The church head office and complaints officials were hoodwinked by a very devious ploy by the respondent when she presented a forged document to the hearing as evidence in defence of one aspect of my complaint. The church hearing refused to believe my claim that the so-called meeting minute was false, even though I could prove it.

The falsified evidence made such disparaging remarks about me the resultant damage could have been severe. I therefore created one huge fuss over their refusal to properly investigate the Minister.

My solicitors appointed one who deals with defamation to tackle the church head office and ensure that there would be no resultant damage which would affect my position within the churches.

My solicitor raised three separate issues and requested three remedial actions, those were;

1    Confirmation that the church agreed that the document was NOT the minutes of the meeting.

As we could prove that the evidence was falsified and in previous correspondence David Deeks actually acknowledged that the evidence was not a meeting minute, it would have been a decent move for David Gamble to now stop playing games and stop covering for McDonald.

Their response ignored this request.

2    My solicitor requested that the falsified document be removed from any church file relating to me and of course the response to this was as manipulative as ever. The church didn't appear to  consider that in dealing with my solicitor and myself, they were dealing with intelligent people.

The response stated that I had submitted over 500 pages in my appeal submission. Really?  A whole ream of paper?

They stated that they were not prepared to sift through this to find the 'document'. If I had the word 'idiot' branded on my forehead they might be forgiven for saying this; but McDonald submitted the forged document - NOT ME!

However, this statement did show up the fact that the church had not considered the evidence - that was obvious anyway.

3    Yet another appeal for reconciliation with McDonald was requested - and of course as with all of the other appeals, was ignored.

The letter was sent the day after McDonald officially left the local circuit and the church suggested that the matter now be put behind us. I had already suggested that the matter be put behind if the forged evidence was taken out of any church file that related to me. It has not been, because it remains on McDonalds file and her file is not closed. They tried to pass the responsibility to me for her file remaining open. In fact the file is live because THE CHURCH will not resolve a very serious issue.

More recently, I have received word of hearsay in the village. That a Methodist Steward is passing on that the church threatened me with arrest to protect McDonald. Err - excuse me, but when I first notified the church of McDonalds behaviour they just ignored me. They wouldn't protect me from her; and they still won't.

In doing this to me they could do it to others.

The campaign continues.......