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Lucy in Between, in depth, part 2

This is a guest post written by Ms Lucy Turnbull. Her case is complex and cannot be explained better than in her own words. We at Science 4 Justice (NL) have verified the recounted facts as far as is possible. The opinions are Lucy’s. This post is the second of a series of four or five posts, recounting events roughly in reverse chronological order.

This version is posted Saturday, 11 July, by Richard Gill. It is a copy of a post of her own, on her own website https://www.lucyinbetween.com/

(That website was itself financially supported by Science 4 Justice-nl.)

After eighteen years of cover up and abuses to my human rights, the murder of my son, I asked for political asylum in Switzerland

I am well aware of how the British justice system is supposed to work and I am well aware of how the European system is supposed to work. I studied both at Edinburgh University, as a mature student twice (32 when I started in 1999). I also worked as a temp for multiple Scottish Government departments since its inception and since Donald Dewer was the first First Minister. I worked in a building in the High Street (which was close to the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall) for the temporary (via Pertemps) Scottish Government. I worked in the Standards and Procedures Department and multiple other departments in 2001 when Randy Reverand Douglas Stevenson was being exposed (not fully) in the tabloids. One of my jobs was to collect newspaper reports about ‘issues of interest to the Scottish State’. I was basically collecting newspaper reports about a Church of Scotland Reverend (Douglas Stevenson) I had an affair with whilst at university! I had to take a year out to let the story quiet down.

As a Sociology student I studied western society in all its parts (1999-2004 – my late son Danny was fifteen when I finished). My children were with me always and at no point were my children living with any other human being during their childhood. This is confirmed by tax codes, school reports, my own GPs (Brough, Black and another (non-Irish) one). I owned my own home worth about 150,000 pounds and had an 11,000-pound mortgage on it. I studied Politics 1, Philosophy 1, Social History 1, Sociology 1, Social Demography 1 in the first year, which basically gives you a grounding on the Enlightenment, and every philosophical, social and political tradition which the British and European justice systems are built upon.

I took both my boys to Gambia when I finished my Sociology MA to show them how fortunate they were and to show them how other people lived. This trip was after I received 5000 pounds for an exposé on Douglas Stevenson.

Being in Gambia and meeting boys his own age made Danny very sad, but my youngest son was too young to understand and was only ever interested in Danny making him laugh anyway, when we were all together.

The second time I went to Edinburgh University was between 2007-2009, after Danny died – I had set up an after-school youth club, mainly to benefit my youngest son, if I am honest, who, as I said, had lost his brother at the very important age of ten (2005) and was desperately lonely. He was 12 when I set up the club.

I had funding from multiple charitable funds for the youth club and got on to this MA course in Community Education as a result. I was a student studying community education and international development.

When Danny died my youngest son was very withdrawn and watching him so alone tore my heart to pieces. He and Danny used to spend every moment together in the house in Polwarth, Edinburgh. We were a very close, tight-knit little family. Sometimes he forgot Danny was dead and it was heartbreaking to remind him that Danny wouldn’t be there when we got home (he was so excited to see his big brother and tell him everything). This happened twice and I can still feel the pain he felt and the pain from watching my son suffer with grief, for the second time, third time. Every major event in his young life reminded us that Danny wasn’t there to share it with us. We knew what we were each thinking when major life events happened (moving up in high school, getting a deep voice, getting a girlfriend, passing all his exams, growing a beard). Our hearts broke over and over again, but there was some comfort for me in knowing we shared the same grief. We were the only ones who shared the same grief!

I kept all the legal stuff from my youngest son because what he was dealing with was enough and he was too young to understand. I told him Danny had had had an accident, and it was left at that. I don’t know what other people said to him but one nasty boy at primary school mocked him, by making jokes about the ‘falling man from the twin towers’.

My son was found dead at the bottom of a high-rise block of flats, apparently, from ‘falling from the thirteenth floor of a high story building’, two floors underneath the home of my disgusting brother.

He had no broken bones!

The conflicting story told to me by Danny’s neighbour and the behaviour of Christopher Turnbull, Morna Turnbull (thankfully deceased), Jenny Hutton and Alan McCune immediately after his death, and in the last three years, to me, point to murder. I have always known it, and their behaviour shows they are hiding something.

Why did they tell Police Scotland they were my son’s next of kin?

Why did Police Scotland take my narcissistic mother and neurotic sister to see my son’s body in the morgue before they informed me?

Why did Colin Boyd refuse to give me a reason to not investigate?

Why did Police Scotland not interview the only legally responsible parent of a dead child?

Why did Colin Boyd, eighteen years later, try to silence me and have me stalked around the world, via Police Scotland, the FCDO and the IPT court?

On what legal ground can a police force have an immigration officer interview someone suspected of something dodgy, without giving them the right to defence from a criminal lawyer?

Professor Gill and I asked Swiss immigration for a full copy of the interviews (recorded, transcribed into French and English, confirmed by my signature to be true), which should have been contained in my asylum file: They refused to send them.

Christopher Turnbull is one of my disgusting brothers whom the City of Edinburgh Council repeatedly pass my details to. Without my consent. The same disgusting person I cut out of my life and Danny’s life when Danny was two years old. The same disgusting person who, along with my mother, told Police Scotland that they were my son’s next of kin. The same disgusting person who could have been the last person to see him alive and the same disgusting person who has been stalking me, courtesy of the City of Edinburgh Council, Police Scotland, the IPT Court (Colin Boyd) and the FCDO. I will come to the Turnbull’s narcissistic psychopathy later. The only reason I don’t go into it now is because narcissists and psychopaths want everything (even my life and the death of my child) to be about them! Their narcissism, and police incompetence, has cost me my life, my son’s life and my rights as a loving mother to have a normal life.

So, I know exactly what is supposed to happen, intimately, theoretically, practically and politically, now procedurally in the UK and in Europe. I understand the justice system as a graduate and post-graduate, not as a previous user of the justice system prior to my son’s murder! In Edinburgh University we studied European politics, the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights, the Maastricht Treaty, etc. as part of the degree.

Since 2005 however, I have to had personally try to use the British justice system, multiple times (Crown and Prosecution Service of Scotland (COPFS) – 2005/6) – a year after my first degree from Edinburgh University. I had tried and believed that when a child died it should at least work then. I had tried and half-believed a specialist court, monitoring illegal surveillance (the Investigatory Powers Tribunal – 2021 – 2023) would at least give me legal representation and the chance to speak. I used the processes I had believed were there to protect innocent people. Every single time I was treated like a criminal. The more I challenged the system and people in the system the more global my persecution became, and the more intense and disturbed it became.

Since asking for asylum in Switzerland, the ‘secret, illegal reports’ have been circulated to people with tremendous power in Switzerland, whose English is not more than A2 level, and this gave many sick people outrageous opportunity to damage me in ways you cannot imagine. Stupid people. Sadistic people. Unprofessional people. Unethical people. Compromised people. People who do not understand the justice system in the UK, or even English. I was thrown to the wolves because of reports written by disgusting and aggressive officers in Police Scotland (because I tried to report crimes in Iraq and I tried to make a missing person report; and, of course, after being refused and treated very aggressively by Scottish Police, before and after having made multiple complaints).

A quick word on the culture within institutions.

If we imagine that the systems in the UK and Europe are not occupied by these kinds of individuals and wish to see them as some kind of opaque, ethereal ‘entity’ then we admonish the individuals which make up these institutions and they escape the consequences of their obtuse and sadistic lies, decisions and behaviours. Institutions are people, not ‘entities’. Although you could argue that the culture within them can promote a sick way of behaving, the culture is made by people and policies written by people. It is not ‘alive’ and not even an ethnographic researcher or anthropologist would argue a human culture exists without people. People are the culture and the culture is the people. Institutions have cultures which are created, reinforced, and broken by people and other institutions. They do not exist without people willing to enforce it. People need to be identified and held to account within these cultures.

Oct 2023 – I went to Switzerland to expose the abuses I was experiencing because nobody would give me reason or justification for anything.

Predicting what the continued consequences of ‘secret’ reports and hidden networks with global reach (IPT, FCDO, Police Scotland reach, into potentially everything I do and still do) would continue to do on my life and my now-ruined career, I decided to force the result (consequence) myself and took another option (UK justice failed again to provide me with anything). In theory, my asylum claim should have been successful. I should have been granted a temporary asylum on the basis I asked for it. If only to allow me to work without being stalked by anyone in the City of Edinburgh Council or Police Scotland (on behalf of those higher up). Or, to allow me to live and write. You cannot do this without a passport.

Explicitly understanding the clear intent (from experience in China and Iraq) and the predictable, continued direction of the lies being written and recorded about me (started in 2005 from the Turnbulls, Boyd, the Barzanis and Police Scotland); which were then repeated in the IPT courts, and forcing the consequences of such lies, allowed me to expose multiple things they had done and were doing. They refused to accept responsibility for anything and, due to this denial, would continue to do so, if I continued to work globally and try to behave ‘as normal’. I had already proven that this would happen, and I had already been ruined because of these lies, circulated outside the UK. That is why I asked for an Appeal. To stop this repeated abuse, ruining the rest of my life. I life I had created out of nothing and after the murder of my child.

