I have just taken time to look at submissions for the animal welfare bill and within the multitude of pages I find a submission by Neil Wells . Neil Wells evidence text [PDF 258k] and Neil Wells supp [PDF 141k]
In the submission he starts off stating
I agree with the general policy statement that the Bill will “improve the enforceability, clarity, and transparency of New Zealand’s animal welfare system.”
Transparency ? run that past me gain ? wasn’t it Mr Wells who made an application to the minister for approved status using a false name ?
Did he then not run this enterprise himself using the councils staff and resources while not disclosing that there was no one else involved ?
So why does he not list his experience of 10 years running an approved organization? and why did he not even mention the Animal Welfare Institute of New Zealand? ( AWINZ ) .
I rather suspect that he has not mentioned AWINZ because it would not read well saying
I was the author of a Private Member’s Bill presented to Parliament by Hon Pete Hodgson in 1998, which was later joined with the government’s Animal Welfare Bill (No. 2).
I served as an Independent Specialist Adviser to the Primary Production Select Committee during the consideration stages of the Bills.
I applied for approved status for an organization which did not exist and which was actually me using a pseudonym.
I ran the approved organization for 10 years using the Waitakere city council staff and resources , prosecuted and banked the proceeds into a bank account which I operated in the name of AWINZ .
I suspect that if he had written that some one might have said.. there is something wrong here.. perhaps conflict or interest even and some one might say “hey is it OK to write legislation for your own business plan and advise on it and implement it under a false name then cover up using the court. ? ”
At Point three of his main submission Wells states
A statute is only as good as the procedures available for enforcement of its provisions, the detection of offences, and the prosecution of offenders.
3.1 Enforcement and prosecuting authorities
There are three types of enforcement and prosecuting authorities — the Police, the Ministry for Primary Industry, and approved organisations.3.2 The Police
While every member of the Police is deemed to be an inspector the Police rarely take complaints related to animal welfare breaches and instead refer the complainant to the SPCA.3.3 MPI
MPI does not have the resources to be able to deliver national enforcement and prosecution services on its own for all animal welfare complaints and is totally dependent on approved organisations. This creates an enormous risk for government.3.4 Approved organisations
It appears odd to me that Neil Wells does not mention his own first hand experience with running an approved organization . but for once I find myself agreeing with Mr Wells he states
MPI does not have the resources to be able to deliver national enforcement and prosecution services on its own for all animal welfare complaints and is totally dependent on approved organisations. This creates an enormous risk for government.
It transpires the MPI could not even discern the difference between a legal person and a fiction, a truth and a falsehood . The falsehoods from Mr Wells as to the existence of AWINZ were swallowed hook line and sinker and each obstacle was overcome with another tall tale . he goes on to say
There is currently one approved organisation that is authorised to recommend the appointment of Inspectors and through those appointments, to enforce the Act and prosecute offenders — the Royal New Zealand SPCA.
But he doesn’t mention AWINZ Mr Wells using council staff which had been offered for use by his associate Tom Didovich without apparent authority from the council hierarchy . Wells points out how rare it is to have private law enforcement authorities
There are only 2 countries in the world that depend on a private organisation, the SPCA, to act as the enforcer and prosecutor of animal welfare law — New Zealand and the 7 states and territories of Australia.
Mr Wells using the council staff and resources prosecuted under the guise of the fictional AWINZ and pocketed the money into an account only he had access too, funds which he has since used to haul me through court so as to cover up the criminal activity associated with AWINZ.
If we were to adapt the model which Mr Wells had set up there would be no need for funding as it ensured that public assets were used for private pecuniary gain. I am sure that any accountant would tell you that there were serious flaws with Mr Wells model and to prosecute through an authority which has no legal existence ensures that there is no accountability to the public and no one can hold you accountable as there is no identifiable and sue able person to take on. the dangers of this relationship are expressed by Mr Wells in this comment
Legal commentators maintain that the enforcement and prosecution of criminal law (animal welfare offences are crimes) are the responsibility of the state and not private organisations that have no public accountability.
