"Della Farrant" aka "Gia Schellens"

 

"Della Farrant" aka "JS Tucker"

On 16 July 2021, the person who identifies herself as "Della Farrant" updated her Facebook page header. The icon is non-personal and is a picture of the sky at night. The header, however, shows David Farrant with his second wife, Colette, who some believe to be "Della's" mother (the father remains unidentified, not necessarily Farrant, as both he and Colette had relationships with others).

"Oracle Television" has been claimed by both David Farrant and "Della" as their employer. It is not a television company. It's blurb says it "produces promotional videos and content for spiritual orientated businesses as well producing and broadcasting in house documentaries." In other words, it facilitates the making of online videos for people involved in witchcraft and sundry LHP occult activities. It is the brainchild of Carrie Kirkpatrick who interviewed David Farrant many times for videos that were shared online. Hallowe'en is a major celebration that features a lot. Quite how Farrant and "Della" were ever employees of Carrie Kirkpatrick (Oracle Television) is not clear, as they did not receive any money for participating in Kirkpatrick's video projects. They were friends, or maybe just acquaintances.

http://www.oracletelevision.com/halloween-special-2014/4587886967

Christine Jacob (née Maloney) and Seán Manchester have never had a problem with each other, but they certainly had a problem with David Farrant and "Della Farrant." What follows is correspondence sent by Isaac Ben Jacob to Seán Manchester on 15 April 2012 regarding Farrant and "Della Farrant":

"Me and my wife have discovered with a lot of surprise the existence of several blogs where we are notably being associated with David Farrant and his wife or girlfriend (I don't know if she is his wife or his girlfriend), whereas we have absolutely no contact with him, and we absolutely do not share his ideas. I wish to underline that my wife met David Farrant once or twice during meetings, and that it was David Farrant who started to talk to her, whereas she didn't know anything about him or his past. We recently found out that the reason why David Farrant initially made contact with my wife was in order to manipulate us, and to make you believe she was Della. If you look closely at the pictures of Della [posted in blogs], you will notice that the Della shown on the photos is always hiding her face, and that she always takes a posture which does not allow anyone to determine exactly how tall she is. I have attended a meeting myself three months ago, and I have seen Della and David Farrant together at this occasion. And when I tried to take a picture of them, Della immediately threw herself at me and my wife in order to force us to delete the photo from our camera. We do not have any relation or contact with Della and David Farrant, and we don't want to be associated with these two persons in any way, shape or form, because they have a sulfurous past, they have a reputation of being Satanists, and they are acquainted with people like Jean-Paul Bourre, whom I don't want to hear about. I know you have done research about me, and consequently you know I am an earnest academic researcher who uses scientific methods. Therefore you also know that I reject and condemn all magical practices, heretical deviancies, and obviously people such as David Farrant, who have practised Satanism. I think that you and I have been manipulated in this case, and that you could help us reestablish the truth. Yours sincerely, Isaac Ben Jacob."

Jamie Coster of Southampton emerged on social media two decades ago using the tag chatty gef.

A female calling herself various names (sometimes Anna Hinton, sometimes Della Vallicrus), among a raft of other pseudonyms, emerged on social media at precisely the same time as Jamie Coster. She, too, evinced more than a passing interest in a mongoose called Gef, and claimed to be haunted by it.

We are expected to believe that they were yet to become acquainted; despite one obsessing about a talking mongoose, and the other employing chatty gef as his online tag, and e-mail address nickname. They were both disingenuously looking for a man called David Farrant who advertised his contact e-mail, telephone number and London Muswell Hill home address on his website. It would have taken all of three minutes. Jamie had not had personal contact with his father for over four decades, and when he decided to speak to him for the first time, he needed little persuasion to carry on the legacy of enmity toward a certain man. Ditto "Della" when she "joined forces" with Jamie.

The first time David Farrant saw his son, Jamie, born 9 November 1967, since his wife, Mary, departed from London to live in Southampton in August 1969, never to return save for an appearance at the Old Bailey in the summer of 1974 due to a subpoena issued by her estranged husband, was in 2010. Jamie's half-brother, Daniel J Coster, had no contact with David Farrant who only saw him briefly as a new born baby in 1968. Farrant's first wife was Mary Coster, prior to which she was Farrant née Olden). After they divorced, he married his second wife, Colette Gee aka Colette Sully at Wood Green Registry Office on 21 June 1979. Colette was complicit in much of her husband's black arts, and assorted vendettas. She notoriously appeared naked during a videoed Luciferian ceremony at their Muswell Hill Road home. They divorced after a short marriage. Farrant did not remarry despite "Della" claiming to be his legitimate third wife and now widow. She adopted the style "Della Farrant."

Jamie Farrant, a resident of Southampton, dropped his surname "Coster" after meeting his biological father in 2010. Within weeks of meeting David Farrant, Jamie was calling himself "Jamie Farrant."

"Della" wrote the following after David Farrant died in a Tottenham nursing home in April 2019:

"David had various framed images on the wall of the room where he spent the last weeks of his life, all of an occult nature – which Jamie helpfully  put up. Some of these you will all be familiar with from the many videos which were filmed at the flat David and I shared in Muswell Hill. It seems that a member of nursing staff (who had grown up in a part of the  world where spirits and witchdoctors are greatly feared) took exception to these images, and found out more than a little about his reputation.  So much so that within half an hour of David’s passing I came under an  extraordinary amount of pressure from her to arrange for him to be  ‘taken away’ – as soon as possible. Not when the sun rose – but  IMMEDIATELY! The member of staff’s fears were entirely supernatural in origin. It turned out that she was terrified of his living presence – but his mortal remains sent her paranoia through the roof." — "Della Farrant" (9 April 2020)

This, along with a black hole of information, and the absence of any records, led to all the speculation.

