My introduction to the “community” – Alan Farquhar (pronounced “fucker” in Scotland) and his friend violently threatening me and my ex-friend in front of her daughter. Alan was later warned that he faced up to ten years in prison if he came near me again, so his friend instead arrived in a car to intimidate me. Pigs do fuck all of course.
Not long after I arrived in Scotland, my first experience with the redneck rural community of Dingwall was devastating. The fact this fuckwit did it in front of my favourite child and didn’t have any comeback at all remains fucking outrageous and infuriating. Neuronorms treat incidents like this as minor, but for autistic people they can cause fear and anxiety lasting for years. Having a large guy threaten to pummel your face while he returns stolen equipment with his friend is actually quite frightening and fuck anyone who belittles our sensitivity. Trauma from events like these, especially when cumulative causes lasting harm, including wasted time repeatedly seeking justice.
After moving to this cursed place, I encountered a bizarre group of backward individuals steamrolling my ex-friend, Carrie-Anne MacDonald. A one-toothed man called Alec Campbell had effectively taken over her place, using it for his own purposes and inviting numerous people onto the property. One of them let himself in while she was coming out of the shower he stood outside it and refused to leave. Alec altered the property as he saw fit; in one instance he smashed a large hole through a wall to run a cable rather than use a longer one. He was extremely difficult to understand unless you concentrated intensely, and even then you might catch one word in four.
instead of making an unnecessary cable-sized hole, he went ahead and just smashed a hole in the wall so big the entire extension drum could fit through. What a complete idiot yet his behaviour is a revealing microcosm of the area. The population is largely uneducated and prejudiced; it feels like they failed to move on with the rest of society.
This Alec Campbell then informed me someone called Murray Campbell was a thief and was robbing places and that I should keep an eye on the place. This seriously alarmed me, both because of potential theft and concerns for my own safety, my ex-friend, and her child in case they were violent – which they were. I installed cheapo CCTV (about 120 quid ), it was only on for about a week before I recorded them leaving the property and noticed a cement mixer suddenly missing.
These people were so stupid they stole the stuff in a company branded vehicle (Ord Group) so I just called the company.
There were only three people who came in and out on the CCTV when the equipment was stolen. Unidentified people in Murray Hamilton’s vehicle and some guy called Darren from Ord Group. Its unclear what Hamiltons vehicle was doing on there since he didn’t have permission from us. It seems to me the reason the equipment came back very quickly was an email I sent to Darren’s dad who owns Ord Group after I reviewed the CCTV of Darren leaving the property. The equipment was on its way back 30 minutes after I sent the email. Ord Group have commented on this, and say its “nothing to do with them” despite their vehicle and employee being present.
Two individuals arrived to return the stolen items right onto the front lawn.
There are two people in the car, both unknown to me. I do not know the name of the other person in the car who also got out to intimidate me. You cant see him in the video, but you do see the door opening when Alan Farquhar starts to get aggressive, indicating the other persons involvement. Neither were charged, only Alan was “warned”.
It later emerged that Alec Campbell’s partner inadvertently implicated Murray Hamilton via a text message stating that “Murray was simply responding to my verbal abuse”, and *shrugs that’s why he had to threaten to beat me up. Mr Hamilton says he is not the person abusing me and presumably claims he was not present at all. No verbal abuse takes place on the recording, and the fact that people who were not there believe otherwise is itself evidence of defamation, probably from Alec since that came from his partner.
I wonder who the other person in the car was then. The police made no attempt to find out.
We wanted whoever stole the equipment sitting on this trailer to be arrested for the theft but the person who actually owns the equipment was away working and the police were obstructive because of that refusing to even register it. When the person who owned it got back he reported it and the police actively discouraged him from making a complaint. It’s amazing to me they can steal this and because I put in the legwork to try and track it down and they returned it out of fear of arrest – yet they have no punishment.
The way the police dealt with this was total bollocks and I want compensation. The abuse spread through defamation and random attacks afterwards. My complaints about sudden lunatic drivers speeding down our road afterwards swearing at us, making gestures out of the car, were dismissed completely by saying “swearing isnt illegal”, the defamation was never addressed, the fact this was coordinated afterwards was also never addressed. They led the owner of the equipment on, coercing him into not reporting it by saying;
- its been a long time though hasn’t it (he was working away)
- you are happy you got it back though aren’t you (of course – he never actually came to collect it)?
- oh and yeah it probably wouldn’t go anywhere.
- OK! Case closed!
