I have been forced to compile the following statement which will be sent to Hampshire Constabulary, the office of Basingstoke MP, Luke Murphy and CMHT The Bridge Centre later today.
STATEMENT
The following statement, written under duress, is necessary to address the concerns raised by Hampshire Constabulary, the office of my local MP, Luke Murphy and even the community mental health team who currently preside over my care.
During the evening of Friday the 30th May, 2025 I received a telephone call from Hampshire Police. The caller, who identified himself as ‘Joshua’, insinuated a pretext to my ‘open letter’ dated 30th April, 2025, enquiring about my plans to stage theatrical protests in and around prominent sites in central London. ‘Joshua’ was particularly interested in the finer details of those plans, including clarification on the ‘risks’ I was prepared to take. I refused to elaborate. The rationale, motives and aims behind my planned protests had already been laid out, explicitly, in my blog, widely available to the public. I asked ‘Joshua’ for his surname and shoulder number but he only offered ‘28367’. I have since made a formal complaint about aspects of ‘Joshua’s enquiries to Hampshire Constabulary.
Then, on Wednesday the 11th June, 2025, I attended a meeting with my care coordinator at CMHT The Bridge Centre, expecting to talk about my mental health and details around my recent psychotherapy sessions. I was informed that concerns had been raised by the office of my local MP, Luke Murphy about my planned protests. From what I could gather, Luke Murphy’s office contacted the Head of Nursing, Professions and Quality at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Gemma Stubbington.
Gemma then had a meeting with John Kelly and together considered action to be taken by CMHT The Bridge Centre against me including a referral to PREVENT, the Home Office programme designed to stop people from becoming terrorists!!!!
I have since asked John Kelly to confirm this in writing and to also confirm the following points
‘Please would you also confirm the second precautionary action considered by Gemma. I remember you mentioning something beginning with ‘M’. I need to know if this second precautionary action is a part of the Prevent ‘counter-terrorism’ program, a part of CMHT policy or protocol or something else.’
‘Please would you confirm if Gemma, you or anyone else in CMHT has been approached by Hampshire Police with reference to my upcoming protests in London.’
‘Please advise me if the office of MP, Luke Murphy or Hampshire Police have suggested a referral to Prevent.’
‘Please would you confirm that the police liaison with CMHT is still PC Charlton or provide details of the current police liaison officer if this is different.’
I was immediately OUTRAGED at the news that I was being considered for referral to PREVENT. I challenged John Kelly on his part in that referral during my meeting with him on Wednesday. I was NOT satisfied with his response.
I followed this with two pertinent questions.
1) Had John or Gemma actually read my blog and referenced the parts that had caused concern for the office of my local MP, Luke Murphy?
John told me that he had NEVER read any of my blog and so couldn’t cite the parts that had caused concern for the office of my local MP, Luke Murphy.
2) Had John ever referred anyone else to Prevent before considering referring me?
John told me that he had NEVER referred anyone else to Prevent before me and so had no precedence for referral.
I am asking again, here and now, in writing ‘WHY THE CONSIDERATION TO REFER ME TO PREVENT?’
‘Prevent emphasises early intervention to stop vulnerable or easily susceptible individuals in society from being drawn into extremist ideologies. However, there is no single model for someone’s radicalisation journey, so bespoke interventions are vital to effectively reintegrate them back into wider societal ideas. Vulnerability to radicalisation arises from several factors like age, disability, risk of abuse or neglect. As radicalisation has no single pathway, the government aims to address risks early, through a multitude of avenues. Prevent monitors trends in radicalisation; violent and non-violent extremism, with particular attention on the rise of Islamic extremism and right-wing ideologies posing the biggest threat of terrorism in recent years.’
Which leads me to more serious questions.
Am I now considered a subscriber to an extremist ideology?
Is John Kelly, the office of local MP, Luke Murphy or any other involved party attempting to shoe-horn concerns around my perceived political interests outside of and unrelated to my grievances against the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Hampshire Constabulary or the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman? ( Clinicians and leadership at the Trust used a similar tactic while attempting to distance themselves from accountability by framing me as the problem. )
All concerned have escalated tensions and or considered and or advocated actions that formally identify me as a potential terrorist threat.
Let me remind all concerned that
I HAVE NEVER HARMED, NOR THREATENED TO HARM, ANYONE.
THE ONLY PERSON EVER TO HAVE BEEN AT RISK OF HARM IS ME.
The rationale, motives and aims behind my planned protests had already been laid out, explicitly, in my blog, widely available to the public. Nowhere, throughout the entirety of my blog, is there any reference to or implication of intention to harm or threaten to harm anyone.
I will take this opportunity to draw attention to the following entries to my blog
LATEST ISSUES 30TH April, 2025
‘I will, for as long as is reasonably practical, continue to act pro-socially. Nevertheless, I do expect the authorities to eventually over-react. The police, especially, have consistently proven themselves fallible in this respect. I am prepared to escalate my complaints and protests, to push boundaries and to be provocative. I am aware that the police may even use lethal force against me and I am prepared to accept this outcome. Alternatively I will, at some point, abscond into the countryside and die while the public watches. I will have been backed into a corner and will have exhausted all other alternatives of recourse.’
