After receiving recent threats, Melanie left her home in Nottingham and travelled to Plymouth in search of somewhere to escape the harassment of Nottingham Police.
UK Column was informed earlier this evening by child abuse victim Mickey Summers that Melanie Shaw was arrested in a public place in Nottingham at approximately 6.45pm today, 22nd July 2015. Melanie's arrest is allegedly in relation to alleged harassment against Detective Superintendent Helen Chamberlain of Nottingham Police, the police's Head of Public Protection, including child abuse.
It is understood that Superintendent Chamberlain was initially appointed as Melanie Shaw's police liaison officer after she blew the whistle on child abuse at Beechwood children's home in Nottingham, and during the subsequent police investigation through Operation Daybreak.
The allegations seem highly dubious given that Melanie, who suffered from PTSD after the abuse and required mental health support for years, has consistently reported a list of harassment and abuse by Nottingham police officers over a period of months, including officers breaking into her home, tailing her, detaining her and making insinuating phone calls to her while she was sitting at home whilst she was out shopping.
The threats prompted Melanie to leave her home in Nottingham and travel to Plymouth in hopes of escaping the terrifying actions of Nottingham police. But she was not to be. At 7.30am the day after she arrived in Plymouth, four Devon and Cornwall police officers came banging on the door of the UKColumn offices. Desperately wanting to know Melanie's whereabouts, they violently questioned two UKColumn staff members, but ultimately left with nothing.
Just a few days later, Melanie Shaw was arrested by two DCC officers and taken to Charles Cross Police Station in Plymouth for questioning – this action also appears to be related to the alleged harassment against her, but she was subsequently released and presented at the same police station later in September this year.
After Melanie moved to her new friend's house in Peterborough, four more officers from Cambridgeshire Police were sent to arrest Melanie's new home and the elderly woman living in the care home. Arriving just hours after Melanie had moved to another home, the officers found nothing and questioned the elderly woman in an intimidating manner.
Many will be surprised at the efforts police are making to track down extremely vulnerable child abuse victims across the UK. What the public may not understand is that Melanie Shaw, who came forward to report serious child abuse at Beechwood Children's Home in Nottingham where some 150 children are believed to have been abused, several of whom were murdered, is now reportedly listed as a Multi-Agency Public Protection MAPPA Category 3 person – an “extremely dangerous offender”.
The designation was reportedly decided behind closed doors by the Nottinghamshire MAPPA Multi-Agency Committee, during a process in which neither Melanie Shaw nor her legal or medical professionals were present and in which there was no right of challenge or rebuttal. However, following MAPPA's decision, all police and public authorities in Nottingham and across the UK can mobilise significant resources to assist in her arrest or capture.
This excessive and deeply disturbing act of labelling an extremely vulnerable child abuse victim as a “dangerous offender” must call into question every bit of our rights, freedoms and common sense under common law. For three police forces to use excessive police assets to pursue and detain Melanie Shaw at a time when senior police officers claim there is insufficient public funding to cover day-to-day policing is outrageous, if not public misconduct.
Tonight, abused and frightened Melanie Shaw found herself once again in the hands of Nottingham Police – the very men and women who failed to protect Melanie, Mickey Summers and hundreds of other child abuse victims in Nottingham. Melanie's immediate future remains uncertain as she remains in Bridewell Prison. Will she ever be safe in the hands of the police who have already abandoned, brutalised and threatened her?
The mistreatment of Melanie Shaw by the British government is horrible. While she suffers again, Home Secretary Theresa May has allocated around £17.5 million to the child abuse inquiry, which could afford to pay New Zealand's Judge Goddard a salary of £500,000 per year. What on earth is she going to do? To sit in a plush office sifting through documents while real child abuse victims receive little or nothing in terms of state support, medical care in the community or financial support. Her inquiry has already been called “the most blatant cover-up in British history” and will likely bury the truth of child abuse by the political establishment in the long grass of bygone years. Very few victims who have spoken to UKColumn have any confidence in her or her appointment. We share their huge doubts and concerns.
We will also watch as Lord Janner receives protective and beneficial treatment from Alison Saunders, the Director of the Crown Prosecution Service, who spent endless time and effort building the criminal charges against Melanie Shaw.
This perversion of justice is no accident. It is the reverse victimisation of the victim, accompanying the application of a deep-seated evil. That evil is clearly deeply rooted in a criminal and paedophilic British political system. It is an evil that makes us ashamed to be British. We, the people, have allowed this corruption to spread through the people and institutions that govern us.
I myself will never forget Melanie Shaw or the thousands of other victims and survivors of child abuse. It is the duty of every good man and woman to stand up for these most vulnerable people, and it is our duty to bring to justice the criminals who abuse them and cover up that abuse. We must start now, not tomorrow. The future of our own children depends on our actions in this moment.
Updated: July 24, 17:15
Melanie was released from Bridewell Detention Centre in Nottingham early yesterday evening, 23 July 2015, after enduring 27 hours in custody and over three hours of gruelling police questioning. Nottingham police did not lay charges, despite Melanie having twice indicated she was wanted on suspicion of harassment. Melanie's general counsel had been able to get in touch with Bridewell before her release, and warned the police that it was against the law to detain her for more than 24 hours without a charge. However, Nottingham police were so desperate to keep Melanie in custody that they tried to find an “urgent charge” during consultations with an unnamed inspector.
No such charge was found and therefore Nottingham police's breach of the 24-hour custody rule stands.
Melanie was apparently subjected to another threatening physical assault whilst incarcerated at Bridewell prison and custody police officers reported that she was taken to a local hospital but did not seek medical treatment, and Melanie subsequently reported severe bruising caused by particularly tight handcuffs.
Melanie was eventually dumped on the streets of Nottingham in the early evening. Police again “confiscated” her mobile phone and confiscated her money – thankfully she only had enough change to call a pay phone for help. The police made no attempt to contact Nottingham's support staff, and no attempt was made to recognise that Melanie was an extremely vulnerable individual.
Local supporters were able to provide overnight care for Melanie and she received further support and encouragement today as child abuse protests unfolded in Nottingham, with around 40-50 members of the public taking part to express their anger at the failure of Nottingham Police and the city council to further child abuse investigations, including Operation Daybreak, which is targeting Beechwood children's home.
Nottingham Police were reportedly upset and embarrassed when protesters asked them why they were “protecting paedophiles” and harassing abuse victims like Melanie Shaw.
Other reports have suggested that the Goddard Child Abuse Inquiry has been asked to help protect vulnerable witnesses and whistleblowers such as Melanie Shaw, but this is yet to be confirmed.
Years after Melanie Shaw first stood up and reported her own abuse and the abuse of over 100 other children at Beechwood, the fact remains that she has received nothing but threats, bullying and intimidation from Nottingham Police and other public authorities who are supposed to protect children and vulnerable people.
So far no MP has taken any substantive action in Parliament to highlight Melanie Shaw's plight. In light of new evidence of a paedophile cover-up within Westminster, the answers may be all too easy to find.
