I'm a survivor of boarding school shite!
Somerset, UK
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There is a great need for survivors of boarding school to tell their stories. @ei_culture is doing a fantastic job for peer on peer, recent abuse, however there are thousands of us still hurting, 30, 40, 50+ years on, we also need to talk, we need to be heard.
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#JeremyBamber 41 years of injustice.
Rivlin: You made it clear to him [Bamber] that police officers would be sent to the house.
West: Police officers had already been sent when I spoke to him, yes.
That's PC West stating in court, under oath, that police had already been sent to the farm when he spoke to Jeremy Bamber.
How is that possible?
Was PC West psychic and sent police before answering the phone to Jeremy?
Or, as the call logs clearly prove, Nevill Bamber had phoned police 10 minutes earlier?
This travesty just has to end.
theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…
@Bambertweets @EmpowerInnocent @HeidilBlake
@ccrcupdate
#JeremyBamber #MiscarriageOfJustice #JusticeReform
Nicky Rowley retweeted
The benchmark of a civilised society is the quality of its justice.
Our loved ones were murdered 52 years ago, 6 men convicted of crimes they didn't commit & we've had zero Truth, zero Justice & refused a public inquiry. What does THAT tell us about our Judiciary? @andyburnham
Nicky Rowley retweeted
Colin Caffell had issues with Essex Police changing his statement. He was then told “don’t say anything about it in the witness box, you will cause all sorts of trouble if you do.” Here we have Glynis Howard saying she was unaware that Essex Police were changing her statements. This was regarding the silencer - The curious part is Essex Police didn’t need to change the reference number from SBJ/1 to DB/1 in the first instance. 5 different reference numbers are logged for the supposed same device. The silencer is tainted and shouldn’t have been allowed in evidence. Justice for Jeremy.
Nicky Rowley retweeted
Brilliant work from the Guardian.
Full link below 👇👇👇 @shattenstone 👏
At trial, ballistics expert Malcolm Fletcher stated that every shot had hit the target area, saying there were “25 hits out of 25”, indicating that 25 bullets and 25 empty cartridge cases had been found. The prosecution argued that Bamber – a skilled huntsman – had to be the killer, because Caffell was insufficiently experienced with a rifle to have a 100% hit rate. The defence argued that Caffell did have limited knowledge of handling .22 rifles because she had grown up on the farm and attended rural shoots.
The bullets identified by Carney-Gannon imply that the shooter was less skilled than has been suggested. After all, not only does Carney-Gannon suspect that some bullets missed June Bamber, she believes June probably moved around for some time after being shot.
Carney-Gannon’s findings support a forensic investigation the Guardian commissioned from the prestigious forensic physician Professor Jason Payne-James, earlier this year, into whether or not a silencer was used in the shooting of Caffell.
The silencer in question was found three days after the massacre, in a downstairs storage cupboard at White House Farm, by relatives who went on to inherit from the Bamber estate. This silencer was crucial in the case against Bamber. The prosecution argued that Caffell’s arms were not long enough to kill herself had the silencer been attached to the rifle, and, if she had shot herself, she would obviously have been unable to replace the silencer in the downstairs cupboard.
At trial, it was stated that blood belonging to Caffell was found inside this silencer. Mr Justice Drake told the jury that if they were convinced beyond reasonable doubt that a silencer was used, then Bamber was guilty of the murders. Minutes before they convicted Bamber, the jury returned to ask whether the blood in the silencer definitely belonged to Caffell. The judge told them it did. In fact, it was merely her blood grouping, which she shared with Robert Boutflour, who regularly used the guns.
Payne-James concluded that a silencer had not been used, and that the two shots to Caffell’s neck and chin were either contact or close-contact wounds. This dismantled much of the prosecution’s case against Bamber, and is consistent with Carney-Gannon’s view.
It is hard to see how the commission will not be swayed by Carney-Gannon’s findings, especially under its new leadership. After all, the new evidence regarding stray bullets that were shot at the bed; June Bamber sitting down and walking around after being hit by an unskilled shooter; and, most importantly, the blood stains suggesting that Sheila Caffell shot herself, turns the case on its head. theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…
Nicky Rowley retweeted
A national disgrace. More information regarding the files held in the National Archives.
The Sun 👇👇👇
A total of 246 case files held at the National Archives have been closed, with some not available for inspection until 2086, meaning Bamber would have to live until he was 125 to see them.
