I am now in the process of delivering the following 'Open Letter' to a comprehensive list of addressees and going forward with plans to escalate my protests due to recommence in June this year.
‘OPEN LETTER’
Dated 30th April, 2025
This updates my ‘open letter’ dated 5th March, 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
SHABANA MAHMOOD, The SECRETARY OF STATE FOR JUSTICE
The OFFICE of the POLICE CRIME COMMISSIONER
LUKE MURPHY, MP for BASINGSTOKE
The HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE COMMITTEE
The PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
The addressees of this open letter are
Gemma Stubbington, Head of Nursing, Professions and Quality, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Chinu Simon, Consultant Psychiatrist, CMHT Bridge Centre, Basingstoke
Dr Viv Cowdrill, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, mid-north Hants psychological services
Rt Hon. Shabana Mahmood, Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice c/o Luke Murphy, MP
Scott Johnson, Chief Inspector, Basingstoke District, Hampshire Police
Donna Jones, Hampshire & IOW Police & Crime Commissioner ( ********** ) and ****************** and ************
Claire Sharkey, Caseworker, The Health and Care Professions Council ( ******** )
Rebecca Hilsenrath, CEO, The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman (********* ) c/o Thomas Body, senior caseworker, The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman (*********)
Colum Conway, CE, Social Work England (ref ****** )
Care Quality Commission, for the attention of Ian Trenholm, Chief Executive Officer (***************** )
Andy Ashby c/o PALS, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust ( ******* )
A Lowe 17010, Professional Standards Investigator, Hampshire Police ( *********** )
This ‘open letter’ will be widely published on social media and addressed to the local and national press.
This ‘open letter’ will also be addressed to each and every legal entity listed in the following House of Commons Library document, including solicitors and direct access barristers
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN03207/SN03207.pdf
This ‘open letter’ is, ostensibly, formal notification of my decision to postpone my latest protest against Hampshire Constabulary by way of hunger strike.
I am formally notifying all those addressed of my intention to recommence my protest by way of hunger strike later in June,2025.
I have been forced to postpone my latest protest by way of hunger strike against Hampshire Constabulary for the following reasons.
1) The need to raise widespread national and international public awareness of my cause and my struggle for justice and accountability and
2) The historic and current ineffectiveness of regulatory bodies, ombudsman and politicians to hold individuals and institutions to account.
1) The need to raise widespread national and international public awareness of my cause and my struggle for justice and accountability.
MY SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
I have been writing a biographical account 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. That account has been published through my blog site at www.fourandtwentydeadcrows.com and on various other social media platforms. My online presence has, so far, attracted an audience of some two hundred or so readers from around the world.
AN AUDIENCE TO MY HUNGER STRIKE
An audience of some two hundred or so readers is not enough. I need to raise widespread awareness of my cause and invite an audience of hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of the British public and exponentially more from around the world, to read my story and bear witness to my ongoing struggle for justice. I believe that my continued use of hunger strike will be made more effective if it is witnessed and followed by hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of people.
ESCALATING MY PROTEST
I am planning to escalate my protest against the injustice metered out by Hampshire Constabulary and to raise widespread public awareness of my struggle to hold individuals and institutions to account by way of a series of theatrical stunts to begin in and around significant locations in London including the Houses of Parliament, Downing Street, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice and various news media addresses including the BBC. I will also need to consider escalating my protest in and around Basingstoke town centre and outside specific NHS mental health sites in Basingstoke and in the West Sussex areas.
I need to solicit coverage by newspapers, tv and radio and will do whatever it takes to make a news event out of my protest.
PROSOCIAL DISSIDENCE
I have, to date, been careful to act pro-socially in all of my complaints and protests. People will obey authority so long as its system, basis, and demands are viewed as legitimate. Prosocial behaviour occurs when individuals voluntarily engage in actions that benefit others and society as a whole. Pro-social dissidents understand the important roles that societal laws play in maintaining order, but also recognize and address the flaws in authoritative reasoning.
Pro-social protests, if viewed positively, can increase freedoms and equality for the general public, and improve democratic institutions.
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.
2) The historic and current ineffectiveness of regulatory bodies, ombudsman and politicians to hold individuals and institutions to account.
