View magazine denounces Sara Jane Baker's incitement and violence against women

[FindTheTruth]

twitter.com/rebell_justice/status/1427942009621389316

One would have thought that members of the government would be doing a bit of due dilligence, before getting involved in schemes like this.

Farah Damji currently identifies as being 'in exile' in Dublin. The View Magazine is raising funds said to enable her to sue various NHS Trusts for allegedly failing to treat her mental health illness/es correctly whilst she was in prison. It appears likely that there may be outstanding extradition issues caused by Brexit/Covid.

August 2020
"Gardaí have arrested a notorious fraudster who had fled to Ireland while on the run amid a trial in London in which she was convicted and sentenced in her absence.

Members of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau also found false IDs they believe she had been using in Dublin, where she has presented herself as an Icelandic national.

A credit card in the same name as the false IDs was also recovered by gardaí, as well as two laptops that were seized for examination. Damji was taken before the High Court in Dublin on Monday afternoon, where she was remanded in custody to the Dóchas Centre, the women’s prison on the Mountjoy campus on Dublin’s North Circular Road.

Gardaí also informed the authorities in Britain of her arrest, and she was set to be extradited to serve her sentence there." (continues)
www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/serial-fraudster-on-the-run-from-uk-authorities-is-arrested-in-dublin-1.4332524

1st June 2021
'Female ex-prisoner to become first to publicly sue NHS over mental health care in jail
Ms Damji is seeking damages of at least £70,000 over claims she received poor mental health care at three different prisons.'
(extract)
"Ms Damji is suing Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust over claims she was repeatedly denied mental health care at HMP Bronzefield, HMP Downview and HMP Send between 2014 and 2020."

news.sky.com/story/ex-female-prisoner-to-become-first-to-publicly-sue-nhs-over-mental-health-care-in-jail-12321653

9/6/2021
Walk A Mile In My Shoes (podcast)

Yesterday, I was contacted by Clare Simms, the managing editor of View Magazine, a quarterly publication that tells us it’s “for women with conviction, dedicated to our children, families, supporters, legal teams and the charities and NGOs that strive to keep us together when we are falling apart.”
It’s a magazine written for and often by women with experience of imprisonment which they provide free to prisons, prisoners and ex-prisoners. They sent me 3 editions for me to have a look – and I can say, from what I’ve seen so far, it’s a quality production.
Clare has put her weight behind a woman she’s got to know through her work, Farah Damji, who’s raising awareness of the absence of mental health provision for women in prisons through her own case against Central and Northwest London NHS Foundation Trust, who, she explains, failed her while she was in prison. Farah hopes that her test case will support and change the circumstances for the thousands of women who are denied mental health care in prisons today.
Since there are only a few days left in their campaign, I’m posting my conversation with Farah today in the hope we can help them reach their £5000 target.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/farah-damji-talks-about-lack-mental-healthcare-in-womens/id1441565361?i=1000524819547

Con artists are sly, clever, manipulative, dangerous and have no morals, so I hope that no solicitor will take her case.

The crowdfunder seems to have been taken down.

Jess De Wahls via Twitter

"After a challenging few weeks, I am taking an extended social media break. I need to prioritise my own wellbeing and focus on completing orders.

Following much consideration I have withdrawn from the Someone’s Daughter campaign and The View magazine.

I have informed the organisers that I cannot fulfil the embroidery advertised as part of their crowdfunding and I will not be attending any panels.

If you need to get in touch, please use the contact form via my website.

