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 such 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 and told them it was a case of national security, they probably would 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 took some time to think about it, then 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.
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 such 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 and told them it was a case of national security, they probably would 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 took some time to think about it, then 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.
When I pointed out that there is no passport control on the ferry from Scotland to Northern Ireland and then on the land border beteen the U.K. and the Irish Republic, she seemed very interested and thought about it for some time. She apparently had not been aware of that escape route out of the country and seemed happy to discover it. I consider this another indication her story is true because if she was making things up to exagerate the power of her abusers as many abuse victims do, she would have insisted they could seal that route also.
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 being still in effect. This implies influence over either the National Health Service or the courts or both.
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. 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 her family is not of Muslim or 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.
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. 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 her family is not of Muslim or 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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