As 2011 draws to a close, I find myself asking where has this year gone? It seems to have been eaten up completely. We are currently no further on in our quest for Justice, still banging our heads against walls and still having to fight through institutional corruption and arrogance.

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This is a website dedicated to Kristian Abbott, and the fight both to clear his name, and to obtain his freedom from yet another gross miscarriage of justice.

 The site is open to all but, in order that we do not have people making grossly defamatory or untrue statements about either Kristian or those who put him behind bars, we require that everyone register for the site. It is simple to do all you have to do is go to the part named Login or register  and follow the instructions.

In November 2008, Kristian Abbott was found guilty of a crime he did not commit, and was sent to prison in January 2009 for 21 months. Since the original investigation, Kristian has maintained his innocence, and has been the victim of a corrupt investigation and lies throughout. This website will give you information about Kristian Abbott and his fight for justice.

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Since the autumn of 2007 I have been raising concerns with Greater Manchester Police over the way that Kristian’s case was investigated. I made a complaint in 2007 and this was allegedly looked into by the Professional Standards dept of GMP. Comments have been made on this site about whether that is what should happen in a democratic society. In my mind there can be no doubt that, given the recent record of GMP, a department of that force should not investigate a complaint against one of its members.

Be that as it may, the report on the complaint came back in early 2008 completely exonerating the activities of DS Barnard. Since then I have written to the Chief Constable of GMP on several occasions raising serious concerns about the activities of the investigating officer DS Barnard. Those concerns have until now been totally ignored. I wrote to the Greater Manchester Police Authority about my complaints and they fobbed me off. Others have written to MPs, House of Commons Committees and Ministers outlining our concerns about the way this investigation was handled.

Our MP, Ivan Lewis, wrote to the Chief Constable raising our concerns and was answered by a superintendent from the Professional Standards Department who did nothing more than lie to the MP. I therefore wrote back to the Chief Constable this month and laid out my complaints and reminded him of his duties under the law. The relevant law is the 2002 Police Reform Act and the 1999 and 1996 Acts which require the Chief Officer of any force, to follow a procedure in cases of complaints such as the one I have made. I also copied my letter to the North West head of the IPCC and the entire membership of the GMPA as well as Ivan Lewis MP.

Over the last couple of weeks the website owners have noted an increased level of activity from members of GMP and the legal profession on the website. Now, they could be just interested in a well written and informative website or they could be actually looking into the complaints that Kristian’s supporters have made about his wrongful conviction and the appalling role that certain officers from GMP have played in it.

Or they could just be looking to see if any laws have been broken on the site, so that they could somehow “get at” the people who have written it. Which one it is I will leave to you to decide. One does wonder why, if they need information about Kristian’s case, they don’t just simply look into my complaint or even easier, get in touch and ask me.

Today I received a letter from the Chief Constable’s Office, telling me that they have received my letter and that they will comment on the issues I have raised in due course. Now, even if they come back and say there is no justification to my complaint, they have to give reasons for that decision. I have news for them, the evidence is there and they just have to look for it. We shall give them opportunity to evaluate our complaints, which are serious ones, before saying anything else on this site about this matter. However, in the future I shall ask the kind permission of the website owners to publish all the correspondence between myself, the Chief Constable, (including the one I gave him personally and he ignored) the GMPA and the PSD of GMP. I will do this in the public interest, as it will give others an insight into how complaints are handled by the various bodies and especially by GMP. I will do this in the probably vain hope that these bodies might learn from their mistakes and improve the way they do business.

KJ’s Dad

Despite what is written in the preamble to this category, the truth is very different. From the police to the Court system and on to what happens after sentence the Justice system in England is deeply flawed and Kristian's case shows up all of those flaws.

The police are overseen in any investigation where a complaint has been made against an officer by the IPCC. The problem is that this is not always the case as the lines are blurred. The local Police authority has the right to investigate complaints about senior officers and is the body responsible for the actions of the Chief Officer. In normal practice, especially outside London, the Police authority is very closely linked to the police and acts for the police and not the public who, supposedly put them there. In any event, the police are investigated by the police.

Solicitors are overseen by the Solicitors Regulatory authority and the Legal Complaints Service. If you are unhappy with their answers then you can go to the Legal; Services Ombudsman. The problem is that like the police these organisations are mainly set up and run by lawyers whose first loyalty is to lawyers.

Barristers are under the authority of their chambers and the Bar Standards Council which is set up and run by barristers.

If you also include the probation service and the social services as well as the prison service, any complaints about these organisations go back to the organisations themselves and they always take the word of their own before they will take yours.

Why is this a bad thing? Well if the people investigating any part of the Justice system are unwilling to properly investigate their own part of that system, then the system deteriorates and miscarriages of justice are ever more likely. If bad practices are not stamped out then they will flourish and become the norm so that the whole arena of justice becomes ever more corrupt. The problem of nepotism is rife amongst legal circles with ever more jobs going to family members as well as access to the legal system becoming limited to those who went to private schools. That means a shared educational experience and a limiting of the vision of barristers and solicitors as to their view or experience of society.

2011, Its been 18 months since I was in prison for something I didn't do. I have had two applications to appeal turned down. The first was dismissed without even reading the papers, the second, we believed we had a good chance. Of course when it reached the appeal court, we yet again saw the real “British justice” system at its best. The next step for us is the criminal cases review commission.