I made a request for asylum.

I entered Switzerland via a cheap flight the morning after (October 2023) I received the decision from Judge Colin Tyre, stating that I could not have an appeal, and especially because of the phrase, ‘You cannot take this any further. Your right of appeal ends here. (This interprets as: You did not have the right to defend yourself in the IPT case in Dec 2022. You did not have the automatic right to a lawyer in the appeal hearing. You do not have any right to the information we used to come to our decision in Dec 2022. And, you have no human right to appeal this decision in the last court, the ECHR. You have no human rights at all. This is the basis, in Europe, for asking for asylum and it is enshrined in UK law also. What I did not know is that every single European country has a catch in their law which says, ‘No European country can give asylum to a citizen from another European country (regardless of persecution)’. This shows extreme political selectiveness, not based on human rights, but based on loyalty and global politics. It is simply a them and us system: westerners via others. Citizens via the elites. Mark Carney (Canadian Prime Minister) admitted it recently at a WEF meeting: We were lying about how the old international rule of law was applied to everyone fairly. It was not. We will be using a new system (same system, new words) now.

In our appeal request meeting, Judge Colin Tyre actually said, ‘People have tried (to take an appeal to the ECHR) before and failed.’ I found Tyre flippant, condescending, obtuse, detached from empathy and any understanding about my destroyed career and life, and assuming. In his written decision he suggested I use the ‘Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) to help me’. But, as I did not normally live in the UK and had absolutely no plans to live in the UK (and had left the UK in 2013 and again in 2021 at tremendous expense (3000 plus pounds) after being stuck there due to the pandemic), especially considering what the British state had done to me outside the UK, why would I spend the next ten years using a process that does not work and especially when I know all of the processes I can use which are repeatedly denied to me? And, given, at this point, absolutely nobody had told me why I was under surveillance, why I was denied legal representation and why everyone appeared to be breaking fundamental British laws and international laws. WHAT exactly would I be going to the CAB to ask? Nobody would admit what I knew had happened.

I am not/was not incapacitated. I had understood or learned and used all the processes that should have worked. It wasn’t that I wasn’t capable. It was that the system refused to perform its function of providing information I am entitled to and offer redress.

You must admit lack of capacity to stop us harassing you.

Individualise, medicalise and pathologize your normal behaviour and normal requests. A form of sadism and anti-human pseudo-science. Specifically for dissenters.

The medicalisation of dissenters is documented in many books throughout history.

When the system refuses to admit to fault, it moves on to the next abuse, using ideologies and theories, unproven and possible even unprovable. Just ideas and beliefs dressed up as facts – like ‘gender’, for example. These ideas are about belief and are so prevalent in society that the arguments for them, even though they are tautological, exist in just about every mind in Western society now.

When you refuse to agree with a society’s base ideas (philosophical, political, behavioural, modern medicine) processes within the culture of that society (with the help of people who are blind to what other explanations exist or willing to lie), withing the system need you to claim you are incapable of doing ‘normal’ things. This is in order to control your desire for justice and to give those sadists, incompetents and narcissists in the system the opportunity to claim ‘compassion’ after sadism (intentional or unintentional). It is to resolve their cognitive dissonance because otherwise they would have to admit to great harm of people who do not and did not conform to a very misguided and myopic way of seeing humanity. It takes away their responsibility and accountability. It is a very strong desire and motivator to people who have caused great harm to avoid the catastrophe of what they have done. It is also to satisfy those with huge egos, sadistic attitudes and behaviours to show that they cannot harm you directly after you expose them, so they will force you to harm yourself, by demanding that you claim ‘incapacity, lack of ability’. The system is designed this way. The culture in the west works this way. Court cases cannot go ahead unless harm can be proven. Deviance from this norm is considered abnormal. Therefor anyone with a belief in Buddhism is considered fundamentally abnormal.

What if you are a resilient person who heals but wants justice or believe western cultures suffer from a disturbing malaise?

This is social control. It is very much the way the British have acted around the world during colonialism. It is the British character.

“We have come steal from you. We believe you should believe you are incapable of being civilized. We will take everything we want, and you will be grateful. We will oppress or kill you if you disagree.”

I refuse to admit that I am incapacitated in any way, because I am not, except that I have been made penniless, jobless and homeless by people who are intellectually stunted.

Torture in Switzerland

The majority of asylum seekers are tortured in Switzerland. I am not alone, but my specific kind of torture is a western kind of torture, and very specific to me, which foreign asylum seekers do not and did not experience. Many were aware that I was being treated differently and much worse than they were and many, many of them exploited this to cause me very great harm, especially the foreigners and Muslims working (paid) in the asylum centres. In ORS – the European organization paid to manage asylum centres.

The daily barbarity of many very feral, uneducated foreign men and women I shared rooms with and the barbarity and sadism of ORS staff I will describe. The asylum centres are dominated and staffed by non-western foreigners. It was confronting for other asylum seekers, and it caused enormous suspicion to see a westerner living amongst the other asylum seekers. It made them extremely paranoid and extremely suspicious. I was accused of being a reporter, a spy and a covert immigration officer, working for other countries as well as the Swiss; by staff and asylum seekers. There were some nice ORS staff who could confirm the paranoia of some of the foreign security and ORS staff. Swiss and European staff made up about 20% of staff.

As well as dealing with the barbaric conditions, I had to sit and listen to multiple very fake tales from people who assumed I had never worked in some of the countries they were coming from and did not understand the difference between economic migrants and genuine asylum seekers. Their naivety led them to tell me the biggest tales which immigration officers clearly had no way of checking or verifying. There were many serious criminals, sexual offenders, seriously mentally ill and extremely violent people, with extremist views and a genuine, unhinged hatred of Europe.

Those criminals, and there are many who managed to work the system and say everything immigration officers were looking for, knew intimately what to say and do to be accepted. I listened to many conversations and justifications from asylum seekers telling me why their right to asylum was justified. These were the ‘nice’ ones. These were the ones who thought they should at least offer an explanation. Many feel that just being from a country (not at war) gave them automatic right. Many were just reading a script. Some tried to tell me what to say.

Having lived around the world, and in Iraq during war times, I know war does not automatically mean your life is at risk. Iraq, in 2014 when I lived there, was one of the safest places on earth, contrary to what western media reported. Yezidis were at risk everywhere, but non-Yezidis could often live safely in many parts of Iraq. The myth that everyone living in a country at war should automatically be considered a potential asylum seeker is a misnomer.

In my second asylum centre I was forced, as an only woman, to sleep in a bed, in the middle of an open sleeping space for men. Men who had not been interviewed. Men who liked to violently attack each other. Murderers. Rapists. Paedophiles. Unvetted and dangerous men. The man who told me to do this was an Arab working for ORS. He claimed, after I sat almost silent in the two days, I was there, in a women’s room:

‘You have upset every single man in this asylum centre. You have offended every single man! You must leave Switzerland right now! I will call immigration and tell them you will come and get your passport.’

(An impossibility, given I had not spoken to hardly anyone except the security guards!)

His reaction was due to the fact Police Scotland and the FCDO, via Switzerland, had circulated their lies to every single asylum camp I stayed in. Knowing it would get me assaulted. Knowing the same ethnicities working and living in the camps would share this information (criticising Barzanis and Islam and the UK.

I called the local Swiss police who told him he had no right to tell me to leave a country that was not even officially his country!

To be continued…

Lucy in Between, in depth, part 1

This is a guest post written by Ms Lucy Turnbull. Her case is complex and cannot be explained better than in her own words. We at Science 4 Justice (NL) have verified the recounted facts as far as is possible. The opinions are Lucy’s. This post follows a post on the general aspects of her case. It is the first of a series of four or five posts, recounting events roughly in reverse chronological order.

This version is posted Saturday, 11 July, by Richard Gill. It is a copy of a post of her own, on her own website https://www.lucyinbetween.com/

(That website was itself financially supported by Science 4 Justice-nl.)

Working backwards – 2026 to 2005

I (Lucy Turnbull) will work backwards in my account of what has happened to me since my son was murdered in 2005, aged only sixteen years old. This is to give you an idea of how I got to the place I am currently in, because without this background you will not understand anything and you will probably think I am crazy or making stuff up. I am not.

My son’s name is (was) Dixie Daniel (Danny) Turnbull and I would post a picture of my wonderful son but the mementos I have of my children are in storage in Edinburgh. I had a hard drive which I carried everywhere with me since 2013. In 2025, it was stolen by a Russian in an asylum camp in Croatia (during my third forced request for asylum refugee status). The hard drive had everything on it and kept me close to my children and my life as a loving mother. Now I only have the storage. Danny was very smart; very, very talented and funny. He could mimic any accent, and he was a comic genius. in my humble, biased opinion, of course. He was very popular at school, and he could be a bit of a rogue, deliberately causing mischief if he felt he or someone else was being treated badly. Good teachers (Sheila Mayberry) could channel that energy into positive things; bad teachers punished Danny for speaking up. He was far more intelligent than many of his teachers.

