what is this website about?
This has a simple purpose - to try to give the outline of an incredible story about one man's fight for justice against what he claims to be an astonishing example of police corruption and the subsequent failure of the court system.

David J. Ford has been fighting that fight for twenty years and has now decided to document this amazing case in a book, available to buy only on this site.

the story
If retired businessman Dave Ford gets his long-desired day in court, then it will be a precedent of immense importance that will send law-makers scurrying. Success in this case would mean that any person with an alleged complaint against the police may hold the Chief of Police personally responsible for any serious misdemeanour carried out by any member of his force.

questions
The real point of the action is that it will allow Dave Ford to re­open a case, the results of which will reverberate right down from the highest levels of the police force to the officer on the beat. There are, at this time seven serious charges former Police Commissioner Condon will have to face, and probably a dozen more which will cause severe embarrassment.

For almost twenty years, Dave Ford has been grinding through the system, trying to get answers in a conventional manner about a text book miscarriage of justice.

Each of the seven charges brought against the now Lord Condon have been the subject of different complaints at different times. Despite this, none of the seven have ever been properly investigated or resolved. The charges collectively amount to police officers conspiring to pervert the course of justice, police corruption, collusion, false evidence, incorrect procedure and the non-return of property.

Dave Ford has challenged the police by saying " Should any of the police officers I mention in this book wish to prosecute me, you have my address, just let me know which court and I will be there early, waiting for you".

evidence
If Ford's evidence is to be believed (the million or so words in his well-worn dossier make a strong case that the police have a lot to answer for) the case involves a set-up sting by Police acting on information received from an unreliable police informant who was alleged to have been paid handsomely for this information; the case also involves the planting of incriminating evidence, the making of false statements to frame at least four men (all of whom ended up in custody) and the mysterious sale of five stolen paintings which, actually, were never stolen in the first place.

The strands of this case go through the very murky world of a covert homosexual ring based at a luxury country mansion; and then through the equally seedy underworld of petty South London criminals, eventually leading to a police sting in a motorway services car park.

A key allegation is that the police found out at a fairly early stage just who had been involved in the original robbery but for reasons of their own did not arrest the robbers, preferring instead to set up a complicated sting to blame it on a set of people who had only become incidentally involved and were at the worst, bystanders.