 “Della Maria Vallicrus” aka “Della Escarti” aka “Della Farrant,” for someone claiming to be the young girlfriend (and, since Hallowe’en 2011, wife) of a man born in January 1946 who immersed himself in the outer trappings of the dark arts, has flitted from being “Roman Catholic” to someone obsessed with magical rituals, shamanism, witchcraft and the occult. She used images of a young Shakira as her own until she was rumbled. Then she occasioned upon Christine Moloney with whom Farrant was loosely acquainted. Christine and “Della” have a similar build, are the same age and claim to have been married on precisely the same day (but to different people). Christine and “Della” apparently design websites, dabble with interior design and have CVs that are practically identical.

Christine and “Della” claim to come from the exclusive Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Christine and “Della” claim to have Roman Catholic origins which they each cling onto in a heretical way. Christine and “Della” show a strong interest in witchcraft, the occult, Freemasonry and ceremonial magic.

One might be forgiven for thinking that they are one and the same person. However, they are not. One of them, Christine, is real enough. The other adopts people's personas, even their CVs and interests. "Della" does not live in Kensington and never has. She lives in penurious circumstances.

Christine                                           "Della"

Journalist Sam Volpe stated in the Hampstead & Highgate Express, 24 April 2019, that "Della" is David Farrant's second wife, which would make her Colette Sully whom it has been suggested by numerous people is, in fact, the person who gave birth to "Della." Hence the latter not wanting to be easily identified by wearing large sunglasses or full face masks. Their is a strong resemblance between them, and, of course, Colette was thoroughly immersed in the dark arts and Luciferianism.

"Della" allegedly ventured through the snow on 21 December 2010 to spend some of her time with David Farrant at his bedsit in London's Muswell Hill Road. Now in his seventies, Farrant described "Della" as "a very attractive lady aged about 30 with intent brown eyes, and dark hair that flowed down her back," adding, "I knew she’d been touch with certain people." Whoever these people are with whom she had been in touch, it certainly wasn't me or anyone known to me because she supposedly instantly recoiled at the very idea of meeting me and became extremely defensive. Her claims of impartiality and being a Roman Catholic had attracted the attention of someone who was less than convinced. Within a matter of days after visiting David Farrant for allegedly the first time, she was attacking me on public forums, and accepting the word of a biased individual above all else. Prior to around Hallowe'en 2010, when she began commenting on the Supernatural World forum, however, absolutely nobody had ever heard of "Della Vallicrus." It was, like so much else, invented.

"Della" liked to remind everyone of her supposed "Roman Catholic" credentials. She appeared on the surface to paint a picture of herself as being traditionally Roman Catholic. She is anything but traditionalist, or indeed a Catholic. Heresy is constantly on her lips, as will be revealed, and, despite giving her religion as "Roman Catholic" on Facebook, she does not have a single Roman Catholic Facebook friend. In fact, none of her friends are Christian of any of denomination. Farrant and his Facebook friends made up the majority of them, and her declared interests, along with more general topics, embrace "Kabbalah, Judaism, Mediumship, Psychology, Ghosts and the Paranormal." This should come as no surprise to anyone who guesses the true identity of "Della Farrant," or, at least, the person adopting that persona in photographs where she is careful to keep her back to the camera so her face cannot be seen when not wearing a full face mask with full-length fancy dress costume. 

So who is this person who "listened sympathetically when she realised things were not quite as they had been portrayed by some others claiming to have had an interest in that case." That "case" being Farrant's personal obsession out of which he had succeeded in carving a notoriety based on nothing more than exploiting another person's investigation into the supernatural, and that person's subsequent book (The Highgate Vampire) when the case was finally closed. Ten days after meeting Farrant in person, "Della" visited him again on 31 December 2010. Her interest on this occasion was his claim to be involved in the dark occult. 

"This time she brought round some very intriguing letters and photographs relating to the Black Magical activities that took place in and around Highgate and other nearby parts of north London spanning over a ten year period from the late 1960s onwards." She unsurprisingly overlooks mention of the fact that he was charged and convicted at the Old Bailey for black magic activities in and around Highgate Cemetery. Farrant continues: "One particular thing that concerned her was her set of photographs relating to HC taken in 1971. We spent some time discussing the meaning of various glyphs and symbols, and their significance – as well as the identities of other people that she felt were definately connected with the use of Highgate Cemetery at the time. One of these people apparently was also making ‘nocturnal visits’ to Kensal Green cemetery in North London, with his friend who was by profession a taxidermist."

By a curious coincidence, 1971 is the year when Farrant claimed (in an article published by New Witchcraft magazine) to have summoned a satanic entity with a naked female assistant from whom he withdrew blood for the purpose of the ritual. This allegedly took place at Highgate Cemetery in September 1971. "Della" apparently asked for Farrant's word that he "would not release any material." Yet he could apparently make mention of the same material on his blog. She was playing Farrant's game, and he was seemingly playing hers. That notwithstanding, the pair of them identified the person they were talking about at a "symposium" over a pub in Highgate in July 2015. The victim of their miserable conspiracy was a chap called Welch who was not a "professional taxidermist" and had nothing but contempt for those engaged in the occult. Neither did he believe in the supernatural.

How could an approximately thirty-year-old London-based female, born ten years after the events themselves, be privy to "confidential material" which pertains to people and events in the Highgate case? Did "Della," in fact, possess anything of interest or worth? Or was she merely attempting to catch a ride on the coat-tails of people? Many were becoming increasingly aware that this was not so.

