Murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve, UK, 26/12/2011

[Euphoria]

If this is a psyop, it is fairly low tech one, but I wondered how people felt about this recent story from Boxing Day 2011. I felt I should delay posting for several days, allowing time for the story to unfold, so that I would have more clues to work with.

The international media circus developing around this event is very suspicious. It has all the hallmarks of a fake news story; in this case, a crazy lone white male gunman named "Psycho" Stapleton, juxtaposed with an aspiring Indian high tech engineer as the victim, candle-lit vigils (held in both Manchester and Delhi), two senior officers from Greater Manchester Police actually travelling to India to meet the Bidve family in Pune, and the family then making the reverse trip to London to personally consult with Members of Parliament, notably Keith Vaz (representative for Leicester East, who was famously suspended from the Commons in 2002 after making a false allegation against a former policewoman), as confirmed by the BBC on January 4th.

Furthermore, Stapleton apparently was beamed into Manchester Crown Court via videolink from prison on Tuesday this week and remanded until the next hearing on 20 March. It was at the magistrates' court on Monday that he referred to himself as "Psycho Stapleton" when asked his name. By contrast, Bidve is portrayed as the model world citizen. His father apparently told the BBC's Andrew North in Pune that his son was already "doing advanced research into micro-chips to help heart patients. Anuj wanted to return to India, although he also had a possible job offer in Switzerland."

According to the Manchester Evening News, three other people who were arrested on suspicion of Mr Bidve's murder have been bailed until March pending further inquiries. A fourth man, aged 19, had his bail cancelled. I'm quite confident that these individuals, over time, will disappear entirely from the story.

Images

These are the two images released of 'Psycho' so far:




Here are the so-far issued pictures of Anuj Bivde:





Possible motives

* In the same article, the BBC mentions how Anuj's father, Subhash Bidve, has "been critical of the way British and Indian authorities initially handled the case after learning of his son's death on social-networking site Facebook." Could there be a social networking link? Time will tell. I think we need to wait a little longer on this news item. Chief Supt Russ Jackson described the officers publicly-funded trip to India as a mission to "fill in some of the gaps in understanding" about Anuj Bidve's death, which is extremely vague.

* Softening attitudes to mass immigration? There seems be a great effort to guilt-trip the British audience to this psyop. In the BBC boxout by Andrew North, it is emphasised that when Anuj's parents return home to Pune, they "won't just be left with memories of Anuj. They also have a huge $38,000 debt, after re-mortgaging the house Anuj grew up in to pay for his studies. His voice cracking for a second, his father says: 'We have to repay it.'" It is also made quite clear that Bidve "could have gone to a US or Australian university to fulfil his dream of pioneering new micro-electronics technology. But his parents sent their only son to the UK because they thought 'he'd be safer there.'" According to North, it was his first trip abroad. The relation of the story is over-dramatised to a point where it seems obviously scripted.

[hoi.polloi]

Ick. Yeah I'd say this is a pretty funky story. I wonder: is it just me or is the white kid's ears a little unmatched twixt the images?

[Mickey]

I have been following this closely since the opera was first released via MSM.

This has psyop written all over it. He grew up in Pune (been there many times) and manages to become friends with this hep British chick ? Let me tell you 2nd/3rd/4th generation Indian kids do not necessarily get along with the Fresh-Off-Boat students who go to England, Canada, US or Australia. They try to show off an air of hollow superiority, as if distancing themselves from their roots, and assimilate with their native peers. Believe me, I would know first hand

Watch the bad acting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -hand.html

Also no linkedin profile of "Anuj Bidve". Who would've guessed

My personal take on the motive: Fear mongering to discourage Indian students from applying to British schools. Over the last 2-3 years stories of Indian students getting attacked in Australia and England have been very common. I guess they have had enough of Indians for their comfort

[Euphoria]

The status of this story is enhanced further today as it becomes clear that PM David Cameron will be personally meeting with the supposed family of Anuj. News just in from the BBC:

"Prime Minister David Cameron, who is visiting the North West, has said he would be happy to meet Mr Bidve's parents to speak about their son's death. Mr Bidve said they would definitely like to meet him.

Mr Cameron said: 'They haven't made that request - quite understandably they want to come and see where their son was killed, what happened at the end of his life, and I hope the Manchester police are giving them every facility to do that.

'I have huge sympathy for them - if they make that sort of request I would do so.'

He said it was 'an absolutely horrific act' that had taken their son away.

