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The two policemen

22/11/2020

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Introducing new audio blog extra!!

This weeks blog comes with an audio file - I read the blog and talk about it -

Its a Blog Extras! - I am also looking at posting a podcast along with the weekly blog.
This week has been both exciting and exhausting with The Times reporting how Felicity Gerry QC has been engaged to help to get Christine a pardon. I am so delighted Felicity accepted this brief and she comes with a wealth of expertise. Felicity has taken this project on pro bono as well as James Harbridge, a lawyer based in Dubai with 25 years dispute resolution experience.

James had contacted me through the website at the end of August asking to help, and for me he has been the real breakthrough. Hundreds of emails, WhatsApps and Zoom calls later we find ourselves able to tell people why Christine, both morally and legally, should not have gone to prison in 1963. I am so incredibly grateful to them both.

I cannot forget Desmond Banks, Christine’s friend and solicitor who has helped and guided me through this whole story. Desmond has been a great mentor to me since Christine passed away and has even taken on the burden of spell checking each of these blogs before they are posted, not an easy job.

It’s been a strange week and I have been talking to the press about what we are doing. I can’t lie - I was upset that The Times article referred to Lucky Gordon as an ‘ex-boyfriend’. Christine would have been incandescent with rage: “He was never a boyfriend,” she would say.

I don’t know where that started, the first reference to Christine and Gordon being in a relationship. I have been doing lots of research and I think it may have come from an interview Lucky Gordon gave to the Jamaican Observer (1989) where he claimed to be Christine’s boyfriend. That is the first time I see it mentioned and I don't need to tell anyone reading this that he wouldn't be the first stalker or rapist to say they were in a relationship with their victim.

I have so many questions for Chris that she can’t answer anymore.

This week Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, died and an old memory came back to me. We were living on The Worlds End Estate in London and I was still very young. One day coming back from school there were two men in suits who introduced themselves as police officers, for me it was all very exciting but sadly they left almost immediately after I arrived. I can’t remember if Christine was angry or upset but she definitely hadn’t liked the conversation she had with the police.

It was little later that day, when a friend of hers came round, and she was talking about how the police had seen her and warned her that she may be a target because this serial killer was killing prostitutes.

I was young and can’t quite remember all of the details about that day, Christine and I talked about it because I think I was a bit worried. The police still hadn’t caught him and it was on the television all the time. I do remember that she did say the police thought she would be a ‘trophy’ for this killer because of who she was.

Of course I was young and my memory isn’t clear and the police may not have been there because of the Yorkshire Ripper - it could have been some other threat who thought Christine would be a ‘trophy’.

I would love to ask her, along with a hundred other questions too, but most of all I would love to ask her if she wants a cup of tea and a chat.


If you would like to help I would be delighted to hear from you. Now I have to get the word out and drum up the publicity we need for Chris.

Thank you
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Dave Tomlin
24/11/2020 09:24:31 am

Hi Seymour. Excellent Audio blog extra. Dont worry about it having to be slick. It came from the heart with feeling and thats all that maters.
Dave

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DC
25/11/2020 03:49:57 pm

An excellent audio files idea! It seems to work very well and so much more personal – I think there would be a keen interest for a regular podcast going forward and I hope this is something that you can make work– in the meantime a couple of questions you may wish to answer on next weeks blog….

The saying goes “time waits for no man”, and as time goes so, unfortunately, do our youthful good looks.

Now I admit most of us haven’t ever had to worry too much about this as we start from such a low base it matters not, but I wonder how the passing of time affects naturally beautiful people, surely there must be a huge psychological effect on a person having to watch their beauty fade away with the sands of time.

If you look at pictures from her prime in the early/mid 60’s there can be no doubt that CK was once one of the most beautiful women in the world – Seymour, do you think she fretted about her image as time went on, did it have an overtly noticeable detrimental effect on her or were things so desperate at that time, that style/fashion/image became irrelevant - do you think that she ever even realised that she was blessed with such beauty?

I know you have said previously that she kept one of the “freedom” picture on her wall, taken in 1964 upon her release from prison with her name taped over (so sad!) so I’m guessing that she did look back with fondness, but was that just about reminiscing about good times gone by I wonder?

My second question is about Paula Hamilton Marshall - we know they both went to prison together, will the appeal include asking for a pardon for her and do you know what happened to her on her release – did she stay in touch with your mum, was there any animosity between them do you know. I’m uncertain as to whether she is still alive, but if so, has she or any family members been in touch regarding the appeal and is it something you would encourage?

Keep up the good work!

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Seymour
28/11/2020 11:46:21 am

Great questions DC

Thank you. Will be in this weeks blog and blog extra audio.

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gillian stimpson
27/11/2020 09:52:53 pm

I enjoyed the blog very much. straight from the heart,I really look forward to the blogs.

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Seymour
28/11/2020 11:46:59 am

Thank you so much.

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