Transcript here
www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/9870/view/public-hearing-transcript-14-march-2019.pdf
"She gifted him membership a year later.
19 Q. When you say "gifted him", what does that mean?
20 A. Well, you can do that. You can buy a membership on
21 behalf of somebody else, and I believe her relationship
22 with her father had not been a happy one, and this was
23 one of the ways of conciliating between them.
"
That's the first of heard of it. David & Aimee were very close!!! Aimee nominated David Challenor for a Virgin Trains 'my best father' competition. David Challenor posted rude reviews of the Bullring when Aimee threatened terrorist attacks on them. Aimee (then Ashton) ran he family's 'Social Services are against the Challenors, the Challenors will overcome' FB page.
"Did you understand that she was saying at that time that
2 she didn't know what the actual allegations were, but
3 that her father had been charged with 22 offences?"
Cross-reference here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3486244-Radio-5-Live-interview-with-Aimee-Challenor?messages=100&pg=1
" I wasn't - I wasn't told the full nature of the charges."
" I was told that the police have released him on bail, and continued to release him on bail, which I think skewed my perception a bit. And obviously there's the familial skew of, it's my family, I have to stand by my family."
The first statement by Aimee appears deliberately meaningless. Nobody could know the 'full nature' of the charges. Aimee's contemporary social media postings suggest Aimee was quite aware of what was being alleged in terms of the victim and the nature of the charges.
Anyway, Aimee's deliberately vague BBC statement is most likely consistent with the one made to the Greens at the time, so it is Aimee that is most culpable here, which is convenient for the Green Party (though not so much for the Lib Dems).
Continuing in the IICSA today
"So David Challenor was expelled from the party with
23 immediate effect, and tell us -- I'm sorry if I missed
24 it -- what became of Amy at that point?
25 A. Amy and Tina were both given what we call a no-fault
suspension, and GPRC, the Green Party Regional Council,
2 immediately instigates a disciplinary process to
3 establish the facts.
4 Q. What happened in that disciplinary process?
5 A. Aimee resigned before the disciplinary process got under
6 way.
And resigned when? Do you remember? I don't want an
8 exact date, but how long after the disciplinary
9 process --
10 A. Very soon after"
They don't mention that the Green Party women put out a statement in support of Aimee during this suspension, which seemed to prejudice any investigation
www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1864624806987631&id=647628982020559
"In relation to the Challenor affair, has the party
16 received internal or external complaints about that
17 matter from party members or others?
I don't know how many people were -- approached the
19 party to ask what was going on or to say that it had
20 upset them, and, to be honest, I think that us
21 commissioning the Verita Report made people feel
22 comfortable that we were dealing with it in an
23 appropriate way.
But up to that point, were there complaints, either
25 internally or externally, about what had happened, and
perhaps --
2 A. Not that I'm aware of.
3 Q. You're not aware?
4 A. No.
5 Q. So you're not even aware if people may still be
6 complaining about it?
7 A. I don't think they are, but I'm quite happy to go back
8 and find out if --
9 Q. No, no, I'm simply asking. If it is necessary, we will
10 ask you to do so.
11 A. Yes.
12 Q. But I simply wanted to know, in general terms, whether
13 you were aware of any such complaints?
14 A. No.
15 Q. I'm not suggesting there are, I just want to ask if
16 there are, to your knowledge?
17 A. No."
Are you fucking kidding me?
It is my opinion that the lessons from the AC case is that while AC was and remains someone unsuited to politics, AC was identified as a 'rising star' for the sole reason that AC identifies as transgender. People who are not trans with Aimee's skills, personal hygiene, background, etc. would not achieve the same level of prominence.
The lesson should be that being transgender is not a reason to elect (or not) someone. See also Heather Peto and others, who have been given extraordinary allowances that would not be given to biological women.
The promotion of Aimee Challenor for the reason that Aimee is transgender caused the reputational damage to the Green Party. Then, the unwillingness to challenge people who identify as transgender, meant Aimee was not properly questioned when David was charged, and again further damage was caused.
The topic then moves on to an email from a woman in relation to a (different) Green candidate, saying she had been raped by him when he was a teacher. The name is redacted, but his identity is transparently obvious by a little Googling.
""I tell you now, you put [the name has been
9 redacted] forward as the MP candidate for [the location
10 has been redacted] or any other position of power
11 representing the Green Party
...
This man has an arrest record for
19 underage sex with young girls
...
I've just finished three months of rape counselling
21 to get over what he did to me when I was 15. I plan to
22 find the other girls I know of and encourage them to
23 come forward. [The person] is a serial paedophile
...
"The Green Party are complicit, you already know
16 about the allegations, which is why he was discreetly
17 deselected as deputy leader"
This email was sent 17 December 2014.
"this predates our disciplinary
9 system, so I'm afraid we can't tell you what happened to
10 it, but we have taken immediate action and we have
11 written to the member concerned and told him that we
12 will be asking for his immediate no-fault suspension,
13 which should happen today, while an independent
14 investigation is undertaken of the circumstances
15 described here"
So essentially this rather major person is accused of being a paedophile by a victim, and they say they don't have a copy of the email, and have no record of whether he was investigated