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OPEN letter to my sister Coral McVean nee Mathews.
Hi Coral,
I am writing this letter to you in this way, as if I sent it by email,
I am sure Hugh would intercept it and have a good story to put to you
with it. If I posted it by snail mail, it is still possible
that Hugh may intercept it. I would not expect you to see it
first off yourself, but maybe someone who knows you, may print it and
give it to you, or invite you to see it on their computer.
I imagine that Hugh will see it first and probably work out his slant
on it. However, I think you may have some friends who may discuss
it with you in private without Hugh being present.
Dad used to say to me, [ask Mum, she heard Dad say it
repeatedly], "Hugh has always been jealous of you, and don't
expect your sister to help you, she will always do what Hugh tells
her." Early in 2005, at a conference chaired by the RTA,
Hugh stretched back, arm out on the top of the chair beside him, and
launched into a slow majestic soliloquy
"Oh yeeees,. I am a bit old fashioned like that. I make all the
business decisions in our house."
I think Hugh tells you what he wants you to think and say.
Now, remember the day when Denise Berry came around to my home with you
and told you that she though the value of the house was then about
$200,000. Soon after on that day, you came into my
home
with Hugh, and you shouted at me, "What have you done to prevent the
value of the house rising," and you were shouting at full
volume.
You continued, "We didn't
put you in her for your benefit. We put you
in here for Mum and Dad's benefit." When I tried to say
anything,
you would just shout me down. Of course, Hugh just sat there and
watched. I reckon that he had really told you some false
stories. On that day, I imagine he had said something like, "We
have lost a lot of money on this. We sold NAB shares to buy this
house and those shares would now be worth $300,000 [or whatever]. That
means we have lost $100,000 for your family. Russell [or am
I called "the person in question" see
the letter Hugh
wrote to the BCC (he wanted it kept SECRET)] has cost us a lot of
money." I imagine Hugh
made you feel guilty for that "LOSS
of $100,000" as he was trying to make out I was living here for
your benefit. I realise now that Hugh has been telling you
stories. I realise that he so despises me, that he wants to
pull me down no matter what the cost to him. Unfortunately, he is
wasting your money too. He has been setting me up to cheat me
since 1994 but I have realised it only recently. I wonder
how he thought he would get away with it. Did he think I was just
going to walk away when he tried to make me look a fool? He
is a fool. He imagines himself. Dad used to use the fact
that Hugh tried to start a Commerce degree just because I had completed
first year easily, as just one example of Hugh's being jealous of
me.
I will detail the events of 1994 and show you the evidence BY HUGH,
showing he is now lying. I can also show you who is really to
blame and who should foot all your losses and my losses.
I remember in late 1993 at your home in Canmaroo Court. Mum and
Dad and I were there as were you and Hugh. I had recently been
arrested. Mum and Dad were concerned. As we were in Mum and
Dad's car and about to leave your house in Canmaroo Court,
apparently, you had spoken to Hugh as we were walking out, as to
whether you
could offer to Mum and Dad if you could do anything to help Mum and
Dad, because they were worried about me. You said to all three of
us in the car, but looking at Mum,
"If there is anything we can do to help, we want to do it."
I wanted to buy a place out here at St Lucia. I had $17,000+
coming to me, as trustee of a trust, from Telecom now Telstra as they
had stuffed up a business owned by the trust, eight years prior.
Telstra were still stuffing me around as that money should have been
paid earlier. [Telstra had agreed to pay that money in
early November, 1993. I can show the banking transaction to
prove
when the funds actually arrived.] I had found a house of 6
bedrooms at 12 Dell Road, St Lucia, literally 60 metres from the
University of Qld St Lucia campus. The asking price was
$240,000. I had wanted to live in part of the house myself and
let the
remainder to share house student/tenants as I had done with my previous
house purchases in 1973 and 1977. I put it to you and you
just referred me to Hugh. So I put it to Hugh. I did not
realise then how much Hugh resented me and was eager to pull me down
as, if I had realised
what a snake in the grass he is, I would
not have entertained the idea. I just though he was odd, very
odd. I explained to him my proposal of subletting it to finance my
purchase of it, with him [and YOU] just holding it until I could
arrange the finance. He has admitted this. Hugh
refers to my subletting as "take in boarders". See a copy of part
of
his email to me on 21 january, 2004, TEN
years after I told him my
plans ["you said in the past (a long past) .."]. Note his
reference to my "Option of Purchase".
