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== Professional and political career ==
== Professional and political career ==
Shrimpton was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in November 1983,<ref name="bsb2" /> and practised law as a barrister from 1984 until 2010 and again from 2012 until 2014. He also held judicial office in the Immigration Appellate Authority, at both first instance and appellate level. He was the first British immigration judge to refer questions of law to the Court of Justice of the European Communities.<ref>El-Yassini v. Secretary of State for the Home Department Case C-416/96 [1999] ECR 1-1209 [1999] All ER (D) 217, see commentary by Melin, Barbara at (1999) 36 CMLR 357-364</ref><ref name="keeffe2" /> As a result of his child pornography charges (see below), in April 2013 he gave a voluntary undertaking to the [[Bar Standards Board]] not to participate in cases involving the welfare of children. Following his November 2014 conviction the Board suspended him from practice pending the conclusion of professional misconduct proceedings.,<ref name="bsb1" /> which have been postponed on the order of a High Court judge pending the completion by the [[Criminal Cases Review Commission]] of their inquiries into the convictions. An attempt by the Board to suspend Shrimpton on an interim basis for the child pornography charges, described in open court by Her Honour Judge Holt during Shrimpton's appeal as "not particularly serious",<ref>Amersham Crown Court, July 28, 2014.</ref> failed on appeal in January 2015, after the learned judge's remarks were drawn to the appeal panel's attention.
Shrimpton was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in November 1983,<ref name="bsb2" /> and practised law as a barrister from 1984 until 2010 and again from 2012 until 2014. He also held judicial office in the Immigration Appellate Authority, at both first instance and appellate level. He was the first British immigration judge to refer questions of law to the Court of Justice of the European Communities.<ref>El-Yassini v. Secretary of State for the Home Department Case C-416/96 [1999] ECR 1-1209 [1999] All ER (D) 217, see commentary by Melin, Barbara at (1999) 36 CMLR 357-364</ref> As a result of his child pornography charges (see below), in April 2013 he gave a voluntary undertaking to the [[Bar Standards Board]] not to participate in cases involving the welfare of children. Following his November 2014 conviction the Board suspended him from practice pending the conclusion of professional misconduct proceedings.,<ref name="bsb1" /> which have been postponed on the order of a High Court judge pending the completion by the [[Criminal Cases Review Commission]] of their inquiries into the convictions. An attempt by the Board to suspend Shrimpton on an interim basis for the child pornography charges, described in open court by Her Honour Judge Holt during Shrimpton's appeal as "not particularly serious",<ref>Amersham Crown Court, July 28, 2014.</ref> failed on appeal in January 2015, after the learned judge's remarks were drawn to the appeal panel's attention.


From 1981 to 1997, Shrimpton was a member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and contested the 1987 general election in [[Horsham (UK Parliament constituency)|Horsham]] and the [[European Parliament election, 1989 (United Kingdom)|1989 European Parliament election]] in [[West Sussex]]. In 1997 he defected to the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] over the issue of EU membership.<ref name="bbc" /><ref name="ukip" /> In 2000 he was briefly Co-Chairman of the [[Bruges Group]]. Shrimpton is a member of [[Mensa]].
From 1981 to 1997, Shrimpton was a member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and contested the 1987 general election in [[Horsham (UK Parliament constituency)|Horsham]] and the [[European Parliament election, 1989 (United Kingdom)|1989 European Parliament election]] in [[West Sussex]]. In 1997 he defected to the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] over the issue of EU membership.<ref name="bbc" /><ref name="ukip" /> In 2000 he was briefly Co-Chairman of the [[Bruges Group]]. Shrimpton is a member of [[Mensa]].


