Prescott : Sexual Harassment Writ and
Police Confirm Corruption Investigation
Prezza is under more pressure* ahead of becoming the cowboy in charge of the country. As reported here two weeks ago, the Yard has received two formal complaints regarding alleged offences under the 1889-1916 Prevention of Corruption Acts. The complainants are George Bathurst, a Windsor based Tory businessman and the LibDem MP, Norman Baker.
The Met Police's Press Office is only now confirming that police are studying claims that Prezza could have broken anti-corruption laws by staying on US billionaire Philip Anschutz's ranch.
Elsewhere the writ from Tricia McDaid, who worked for Prescott when he was the transport shadow has now been filed in the High Court and formally served on Prescott. In papers filed with the court, Ms McDaid says: "I am bringing a claim for damages and my consequential losses as a result of my former employer's negligent behaviour."
Some of her allegations:
The Met Police's Press Office is only now confirming that police are studying claims that Prezza could have broken anti-corruption laws by staying on US billionaire Philip Anschutz's ranch.
Elsewhere the writ from Tricia McDaid, who worked for Prescott when he was the transport shadow has now been filed in the High Court and formally served on Prescott. In papers filed with the court, Ms McDaid says: "I am bringing a claim for damages and my consequential losses as a result of my former employer's negligent behaviour."Some of her allegations:
- At a party at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum in 1992. She said: "He started to kiss me. He pulled my dress out, looked down my top and said, ‘What have you got on under there? How come you can’t see anything?’ I was wearing a body stocking as opposed to a bra and knickers... It was embarrassing for him to have done that in front of so many people."
- In 1993, after Labour’s defeat in the 1992 election, McDaid was recruited to work for the party. One of her tasks was to help Prescott in his role as shadow transport secretary. “He was wary from the start because he was aware his behaviour had been inappropriate”
- “I just hated it. He said that since I wasn’t a member of the Labour party I must be a spy. He made a fuss because he had harassed me and he didn’t like the fact he was under my brief.”
- "He was a boastful, arrogant, nasty pig. He just jumped on you when he felt like it at a party. He had no manners whatsoever. Several times I nearly slapped him in the face."
- He “jumped” on her at parties hoping for sexual favours. “He just leapt on me at one party and his tongue was halfway down my throat.”
- She had to wear trouser suits to avoid his wandering hands in the lifts at his Westminster office. She added that she was too afraid to protest at the time for fear of losing her job.
- “He started to kiss me. He pulled my dress out, looked down my top and said, ‘What have you got on under there, how come you can’t see anything?’. I was wearing a body stocking as opposed to a bra and knickers. It was so embarrassing for him to have done that in front of so many people... A few weeks later he came to my house. He just turned up on the doorstep at about 12 o’clock at night. I was in East Dulwich and he lived in this seamen’s union flat in Clapham and he just came over. I cooked him dinner and sat there and chatted. He was looking for sexual favours but what are you going to do? It was sexual harassment but I never made a formal complaint. If you complained about sexual harassment, you would have never worked again. We did not have sexual relations. But he used to get really drunk on whisky and would say he had a dossier about people in the Labour party sleeping with one another.”
- “Afterwards I worked as a political journalist for the Irish News. I remember him at a party at the Irish embassy. I was surrounded by people but he kissed me on the lips and started to put his tongue down my throat. I laid into him. I got quite aggressive and there was a scene. He accused me of being a Tory spy.”
- She said he also turned up at her house uninvited at night looking for “sexual favours”.
- “It was all about sex. That’s all it was ever about with him. He saw women as wee girls and would just grab their arses. He would do it to anybody in a skirt. I started wearing trouser suits so I wouldn't get groped. We would have meetings in his office and he would put his hand up his secretary’s skirt while everybody was there.”
Tricia McDaid endured a campaign of harassment for two years, afraid to complain for fear she would be sacked.
*Yes Sir Michael, round two has begun...
51 comments:
What an unbearable shit the man is.
I am sorry I can't laugh, that is just appalling.
Spineless little chiccie wasn't she. Her allegations read worse than a mills and boon.
Tom
If the story in the Sunday Times (and again today) are correct about Tracey being moved tp trivial envelope-stuffing work in the hope she'll get fed up and leave are true, I think I see a claim for constructive dismissal coming Jabba the Letch's way...
Actually, i'm well pissed off by this. They are both disgusting in body and mind. These people determine my laws. sheeeeeeeeit.
tom
What a surprise.
Ver nice timing too.
S'funny that Trish McDaid mentions the Irish embassy. Dunno if they dstill dfo but they used to have the most drunken parties of anybody in Westminster. Free Jamesons & Guinness all night long. I once had a fight (well more like handbags as we were both so, ahem, refreshed) with Prescott at one of their parties when I took the piss out of him about a woman he was seeing at the time.
Is it me, or does Tricia McDaid look a lot like Libby Kennedy from Neighbours? Perhaps Prescott has a penchant for terrible Australian soaps as well as the wild west. And people say he isn't cultured..
