The following post is written by
Senator Stuart SyvretIN THE JERSEY HOSPITAL.
A Death-Delivering Maniac?
Jersey’s Then Attorney General Michael Birt Pulls the Plug On The Police Investigation.
So it begins.
It is with trepidation I publish the material below – for reasons which will become plain within the first few paragraphs.
The document I publish here was tabled before the court in London, as one item of evidence in the Applicant’s bundles.
To be clear – this went before the two judges – and even then, they chose to disregard the public interest – instead asserting that we should take up these matters with the Jersey justice apparatus.
Notwithstanding the fact that the same administration of justice apparatus was responsible for covering-up what is revealed.
The document I publish is a secret Police report from 1999.
It is self-explanatory.
The subject of this report – one Andrew Charles Marolia – came to the attention of the Police because of – comparatively – minor offences involving the stealing of drugs from the Jersey General Hospital.
He was charged with these comparatively minor offences, pleaded guilty – and was sentenced to two years unsupervised probation.
I was a member of the then Health & Social Services Committee, and later became President of the Committee in December, 1999.
Marolia was sacked from the General Hospital in response to the comparatively minor offences.
However, being a former military Nurse, who has served in the first Gulf war – he found a ready stream of politicians and others to lobby on his behalf to be allowed to be re-employed in the Hospital.
On one occasion he appeared before the H & SS Committee to make a formal appeal.
It was rejected because of the conviction for the minor offences.
Still, I continued to be lobbied by politicians and others, who wanted the Committee to employ Marolia again.
I raised the issue of this lobbying in a face-to-face meeting with the then Chief executive of Health & Social Services, Graham Jennings.
I did not want Marolia to be re-employed, and Jennings was certainly of the same opinion.
He explained that Marolia was obviously a wholly unsuitable individual to be in health care. Jennings went on to say that, in any event, we couldn’t be expected to take Marolia back even if we wanted to – as he was deeply unpopular with other staff – who were “mounting a vendetta against him”. To illustrate the extremity and unreasonableness of the “personality clash”, Jennings said to me, “a member of staff has even suggested that he killed people. It’s utter rubbish. But don’t worry – the Police have investigated the matter, and whilst they were too gung-ho and wanted to start exhuming the non-cremated bodies, the Attorney General Michael Birt has told them to drop it, because he doesn’t believe their are any grounds for securing a conviction.”
At the time, I took this at face value. After all, if your professional Health Chief Executive tells you this – and relays to you the fact that no less an authority than the Attorney General has dismissed the allegations – who is a mere politician to doubt them?
But – some years later – around 2005, perhaps – a conscientious member of staff at H & SS leaked this Police report to me.
As is clear from the Report, Jennings had a copy – but he never told my Committee or me of its existence.
It took a whistle-blower to reveal it.
When I read the report you are about to read, I was speechless.
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Quote of report off Senator Stuart Syvrets blog:
STATES OF JERSEY POLICE
Your ref:
Our ref: RHLeB/PAO
Date: 12th May 1999.
TO:
M C St. J. Birt Esq. QC.
HM Attorney General
Law Officers' Department
Morier House
Halkett Place
St. Helier
JE1 1DD
Dear Attorney General
Andrew Charles MAROLIA
I refer to the attached report by Detective Inspector Faudemer concerning the above named who is currently on remand from the Magistrates' Court for a variety of charges involving Drugs, Theft and Firearms.
Mr. Faudemer's report details allegations and innuendo, the most serious of which indicate that Marolia may, over a period of time, have terminated the lives of some patients at the General Hospital where he was employed as a Nurse.
I support Mr. Faudemer's recommendation that if enquiries are to continue a phased approach should be undertaken, the first of which would be to collate further evidence. However, I recognise that the continuation and development of this investigation will require a high level of legal advice and guidance from your department and our work will impinge upon the Health Authority and Viscount and given the uniqueness and sensitivity of such an investigation I feel it is appropriate to hold a high level meeting with yourself and others to whom I have copied this letter.