My pro-social efforts to hold individuals and institutions to account have been met with incompetence, indifference, contempt and disdain. I have been the made the victim of clinical abuse and neglect by those working at CAMHS, Bramblys Drive , Basingstoke and the wider Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and psychologically damaged in the process. I have been made the victim of a covert campaign of lies and misrepresentation by those working at CAMHS, Bramblys Drive , Basingstoke and the wider Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. I have been cynically and vexatiously reported to Hampshire Constabulary by those working at CAMHS, Bramblys Drive , Basingstoke and the wider Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. I have been falsely accused of serious offences by Hampshire Constabulary and psychologically damaged in the process. I have been failed, repeatedly, by those regulatory bodies, ombudsman and politicians whose job it is to protect the public.
HAMPSHIRE CONSTABUALRY
Hampshire Constabulary continues to refuse to remove false, discriminatory and psychologically damaging information under my name from their database.
HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY HAVE UNJUSTLY LABELLED ME A ‘CATEGORY 2 VIOLENT & SEXUAL OFFENDER’, FALSLY ACCUSED ME OF STALKING AND HARASSMENT, OF MAKING ‘UNWANTED CONTACT’ AND OF BEING A RISK TO THE PUBLIC. HAMPSHIRE CONSTABULARY INTEND RETAINING THIS INFORMATION ON THEIR DATABASE FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS BUT LIKELY UNTIL I AM 100 YEARS OLD!
For clarification, THESE ARE MY ASSERTIONS
1) I did NOT commit any OFFENCE
2) I am NOT guilty of STALKING
3) I am NOT guilty of HARASSMENT
4) I am NOT guilty of a VIOLENT OFFENCE or CRIME
5) I am NOT guilty of a SEXUAL OFFENCE or CRIME
6) I am NOT a risk to the public
7) The ‘contact’, by way of a copy of a formal complaint document and a reasonable and polite follow-up letter, was not known by me at the time to be ‘unwanted’. In fact, the follow-up letter explicitly informed my accuser that I would not make any attempts to ‘contact’ them should they make it known to me that ‘contact’ was making them feel uncomfortable. They cynically and vexatiously complained to Hampshire Constabulary.
Further details are published throughout my blog at www.fourandtwentydeadcrows.com
SOUTHERN HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
I have been attending CMHT The Bridge Centre since 8th February, 2022 and been under the care of three different psychotherapists who have been treating me, ostensibly, for Complex-PTSD. The psychological damage caused by CAMHS art therapist, Sally Mungall, along with the dishonest way I was treated and the misrepresentation of me by her clinical and leadership cohorts in the wider Trust has been a major contributary factor leading to my Complex-PTSD diagnosis. Additionally, the actions of Hampshire Constabulary and their insistence in retaining false and discriminatory has further contributed to my continuing trauma symptoms.
My only recourse against Hampshire Constabulary has been protest by way of hunger strikes. I was committed to a third such hunger strike which commenced on the 6th March, 2025. A part of the responsibility of CMHT The Bridge Centre was to monitor my physical and mental health through ‘shared care’. In regular NHS psychiatry practice, ‘shared care’ means that a GP surgery will issue future prescriptions and arrange to review blood pressure, pulse and weight at six-monthly intervals. In my particular case, arrangements were agreed with me to monitor my physical and mental health initially on a weekly basis. During my first hunger strike in 2024 ‘shared care’ arrangements escalated over the weeks of starvation. This involved a clinician telephone call twice a week as well as a clinician having ‘eyes on me’ at least once a week, physical checks including readings for weight, blood pressure and pulse and a meeting with my care-coordinator weekly. Towards the end of my first hunger strike I was visited at home weekly for physical tests and mental health assessment. An ambulance was called to my home twice.
I had been the subject of an agreed ‘shared care’ arrangement through my second and now my third hunger strike until around three weeks ago. During my weekly care-coordination on Wednesday the 23rd April, I was informed that ‘shared care’ had been withdrawn because my weight loss was deemed to be slow. No other clinical reasons were given for this decision and no considerations regarding physical or mental health assessments were offered. This decision appears reckless and totally invalidates my hunger strike.
I wrote and sent the following email to my care-coordinator the following day
‘Dear John,
I am writing to follow up with yesterday's care coordination meeting with you and provide further opinion about the team's decision to withdraw 'shared care'. I know that you have MDT meetings on Thursdays. You should read this email to the team.
