'I was turned into a pariah for complaining about a yob'

By Andy Dolan
Last updated at 12:53 PM on 26th June = 2009

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Jane Clift: Libel victory after a four-year = legal battle=20

Jane Clift saw it as her public duty to report a drunk she saw = trampling=20 flowers in a park.

But her efforts led to a surreal nightmare in which she was branded=20 potentially violent and put on a council blacklist with thugs and sex = attackers.=20

Her details were circulated to an extraordinary range of public and = private=20 bodies, including doctors, dentists, opticians, libraries, contraceptive = clinics, schools and nurseries. Their staff were advised not to see her = alone.=20

The 43-year-old former care worker was forced to withdraw an = application to=20 become a foster parent and, eventually, to leave the town where she had = lived=20 for ten years.

Now, after a bitter four-year legal battle with Slough Council, the = stain on=20 her character has finally been removed.

The High Court ordered the council to pay her £12,000 in = libel=20 damages after a case which has cost taxpayers an estimated = £500,000 in=20 legal fees.

Mrs Clift said last night: 'I hope this means others will never have = to go=20 through the hell I have suffered.'

Her ordeal began in August 2005 when she called the police after the = drunk=20 threat-All it takes is one council bufened her in Slough's Sheffield = Road Rest=20 Gardens. The man had fled by the time police arrived, but they advised = her to=20 contact the council, which was running a campaign to persuade local = people to=20 report anti-social behaviour.

foon to take a dislike to you and he or she can put you on this = register.=20 There was no right of appeal. The only way I could overturn it is was to = embark=20 on this massive legal battle.'

Mrs Clift added: 'What is terrifying is that there is almost no proof = required and no hearing to determine the truth of the allegation. It = could=20 happen to anybody who gets into even the most minor disagreement with = their=20 council.'

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Potentially violent: Jane Clift was blacklisted = after=20 complaining when an abusive drunk damaged this flowerbed

She said she had no idea such a register even existed before her name = was=20 added to it.

The entry expired after 18 months but by then she had been forced to = leave=20 Slough.

Mrs Clift, who now lives in Birmingham, said: 'I am not and never have been = violent =20 - as the jury have found.

'It has taken me four years to clear my name and I hope Slough and = other=20 councils never again misuse their registers.' Simon Davies, from the human rights watchdog Privacy = International,=20 said: 'This just shows the megalomania of these local authorities. This = poor=20 woman was subjected to a Kafkaesque ordeal because of an incorrect = allegation=20 made by one official.

'It is the sort of behaviour that we would have condemned if it came = from China or Russia. Our councils seem to be out of control.'

During the eight-day hearing the court was told Mrs Clift had told = another=20 council worker that, as far as she was concerned, Miss Rashid could = 'drop down=20 dead'.

She followed up with a letter in which she wrote: 'I felt so filled = with=20 anger that I am certain I would have physically attacked her if she had = been=20 anywhere near me. I truly am not of that nature and so, surely, this = should act=20 as a wake-up call to the borough as to the capacity she has for = offending=20 people.'

But her counsel, Hugh Tomlinson, said the letter was misinterpreted = and the=20 decision to put her on the register had been 'completely ridiculous'. =

Her name was added to the blacklist because she was 'a thorn in their = side'=20 and the council thought the move would mean no-one would take her = seriously.=20

Mr Justice Tugendhat ordered Slough to pay the legal costs of the = case,=20 estimated at between £450,000 to £500,000.

Mrs Clift brought the action under a 'no win no fee' arrangement with = her=20 legal team.

A council spokesman said later: 'The jury found that what we recorded = about=20 Mrs Clift was not true, but they were not prepared to find that we acted = in bad=20 faith.

'We will reflect carefully on how we need to respond.'

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I'm surprised to see how many people on here = seem to think=20 it is OK for members of the public to issue death threats against = council=20 employees.
With attitudes like that is easy to see why so many = doctors,=20 nurses and socilal workers are physically and verbally abused each = year.

- Chris Jones, Leeds, 26/6/2009 12:34

Click to=20 rate =20 =20 Rating 192

The old saying still holds true.
"No good = deed goes=20 unpunished".

- John L, Maryland, USA, 26/6/2009 12:30

Click to=20 rate =20 =20 Rating 83

Why don't the council actually spend money on = actually=20 tackling anti social behaviour rather than persecuting an innocent woman = trying=20 to make the world a better place for all decent people (remember us?). = No doubt=20 the poor council staff needed time off for counselling after dealing = with such a=20 "difficult customer". Heaven help them if they had actually had to deal = with the=20 yob who was causing the problem in the first place! I am glad that I = don't live=20 in Slugh as I would object to my council tax being used to fund this = ridiculous=20 case. This could have been resolved by someone senior taking = responsibility for=20 actually speaking to the lady and assuring her that they do take the = issue of=20 anti social behaviour seriously. Even if they had no chance of catching = the=20 perpetrator then at least she would have been reassured by the fact that = the=20 council do take complaints seriously.

- carol, Bolton.UK, 26/6/2009 11:59

Click to=20 rate =20 =20 Rating 128

What sort of spiteful, small minded jobsworths = does this=20 council employ?

- Stratford, Hants., 26/6/2009 11:37

Click to=20 rate =20 =20 Rating 153

Don't worry, Cameron said that he would repeal = all these=20 draconian laws when he gets in power.!!!!!!

- Paul, East London, 26/6/2009 11:36

Click to=20 rate =20 =20 Rating 92

Sack these insidious council jobsworths.

- Hrothgar, Zimbabritain, 26/6/2009 = 11:36

Click to=20 rate =20 =20 Rating 138

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