In summary a
group of people have been after me for years and have completed a 12-year
investigation into the history of FR in an attempt to discredit me. They allege
that we copied the idea from them through contact with a developer that they
had engaged to write their website and that we lied about our launch and have
been doing so ever since. They have been contacting us on and off for 7 years.
In August we received an email and a 21-page summary of their investigation.
For background
to this story read:
Part 1 -
Introduction
Part 2 – The
Claim
Part 3 – The
Contact
Part 4 – The
Email
The document I
received attached to that Email don’t forget was a summary of a 120-page document of the complete
investigation. They haven’t shown me this – on one hand I would love to peruse it,
to see what more these people have been up to.
However, if its anything like the summary then perhaps best I don’t see
it.
I received the
21-page document in August this year, whilst on holiday with my family. It took
me 24 hours to find a laptop that would open it as it was in an old version of
Word. Once I did and started reading it I could not believe what I was seeing.
For most of the
previous seven years I thought these people had gone away – that’s what they
led me to believe in 2005. However, the things they did, the tactics they used,
the people they allege to have involved is mind blowing. I couldn’t actually
read the document from start to finish as it made me so angry on nearly every
page.
I have to admit
here that for the first time I lost it. Yes I had got angry previously at their
communication and insinuation, but this was unbelievable. Some of the things
made me feel physically sick. I decided it was best I take a break from my
family holiday, as I didn’t want the kids to see me stressed and angry. Thanks
for that, guys!
And the reason
for my anger, apart from the allegations against me, was the tactics –
following people; recording my conversations, turning up at friends’ houses and
hassling them and then calling them liars; phoning friends and harassing them; warping
things we said to suit their agenda; the
use of a fraud squad officer to investigate us; use of home office officials,
senior police officers, legal experts, solicitors, authors…. You get the gist.
I started by going through their
21-page summary document line by line and making comments. You can imagine how
slow a process this is. However, by the conclusion I realised a number of things.
Firstly, after 12 years there
isn’t a shred of evidence to support any of these people’s wild claims, as I
would have expected (given that their claims are utterly untrue). This is after
12 years of investigations, use of numerous supposed experts and lots – maybe
hundreds - of man-hours.
Secondly, the document itself
is all over the place in its comments, questions and summaries. I could not
even work out what they were suggesting we did in places as it keeps changing
its mind.
Thirdly, it is just full of
sections of transcripts from conversations, emails, phone conversations and
meetings. A lot is out of context and ALL the conclusions are based on these
peoples’ strange interpretation of what peoples’ answers, written and spoken, mannerisms
and body language mean. A single hesitation, a simple negative answer, a
mistake, a hint of anger all become a scripted cover-up or lie. It is classic
conspiracy stuff.
And finally, they had concentrated
almost completely on trying to find a link between ourselves and their
developer, and in trying to disprove the one fact, namely our URL registration
date, that should have put a lid on this at the start. They at no point tried
to gain proof behind any of our well documented history of FR – as I will show
later in another blog, a simple email and phone call to the current owners of
FR would have given them easily-accessible concrete evidence of our start date
– why hadn’t they thought of doing this at any time?
I decided it was pointless
directly answering any of the points, because these people would then do the usual
and twist them to suit the conspiracy they allege to have taken place.
It appears a lot of people
had been roped into this investigation – family friends, fraud squad officer,
an author, private investigators, senior police officers, a Home Office
director, ‘leading’ legal experts, various solicitors to name some of those who
are mentioned. The list is incredible. However, I sort of sympathise with them
all. If you were blind to the whole story and read their document as I was
given it – with lots of information missing and with everything we said or did
massaged into the conspiracy – then I can sort of see someone might say “You
might be onto something there”.
However, that’s where my
sympathies stop. Did any one of these
people, I wonder, just stop and ask the question: is there a chance that we
might have been telling the truth all along and there was no conspiracy ?
Back to the document – I am
not going to publish it. I would love to. However too many people are mentioned
who don’t deserve to get pulled into this. It also has many legal aspects,
which I am still looking into and will pursue.
Apart from the legal elements
– upon which I may do a separate blog – I have pages on sections of just
ludicrous stuff. The Ridiculous as I call it will form a very long blog in a
week or 2.
I cant believe anyone has
really given the go ahead to release this document – its so full of
unbelievable claims that at best make the author look embarrassing and at worst
put the author in legal quicksand if published.
Coming Next – The
FriendsReunited Conspiracy (?) – Part 6 – The Connection
@spankyhurst
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