Prelude to a hoax: How Sabine warmed up her audience

Over the past few weeks we’ve been talking about Sabine McNeill’s role in getting the Hampstead SRA hoax off the ground. We’ve outlined Sabine’s use of a Change.org petition as a vehicle for publicising her email to then-Home Secretary Theresa May; that email contained links to Sabine’s Google Drive, which contained the original videos of the children “confessing” to Abe and Ella. We have found the deleted blog post in which Sabine released the videos, then claimed she hadn’t. And we’ve talked about how Sabine’s bone-headed attempt to blackmail the courts and police with “exposure” if they did not return the children to Ella demonstrated very clearly that she never believed in the hoax herself.

Today we’re going to explore how Sabine did the groundwork for her “big reveal” in early 2015, creating a seamless transition between the failed Musa case and Hoaxtead, which she hoped would be her “breakthrough case”. Her goal: to establish the Association of McKenzie Friends as the authoritative voice (and willing recipient of donations) for those who believed they were the victims of “child-snatching”, as well as those who believed in the prevalence of Satanic ritual abuse.

On 26 December 2014, Sabine posted this on her National Inquiry into Organised, Orchestrated & Historic Child Sexual Abuse blog:

Before she gets into the specifics of the case, she sets the stage: she falsely alleges that RD had a “history of domestic violence”; in reality, Ella had made multiple allegations of him which, oddly enough, coincided with each new court order he got to enable him to see his children. Sabine skips over exactly how the “harrowing details” were extracted; but knowing her audience, she’s well aware that “harrowing details” are their bread and butter. She flat-out lies about the little boy’s hearing being damaged by the father’s hitting and yelling; Dr Hodes was quite explicit in saying that this had been the result of abuse by Abraham Christie. In fact, it was Dr Hodes who recommended that the children be taken into protective custody.Interesting that Sabine refers to Abraham here as Ella’s “then partner”; this was during the time when Abraham had fled the country, fearing that the police would arrest him for child abuse. And Sabine is wrong when she states that the children’s reports matched up. In fact, one reason the police smelt a rat was the dissonance between the children’s statements. Sabine “forgets” to mention that the reason the children don’t speak Russian in their meetings with Ella is that their carers suspected (correctly as it turned out) that Ella was attempting to bully the children into saying they wanted to come home to her. And since when are violin lessons, tennis, and swimming evidence of a happy home life?Here’s Sabine’s little advert for the Association of McKenzie Friends. She claims to have assisted in “some fifty extreme cases”, but seems to have never documented a single case in which the parents have actually won. Then a plug for John Hemming, and a claim, quoted from conspiraloon blog The Coleman Experience, that there are “hundreds of satanic paedophile rings in existence throughout the UK and many are quite horrifyingly taking place in primary schools”. News flash, Sabine: just because some nutter says it does not make it true. Proof of claim, please.  This is interesting: Ella sacked her barrister who was “not willing to defend her affidavit”…which was, we now know, Ella’s statement naming children, parents, teachers, clergy, and businesses in Hampstead. Why would a barrister be unwilling to defend such an affidavit? Words like “professional ethics” and “not wanting to be struck off” spring to mind. When Ella’s solicitor disappointed her by failing to file documents on time (possibly for the same reasons?), Sabine and Belinda just happened to be there to pick up the slack. What an amazing coincidence! Sabine signs off with a list of suggestions for her readers: sign a petition, start a compensation fund, write to Sir James Munby.

In this post, she sets the stage, whets the appetites of her followers, and drops a few tasty hints as to what’s to come. Two days later, she reblogged this post on another of her many, many blogs:

The message: “Well, if you thought the Musa case was shocking, with its horrific allegations of child abuse, kidnap plots, and the ‘snatching’ of seven children from their loving parents, just wait till you see what we’ve got coming up for you!”

Conspiritainment at its finest, friends. Step right up.

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And on another note…

It hasn’t escaped our minds that Rupert Quaintance is due back at Hendon Magistrate’s court today. We’ll have our ears to the ground, and will bring you up-to-date reports from the courtroom just as soon as we receive them. Stay tuned!