6 Dorset Mews
Dorset Lane
St Helier
Jersey, C.I.
JE2 3FH
UK
Tel: 01534 747039
http://dickfrancis.co.uk
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Open Letter to: David Cameron Conservative Party Leader.
David Cameron camerond@parliament.uk
Dear David Cameron,
I would like your replies to the questions raised in this correspondence to you. My English friends living in the UK are interested to know what your actions on the issues raised would be if you were in No 10?
I sent a petition to John Major when he was in Number 10 Downing Street, and the same petition to now Prime Minister Tony Blair, to bring in a law preventing what Dick Francis did to us being done to anyone else in the future, neither of them has done anything. In fact not only did they do nothing, but John Major let Dick Francis into Number 10 Downing Street to have a good look around.
I also notified the now Late ‘Queen Mother’ and the Royal Family of what Dick Francis had done to us, as did a Film Production Company. Now what I personally found morally totally unacceptable was Dick Francis being honoured with a CBE in June 2000 when the Government and the Royal family knew full well what he had done to us. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/793874.stm
I find it hard to understand why the newspapers put all that crap about big brother on their front pages, and don’t say a word about what happened to us? It makes no sense at all, let’s face it I wouldn’t have thought that Dick Francis is small fry, he has made in excess of 60 million out of his books, it has been in the papers that it was probably his wife who wrote most of his book, doing all the research and editing for him. It isn’t a case of my suddenly becoming an author; I had written several books before doing my autobiography. The only explanation I can think of that the papers are publishing purely because of public interest, and going on the number of complaints people are making by email, telephone or in writing.
Do look at the evidence I have put on line and the open letter I sent to him via his solicitors (which he has ignored?) Receipt link from his solicitor is included on the page. http://dickfrancis.co.uk/dick_francis_infringed_my_copyri.htm http://dickfrancis.co.uk/to_dick_francis_via_his_solicito.htm
Would you ignore an open letter like the one I sent to Dick Francis if you were in the right? (Maybe you’d like to ask him that one as a reporter? I’d love to know the answer!) I know I wouldn’t, the only reason I can think of is that because he knows I can prove my life, and that you cannot call the number of factual events he has used out of my life (out of my correspondence to him, even in the copy of my last correspondence to him alone, were he even got the title for the novel!) coincidences that are actually factual to our lives, which I have proof of. I have attached a PDF file with a copy of Jersey Evening post articles, ref: The horse-box arson one, there was a lot more than the paper reported on. Shortly after this article came out I had a miscarriage due to tripping over a tripwire that was put in my field by the water butt.
I suffered attacks like those in this article from 1983 to 1988, now I don’t keep any horses.
If you read the Dick Francis novel ‘Come to Grief’ you will find what he has done is use our lives for the basic storyline, apart from plagiarising straight out of my correspondence, I feel he must have (or someone on his behalf) researched us and our lives. Now one of the incidences that occurred was not in any of my correspondence to him, and was not reported on in the newspaper, and apart from myself, a policeman (who has said he would come forward), and one individual who had no horsy connections what-so-ever, yet it came out in his novel, coincidence or did he or his researcher speak to and get the information from someone who was/knew about who had committed the crimes against us? Makes one wonder doesn’t it?
Dick Francis split my character in two.
1) The woman Linda with the child with cancer who had horse vandalisation/attacks committed against her/her family, pets and property.
2) The horsy investigator who investigated a crime against a best friend. Yes I can prove this as well. I was the investigator for the biggest horsy fraud committed in Jersey, I have the court transcript to prove this, and I can also prove I represented Horse Watch, both before he published ‘Come to grief’!
Obviously there are a lot of things in my autobiography that Dick Francis had no way of knowing or finding out, thank goodness, God knows how many novels he could have based on us if he had? So my autobiography is more than a little extreme!