== Intelligence Theories ==
== Intelligence Theories ==
Shrimpton is noted primarily for his claims concerning the penetration of British politics and [[Civil Service]] by German intelligence. According to Shrimpton, Germany re-established its intelligence apparatus in 1945, and has since used it to wreak economic and political chaos on the [[Western world|West]]. This apparatus is supposedly responsible for the assassinations (sometimes using weaponized cancer) of [[Hugh Gaitskell]], [[Ross McWhirter]], [[Airey Neave]], [[Ian Gow]], [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]], [[James Goldsmith]], [[Christopher Story]], [[Anna Lindh]], [[Jo Cox]], [[Mohandas Gandhi]], and [[John F. Kennedy]]. Shrimpton further claims that German intelligence controlled [[Al-Qaeda]], [[Osama bin Laden]], and the British prime ministers [[Clement Attlee]], [[Harold Macmillan]], [[Harold Wilson]], and [[Edward Heath]].<ref name="ukip" /><ref name="spyhunter" /><ref name="rough" /> These claims were summarised in his book ''Spyhunter:The Secret History of German Intelligence''.<ref>Totnes, Devon, June Press, 2014</ref> Shrimpton has also published in legal journals <ref>E.g. ''In Defence of Habeas Corpus'' [1993] PL 24</ref> and the ''Journal of International Security Affairs,'',<ref>''The Law of War'', Number 2, Winter 2002, p.59</ref> and authored the chapter on immigration in ''AIDS And The Law''.<ref>London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990.</ref>
Shrimpton is noted primarily for his claims concerning the penetration of British politics and [[Civil Service]] by German intelligence. According to Shrimpton, Germany re-established its intelligence apparatus in 1945, and has since used it to wreak economic and political chaos on the [[Western world|West]]. This apparatus, named by Shrimpton as the Deutscher Verteidigungs Diesnt, is supposedly responsible for the assassinations (sometimes using weaponized cancer) of [[Hugh Gaitskell]], [[Ross McWhirter]], [[Airey Neave]], [[Ian Gow]], [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]], [[James Goldsmith]], [[Christopher Story]], [[Anna Lindh]], [[Jo Cox]], [[Mohandas Gandhi]], and [[John F. Kennedy]]. Shrimpton further claims that German intelligence controlled [[Al-Qaeda]], [[Osama bin Laden]], and the British prime ministers [[Clement Attlee]], [[Harold Macmillan]], [[Harold Wilson]], and [[Edward Heath]].<ref name="ukip" /><ref name="spyhunter" /><ref name="rough" /> These claims were summarised in his book ''Spyhunter:The Secret History of German Intelligence''.<ref>Totnes, Devon, June Press, 2014</ref> Shrimpton has also published in legal journals <ref>E.g. ''In Defence of Habeas Corpus'' [1993] PL 24</ref> and the ''Journal of International Security Affairs,'',<ref>''The Law of War'', Number 2, Winter 2002, p.59</ref> and authored the chapter on immigration in ''AIDS And The Law''.<ref>London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990.</ref>


