Joan Albert’s Killer. Photograph of Simon Hall taken whilst at large and wanted by Suffolk police for a sexually motivated murder
Andrew Green
A few days prior to Stephanie Bon’s correspondence with Michael Naughton, which was referred to in Part 17a (Tap on button below to read more), Stephanie Bon emailed Andrew Green at the INNOCENT organisation, CC’ing in Michael Naughton.
Andrew Green who says he is a “criminologist” co-founded the Manchester based INNOCENT organisation in 1993 and went on to also co-found United Against Injustice (UAI) with Ann Craven, the mother of Adrian Craven who was convicted for rape.
Andrew Green claimed Adrian Craven was “fully exonerated” for his rape but Innocence Fraud Watch has found no evidence to support this claim.
Kevin McMahon
Kevin McMahon
Kevin McMahon who was convicted of perverting the course of justice for pressurising a witness in the trial of Basil Williams-Rigby who was convicted for “sexual offences”, was also said to be a co-founder of United Against Injustice.
NOTE: Adrian Craven and Basil Williams-Rigby’s convictions were deemed “unsafe” by the court of appeal.
Neither men proved their actual, factual innocence.
It states here that Kevin McMahon “is a film producer and former member of the Royal Military Police and Special Branch”.
And it states here that Kevin McMahon “has been an active campaigner for over 25 years, his advice has been sought in many individual and high profile miscarriages of justice cases”.
A video published to vimeo which is said to have been produced by Kevin McMahon, titled ‘In Search Of The Truth’, can be viewed here.
Screenshot of end credits to Kevin McMahon’s ‘film’
Un-Convicted Baby Killer Billy Middleton
The vimeo video here includes brief footage of un-convicted baby killer Billy (William) Middleton who set up the now defunct Wrongly Accused Person (WAP) website.
The Wrongly Accused Person website went on to become the Wrongly Accused Person (WAP) organisation, after Billy Middleton and Sandra Lean registered it as a charity.
Sandra Lean
Sandra Lean became a partner alongside Billy Middleton for the WAP organisation.
Billy Middleton was another abusive enabler and gaslighter of actual, factual guilty killer Simon Hall’s fraudulent public relations spin campaign.
Screenshot of one of unconvicted child killer Billy Middleton’s social media posts
Prior to Sandra Lean’s partnership with Billy Middleton, Sandra had been the Scottish representative for the INNOCENT organisation.
Peter Hill
Peter Hill removed his original event post from the world wide web but some of the following could once be found using this link http://www.raybrook.co.uk/event.htm;
Parliament House is just off the High Street, beside St Giles Cathedral – it’s not down beside the new Parliament Building at Holyrood. I’m rubbish at directions, and I’m sure someone will come up with better than this, but the easiest way I know is, from the railway station, go up the North Bridge to the junction where High Street/Royal Mile meet North Bridge, turn right up High Street, and it’s on your left, five or 6 openings up.
It would be great to see lots of contributors to the forum there, but please remember to contact one of the organisers and get your name on the guest list to avoid security problems.
The preliminary work in organizing this initiative has been done by: JohnScott John is the leading civil rights solicitor in Scotland. He is the Chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Centre. IainMcKie Iain is a retired police officer. His interest in law reform springs largely from the problems that his daughter Shirley encountered when she was a police officer, which led to an official inquiry. More details of this can be found at www.shirleymckie.com Sandra Lean Sandra is a writer on miscarriages of justice. She is the Scottish representative of INNOCENT. Her book No Smoke contains research on a dozen cases of miscarriage of justice in particular the controversial case of Luke Mitchell. Peter Hill Peter, now retired, was the producer of the BBC TVs programme Rough Justice. In Scotland he has worked on the case of George Beattie for 25 years, taking it to two appeals.
Merseyside Against Injustice was launched in October 2001 and a sister of sadistic serial killer and psychopath Michael Stone, also known as Michael John Goodban, spoke at the launch.
Barbara Stone
Barbara Stone promoted her brother’s innocence fraud public relations spin campaign.
Barbara Stone also set up the now defunct group Kent Against Injustice.
Neil Wilby stated in his June 2020 blog headed Dr Truthseeker loses her moral compassthat Andrew Green “was driven out in 2016” from the United Against Injustice organisation.
Note: Neil Wilby also stated in his blog Dr Truthseeker loses her moral compass in relation to a secondary victim of killer Simon Hall’s, namely Stephanie (Hall), that she is “a regular miscarriage of justice commentator”. Stephanie (Hall) is a “regular commentator” on the innocence fraud phenomenon and the killers, rapists, fraudsters and con artists and their deceptive enablers, who choose to perpetuate it.
NOTE: The following has been reproduced for study and educational purposes only
Following the exposure of psychopathic killer Simon Hall’s actual, factual guilt to his murder and his and his enablers innocence fraud, Billy Middleton published the following to his WAP website;
Unsurprisingly, the MOJ community has been damaged with many feeling bitter and betrayed as they stand up for those they believe are innocent.
Billy (William) Middleton
It’s understandable, particularly for those who played no part in the train crash that was the latter stages of his online presence or behind the scenes in some cases too, or the many who tried in vain to stop it.
Many people put a lot of time and effort into researching the case, trying to help find the truth in any way they could, and who can blame any of them for feeling they should’ve spent the years on someone/something else instead – that it was a waste of time and effort?
They are not to blame for their carefully considered opinions, and shouldn’t be condemned for having the courage and commitment to look beyond the trial verdict when it’s made so incredibly hard find support for doing so.
Nor should any other potential MOJ victims be further vilified for their own plights or the people who support them, and the media shouldn’t be criticised for doing what a society with a free press requires that it should – to probe and question an otherwise effectively unaccountable system.
There is worry about other cases being taken seriously in future, and the many who know of someone who was investigated by SIO Roy Lambert they believe is innocent in particular are finding it hard to witness his gloating whether he’s right or not.
Change is always disconcerting, and things will certainly be different now, though for some the effects will be deeper and longer lasting than for others.
Simon’s family have dealt with this remarkably well and people shouldn’t be too quick to condemn their continued belief in his innocence, after all it might very well be true.
The Ministry of Justice said a confession by a person serving a life sentence would have “no impact” on the minimum tariff they would have to serve before being considered for release.
But it knows perfectly well, as does anyone who knows anything about miscarriages of justice, that maintaining innocence does impact on how far beyond the minimum tariff a person would ultimately serve and others have confessed for that specific reason only to go on and challenge their convictions upon release.
Simon might well have been progressing better than others through the prison system in that respect despite maintaining innocence, and it very much looked like he was about to join the exceptionally rare few who were released on or close to minimum tariff despite it, but there is little doubt in my mind that someone sending the parole board an abusive letter over a dispute where he could be reintegrated into society upon release shortly before his confession will have done that progress absolutely no good whatsoever.
So what do the MOJ community, the media and other related parties have to do now in the wake of this?
In reality despite the damage it has caused far and wide, everyone needs to do the same thing they’ve always had to do – consider the evidence separate from their emotions and judge it for what it is, present it as it is and not stop looking and questioning everything until the answers have been found as they should have been in the first place – beyond reasonable doubt.
People supporting someone incarcerated for something they believe they haven’t done need to look at how Simon was supported and learn from the mistakes, whether his confession is true or not, because while it’s easy to blame him in isolation for the harm done, if it’s a false confession your loved ones never ever ever need put in the position he was in to end up with and you can’t do that looking only at the 10 letter word confessionand his other perceived option may well have been suicide if he really just couldn’t take it anymore.
You need to look at the evidence and all that went on before it and see how wrong it was.
