Matthew Gibbons - York A.R. and AntiFa Police Informant
Animal Liberation Central Intelligence Unit | 15.09.2009 23:22 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield | World
The Animal Liberation Central Intelligence Unit has recently discovered information concluding that Matthew Gibbons, (now) formerly of York Action for Animals and York AntiFa, has been acting as a police informant. (For information purposes only, Gibbons' details are 
pizzamatic@hotmail.com // mattgibb@talktalk.net // Mob: 07590 922288)
When he is not sat in his shop getting overly drunk and adding people he doesn't know on facebook (yes, one of those people with over 2,000 'friends'!), or being the lone 'vegan' working at the York branch of Pizza Express, Gibbons is passing details of actions and groups onto his handler, David Hall at North Yorkshire Police. Information passed on concerns both York and Leeds Antifa, plus Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.
If yo thought it couldn't get any worse than that, you were wrong - Gibbons is now an active member of the fascist football hooligans English Defence League!
We have attached a number of images of Gibbons, so please circulate them and beware of him.
EMAILS BETWEEN GIBBONS AND THE N.Y.P.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt
To: Hall, David
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 5:09 PM
Subject: Leeds - DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL
Hello David,
Please do not reply directly to this email, other people also have access to my computer. I would like to recieve an acknowlegement, however, do not include any substantive detail.
The event in Leeds, that I have previously told you about, is of course to be on the 18th of October, and not the 8th of October - I think that I may have passed on the incorrect date in error due to imperfect keyboard typing. - It is definatly on the Saturday.
The neo-nazi 'British Peoples Party' (Kevin Watmough and Kate McDermody) are planning to hold a racist anti-'hip hop' demo outside HMV in Leeds city centre - the word is that this is just a pretext for a fight with anti-fascists.
They are in for a big shock.
No matter how many 'hard men' they bring along, they will simply be outnumbered, anti-fascists have already begun distributing leaflets in York and next week plan to give out leaflets and mobilise support from the Black areas of Leeds and Asian areas of Bradford to encourage people to be in Leeds city centre on the 18th to confront the racists.
It has almost got to the point of no return, and the only way that I can think of, that complete chaos can be avoided is if the Police find some pre-text to forbid the racist demo from going ahead and dis-bar the BPP from Leeds city centre on that day. (and crucially, let it be known that this is what has happened).
I plan to be in Leeds on that day - let me know if there is any info that I could obtain that could be of use.
I hope that this info is useful, and I hope that you take this email in the spirit that it is sent.
Matthew,
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From: pizzamatic@hotmail.com
To: david.hall@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Subject: Political Information - THIS EMAIL IS IN STRICT CONFIDENCE
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:04:09 +0000
Dear David Hall,
You may not recognise this e-mail address, however, I am Matthew Gibbons of [Personal info removed as per:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/privacy.html#Personal_Information].
At one stage I was providing information to the North Yorkshire Police Intelligence, however I have lost the mobile number that was given to me to contact them with information.
So I am contacting you, in strict confidence.
I have just returned from the anti-fascist demo in Leeds city centre (13/06/09)
Although I have not been involved in the political scence for the last 6 months or so, I attended the demo and filmed most of the event, both with covert hidden video cameras that were in my bomber jacket and also in my basball cap, as well as an overt camcorder.
Although it is generally accepted that the West Yorkshire Police lost control of the the demo at one point, and up to 500 protesters took charge of the streets of Leeds for a brief period of time, the police were by and large, well behaved, except for one incident when a mature police officer assaulted a 16 year old boy by grabbing him by the scruff of the collar and shaking him - not too serious I know, but I have the entire incident captured on video.
I am in the process of creating a video of the day to publish on 'you-tube', however I will not publish this incident at this stage, for tactical reasons
THE REASON THAT I AM CONTACTING YOU NOW
is that I have now made contact with the Leeds anti-fascist "Anti-Fa" cell. ( www.antifa.org.uk ) and I am now privy to various bits of information that may of of value to the police - for example the plans for Leeds Antifa to involve and recruit the support of the Leeds United Football Club supporters group and in particular, the notorious "Leeds United Service Crew" football gang who apparently are about to declare themselves anti-fascist and against the BNP and ready to take on and fight any football team supporters, including West Ham or Glasgow Rangers (fascist/orange)
On the demo, in Leeds, I was followed around by "Mr Scrivens" from the 'Forward Intelligence Team' (FIT Team - photo and video available) - even after the event he followed me into a pub and asked how my girlfriend was doing - clear harrasment - however in the spirit of co-operation I will not follow up on this matter at this stage.
Please can you ask the Police Intelligence Unit that I was previously involved with to get in touch with me because I have information that they will be interested to hear - I now have a new mobile number, it is 07590922288.
Regards
Matthew.
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Subject: RE:
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:48:39 +0100
From: David.Hall@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
To: pizzamatic@hotmail.com
Matthew,
Many thanks for feeding this into me and I am very appreciative of your kind assistance.
It is quite pertinent in so much as I now head up operational policing for NYP and therefore any insight into such tactics is particularly helpful. Accordingly I will be grateful for any further information of this nature.
As you know from our previous dealings I am very much an individual who wants to ensure that we police protests at the right level and in recognition of fundamental / lawful rights to do so. With this in mind I am very happy to maintain our dialogue in the future.
