Picture Shows: Harry Miller who is taking the Government to court over an allegation that he was given a fake criminal record.
In a civilised and properly functioning country as Britain mostly was in the period between the 1980’s and the turn of the century, the process of giving a person a criminal record went roughly like this: Alleged criminal arrested, then questioned, then charged, then brought before a court and only then if convicted or they plead guilty do they have a criminal record.
Now however, if there is a ‘protected characteristic’ involved or a police force is more than usually riddled with such issues as pandering to transgenders for example, the process is much shorter, the police can just record a ‘conviction’, despite there being no charge, court appearance or conviction. This is what has happened to ex-cop Harry Miller of the We Are Fair Cop group.
Mr Miller who has previously fought and won a legal battle to get his local police force to remove a entry in his criminal record that recorded a ‘non crime hate incident’ against his name. Mr Miller was successful and the ‘non-crime hate incident’ was removed from his record. The worrying thing about ‘non-crime hate incidents’ is they are something that can be merely the result of a complaint, even a malicious one, by some random individual which is entirely without supporting evidence. People up and down Britain were getting these ‘non-crime hate incidents’ added to their criminal records often without their knowledge and without any means of challenging the police as to the veracity of such an entry. These ‘non-crime hate incidents’ stayed on people’s records and often were only revealed when a person went for a job that had higher levels of vetting for safeguarding and security reason. People lost jobs or job opportunities often merely because they’d said something online or in real life that some random individual had found ‘offensive’.
Now thanks to Mr Miller and his supporters the nasty Orwellian stain on justice, the ‘non-crime hate incident’ is no more but it might be the case that the police have replaced it with something much worse. The police might be recording actual crimes on people’s records without the accusation ever being tested in a court.
Mr Miller is accusing the police of giving him a ‘secret criminal record’ over a comment he made about a transgender former police office, Lynsay Watson, who had been sacked from a force over derogatory messages that he, the transgender former police officer, had sent to Mr Miller. Mr Miller alleges that Lincolnshire Police, because of the comment that he made celebrating the removal of Watson from the former officer’s force, instead of entering a ‘non-crime hate incident’ marker on his file, which the could have done prior to the successful case to eradicate them, entered on his record an actual crime which was of stalking Watson.
Again, as with the ‘non-crime hate incident’ marker, this ‘secret criminal record’ as Mr Miller alleges is in existence, would show up on an enhanced criminal record check just as the ‘non-crime hate incidents’ would and have the same effect on people’s jobs and job opportunities. Mr Miller therefore is suing the police to have this ‘secret criminal record’ removed.
This case has been a long time coming to court, which is expected as in Britain the wheels of justice and injustice can move extremely slowly. LBC covered this story in January of this year and said:
“Harry Miller is seeking permission to take a case against the Home Secretary and the Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police Force after he was deemed to have stalked trans woman and former police officer, Lynsay Watson.
Mr Miller, from Lincolnshire, said he was “stunned” and “appalled” to find out last year that he had a hate crime logged against him a year previously.
Mr Miller, who describes himself as a gender-critical campaigner, said it was related to his posts on social media site X, formerly Twitter, in late 2023 when he issued a statement following Ms Watson’s dismissal from a separate police force.
Ms Watson was a police constable with Leicestershire Police but was dismissed for gross misconduct in October 2023 over “derogatory and abusive tweets” about Mr Miller.
Following her dismissal, a post from his Fair Cop campaign account, welcomed the sacking and said there was a “culture within policing that demonises those of us who do not subscribe to the politics of gender”.
Mr Miller said, while he had at one point in 2024 been questioned in relation to the Online Safety Act, he had not been investigated to his knowledge about a hate crime.
He said he was not approached, questioned or investigated by the Lincolnshire force “in any way for this offence”.
He said: “They simply decided that I was guilty and gave me a criminal record. The fact that my accuser is a former police officer who was sacked for gross misconduct appears to have passed them by.” “
Well that was January of this year. Fast forward to today and it appears that there is a court date been set for a Judicial Review hearing on this matter.
In a video on a post on X on the account of an Alan Miller, Mr Harry Miller said that he got an anonymous tip off from a police officer to take a look at his, Mr Miller’s, criminal record and Mr Miller found, not a ‘non-crime hate incident’ but in Mr Miller’s words a ‘full fat’ crime being recorded against his name. On the 18 of November Mr Miller and his supporters are taking not just the police to court this time but the Home Office and the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The hearing will be in Leeds and I hope that Mr Miller is well supported in this endeavour not just with donations to pay what are likely to be very high legal fees but also bodily support at the trial itself.
Here’s Mr Miller’s X post
https://x.com/alanvibe/status/2114414420038238451
This is going to be a terribly important case and if what Mr Miller is claiming is correct there could be a whole lot of other Britons who are in a similar position to him. There could be tens or even hundreds of thousands of Britons who have had a run in online with someone and it has been recorded, as in the case of Mr Miller, as ‘stalking’ or something similar. Who knows how far down the rabbit hole this fake criminal record story might go? There may be many more people in Harry’s Position who have not been tipped off that something might not be right with their criminal record and who may be unaware that because they offended a Troon or someone similar with a ‘protected characteristic’ online they’ve got a criminal record without ever being formally accused of a crime?
Link
LBC story on Mr Miller and the fake criminal record.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/ex-police-officer-seeks-to-take-legal-action-over-secret-criminal-record-5HjdRCq_2/