phillips. David Phillips is a proven liar. Twice he used photographs and gave them a different date attribute to try and obtain court decisions to show his employers what a clever fellow he was. But this ploy backfired in the case of David Charnley and Nelson Kruschandl, where the negatives and a letter from J Douglas Moss, proved Phillips to be a liar. Why then was Phillips employed by this council and how was it that he retired on an enhanced pension at the tax payers expense?

The fact is that Sussex Police had been working with Wealden to thwart 12 individual criminal complaints against this council's officers, by way of a Petition presented in 1997. Sussex police provided Derek Holness and his team with blank police paper on which the Council wrote what they wanted their members to hear. Not a single officer of the council was interviewed by Sussex police. Not a single informant was interviewed by Sussex police. Clearly, there was no investigation of the 12 allegations, but the public were led to believe that there had been. This is exactly what happened in the case of the James Ashley shooting: a cover up.

One has only to look at what was said about Sussex police in the House of Commons in 2002 to realise how corrupt the present system is, where both the police and councils are unaccountable for their actions.

HANSARD HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY 11th FEBRUARY 2002

The Wilding report found a complete failure of corporate duty by Sussex police. The Hampshire inquiry concluded that three police officers lied about intelligence in order to persuade Deputy Chief Constable Mark Jordan to authorise the raid on James Ashley's flat. The report found that the raid was:

"authorised on intelligence that was not merely exaggerated, it was determinably false ... there was a plan to deceive and the evidence concocted."

The chief constable was castigated. Sir John Hoddinott concluded that Paul Whitehouse, the then chief constable,

"wilfully failed to tell the truth as he knew it, he did so without reasonable excuse or justification and what he published and said was misleading."

Sir John found evidence against Deputy Chief Constable Mark Jordan. That included criminal misfeasance and neglect of duty, discreditable conduct and aiding and abetting the chief constable's false statements. There was suggested evidence of collusion between some or all of the chief officers and an arguable case of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

N J Kruschandl
The Old Steam House

Lime Park, Herstmonceux
East Sussex, BN27 1RF

Maria Wallis                                                                
Deputy Chief Constable                                                                                                            Phone/fax 01323-832634
Sussex Police Headquarters
Malling House
Lewes BN7 2DZ                                                                                                       9 November 2000
                                     

Dear Deputy Chief Constable

Formal Complaint against Wealden District Council
FALSIFYING EVIDENCE or CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

It appears to me that the Chief Constable, Paul Whitehouse is reluctant to investigate allegations as to the Councils misuse of photographs for the purpose of misleading the Courts. There is evidence of collusion between the Police and the Council.

Where Mr Whitehouse suggests that my evidence is not firm evidence, yet the photographs I have provided are identical, I am at a loss to understand the criteria. Mr Charnley’s evidence is equally solid as is Mr Hudsons’s. I understand that one planning officer has been involved directly in three cases where photographic evidence was not consistent. Either he or his supporting legal team are the culprits (similar case). I would stress that this is a separate matter to any other issue I may have raised with the Police.

I am also aware that a complaint I made to the Police in about 1997 was not investigated. I am advised that although Mr Holness (Chief Executive) read out a letter at full Council written on Police paper, Mr Holness was in fact the architect of that letter and failed to advise the Members of his part in the composition.

I asked to speak with Mr Whitehouse several times over the past two weeks. On each occasion I was told that Mr Whitehouse was unavailable and that a Staff Officer would call back. 

Where the Home Secretary urges citizens to challenge the Police, I am now seeking a full and substantive explanation as to the criteria and reasoning in this matter, failing which I must ask you to treat the refusal of Mr Whitehouse to investigate this matter as highly suspicious in itself and to be referred to an outside force for investigation of his conduct and policing standards in Sussex.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely 

Nelson J Kruschandl – COMPLAINANT 

Enclosure: Times article 12-9-00

C.C. Rt Hon Norman Baker MP

Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
Rt Hon Charles Wardle MP
Rt Hon Nigel Waterstone MP

BBC NEWS 2 MAY 2002

The new chief constable for Devon and Cornwall has been named as Maria Wallis - the fourth woman to be appointed to such a position in the UK.

DCC Wallis, currently deputy chief constable of Sussex police, will take over from Sir John Evans in the summer.

Two other police forces in the South West - Wiltshire and Dorset - already have a woman as chief constable, as does Lancashire.

DCC Wallis, 46, described herself as a "people person".

Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, she said: "I look to consult as widely as possible before making key decisions.

"I look to get out on patrol and meet as many members of staff before making those key decisions."

"Listening to staff" would determine the way forward, she said.

DCC Wallis, who is married, has been a police officer for 26 years and has previously worked for the Metropolitan Police Force.

Her special interests have included domestic violence, sexual offences against adults and harassment.

She will take up her post on the retirement of Sir John, who has been in the post for 13 years.

"There will not be a revolution in the policing style in Devon and Cornwall.

"But I hope in learning from the excellence achieved under Sir John we can go forward and further improve on that," she said.


ITV NEWS AUGUST 2014 - CIVILIAN STAFF PAYS CUTS

A long and painful process has come to end today for police staff, but for some that doesn't mean the agony is over. 363 civilian staff received letters today telling them their salaries will be cut, and for more than 130, it'll go down by at least 15%.