As a matter of law, a trust was formed with Hugh as trustee and me as
beneficiary. He then went about stuffing me around. "Oh,
could you find
something cheaper": suggesting he was comfortable with the proposition
but for a lower exposure. I found this place [254 Hawken
Drive] which was at an asking price of $190,000 but with only three
bedrooms. There was room above the garage for a fourth
bedroom when a hallway was put through the then location of the shower
which was wrecked and needed replacing; over the bath-tub I
intended. For me, four bedrooms but the lower price still
made this a proposition, so was prepared to change my plans to this
one. Hugh agreed, but soon after moving in, he just stuffed me
around so that I could not advance my plans. Now, from your
reaction on the day Denise Berry was here, I gather Hugh told you
another story, [not that you were holding it for me til I could arrange
the finance, buy it and "take in borders"] to allow him to cheat me,
which he is now trying to do
and causing me big losses. You would know when Hugh is
lying. I wonder if you are affraid to ask him as he will fly into
a rage. He knows how far he can push you, doesn't he?
You know he is always about manipulating people. He did it to
you, soon after you met when he realised just how infatuated with him
you were. [Remember you repeatedly said how he looked like Paul
Newman and you had a big crush on Paul Newman.] So as to
have power ever you, he decided to say you should have a "trial
separation". Clearly, he just wanted to have more or
complete power over you and let you know it. Since, I have seen
how he flies off the handle and how scared of him you become.
It is clear to me now that Hugh intended to cheat me way back
then in 1994. He tells lies of course. He has even had you
involved in the CRIME of purporting to
execute a fraudulent document , and additionally, introducing that to a
court of law in Queensland as a bona fide "contract". Hugh
has also had our MOTHER involved in that fraud too as he had Mum
sign as "witnesses" to your and MY signatures.
I am referring to that REIQ tenancy agreement that you have signed
purporting to be a tenancy with me agreement for my home. I can tell you
that I did not execute that contract. Hugh
said to me on the 25 May, 2005, while on the driveway of my home here
at 254 hawken Drive,
that that contract was executed "out the back there somewhere" waving
at my home here as he said that. HUGH IS LYING. HE IS
A REPEATED LIAR. He
also at that time, "If you have an email from me where I mention an
Option to buy, that is because you sent me an email telling me you were
interested in buying the house, and I said that if I am ever going to
sell it I will give you the option of buying it." I retorted,
"okay, if that is the case, SHOW ME THE EMAIL." HUGH WAS
DUMBFOUNDED. I repeated that he should show it to me." He had
nothing to say. See what you think of his conduct in his correspondence
written by him.
Hugh will be asking you to confirm that you executed that contract in
those terms at my home the day we were making those repeated trips to
Chermside.