When "Della" visited Farrant on a third occasion at the end of January 2011 and stayed the night, he was blogging about it before she had barely got out of the door: "She told me little about herself, but I learned that she was from Kensington but recently moved to Knightsbridge, where she now had her own apartment and a good job as an Interior Designer. She was not attached to anyone now, she told me, but like myself, she had encountered the turmoil in one or two past relationships." Once again, Highgate was discussed: "Absorbed in old Press reports we again spoke about the Highgate ‘vampire’ case, and I showed her other articles about other people who claimed that they had been involved. She read many meticulously, and some private letters I showed her about the case which highly amused her." "Della" decided to accept Farrant's offer to stay the night, which he could not restrain himself from publishing on the internet for everyone to read: "She was in bed and although all covered the sheet revealed that she had bare shoulders." Already this is beginning to sound more than a little fraudulent, and well it might. "Della," of course, has never lived in Knightsbridge or Kensington in her life and, according to one person who was in contact with her prior to all this, she lived in circumstances every bit as desperate as Farrant's in a far less than salubrious part of London.

Three weeks earlier on the Supernatural World forum, "Della" attempted to offer an explanation as to how she was in possession of material about matters that occurred well before she was born: 

"This is largely to answer the allegations that I am ‘playing a dangerous game’ – it would be very naïve to assume that with all the people involved in the Highgate situation that there are not children, relatives, friends and partners extant who have knowledge of various aspects of the events that were going on at the time. I am not willing to talk publicly about who I am related to or know in connection with the original events, and why I have a personal interest in the case. If anyone reading this was in my peculiar position, I assure you, you would feel the same."  Certainly relatives! 

"Della" quite obviously was playing a dangerous game; something she acknowledged in her next statement: "The dark side of occult magic underpins any serious discussion about many aspects of what happened back then. By default there are certain matters that it would be dangerous to discuss openly pertaining to this, not least because the people who were most centrally involved may not all still be around, but their successors are still very much active in the ‘field.’ I am referring here specifically to ‘Satanic’ activity focused in the Highgate area and in other areas of the south east of England subsequent to their decision to stop using Highgate Cemetery."

"Della" continued: "There really was no one else I could talk to about this. Certainly not Seán Manchester who is entirely on the periphery of the matters I wanted validating and does not feature heavily. This may give some indication as to the gravity of matters I am referring to." 

Indeed, it does. Yet she can apparently only talk about matters involving black magic outrages at Highgate Cemetery and elsewhere with a man who sought publicity which led to him being branded a black magician by the law courts and the media; a man, moreover, who was imprisoned for black magic crimes which included tomb desecration and vandalism. Among the not insubstantial evidence against Farrant were photographs he had taken of his naked girlfriend, Martine de Sacy, posing in front of satanic markings on the floor of a Highgate mausoleum in 1971. Then there were the black magic effigies sent to police witnesses in another man's case (a self-proclaimed Satanist who was later convicted of sexual assault on a minor); something Farrant did not even try to deny. 

In mid-January, "Della" posted on the Supernatural World forum that she is "someone who has no choice but to believe in reincarnation." This is by no means the first time she has confessed to beliefs which, by her own admission, are heretical not only to Roman Catholics, but all Christians.  

Again, on the Supernatural World forum she went on the attack: "I am not interested in being given lectures about my faith by people entirely unqualified to do so, who are also intricately involved with someone who made up their own religion because they chose to pick and choose the parts of Roman Catholicism which did not suit their lifestyle or supposed beliefs." It must, of course, be asked how someone who believes in reincarnation (an essentially Buddhist and Hindu philosophy) is qualified to lecture anyone about Christianity? "Della" quite obviously picks and chooses those bits of various religions and philosophies which suit her, and to appease her belief in spiritualism, witchcraft, paganism and a wide spectrum of other occult beliefs. The practice of any of these is forbidden in scripture by all mainstream Christian churches. But it gets worse, as the facts, or possibly Farrant's fevered imagination, reveal. "Della Vallicrus" invited him to her non-existent "Knightsbridge flat" in February 2011 about which occasion his blog positively explodes with enthusiastic imagination: 

"Her own bedroom was dominated by a large Edwardian brass bed, and another marble fireplace, this one complete with two busts, one of a Greek god adorned with grapes, and another gilt mirror over the mantle." 

It would seem "Della's" pretend home is devoid of anything remotely Christian, much less Catholic. 

Farrant continues: 

"This time she brought things round again to asking me about the potential of some magical ceremonies.  I reminded her that I was no longer involved; but still she still wanted to question me. ... She had a personal reason for asking as she had come across others and she wanted to compare what I had practiced, and what she had since found out about, and her own formed views on High Magic." 

Perhaps not the sort of conversation one might expect from someone so quick to berate others for not belonging to the modern post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church? Things did not improve that night with one thing leading to another, as Farrant could not wait to inform all and sundry via his blog: 

"We moved to the sofa, and Della suggested that as we were being ‘wicked smokers’ and talking about ‘wicked things’ we may as well drink something more exciting, it being the weekend after all. She fetched one of the decanters from the marble half table which abutted one of the walls, along with a couple of old fashioned shaped glasses and some sugar cubes, and asked me if I would like some absinthe. The lit sugar cubes she placed on the slotted spoon seemed to flame violet as she prepared the drinks in a way that was quite fascinating to watch, and before long our conversation had got even more animated than usual. It was not something I would usually feel comfortable doing, but in this strange sense of isolation and intimacy, the combination of absinthe and agreeable company seemed to make everything around me easier and even more fluid."