Thank you to everyone who has reached out in support"

twitter.com/JessDeWahls/status/1430142617992548383

Times

Fraudster Farah Damji linked to justice campaign
Catherine Baksi | Jonathan Ames, Legal Editor
Thursday August 26 2021,

(extract)
Prominent lawyers and campaigners are angry that they were persuaded to back a campaign for female offenders without knowing of its connection to a convicted fraudster.
Baroness Hale of Richmond, the first female president of the Supreme Court, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws QC, the anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller and the human rights activist Bianca Jagger are among a number of high-profile women who will appear in an exhibition of photographs organised by the magazine The View." (contines)

Kennedy — a human rights barrister — said she was “very troubled” to learn about the link between the exhibition and the convicted fraudster.
Several other people involved to the project said they too were concerned to learn of the connection." (continues)

Barbara Rich, a prominent barrister who has researched connections between Damji and The View, said that “contributors to crowdfunding and those who have given their names to support the Someone’s Daughter project are unlikely to be aware of the full extent of this association”.
Simms said that “a lot of misinformation” had been reported about Damji. She added that Damji had “hired an internet erasure specialist and a specialist defamation solicitor” who were in the process of applying to have reports deleted from the internet." (continues)

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fraudster-linked-justice-campaign-female-offenders-m3stzm2qs

Jess De Wahls via Twitter

"It has been brought to my attention that The View Magazine now claims that their crowdfunding campaign was run by
@ rachelara and myself.
This is demonstrably untrue.
I have also publicly announced earlier this week that I have withdrawn from further involvement in the project."

twitter.com/JessDeWahls/status/1430860714529406980

Dr Kate Coleman via Twitter response to rather implausible claims by The View Magazine/ Rebell Justice
(see screenshot)

twitter.com/NoXYinXXprisons/status/1430877714051997702

For background (from website):
Keep Prisons Single Sex
"Aims and Objectives
Our aims are clear & simple:
No male, no matter how he identifies, should ever be housed in a women’s prison.

When a male is arrested, commits a crime or is imprisoned, he should be always be recorded as male & never as female. (continues)

For an introduction to the issues, read KPSS Director Kate Coleman's article on the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies website.
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/womens-prisons-should-be-single-sex "

www.keep-prisons-single-sex.org.uk/

Thanks R0 for posting that.

Indeed the mask has slipped. Or maybe the reasonable person who was manning the social media accounts the other day has left the building.

Either way, it is quite clear that they are not actually clear where their support lies. It is like watching a push me-pull you in action.

Barbara Rich (threadreader)

(extract)
"The Times has reported today on the association between rebell_justice which publishes The View Magazine and is promoting the Someone’s Daughter photography project with a crowdfunding appeal, and serial fraudster Farah Damji. I am quoted in this article

The View magazine was originally the idea of Farah Damji, who first produced it whilst in Downview Prison. See BaronessUddin in House of Lords debate on 25 July 2019 describing it as “a wonderful magazine”
Hansard link here and see screenshot (continues)

As the Times reports, shortly after that company was formed, in April 2020, with Clare Simms as its initial some director, a further directorship was registered (since removed) in the same false Icelandic name as Farah Damji used whilst a fugitive from UK justice in Ireland

The company, a community interest company, is limited by guarantee. The name of the second guarantor appears to be misspelled on Companies House records. If Farah Damji had used her own name, a search would have revealed a previous company compulsorily struck off the register

filed this community interest statement, as required by law, on its formation. Yet one of its activities since formation has been to crowdfund litigation costs for a “Miss L” to sue the NHS for failure to treat her mental health in prison.

“Miss L” is Farah Damji, as this news report, which hyperlinks to the CrowdJustice page, says. I think there was also a hyperlink from The View’s own website a few days ago. Why was Miss L not identified? And how is this activity in the community interest?

I first tweeted about The View and its Someone’s Daughter crowdfunding project about a week ago, as did others NoXYinXXprisons BluskyeAllison SVPhillimore and others. rebell_justice’s response was to complain to my chambers and to accuse me of harassment and defamation (continues)

I think there are lessons to be learned here about due diligence and transparency. I hope that whatever is of value for women prisoners and criminal justice in the project can continue on a more trustworthy footing in the future, under new management of unimpeachable integrity
I’m not a criminal barrister but in my professional legal practice I see a fair amount of financial abuse of elderly and vulnerable people. I abhor it. I have also seen abuse of crowdfunding here. I will not be intimidated by the sort of threats and abuse I have received here" (continues)

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1430790048811716609.html

Indeed the mask has slipped. Or maybe the reasonable person who was manning the social media accounts the other day has left the building.

