I will be forwarding the following 'Open Letter' later today. 5th March, 2025 ‘OPEN LETTER’ This updates my ‘open letter’ of 6th January, 2025 THIS 'OPEN LETTER' IS, OSTENSIBLY, NOTIFICATION OF MY PROTEST AGAINST HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY BY WAY OF HUNGER STRIKE. I AM ACCUSED BY HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY OF OFFENCES THAT I DID NOT COMMIT. I AM, EFFECTIVELY, PROTESTING FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE FREELY WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR. I HAVE LIVED FOR ALMOST TWO AND A HALF YEARS WITH THE WEIGHT

Access to Records Single words leapt out of the pages of my medical records like lobbed concussion grenades, words such as ‘obsessional’, ‘fixated’, ‘risk’ and ‘stalking’ aimed squarely at me. There were other words that I skimmed across, barbed arrows of accusation, fletched with my name, nocked and ready. I was somewhere between dumb-founded and shellshocked. 15th June, 2022 My access to records request was my concerted effort to bring order to chaos, to find explanation

I have just received the following letters. Lord Hanson Flint's response simply redirects me to the Information Commissioners Office and the Independent Office for Police Conduct. I'm now trapped in a loop. My hunger strike resumes on the 5th March, 2025. I will not back down. Unless I am willing to accept the unjust loss of my life and liberty I cannot back down. Mark Stock ***************** Basingstoke ******** Our Ref: *******

So, why title my blog, ‘Four and Twenty Dead Crows’? You might have been reminded of the English nursery rhyme, ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’, the common version of which goes like this ‘Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing. Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king was in his counting house, Counting out his money. The queen was in the parlour, Eating bread and

I had been deeply disturbed by Sean Dale Malloy’s revelation. It seemed obvious to me that he had overstepped, had disclosed facts that were probably meant to have been kept secret and this just added to my festering distrust. There was an overwhelming sense that I was being managed behind the scenes, being lied to, that I was the subject of a very real conspiracy. A quick Google search reminds us that a ‘conspiracy’ is usually defined as a secret plan or agreement between pe

The gatekeepers to 'talking therapies' are as principled as nightclub bouncers, less truculant, maybe more passive-aggressive. Or at least, that has been my experience. I basked under a fleeting sunrise of optimism following my return to Basingstoke. My excursion along the South Coast Path had surely convinced the community mental health team at The Bridge Centre that I was seriously unwell. I was wrong. Laura Jones called me late in the morning on the 4th of May, 2022 to dis

I walked wearily to the campsite reception, sat down outside the site shop and checked for text messages on my mobile phone. There was one from my daughter, Meg who wrote ‘police are knocking’ and another from Hampshire Police, pestering me for an update of my whereabouts and safety. I called them first. I came to an agreement with the police woman on the other end of the line. I tell her roughly where I am and they leave me alone for twenty four hours. I told her that I had

A SERIES OF UPDATES THE UK PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH INQUIRY SUBMISSION I have taken time out from posting to Four and Twenty Dead Crows so as to collate evidence to submit to the Inquiry before the deadline of the 4th February, 2025. ‘The Committee is undertaking an inquiry into community mental health services. The inquiry will examine what good looks like from the perspective of service users and their families/carers. The Committee would like the inquiry t

My attention was recently drawn to an invitation by the cross-party Health and Social Care Committee to users of mental health services to submit evidence of their experiences. It is the stated responsibility of the HSCC to scrutinise the work of the Department of Health and Social Care and its associated public bodies. They examine government policy, spending and administration on behalf of the electorate and the House of Commons. I will be taking time out from posting upda

27th April, 2022. I thought I had planned my walk reasonably well. It was fourteen miles between the rail station at Weymouth and Lulworth Cove where I had booked a tent pitch at a campsite. While I had definitely anticipated an arduous journey I hadn’t expected the extremes of the ups and downs of the path ahead. The South Coast Path is like a rollercoaster. One moment I was at sea level and the next I was hundreds of feet at the tops of cliffs. I wanted to reach the campsit

