Wellington Mental Health Consumers Union is a FRAUD:

If you click the right hand button on your mouse and then click "open in new tab" you'll be able to view this image (above) more clearly.  You'll be able to see that while the Wellington facilities operated by this "Union" (- they certainly are NOT a Union!) are very different from the 'services' they offer in the Wairarapa.  You can see that in order to access the Wairarapa 'services' you need to pass TWO tests:  You need (1) a referral from a health professional - this could cost you around $75 just for a start; and (2) you need to pass their "eligibility assessment".  This organisation is NOT a Union by any stretch of the imagination - their funding has been stopped as a result of the number of complaints about the organisation.  The Wairarapa branch of the organisation is a slush fund for the people operating it - they avoid having anything to do with mental health consumers!

Suicide is a serious problem is New Zealand, and Wairarapa regularly has around twice the national average.  There are many dubious 'organisations' receiving funding to provide assistance, support and access to resources for people who may have depression, or other mental illness, and many of the organisations are not only failing to help people, they, and the people who run them are actually causing and maintaining the problems, it keeps them in a job, and they guard their jobs jealously, and criticism is stamped out promptly, whatever the cost.  

They waste the money they get, and have a rude arrogant, patronising and dismissive attitude.  Take the Wellington Mental Health Consumers Union: Follow this link to the website of the WMHCU.  You'll find it doesn't exist, any more than the non-existent Transparency International NZ behind the sign on the door in Wellington.  

"You've reached the future website of wmhcu.org.nz - er, the future website?  What use is a future website to a suicidal person?  The name is deliberately misleading, as is all the pious rubbish they print in their glossy little self promoting leaflets.  They are not a consumers union at all, they are more like a secret society.  

The same old people have had the same old jobs in the Wairarapa for far too long and that's why the Wairarapa continues to be so socially dysfunctional, and why the rates of violence and other crime, including child abuse and suicide, are not only higher than anywhere in NZ, but are regularly double the national average.  These are the real bludgers, not the beneficiaries, many of whom, like me, would love a job, and did their jobs very well until the local corrupt constable spread false rumours about them being child abusers.

Time to get rid of the people running this organisation (an others) in the Wairarapa, and their supervisor in Wellington if she thinks this is acceptable, parts of Karin Keith's response to a recent complaint will be up soon and indicate that she condones this and supports the staff.

You'll note that the Wellington facilities offer a place for mental health consumers - and nobody asked me to prove I was a mental health consumer when I popped in recently, or if I had a referral, and nobody asked me to pass any assessment, a nice lady made me a cup of tea and listened to me and spoke with me constructively and acted in a professional manner regarding my complaint about the WMHCU Wairarapa Support in the Community organisation.  

You can see that the Wellington Mental Health Consumers Union facilities in Wellington offer free services, and you can clearly see what those services are.  

The Wairarapa Support in the Community Service offers a bunch of airy fairy nebulous waffle that the staff there think mental health patients want or need.  

At the bottom of the left hand column you can see that there's a free Advocacy Service in Wellington and two drop in centres with specific resources which are open pretty much all day every day.  

In Wairarapa they advertise as being in the Enterprise Village and open every day.  They aren't open these hours at all - their door is never open, it is kept locked, and they only open it if you have an appointment.  Good luck trying to get one!  As you can see, access requires a referral from a professional, and an "eligibility assessment."  Good luck getting the "eligibility assessment" - these people are in the business of getting their hands on the funding - NOT assisting their clients.  Their priority is filling their OWN pockets.

Support in the Community Service Wairarapa is an insult to mental health patients, and the staff at this organisation spend all their time and energy applying for funding and finding ways to turn away the few people who do manage to get a referral from a health professional, and find ways to make sure they don't pass the eligibility assessment.  

The staff are rude and unprofessional to hopeful clients, and their rude, arrogant, dismissive attitude is an insult to the clients.  

