The Independent Review into the Care and Treatment of Mr Anthony Hardy - September 2005 [killed 3 women in his flat in LB of Camden]
Whether a whole life term was required for a man with mental disorder who admitted 3 murders
Borough of Camden, London, England, UK. Not endorsed or funded by Camden Council.
Whether a whole life term was required for a man with mental disorder who admitted 3 murders
WORK IN PROGRESS
[notes: I can't find this great reform act of 1832 or the below mentioned 1835 Act - on the website legislation.gov.uk, not even under the year 1832 HERE. I've also checked the years 1831 - 1839, just in case and I still can't find such acts even ones that have been noted as repealed.
I can though find 2 Municipal Corporations Acts of 1882 and 1883 which I will link to below]
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/politics/municip.htm
Corporation funds are frequently expended in feasting and in paying the salaries of unimportant officers. In some cases, in which the funds are expended on public works, an expense has been incurred beyond what would be necessary if due care had been taken. These abuses often originate in negligence ... in the opportunity afforded of obliging members of their own body, or the friends and relations of such members.
Parliamentary Papers (1835) XXIII. Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations
The corporations fixed the local bye-laws and taxes and it was impossible for the majority of rate-payers to remove unpopular councils because they could not be voted out. Most of the corporations used their privileges for personal and party advantage: the majority were Tory. Councils ignored matters like water supplies, drainage and street cleansing which they were supposed to oversee.
Even worse than this, most of the new industrial towns had not been recognised as boroughs and had no corporation at all. In these towns, living conditions deteriorated and the overcrowded slums were a threat to public health. In October 1831 the first cholera epidemic broke out in Sunderland and spread rapidly throughout the country. By January 1832 cholera had broken out both in Edinburgh and London.
Following the same procedures that had been adopted for the investigation of the Poor Laws, in July 1833 the Whig government set up a Royal Commission was to investigate the working of local councils. The Commission's secretary was Joseph Parkes, a radical lawyer. 285 towns were investigated, most of which were found to be unsatisfactory. As a result of the Commission's findings, a Bill was drawn up and brought to the House of Commons by Lord John Russell in June 1835.
The Bill went through the House of Commons without too much difficulty but the House of Lords proved more difficult.
Most of the closed corporations were controlled by Tories and the Tory peers claimed that the Bill was an attack on privileges and property. They had used the same reasons to oppose the abolition of rotten boroughs during the 1832 Reform Act campaign. The Lords made some amendments to the Bill but, thanks to the efforts of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, the Tory Lords were restrained from throwing out the Bill altogether. The legislation went onto the Statute Book in September 1835.
The Act provided a vast improvement over the previous system, which was haphazard and disorganised. It also established the principal of elected town councils. Progress was very slow but the Act at least established the machinery that would enable future reforms to be carried out in the towns. However, the legislation did have several failings:
Municipal Corporations Act 1882 HERE
Municipal Corporations Act 1883 HERE
Wed 4 Nov 2020I had my phone appointment with the Cardiologist y/d - bar 1 of the medications, I will be on the 5 others for life and the Stent stays in for life. I will be sent an appointment to go to the hospital for another ECHOcardio-gram [ultra-sound] to see how the heart is re the systolic dysfunction.
I think it was the 80mg dosage that was responsible for the pains in/around my heart as since the reduction to 40mg I haven't been experiencing them, other than occasionally, this im greatful for. I am also coming to the end of being prescribed Clopiodgrel 75mg 1 a day - until 16/3/2012, blood thinner, but will continue with taking 75mg Asprin everyday for ever apparently and the other 4 meds each day for life or until I hear otherwise from Cardiologist.
Ah I nearly forgot: I still haven't received the results of the Nov 2020 ECHOcardio-gram [ultra-sound] and ECG of my heart - yes i know, the hospital is busy with all the Covid-19 stuff and whatnot so out-patients 'have to' be a bit more patient about such stuff - excuse the pun
3 March 2021
I feel like I want to die, i don't want to be me, to feel these feelings, make them go away - the tears again. i have to comfort myself, 'its ok its ok' till the next time.
Sat 7 March 2021
Im not feeling too bad today. I have stopped with the talking therapy -which continued via zoom when things where locked down back in March 2020 due to covid 19 virus. It helped at times to have the group there and for that I'm thankful for, but it wasn't the right set-up for me to explore much in-depth things I needed/wanted to explore, maybe i'll be okay though.
I've done a lot of work on myself over the last few years and I can say that without ego or banging any drums, I know I am stronger mentally than I thought I was, thought it hasn't always seemed that way and has taken lots of ups and downs, pain and tears as well as nice feeling and thoughts [yes i have them on occasions].
Sunday 14 March 2021
I'm supposed to decide where abouts I want to move to and try and get a move somehow to the area, with some help from a family member - but i can't decide where I want to go, really i'm so indecisive about this and have been for years. I know I want to get away from here - the tenant upstairs is still making noise, i can still hear her everyday - except y/d for some reason she was as quite as a mouse for at least 24hrs and it was bliss but as usual, i get lulled into a false sense of security and then noise starts again, over my bedroom and it carries on, off and on through out today.