Absinthe is a dangerously addictive psycho-active drug derived from an alcoholic beverage (75% alcohol) with a distinctive bitter taste caused by wormwood. It is mixed with distilled spirit, such as brandy, and other herbs and spices. In the nineteenth century, the yellowish-green drink became popular in Europe, particularly France, and in American cities. Its hallucinogenic properties made it chic among poets, writers, and artists, prompting one scholar to label it "the cocaine of the nineteenth century." In the early-twentieth century, absinthe was widely banned because of fears that it severely impaired the physical and mental health of its users, as well as the morality and social fabric of nations. Absinthe is quite obviously something an upstanding Roman Catholic [sic] like "Della" has no problem imbibing. She also lists on Facebook drug-inspired groups such as Pink Floyd and The Doors as her favourite musicians and composers. Yet "Della" and her persona are completely fake.

On the matter of events at Highgate Cemetery a decade before she was born, "Della" had this to say on the Supernatural World forum: "I have my own reasons for deciding what really happened. I really have no choice but to believe them as I know them to be fact." How is that remotely even possible? 

"Della" described Farrant as a "poster boy."

On his sixty-fifth birthday (23 January 2011), Farrant posted the following hypocritical falsehood: "Genuine Roman Catholics are one thing (and personally I am not opposed to that religion - or any genuine religions for that matter), but when people tend to adopt the term 'Catholic' to add to self-made Churches that attempt to copy authentic Catholic doctrines ... I can find absolutely no patience for that self-imposed deviation from genuine Catholic beliefs." He was quite obviously attempting to butter-up "Della" who at first protested she is Roman Catholic whilst believing in reincarnation, mediumship, spiritualism, magic and the occult — beliefs Roman Catholics would insist place her outside their Church and in a state of technical excommunication. Furthermore, "Della" has reached ill-considered judgements not in her gift to make. Why does she refer to Bishop Manchester and his Faith in such an inaccurate and hostile way? He took Holy Orders at the end of a long journey which began with him as a young Anglican head choirboy and church youth leader. Then he became a Roman Catholic convert which developed into his embrace of the Traditionalist Old Catholicism he today holds that has witnessed him becoming a deacon, priest, and, finally, a bishop. His spiritual odyssey is detailed in his autobiographical book The Grail Church which is illustrated throughout and contains photographs of him taking holy orders and much else besides. 

Perhaps we should remind ourselves of some of the statements made by "Della Vallicrus" about her own beliefs on the Supernatural World forum:

"I know that some of my own beliefs are technically in opposition to my Catholic faith. For example, my belief that some 'spirits of the dead' are actually people trapped between worlds, in need of help, and are not demonic representations of the living here to fool us and lead us away from God's truth. But my personal experiences of this since childhood, as a natural medium, just do not allow me to reject the concept on principle. ... I also believe in the validity of ceremonial High magic. ... When I say 'validity', I mean that I do believe that it does work, when performed properly. ...  I believe it is possible to interact with angels and demons through structured processes, but I cannot extend this to nature deities."

On the following day, 27 December 2010, she posted this on the same forum:

"I also believe in a range of beings which exist incorporeally, including spirits of the dead which replicate the behaviour of demons as we perceive it. These can be people who have not passed over and have degenerated into negative and menacing spirits because of unresolved issues in life. My belief in spirits, in this instance the consciousnesses of the departed interacting with the earthly plane, is not based on scripture. It is based on a lifetime of personal experience. It may be at odds with my religion, but I believe in both, and I cannot renounce either. I know there are incompatibilities. Mediumship can be a very dangerous art, yes. I have never thought of it as necromancy."

All this from a theologically naïve female barely turned thirty who gives the impression she inhabits the moral high ground as a "holier than thou" Roman Catholic, who is qualified to attack a Bishop twice her age, while swooning over Farrant as might some wayward schoolgirl, albeit one infatuated with a self-procalimed Luciferian craving for public attention. There is something rather distasteful, as well as disgraceful, about this female. Yet it is now known that "Della," as a person in her own right, as self-described on the internet, does not exist, and that she is in reality quite something and somebody else. Her Facebook account comprises mostly a dozen or so of Farrant's "occult" friends.

Someone claiming to be the young girlfriend (and, since Hallowe'en 2011, wife) of a man born in January 1946 just happened to pick the precise same wedding date as her alter ego who really did get married (in Normandy) at Hallowe'en 2011 to a man called Isaac Ben Jacob. 

Isaac Ben Jacob found it necessary to issue a statement the following year which confirmed: 

"We do not have any relation or contact with Della and David Farrant, and we don't want to be associated with these two persons in any way, shape or form, because they have a sulfurous past, they have a reputation of being Satanists, and they are acquainted with people like Jean-Paul Bourre."

One person who claims to have known "Della Farrant" before she became a public figure is Angie Mary Watkins who had already by that time visited Farrant on at his bedsit in Muswell Hill Road, London.

These are a few of many comments about "Della" that Angie Mary Watkins has posted on Facebook:

"Her ['Della's'] name is Anna Hinton, and she is an attractive lady with long dark hair.Yet she uses a false name and won't be photographed. And when she is, it's her ...ahem... body parts we see. Lets face it, there is something distinctly dodgy about the whole thing. At first, no one believed he HAD a wife, or girlfriend, because he kept rabbiting on about her 'bear shoulders in the moonlight' and other such crap - and playing the whole thing for laughs! Once, years ago, Farrant's friends were treated to his liaison with a mysterious lady - called, above all things, Veronica Lake. This turned out to be non other than one of his mates [Rob Milne] dressed up! Quite why Farrant pulled this childish stunt was never revealed. Yet pulled it. He said when his liaison with Della was first bought out into the open, 'Why does no one believe I've got a wife?' With his track record, it's hardly surprising." (11 August 2015)

