Local activists were instructed to travel to a train station called "Mills Hill" in Greater Manchester and wait for further instructions, the time was around eleven o clock in the morning. Some of the EDL supporters moved on from the train station and started walking away from the area, one of the organisers of the event, received a phone call requesting the activists to remain in the general vicinity for the next hour and then move onto a pub in the area, many of the EDL supporters by now did not know where they were, but only in the Manchester region. What the EDL supporters did not realise was that the Oldham police and the Greater Manchester Police were launching a massive operation against the EDL, the police later refused to submit figures of the amount of officers involved in the operation. The supporters that had assembled had been told to walk down the main road towards where the wreath laying was due to take place, unfortunately on the way, one supporter threw a beer glass at a police patrol car that had started to follow some of the group, the identity of the person who threw the glass to this day is a mystery, none of the local divisions have been able to identify the culprit. A short while later the main group of EDL supporters were walking down the street when a White van pulled up next to them. A group of White males then attacked EDL members indiscriminately, the attackers were dressed in dark blue sweaters and dark coloured trousers, they were not wearing any items that identified them as police officers, they were not wearing any police helmets or caps, and no vests with "police" written on them. The EDL supporters were then violently attacked by the group of males, the victim in the photo was struck repeatedly by a six foot three male wielding a stick baton, five times, the victim retaliated and threw a missile (Westons 8.2 percent cider bottle) at the attacker, which did not strike. The EDL supporter then attempted to move away from the aggressors but fell during the process, Five of the attackers then charged onto the EDL supporter and beat him with weapons repeatedly, the victim suffered internal bleeding inside his stomach and leg, one of the attackers punched him repeatedly, whilst another attacker put a baton around the victim`s neck, the victim was struck over twenty times, by now members of GMP Tactical Aid Unit had arrived, they then joined in the attack and one small EDL teenager was grabbed and pulled over sharp pointed railings and had his head split open, The TAU officers were in uniform.
At the same time another EDL supporter witnessed the attack and shouted at the aggressors "fucking get off him" he was also attacked and was left with a severely deformed wrist, which was smashed internally. EDL supporters were attacked at random, one supporter who was only 21, and very small physically, was hit with batons and then restrained by two police officers, whilst a member of the Greater Manchester Tactical Aid Unit approached the detained male and struck him with a weapon and split his head open, there was an independent witness to this incident who made a statement against the police. The initial EDL supporter who was attacked had the police cuffs put on so tightly that he suffered nerve damage to his wrist, the officer responsible for this is PC Bolton of Oldham police station, Bolton with the assistance of his "colleagues" threw the victim and the other EDL supporters on the pavement, including the male who`s head was pouring with his own blood, by now local uniformed officers had arrived and one optical evidence collector appeared and filmed the arrested males, this footage disappeared and was never submitted to the crown prosecution service. The entire incident had been captured on CCTV from a pub next to where the incident had occurred, the bad news was, that the footage would also disappear. The police arrested in total eight people, one of the arrested males stated how a police officer had launched an unprovoked attack on him, and then stamped on his mobile phone, and then told him not to say anything or he would be dead. The initial EDL supporter was put in the back of the police van by PC Bolton who had cut off the ventilation to the back of the police van, the victim nearly asphyxiated, until another officer arrived and switched the air ventilation on. Two of the arrested had to attend hospital, whilst the other two were put in police vans. PC Bolton was in the front of one of the vans where he told the person who he had initially attacked that he would be put in "fucking strangeways prison" Bolton complained about having a bottle thrown at him, but admitted launching a violent unprovoked attack on the arrested person, who repeatedly called PC Bolton " a commie state bastard" this was not recorded in Bolton`s statement. Bolton screamed at the arrested EDL supporter at the police station desk, who along with three others was charged with violent disorder. One of the victims received six stitches in his head. All four were charged with violent disorder and bailed. During the interview in the police station a female detective stated to one of the EDL supporters that the local Muslim area is very dangerous and that a lot of the Muslims had guns and weapons, and that Oldham is a very dangerous place. Eventually only two were taken to court on a reduced charge of threatening behaviour. One of the defendants stated to his solicitor that magistrates courts are known as "police courts", which the solicitor replied"unfortunately that`s true"
