The family and friends of Gaie Delap, the 77 year old grandmother recalled to prison after officers failed to fit an electronic monitoring tag, have called for an investigation after discovering Serco EMS fabricated their report about the incident.
Gaie Delap, who took action in 2022 to demand the government end all new licenses and consents for oil and gas projects (now government policy), was returned to prison on Friday 20th December. [1] [2]
Gaie’s family and friends have issued a New Year Statement which reveals that Gaie has now seen her recall papers in which EMS claim that she “refused” to allow EMS equipment to be installed. Something that Gaie maintains is a complete misrepresentation of what happened. [3]
Mick Delap, Gaie’s brother, says:
“Reading this, Gaie is speechless and angry – that they are completely misrepresenting what happened. She has never ever refused a tag. She feels this is so wrong. She feels like she is caught up in a web of deceit, and powerless to tell the truth. The technicality here is that she can’t reside at her home because she wasn’t tagged.
“It now seems to us that Gaie has been recalled to prison due to fabricated reports. This raises serious issues about Serco EMS conduct. At best it is manifest incompetence. At worst it is mendacious and borders on the fraudulent. But we are not surprised”.
The family are calling for an acceptable form of electrical monitoring to be found so Gaie can make a rapid return home and are calling on supporters to continue making representations to their MPs and to Shabana Mahmood, MP, the Secretary of State for Justice, to release Gaie, pending further investigations of Serco EMS actions, on the grounds of a possible miscarriage of justice.
A crowdfunder has been launched for Gaie’s legal fees here: https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/ill-fitting-tags/
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[1] Just Stop Oil is a coalition of groups working together to demand that the government immediately halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK. Just Stop Oil is a member of the A22 Network of civil resistance projects.
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[2] https://juststopoil.org/2024/12/21/grandmother-recalled-to-prison-for-possessing-wrists-too-small-for-a-tag/
[3] New Year statement from family and friends of Gaie Delap: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16oJqjIbueJIiT6cAJGsETbXk5Pq4Ws9T/view?usp=sharing