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Major questions are being raised about money given on a charity website, set up by a conspiracy theorist based in Wales who has appeared as a ‘media commentator’ on the contentious Russian TV station RT, engaged in a public spat with presenter Jeremy Vine, compared herself to David Icke, and threatened to sue The Eye.
Controversial Anna Brees from Penarth declares 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!”.
Yet 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…”.
Her past is questionable, and journalists on The Eye have had to withstand extraordinary legal threats to bring out the truth about Ms Brees. For example, she sent an angry message to us about numerous pieces stretching back almost five years, stating: “The articles in question contain personal data that are no longer relevant or necessary, and their continued publication adversely affects my personal and professional life”.
This astonishing attack came after news that her Twitter/X account was apparently closed down following a testy online exchange with Mr Vine over disgraced Alex Belfield, in which Mr Vine said: “It troubles me that Anna Brees is now pursuing me with constant threats…”. In another post he included a comment from the respected Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) in which Ms Brees was described as having shared misinformation.
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.
She added furiously in her message to The Eye: “The tone and content of these 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 have 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)
(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).
Ms Brees has even threatened menacingly to publish past embarrassing details about a person she dislikes, and walked out of an event where she was due to be a guest speaker after discovering it was funded by RT (Russia Today), although she had herself appeared on one of the headline-grabbing channel’s shows a few months before, and has been condemned for showing “blatant double standards”. One senior journalist said of Ms Brees: “This is rank hypocrisy”. Another told us: “Every journalist worth his or her salt knows that RT is funded by the Russian state. It is blatant double standards!”.
Her YouTube profile proclaims gushingly: ” Anna began her training business in September 2017 and has since trained thousands of students, teaching comms and marketing teams for clients such as Admiral and Public Health Wales to citizen journalism”, however it does NOT include the fact that she has been accused of pursuing a famous personality with constant threat, or of defending a man who was jailed for stalking.
She was due to appear as a speaker at the event ‘Imperialism on Trial – Free Julian Assange’ in London and interviewed fellow speaker, the famous veteran journalist, Peter Oborne for her YouTube channel which has now been removed by officials, yet she left soon after discovering the event was funded by RT.
Ms Brees runs a ‘media training business’, and has stated on the internet: “I was a very good presenter”, but says she also wants “good investigative journalism” implying that she provides it. However she has trained corporations in Public Relations (PR) showing them how they can by-pass the media when ‘good investigative journalism’ thrives on exposing their mis-deeds. As she has put it on RT “the onus lies on us… to decide what information to trust… because I have built up a lot of trust (and people come to me saying) ‘you have integrity’ (but now there is) information chaos”.
Ms Brees has announced on the internet that her journalism is “important” and that she tries to “help people navigate out of this mess (the Covid-19 lockdown)“. However it may not be helping people by showing them bad language on social media, and saying (or repeating) on Twitter/X as she has done: “You can stick your new world order up your arse… Cheered me up this Sunday evening…” with a laughing smiley face used after the comment.
Her walk-out came despite the fact that she had earlier appeared on an RT discussion show headlined: “Renegade Inc: Corporate Media Bust Your Trust”, but the YouTube transmission of the programme clearly stated: “RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government”.
On the programme she responded to the question: “As a former BBC lifer… do you recognise… (accusations about)… the patronising aspect and patronising nature of the mainstream media?” by saying “it’s very rare that we get any ‘exclusives’ from the (mainstream) media …journalists can be very patronising (but) I WASN”T patronising”.
And that “a lot of journalists out there at the moment … feel they are not representing the public and the news they are producing is … fed by communications departments (Ms Brees trains corporations and teaches comms). I really would like to see these institutions like the BBC listen a bit more to the public …the public are getting very angry …they need to listen more”.
The man she compared herself to, Mr Icke, has warned that the Archons (or Anunnaki) have taken over the world, and that a genetically modified human–Archon hybrid race of shape-shifting reptilians known as the Babylonian Brotherhood, the Illuminati, or the ‘elite’, manipulate global events to help keep humans in constant fear.
Many may not take seriously her message to us (although they will do questions about the money), because the 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”.
The RT (Russia Today) host on the programme where Ms Brees was a guest stated that there were: “a bunch of journalists (who) suffer from ‘group-think’”.
It seems there may be more ‘group-think’ now about concerns related to money donated by the public to expose an establishment ‘cover-up’ over a paedophile ring…
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