Arminius Vámbéry

4/28/2009 8:44 AM UTC

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Nocturnal_Frequency/2009/04/04/Nocturnal-Frequency-Radio-David-Farrant +++ I listened to Steve Genier's interview with David Farrant with absolute incredulity and amazement! How could anyone be that gullible? Genier accepted what he was told without any supporting evidence whatsoever, and his repeated references to a man of the cloth as being "bogus" amount to nothing short of defamation of character. Farrant claims he met Bishop Seán Manchester in 1967. He did not. He met him in late February 1970, as recorded on the front page of the Hampstead & Highgate Express, 6 March 1970. Farrant claims Seán Manchester (the author of The Highgate Vampire) made a film in the 1960s about vampires in which he also performed. He did not. Nobody will be found or ever produced to suggest otherwise because no such film was ever made or ever existed. Farrant's allegations are totally false. He claims that Seán Manchester stated on television on 13 March 1970 that Farrant was going to hunt the vampire at Highgate Cemetery on the same night. Seán Manchester said no such thing. What he actually said was that it was Farrant's intention to take it upon himself to pursue the vampire and warned against this plan. Farrant had certainly suggested he would do so in the same edition of the aforementioned newspaper and, indeed, he did hunt the vampire on the night of 17 August 1970 when he was arrested by police in Highgate Cemetery. When interviewed by the BBC about his arrest, Farrant reconstructed his "vampire hunt" - complete with cross and stake - for the cameras. Recordings of both these programmes are available to those who want to hear the facts for themselves. The Highgate Vampire CD has all the relevant interviews from 1970. It can be obtained from Gothic Press at: http://www.gothicpress.freeserve.co.uk/Bookshop.htm Most revealing about Genier's interview with Farrant is that two-thirds of it was spent discussing Seán Manchester who was not present to defend himself. Genier was particularly eager to identify the bishop by name and no less keen to libel him whilst fawning over Farrant who could barely string a comprehensible sentence together. Yet Genier asked absolutely no questions about Farrant's criminal convictions relating to Highgate Cemetery! Nor anything about Farrant's other crimes. One is bound to wonder why? After all, having been found guilty of indecency in a churchyard in November 1972, Farrant in June 1974 was found guilty of malicious vandalism and tomb desecration at Highgate Cemetery, as well as being found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by sending black magic threats to police witnesses. These threats comprised voodoo dolls impaled with pins. There were other crimes relating to theft and firearms. Farrant received a prison sentence of four years and eight months at London's Old Bailey's central criminal court. Genier, however, was more interested in hearing Farrant defame Seán Manchester. It was quite obvious that Genier had fallen for Farrant's propaganda hook, line and sinker. He spoke of what an "honour" it was to be able to speak to the convicted felon and proceeded to attack Bishop Seán Manchester, calling him "bogus" and repeating Farrant's unsubstantiated attacks. That Seán Manchester is a properly consecrated member of the episcopate is not questioned by priests and bishops; so why by Steve Genier? Moreover, Seán Manchester's ecclesial standing has been tested before his peers and a panel headed by the Anglican Bishop Richard Holloway who found in favour of Bishop Manchester when the matter was adjudicated following an unfortunate slight by an amateur radio station who immediately afterwards apologised. I strongly suggest Steve Genier also apologises for his "bogus bishop" remarks and other smears against Seán Manchester. See: http://www.holygrail-church.fsnet.co.uk/BSC.htm Real facts with supporting evidence about Farrant can be read at: http://thehighgatevampire.blogspot.com