I believe I instilled this moral attitude in him (fighting injustice) due to the moral battles I had with my disgusting family as a new and young mother (22). Due to my decision to limit their contact with my children, to protect my boys (Around 1991, but I made the mistake of thinking I could control my narcissistic mother, giving her limited and conditional access A mistake that cost Danny his life!). I will try my best not to give these Turnbull narcissists the time of day here and hopefully you will see why when I am finished.

Don’t let that introduction distract you. I am writing this story from multiple perspectives.

From the current situation.

I am living in extreme poverty (living on the generosity of friends who have provided accommodation; food often; but on roughly two to three Euros a day), in Asia, and only manage to feed myself and have a roof due to the kindness of Science for Justice, Netherlands and Professor Gill. This poverty is as a result of persecution and being denied asylum in Switzerland, Croatia and Bosnia (a two-year journey – Oct 2023 to Aug 2025). It is not as a result of being mentally incapable or incapacitated. On leaving Switzerland (Dec 2024) I translated a book and left with one thousand Euros, which would have set me up somewhere else, if I had had my passport. So, my current poverty is also as the result of having my passport kidnapped by Switzerland who kept it even, after I left Switzerland, for an additional eight months, after repeated lies and illegal demands from them, saying:

You can have your passport if you agree to leave and give us tickets. We did; they still refused.

After they refused to follow that rule, they then said, to a very expensive Swiss lawyer:

You can only have your passport if you supply us with tickets PLUS show us that you have a one-year residency visa (an impossibility without your passport).

You can read about this on my website, kindly paid for by Science for Justice: www.lucyinbetween.com Here is the letter in French.

I left Switzerland on foot as a result. Crossed European borders, all the way to Serbia, on my own, without a passport. One of their stipulations was that I was to leave the Schengen area – again I complied and again they denied my passport in Sarajevo. The Swiss government only agreed to return it after Professor Gill asked them for it.

So, after claiming they would only return it to me after I submitted tickets and a residency visa, they then sent it to Professor Gill, in another country to me, without any explanation at all. They sent it because they were afraid of Richard Gill, not because I was not making valid arguments, or that my Swiss friends were not making valid arguments, or because I was not complying with their illegal demands, but because Richard has status, connections, influence and is not afraid to challenge those in power.

The (correct) perception of Professor Richard Gill, to be able to ‘see things more clearly and objectively’ is, in my opinion not just down to his above average intelligence, but also mainly down to his status, record of success and his morality. However, a society built on status is one which looks to status for answers and forgets about being humane sometimes. My status was removed from me. My knowledge, wisdom and personal experience, even my qualifications were questioned. I was treated, without evidence as a liar. It was/is persecution.

Perception has come into sharp focus for me since 2020 and I have gained insights into the fallibility of human perception due to these sudden and dramatic changes in my status. These changes were not due to changes in my personality but due to my status and personal history, being denied and twisted (misrepresented) and a character assassination by the British State (FCDO; Police Scotland; IPT Court in London and Edinburgh), who have used every means possible to try and silence me!

Professor Gill

I asked Professor Richard Gill (a one in a million person whom I managed to get the attention of, miraculously) because his Netherlands Not for Profit and his history demonstrated to me that he has excellent tenacity (stubbornness – a value and character I also hold), unusual compassion and objectivity of the highest scientific kind (though he has made some serious errors in his public assertions, which he has apologized for and I forgave him). I knew all of this because of his past achievements, which are multiple and correctly documented. A lot of my story, I believe, is down to people with similar status, influence and reach to Richard Gill but with less integrity; and my story is mainly about corruption of many kinds.

Switzerland is as corrupt as the UK.

As I write about my recent experiences, from 2020 to today, I want you to be aware as I write that my child was murdered, that no state actor (police, Judge Colin Boyd, the Crown and Prosecution Service of Scotland (COPFS)) gave the slightest bit of concern concerning the murder of my child or for the rights of my other, ten-year-old son, to be treated with dignity and respect. Losing a most cherished and loved brother, his idol, at ten years old, devastated my sensitive and gentle son. It also ruined our relationship when his father decided, at 17 years old, that he wanted to be a ‘family man’ and persuaded a naïve and kind child to live with him and his new wife, to prove to her he was a ‘responsible parent’. A largely sudden change of character!

We had had an argument, a very rare thing between myself and my youngest son. And then he left. He was 17. I have seen him twice since then. I went searching for him and found him twice. HE refused to speak to me, walking away from me, saying nothing. He is 32 years old this year. His teenage years and his time growing into a man, was also taken from me, by his nasty father. I was denied the very basic right to watch both my precious boys from growing up. Danny from aged 16 and my other son from aged 17. I sacrificed everything for my children and gave them everything. That relationship is now irreparable.

What was my life as a mother about? To support murderers? To support abusive fathers who only turned up when it was convenient for them? To support an abusive, sadistic, and incompetent justice system? To support bent judges? To simply shut up or be what – locked up, silenced? All of these.

But, as I said, don’t let the story of my murdered child let you think this is all this series of blog posts is about. That would be wrong. My story is about corruption, devastation caused by corrupt, immoral and sadistic people in power and sadism from the same people. It is also about how these people stalked me around the world, looking for reasons and ways to silence and destroy me. People who are supposed to do the opposite of that – restore justice!

Danny’s murder was deliberately covered up, and I knew this from the moment I was told he was dead by the youngest police officers they could find (deliberately chosen I believe to demonstrate a lack of respect to me as his mother). This is a pattern I have seen towards me from Police Scotland and Colin Boyd for 21 years – in Edinburgh and in his now new post as Vice President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The lengths they have gone to try to shut me up will be unbelievable to you.

It wasn’t through a lack of effort on my part to try to hold these people to account after my son was murdered. His murder was covered up. I was refused an investigation. I was denied absolutely any reason from Judge Colin Boyd, who felt no moral compulsion to explain why no Fatal Accident Inquiry would take place into the sudden death (an insulting term – MURDER) of my sixteen-year-old boy. We were deliberately brutalized by the system. Me. The mother and only parent of my first child. The only parent who was there from birth to death. The only one. Alone. The only parent who was there for his devastated little brother. His brother was deeply hurt, and I am confident it shaped his personality as a man. My youngest son’s mostly absent father, went on holiday on the day of Danny’s funeral and told him: Not to cry! So, he abandoned his only son when his son needed him the most.

As a single parent, for the most part, from 1989 to 2005 (until 2011 – 22 years), I bought my house, got a Masters’ Degree in Sociology, did a CELTA, worked all the time around my children’s school times, worked for the Scottish Government whilst studying at Edinburgh University. For my boys. Three months after I did my first CELTA, in 2005, someone murdered my son. I believe they did it out of jealousy, and I believe they did it because I was trying my best to leave Scotland with both my children.

To be happy.

As a result of this brutal and callous cover up, I decided to wait! Wait for the right moment, when I thought i would safe, where I could start to write. That place was China, in 2022, seventeen years after my son was murdered. I waited seventeen years.

But this isn’t a story just about the most devastating thing a parent can experience. The death, or even worse, the murder of their child. This is about much more than that. This is also about Judge Colin Boyd, who was the Procurator Fiscal of Scotland in 2005. It is also about the Investigative Powers Tribunal (IPT) who used my son’s murder to try to silence me in 2022 and 2023 (I was the plaintiff).

It is ‘known lies‘ that have been written about me by those in the justice system which are intended to cause harm, and that is one of the reasons I got in touch with Professor Richard Gill. His campaign for Lucy Letby, a completely innocent person, and the lies told to parents that their children were murdered, share parallels with my own life story about how a corrupt system intentionally destroys the lives of innocent people because they challenge authority and the status quo (the preferred narrative). What is happening to Lucy Letby is a story of brutality. In my opinion, deliberate, sadistic persecution for the benefit of those in positions of power, including and especially, JUDGES and POLICE. I escaped; Lucy did not.

This is about my exposure to widespread corruption involving the IPT Court, the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) and multiple embassies around the world (I left the UK in 2013) circulating disgusting, baseless, dangerous lies which I believe started with Judge Colin Boyd in 2005 and continued with Boyd in the IPT court in 2022. Lies he used, and I am absolutely confident, intended to use, to silence me whenever or if ever I became a ‘problem’. It is also about the complicity of the City of Edinburgh Council and ‘experts’ employed by the FCDO.

To give you some idea about how long and how bad this got, I requested political asylum in Switzerland (the biggest mistake I ever made), in October 2023, just after my attempted IPT Appeal in the Scottish Inner House of the High Court (which was refused). I asked for asylum on the solid basis that I was being persecuted for exposing corruption in the justice system, global corruption involving the Barzanis of Kurdistan, Iraq and in the US courts. The lies which became far more visible to me when I was in China, when I began to be asked questions about these lies, openly, by HR in the Chinese University I worked for in Beijing.

