LATEST ISSUES 27th February, 2026

CONTENT WARNING Suicidal ideation

It has been a week since I last posted to this blog. The last several days have been a huge challenge for me as I wrestle with my demons and overwhelming suicidal ideation.

I had been considering making this blog entry a suicide note but held off until the death compulsion eased, if only a little.

It is a recurring issue for me as I wade through the accumulation of literal years of struggle with mental health services.

I have a fascination with mountains. In waking life they appear as simultaneous metaphors of lofty ambition and towering challenges, obstacles or adversities to be overcome.

Alex Honnold is a world famous rock climber best known for his free solo ascents of big wall climbing routes. I recently watched him on Netflix, climbing the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan with no ropes or safety gear. He was also the first person to free solo a full route on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. I am sometimes reminded of one of his other free solo climbs of Half Dome, not far from El Capitan. 1,700 feet on the imposing Northwest Face of Half Dome is a feature that has become famous worldwide – the Thank God Ledge. Just Google ‘Alex Honnold Thank God Ledge’ and you’ll understand. Last night I watched Bruno Pisani’s climb of Monte Pelmo in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy and the traverse across Grohmann’s Ledge.

I have been stranded on my own mental ledge for years, funneled there by forces largely beyond  control or understanding, forces wielded by bad faith actors engaged in a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another. Bad faith acting is associated with hypocrisy, breach of contract, affectation, and the intentional deceit of others. I have met some bad faith actors working in mental health services in Basingstoke.

The events of recent days have threatened tip me off the ledge and into the abyss.

Wednesday 25^th February 2026

I had two meetings scheduled for this day, both at CMHT, The Bridge Centre. What happened during those meetings is summed up in the following email sent yesterday to Darren Humphrey, Director of Quality and Professions - Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Mid and North Division.

‘Dear Darren,

Thank you for taking the time to meet me yesterday and listen to my grievances, especially those surrounding the contentious referral of me to PREVENT.

On face value you appear to be sincere, genuinely interested in my welfare and committed to a fair resolution of the issues that I have raised.

I listened to Gemma Stubbington’s account of the PREVENT referral relayed through you and have spent the last twenty-four hours giving that account erstwhile consideration. I am still of the mind that Gemma’s understanding of PREVENT, including strategy, scope, definitions and statutory obligations is flawed. I continue to believe that her fundamental grasp of PREVENT is mirrored by the Safeguarding Board and, by extension, the entirety of the Trust. I also believe that Gemma completely underestimated the consequences for my mental heath while considering the referral. Indeed, I still believe Gemma’s decision to be reckless and ill-advised.

I was disappointed that Gemma did not take yesterday’s meeting with you as an opportunity to forward answers to my questions first addressed to her on the 11^th September 2025. Her refusal to answer plain questions for more than five months is damning.

Additionally, and for the record, Sadie Bell’s stance in refusing to disclose my personal data is considered by me to be vexatious, her use of ‘lawfare’ bordering on corruption. I have, this morning, received notification from the Information Commissioners Office that they are pursuing this matter with the police as a matter of urgency. That being said, I have been advised that the police have been given until the end of March, 2025 to respond to the latest letter issued by the ICO. I expect the ICO to eventually order the police to comply with ALL my personal data requests, after which the ICO will approach Sadie Bell.

I should remind you that I have passed a comprehensive sixty-one page document which, to all intents and purposes, is a legal brief to Prevent Watch. I understand that Prevent Watch has already passed this document to legal teams for assessment. If I am advised to take legal action  against Gemma and or the Trust then I will do so. I will not be seeking settlement outside the courts unless advised to do so.

We have arranged to meet again six weeks later at 2pm on the 8th April though it is likely that I will be invited to take legal action before then.

I would still like to discuss the irregularities in my medical records. Yesterday, you suggested a mechanism for challenging medical record entries and I would like to signpost me. However, with regards to the false statements made by Nicola Hoyle, North and Mid CRHT Team Lead entered into my records on the 30^th April 2024 at 10.00 by Fred Amanfo, namely the entirely fabricated account of a supposed ‘suicide pact’ between myself and my daughter, I want accountability. I want Nicola Hoyle challenged on this statement so that I can confirm if 1) She fabricated this story herself or 2) She heard a version of the story from Sally Mungall, the CAMHS art therapist who I am alleged to have ‘stalked’. I have a ‘fitness to practice’ complaint against Sally Mungall currently being assessed by her regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council. They are investigating Sally Mungall on a multitude of issues including misrepresentation and false statements. If the false story about a ‘suicide pact’ was engineered by Sally Mungall then the HCPC would want to consider that as evidence. Please would you either approach Nicola Hoyle or ask for permission on my behalf for me to contact Nicola Hoyle directly?

Finally, I have asked for a new care coordinator to replace John Kelly while I remain a mental health patient at CMHT, The Bridge Centre. I made the request to John Kelly yesterday but he adamantly refuses to appoint a new care coordinator. Please would you ask John Kelly to reconsider his decision? I am no longer able to engage with John Kelly following yesterday’s meeting with him. The latest assessment by consultant psychiatrist, Dr Chinu Simon recommended ‘continued engagement with Care Coordinator to ensure close monitoring of Mark’s condition.’ I expect the next few months to be particularly challenging for me.

As to your questions relating to my expectation of mental health services going forward, hopefully I will be in a better position to answer given a few months.

In the meantime, thank you again, Darren for your time and effort addressing my grievances.

Yours sincerely,

Mark Stock’

And then later the following day I received the following

Thursday 26^th February 2026

'Case Reference: IC-***********

Good afternoon, Mark

I hope my email finds you well.

I received a brief response to my enquiries from Jason Russell last week and I have since sent them the letter I had drafted, which I mentioned in my email to you of 18 February. 

However, we will need to allow the force until the end of March to respond to us.

I will of course let you know if there is any progress before then.

Kind regards

Paula Flanagan

Lead Case Officer'  

So, now I am waiting until the 8^th April for another meeting with Darren Humphrey to address grievances surrounding the contentious PREVENT referral

and waiting until the end of March for the Police to even reply to Paula Flanagan at the ICO as I fight for my rightful access to my own personal data about the contentious PREVENT referral

after which Paula Flanagan will challenge Sadie Bell’s refusal to release my own personal data about the contentious PREVENT referral held by Hampshire and IOW Healthcare Foundation Trust.

The process is EXCRUITIATING.

It took Gemma Stubbington just THREE DAYS to action the PREVENT referral but I am now into my NINTH MONTH trying to hold people to account.

And don’t forget, the PREVENT referral was made in response to my expressed intention to PEACEFUL PROTEST, a protest designed to draw public attention to my wider grievances against historic abuse, clinical negligence and potential corruption experienced while my daughter was a patient at CAMHS, Bramblys Drive, Basingstoke during 2021 and 2022!

It would be easier to just jump off the ledge. The mountains in my dreams are really the arena of nightmares. I have the same recurring nightmare of being isolated on a mountain ledge or sawtooth ridge above the cloud canopy unable to move. I always let myself fall. I somehow know that I am dreaming and will wake up if I let myself fall.

I grow more and more convinced that I just need to let myself fall. If I let myself fall then I will wake up from this current nightmare. If I let myself die then I will wake up and all of this will be revealed as just an awful nightmare.