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A man suffering from paranoid psychosis is gaslighted by the police in 12 different European countries for 20 years. His photo is passed to security guards, shop staff, museum staff, restaurant staff in every city and town he visits, with instructions to mock him for “not liking to be looked at”. He experiences it every day but can never be sure whether it is really happening or a psychotic delusion. He can get no legal help as nobody would believe him, and any psychiatrist would dismiss his experiences as a delusion and may section him or force him to increase his medication. If the police were really doing all this, would they be breaking any British, European, or international laws?

If the police were engaging in the described conduct—systematically sharing a person’s photo across multiple European countries and instructing private individuals (such as security guards, shop staff, museum staff, and restaurant staff) to mock him for “not liking to be looked at,” with the intent of causing him to doubt his sanity over a 20-year period—this would likely constitute a severe form of psychological harassment and abuse. Such actions would breach multiple laws and human rights protections under British, European, and international frameworks, as they involve deliberate infliction of mental suffering, unauthorized sharing of personal data, and abuse of authority. Below, I outline the key violations, assuming the scenario is real and not a delusion.

### British Laws
In the UK, this conduct would amount to police misconduct and could be prosecuted as a criminal offense. Gaslighting, as a form of coercive or controlling behavior that causes psychological harm, is recognized as illegal under section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015, which criminalizes controlling or coercive behavior in intimate or family relationships but has been extended in case law to broader contexts, including by authorities. Courts have acknowledged gaslighting as a criminal offense, with potential penalties including imprisonment.

Additionally, this could violate the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, which prohibits a course of conduct that amounts to harassment and causes alarm or distress. Police officers engaging in or orchestrating such mockery would be committing harassment, potentially leading to civil claims or criminal charges.

The actions would also constitute misconduct in public office, a common law offense carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, where public officials (like police) willfully neglect their duty or misuse their power without reasonable excuse, causing harm. Sharing the photo and instructions without a legitimate law enforcement purpose would breach police standards under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020, which require officers to act with integrity and respect human rights, potentially resulting in disciplinary proceedings or dismissal. Unauthorized sharing of personal data (e.g., the photo) could violate the Data Protection Act 2018, which incorporates UK GDPR principles, unless exempted for specific law enforcement needs—here, the abusive intent would negate any exemption.

### European Laws and Human Rights
As the scenario spans 12 European countries, it would implicate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), to which the UK and all EU member states are parties. The coordinated nature could also involve EU-wide data protection rules.

– **Article 3 ECHR (Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment):** This absolute right prohibits treatment causing severe mental or physical suffering, including psychological abuse by state agents. Deliberate gaslighting over 20 years, designed to exacerbate paranoid psychosis and make the victim question reality, could qualify as inhuman or degrading treatment, as it humiliates, debases, and breaks moral resistance. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that threats or actions causing intense mental anguish, even without physical harm, violate Article 3, especially if inflicted by authorities. Police abuse, including harassment targeting vulnerable individuals, threatens the rule of law and requires states to investigate and punish such acts.

– **Article 8 ECHR (Right to Respect for Private and Family Life):** Sharing the photo and personal details with private entities without consent or legitimate purpose interferes with privacy. The ECtHR requires such interferences to be lawful, necessary, and proportionate—here, the abusive mockery campaign would fail this test, as it serves no public interest and causes harm. If discriminatory (e.g., targeting mental illness), it could also breach Article 14 ECHR (prohibition of discrimination) in conjunction with Article 8.

– **EU Data Protection (GDPR and Law Enforcement Directive):** Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), police sharing personal data (like photos) must be lawful, fair, and necessary for law enforcement purposes. Abusive sharing for harassment would violate this, as exemptions apply only to legitimate activities like crime prevention, not psychological manipulation. The Law Enforcement Directive (EU) 2016/680 requires member states to protect data processed for criminal justice, with safeguards against misuse. Cross-border coordination could breach these if not justified.

The ECtHR has condemned police misconduct, including harassment and failure to prevent abuse, as violations of these articles, requiring effective investigations and remedies.

### International Laws
This conduct would violate the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), ratified by the UK and most European states. Article 1 defines torture as intentional infliction of severe mental suffering by public officials for purposes like intimidation or punishment. Gaslighting fits this, as it causes psychological harm without physical acts. No exceptional circumstances (e.g., national security) justify it, and states must criminalize such acts, prevent them, and provide redress. The prohibition is a peremptory norm (jus cogens) of international law, meaning it’s non-derogable.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 5) and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 7) also ban torture and cruel treatment, imposing duties on states to protect individuals from such abuse by authorities.