Furthermore, they are not a "consumers union" at all.  Mental Health Consumers have no involvement in the running of the organisation, an incorporated society, at all.  There is not proper social audit of the organisation, or proper financial audit.  The link to the "future website" is a good example of how they waste money doing nothing for their clients and thinking up fancy things to write in the glossy leaflets and funding applications.  Have a look at the prices for these websites:  $600 - $2,500.  Our websites cost absolutely nothing, and we get no funding whatsoever.  WMHCU Wairarapa provide zero resources for clients, none, not one, not a place to meet with a phone, computer, pool table, table tennis, nothing like the resources at the Wellington facilities, the people who run the WMHCUSCW or what ever they call themselves actually try as hard as they can to have as little to do with mental health consumers as possible.

Tere Torea's 'anti violence programs' and other 'services' he runs should be shut down and nobody should give him any more funding, he is a bully.  He offered to help me, then discussed my confidential matters with his mate, an ex-prison warden who got the sack for smuggling stuff into the prison according to Tere, who actually brought him to my home.  Then Tere Torea said he would collect me the next day and give me a lift to Court and advocate for me.  But Tere didn't turn up the following day, his mate did. And he didn't take me to Court, he took me to his house.  Tere turned up and shouted at me like a lunatic, I was lucky to get to Court at all, these guys are completely unprofessional, they are incompetent, they are bullies with delusions of grandeur, their reputations are made up by local journalists.  

There's a group of people in the Wairarapa who run these community organisations, they attend each other's AGM's and elect each other, year after year, along with a few old and often half senile people to make up the numbers, and if anyone else tries to join the organisation who has a different point of view to them, they simply serve a trespass notice to prevent them attending the meetings, and that's the end of that. In the case of the Community Centre that didn't work, so they punched me in the face and changed the locks to cover up the fraud.  

A lot of people in our community are depressed about the closure of the Community Resource Centre, sale of the Borough Farm, Health Centre and so many other community assets, and a lot are depressed about Mayor McPhee's arrogant and corrupt Event Centre plans, after two petitions against it and the opposition of almost the entire community and certainly all informed members of the community, who want an inquiry into the illegal takeover and closure of the former Community Centre by a group of people associated with the Carterton District Council, major funder of the Centre, for their own pecuniary gain and that of their mates.

This page is about the mental health programs developed by Friends of Caring Communities, our programs have proved to be very successful, and healing.  We are highlighting the link between injustice and violent crime and suicide.  

Our organisation encourages and supports people to speak up, speak out, and heal themselves and break the cycle by doing so.  Friends of Caring Communities supports anyone in the community, whether they have been formally diagnosed with a mental condition or not, to shine a light into dark places and speak up about depression and feelings of injustice.  You don't need a referral, and you don't need to pass any assessment test.  

We support people who have tried to speak out and been betrayed, and who feel that their abusers are protected by mates in high places, or positions of trust, like Louise Nicholas, or local journalists who print stories to cover up the abuse and spread the word that the abuser is "innocent" when there is no evidence of that.  These 'stories' make victims feel suicidal, and the particular case linked to above is very interesting indeed. Nobody in Carterton had heard anything about these leaflets, or the allegations contained in them, until the man and his family approached the media and managed to get it plastered across every newspaper and television that the man was innocent

The family's widespread publicising of the leaflets is ridiculous, The claims of innocence are not credible, and many people believe that whoever was named may well be guilty because the sexual misconduct conduct of the local constable who "investigated" the illegal takeover and closure of the Community Centre his girlfriend was involved in running into the ground and ripping off was widespread and well known.  Abuse of vulnerable people, corruption and bullying have been rampant in the Wairarapa for years and years and everyone knows it.  Constable Wakefield is the constable who investigated the illegal takeover of the CCC.  He was having it off with Jo Roffe, who was getting paid $600 for running silly little arty fart courses for "troubled youth" - a euphemism for youth that were getting into trouble with the police.  Wakefield and his mates would write letters in support of Roffe's funding applications, saying what a good effect the courses had on the young criminals - the same rubbish idiots like him used to write about Beyer the Liar's "Life Skills" courses.  It's time these people got their snouts out of the trough nd kept them out because they are proven thieves and liars who are the direct cause of the Wairarapa having such outrageously high levels of suicide and violent crime.  

