VINCENT TABAK


ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF JOANNA YEATES


BRITISH JUSTICE ON TRIAL


WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE?

WHAT HAPPENED TO DUE PROCESS?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT TO PROTEST YOUR INNOCENCE?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT TO BAIL?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD IN A PUBLIC COURT OF LAW?


THE ARRAIGNMENT OF VINCENT TABAK IS A RECORD OF MALFEASANCE AND CRIME COMMITTED BY A CROWN COURT JUDGE AND SENIOR CPS LAWYERS AND MOST ALARMINGLY BY COLLUDING DEFENCE LAWYERS.


Dutchman Vincent Tabak appeared via video link from Long lartin prison in Worcestershire for a preliminary hearing at Bristol Crown Court on Monday 31st January. The 32-year-old computer expert, of Canynge Road, Clifton, in Bristol, is charged with the murder of Joanna Yeates between December 16 and 26.

He is a trilingual engineer, an expert in the flow of people through buildings, including sports venues...


Vincent Tabak

He had the misfortune to have lived next door to Miss Yeates with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson, an analyst for Dyson, in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.

Shortly before his arrest and following a highly publicised police investigation, when they had exhausted all their leads and had hit a brick wall the police called in the low copy number DNA experts LGC Forensics. This is always a prelude to a stitch up because of the difficulty of getting expert witnesses to counter the lies suggested by DNA. It is almost always a one way street for the police and the innocent person in the dock has no answer to these lies which can sway a jury. They used this snake oil to get a confession from a convicted serial killer and mental patient Robert Napper to solve the Rachel Nickell murder on Wimbledon Common having failed to stitch up Colin Stagg, the local weirdo. Napper would have confessed to being the man on the moon for a packet of cigarettes.

With them now delving into the sub microscopic looking for minute traces of trace dna for clues, it appears that they found nothing in the 293 tons of garbage that they collected and sifted through. No sock and no piazza and the cameras on the bridge and the motorways were all blurred or useless.

Tabak doesnt have a car and if he were the killer then he either had an accomplice or took the body on his bike to dump it.

Within a few days Vincent Tabak was arrested at the apartment which he had been forced to move to because of police activity in his own apartment. Traces of his dna would almost certainly be in the vicinity and the magic of the billion to one lie that accompanies dna would sway any jury. Low copy number dna would be capable of identifying practically everybody who ever met the victim in the past twenty five years and there are convictions to prove that sweeping statement.

Tabak was unfortunate in that he would come up before a particularly corrupt judge who would abuse all his rights. From the moment of his arrest he became a pariah.

From the start, Tabak was presumed to be guilty by judge Treacy, by his lawyers and the media and everything reported about his court hearings confirm that view. Now he was being denied access to a public court of law where he should have been free to speak out and proclaim his innocence.

Tabak, wearing prison issued glasses, a red jumper and dark trousers, sat at a table facing the camera in a small room with grey walls and a radiator and spoke only to confirm his identity and confirm he understood proceedings. He was acting on the advices of his lawyers and terrified to step outside their advice because they were the only source that promised any possibility of him being able to vindicate his innocence. He had no other friends ever since the moment of his arrest as a killer.

After his arrest he would not be allowed to make an international phone call to his family to tell them of his plight.

His glasses were taken from him by the police to put him at a further disadvantage. Anybody who wears glasses will understand how difficult it is to function without their glasses because you can neither read nor write properly and your brain would become disorientated as a result. The police indicated that it was for dna testing, a likely story. Tabak's lawyers failed him on this matter by not demanding that his glasses be returned immediately to their client. It all adds up to a conspiracy to frame the man arrested by the police. The Avon and Somerset police are well aware that the honourable Mr Justice Treacy will back them up to the hilt in any prosecution they need to solve. Thats why they can be so arrogant and were cock sure that they will solve the case.


Both the public gallery of Court 9, and the jury box, were filled with reporters from national newspapers and TV. Since the earlier hearings they had already succeeded in convincing the general public that the police had caught the killer, mainly because Tabak had not pleaded his innocence.

The sham hearing was told that Miss Yeates' body has now been released so her family can begin to plan her funeral. Such references presuppose that the accused man in the trap, is guilty of the murder and the police have utilised the most modern methods of forensic science to unmask the killer.

