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During a 42 year journalistic career our Editor, Welshman Phil Parry, has been forced to endure numerous spurious legal threats. and witnessed a perpetual massaging of the truth by his targets, or attempts to close down The Eye – all of which are now put centre stage by the appalling facts emerging even before the Epstein files are published in full.
Unfortunately (and on a MUCH smaller scale) the terrible facts about what sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did, bear echoes of what I have been subjected to.
Just to remind you, Epstein sexually abused scores of underage girls, bringing them to his Florida home so they could ‘massage’ him. He was found dead in 2019 in his New York prison cell in what a coroner ruled was a suicide. Epstein was being held on charges of sex trafficking – he had been convicted previously of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008.
A cache of emails and documents could implicate many high-ranking people as having known him. On November 18 2025, the US House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in a 427-1 vote. The Senate unanimously approved the bill the same day, sending it to Donald Trump the next morning, and he signed the bill the day he received it, officially requiring the Department of Justice DoJ to release the files within 30 days.
But perhaps little known is that he also tried to censor the truth about him. Documents released by the US House Oversight Committee reveal he had paid to “clean up” what came out about him on Google after his first conviction. On December 11 2010 he bemoaned that despite forking out thousands, “the google page is not good” in an email.
My targets are a long way from being in Epstein’s league, but I too have come across attempts such as this.
For example a South Wales conman jailed for serious drug offences and exclusively exposed by The Eye, who was a special constable with the police, and changed his identity many times, also tried to ‘clean up’ his image.
Following our revelations, this man asked a specialist company how to “get rid” of The Eye’s “negative” stories about him on the internet. He wrote: “When I google James daniels spain or James Daniels property or James Daniels murcia a load of website links appear for the-eye.wales which are negative reviews and not true (The Eye – nothing is untrue). How do I get rid of these an(d) how much does it cost? Also how long does it take?”.
Another individual tried to close down The Eye altogether because he didn’t like what was reported on the website.
The legal threats I receive (which have never come to anything) are almost constant, and here too there are parallels with the Epstein case, because there are likely to be an incredible number of people resorting to court action afterwards, as it will have emerged they were sent chummy emails by him.
A recent one came in the Summer from a Welsh-based conspiracy theorist, giving me two weeks to remove accurate stories I had written about her on The Eye.
In this salvo (there have been MANY) she declared: “I am currently preparing an evidence file, with legal input, for submission to South Wales Police (this would be a civil case anyway, NOT a criminal one!).
This person, Anna Brees, runs a ‘media training’ business in Penarth, and has also said to me menacingly: “I am writing to formally notify you of my intention to pursue legal action against you for defamation in connection with articles published about me on The Eye website, and to raise serious concerns that your conduct may also constitute harassment under the Online Safety Act 2023
“To avoid formal legal proceedings, I require the following actions to be taken within 14days of the date of this letter:
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- Immediate removal of all articles about me from The Eye website.
- A written undertaking that you will not republish any material concerning me”.
Yet Ms Brees has a problematic past, and as I have spent many years in journalism (which have involved passing numerous law exams), I know only too well that I must withstand constant legal threats to pursue the kind of investigative news in which I specialise.
For example major questions have been raised concerning money for a charity website she set up.
Ms Brees declared on her ‘JustGiving’ site: “I recently met Jon Wedger a former Scotland Yard detective. He along with others are exposing an establishment cover up of paedophile rings in the UK, and I am requesting donations to enable me to spread this message on social media, via boosting these post to everyone in the UK”.
Hundreds of pounds were donated, but some who have seen what happened are concerned. One onlooker told us: “Where is the money?! What has happened to it? This so-called charity donation website is still open, so people can STILL give money to it!”.
But despite her alarming background, Ms Brees seems unrepentant, and has written proudly on the website: “As a former mainstream media journalist I do understand that people are put under pressure sometimes from above to tow the line. Not all information is released to the public…”.