"Well after all her crowing that she didn't want the Bishop following her or doing whatever dastardly deeds she imagined he's going to do, I'll wager he's not even interested? She seems to have this over-inflated opinion of herself that no one else shares. Her real identity, after all the posturing and preening, is of a 'nobody' and a petulant 'nobody' at that. A nobody who is such a silly little twat that she goes mad every time someone does something outside of her circle. Like, for example, befriending those she seeks to smear as her 'enemies'!" (8 August 2015)

"Well, it WAS written, you have to remember, by someone who lived in a complete fantasy world? I got to know the real Della - her real name and quite a good deal of everything else that she chose to tell me about,backwards of 3 years ago. And all I can say is that this person came up with such a lot of rubbish in my chat box, about talking mongooses haunting her home etc, that it was clear to me she was absolutely doolally." (17 June 2015)

"I'll see you all in court! That should see a packed gallery.What I don't get is all this about eating lobsters, acting all refined, with David [Farrant] portraying himself like some kind of posh bloke. The Della I encountered (and I've no reason to doubt that she WAS the same Della) was someone the complete opposite to posh - she had had lesbian encounters, was a single mother who had to move out of her home through lack of money, ate ice cream, had experienced pretty dark things happen in her past, went to the pub, and had an ASBO! Mystery, indeed! With a capital M!" (7 December 2014)

"What was the asbo for? Probably trying any means of attracting attention to herself - when she kept popping up in my chat box - that was the impression I got. That she was the kind of person who just wanted to be noticed. ... In spite of not encouraging her at all she constantly popped up - and each time told a different tale - whether it was about being haunted by a mongoose who lived in her house to things she got up to with women. Not surprisingly, after being fed a diet of this on a regular basis, I got fed up with her and told her to bugger off. Which bought the response 'I'll talk to you in the morning when you are less annoyed'!" (8 December 2014)

"Perverse rumours which he alone started. These include David being my father, my mother being David’s second wife, [Colette Gee also known as Colette Sully, pictured above]. He also sees fit to challenge the parentage of David’s youngest son [Danny]." — "Della" (31 May 2020)

When Mary Farrant became pregnant with Danny she was having an affair with another man; indeed they were living together in Devon at the time. Mary returned to Highgate, briefly, to have her second child before repairing to Southampton where her parents lived. Farrant, too, was cheating on his wife with several females. It would be biologically impossible for David Farrant to have sired Danny. 

Extremely rare image of "Della" unmasked.

© Polly Hancock, 31 October 2013 

 

"JS Tucker" was the young daughter of a couple I knew. I last saw the daughter when, by accident, I bumped into her mother on a busy London thoroughfare in the 1980s. The mother, now deceased, was accompanied by her still quite young daughter. We chatted for a while, and that was the last I saw of either of them. More detailed coverage of the occasion, including the location and area was provided in my online obituary. Nothing more was heard until I received notification of her mother's death from her now remarried husband, who had worked part-time at my studio in the 1960s. When somebody calling themselves "JS Tucker" posted abusively on a group I help administrate called "David Farrant Revisited: A Trip Down Memory Lane," I brought the posts and subsequent comments made on "JS Tucker's" timeline to the attention of Arthur Hill, father of the real "JS Tucker."

Elizabeth Hill, mother of the real JS Tucker.

Above is how skewed "JS Tucker" seemed when she started posting comments on the aforementioned group. She had joined the group, remained dormant for a while, and then began posting in a somewhat erratic manner with a torrent of personal abuse aimed at me, and some bizarre claims about all sorts of things. Much of it was her jaundiced view of a past concerning things about which she knew little if anything. This led to me understanding what was motivating her, and indeed unmasking her. Prior to which she tried to give the impression that she was a ghost from the distant past, unseen until now. Her sarcasm betrayed a bitterness that flew in the face of the shy young girl I saw for the last time in Kentish Town with her mother. This new version was so toxic and unpleasant. When "JS Tucker" made her sarcastic quip "You make it sound like she couldn't keep away," it would be her last on the "David Farrant Revisited" group. She had by that time been removed and banned.

"JS Tucker" gave me just one laugh, unintentionally, when she accused me of "tomb envy" owing to her being supposedly convinced of the Otway Mausoleum becoming the final resting place of David Farrant because "he had a right." Farrant's own son had confirmed that his father had been cremated. Others had suggested that the ashes were on "Della's" mantelpiece in a receptacle of some sort. This was a "cover up,"  according to "JS Tucker." He was buried in the Otway Tomb, but it was a secret.

Nota Bene: "JS" are the correct initials of Arthur Hill's daughter, now in her fifties, with her mother's maiden name employed instead of her own legitimate name. When her parents parted and eventually divorced it is quite plausible that she might adopt "Tucker" as her surname. But now her hatred was implausibly directed at me. Her only resentment toward her father is that he has "gone along" with me, which, of course, is abject nonsense. He was involved with the Farrants in the 1960s. I was not. His real interest was Mary Farrant, who worked as a barmaid in The Woodman. In fact, him taking off with Mary for six months left me without a part-time printer at the studio. He would never return to the studio. Mary felt she had made a huge mistake marrying Farrant who was having multiple relationships from the start. She was relieved to escape, but obviously it was problematic with a small baby. Even more so when a second baby came along. She repaired to her parents in Southampton, taking both children with her, never to return, save for her appearance at the Old Bailey after being summoned by Farrant whom she was soon to divorce. She remarried, becoming Mary Coster.

The term "Boz" refers to me, and was probably employed by Farrant from early on because BOS are the initials of the British Occult Society to which he owed no connection, but falsely claimed one.

