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Perverting the course of justice. 5
“I’m well aware of the capabilities some of those porky bastards have got.” Frank Miessen
A few days prior to 10/10/92 the wife Sandra and I both made long statements to Senior Sergeant Neville Haggart about how Donald Britton was terrorizing our family, we wanted the Police to put a stop to his criminal campaign and revoke his firearms licence . So what does this Haggart genius do about it?
10/10/92 Neville (the devil) Haggart wearing a balaclava, with Britton about a 100 meters from our house. He did that when he knew my wife and kids were at home but he didn’t care if anyone was frightened by his criminal behaviour.
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Here he is again compounding matters. Britton is playing for time checking his radiator water, in the hope that I would react to Haggart’s provocations. Note Haggart’s tough guy stance.
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On 14/10/92 I went to see Haggart at his request, he wanted “a few lines” off me, to make a statement about what happened on 10/10/92. For over an hour he tried to catch me out in a lie, asking me leading questions about what went on that day. (Remember I didn’t know it was him that wore the balaclava at that stage.) During the interview this was said. (All on tape.)
Jack…Have you identified the joker? (The fool in the balaclava, I’d shown him the photos.)
Haggart….No
Jack….Isn’t it a crime to wear a mask?
Haggart….No
(To frighten or provoke people it is!)
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Haggart….Could he be a farmer or anything like that?
Jack…No.
Haggart….If I call Britton in and we ascertain who this guy was, I don’t know how truthful Britton is likely to be?
Haggart is wondering how truthful Britton is likely to be! At the end of the interview I asked Haggart if he thought I was “bullshitter”. He said, “no”.
When I later (21/12/92) found out just how low a (balaclava wearing) snake Haggart really was I complained to his bosses in Wellington and this is what I got back.
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Note 5. how Mansell dodged the core of my complaint.
In the end Haggart made a statement about his criminal antics of 10/10/92 and this is how the last page went.
(End of page 5) As having investigated this file in respect of Van Der Lubbe’s allegation that ;
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So here we have Haggart, the congenital liar, making a false statement (written) to Police and in it he has the gall to accuse me of being untrustworthy twice and that after he admitted to me that I wasn’t a bullshitter. He was right about being taped. He admitted to Sandra that our statements to him were “accurate, very accurate”. This duplicitious mongrel’s word is used by prosecutors to put people in prison. Now there’s a scary thought.
Only liars fear the tape recorder.
Haggart stated that the reason he did what he did on 10/10/92 was, “To test my reaction.” A clear case of provocation.
That little episode taught me to never, ever trust another cop.
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Jack I have read the page. I don’t know whether it was him or not - again only your side is given. BUT if it was, then no, there is no way that sort of behaviour is correct from a Police officer. It’s a shame that the alleged actions of one over 12 years ago has lead you to never ever trust another cop (your words). It’s like saying that because one woman (or man) broke your heart years ago, you will never ever trust another again and then do everything you can to slag each and everyone of them for the rest of your life. I really don’t think anything I say would convince you otherwise…
Anonymous | August 5th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
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A portion of a Police statement.
Senior Sergeant Neville Morris Haggart states;
“On arrival at the property with BRITTON, I was dressed in jeans, a t-shirt and was wearing a balaclava.
The reason for doing this was because of the two previous instances where BRITTON had been to the vicinity of VAN DER LUBBE’s land and on each occasion they had resulted in an AOS callout by VAN DER LUBBE.
The first occasion was he alleged BRITTON was firing shots from a firearm from the land opposite which we had visited that day in the direction of his house.
The second occasion he has reported to the Wanganui Police that BRITION was on his land with a balaclava and was in possession of a firearm and was weaving in and out of tussock.
He was concerned for his safely, hence he called the Police station and AOS were activated on the second occasion only.”
jack | August 5th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
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Wow, I’m gobsmacked, I’ve yet to read more stuff, this is the first page I’ve read so far and it’s got my full attention. I’m fed up with the separate laws for some and another set of laws for me. Man, I could tell some stories about unjust behaviour etc of Hawera Police and members of the courts and even my solicitors. Oh, and CYPFS! They are all a bunch of embiciles at most. I thought it was only in Taranaki. It seems it spreads wider than that too. Wow. And thanx for giving us the opportunity to learn who is what and so on.
Leisa | August 25th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
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You’re most welcome to post your story in ‘Your Stories’ Leisa. Cheers.
Jack | August 25th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
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Wow Jack - you got some photos of a guy in a T’Shirt and a balaclava (convinient isn’t it - he can’t be identifed as a member of the police) and photocopied a complaint - which they take as a statement so don’t check facts or correct “lies”. Damn - you’re one heck of an investigator!
