Thank you for your comment on my post 'THE JURY IS OUT'.
I deeply regret that I cannot publish your comment, despite being in full agreement with what you have written. There are many people who feel the same way. Unfortunately it might be seen as potentially prejudicial.
We can but hope that the jury comes to the right decision, and that justice is done. As you say, it would be a disgrace if it is not.
As soon as the trial is over, and whichever way it goes, I will publish your comment and will have a lot more to add.
Showing posts with label Fraud Trial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fraud Trial. Show all posts
Friday, 26 July 2013
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
THE JURY IS OUT
Latest BBC report on the trial of Gary Bolton.
Starts at 13.38 in....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
For those of you not able to access this there is not much we don't already know. One interesting aspect was that Bolton admitted there was no scientific basis for how the GT200 'worked'. Apparently he claimed that you have to see it in operation.
The report emphasises that the decision the jury have to make is whether Bolton knew the device did not operate as he claimed. All the evidence confirms that, like the other variants e.g. the ADE651 and Alpha 6, the GT200 can not and does not detect anything, let alone explosives.
Starts at 13.38 in....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
For those of you not able to access this there is not much we don't already know. One interesting aspect was that Bolton admitted there was no scientific basis for how the GT200 'worked'. Apparently he claimed that you have to see it in operation.
The report emphasises that the decision the jury have to make is whether Bolton knew the device did not operate as he claimed. All the evidence confirms that, like the other variants e.g. the ADE651 and Alpha 6, the GT200 can not and does not detect anything, let alone explosives.
PLEASE NOTE
At the request of the Court, I have removed two posts.
The posts in question were titled:
THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED
and
BOLTON TRIAL UPDATE
I will be re-publishing the posts at the conclusion of the trial. I am sorry if you have come to the blog to read those posts.
In the meantime, I understand that the Jury in the trial of Mr Gary Bolton will retire to consider their verdict today.
The posts in question were titled:
THE ALIENS HAVE LANDED
and
BOLTON TRIAL UPDATE
I will be re-publishing the posts at the conclusion of the trial. I am sorry if you have come to the blog to read those posts.
In the meantime, I understand that the Jury in the trial of Mr Gary Bolton will retire to consider their verdict today.
Friday, 17 May 2013
TRIAL DATES UPDATE
We can confirm that the trial on charges of fraud of Simon Sherrard, Sam and Joan Tree, in connection with the Alpha 6 'detector' is due to commence on 28 May.
We now also have confirmation that the trial on charges of fraud of Gary Bolton, in connection with the GT200 'detector' is due to start on 1 July.
We will keep you updated on progress or any changes.
We now also have confirmation that the trial on charges of fraud of Gary Bolton, in connection with the GT200 'detector' is due to start on 1 July.
We will keep you updated on progress or any changes.
Monday, 15 April 2013
QUESTIONABLE MIRA TELECOM?????????
While we wait, and hope, to see if the trial of James McCormick will finally conclude this week, we are also waiting for more information on the case of Elodia Ghinescu in Romania. You may remember reading two of my recent posts on this case, where the ADE651 was used (and of course failed) to try to locate her body.
In the press coverage from Romania, the case has raised important questions as to who there was responsible for purchases of the ADE651. At least three Romanian Government Ministries are implicated, and there are calls for an urgent investigation.
As part of that investigation we think the Romanian authorities should have some interesting questions for Stelian Ilie at Mira Telecom.
After we conducted a campaign by email to inform business partners of Mira Telecom about their involvement with McCormick and the ADE651, Stelian Ilie wrote an open letter claiming that Mira Telecom had terminated their relationship with McCormick in March 2010. This was most interesting because up to the point when he released that letter, he had been vigorously defending that relationship and the ADE651, both directly and indirectly (including various Romanians, who we believe were employees of Mira, adopting pseudonyms, and posting comments supportive of the ADE651 on Youtube and elsewhere).
Now, bringing all this into context of the trial of McCormick, and the Elodia Ghinescu case, two big questions for Mira Telecom:
1. If Mira Telecom terminated their relationship with McCormick in 2010, how and why did they provide a witness for the defence at the trial of McCormick?
This witness (who appeared via video link from Romania) claimed that the ADE651 worked well, but had to be warned by the Judge for being coached by someone off camera as to what to say.
2. If Mira Telecom terminated their relationship with McCormick in 2010, why was the ADE651 still being used as late as 2012 in the search for the body of Elodia Ghinescu?
You can see a copy of the letter that Stelian Ilie of Mira published in February 2011, where he claimed that Mira stopped working with McCormick in 2010, at the blog of Techowiz
HERE . (We know that part of the reason why Stelian Ilie wrote this letter was that at least one company in the U.K. stopped dealing with Mira Telecom as a result of our email campaign. Please note his threat of legal action against us for 'calumny', which strangely never materialised! Well Stelian, here is some more calumny for you!)