'It is unacceptable to have this sort of crime going on in our country,' he added."

Another interesting nugget from the same article:

"Prof Mark E Smith, vice-chancellor of Lancaster University, said it had provided financial assistance to the family and would hold a memorial ceremony for Mr Bidve later in January.

He said: "The university was represented at the candlelit vigil held in Salford last week and a memorial book has been set up for Anuj in Graduate College which will be sent to his family as a tribute to their son. The university is discussing with the family a fitting memorial."

Image of Mark E Smith to be found here on the University of Warwick website:



According to this article from Lancaster University itself, Mark E Smith has recently joined from the University of Warwick.

This reminds me of the condolence book opened at the University of Oregon for the 'vicsim' of the Norwegian false flag at Utoya, Kjersti Berg Sand, who the perps claimed to be an exchange student at the law school there in 2009.

There is a detailed biography for Mark E Smith on the Lancaster University website, here:

Mark Smith was born and brought up in Suffolk. He read Natural Sciences at Churchill College, University of Cambridge and then a PhD (Physics) at the University of Warwick. He left academia being an application scientist for Bruker Analytische Messtechnik, Germany, and then research scientist CSIRO Division of Materials Scientist. He returned to the UK as first lecturer and then reader in solid-state NMR, University of Kent before becoming reader in physics at the University of Warwick where he went on to be a professor of physics. He is a former secretary of the British Radiofrequency Spectroscopy Group and Royal Society of Chemistry reporter on solid-state NMR. He has wide ranging research interests in developing and applying solid-state NMR techniques to inorganic materials. In terms of senior management Mark was also Director of the Centre for Magnetic Resonance.

His research interests are solid state NMR of inorganic materials, particularly those showing disorder and he collaborates broadly including with industry. Smith has published more than 260 papers and has written a research monograph on solid state NMR of inorganic materials.

Mark Smith was previously the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick looking after all academic resourcing issues. Mark has extensive experience of senior committees and has previously been Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Chair of the Faculty of Science.

He holds external roles as chair of the CLRN (West Midlands, South), is on the Board of the UK Research Reserve, is a member of EPSRC's Strategic Advisory Team on Infrastructure and is a member of the West Midlands Innovation and Technology Council.

On a side note, the article reminds us how Mr Bidve was on a festive visit to Manchester with a group of university friends when he was shot at about 01:30 GMT. He died in hospital but at present I'm unable to find any record of which hospital he was allegedly taken to.

Other Perps?

* Prosecutor Ben Southam told the court the case had to be sent to Manchester Crown Court as Mr Stapleton was charged with murder.
* Nazir Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service's chief prosecutor in the north-west. Afzal even has his own imdb page! Now an OBE (Queen's New Years Honours list, 2002), he is a National Director of the UK's Crown Prosecution Service and according to the imdb profile, "one of its most celebrated advocates." He has starred in quite a few television series, it appears, from Law and Order UK (2002) to Survivor (2010). According to his LinkedIn page, here, he is advisor to the BBC, ITV, KUDOS and SKY.



* GMP Assistant Chief Constable Dawn Copley. From the Greater Manchester Police's own website,a biography of Copley:

Copley joined GMP in June 2010 from Lancashire Constabulary. She has 23 years' police service, all of which had previosly been within Lancashire, where she has had extensive experience across a range of uniform, detective and corporate roles. Over the last five years she has been the Operations Manager at Southern Division, responsible for all operational policing there, the Divisional Commander of the Specialist Operations Division based at HQ, and the Head of Sustaining Excellence which is the Constabulary's Organisational Change Programme. Dawn has a Master of Science Degree in Police Leadership and Management from the University of Leicester.


* It is worth noting that Copley reports to Peter Fahy, Chief Constable, who has chaired the ACPO Race and Diversity Business Area for four years, leading work on meeting the recommendation of the CRE investigation into the Police Service and taking forward work on a number of policy areas including community cohesion, hate crime and fairness in the criminal justice system. Other reseachers have found that he has links to the UK-based Fabian Socialist thinktank Common Purpose.





Some images of the duo together:



However, Copley is confirmed by a number of news sources as having "overall command of the inquiry," so it seems certain that she is implicated in this deception. See the link here at North Wales Weekly News, which echoes other reports across the UK press.

