The informant alleges that her uncles would have been able to find her if she had gone to a battered women's shelter, despite the fact that the locations of such shelters are usually kept secret. She also claims they would have been able to penetrate a police witness protection program.
Apparently, when she was a teenager, she ran away and lived on the streets in London for a time, but when she went to a shelter for runaways, her uncle showed up there and took her home, despite the shelter workers insisting they had not told anyone she was there. I am under the impression shuch shelters normally keep confidential the names of runaways who contact them, but if the police asked them to contact them if a particular individual came in, they probably would
have to
do so. She further insists they could have known if she attempted to leave England, even if she bought her ticket at the airport just before the flight, and could have had her detained at the immigration desk and prevented from leaving the country. This implies access to immigration and airline computer databases and the co-operation of police at the airports. She further says the same could have been true at seaports, and that even if she had gotten across the Channel, they had close ties in both the French and Belgian governments. However, when I asked if that was true of other governments, for example, Switzerland, she admitted the Swiss government might refuse to collaborate with them. In view of Swiss neutrality in the Cold War, that is likely if her family does indeed represent the U.K. government.
She claims her uncle had an impressive array of unusual skills, including hand-to-hand combat, covert entry into buildings, forgery of documents, and handling of explosives. That last is a common skill in the U.S. in the mining industry, and in blasting new roadbeds in remote areas, but the U.K. lacks such industries and the only place to learn how to handle demolitions is in the armed forces, which she says her uncles were never in.
She also said one uncle had once been diagnosed as a psychopath, but was released from the mental institution despite a court order of commitment.
She told me that, as an adolescent, she had twice attempted to make complaints to the police and the Crown Prosecutor's Office, but both times she was ignored. For the police to ignore a complaint by a woman that she was forced into sexual slavery seems highly unlikely in England
unless some high-level influence was involved
. And few prosecutors ignore presentable articulate witnesses who express a desire to testify. She also said her family had extensive contacts in the Asian community in England. Since none of them is Muslim or of Asian origin, and from what she says they are quite conservative in their social attitudes, that indicates such contacts might have been deliberately cultivated. In this connection it may be of some significance that according to her, the ancestor who started the family on this path in the late 19th century or early 20th century, was the second son of an earl. As a second son, he would not have inherited the title or real estate, but would have had the family contacts and connections in high places.
All this adds up to a probability that the Gourvenec family is not a private, free-lance criminal gang, but a semi-official branch of the British government's covert operations capacity.
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