ࡱ> 8:7a mjbjbYQYQ 03333m ``````` :<<<<<<,y R h`h:``}::: ``::t$````:::``: a$::0:} :} ::`DResponse to CET story about claims for damages Letter Kevin was not allowed to send to CET from the prison because it refers to his case Kevin Donaldson TB9549 HMP Birmingham The Editor Coventry Evening Telegraph CV1 1F 22 March 2007 Sir I have heard about, though not read for myself, your report that former residents of Newfield House are making a claim against Coventry City Council, on the basis of allegations that I, as Principal 1978-82, abused them. I hope you will allow me the space to say that there in no truth in their allegations. I will maintain this while there is breath in my body and I am pursuing an appeal against all these matters of which I was, wrongly, convicted in July last year I hope the City Council will resist this claim and that the citizens of Coventry (who will foot the bill) will encourage the Council to resist. Unfortunately dozens of local authorities have, over the past twenty five years, chosen to pay out large sums of money OUT OF COURT rather than fight the claims even when they were absolutely false. As with paying ransom to kidnappers, such payouts serve to encourage ever-increasing claims from people seeking easy money. Some of the present claimants have, already, received many thousands of pounds in respect of claims made against other authorities. (Newfield residents always had substantial care histories before reaching Newfield, which was a specialist resource for girls from all over the Midlands and London.) I am aware of at least 120 falsely convicted carers and teachers being supported in maintaining our innocence by Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers - see  HYPERLINK "http://www.factuk.org" www.factuk.org I hope your readers and, especially, councillors and tax payers in Coventry, will bring a healthy scepticism to this issue. The Home Office has recently shown confidence in the polygraph lie detector. Perhaps claimants should be required to have their veracity tested in this way? I would be happy to demonstrate my integrity and honesty in this way but, sadly, such evidence is not admissible in criminal trials or in the Court of Appeal (though it can be used to re-imprison parolees). I maintain that I carried out my duties at Newfield House with compete integrity and within the laws and customs of the time. I never abused anyone. The most distressing aspect of this, for me, is the suffering that these lies are inflicting on my children. I hope. As a responsible newspaper, you will have regard to this in the manner of your reporting. Thankfully our neighbours and the childrens friends have remained supportive to my family but some people have seen fit to use the case as an opportunity for psychological bullying, usually anonymously, over the interne, I am sure you would not wish to do anything to encourage such victimisation of the unquestionably innocent. Yours for justice Kevin Donaldson r s ormh>-hf>*OJQJhfyhf0JOJQJ#jhfyhfOJQJUjhxmhfOJQJUhxmhfOJQJ /b c & ' -.I$a$gdf$a$gdfgdfmIJ\]mgdf.:pf. A!"#$% DyK www.factuk.orgyK ,http://www.factuk.org<@< NormalCJaJmH sH tH DA@D Default Paragraph FontRiR  Table Normal4 l4a (k(No List0U@0 >- Hyperlink>*B*m  # #- m /bc&'- . 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