The case against the two accused continued for two and a half years in which the defendants solicitors repeatedly wrote to the crown prosecution service for documents and CCTV involving their clients, for one year nothing happened, the trial had to be abandoned four times due to the police and the C.P.S not submitting documents and CCTV footage, it took the solicitors one year to obtain independent witness statements. One of the witness statements involved an old aged pensioner who witnessed the G.M.P T.A.U baton somebody over the head in an unprovoked attack, this involved one of the arrested EDL supporters but not the accused, but this statement was submitted to the district judge Prowse of Oldham magistrates, Prowse accepted the statement as evidence. The case continued for another year. The solicitors attempted to have the case dismissed on the basis that the police had tampered and sabotaged the case so badly that the defendants could not receive a proper trial. The police optical evidence collector PC Haworth was called to the court to testify. Haworth declared during the testimony that he had over two decades of experience as an optical evidence collector and was a "undercover" football intelligence collector. Haworth stated that there were two police cameramen on the day in question, but for reasons beyond his control he failed to obtain any footage. Haworth claimed that the pub where the incident occurred was not covered by CCTV on the entrance, but yet the pub manager testified that it was. Haworth produced a statement in which he declared that he attended the pub on the Sunday and removed all CCTV footage from the pub, but yet the pub manager testified that an unidentified officer removed the footage on the Saturday afternoon. Haworth also testified that he was downloading the pub footage on his personal computer, which is against police policy, when the pen drive suffered a break down and was discarded in a rubbish bin, but when Haworth testified in court he stated that the pen drive snapped under a chair and he lost all the photos including photos of his children, despite this, and all the officers statements contradicted each other, judge prowse dismissed the abusive process argument and declared that "there was no police wrong doing" in regards to collecting the post incident material, this was a devastating blow to the solicitor who had spent vast periods of time searching through the police statements and building a case against the police.
The police were still maintaining that the defendants were part of a mass mob of sixty EDL supporters who had attacked them, but yet none of the officers sustained any injuries, and the footage had "disappeared" of the incident. PC Bolton who is six foot three along with three other officers stated that they could not restrain one person, and had to resort to striking the defendant repeatedly, which included inflicting injuries that could have been life threatening.
THE TRIAL
In December the trial of the two EDL supporters commenced, the solicitors had prepared questions in which the police officers would be put on the spot about contradictions in their statements, but at the final moment the solicitors urged their clients to put in a limited basis plea to the district judge, that they did commit an offence but it was due to a violent situation, this was supposedly to keep the defendants from receiving a prison sentence and being put in Manchester prison, which has many dangerous criminals. The defendants initially said no, and stated that they were the victims and that the police attacked them, one solicitor pleaded for half an hour with one of the defendant`s to plead guilty on a terms and conditions plea, which magistrates do not normally do. One defendant who was accused of throwing the bottle put in a plea that he threw the bottle a metre to the side of the officer, the defendant`s solicitor stated that no way would that be accepted, but it was accepted and the judge agreed that the sentence would be non custodial.
The EDL supporter who shouted "fucking get off him" was fined by judge Prowse two hundred pounds and was put on a conditional discharge for two years. That`s amazing since the accused was the victim of a violent attack by the police. The defendant who threw the bottle at PC Bolton, was told to attend Oldham probation offices, where the court assigned two Pakistani probation officers who refused to write a report for the defendant because they were Asian, This delayed the case by another four weeks. The judge eventually sentenced the remaining defendant to a two hundred pound fine and a one month curfew tag between ten at night and six in the morning. The two defendants have approached injury claim solicitors about the police attacking them, but because they were convicted of a minor public order offence, any action against the police would be difficult, this is why the Oldham police fitted the two victims up, so they could not sue them. Oldham police and Oldham magistrate court is a rotten corrupt part of the establishment, as is Oldham crown prosecution service. At the same time Oldham is a crime ridden mess, in which the police do not patrol the streets and have allowed parts of the town to deteriorate into no go areas. One of the defendants was advised by his solicitor about publishing the details of this case, as he could face further problems with the police. The officers involved in this incident are PC Bolton, PC Bertanshaw, PC Christain Julien, PC Gadman PC Brown, of Oldham and PC Carmody of the GMP TAU who split the defenceless EDL supporter`s head open in two places, Carmody declared in his statement that his "baton slipped accidentally" all the police officers involved in this incident are still employed by the police force and will continue to behave in such a disgraceful manner. PC Bolton has previously had allegations of using extreme force made against him.
The oldham magistrate court is joined onto the police station, it`s basically the same building, the court has strange carvings of owls on the facades, ( the town logo) this suggests that the court is basically a police run court. The British police can basically do what they want, they can fit innocent people up for crimes that they have not committed and have people incarcerated in prison. The police can even kill people and get away with it. The police force is a state run mafia.