LATEST ISSUES 9th May, 2025
‘I will also reiterate my own commitment to protest against the PHSO, along with my protests against Hampshire Constabulary due to recommence next month. I will be protesting by way of theatrical stunts outside the House of Commons, alongside other significant locations around London.’
‘Once I have a public audience, hopefully in the millions, I will recommence my hunger strike and take that particular protest to its ultimate and irreversible conclusion. I am determined to make a national news story of my case. My life has been taken from me. I want it back. I currently have nothing else to lose.’
I believe the rationale, motives and aims behind my planned protests to have been expressed clearly. I chose my written words carefully. To reiterate ‘I do expect the authorities to over-react’, emphasis on ‘OVER-react’. ‘I am aware that the police may even use lethal force against me’ is recognition and acknowledgement of the fact that the Metropolitan Police have previously shot and killed innocent people.
I AM NOT A FUCKING TERRORIST!
I am choosing to protest because my formal complaints against Hampshire Constabulary have been met with contempt, derision and ignorance.
I have already been protesting against the injustice metered out to me by Hampshire Constabulary by way of hunger strikes without success.
I believe my protest by way of hunger strikes will be substantially more effective if carried out in front of a public audience of hundreds of thousands, preferably millions. I believe the quickest, most effective way to engage with such an audience is by way of theatrical stunts in and around prominent locations in central London. I intend drawing the attention of Members of Parliament outside the House of Commons. I also intend to make myself the subject of widespread tourist attention and hopefully a national news story.
I am also protesting to raise the awareness of Members of Parliament of the ‘systemic corruption’ within the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman and the urgent need for legislative reform of the Ombudsman.
I am also protesting to raise widespread public awareness of my journey through mental health services in Basingstoke, with particular reference to the disturbing and truly harrowing experiences with two NHS Foundation Trusts, while advocating on behalf of my mentally ill daughter.
I will take this opportunity to set out an itinerary for the first day of my protest.
First date of planned protest scheduled for Tuesday the 24th June, 2025.
07.21 Arrive at London Waterloo.
08.00 Arrive at Houses of Parliament. Walk around and draw attention.
09.00 Walk down Parliament Street to Downing Street. Stand around and draw attention.
10.00 Walk down Whitehall to Horse guard Parade. Stand around and draw attention.
10.30 Walk down to Embankment underground station. Catch tube to Tower Hill.
11.30 Arrive at Tower Hill and walk to Tower Bridge.
13.00 Walk to and around the Tower of London
14.00 Walk back to Tower Hill underground. Catch tube to St . James Park.
15.00 Arrive back at the Houses of Parliament. Walk around and draw attention.
16.00 Walk back to London Waterloo station.
I will be wearing a crow mask over my head and a cape on my back. The cape has my blog site internet details written in large letters.
I will be carrying a rucksack on my back containing refreshments including water and food. This rucksack will be under my cape.
I will be wearing a GoPro camera strapped to my chest.
I hope to be live-streaming my journey.
I hope to upload photos of me wearing the crow mask and cape to my blogsite before the 24th June, 2025.
I intend to return to London to resume protesting on the 1st and 8th of July, 2025. My itinerary will be different and either published on my blog site and or contained in updates emailed to you 48 hours in advance.
I had hoped to have started these protests much earlier but needed to postpone, primarily because of a recent deterioration in my daughter’s mental health. Let nobody forget that my actions are the result of systemic failures by mental health services in Basingstoke to attend to the mental health needs of my daughter in a timely, competent and professional manner alongside the very real and provable abuse and neglect of both of us by those same mental health services.
I had expected to have recommenced my hunger strike by the end of June, 2025.
If my protests on the 24th June, 2025 and the 1st and 8th of July, 2025 attract sufficiently high volume of traffic to my blog then I will recommence my hunger strike on the 15th July, 2025 and starve myself in front of a widespread, possibly, international audience.
If my protests do not attract sufficiently high volume of traffic to my blog then I will be forced to escalate future protests, to push boundaries and to be provocative. AGAIN, I am aware that I may be arrested and accept this outcome. I am aware that the police may over-react and possibly use lethal force against me. The police have a reputation for over-reaction. I am prepared to accept this outcome.
I reiterate
I HAVE NO INTENTION OF HARMING OR THREATENING TO HARM ANYONE.
I ACCEPT THAT I WILL BE PUTTING MYSELF IN HARMS WAY AND ACCEPT THE RISK.
IF ANY POLICE OFFICER DECIDES TO SHOOT ME THEN BE ADVISED THAT THEY WILL BE SHOOTING AN UNARMED PROTESTER.
I will be extending an invitation to the national press to observe my protests.
It would be far more constructive to allocate time and effort into settling my grievances instead of indulging in histrionics or neurotic, knee-jerk over-reactions.
Yours, absolutely sincerely,
MARK STOCK
15th June, 2025