Roffe got $600 through the CCC, plus expenses, goods, art equipment, bonuses, etc. Her and people like her pillaged the CCC, and used it as their own personal slush fund.  Or cash cow, as Roffe put it.  The small, dedicated group of volunteers who have run the Carterton Community Gardens since 1999 have received the grand sum of $250 from the Carterton District Council, ever.  We did far more for the community than Roffe ever did. We have paid all our own expenses out of our own pockets, and paid for much of the plants, tools, equipment for the gardens, such as the plants and equipment at the South End School, plants and equipment which have now been stolen by the same staff and Board of Trustees members who have been spreading lies about me being charged by the police with an offence involving a child.  The same staff and Board members who wouldn't even publish our letter of thanks to the companies and individuals in the community who had also contributed to the Garden at the South End School, the same ones who had an adults only working bee at the school gardens in the last week of the school holidays last month to tidy up the mess.  They do not involve the children, and since taking it over by sending me the letter containing the false accusation, the Board and staff at the school have wasted the considerable amount of funding that they got, and have mismanaged the Gardens that we created with the children, the staff and Board deliberately destroyed our crops, ripping out spinach, kale, parsley, and many other plants, lovingly planted by us and the children.  We weren't advised that this was going to happen, or given an opportunity to harvest the crops.  This is typical of the way they run things in the Wairarapa, let other people do all the work, then push them out and spread lies about them and steal what they worked for, like the Community Centre.  No wonder people are depressed in the Wairarapa.  

When young people commit suicide it's particularly sad, and a real indictment on a community, and the people who govern it.  Particularly when the people running it are claiming all the attention for their own depression the way Gary McPhee does, and claiming to know all about it because of his "murderous rages" (newspaper article up soon).  Gary's advice is to go to the mental health organisations, staffed by his friends like Corinne Oliver and the ones who run WMHCUSCW, and have a cup of tea with them every once in a while.

Our advice to young people is to listen to music, and create your own, listen to your heart, and your own mind, and be grateful for any good advice you are offered, but don't believe everything you're told.  Never give up, never stop learning stuff.  Watch the sun rise and set, and the moon, look at the stars, and remember these words. 

Poems can be sad and funny and insightful, put things in perspective, explain the unexplainable, cheer us up, make us feel not so alone.  Half the trouble is, people are afraid of being alone, as though they are afraid of themselves, they need to fill the vacuum with noise, chit chat, tv, till they can't even think any more.  More poems soon, submit your own, in the mean time, here's a wee joke:  

I was feeling a bit depressed the other night, so I rang Lifeline, and I got through to a call centre in Pakistan.

I told them I was depressed, and felt like ending it all.  They got very excited, and asked me if I could drive a truck.  Ho ho ho.

Keep a diary, keep a little book with your favorite poems in, here's another of my favorites:

The Maori Jesus

I saw the Maori Jesus
Walking on Wellington Harbour.
He wore blue dungarees,
His beard and hair were long.
His breath smelled of mussels and paraoa.
When he smiled it looked like the dawn.
When he broke wind the little fishes trembled.
When he frowned the ground shook.
When he laughed everybody got drunk.

The Maori Jesus came on shore
And picked out his twelve disciples.
One cleaned toilets in the railway station;
His hands were scrubbed red to get the shit out of the pores.
One was a call-girl who turned it up for nothing.
One was a housewife who had forgotten the Pill
And stuck her TV set in the rubbish can.
One was a little office clerk
Who'd tried to set fire to the Government Buldings.
Yes, and there were several others;
One was a sad old quean;
One was an alcoholic priest
Going slowly mad in a respectable parish.

The Maori Jesus said, 'Man,
From now on the sun will shine.'

He did no miracles;
He played the guitar sitting on the ground.

The first day he was arrested
For having no lawful means of support.
The second day he was beaten up by the cops
For telling a dee his house was not in order.
The third day he was charged with being a Maori
And given a month in Mt Crawford.
The fourth day he was sent to Porirua
For telling a screw the sun would stop rising.
The fifth day lasted seven years
While he worked in the Asylum laundry
Never out of the steam.
The sixth day he told the head doctor,
'I am the Light in the Void;
I am who I am.'
The seventh day he was lobotomised;
The brain of God was cut in half.