You tell me why a Film Production Company in Copenhagen, who wanted to produce a feature film based on our lives, including the Dick Francis saga, would drop me like a ton of bricks after making coming to some sort of agreement with Dick Francis. Especially after the Film Production company had advertised everything all over the net? Taking into account that the average feature film payment for a screenplay is approximately £300,000, and please takes into account that the film production company also advertised to find me a screenwriting partner on their website, this can be proved, the screenwriting partner they found me was Cathy Jourdan her email is cathyjourdan@yahoo.com feel free to ask her, she also spoke to the owner of the Film Production Company Arnie, S. Harthimmer, as I did because he telephoned us both on numerous occasions! I was also on Copenhagen Radio talking openly about what Dick Francis had done to us, at the express request of Arnie Harthimmer. This was not just a wrong done to me but also a wrong done to my screenwriting partner, we both put a lot of work into the screenplay.
I cannot even begin to express how I feel about all the above, and to top it off over the years several reporters have taken all the details and just done nothing with it, Jason Lewis and his photographer Greg of The Daily Mail were the first, they came to Jersey took photographs the lot. I feel there is some sort of block on what happened to me being released by the media, but I will keep going no matter what my daughter Natasha is not a fictional character and our lives are not fictional.
Now I cannot understand with all the information I have put on the net why the media has a problem, as I have already made the facts worldwide common knowledge, and the book is available worldwide, from the bookshops and the net, so how could they have legal action taken against them when I have already published the facts first?
Can you think of an angle to get the facts of what happened to us mainstream media coverage? I have even put an open letter on the net to CNN and been ignored, here is the link to it http://dickfrancis.co.uk/open-letter-cnn-1-1-2007.htm
I mean just what do I have to do? The answers are limited by my lack of funds, I sold everything I had of any real value when I was losing Natasha to cancer or I would have gone and confronted him at his last book signing, preferably with a camera crew, and yes I do mean that! What I wouldn’t do is physically attack anyone that is below me but verbally and without bad language I can hold my own with the best, especially as I am telling the truth. Would I go to jail to prove my point, yes without a second thought, no one is going to make me take down my websites, because every word on them is the truth, and the same applies to my autobiography.
I feel that Dick Francis won’t take me on because he doesn’t want people to know the truth. What kind of person does this to another human being that has lost their child, and profiteers out of their grief?
Dick Francis’s actions have prevented me from making any profits out of my autobiography; doing the things Natasha wanted me to out of its royalties, because I cannot get any real media coverage.
When Dick Francis’s latest book ‘Under Orders’ came out it got massive free media coverage right left and centre, which felt so unfair under the circumstances. If it is true that his wife wrote his books, plus I have seen comments on the net insinuating that maybe his son Felix wrote the last one and I write my own, this cannot in all fairness be classified as non-discriminatory, it makes me feel that the press for some reason known only to themselves that they have some bias towards me. Like they are saying ‘how dare she expose Dick Francis, this well loved British
Author.’ Perhaps what Max Clifford said on Morning TV about publicists being able to keep news about their clients out of the news as well as get them publicity is the reality of the situation, what do you think?
Dick Francis is sticking his head in the sand, he knows what he did; he knows that he owes me for the copyright infringement; he knows I cannot afford to take a court case against him. So as long as the media refuse to cover this news they are protecting him from being exposed for what he did and it doesn’t matter for what reason they are aiding and abetting a copyright infringement, more to the point they are ignoring the plight of a mother who cannot bare for her lost child to be thought of as fictitious.
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Ask Dick Francis:
Why he chose to use part of my life and that of my family to base ‘Come to Grief’ on.
Why he is ignoring my open letter on the internet, I have given everyone that I sent it to him via his solicitors on the website page of such.
What agreement did he come to with Arnie. S. Harthimmer of The film Production Company (I can send you copy of what the film production company put on their website, and Cathy Jourdan can confirm everything I have told you, and probably fill you in personally on what Arnie. S. Harthimmer told her in their conversations or by email.)
Dick Francis’s publishers, ignore the fact that their author has committed copyright infringement, plus plagiarism so blatantly?
One of Dick Francis’s son’s Felix or Merrick told a reporter from ‘The Times’ that and I quote ‘Lots of people die from cancer’. What do you think of this comment?
Please consider signing this petition. Thank you from within my heart! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/justicenatasha
Thank You.
I will await your reply with interest, have a great day, Linda Corby
C.C.