The last days of Henshaw's regime at Liverpool city council were like a scene from the Berlin bunker.
Sir David ordered in his aide de camp Danny Clare (aHa - another Henshaw appointment) to spend an entire weekend sifting through dozens of files in the council's Municipal Building.
Henshaw then stood over poor Clare as he shredded literally hundreds of documents in the great man's huge office.
Apparently there was so much shredded paper that porters were ordered to trundle in purple wheely bins to cope with it all. (Henshaw is pictured illustrating the size of one file of emails about Mike Storey which he shredded).
But what other secret documents were destroyed we wonder? Who did they belong to - Henshaw or the city council? And who gave him permission to destroy council property?
Poor Clare's reward for his loyal destruction was later to be moved to a council backwater when Hilton assumed the role of new chief exec.
And the Berlin bunker took an even more sinister turn when an IT expert was enlisted by McElhinney from Liverpool Direct to wipe clean the computer hard drives of all the members of the evil cabal - Henshaw, the Rottweiller himself and the smiling assassin, Halsall.
Goodness knows what juicy evidence was being disposed of here. We can only speculate about the emails which passed between the evil cabal concerning Storey, Bradley, Joe Anderson, Colin Hilton, Regeneration Executive Director Charlie Parker (we confidently predict), Matt Finnegan and anyone else they had conspired against.
But here's the rub. Henshaw, McElhinney and Halsall still have council computers at home, which they have not yet wiped. These appear to have been overlooked by the city council.
Why doesn't someone insist the council go and seize back its property - and take a look at what is on these computers?
And as part of any investigation into contracts, and in the interests of open government and genuine transparency, why doesn't the council take a leaf out of Scotland Yard's book?
The Yard are using the latest American software to unearth deleted emails from computers as part of their loans for Lords enquiry.
If it's good enough for the capital its good enough for the Capital of Culture.
And who knows what interesting stuff the council might find.
Just a suggestion of course.
This post first appeared on the now legendary liverpoolevilcabal.blog. It has been reproduced here by kind permission of Tony Parrish Productions (c). We are eternally grateful to him. Below are the original comments made...
9 Comments:
I have now thrown my council computer into the Mersey.
Me too
What's a computer?
The thing in front of you, dunderhead.
As one of those who has been admitted to the inner sanctum of the evil cabal and seen Mr Henshaw at work, I can fully imagine him strutting around his giant office like a little Napoleon instructing council staff about which documents needed to be shredded. Its a pity you haven't learnt to amend photos yet, Tony, you could have drawn a nice little Napoleonic hat on his head for this particular post. What surprises me is that people are still apparently taking Henshaw seriously when his puffed up arrogance is clear for all to see. Your blog however is doing a rather nice little job of exposing the seamy side of his time at the city. Good luck with it!
Yes, but are we ever going to be able to move on from those bad old days?
Alas, there are no prospects that DH's computer files will be recovered. That only happens when the police investigate a crime, and he hasn't been charged with any crime - yet.
Also, shredding files by departing executives is pretty standard business practice these days, especially by those who wish the skeletons to remain firmly buried.
The computers must be seized.
The bank statements must be seized.
The assets must be accounted for by taxed earnings.
The tax office must asses whether David Henshaw's expenditure can be accounted for via taxed earnings.
Oh Yeah and if Councilor Kemp is so sure that the content of this blog is largely false was he around to witness documents not being shredded and wheelied off .
The only way to recycle them is to seize the computers - both sets as evidence. ongoing computers would be a good read not doubt.
LDL have the software to recover back anything DH wiped, but the chances of our illustrious leader authorising that is non existent. Techs do what they are told.
Senior Council officer to techie:"Just wipe out all evidence of the chickswithdicks websites and tell his PA it was a network problem"