On the eighth day the sun did not rise.
It did not rise the day after.
God was neither alive nor dead.
The darkness of the Void,
Mountainous, mile-deep, civilised darkness
Sat on the earth from then till now.

- James K Baxter  

Once upon a time in New Zealand there was a man called Neil Roberts.  He blew himself up outside the building that housed the Wanganui police computer centre.  Before he did so, he wrote the following words on the wall the the building:  "We are maintaining a silence closely resembling stupidity."  Wise words.  Nothing's sadder than people who do commit suicide and leave everyone wondering why.  At least he spelled it out.

Finally, for today, follow this link to watch a hilarious clip of Charles Bukowski reading The Last Days of the Suicide Kid to some little kids.  If this doesn't make you laugh, you are definitely depressed, and even if it does you may well be anyway, but it should cheer you up.  There's another link on Youtube to an interview with Charles, in which he talks about his feelings about alcohol and cannabis.  He is all for the former and totally against the latter.  He says "If I didn't drink, I would have committed suicide a long time ago."  Drinking is committing suicide, just like smoking cigarettes and lots of other things, it's just doing it in slow motion.  Your body is a temple and life is a wonderful gift, make the most of them.  

Suicide isn't funny, and we should respect people who share with us how deeply they feel. People commit suicide, and try and commit suicide, for many different reasons, we should listen to them, not talk at them like they do in the Wairarapa.  Good riddance to Barry Taylor and his Men Only Suicide Prevention scheme, complete with profiles and free advertising for Brad Martin and John Slater, poster boys, along with Gary McPhee, for the Men's Depression promotion group, Brad Martin and John Slater were deeply involved in the illegal takeover and destruction of the CCC and the Community Gardens.  John Slater was Chairman of the CCC, his little autobiography is extremely selective - what about his other partner, who was on the committee of the CCC at the time of the gross misfeasance?  What about his kids with her?  The mainstream media needs to tell the whole story about these so called healthy heroes instead of spreading this propaganda.   

Remember, life is a gift, enjoy it.  Watch the sun rise every morning if you can, and watch it set every night, look at the stars and the moon every night, connect with the universe.  Go diving and play with the fishes - it's like getting in a rocket ship and going to another plant with all sorts of alien life forms, or some amazing virtual reality game with strange creatures everywhere - it's great!  Run away and join the circus, stow away on a ship to Africa, anything.  The two things to avoid in life are boredom and poor self esteem.  It's never too late to have a happy childhood, the meaning of life is redemption.  If you make a mistake it's not the end of the world, nobody's perfect.  It's a big world, and life is a wonderful gift, don't waste it.

Georgina Beyer is a LIAR and local police area commander Rod Drew is blatantly CORRUPT!:

These letter are EVIDENCE of serious corruption within the NZ Police:

The first letter is from Area Commander Rod Drew, it was emailed to Edwin Perry of NZ First, dated 28 July 2003, in response to FORMAL COMPLAINTS regarding the fraud and gross malfeasance at the former Carterton Community Centre and the role of Beyer in covering up the criminal offences - which is why Beyer was forced to resign from parliament in DISGRACE and has been unable to get a job since and doesn't dare show 'her' face in the Wairarapa.  

The letter says:
(- Note there is no salutation, no Dear Ms Raue or anything)

"RE: CARTERTON COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSETS
I refer to your letter dated 23 July 2003 seeking Police intervention to prevent the disposal of assets.
The issue around the election of officers and the administration of the Carterton Community Centre has been addressed in previous correspondence.
The New Zealand Police are not the authority charged with the responsibility of regulating the activities of Community Committees.I am aware that the Carterton District Council members, the Carterton Mayor and MP Georgina Beyer have recently discussed issues around the closing of the centre.
In such circumstances the actions of the 'elected' officers of the centre are highly unlikely to have breached any Criminal Law.
The Police have no authority to intervene as you request.
(Signed) R T Drew,Area Commander Wairarapa

- What a crock of BULL!  The complaints were of FRAUD, and THEFT - not to mention assault causing grievous bodily harm - two broken teeth!!!