In addition to his theories concerning the continuation of covert German intelligence activity after 1945 , Shrimpton is an outspoken campaigner on issues such as [[Euroscepticism]], [[weights and measures]], organized [[paedophilia]], the disappearance of [[Madeleine McCann]], [[global warming]], [[Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370]], and [[coproxamol]] and its role in the death of [[David Kelly (weapons expert)|David Kelly]].<ref name="keeffe2" /><ref name="rough" /><ref name="metric" /> His analysis of the death of Dr Kelly CMG is summarised in ''Spyhunter''.<ref>2nd ed., pp 601-604. [[Gordon Thomas]] states in the second edition of ''Gideon's Spies'' (page 516) that part of Shrimpton's analysis on the death of David Kelly features in the training syllabus of the [[Mossad]].</ref> Shrimpton theorised that the constituent active drugs in [[coproxamol]], dextropropoxythene and [[paracetamol]] metabolise in the body at approximately the same rate and should therefore be present in the blood in roughly the same ratio (1:10) as in coproxamol. There were in fact present in a ratio of 1:97<ref>Report of Lord Hutton's Inquiry,paragraph 149. Lord Hutton originally reported a ratio of 1:97,000, which was picked up by Shrimpton, who had offered to give evidence to the inquiry.</ref> Shrimpton also alighted on the comparative lack of the inactive ingredients of coproxamol in the stomach contents and the lack of any reported case in the medical literature of a successful suicide by transection of a single ulnar artery, without any means of keeping the body warm, noting that transected arteries normally retract.
In addition to his theories concerning the continuation of covert German intelligence activity after 1945 , Shrimpton is an outspoken campaigner on issues such as [[Euroscepticism]], [[weights and measures]], organized [[paedophilia]], the disappearance of [[Madeleine McCann]], [[global warming]], [[Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370]], and [[coproxamol]] and its role in the death of [[David Kelly (weapons expert)|David Kelly]].<ref name="keeffe2" /><ref name="rough" /><ref name="metric" /> His analysis of the death of Dr Kelly CMG is summarised in ''Spyhunter''.<ref>2nd ed., pp 601-604. [[Gordon Thomas]] states in the second edition of ''Gideon's Spies'' (page 516) that part of Shrimpton's analysis on the death of David Kelly features in the training syllabus of the [[Mossad]].</ref> Shrimpton theorised that the constituent active drugs in [[coproxamol]], dextropropoxythene and [[paracetamol]] metabolise in the body at approximately the same rate and should therefore be present in the blood in roughly the same ratio (1:10) as in coproxamol. There were in fact present in a ratio of 1:97<ref>Report of Lord Hutton's Inquiry,paragraph 149. Lord Hutton originally reported a ratio of 1:97,000, which was picked up by Shrimpton, who had offered to give evidence to the inquiry.</ref> Shrimpton also alighted on the comparative lack of the inactive ingredients of coproxamol in the stomach contents and the lack of any reported case in the medical literature of a successful suicide by transection of a single ulnar artery, without any means of keeping the body warm, noting that transected arteries normally retract.
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==Notable Cases at Bar==
==Notable Cases at Bar==
In ''[[Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2)]]''<ref>Case C-32/93 (ECJ) [1992] 1 All ER 43 (EAT)[1994] QB 718 (CA)[1993] 1 WLR 49 [1993] ICR 175 [1993] IRLR 27 (HL, No 1) [1995] 1 WLR 1454 [1996] 2 CMLR 970 [1995] 4 All ER 577 [1995] IRLR 645(HL, No 2)</ref> Shrimpton argued at the Industrial Tribunal that community law outlawed discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. At the [[Employment Appeal Tribunal]] Shrimpton, unusually, argued the community law point even though his leader, the late John Melville Williams QC, had declined to argue it. Shrimpton's arguments anticipated the eventual ruling by the [[European Court of Justice]] and in 1999 he was instructed by the appellant, Carole Louise Webb, to appear as her counsel at the compensation hearing, more than 11 years after he drafted her application. The case was one of the longest running in post-war British legal history. In ''R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Muboyayi''<ref>[1992] 1 QB 244 [1991] 1 WLR 442 [1991] 4 All ER 72</ref> Shrimpton obtained a Writ of [[Habeas Corpus]] on behalf of a Zairean asylum-seeker who was to be deported within hours and argued that Habeas Corpus could be used as a form of Judicial Review. The case was removed from the list in the House of Lords after Muboyayi escaped. In ''R v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Rahman''<ref>[1998] QB 136 (CA)</ref> Shrimpton again used Habeas Corpus on behalf of a detained immigrant, adopting the argument of [[Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone]] in a case 30 years before against the use of hearsay evidence. Shrimpton's most famous case was arguably ''[[Thoburn v Sunderland City Council]]'',<ref>[2003] QB 151 [2002] 3 WLR 247 [2002] 4 All ER 158</ref> popularly known as the 'Metric Martyrs Case', where he argued that the constitutional doctrine of Implied Repeal protected the sovereignty of Parliament from encroachment by community law.
In ''[[Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2)]]''<ref>Case C-32/93 (ECJ) [1992] 1 All ER 43 (EAT) [1994] QB 718 (CA) [1993] 1 WLR 49 [1993] ICR 175 [1993] IRLR 27 (HL, No 1) [1995] 1 WLR 1454 [1996] 2 CMLR 970 [1995] 4 All ER 577 [1995] IRLR 645(HL, No 2)</ref> Shrimpton argued at the Industrial Tribunal that community law outlawed discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. At the [[Employment Appeal Tribunal]] Shrimpton, unusually, argued the community law point even though his leader, the late John Melville Williams QC, had declined to argue it. Shrimpton's arguments anticipated the eventual ruling by the [[European Court of Justice]] and in 1999 he was instructed by the appellant, Carole Louise Webb, to appear as her counsel at the compensation hearing, more than 11 years after he drafted her application. The case was one of the longest running in post-war British legal history. In ''R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Muboyayi''<ref>[1992] 1 QB 244 [1991] 1 WLR 442 [1991] 4 All ER 72</ref> Shrimpton obtained a Writ of [[Habeas Corpus]] on behalf of a Zairean asylum-seeker who was to be deported within hours and argued that Habeas Corpus could be used as a form of Judicial Review. The case was removed from the list in the House of Lords after Muboyayi escaped. In ''R v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Rahman''<ref>[1998] QB 136 (CA)</ref> Shrimpton again used Habeas Corpus on behalf of a detained immigrant, adopting the argument of [[Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone]] in a case 30 years before against the use of hearsay evidence. Shrimpton's most famous case was arguably ''[[Thoburn v Sunderland City Council]]'',<ref>[2003] QB 151 [2002] 3 WLR 247 [2002] 4 All ER 158</ref> popularly known as the 'Metric Martyrs Case', where he argued that the constitutional doctrine of Implied Repeal protected the sovereignty of Parliament from encroachment by community law.


