Free Steve Topley demo at Crown Court

Icon_article Star-blue1 Published: April 26, 2013 10:22 by Supporter |

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Steve Topley's family and supporters of the campaign to free him gathered outside Nottingham Crown Court from 9.30am today. Steve, who has not seen his family since he was snatched by the police on 11th April, was in court for a bail hearing. He is currently on remand for alleged "threatening behaviour" during a DWP interview.

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"Free Steve" placards were displayed and leaflets about the campaign were distributed to passers by.

Steve's family finally managed to get to talk to Steve's court-appointed solicitor - the first such conversation since Steve was taken away from them two weeks ago.

Steve's family told me that he had been denied medication whilst in custody on a number of occasions. Steve needs regular doses of warfarin to thin his blood and if he doesn't get to take it regularly it can be life-threatening.

Steve's family have been unable to visit him in HMP Nottingham as the prison authorities say they are still waiting for the paperwork.

Please keep an eye on the blog and this website to keep up to date with the campaign and make sure that the authorities are not allowed to get away with picking on this vulnerable man.

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Comments

thanks to you all

Comment Published: April 26, 2013 16:39 by charlie

Steve is back with his family tonight and is is good spirits despite his ordeal being far from over. His experiences in prison have been galling and we will be releasing more details of this soon.Offered the Hobson's choice of spending several more weeks in HMP Nottingham and facing a potential 10 year stretch,or pleading guilty and being assured a non custodial sentence he chose the latter.He will return to crown court in 3 weeks to face sentencing. For now he wants to thank everyone who helped with his campaign, attended today's protest, handed out leaflets and dared to speak out, while those in power attempted to surround his case in secrecy. It was really important to support steve and his family, and todays demo definitely made an impact on his legal team and seemed to produce a result, albeit not the one we were hoping for. Massive thanks to Indymedia for being the first to pick up on the story and being there when it mattered. We wont forget that.
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BLACKMAIL

Comment Published: May 02, 2013 19:41 by neilant

Dont these nasty vindictive people know that "Blackmail" is a crime?.. Or if they do, they dont care that they,ve committed it..

Mr,Topleys` case should be dismissed, the supposed crime he,s been blackmailed into pleading guilty for has NOT been committed by him.. As for the Police/Court, they may well have committed one or even two crimes.. Disgusting..

yup

Comment Published: May 02, 2013 21:46 by GenerateMutate

There has definitely been misconduct by Atos and the Police.

BTW the case was mentioned in the Guardian last Friday-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2013/apr/26/atos-zoe-williams

"To an outsider, this looks like a man in very poor health, in an area of the country with very high unemployment who went to the jobcentre to look for a job and came away with a criminal record. It doesn't seem very efficient."