The media need do the same before dropping the evidence box and giving too much air space to irrational certainty, they still need to hold accountable the justice system which has a proven track record of getting it wrong and being openly willing to admit that in their view it’s better an innocent person is kept in prison than the system’s “integrity” is affected, otherwise they become no better than the pseudo press found in countries controlled by dictators and there will be nothing to prevent any authority in the country doing whatever it wants regardless of the evidence
So did everyone who actually knows the case with the exception of retired SIO Roy Lambert, who has now found a voice on the subject and started proclaiming arrogantly in the media to have never once doubted Simon’s guilt, did everyone else including myself, those involved in the Rough Justice documentary, the CCRC, the DPP and many, many others get it wrong?
It’s possible, and without knowing the circumstances and details of the confession it can’t be and mustn’t be ruled out.
However despite how readily people think ‘no one would confess if they didn’t do it’, that can’t be ruled out either, not least because just one of the many pieces of evidence pointing away from Simon’s guilt is that someone else confessed many years ago before Simon was convicted.
DNA, fingerprints, footprints along the accepted escape route found at the scene, none of which matched Simon’s, stomach contents pointing to an earlier time of death which coincided with a disturbance heard by many neighbours, not a trace with the exception of the infamous flock fibres which formed the sole basis of the prosecution’s case against him hence Mr Starmer’s continued quote “The one crucial link is the fibre evidence. Break this and the case disappears.”
You would expect then that the fibre evidence was strong and compelling, yet one slide claimed by the original experts to contain 1000+ such fibres actually contained absolutely none, zero, zilch, de nada, squat, when the CCRC’s expert reviewed it, other slides were broken and stuck together with sticky tape, and what had been described as lime green polyester was actually carbon black.
That is the credibility of the fibre evidence and the only evidence Roy Lambert could present so sure as he was of Simon’s guilt in the face of everything else, and it is that level of contradiction of the original evidence that the appeal courts upheld his conviction on describing the original forensics as ‘incomplete’ rather than completely and utterly false.
Which is more probable, that after Simon’s last appeal was rejected, knowing that it was the best chance he was ever going to have, which was followed my months and months of psychological abuse and mind games by the person who drove every last one of the thousands of supporters he had away with vile and malicious on and offline feuds such that he finally couldn’t take any more, he cracked, or that Roy Lambert was right all along despite all of the evidence to the contrary and everyone else was wrong?
I don’t discount the possibility that I’m wrong, but I remain as yet unconvinced that I am and if further details are forthcoming I will reassess it then
That doesn’t mean I don’t respect the fact that a confession has been made or refuse to accept it no matter what, I’m simply unconvinced on the evidence that it’s true or that it was made by a sound mind – particularly considering he was in receipt of medication for depression and had recently been rushed to hospital following an overdose which may or may not have been accidental.
I personally lost respect for Simon some time ago but I didn’t lose the compassion and humanity I would need to before I could ignore the above, the facts of the past don’t get erased by the words of the present.
By Billy (William) Middleton – 11th August 2013 (Originally published here)
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Femicide or feminicide is described as a hatecrime broadly defined as “the intentional killing of women or girls because they are female”.
Killer Simon Hall’s sadistic ‘lust’ type murder of Joan Albert appears to have been associated to his covert and misogynistic hatred towards females.
The November 2009 Private Eye article (Referred to in Part 19 of this blog series here) did not address femicide or why someone would choose to murder Joan Albert and instead included the following statements;
In fact there is another crucial piece of evidence which points to Hall’s innocence.
It had been buried in a mass of unused material, handed over to Hall’s defence team just days before his trial, and it has recently been unearthed by law students working on Bristol University “Innocence Project”.
The students found a statement from a care worker who looked after an elderly man living 10 minutes away from Mrs Albert in Capel St Mary and who was also the victim of a burglary on the night Mrs Albert was stabbed.
The care worker reported that immediately after the burglary she noticed that two kitchen knives she regularly used to prepare meals had gone missing.
Later, when shown a picture of the murder weapon, she identified it as “similar to the one stolen.
It appears to have the same colour handle and length of blade.
It also has the same rivets on the handle”.
The students also found a “schedule of unused material” which showed that DNA was recovered from the knife from ‘more than one person’ but “the results are believed to be of no practical use”.
Could this be because, just like the fingerprints found above Mrs Albert’s body, footprints found in the garden and DNA on her body, it didn’t match Hall’s?
If if is established that the murder weapon was, as the care worker believed, stolen during the other house raid, it proves Hall could not possibly have been the killer.
Excerpts from page 29 of Heather Mills article for Private Eye magazine published on the 13th of November 2009 (Edition number 1249)
Photo of Heather Mills from Private Eye magazine from 2011 here
Prior to Private Eye magazines publication of their insensitively headed articleA Stabin the dark, Michael Naughton received a copy of the criminal cases review commissions October 2009 statement of reasons (SoR), which again can be read by tapping on the button below;
Below are excerpts from the bottom of page 34 and top of page 35 of the criminal cases review commissions SoR;
Copies from bottom of page 34 and top of page 35 of the criminal cases review commission statements of reasons here
The Higham burglary, as referred to by the criminal cases review commission, and as noted in the above excerpts from the Private Eye magazine article, “was formally linked to a series of antique thefts” and the “two crimes were notformally linked”.
Furthermore, and as referred to in previous Parts of thisongoingblog series, killer Simon Hall was with his work colleague Jamie Barker until approximately 05:30hrs in Ipswich.
It was then around a 20 minutes to drive from Jamie Barker’s mothers house in Ipswich to Snowcroft, Capel St Mary, where Simon Hall then proceeded to park his car and make his way to Joan Albert’s home located in Boydlands – on foot.
Nothing was “buriedin a mass of unused material” as claimed by Michael Naughton and re-stated in the 2009 Private Eye magazine article.
In reality Michael Naughton and his students had either;
not read all of the disclosed unused material
they had previously missed the statement from a care worker
or the content of said statement did not stand out as significant because the Higham burglary had already been “linked to a series of antiques thefts”
Following the exposure of killer Simon Hall’s guilt and the innocence fraud in 2013, Michael Naughton contacted Stephanie (Hall) by telephone.
Michael Naughton was told of many of the numerous disclosures made by killer Simon Hall leading up to and following his eventual admittance to his murderous crime.
Michael Naughton appeared to accept the fact he had been duped and stated at the end of the telephone conversation he “didnot want to hear the name Simon Hall again”.
Why The About-Turn?
Years later, in what appeared to be a malicious attempt to continue his own self interested fraudulent public relations campaign, Michael Naughton spoke to a reporter.
The reporter published the following, in respect of the knife killer Simon Hall had used to commit his murder of Joan Albert;
Also, the team of students made a startling discovery before Hall’s confession.
A DNA profile from the murder weapon had not been disclosed at trial.
Killer Simon Hall claimed he wore his socks over his hands during his murder of Joan Albert, although it is possible he used a pair of gloves he already had with him.
It is also possible Simon Hall chose to lie about putting his socks over his hands, as referred to in Part 6 (which can be read by tapping on the button below) as if to somehow minimise his premeditated murder and to continue to exert power and control over others.
Circumstantial DNA cannot be dated, although killer Simon Hall was adamant his skin (Hands) did not come into contact with Joan Albert’s kitchen knife and he claimed he did not cut himself during his murder.
It is not known what “fingerprints found above Mrs Albert’s body” Michael Naughton and subsequently Private Eye magazine were referring to or the “DNA on her body”.
As already stated in Part 6 Joan Albert’s body and clothing were tested for “any evidence of direct sexual activity”. None were reported to be found.
So after breaking his own protocols, Michael Naughton and in turn Heather Mills from Private Eye magazine lied in 2009 about the “fingerprints found above Mrs Albert’s body” and “DNA on her body”.