27th April, 2022. I left the flat before sunrise and trudged the ten minute walk to Basingstoke station, my pop-up tent flapping comically from my laden rucksack. I bought a one way ticket to Weymouth and caught the first train out of Basingstoke. The carriage was warm and the morning still early so I made myself comfortable in my seat and prepared for the almost two and a half hour journey. The English countryside rolled by under a newly risen sun. I was glad to be putting

Here follows the letter sent by email to CAMHS General Manager, Wanda Reynolds just prior to my ‘walk’ on the 27th April, 2022. This letter is, for all intent and purposes, a suicide note. I now know that the psychological distress felt by me at this time was bordering on mental disorder. My confusion was profound and I was beginning to doubt my own sense of reality. Things would only begin to make sense seven weeks later when the first of my access to records requests was di

The following 'open letter' was posted yesterday. It is, ostensibly, a notification of the start of my latest hunger strike. ‘OPEN LETTER’ Dated 6th January, 2025 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS OPEN LETTER REQUIRES THE SERIOUS ATTENTION OF HAMPSHIRE CONSTABUALRY SOUTHERN HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman The Health and Care Professions Council NOTIFICATION OF MY HUNGER STRIKE IN PROTEST OF HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY REFUSAL TO REMOVE FA

By mid-February, 2022, I had been appointed a new GP by the name of Dr Dougan. I have positive memories of Dr Dougan and her colleague, Kirsty Smith. I was carried, by both, through six truly dark and troubling weeks as CMHT and iTalk bounced me back and forth like a mouldy hot potato and Social Services hemmed and hawed. Medical records seem to suggest Dr Dougan’s frustration in dealing with CMHT and recorded a conversation with iTalk, quoting Kylie Selholm as saying she ‘fe

I made further appeals following receipt of Sally Mungall’s ‘CAMHS closing letter’, first to Gail Gray and then again to Sally herself on the 21st March, 2022. The response from the CAMHS Team Secretary, Gail Gray, failed to address my concerns while another response from an unidentified ‘duty clinician’ was simply confusing. Sally remained inexplicably silent. Then, at 09.03 on the 22nd March, 2022, I received the following email ‘Dear Mr Stock, Thank you for your email and

13th March 2022 Almost six weeks had slipped past since I had received the call informing me of the cancellation of my meeting with Sally Mungall. I had been both polite and patient while desperately holding onto a fast eroding belief that Sally was still captured by those same ‘unforeseen circumstances’ described by the CAMHS receptionist. That belief was being slowly swallowed alive by a pernicious distrust that tightened its grip around my windpipe and I struggled for rare

Kirsty Henry forwarded a written account of her mental health assessment in a letter dated 16th February, 2022. The account was summarised by ‘recommendations by MDT’, which means that a multidisciplinary team convened to discuss my case and decisions were made as to the best course of action. The letter concluded, ‘We have referred you to iTalk for counselling and CBT skills. I have kindly asked that you have carers

Bill’s Crisis assessment recommendation was acted upon almost immediately and I was offered an appointment for a ‘SOON’ mental health assessment with the CMHT ( community mental health team ) at The Bridge Centre, Basingstoke within days. That appointment was cancelled shortly after and another appointment was offered for the 7th Feb. It was less than a three week wait but I remember it still seemed interminably long. And then the unexpected happened! On February the 2nd, the

17th December 2024 Your reference ********* RESPONSE TO LETTER DATED 9TH DECEMBER, 2024 PART THREE Revised 18th December 2024 to correct minor grammatical details and edit certain words for clarity This is the final part of my response to your letter dated 9th December, 2024. Your letter informed me that you had decided that the following issues did NOT meet your threshold -misrepresentation of service user -delay in responding to service user -failure to provide appropr

Here follows Part Two of my response to the letter from the Health and Care Professions Council received on the 9th December, 2024. This is another lengthy document running to 5260 words and around the same length as Part One yet I have only addressed two out of the seven outstanding issues that I wanted the HCPC to forward to their Investigation Panel. I would need another two or three days to complete this response to my satisfaction but my mental health is very poor at the