Below is a letter dated 11 June 2001 which is written by a local senior sergeant who was swiftly sacked for writing it, to a local lawyer, regarding a complaint to police which the lawyer had made, alleging that I had misappropriated property belonging to the Carterton Community Centre, namely the financial records and Minutes Book - as EVIDENCE of the FRAUD - and confirming that I was legally elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Carterton Community Centre and therefore had every right to possession of the property belonging to the Centre!

Spot the difference!  

One of these investigations was very thorough indeed and the other was deliberately and corruptly non existent. My complaints were never investigated at all because Area Commander Rod Drew decreed that because Georgina Beyer, formerly known as George Bertrand, the son of a thieving policeman funnily enough, a transvestite ex-prostitute who has never had a proper job in 'her' life and bludged off the tax payers of New Zealand long enough, had "discussed issues around the closing of the centre" and that "In such circumstances the actions of the 'elected' officers of the centre are most unlikely to have breached any Criminal Law." What utter rubbish! This is blatant corruption.

The Carterton Residents and Ratepayers Association is the Georgina Beyer and Bill Knowles fan club, and is deceiving the Residents of Carterton.  The Carterton Residents and Ratepayers Group (CRRA) is Beyer's ticket back to snout in trough, don't be sucked in.  It's a platform for Beyer, McPhee, Bill Knowles, Barbara Durbin, etc, to spout more of their cunning lies to the gullible.  I proposed the motion which named that group The Carterton Residents Association, at the inaugural meeting at which a particular Ms De Schot was nominated to the committee but another Ms De Schot accepted the nomination, as if that was perfectly all right.  The dodgily elected committee have facilitated McPhee, Beyer, Knowles etc to speak to their captive audience at meetings, boring them senseless with the usual meaningless Powerpoint mumbo jumbo which would be hilariously obvious if they'd printed it on paper and distributed it instead.  The chairman and committee refused my polite requests to address the meetings, and instead have allowed Beyer, McPhee, Knowles and their mates to speak, and to abuse and threaten me at the second meeting when I attempted to speak.  These people are ignorant.  Ignorance comes from trying to ignore things.  It just won't work.  It isn't working - nobody will give any money toward the project, only misinformed, misguided or plain stupid people, who don't understand that what we need is two things: 

Firstly, we need an inquiry into the corruption that resulted in the closure of the former Carterton Community Centre, and the actions and involvement of people associated with the Carterton District Council.  The purpose of this is to hold people accountable and honestly assess their suitability for involvement in community affairs through a proper social audit, and weed out the rotten apples, the people in the District Council who are holding the town back, holding the District down.  Then we can get on with identifying and electing capable honest people to replace the incompetent and corrupt ones, and send the message that the people of the Carterton District are not going to put up with second rate governance any more, we're going to do things differently now, because it's the putting right that counts.  Vote for Kate Raue and let's put the unity back in this community!  Let's elect someone who is not only colourful but capable as well, the Audit Report is an utterly damning indictment on McPhee and Beyer, so are the crime, violence and suicide rates.


Secondly, we need a proper Community Resource Centre, run by capable and honest people, not the grand half planned Events Centre, or the Information Centre/Gallery, which is focussed on providing a glorified attendant paid for by someone else to staff the "Gallery" promoting local artists like those featured at the post titled Art Fart Stinks.  Artists like Jo Roffe and Sean Crawford were the focus of the last community centre, and are the reason it was closed, by Sean Crawford's father John and mother Heather and their mates, after funding stopped when the funders became aware of the fraud and misfeasance.  If artists want to make a career choice of what for many of them is a glorified hobby, why should taxpayers fund it?  I'd quite like to swan round all day being an artist too, but I'd rather do an honest day's work.  I've never felt the need to apply for $1000 grants to have an exhibition in a free gallery, come off it Sean, you're a bludger, way worse than any WINZ beneficiary.