Again, killer Simon Hall claimed he did not touch any doors and the “footprints found in the garden” belonged to Simon Hall, but he had disposed of his black office shoes on the Monday morning of the 17th of December 2001.
When Will Michael Naughton Address His Innocence Fraud?
Excerpts from a December 2010 article for the Barrister Magazine headed Why the conviction of Simon Hall cannot stand which included statements by Michael Naughton and demonstrated yet further evidence of him going against INUK protocols (Which were referred to in Part 19 here) read;
Mr Hall, now aged 33, was convicted solely on the basis of black nylon flock fibres and polyester fibres found in his addresses and vehicles that were claimed by the prosecution expert at trial, Judith Cunnison, to be highly rare and ‘indistinguishable’ from fibres found at the scene of crime and the deceased’s body.
Fibre evidence is regularly used by police forces in the UK and globally to assist in crime scene investigations.
However, as fibres, unlike DNA or fingerprints, cannot provide a positive identification of a suspect, they are rarely used to obtain convictions in the absence of other evidence.
Questioning the way in which fibre evidence was used in Mr Hall’s case, Dr Michael Naughton stated:
“The future use of fibre evidence in criminal trials rests on the judgment of Simon Hall’s appeal. It is of vital importance to the avoidance of convicting the innocent that the conviction is quashed and it is firmly established that it is inappropriate to use fibre evidence alone in light of its inherent shortcomings”
Killer Simon Hall was not convicted “solely on the basis of black nylon flock fibres and polyester fibres found in his addresses and vehicles” nor was the “fibre evidence” used on its own to convict him!
As already pointed out in previous Parts of this ongoing blog series, Simon Hall was convicted on a wealth of circumstantial evidence which included the lies and concoctions of Simon Hall and the Hall family members (Lynne, Phil and Shaun).
Another Example Of The Innocence Fraud Phenomenon
John M Collins Jr worked as a forensic scientist for around 20 years.
In an article he wrote and published in December 2014 entitled Innocence Fraud’ Demands Prosecutor Vigilance, John Collins referred to having studied overturned convictions for “about 10 years” and stated;
The ends cannot justify the means when the means are fraudulent
John Collins’ warning (above) was posted on a “wrongful conviction” internet website in May 2015, just under a couple of years after Joan Albert’s killer Simon Hall’s innocence fraud and actual, factual guilt to his murder was exposed.
The Wrongful Conviction Blog was set up by Mark Godsey who was once a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, New York City.
Mark Godsey went on to become a co-founder and director of the Ohio Innocence Project in his hometown of Cincinnati and refers to himself here as ‘a leading scholar, attorney and activist in the Innocence Movement’.
John Collins also stated;
I think it’s clear that exonerations can be the result of fraud or misconduct on the part of post-conviction activists and litigators.
How frequently it happens can only be speculated, but recent events in Illinois and North Carolina should serve as a warning that some self-proclaimed righters of wrong will resort to shady tactics to secure the freedom of previously convicted felons
One of the events John Collins was referring to was in relation to the killer of teenagers Marilyn Green (19) and Jerry Hillard (18), both of whom were murdered on the 15th August1982 by a violent, psychopathic gang member called Anthony Porter.
David Protess with his arms and legs wrapped around the actual, factual, guilty psychopathic killer, and violent gang member, of Marilyn Green (19) and Jerry Hillard (18)
John Collins went into many of the details of the innocence fraud phenomenon fiasco, which saw actual, factual, guilty killer Anthony Porter released from prison and “exonerated” and Alstory Simon wrongly convicted and framed for Anthony Porters murderous crimes, in his book Crime Lab Report: An Anthology on Forensic Science in the Era of Criminal Justice Reform.
..a little bit of digging would have shown any objective observer that the police conducted a clinical, textbook investigation
Shawn Rech
Following actual, factual, guilty killer and innocence fraudster Anthony Porter’s stay of execution Shawn Rech also stated;
This gave a team of Northwestern University journalism undergrads and their crusading professor David Protess, who taught investigative reporting at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and founded the Medill Innocence Project, enough time to re-investigate the case.
What the Northwestern team quickly achieved was nothing short of a miracle.
They found new witnesses, secured an affidavit from an original witness changing his story, and confronted the “real killer,” Alstory Simon, even securing his videotaped confession.
Chicago watched it unfold on the local news.
Every few days there was a new development as Team Northwestern exposed the ineptitude—or worse—of the Chicago Police Department and local prosecutors
Sandra Lean published her following projections in 2022;
Diabolicals quite deliberately report inaccurate, misleading, unfair and outright dishonest information and tout it as “truth.”
Diabolicals defend their lies, half truths and inaccuracies, no matter how harmful, even when presented with factual evidence that their information is inaccurate (or worse).
Diabolicals appear to be incapable of separating fact from opinion and often offer personal opinions as fact.
Diabolicals don’t care about grief, distress or privacy.
They will use the grief and distress of devastated families, very often on both sides of the justice debate, simply to further their own aims.
Diabolicals thrive on stirring up hatred and discrimination against their chosen subjects.
They will quite deliberately connect pieces of unrelated information to smear chosen individuals.
Sandra Lean – 18th July 2022
There are different types of lies and liars including (but not limited to) white lies, barefaced lies, lies by omission, lies of exaggeration, lies of minimisation, lies of denial, lies of fabrications, lies of influence, duplicitous lies, character lies, lies of commission and lies by deception and there are compulsive liars, frequent liars, occasional liars, pathological liars, smooth liars, duplicitous liars, deceitful liars, delusional liars, narcissistic liars and habitual liars.
Guilty innocence fraud killers, and their enablers (like con-artist Sandra Lean), use various types of lies in an attempt to dupe and deceive other people and can erode their targets reality in the process.
Killer Simon Hall lied and used deliberate deflective and manipulative tactics from the point of his murder of Joan Albert, as did many other people throughout his fraudulent public relations campaign, which included Sandra Lean.
Sandra Lean has been mentioned in previous Parts of this blog series and is also mentioned throughout the following ongoing blog series;
Screenshot of front cover of Sandra Lean’s 1st discredited book ‘NoSmoke’
Sandra Lean’s discredited book NoSmoke:The Shocking Truth About British Justice, which included a chapter on Joan Albert’s killer and six other guilty killers, should have been withdrawn from sale with immediate effect from the point killer Simon Hall’s actual, factual guilt was exposed in 2013.
A copy of chapter 5 from Sandra Lean book has been published to this website for study and educational purposes onlyand can be read by tapping on the button below;
Instead of revising or withdrawing her discredited 1st book No Smoke, Sandra Lean made the following statements around four years later alleging;
I spoke with many people (including others whose cases were mentioned or discussed) about the question of withdrawing the book.
Not one of them wanted the book withdrawn.
There were discussions about possible revisions which would, of necessity, have taken a great deal of time and effort – time and effort that I was not capable of devoting to the matter at that time.
However by the following year charlatan and con-artist Sandra Lean had found the “time and effort” to write and publish a second innocence fraud book.
Sandra Lean’s above statement was extremely telling and it was also telling in relation to the “many people” she claimed to have spoken with, who’s cases were also “mentioned in the book” – presuming she genuinely spoke with these “many people”.
Concealing & Falsifying Lies
It states here there are “two primary types of lies” concealing and falsifying;
Joan Albert’s killer’s falsified lies were evident by the fact he was actually, factually guilty all along of having committed murder.