There will, no doubt, be many reasonable/well-intentioned people volunteering and/or fiancially supporting the company for various reasons including a commitment to improving women's welfare within the criminal justice system

LangCleg 's "sacred caste" principle always applies and abuse can take a number of forms:

Because if you create a sacred caste of any group and silence anyone asking questions about individuals on behalf of the sacred caste, abusers will see, infiltrate, and groom and exploit...

@Helleofabore

Thanks R0 for posting that.

Indeed the mask has slipped. Or maybe the reasonable person who was manning the social media accounts the other day has left the building.

Either way, it is quite clear that they are not actually clear where their support lies. It is like watching a push me-pull you in action.

I'm afraid that the abusive and aggressive communications (emails, phone calls, whatsapp messages) appear to have come from those in charge of The View. So the Twitter responses are consistent with this and it seems unlikely that any of the tweets over the last week or so are the result of someone simply going off piste.

Pretty sure someone found Clare Simms on LinkedIn and they were using someone else's photo - another alias?

It's such a shame The View seems like a really, really good idea but they really needed to make sure their leadership was squeaky clean.

It's such a shame The View seems like a really, really good idea but they really needed to make sure their leadership was squeaky clean.

'The View Magazine' was Farah Damji's idea. It is always important to establish what the actual aims/objectives of an organisation are as opposed to what we may assume/hope they may be.

Podcast, 'Jail for Women - The View from Inside'
"In this episode, Jeremy speak to Farah Demji, one of the founders of The View magazine - the only magazine on prison reform written by and for women in prison. Farah tells Jeremy about her time serving in a women-only jail, about starting a publication in prison and why it is more important than ever to hear the voices of women trapped in the criminal justice system."
anchor.fm/criminaljusticeontrial/episodes/Jail-for-Women---The-View-from-Inside-edfp6f

Ibid Barbara Rich
"In this podcast of 1 May 2020, Jeremy Dein QC discusses The View with Farah Damji. She identifies herself, with Clare Simms and solicitor Sara Watson, as the three women responsible for the magazine as published, and also talks of “someone’s daughter”

Farah Damji is fluent, articulate and knowledgeable in this podcast. She does not disown her life and history of imprisonment. Yet the interviewer, a criminal QC, does not ask a single question about governance and integrity in the management of The View Magazine CiC’s business"

The View Magazine' was Farah Damji's idea. It is always important to establish what the actual aims/objectives of an organisation are as opposed to what we may assume/hope they may be.

I know that. And if I were being charitable I might consider that her motives were good. But if that is the case she should have realised the controversy her being involved would cause, and take a step back so as not to jeopardise what seems a good idea.

And if I were being charitable I might consider that her motives were good.

Those who seek to defraud/manipulate rely on people making assuptions and/or wishing to demonstrate their charitable/good nature.

Ibid. Times August 2011

Fraudster eyes Tory rehab cash
Politicians such as former Tory cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken have been misled over a scheme to help jailed soldiers
(extract)
"A notorious conwoman is using senior politicians and prison experts to help promote her company which plans to cash in on the coalition’s “rehabilitation revolution” of offenders.
Farah Damji, the socialite daughter of a millionaire property tycoon, has boasted that she has established a “heroes centre” which will help former soldiers and servicemen who have ended up in prison.
Her “social enterprise” company has persuaded Jonathan Aitken, the former Tory minister who was convicted of perjury, to chair an MPs’ group meeting in the House of Commons next month. (continues)