When I was running the Community Centre it focussed on getting people into employment, creating jobs, helping people access resources and information, supporting families, and running courses that really benefited individuals and the community.  It operated as the hub of the community.  We ran Community Gardens and provided practical help to establish gardens in every home, we provided practical assistance to those in need.

I represent the Residents and Ratepayers who voted for me at the last election, and who have signed petitions calling for a proper inquiry into the matters regarding the Carterton Community Centre, Event Centre, Community Facility, and the general dysfunction, incompetence and corruption at the Carterton District Council.  

Beyer the Liar's fervent sales talk in favour of amalgamation is aimed at furthering the cover up and keeping the same old snouts in the trough.   The ones pushing the idea are the same ones responsible for the global financial crisis, their lies only fool the ignorant, the ill informed and the gullible, and we must speak up.   The world is watching.

This is why Beyer the Liar resigned from parliament, and why Beyer didn't get a job at the Human Rights Commission - or anywhere else for that matter!  Nobody in their right mind would hire Beyer! 

Fraud and corruption involving Carterton District Council, local lawyers, Police, etc:

Here's the letter from corrupt lawyer Mark Hinton, of Wollerman Cooke and McClure (now trading as WCM Legal) to local Police - Hinton knew full well :

 

 

 And here's the response of Sgt G N Reid of the NZ Police:

Corrupt Police Area Commander Rod Drew was well bribed to declare that 

"Because Georgina Beyer and the Mayor of Carterton have had discussions around issues regarding the Centre it is most unlikely that any Criminal Law (sic) has been broken"

 - what utter lies!  Drew knew perfectly well that there had been serious criminal offences committed by Beyer and 'her' mates on the Council!  That's why they were forced to wind it up in the High Court (the Carterton Community Centre Inc) and that's why all the funding stopped - they had to admit to the High Court that it was true - they only had eight members - only EIGHT people in this community supported the thieving liars - and the minimum number of members required to operate as an incorporated society was fifteen.  And anyone who thinks elections are run fairly and honestly in this country needs to think again - read how a violent drunken idiot and a scatterbrained transsexual prostitute who has never had a proper job in 'her' life got "elected" - by a corrupt election process run by an incompetent private limited liability company!

Compare the response above with the one below, from Rod Drew - Drew should have been sacked years ago!  This is a blatant cover up!

Police and IPCA regularly use the excuse that they can't see any evidence of any "Criminal Law" being "breached" - what rubbish! 

Here's the EVIDENCE of it - the indisputable evidence proves that thousands of dollars were fraudulently spent on payments that were made to mates of the committee members - against legal advice - by persons with serious conflicts of interest - people like Ewen Hyde, Elaine Brazendale, Ruth Carter, Jill Greathead, Julie Hallam, Martyn Preece and others involved with the Carterton District Council!  This is outright and blatant FRAUD - theft from the most vulnerable members of our community!  

The rip offs at the Carterton Community Centre:

Here's the letter from Mark Hinton, of Wollerman Cooke and McClure (now trading as WCM Legal) to local Police - Hinton and Jock Blathwayt and the others at Wollerman Cooke and McClure knew FULL WELL that the group the firm was "acting for" had NO legal authority WHATSOEVER to instruct the solicitors of the Carterton Community Centre Inc!  Hinton was corruptly acting on behalf of a small group of local residents who had been robbing the Community Centre blind for years - a group which included WCM's clerk Colleen Fafieta's husband - local Post Office manager - who was guilty of theft of the CCC mail when he illegally changed the lock on the postbox - in total breach of the Postal Services Act!  Colleen Fafieta was one of several women involved in this sordid affair who was having it off with local Police Constable Stephen Wakefield - which is why Police turned a blind eye to the blatant fraud and other criminal offences!:

I had every right to possession of the keys of the society - Post Office manager Paul Fafieta had no authority whatsoever to change the locks of the postbox and Police must charge him with theft of the mail without further delay!

