Money paid to Mr Parnell

Sheila Oliver made this Freedom of Information request to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Dear Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council,

Mr Parnell has been sent a cheque for "goodwill". He is the chap who merely asked for counselling help for his troubled daughters adopted from Stockport Council, who when he got nowhere over a decade decided to stand in peaceful protest on the town hall steps. The Council had the police called hundreds of times and he was repeatedly sent to a tough Manchester prison. He was accused of assault with a sneeze of which he was acquitted in an expensive Crown Court Appeal. The Council then, it would seem, falsified his council tax records to make it look as though he owed arrears. I have seen all his receipts and his on line council tax records held by the Council. He never owed any money.

Now, a cheque has been sent to him as "goodwill" regarding his council tax arrears. As he never owed any he wants to know what this "goodwill" payment is all about. He has tried to return the cheque to the Council but the Council Solicitor, Barry Khan, who is dealing with his case refuses to return his call. If he posts the cheque back it will be claimed it was never received by the Council. If he goes to the town hall, apart from to attend a council meeting, he faces 5 years in prison for breach of a restraining order on a crime of which he was acquitted.

Apparently, there has been an offer made to do repairs to his home to the sum of £9,000, which is strange because it is a private house and not a council house. The Arms Length Management Company who would carry out the repairs are the company employing the people who were found by the Crown Court to have lied in court and threatened to kill him, and to kick his f*cking head in", so he is understandably concerned about having any employee of that company in his home.

My question is: Is this cheque and would this £9.000 of repairs be coming out of public funds or out of the pockets of the senior council officers and Executive councillors responsible for all the atrocities against him?

And, how does he return this cheque when he just meets, as always, a stonewall?

With very warmest best wishes

Sheila

alan m dransfield (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

Best way for him to return the cheque via a recorded delivery or better still hand delivered with a letter and get the SBC receptionist to sign for the letter.
Fully understand why he is reluctant to put himself in danger by visiting the SBC.

Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation ()

If he hand delivers it at the town hall, he faces 5 years in prison for breaching a restraining order put on him for a crime he didn't commit.

You have to be tough to be a Stockport resident.

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Dear FOI Officer,

We shall see about that in the fullness of time. There is a cheque for £2000 from the Council. Everything will come out in the wash and I want to know if I, as a council taxpayer, have paid that money. I have done nothing wrong to Mr Parnell - quite the opposite, so why should I be funding any damages costs?

I wish you had shown more concern for Data Protection issues when the Council posted up Mr Parnell's name, address and signature on the Council's website for months, and when told about it on a Thursday at the full council meeting, did nothing to remove those details. Mine were up there too with other council taxpayers.

When Mr Parnell went to Stopford House the following Monday to complain about this serious breach of the Data Protection Act which had not been corrected, the Council called the police and tried to have him arrested.

One has to be tough to be a Stockport council taxpayer!

Yours sincerely,

Sheila Oliver