Killer Simon Hall’s lies of concealment were evident by both his murder of Joan Albert and his burglary of Zenith windows, among his numerous other lies, some of which have been referred to in previous Parts of this ongoingblog series. The index for which can be read by tapping on the button below;
Many of killer Simon Hall’s enablers also chose to lie by falsifying and concealment, including about the Zenith windows burglary and of the stolen items – along with many other events.
Their motivations to lie would have most probably varied.
For example Jamie Barker may have chosen to lie because he may have regretted his criminal actions.
It is possible Jamie Barker did not want people to know what he had done in the early morning hours of Sunday the 16th of December 2001 while he was with Simon Hall, and Jamie’s reason for not telling Suffolk police about his burglary may have been through fear of what the consequences may have been for him.
Sandra Lean knew about the Zenith Windows burglary by the 3rd of February 2013 because she confirmed this via an email she sent, which included the following;
While I appreciate that fighting a MOJ is an uphill struggle, and a steep learning curve, there are some “mistakes” which cannot be explained as ignorance, enthusiastic but misguided belief, or any of the other well trodden routes most people take on their journey towards justice.
Sandra Lean – 3rd February 2013
This was another point in time when Sandra Lean, who refers to herself as a criminologist, might have considered withdrawing her book No Smoke.
Instead Sandra Lean did not seem to care about the fact Joan Albert’s killer and the Hall family members (Lynne, Phil and Shaun) and Stephanie Bon had lied to her by falsifying and concealment about the Zenith Windows burglary and the stolen items.
Sandra Lean was happy to let her deceptive, manipulated and false narrative in No Smoke remain.
Which meant she was happy to lie and mislead anyone who read her book.
In early October 2019 Sandra Lean announced here she had finally contacted her publisher to have No Smoke withdrawn because of what she called ‘one typo’.
Yet just a few pages in to the acknowledgment section of Sandra Lean’s book (Page ix read here) it stated:
Perhaps the saddest realisation is that this book only exists as a result of tragedy.
It arises from the suffering of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances.
Sandra Lean from No Smoke
Joan Albert’s killer could hardly be described as an “ordinary” person “thrust into extraordinarycircumstances”.
During a podcast in 2020 with Sharon Indy Sunshine here (from approximately 30:20) where No Smoke was referred to, Sandra Lean claimed again it had been withdrawn – even though it was still up for sale and people were still buying.
Read Part5 and Part 7 for more on Sandra Lean’s “one typo” lie by tapping on the buttons below;
Sandra Lean was one of the first people Stephanie (Hall) contacted after learning of killer Simon Hall’s suicide in February 2014.
Sandra Lean gave the impression of concern for the situation, but in reality Sandra’s main concern appeared to be for herself and the “ten years” she claimed to have “wasted”.
Her priority appeared to beto inform people on an internet forum here (Who in the main debated various killers and their cases and campaigns) that “Simon Hall was found dead”.
Screenshot of Sandra Lean’s 23rd of February 2014 forum post
It was following this that Sandra Lean said she believed Jodi Jones’ killer Luke Mitchell had a similar type of “twisted reciprocal relationship” with his mother Corinne Mitchell, to which killer Simon Hall appeared to have had with his adoptive mother Lynne Hall.
It was also around this time that Sandra Lean said she thought killer Luke Mitchell was actually, factually guilty like killer Simon Hall turned out to be.
She also said the Mitchell’s had conned her similar to how killer Simon Hall, his family (Lynne, Phil and Shaun) and Stephanie Bon had done.
Conversations were also had about the dysfunctional Hall family dynamics and some of their behaviours, which had been witnessed over the years, among other factors.
Sandra Lean also said she thought they were similar to the dysfunctional family dynamics and behaviours she had witnessed over the years between Jodi Jones’ killer Luke Mitchell and his enabling mother Corinne Mitchell.
Serial Killer Michael Stone Aka Michael John Goodban
AnneRaffarty who presided over actual, factual guilty killer Simon Hall’s February 2003 trial, also prosecuted sadistic, psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone in 1998.
Lin, 45, Megan, six, and Josie, nine, were attacked as they walked home from Goodnestone village primary school in Kent to their home in nearby Chillenden.
Lin and Megan died but Josie was found clinging to life and has made an amazing recovery.
Stone, 38, was arrested a year later in July 1997 and confessed to two prisoners while remanded in custody, said prosecutor Ann Rafferty QC.
“He spoke of smashing an egg, of tying them up with wet towels although he hadn’t needed to as they were out of the game”
Stone – said to have demanded money from the family – dismissed them as “paupers”, the jury was told.
Miss Rafferty added:
“He constantly called them slags and whores”
He told one prisoner, identified only as Daly, that “one of them had tried to get away but didn’t get far.
“He wanted one of them to watch but she closed her eyes so he hit her again and she squirmed.
“One of the girls was disobedient and they hadn’t got what he wanted”
Daly had intervened when other lags hurled abuse at Stone in Canterbury prison, said Miss Rafferty.
She added: “Daly was upset and said he would tell the screws what Stone told him.
“But Stone was confident that he would not be believed and he would soon be freed because they had nothing on him.”
Stone made another confession to a prisoner called Barry Thompson, Miss Rafferty told Maidstone Crown Court in Kent.
“There was a discussion between the two of them about these murders and about the identification parade that was coming up shortly afterwards”
Miss Rafferty said there was “bitterness and acrimony” between the two and Stone allegedly said: “I made a mistake with her. I won’t make the same mistake with you”
She told the jury:
“You will want to consider whether that is a reference to Josie”
It is not known why killer Michael Stone does not appear to have been prosecuted for his killing of Lucy, the Russell families dog.
Some Background Crimes & The Fake Mask Of Insanity
Psychopathic killer Michael Stone tortured animals when he was a child and “forced a schoolgirl to strip at knifepoint in a playground”.
Michael Stone was first sent to borstal at the age of 14 in October 1974, following “severalconvictions” for theft and burglary.
On the 3rd of January 1975 Michael left borstal and lived in a care home until February 1975, when he was again convicted of yet more burglaries and thefts.
Excerpts from an “Independent inquiry” report on psychopathic killer Michael Stone’s care and treatment reads;
On 1st April 1975, he was remanded in custody for taking and driving away motor cars.
An application was made for him to go to the Secure Unit at Redhill but this was declined by the Department of Health on the grounds that there was no immediate vacancy and because they were concerned about the impact Michael would have in an already explosive situation there.
On 28th April 1975, he was sent to a Detention Centre for the second time for a three-month period.
When Michael was discharged back to North Downs on 24th June 1975, he was described by the social worker as looking most unwell.
He was near to tears the whole journey home and gave the impression that everything was worthless.
Convictions for theft, burglary and stealing cars continued throughout Mr Stone’s youth, culminating in a period of borstal training being imposed in August 1975 (at age 15).
His care order was subsequently discharged.
Michael was initially allocated to Dover Borstal but then transferred to Feltham for psychiatric oversight as it was thought that he suffered with depression.
No records are available in respect of this episode.
Following discharge from Feltham in August 1976, he rapidly re-offended and was returned to borstal from March to July 1977.
A borstal training report dated 10th November 1977 suggested that further offending be dealt with by imprisonment.
According to Mr Stone’s later accounts he first used heroin at age 17.
On 8th October 1992 Mr Stone re-attended Dr M – GP and told him that he felt under pressure and had been taking more stelazine than prescribed (25mg rather than 15mg).
He told Dr M – GP that when he came out of prison he was walking in the woods and felt like killing children.
He had increased his stelazine of his own accord as he realised “these ideas were not good”.
Dr M – GP was sufficiently concerned to make an urgent telephone referral to the local community mental health team (CMHT)
Mr Stone returned on 9th October 1992 in the company of his mother.
He was more calm at this second appointment, and Dr BB – Psych was able to take a lengthy and detailed history from both him and his mother.