"JS Tucker" joined "David Farrant Revisited: A Trip Down Memory Lane which I help to administrate. She was "chucked off" the group; indeed, she was removed, permanently banned, and blocked. I would not "love to be in the Otway or something similar," and she only says such a bizarre thing because of whom she really is. She (and Farrant when he was alive) are the only ones to have tomb envy, and envy of much else besides. Farrant clearly emulated me in 1970. Then chose evil.

Photographs of Mary Coster's second child are unavailable because both he and she, unlike Jamie, are extremely private people. Neither had anything to do with Farrant down the years and decades.

"JS Tucker" claiming that "Birdman showed me the photos ... and that Birdman could back it up about the Otway," is exactly what one would expect from the person behind all this. It is completely implausible from anyone else, much less Arthur Hill's daughter. She always refers to "Birdman," and not his real name; almost as if she cannot bring herself to say the name of the person she colluded with ever since she emerged from the shadows. Her mother, of course, was Farrant's second wife.

It is nearly time to unmask "JS Tucker" who only knows anything at all provided it is based on what the late David Farrant, or indeed her mother, Colette Sully, told her. The rest, particularly about me, can be found on social media where I have shared aspects of my life. Her fake account reveals her to have no friends whatsoever, as you might expect if it is fraudulently pretending to be someone else. It is totally London orientated, which rules out the real "JS Tucker," and images of diverse groups of schoolgirls are from this century, a much later era to when the genuine "JS Tucker" attended school. Furthermore, the faux usage of English changed dramatically as time passed until it was recognisably the female really responsible for this pathetic attempt to cause a breach between Arthur Hill and myself. The strategy has been that of a fisherman who waits for a bite before reeling the line out once the fish is hooked, and then slowly reels it in, culminating in it being landed. It's what is known as hook, line and sinker. By the time she was posting latterly, she had dropped the "Nahs" and the "Lolz."

She also changed her icon, making no real attempt to any longer disguise her identity. Always common, and, if the mood took her, vulgar, she and Farrant were inveterate liars. The courts decided as much in Farrant's case, as did the press and broader media. He admitted in an article he wrote for New Witchcraft magazine in the mid-1970s that he visited Highgate Cemetery in the dead of night to carry out a necromantic ceremony where he summoned Satan to possess him. The ritual involved blood, needless to say, and a naked female. The blood was hers. I have always held the view that he was demonically possessed from 1971, the year of that summoning. It would certainly account for his cruel and evil actions thereon and until the end. I also take the view that the woman best known as "Della Farrant" is similarly demonically possessed; with Lucifer at the centre of her existence

Excommunication and Anathema

Interested parties who wish to receive documentary evidence held against Illtyd Thomas should contact Bishop Seán Manchester. In the meantime, the following facts, supported by witness testimony, are communicated to clear up any ambiguity or uncertainty that may exist:

—— When Bishop Seán Manchester and others in his church who accompanied him first made contact with Illtyd Thomas in early 1990, they did so as an existing church that Bishop Seán Manchester led.

—— At no time during Bishop Seán Manchester’s period preparing for diaconation, ordination to the priesthood and episcopal consecration was he under an Oath of Canonical Obedience to Illtyd Thomas.

—— At no time did Bishop Seán Manchester sign anything resembling an Instrument of Canonical Obedience to Illtyd Thomas. He has always maintained his independence.

—— It was always understood during Bishop Seán Manchester’s preparation for Holy Orders that he did so as an extant and independent church and, therefore, remained autocephalous before, during and after the threefold ordinations that transmitted lines of apostolic succession, which was the sole object of the exercise.

—— Three bishops took part in the episcopal consecration of Bishop Manchester in October 1991, including Bishop Michael Weston of Ealing, London, and Bishop James Henry Vermeulen of Holland.

It is uncanonical for Illtyd Thomas or anyone else to lay claim to possess power to “laicise” Bishop Seán Manchester. Illtyd Thomas claimed this after falling under the influence of a convicted felon and pseudo-occultist by the name of David Farrant in early 2007. Such allegations instantly render the claimant suspect as any action of this kind would be regarded uncanonical and without meaning by other churches. David Farrant had been waging a malicious vendetta against traditional Christians in general and Bishop Seán Manchester in particular for a great many years. Farrant had criminal convictions for malicious vandalism in a cemetery, indecency in a churchyard, tomb desecration by the use of black magic, threatening witnesses in a colleague’s sex case with voodoo “death dolls” transfixed with pins (Farrant’s colleague was later found guilty of sexually assaulting a young boy), illegal possession of a firearm, and theft from a hospital. Farrant was sentenced to a term of four years and eight months imprisonment at London’s Old Bailey in June 1974. He evinced absolutely no remorse following his release and exponentially worsened with time.

A member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society brought to our attention documentary evidence that Illtyd Thomas had a criminal conviction for theft, has blessed homosexual “unions” and has wittingly “ordained” sexually active sodomites. Illtyd Thomas also cultivated a close association with the one of the most notorious paedophiles in criminal history in the UK – Roger Gleaves – who “ordained” him sub conditione (we now possess copies of the “Instruments”) despite Illtyd Thomas always having strenuously denied this allegation against him. He is also known to have had associations with various other paedophiles, many of whom are now deceased. It had been known for a long time that Illtyd Thomas had had innumerable occult connections – including Masons, Theosophists and sundry occultists – some of whom he illicitly ordained. David Farrant, possibly Britain’s most infamous self-publicist in phoney witchcraft and pseudo-occultism, befriended Illtyd Thomas in early 2007, having been an invited guest to Illtyd Thomas’ Muswell Hill home in north London. Farrant, who lived on state benefits throughout his entire life (23 January 1946 - 19 April 2019), resided less than a mile from Illtyd Thomas in an attic bed-sitting room occupied since his parole release from prison.

