Lloyd's JC story is very inconsistent. I just got sent this:
In (1) he related that both of them liked two of the elders assigned to the JC and didn't want to spoil any relations in case they wake up and for this reason he didn't want to record the JC. There are two sources of this account - one was from his JW Survey Article and the other from his book. In the book he refers to one of the elders (the coordinator who called him to set up the JC) as Marko, but in the JWS article he calls him Bob. They both speak poor English and are obviously the same person. But in the JWS article the two other elders who eventually made up the committee are unfamiliar to him:
I stepped inside and was greeted by Bob. I entered the auditorium and two other elders greeted me in perfect English, neither of whom I recognized.
In both his book account and his JWS article, he also relates that he refused to have two particular local elders on the JC:
I told Marko that I refused to
allow the two elders who had
hounded my wife and I to have any
part in the meeting.
The JWS article provides more details and the only aliases:
I explained to Bob that I seriously disliked two of our elders, and I didn’t want either of them involved in my judicial committee. One elder, Tom, had pulled my wife into the backroom at a meeting without me being present, and interrogated her about me and our private life. The other, Dean, had used information he gleaned from inviting us round for dinner to theorize, entirely mistakenly, about our motives for becoming inactive.
So from what I can gather there are five elders all directly or indirectly involved in his JC:
Bob/Marko - A "likable" man who spoke poor English. The Sisak BOE coordinator. On the JC.
Tom - An elder who interrogated Dijana, by the article's account was about their "personal life", the book called him an enforcer who had questions about Lloyd's wrongdoing in the UK. He also stated he felt Lloyd treated his wife as a rag to clean the floor. Excluded from the JC.
More on Tom from the book:
he was an
enforcer—more clued-in regarding
organizational procedure and intent
on laying down the law. On learning
of my sudden inactivity, he was
apparently frustrated that his fellow
elders had not given me more of a
roasting regarding my motives. In
his mind, it seemed, I had escaped
too easily and there were questions
that needed answering. Was there
some hidden sin that required
further discipline? Might this sin be
the reason why I was distancing
myself from the congregation?
Things came to a head when, at
the end of one meeting (at which I
was not present) the Enforcer
pulled Dijana to one side and
quizzed her in a backroom as to the
reasons for my inactivity. It was
explained that I must be involved in
some wrongdoing requiring the
intervention of the elders. The
Enforcer then set about trying to
extract information from Dijana by
telling her (in Croatian): “I know
Lloyd treats you like a rag for
cleaning the floor.”
Dean - Accused Lloyd of running a scam where he paid JWs little for translation work and was only attending in order to maintain that relationship. Excluded from the JC. More on Dean:
The other had speculated
that I was running an exploitative
business scam based on the passing
mention that I occasionally gave
work to freelance translators who
were Witnesses.)
Marko/Bob agreed that Tom and Dean were not to be on the JC due to personal animosity between them and Lloyd.
Dean/Dejan - Lloyd also called him "Dean" in the article, though was clear this was a different Dean and he was unfamiliar with him. They were both named Dejan in real life evidently. On the JC.
Marko joked that this was
not the same Dejan I had specified,
so he assumed it was okay to invite
him. I said this was fine by me.
Davor - Croatian Branch Rep. On the JC.
So, here's the rub. Lloyd spoke of two elders who were on the JC that they liked. They supposedly decided BEFORE the JC that he wasn't recording it due to this factor. But other than Bob/Marko, Lloyd didn't know who would be on the JC. And it was only Bob/Marko they were familiar with. Davor was an elder from Zagreb and Davor was from the branch office. He didn't know either of them prior to the JC.
Lloyd also spoke of two local Sisak elders that he didn't like. One questioned his business practices within the congregation and the other one had more serious concerns about what Lloyd really did in the UK. For this they were purposely excluded. What exactly did Tom know?
Footnote 317 in The Reluctant Apostate reveals even more background of why the JC was being held, other than he was behind an apostate website:
I was later told by someone still
inside the organization and in contact
with my former elders in the UK that
there was more behind my judicial
committee than this, but I suppose this
will have to remain a mystery for now.
As for the reasons why the Branch Rep had to be there, the reasons given were twofold:
He also agreed that, because I am English with a weak command of Croatian, the meeting would be held in English to the extent possible. It was for this reason, apparently, that an elder from the Branch Office in Zagreb would be attending. I later learned that the branch representative was also invited at least partly due to the fact that Sisak elders had no experience in dealing with apostasy, so they needed some guidance from higher up the chain.
This is demonstrably false. Both Davor and Dejan spoke perfect English. Dejan could have translated without the Branch Rep present. Part of the JC was held in Croatian anyway per Lloyd's account, including the opening prayer. The second assertation is suspicious. The elder's handbook has rules for handling everything, including apostasy. Sending a Branch Rep in due to local elders supposedly not having any experience in apostasy takes a huge stretch of the imagination to believe.
He just can't keep his story straight and seems to have a lot to hide.
JW Watch article: My 21st Century Apostasy Trial - JW Watch
