[Andy Saunders]

Wanganui - whoever you are, I thank you for your posts both here and elsewhere.

Your perception is absolutely correct. The same poster (or one who is working with him), by the way, has already made similar posts elsewhere. I am aware that on another forum that same individual has been permanently banned and I am give to understand that the same poster has already been banned on this forum. Twice.

What we have here is a futile attempt at cyber-bullying and whilst I am a great believer in the old "sticks-and-stones" adage I am, frankly, more than a little surprised that this forum has seen fit to let this continue.

I have avoided comment here until now to avaoid the flame-war that the originator of this thread so clearly intends. However, I am afraid that the poster is clearly uninterested in how this story developed (it is over ten years ago, by the way!!) or of the outcome. That outcome saw the person who started the stories that form the basis of the video clip branded by His Honour Judge Renie as "a liar" who, the Judge said "...had lied to this court and another court." To those still interested I would suggest reading the accurate version of events written up by an independent third party in After the Battle Magazine. However, the facts would rather spoil the originators thread who would not wish for the facts to get in the way of a good story! Those facts, by the way, include substantial damages paid to me by various media outlets, published apologies and substantial costs (a £ five figure sum) paid to me by the MOD. All of the allegations were found and proven to be baseless, and the suggestions being bandied about on other forums have no basis in fact and are libelous in the extreme. Yes, I pleaded guilty to the TECHNICAL offence of having an invalid licence. The reason? The MOD had inexpliucably post-dated the licence and we carried out the recovery about ten or so days before the licence came into effect and the small print had gone un-noticed - all caused by a clerical error on the part of the MOD who had written October instead of September on the licence. But I had to carry the can for that!

I have nothing to hide here and that is not why I have kept a low profile on this matter thus far. I should also add that this is all VERY old hat. I had not intended to comment and had accepted the wise counsel of very many of my good friends here to leave it. I no longer find it possible to do so. However, I have absolutely no intention of commenting further or responding in any way to anything the originator may doubtless have to say.

I imagine, also, that we are expected to be so stupid as to believe that new-poster "partisanjager" is not either the same poster or else working in unison!