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23-09-2008, 04:02 PM
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/09/23/ex-police-chief-questioned-in-bungalow-invasion-trial-91466-21877778/
Ex-police chief questioned in bungalow invasion trial
Sep 23 2008 by Matt Aplin, Western Mail
THE former Chief Constable of Dyfed-Powys yesterday denied being a Freemason under questioning in court.
Terence Grange, who retired last November when it had emerged that he had paid for private meals on a force credit card, appeared at Carmarthen Magistrates’ Court to give evidence against two women accused of barricading themselves inside his house and refusing to leave, claiming squatters rights.
One of the defendants, Lady Lesley Cooper, defending herself, asked Mr Grange: “Mr Grange, are you a Freemason?”
To which he replied: “No.”
Lady Cooper, claiming to have hired a private detective to investigate Mr Grange, then asked: “Not since 1981?”
To which Mr Grange replied: “I have never been a Freemason. I have never been invited to be one.”
Lady Cooper, 48, and her daughter Kyra face charges of causing criminal damage on April 26 to furniture inside Mr Grange’s detached bungalow in Meinciau, near Kidwelly.
It is alleged they damaged a £500 dresser by moving it and causing damage to a wall by moving furniture.
Ms Cooper, 26, from Tumble, is also charged with assault for allegedly trapping an estate agent’s arm in the bungalow’s front door.
The mother and daughter, along with Ms Cooper’s 11-day-old baby and another man Meirion Bowen arranged a viewing at Mr Grange’s bungalow, under a false name – Lynne Stratton – after the bungalow, valued at between £210,000 and £260,000, was put on the market following Mr Grange’s sudden retirement.
He now lives permanently in Bristol with his wife Pat.
The court heard that Mr Bowen asked estate agent Martin Richards to go outside of the house with him to check the drains.
While outside, Mr Richards told the court, he heard the front door slam behind him.
When he tried to get back in, he said, the door was slammed shut trapping his arm above the wrist.
Lady Cooper and Ms Cooper then refused to leave for two hours, negotiating with police until an officer broke through the rear of the home.
Lady Cooper and Mr Bowen are affiliated to a small group known as Stand your Ground, which distributes e-mails alleging corruption among several groups, especially the police, government and the judiciary.
Chief Inspector Steven Griffiths, of Dyfed-Powys Police told the court yesterday that among these complaints was an allegation that Dyfed-Powys police had failed to investigate paedophile officers among their ranks.
But Lady Cooper, who runs an animal sanctuary at Bancffosfelen told the court that her decision to enter Mr Grange’s house was not related to Stand your Ground and was, she said, “an act of desperation” borne from police failure over six years to deal with the grievance she and her daughter had relating to a “racist thug”.
She was not allowed to elaborate.
In the witness box Mr Grange said: “I know vaguely of [Lady] Cooper but have never had any personal dealings with her.
“I think she has been involved with a group of people who are regular e-mailers to Dyfed-Powys Police.
“They had a variety of names they called themselves, because other access to the force was cut off. They just changed their name.
“I think they had all been defrauded by somebody or other. Stand Your Ground were e-mailing on a daily basis for years.”
Mr Grange, who had a salary of more than £120,000 as Chief Constable, explained how he lived permanently at Meinciau but would invariably spend around two days a week in London and roughly every other week with his wife in Bristol, benefiting from a 25% single occupancy discount on his council tax.
Mr Grange said: “I think you were making a political statement. It doesn’t matter. You entered my house under false pretences.”
Lady Cooper and Miss Cooper deny assaulting the estate agent and claim the furniture in Mr Grange’s house was damaged by police officers when entering the house to arrest them.
The trial is expected to end today.
Classic example of why we need a public register of Masons
Ex-police chief questioned in bungalow invasion trial
Sep 23 2008 by Matt Aplin, Western Mail
THE former Chief Constable of Dyfed-Powys yesterday denied being a Freemason under questioning in court.
Terence Grange, who retired last November when it had emerged that he had paid for private meals on a force credit card, appeared at Carmarthen Magistrates’ Court to give evidence against two women accused of barricading themselves inside his house and refusing to leave, claiming squatters rights.
One of the defendants, Lady Lesley Cooper, defending herself, asked Mr Grange: “Mr Grange, are you a Freemason?”
To which he replied: “No.”
Lady Cooper, claiming to have hired a private detective to investigate Mr Grange, then asked: “Not since 1981?”
To which Mr Grange replied: “I have never been a Freemason. I have never been invited to be one.”
Lady Cooper, 48, and her daughter Kyra face charges of causing criminal damage on April 26 to furniture inside Mr Grange’s detached bungalow in Meinciau, near Kidwelly.
It is alleged they damaged a £500 dresser by moving it and causing damage to a wall by moving furniture.
Ms Cooper, 26, from Tumble, is also charged with assault for allegedly trapping an estate agent’s arm in the bungalow’s front door.
The mother and daughter, along with Ms Cooper’s 11-day-old baby and another man Meirion Bowen arranged a viewing at Mr Grange’s bungalow, under a false name – Lynne Stratton – after the bungalow, valued at between £210,000 and £260,000, was put on the market following Mr Grange’s sudden retirement.
He now lives permanently in Bristol with his wife Pat.
The court heard that Mr Bowen asked estate agent Martin Richards to go outside of the house with him to check the drains.
While outside, Mr Richards told the court, he heard the front door slam behind him.
When he tried to get back in, he said, the door was slammed shut trapping his arm above the wrist.
Lady Cooper and Ms Cooper then refused to leave for two hours, negotiating with police until an officer broke through the rear of the home.
Lady Cooper and Mr Bowen are affiliated to a small group known as Stand your Ground, which distributes e-mails alleging corruption among several groups, especially the police, government and the judiciary.
Chief Inspector Steven Griffiths, of Dyfed-Powys Police told the court yesterday that among these complaints was an allegation that Dyfed-Powys police had failed to investigate paedophile officers among their ranks.
But Lady Cooper, who runs an animal sanctuary at Bancffosfelen told the court that her decision to enter Mr Grange’s house was not related to Stand your Ground and was, she said, “an act of desperation” borne from police failure over six years to deal with the grievance she and her daughter had relating to a “racist thug”.
She was not allowed to elaborate.
In the witness box Mr Grange said: “I know vaguely of [Lady] Cooper but have never had any personal dealings with her.
“I think she has been involved with a group of people who are regular e-mailers to Dyfed-Powys Police.
“They had a variety of names they called themselves, because other access to the force was cut off. They just changed their name.
“I think they had all been defrauded by somebody or other. Stand Your Ground were e-mailing on a daily basis for years.”
Mr Grange, who had a salary of more than £120,000 as Chief Constable, explained how he lived permanently at Meinciau but would invariably spend around two days a week in London and roughly every other week with his wife in Bristol, benefiting from a 25% single occupancy discount on his council tax.
Mr Grange said: “I think you were making a political statement. It doesn’t matter. You entered my house under false pretences.”
Lady Cooper and Miss Cooper deny assaulting the estate agent and claim the furniture in Mr Grange’s house was damaged by police officers when entering the house to arrest them.
The trial is expected to end today.
Classic example of why we need a public register of Masons