==Intelligence Conferences==
==Intelligence Conferences==
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==Criminal convictions==
==Criminal convictions==
On 19 April 2012, Shrimpton was contacted by the Private Secretary to [[Secretary of State for Defence]] [[Philip Hammond]], and on 20 April 2012 he rang the political agent of Foreign Office minister [[David Lidington]] MP to warn of an impending nuclear attack against London, passing on intelligence published online in Tokyo by commentator Benjamin Fulford. According to Fulford and Shrimpton, Germany's primary intelligence agency, the DVD, had stolen four [[P-700 Granit|SS-N-19]] nuclear warheads from the sunken [[Russian submarine Kursk (K-141)|Russian submarine K-141 Kursk]] and inserted one of them into East London. The agency was supposedly planning to detonate the warhead during the opening ceremony of the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]. Hammond's office referred the reports to the Olympic Security Authority. Shrimpton was asserted by Leicestershire and Thames Valley Police to be "an intelligence nuisance" and the reporting was not seriously investigated, for example by the deployment of specialist radiation detection devices. Shrimpton was arrested at his home in [[Wendover]] on 20 April 2012 charges of communicating false information with intent. The case went to trial, with Shrimpton representing himself. He was convicted by a majority only on two counts in 2014, and in February 2015 was sentenced to a twelve-month term of imprisonment.<ref name="keeffe" />
On 19 April 2012, Shrimpton was contacted by the Private Secretary to [[Secretary of State for Defence]] [[Philip Hammond]], and on 20 April 2012 he rang the political agent of Foreign Office minister [[David Lidington]] MP to warn of an impending nuclear attack against London, passing on intelligence published online in Tokyo by commentator Benjamin Fulford. According to Fulford and Shrimpton, Germany's primary intelligence agency, the DVD, had stolen four [[P-700 Granit|SS-N-19]] nuclear warheads from the sunken Russian submarine [[Kursk]] (K-141) and inserted one of them into East London. The agency was supposedly planning to detonate the warhead during the opening ceremony of the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]. Hammond's office referred the reports to the Olympic Security Authority. Shrimpton was asserted by Leicestershire and Thames Valley Police to be "an intelligence nuisance" and the reporting was not seriously investigated, for example by the deployment of specialist radiation detection devices. Shrimpton was arrested at his home in [[Wendover]] on 20 April 2012 charges of communicating false information with intent. The case went to trial, with Shrimpton representing himself. He was convicted by a majority only on two counts in 2014, and in February 2015 was sentenced to a twelve-month term of imprisonment.


While investigating the bomb hoax case, police claim to have discovered Shrimpton to be in possession of a memory stick containing forty indecent images of male teenagers. This resulted in a summary prosecution, with Shrimpton being convicted and sentenced to a three-year supervision order and a five-year sexual offences prevention order. He was also required to sign the [[Violent and Sex Offender Register]]. Shrimpton unsuccessfully appealed against the conviction, claiming that Thames Valley Police Special Branch officers had planted the pornographic images on a second, identical memory stick after his arrest in order to discredit him.<ref name="keeffe2" /> During the proceedings a Thames Valley Police officer, Mottau, confirmed that fingerprint checks on the memory stick and a laptop computer were negative for Shrimpton's prints. In breach of UK disclosure requirements this negative fingerprint report was not disclosed to Shrimpton before the trial. Neither the Magistrates' Court nor the Crown Court on appeal sought to explain the absence of Shrimpton's fingerprints on computer equipment said to be his. In February 2015 a computer expert concluded that Shrimpton could have not committed the offences. It was later revealed that the hard drive relied upon by the prosecution was an aftermarket item made by Western Digital Corporation and not that originally fitted to Shrimpton's laptop computer, which still had its original hard drive fitted when seized by police.
While investigating the bomb hoax case, police claim to have discovered Shrimpton to be in possession of a memory stick containing forty indecent images of male teenagers. This resulted in a summary prosecution, with Shrimpton being convicted and sentenced to a three-year supervision order and a five-year sexual offences prevention order. He was also required to sign the [[Violent and Sex Offender Register]]. Shrimpton unsuccessfully appealed against the conviction, claiming that Thames Valley Police Special Branch officers had planted the pornographic images on a second, identical memory stick after his arrest in order to discredit him. During the proceedings a Thames Valley Police officer, Mottau, confirmed that fingerprint checks on the memory stick and a laptop computer were negative for Shrimpton's prints. In breach of UK disclosure requirements this negative fingerprint report was not disclosed to Shrimpton before the trial. Neither the Magistrates' Court nor the Crown Court on appeal sought to explain the absence of Shrimpton's fingerprints on computer equipment said to be his. In February 2015 a computer expert concluded that Shrimpton could have not committed the offences. It was later revealed that the hard drive relied upon by the prosecution was an aftermarket item made by Western Digital Corporation and not that originally fitted to Shrimpton's laptop computer, which still had its original hard drive fitted when seized by police.