I continue to be appalled at the decision and am especially angry at the supposed reason for that decision. You explained that the reason to withdraw 'shared care' was based on the team's assessment of the amount of weight that I had lost in the last 8 weeks. You offered no other reason for the team's decision, so I am led to believe that this is the only reason.
I HAVE BEEN ON HUNGER STRIKE. Weight loss is NOT the only clinical concern for those that are on hunger strike. Or am I wrong? When I have previously been on hunger strike and been subject to 'shared care' I have been monitored for a range of both physical and psychological presentations. It has been explained to me that weight loss is NOT the only presentation of clinical concern and that what someone is or is not eating or drinking is as important as the amount being eaten or drunk. How are you supposed to monitor the effects of nutrient deficiency or the impact on cognitive functioning unless a clinician is taking regular measurements or readings. How can you assess my cognitive functioning unless a clinician is regularly talking and testing?
I measured my weight here at home using my own medical scales and recorded 63kg. I was just short of 80kg when I first started my hunger strike. That's a fairly consistent weight loss of just over 2kg a week. I have been drinking quite a lot of beer and fruit smoothies which might account for a reasonable amount of calorie intake, perhaps somewhere in the region of 450-600 daily. Where is the nutritional value in beer?
How long would I need to continue with the exact same regime before you intervened and reinstated 'shared care'? How much more weight would I have to lose before you considered me clinically at risk? Am I not currently at risk?
When I was previously under 'shared care' I had somebody telephone at home to assess my mental health, ask me questions about how I was feeling etc. Who is talking to me now? How do you know, from day to day, just how I am coping with my mental health? If I were to continue with my hunger strike, then I would only deteriorate. I'm not going to improve.
Have you taking my hunger strike seriously? Do you even fucking believe that I'm on a hunger strike?
So which one of you made the decision to withdraw 'shared care'? Or was it a team decision? I think the person who made that decision is truly incompetent. That decision does NOT inspire confidence in me.
I will likely be forced to postpone my hunger strike and resume later this year in June. I currently only have a couple of hundred people following my protest online and on social media. I need hundreds of thousands, preferably millions of people watching me protest through hunger strike. I intend to make myself a national story.
Things are not getting any better for me. Things are deteriorating swiftly. As such, you should be paying more attention and NOT backing off. I still feel, on a daily basis, precariously close to walking out of my flat and into the countryside and never coming back.
Then will I trust you and the team to be taking care of my mental health needs? Probably not. Will I be trusting you and your team with 'shared care', to weigh me, to talk to me, to make all the required physical and mental health assessments? Probably not.
While I continue to respect Farayi Nyakubaya and Gemma Stubbington and while I remain especially impressed by the Mid Hants psychology team, including ********** and my current therapist, ******, none of you currently working at the Bridge Centre inspire confidence. None of you can be trusted.
You ALL need to do better.
Mark ‘
I have had no response from John or any of the team on this matter.
THE PARLIAMENTARY HEALTH SERVICE OMBUDSMAN
The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman is FAILING me.
According to Wikipedia, the PHSO ‘possesses wide powers of investigation and is able to determine the procedure for the investigation and to obtain information from such people as required. In respect of the gathering of evidence and the examination of witnesses, the Ombudsman has the same authority as the High Court. Defiance of these powers can be treated as contempt of court.’
The PHSO is inexplicably refusing to use those same ‘wide powers of investigation’ while dealing with my complaint against the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
I received the following email from caseworker, Thomas Body, on Friday 25th April, 2025 with reference to PHSO ref ********* complaint summary
‘Dear Mr Stock,
I am emailing to let you know, I have issued a letter explaining we will not be taking your case forward any further as we are unable to agree a complaint scope. The letter also explains that we will be setting up a separate case for Meg and will be in contact once this has been done.
I am sorry this will be extremely disappointing for you, but we feel we have tried on several occasions to manage your expectations on what we can and cannot do as part of any investigation.
Kind regards
Thomas’
This email is Thomas Body’s attempt to absolve himself and the wider PHSO responsibility to properly investigate my serious complaints against the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and follows a catalogue of failures by the PHSO to act on my behalf. I made my original complaint to the PHSO in September, 2022 and that complaint was entirely overlooked for at least a year. It was almost TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS before caseworker, Thomas Body, was appointed to my complaint.
