Caroline Hawley Reports

Following the news about the sentencing of Samuel Tree and Joan Tree, here is a round up of the fake detectors story by Caroline Hawley at the BBC. Caroline and Meirion Jones were responsible for the original BBC Newsnight reports back in 2010 and 2011. The report highlights the ongoing use of the fake detectors in some parts of the World, as well as the fact that the U.K. Government supported export sales promotion despite warnings as early as 2001.

Also below you will see an interesting comment that was left by Anonymous after the previous post today reporting sentencing of the Trees:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29459896

Anonymous comment:


I'm fairly surprised that she didn't get a custodial sentence. After all, Joan knew as much about Sam's little/huge scam as he did. She was "tuning" the "devices" to the required frequency using sterilised scissors etc.
You're right about Sam bringing the idea to Europe although back then, nearly twenty years ago, it probably seemed like nothing more than a bit of a wheeze.
Malcolm had seen the potential to turn a novelty golf ball "finder" into something rather more lucrative and Sam had the luck/misfortune to see Roe waving his magic wand about at some police convention in the US.
Apparently Sam chuckled ruefully at this first encounter with Roe, "The Bounder."
That conversation, probably, went something like this:
Tree: That's interesting! How does it work?
Roe: At this moment, it's tuned to detect mugs.
Tree: Why's it pointing at me, then?
Roe: Only kidding. I've set the frequency to "bank notes."
Tree: Wow. That's amazing. It's pointing straight to my wallet.
Roe: It appears so, yes.
Tree: How does it REALLY work, though?
Roe: Gravity combined with a low coefficient of friction in the pivot.
Tree: Oh. How dull. I didn't really do physics at school.
Roe: That's the beauty of this device. It defies the boring laws of physics that nobody's interested in. You could make a packet.
Tree: OK, what else can it detect?
Roe: *slants wrist* WIGS. That guy over there is wearing a toupée.
Tree: So he is. Wait here, sir. I must make an international call to my imports manager, Joan, and tell her the good news.
Roe: OK. *yawns*

Thus, Keygrove Intl. comes into being.
The Trees legitimate business was flogging forensics equipment to UK police forces. Plenty of contacts there, then.
Quadro® could have been nailed as fraudsters in the US fifteen? years ago but, as we have seen, not all jurys can see through the waving arial effect.
Roe jumped bail, I believe, and slummed it with his new-found friends, The Trees, in Bedfordshire for longer than he was welcome. They helped him, financially, and he went on to other projects before dying [citation needed].


Anonymous

MORE MALARKEY DOWN MEXICO WAY

I am saddened to have to pass on the latest report from Mexico, where it seems that, despite the conviction of Gary Bolton for fraud, the GT200 is still in use.

The corrupt and/or brain dead officials who bought these useless devices continue to defend their use to the bitter end. I suppose the alternative is to admit that they were bribed or stupid (or both), so perhaps we should not be surprised.

The latest reports of miscarriages of justice associated with the use of the GT200 also suggest that it is being used to repress political activists who campaign against corruption. Somewhat ironic!

We will be urging the U.K. Government to make every possible effort to persuade their Mexican counterparts to put an end to the use of the fake detectors. The least they can do, when, as we have pointed out before, the British Government helped Gary Bolton promote and sell his fraud.

So, here is the news from one of the campaign heroes, Dr Luis Mochan, who has been a staunch, brave and tenacious campaigner against the fake detectors:

A lawyer and human rights activist, Jesús Robles Maloof published today an article where, among other things, he describes how the GT200 was presented as evidence to arrest and imprison a blogger, accused of selling drugs, as recently as August the 8th! This happened in the state of Chiapas, in the south of Mexico, whose attorney general claimed a couple of days after Bolton's sentence that in Chiapas, the detectors do work. I had challenged him publicly some weeks ago to test them, but he hasn't taken the challenge, in contrast to the governor of the state of Colima, who did accept the challenge and later announced that his detectors indeed didn't work. Jesús Robles Maloof got his article translated into English and posted it at his blog

http://roblesmaloof.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/the-devils-ouija-against-a-digital-activist-in-mexico/

In other news, the annual report of the army was published in Septermber 1. Sadly, it does mention the GT200 as if it were in use, at least in 14 mobile checkpoints, without mentioning that it is worthless. I posted a copy in my blog (in Spanish). It seems that the corresponding report from the Navy refrained from mentioning the GT200.





It is pleasing to note that the Governor of Colima is reported as having come to his senses! See my earlier blog post  MARIO ANGUIANO - ANOTHER BLOODY FOOL

If it is true that he has put a stop to the use of the GT200 in his state then we must be magnanimous and say thank you, and well done. Perhaps he is not such a fool after all. Those who are prepared to admit they were wrong and take action to correct their mistakes deserve praise, and set a good example to others.

The title of BLOODY FOOLS now passes to the Governor and the Attorney General of the State of Chiapas