Dear Supporters, Once again, you CAN'T MAKE IT UP and you WON'T BELIEVE IT unless you happen to know the person to whom it happens and have 'evidence by experience'. Here I am cutting and pasting: 1. an email from Maurice's sister to the 'Prison Location Service': I think you are living on a different planet to Mr Maurice Kirk A7306AT. Since being in HMP Swansea (11th July 2014- 19th Nov 2014) he was only allowed to telephone me, his sister. He was not allowed to phone his grown-up children, his ex-wife, his brother, his lawyer etc. As a Litigant in Person he has had to have envelopes with stamps and an address written in to contact any of 5 courts with whom he is corresponding (RCJ, Cardiff Crown, County, Magistrates, CCRC and Bristol Crown Court). These have had to be supplied by supporters. There are no free postage letters available to Maurice KIRK despite endless requests to the Governor of the Wing/Section/Prison. As he is confined to a chair with wheels he is only able to telephone if an Officer or a friendly prisoner agrees to push him to a telephone. The same constraints are in place if he wishes to get to the meal line-up, to the medical hatch or to the ablutions. From 19th Nov 14 to 8th Jan 2015 he was at HMP Bristol where the same regime prevailed except he had a bathroom attached to his 'health wing' cell. However, he was obliged to sleep overnight for 3 nights running in his chair because the staff would not come and put his chair near enough to the bed for him to get in! Regularly he was obliged to fill various receptacles with urine when no-one answered his call to get him to his bathroom. Now back in HMP Swansea he is still in this wheeled porter's chair and has to get to the meal station at the end of the hall by using his hands along the wall to haul himself along. He is 6 weeks off 70 years old! It took over 5 months to get his glasses to him; over 7 months to get a hearing aid to him and over 11 months to see any medical care who would discuss his acute abdominal pain symptoms. Only now, after 15 months in the hands of the Prison Healthcare system has he been prescribed a medicine which seems to help but already he has been denied those tablets 3 times this week! I remain the only person whom he can phone. Is it because I do not live in the UK? His NOMS caseworker is not doing his job. Yours sincerely Mrs Celia Jeune nee Kirk 2. From Jack Robin's comments on Maurice's official site: On 24 January: At the hearing of Maurice's appeal by case stated which was to be heard at Cardiff Crown Court, it is understood that Swansea prison informed the court that Maurice had refused to get into the van to bring him to court. Maurice's sister had also telephoned the court on the morning to inform the court that Maurice had had problems with Geo Amey before in that on numerous occasions they had refused to bring him to the court. At Bristol Crown Court, the dock security officer from Geo Amey informed Judge McGrigor that Maurice had refused to get out of the van and required to be lifted to his wheelchair. The court was informed that the security staff had refused to do this as they might injure themselves as they weren't trained to do this. The appeal proceeded in Maurice's absence and Maurice was directed to be returned to prison for his medication. The court accepted in the present case the explanation given by the prison and his appeal was dismissed in his absence. And on January 25, 2015 Jack Robin said: It now transpires that Maurice has been charged with disobeying a lawful order on 21 January by allegedly refusing to go into the van, and the prison have alleged that he told prison staff that if they laid any hands on him, they would get sued. Again, this is just another bogus story concocted by Swansea prison to cover themselves for blocking his attendance at court on 21 January and also to further prejudice Maurice's parole application hearing listed for 4 February 2015. Another bogus charge was a false allegation that Maurice refused to leave his cell when he was being transferred from Bristol prison to Swansea prison, which again was brought to prejudice his parole application. All along, the prison service in cahoots with Geo Amey have conspired to ensure that Maurice never reaches court in an important case, thus ensuring that the proceedings are decided adversely to him. Its all part of the conspiracy to deny Maurice access to justice, and to ensure that he never gets to tell his story and expose the corrupt authorities who have been working against him since day one. 3. Letter to the Prime Minister: Maurice Kirk - Not Taken to the Courtroom for his heatings 7 times! on https://butlincat.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/letter-to-the-prime-minister-maurice-kirk-not-taken-to-the-courtroom-for-his-hearings-7-times/ If you feel like cheering him up, do send Maurice an email via www.emailaprisoner.com quoting his prisoner number in HMP Swansea. Otherwise, phone the Governor so that he knows he's being watched. We can't let them get away with it! The least we can do is rattle their conscience so that they think at night in bed!... Sighing deeply, Sabine PS. In Brussels on Tuesday, a Polish MEP suggested that they should be checking what is going on in UK courts: whether they do have the rights of citizens in democratic countries!... See http://mckenzie-friends.co.uk/2015/01/28/mobilising-bulgaria-in-the-ep_petitions-committee-in-eu-parliament/ when the forced adoption of a little Bulgarian girl was exposed. Thanks to Latvian EU staff, we know that the British father is into child porn...