Stephen Kay was originally arrested in what turned out to be a botched high-profile raid on Lune Street back in September 2010 after a number of drunken phone calls made to police by an ex-friend of Kays, Nathan Wilkinson, Wilkinson phoned police saying he wishes to provide intelligence on people he had fallen out with that are dealing drugs in the area, Wilkinson him self a heavy drink and drug user with a history of drink driving and abuse towards ex-partners was rambling on in a drunken state about a man that was questioned along with a number of other people about an incident on crime watch in 1999, he claims he "knows things", and he also knew who was responsible for that incident. Both Wilkinson and Kay were arrested but Wilkinson later admitted he made the calls to get at Mr Kay for sleeping with his ex-girlfriend. The original arrest led to the evacuation of around 80 people and major disruption to the Lune Street area of Lancaster as suspicious devices were thought to be found. The devices turned out to be harmless film and military memorabilia that Mr Kay kept in a hallway display cabinet. Both Mr Kay and Wilkinson was then released without charge. Sergeant Clive O'Beirne, desperate to get him self selected to work on the then upcoming Hillsborough inquiry and end his career working on a high profile case, adopted a “Dirty Harry” style of policing. A conviction was needed at any cost.

 

Mr Kay contacted a journalist asking for the facts to be made correct after it was wrongly published that the police had found an “arsenal of weapons”

 

Mr Kay was arrested again in August 2012 and charged after the police approached Wilkinson asking him to make a fresh statement and to become a prosecution witness. A second witness would also be needed, another man, a neighbor of Mr Kay's, and the boyfriend of a serving police officer manufactured a statement claiming Mr Kay admitted the offence to him. At the first trial Mr Kay was found not guilty of sending an explosive device, the trial then collapsed when the neighbor who had previously had a sexual relationship with a 15 year old schoolgirl was proved to be an unreliable witness, despite this, he was still allowed to give evidence at a retrial giving him and other witnesses the opportunity to fine tune there cross-examination. A second trial was then called. Mr Kay was found guilty with circumstantial evidence alone despite Nathan Wilkinson being the actual person to place the device there to give Kay an alibi, Wilkinson felt aggrieved when Kay refused to lend Wilkinson a legally held firearm that was registered in his name to threaten some one with. 

 

Speaking after the sentencing Sergeant Clive O'Beirne displayed a classic sign of "Hero syndrome" by saying We are really happy with the sentence given today and hope it shows that, despite the incident taking place in 1999 The people of Heysham can now sleep in piece and Lancashire Constabulary will never forget about a case and all major crime will continue to be reviewed and re-investigated until we find out the "truth".

 

I would like to apologise and thank everybody for their patience and co-operation during this investigation, particularly during the disruption caused by the first raid on Lune street.

 

A number of witness statements that were never shown to the jury have now come to light and this has cast serious doubt on the conviction and the credibility of the "victim", these statements were never used in court and were not made available to the defendant, the statements (previously denied in court). allow the incident to be timelined and shows how little work went into the preparation of the defense.

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Police Forensic Scientist Stuart Crosby changed key evidence at re-trial to aid prosecution

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One in five decisions by courts unsafe because of ‘misleading evidence’

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This case has never been about public safety, innocence or guilt or who has done what, the raid in 2010 disrupted a lot of people and cost a lot of money and that needed to be justified, to do so the police lied about the danger to the public. In desperation, Sergeant Clive O'Beirne and other police officers involved in this case behaved like gamblers chasing their losses following the raid and were willing to do anything to get a conviction. There is always a danger of allowing convictions on circumstantial evidence alone. The evidence is often cherry-picked and so much evidence is never shown to the jury. It is important that when giving a statement to the police that people check that what is in the statement is what they have actually said before they sign it.

 

A big problem with UK law is, it does not allow appeals on unused evidence regardless of the importance of that evidence. If a defendant's solicitor was grossly incompetent and missed vital evidence, there is nothing that can be done about it. As seen with this case, LHD solicitors missed a large volume of important evidence and failed to call a single defense witness, clearly, they were out of their depth. In circumstances like this, a trial can be very one-sided and a defendant has no realistic hope of a fair trial. It is important that any person who finds them self's in this situation should insist on having a copy of all the unused evidence, if a defendants legal aid solicitor claims to have looked at the unused evidence and says there is nothing in there of any relevance, this is probably not the case. Legal aid solicitors do not look at the unused evidence.  when solicitors let you down

 

In this case, Joanna White, Senior Crown Prosecutor, admits "there was no direct evidence of Kay committing the offences"  so she commissioned a report from a clinical psychologist. This is a clinical psychologist paid by the police/CPS that has never met the defendant and has never even spoke to the defendant, A  clinical psychologist producing a report based solely on what the police have told them. The compelling evidence she talks about is the statements given by the police officers boyfriend who invited the defendant out for drinks with himself and his girlfriend just three days prior to him making his statement. This witness was proven to be unreliable in court, clearly entrapment. Then the man that made a number of drunken phone calls to the police admitting he is a “substance user” and a heavy drinker,  In this case psychology was used to manufacture evidence, And raises the question of abuse of the mental health laws, as the report would unlikely not have been produced on factual evidence.

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It has never been disclosed who the clinical psychologist was that manufactured the report, Senior probation manger, Anna Jarvis has since produced a second bogus report in which she makes false claims about the defendants family, lies about the circumstances surrounding an accident Kay had as a child and lies about Mr Winters being part of the management team.

People that have never had any involvement with the system would never believe  what goes on.