I received an email from Thomas Body on the 6th March, 2025, asking a series of questions including ‘Can you confirm what specific questions you wanted the Trust to answer as part of your desired outcome?’ I replied to Thomas Body’s request and submitted a document titled 'PHSO THE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS I WANT ANSWERED AS PART OF MY DESIRED OUTCOME' which listed 73 questions either unanswered by the Trust, inadequately or partially answered by the Trust or newly formulated questions raised as a result of my own investigations.
Thomas Body replied, first by telephone and then by email on the 1st April, 2025 informing me that he needed to manage my expectations of the PHSO including ‘Thank you for taking the time to speak to me last week. Following our conversation, I need to make you aware that having spoken to my manager and colleagues within my tea, we cannot ask the Trust to answer the 70 questions you say have been left unanswered.’
Further correspondence from Thomas Body reiterates the refusal of the PHSO to ask the Trust to answer my 73 questions, ‘In relation to the 73 points of complaint you want us to put to the Trust, this is not something we can do for you. I feel with have addressed this point in detail and do not feel it appropriate to go over it again.’ Thomas Body has NOT addressed this point in detail and utterly failed to explain why the PHSO is refusing to use its considerable powers to properly investigate my complaint. Further details can be found at https://www.fourandtwentydeadcrows.com/post/latest-issues-7th-april-2025 and
https://www.fourandtwentydeadcrows.com/post/latest-issues-21st-march-2025
I WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING THOMAS BODY’S LETTER OR ANY OTHER FORMAL NOTIFICATION THAT THE PHSO DOES NOT INTEND TAKING MY CASE FORWARD.
THE HEALTH AND CARE PROFESSIONS COUNCIL
I originally raised a ‘fitness to practice’ complaint against CAMHS art therapist, Sally Mungall with the HCPC in September, 2022. The last communication with caseworker, Claire Sharkey, was as follows
‘From: Mark Stock *********************Sent: 20 December 2024 11:58To: 'FTP'
Hi Claire,
Thank you for your email.
I am encouraged to read that you are reviewing my response to the Senior Decision maker’s decision.
I also acknowledge that the decision has been taken very seriously but at the same time I am concerned that maybe they were not in possession of the complete evidence. I have continually submitted new evidence as and when I became aware of it ( CAMHS Bramblys Drive and the wider Sussex Partnership have been obstinately uncooperative in supplying information ). Some of that new evidence might have been mislaid or overlooked at your end. This is understandable considering the sheer volume of emails that I have been sending to the HCPC since September, 2022. Hence the reintroduction of important evidence.
I would expect this reintroduced evidence to be sufficient enough to reopen issues that the Senior Decision maker currently considers closed.
I will refrain from making any complaints until you have appraised me of the result of your reviewing the new evidence. If the new evidence is dismissed and the issues in question are not forwarded to the Investigation Panel then I will take up my complaint with the CO of the HCPC.
I don’t expect to be writing to you again before the holidays next week so I will take this opportunity to wish you a happy Christmas and to say thank you for your work on my case.
Kind regards,
Mark’
It has been over FOUR MONTHS but there has been no further response from Claire. It has so far taken THIRTY-TWO MONTHS since I first lodged my complaint and, as far as I can tell, that FULL complaint has still not reached the ‘Investigatory Panel’ of the HCPC.
SHABANA MAHMOOD, The SECRETARY OF STATE FOR JUSTICE
I wrote the following email to the Secretary of State for Justice on the 6th March, 2025.
‘Dear Shabana Mahmood,
I am writing to you with an urgent and desperate appeal.
I have already written to my local MP for Basingstoke, Luke Murphy asking him to forward my concerns to you as Secretary of State for Justice but am taking this opportunity to contact you directly.
I have attached an 'open letter' outlining my concerns.
Please, please help me before it is too late.
Yours sincerely,
Mark Stock’
While I did receive acknowledgment of receipt of my email, it has been almost EIGHT weeks and Shabana Mahmood’s office has, so far, FAILED to respond.
