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| Hi my name is Jim (Pinky) Starr. I had police call around my house looking for someone reported staying at my house, this male person the police where looking for wasn't even in the area as far as I'm aware, last I heard he was in Birmingham! | |
 | I had police call around my house looking for someone reported staying at my house, this male person the police where looking for wasn't even in the area as far as I'm aware, last I heard he was in Birmingham! He was reported to the police by my neighbour and his ex girlfriend who is staying next door. The police came in searched the property for him and found items that made them arrest me! I requested about 8 times for my wheelchair to come with me to the police station - this was refused. |
I requested could a police officer come down to the station with me chair requests where refused. in my car with the wheel chair... no. Could my carer bring the wheelchair to the police station for me..... no. Can you transport me in the chair to the station.... no. I had to use sticks as I had no choice as my powered wheelchair and manual I requested that I take my tablets before we go into the station, it's all prescribed and I have proof. This was refused and I was told to put the lose tablets which where in my hand into the container and the nurse will OK taking the medication at the station.The trip over to the police station was jolting my back as I had no support on the seats in the back of the police car. At arrival of the police station I was told I wouldn't have to walk far, even though it was a short distance to walk it caused bad pain to my arms. The nurse at the station refused to give me my normal medication as they where not in the boxes the tablets come in. I was only allowed steroids as I had the box, then they only gave me under half of the dose I needed. The officer didn't tell me to take anything into the station apart from my tablets which he took. I requested my medical notes to be taken in with me as well as a few other bits of paperwork. This was OK'd but the Police didn't bring it in as I requested. The Police removed me from the property even though I requested that I stayed during the search. I requested about 6 times to speak to the sergeant as I should be except from the misuse of drugs law as I'm not misusing a drug and that I'm protected by article 8 of a private life covered by my Human Rights. This request was not listened too by the sergeant even thou the officers present agreed with me. I was strip-searched, which I needed help to do as I was in such bad pain, the Police did help me a little but they never put the slipper socks on properly leading to the fall to follow. The Police locked me in the cell and didn't even carry the paperwork for me to read that they gave me at the desk. I also told the officers who stripped searched me that I can't sit or lie on a hard surface due to pressure pain, all they did was give me two board like pillows and 2 blankets as I was cold and shaking, suffering with high blood pressure due to the event and pain. This was also noted by the nurse but no doctors visit was arranged. I felt like my head was going to explode in pain. I was told they would have to take my walking sticks away from me so I was unable to get around the cell as there where no rails etc for me to use only slippery tiles. They said they put me in cell D1 next to the desk so if I need help I can call for help as I can't get to the button. I thought this was good of them. I needed the toilet, as my carer was not there I had to try and go myself and fight the pain. As I stood up I slipped on some gravel in the cell as the slipper-socks the police gave me where not put on fully. The stones where not from me as I was strip-searched upon entry to the cell. I slipped and went down on the side of the bed towards the floor. I used my left arm to break the fall on the side of the bed. As my arms where in so much pain I could use my sticks let alone break a fall. My back also jolted against the bed. This fall left me with agonising pain to my upper arm, shoulder, neck and mid back. I called for help whilst on the floor in pain crying and no one came. I called a few more times as I have a loud voice and I'm trained to throw my voice over distance too, when I heard it was quiet at the desk etc but no help came. I couldn't reach the button as I never had sticks, nor could I get to the button. I crawled back up on the bed and kept on calling and started to count how many times I was calling, 33 calls for help in total was ignored. I was in so much pain I started loosing it, having suicidal thoughts again due to pain, I lost it and started trashing my head and right arm hard against the wall to try and get some other pain to take my mind off the other pain. When I had finally lost it after all the calls for help where ignored and started to harm myself only then did someone come to the hatch asking what was wrong? I explained I had a fall and was told that no one had informed them that there was a severely disabled person in cell d1. When they realised I was in pain they called the nurse in but my full medication was denied and I was only offered 5 ml of morphine where I take up to 20ml as often as needed. Normally I use the bottle as a hip flask (words of my doctor) as needed! I requested 3 times for an ambulance to come and get me the treatment and medication I need. This was refused too! Before I was put back in the cell after seeing the nurse, I was seen almost collapsing as I walked back from the nurse's office, I was caught by a female officer who expressed concerns. I complained and had Inspector Chalkley call me on a phone that was brought into the cell. I told him what had happened, he seemed shocked to say the least, I had a pleasant call from the inspector. Then I had to prove I was unfit to do the taped interview so I could get the medical treatment which I needed. The nurse came in and manipulated my arm saying try relaxation, I told the nurse I had been through rehabilitation twice and they have failed to help so relaxation won't work, she lifted my arm till I was in pain. I did ask if she was qualified to manipulate me and asked if she was qualified in neurology and she said she wasn't. I requested she stopped as she was not qualified to treat me and that she could do more harm than good manipulating me. She said she has protocols to follow, I asked if this includes going out of what you're allowed to do. At this she walked out. I was calm all this time and had showed no aggression to the police or staff at any time. I'm just a normal human being who only gets pain control from taking all medications including the medicine I was arrested for which I will explain shortly the reason for my arrest. I had to get myself out of the police station into my powered wheelchair and get myself to the hospital for a check up by a