Dr BB – Psych recorded details of Mr Stone’s forensic history, noting his violence and his account of previously attacking people with hammers.
The Michael Stone known to the caring agencies between 1992 and 1996 was a man with multiple and severe problems.
The extent of these and the interaction of one with the other made him a particularly difficult person to obtain information about, to assess, treat, manage or even control.
While those treating or caring for Mr Stone had considerable contact with him, the majority of his life was unknown to them.
Influences from this hidden part of his life, his illicit drug use, any criminal behaviour and difficult relationships with other family and friends, all undoubtedly coloured, if not sometimes caused, the clinical picture he presented.
On the one hand, in seeking what he perceived to be his best interest, Michael Stone variously inaccurately or selectively revealed, denied or even fabricated elements of his history or of events which might have been germane to his mental state at any particular time: he might behave in a particular way to create an impression or achieve a desired result.
On the other hand, his behaviour could at times be driven by the combined features of his personality disorder, his substance misuse, and, possibly, by symptoms of mental illness.
The significance of any one of these factors would vary.
At other times a different picture of Mr Stone is painted: a man whose life in large parts was based on a routine of watching TV and visiting his mother each day for lunch; a man who complied with advice from professionals and attended appointments made for him.
The professionals interviewed said that, as far as they were aware, Mr Stone did not have a “street” reputation of being a “hard” or violent person and, except on isolated occasions, they personally did not consider that he posed a physical threat to them in their professional dealings with him.
It is not within the Panel’s remit to investigate what local intelligence was held by the Kent police about Mr Stone.
It is clear that no concerns about him were raised with health, social service or probation professionals by the police.
None of this is surprising in the light of his history.
He had a most damaging upbringing.
From an early age he was seen as a disturbed and disturbing child and adolescent.
His relationships with important figures, family or carers, have always veered between being open and guarded, wanting and declining help, being amenable and uncooperative, pleasant and threatening, dependent and independent, insightful or driven by fantasy, appearing to be a damaged but intelligent and competent individual and then an unintelligent and disorganised person, being incapable of sustaining lasting relationships and being able to sustain some form of them, appearing to some as a violent and potentially very dangerous man, and, even on the same day, to others as a very disabled and compliant individual in genuine need of support from health and social agencies.
Besides his personality disorder and virtually persistent substance misuse, there were occasions when Michael Stone was thought to be psychotic.
The assessment of the nature of a psychosis depends upon an evaluation the manner in which the abnormal ideas and behaviour are presented, and what abnormal ideas are voiced.
In serious psychotic illness, particularly schizophrenia, abnormal ideas are frequently presented in characteristic ways giving confidence that, no matter what is expressed or what action results, a firm diagnosis of a functional psychosis can be made.
Even when there is doubt about the diagnosis early on, further experience of the patient and the emerging pattern of his disorder can help to clarify the picture.
As most schizophrenic illnesses tend to be chronic, progressive and disabling disorders, influenced in part by medication and the presence or absence of distressing life events, a confident diagnosis can be made over time.
This was not the picture presented over a sustained period in Mr Stone’s case.
It is highly unlikely that Michael Stone suffered from a typical schizophrenic or psychotic illness.
Media Misinformation & Inaccuracies & Breaches Of Journalists Codes Of Conduct
Similarly to the fraudulent public relations spin campaign of killer Simon Hall, all media articles from around the time psychopathic killer Michael Stone chose to commit his murders of Lin (45), Megan (6) and Lucy Russell, the families dog, and his attempted murder of Josie Russell (9), on the 9th of July 1996, are not accurate.
Many of the media articles are not reflective of the actual facts of the subsequent police investigation, psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone’s personality, his behaviours and background, his families dynamics, his family members personalities and their behaviour’s and background.
Many of the media article and news stories on Michael Stone’s 1998 murder trial, his subsequent appeal, his October 2001 retrial, along with the Stone families concoctions and behaviours following Michael Stone’s murderous crimes often appear to be forgotten about – or simply not known. As highlighted in the 2000 report, which stated the media had printed “significantly inaccurate versions of Mr Stone’s history and events”.
Excerpts from the Independent inquiry into psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone, which came under the header Media interest and involvement read;
Quite justifiably, the media have taken a considerable interest in this case.
Unfortunately, this has had a negative impact in several ways.
First, various reports contained significantly inaccurate versions of Mr Stone’s history and events.
Second, the attempts of some elements of the media to obtain information amounted to breaches of journalists’ codes of conduct and unwarranted intrusion and interference in the lives of professionals and patients.
Third, it is apparent that some confidential clinical information which was published came into the hands of the media by unauthorised means, but it has not been possible to identify the source of this information.
The press statement on behalf of the commissioning agencies at the conclusion of the trial was made in good faith and on the advice of professional advisers and the Department of Health.
It was also made in the context of unprecedented media pressure.
However, it contained a number of assertions which in the opinion of the Panel were not an accurate reflection of the history of the case and included judgments which it was not the place of the agency to make.
The responsibility for this was not that of any individual but the result of the collective activity of many.
Few agencies have occasion to respond to such media pressure and lessons can be learned at both a national and local level.
The Kent experience suggests the need for a comprehensive review of media handling in cases of this nature.
Also similarly to psychopathic killer Simon Hall, psychopathic killer Michael Stone remained atlarge for a year before he was finally arrested and charged for his murderous crimes.
At some point just before his arrest, Michael Stone threatened to kill his sister Barbara Stone and one of her children.
It was also reported he “smashed up” his sister Barbara Stone’s car.
Deceptive & Gaslighting EnablerBarbara Stone ~ “Better The Devil You Know” & Her Brothers Involvement In The Murder Of Francis Caesar Jegou
Barbara Stone
Barbara Stone, Michael Stone’s sister, has made countless telling public statements over the years.
Barbara Stone has also demonstrated on countless occasions a lack of reasoning, insight and self awareness, similarly to Shaun Hall, who is referred to in Part 11 and Part 11a of this blog series, each of which can be read by tapping on the buttons below;
Alarmingly Barbara Stone is said to be a registered mental health nurse.
Although Barbara has also stated she “can’t work in prisons or have anything to do with forensics”.
Below are a few public statements made by Barbara Stone;
We were alike, apart from the criminal element.
We had the same thought processes and sense of humour
Barbara Stone
It soon became clear the police were clutching at straws.
There was not a scrap of evidence
Barbara Stone
I am proud of him to be honest
Barbara Stone
Murder Of Special Police Constable Francis Caesar Jegou
Before her brothers 1998 trial, Barbara Stone was reported here to have stated she believed her brother could have been responsible for his murders of Lin, Megan and Lucy Russell and his attempted murder of Josie Russell, but at some point Barbara Stone changed her mind.
According to Barbara Stone when she was 14 years old she allegedly buried the knife her then 16 year old brother Michael had used to carry out his murder of Francis Caesar Jegou.
Francis Caesar Jegou was a special police constable who was 65 years of age at the time he was stabbed to death in a park in Maidstone, Kent on the 12th of September 1976.
Barbara Stone stated;
When I was about 14 Mick came up to me with a knife in a sheath.
He said I was to hide it for him and I buried it.
At the time I was just a kid and did what my big brother told me.
Years later he said he knew something about the murder.
I knew he was up to no good.
The killing was his style – it was done by two or more people and Mick never acted alone.
It would have been done to get money and, again, that’s something he’d have done
Barbara Stone (Turner, Lucy; Shaw, Adrian (24 October 1998). “Brother has killed before at just 16” Daily Mirror. p. 2.)
The November 2000 independent report did not consider psychopathic mass murderer Michael Stone’s potential involvement in the murder of Francis Jegou.
