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Gary - 26th May 2009

My daughter is only 10 months old. She didn't see me when I had my last birthday and I wasn't allowed to be there for her on her very first christmas because lies, perjury and false allegations were all proffered to the courts and the police by my childs mum. I've not once thought I would give up my fight to be reunited with my daughter. I will not. She deserves to know my love for her and a balanced justice will, in the end, prevail.

In the first instance after separating from my ex partner, she involved the police. This was the first thing she did and from the story she told the police, they advised her to take out a non-harassment order against me, and in turn, her lawyer recommended the interim interdict. Even though I have now managed to have legal aid granted to defend that interdict, I could not afford to have it completely refused at the first hearing. My lawyer charged me a little over £1000 and he had the non-harassment order and powers of arrest refused. I left it at that and applied for my legal aid to begin the contact case. After much delay, my ex's representations of objection were finally disregarded by the legal aid board and i was granted legal aid to take my ex to court to try and have her come to some kind of agreement with regards my contact with my little girl. My ex has since made a second attempt to have the interdict/non-harassment order with powers of arrest made against me, although this time, I have not had a visit from a court officer to serve me the interdict...

4 weeks ago, I was granted a court order to allow me to see my only child. In court, it was assumed by all parties concerned that this order was to be for supported contact in a mediation centre. On exit from the court that day, my ex became hysterical and the court order came through with the word "Supervised" written in. Two weeks ago I went back to court to clarify that the order was to be made for supported contact, not supervised, but it was a different sheriff residing and he could not clarify. This new sheriff recommended to seek legal aid for supervised contact and scheduled a date for a hearing with the original sheriff. Needless to say the legal aid board do not cover non-legal work and my application for legal aid to pay for the supervised contact was refused. I cannot afford £100 every time I want to see my daughter and I shouldn't have to. My daughter's savings are now paying for our initial reunion, as it is still being insisted by my childs mum that all contact should be fully supervised by social workers.

Two days after the initial order had been made in court, I received a phone call from the police station in my daughters home town. To cut a long story short, I have now been charged with an offence which I did not commit and await citation to a trial for the alleged offenses which I have been charged with. My ex partner and my daughter's grandmother have conspired to pervert the course of justice to have me arrested and charged. When the trial occurs, this will not be the first instance of perjury by my ex. As of this date, I have not yet made complaint about this crime to the police and will wait the inevitable outcome of my pending trial. You can imagine the mass of paperwork which I have accumulated over the past 7 months.

During this whole horrible episode in my life, I have had to answer to many of my ex's concerns about me and my mental health. Early on in the separation, my ex also conveyed to her lawyer that the police were "building a profile" of me with regards child abuse/paedophilia. A letter from her lawyer stated that the social services child protection department were also involved in an investigation against me. But when I wrote to the social work department in question, they wrote back denying that any investigation was being made. This seems to be a recurring theme in my ex partner's unbalanced mind, that she seems to think she can state in writing that official bodies are scrutinising me and making statements about me, but when affirmations of these accusations are sought, the lies are unmasked.

Regarding the interim interdict and the laws which allow a person to have one granted without any right to defend; I have the full backing of my local MSP as he has written to the Justice Minister in Scotland on my behalf with my recommendations for change. Throughout this sordid ordeal I have had to remain calm, focused and methodical in everything I have done/do. I have not broken any laws in my pursuit to be reunited with my daughter and I have respected the justice system as it is currently, even if I do feel that justice system to be one which allows much delay.

My biggest fear now is that I will have 15 years of false allegations and in a worst case scenario, could eventually end up in prison due to the lies my ex is perpetually spreading about me. Although I am loath to lower myself to retaliation or revenge by pursuing the charges of perversion of the justice system and/or perjury, I don't know what else to do, or how best to deal with my ex's perpetual false allegations.

Perverting the course of justice and not one, but two counts of perjury. And for what?
TO KEEP A LITTLE GIRL AWAY FROM HER DADDY