ZebuQueen | December 9th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
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Ring him ZebuQueen he’s in the Napier phonebook, he’ll confirm that he was the clown in the balaclava.
Jack | December 9th, 2005 at 6:20 pm
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and he is guilty of standing by a car? Cause I stood by one today - and as far as I know no one laid a complaint against me…
ZebuQueen | December 9th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
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Don’t be silly ZQ.
Jack | December 10th, 2005 at 9:58 am
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:-) But I can’t help it - your site is so silly… it makes me want to be silly too!
you don’t know he was trying to intimidate anyone - not everything is about you - he could have had his own stuff going on. A few photographs don’t prove anything. I have a photo of a rugby player mid air - to a gulliable mind it might look like he can fly… if you get what I’m saying.
ZebuQueen | December 10th, 2005 at 10:53 am
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There’s no hope for you ZebuQueen. It’s quite handy really, cop supporters talking such rubbish.
Jack | December 10th, 2005 at 11:45 am
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Well if cop abusers talk it - why not the supporters? I’m simply making the point that a couple of photographs can be taken out of context- don’t ignore the point because I’m right.
ZebuQueen | December 10th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
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He admitted it was him and his reason for doing it he said was, “to test his reaction”. IE he tried to provoke a responce by unlawful means. Note his stance, is that the stance and hat of someone going about his lawful business on a hot day?
Jack | December 10th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
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I’m sorry - I don’t see where he says he did it to test your reaction.
ZebuQueen | December 10th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
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Haggart stated that the reason he did what he did on 10/10/92 was, “To test my reaction.” A clear case of provocation.
That little episode taught me to never, ever trust another cop.
Jack | December 10th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
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Court of Appeal vindicates police
National News Release 3:01pm 13 December 2005
Claims that Waikato police were corrupt and planted evidence during a drugs bust are baseless and without foundation, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
The claims were made in the Hamilton District Court late last year during the trial of Ross Williams, Darryl Abraham, Douglas Williams, Darryl Williams and Hayden Abraham. The group were charged with running a cannabis-growing operation after police found extensive cannabis plots on land at Kereta on the Coromandel Peninsula in 2002. The five plots were on DOC land and were adjacent to land owned and occupied by Ross Williams.
The group appealed their convictions and sentences on a number of points, but primarily on the basis that police investigating the case were corrupt and had planted evidence at the scene.
In a reserved judgment released yesterday, Court of Appeal Justices Hammond, Williams and Gendall dismissed all the appeals against conviction and sentence.
The judgment says that during the trial, defence lawyers for the group made “vigorous” allegations of police corruption, perjury and planting of evidence.
“The allegations of improper conduct by the police were serious . . . . On our assessment of all the evidence, we cannot see any basis for such allegations. They are simply baseless claims made in an attempt by the appellants to explain away damning evidence, or the implications of certain exhibits. No evidence was adduced or elicited before the jury, to provide any foundation for the allegations.”
Waikato police crime manager Detective Inspector Peter Devoy said police welcomed the judgment and felt vindicated by the court’s ruling.
“Allegations such as these cut right to the heart of policing and many of our staff took these allegations personally. Police work tirelessly to catch offenders and put them before the courts and it is disheartening to say the least when defence counsel resort to this type of behaviour in defence of their clients.
“The allegations were total fabrications, but we were publicly labelled as corrupt and incompetent police. It’s very difficult for police to fight back from that sort of low blow.”
Mr Devoy said it was unusual for the Court of Appeal to come out so strongly in their judgment.
“Of course the defence does not have to give evidence, but claims of police corruption and planting of evidence, to be made responsibly, require some evidential foundation and none existed,” the judgment said.
Jack | December 16th, 2005 at 10:00 am
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Ouch I’d hate to see what will happen if they see yourve posted a copy of the report sent to you on the internet. Privacy Act protects the police officer who signed the report from being identified and although he may be in the wrong his rights have been ignored. Ooh naughty naughty…
BoomeyWalnut | January 14th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
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Naughty, naughty am I BoomeyWalnut, what about Haggart? I don’t see you criticizing his behaviour . That ludicrous porky bastard, totally ignored my rights but don’t worry he has seen it and has done nothing, the last thing he wants to do is give his criminal folly more publicity.
Jack | January 14th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
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We all have grievences with the police at some time in our lives, but sites like this help noone. All they do is stir up unncessary resentment against a sector of the community who literally put their lives on the line for the rest of us. Police officers are only human, and may not always act in the way we would like, but I’m telling you this country would be a frightening place without them standing in the gap between us and the gangs, criminal underworld and other assorted lowlife thugs. As a mum on her own with two young daughters, I’m thankful that when the rougher element on our street make me feel unsafe the police are just a phone call away. Get over it mate, and be thankful we don’t live in a country where the cops really are bent and even in the hands of the criminals!!!