 

 And here's the response of Sgt G N Reid of the NZ Police - he agrees with me!  Unfortunately "his superiors" didn't like this, and Sgt Reid left the NZ Police not long after writing this letter.  He has remained in the local community, he works as a security guard and is held in high regard in the community for his integrity, ethics and honesty.  I told him that I had a legal right to possession of the property of the Carterton Community Centre and that the group instructing Wollerman Cooke and McClure were acting ultra vires (without lawful authority) and should be charged with theft of the property belonging to the Incorporated Society that THEY held!:

Compare the response above with the one below, from Rod Drew - Drew should have been sacked years ago!  This is a blatant cover up!

Corrupt Police Area Commander Rod Drew was well paid to declare that "Because Georgina Beyer and the Mayor of Carterton have had discussions around issues regarding the Centre it is most unlikely that any Criminal Law (sic) has been broken" - what utter lies!  Drew knew perfectly well that there had been serious criminal offences committed by Beyer and 'her' mates on the Council!  That's why they were forced to wind it up in the High Court (the Carterton Community Centre Inc) and that's why all the funding stopped - we wrote to the funders and showed them where their money had gone!

Then we wrote to the Companies Office and advised them that the 'group' who had taken over the Centre did not have the support of any more than eight people in the community and as such was in breach of the Incorporated Societies Act.

The group, headed by John Crawford, and made up mainly of people associated with the Carterton District Council, had to admit to the High Court that it was true - they only had eight supporters- only EIGHT people in this community supported these thieving liars - and the minimum number of members required to operate as an incorporated society is fifteen.

Police and IPCA regularly use the excuse that they can't see any evidence of any "Criminal Law" being "breached" - what rubbish!  The financial reports at this link clearly and indisputably show that thousands of dollars was stolen from half a dozen different bank accounts to pay a so called "personal grievance" which was nothing but a blatant theft!  There is also evidence that this was one of TWO such payments being made in this manner at the same time!

Then Wollerman Cooke and McClure wrote this letter:

"We refer to our telephone conversation and while the writer is still awaiting formal instruction from the Society in response to your communication, it is our belief that mediation can only proceed if your client releases to the Committee the material which she removed from the Society's offices so that the duly elected Officers of the Society could consult and then consider her claim relative to the Society's financial and administrative records.

We would obtain instructions that, subject to receipt of, and reasonable time to consider those records), the Committee would meet Ms Raue at mediation regarding her alleged personal grievance. We believe this view is consistent with what would be ordered if the matter went to the Employment Court.

We suggest that the material and records be available at your offices, for the writer or a member of his staff to collect.

Yours faithfully

Mark Hinton - Wollerman Cooke and McClure"

 

What a joke! I instructed my lawyer, Kamil Lakshman of Ainslie Hewton's law firm to instruct the writer forthwith that he was taking instructions from people who were not authorised to issue them and his letter would be treated with the contempt it deserved!  The Employment Relations Service had sent me the following letter on 16 May 2001 advising me that the group Hinton was acting for had refused my request for mediation weeks earlier!:

 

 

 

 On the second page of the letter from Sgt Reid it states that "on the 5th June a representative of the Carterton Community Centre (Elaine Brazendale) advised Senior Constable Wakefield that the Carterton Community Centre had declined to meet with Raue." More accurately, they declined to meet with, or even appoint, an auditor. Because of the FRAUD and gross malfeasance! 

It was proposed by the group to appoint R G Thompson - so I contacted Mr Thompson, and presented him with information regarding the affairs of the Community Centre, including the two 'personal grievance' payments.

This is the "refusal to meet with Raue" referred to in Sgt Reid's letter - I offered to meet with R G Thompson and a representative of the Council group who took it over illegally, in order to hand over the information we both held, and Elaine Brazendale refused, because I'd already discussed it with R G Thompson, who had advised of the likely outcome of an audit - Brazendale and her mates would likely be charged with fraud!

David Raue didn't commit suicide or die of a drug overdose:

This is how my brother David loved to live his life (above).  

This is how he died (below).  

Dave loved surfing, having fun, making people laugh, and enjoying life.  He used to make me laugh a lot, he used to make a lot of people laugh.  

