Malicious Gaslighting & Moral Duplicity – Part 19n©️

Bristol University’s ‘Post Conviction Activist’ Michael Naughton: Facilitating and ’Empowering’ Psychopathic Killers (Part 15)

Alon Aviram’s March 2021 article headed ‘The working class academic fighting to overturn wrongful convictions’ exposed Michael Naughton’s moral duplicity and malicious gaslighting and is now a matter of public record.

It was also clear Alon Aviram’s article was written without any genuine thought or concern for the primary, secondary or tertiary victims of killer Simon Hall and his (and his enablers) innocence fraud. And it was also apparent investigative reporter Alon Aviram had carried out zero investigation/due diligence. Alon couldn’t even be bothered to ensure he had the name of Joan Albert correct before going to print;

Poor Reporting

There was very little reporting on all the evidence heard throughout Simon Hall’s two week murder trial, which killers like Simon Hall and his enablers, like Michael Naughton, exploit and utilise to their advantage to aide their innocence fraud.

Journalist Jon Tunney only appears to have published one article on Simon Hall’s February 2003 trial for murder. And his article headed Accused brands murder trial a farce only included a few actual quoted statements made by Simon and Lynne Hall and Grahame Parkin.

It’s impossible for the public to know from Jon Tunney’s article for example, what other witnesses, like Jamie Barker as one example, said about the pair of black trousers from Tesco’s Simon Hall was wearing on the night/morning of his murder of Joan Albert. And if any of the other witnesses who gave evidence during the trial said they saw Simon Hall that night and agreed with Simon and Lynne Hall’s colluded and fabricated lies that Simon was wearing a pair of dark blue Next Jeans;

Mrs Hall told the courts she was awake when her son returned as she had been suffering from flu and found it difficult to sleep.

She said there was no blood on her son and he was acting normally, although a little tired.

When pushed to remember exactly what he was wearing by Mr Parkins she said it was a pair of dark blue Next Jeans she had bought him as an early Christmas present.

Mr Parkins, who had earlier alleged Hall stopped on his way out to buy a pair of black trousers from Tesco’s, asked if she was sure her son was not more smartly dressed in trousers and shoes.

Mrs Hall said she was certain.

The trial continues.

Excerpts by Jon Tunney for the Evening Star article headed Accused brands murder trial a farce dated 21st February 2003

Simon Hall’s murder trial continued but Jon Tunney’s reporting stopped. So it was also impossible for the public (who didn’t attend the trial and hear all the evidence) to know exactly what witnesses gave evidence and what exactly their evidence was. This fact also helped aide the innocence fraud.

False Narratives

Under the header ‘Confessions vs evidence’ in what was a futile attempt to suggest Simon Hall’s confession to his murder of Joan Albert was false. Alon Aviram stated in his article on innocence fraud promoter Michael Naughton;

Simon Hall, imprisoned for the vicious murder of 79-year-old Joan Albert, was one of the Innocence Network’s biggest cases, but would also precipitate its downfall.  After a failed appeal and years of painstaking research on his case by Michael and a team of law students, Hall confessed his guilt in 2013 and killed himself the next year. Michael was devastated and the Innocence Network was shaken to its core

The UoB flagship project had, under Michael’s directorship, established a UK-wide network of 36 universities to investigate miscarriages of justice pro-bono. But suddenly under the spotlight, some of its backers got cold feet. Had a well-intentioned team of law students and academics been hoodwinked by a murderer?

Michael was not convinced, though even Hall’s widow who had campaigned for her husband’s release, eventually believed he had carried out the murder. 

Excerpts by Alon Aviram from his article headed The working class academic fighting to overturn wrongful convictions 2nd March 2021

The ‘Birmingham Six’ Myth Utilise The Illusory Truth Effect

Alon Aviram also stated;

Michael reels out examples of cases in which prisoners confessed to crimes they did not commit. The Birmingham Six confessed. 

Only one piece of direct evidence tied Hall to the murder, says Michael.

Excerpts by Alon Aviram from his article headed The working class academic fighting to overturn wrongful convictions 2nd March 2021

Where is the evidence to show the Birmingham Six IRA terrorists weren’t responsible for the 1974 pub bombings?

The court of appeal only ever deemed the six mens murder convictions ‘unsafe and unsatisfactory’. It is parts of the media and people like Michael Naughton (and propagandist Chris Mullens) who make claim the six men were cleared and ‘innocent’. And when people hear the same false information repeated again and again, it can often come to be believed as true.

None of the six men have ever proved their actual, factual innocence and the false confessions phenomenon is a matter of opinion. In reality the public relations campaign of the Birmingham Six has all the hallmarks of the innocence fraud phenomenon, as opposed to the ‘miscarriage of justice’ phenomenon. (Some material from the politically motivated public relations innocence fraud campaign of the Birmingham Six can be read in the national archives here and here).

Direct Evidence: Door to Door Enquiries, Personal Descriptive Form & TIE Suspect

Michael Naughton (and in turn Alon Aviram) omit to mention other direct evidence against Simon Hall. Like for example how Simon lied about his movements on the night/morning before he committed murder, what he was wearing and who is was with.

During door to door enquiries on the 15th of January 2002 (less than a month after he had committed murder) Simon Hall was asked to account for his movements between 9pm on Saturday the 15th December 2001 to 9am on the Sunday 16th December (2001).

A personal descriptive form was completed by the police, in which they asked Simon where he was during these hours, who could verify his movements and what he was wearing during this time period. Simon Hall lied about his movements, what he was wearing and he also omitted to mention being with Jamie Barker up until he dropped Jamie off at his mother Angela’s home in Ipswich at 5.30am (16th December 2001).

Again below is a transcript of some of the notes made by the police about what Simon Hall first said;

Starts work 7pm worked till midnight at the Old Rep P/H Ipswich. Travelled past Boydlands at about 0600hrs 16/2* alone having been out in Ipswich at Liquid N/C. Saw nothing

Other staff at Old Rep P/H, Tower St Ipswich

Dark jeans, Dark top with No 4 on front. Dark Grey fleece

Transcript of Suffolk police notes from door to door enquiries re: Simon Hall
*the date was actually the 16/12

The police also went over the personal descriptive form following Simon Hall’s arrest in July 2002, during the first interview of the day. And Lynne Hall knew Simon was going out (Instead of going to work) on the Saturday night before his murder of Joan Albert because she stated so in her evidence to the police on the day of her youngest adoptive sons arrest;

Simon told me at some stage that Saturday that he was going out and would probably not be back that night

Excerpt from Lynne Hall’s 25th July 2002 police witness statement

It is still not known what Lynne and Phil Hall made of the fact their adoptive son Simon lied to the police during their door to door enquiries on the 15th of January 2002.

And as already stated in a previous Part of this blog series, Simon Hall was captured on CCTV withdrawing £40.00 cash from a cash machine located at Tescos, Copdock at 7.27pm therefore he could not have started work at 7pm as he falsely claimed.

Read more in Part 2 of the Quite A Hall Tale blog series to learn more about how Simon Hall lied about his movements, what he was wearing and who he was with, and how this direct evidence helped the police raise Simon to level of suspect – along with the transcripts of all of his police interviews here.

Link to Part 19o here