The hearing was told that a post-mortem examination was carried out last week on behalf of Tabak's legal team by a pathologist.

Quite what his lawyers expected to come from that is baffling, after the police pathologists had contaminated the body for the previous month, except that it would associate Tabak with the dead body and showed his interest in that. They got scientist Dr Nat Cary to examine it but they really ought to have assessed how many other peoples dna traces could be found on it as that would be the only evidence useful to Vincent Tabak. If his dna were to be found on the body that is not in the slightest way proof that he killed her and indeed if that argument is made by the police, it could be levelled against the hundreds of others whose low copy number dna would also be on her body. That may very well include several policemen and other officials whose dna would all need to be seperated from the other dna found on her body.

Tabak was advised by his lawyers Paul Cook and Michael Fitton not to enter a formal plea and judge Treacy for the second time failed in his duty as a judge to ask and explain to the frightened man how important it was that he should tell the court if was guilty or not guilty. In many court rooms, no plea is usually regarded as a not guilty plea and the judge would so rule. But not so judge Treacy.

They set a provisional trial date for October 4 and a plea and case management hearing for May 4. This ensures that after nine months in maximum security prison they should have him well and truly brain washed and terrified that he might never get out and that will ensure his cooperation and susceptibility to doing a deal by confessing to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. It is the essence of judicial corruption because of the carrot held out to the prisoner that a plea on those grounds would attract only a light prison sentence or perhaps a term in a psychiatric unit. It is judicial blackmail.

Tabak, 32, appeared on TV screens in court, sitting behind a table with his hands together to listen to the proceedings. His whole future was at stake.


Mr Justice Treacy, prosecutor Nigel Lickley QC, and Michael Fitton, Tabak's defence lawyer together agreed the timetable for the trial in what could only be described as a conspiracy to stitch up an innocent man whose life is entirely in their hands. He was completely in the dark as to his rights having no phone, no friends, no money and no glasses and held like a cat in a cage.

His lawyer had become part of a judicial conspiracy together with their police friends who needed to convict somebody for this highly publicised murder that had gotten daily national coverage and therefore needed to be solved in order to maintain public confidence in a police force who had made a litany of basic mistakes in the investigation. Having wrongly arrested the landlord Mr Chris Jefferies and subsequently released him they still had not released him from suspicion of being the killer and he remains a suspect at the time of the video hearing of Tabak. Mr Jefferies was a lucky man because they could have easily convicted him with that low copy number dna, because as landlord, his dna would be all over the victim's flat.


Mr Justice Treacy told Tabak: "Your next appearance in court will be on May 4 by which time the case papers will have been served and you will see in detail what the allegations are against you. There will be a hearing to make the final arrangements for a trial which we expect to take place in October."

No bail application was made and Tabak was remanded in custody.

Vincent Tabak, a professional man was arrested, handcuffed, taken to a jail cell, stripped of his clothes and personal effects and given prison garb, not allowed to make a phone call home to Holland, because it would be an international call, and held in a frightened state to await his fate.
He was allotted free legal assistance, the services and advices of a useless and grovelling lawyer, Paul Cook who should himself be soon facing charges for abusing his trust and failing to ensure the most basic right of any accused person, that is to plead that he was not guilty.

Cook advised Tabak to say nothing from his first appearance before a Magistrate. He compounded this by keeping Tabak silent at a subsequent crown court arraignment, whose main purpose is to give an accused person an oppertunity to plead his innocence.
This all left the media with the clear impression that he was guilty and they reported that fact with its implications that the police got the killer.

The magistrate failed to ask Tabak to enter his plea. There is no justification whatever for it, as the system of justice is meant to protect the innocent from police stitch-ups by being open to public scrutiny.
Judge Treacy is unfit to be a judge because he failed to act as a bulwark between police accusers and the right of an accused person to plead guilty or not guilty. Treacy should have bent over backwards to get Tabak to enter a plea right from the start. It is common sense. It is the law. It is an accused person's right. It is the public's right to know how that person pleads.

Clearly Tabak has told Cook that he didnt do it. Therefore what possible advantage could it be for him to have that plea stifled? Cook has a serious case to answer and should be immediately stood down from any legal work and investigated for that crime.
Also judge Treacy should be stood down and investigated for his complicity in this failure of due process. He has shown himself to be incapable of impartial judgment by his failure to ensure fair play and right.


