New family food larder aims to help most vulnerable
Ex-Royal aide turned killer
A NEW family food larder will provide for the most vulnerable in the Caistor area.
The project is being run by Community Action For All and We Are One Foundation, and is based in the Methodist Hall on Chapel Street.
Like the other We Are One Foundation larders, it offers people the choice of what food they want, as well as providing them with tinned items and frozen items.
The food larder was opened on Saturday, February 27, and has had a good reaction from the local area, from donations to volunteering.
Brian Milne, who is running the larder, said he was inspired to set something up to help the vulnerable people near him following his work with Cafe Baraka in Cleethorpes.
He said: “I really wanted to do something locally, I live in Rothwell and someone suggested to me about setting up a food bank or larder in Caistor. “I was originally concerned about food supply and getting off the ground, but Les Bonner, who I’ve worked with previously, suggested we work with We Are One Foundation to set it up, so we contacted Dave Wells and went from there.
“Dave had someone going down to We Are One Foundation on Albion Street for the food larder there all the way from Caistor, and he said to me that we had to something about this. “So We Are One Foundation are supplying the food, CAFA are supplying the volunteers, and we are based out of the Methodist Hall, which has kindly been offered to us to use.
“We’ve had a great response since opening up on Saturday, the phones haven’t stopped ringing. We have had a lot of donations and even someone getting in touch to offer to deliver food for us.”
Brian said: “We have been blessed by the support and donation from the local area. The family and friends of David Mannion, who sadly died last month, came down to the larder and donated the food that he had left in his cupboard.
“That’s how much the Caistor residents care about their local area, and how they want to support and help the people who need it the most. “Anything we can do to help improve the lives of other people, we will do what we can.
“You just have to either register online via the We Are One Foundation website or come down to the centre on Wednesday or Saturday between 11am and 2pm and we can sort something out.
“I just want to say thank you for all of the support we have been shown already, as well as the Methodist Church for letting us use their hall and support vulnerable people in our area.” Dave Wells, co-founder of We Are One Foundation, has worked to open more food larders in the area so more people can get the support they need. He said: “People are taking buses to get to the food larder on Albion Street, so we have started to do food larders in other places to ensure we cover as much ground as we can.
“So we now have larders at Cleethorpes, the West Marsh, Littlecoates, and our brand new one in Caistor. “This has all come from people contacting us and asking for help to make a difference in their communities. “Each larder that is set up gets its own charity phone, a tablet to access our database, and a freezer.
“The access to our database acts as a log for food and pools information from all of the different food larders, meaning people cannot travel between the food larders to get more food than they need, meaning others might miss out.
“The larder system allows people to come in and pick up what food they want and would like to make meals from.
VIEWERS of a new documentary about Royal aide-turned killer Jane Andrews were unconvinced by a psychiatrist’s argument that she would be treated with more sympathy if the case was heard today.
The former Grimsby College student went from a prestigious role working with Sarah Ferguson to a life sentence in 2001 for the murder of her boyfriend Tom Cressman.
Fergie’s Killer Dresser: The Jane Andrews Story featured interviews with friends of the couple, a detective who worked on the case, journalists who covered the story and Tom’s brother Rick. Dr Trevor Turner, who was the psychiatrist for the defence at Jane’s trial told filmmakers she was suffering from a degree of chronic depression.
He said he felt there would now be more sympathy for Jane, “in the context of her being an assaulted woman” - an allegation refuted by Tom’s family. But many viewers were unconvinced after hearing how Jane beat Mr Cressman with a cricket bat and stabbed him in the heart with a kitchen knife as he lay in bed at their home in Fulham, West London.
Jurors rejected claims that Mr Cressman “must have come forward on to the knife in the dark” and the cricket bat was used in self-defence after Andrews ‘woke up to find him hitting her’.
Bev Fink said on Twitter: “Yes if you love someone you club and stab them to death.”
ApplieiMikey added: “I think the idea of killing someone ‘accidentally,’ with a cricket bat and a knife a very strange notion.”
Another viewer said the documentary left them feeling “uncomfortable”. And while some argued it was onesided in favour of Jane, others said it favoured Tom’s family family. Stepharrnee said: “This is making me uncomfortable, it all seems very pro Jane Andrews. Yet she was a social climber who was incredibly deluded. Feel sorry for the victim’s family.”
SofiaB wrote on Twitter: “Just watched the Jane Andrews documentary on #itv. I don’t know about anyone else but I thought it was the most one-sided documentary I have seen in a long time.”
She said it was “snobbery, class obsessed aristocracy sh***ing on a “commoner”.
Letty Spoghetti added: “It was dreadful ... total character assassination.”
Natalie Drury said: “Agree they should have parted and maybe this would not have happened.” A statement from Jane’s lawyers shown at the end of the documentary said: “Jane’s lawyers say that she is one of many female victims of abuse serving long prison sentences due to a culture of misogyny and a criminal justice system with “systemic discrimination against women ... caused primarily by a lack of understanding of the dynamics of coercive and controlling relationships.
“The fact that her appeal was dismissed is only an indication of the extremely high threshold for allowing an appeal against conviction.”
The documentary aimed to answer whether lead investigator Jim Dickie was correct when he said: “She is a cold-blooded murderer.
“Any man who gets into a relationship with her needs his head tested”. Speaking about her sentencing, Mr Cressman’s brother, Rick, said Jane has not apologised for killing his brother or causing the family a lifetime of hurt.
I think the idea of killing someone ‘accidentally,’ with a cricket bat and a knife a very strange notion
ApplieiMikey