I have evidence of murder, says Syvret

Mr Syvret said he had contacted the force on several occasions since the start of this year in an effort to disclose information about crimes of the ‘utmost gravity’.

The States police, who have declined to comment on Mr Syvret’s claims, allegedly told the politician-turned-blogger that he must provide details of his allegations in an email before a statement would be taken.

Mr Syvret later said that he was told by an officer that the crimes he wished to report had ‘already been investigated’.

In an email addressed to Detective Superintendent Stewart Gull, head of Crime Services for the States police, and passed onto the JEP, Mr Syvret, who left politics in 2010, said: ‘I have been attempting to make a formal, detailed statement of criminal complaint concerning child abuse and other crimes to the States of Jersey police since the 8 January 2017.

Instead… the response of the SOJP has been a series of emails and letters demanding ever more prior written explanations from me, thus denying me the obvious straightforward legal rights and protections of making a formal statement, and which correspondence has included the SOJP making false assertions about past investigations as excuses for refusing to take a statement from me.’

He added: ‘The crimes I will raise are matters of the utmost gravity, are evidenced and are urgent. The crimes I am going to cite will, in broad terms, include; murder, child abuse, rape, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, perverting the course of justice, perjury, misconduct in a public office, coercion, corruption, fraud, embezzlement.’

During the States police’s 2008 inquiry into historical child abuse Mr Syvret made a formal complaint to the force that senior civil servants had been complicit in the cover-up of child abuse.

He was arrested by a squad of eight police officers outside his Grouville home in 2009 in relation to breaches of the Data Protection Law. After spending six months in London when he claimed he was seeking asylum, Mr Syvret was eventually convicted in 2010, jailed for ten weeks, fined £4,200 and ordered to pay £10,000 in legal costs. Mr Syvret says that these actions were an attempt to prevent him exposing the sort of crimes he now wishes to make a formal statement about.

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