The honourable? judge Colman Treacy

Michael Fitton, a QC from the same chamber as Cook has taken up the baton but he also failed to remedy Cook's crime.
Therefore Fitton is equally guilty of the conspiracy to deny Tabak his rights and to assist bent and corrupt policemen to frame an innocent man for murder, leaving the real killer scot free, while they pretend that they have caught him.

Any accused person has a minimum right to be brought before a court of law but Tabak was imprisoned in a high security jail and only had a video link to the court. He could have been intimidated outside the view of the camera or had a gun to his head and judge Treacy and Michael Fitton presided over that crime also.

They arranged a plea to be made in April and pencilled in a trial date for October.

This is the justice one would expect in Zimbabwe or Saudi Arabia. Yet it happened last week in Bristol England in the year 2011. Treacy has a record of perverting the common law and the rights of accused people by presiding over a non jury trial of four men and sentencing them to long terms of imprisonment. He broke a 350 year precedent and made international headlines setting England in the same league as third world banana republics and reducing British law courts to that level.

No surprise then that Tabak got Treacy style justice.

No plea. No bail application. No access to the public court. Video link from a prison. This was the justice of king Henry VIII, still alive today, except they dont cut your head off. They let innocent men rot in jail for a lifetime.

Tabak had been previously eliminated as a suspect but when the police exhausted all lines of enquiry and hit a brick wall they fell back on the nearest thing to the victim, and low copy number DNA entered the equation, a science which deceives the public into thinking it is infallible but it is very flawed indeed.

Detective Chief Inspector Phil Jones made a statement to the press on 3rd January and his words had an ominous resonance for Vincent Tabak, the next door neighbour of the victim.

'I can assure you, we are determined to solve this crime, and bring Jo’s killers to justice…I think that phrase emphasises that I am not making any assumptions in this case.'


DCI Phil Jones centre leaving Bristol court on 31st January

How could any man get a fair trial under such draconian circumstances? Every rule in the book of criminal jurisprudence has been broken by the judge, the lawyers and the police.

It must be borne in mind that the judge and the lawyers for the defence did not yet have any knowledge of any evidence against this man and yet they treated him as guilty of murder.


Nigel Lickley_____________Ann Reddrop

Nigel Lickley has taken over the prosecution of the case from Anne Reddrop who has been exposed as an agent for the police whose goal is to get the accused person convicted at all costs and to use any legal device to achieve that aim and that has been shown to include depriving him of any chance of getting a fair trial. Reddrop has chickened out because of being exposed and now Lickley has assumed that task.


Vincent Tabak's defence lawyer Paul Cook leaving Bristol Crown Court

He failed to apply for his client's bail at a bail hearing

see Daily Star report


Vincent Tabak's defence lawyer Michael Fitton leaving Bristol Crown Court. He has taken over the management of the case from Paul Cook who has stood down having been exposed as a corrupt lawyer at two earlier appearances in court.

No doubt Fitton has a better record of selling his clients down the river and feels he can perform the crime in concert with his pal the honourable judge ColmanTreacy. Already he has shown that he intends to carry on with the denial of Tabak's rights by failling to demand his client access into a public court and be advised to enter a plea of not guilty and make a case to get bail so that he could prepare a proper defence surrounded by friends and with access to his witnesses and information not to forget demanding his glasses back. .These are basic human rights guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights and English common law but not recognised in the Bristol crown courts because of corrupt lawyers and judges who were previously lawyers.

There could be no reason to refuse bail to this man because clearly he is not a raving lunatic and even if he absconded to Holland, he could easily be repatriated to England to face trial. Both Cook and Fitton failed to even seek to get bail for their client.

Even in the third world there are lawyers who actually act to ensure that their clients are not stitched up by corrupt policemen who need to get a conviction at all costs. This recent case in Mauritius shows the defence lawyers in stark contrast to the English lawyers who have conspired to damage their client.

It is imperative that the Netherlands embassy should demand to meet Vincent Tabak in private, their countryman and provide him with independent legal advocates and demand that a new judge be appointed to this case and that the failure of due process outlined above be investigated.