Nottinghamshire Police has decided to take no further action against BBC whistleblower Alex Belfield, after he was falsely implicated in a bomb threat by the national broadcaster's stooges.
Alex, who is currently in a defamation fight against a BBC Local Radio presenter, is convinced that the national broadcaster, in collusion with Nottinghamshire Police, is seeking revenge by attempting to frame him for crimes he has not committed.
The former BBC Radio Leeds presenter has amassed almost 300,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, The Voice of Reason, which he regularly uses to highlight BBC scandal and corruption. Over the years he has exposed hundreds of the BBC's dirty little secrets and caused irreparable damage to the BBC brand.
Alex was arrested by officers on Thursday, 25th March, after an unknown BBC source falsely reported that he had made a bomb threat against one of the Corporation's properties.
On the basis of unsubstantiated BBC tittle-tattle, the police went scurrying around to Alex's Nottingham home, smashed down the door and arrested him on suspicion of a malicious communications offence.
He was released after a Mickey Mouse interview lasting only a few minutes.
Yesterday Nottinghamshire Police confirmed to Alex that no further action would be taken over the matter, because, unsurprisingly, there was insufficient evidence of an offence actually taking place, let alone enough to point the finger of blame in his direction.
Alex is currently at loggerheads with Nottinghamshire Police over several other vexatious complaints made by people connected to the BBC. He has been arrested a total of five times and had his home raided on three separate occasions, but has never been charged with any offences.
In one of those cases the BBC Local Radio presenter mentioned earlier made a complaint of harassment after Alex challenged him over defamatory statements posted online.
In a second example, a transgender BBC personality made a complaint that Alex had committed a "hate crime" by referring to her as "big man", even though the comment was made prior to her transition. I hope I have used the politically correct gender pronouns there.
Alex was on bail in relation to those other matters, but at a hearing at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on 30th April a District Judge ruled that Nottinghamshire Police's lethargic investigation, which is being headed by Detective Constable Janet Percival of Mansfield Police Station, had made insufficient progress to justify a further bail extension.
There is a full commentary in this The Voice of Reason video:
The District Judge considering Nottinghamshire Police's application to extend Alex's bail wasn't very complimentary about the investigation conducted by DC Percival.
The ruling said: "The application has been refused once and it is unclear as to the grounds that are being relied upon to justify a second application.
"Consideration has been given to the objections obtained within the representations made by the suspect's solicitors, however these relate predominantly to the applicable bail periods.
"The application is being refused on its merits.
"A history of the case has been provided together with the steps taken to rectify earlier errors, but no details are provided as to what investigative steps have been taken such as property seized, interviews taken and statements made.
"There is insufficient, if any detail provided as to what has been done during the bail period."
Bail is granted in cases where the police need to keep close tabs on a suspect during the course of an investigation. A person subject to bail has to surrender to the police at a time of the police's choosing. Even though they have not been convicted of any crimes, they have to jump through the police's hoops which deprives them of the fundamental freedoms everyone else takes for granted.
For that reason the police investigation should be conducted expeditiously, so that an individual subject to bail is either prosecuted or faces no further action at the earliest opportunity.
One thing the courts don't like is when the police sit on the bones of their arse and make no effort whatsoever to advance their investigation. That is the arrogant approach adopted by Nottinghamshire Police on this occasion.
Stay tuned to The Voice of Reason for the latest developments.
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