The purpose of the meeting will be to receive an oral brief from Mr. Faudemer who will be able to answer questions which you and others may have, followed by a general discussion to determine the way forward.
The meeting has been arranged for Thursday 20th May at 2.15 p.m. in the Conference Room at Police Headquarters and I look forward to seeing you.
Yours sincerely,
R. H. Le Breton
Chief Officer
c.c. Legal Adviser - Mr. Ian Christmas, Deputy Viscount - Mr. P. De Gruchy, Chief Executive Health Service - Mr. G Jennings, Deputy Chief Officer - Mr. R. Jones, Superintendent - T. Garrett, Director of Finance - Mr. M. Szpera.
REPORT
Submitted by: Detective Inspector B. Faudemer.
Date: 8th May, 1999.
Subject: Investigation of Nurse Andrew Charles MAROLIA.
Sir,
This report has been compiled into three separate areas, namely:
1.Evidence which gives rise to concern, relating to the activities of Andrew Charles MAROLIA.
2. The recommended for phase 1 of any investigation.
3. The suggested manpower requirements for conducting such an investigation.
BACKGROUND
On Thursday, 1st April, 1999, Police Officers attended the home address of a female who disclosed that Andrew Charles MAROLIA, a Staff Nurse on Corbiere Ward, had stolen and stored drugs at her home address. The female, an ex-lover of Mr. MAROLIA, produced to the officers, drugs in the form of Valium and Hypnoval, together with a syringe containing clear liquid and several packets of Coproxamol. These have since been identified and their content verified. Hypnoval is more commonly known as a 'date rape' drug. Enquiries confirmed that the drugs were from the hospital and indeed had been sent from the Hospital Pharmacy to Corbiere Ward, where Mr. MAROLIA worked.
A check on the Firearms Register held at Police Headquarters, revealed that Mr. MAROLIA had possession of several firearms, and that his Firearms License had expired in October, 1998. The female who handed the drugs to the Police confirmed that MAROLIA had attended at her premises with a loaded firearm.
Mr. MAROLIA was arrested on returning to the Island on the 17th April, 1999, and, armed with a Warrant, his home address was searched. During the search, the following property was recovered.
1. One lump of brown cannabis resin, tablets and scales.
2. Knuckle-duster.
3. A Police Philips radio (in working order).
4. Bag containing various medications.
5. Eleven syringes with a clear liquid within, and other medication, including
two bottles of potassium chloride.
6. Six firearms, with large quantity of ammunition.
7. One expired Firearms Certificate.
MAROLIA was interviewed concerning the medication found, and at first suggested that the insulin in the eleven syringes was intended as an aid to body-building. He later changed this story, in that he intended to kill himself with the medication, by marching down to the Cenotaph in military dress, where he would inject himself with a lethal dose of insulin and potassium chloride.
He claimed that the medication recovered from his ex-girlfriend's address by the Police, which prompted the investigation, had originated from himself, but that he had taken it to the location by mistake, from Corbiere Ward, having left it in the pocket of his nurse's uniform.
Police Surgeon Dr. Michael HOLMES first expressed concern when he viewed the drugs recovered, in that a combination of insulin and potassium would be very difficult to detect in the body. Added to this, the amount of drugs in the possession of Mr. MAROLIA cast doubt on his account, in that he had several lethal doses of drug. If a person with a serious medical history were to be injected with the combination of drugs found in the possession of MAROLIA, the cause of death would not be clearly apparent. His possession of such drugs was therefore regarded as suspicious.
Enquiries have continued over the last three weeks, and have established that Mr. MAROLIA has had several affairs with either patients or relatives of patients at the General Hospital.
A disturbing disclosure was received from a nurse in the United Kingdom, which will be subject of comment later in this report. The evidence which gives rise to the suspicion that Mr. MAROLIA may have endangered the life of patients is as follows.
Read the full report
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