Instead it focused on his actual convictions;
Mr Stone’s first convictions for violence appear in February 1981 (at age 21) when he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for robbery and grievous bodily harm.
(In October 1992 Mr Stone told Dr BB – CPsych that this conviction was for “attacking people with hammers”.)
On release, he remained in voluntary after-care with the Kent Probation Services, again supervised by Mr DD – PO.
A pattern of rapid re-offending after release followed with further charges (at age 23) of wounding with intent, burglary and assault in 1983.
In October 1992 Mr Stone informed to Dr BB – CPsych that this conviction was for “stabbing someone.”
For apparently the first time the court requested a psychiatric report before sentencing Mr Stone.
The most serious offences in Mr Stone’s history before 1992 were two robberies of a theatre box office and an armed robbery (with an air pistol) of a building society.
These offences were committed in October and November 1986 within two months of leaving prison.
In April 1987 (at age 27) Mr Stone pleaded guilty to these offences and was jailed for 10 years.
It was then repeated here for example that Michael “Stone committed his first serious crime in 1981”.
Mother Jean & Step Father Denis
The author of the 1998 Scottish Daily Record article did not appear to have recognised their contradiction when they stated;
Monster Michael Stone was a walking timebomb, leading a meaningless, drug- addled life blighted by acts of insane violence.
Thirteen years before the deranged junkie murdered Lin and Megan Russell, he tried to gouge out a police superintendent’s eyes with his bare hands.
The officer’s crime? To attempt to calm him after he went berserk in a court holding cell.
Superintendent Lee Plummer, now retired, said yesterday:
“I can still remember this mad, crazed figure scouring my eyes.
“He was trying to get a finger behind my eyeball to prise it out of its socket. I was very close to being blinded.”
Stone attacked Mr Plummer just before he was jailed for four and a half years for an unprovoked knife attack.
As he passed sentence, Judge Felix Waley warned society the man in the dock was a potential killer.
He told Stone:
“I have to protect the public from you long enough to give you a chance to mature, so you are safe when you are out and don’t end up killing somebody”
Not long after he was freed, in 1986, Stone was jailed again – this time for armed robbery.
Judge Anthony Balston gave him 10 years, telling him:
“You are an extremely dangerous man with an appalling record for dishonesty and violence.”
Born in Gillingham, Kent 38 years ago, Stone was introduced to violence and cruelty at an early age.
When he was six, he saw his stepfather Denis – his parents had already divorced – take a meat cleaver to another man he claimed had punched him.
By the time Stone was eight, mother Jean had decided she could not cope with him.
He was packed off to the first in a succession of children’s homes.
Stone absconded often and hitch-hiked back to Gillingham.
He would sleep rough and steal to live, only to drift back to whatever institution he had fled from.
Those hiking expeditions gave Stone his intimate knowledge of the fields and woodland paths around Chillenden, where he was later to kill Lin and Megan and leave young Josie Russell for dead.
A friend from Stone’s children’s home days, Gary Day, recalled: “Mick was like everyone else – got into a bit of trouble, didn’t really want to be there, running away.
“He was always friends with people a bit older than him. He looked up to them and liked to think he was tougher than he really was.”
Stone left both care and school at 16 with few qualifications and little or no ambition.
He returned to Gillingham, an unemployment blackspot with nothing to offer a particularly unpromising teenager.
He quickly became a drug addict and career housebreaker and thief.
An officer on the Russell inquiry team said:
“Stone would thieve from garden sheds because they were easy. He took lawn mowers, tools and anything else he could sell”
Stone committed his first serious crime in 1981.
In a chilling hint of what was to come, he used a hammer to attack and rob a gay man.
He was jailed for two years for robbery and grievious bodily harm.
By his mid-20s, Stone was a heroin addict.
Constantly craving his next fix, he would mug people at cashpoints for drug money.
Bisexual Stone two-timed men with women and vice versa.
His squalid flat in the town’s Skinner Street served as a flophouse for Gillingham’s drug-users and crooks.
One woman who spent time there said: “It was always a mess. There would be people everywhere taking drugs”
Soon after serving his time for the hammer attack, Stone was back in serious trouble.
This time he had accused a man of kicking his flat door, and reacted by plunging a knife into his chest.
As he waited his turn in the holding cells at Maidstone’s court building – scene of his trial for murdering the Russells – Stone went berserk.
He attacked the custody officer, hitting him viciously in the head and kicking him in the groin. Superintendent Plummer, in court on another matter, was asked to intervene.
The former policeman, now 52, winces as he relives his encounter with Stone.
“I remember it as if it was yesterday,” he said.
“I was sitting in the courtroom when a hell of a row broke out. The magistrates were looking around for a policeman and I was the only one in court.”
“I went back to the holding cells and saw the custody officer in some distress on the ground. He had been attacked.
“A prisoner was kicking at the reinforced door, screaming abuse. It was only a matter of time before the thing gave way.
“I got off two words as I opened the door before he flung himself at me.
“He looked berserk, just crazy. His hands were at my throat, then he started on my eyes.
“He was shouting, `This will cost you an eye.'”
Mr Plummer said the pain grew unbearable as Stone pushed his finger further into his left eye socket.
He added: “The prisoner appeared to be in a frenzy and I was getting desperate. I was barely holding him off.
“Then the custody officer managed to get to his feet. He launched himself at my attacker, who released his grip on me, and we both bundled him into another cell.
“It was then I realised fluid was pouring from my eye and I had long streaks of blood down my shirt front. The judge who jailed the guy later was right when he said he was capable of killing.”
The next few years followed Stone’s old familiar pattern – into jail, out of jail early, back to crime.
In April 1987, aged 26, he was back in the dock to be convicted of robberies at a theatre in Maidstone and a building society in Brighton, Sussex.
He was given 10 years, reduced to eight on appeal, then released early once again to return to his old ways.
Finally, on July 9, 1996, Stone came across Lin, Megan and Josie walking in a sunlit country lane, and Judge Waley’s grim prophecy of 1983 came true.
The fateful day had begun like thousands of others for Stone.
He gave himself a heroin fix before going to a shop to sell some building tools, no doubt stolen.
Police believe Stone spent the next few hours thieving.
Hours after the murders, a lawn mower was reported stolen from a house near the scene.
Stone cut a pathetic figure in the dock during his trial.
Grey and balding, he either stared into space or glared angrily at the succession of one-time friends who helped build the damning case against him.
His mother and sister sat in the front row of the public gallery every day of the trial, refusing even to entertain the idea he could be guilty.
After a long and exhaustive inquiry -it took well over two years to put Stone behind bars – the police have no such doubts
Police have questioned him over the killing of a pensioner in Maidstone 21 years ago
The body of Francis Jegou, 65, was found with head injuries and multiple stab wounds to the stomach, probably inflicted with a thin-bladed stiletto dagger or a pair of scissors.
At the time, police believed the motive may have been robbery.
Mr Jegou was in the habit of carrying large amounts of cash, but he only had pounds 3 when his body was discovered.
Admission Of Guilt To Having Murdered Francis Caesar Jegou
Psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone told a psychiatrist that he was responsible for his murder of Francis Jegou in 1976 and apparently remains Kent police’s prime suspect.
It is not known if Michael Stone also told his sister Barbara or his mother Jean that he murdered Lin, Megan and Lucy Russell and had attempted to murder Josie Russell.
However Michael Stone had made many admissions about his fantasies to commit murder before he eventually chose to make his fantasies reality and commit his murders of the Russell family members and their dog Lucy in 1998.
The Zito Trust – Lionising The Dangerous & Psychopathic Serial Killer
Barbara Stone seemingly changed her mind about her brother guilt at some point leading up to her contact with Jayne Zito, a former mental health worker.
