Jerome Corsi, writing for WND in April:
British barrister and intelligence consultant Michael Shrimpton plans to launch a vigorous defense on charges of making false claims to British government officials that a terrorist nuclear attack was under way during the 2012 Olympics in London, raising the possibility documents and testimony he plans to subpoena will embarrass the U.K., German and U.S. governments.
As WND reported, Shrimpton, who faces a Nov. 10 trial, also appears in a 2008 video that began re-circulating earlier this year on the Internet in which he claims to have been privy to shocking intelligence information on Obama’s origins….
WND also reported several British military intelligence sources with a long track record say they are prepared to testify in Shrimpton’s trial.
As I noted at the time, Corsi’s piece was the third of a trilogy of articles for WND about Shrimpton’s predicament; there was also a WND column by Christopher Monckton, which began with a warning to David Cameron to “Leave Michael Shrimpton Alone”:
If Mr. Shrimpton is sane, then HMG will find it has has bitten off more than it can chew. For Shrimpton will exercise every right of the defense to call secret intelligence evidence, such as reports from the network of nuclear-monitoring military satellites, and even a report of a supposed DNA test establishing that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya.
However, even Monckton – and that’s a very big “even”, given Monckton’s own eccentricities – felt the need for a bit of hedging, adding:
Don’t ask me what that has to do with a plot to blow up the London Olympics. Mr. Shrimpton may or may not have all his marbles in the right place, but the prosecution is plainly out to lunch.
So, seven month later, how did things work out? From the UK Mirror:
…A jury of nine men and three women found Shrimpton guilty of two counts of communicating false information after more than six hours of deliberation, with majority 11-1 verdicts.
Ordering psychiatric reports, Judge Alistair McCreath QC said: “The sentence that I pass upon you will have to reflect that gravity of the conduct of which you have been convicted.
“But if, as may be the case, there is some underlying reason for it, then it seems to me important that I be informed of that underlying reason and I am therefore minded to order that you undergo psychiatric examination.”
No “secret intelligence evidence” appears to have been presented, although Shrimpton did mention “someone in Munich” with links to Russian intelligence “who occasionally has lunch with the Pope”.
The Mirror also adds:
Shrimpton holds one previous conviction for possession of indecent images of children. A memory stick was found in his house search containing the vile pictures and has been the subject of separate proceedings at magistrates’ court.
Handed a three-year community order for the crime, he appealed the conviction but it was upheld.
According to an October article in the Bucks Herald, the images “were found by police specialists to be indecent images of young boys”. However:
Speaking to the Bucks Herald outside court Mr Shrimpton said that he was ‘not worried’ about the case, and dismissed it as an effort to discredit him for being outspoken about key political issues as an intelligence specialist.
He said: “With every respect to the CPS and TVP this prosecution, based on an allegation of possession of a memory stick which has neither my fingerprints nor DNA on it, is a farce…”
We await Corsi’s take on these developments with interest.
Meanwhile, Shrimpton and Monckton appeared together in September, discussing “rise of violent Islamic jihadism, the missing Malaysian jetliner, and the threat to Western civilization” on TruNews with End-Times radio conspiracy-monger Rick Wiles.
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