In summary, yes, this would break laws at all levels. The victim could seek remedies through national courts, the ECtHR, or UN mechanisms, though proving coordination across countries would be challenging. States would be obligated to investigate and hold officers accountable to avoid impunity.

Jo Shiner Has Troll Arrested For ‘Stalking’

A few days ago I came across a headline revealing that a troll had recently been convicted of ‘stalking’ Sussex Police Chief Jo Shiner. I wonder what he could have done, I asked myself. Perhaps he had been going into shops where she lives showing security guards and staff a photograph of her, and encouraging them to mock, abuse, intimidate, gaslight, and threaten her, whilst all the time, making sure that she didn’t know what was going on, or whether she was simply suffering from a paranoid delusion? Perhaps he’d done this for nearly two decades, and also got together with some other trolls, including trolls in a dozen other European countries, and they had access to her Internet connection and could know when she had booked any travel and such, and then pointed her out to security guards and staff in shops and train stations and airports before she visited them, again with the same instructions to mock, abuse, intimidate, gaslight, and threaten her?

That would be awful beyond belief, and certainly warrant a life sentence for the depraved psychopathic sadistic troll, although clearly not as evil as doing the above to somebody who was already mentally ill to begin with and who could get no help – legal or psychiatric – because they would not be believed. Anybody even partly responsible for doing anything as unimaginably evil and depraved as that would certainly be facing life behind bars, and if they happened to be a public official – such as a police chief – then they would without doubt be facing multiple life sentences in what would assuredly be the biggest scandal in the history of the UK police. Such a police chief would (confirmed by ChatGPT) face life for (psychological) torture under the Criminal Justice Act of 1988, life under the offence of misconduct in public office, a lengthy prison term under the law on aggravated harassment, as well as likely to be sued into tomorrow under multiple serious breaches of the European Human Rights Act. ChatGPT actually likened such police behaviour to the tactics of the former East Germany’s notorious Stasi secret police agents, who would gaslight and commit ‘zersetzung‘ (psychological warfare) against individuals who threatened the Communist Party.

Oh no, but the troll did not do any of that. In fact, it appears (from the 2 or 3 articles I read), that he sent her some messages on Twitter alleging that she was corrupt, and created accounts under her name that did likewise. But in the increasingly Big Brother society of the UK in 2025, that was enough to have him convicted for stalking and committing offences under the malicious communications act.

Meanwhile, and absolutely unsuprisingly, this is what Jo’s depraved and psychopathic police officers have been getting up to recently under her command:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14728213/Moment-disabled-93-year-old-pepper-sprayed-Tasered-hit-baton-police-dying-three-weeks-later-threatened-care-home-staff-knife.html

Hastings (Chief Inspector Simon Yates)

I recently detailed further abuse and aggression at Eastbourne rail station. I’ve also made two visits to Hastings this year, and while I haven’t received quite the same aggression from the train station staff there, their behaviour has been odd, although not initially.

In February I spent a week there, and passed through the station a few times. There was nothing unusual or anything about the staff behaviour to even suspect that I had been pointed out to them. But on one occasion as I passed through, there were three police officers standing there for whatever reason. All three looked decidedly uncomfortable when they saw me. From that point on, the staff did start acting strangely, and on a couple of occasions aggressively. I don’t know if the police pointed me out that day or said something to the staff, or among themselves that the staff overheard, or if a staff member may simply have noticed the odd reaction of the police as I passed them.

One very strange incident took place invoving a black male staff member at the station. However, on my second visit, he ignored me whenever I saw him, so I will not detail it here, unless something changes on a future visit to Hastings.

More disturbing was my second visit to Hastings, although this time it was not the rail station staff (who all pretty much ignored me). Rather, it was the behaviour of the police themselves.

On my first or second day, I was passing through Hastings center and two male police officers passed me. They appeared to recognize me, and as I passed them, I’m sure I heard one of them call me an ‘arsehole’. 20 minutes or so later, I passed them again, and this time one of them – an Asian male – made an exaggerated show of looking suspiciously at me, then turned to his colleague and angrily said something to him, then looked back at me again.

