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Trouble in Paradise: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain’s Most Remote Island
Kathy Marks
A shocking exposé of the terrible secrets at the heart of the Pitcairn Island community – a tale of systematic child abuse and rape which stretches back over 40 years.Pitcairn Island – home to the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty – has long been thought of as a tropical paradise. Wild and remote, it is Britain’s most isolated outpost and a fantasy destination for many.But in 1999, British police, alerted by unsettling reports of a rape, descended on the island. Their investigation developed into a major enquiry which revealed that Pitcairn was the site of widespread and horrific sexual abuse instigated by the island men on girls as young as twelve. Scarcely a man on the island was untainted by the allegations, and almost none of the women had escaped, though most residents feigned ignorance, even when their own daughters were abused. Abusers included the magistrates and police officers as well as brothers and uncles. Few of the victims were able to leave the island; those who did never went back.Kathy Marks was one of only six journalists permitted to live on the island while she reported on the ensuing trial and witnessed Pitcairn's domestic workings first-hand. In this riveting account she documents a society gone badly astray, leaving lives shattered, codes broken and a paradise truly lost.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.
TROUBLE IN
PARADISE
Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Britain’s Most Remote Island
KATHY MARKS
Dedication (#ulink_130b08f1-8ce6-5c81-b361-50e56311f563)
For my parents
Contents
Cover (#u3a20c739-326a-5ab1-b98a-842e96318529)
Title Page (#u69837693-6ca7-5636-b0f6-23daf54060e6)
Dedication (#u427ad3b6-3bf9-586e-8cdf-9f21569c215f)
Cast of characters (#u547d270a-d2b0-5505-a482-8d252e9f4e3e)
Christian clan (#uc0b01e6f-f065-54ea-90bb-68eedbc81fa7)
Brown family (#u5541bc39-1857-5725-9a6d-5bf718d146e1)
Warren clan (#u2d8a14d4-2efb-5f33-8a82-1a8999078cf5)
Young family (#u422477ba-a9cc-52f0-a327-bdd5fb53e99a)
Prologue (#u11b6531e-7e5c-502f-8371-1e8f51c47164)
Part 1—On the island (#u0072da78-0ef1-5bce-adb1-f07615251003)
1 A surreal little universe in the middle of nowhere (#u9665b0e5-d560-514b-b1a3-62f2c2892586)
2 Mutiny, murder and myth-making (#udcae2359-1653-500f-8d7a-da174e89ef02)
3 Opening a right can of worms (#u7d6b6f79-080f-59ad-8719-6208ab92ef89)
4 No amnesty (#u9788e452-5232-52c1-85a0-e745c6fb8074)
5 The fiefdom and its leader (#u4d787215-e2f5-5a5f-89f8-9e3cd91a69eb)
6 The propaganda campaign starts (#u9da6d095-833e-5a96-9d7c-7ae3136ee03e)
7 Key witnesses evaporate (#litres_trial_promo)
8 The trials begin (#litres_trial_promo)
9 Let’s make-believe (#litres_trial_promo)
10 Judgement day (#litres_trial_promo)
11 ‘You can’t blame men for being men’ (#litres_trial_promo)
Part 2—Viewing Pitcairn from a distance (#litres_trial_promo)
12 How the myth was forged (#litres_trial_promo)
13 Politics, poison and power plays (#litres_trial_promo)
14 Britain’s ‘ineffective long-range benevolence’ (#litres_trial_promo)
15 ‘I just did my job and minded my own business’ (#litres_trial_promo)
16 Interdependence + silence = collusion (#litres_trial_promo)
17 Making legal history (#litres_trial_promo)
18 The final trials (#litres_trial_promo)
19 Reaping a sad legacy since Bounty times (#litres_trial_promo)
20 Lord of the Flies? (#litres_trial_promo)
21 The last throw of the dice (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue—Isobel’s story (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
Cast of characters (#ulink_9ad4b325-162f-5a3d-8606-02a806c96a76)
Historical figures
Edward Christian (Fletcher’s brother)
Edward Young (mutineer)
Fletcher Christian (mutineer)
Harry Christian (hanged in 1898 for murder of wife and baby)
John Adams (mutineer and community leader)
Maimiti (Fletcher Christian’s Tahitian ‘wife’)
Matthew Quintal (mutineer)
Peter Heywood (mutineer court-martialled then pardoned)
William Bligh (captain of Bounty)
William McCoy (mutineer)
Media
Claire Harvey (The Australian; The Times)
Ewart Barnsley (Television New Zealand)
Kathy Marks (The Independent; New Zealand Herald)
Neil Tweedie (The Daily Telegraph; Press Association)
Sue Ingram (Radio New Zealand)
Zane Willis (TVNZ)
Officials and diplomats
Baroness Patricia Scotland (Former Overseas Territories Minister)
George Fergusson (Governor at time of writing)
Grant Pritchard (former Governor’s Representative)
Harry Maude (British colonial official in 1940s)
Jenny Lock (former Governor’s Representative)
Karen Wolstenholme (former Deputy Governor)
Leon Salt (former Commissioner)
Leslie Jaques (Commissioner at time of writing)
Martin Williams (former Governor)
Matthew Forbes (former Deputy Governor)
Richard Fell (former Governor)
Police and legal personnel
Adrian Cook QC (defence)
Allan Roberts (defence)
Charles Blackie (Chief Justice)
Charles Cato (defence)
Christine Gordon (prosecution)
Christopher Harder (former barrister)
Dennis McGookin (Kent Police)
Fletcher Pilditch (prosecution)
Gail Cox (Kent Police)
Graham Ford (court registrar)
Grant Illingworth QC (defence)
Gray Cameron (magistrate)
Jane Lovell-Smith (judge)
Karen Vaughan (New Zealand Police)
Kieran Raftery (prosecution)
Lord Hoffman (Privy Council)
Max Davidson (Kent Police)
Paul Dacre (defence)
Peter George (Kent Police)
Robert Vinson (Kent Police)
Russell Johnson (judge)
Simon Moore (prosecution)
Simon Mount (prosecution)