When they called me they happily informed me the owner was not interested in pressing charges after I had just spoken to him about it and he was adamant he wanted to press charges. It was clear they thought this was a win. I know why too, its because I am autistic and English, no doubt. The police avoided mentioning they railroaded him, showing they are lazy pigs. They were completely devoid of empathy throughout. They worked specifically to undermine our experience and fail to charge for the theft. The policeman who I spoke to was overbearing and talked over me the whole time, which as an autistic is highly highly annoying, when I asked him to stop interrupting me, he then used the same phrase on me on the next sentence when he had been doing it for the whole conversation. This is abusive and shows no regard for the PSED or equality act duties, i genuinely think he was actively trying to make me scream. I now know ignoring anything you say and repeating phrases to be an actual police tactic in dealing with people with communication problems.
He was particularly misleading about what happened when the owner reported the theft, which makes me not want to engage with his ilk again as is the norm for autistics. The previous policeman I spoke to I felt listened properly and heard me, but this guy was a tannoy, refusing to listen or engage. He also had not taken the time to study the entire case, if indeed anyone had bothered to write it down, and didn’t know key details which revealed that e.g. that he didn’t know how it started.
I have had one experience before like this, where the police acted like a judge and jury in order to reduce workload. As far as I knew previously the police are supposed to be there to report the case to the justice system. Whether the procurator fiscal throws it out or not is the procurator fiscal decision not the polices. If the equipment was mine I would be considering a bill for criminal letters.
Based on this dishonesty on the phone, the railroading and just the way I have been spoken to, I have completely lost all faith in the Scottish police to do their job. They failed, refused to address the theft and only focussed on the abuse. Nicely compartmentalising it all so they can stick their feet up. Dunno why I even bothered calling them or why the owner went down there to report it.
FAIL :/
What about the fact they stole it in the first place!?!?!!?
The theft was undoubtedly planned. They had been asking about the equipment for a while, it was moved around to different places without consent, they also tried to buy it. My conjecture is they had been using it and bringing it back. The other explanation might be they just enjoyed moving a cement mixer and compactor (very heavy) around the different buildings for fun.
I am angry about this primarily because of Alan Farquar’s disgusting behaviour in front of my friends little girl who heard the whole thing.
“”We are doing everyone a favour here.”
Alan Farquhar returning stolen equipment because an Ord Group vehicle was recorded on CCTV stealing it. What a nice guy whose only motive was doing everyone a favour.
Shortly before the conclusion of this video, scottish clowns in uniforms had already been alerted and were en route, having been forewarned hours earlier of the potential for such an incident. They advised me to remain uninvolved, allowing the individual to shout and cause damage if necessary, and to call 999 in case of escalation instead of being ready for something we told them might happen. Following their guidance, I called 999 as soon as it became evident that Alan was about to assault me. The advice to passively observe while he destroyed our property was a bit of a distressing response.
I understand if the person in this video ever comes near me again he will get ten years in prison, but for some reason the police didn’t think to charge him for the theft or for Darren’s intimidation afterwards, potentially because of racism. They called it a ‘misunderstanding’ which is nonsense whatever way you spin it. They all knew it wasn’t theirs because they tried to buy it and when they couldn’t buy it for cheap they stole it.
After this, Mr. Campbell initiated a campaign of defamation against me, spreading various unfounded accusations because his “assistance” was discontinued. This was me trying to get Carrie out of a situation in which she was exploited and I was fiercely protective of her, especially after the story of the weird creepy man and the fact she was concerned any old guy could just drive on there. Rhona Fletcher the neighbour next door never said a word to me after this incident. I went over to introduce myself for the first time extending my hand to shake hers and she just turned around and walked off, I was shocked and I have no idea why. Perhaps she considers removing people for abuse and theft is somehow offensive. She later participated in a hate crime against myself and Carrie. Alecs credibility was further undermined as he told different versions of these stories to multiple people and it came back to me. Reflecting on earlier interactions, I recall a situation where Mr. Campbell was overtly agitated, accusing Murray Hamilton of theft, only to later discover the the trailer he thought was missing was just round the corner.
Given these experiences, my preference was to have no further interactions with Dingwall police, Alec Campbell, Rhona Fletcher, Darren, Alan, their companies, or employees and is typical of my kind of autistic communication. However, the application of law often varies based on race, and disability.
I would like compensation, a full public apology from the protagonists, the police and the company to close it for me. The police say its resolved, but it didn’t happen to the police, they failed to do their job, failed to follow through on Darrens intimidation or the defamation and the police involved are not autistic.