On another side note, the ACPO Race and Diversity Business Area has also been headed up by Chief Constable Stephen Otter of Devon & Cornwall Police, which is well known for its associations with IBM through the company South-West One Ltd. (although as far as I can work out it is NOT owned by them, as mistakenly claimed on other websites). This is a description of the programme according to the ACPO website:

The ACPO equality diversity and human rights business area leads the development of police strategy in this area on behalf of all forces. This is a critical area of business for the police service as we aim to secure the trust and confidence of all communities and build a service which reflects the communities we serve. This business area has 11 portfolios, each of which is headed up by a police officer of ACPO rank.

Portfolios:
•Hate crime
•Religion and belief
•Gender
•Stakeholder engagement
•Gypsies and travellers
•Mental health and disability
•Race equality
•Training
•Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual
•Age
•Human Rights

There is also an ACPO document available here, in which the authors admit to a consensus reached in summer 2008 between itself and the Home Office, that it would be desirable to use a paper by Demos (Marxist thinktank) and the National Association of Muslim Police, called 'Diversity in Modern Policing,' in addition to a report from the openly Marxist Runnymede Trust, 'Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: 10 years On: An Analysis of the Literature,' as guidelines to policing in future.

Sir Hugh Orde has served as ACPO President, Rob Garnham as the Chairman of APA, and David Hanson MP as Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office (2008) - all three are named as key agents in this consultation process three years ago.

[Euphoria]

I thought I should start another post to put forward this proposition. Does anybody else think it likely, that the unfolding storyline will see this attack portrayed as a botched anti-Muslim attack?

That the fictional person 'Psycho' Stapleton believed he was shooting a Muslim, and mistakenly shot an Indian Hindu?

This way the perps can enable the story to feed into the 'Clash of Civilisations' theme, but also continue to cultivate the Anglo-Indian, international dimension to the story. The underlying purpose of the latter still isn't clear to me but evidently a lot of effort is focused on this angle, for some reason.

[simonshack]

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The sole fact that the assassin is rolled out with the name of "Psycho" Stapleton stinks of crude Psy-Opping indeed...

In this BBC newscast, we hear that it was the actual gunman who introduced himself with this disturbing 'nickname':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16404215

Then, at about 1:00 into that BBC newscast, we have a BBC reporter 'showing us' where the shooting occured. Uh, well, he tells us that he's actually standing (somewhere in Salford) a quarter-mile away from the crime scene. Why? - one instantly wonders... He then walks a few steps down the sidewalk and, shall we say, 'explains' why he is reporting from that absurd location in the middle of nowhere...

"...the crime scene is about a quarter of a mile in that direction...[walks down sidewalk]...about the same distance over here is Media City, where the BBC is making many of its most prestigious TV and radio programs. Which one is the real Salford?"

"Which one is the real Salford?"

Hmm...allright: I guess that sentence doesn't refer to the Media City - but is meant to refer to/and introduce the next newsclip, in which the people of Salford are holding a service "to show that most local people are decent" (how touching and heartwarming...) But why on Earth does that BBC reporter even mention the BBC's Media City??? What on Earth has that to do with the murder of Mr. Bidve?

"Which one is the real Salford?" Yeah. Indeed.

[Euphoria]

Good finding, Simon!

I am working on a few other leads in this story and will let everybody know in due course what I have discovered.

[Euphoria]

A new development today. Actually, this dates back to 1st January 2012. UK tabloid 'The Daily Mirror' published a story entitled 'Anuj Bidve's killer "laughed" as he fled' by Gethin Chamberlain and Adrian Butler, accompanied by this image:

Under this image we have the declaration: Anuj Bidve (Pic:Gethin Chamberlain).

The article in its entirety can be found here.

And another image of Anuj, credited to Chamberlain:


At this website, we can find more biographical information about Gethin:

"Gethin Chamberlain is a photojournalist covering South Asia for The Observer. He also writes for a number of other newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Marie Claire, Sunday Mirror, The People, South China Morning Post, Grazia and The National. Based in India, he previously worked as a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph and as The Scotsman's chief reporter. He can be contacted at gethin.chamberlain@gmail.com."

Chamberlain's Facebook page can be found here. Friends include Sean Ryan (Foreign Editor of The Sunday Times), Scott Douglas (Holyrood PR), Mike Wade (a reporter with The Times), John Bray (BBC), Simon Denyer (Indian Bureau Chief at the Washington Post), Alastair Leithead (BBC), Sarah Crowe (United Nations), Louise Gray (Environment Correspondent at The Telegraph), Jude Sheerin (BBC) and Karen McVeigh (Guardian News and Media). I will assume at first that this perp, Chamberlain, is a real person - and that some brief research on the company he keeps could be enlightening.

