Anti electronic warfare activist George Farquar committed to mental ward in UK

international | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday August 27, 2003 19:05 by dekarnys jacque at iol dot ie kilkenny 71614

No doctor or psychiatrist present at Georges "trial"!

27 August 2003 17:20 Confirmed! Anti-electronic warfare activist - George Farquar has been committed to a mental ward in the Royal Endinburgh Hospital!

The UK is fast becoming a criminal fascist state!




I have spoken on the telephone three times during the last hour or so to
George Farquar, on the patients' telephone in Redwood Ward, in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, which is +44 131 537 5816. George welcomes calls of encouragement. Why not call him yourself?

George tells me that there was no expert psychiatric evidence whatsoever
offered at his show trial at Edinburgh Sheriff's Court on Friday, with the
sole exception of a single letter from a psychiatrist allegedly received by
the sheriff, which letter was not read out in court.

George confirms that he was not represented by his own solicitor, who turned
up at the court on time to represent George, but by a different solicitor,
whom the court imposed upon George, whom George did not want.

Apparently, the sheriff took the unusual step of making a section 62 order
when no one was asking for this, and when no psychiatric evidence had been
offered that could be tested by cross-examination.

The use of section 62 of the Mental Health Act means that only a specific
politician, the Secretary of State for Health, can now set George free
(unless, I suppose, a legal appeal successfully establishes that the judge
wasn't entitled to make the section 62 order in the first place, an avenue
that George's solicitor will now explore). George says that the
psychiatrist who wrote the letter is also very unhappy about the use of the
"political" section 62, because of his inability to set George free himself.
Even the psychiatrist has now to depend upon the decision of a government
minister if George is ever going to walk out of his "prison". (You could
say that George is now a political prisoner.)

George seems to be in remarkably good mental shape, for someone recently
sentenced, in effect, to life imprisonment, who is on temporary hunger
strike, and who is being regularly battered by the nursing staff, in order
to force upon him him injections of drugs that he has not consented to
receive.

George has confirmed that he would like there to be a FREE GEORGE campaign.
He has commended Duncan as his right hand man. Duncan's email address is
braveheart50000@aol.com .

I have passed Eleanor's message to George, that she has salvaged some of his
web pages, as has the Boycott Brazil site.

George will be pleased for any of us to pray for him. His morale is high.