Centrica fraud exposed: worse than Palestine Action 'terrorists' with cardboard placards

01:00 Sun, 26 Jul 2026

If you look at the news reports about the Clacton-on-Sea by election, you may think the only thing people are interested in is the artificial contest between the guy who resigned and the guy with a bin on his head.

If you put down the newspaper, turn off your phone and go out and speak to people in the street you hear a completely different story: the cost of living crisis.

During the Irish elections, I tried to draw attention to the outrageous case of a British energy company starting a law suit in the Dublin Circuit Court to claim €17,000 in "estimated" electricity charges for a house that had been unoccupied and disconnected due to a fire.

The Irish press refused to mention the story at all, despite the fact there is a court case about it and it has been raised during a national election campaign. In the cost of living crisis, I feel this self-censorship by journalists, a self-imposed news blackout on the court case proves the press are not on the side of the public.

It is a scary thought, there may be thousands of other electricity and gas customers in the UK and Ireland facing exactly the same problem with British Gas / Bord Gais and the so-called Establishment doesn't want us to find each other and help each other out. There are customers who commit suicide due to scandals like this whereas in my case, I decided to simply run for election. Remember the case of the guy who died on our wedding day?.

The death of Adrian von Bidder occurred in the context of a suicide cluster. In the UK, the victim Richard Rothwell had died on 18 July 2009. As explained in my previous blog about Rothwell, including the official coroner's report, he died under pressure relating to financial accounting for his small business:

Richard Rothwell, coroner report, suicide, HMRC VAT inspection

On 13 March 2023, a BBC report claimed that Cost of living crisis sees some people considering suicide.

Ms Williams said she had to change her habits overnight and could not go out as often, which was having an impact on her mental health.

"They say stress is one of the worst things for MS, the stress to do with living costs is making me worse," she explained.

Most of these reports about suicide mention bills of £2,000 or £3,000, less than ten percent of the fake bill that Centrica's Bord Gais has started legal action over.

In Australia, there was a far more serious scandal with fake debts. The Robodebt scandal was named after computer errors that overpaid welfare benefits to some of the most vulnerable households and then used extreme debt collection practices to try and recover the money. The scandal was so bad the government organized a Royal Commission, the same type of inquiry used to investigate child sexual abuse. The Robodebt Royal Commission produced extensive reports about the affair. The report has the following comments on the cover page:

This report talks about some difficult themes, including suicide, self-harm and mental ill-health. Readers may find parts of the report distressing.

It goes on...

His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd)
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
Government House
CANBERRA ACT 2600

Your Excellency

Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme

In accordance with the Letters Patent issued to me on 18 August 2022, and amendments to the Letters Patent issued on 16 February and 11 May 2023, I have made inquiries and now have the honour to present to you the Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.

I have provided to you an additional chapter of the report which has not been included in the bound report and is sealed. It recommends the referral of individuals for civil action or criminal prosecution. I recommend that this additional chapter remain sealed and not be tabled with the rest of the report so as not to prejudice the conduct of any future civil action or criminal prosecution.

There is a whole chapter for the suicides, analogous to my reports about the Debian suicide cluster:

12. Suicides associated with the Scheme

The Commission is aware that a number of people who had alleged debts raised against them under the Scheme have died by suicide. While each of those deaths may have prompted an internal review of the particular case, they did not galvanise either DHS or DSS into a substantive or systemic review of the problem of illegal, inaccurate or unfair debt-raising.

Further detail about some of these cases, and the serious human impacts arising from the Scheme, are contained in the chapter on Effects of Robodebt on individuals. [ ... snip ... ]

On 16 February 2017 at 8:35 pm, Ms Campbell asked for “our response on the customer case for the Saturday paper.” Ms Campbell was referring to a request from a journalist from The Saturday Paper, who had inquired with DHS about information relating to Rhys Cauzzo. At 9:17 pm and 9:19 pm Ms Golightly emailed Ms Campbell in response to her request. Both emails included the information that Mr Cauzzo’s debt was not raised by way of the OCI iteration of the Scheme.

On 18 February 2017 emails were circulated by DHS, including to Ms Campbell and to the minister’s staff, seeking a correction to the article published on Mr Cauzzo’s death in The Saturday Paper; in particular making the key point that the debt raised against Mr Cauzzo “was not tied to the OCI system.”