Meanwhile she has engaged in a testy online exchange with Jeremy Vine over disgraced Alex Belfield, in which Mr Vine said: “It troubles me that Anna Brees is now pursuing me with constant threats…”.
The man she defended (Belfield), was a radio presenter for BBC Radio Leeds (BBC RL) who was dismissed for misconduct, convicted of stalking charges in September 2022 and imprisoned. On 29 July 2021, he had appeared at Nottingham Crown Court (NCC) accused of stalking eight people between November 2012 and March 2021.
Among those affected were:
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Jeremy Vine
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Bernie Keith (BBC Radio Northamptonshire [BBC RN], Valleys Radio [VR] in the 1990s)
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Adrian Allen (the late-night phone-in host on Real Radio South Wales [RRSW] when it launched in October 2000, who has also worked at many other BBC and commercial radio stations)
- Iain Lee (a TV/radio presenter who was also a contestant on ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!’)
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Philip Dehany (a theatre blogger)
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Greg Scott (one of Britain’s best TV warm-up men as well as a distinguished television and radio presenter in his own right) Others were broadcasters and media executives Rozina Breen, Helen Thomas, Liz Green and Stephanie Hirst.
Belfield was convicted in September 2022 of four of eight stalking charges, and his crimes were grave enough to warrant a heavy jail term – he was given a sentence of five years 26 weeks.
In sentencing him the judge in the appalling case, The Honourable Mr Justice Saini said: “Your offences are so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified…”. He continued: “I…(also)…make orders in the terms of the orders before me restraining you under section 360 of the Sentencing Act 2020. As regards each of Bernard Spedding, Ben Hewis, Philip Dehaney and Jeremy Vine, you are until further order prohibited from contacting, or attempting to contact, them by any means whether direct or indirectly”.
Ms Brees, though, has proclaimed: “…I’m truly horrified by what has happened to him…(Belfield)“, and it’s emerged that she had filmed a video with him in London (which has now been deleted) just after the end of the first Covid-19 lockdown.
In an earlier notice to The Eye she said: “The tone and content of… articles are overtly malicious and have caused significant harm to my reputation, hindering my ability to secure employment and professional engagements. As a self-employed single parent, this defamation has severely impacted my livelihood and mental well-being. Despite previous requests for removal (There had been NONE!), these damaging articles remain accessible, perpetuating undue harm (The Eye’s lawyers have informed us that any harm or reputational damage comes from the behaviour of Ms Brees herself)
“At no point was I approached for a right of reply regarding the content of these articles. This omission contradicts the principles of fair journalism and has resulted in a one-sided portrayal that continues to harm my reputation”.(We have been advised that a ‘right of reply’ was not needed in these circumstances).
“Failure to comply with this request may constitute a violation of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), subjecting you to potential regulatory action and penalties.” (Our lawyers specialising in libel and data protection rules [GDPR] were consulted before publication, and all information is in the public domain).
Many may not take seriously her legal threat (although they will do questions about the money), because a television channel Ms Brees appeared on, RT (Russia Today), has been described as a mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin, and is apparently protected by allies. The Economist reported: “It was the cables that gave them away. As foreign and local journalists in Belarus scrambled to report on the latest crackdown on peaceful protesters, one film crew was always in prime position. Its members were untouched whenever police hounded other journalists, stripping them of their accreditation and deporting them. The camera cables that stretched past several unmarked police minibuses led to the source of their protection: a white and green van belonging to Russia Today”..
This kind of background which is all publicly accessible, forms an interesting context to issuing legal threats, and attempts by another individual to close us down, or messages by dubious individuals about ‘cleaning up’ their image…
The memories of our Editor Phil Parry’s astonishing decades-long award-winning career in journalism (during which there were constant legal threats), as he was gripped by the rare neurological condition Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), have been released in a major book ‘A GOOD STORY’. Order the book now!
‘Massage table part two’ comes tomorrow, where Phil looks at why a new book examining a recent Royal scandal called ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York’, puts centre stage how exposing controversies has always been a mainstay of this long journalistic career.