Jayne Zito’s first husband Jonathan Zito, was murdered in December 1992 by Christopher Clunis, who had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in 1986.
It is not known if it was a calculated move on Barbara Stone’s behalf to target Jayne Zito but Janye appeared to have been vulnerable for years following her husband Jonathan Zito’s murder, as can be heard during an interview with Jayne Zito here.
Excerpts from the Healthtalk.org website read;
Jayne had a “complete breakdown” after Jon’s death.
She was in “complete shock” and wanted to be by herself but could not look after herself.
For years Jayne felt inconsolable.
She felt a kind of terror and at times felt physically sick, out of control, ashamed and ugly.
She had to give up her job and her course and her flat in London.
She could not drive a car and felt that she could not function.
Jayne had support from her family and she had a counsellor from CRUSE, who was invaluable.
The counsellor was helpful partly because she was interested in Jonathan’s life and his marriage to Jayne, as well as his death.
After Jayne moved she found help via a woman who worked for Victim Support.
The woman referred Jayne to London voluntary bereavement services.
It took years for Jayne to recognise that she was a victim, a survivor, and that something had happened to her too.
Jayne Zito’s article(?) was published on Saturday the 24th of October 1998, the day after psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone was found guilty for his murder of Lin and Megan Russell and his attempted murder of Josie Russell.
Excerpts from Jayne Zito’s article(?) read;
At The Zito Trust we became involved in this case early for two reasons, The first is our role as the campaigning mental health charity concerned specifically with failures of community care for severely mentally ill people who commit homicide and violent attacks; the second is because the sister of Michael Stone, Barbara, contacted our support and advice service in November 1997, and we have had nearly a year to study the problems and issues raised by her brother’s long history of violence, institutionalisation, and mental health problems, including serious drug abuse.
It became obvious before the trial that Michael Stone suffers from a very serious personality disorder, exacerbated by serious drug abuse.
There was concern that he had been diagnosed as having schizophrenia, but West Kent Health Authority say not.
We have to wait for the independent inquiry to report before we know the full and correct version of the facts.
October 1998 – The Start Of The Fraudulent Public Relations Spin Campaign
The Independent newspaper ran another story on Wednesday the 28th of October 1998, five days after Michael Stone was found guilty and Louise Jury’s article headed Why I believe my brother didn’t kill, by Michael Stone’s sisterindicated Michael Stone’s fraudulent public relations spin campaign had begun.
Excerpts read;
Barbara Stone, 36, disclosed yesterday that as someone who respected the law, she had accepted the possibility of his guilt when police arrested her brother last year.
But her doubts mounted as the initial “evidence” against him fell away.
“I don’t want to rub it into the Russells that it’s a miscarriage of justice.
That’s not fair – it’s too soon.
But unless they prove to me different, I believe he’s innocent” she said.
Ms Stone said yesterday that a great deal of information had been forthcoming and it was hoped to launch an appeal within two weeks.
At the trial at Maidstone Crown Court, testimony from three convicted criminals was the key to the case against Stone.
But his sister said nobody should be convicted on the uncorroborated evidence of criminals.
“I don’t feel they should convict and send him away for the rest of his life on the word of another criminal”
Ms Stone chose to speak to The Independent yesterday at a meeting arranged by the Zito Trust, the mental health pressure group which is working with her to highlight the issues raised by the case.
As an aside, she noted that although the authorities claimed he had never been a paranoid schizophrenic, a condition considered treatable under the Mental Health Act, “schizophrenia” was the reason given for his receipt of disability living allowance.
Sadistic serial killer Michael Stone was, and is, an untreatable and dangerous psychopath and a reference from the November 2000 independent inquiry report into Michael’s “care and treatment” appears to suggest Michael’s psychopathic personality disorder was recognised at least as early as 1983;
In April 1983 Dr ZE – Psych(F), a Forensic Psychiatrist assessed Mr Stone in Canterbury Prison.
In a very short report, she stated that she found him to be a “volatile and emotional man who found it difficult to co-operate with a psychiatric interview”.
Dr ZE – Psych(F)’s report concluded that “It is apparent that he is very unstable, but there is no evidence that he has a mental illness for which treatment in a psychiatric hospital would be advisable… his very deprived and unsatisfactory childhood has led to a severe personality disorder”
Dr ZE – Psych(F) recommended that, should Mr Stone receive a sentence of more than one year, he be considered for treatment within the prison system.
However, the report gives no indication of the suggested nature or purpose of any such treatment.
A 2019 article for The Augustus Chronicle reported some insights from Hervey Cleckley, who wrote TheMask of Sanity (Which can be read here), The Three Faces of Eve and The Caracture of Love: A Discussion of Social, Psychiatric, and Literay Manifestations of Pathologic Sexuality, and Robert Hare , who wrote Snakes in Suits, Without Conscience and Psychopathy: TheoryandResearch.
Screenshot of the cover of the revised edition of the book Snakes In Suits
For the past three years, I have been conducting research on the contributions that Augusta native Hervey Cleckley and his protégé, Robert Hare, have made to the fields of psychiatry and psychology.
Here are some insights. I hope they are helpful to you.
Research suggests that psychopaths may be over-represented among the following occupations:
Psychopaths may be under-represented in these professions:
Care aide; nurse; therapist; craftsperson; beautician/stylist; charity worker; teacher. creative artist accountant
On reflection, I personally have dealt with 12 individuals who probably were psychopaths: two general officers, two high-level politicians, an assistant secretary of the Navy, two senior officials in national media organizations (at CNN and at CBS), the CEO of a university, a pastor (not in my church) and three officials in nonprofit organizations.
These individuals had much in common: smart; charming; little empathy (bullied others orally); lacked loyalty (often cleverly undermining their boss); highly ambitious; risk-takers; cleverly told lies; and unwilling to accept criticism or undergo therapy.
Of the 12, 11 were men.
Perry Smith
It is not known how many of the people who choose to also commit innocence fraud, like killers Simon Hall and Michael Stone, and those people who choose to knowingly promote the fraudulent public relations spin campaigns have undiagnosed psychopathic personality disorders.
Screenshot of the cover of the of the book Without Conscience
However Perry Smith included Robert Hare’s “Psychopathy Checklist – Revised” here and he urged people ‘to read Robert Hare’s Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us’.
Some Parallel’s
Like psychopathic killer Simon Hall, serial killer Michael Stone had sexual relationships with both men and women and both alleged they were sexually abused, as referred to in Part 13 of this blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below;
Killer Michael Stone made “explicit threats about decapitating children and other acts of unprovoked violence”.
Killer Simon Hall also spoke of “fantasiesabout having sex with a child, killing the child and burying the body” as referred to in Part 14, which can be read by tapping on the button below;
There was also an October 1993 reference in the November 2000 independent inquiry report to Michael Stone having said “he had slashed his arms and wrists in the police station; he had lost control and felt he could kill someone”.
Killer Simon Hall also slashed his wrists whilst serving time in a young offenders institute, after having been convicted for “violence, an assault in McDonalds in 1997 and another for wounding” as referred to in Part 14 of this blog series.
Simon Hall also deliberately cut his arms in 2003 after having been found guilty of his murder of Joan Albert, as referred to in Part 17a, which can be read by tapping on the button below;
Another reference from the Independent inquiry report into Michael Stone’s care and treatmentreads;
Despite Mr Stone repeatedly reporting his history of having been in social services care as a child, his social services records were neither requested by or made available to any of those working in the health service who were involved in his care and treatment from 1992 to 1997.