I could not agree more , when an organization can increase its income through prosecution and incidentally giving people a criminal conviction it becomes very serious , take that one step further and if there is no organization and the law enforcement authority is in reality just one person who has obtained law enforcement powers using a false identity then it has to be SERIOUS , especially when council, MPI, ministers, OAG all go out of their way to cover this up or turn a blind eye to it.
The statements he made in his submisson shows just how serious the matter with regards to the fictional AWINZ was
The Law Commission in its paper Delivering Justice For All (2004) commented that “the operation of the criminal justice system is the responsibility of the state.” Judge Garland in R v Balfour said that “the SPCA was effectively standing in the shoes of the government.”
In reality therefore Neil Wells was one person standing in the shoes of the government , so when I asked the question why AWINZ did not exist, it was far easier to crucify me than it was for any government department to say Oops we gave law enforcement authority to a fictional organisation.
AWINZ has proved that there was a lack of accountability , we still do not know who was regarded to be the organisation no one can identify the real people actually involved. we know that Wyn Hoadley, Graeme Coutts Neil wells and Tom Didovich posed as the organsiation and claimed the law enforcement powers as their own but there is not one document which can be produced from any legitimate source which supports that claim.
Incidentally it Was Tom Didovich who supported Wells application on behalf of Waitakere city council
When the application for approved status was made there was no trust deed, there was no group of people who had decided to apply for approved organization status, there was just Neil Wells and his own business plan for making money . In 2006 when I discovered that AWINZ did not exist , Neil Wells tried to contact four people who he had spoken to in 1998 who had been recruited by Didovich for the possibility of forming a trust with council to facilitate the delivery of animal welfare services.
Council paid for this through Didovich , but the persons never met as a trust. In 2006 there was not a trust deed ( it was claimed to be missing ) and I have conclusively proved that these persons did not form a trust until three months after the application for approved status was made and that they were not the approved organisation .
Graeme Coutts , Nuala Grove and Sarah Giltrap were all recruited because of their station in life or perceived station in life , they never met as a trust and never applied for approved status , they were not the law enforcement authority .
Under Item 17 clause 35 Mr Wells describes the pilot scheme set up by him to trial animal welfare in councils , he again fails to mention that it was set up at his instigation and that this led on to the fictitious AWINZ being created.
While I commend Mr Wells concern for little furry things he has had no such compassion for Humans especially when it came to me and my family. Wells has totally destroyed my family and financially stripped me. Mr Wells in my opinion is nothing but a criminal at large who has used the courts to pervert the course of justice so as to conceal his criminal offending.
I do not believe that any one can treat humans and animals differently , to be cruel to a human ( yes I have suffered at Mr Wells hands for 8 Years ) makes a mockery of the perception of being humanitarian .
If AWINZ had been legitimate ( it was not ) I would have expected Mr Wells to have made mention of it. His manner of dealing with AWINZ , or should I say avoiding it in his submission , to me at least proves his guilt .
I think that it is about time some one dealt with the reality that AWINZ was nothing more than a name Mr Wells had given himself, he had used others to cover up , when they realized how serious things had become ,they could not back out for they too had committed offences through him by being party to a raft of offences from being accessory after the fact to parties tothe the offence of using the court to pervert the course of justice.
this was done through a tactic called
DARVO – Acronym of “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender”.
I was the whistle blower and was made out to be the villain Wells became the Victim picked on by this deranged woman . It is a powerful strategy and it works in New Zealand especially when you can show that you are kind to animals.
Well I am kind to animals and to humans.. hasn’t helped me.
The victim stance is a powerful one . the victim is always morally right neither responsible nor accountable and forever entitled to sympathy
I can prove everything I say and I am speaking the truth , I will again send this to Mr Wells and draw this to his attention so that corrections can be made .
Again I will ask him to provide evidence.. that is the one thing that those who make things up always lack. If you want evidence from my side all you need to do is ask I have truckloads of the stuff.
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