This is incredibly creepy: people are dead and the politicians are obsessed with nitpicking the contents of the newspaper article. This is another pattern that is eerily similar to the the Debian suicide cluster. Remember the message from Italian mafiosi Enrico Zini asking them to change the contents of a news story to remove all opinions that contradicted his own vendetta:

Subject: On coverage of Abbelbaum being "banned" from Debian
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:34:50 +0200 
From: Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
To: Andrew Matler <andrew.matler@itwire.com>
CC: debian-private@lists.debian.org

Dear Editor in Chief of iTWire,

you may want to do something about this article by Sam Varghese on
Debian revoking membership of Jacop Appelbaum:
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/73441-appelbaum-banned-from-debian-events-after-sexual-misconduct-charges.html

While the first part is factually correct in its DPL quote, the article
ends with baseless hints of Debian and Tor having fallen victims to
manipulations by GCHQ psyops.

[ ... snip ... ]

We can very easily see that Enrico Zini was wrong. The UK government gives GCHQ billions of pounds every year to do psyops. When journalists mention that, why do people ridicule them with snide remarks about conspiracy theories?

We can only wonder, why is so much money spent on psyops but the powers-that-be struggle to do basic things like electricity and gas bills correctly?

Energy prices got a shock in February 2022 due to the Ukraine war.

The Dublin house was disconnected in January 2023 due to a fire.

At the same time, in the UK, Winter Fuel Payment benefits were increased but the UK only pays this money to pensioners and other people who qualify.

In October 2023, Ireland announced a similar payment without any means test. Every household was offered three payments of €150 on their energy bill over the course of the 2023/2024 winter. The important thing to note is the Irish state does not pay the money to the household. This money is paid directly to the energy companies. The energy companies add a line on each bill so the customer can see the Government money offsetting their consumption.

When the first payment date arrived on 5 December 2023, that was ten months after the fire in the house. By this stage, I had told the customer service staff about the fire many times. They had told me the billing for the house would stop. Not only did they continue creating invalid bills but they automatically and fraudulently claimed the winter fuel payments from the Irish state.

These payments were fraudulent because the company had been told.

There are incredibly real problems with customer service in both the UK and Ireland today. You tell them something and they don't listen.

You tell them not to do something stupid. They don't listen.

You tell them it is not their money. They have a big sook and they put up a sign on the door telling us "Please don't slap our staff".

Remember ninety nine percent of the 'terrorist' grandmothers arrested at Palestine Action rallies have done nothing more than cutting up a cardboard box and writing a slogan on it.

Yet we have these huge companies opportunistically and brazenly taking money from the state when they have been clearly told they are wrong.

The same companies then engage in harassment and discrimination against customers who have done nothing wrong.

Harassment claim proven

The next step in the Dublin Circuit Court procedure is for the whingers to demand a hearing before the judge. Lawyerists have told me I simply need to show the judge the certificate from the fire brigade and the whole case will be thrown out very quickly. After opening the law suit in the Dublin Circuit Court in 2024, the company did not take any further steps to request the hearing.

Instead, they gave exactly the same debt, relating to exactly the same house and exactly the same period of time, to a second debt collection company. Now the second debt collection company is asking me to pay them exactly the same fraudulent sum of money the first bunch of lawyerists are asking for.

The company behind this is Centrica. In the UK, people call them British Gas and in Ireland they are Bord Gais. Despite the name, they provide households both gas and electricity services. It looks like a lot of their technology, customer service and accounting functions are shared between the retail business in both the UK and Ireland. Therefore, if this type of thing is happening in Ireland, it would be no surprise if it is happening in the UK.

In Clacton-on-Sea, the incumbent member of parliament spends his time with cryptocurrency bosses in the USA while his constituents, like everybody else in the UK and Ireland, has been abandoned. We are seeing a huge increase in energy bills and at the same time, thanks to offshore call centers and badly implemented artificial intelligence technology, customer service standards are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

The bonus paid to the boss of Centrica each year is big enough that the BBC has interviewed him about it. He told the BBC and the public his own bonus is too big. Yet many of the candidates in the Clacton-on-Sea by-election are now frustrated because the BBC and other journalists have given so much broadcast time to the man with a bin on his head and no time to anybody else.