Similarly to killer Michael Stone, killer Simon Hall’s social services records were not requested by any of “those working in the health service who were involved in his care and treatment”, throughout either Simon Hall time in a young offenders institute or following his arrest and subsequent conviction for his murder of Joan Albert.
Some of killer Simon Hall’s social service records are referred to in Part 3, which can be read by tapping on the button below;
In early February 2022, yet more of psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone and his enablers innocence fraud did the rounds via the media and his sister Barbara Stone was seemingly contacted for an interview.
In one of her Facebook comments on the United Against Injustice innocence fraud Facebook group, Barbara Stone replied to Kevin McMahon when she was apparently getting ready for a media interview;
Barbara Stone stated in part, ‘…I have to go and play’
Barbara Stone did not comment when she was asked why she chose to use the word ‘play’, however the definition for the word play in the Oxford dictionary is;
engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practicalpurpose
Sandra Lean
In one of Sandra Lean’s public statements on one of her Facebook accounts, and which appears to be part of yet another of her orchestrated and malicious smear/hate campaigns (this time aimed at a crime writer in Scotland) Sandra Lean stated in part;
Diabolicals appear to be incapable of separating fact from opinion and often offer personal opinions as fact
Barbara Stone also chose to comment on Sandra Lean’s 18th of July 2022 Facebook post.
In response to Barbara Stone’s comment, Sandra Lean made the following comment in response;
‘Mick’ being dangerous psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone, with Sandra Lean attempting to suggest psychopathic serial killer Levi Bellfield was responsible for Michael Stone’s murderous crimes.
Hornswoggler William Clegg, who represented serial killer Michael Stone, referred to the fraudulent public relations spin campaign as “a 26-year saga”.
My mind returned to that gruesome case over the weekend, when I read about the latest twist in what has now become a 26-year saga.
It was revealed on Sunday that serial killer Levi Bellfield has confessed to the Chillenden murders in a four-page letter, according to Stone’s solicitor.
Bellfield is already serving a life sentence in prison for the murders of three other women and girls (and the attempted murder of one more), including 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who was abducted and killed near Walton-on-Thames in March 2002.
Bellfield claims he was wearing yellow Marigold washing-up gloves at the time of the Chillenden attack, with a hammer in his right hand.
“There was blood everywhere and all up my legs, arms and shorts,” Bellfield is said to have written.
Bellfield’s claim is newsworthy.
If true, it would mean that my client Michael Stone is currently serving three life sentences for crimes he did not commit.
But we should treat Bellfield’s claim with extreme caution.
If I was ever to speak to him, I would not believe a word he said.
He could easily be a fantasist, an attention-seeker.
William Clegg also represented Jill Dando’s killer, renowned serial stalker and predatory and prolific sex offender and rapist Barry George.
Nick Ross a friend of Jill Dando’s and co host of the BBC’s Crimewatch TV programme, gave an interview here with Piers Morgan in 2022.
Piers Morgan made numerous false and bizarre claims, including claiming that killer Barry George was released from custody “an innocent man” following his re-trial, which is NOT what happened
Although Barry George was found ‘not guilty’ at the end of his 2nd murder trial, he was NOT found to be “innocent” he was found not guilty.
Killer Barry George was placed under MAPPA restrictions immediately following his second trial for his murder of Jill Dando and is still being monitored under MAPPA (Multi-agency public protection arrangements) type restrictions due to his psychopathy and dangerousness – in particular towards women.
Joan Albert’s Killer. Photograph of Simon Hall taken whilst ’at large’ and ‘wanted’ by Suffolk police for a sexually motivated murder
Following his suicide attempt in 2013 killer Simon Hall made allegations his older brother Shaun Hall had sexually abused him when Simon was around 10 years of age.
Simon Hqll also alleged he and Shaun Hall had gone on to have an incestuous relationship after this.
Simon Hall also made allegations of sexual abuse against his adoptive mother Lynne Hall.
A July 2013 reference from Simon Hall’s HMP Wayland December 2013 Sentence Planning and Review Report, which was made following the exposure of Simon’s actual, factual guilt to his murder of Joan Albert read;
Mr Hall stated that he could not attend work as he was in the wrong frame of mind, stating he had too much going on as he had been abused by family members when he was young and had to make a statement
While talking to a member of staff Mr Hall stated that he had been abused by his mother and brother and that is why he felt he did not know what he was doing at the time of the murder
Excerpt from page 14 of HMP Wayland Sentence Planning and Review Report (Report dated December 2013)
These allegations were reported to Suffolk police in early 2013 and Simon Hall made a police witness statement from HMP Hollesley Bay.
Suffolk police apparently interviewed Shaun Hall and Lynne Hall and the investigation was No Further Actioned.
Another reference from Simon Hall’s HMP Wayland SentencePlanning and Review Report read;
Intel suggests that Mr Hall informed his wife that he lied about Lynn raping him and having sex with him, and that he is craving attention
Excerpt from page 15 of HMP Wayland Sentence Planning and Review Report (Report dated December 2013)
Below are copies of parts of a letter written by killer Simon Hall dated 22nd September 2013;
Alleged Childhood Bath-time Routine
Before Suffolk police interviewed Lynne and Shaun Hall they also requested Simon Hall’s then wife Stephanie (Hall) make a police witness statement, so she could relay to them what Simon Hall had disclosed to her regarding his allegations.
She relayed to Suffolk police that Simon Hall had referred to the alleged “bird game” mentioned in the copy of the above part of the letter, as “the bird catches the worm”.
Simon Hall alleged Lynne Hall would use one of her hands to allegedly imitate a bird and Simon’s penis was allegedly the worm.
The alleged “bird game”was allegedly carried out whilst Simon Hall was in the bath.
Simon Hall also alleged when Lynne Hall was “drying him down” after a bath, Lynne would allegedly “kiss him on his lips, his nipples and then his penis”.
Simon Hall described these allegations as part of his bath time routine when he was a child.
Copies of parts of letters written by Simon Hall – Dated 22nd September 2013
On the 15th November 2013 Shaun Hall, using one of his numerous pseudonyms called Fannymoon, stated the following;
Killer Simon Hall had not made any appeal for a reduced sentence.
The media had reported on Simon Hall’s confession in early August 2013 but nothing was reported on Simon’s allegations of sexual abuse, therefore it is not known why Shaun Hall chose to make the following public statement;
Did anything come of Mr Halls appeal for reduced sentence because of abuse he suffered by his adopted Mother and Brother?
Statement by Shaun Hall AKA Fannymoon
Shaun Hall’s 15th November 2013 public statement appeared to support his brother Simon Hall’s allegations of sexual abuse.
William Long’s Bizarre Conclusion
Oddly Dr William Long, a senior forensic psychologist working for HMP Wayland stated in his November 2013 report;
In relation to ’early maladjustment’ there is evidence from reports and interviews with Mr Hall that his childhood and early life were relatively problem-free.
He has at time disclosed that his family life was problematic but has later withdrawn these comments, insisting that he had been lying.
This item is regarded as ’absent’.
There is no evidence of him being rejected, abused or mistreated in his childhood and early life; There is similarly no evidence and no disclosure of family or marital discord in the home to which he was witness
Paragraph 5.12, page 18 of 57 from Dr William Long’s November 2013 – Psychological risk assessment report
Simon Hall made further references to the allegations of sexual abuse regarding his brother Shaun Hall in a letter he wrote around three weeks before his February 2014 suicide;
And in another letter around two weeks before Simon Hall’s suicide;
Simon Hall letter dated 9th February 2013
And further reference to Shaun Hall and parental relationships, six days before Simon Hall’s suicide;
Excerpts from Simon Hall’s letter dated 17th February 2014
INNOCENCE FRAUD WATCH 