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40 Macapagal Arroyo helpers when she was working in the Department of Social Welfare. This was before President Estrada had been impeached and found him self in prison. I took this as a step forward because in many cases I felt like I was just hitting a blank brick wall. 34 David’s Press Release

This press release was very effective and we had a request from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to tone it down:

PRESS RELEASE 18/09/00

Gentlemen and Ladies of the Press

I am seeking to clear my brother, MICHEAL JOHN CLARKE, from the charge of, “Promoting Child Prostitution”. And obtain his release from prison in the Philippines. He was sentenced to 16 years 4 month, 1 day, prison on 14 th. October 1996 and is now in the New Bilibid Prison, Muntinlupa City, Philippines.

I am in receipt of the National Bureau of Investigation Report (NBI), which clearly clears MICHEAL JOHN CLARKE from the said criminal charge but indicts a certain Fr, SHAY CULLEN, who now has a warrant out for his arrest on a charge of rape of a 7-year old girl.

Judge Eliodoro Ubiadas of the RTC Branch 73 issued a warrant for the arrest of Fr. SHAY CULLEN, an Irish priest, who operates the Preda Centre for prostituted women and children of the city of Olongapo, on the 8 Th. August 2000. CULLEN, according to, Bataan Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Oscar Lasam (also the acting city prosecutor), “wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously had carnal knowledge” with a 7- year old girl against the latter’s will and consent and while she was deprived of reason or otherwise unconscious”.

Issued filed 8 Th. August 2000.

See Inquirer article www.inquirer.net/issues/aug2000/aug14/hometown/ hom 5.htm This report is published on the World Wide Web site: www.dclarke49. fsnet.co.uk under the title Michael John Clarke’s story.

It is intended to bring attention too the miscarriage of justice, toward MICHEAL JOHN CLARKE, by the PHILIPPINE legal system and in