During the trial of McCormick, invoices were produced that showed that Mira Telecom were one of at least four different companies that were invoiced for ADE651 units which were subsequently shipped to Iraq. It has long been questioned why McCormick did not sell direct to the Iraqis, and whether there were any irregularities in those deals i.e. were Iraqi officials bribed to buy the ADE651? We understand there are ongoing investigations into those purchases in Iraq, and have previously reported that we have heard Major General al Jabiri (who signed off on the largest orders) is serving a prison sentence for irregularities in the purchase procedures).
We believe that at least some of the money McComick made from sales of the ADE651 to Iraq may still be in Romania. As we have previously reported, records in Romania show that at one time McCormick bought shares in Mira Telecom, and was a Director of one of the Mira companies.
We hope to bring you much more interesting news on investigations in Romania. Meanwhile, we would like to say "HELL - O to Stelian."
P.S. At the trial of McCormick it emerged that the Romanian authorities used the ADE651 in advance of a visit to Romania by President Bush. Perhaps they didn't like him very much.
In the press coverage from Romania, the case has raised important questions as to who there was responsible for purchases of the ADE651. At least three Romanian Government Ministries are implicated, and there are calls for an urgent investigation.
As part of that investigation we think the Romanian authorities should have some interesting questions for Stelian Ilie at Mira Telecom.
After we conducted a campaign by email to inform business partners of Mira Telecom about their involvement with McCormick and the ADE651, Stelian Ilie wrote an open letter claiming that Mira Telecom had terminated their relationship with McCormick in March 2010. This was most interesting because up to the point when he released that letter, he had been vigorously defending that relationship and the ADE651, both directly and indirectly (including various Romanians, who we believe were employees of Mira, adopting pseudonyms, and posting comments supportive of the ADE651 on Youtube and elsewhere).
Now, bringing all this into context of the trial of McCormick, and the Elodia Ghinescu case, two big questions for Mira Telecom:
1. If Mira Telecom terminated their relationship with McCormick in 2010, how and why did they provide a witness for the defence at the trial of McCormick?
This witness (who appeared via video link from Romania) claimed that the ADE651 worked well, but had to be warned by the Judge for being coached by someone off camera as to what to say.
2. If Mira Telecom terminated their relationship with McCormick in 2010, why was the ADE651 still being used as late as 2012 in the search for the body of Elodia Ghinescu?
You can see a copy of the letter that Stelian Ilie of Mira published in February 2011, where he claimed that Mira stopped working with McCormick in 2010, at the blog of Techowiz
HERE . (We know that part of the reason why Stelian Ilie wrote this letter was that at least one company in the U.K. stopped dealing with Mira Telecom as a result of our email campaign. Please note his threat of legal action against us for 'calumny', which strangely never materialised! Well Stelian, here is some more calumny for you!)
During the trial of McCormick, invoices were produced that showed that Mira Telecom were one of at least four different companies that were invoiced for ADE651 units which were subsequently shipped to Iraq. It has long been questioned why McCormick did not sell direct to the Iraqis, and whether there were any irregularities in those deals i.e. were Iraqi officials bribed to buy the ADE651? We understand there are ongoing investigations into those purchases in Iraq, and have previously reported that we have heard Major General al Jabiri (who signed off on the largest orders) is serving a prison sentence for irregularities in the purchase procedures).
We believe that at least some of the money McComick made from sales of the ADE651 to Iraq may still be in Romania. As we have previously reported, records in Romania show that at one time McCormick bought shares in Mira Telecom, and was a Director of one of the Mira companies.
We hope to bring you much more interesting news on investigations in Romania. Meanwhile, we would like to say "HELL - O to Stelian."
P.S. At the trial of McCormick it emerged that the Romanian authorities used the ADE651 in advance of a visit to Romania by President Bush. Perhaps they didn't like him very much.
Monday, 8 April 2013
CORRECTION - STILL HANGING ON
Sorry to have to inform my avid readers, but it appears that there has been a further delay to the schedule at Court 16.
Just heard that the case did in fact resume today, but has now been adjourned until Wednesday, and may now drag on into next week.
As always, I will let you know what I know that I am allowed to let you know as and when I know it.
In the meantime, looking on the bright side of life, at least the furore over the death of the Dame may have died down by next week, and coverage of what we hope to be a result in Court 16 will not be swamped.
May the correct corrective action yet be correctly applied, even if a hanging is out of the question!
Just heard that the case did in fact resume today, but has now been adjourned until Wednesday, and may now drag on into next week.
As always, I will let you know what I know that I am allowed to let you know as and when I know it.