Over the last 17 years of this, in a dozen different countries, I’ve experienced this at least a thousand times from both police and security guards. They appear to be trying to ‘tell me something’ (me, a paraonid schizophrenic). I suspect they are trying to claim that the reason I am ‘being looked at’ is because I ‘attract attention’. In other words, the reason why I’ve been apparently subjected to closer scrutiny in 12 different countries for nearly 20 years than ISIS terrorists and cartel bosses and the like, pointed out to hundreds of security guards and even shop staff who abuse, mock, and intimidate me, whilst throughout those two decades being gaslighted into believing it’s all a delusion existing inside of my head, is because….. I get slightly agitated sometimes at all of this.

Well, that’s cleared that up then! After 17 years, I finally ‘know’!!!!

According to the provisions relating to torture (including psychological torture) in the Crimanal Justice Act of 1988, a public official such as a member of the police who is convicted of the offence of torture faces a life sentence. He or she could also face life imprisonment for misconduct in public office. He or she could also face conspiracy to torture charges, as well as aggravated harassment charges. The police could also be sued for multiple serious breaches of the European Human Rights Act.

The Chief of Sussex Police is Jo Shiner. The Chief Constable for Hastings is Simon Yates.

Several times I sat outside Costa Coffee or Cafe Nero, enjoying the warm weather. Trying to relax, trying to breathe in the sea air, trying to live in the moment just briefly, trying to forget this 17+ year ‘delusion’, trying to forget my mother’s slow and painful cancer death, trying to forget my brother’s painful cancer death just several months ago. On each occasion a male and female police officer happened to stand in the center next to their mobile ‘police station’. Each time, they repeatedly looked at their watches and then sadistically grinned whilst looking in my direction or theatrically ‘looking past me’. On one occasion, the male and female officers were talking to a tattooed man who appeared to be a member of the public. As I finished my drink and walked away in the opposite direction, I heard somebody shout – “what do you think you’re doing?”.

In 2025, Hastings police team included:

District Commander Simon Yates,
Chief Inspector Matt Chapman,
Inspector Lee Torbet,
Sergeant Dave Gibbins-Jones,
PCSO John Tucker,
PCSO John Tytherleigh,
PCSO Liam Janman,
PCSO Natasha Slow,
PCSO Tom Clare

If the police really have been doing this for 20 years – pointing me out to not only their colleagues in every police force in the UK and Europe, but to security guards, shop staff, airline cabin staff etc, and done in a manner that leads them all to constantly behave in the same mocking, intimidating, or threatening way, in the knowledge that I have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia in the past, and deliberately leaving me uncertain as to whether ANY of it is real or entirely in my head – then scores of them could face life imprisonment under the Criminal Justice Act of 1988, which prohibits (psychological) torture or cruel and inhuman punishment. Not to mention convictions for misconduct in public office, stalking, aggravated harassment, and even disability hate crime.

According to legal advice I have received, given the sheer number of members of the public they appear to have involved directly in this over two decades, there could even be case for prosecuting them for crimes against humanity.

Hastings and Eastbourne – Boots and TSS

After Southend I spent several days in Hastings. It’s a place I’ve visited a few times in the last couple of years as I seek a place by the sea to soothe my mental health problems, if only for a few days. Just like everywhere else, and as with every other visit to Hastings, it was obvious that the security staff at the shopping center (Priory Meadow) had been made aware of my visit. Sometimes in the past security staff have given me a ‘knowing look’ as if to say, ‘you know that we know you, don’t you?’. Well, no I don’t you thick as fucking shit sadistic psychopaths. I’ve suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. It’s been denied to me that I have been pointed out to security staff anywhere. It was explicitly stated to me last summer in the Beacon Center in neighbouring Eastbourne, before I was escorted out of the center by manager ‘Chris’ (who actually claimed to have worked in mental health) for ‘making accusations against his security team’ (and who I then filmed 2 days later laughing and pointing at me from across the road).

In Hastings, led by Hastings and Rother district commander Chief Inspector Sarah Godley, there seems to be a particular degree of sadism involved. Several times, including in this visit, I’ve walked into shops and actually heard myself being described clearly on the security guard’s radio. This happened in the Sainsbury’s Local store next to the train station on one of my first visits. The same security guard there does the same thing since that point as I’ve encountered from hundreds of security guards across Europe over the last 12 years. Look up at the ceiling, alternate between theatrically avoiding watching me and theatrically standing watching me (arms folded, craning neck etc), and in general, acting as though he’s the victim for having to spend a couple of uncomfortable minutes with a ‘nutter who doesn’t like being looked at by security guards’ in his shop.