I requested asylum on the basis many asylum seekers do, except I had legal evidence and I provided it:

I was being persecuted, silenced and denied my right to legal defence and told I had no more human rights (officially – in the IPT court’s official refusal to grant me an appeal against the IPT Decision that ‘Nothing illegal took place’ regarding the surveillance I was put under by Police Scotland after I returned from Iraq in 2020) and that I could not appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. My ‘right to appeal ends here (Judge Colin Tyre)’, in Scotland, in 2023.

Tortured in Switzerland on behalf of Starmer and the FCDO

I was deliberately tortured in Switzerland, on behalf of the British FCDO, Sir Keir Starmer and Police Scotland and in complicity with every single foreign minister from October 2023 to this very day. Every single foreign minister is aware of what has happened to me, is complicit in not stopping it and is now complicit in supporting the lies the FCDO have circulated about me and are still circulating about me. The FCDO, along with Foreign Ministers and Prime Ministers, are the only people who have far enough reach (through embassies) to ruin someone’s life like that, globally. I will provide the evidence as I retell my story, some of which is already available on my website: www.lucyinbetween.com.

Foreign Ministers in the UK – Oct 2023 to August 2025.

Switzerland refused me asylum, on the basis that, ‘the UK has a functioning justice system where I can challenge false assertions made about me’. This assertion was concretely disproven to me in asylum interviews in Switzerland and when the nice immigration officer first interviewed me for three hours, around November 2023.

Instead of asking me why I was seeking asylum, she interviewed me as if I was guilty of something, on behalf of Police Scotland, who never interviewed me when my son was murdered. Police Scotland asked them to follow a line of questioning to try to traumatize me and to let me know they could harass me wherever I went. This is their MO. They got Swiss immigration to ask questions they should have asked when my son died but the questions were along the lines of:

You are guilty of neglect or abuse.

You did not raise your own children.

Your ‘family’ raised your children.

What kind people they are!

Both your children are dead!

(This was the same line of questioning I had from an HR woman in China, in 2022, a year after I left Scotland (in the middle of the pandemic and at a cost of over 3000 pounds to me) and started a new job, and after Jeremy Balfour told me I had been secretly (and therefore illegally) put on a VPD (Vulnerable Persons Database) after trying to report Barzani crimes. The police officer committed malfeasance by committing fraud. I made a Subject Access Request as soon I Jeremy Balfour told me this and Police Scotland refused it, on the basis: it was part of an ongoing investigation.

This turned out to be the weaponisation of mental health legislation by Police Scotland. This document was used to torture me in Switzerland and was circulated to every country I have been to, since 2023. Making assertions about the mental health of a woman who has complained about a police officer(s) being misogynistic and abusive, was done secretly; he lied about me giving him consent; and they then circulated this ‘widely’ claiming I consented.

Because a lot of mental health theory is pseudoscientific and therefore difficult to disprove, and because he claimed I ‘knew about what he had done and gave consent’ everyone who read it thought I was a liar! They thought I knew what they knew because he claimed I gave consent! It is/was impossible to challenge. It becomes ‘He who has power controls the narrative’. His intention was to slander me in order to make me look less reliable, credible and to undermine me. He ruined my career which was built on being a very honest, caring, professional woman, internationally with deep integrity.

The lies they (Police Scotland; the FCDO; Starmer) would have told Swiss immigration to follow that line of questioning are very obvious. They followed the lies the IPT made about me; Colin Boyd made about me (in 2005) and Police Scotland, more recently in 2020 (when I returned to make an official record of Barzani’s crimes) made about me.

‘Your son died this morning!’ October 2005

Police Scotland, in 2005, when my eldest child died, did not interview me or even speak to me except to tell me – your son died this morning (I asked them not to say anything and to write it down because I could not hear the words I knew they were about to tell me. Police do not come to your door in that manner except to tell you of a death. It was the third death I was informed of in five years. By two stupid police officers.) What police Scotland did after this, in 2021 was so brutal and the horrendous lies they told, which they then circulated to China, destroyed my happiness. The deliberate sadism destroyed my happiness, and it still takes my happiness, which I worked hard to gain. It was not easy. I had to leave the UK to do so in 2013.

Only once, when I tried for a third time to make a missing person report about my son in 2021 (which they eventually accepted) did Police Scotland apologise for the way they handled that request. Are Police Scotland competent at anything but messing people around, lying, being misogynistic, obtuse and subverting legal processes to protect citizens’ rights? A police officer deliberately left a recorded message on my phone saying:

Who the fuck does she think we are?

If her son left her when he was a kid, she has no right to know where he is. What the fuck are we supposed to do! Eh! (along those lines)

(Why did he think I did not raise my own children? Who told him that?)

His abusive message was recorded in my voice messages, which they tried to deny. Only because of this did they ‘apologise’. They did not even acknowledge my other complaints and tried to remove the word ‘misogyny’ from the one they did (partly) reply to.

Allied relationship – supporting each other.

So, when the British state (FCDO, prime minister, Boyd, Police Scotland) realized I was in an allied country asking for asylum on the basis of persecution, they asked Switzerland to ask me questions the Scottish Police had not asked in 2005, in order to claim: We asked these questions. Look, we have the facts correct (gained illegally from the Swiss). (Swiss immigration have refused to release all of my asylum file – this is illegal under Swiss law. They have refused to send the transcripts of the interviews – two interviews.)

No doubt Police Scotland have destroyed everything that contradicts their true behaviour, since 2005, when they denied me an interview and denied me an investigation, as the mother of a murdered child! They will have replaced it with some of the facts, which they obtained illegally, and did so in a very insensitive way, in an interview where I am asking for protection from their persecution.

It is global corruption. Asking one state to interview someone who has never been accused of a crime, when that person is asking for protection, goes against all asylum rules. Switzerland was in constant contact with the UK, and I was told this repeatedly, by multiple Swiss state actors. The UK (Police Scotland, the IPT court, Boyd and Tyre, and the FCDO) was being deliberately embarrassed and exposed by me and the response was to try and silence me, again. I went to Switzerland to ask for protection and to deliberately expose their corruption. Their communications, lies, stupidity (I believe this is their biggest shame to them – not their obtuseness or incompetency – idiocy) and my evidence, were exposing their barbarity. They were desperately trying to ‘recover their reputation’, manipulating the Swiss government by claiming it was ‘for my own good’, whilst deliberately traumatizing me by forcing the Swiss to interview me about the most devastating event of my life, eighteen years after denying me justice, when I was asking for asylum on the basis of the current sadistic treatment and denial of my human rights. I had no opportunity to defend myself because I was not being openly accused of anything because they were subverting the rule of law and getting an innocent immigration officer, in another country, to interview me about a murder!

How more illegal can it be?

I answered the questions in the first Swiss interview on the basis that this was a private immigration interview and I described my feelings and how it affected me. I did not describe what actually happened because I was not told the interview was part of a ‘police investigation’, which it was! I was being set up!

No doubt they claimed, which is a generous idea on my part, that this was to get to the bottom of things, for ‘my own good’. It was not. At the end of the first interview, I asked the Swiss immigration officer why they had not asked me why I was asking for asylum and only then was I granted a real asylum interview! The Swiss were complicit from the moment I entered Switzerland.

In the second interview, the British sent a British spy, and she tried to change my statement! Right in front of the immigration officer – this will be recorded in the official record, which as I said, has been refused to me by Swiss Immigration!

This refusal has resulted in the ECHR denying me the opportunity to submit an ECHR submission on the basis: You must exhaust all avenues in the originating country.

This is not possible if the institutions in originating countries refuse to respond, refuse to give the information and you have nothing to represent to the ECHR to comply!

The ECHR is just another level of corruption it seems.

Swiss judge: The UK has a functioning justice system.

The claim that the UK has a functioning justice system is farcical for anyone with half a brain.

The UK does not have a functioning justice system. I used all available means available to me, without the right to legal counsel in the IPT case and appeal; because Colin Boyd (who had moved from the Scottish courts to the IPT Court) did not even invite me to the court (again, he silenced me)’ and because I did not have hundreds of thousands for the privilege of a legal expert on the Appeal and could not find one willing to represent me. By the time I got to the IPT Appeal request I was financially ruined (the only way I could actually pursue an appeal in fact) – I believe this was the intention; I had had to return from China (I was stalked all the way by anonymous Scottish police officers on social media) and had to request temporary accommodation from the City of Edinburgh Council. I had to live in the most vomit covered (literally), tobacco-stenching, dope-smelling, drug-addict, alcohol-addict filled council accommodation maintained by aggressive and abusive, highly paid landlords for three months, while I wrote and submitted my appeal. Without social assistance. Almost impossible conditions. Deliberate, as intended by Alastair Jack, the Conservative Secretary of State, who knew who I was and would absolutely have known I was returning to Scotland. As I said, I worked in the Scottish Government and Parliament. I know what communications are passed and I know how! I also worked and campaigned for the Scottish National Party, before it became so depraved and corrupted.

But I did it. I submitted a detailed and coherent appeal – it is on my website (www.lucyinbetween.com).As I said, I was denied any kind of social financial support, even though I paid tax all my life in the UK. I went on hunger strike as a temporary protest and was told by the council social fund: We will not give you money for food because it is your choice not to eat.