Since colluding with Farrant in early 2007, Illtyd Thomas had been the subject of much discussion and concern by innumerable Old Catholic jurisdictions in the UK. It had already been decided to excommunicate Illtyd Thomas upon discovery in December 2006 that he was still alive. He had been investigated thoroughly with due consideration since documentary evidence was received in 2002.

Hence, at thirteen hundred hours, ie 1.00 pm (GMT), on the Feast of St David, the former bishop of the autocephalous Old Catholic jurisdiction known as the “Celtic Catholic Church” was duly excommunicated on the grounds of violating the sacred species and his office by ordaining and consecrating sexually active homosexuals, paedophiles, occultists and criminals; being guilty of heresy by accepting sexually active homosexual, paedophile and occultic clergy, and colluding with a malefic individual who is a pseudo-occultist, ie David Farrant, to do harm to the ministry, church and person of another autocephalous jurisdiction overseen by Bishop Seán Manchester. The excommunication was officiated and led by Bishop Manchester using the traditional formula in the Roman Rite.

Bishop Seán Manchester’s statement (published March 1st 2007) on Illtyd Thomas

“It was brought to our attention toward the end of 2006 that, much to our surprise, Illtyd Thomas still remains alive. Due to his age and infirmity, we had thought him long since deceased. Illtyd Thomas evinces no website, no internet presence, no known clergy and no known ecclesial activity beyond occasionally ordaining inappropriate candidates. In the last handful of years he has ordained and consecrated active homosexuals who were also openly Theosophist with transparent occult leanings and esoteric involvement.

“We have not maintained contact since last seeing Illtyd Thomas soon after our episcopal consecration by Bishops Vermeulen, Weston and Thomas on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi 1991. The time spent with Illtyd Thomas was less than fifteen months in which period we witnessed nothing seriously untoward save on our very last visit to Illtyd Thomas’ home in Muswell Hill, London. Homo-erotic material in the form of a calendar depicting naked males was on display which Illtyd Thomas attributed to a visitor whom he was allowing to stay at his home. We consequently never visited again and severed all contact. We had approached Illtyd Thomas in spring of 1990 as an extant Church, established some seventeen years prior, with view to the transmission of lines of Apostolic Succession. This much was achieved with our diaconation in June 1990, ordination to the priesthood in July 1990, and elevation to the episcopate in October 1991. At no time during all this were we under an Instrument or Oath of Canonical Obedience to Illtyd Thomas.

“The comments about Illtyd Thomas on pages 91-92 of the book about our ecclesial history and its roots, The Grail Church (1995), were made in good faith. Illtyd Thomas was at that time given the benefit of the doubt. Then came Simmons’ overture to a member of our Church who had been with us from the beginning as a founder-member of Ordo Sancti Graal inaugurated at Easter 1973 (as recounted at the time in public annals and The Grail Church). The disturbing opening line from the pederast John Simmons in a letter, dated April 1st, 1995, to Br Keith Maclean states: ‘My good friend Bishop Illtyd Thomas has passed me your address and suggested that I should write to you.’ Simmons then went on to say that Illtyd Thomas mentioned to him that Br Keith Maclean was working towards his ordination and Simmons was ‘urgently looking for those interested in the priesthood.’

“John Simmons, quite apart from being invalid (Illtyd Thomas informed us that no evidence existed of him ever being diaconated which allowed for the Instrument of Release and Degradation issued in 1986 to be an appropriate course of action), had been subsequently anathematised and not without good reason. Simmons was a man with a history of deception resulting in imprisonment, who associated with pederasts, and who lived with a former rent boy. He extracted large sums of money from strangers, mostly individuals visiting from America, looking to be ‘ordained’ and ‘consecrated’ by Simmons (all on the same day) in his small garage. When John Simmons died there was no provision made for a religious service (he received a secular one), and his male lover was quickly evicted by his mother from the house they had occupied. Yet nine years after being released and degraded by Illtyd Thomas, this man was allegedly given a private address in order to write and offer to one of the twelve founder members of Ordo Sancti Graal an ‘ordination.’ This we found unacceptable in the extreme and impossible to reconcile with respect for our autocephalous Catholic Church.

“Let us remind ourselves of the offences that we know about which resulted in John Simmons receiving a jail term:

“Mr Simmons was given two-year concurrent sentences for nine admitted offences of obtaining property or services by deception in January 1984, when he asked for 45 similar offences to be taken into consideration.” (Kentish Express, March 20th, 1986).

“John Simmons, 44, has started an 18 months prison term for deception. Simmons pretended to be a missionary in West Africa to obtain sacred items from convents which he then sold by mail order from his Ashford home. Knightsbridge Crown Court was told it was not the first time Simmons has been in trouble. In 1984 he was jailed for two years for obtaining property or services by deception. And in 1986 Simmons left a trail of bad debts around Ashford. He has since been declared officially bankrupt. During the two-week trial Simmons denied six counts of obtaining property by deception and attempted deception. Some of the vestments and church ornaments he stole were said to be extremely valuable.” (Kentish Express, October 4th, 1990).

“Then there are the ‘ordinations’ received by Illtyd Thomas from Roger Gleaves. Though he has strenuously denied in the past that these ordinations took place, we received in 2002 evidence in the form of copies of the ‘Instruments’ themselves which clearly show that Illtyd Thomas was diaconated and priested sub-conditione by the notorious pederast and convicted felon Roger Charles Augustine Gleaves, Bishop of Medway of the Episcopal Apostolic Church on July 23rd, 1977, at the Oratory of St Michael the Archangel, Muswell Hill, London. This association with Gleaves is impossible to explain away. We only came into possession of these documents when a lawyer and member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, now also a bishop, included them when he communicated the following:

“Thomas on this evidence is a liar, a thief, a sodomite, and a sexual pervert who has the temerity to describe his foul behaviour on his own church notepaper. He was ordained to all his Orders up to the priesthood by Roger Gleaves, probably the most infamous paedophile in British legal history.” (Correspondence received from Bishop Barry Peachey, May 29th, 2002).

