18 Dec 25. The family Practice Press is delighted to announce the publication of a world first and unique book ‘Trial By Deceit.’ This is the first of a series of books, the second is ‘Cliffs of Shame’ which covers the period 2005 – 2025.
On June 3rd 1989 Sophie Nettlefold attempted to strangle her young, defenceless son Harry, then aged just three months old. Something stopped her but the scars of the attempted attack remained as did Harry’s reluctance to have his mother near him. It may have been the worrying phone calls from Julian Nettlefold who could not get hold of his wife that day.
Sophie Nettlefold then turned her aggression on Julian Nettlefold attacking him on many occasions. Julian went for help and it was subsequently discovered that Sophie had developed a brain tumour.
Fearful of the diagnosis, she attempted to abduct Harry to Australia and failing that framed Julian Nettlefold for an attack on her which never took place, repeating this after another strangulation attempt on November 15th, where Julian saved Harry.
Sophie Nettlefold made use of the draconian Ouster laws which allowed a wife or mother to make allegations of assault by her husband or partner without proof.
Julian Nettlefold was forced to leave his home on November 21st 1991, leaving his son Harry, then aged 18 moths with a knowingly violent and abusive woman.
The book describes Julian Nettlefold’s battles with the law, social services and his and his wife’s family to save his only chid Harry from child abuse in the care of a mother, his ex-wife Sophie Strok who had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and a Personality Disorder with violent tendencies, all hidden from the Courts and Social Services. Sadly he failed and the abuse continued until Harry’s suicide was faked at Beachy Head on August 27th 2011 to cover up his rape in Kent on August 5th 2005. That story is covered in the second book of this series: Trial By Deceit, to be published in 2026.
Julian Nettlefold does not know if Harry was murdered or abducted.
Since these false allegations Julian Nettlefold has been wrongly accused of being a wife beater, thus shunned by friends and family alike as well as the stigma of mental health issues,’ because the Expert failed to diagnose Munchausen’s by Proxy in Sophie Stork
He later said in 2020 that he should never have sent Harry back to his mother in 1998, thus denying him the safety of living with his father away from sexual, physical and mental abuse.
Notes to Editors:
At present, the law allows a mother to kill her child within one year of childbirth and be charged with manslaughter with diminished responsibility. That is the process Sophie Stork escaped by the dint of her Personality Disorder.
In addition, the medical definition of Personality Disorder is set in stone under the designation DSMIIIR, the legal definit6ion is that the sufferer has to commit a crime before being charged. That’s what happened on August 27th 2011 but Sophie Stork and her husband Peter remain free to continue their campaign of abuse against Julian, with other family members, which continues unfettered to this day
However, after that first year and then again after that child becomes an adult, the mechanisms, and laws involved to prosecute that mother for murder are vague and require total proof of murder to allow society to accept that a mother cannot kill her child in cold blood.
Without that proof the system kicks in to excuse the mother and blame the father and other witnesses to the abuse, which led up to the murder to protect the stereotypes set in stone for years that the mother is the main carer of her children and will do anything to protect them.
That stereotype does nothing to protect vulnerable children like Harry and many others whose lives end needlessly when all the evidence is there to protect them.
How many children’s lives could have been saved if such processes had been put into play at the very start of the investigations?
How many mothers, wives and partners would have welcomed an explanation into their abusive behaviour which they had only partial control over and received the required treatment?
That’s what the neuropsychiatrist told the Court in 1992, 1996 and 2007 and he was ignored, and his evidence covered up to ‘suit the system.’
Julian Nettlefold has suggested that the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square should be occupied by a statue of an abused child, that is Harry Nettlefold’s long-lasting legacy to British Society.
Proceeds from the book will be donated to SAMM (Survival After Murder And Manslaughter) www.samm.org.uk
Published by New World Publishing
Price: £10.99
Link: https://www.newgeneration-publishing.com/books/biography/new-book-123/
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