Arwen | January 22nd, 2006 at 12:35 pm
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Well said Arwen, and dead right…another proud Kiwi.
scud | March 3rd, 2006 at 9:08 pm
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Policing policies -
Sad but probably true. I have lived in Kiwiland most of my life and you have hit the nail on the head. I have friends that have left the “family” because of incidencies like that listed above. Police corruption is disturbing and in reality more wide spread than most New Zealanders think. When I was a little younger I did have a fleeting interest in the force but thankfully, this passed. You’ve got steel nuts publicizing this information and I feel for your family (remember the guy in Christchurch who was severely beaten 4 years ago for doing the same thing you’ve done here.) If they hassle you, get the media involved, bout the only hingthat will save you these days. But be thankful you dont live in Papakura, my brother served there in the 90s, he ended up getting counselling not because of the “criminals” moreso the activities of his fellow workmates. A truely desperate pack of wild animals.
Glad Im not you | March 13th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
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Well, I have lived in Papakura most of my adult life…it is a shit hole and I don’t know how the hell they get any cops to work here at all, bearing in mind they get paid the same if they work in Wanaka. Maybe if they were not trying to police a ‘pack of wild animals’ things might be a little easier. This country is becoming a politically correct nightmare and all we seem to do is continually restrain our Police and make it increasingly difficult for them to do their job. It is a good time to become a criminal if you ask me…Maybe your brother didn’t have the balls to do what really needed doing?? Just a thought.
scud | March 21st, 2006 at 6:07 pm
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#19 Once again scud (the cop) is defending the indefencible.
Jack | April 26th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
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You are a wart on the ass of the people doing a good job in the police. you have issues and i question your blurryness between YOUR truth and the cops truth. Maybe you need a clinical assessment…
Blueee | May 3rd, 2006 at 7:56 pm
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But what if MY truth is the actual truth Blueee, what if I’m not blurry, have you thought about that or is that simply too awful for you to contemplate?
Jack | May 3rd, 2006 at 8:11 pm
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What do you recon puihi, is Haggart a bastard or what?
Jack | May 9th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
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The Lord hates a lying tongue…muwahahahaha
What people like ZebuQueen, Arwen, scud and Bluee are too thick to see, is that the force is being infiltrated by hypocrites. In their bid to cover this fact up, they don’t realise the insidious harm it does to the thin blue line. Eejits all!!
But I digress…I’m a bastard and I don’t want to be associated with that lying snake so…as far as I know, he’s not a bastard.
Take faith from telling the truth, for the truth will out, no matter how hard the deceitful try to suppress it.
Lying Godless cretins…they are a wart on the ass of the one true God.
puihi | May 9th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
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I think you put in the good word Jack. It’s not you’re fault that the truth hurts some people. Kia kaha.
Anonymous is right though…you can’t blame them all…there are some good ones. Unfortunately some are led astray by misguided loyalty.
puihi | May 9th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
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Hi Jack,
I agree with puhi, I sympathise with you and your family, but there are some good ones. I know they may find it hard to stay true to their code of ethics, because ( bad association can spoil useful habits 1 Corithians 15v33) but without the Police Force this country would be a scary place to live in. The small percentage that go over the top should really get counselling or leave the force. Covering up for fellow cops that do wrong just make those ones just as bad.
Kruzee | May 10th, 2006 at 11:56 am
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i find an old quote from Tim Shadbolt fitting here
“Its all good going into politics with good intentions
but once one has their head in the trough
its hard not to act like a pig…”
power currupts,
WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?
while i disagree with Puihi on her God BS
I will agree that lies do cause harm
mykodd | July 11th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
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Okey Jack I will admit I feel that a Guy in a Balaclava out the front of your family home is Odd (past Crazy) and would very likely cause me to get pissed off in your position.
But to find out that’s it’s a cop… not any cop but the very cop you complained to about this… Doesn’t that make it a conflict of interest or something?
Can’t he have been charged with giving false info or some thing?
I know they don’t close ranks on their own.
But the amount you complain wouldn’t they at lest have looked at it?
Blue Phoenix | August 25th, 2006 at 8:15 am
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maybe every one should take a good HARD LOOK at the photo copy police letter where it looks very much like either a cut and paste job or some one not to bright using twink. Make your own mind up on this!
kiwi_lad | September 12th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
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sorry forgot to mention where in the letter ….. “He cannot be trusted” and also on the last sentence of the statement
kiwi_lad | September 12th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
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“maybe every one should take a good HARD LOOK at the photo copy police letter where it looks very much like either a cut and paste job or some one not to bright using twink. Make your own mind up on this!”