Let us take Sean Ryan first. In this article from 2010, it is described how Ryan gave a speech at City University in which he admitted "that in an ideal world he would have more permanent correspondents abroad and be able to send more reporters to places where news is happening, but there just isn’t the budget for it." A very loaded comment!

A brief investigation into Sarah Crowe shows that she was working as Unicef's regional chief of communications in 2009, but I will focus instead on Chamberlain's other media contacts. Firstly, the BBC war correspondent Alastair Leithead.

He studied at the Royal Grammar School of Newcastle, whose website proudly proclaims him as the BBC's current Asia Correspondent living in Bangkok and "covering a region spreading from Tibet to Japan. Prior to moving to Thailand, he was living in Afghanistan, covering the resurgence of the Taleban, the NATO mission and the country's post-2001 changes. He was the only reporter working for a UK broadcaster who lived in Kabul, and covered all domestic and international outlets. Alastair won the 2007 Bayeux Television Award for war correspondents, BAFTA short-listed in 2008 for best news coverage and short-listed in 2005/6 for the Royal Television Society's TV Journalism Award. Before Afghanistan, he was based briefly in Miami, covering the worst hurricane season for many years, also periodically travelling to Iraq. He was in Najaf for the siege of the shrine, and arrived in the country as Saddam Hussein was arrested and when the battle for Fallujah was raging."

This biography is rounded off with a fitting quote from Alastair himself: “Journalism's all about talking to and getting on with people and then just telling stories." Well, that observation certainly seems to apply to the Anuj story...

[Euphoria]

More news in, which expands Keith Vaz's role in the psyop.

"A fund is being set up in the UK to honour the memory of Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was killed last month in an unprovoked attack in Salford."

Article found here.

The highly charitable Senior Labour party MP Keith Vaz, who received the Bidve family at the House of Commons during their visit here last week to carry the victim's body to India, said "many people had contacted him to acknowledge Bidve's memory."

The story continues:

"These people who have contacted me, and contacted the family direct, are very keen to set up a fund to honour the memory of Anuj and to help the family," Vaz said.

"I am, therefore, helping to establish a fund to receive donations in memory of Anuj," he said.

Further details of the fund will be announced after discussions with the family, he said, adding that there will be three overseers of the fund, Kamel Hothi from Lloyds Bank, Reena Anand and Sangeeta Mandal.

Here is Kamel Hothi:


According to Manchester Evening News here, Hothi's drive and enthusiasm to improve cultural understanding has resulted in her "supporting the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Report on Community Cohesion as well as chairing initiatives such as the Government’s Procurement Working Group, producing a report advising ministers on how they can use procurement to leverage race equality and help Small Minority Ethnic businesses grow."

It looks like we have a potential crime committed here under UK law, coming under "Collecting Money Under False Pretences" to be levelled at Lloyds (or Hothi or Vaz individually), if indeed this case is the psyop we believe it to be...I think this now falls under the 2006 Fraud Act...

[Mickey]

Nice work Euphoria.

Here is Kamel Hothi's linkedIn profile (looks very legit) http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kamel-hothi/5/223/62a

Reena Anand http://www.linkedin.com/pub/reena-amriw ... 19/739/516

[Euphoria]

I just picked this up from the Lancaster University website, dated January 5th. There is some information I had previously missed:

Professor Mark E. Smith , Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University said:

“Anuj Bidve was an outstanding student at the very beginning of a promising career and had only been at Lancaster for a short time before his tragic death on Boxing Day.

"My deepest sympathies are extended to his family for this terrible loss and we will do all we can to support them at this sad time.

"I was very glad to meet Anuj’s parents and his brother-in-law when they visited the University on Thursday 5 January. They went to his college and also met their son’s fellow Engineering students and tutors. The University has provided financial assistance to the family.

"We will continue to work with all parties in marking Anuj’s life and a memorial ceremony will be held at the University later in the month. The University was represented at the candlelit vigil held in Salford last week and a memorial book has been set up for Anuj in Graduate College which will be sent to his family as a tribute to their son. The University is discussing with the family a fitting memorial.”

Professor Andrew Richardson, from the Engineering Department, said:

“Anuj joined the Engineering department in October as an MSc . He had completed two modules where he had excelled in the practical work and just prior to Christmas had been awarded an A+. Anuj was looking forward to the next stage of his studies.