I was told I had no official right to any financial support on the basis: You do not normally reside in the UK.

My life was deliberately being made hell, and I was forced also to start another court case against the Secretary of State who responded after two months in the UK: It was a mistake. You are entitled to support as a British citizen!

Did they offer compensation for this deliberate ‘mistake’?

They were trying to break me and destroy me. The system is designed to de-incentivize and break your will.

So, during this time (July 2023 to October 2023), under this duress, I still learned, by myself, how to submit an appeal. This demonstrates my strength of mind, under extreme duress, which the FCDO had repeatedly questioned, and still do, since I started to write about corruption in Iraq, in 2018. The extremes this inevitably took, whilst in Switzerland, will be detailed in another blog. This was their intention. This is what persecution is: character assassination.

I could not find a lawyer to represent me for the appeal. The frequent response was: We have no expertise in this subject (the first IPT appeal request in Scotland). So, I successfully submitted an appeal request by myself. Went to meet Judge Colin Tyre, who immediately said to me: You cannot discuss anything that happened after your IPT Court secret case decision in Dec 2022 and denied me an Appeal against the decision (‘nothing illegal took place’). In other words, even though I had written a detailed report detailing what the FCDO and British Embassy in Beijing did to me in China (and Iraq), and my court case in China (again, I was plaintiff), in my appeal, he did not want me to discuss the incompetence of the IPT judges in front of witnesses in Scotland. He did not want a verbatim record of me stating what he knows I know, clearly and concisely in a court. Again, he wanted to cover up for his mate (Colin Boyd), the police and the FCDO. Both Boyd and Tyre, joined the Scottish High Court at the same time, so of course both know each other, intimately!

It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.

‘COPFS – We do not keep the records of the ‘sudden death’ of sixteen-year-old children from 18 years ago!’

When Danny died, I made requests to the COPFS to ask why they were not investigating the murder of my son. No reason was given. (Boyd’s flippant response is in one of my badly written books on KDP). A book written with the intention of reporting the facts of my childhood. It wasn’t written from the heart. It wasn’t written for therapeutic reasons – I got over the shitty childhood in Scotland like the majority of women in Scotland get over the misogynistic, shitty childhood we had. In fact, when Danny was 3-5 years, I was involved in a magazine which was specifically campaigning on behalf of children in Scotland – I had gotten over it so much I was a campaigner for those without a voice!

(This last point is very important when I tell you what happened to me in Switzerland and how the FCDO illegally obtained a document, from someone in Switzerland after I left. A document which was destroyed by a Swiss judge, in front of seven witnesses, which the FCDO then circulated globally to try to make me look like an unhinged, pathological liar and to stop me getting asylum protection anywhere.)

So, after leaving shitty Scotland in 2013 I was forced to return, in 2023, because of the stupidity and corruption of idiots in Scotland and the UK.

In 2023, when returning briefly to challenge the IPT decision, I, again, made requests for the documents related to the investigation into the decision by Judge Colin Boyd and was told by the COPFS: We do not keep the records of sudden deaths of sixteen-year-old boys in Scotland. Your criticism of us and your emails could be considered abusive!

The source of all of this grief, cover up, corruption, abuse of power and persecution is Judge Colin Boyd, which started in 2005, at the most devastating time of my life, and continues to this day. My poverty and situation are the result his moral degeneracy, incapacity and corruption. It is not as the result of a malfunction on my part. I am being persecuted for telling multiple, global truths.

Boyd abused his position of power to cover up the murder of my sixteen-year-old boy, and he knows that I know. That is enough motive for Boyd to stalk me, ruin me and try to have me permanently silenced. His whole career would be tarnished, again. In fact, multiple people in Scotland want me to ‘shut up’, because no doubt their careers were largely influenced by their behaviour and lies during the cover up of my child’s murder. And now! I have no doubt the murderer(s) and those who covered it up have not had their careers interrupted and would put money on the fact some of them are still in the City of Edinburgh Council and may now be at the very top of the money tree.

The City of Edinburgh Council, in their infantile, narcissistic and psychotic way, still stalk me around the world, claiming their behaviour is: routine, normal and not specifically for me. But they still refuse to answer FOI requests about their behaviour so I can compare it to the way they treat other people they retain inaccurate information about.

IF there was any justice in the UK and IF, the justice system actually worked.

IF he/they cared, which he/they do not.

I believe Boyd is a psychopath and an extremist, British Nationalist. If you look at the multiple, high-profile miscarriages of justice he has been involved in, which are cases like mine involving criticising the justice system and state police. I am absolutely sure is willingly involved in right now (as VP of the IPT), you can see his corruption and callousness is encouraged by a state which continues to employ him.

Just another example of a dysfunctional and morally corrupt justice system.

Next post coming soon…

False Narratives: The sadistic use of Confirmation Bias and Cognitive Dissonance by the British Establishment to silence dissent and persecute the people

Guest post by Lucy-in-Between

Editorial note: “Lucy-in-Between” is a pseudonym of Lucy Turnbull. Under another pseudonym, Morna Constable, she has published two books about her life on Amazon’s Kindle platform, and we recommend them heartily. We at Science 4 Justice -NL have checked all the facts she reports here as best as we could. Lucy’s opinions are her own. In our opinion, her opinions are well justified.

Richard Gill, 10 July 2026.

Competing narratives and confirmation bias.

Power and powerlessness!

In this blog post for Science for Justice (NL) I [Lucy Turnbull] am using mainly two psychological theories, confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance to explain why ordinary people have been fooled into believing the lies about me coming from the British state. I am arguing that it is a deliberate use of these psychological phenomena to manipulate people: the use of the culturally developed biases (inculcated by States) of ordinary people, to turn people against dissenters and victimize innocent people, sadistically. I am arguing that the British state uses these tactics to control, oppress, interrupt or silence dissent. In my case, and many other cases, they have used these strategies to torture me. They are very effective!

I believe the ideas here can be extrapolated to many miscarriages of justice where people believe it is ‘accidental’ or ‘incompetence’; I am arguing it is deliberate manipulation and sadism! The manipulation of narratives and ideas to persecute innocent people.

The establishment (police; judiciary; politicians; powerful people; lazy people; immoral people) are doing it intentionally. They (the establishment) are using courts, the police, other institutions and societal procedures to do this; and colluding with their allies also. These institutions at the heart of a democratic society are, apparently, meant to support a just and fair society; where ‘mistakes’, malfeasance or downright criminal and sadistic behaviour, can be investigated objectively and justice restored for innocent people. Fair and just are fundamental blocks of a functioning democracy. The UK is not functioning as a democracy.

I hope it is clear, that I am asserting none of the clear and public, current patterns of oppression towards the British people are because of ‘mistakes’. ‘Just doing my job’ was the excuse given during Nazi Germany when millions of Jews were gassed to death.

At my most generous you could assert ‘weaponised incompetence’, in some instances, but this is only a distraction. Bureaucrats, state actors and institutions are being encouraged to be sadistic to British people and to see them as ‘the problem to be silenced’.

Visual diagrams of how narratives interact with the truth.

I want to make this blog post as short and concise as possible, so that the confusion you may have felt, may feel, after reading so much of what I have written, disappears and becomes crystal clear, in the way it is in my head. It is concise in my head because I have been living and watching it unfold since 2020. I have also seen the utter confusion on the faces of good, kind and intelligent people who did not have the patience and the intellectual awareness needed to be aware of:

Missing Information.

I think the most important aspect of humanity is that we are missing information and know far less than we think we know because our monkey brains do this for survival.

There are two types of important missing information:

The missing information which comes from my story being completely unique, difficult for outsiders to understand, given it spans multiples cultures; and therefore, difficult to comprehend. It is the perfect situation for: Confirmation Bias.

Missing official information, which confirms much of what I say. Refused by people, judges, immigration in Switzerland; and refused by the IPT court and Police Scotland in the UK. I will give a list of documents and information at the bottom of this post which are required to complete my analysis of my situation. I do not expect the evidence to be released and if it is, it will be redacted. A lot of what is written is lies in any case but refusing to release the information (which is contradicted in other pieces of official information) is evidence of a cover up.

Let’s start with the missing information (Number 1 above) which started this insane journey. The information which you do not have: How a white, mature, professional and highly educated British woman experiences asylum camps in Switzerland; and tries to explain to exceptionally ignorant westerners what my life is/was like outside the UK, in order to enlighten them. (To summarise: it is outwith the frames of reference of most people.)

My story has to be understood from the perspective of ‘your consciousness’ and your ‘unknown unknowns’ (Donald Rumsfeld – explained further down). Also, if you have ever spoken to a child and realised that they know very little due to their limited experiences, try to imagine this is you, talking to multiple people (with childlike understanding), about multiple cultures and who are absolutely unaware that they have no idea about what you are talking about, due to their non-existence knowledge or experience of what you are talking about!

It’s like encouraging a child to swear knowing they do not know what it means but knowing they are getting a reaction of hilarity from the adults – so they keep doing it! Not knowing it will harm them or other people if said in the wrong company!

So, back to missing information.