I don't want to move thats the thing as in ways I don't mind the flat [its not fancy or anything] or the area but I can't live in here till the day I die with Camden Council as landlord and the property with no insulation of any type, let alone noise and with the 2 other tenants around the place.
The next move if it ever happens will have to be the last, I ain't no good at moving around so much.
Tues 20 April 2021
Recent word from the DWP is that I am still in the same WRAG that they put me in months before the 23 March 2020 covid19 lock down and which I was in the process of querying [this was my last assessment late 2019] but as many will know dealing with the DWP isn't a nice/easy experience even at the best of times, so come lockdown and heart attack I let the issue slip - though I did sent them in stuff about the HA but didnt hear back from them.
I recently phoned up DWP and managed to actually get through to someone - who told me words along the lines of 'I had been sent a letter from them about my last assessment review and that I had been turned down -even after my heart attack] well I hadn't received anything and said that but didnt push it as I knew it would be pointless.
On top of the word about this I also received a letter from DWP about a charge Camden Council had put on my ESA sick payments [yes i am actually sick and haven't been pretending, though im not in a coma and can do some stuff, i can't do what i used to be able to do, physically/emotionally] The DWP didnt say what the charge was about other than housing [could be rent, service charge etc] or how much it was only the weekly amount to be deducted.
I am in the process of querying this - after all the council has done they pull this on me. Im guessing what the charge is about but I d like the DWP to tell me what it is etc and I will challenge and the way the DWP operates though they will probably find some way to drag it out for so long that I forget about it/lose the will to carry on with it, or some other reason so they dont have to get me a proper answer etc.
Sunday 30 May 2021
GP sent me a text saying something about rheumatoid markers being raised and i have an appointment with Rheumatology at local hospital in 2 months time.
Thursday 17 Feb 2022
recent phone appointment with cardiologist seemed to go okay though I didnt say all i wanted to say[like about the coughing] but i don't suppose it matters - though the wrong side of my heart that has the stent in was noted in a letter I was cc-ed into cardio sent to GP.
The breathlessness and coughing seems to be because my heart doesn't pump enough oxygenated blood to my lungs [ejection fraction at 41% - could be lower now 2 years on]. The depression and though mainly suppressed by the anti-depressants, is deep within me and I can feel it and the hopelessness i feel about life in general still persists.
The not getting good sleep is still a problem for me - i can get to sleep but usually only for 2/3 hrs at a time. Hearing/reading about the links that bad sleep has to developing dementia doesn't help things [my father now deceased, had vascular dementia] I know I should put some real effort into trying to sort out the sleep thing but I don't seem to have that much motivation or will to do so. These last few years battling with this that and the other has taken so much out of me.
Are there any positives in my life one may wonder - yes there are like my cat Jack, like things could be a lot worse than they are, that I can still at times laugh and see the beauty of the flowers, trees etc around me and the good some people do and I still feel in awe of some things far greater and beautiful than I.
I can still feel love and empathy/compassion - though relationships aren't easy for me.
30 March 2022
3 of my meds have been changed [ dosage increased]
I keep thinking that I wish I was brave/strong or stupid enough [depending on how you look at it] to stop taking all the heart meds and wait and see what happens but i don't want to have another heart attack - as it wasn't a nice feeling at all, and not knowing at first what was happening inside of my body that was making me feel so ill, and that I had no control over it and then the physical pain and the breathlessness that I didn't realise what it was as my voice became so low and quiet i could only speak in barely a whisper.
Im depressed - still - but it doesnt come out like it would if i wasn't taking the anti-depressants. i can feel it though, i sense it. the hopelessness, sadness, i try not to think of it too much, i don't in general THINK too much, not like id did when the Thing happened and my mind/brain went into overdrive, my friend i have neglected you for too long i thought, and I had.
2 June 2022
I went to the hospital y/day for a echocardiogram [ultrasound] scan of my heart. I won't know results until I see cardiologist at August 2022 appointment - the first face-to-face appointment since heart attack on monday 16 march 2020.
Despite the CHRSG terms of reference/constitution stating the membership of the group shall consist of 15 members all of whom shall be Camden tenants or leaseholders comprising
5 representatives from the District Management Committee (1 per district)
1 representative from the Camden Leaseholders Forum
1 representative from the Camden Association of Street Properties
8 independent members
casp
has managed to get 2 casp reps on the panel. One I assume was put up
directly by casp, the other by the Gospel Oak dmc who should have put
up someone else but didn't and who shouldn't have got past the
interview panel [imo] but did.
How
do casp keep getting away with breaking the rules, general taking the
pee, throwing their weight around?
I
suspect the answer to that is with a lot of help from various council
people and other tenant reps who collude with them or who look the
other way.
Also,
it appears that in collusion with Camden council casp set up a
'gardening project' using public money from tenant rents/charges via
various dmc's - to provide free gardening maintenance to
council street property tenants. Tenants on estates have to pay for
gardening maintenance as a service charge.
Perhaps
the CHRSG would look into such issues?