Call for Chris O'Shea of Centrica to debate Clacton-on-Sea candidates

The incumbent member of parliament who called this by-election is not willing to face me in either a debate or even in a foot race measured in his favourite imperial units, the mile.

Therefore, I'm challenging Chris O'Shea, the boss of Centrica/ British Gas/ Bord Gais to debate electricity and gas bills with me on British TV.

If anybody else wants to see extreme billing errors or fraud raised on TV, please send your bill or screenshot to daniel+centrica@pocock.pro.

From Chris O'Shea's interview on the BBC in 2024:

You can't justify a salary of that size. It's a huge amount of money, I am incredibly fortunate. I don't set my own pay, that's set by our remuneration committee.

If he can't justify his salary, how can he justify starting two parallel debt collection procedures, a court case and a claim for winter fuel subsidies over "estimated" charges that don't even exist because the house was taken off the grid after a fire three and a half years ago?

From 2024, Chris O'Shea's underlings have filed a legal claim in Dublin's District Court for €17,061.25:

The next step in the procedure is for Chris O'Shea's underlings to request the hearing in front of a judge to talk about €17,061.25. Instead, Chris O'Shea has violated my GDPR rights a second time, divulging my personal details to another debt collection firm and they sent me a second demand for a falsified sum of €33,382.29:

Aoife Lockhart, Chris O'Shea, fraud, Ireland, CMOS, Bord Gais, Centrica

With these two procedures now imposed upon me in parallel, the total sum Centrica's underlings are now trying to defraud from me through the "justice" system is €17,061.25 plus €33,382.29, which adds up to €50,443.54. At today's exchange rate, that is £43,057.34.

Remember when IBM Red Hat started a legal procedure against me using the UDRP. At the beginning of the trial, I published the blog post WeMakeFedora.org and Ukraine under attack.

IBM lost and they lost badly. The legal panel reprimanded them with the words:

declares that the Complaint was brought in bad faith and constitutes an abuse of the administrative proceeding.

After said legal panel confirmed I'd been abused by IBM, now I feel like I am being abused by Centrica. On top of that, my second cousin was in the choir associated with the former treasurer of the Vatican, the late Cardinal George Pell, in other words, the highest ranking abuse conviction in the Catholic abuse crisis. It is a lot more stress than Richard Rothwell's VAT inspection.

The letter from Chris O'Shea's underlings is signed by a woman, Aoife Lockhart from a company who have stolen the name CMOS.

Consider the irony: in electronic engineering, CMOS is an acronym for Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor. Ireland has become famous for the manufacture of semiconductors and it is one of only a small number of countries outside the United States where Intel has a significant semiconductor plant. Now we have these stupid people stealing the name CMOS, making up fake charges for electricity and trying to bully people into giving them money on behalf of Centrica. The irony does not stop there.

Looking for information about the fraudster who signed the letter, Aoife Lockhart, I found this bizarre picture on LinkedIn:

Aoife Lockhart, CMOS, Ireland, fraud, Centrica, Bord Gais

Once again, we focus on the irony. The post mentions International Women's Day at the bottom. In the same post, she boasts about using electronic communications networks for bullying people.

Think about that for a moment. In the UK, I've heard numerous stories from women who used to live in London but they got sick of men on crowded trains who force their fingers into womens panties. At the same time, we have this woman in CMOS in Dublin who is putting unwanted demands for money into peoples' phones. You are sitting at your desk, in the middle of solving a real problem for a paying customer and this toxic woman puts a text message in your phone demanding €33,000 within seven days. Her LinkedIn post is actually boasting about intruding on people without consent, blackmailing them and pushing them to suicide. Sending spiteful text messages to somebody you don't even know is just as bad, or worse, than the practices of the men who ride the underground at peak hour and deliberately squash themselves up against young blonde Irish girls like Aoife Lockhart.

That statement is no exageration: the suicide of Robodebt victims is every bit as bad as the suicide of abuse victims. Death is death. Callous women like Aoife Lockhart who ply their tricks in court to get money without giving anything in return are every bit as bad as rapists.

For me, ruunning for election is a better choice than suicide. I hope that other victims of these gangsters will hear my story and raise their hands too.

When I discussed these problems with the Carabinieri on 10 January 2023, the Cardinal died four hours later. I pray for a more amicable solution with Chris O'Shea. My message to Mr O'Shea is concise and it is borrowed from IBM: Think.

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