Missing information is the information which you believe you have or believe you know, but are unaware of the fact that this is your confirmation bias. Because that is what confirmation bias is: seeing something which is not true; creating a narrative to make something make sense which is incongruent with your belief system and personal knowledge/experience; to prevent cognitive dissonance. To make it make sense.

As Donald Rumsfeld said (this is where you engage your critical thinking):

There are (1) known (2) knowns.

(Where you agree something is fact. I am a woman. Etc. ( I was an asylum seeker for almost two years. I lived and worked in Iraq three times.)

There are known unknowns.

(Where you agree you know there are some things which you don’t know. How nice it is working in Iraq and how extremely hospitable most Kurds are. What a beautiful country it is. How women are treated in private in Kurdistan. FGM rates.)

There are unknown knowns.

(Where you agree there are things you know that you can’t know, because you have no way of knowing them, but other people do. For example, what it is like to be a white woman in an asylum camp, in a western country, as the minority, with multiple ethnicities (some very racist) from across the world – who are mostly dark skinned and from non-western cultures. How it is to be a female who has experienced FGM.)

There are unknown unknowns.

(Where you agree/accept that you haven’t even thought about some things because they are so far out of your sphere of consciousness, that you cannot even know that you do not know them. Therefore you do not know the questions you need to ask to discover this new information because it has no connection to your current knowledge. This could be a cultural or subcultural habit which you have never experienced in a culture you have never heard of. For example: The subcultures in asylum camps. Being beaten by deranged African woman in an asylum camps with no laws. The laws of the jungle. (Note: You will assume this is a racist comment because you assume all asylum seekers are black!)

You may be able to infer some things, but if you completely lack experience in, or zero knowledge of something completely out of your sphere of references (and these assumptions are influenced by your gender, social class, race, educational level, personal preferences; and could be intergenerational also); and hold a position of influence in the narratives: you are completely responsible for causing damage and harm if you assert something which is untrue based on something you know nothing about!

The most that you can say is, factually: ‘I have no idea! I cannot be confident.’

People, don’t! Officials, don’t! Egotistical people, don’t! People who want influence, don’t! People who are sadistic and power hungry, and who have already made false assertions and told lies, made mistakes, are often the most enthusiastically consistent in continuing to assert lies and falsehoods. They cannot back down and admit, ‘I made a big mistake!’ They don’t want to either!

Before I move on to the way your focus and perspective can trick you. Let’s do a quick focus test. Watch this video and count how many times the players wearing white pass the basketball. Is it 5; 6; 10? How good is your focus? (click on the link) There are players wearing white and other players wearing black. This is to help you focus your attention.

Five-minute break!

This is how narratives are created, if you realise what you just did and what just happened. Your focus is diverted to one narrative, and you are asked to comment on that narrative (repeatedly) and explain things about the ‘distraction narrative’. You believe what you are saying is the most important aspect of the conversation and will defend your arguments depending on how much you are challenged. (Did you really see 6 passes? Are you sure it wasn’t ten passes?) This takes your time and attention. There are only so many hours in the day!

‘Now imagine a whole system promoting one narrative about one person and repeatedly asking hundreds (maybe thousands across continents) of people to ‘comment; give an opinion; validate; repeat’. This then infiltrates belief systems and steals your focus. People are forced to respond; I am forced to respond because I know how to get you to see the truth, I must challenge your assumptions. This takes time and stops me discussing the real problem: Corruption. People do not have a lot of time. Governments deliberately distract you by filling your time and also harassing you. This then reinforces the narrative. I have been forced to engage in a narrative which has nothing to do with the reality of my situation. People who are entrenched in certain narratives (UN people; immigration people; observers; lower-level staff; amateur mental health idiots) have had their attention diverted and captured by an ‘official report’! People have just repeated and repeated without engaging their critical thinking skills or have not had the time to do so. Even when I am sat right in front of them! Every question they have asked has been based around the wrong narrative. State propaganda towards me!

By the time someone realises their mistake they have become part of the wrong narrative.

Competing narratives

Now look at the competing narratives in this diagram below, and the motives of the three players involved (Me; the Swiss; the British). The most important things to consider are: Who has the power; when; what can they do with it and what did they do when they (you) discovered the truth (considered a different narrative)?

You/they experienced cognitive dissonance. The same feeling you felt if you took part in the above focus experiment: You missed the other, huge element which was right in your face!

You/they were misled by the ‘reports’, written by people with motives, cognitive biases, ignorance (‘Unknown uknowns’ which they claimed were knowns, based on their limited past experience. Commenting on things they know nothing about!)

This is why the chronology of events is important and why British institutions are deleting official information. It is easy to be swayed by the first emotionally engaging version of a story you hear, when in fact it may not be true. The more engaging a narrative is, the more engaged you are! It could be extremely sadistic; extremely unusual; extremely taboo; or extremely sad. The FCDO has engaged numerous narratives with different reports at different point to engage different responses from different people in different countries and contexts. At the moment they are going with the ‘sad narrative’. It is a false narrative!

The British state (FCDO; Police Scotland; Judge Colin Boyd and other judges) have blatantly lied and tried to end my life: by encouraging other people to attack me in extremely dangerous situations (asylum camps; Iraq) or by making my life so unbearable that I do it myself!

The simple explanation – A Vector. A Perfect Storm.

Historically this is what happened.

An Iraqi in Iraq made false assertions about me in 2018 whilst I was working in his university deparment (English Dept. Raparin University and also Qualadza University). Through their embassy in Iraq, the UK FCDO recorded them as fact, knowing they were not, and kept this secret from me. They pretended the reports I sent them about abusive Kurds (professors and heads of department) in the university were irrelevant. A university which the British and EU were involved in and were engaged in setting up the Bologna System, with the very same men who were abusing me and sexually harassing me, in 2018. (The UK and EU were encouraging this narrative they were promoting because they were putting millions (Raparin University Oct 2018 – Dec 2018) into a system which is inherently extremely misogynistic and corrupt.) Slandering me was their solution to this problem. Other Kurdish women complained about these perverted Kurdish professors. There was also an Irish pedophile working at the university who knew I knew what he was doing because I complained.

The FCDO passed these lies to Police Scotland. The past false narratives coming from Judge Colin Boyd, originating in 2005, when he covered up for the murder of my son, which Police Scotland have repeated from 2018 to this day, formed a narrative; a vector, a perfect storm.

I then went to work for a Barzani. I was head hunted!

This situation is so rare, and so out of the consciousness of everyone involved, (except me, because I was at the centre of the storm) that people found explanations, because they had no idea that what they were dealing with (to them) was an ‘unknown unknown’, dressed up as a FACT! People with invested and competing perspectives on MY situation!

People who could not see the over-arching influences and narratives (corruption involving the UK, EU and US), and who, by the time they did realise something did not make sense, were/are by that time entrenched, in their own and the false, preferred narrative. They unwittingly became part of the false narrative by repetition and believing it to be true. Self-preservation then engages; once someone realises they are complicit in the false narrative and persecution: Cognitive dissonance!

Trying to explain to people who believe they are experts at spotting lies, that they are wrong, using the above explanation and method, is an idea every single professional person I have spoken to refuses to accept. Very few accept their own fallibility if their career, income and reputation depend on their expertise. Their reputation. Or if they too are misogynists. Rather than accept women are as equally intelligent as men, maybe more so, they prefer the delusion that women are ‘just plain crazy; angry at nothing; argumentative’.

This diagram above is the visual representation of what happened face to face to me in Switzerland and in Swiss Asylum Camps.

The ‘Problems and Options’ in the diagram, are different but overlapping for each actor in my story but if you have been following you can assume some of them. They changed depending on which country I was in and whether I was asking for asylum the first time (Switzerland), the second time (Croatia) or the third time (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister during all of this time.

My Problems and solution:

I need to know exactly what the FCDO and British State are saying about me and they are refusing to release unredacted files, and claiming there is no more information. I know this is a lie because they already released what they claim they did not have.

Solution: Throw myself into the centre of the storm; force a result quickly rather than wait; collect information surreptitiously from anywhere and everywhere. Invite outside scrutiny (The Swiss; the Chinese; The Croatians; The Bosnians).

