Exoneration Day 2026

I had already pleaded guilty, but on 8 May 2025, from the bench of Durham Crown Court, His Honour Judge Nathan Adams described me as having been "exonerated" of the allegation that had formed the basis of the propensity evidence that, in the absence of anything else and after the Crown Prosecution Service had briefed the local media that it was going to drop the charges, had been introduced on the first day of my second trial, leading to my first conviction.

That led in turn to a suspended sentence, breach of which, itself dependent on the truth of that utterly baseless allegation, led to my first imprisonment and to the restraining order, likewise so dependent, breach of which led, one year ago today, to my second imprisonment. There was literally no evidence of that breach, and the Police had sacked the investigating officer for his conduct of my case, but my barrister told me that my record made me unacquitable by a jury that anyway just would not have liked a defendant who dressed well, spoke well, and read books, so I was going to have to go guilty even though the whole thing depended on blog posts that did not exist, purportedly detected by a policeman who had been drummed out.

I once again invite each and every Member of Parliament for the area covered by Durham County Council, each and every member of Durham County Council, each and every member of Lanchester Parish Council, each and every member of the Board of the Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency, each and every member of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Committee, each and every member of the Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Safeguarding Team, and each and every bishop, priest or deacon of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, to contact davidaslindsay@hotmail.com if they thought that I was factually guilty of any criminal charge that had ever been brought against me. Not legally guilty. Factually guilty, in that I had in fact committed any such offence. No name would be published except at the request of its bearer, but if anyone ever did get in touch, then the readers of this site would be the first to know. The current total is zero, as it has been since 28 July 2021.

If asked, Police Officers, Prison Officers and Probation Officers have always said that it was not their question to answer, and they have never, ever volunteered a belief in my guilt. To say the least, I have known them to volunteer that about other convicts. In fact, I have repeatedly been told by people in each of those three categories that I was obviously innocent. And not only by them. Whereas no one, absolutely no one at all, has ever said to my face that they thought that I was guilty. Write what you like in some public school gigglerag. Next to no one up here reads it, and it is quite rarely to be seen for sale in the North East. Moreover, even after this, it is never going to publish this.