qualified Doctor a.s.a.p I wasn't allowed to even have a prescription for a Nicorette patch which I can get from my Doctor on prescription if needed! I was refused access to the exercise yard to smoke outside too! I was facing withdrawal from all my medication and nicotine that I had been on since 2003 constantly, i felt i was in hell!! I believe this put my life at risk as I'm on a lot of dangerous medication and stopping them suddenly can cause big problems and withdrawal. None of this was treated I could of died in the cell, in a way I wish I did as I'm scared to go back on the 24th June to answer bail. I FEEL I CAN'T GO BACK. I had a nightmare about the ordeal last night and woke up shouting in pain again for help. I felt as if I had fallen into a hole with no way out and no matter how much I shout I don't get heard! My wife/carer came to pick me up, she had previously brought my powered wheelchair into me but I was even refused that in with me. My wife was also shocked in the state I was in and I was given my much needed medication as she had the boxes for the tablets on her! If I was told I needed the boxes I would have requested them to be brought in sooner. This is how police are trained to cope with medicinal cannabis users. They found a few plant in my loft which I used personally to treat my condition. I can get cannabis in spray form from my Doctor for £309.76 per 2 weeks to one month legally. I can grow my own medicinal cannabis which is clean and uncontaminated for as little as £30 per month. I have been campaigning since 2003 for the right for medicinal users to able to use cannabis without the fear of arrest as I and others have full medical backing to use cannabis for medicinal reasons. Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith have ignored all letters and reclassified cannabis against there own government advisers including the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), to lock people like me up in prison for up to 14 years for helping myself as I cant afford the only medicine that works for my condition. Now I have no laptop to use whilst in bed in pain, I had the laptop only about 3 weeks old and it was my lifeline to the outside world as I don't get out much. My neighbours have accused me of informing on them twice and wanted to have a laugh getting the Police to come in my house fully knowing I'm a medicinal cannabis user. There 15 years old granddaughter came knocking my door once asking if I could get her some cannabis. This I refused as I am not a dealer and I don't agree with children using the drug. Cannabis is the only drug that helps me. I have full medical backing for its use. The pain I suffer is so intense it feels like you feel like your dying, cannabis can turn this pain down, to a reasonable controllable level, how can I be a criminal for using a drug that god put on this earth for people like me to use for medicinal reasons!! The Police when in my house saw the proof I had medical reasons to use the drug, they didn't want to discuss it all. I have been legally campaigning for the right to use medicinal cannabis legally for 2 years now calling medicinal cannabis protests http://www.protestlondon.co.uk is our website. Some police don't want to arrest us, others do it's a postcode lottery weather you get arrested for using medicinal cannabis or not. Letters to Jacqui Smith and Gordon brown have been ignored all letters and they wont explain why people like me deserve prison even thou the NHS has admitted they have failed to control my pain. I only use cannabis as it's a medicinal necessity as I would of died in 2003 without it. Using cannabis stopped me going through with euthanasia and now my medicine has been taken away and I can't afford to pay for it legally or from the streets now as the stuff on the streets is for stoners and full of CBN's, the stuff I grew is high in CBD's for medicinal relief and doesn't get you stoned like the CBN's you in cannabis from the streets!! 14 states in the USA have gone fully legal for medicinal cannabis, people are coming into the UK with a licence to use cannabis and grow it, we let them in the country and we lock our own medicinal users up, under the licence!!! The UK is one of the only country in the world who says cannabis is bad and should be treated like amphetamines etc. Alcohol, tobacco and even caffeine are proven more harmful than cannabis yet due to propaganda, no one including our ministers listen to the truth! My choice in life is morphine which kills people or cannabis, never has there been a death from cannabis use or abuse. Tobacco and alcohol are the UK's main killers and we can buy this in most corner shops!!! Thousands of pounds would be saved by the NHS if cannabis was legal to use in the UK. I cut my dose of tablets down to half when I use cannabis how can I be doing wrong by using a herb to control my pain? If I use my cannabis in a cream I don't need morphine, my doctor removed it from my repeat prescription last week as I haven't needed morphine for 12 months since using cannabis as a cream! Now thanks to the police I'm back on the morphine and valium and still in uncontrollable pain without medicinal cannabis. The police found about 34 plants; only 12 were in flower and they were small plants too, I loose more than I harvest due to pests etc. I only grew enough to keep me supplied in medication I need nightly. When I return to the police station I will be wearing a bright orange boiler suit which where made for our protests, stating the website address and guilty until presumed innocent printed on it in a Guantanamo Bay style. I'm no criminal it's only the law that makes me a criminal. I'm just a family man with a wife and two children who I love very much, they know if I go into prison I will not be coming back out. Only medicinal cannabis can keep me here with them as I can't cope with the pain of dying daily. I do have CCTV recording of the bust and police in my house. This was recorded with there full knowledge. This is available to back up what I'm saying if needed. This video also proves the requests for my wheelchairs where denied. This is not the first complaint I have made against the police for treating me like dirt over the medicinal cannabis issue. I do hope this will be the last complaint I ever have to make and I hope the police will leave me alone and go and get real criminals and not just the easy targets like medicinal cannabis users. I think it's about time the Government commented on there new law and why they want me dead? My MP Jim knight (Minister of Schools) fully supports me and also thinks it's about time the Government spoke to me! He has offered to deliver a letter to Gordon Brown on my behalf. For more info please call me Jim (Pinky) Starr on 0779-648-4707. I live in Dorchester in Dorset, Weymouth - the Police are the ones in the wrong not me!!! |
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