In the meantime, looking on the bright side of life, at least the furore over the death of the Dame may have died down by next week, and coverage of what we hope to be a result in Court 16 will not be swamped.
May the correct corrective action yet be correctly applied, even if a hanging is out of the question!
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
McCORMICK TAKES THE STAND
Yesterday McCormick took to the witness stand for the first time in his trial on fraud charges, to be questioned by his Defence Barrister, Mr Laidlaw Q.C.
As anticipated, his defence is based on the claim that he really believed the ADE651 really does work to detect explosives, narcotics etc. (See below for the latest report from The Guardian).
McCormick is portraying the ADE651 as something that should only be used to identify an area or building that requires further investigation using other methods, as opposed to being a pinpointing tool. This is similar to claims made by David Vollmar of Unival in Germany for the HEDD1 (previously Sniffex/Sniffex Plus). It is possible that the Prosecution may look to question this based on published sales and promotional literature.
In addition to the report from the Guardian, I can reveal a few other details from yesterday in Court.
The trial will continue for at least another two weeks. It is adjourned for today, and will start again tomorrow, with the Defence continuing to question McCormick, followed by cross examination by the Prosecution, probably lasting until the end of Thursday. The case will then adjourn until the 9 April, when the prosecution is scheduled to sum up. Defence to sum up 10 April, and Judge to do his summing up on 11 April. The Jury will then be asked to consider their verdict (please note that this is a provisional timetable).
I don't want to double up on information in the Guardian article, but can add the following points from the Defence questioning of McCormick. As those of you that have been following the case know, there are reporting restrictions which prevent us from revealing a lot of the background and history as to how McCormick came to sell the ADE100/101, and subsequently the ADE650 and 651.
McCormick explained that he first became interested in security products around 1999/2000, when his previous business selling predominantly walkie talkies and pagers was declining due to the growth in mobile telecoms.
McCormick was asked how he had first encountered Stelian Ilie of Mira Telecom in Romania, who became his agents for Eastern Europe. He stated that he had met Ilie via his previous work selling telecoms/radio equipment, and that the company Ilie worked for at the time had been one of his customers. He detailed how Ilie had introduced the ADE to the Romanian market because of a need to identify drugs being transported from Turkey. He claimed that the device could also detect people who had consumed drugs, and that was why the ADE651 sometimes generated "false positive" indications for drug shipments.
McCormick sold the ADE651 to a variety of agents, who then sold it on to end users. One particularly interesting aspect of the evidence was that the Iraq sales were conducted via at least four different companies, including Mira Telecom.
In the case of the sales to the UN in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the first order was for five units. He then tried to tender for a further 80, but claims that since he was not UN registered, his tender ran into problems. Apparently the UN had also carried out testing that suggested the device may not operate as claimed. McCormick was asked to produce independent evaluations to support his claims, but he stated that he was unable to do so in the timeframe required, although he did not specify what that timeframe was. Instead he supplied the UN with a list of previous customers, suggesting that UNIFIL procurement office make contact with them on the basis that they would back up his claims. In the context of UN requests for supporting evidence McCormick stated that:
"I have nothing to hide......and every confidence that end users would respond positively." He also criticised the testing that had suggested problems, by stating that the tests had not taken into account that the ADE was "...designed to narrow down the area when further equipment would then be required." McCormick maintains that whenever rigorous double blind testing was carried out on this type of device that suggested it is ineffective, there was always something wrong with the tests and not the device.
Throughout his evidence McCormick endeavours to suggest that demonstrations are the equivalent of proper rigorous testing, and that anecdotal customer testimonials from such demos are valid evidence of effectiveness.
Defence counsel took McCormick through invoices showing sales he had made via various agents to, for example, Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Niger, Kenya, Thailand, China, Mexico, India, Hong Kong and Iraq, following which he claims he never received any complaints, other than a request for repairs to one unit sold to a hotel in Bahrain which the customer suggested had stopped working, and which McCormick replaced.
It will be fascinating to see how the Prosecution counsel handles his cross-examination of McCormick, scheduled to commence after lunch on Thursday this week. There are a lot of pertinent questions.
GUARDIAN ARTICLE HERE
As anticipated, his defence is based on the claim that he really believed the ADE651 really does work to detect explosives, narcotics etc. (See below for the latest report from The Guardian).
McCormick is portraying the ADE651 as something that should only be used to identify an area or building that requires further investigation using other methods, as opposed to being a pinpointing tool. This is similar to claims made by David Vollmar of Unival in Germany for the HEDD1 (previously Sniffex/Sniffex Plus). It is possible that the Prosecution may look to question this based on published sales and promotional literature.
In addition to the report from the Guardian, I can reveal a few other details from yesterday in Court.
