Send Raymond Varley back
This is a man (http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-appeals-against-uk-refusal-to-extradite-child-sex-offender/article6059102.ece?homepage=true) who has abused many children,
despite a red corner Interpol notice has travelled the world widely, has
said that his human rights will be violated if sent back to India to
face trial and has finally invoked dementia - a diagnosis
which is being contested due to the competency of the diagnostician.
Pls write to the UK Home Secretary Thersea May Home Office, 2 Marsham
Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Tel: 020 7035 4848
privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
and the Foreign secretary William Hague, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH
Tel: 020 7008 1500
private.officegsi@fco.gsi.gov.uk
as well as to our own powers that be
Why should the children of India be given short shrift???
Tel: 020 7035 4848
privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
and the Foreign secretary William Hague, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH
Tel: 020 7008 1500
private.officegsi@fco.gsi.gov.uk
as well as to our own powers that be
Why should the children of India be given short shrift???
India appeals against U.K. refusal to extradite child sex offender
The Indian government has filed an appeal in England for extradition of
Raymond Varley, who is facing charges of sexual offences against
children in India committed between 1989 and 1991.
They are appealing a May 8 order by a District Judge, admitting Varley’s
plea that he was suffering from dementia and refusing to grant the
Indian government’s request for extradition. The judge recorded:
“Finding an extradition order to face trial for a man suffering from
dementia needing ‘immediate daily support’ must be both ‘unjust’ and
‘oppressive’ and therefore barred.”
Raymond A. Varley was arrested on the basis of a Red Corner Notice
issued by Interpol, after a Goa court issued a non-bailable warrant
against him. However, he was arrested in Thailand, and for reasons still
unknown, sent to England, and not India. Sources in the CBI said they
became aware of the arrest only a day later, after Interpol informed
them.
Botched evaluation?
Activists in India are upset at the rejection of the extradition plea. It is reported that a person chosen by Varley evaluated him for dementia. “On questioning by the judge, the neuro-psychologist claimed that Varley chose her because she had a good website. We are shocked the court allowed this person to evaluate him, and based the judgment on that. One would have expected an independent expert to have been consulted in the case,” said Vidya Reddy of Tulir.
Activists in India are upset at the rejection of the extradition plea. It is reported that a person chosen by Varley evaluated him for dementia. “On questioning by the judge, the neuro-psychologist claimed that Varley chose her because she had a good website. We are shocked the court allowed this person to evaluate him, and based the judgment on that. One would have expected an independent expert to have been consulted in the case,” said Vidya Reddy of Tulir.
Christine Beddoe, former director of End Child Prostitution, Child
Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT) U.K., who attended the trial, said:
“Whether Raymond Varley is faking dementia or not, I am really shocked
and dismayed that the Crown Prosecution Service failed to obtain an
independent psychiatric assessment.”
“The very least we should expect is a qualified psychiatrist to properly
diagnose Varley’s mental capacity, even if that means ultimately
verifying his own legal opinion. It seems from the outside that serious
questions need to be asked about the absence of a second medical
opinion,” she added.
Describing the history of his confrontation with the law, Ms. Beddoe
says, Varley has a relevant conviction from 1974, and a further 10
indictments from a 1975 case for which he served a prison sentence in
the U.K. “Varley has every reason to lie and cheat his way through the
legal system. He has never accepted [that] he is the person wanted by
Indian police for heinous offences against children. All other grounds
that his defence put forward were rejected by the judge. The court had
to wait for over a year while Varley’s legal team insisted on two
separate British experts to inspect the prison in Goa.”
Raymond Varley (also known as Martin Ashley) is one of the foreigners
accused of sexually abusing children from an orphanage run by Freddie
Peats in Goa. Peats allegedly facilitated access to the children to
visiting European and Australian men. Peats was arrested in 1991 in Goa,
and convicted by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Margao in
March 1996 on charges of sexual abuse of minor children.
CBI charge sheet
The CBI filed a charge sheet in 1996 against Peats, Werner Ingo of Australia, E.C. McBride of New Zealand, and Nils Jonsson of Sweden. A supplementary charge sheet was filed against Raymond Andrew Varley and others. Ms. Beddoe adds: “If the current application for appeal on the extradition is refused, he will be a free man and will no longer be subject to his current restrictive bail conditions which prevent him from going near schools and children’s play areas.”
The CBI filed a charge sheet in 1996 against Peats, Werner Ingo of Australia, E.C. McBride of New Zealand, and Nils Jonsson of Sweden. A supplementary charge sheet was filed against Raymond Andrew Varley and others. Ms. Beddoe adds: “If the current application for appeal on the extradition is refused, he will be a free man and will no longer be subject to his current restrictive bail conditions which prevent him from going near schools and children’s play areas.”
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