Their Problems – FCDO (Police Scotland and IPT Court/Colin Boyd) and The Swiss

How do we explain what happened in Ranya and Erbil in Kurdistan Iraq? How do we explain there is no proof Lucy ever saw a psychiatrist in Scotland or Ranya, or had any ‘history of psychiatric treatment’? How do we explain contacting a relative she accused of rape and of murdering her son, while she was being harassed by perverted Kurds in Ranya? How do we explain why Lucy was silenced in the US court where she was a first-person witness in Barzani fraud, in 2022? How do we explain why nobody in Scotland would take her report of serious international crimes involving the Barzanis in 2020? How do we explain that we decided not to invite her to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal she instigated in 2021? How do we explain the false narrative we sent to China and her university employer in 2022? How do we explain the reports sent to the Baghdad Embassy in 2023, when Lucy went to work for the American University of Baghdad in Iraq? How do we explain multiple breaches of GDPR laws, and Police Scotland stalking her, to China, and Baghdad? How do we explain getting involved in an asylum request for a British citizen in Switzerland? How do we explain the lies the FCDO told, when Lucy asked for Subject Access Requests, where we pretended we did not have her version of events (emails and reports from me) and therefore the full version of events in other countries, esp. Iraq? How do we explain the request for Lucy to be tortured in Switzerland, in order to try and force her back to the UK? How do we explain why kidnapping the passport of someone outside the UK, who has not committed a crime, was/is justified? How do we explain the persecution we enacted on Lucy, in full knowledge we were doing it? How do we explain Judge Colin Boyd’s refusal to investigate or even justify not investigating the murder of Lucy’s child in 2005? How do we explain the surveillance? How do we explain the abuse of her human rights? How do we explain the multiple lies told about her mental health, since 2005, when we took the word of her abusive family members that they were: Her late son’s next of kin? How do we explain the repeated false assertions that she is known as ‘Elizabeth’ and not ‘Lucy’? How do we look less sadistic, misogynistic and incompetent? How do we explain destroying this woman’s life, over a period of 21 years, from 2005, without any justification at all; and how to we justify denying her the proceeds of her efforts against all odds (income; peace; nice retirement outside the UK), without any fault on her part, ever?

Their solutions

The main solutions for the Swiss and the British are denial; institutional and reputational self-preservation.

I will be able to prove this if the Swiss immigration and Swiss authorities release ALL the information and judicial decisions.

The main solution the Swiss and British adopted, aided by many racist misogynists in the asylum camps was:

“We claim she is deranged; dangerous and paranoid! Then, hopefully, we will convince her and other people she has PTSD and will create the scenario we did not have before: she needs to be ‘controlled’!” This kills two birds with one stone. We do not have to explain anything we have done (under ‘problems’) and nobody will let her speak ‘for her own good’!

Except I escaped!

And now I am in Asia! In order for this narrative to work, the person at the centre of the storm has to be CAPTURED and SILENCED!

The narrative coming from the FCDO has changed so often, and so blatantly, that I am left with the impression I am dealing with very sadistic but complete idiots! They even sent a British spy to take part in my second immigration interview in Switzerland, who tried to change my official, recorded statement, right in front of the Swiss immigration officer. That is how desperate they were at that point! Switzerland has refused to release the interview records. This is my right as a former asylum seeker.

They have sent reports to countries I am not even in. They have contacted people who abused my son (in Scotland in 2005; in Ranya in 2018; and in the IPT Court in London, in 2022). They (I am assuming an FCDO report sent to the City of Edinburgh Council when I was writing my IPT Appeal) have written reports claiming I accused Saqi Barzani of rape. This is to encourage people to treat me as if I am ‘traumatised’ – except I am not because Saqi Barzani would never do that!

It goes on and on! And they refuse to release the information, claiming they do not have it. They are weaponizing time so as to be able to legally delete all false information and now when I ask for information they respond in the quickest time I have ever seen – still asserting, ‘You are paranoid. We did nothing!’ When everyone is dead who knew me as the only responsible parent of my late son, or who knew me in Kurdistan, then my narrative will die also. As my internet access is limited, people in other countries I have lived in cannot see what is happening and therefore cannot confirm what happened in Iraq.

The above diagram is a visual explanation of the competing narratives at play in my situation in Switzerland. I had been fighting the FCDO; Police Scotland; IPT judges since 2018 (2005), which resulted in me asking for asylum in Switzerland, in 2023, where this ‘perfect storm’ happened.

The perfect storm was something I deliberately forced, because prior to this the FCDO, IPT judges, Police Scotland refused to accept that their lies (false narratives) were causing me extreme damage. This is the extreme I had to go to to catch perverts and criminals in the FCDO and Police Scotland. Their persecution of me was destroying me, had destroyed my career and they were attempting to force me to live in the UK (where it is easier to harass, stalk and silence my voice); and given they intended to continue on this trajectory (refusal of IPT Appeal in Oct 2023) I took control of the speed of it and forced the end result, by asking for asylum: The end result which they wanted, which I believe was their intention, was me being forcibly incarcerated and silenced!

Instead, I became a willing observer in their narratives, and I gathered information via direct (and indirectly) conversations with various Swiss state actors (immigration officers; asylum centre staff; doctors; other asylum seekers in camps who were being given information about me from asylum centre staff and telling me what they were saying; a judge – who ripped up a document intended to silence me). The British State intention was to incarcerate me – using lies from the FCDO and Iraq and Boyd/Police Scotland. This failed, so they then asked the Swiss to torture me and I almost died!

They admitted what their intention was in a letter they sent to me, from the FCDO, at the beginning of 2025, in Croatia, when I was seeking asylum in Croatia. This latest narrative (she is deranged and the Swiss agree) was the new assertion they made to Croatian and Bosnian immigration officers and lawyers to make people afraid of me and so I would be denied asylum protection. They claimed they had an ‘official report’ from Switzerland, which was obtained in exactly the same way they started their lies in Ranya, 2018, which claimed I was deranged. A corrupt Iraqi Kurd claimed he had taken a psychiatrist to my apartment when I was in a dispute with them, due to me harming the childish ego of Sallah Xoshnaw, the Head of the English Department. I resigned because of this pervert.

This report from Switzerland, which was my only contact ever with psychiatrists, was to make them (the FCDO; Judge Colin Boyd; Police Scotland) look far less like sadistic, incompetent, misogynistic gangsters who:

silenced the mother of a murdered child and covered up the murder of my child; whilst also silencing me about the corruption they were involved in in Kurdistan.

The truth is, the British state and British police are viciously misogynistic and extremely corrupt. They needed this document to claim: the probability is that, based on Lucy’s past history, she is most likely to be absolutely deranged by now, aged 58 and we have every reason to lock her up. The Swiss agree! They have selectively portrayed me as an abused child; who then had alcohol and drug problems; who is angry for no reason; who now has PTSD.

It is complete bullshit! It is an idea with no substance! It ignored multiple facts:

I was a campaigner for children’s rights in Scotland after I exposed my abusive family, 30 years ago!

I set up a youth club and was funded by other charities after my son was murdered.

I have never had psychiatric treatment.

I very successfuly build a wonderful life and career outside the UK, against all odds, and in spite of what Judge Colin Boyd and his allies did to me.

I was very happy in Iraq and had multiple friends.

I had a wonderful, luxurious life with loads of foreign travel and had no intention of every returning permanently to the UK.

The problem the FCDO had with this report (which they seemed oblivious to) which they so enthusiastically sent me like a bunch of deranged psychopaths, in Croatia: this Swiss report which was handed in to the British Embassy in Berne, apparently ‘by me’ (I was in Croatia at the time, which official reports will confirm) was destroyed by a Swiss judge, in front of seven witnesses! The judge also stated officially: Nothing will come of this report! Then he ripped it up, dramatically. The Swiss also refuse to release this judicial decision! Self-preservation!

My findings.

So, when I was living in asylum camps, what came into sharp focus was the narrative being circulated about me. My behaviour had not changed. I was still calm, still very articulate, having spent decades teaching people in different cultures, and still writing multiple well-written documents, by this time for multiple legal systems (Chinese; British; Swiss) because I was repeatedly denied legal assistance, a lawyer.

I would enter asylum camps (I was moved around about seven or eight times to deliberately prevent me from building relationships) and I was treated as if I was incapacitated. I was more than able to challenge this assumption but me demonstrating my intellectual abilities was considered threatening to people who have no way of reaching this level of critical thinking. They felt small, jealous, threatened and defensive. My calm demeaner, and the fact I was witnessing the abusive attitude of many ORS staff members, meant many exploited this narrative that was being circulated about me.

This is how it played out at a day to day micro-level – see diagram below.

People, asylum seekers, members of staff in the asylum centres were the least informed and the most captured! They also had their own challenges and living in Swiss asylum camps is designed to be torturous. The Swiss torture asylum seekers, especially the asylum seekers of their allies: Australian; European; American; British. These people were in camps also. Whistle blowers!

Explanation of the above diagram – Perception and blindness!

The outer light pink circle in the above Venn diagram, is my consciousness from my experience, knowledge and awareness that the people I am speaking to are like children (unaware or corrupt). They have never worked in Iraq; lived in asylum camps; probably never had a wonderful international life outside the UK/their own countries; don’t know what it is like to be a whistle blower and to have your life destroyed, because you are speaking out about global corruption. They do not know what they do not know. This is where I have used my teaching skills, knowledge of psychology and my awareness, to observe and gather information when I was an asylum seeker in Switzerland. Also, my knowledge of the fact I knew I was being slandered, and false narratives have been deliberately circulated about me, which by 2023, had already resulted in me losing a job in China (resigned from two universities) and a job in Baghdad (I asked the AUIB to fire me, given they were making false accusations which came from Police Scotland). I knew quite a lot and had seen the damage being done to me, but I needed more information. I got it!