The trial will continue for at least another two weeks. It is adjourned for today, and will start again tomorrow, with the Defence continuing to question McCormick, followed by cross examination by the Prosecution, probably lasting until the end of Thursday. The case will then adjourn until the 9 April, when the prosecution is scheduled to sum up. Defence to sum up 10 April, and Judge to do his summing up on 11 April. The Jury will then be asked to consider their verdict (please note that this is a provisional timetable).
I don't want to double up on information in the Guardian article, but can add the following points from the Defence questioning of McCormick. As those of you that have been following the case know, there are reporting restrictions which prevent us from revealing a lot of the background and history as to how McCormick came to sell the ADE100/101, and subsequently the ADE650 and 651.
McCormick explained that he first became interested in security products around 1999/2000, when his previous business selling predominantly walkie talkies and pagers was declining due to the growth in mobile telecoms.
McCormick was asked how he had first encountered Stelian Ilie of Mira Telecom in Romania, who became his agents for Eastern Europe. He stated that he had met Ilie via his previous work selling telecoms/radio equipment, and that the company Ilie worked for at the time had been one of his customers. He detailed how Ilie had introduced the ADE to the Romanian market because of a need to identify drugs being transported from Turkey. He claimed that the device could also detect people who had consumed drugs, and that was why the ADE651 sometimes generated "false positive" indications for drug shipments.
McCormick sold the ADE651 to a variety of agents, who then sold it on to end users. One particularly interesting aspect of the evidence was that the Iraq sales were conducted via at least four different companies, including Mira Telecom.
In the case of the sales to the UN in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the first order was for five units. He then tried to tender for a further 80, but claims that since he was not UN registered, his tender ran into problems. Apparently the UN had also carried out testing that suggested the device may not operate as claimed. McCormick was asked to produce independent evaluations to support his claims, but he stated that he was unable to do so in the timeframe required, although he did not specify what that timeframe was. Instead he supplied the UN with a list of previous customers, suggesting that UNIFIL procurement office make contact with them on the basis that they would back up his claims. In the context of UN requests for supporting evidence McCormick stated that:
"I have nothing to hide......and every confidence that end users would respond positively." He also criticised the testing that had suggested problems, by stating that the tests had not taken into account that the ADE was "...designed to narrow down the area when further equipment would then be required." McCormick maintains that whenever rigorous double blind testing was carried out on this type of device that suggested it is ineffective, there was always something wrong with the tests and not the device.
Throughout his evidence McCormick endeavours to suggest that demonstrations are the equivalent of proper rigorous testing, and that anecdotal customer testimonials from such demos are valid evidence of effectiveness.
Defence counsel took McCormick through invoices showing sales he had made via various agents to, for example, Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Niger, Kenya, Thailand, China, Mexico, India, Hong Kong and Iraq, following which he claims he never received any complaints, other than a request for repairs to one unit sold to a hotel in Bahrain which the customer suggested had stopped working, and which McCormick replaced.
It will be fascinating to see how the Prosecution counsel handles his cross-examination of McCormick, scheduled to commence after lunch on Thursday this week. There are a lot of pertinent questions.
GUARDIAN ARTICLE HERE
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
McCormick Trial Report - BBC Somerset
Listen to a BBC Somerset radio report by Clinton Rogers from 15 March.
Apologies for the quality of the sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cluUTI9_F-U
The pictures with the audio are of James McCormick, The ADE651, McCormick with Stelian Ilie of Mira Telecom and General Hadji Georgiou of Prosec (the agents for the ADE651 in Romania and Lebanon), Wim de Leur of Delpac, his agent in Belgium.
Apologies for the quality of the sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cluUTI9_F-U
The pictures with the audio are of James McCormick, The ADE651, McCormick with Stelian Ilie of Mira Telecom and General Hadji Georgiou of Prosec (the agents for the ADE651 in Romania and Lebanon), Wim de Leur of Delpac, his agent in Belgium.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
UPDATE: 'NO SCIENTIFIC VALIDITY'
Latest report from the trial of James McCormick includes prosecution testimony from David Last, Emeritus Professor at the University of Wales.
This may not come as much of a surprise to some of you.
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/scientific-validity-bomb-detector-fraud-trial/story-18412194-detail/story.html#axzz2NWCgoARX
This may not come as much of a surprise to some of you.
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/scientific-validity-bomb-detector-fraud-trial/story-18412194-detail/story.html#axzz2NWCgoARX
Thursday, 7 March 2013
LATEST NEWS McCORMICK ADE651 TRIAL
Due to reporting restrictions and not wanting to risk prejudicing the trial of McCormick I will simply point you at the latest news as reported by the mighty Techowiz:
McCormick Trial News
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