Anuj was a pleasure to teach. His enthusiasm and attention to detail was part of what makes teaching in a university environment such a pleasurable experience. My academic colleagues and fellow PhD students will greatly miss Anuj. My heart goes out to his family and friends.”

Here is Professor Andrew Richardson:



After doing some more research on Richardson, I found this story, again on Lancaster University's own site:



Professor Andrew Richardson (far right) and his research team
(from left), Richard Rosing, Dr Carl Jeffrey, Rueben Cutajar.

Lancaster University’s Engineering Department is spearheading a new Europe-wide micro and nano technology initiative. The Department’s Centre for Microsystems Engineering is leading a programme that involves 24 research centres combining their resources to carry out leading research into methods of building micro and nano scale components into commercial products. The programme will also launch support services across Europe for manufacturers of these products. The project, which will run for four years, will receive 6.2M€ - around £4.5m – of funding from the European Commission.

The initiative is the brainchild of Dr Andrew Richardson, group leader of the Centre for Microsystems Engineering and project co-ordinator for the new programme. He said: “After four years our hope is to have established a new community of researchers and their organisations, able to provide industry with world leading research, innovation and support services. Micro and nano technology involves studying and working with devices on a scale of between a few thousandths and one-millionth of a millimeter.

“It is an extension of the silicon chip that allows both sensors and actuators to be combined with microelectronics and sophisticated bio-chemical materials,” said Dr Richardson.

......................

“Lancaster University has been working in this field for ten years, with major support from the Northwest Development Agency which has helped put the team in a leading position in Europe to build this new community. The Lancaster team is also a key partner in a new Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Centre that has recently been awarded a grant of £5m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council that will contribute to the goal of bringing this new technology to the market place.”

[Euphoria]

Several days ago I sent an email to Lancaster University's press office requesting the actual title of Bidve's course. This is the reply I received:
___________________________________________________

I understand you asked for the name of Anuj Bidve’s course. He was studying for an MSc in Microelectronics and System-on-Chip Engineering here at Lancaster University.

Best wishes

Beth Broomby
Press Officer
Lancaster University

Tel: 01524 593719

[Euphoria]

A quick Google search of 'Microelectronics and System-on-Chip Engineering PGDip/MSc' reveals the following, available here at at this link:

Essential Info

For Entry: 2011, 2012

Director of Studies: Dr Dinesh Pamunuwa.

Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time (industry based).
____________________________________

I sent an email to Dr. Pamunuwa and received an autoreply...

d.pamunuwa@lancaster.ac.uk> Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:22 PM

I have left Lancaster University and joined Bristol University. My new e-mail is the same as my old, with "d" replaced by "Dinesh" and "lancaster" by "bristol".

[Euphoria]

Here is an article from The Lancaster Guardian, 29th December 2011, which I had also missed:

Published on Thursday 29 December 2011 09:18

A GRIEVING student has told how a Lancaster University coursemate shot dead on Boxing Day was “like an elder brother” to him.

Kushal Monga paid tribute to Anuj Bidve, 23, who was shot in an unprovoked incident on Ordsall Lane, Salford, at around 1.30am on December 26 after being approached by two men, one of whom asked him for the time.

Anuj, who had been walking from his hotel towards Manchester city centre with a group of eight Lancaster University students, replied but was then shot at close range. He was pronounced dead in hospital.

Kushal, 20, who studied micro-electronics alongside Anuj, said: “He was like an elder brother to me, he often advised me. He was extremely friendly – everyone knew him in the Indian community. He was very popular and career-focused and stayed out of trouble.

“He could relate to anyone, he loved watching and playing football.”

See the Lancaster Guardian (29-12-11) for full story.



A very high quality image, I'm sure you will all agree!

[Euphoria]

Another dodgy image...




...And another, this time from The Sun. Is anybody here able to do an analysis of these? I'd greatly appreciate that.

Apparently this second image features a university 'pal' by the name of Sonakshi Saran.

Now, from the funeral...






The candle-lit vigil in Salford...

http://newzexpress.com/wp-content/uploa ... -vigil.jpg (ACCOUNT HAS BEEN SUSPENDED)


Can anybody comment on this image?


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(ADMIN NOTICE: I have replaced the image link for the last picture above with a link from another source - since the "newzpress" account hosting the original image link has been suspended. - simon)