The story of his death is deeply disturbing. It can be seen from the documents below that police simply accepted the word of a woman called Tessa Knowles, who used to go out with him until 3 or 4 months before he died, who told them he had overdosed on drugs, had HIV (which he did not, this appears to be a ruse to prevent police examining his body too closely) and allegedly committed suicide.  It's incredible to see how the police simply accepted what she told them without question, until it was too late and all the evidence had been destroyed.

After I obtained the file on his death from the police I noticed a couple of things.  Firstly, despite the initial pages of the file listing the subject as "Suicide", it changed to "Suspicious death" and later "Unexplained death" after I started asking questions.  If I hadn't, it would still be generally accepted that my beloved brother committed suicide by drug overdose, which he didn't.  Despite the insistence of Dave's ex-girlfriend Tessa Knowles that it was a drug overdose, the post mortem report showed there were no drugs in his body apart from the proper dose of a prescription medicine he was on at the time, and he certainly didn't overdose on anything.  

The documents (and other evidence, which will be put up soon) show there were no drugs present in his body, and no evidence whatsoever of drug overdose OR suicide.  This woman tells police that he was a hard drug user, but he wasn't.  She was.  Tessa Knowles has a very well documented history of serious drug abuse.  She told them he was likely to have herpes and HIV, etc which he didn't, in an apparent attempt to discourage investigators from examining the body too much.  It worked, his clothing, etc, was destroyed on the strength of her lies about him having HIV, with no attempt made apparently to see if this slanderous claim was true or not.

Click on the images below to enlarge them, the final document is the police report documenting how the pathologist tells the police "I am not prepared to say that this man died of unascertainable natural causes because he didn't."  And the notes of the ambulance officers who said "We thought this death was a bit odd because the girlfriend was so cool, calm, and collected while we were there but went into being hysterical when the police arrived."  Before going on to suggest the possible scenario that had occurred to them at the time.

This theory was supported by the fact that I noticed as soon as I read the post mortem report that there was a needle mark on each inner elbow.  Ambulance officers confirmed that they had only put a needle into one arm, which left the second needle mark unexplained.  

After further communication with the pathologist he responded "I am still a bit uneasy about this one - it's possible he may have been injected with a biological substance such as insulin, which would not show up in the ESR tests.  I would suggest that someone has another chat to the girlfriend to see if she changes her story."

How often does this happen?  Detective Tomlinson at least had the decency to admit his mistake honestly as soon as he became aware of it, and try his best to find out what really happened as soon as he became aware of the errors, after I contacted him.  I will always be very grateful to Detective Inspector Harry Quinn also, without whose assistance evidence regarding this miscarriage of justice involving my brother would never have come to light.  Harry Quinn has always been a great asset to the New Zealand Police, and I only wish there were more officers with his common sense and integrity.  I wish him happiness and good health in his retirement, and am grateful for his fair treatment of me and my family over many, many years.

Det Sgt Tomlinson reinterviewed the ex girlfriend and the flatmate several times, but by the time he realised it wasn't as he'd been led to believe, it was too late.  The statements of their interviews are damning to say the least, This post may be updated  in the future, and the witness statements and more information added.  Tessa Knowles accuses a number of individuals of injecting David with drugs, I'm sure they'd like to know who they are and what Tessa has to say about them - seeing as she's basically accusing them of manslaughter or murder . . . 

My brother didn't commit suicide, and he didn't die of an accidental, or self administered, drug overdose, it appears very likely that he was deliberately injected with something like insulin, or that someone was involved in interfering with evidence, because none was found at the scene.   The police are now fairly sure that someone else was involved in causing his death, which is why they interviewed Tessa Knowles and Geoffrey John Gordon so many times, the actions of both of those people were very suspicious indeed - why did Geoff Gordon not call an ambulance when he discovered Dave's body, instead of calling Tessa Knowles - whose relationship with my brother had ended months before?  Tessa Knowles and Geoff Gordon were both heavy drug users, both had extensive experience using intravenous illegal drugs, and both conspired to conceal evidence about how David Raue died.  It appears they may have got away with murder.

How often does this happen?  How often do people accept the word of murderers that a death was by suicide?  If Knowles and Gordon were innocent they would have called an ambulance immediately.