The pornography conviction was referred to the [[Criminal Cases Review Commission]] (CCRC) in September 2015. The bomb hoax conviction was referred to the CCRC in March 2016. The "intelligence nuisance" claim was undermined by the release to Shrimpton in March 2016 by the [[Security Service]] of copies of correspondence to Shrimpton from the Service the existence of which had been denied by the [[Crown Prosecution Service]] and Thames Valley Police in each prosecution.
The pornography conviction was referred to the [[Criminal Cases Review Commission]] (CCRC) in September 2015.<ref>CCRC case reference 01220/2015</ref> The bomb hoax conviction was referred to the CCRC in March 2016.<ref>CCRC case reference 00326/2016</ref> The "intelligence nuisance" claim was undermined by the release to Shrimpton in March 2016 by the [[Security Service]] of copies of correspondence to Shrimpton from the Service the existence of which had been denied by the [[Crown Prosecution Service]] and Thames Valley Police in each prosecution.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 11:46, 18 September 2016

For the New Zealand cricketer, see Mike Shrimpton.

Michael Shrimpton (born 9 March 1957[citation needed]) is a British barrister, author and former immigration judge.

Professional and political career

Shrimpton was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in November 1983,[1] and practised law as a barrister from 1984 until 2010 and again from 2012 until 2014. He also held judicial office in the Immigration Appellate Authority, at both first instance and appellate level. He was the first British immigration judge to refer questions of law to the Court of Justice of the European Communities.[2] As a result of his child pornography charges (see below), in April 2013 he gave a voluntary undertaking to the Bar Standards Board not to participate in cases involving the welfare of children. Following his November 2014 conviction the Board suspended him from practice pending the conclusion of professional misconduct proceedings.,[3] which have been postponed on the order of a High Court judge pending the completion by the Criminal Cases Review Commission of their inquiries into the convictions. An attempt by the Board to suspend Shrimpton on an interim basis for the child pornography charges, described in open court by Her Honour Judge Holt during Shrimpton's appeal as "not particularly serious",[4] failed on appeal in January 2015, after the learned judge's remarks were drawn to the appeal panel's attention.

From 1981 to 1997, Shrimpton was a member of the Labour Party and contested the 1987 general election in Horsham and the 1989 European Parliament election in West Sussex. In 1997 he defected to the Conservative Party over the issue of EU membership.[5][6] In 2000 he was briefly Co-Chairman of the Bruges Group. Shrimpton is a member of Mensa.

Intelligence Theories

Shrimpton is noted primarily for his claims concerning the penetration of British politics and Civil Service by German intelligence. According to Shrimpton, Germany re-established its intelligence apparatus in 1945, and has since used it to wreak economic and political chaos on the West. This apparatus, named by Shrimpton as the Deutscher Verteidigungs Diesnt, is supposedly responsible for the assassinations (sometimes using weaponized cancer) of Hugh Gaitskell, Ross McWhirter, Airey Neave, Ian Gow, John Smith, James Goldsmith, Christopher Story, Anna Lindh, Jo Cox, Mohandas Gandhi, and John F. Kennedy. Shrimpton further claims that German intelligence controlled Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the British prime ministers Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, and Edward Heath.[6][7][8] These claims were summarised in his book Spyhunter:The Secret History of German Intelligence.[9] Shrimpton has also published in legal journals [10] and the Journal of International Security Affairs,,[11] and authored the chapter on immigration in AIDS And The Law.[12]