On
the evening of 26 February, 1994, after everyone else except
Hugh and I, had left the house
here at 254 Hawken Drive St Lucia, after the day
of moving in with a number of trips by the truck from Chermside to St Lucia, Hugh said he just had to
go outside for a moment. I guess you were outside in your car at
the time and may remember Hugh coming out to the car and collecting the
blank REIQ tenancy agreement form. It was in a thin plastic
folder joined on two sides. It was a fawny light purple-ish
plastic on the front and back joined down the left side and across the
bottom. The folder had some cut away from the front sheet
of plastic on the right side and across the top with more of the folder
on the top right removed and tapering back to nothing removed at the
top left and the bottom right. That front edge had, I think, some
embossing on the plastic. I had seen plastice folder/covers
like that previously and recognised. I imagine when you later saw that
form, Hugh had it in the same plastic folder, or when you had seen it
that day or the previous day. Hugh had closed my front door when he
went outside and I remember his returning and turning around
somewhat and closing the door behind him. He than came up the six
front steps. He had that folder I described. From it
Hugh produced a
blank REIQ Tenancy Agreement. He asked me
to sign it blank. He said he had acquired it the
previous day from his solicitors. Hugh stated that it
was just because his super fund, the Howard Street Pharmacy
Superannuation Fund, had an interest in the house and he just wanted
something to put in the file for his superannuation fund, to keep the
Superannuation commissioner happy if ever Hugh was quizzed. He stated it was for no other reason. Hugh repeated he just wanted to have it on the
file. Hugh advised that he did not have the time to
complete it then and that he did not intend to complete it, but just
wanted to put it on
the file for the Super Fund.
I
was uncomfortable about signing it. I expressed my
reservations about signing a blank form. Whereupon, Hugh raises
his voice and launches into his conduct of great exasperation with, "Oh
Russell, we are doing all this for you, you know, and we've been
helping you today. This is the least you could do."
I felt intimidated by him. I signed it under duress.
There
is now in evidence in court, because Hugh has introduced it, an
REIQ tenancy agreement form purporting to be a tenancy
agreement signed by me. My "signature" as are yours and Hughs,
are witnessed by Mum. I do not know if that is actually my
signature or if that is the blank form that Hugh pressured me to
sign. However, I have never signed such a form in front of
Mum.
On another matter, I know you know because Mum and Dad told me that you
apologised to them for Hugh's behaviour when he was trying to get Mum
and Dad's assets. It was about 1996 or 1997. He was suggesting
that Mum and Dad should sell their home and build a house on one of
your blocks of land adjoining your home. Of course, then Mum and
Dad would have lost all control of their home, and Hugh would have
owned their house built by them. Then, he could have just said to Mum
and Dad, at any time, "You will have to go into a nursing home."
Then of couse in his inimitable way, "Of course, it
will be for your benefit. You realise that, don't you?"
After suggesting Mum and Dad sell their home and give the money to him,
Hugh said emphatically to Dad, "and Russell will have nothing to do
with it." Dad had always been awake to Hugh, from the time
he first showed up in 1967. Dad was disgusted with Hugh's
suggestion and his attitude. Dad realised that it was just a way
of cheating me. Dad told me that you realised Hugh's conduct and
attitude was unacceptable, and that he had gone "overboard", and you
apologised to Mum and Dad for his conduct.
I suggest that Hugh will say to you about this, something like, "the
solicitors have it all under control, don't worry about
it." Are you happy with that if it is all LIES on Hugh's
part?
Coral, there has already been a great amount lost in all this due to
Hugh's trying to cheat me. I am sure he will be blaming me to
you. These losses would never have occurred if Hugh had not
set out to cheat me. You know Hugh and how he relies upon the
solicitors. He could never have been in this situation
where he is trying to cheat, and has already cheated, me if his
solicitors had not helped him. His solicitors helped
him. They would have known what he was intending.
Solicitors are, in theory, officers of the court, and are supposed to
act appropriately at all time. They are not "guns for hire" [well
the courts would say that publicly], and should not be showing clients
how to swindle others. It is all in your hands. You
will know when Hugh is lying, I am sure. Were he to come
clean with how his solicitors advised him, then the solicitors and
their "insurance" should pay all of your and Hugh's losses, as well as
mine. All the communications between you, Hugh and your
solicitors are subject to legal Professional Privilege aka Client
privilege. That is YOUR right, NOT the
solicitors'. YOU, as one of the clients, has the RIGHT and POWER
to release ALL communication, even if it is still in the hands of the
solicitors. They may be inclined to destroy all files. If
they did and then you could produce even one item which they did
not still have, that would show they had cleaned their
files. I am sure Hugh would have so much detail that could
sink those solicitors.