The Gilchrist saga gets yucky

Rochelle Rees has put out a release:

Further in the emails sent by Rob Gilchrist to the police counter-terrorism units, was an email sent on 30/07/2005, containing naked photographs of a female and then teenage activist, sent with the subject line “needs a shave….”.

Now Gilchrist was not a police officer, and I suspect he sent a lot of unsolicited e-mails to his police handlers, but nevertheless you would at a minimum expect the Police to have told him not to send such material ando/or reconsider his value to them, if his judgement is this flawed. Any person who circulates naked photos of someone they have been intimate with is a scumbag.

There is no evidence that the police objected to the “needs a shave….” email, and clearly Rob Gilchrist had reason to believe that police would want to receive such an email. On the contrary, the fact that the police continued paying Rob Gilchrist $600 per week for over another 3 years, shows they did not view his conduct as grossly inappropriate.

Maybe they did, maybe they did not. But this is just another reason why the Police Complaints Authority (or another suitable body) should be asked to investigate the activities of the Police with regards to Gilchrist.

Also discovered on Rob Gilchrist’s computer were naked photos of a then 16 year old activist, which look to have been taken while she was sleeping. Naturally, I am left wondering if those were forwarded to the police, and whether any photographs of a similar nature were taken of me and sent to the police.

An understandable concern.