A Law Unto Himself

Sometimes, you just have to take the law into your own hands.

My complaint is in relation to a course of action by an employee of Northumbria Police, PC Doyle. It is not directly to do with police activities, but it is the case that he has pursued a course of bullying and harassment specifically directed to me, that I would contend should be properly regard as the Civil tort of Misfeasance in a Public Office. If Northumbria Police, with whom I’ve had many tiresome dealings in the past, do not satisfactorily, deal with my complaint, I am prepared to take the matter to a Civil court.

Over the past decade, I have been subject to repeated harassment from Northumbria Police, from both Newcastle and North Tyneside scions. In particular, the force's zeal to pursue unfounded, mendacious allegations made against me by Elaine O'Connell-Gray and Robin Fisher, as well as David Caisley. This has seen me pursued, detained and interviewed on about a dozen occasions. As can be seen, not one single allegation has resulted in so much as a caution; the actions of the officer who arrested me at Mr Fisher’s request in January 2017 (I do not have her name), plus the grievous conduct of PC 8151 Pilgreen in September 2017 are enough to demonstrate the course of persecution against me, as should the two reports I made of assault against my person in January and May 2020, neither of which were investigated.

I have been aware of PC Doyle since October 2016, through our mutual support of a local football club who I have followed since 2003 and became the programme editor for the club in July 2014. PC Doyle, prior to his involvement, was a non-league referee, but I did not know him. I first met him at a game and subsequently, for the remainder of that season, we had little direct contact. From the start of the 2017/2018 season, he took a place on the club committee as webmaster and I began to have more dealings with him. Since that time, despite being fully aware of the fact that I have struggled with mental health issues since I was a teenager, Doyle has sought to bully, denigrate and abuse me, by means of the spoken and written word, in real life and on line, specifically through his Twitter account.

In short, I believe he has demonstrated an abuse of public power or authority by a public officer who knew that he was abusing their public power or authority and was recklessly indifferent as to the limits to or restraints upon their public power or authority. Furthermore, I believe Doyle both acted and omitted to act, on numerous occasions, with both the knowledge of the probability of harming the claimant and with a conscious and reckless indifference to the probability of harming me, psychologically and mentally.

It may seem unlikely that a police employee would seek to further undermine the fragile mental health of a vulnerable adult, as well as destroying the main source of sporting pleasure in their life, but this is precisely what Doyle sought to do. If you were to examine Doyle’s Twitter account, especially a litany of deleted tweets, it would be apparent that Boyle’s secondary obsession, behind horseracing, was destroying my reputation. For instance, in March 2020 he described me as a “scruffy, irritating, fat, keyboard warrior.” He was clever not to use my name, but his endless screed of abuse towards me, much of which was hidden as he protected his account, had a deleterious effect on both my life and my mental health.

I am aware that members of the police are prohibited from involvement in party politics. This, of course, does not preclude them from holding political beliefs; to say the least, Doyle and I held divergent opinions. Once he learned I was a Remainer, he began an insidious whispering campaign at the football club. In the time between referendum and withdrawal, he sought to portray me as some kind of terrorist sympathiser. As he had been in the Navy and I am an avowed pacifist, we had differing views regarding Remembrance Day; suffice to say, my choice of a white poppy inflamed him and caused him to embark upon a social media blitz about me. I tried my best to ignore him, but in June 2018, I was called to a meeting at the club chairman about Doyle’s allegations.

We found common ground in the meeting, but Doyle was soon furious when he learned of my Labour Party membership, seeking to have me removed as programme editor because of my political views. He saw this as a job for him, though his weakness with spelling and syntax, as can be seen from his Twitter account, precluded him from the job.

Things came to a head in the late summer of 2019 when Doyle engineered my removal from the role of programme editor; a complaint was made about an article in a programme that referred to an incident of unpunished racism by a Guisborough player some years before. A Guisborough fan demurred and Doyle inflated this to a major incident, resulting in me being removed from my position. Even worse, come December 2019 I was actively campaigning for the Labour Party in the election; an act that infuriated Doyle, to the extent he organised me to be banned from all  home games. He wanted it to be a life ban, but the club made it until the end of the season, which Coronavirus curtailed.

Ordinary people may find it baffling that I am so sure of Doyle’s misfeasance but, despite his poor command of written English, he is a skilled exponent of the whispering campaign.  He planted seeds of doubt in the minds of my colleagues and resulted in me being excluded from the club I love and have done for many years.  He used his police influence as a way of making me suffer. Because I am a Socialist and he is an authoritarian right winger, he sought to abuse me at every point. Check his recent Twitter, it is still full of abuse about me.

Doyle has left the club, but continues to have a go at me on social media, meaning I am still suicidal and banned. Please sort him out.