In addition to his theories concerning the continuation of covert German intelligence activity after 1945 , Shrimpton is an outspoken campaigner on issues such as Euroscepticism, weights and measures, organized paedophilia, the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, global warming, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, and coproxamol and its role in the death of David Kelly.[13][8][14] His analysis of the death of Dr Kelly CMG is summarised in Spyhunter.[15] Shrimpton theorised that the constituent active drugs in coproxamol, dextropropoxythene and paracetamol metabolise in the body at approximately the same rate and should therefore be present in the blood in roughly the same ratio (1:10) as in coproxamol. There were in fact present in a ratio of 1:97[16] Shrimpton also alighted on the comparative lack of the inactive ingredients of coproxamol in the stomach contents and the lack of any reported case in the medical literature of a successful suicide by transection of a single ulnar artery, without any means of keeping the body warm, noting that transected arteries normally retract.

In relation to global warming, Shrimpton is known to share the opinion of the late British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore that planetary climate variations are primarily a function of solar output and orbital mechanics. In Spyhunter[17] he gives figures of approximately 3.3% for human contribution to CO2 and 5% for CO2's contribution to the greenhouse effect.

Shrimpton also rejects the Royal Aircraft Establishment's explanation for the loss of BOAC de Havilland Comets Yoke Peter and Yoke Yoke in 1954, noting that the figures given for the testing of the Yoke Uncle test fuselage cannot be reconciled with the published start and end dates of the test, that the wing fractured first, as would be expected, as it experienced greater cyclic stresses in flight, but that no wing cracks had been observed on any airframe in the BOAC fleet, and that no fatigue problems had been experienced on the French Comet 1A fleets.[18]

Notable Cases at Bar

In Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2)[19] Shrimpton argued at the Industrial Tribunal that community law outlawed discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. At the Employment Appeal Tribunal Shrimpton, unusually, argued the community law point even though his leader, the late John Melville Williams QC, had declined to argue it. Shrimpton's arguments anticipated the eventual ruling by the European Court of Justice and in 1999 he was instructed by the appellant, Carole Louise Webb, to appear as her counsel at the compensation hearing, more than 11 years after he drafted her application. The case was one of the longest running in post-war British legal history. In R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Muboyayi[20] Shrimpton obtained a Writ of Habeas Corpus on behalf of a Zairean asylum-seeker who was to be deported within hours and argued that Habeas Corpus could be used as a form of Judicial Review. The case was removed from the list in the House of Lords after Muboyayi escaped. In R v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Rahman[21] Shrimpton again used Habeas Corpus on behalf of a detained immigrant, adopting the argument of Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone in a case 30 years before against the use of hearsay evidence. Shrimpton's most famous case was arguably Thoburn v Sunderland City Council,[22] popularly known as the 'Metric Martyrs Case', where he argued that the constitutional doctrine of Implied Repeal protected the sovereignty of Parliament from encroachment by community law.

Intelligence Conferences

Shrimpton was a speaker at the Intelligence Conference (Intelcon) held at Crystal City VA in 2005 and the Intelligence Summit, also at Crystal City, in 2006. He also spoke at the Gregynnog Intelligence Conference, organised by the University of Aberystwyth in 2013. He was a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the American Military University (AMU) from 2007 until 2010, where he taught on the Masters in Strategic Intelligence course. In February 2006 he participated in the United States Navy's Distinguished Visitor Program, being flown onto and off the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise(CVN-65).

Criminal convictions

On 19 April 2012, Shrimpton was contacted by the Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond, and on 20 April 2012 he rang the political agent of Foreign Office minister David Lidington MP to warn of an impending nuclear attack against London, passing on intelligence published online in Tokyo by commentator Benjamin Fulford. According to Fulford and Shrimpton, Germany's primary intelligence agency, the DVD, had stolen four SS-N-19 nuclear warheads from the sunken Russian submarine Kursk (K-141) and inserted one of them into East London. The agency was supposedly planning to detonate the warhead during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Hammond's office referred the reports to the Olympic Security Authority. Shrimpton was asserted by Leicestershire and Thames Valley Police to be "an intelligence nuisance" and the reporting was not seriously investigated, for example by the deployment of specialist radiation detection devices. Shrimpton was arrested at his home in Wendover on 20 April 2012 charges of communicating false information with intent. The case went to trial, with Shrimpton representing himself. He was convicted by a majority only on two counts in 2014, and in February 2015 was sentenced to a twelve-month term of imprisonment.