“The documents all bear Illtyd Thomas’ very recognisable handwriting and signature. One in particular, for example, is written on Illtyd Thomas’ notepaper with his familiar seal imprinted by a rubber stamp. It is dated February 11th, 1986, and written to ‘John.’ It begins:

“I have sent the letter to Bishop Dominic, also I have enclosed the photograph of Mark, it is not a good one but no doubt it will give you some idea of what he looks like. He has a fine good body and a joy to see when he is naked.” (Correspodence from Illtyd Thomas to ‘John,’ February 11th, 1986).

“It continues for the remainder of the page in the most pornographic and unrepeatable fashion imaginable, eventually signing off with a postscript about the arthritis in his fingers. We have seen enough examples of Illtyd Thomas’ handwriting, syntax and style in the past to know this correspondence to be authentic. ‘Bishop Dominic’ is clearly Dominic Pyle-Bridges who was convicted of serious sex offences, and was reported by Russell Hotten in the Friern Barnet Chronicle, May 30th, 1985, to have been ‘consecrated’ by ‘Illtyd Thomas, an archbishop in the Celtic Catholic Church’ in a service at the Muswell Hill Centre, Hillfield Park. In the previous year, Pyle-Bridges appeared in a London court under the name Stanley Bridges and was fined £80 for committing gross indecency with two male teachers in a Soho theatre. Why would Illtyd Thomas want to even consider ordaining sex perverts such as Pyle-Bridges and Simmons while receiving superfluous ordinations himself sub-conditione from one of the most vile pederasts to have ever drawn breath?

“A point that often puzzles non-Catholics is that once valid Holy Orders have been bestowed, according to normative Roman Catholic canon law, there is no power on earth that can remove them. This applies even if the priest or bishop has been criminally convicted, regardless of his state of sin, and also in the event that he is heretical or simonistic. The Donatist heresy established many centuries ago that the validity of a sacrament is in no way dependent on the character or actions of the clergyman concerned. Illtyd Thomas, therefore, would remain until his death in valid Holy Orders. His lines of Apostolic Succession derived from such as +W A Barrington Evans, +A W J Williams and +Bertil Persson, and those who inherit them such as our Church, are obviously unaffected.

“The right to excommunicate, however, is an immediate and necessary consequence of the fact that the Church is a society. Every society has the right to exclude and deprive of their rights and social advantages its unworthy or grievously culpable members, either temporarily or permanently. This right is necessary to every society in order that it may be well administered and survive. The fundamental proof, therefore, of the Church’s right to excommunicate is based on her status as a spiritual society, whose members, governed by legitimate authority, seek one and the same end through suitable means. Members who, by their obstinate disobedience, reject the means of attaining this common end deserve to be removed from such a society. Notice was, therefore, served early in 2007 by Ecclesia Vetusta Catholica (a traditional Old Catholic Church in Great Britain), that Illtyd Thomas, former Bishop of an autocephalous jurisdiction known as the ‘Celtic Catholic Church’ would be excommunicated on March 1st, 2007.”

Response to Ecclesia Vetusta Catholica from David Sattman

“When I had first heard that Bishop Illtyd Thomas had been formally excommunicated with bell, book, and candle, a most solemn and ancient rite rarely used in modern times, I thought Bishop Manchester had overreacted or perhaps even overstepped his bounds. I especially thought so in light of Bishop Thomas’ advanced old age and the likelihood that some amount of dementia has set in.

“But then upon further reflection I considered how long Bishop Thomas has been associating with the avowed enemies of Bishop Manchester and the level of vitriol these people have heaped on Bishop Manchester for all these decades. Furthermore Bishop Thomas has chosen to befriend this notorious band of cut-throats and be taken into the bosom of hell by his own free will. No one forced him to do it, it was his own decision. I believe that he understands what it was he was doing and that the consequences of association with these vile necromancers and diabolists would lead to his excommunication.

“Perhaps some people may think that Bishop Manchester was rather melodramatic using the ancient rite as he did, but the gravity of falling out of the grace of the Church of God must be pointed out in no uncertain terms and that the solemn gravity of excommunication via bell, book, and candle was necessary to drive home this point.

“I pray for the possibility that Bishop Thomas may still, even at this late stage of the game, recant his association with the sworn enemies of Bishop Manchester, repent of his sins, and perhaps still enjoy a return to Christ. It seems however, that his hard heartedness will not allow this. Too bad!

“I wish the Roman Pontiff would excommunicate a few bishops within the fold of the Latin Rite. But then there is the danger of one of these people claiming ‘martyrdom’ as a sort of ‘sacrificial lamb’ on behalf of the liberals and the onset of schism.”

Response to Bishop Seán Manchester from Brother Keith Maclean OSG

“It is difficult to say anything with regard to Illtyd Thomas — you have said it all. Simmons and Thomas seem to have been birds of a feather, along with Gleaves. The early connection with Gleaves is indicative of the worst. All I can say is that you have handled the matter perfectly. That malefic and vicious opposition which you face from such people is a seal of approval on your ministry.”

Response to Ecclesia Vetusta Catholica from an Old Catholic Bishop

“We agree that the action which Illtyd Thomas threatened would be both uncanonical and unwise. He is, however, clearly very frightened of David Farrant and his judgement is impeded by this.”

Illtyd Thomas seated between diabolists Gareth Medway (far left) and David Farrant (far right).