Michael Havers
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| Born | 10 March 1923 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 April 1992 (Age 69) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Westminster School, Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parents | Cecil Havers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | • Philip Havers • Nigel Havers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Siblings | Baroness Butler-Sloss | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Carol Elizabeth Lay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Nobody's Friends | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Conservative | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attorney General for England and Wales who protected UK/VIPaedophile Peter Hayman, while stitching up the Guildford Four.
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Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, Baron Havers was a British barrister and Conservative politician. Hayman belonged to the private dining club Nobody's Friends, where many members have either been part of UK/VIPaedophile, or spent considerable effort covering up for fellow establishment child abusers.
Contents
Legal decisions
Decision not to prosecute Peter Hayman
In April 1981 as UK Attorney General, Sir Michael Havers stated in parliament that while Peter Hayman was a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange, he was never a member of the executive committee, so was not prosecuted as others were for publishing contact advertisements.[1][2]
Role in the Guildford Four and Maguire Family miscarriages of justice
Havers represented the Crown in two of the most notable miscarriages of justice in British judicial history:[3] the trial and appeal of the Guildford Four and also of the Maguire family (known as the Maguire Seven), all of whom were wrongfully convicted. Collectively, they served a total of 113 years in prison and one of the Maguire Seven, Giuseppe Conlon, died in prison, convicted on the basis of discredited forensic evidence.[4]
In the case of the Guildford Four, the Director of Public Prosecutions was found to have suppressed alibi evidence that supported Gerry Conlon and Paul Hill’s claims of innocence.[5] The Director of Public Prosecutions, for which Havers was acting, was also found to have suppressed confessions by Provisional IRA bombers, known as the Balcombe Street Gang that they had carried out the Guildford and Woolwich bombings.
In his submission to Sir John May's Inquiry into the Guildford and Woolwich bombings in 1989 Labour MP Chris Mullin cast doubt on Havers’s integrity in the matter:[6]
Sir Michael Havers represented the Crown at the trials of the Guildford Four, Mrs. Maguire and her family and at the re-trial/appeal of the Guildford Four. He is, therefore, probably the person who can lay claim to the most detailed knowledge of this affair. I respectfully submit that any inquiry that passed without the benefit of his experience would be deficient....
The only hope of sustaining the original convictions was to rewrite the script from top to bottom. This Sir Michael and his colleagues proceeded to do with ingenuity and relish.
Maurice Oldfield information
Havers was a regular source for the journalist Chapman Pincher:
- Among many leaks to me, perhaps the most extraordinary was his detailed confirmation — while we were shooting pheasants in 1986 — of the Official Secrets scandal surrounding Sir Maurice Oldfield, the former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.[7]
Falklands war
During the Falklands War, Havers was part of Thatcher's War Cabinet, to which he provided advice on international law and rules of engagement.[8]
IRA bombing attempt
The house at Gothic Lodge, Woodhayes Road, Wimbledon, where Sir Michael and Lady Havers had an apartment, was bombed by the Provisional IRA on 13 November 1981; Havers and his family were in Spain at the time of the attack.[9]"Attorney General latest target" Times [London] 14 November 1981: The Times Digital Archive, 12 November 2014</ref> A police constable standing guard outside the house was taken to hospital suffering from shock.[10]
References
- ↑ https://spotlightonabuse.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/times070481.jpg
- ↑ https://spotlightonabuse.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/g070481.jpg
- ↑ Guardian: After 16 years of waiting, an apology at last for the Guildford Four
- ↑ New Scientist: Faulty forensic testing convicted Maguire Seven
- ↑ New York Times Letter: Sins of the Guildford Four Prosecution
- ↑ Evidence to Sir John May's Inquiry into the Guildford and Woolwich bombings - 1989
- ↑ Chapman Pincher, LEAKERS I HAVE KNOWN, Spectator, 11 September 1998.
- ↑ Campbell, John (2008). «Salvation on the South Atlantic». Margaret Thatcher - Volume Two: The Iron Lady (em inglês)
- ↑ "Obituary: Lord Havers." The Times, London, 3 April 1992, p. 19.
- ↑ "Attorney General latest target" Times [London] 14 November 1981: The Times Digital Archive, 12 November 2014