THE OPCC
Luke Murphy, MP for Basingstoke received the following letter from the Minister of State at the Home Office , the Rt Hon Sir David Hanson
DECS Reference: ************** Your Reference: ******* 13 February 2025
‘Dear Luke, Thank you for your email of 3 February on behalf of Mr Mark Stock about his concerns that Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary are retaining false information under his name.
It is important to note that the police are operationally independent of the Government. They make decisions about how to respond to specific incidents based on their professional judgement and the circumstances at hand, and the Home Office does not have the power to direct them to make any operational decisions. Nevertheless, if Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary refuse to delete Mr Stock’s personal information, then he could complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)... If Mr Stock would like to do so, the best way to raise his concerns with how a particular issue has been handled by the police is to make a formal complaint. The Government recognises the need for a formal system of police complaints that enables members of the public to raise concerns about the service they have received. Police complaints are dealt with under a comprehensive legislative framework which sets out the duties of the police themselves in handling complaints; as well as the role and functions of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), the body which provides oversight of police complaints and investigates the most serious and sensitive matters involving the police. I must point out that while the Government is responsible for the legislation under which police complaints are handled, it would not be appropriate for Ministers or officials to comment on, or intervene in, a specific case. This reflects the operational independence of the police and the need for the police to be able to carry out their duties, and make decisions, free from political influence. When a complaint is made it is right that the police have an opportunity to consider and respond to the matters raised. At the same time, the Government recognises that public confidence is vital and therefore by law, police forces must refer the most serious allegations about the conduct of a person serving with the police to the IOPC. This ensures an independent decision is taken, in each such case, on how the complaint should be handled. In Mr Stock’s case, a complaint should be made directly to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. Information about how to complain can be found on their website at: https://www.hampshire.police.uk/search?q=how+to+make+a+complaint. Alternatively, a complaint can also be made via an online form available on the website of the IOPC at: https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/complaints/submit-a-complaint. A short guide to the police complaints system is also available on the IOPC’s website at: https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/complaints/guide-to-complaints-process... Yours sincerely, Lord Hanson of Flint.’
I had already made complaints, twice to the IOPC, and had those complaints directed back to Hampshire Constabulary. On both occasions HC refused to uphold my complaints. Following Lord Hanson of Flint’s advice I made a third complaint to HC. This latest complaint was not upheld by HC. I immediately requested a ‘review’ of that decision, conveying my feelings of desperation, detailing the psychological damage incurred and the clear and present danger to my life. My request for a ‘review’ is still pending with the OPCC.
‘Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire
Your reference CO/00899/25 13th April 2025
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to request a 'review' of the decision made by Luke Finnegan at Professional Standards of Hampshire Constabulary dated 2 April, 2025…’
Update 1st May 2025. It is worth mentioning that Luke Finnegan’s letter dated 2nd April, 2025 states...
‘We have recorded your complaint as follows:
...Complainant feels that he was falsely accused of making unwanted contact...’
CORRECTION. I know that Hampshire Constabulary are retaining records on their database under my name that accuse me of ‘making unwanted contact’ AND harassment under headings of STALKING/HARASSMENT under further headings of ‘CATAGORY 2 VIOLENT AND SEXUAL OFFENCES for 10 YEARS or until I am 100 years old because I am deemed to be a RISK to the public!!!! All of these accusations are FALSE while the risk assessment is risible.
SCOTT JOHNSON
My previous ‘open letter’ was distributed by email on the 6th March, 2025 to an invited list of relevant individuals including Scott Johnson, Chief Inspector, Basingstoke District, Hampshire Police. My ‘open letter’ failed in it’s delivery to Scott Johnson and it is likely that he has blocked me. I consider this to be both impolite and unprofessional. Hampshire Constabulary are currently retaining false, discriminatory and psychologically damaging information on their database under my name and they are doing so under Scott Johnson’s watch. He cannot absolve himself of responsibility by simply blocking my emails.
The failure of those regulatory bodies, ombudsman, commissioners and politicians to hold individuals and institutions to account has forced me to escalate my protest.
I will be resuming my protest by way of hunger strike in June, 2025 by which time I should have accumulated a significantly sized national, international audience. My protest now goes beyond my grievances against Hampshire Constabulary and will now encompass grievances against ALL those mentioned above.
I WILL SPEAK OUT AGAINST INJUSTICE AND CORRUPTION
I WILL SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER.
MARK STOCK
30th April, 2025
