Manifesting justice!

In 2005, I discovered that my codirector & fellow shareholder in our sizeable property company had forged emails from Bank officials & other professionals. He presented them to me at a board meeting as justification for a £500,000 unauthorised withdrawal from our company account.

Seriously concerned, I took legal advice from my solicitor, insolvency practicioner & chartered accountant & decided to report him to the Fraud Squad in Bournemouth. The officers were also convinced that my codirector was acting entirely inappropriately & furthermore we discovered that he had "form" slang for a criminal record. It was revealed that he had been previously prosecuted for Perjury i.e. wilfully misrepresenting the truth in court under oath, something far more sinister than even misrepresenting himself to people he interacted with in a professional capacity, furthermore he had also been struck off from being a company director some ten years earlier.

This turn of events was instrumental in the closure of our company & significant losses to many of the stakeholders including creditors, employees & myself. The Police were excellant and really focused on discovering the truth & passed their findings & evidence to the Crown Prosecuion Service CPS, some fifteen months later despite overwhelming evidence the CPS advised me that it was not in the public interests to proceed with the prosecution, despite witnesses, statements from numerous connected third parties testifying & cooberating the evidence. This was a great disappointment to scores of interested parties who had suffered at the hands of my codirector & unfortunately gave an opportunity to my co diector to crow about his alleged innocence.

After further research we challenged the CPS decision with the help of one or two kind individuals who cared more about justice than government statistics. As a result we managed to get the evidence re -looked at & suggested that infact an alternative crime had been committed that would be easier to prosecute. Forgery & False accounting was the new offence as opposed to theft, this was agreed & picked up by the CPS & in 2007 my codirector was cautioned once again. After a further even longer investigation & several attempts to avoid & delay the trial I am very pleased to report that the trial of CPS V Roy John Phillips commenced two weeks ago & 9 prosecution witnesses including myself gave evidence which we all hoped would be instrumental in revealing the truth and manifesting justice!

I personally gave evidence over three days, the experience was very tiring, sometimes gruelling as well as satisfying in that there is something great about being given the opportunity to tell the truth to a jury of 12 honest men & women in the hope that they will under the guidance of a Judge manifest justice! My wife & I prayed for support & courage & for all those charged with the responsibility of making a decision. We even prayed for the defending barrister who we respected despite the fact that he was attempting to create doubt & uncertainty about the truth with only manufactured evidence from his client.

In conclusion, we believe that we have done our best for society at large & more specifically all concerned & have now decided that it would serve us best to be high on intention & low on attachment to the decision which is now out of our hands.

We are grateful to God for the support & blessing we have received & hopefully justice will be served.

Blessings of abundance!

Jason