While investigating the bomb hoax case, police claim to have discovered Shrimpton to be in possession of a memory stick containing forty indecent images of male teenagers. This resulted in a summary prosecution, with Shrimpton being convicted and sentenced to a three-year supervision order and a five-year sexual offences prevention order. He was also required to sign the Violent and Sex Offender Register. Shrimpton unsuccessfully appealed against the conviction, claiming that Thames Valley Police Special Branch officers had planted the pornographic images on a second, identical memory stick after his arrest in order to discredit him. During the proceedings a Thames Valley Police officer, Mottau, confirmed that fingerprint checks on the memory stick and a laptop computer were negative for Shrimpton's prints. In breach of UK disclosure requirements this negative fingerprint report was not disclosed to Shrimpton before the trial. Neither the Magistrates' Court nor the Crown Court on appeal sought to explain the absence of Shrimpton's fingerprints on computer equipment said to be his. In February 2015 a computer expert concluded that Shrimpton could have not committed the offences. It was later revealed that the hard drive relied upon by the prosecution was an aftermarket item made by Western Digital Corporation and not that originally fitted to Shrimpton's laptop computer, which still had its original hard drive fitted when seized by police.

The pornography conviction was referred to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in September 2015.[23] The bomb hoax conviction was referred to the CCRC in March 2016.[24] The "intelligence nuisance" claim was undermined by the release to Shrimpton in March 2016 by the Security Service of copies of correspondence to Shrimpton from the Service the existence of which had been denied by the Crown Prosecution Service and Thames Valley Police in each prosecution.

References

  1. ^ "Michael Shrimpton". Bar Standards Board. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  2. ^ El-Yassini v. Secretary of State for the Home Department Case C-416/96 [1999] ECR 1-1209 [1999] All ER (D) 217, see commentary by Melin, Barbara at (1999) 36 CMLR 357-364
  3. ^ "BSB Statement following the conviction of barrister for "bomb hoax"". Bar Standards Board. 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  4. ^ Amersham Crown Court, July 28, 2014.
  5. ^ "Labour Activist Defects in Uxbridge". BBC. 1997. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  6. ^ a b Shrimpton, Michael (2016-06-18). "On the assassination of Jo Cox MP". UKIP Daily. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  7. ^ Shrimpton, Michael (2014). Spyhunter. June Press.
  8. ^ a b McConnachie, James; Tudge, Robin (2013). The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories. Rough Guides.
  9. ^ Totnes, Devon, June Press, 2014
  10. ^ E.g. In Defence of Habeas Corpus [1993] PL 24
  11. ^ The Law of War, Number 2, Winter 2002, p.59
  12. ^ London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990.
  13. ^ O'Keeffe, Hayley (2014-10-20). "Ex-judge: 'Secret service framed me over child porn'". Bucks Herald. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  14. ^ "Metric martyrs lose battle for pounds and ounces". The Telegraph. 2002-02-18. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  15. ^ 2nd ed., pp 601-604. Gordon Thomas states in the second edition of Gideon's Spies (page 516) that part of Shrimpton's analysis on the death of David Kelly features in the training syllabus of the Mossad.
  16. ^ Report of Lord Hutton's Inquiry,paragraph 149. Lord Hutton originally reported a ratio of 1:97,000, which was picked up by Shrimpton, who had offered to give evidence to the inquiry.
  17. ^ 2nd ed., pp 566-570.
  18. ^ Spyhunter, Chapter 21.
  19. ^ Case C-32/93 (ECJ) [1992] 1 All ER 43 (EAT) [1994] QB 718 (CA) [1993] 1 WLR 49 [1993] ICR 175 [1993] IRLR 27 (HL, No 1) [1995] 1 WLR 1454 [1996] 2 CMLR 970 [1995] 4 All ER 577 [1995] IRLR 645(HL, No 2)
  20. ^ [1992] 1 QB 244 [1991] 1 WLR 442 [1991] 4 All ER 72
  21. ^ [1998] QB 136 (CA)
  22. ^ [2003] QB 151 [2002] 3 WLR 247 [2002] 4 All ER 158
  23. ^ CCRC case reference 01220/2015
  24. ^ CCRC case reference 00326/2016
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