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Accountability - and where to turn for it

Charlotte Peters Rock made this Freedom of Information request to Home Office

Home Office did not have the information requested.

From: Charlotte Peters Rock

28 July 2010

Dear Home Office,

1. Can you please tell me what legal duty is owed to the public by
senior (and other) professionals such as Coroners, Toxicologists,
Pathologists, Medical Consultants, Doctors and Nurses, in respect
of unwarranted deliberate killing, where they are aware that such
killing has taken place?

2. Is there any part of the work contract of such people, to group
together and force a public or police inquiry, where such deaths
have taken place?

3. Is there any legal right of NHS Health Trusts to prevent such
demand for investigation, should one or more of that Trust's
employees need to make such a demand?

4. How can an ill-served member of the public, whose relative has
been unlawfully killed, using professional staff and noxious drugs
belonging to the NHS, insist on a public investigation and criminal
trial?

5. What legal or other help is in place for such insistence,
assuming that member of the public does not have unlimited access
to funds to pursue the major Court action which would be necessary?

6. Where formal and thorough investigation of a deliberately
procured killing has been refused by senior police officers who
regularly state, "my hands are tied", and by Judges who clearly
show that they have not read or taken account of the documents in
front of them, what can be done to insist on a comprehensive
investigation of that deliberately procured killing, which has used
the facilities and drugs of NHS Trusts?

7. Who oversees the actions of a Senior Police Officer, since the
Police Authority, and IPCC have refused such oversight?

8. Why will no-one at the Ministry for Justice, oversee the actions
of Coroners, who misapply the law and refuse to call essential
witnesses to an inquest following such an unwarranted killing?

9. Who can be written to, at the Home Office, who will be
accountable and will actually read and understand documents
which are readily available and which prove that the elderly are
being unnecessarly and deliberately killed, using the NHS?

10. Is there any plan to make legally accountable, those supposed
overseeing and investigative agencies such as IPCC, GMC, MNC, GSCC,
PHSO, Law Society, Office for Judicial Review, etc, which currently
are not doing the job for which we pay them?

11. If so, when will people employed by those agencies become
accountable for their actions, instead of constantly 'passing the
buck'?

12. What changes have been made as a result of the very strong
recommendations made by Senior Judge, Dame Janet Smith - following
the shocking revelations of the Shipman Inquiry - to prevent such
ease of killing of the old and vulnerable?

Yours faithfully,

Charlotte Peters Rock

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From: FOI Responses
Home Office

25 August 2010


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Please find attached our response to your FOI Request.

Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF

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From: Charlotte Peters Rock

25 August 2010

Dear Home Office,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Home Office's
handling of my FOI request 'Accountability - and where to turn for
it'.

It seems to me that Linda Ingram (no job title - no accountability)
is passing the buck in a big way.

If the questions were asked of you, then the answers need to be
provided by you.

Passing on the responsibility to inner space - outer space - no
space at all - is not a reasonable thing to do, especially when the
person requesting the information is a relative of someone who was
murdered in his bed, and your organisation will not take the
responsibility for the actions of those who it is perfectly clear
have acted both illegally and morally wrongly

If the Home Office is incapable of an adequate response, why are we
paying the wages of those who work there?

That is a question which requires an answer. The Home Office is the
place from which I request that answer, since it is apparent that
its fudging of all issues is the reason why my father's killing has
not been adequately investigated.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ac...

Yours faithfully,

Charlotte Peters Rock

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From: FOI Responses
Home Office

26 August 2010


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Dear Ms Peters Rock,

Please find attached an acknowledgement letter for your internal review
request.

Regards,

Information Access Team, Home Office

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Charlotte Peters Rock left an annotation ( 6 September 2010)

In respect of the totality of the 12 questions, which were put to the Home Office, it clearly exhibits a total lack of accountability in respect of the lives of those whom it professes to serve, stating:

"The Home Office does not hold the information you have requested" - response to questions 1 - 4

"The Home Office does not hold the information you have requested" - questions 5 & 6

(paraphrasing) 'take yourself off to court (at enormous expense and tortuous time wasting effort) if you disagree with the Chief Constable or the Independent Police Complaints Commission's (rubbish, self-serving) decisions - its howt to do wi us' - question 7

"The Home Office does not hold the information you have requested" - questions 8 & 9

"The Home Office does not hold the information you have requested" - questions 10, 11 & 12

It would seem that the Home Office is not actually responsible - nor accountable - for anything. So why are we paying for people to inhabit its premises?

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From: FOI Responses
Home Office

24 September 2010


Attachment 15722 Peters Rock cover letter and response.pdf
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Dear Ms Peters Rock

Please find attached a response to your internal review request.

Regards

Information Access Team, Home Office

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Charlotte Peters Rock left an annotation (21 October 2010)

This webpage was updated by some unspecified person, to say that 'the Home Office does not hold the information' that I am still seeking.

That begs the question:

1 Why does it not hold that information?
2 Why - as seems likely - is NOBODY accountable for picking up a quite obvious 'public interest' case, where it can be clearly demonstrated that an old man can be shown (with full medical documentation) to have been deliberately killed, using our own National Health Service, when he had not been dying; and that this killing was achieved by the lies of a close relative who had much to gain by his killing.

That is a matter of public interest. No family should have to struggle for years, as our family has had to do, because the 'proper authorities' will not do their jobs, and not one of the overseeing agencies will do their jobs either. And nor it seems with the Home Office.

What are we paying these people for? We might as well sack the lot of them and keep a club by the door.

It is a matter of 'public interest' that the old (or others) can be so readily killed.

Why does the Home Office have no override, so that such obvious matters can be publicly investigated to a full and proper conclusion? The only reason that I can see, having struggled for six and a half years, is that it is 'conveniant' if the elderly are disposed of - whether or not they want to go. It saves medical bills and pensions.

Would anyone else like to comment on that?

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