Fairplay for Men in Wales

Lying Cardiff housewife tries to frame her husband

David and Jennifer Harris of Cardiff were going through a bitter divorce and David refused to take his wife back; but the one thing he never expected to happen was that he would be arrested by the police.

It only took one complaint by Jennifer Harris to the police, and the usual institutional misandric police machine went into action and David Harris was arrested. Mrs Harris, of Lakin Drive, Barry, complained that her husband had sent her death threats. She showed the messages to the police. As usual, they believed the woman and did not believe the man.

She plotted against her husband by driving six miles to her husband's new home in Wenvoe, put his old sim card in the phone and then made the threatening calls to her own phone. Fortunately the phone company Orange enquired into the matter more deeply than the police and found that the calls had been made on Mrs Harris's handset, otherwise there would have been yet another innocent man swent to prison on the word of a woman.

Because of his wife's lies Mr Harris suffered six months of hell having to appear before Barry Magistrates' Court and also Cardiff Crown Court. He was also arrested on two other occasions by the police following other allegations his wife made against him.

On 23rd February Mrs Harris appeared in Cardiff crown Court on the charge of trying to pervert the course of justice. She pleaded guilty and was warned that she faced a jail sentence.

 

The Verdict

Although Judge Richards described the offence committed by Mrs Harris as a very serious one, at the hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on 11th May, she was given a two-year rehabilitation order which, in the judge’s own words, was a lenient sentence. He warned her that she wouldn't be treated so leniently if it happened again and that if she breached the order she could be sent to jail.

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A man who is certainly not getting justice in Wales

You've probably heard about Andy James, the Fathers4Justice protestor who is in Cardiff Prison. Andy's "crime" is that he wants justice for men, something they are being consistently denied.

Here is a message from Andy:

Hi GUYS,

I just thought I would write and give you all an update on things that are happening in here. I've now had the pleasure of going on the prison education scheme. I applied for the rock climbing (freestyle), abseiling and hang gliding but I only got on English and Maths, strange that !!

I have now changed my plea to NOT GUILTY as the CPS have about as much evidence as the government has morals.

I will be making a bail application on 7/4/05 and hope to be out then, but not holding my breath, watch this roof, oops space ! Old habits are hard to break.

I really want to send my thanks to all of you who have sent letters or cards. I have had about 45 now from the UK, Germany, Holland, Oz, NZ and the USA, FANTASTIC. I have been called a hero, I'm flattered, but don't accept that; those of you that know me, know I don't take praise well. I will accept being called 'committed' - but those of you that know me probably thought I should be !

My heroes are those of you who have been so supportive to Ange, my partner. Ange has put up with so much. This system did not affect her until she met me. She made her own choice and I admire her so much for her support. So this message of my sincere thanks goes out to all of the members who I know as my friends.

Let's not forget why we are all in this. Keep up the fight, keep up the pressure and keep your chin up,with your heads held high we will see our children. Trust me I'm a climber.

Andy

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JUST HOW FAIR TO MEN ARE THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN WALES?
Can you help us to uncover the truth?

We need volunteers who are willing to ask their local authority how much money thay have spent on helping female victims of domestic violence and how much they have spent helping male victims.

Under the new "Freedom of Information Act" which came into force at the beginning of 2005, local authorities are compelled to give you this information.

The best way to go about this is to write to your local authority and ask for their statement on equal treatment in the authority. They will usually have some form of words saying that "all people regardless of their ethnic source, religion or sex are treated equally". Armed with this statement you can then ask whether they are implementing this policy with regard to men and women who have suffered from domestic violence.

Below we have started our list. Please send your information in so that we can add it to our list.

Name of authority

Newport City

Amount paid to help men

Nil

Amount paid to help women

£69,400

WOMEN-ONLY SHORT-LISTS

A glaring example of injustice to men.

Tony Blair never seems to learn! Despite being badly let down by inneffective women cabinet members, he still wants more women MPs. The trouble is he doesn't care how he gets them. The first batch of Blair Babes elected from women-only short lists was declared illegal by the High Court, so he subsequently altered the law to avoid this happening again. Hence we had 30 constituencies in the country where men were disenfranchised.

Happily, Mr Blair discovered in the recent election, that his dictatorial methods do not always pay off. In Blaenau Gwent, Peter Law stood as an independent and overturned a 19,000 Labour majority to win by a massive 9,000. Congratulations Mr Law!

Shortly before the election results, Glenys Kinnock, appearing on TV,gave support to the sexist women-only short lists by saying that if women had to compete equally with men they would not be selected by the local party officials. How wrong she was! The people who voted against the women-only short lists and for Peter Law were the people of Blaenau Gwent, not any local Labour Party officials. And they did so in very large numbers!

In a letter published in the South Wales Echo, commenting on a previous letter by a person called Ann Cox, Mr Gwyn Parry makes some interesting points:

However, Mr Law, having left the Labour Party in protest against women-only short lists, and standing as an independent, overturned a 19,000 majority to win by more than 9,000 votes.

Ann Cox stated that the sitting MP was about to retire, although I don't see how that justifies women-only short lists, and I would have thought that women-only short lists are rather demeaning to women in general.

The correspondent seems more interested in making feminist politically correct points than advancing the selection on merit of prospective Parliamentary candidates.”

 

After the election, a badly bruised Mr Blair, nursing a savagely reduced majority, said that “He'd been listening”. Well, there's always a first time for everything! We must all hope that he heard loud and clear the message from Blaenau Gwent, that voters do not want women candidates thrust upon them, and, judging by the failure of women-only shortlists to get a lot more women into the Commons, neither does the rest of the country.

Let's hope this misdirected misandry of the Labour Party will not raise its ugly head in any future elections.

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