In some cases it could be more than 25% - a potential loss of thousands of pounds each year.

This follows a rather protratced pay review aiming to even out salaries.

The force has 2225 civilian staff, of those 28% are getting a pay rise. 55% will stay on the same pay and 16 % percent, or 363 people, will get a pay cut. This all comes at a time when the force is trying to save tens of millions of pounds because of Government budget cuts.

Bill Stevens from the GMB Union says people are already finding it tough.

One of the reasons this pay review has taken so long is because of the heavily criticised pay review that started in 2005.

Hundreds of staff walked out in protest at the process that was later found to be poorly managed and implemented with failures going right to the most senior levels within the force.

The chief constable at the time Maria Wallis took early retirement. This time the force says it has aimed to be more transparent about the process.

Today's Chief Constable say the policy is in the best interest of all staff, and is a reaction to Government cuts.

Working with the unions we have applied the financial envelope we have within these tight financial times because we believe it is the right outcome in terms of a fair system for going forward for our workforce. It doesn't feel fair if you are taking a pay cut and we have to put in place and are putting in place a lot of support to staff during this time and thereafter if it is implemented."

– Shaun Sawyer, Chief Constable, Devon & Cornwall Police

MORE MALFEASANCE IN SUSSEX

The well known dissident, Nelson Kruschandl is just one of a number of local Sussex residents who are victims of Wealden's various vendettas that amount to institutionalised discrimination.

The frequency of the events alleged is suggestive of an ingrained agenda that operates to keep planning consents out of the reach of certain residents, to the benefit of other better connected concerns. The chief executive of this council, Charles Lant is believed to be implicated by virtue of not acting to prevent crime in his council. The leader of the council, Bob Standley is alleged to have been put on notice as the some of these matters, but is seems is also sitting on his hands. The operations of this council are alleged to amount to a course of malicious conduct or even fraud, as defined by the Fraud Act 2006.

Even more worrying is whether or not the Sussex Police is party to these allegations of serious crimes and what part their Chief Constable, Giles York plays in all of this. It would be a feather in any police officer's career if he or she uncovered corrupt practices at a higher level and was brave enough to expose those cover-ups. It is a criminal offence to know of a crime and not report or investigate it.

It is alleged that Sussex police are complicit in the agenda of Wealden District Council to rubbish their dirtiest darkest secret by framing the occupier of the historic building that George White and Thomas Hoy lied about on oath before Inspector Raymond Dannruether in 1986-1987.

It is alleged that as a result of deceiving Mr Dannreuther that they obtained a fraudulent instrument with which to torment Nelson Kruschandl with preventing him from developing his talents as a creative engineer and destroying a marriage and a second long term common law relationship, driving him into a relationship with an unstable psychiatric nurse who was also a single mother.

It is alleged that as Mr Kruschandl became more successful in planning appeals and in defeating enforcement actions against the protagonist council, that they sought a way to bury him - and that they did this by grooming the feelings of the daughter of the psychiatric nurse after an engagement was called off, leading to an acrimonious split where the young girl was emotional putty in the hands of social services who coached her, fabricating a story for her that relied on there being no evidence to contradict her story.

It is alleged that the Sussex police conspired with the CPS and a trial Judge, Cedric Joseph, to gain a conviction against a charge of multiple rapes, where their witness was still intact and a virgin when inspected by Melanie Liebenberg, a witness who also aided and abetted the gaining of this conviction by misinforming the jury as to marks that are naturally occurring, suggesting that they must be from foul play when she must have known otherwise.

It is alleged that Gordon Staker and James Hookway deliberately failed to secure the so-called crime scene, avoiding collecting any evidence that was inconsistent with the allegation they had been tasked to prove. That in doing so they knew that the defendant would be unable to mount any kind of defence where the police controlled the crime scene - and that they were possibly ordered to act in a manner in violation of their:

DUTY TO INVESTIGATE REASONABLE LEADS – CRIMINAL PROCEDURE and CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 1996 (CPCIACPO) and CODE OF PRACTICE ORDER APRIL 2005

Sections 3.4 and 3.5 of the CPCIACPO require the investigating officers in a case to:-

“ pursue all reasonable lines of inquiry, whether these point towards or away from the suspect” 

It follows that any failure on the part of the investigating team, to reasonably secure evidence which they could obtain, may render the eventual trial unsafe, since such evidence, had it been obtained – had the potential to yield exonerating facts or cast doubt as to the reliability of claims, etc. Such investigations must fall under the duty umbrella imposed by Article 6(1) – the right to a: “fair and public hearing,” which is governed by a Code established by the Attorney Generals Guidelines, seen in Archbold’s Criminal Pleadings, and other common law precedents, in addition to the above Order.

It is further alleged that the police investigators had full knowledge that the defendant was Legally Aided and did not have the resources to challenge the might of the state where the Sexual Offences Act 2003, introduced by David Blunkett, reverses the burden of proof contrary to Articles 10 and 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Paul Whitehouse (1993-2001) Ken Jones (2001-2006) Joe Edwards (2006-2007) Martin Richards (2008-2014) Giles York (2014 >>)

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