Campaigners believe the files — which include trial documents — could hold vital evidence to clear his name.
They are now planning to appeal to the Solicitor General to request the embargoes are removed or lawyers are allowed access to them on a qualified basis.
Michael Turner KC, who represented Bamber, 65, in an unsuccessful 2002 appeal, is working with the Jeremy Bamber Innocence Campaign in the fight to unlock the files.
He said: “These files potentially answer every question in the Bamber case.
“However, extraordinarily, they extended the embargoes on them after Keir Starmer became Prime Minister.
“Jeremy has written various letters to the Government and he is getting the runaround.
“I know a number of the lawyers in the Labour Government, so I am trying to do something about this.
“What is ridiculous about the embargoes is that they’ve been sealed under the heading of public safety and protecting informants.”
Nicky Rowley retweeted
Dr Brearey, can you tell everyone exactly when do you wish you had gone to the police about Lucy Letby?
Was it when you said this?
"I have reviewed Child D’s care with Eirian yesterday and looked to see if there are any common threads in the deaths. I emailed an action plan to Ravi yesterday. Child D’s death appears to be due to early neonatal sepsis after PROM. She was symptomatic from 12 min of age." Dr Brearey
Or was it when you said this?
"I would be very surprised if Child D death is linked in any way to the previous recent deaths of Child A and Child C" Dr Brearey
@BBCNWT @BBCNews @DavidDavisMP
Doctor regrets not going to police earlier about Lucy Letby bbc.in/4zH8hgF
Nicky Rowley retweeted
Periodic reminder that Caroline Cheetham, the co-host of the Daily Mail's podcast about Lucy Letby, took secret payments from Cheshire police while the trial was ongoing.
She never disclosed this to the public, or to her bosses at the Daily Mail.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05…
Nicky Rowley retweeted
Just your daily reminder, the reason the police and the jury believed Lucy Letby was on shift for all the collapses, is because Ravi Jayaram conspired with the consultants to only send collapses to the police where they knew Lucy Letby was present, instead of sending them all.
Nicky Rowley retweeted
As the government releases prisoners early, a reminder that Clive Freeman is still rotting away in a prison cell as a completely innocent man.
He had his case referred to the Court of Appeal in August 2025 at the sixth attempt but is still waiting for a date for his appeal. It's way beyond shameful.
He is 83 years of age and is dying of cancer.
He has spent over 38 years in prison for murdering a man that was not murdered.
“Based on American research around deaths caused in police custody, a group of world-renowned pathologists have concluded that it is simply impossible to kill another human being in the manner Dr Shepherd described in this case.”
How anyone can consider the UK to be a fair and decent society is beyond me.
@AlexJJNorris @andyburnham @DavidDavisMP @GBNEWS @Channel4News @LBCNews
#CliveFreeman #WrongfulConviction #JusticeReform
Nicky Rowley retweeted
An open letter to the PM, Justice Secretary, Home Secretary and head of the CCRC.
@andyburnham @AlexJJNorris @ShabanaMahmood @ccrcupdate @innocence @hanksoff03 @FASO880221 @IFAD9S @EmpowerInnocent @RupertLowe10 @RestoreBritain I am asking as many people as possible to share this open letter. This is the current state of our Criminal Justice System.
Nicky Rowley retweeted
MISCARRIAGE AS A MIDWIFE 💔
TRIGGER ‼️
The number of midwives who have contacted me with the same story is becoming impossible to ignore.
Midwives who have contacted work or their managers to say they are miscarrying their baby, only to be told that miscarriage is “not a reason” to be off work.
Midwives told to put a pad on and continue their duties.
Midwives bleeding while caring for pregnant women and babies.
Midwives losing their own babies while expected to carry on caring for everyone else.
Midwives being given sickness absence warnings.
I know this because I lived it too.
I miscarried my baby in the toilet at work. I was made to feel that if I left, the ward would be short staffed.
And guilt kept me there.
Just think about that for a moment.
The very profession skilled in pregnancy, birth, bereavement and loss — yet some of its own staff describe being treated as though the loss of their baby was an inconvenience because the needs of the service came first.
When you hear the same story once, you listen.
When you hear it twice, you worry.
When you hear it again and again from midwives working in different places, you have to start asking whether there is a much wider cultural problem.