"He started to kiss me. He pulled my dress out, looked down my top and said, ‘What have you got on under there? How come you can’t see anything?’ I was wearing a body stocking as opposed to a bra and knickers... It was embarrassing for him to have done that in front of so many people" This passage(oo-er missus) appears twice. Maybe a Guido typo?
Tricia's day in court.Obviously hoped for a payola but Prezza playing hard ball. Hope it goes to trial with substantial costs leading to the fat arsehole's bankruptcy and the repossession of Prezza Towers. Pauline Prezza will be grim faced and thin lipped for the duration.
It's true that a certain amount of hanky-panky used to go on at well-lubricated Embassy parties (in my recollection only the Hungarian one was exempt, as they served lots of excellent buffet food to soak up the alcohol, and the Albanian one was similarly vice-, food-, and alcohol-free as they simply couldn't afford it - until other London diplomats chipped in to subsidise their rent and supplies, being unwilling to attend two-hour drinkless sessions in a Camden council flat.) So basically I am inclined to believe Tricia. The only slight reserve I have is that it was not common for senior Ministers to attend these 'drinks reception': occasions - if a senior Minister was invited by the Ambassador, a private dinner would be laid on either at the Embassy or in the Ambassador's Residence (or, sometimes, in a very swanky restaurant.) So, without doubting Tricia's veracity at all, this particular bit of the story doesn't stack at present.
You can't blame the dear boy for his behaviour, he is from somewhere north of Watford after all where that type of behaviour is probably perfectly acceptable. Poor chap, perhaps he should enjoy a nice big plate of kippers to console himself.
why now? silly gold digging cow. no-one's denying he's a creep but this is the dsort of nonsesnse that happens in america. Very depressing.
He never tried it on with me!
Just how do you get rid of him.
If he had been a Tory the BBC would have hounded him out by now.
So much for "whiter than white"!
After all his crimes abusing taxpayers money - I'd feel even more robbed if he ended up going over something like this.
If it's as bad as she makes out she should have reported it at the time, coming out with it now is just kiss and tell.
Why now indeed? For years this woman kept quiet as did many others as they sought to benefit from NuLabour cronyism. Now that the wheels are coming off she and others like her are telling us what should have been made public years ago. If only they had come forward sooner we should have been spared the appalling waste caused by this ignorant and incompetent oaf's misgovernance. Billions would have been saved and countless houses left standing instead of being demolished unnecessarily to be replaced by gimcrack housing built by Labour cronies.
Prescott Is Scum, Beer Gets You Drunk, Rain Comes From Clouds and Bears Really Do Shit In The Woods.
mmmm Prescott's scum but exactly what damages and consequential losses has Tricia suffered? She's had a payout from the Sunday Skymes but was clearly hoping for a big one from the government. Prezza has called her bluff so time for us all to have another good laugh at the evidence presented as part of the writ.
A little dickie bird told me once that Rosie is good at making kippers.
Perhaps another trip in the limo to Doncaster should be on the cards??
Afterall, he could give the left overs to the cat next door afterwards!
Maybe he will go for a red herring instead.
Prescott will get what's coming to him, I sure. But isn't there a Prescott junior somewhere, and wasn't he involved in some property scandal about 1999? My contacts in Hull tell me there's some more shit to be dug up on that front.
I bet my bottom dollar the BBC won't dig up the dirt on Prescott Jnr.
He used to work for the beeb in Hull did he not?
"On policy the cross-dressing is rampant and is a feature of modern politics that will stay. The era of tribal political leadership is over," Mr Blair said.
Not just on policy, Emily.
geoffers was me by the way.
Prescott is a clown. He kind of typifies the ineptness of New Labour. The government is staffed with a bunch of people who simply don't seem fit for purpose. Anyway more thoughts on Prezza:
http://justinpugsley.blogspot.com/
Johnny said...
"Just how do you get rid of him?"
There are only four ways to be rid of Prescott as I see it:
1) When Blair goes.
2) Prescott decides to go of his own volition (most unlikely).
3) He dies (naturally of course).
4) He goes to jail upon a conviction (unlikely).
Laughing Cavalier if these allegations would have come out sooner it would have made no difference. Mark my words, Prescott will still be there just like he was before.
If any of these allegations is substantiated it will make the lurid charges against Arnie before he became Gubernator in California seem tame :)
Lambethlad - he wasn't a senior minister, nor even a minister, when these alleged incidents took place. None mention the period post-1997.
Guido, why such lossy jpegs? That Prescott pic looks like it has been saved at a hitherto unknown level of jpeg compression crapness in Photoshop. Oh yeah and Prescott is a cun...
We're in danger of neglecting the important Prezza story: the supercasino, the hospitality, the meetings with Anschutz, the questionable planning decisions.
Prezza's aggressive philandering is a bit of a sideshow.
Now if he'd harrassed his horse in Colorado, that would be different. Was it a mare? If so, good chance...
('I was alone in my horsebox when he burst in and tried to mount me. He seemed to weigh a ton. I struggled, but he put his arm round my neck and forced himself onto me, shouting "Hi- yo Silver!"...I felt so helpless...Nothing could ever compensate me for' etc etc ;-)
Laughing Cavalier said...
If only they had come forward sooner ...