Until Damji was approached by The Sunday Times on Friday, Kazuri’s website claimed its heroes centre was based in the village of Borstal near Rochester, Kent, where the country’s first youth prison was opened in 1902. Photographs on the company’s website showed a secluded building nestling in a country lane.
Many ex-servicemen, the website states, “end up unable to cope on civvy street and addicted to substances. In some cases they commit crimes and end up in prison ... The Kazuri Heroes System offers step-by-step release of trauma and concurrent reintegration for ex-servicemen”.
The Sunday Times has established that the building pictured is a former infants’ school sold in 2007 to Rose Properties, which said it wants to develop the site into flats.
Qaisar Mahmood, a Rose director, said Kazuri had been shown around after expressing an interest in the building, but there had been no meaningful negotiations or any purchase offer. “I have looked at the [Kazuri] website and ... it does seem to mislead people to say they have already kind of acquired the premises and they will be opening in May of next year. It’s misleading. They shouldn’t be doing that, that’s wrong. Nothing has been agreed,” Mahmood said." (continues)

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

The View Magazine' was Farah Damji's idea. It is always important to establish what the actual aims/objectives of an organisation are as opposed to what we may assume/hope they may be.

I know that. And if I were being charitable I might consider that her motives were good. But if that is the case she should have realised the controversy her being involved would cause, and take a step back so as not to jeopardise what seems a good idea.

She has a long history of similar cons. I think the likelihood of her aims being good as less than zero.

Simms has deleted her LinkedIn profile

In case anyone missed it, Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g linked upthread to the relevant Wikipedia page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah_Damji

It is an astonishing read.

Simms has deleted her LinkedIn profile

Simms had made specific claims about her Cambridge University education (Clare College 1992) and employment including that at the Guardian (1992- 99) that no doubt will be verifiable.

I'm afraid that the abusive and aggressive communications (emails, phone calls, whatsapp messages) appear to have come from those in charge of The View. So the Twitter responses are consistent with this and it seems unlikely that any of the tweets over the last week or so are the result of someone simply going off piste.

I am sorry to hear that. And sorry to see that they have targeted you, K. I guess the conclusion is that they thought that if they played the 'neutral' card, they would gain wider support. And then when pressed, they could not keep it up.

Sarah Philimore (family lawyer) via Twitter

"Polite notice. If ‘Claire Simms’ telephones you or your workplace to threaten you, check and see if she sounds like this.

The View - Farah Damji
Farah Damji introduces the new independent prison magazine for women, The View.

What an incredible shame for those women who thought they were part of something life changing. I hope the project can be taken up by another group which is responsible and credible. And which doesn’t threaten people."

twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1431197320167792645

Didn’t Sarah say that she had been ‘relieved’ of about £6k?

Sarah Philimore described how she was defrauded by a woman named Tracey McMahon, a friend of Damji.

"I was defrauded on the basis that a mother and baby foster placement was being created and needed funds to furnish it. This seems to mirror FD’s activities."
twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1429812873207951365

"I felt physically sick when I saw the name of the woman who defrauded me listed as involved with one of their fundraisers and signing their open letter as ‘a campaigner’.

This woman’s modus operandi was to perform friendship over months, even years and then scam you for as much money as she could get and then disappear. I lost £6k in 2019. I doubt I am the last of her victims.

She was successful in her grooming because of her connections with ostensibly respectable organisations. Such organisations must not be naive or willfully blind to the dangers presented by active criminals."
twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1430154251674734593

Uncommon Ground Media article
'Open Letter to HM Government on COVID-19 and the Criminal Justice System'
March 23, 2020 The View Magazine

(see screenshot)

uncommongroundmedia.com/open-letter-to-hm-government-on-covid-19-and-the-criminal-justice-system/

NB Dr Nicola Harding (Lancaster University) via Twitter

Just a reminder - I am not & have never been involved or affiliated with this magazine. I have never give my permission for my name to be linked to The View in this or any other campaign/ website/ social media/ publication.
twitter.com/NicolaAHarding/status/1429753775934349315

... I have never been asked and I have never given my consent - it repeatedly keeps happening. My academic work was pkagurised by an unnamed writer in the last magazine. When I have spoken out about it I got harassing complaints to my workplace, texts and had to report to police.
twitter.com/NicolaAHarding/status/1429794267795501058

Filia via Twitter
9:30 PM · Aug 26, 2021

"Comment on FiLiA's involvement with The View Magazine"

twitter.com/FiLiA_charity/status/1430991005365506050