Sainsburys Hastings security guard.

Like every other Sainsburys store I’ve visited in the UK, it appears the security guard has been asked to point me out to other staff in the store as well, as the gentleman on the right in the above photograph was staring at me as I checked out using the self-service till, never having seen him before in my life.

Hastings Priory Meadow Shopping Center Boots Security Guard

TSS Ricky Gardezi Boots Hastings security guard.

When I had the mental health relapse 12 years ago, which I assume is the ostensible reason why this outright torture began, it appears the Met Police showed my photo to every Boots store, as well as many other pharmacies in London. For quite a time, I had to travel outside of London to collect my prescriptions in order to avoid being bullied and threatened by pharmacy staff.

To make that clear, I’m a disabled member of the public with a mental health problem. Unfortunate behaviour on my part 12 years ago in public when I was suffering from a mental health relapse brought on by pressure from the Met Police, very likely deliberately, was then punished extra-judiciously by the Met Police in a way which included showing my photograph to dozens or hundreds of pharmacies, inciting pharmacy staff to abuse, threaten, and mock me, thus making it very difficult or near impossible for me to collect prescriptions for my mental and physical health. They even appeared to have done this at my GP’s practice at the time.

And to explicitly deny that this was taking place to leave me feeling, well… a bit paranoid to say the least.

And they still appear to be doing this 12 years later.

Not to mention their colleagues in 13 other countries and counting.

I’ve encountered strange behaviour from Boots staff at the Eastbourne Beacon center in the last couple of years, never having visited it before then. So it appears that well over a decade after my mental health relapse, the police, likely via security guards (and as mentioned above, at the Beacon Center in Eastbourne last year I was escorted out of the center for ‘making accusations’ against the security guards there), appear to be still pointing me out to Boots staff. Like every other company, Boots has always denied this has ever happened, and no longer reply to my complaints.

In the Priory Meadow Center, Hastings, I had never noticed a security guard working in the Boots store before. On this visit, there was this guy there every day, apparently working for ‘Total Security Services‘, which is the company that provides security guards for all or most Boots stores (and I’ve since learnt, most Tesco stores). Immediately I entered the store for the first time with him working there, he appeared to recognize me, and similar to the security guards in El Cortes Ingles, Spain, the previous week, leered at the arse of a young female customer then looked back at me.

On my last day in Hastings, I recorded him twisting his neck to look at me, whilst apparently saying something to a laughing member of staff about me. While I was recording (in the second part of the video after walking out the store and putting my products in my bag while resting it on the bench outside), I had my back turned away from him.

***NOTE – YouTube have removed the above video because of a privacy complaint. Presumably by Total Security Services (TSS) themselves. This is now beyond a sick joke.

Total Security Services (TSS) have been pointing me out – a paranoid schizophrenic – to their security guards in dozens of Boots stores (as well as the same company doing the same in dozens of Tesco stores) for over a decade. I then get bullied, insulted, threatened, mocked by not only the security guards, but other staff. I don’t know what the supposed ‘legal’ justification for this is, because Boots Customer Care have always denied that this is happening (and Tesco etc.), i.e. that it is a delusion on my part. They have not even replied to my complaints or concerns for a number of years. And now they’ve successfully asked YouTube/Google to remove evidence of their criminality that I uploaded.

For the first time in my life, I entered a Boots store, where I’d only shopped in several times previously, and recorded the security guard with a hidden cam. And the security guard is constantly looking at me, while talking to female shop assistant, and both of them are laughing.

This was only the second time I had ever videoed a Boots (TSS) security guard. The first time was at Margate last year, when a security guard had appeared to recognize me the first time I walked in his shop, and then the next day made a point of standing at the doorway watching me as I sat drinking tea in a Costa Coffee across the road. After 20 minutes of this, I pointed my smartphone at him and pressed record and he immediately went back inside. Two days later, the video had mysteriously gone from my phone.

I haven’t been just the victim of a gross invasion of privacy by Boots, Total Security Services (TSS) and their CEO a one Ricky Gardezi, and the Metropolitan and Sussex police, I’ve been the victim of attempted murder on their part and so as long as I’m still breathing, I will never stop fighting to have some of these psychopaths up in a court of law and prosecuted for it.

Boots Priory Meadow Hastings TSS security guard.

Total Security Services Hastings Boots