And it needs exposing.
These experiences will not simply be buried.
Accountability matters.
To every tiny baby who didn’t make it — rest peacefully. 🤍
And to every midwife who wiped away her own blood and tears, put her uniform back on and carried on caring for somebody else’s family while grieving for her own baby:
I see you.
I hear you.
And I am so deeply sorry that this was ever asked of you. 💕
There will be no peace for the midwives who inflicted such cruelty upon other woman, karma never forgets.
Nicky Rowley retweeted
Can you explain to me please Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt how the "really sobering" Thirlwall report is in any way going to help you, and all those standing "in total sincerity in the House of Commons 'to make sure this is the last time'."?
Last time for what exactly?
The last time there is a shameful and unforgiveable miscarriage of justice?
Because that is what you said you think this is isn't it?
You said this if you remember...
"we have someone who's actually in prison now, and it may be that she shouldn't be"
So, if Lucy Letby should not be in prison, it follows no babies were murdered or intentionally harmed.
So tell me why you think the report recomendations being implemented will prevent deaths?
You actually said you think"this inquiry is, frankly, a bit of a sideshow."
So why are you paying any attention to its recommendations, which are based on the false premise that Lucy Letby is guilty?
@skynews @JeremyVineOn5 @DavidDavisMP @davidkurten @EmpowerInnocent
#LucyLetby #WrongfulConviction #JusticeReform
Check out ITV News's video! #TikTok vm.tiktok.com/ZN8jK5J73/
Nicky Rowley retweeted
John Launer for the BMJ, on the eve of the Thirlwall report: "I’ve changed my mind about Lucy Letby"
"I now believe it at least possible that natural causes, systemic failings on the unit, and clinical misjudgments may have led to the babies' deaths"
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
Nicky Rowley retweeted
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MIDWIVES DARE GO AGAINST THE NHS?
19 September 2017 — Qualified as a midwife.
21 October 2021 — Raised my first formal grievance.
2021–2022 — Raised a further three grievances.
7 February 2024 — Resigned after years of raising concerns.
March 2024 — Threatened by a Director that “whistleblowers go missing.”
March 2024 — Publicly accused of killing a baby. I did not kill that baby.
April 2024 — Further defamatory statements made about me killing a baby,
June 2024 — GDPR/data protection breach by University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.
July 2024 — Malicious referral made about me to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
July 2024 — Received threatening legal correspondence from Bevan Brittan solicitors.
February 2025 — Further defamation re killing a baby.
February 2025 — Devon and Cornwall Police attended my home following an accusation of harassment. I categorically deny that I harassed anyone.
March 2025 — High Court defamation proceedings.
Aug 2025 — High Court proceedings concerning the GDPR/data protection breach.
November 2025 — A colleague was referred to the NMC. I was named within that referral and defamed again. By the same individual as my previous NMC referral.
I qualified to care for women and babies.
I raised concerns because that was my professional duty.
LOOK AT WHAT FOLLOWED.
Grievances.
Resignation.
Threats.
Defamation.
Regulatory referrals.
Solicitors’ letters.
A data breach.
Police at my home.
Damage to my career and professional reputation.
Years spent chasing documents, evidence and answers.
And now — the High Court.
People constantly ask:
“WHY DON’T NHS STAFF SPEAK OUT?”
Perhaps we’re asking the wrong question.
WHAT HAPPENS TO NHS STAFF WHO DO SPEAK OUT?
What message does this send to the next nurse, midwife, doctor or healthcare professional who witnesses something they believe is unsafe?
Stay quiet and protect yourself?
Or speak up and risk everything?
I chose to speak.
I will not be frightened into silence.
Every document.
Every referral.
Every letter.
Every statement.
Every piece of evidence.
LET THE COURTS SEE IT.
This is bigger than me.
Whistleblowers must be able to raise concerns without fearing the destruction of their careers, livelihoods and reputations for daring to speak. @ArturNadol7566 @KenZeroHarm @YvetteCooperMP @andyburnham @Simonekatz4tay @BarbarasBack
Nicky Rowley retweeted
Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?
For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir, which according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health.
He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.
The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.
He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.
Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.
Yet those orders are being defied.
This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.
He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.
His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls.
I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father.
@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court; restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government to please now do the right thing.
Nicky Rowley retweeted
To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.
I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.
Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.
Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.
I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.
And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk