Dear Dr Foster,
As you may already know, I
received some very welcome and long-awaited information from
Gerry Madden (Senior Social Worker) on July 7th
last.
The main reason I met Gerry Madden on July 7th was
so that he could hand me copies of the papers he had received
a few days earlier from the
Garda Siochana (Republic of
Ireland Police), which clearly state that (following a recent
review of my case):
"There are now no outstanding
warrants or charges against William Finnerty and he is free to
return (to the Republic of Ireland) at any time".
A scanned copy of the letter in question (dated July
2nd 2008), from
Superintendent Enda Walshe, can be
viewed at
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/SuperintendentEndaWalshe/2July2008/Letter.htm
While this is truly wonderful news for me, it is not
unfortunately -- by any means -- the end of the long drawn out
saga I accidentally got myself involved in when I returned to
the Republic of Ireland in 1998, to retire in the village in
County Galway (New Inn) which I grew up in as a
child.
Within hours of I returning to my retirement
home in
New Inn during the Summer of
1998, I was
surprised and deeply shocked to see a front page headline in a
local newspaper announcing plans which involved the location
of a huge "
superdump" close to the world famous
Turoe Stone, which also happens to be close to my
retirement home.
It is also the case that both my home
in New Inn, and the Turoe Stone, sit almost on top of the
Esker Riada: which is arguably the oldest and most
important of the ancient roadways still in use in the world --
at least from the viewpoint of
"western" human history and all
of the cultures closely connected with
Christianity -- and
almost certainly the most important of Ireland's "natural"
monuments.
Some additional information on the Esker
Riada, which as you may already know formed naturally around
10,000 years ago at the end of the last
Ice Age in North
Western Europe, can be found at
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/chaplefinnerty/esker/riada1.htm
; and, there is also some information on the elaborately
carved Turoe Stone, which is widely regarded as the most
important piece of
Celtic stone-art in the world, at
http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/protest/nov21_stone.htm.
Believed to be in excess of 2,000 years old, and positioned
approximately one-third of the way up from its base, the human
design carved into this large piece of granite includes a very
clear and very contrasting single set of straight "linear"
symbols frequently associated with ancient Greece & Rome,
and which was almost certainly intended to remind people of
the strong links (which included much conflict and bloodshed
on occasions) between these three large and very influential
ancient culture-groups of Western Europe:
Celtic,
Greek, and
Roman.
After learning of the superdump announcement,
things gradually went from bad to worse (from my viewpoint)
until -- and I'm skipping over several closely related issues
in this letter to you because you were not in any way involved
with them -- I first met you and your team in
Omagh
Hospital several years later, on the morning of
December 9th 2004. (Among other things for example,
during the intervening period in question it became clear that
the Republic of Ireland Government, under the leadership of
former
Prime Minster Ahern TD who, as you will no doubt
already know, had to resign some months ago because of his
growing involvement with tribunals investigating
corruption,
was producing and sustaining
unconstitutional legislation:
which, in addition to being grossly corrupt, is also
completely unlawful of course.)
Getting back to my
first meeting with you, and according to notes I made at the
time, I took printed copies of two e-mails (each containing
some handwritten notes) to the meeting I had with you on
December 9th 2004: which I left with you and your four-person
team, and which I believed you -- or a member of your team,
which included Dr Kelly -- would study carefully between then
and the next meeting I had with you.
Electronic copies
of the two e-mails in question can be viewed at the following
locations:
1) Email dated
December 6th
2004 to
Ms Ciara Macklin (Lawyer at Fair &
Murtagh):
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/CiaraMacklin/6December2008/Email.htm
2) Email (dated
November 29th 2004) to
Gearoid Geraghty (Lawyer at Fair & Murtagh):
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/FairMurtaghEmail29Nov2004TrackingCopy.htm
An hour or so before my second meeting with you and
your team, on
December 13th 2004, during a pre-meeting
interview with
Nurse Sally Sheridan, I handed her a
note (to take to you and your full team) which set out my main
concerns at the time. A scanned copy of the note in question
can be seen at:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrThomasFoster/13December2004/MainConcerns.htm
When I entered the room where
your team-meeting was being held an hour or so later, and to
my great surprise and amazement, it very quickly became clear
that you had decided to completely ignore the entire contents
of all three of the items of correspondence referred to just
above; and, that you had also decided to have me put out of
the hospital the following day (December 14th 2004) with
nowhere to go, and with no support of any kind.
Why did
you do this to me? -- having due regard for the fact that I
agreed to enter Omagh hospital just seven days earlier, on
account of the fact that a number of health care professionals
I met in Omagh on December 7th 2004 obviously believed I was
in a suicidal state of mind, and gently made comments and
suggestions (to me) along such lines for the purpose of
ensuring I took up their kind and caring offer of finding me a
bed in the local hospital?
There is also of course the
matter of
Article 5 of
The Universal Declaration on
Human Rights (produced in
1948) which
states:
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment."
The full text of this
United
Nations document can be viewed at:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
.
By having me thrown out of the hospital in the
way that you did on December 14th 2004, you subjected me to
mental torture of a kind which I believe is an extremely
serious criminal offence, and it is for this reason I am
copying this e-mail to the police.
For the benefit of
the police, and other interested parties, I wish to make it
clear that some months after I was thrown out of Omagh
Hospital (completely against my wishes),
Dr McCavert GP
diagnosed me as suffering from
Complex-Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder, and a copy of his "
To Whom It May
Concern Letter" which states this can be seen at:
http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com/DrMcCavert28October2005/Letter.htm
Also, and as
Gerry Madden has related in his
letter dated
November 7th 2005 to former
Justice
Minister Michael McDowell (Republic of Ireland)
, I
believe I was already suffering from
C-PTSD
(Complex-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
in
May
2002, some
30 months or so before I came under your
care in Omagh Hospital in December 2004; a copy of the letter
in question, written by Gerry Madden, can be seen at
http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com/Constitution/GerardMadden7November2005/Letter.htm
.
In fact, and although I did not have a name for
this medical condition until Gerry Madden and Dr McCavert
provided me with one in 2005, I believe I have been suffering
from C-PTSD since sometime around year
2000, which is when I
first started to experience the set of symptoms that I now
know are commonly associated (among medical practitioners and
social workers that is) with C-PTSD.
Please note that
(so far) I have never received
any treatment from a suitably
experienced psychiatrist or psychologist for the C-PTSD I
suffer with, even though it is clear that there are
psychologists who can provide such treatment; please see
scanned copy of the
Irish Times newspaper article (by
psychologist
Marie Murray) which Gerry Madden handed me
on
April 19th 2006 (which is of course well over two years ago
now) at:
http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com/MarieMurray19April2006/IrishTimesArticle.htm
.
I have raised the matter of the long standing -- and
ongoing -- difficulties I am having in receiving treatment for
C-PTSD in my latter to Dr McCavert dated
February 2nd
2008, which can be seen at:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrMichaelMcCavert/2February2008Letter.htm
.
Please note my letter at the address just above
contains reference to the set of symptoms (C-PTSD symptoms as
I see them) which I continue to suffer from, and a copy of the
Northern Ireland "Centre for Trauma & Transformation"
Flier which lists them can be seen at
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/NI-TraumaCentre/25January2008/Flier.htm
.
In his written reply to me dated
March 9th 2008, a
scanned copy of which can be viewed at
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrMichaelMcCavertGP/9March2008.htm
, Dr McCavert states: "I have written and spoken to the
psychiatric team via Gerry Madden and I feel that is
all I should do at present."
Largely as a result of
this statement from Dr McCavert I decided not to go to
see him (as he suggested in his March 9th 2008 letter to me):
even though there is a possibility -- according to earlier
correspondence I have received from Dr McCavert -- that I may
be suffering from
prostate cancer.
In my letter
to hospital consultant
Mr GK Holland dated March 3rd
1998 (copy at
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/CKMulholland/3March2008/Letter.htm
), please note that I made it clear I would contact his office
for a new appointment (to have the TRUS and biopsy examination
of my prostate gland carried out) in the event that I received
"
reassuring news" from Dr McCavert regarding the issues I had
earlier written to him about. Unfortunately, when I received
Dr Cavert's letter dated March 9th 2008 (copy at
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrMichaelMcCavertGP/9March2008.htm
), I did not find the contents at all reassuring. Neither has
anything happened since then to improve that situation, and
consequently I continue to feel
extremely unsafe about
presenting myself for surgical procedures of any kind.
Although I'm not sure about this, and please correct
me if I'm wrong, I suspect that you possibly head the
"psychiatric team" Dr McCavert has referred to in his letter
to me dated March 9th 2008?
I had hoped to clarify this
matter of who headed the "psychiatric team" in question with
Gerry Madden on July 16th last. However, Gerry Madden
failed
to turn up for the meeting he had arranged for 11.30 am (on
July 16th), and as I had not received any message from him for
the purpose of re-scheduling or cancelling the meeting in
question, and as nothing like this had ever happened before
regarding the many earlier meetings I have had with Gerry
Madden, I went around to
Lissan House (Social Workers
Centre) at around 12.15
pm (on July 16th) in an effort to try and find out what had
gone wrong.
Eventually, after speaking to two other
members of staff at Lissan House, I spoke with
Joan
Blee (the Duty Officer at Lissan House) for about 20
minutes, during which time she informed me that Gerry Madden
was off work because his mother was ill. I outlined my general
situation to Ms Blee, highlighted my concerns regarding the
possibility of having prostate cancer, and left her a printed
copy of an e-mail I sent to Gerry Madden two days earlier
(i.e. on July 14th): with a strong request that the printed
e-mail copy in question be placed with my case file. My
understanding was that someone from Lissan House would contact
me in the days that followed. Please note however, that nobody
connected with Lissan House has contacted me since then --
which is now well over three weeks ago.
A copy of my
e-mail to Gerry Madden dated
July 14th 2008 can be viewed at
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/GerardMadden/14July2008/Email.htm
, which I believe may contain some clues as to why I have not
heard anything from anybody at Lissan House (since July 16th):
despite the fact that I left a printed copy of the e-mail in
question with Joan Blee on July 16th -- after I had briefly
discussed the main parts of the e-mail with her.
I feel
that you (and others reading this e-mail) should now also know
that, in an effort to try and communicate the overall range
and seriousness of the difficulties I have unintentionally
ended up getting mixed up in (in one way or another), as a
result of innocently deciding to retire in the Republic of
Ireland in 1998, I sent a printed copy of the letter at the
following address to Dr McCavert on
May 9th 2008:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PrimeMinisterCowen/9May2008/Email.htm
Unfortunately, it appears -- from my viewpoint at
least -- that Dr McCavert is completely ignoring the entire
contents of the registered letter I sent to
Prime Minister
Brian Cowan TD at the address just above: which, for
reasons that I feel should be obvious to Dr McCavert and the
"psychiatric team" he refers to, is adding significantly to
the growing C-PTSD problem I've had for the past 8 years or
so, and which I've still not received any medical treatment
for from a psychologist or psychiatrist. How, I find myself
wondering, can Dr McCavert and the psychiatric team he refers
to, justify leaving me to cope all on my own with the set of
major political and legal difficulties I have outlined in my
letter to Prime Minister Cowan dated May 9th 2008? -- and
which Prime Minister Cowan is not acknowledging incidentally.
(Please note that I have not received any acknowledgement of
receipt from Prime Minister Cowan TD, or from Dr McCavert GP,
to the registered letters I sent to them on May 9th 2008, and
scanned copies of the associated
Post Office Receipts
can be seen at
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PrimeMinisterCowen/9May2008/Email.htm
.)
In conclusion, I would like to briefly reiterate the
main questions (relating to you) that I have already raised
above:
1) Why did you suddenly decide to have
me thrown out of Omagh Hospital (with nowhere to go) on
December 14th 2004: at a time when I was suffering very badly
from untreated
Complex-Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder?
2) Why did you completely ignore (from my
viewpoint that is) the entire contents of the three items of
correspondence I provided you and your team with while I was
in
Omagh Hospital during the period December 7th to
14th 2004?
3) Assuming that you do actually head
the "psychiatric team" which
Dr McCavert GP
has
referred to in his letter to me dated March 9th 2008,
why is it that you appear to be still preventing me from
getting the
professional treatment I need for C-PTSD: well
over
3 years after I first came into contact with you? With
regard to this point, please note that the Internet is awash
with medical reports which very strongly suggest that C-PTSD
should be treated as soon as possible after the traumatic
events have occurred, and that I have showed one such report
to Gerry Madden the last time I saw him on July 7th 2008. By
way of providing an example, a sample statement from one
of these reports reads as follows:
"In Williams and Sommer's
(1994) comprehensive book of treatment, it is reported that
the most successful therapeutic interventions are those
implemented immediately following the traumatic event."
For
future reference
purposes, I intend to place a copy of this e-mail at
the following address later today:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrThomasFoster/11August2008/Letter.htm
I will also send a printed and signed copy of this
e-mail to you later today (through the recorded delivery post)
to the following postal address:
Dr Thomas Foster
(Consultant Psychiatrist)
c/o Cedar Ville
Tyrone &
Fermanagh Hospital
Donaghanie Road
Omagh
County
Tyrone
Northern Ireland
BT79 ONS
With due regard
for the fact that I may have
prostate cancer, a medical
situation which needs to be very carefully watched according
to every one of the several reports on the subject I have read
on the Internet, I hope to receive a written reply from you to
the above three questions at your earliest convenience
please.
Yours sincerely,
William
Finnerty. (Related web site:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com
)