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ANFIELD: alleged nepotism, greed, arrogance
BLETCHLEY in Milton Keynes ---
CAMBS: alleged arrogance of elders
CARDIFF HILL: Alleged "Paedophiles in cardiff north road congregation" briefly discussed at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/31782/1.ashx
FALMOUTH in Cornwall (elitism, cliques, lying, coverups)
FORT WILLIAM in Scotland: Jehovah's Witness man presumptuously disfellowshipped when trawler he sold sank claiming lives until case won on appeal
FENNY STRATFORD: overlording, later burnt down
HEATON in Newcastle friendly
LEICESTER: Norma Kissoon, Jehovah's Witness, died after she refused a blood transfusion which could have saved her life at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. She had lived at Braunstone Town, had undergone an angiogram at Glenfield Hospital showed no trace of heart disease but triggered internal bleeding. nsultant Dr James Reid said a senior house officer spoke to her about a blood transfusion. He said: "We were aware she was a Jehovah's Witness and he said without a blood transfusion there was a risk of death. She was clear she did not want it even it if was life-saving. I think it is more likely she would have survived had she allowed a blood transfusion or clotting agents to be given. "The issue was discussed by four doctors and the surgical team." Doctors fought to save her. A post-mortem examination found blood loss caused her death. Consultant vascular surgeon Professor Peter Bell said "A blood transfusion at almost any stage in this treatment would, on the balance of probabilities, have saved her life. Deputy coroner was Peter Ward. A spokeswoman for the General Medical Council said "Our guidance on consent means the fact that the lady was a competent adult entitles her to say no to any treatment." Her husband Frederick attended the inquest but declined comment. http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/needle.htm
Original writer Jennifer Sym November 7, 2002
LEVERBURGH ON HARRIS IN THE WESTERN ISLES: From 2000 into late 2003 a sheriff's decision not to jail a 60-year-old paedophile had provoked much anger at Leverburgh on the island of Harris where the man was living. Thomas Maxwell (of Clackmannanshire), an elder of Jehovah's Witness and a JW for over 30 years, was sentenced to 3 years probation and 240 hours community service for sex offences against a 12-year-old. At Alloa Sheriff Court, Sheriff William Reid said he decided not to impose a prison sentence because influenced by Maxwell's voluntary exile to a remote part of the Western Isles. But residents vowed to not pay taxes in protest. In 2002 Maxwell was jailed 3 years for offences dating back 30 years, and the Western Isles Council planned to rehouse him on his release. According to the protesters, the house being prepared for him is close to a primary school. Possibly persons not wanting the child molestor there painted "Paedophile Maxwell" on the house, painted the windows black etc. Interested persons were asked to please write Member of Parliament Calum McDonald and insist that something be done: [email protected] or
[email protected] http://virtualhebrides.com/maxwell_paedophile/ http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13211555_method=full_siteid=89488_headline=-ISLAND-IN-TAX-REVOLT-OVER-PERV-name_page.html
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13219637_method=full_siteid=89488_headline=-DEMO%2DTO%2DBAN%2DISLES%2DPERVERT-name_page.html
Discussion and more information at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/62892/1.ashx
LLANDUDNO in Wales: alleged corruption/theft
LONDON: Yvonne Leighton (28) died on/about 2-5-1993 refusing blood transfusions during post-birth surgery at Sunderland General Hospital, Tyne & Wear+ (http://www.ajwrb.org) http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2935-_Woman_bled_to_death_after_refusing_transfusion.html
Patience Edema, a Jehovah's Witness, 24, died 3 days after giving birth to her second daughter Oct 24, 2002, from complications after an emergency hysterectomy an operation to remove the womb. At an inquest into her death at Walthamstow Coroner's Court, coroner Elizabeth Stearns said Mrs Edema, of Grange Park Road, Leyton, died from "post-operative complications for which she refused medical intervention, namely, a blood transfusion." Mrs Edema, who was 7 1/2 months pregnant and had suffered two previous miscarriages in Nigeria, had arrived at Whipps Cross for a routine appointment with her husband Omatseye. The husband had also refused blood treatment for her and said "I am now left alone on a strange terrain to cater for my two daughters as a single parent. All my wife's ambitions and inspirations have been nipped in the bud. Can my life be the same again?" April 4, 2003 http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/edema.htm Apr 3, 2003 in http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/