Some examples:

Immigration officers contacted by the FCDO and given reports that I ‘had had previous psychiatric treatment’. That ‘my family’ had been contacted and asked for their advice. that I did not raise my children and both my children were dead. Regardless of the fact I was sitting right in front of the immigration officer willing to tell her why I was asking for asylum, she did not read my reasons – which you have to submit before the interview. For nearly three hours she interviewed me about what Police Scotland wanted to interview me about because I had exposed the fact they had never interviewed me in 2005 (in my IPT case in 2022) when my son was murdered.

The immigration officer could not see me! She had no way of assessing if I was telling the truth or not, because she had a very compelling request from the British State and Police Scotland: “Ask her what happened to her late sons!” This is a very emotive request and something which would compel most people to follow this line of questioning. I revealed nothing new! It was clear to me why she was asked to do that but it was not clear to her! In the second interview the British state sent a spy who tried to change my statement – to the opposite of what I said. (This is recorded in the official statement – as a “change” – and initialled as such. I made sure the correct thing was recorded, after the spy tried to change my words!)

ORS Staff – sent vicious reports from Police Scotland claiming I did not raise my children and both my children are dead; and that I had a ‘previous psychiatric history’. All false! Most of the ORS staff I met were not European, were sharing all information, esp. information for a British woman with asylum seekers of the same ethnicity or religion (Islamic). Most men from extremely misogynistic background were in agreement with this ideology – women who complain about mistreatment are insane. Most of the men in these camps were happy to abuse me and many would have been happy to rape me. An Arab forced me to sleep in the middle of hundreds of these men, shortly after arriving in the camp, and I believe he hoped that someone would rape me. He was from Iraq, possibly Kurdish. Rape or the threat of rape was being used as a form of torture.

The false narratives circulated to the camps were intended to encourage men and women to assault me and they did. Many things were said to me by asylum seekers which did not come from me. I gathered evidence. People ‘knew’ things they should not have known. ORS staff were giving them information. Additionally, the men who hated women and the people who hated white people in these camps, were not interested in the truth or seeing me. They were just bad people! So, this wasn’t evidence of ‘confirmation bias’. This was evidence of racial hatred and misogyny, being used as a weapon against me. The abuse of confirmation bias to torture me.

Psychologists I asked to speak to, to ask them to record the assaults in the camps (psychologists are not allowed in the camps – they are oblivious to what happens and the conditions) read the same reports from the FCDO, from Ranya in Kurdistan. From the abusive Kurds in Raparin University (2018) and from the FCDO. These reports led them to believe or just to conveniently claim: You have PTSD.

I was being assaulted in the camps. There was nothing ‘POST’ about anything.

I was never allowed to speak about the camps or the attacks or the abuse happening to many people in the camps – between asylum seekers and from the staff. Psychologists had a vested interest in not letting me speak and not getting to know me and the real story. Not just because healthcare is private in Switzerland and the local hospital made millions from keeping asylum seekers sick. And I believe they were told (by the FCDO): Give us a psych assessment so we can say ‘PTSD’. They wanted to try to use this to incarcerate and silence me. They wanted this to divert attention away from the barbarity of denying an investigation of a murdered child and not interviewing the only parent of that child! The FCDO did try this to claim, “This whole asylum seeking is because she is mental!’, when I was in Croatia. But, they were too stupid to realise:

A. The document they were using, which did not say what they claimed it said (they changed the assertions to try to claim I had one of the most serious mental disorders to exist) and was ripped up, publicly, by a Swiss judge. It wasn’t only ripped up in front of witnesses but the judge claimed: This will go no further.

B. They obtained the document illegally, which is against Swiss law. They were also repeating the behaviour they demonstrated in 2018 when they did a similar thing: obtained some false document from a psychiatrist who I had never met. A Kurdish Iraqi. Obtaining another ‘real document’ (from Switzerland they claimed), which they believed was real, admonishes the psychiatrist and Colin Boyd from their previous assertions that: I had had psychiatric treatment, both as a child and in Ranya, Kurdistan. The FCDO needed this document to look less criminal! They are criminals! To try to silence me they convinced other people that I was dangerous and insane. These ‘professionals’ in Switzerland had zero assessment ability even with me sitting right in front of them. They refused to let me speak. They simply repeated what the FCDO wrote and the evidence of this is online – because I recorded two doctors demonstrating confirmation bias! I recorded one; and the second recorded himself and gave me the recordings.

These examples should teach you how strong confirmation bias is and how people are psychologically programmed to seek answers to resolve their cognitive dissonance. Their cognitive dissonance was me sitting in front of them calm, rational, willing to talk and explain, and being absolutely NORMAL! The hospital admitted to me, informally, they had made mistakes and explicitly said:

“You are normal. We have also spoken to the FCDO and they said you can safely go back to the UK. Alexandria (Klimenko) did not know (that the reports were fake and that Helen Urban is a psychopath/has PTSD)”

Number one, I had no intention of returning to the UK. Number two, nobody should have been speaking to anyone in the FCDO – it is against asylum law, given I had told them I was being stalked, slandered and persecuted by the FCDO and Police Scotland/Colin Boyd. Number three, why did they think that information from the FCDO would be of comfort to me after the lies they had told; and number four, why would they believe that, after coming to the correct conclusion, that I was being stalked, slandered and persecuted, that the FCDO and British state would not continue to do this given I was never going to shut up about their corruption?

The answer: confirmation bias – they believed what the FCDO were saying. Not because my behaviour was odd but because I was ‘out of context’. They did not know how to interpret a western woman in a Swiss asylum camp. Additionally, the FCDO did exactly what they had been doing since 2018: got someone to send them a report claiming I was deranged (the report that was ripped up by the Swiss judge).

The FCDO, regardless of their assurances given to the Swiss, continued and continue to slander, stalk and persecute me!

Had I not asked for asylum and not forced the inevitable result of their slander?

Had the false narratives been given the time to play out!

Now, I want you to consider what could have happened to me and could still happen to me if we follow the trajectory of the narratives circulated and if I did not manage to escape Europe!

The trajectory was clear to me in 2020, and it is probably even more certain now, if I was ever to return to Europe or the UK; given people lack awareness and refuse to accept they have become embroiled in corruption! That is how corruption works: people choose to become involved, or they are forced into involvement.

I have been challenging a very corrupt Judge, Colin Boyd; the FCDO; Prime Ministers; Police forces; the involvement in corruption in Kurdistan by the Americans and the British; a very abusive asylum system in Switzerland; and the collusion of two states in torturing me rather than admit to their mistakes. And I will continue to do so until I die! Not because I care about the UK or Switzerland; but to fight, because it is the right thing to do.

My son was murdered and the COPFS and Colin Boyd covered it up. I am not a corrupt person in any sense: morally, mentally, intellectually or financially. We were, are good people and we have all been persecuted by a perverted and corrupt British establishment. I believe these perversions and corruption come from the very top of the British Establishment, and if not, it reflects his inaction to protect innocent British citizens:

Charlie Saxe-Coburg Gotha (King Charles of the United Kingdom)

Hence the picture of one of the most barbaric relatives of the British Royal Family: King Henry the VIII

List of documents denied and needed to prove/disprove the above:

Full disclosure of asylum interviews recorded by the Swiss immigration officers (Interview 1 and 2 – which are in English and French).

Full disclosure of the release decision made by a Swiss judge after a Bangladeshi manager in a Swiss asylum camp tried to have me locked up indefinitiely.

Full disclosure of all files from ORS – the organisation that manages and employs asylum seekers across multiple European countries, including Switzerland.

Full disclosure of recorded minutes of meetings with a deranged doctor in Friebourg, who repeatedly repeated the lies written about me by the FCDO and Police Scotland, and asylum camp staff. Plus, full disclosure of her mental health history with multiple psychiatrists in France and Switzerland (including the multiple times she was forcibly incarcerated for long periods)- which she told me all about! (Loose lips sink ships!)

Full disclosure of the IPT court decision and what their ‘investigations’ covered and who they spoke to. UREDACTED!

Full disclosure of why Colin Boyd refused to investigate the murder of my child.

Full disclosure of FCDO, Police Scotland, COPFS and City of Edinburgh Council files UNREDACTED dating back to 2005.

Full disclosure of asylum files from Croatia and Bosnia.

Full disclosure of the team involved in ‘interfering in my current life and the networks; databases; processes implemented based on the dangerous and fake assertions made about me by the Swiss and FCDO/British state. WHO is making decisions about how I am stalked; who can make money out of me; who is limiting my right to live peacefully; who did all of this since 2020?

WHO gave the instruction not to release my passport when I left Switzerland, and who gave the instruction not to release it for eight months? Probably Keir Starmer and probably those bureaucrats in the FCDO! At a guess!

Lastly, for those who know nothing about the reasons people give for asking for asylum. Here is one of them:

Temporary protection while an abusive government or tyrannical Prime Minister is in control. This can lead to a longer term request should the regime continue to adopt tyrannical, oppressive and abusive policies intended to harm innocent citizens.

I should have been given asylum protection in Switzerland, or Croatia or Bosnia. Instead I was forced to flee as nobody was listening to me and Croatia were instructed by the British and Swiss to return me to Switzerland, to be tortured again

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