Then she would have been thoroughly trashed by the media just like Clinton's victims.
is that the horse you are talking about or the man himself?
Fred Funk,
Art innit pixellated.
Absolutely spot on wmbyrd. Every time one of these sleezeballs is under pressure then lo and behold another bit of sleeze is released. Perverse though it is the secret to this bunch staying in power has been the sheer amount of sleeze and corruption. Remember how the Archer and Hamilton non stories ran for months? Every transgression by these slimy gits seems to last until the next day's headlines.
graham: Archer and Hamilton non-stories? Don't remember them. I only remember the stories about the Tory Chairman lying under oath and an MP accepting cash in brown envelopes to ask questions in the House of Commons. Can't really get more corrupt than that, no?
The non-stories obviously got subsumed in the coverage of the genuine corruption stories.
He's never done any other job, y'knor - and why should he when he would have otherwise been fired and sued!
Labour through and through.
Please can we have a chart of Guido's totty ratings of all Prezza's alleged shags?
Excuse mon Francais, but Prescott is just a shit! Why does his wife tolerate him?
PMD , you are another pathethic New Labour aresehole trying to defend the indefensible
'pmd said...
graham: Archer and Hamilton non-stories? Don't remember them. I only remember the stories about the Tory Chairman lying under oath and an MP accepting cash in brown envelopes to ask questions in the House of Commons. Can't really get more corrupt than that, no?
The non-stories obviously got subsumed in the coverage of the genuine corruption stories.
I f you want to know about proper corruption, start with Sleezy Tony's lies about WMD- The Dome, Mandelsons false declarations (meaning jail foir lesser mortals), passports for the Hindujas.......
Oh I could go on , but the truth is that we have a thoroughly rotten corrupt government, who rule with a disdain for every body else.
the Government is rotten
and like a rotten fish...
and it will rot from the top
Yes, the country is in a mess,and while Telflon Tone is off on another freebie, the Americans ill continue to ndo what the hell they want to with us
Vote labour again?
No Thanks
Adrian ,
A shit with a tiny cock!
lets not forget that this is a woman who gave up her son for adoption when he was four years old, despite Colorado john supposedly offering to take him on and treat him as his own (my arse)
The prescotts are hard faced, low rent scum, my grandfather had a phrase that summed them up.
"you could break concrete on their faces"
He reserved that for Yorkshire/Lanacashire farmers, I think It applies to the Prescott clan.
All this sleeze is comming out but the media led by the leftie BBC is just doing nothing about it.
have you noticed how there is never any leading labour politician on Newsnight and Paxman or whoever just meekly says 'we asked someone from the government to come in and comment but no one was available'. If it was the Tories in power there would be a full Newsnight investigation on why no one would come forward to comment from the government.
this has been happening for years and the BBC has done nothing about it.
Adrian 9.33pm "Why does his wife tolerate him?"
I agree, she deserves our sympathy. Or to quote Rodgers and Hammerstein (Oklahoma)
"I'd like to say a word for the cowboy:
The way he rides is difficult and stony.
He rides for days on end with a pony for a friend..."
"I sure as hell feel sorry for that pony!"
come on, John Norfolk, on tonight's Newsnight Paxo said, re the Middle East situation, that the govt put no one forward to appear on the programme and, just to underline the point, went on to say that they'd turned down every Newsnight request since the crisis started. Short of adding 'the cowardly bastards', or some such, I don't know how he could have made the point clearer.
That`s what you get for letting a hetrosexual into the cabinet,Peter did warn the girls.
Actually as obese,fuck-witted sex-pests go Prescott`s not a bad bloke.
Prezza in charge of the UK! He's not fit to be in charge of himself.
But what dirt has he got on Blair?
I'm glad I live in France...
The Teflon John
"But he used to get really drunk on whisky and would say he had a dossier about people in the Labour party sleeping with one another.” Is this the, in the past, much mooted Tony & Gordon affair that has now drifted off the radar?
Naturally, once they start looking vulnerable all the people they harrassed in the past come out and kick them as they're on their way down. I do blame her for not coming forward before (because she MIGHT have prevented him harrassing some other women) but I don't blame her for coming forward now. High time, I say.
As for "the lurid charges against Arnie before he became Gubernator" I dunno about the wimmin issues, but I do have a very lovely and NSFW pic of the Gouvernator nekkid in a muscle pose. Let's just say that steroid atrophy takes years to take effect, and this photo was shot before it did.
Shed not your tears for Mrs Prezza - she and Prezza have lived seperate lives for a long while. Has her own bank account, is First Lady of 'Ull, has Ladies in Waiting, frequent lunches , trips to hairdressers, shopping. And no chipolata duties. Perhaps even the occassional visit from the cumberland sausage rep. Bliss. Except the fat prick screwed it all up by getting rumbled.
Prescott is supposed to be running the country while Blair is in the States?
The Hull Daily Mail are saying he was spotted in Barcelona yesterday.
Barcelona? Good place for recruitment for Meesta Fawlty!!!
I hope he has left Barcelona by the time I visit later this month!
I'm wondering if legal action can be enforced now, isn't there a time limit that a complaint has to be made, or does it depend on the seriousness of the case?
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