MAINDY in Wales: --- MANCHESTER's Irlam alleged scandals, wierd happenings
MERTHYR MERTHYR TYDFIL: Jehovah's Witness Ian David Webb (30), from Merthyr Tydfil, who was jailed for four years for forcing an 11-year-old girl to carry out sex acts has had his sentence almost doubled at the Court of Appeal. Webb had been jailed at Cardiff Crown Court in July 2003, but Attorney General Lord Goldsmith QC challenged the sentence as 'unduly lenient' and Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, increased his sentence from 4 to 7 years. Webb from Troedyrhiw in the south Wales valleys, was convicted at Cardiff Crown Court in July of three indecent assaults, attempted rape and indecency with a child. Addressing the Court of Appeal on behalf of the attorney general, Simon Denison said Webb picked on an "emotionally vulnerable" girl and made her feel "isolated" before abusing her. His attacks against her worsened until he attempted to rape her in the late-1990s when she was 11. She did not until a teen when she saw him with other children for whom she feared then went to the police. By pleading not guilty, observed the appeal court judge, Webb added to her ordeal by having to testify against him in court. Lord Woolf added that except for "double jeopardy" he would have given Webb 9 years as the victim was deeply scarred and said he "ruined her life". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3304271.stm
MILTON KEYNES -- NOTTINGHAM: Jehovah's Witness Brent Bond (24) had his life saved after suffering gash with massive bleeding by renouncing anti-blood transfusion about 6-9-2000 + (http://www.ajwrb.org)
NOTTINGHAM: Eric James Richardson (JW, 53) of Nottingham got 12 years prison at Isleworth Crown Court for 6 counts of rape and one of indecent assault on a young girl in Hanworth. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/56482/1.ashx (Writer Emily Manson in the Richmond and Twickenham Times of August 1, 2003: [email protected] [email protected])
OXFORD: in 1994 doctors at John Radcliffe hospital described in the British Medical Journal an unnamed JW man dying after refusing medical treatment by blood transfusion. + (Independent 3-2-02; http://www.ajwrb.org)
PETERHEAD: marking St Ives
STOCKPORT in greater Manchester: January 2000 Beverly Matthews (33) resident in Bredbury died at Stepping Hill hospital after refusing emergency blood transfusion leaving son Ian & husband then JW spokesman Derek Casey defended the anti-transfusion policy + (http://www.ajwrb.org)
WEST LOTHIA: Thomas Maxwell (60) was convicted of exposing himself to a 12 year-old girl multiple times during 1994-96Story filed: 20:59 Monday 14th August 2000 WSM: gossiping Emelie Grootjes (19) 1996 at Poole General Hospital in England + (ajwrb) Susan Teeney (27) died 1993 after refusing blood transfusion + (http://www.ajwrb.org)
BRITAIN IN GENERAL: Jehovah's Witness Christopher Burke (47) died January 1989 + (http://www.ajwrb.org) ENGLAND IN GENERAL Jehovah's Witness Gary Ricketts (23) died 3-23-1992 & had refused blood transfusions + (http://www.ajwrb.org) Jehovah's Witness Brian Hunt (49) died 1992 & had refused blood transfusions + (http://www.ajwrb.org) Jehovah's Witness Elvet Harries in 1996 was convicted of pedophilia * Jehovah's Witnss Archibald McGarvie on 1-16-98 was sentenced for incestual pedophilia with nieces *
UK IN GENERAL: Vincent McCann wrote "This present writer has been told by an ex-Jehovah's Witness of various instances where elders have secretly spied on the out of congregational activities of the Witnesses in their flock. For example, one particular group of elders suspected that a Witness man was having an affair with another woman. Rather than simply ask the man, however, they imagined the worst and took it upon themselves to set up spying operations outside the ladies house. This continued for several nights until the Witness man was eventually presented with the 'evidence'. It was then discovered that the young lady whom the man had been going to was actually his sister, who's house he had been decorating!" http://www.spotlightministries.org.uk/jwfears.htm