SUICIDE NOTES
Questions About Fire Chief's Suicide Emerge on Day Inquest Opens
Doubts have been raised with the coroner about the authenticity of suicide notes apparently written by the UK’s first black fire chief just as the inquest into his death gets underway this morning.
The Upsetter can also reveal that the inquest has been provided with multiple witness statements from former and serving firefighters alleging Wayne Brown was a sexual predator and bully.
Now, even the dead fire chief’s family are pointing fingers at the West Midlands Fire Service and looking to the coroner for answers about what really was said and done to keep Brown alive.
The lies, corruption, incompetence and cover up surrounding the rise and fall of Brown and his backers in the fire service, police force and Labour party have been exclusively well documented in this newsletter.
Today, there is a chance that coroner Louise Hunt will ignore pressure from her local establishment and get to the bottom of what really caused Brown to take his own life in January last year while under investigation for CV fraud.
It was in the interests of local fire, police, judicial and political bosses to pin the suicide on former firefighter Ben Walker, who had no idea how deep the rot went when in late 2021 he raised concerns about the suitability of Brown’s appointment and corruption in England’s second biggest brigade.
The plan to blame and burn the former firefighter failed when criminal charges Brown had caused to be brought against Walker for online harassment were dropped this February.
A prosecutor with clean hands had reviewed the ‘evidence’ and reversed out of the stink making way for the whistleblower’s forthcoming malicious prosecution and damages claim against the police and fire services.
Among the men and women upon whom Walker’s prosecution was founded were ones for whom mediocrity would be a lifetime achievement and mendacity came easy.
Joanne Bowcock, Brown’s deputy, and Greg Brackenridge, the Labour chairman of the fire authority, who appointed both of them, were exposed for falsely claiming to have a law degree and a Royal Marine green beret respectively.
Real life Rambo, Oliver Lee, the new but short-lived chief executive of West Mids fire service, quickly turned on Brackenridge and his sidekick, slippery Satinder Sahota, the brigade’s lawyer and anti-corruption monitor, after peering into the secret files.
Brown, it appeared, was being shielded from lies about his achievements and concerns around his treatment of women.
Conversely, attempts to portray Walker as a racist have led to threats against the whistleblower, which increased the more Brown and his backers were exposed as straw men and women.
Consequently, the same police force who Walker believes maliciously and incompetently investigated him will now be escorting him to and from the inquest in Birmingham, which opens this morning and will sit for three days.
To prevent any further cover-up, The Upsetter is escorting some uncomfortable facts into the public domain.
It is not an exaggeration to say the inquest will further define what constitutes legitimate and democratic free speech in modern Britain and the abuse of power to shut down public interest whistleblowing, however rough around the edges.
The Upsetter has felt the attempts by the West Mids mafia of the mediocre to curtail this newsletter’s reporting on the scandal since August 2023.
Those dispatches can be found, here, there, here once more and there again for subscribers and newcomers who missed it first time.
Today’s dispatch examines new evidence from official sources which the coroner cannot afford to ignore after years of scandal, lies and cover up.