I made a few comments and such and deleted them with twink kiwi_lad but I changed nothing the cops said. Check with them if you like.
You’d think I’d change things to make myself look better though kiwi_lad, don’t you think?
It’s a bastard when all you can do to the destroyer of your dearest illusions is call him a liar aye kiwi?
Jack | September 12th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
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Ex-policeman cops $5000 harassment bill
Wednesday, 17 January 2007
A former police senior sergeant has been ordered to pay $5000 to the senior constable he has been convicted of harassing for a second time.
Geoffrey James Hill, 48, told Christchurch District Court Judge Michael Green: “I just don’t believe the outcome. I just have this huge feeling of injustice over what’s happened. It just goes on and on and on”.
Judge Green replied: “It goes on and on because of your own actions. It is about time that you acted upon your claims that you want closure. Stop in any way approaching or dealing with this police officer.
“Put it behind you if that’s possible. Put behind you your feelings of injustice.”
He convicted Hill of criminal harassment today when he delivered his reserved decision after a hearing last week. He fined him $750 and ordered him to pay $5000 to the officer he harassed, for emotional harm.
The long sequence of events began when the senior constable stopped Hill for speeding in October 2003.
There is a dispute about what happened next, but Hill was arrested for assault and the charge was later reduced to obstruction.
Hill also complained of assault but his complaint to the Police Complaints Authority was not upheld.
He found out where the senior constable lived and wrote two letters, suggesting he should leave Christchurch.
One of them stated: “I take a very dim view of scum like yourself assaulting and injuring me like you did, but I am very patient and I now know quite a bit about you, including where you live, what vehicle you drive, and I will be taking a very close interest in you”.
In court on that charge, Hill had repeatedly mouthed the word “bastards” at the other officer and his wife, who is also in the police.
He was almost out of control with anger afterwards and the police prosecutor had to move him out of the way so that the officer and his wife could leave the court.
About two months later, the officer and his neighbour noticed Hill drive slowly along their rural road, do a U-turn and stop outside the officer’s driveway. Hill was stopped a short distance away.
In his second trial for criminal harassment last week he denied stopping, and said he had been driving around the area looking for ideas for house designs that might suit his own lifestyle block.
“That’s a perfectly natural thing for people to do when building houses.”
Hill told the court he had been a senior sergeant but had disengaged from the police after a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder.
He had run the police station at Kaikohe where the crime rate was immense.
It was regarded as a “punishment” station for police.
“We were in a state of siege the whole time. The police station was broken into repeatedly.”
He was on medication after that.
He denied in cross-examination that he had used his position as a mortgage broker to find out the addresses of properties owned by the senior constable.
He said anyone who paid for access to the database he used could have obtained the information.
He had then sent the two letters. Hill told the court: “I wanted him to get the letter and know how I felt. Even though he had been able to hide behind the system, I wanted him to know that we both knew what the true situation was.
“I accept it wasn’t a wise thing to do and I should not have done it. But I have been convicted of an offence.”
He acknowledged that at the earlier hearing, he had mouthed the word “bastard” at the senior constable and his wife.
He said it was pure coincidence that on August 6, he was seen outside the senior constable’s property.
Jack | January 17th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
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we need this voice . We need to promote this site to New Zealanders letting them know that there are others out here exposing the police
ICS
shane wenzel | December 13th, 2007 at 7:46 am
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Knock yourself out shane! When is Jamie due back in Court, how’s he off for T shirts?
Jack | December 13th, 2007 at 8:59 am
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The police are the worlds biggest gang. My son & myself have been victims of their brutality & we have seen the police & their fellow officers collude together & fabricate complete crap out of a situation. Some people have their head in the sand if they think differently. We certainly arent PC but after being bashed in the head & punched around my kidneys for sitting in the car with my husband & having a few sips of beer, I have radically changed my opinion of the police. There may be scum out on the streets but I believe its each one for themselves & I for one am more afraid of the police than other criminals. I am an educated woman in her late 30’s & was not doing any harm to anyone. The police are a public nuisance as they arrested me for sipping beer in my car, meanwhile they confiscated & smashed our beer & left the remnants lying in the middle of the road. How can they possibly arrest me when their own behaviour was far worse. Those of us who fall prey to the police & their bullying behaviour know how scary the reality is…..Cheers to all you brave people who continue to stand strong against this type of behaviour….
Anglina | December 24th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