Best wishes,
David
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pizzamatic@hotmail.com // mattgibb@talktalk.net // Mob: 07590 922288) When he is not sat in his shop getting overly drunk and adding people he doesn't know on facebook (yes, one of those people with over 2,000 'friends'!), or being the lone 'vegan' working at the York branch of Pizza Express, Gibbons is passing details of actions and groups onto his handler, David Hall at North Yorkshire Police. Information passed on concerns both York and Leeds Antifa, plus Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty.
If yo thought it couldn't get any worse than that, you were wrong - Gibbons is now an active member of the fascist football hooligans English Defence League!
We have attached a number of images of Gibbons, so please circulate them and beware of him.
EMAILS BETWEEN GIBBONS AND THE N.Y.P.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt
To: Hall, David
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 5:09 PM
Subject: Leeds - DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL
Hello David,
Please do not reply directly to this email, other people also have access to my computer. I would like to recieve an acknowlegement, however, do not include any substantive detail.
The event in Leeds, that I have previously told you about, is of course to be on the 18th of October, and not the 8th of October - I think that I may have passed on the incorrect date in error due to imperfect keyboard typing. - It is definatly on the Saturday.
The neo-nazi 'British Peoples Party' (Kevin Watmough and Kate McDermody) are planning to hold a racist anti-'hip hop' demo outside HMV in Leeds city centre - the word is that this is just a pretext for a fight with anti-fascists.
They are in for a big shock.
No matter how many 'hard men' they bring along, they will simply be outnumbered, anti-fascists have already begun distributing leaflets in York and next week plan to give out leaflets and mobilise support from the Black areas of Leeds and Asian areas of Bradford to encourage people to be in Leeds city centre on the 18th to confront the racists.
It has almost got to the point of no return, and the only way that I can think of, that complete chaos can be avoided is if the Police find some pre-text to forbid the racist demo from going ahead and dis-bar the BPP from Leeds city centre on that day. (and crucially, let it be known that this is what has happened).
I plan to be in Leeds on that day - let me know if there is any info that I could obtain that could be of use.
I hope that this info is useful, and I hope that you take this email in the spirit that it is sent.
Matthew,
==============================================================
From:
pizzamatic@hotmail.com To:
david.hall@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk Subject: Political Information - THIS EMAIL IS IN STRICT CONFIDENCE
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:04:09 +0000
Dear David Hall,
You may not recognise this e-mail address, however, I am Matthew Gibbons of [Personal info removed as per:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/privacy.html#Personal_Information]. At one stage I was providing information to the North Yorkshire Police Intelligence, however I have lost the mobile number that was given to me to contact them with information.
So I am contacting you, in strict confidence.
I have just returned from the anti-fascist demo in Leeds city centre (13/06/09)
Although I have not been involved in the political scence for the last 6 months or so, I attended the demo and filmed most of the event, both with covert hidden video cameras that were in my bomber jacket and also in my basball cap, as well as an overt camcorder.
Although it is generally accepted that the West Yorkshire Police lost control of the the demo at one point, and up to 500 protesters took charge of the streets of Leeds for a brief period of time, the police were by and large, well behaved, except for one incident when a mature police officer assaulted a 16 year old boy by grabbing him by the scruff of the collar and shaking him - not too serious I know, but I have the entire incident captured on video.
I am in the process of creating a video of the day to publish on 'you-tube', however I will not publish this incident at this stage, for tactical reasons
THE REASON THAT I AM CONTACTING YOU NOW
is that I have now made contact with the Leeds anti-fascist "Anti-Fa" cell. ( www.antifa.org.uk ) and I am now privy to various bits of information that may of of value to the police - for example the plans for Leeds Antifa to involve and recruit the support of the Leeds United Football Club supporters group and in particular, the notorious "Leeds United Service Crew" football gang who apparently are about to declare themselves anti-fascist and against the BNP and ready to take on and fight any football team supporters, including West Ham or Glasgow Rangers (fascist/orange)
On the demo, in Leeds, I was followed around by "Mr Scrivens" from the 'Forward Intelligence Team' (FIT Team - photo and video available) - even after the event he followed me into a pub and asked how my girlfriend was doing - clear harrasment - however in the spirit of co-operation I will not follow up on this matter at this stage.
Please can you ask the Police Intelligence Unit that I was previously involved with to get in touch with me because I have information that they will be interested to hear - I now have a new mobile number, it is 07590922288.
Regards
Matthew.
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Subject: RE:
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:48:39 +0100
From:
David.Hall@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk To:
pizzamatic@hotmail.com Matthew,
Many thanks for feeding this into me and I am very appreciative of your kind assistance.
It is quite pertinent in so much as I now head up operational policing for NYP and therefore any insight into such tactics is particularly helpful. Accordingly I will be grateful for any further information of this nature.
As you know from our previous dealings I am very much an individual who wants to ensure that we police protests at the right level and in recognition of fundamental / lawful rights to do so. With this in mind I am very happy to maintain our dialogue in the future.
Best wishes,
David
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Animal Liberation Central Intelligence Unit
Comments
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nice work! if he is in the EDL I expect it is as an informant
15.09.2009 23:42
If he has joined the English Defence League I would think it is to infiltrate them rather than to support their politics. Seems like he has burnt his bridges in the York area now though - maybe he will move and pop up somewhere else.
James Bond
this is true
16.09.2009 09:31
agree
Can the poster
16.09.2009 10:26
Intrigued
More Info
16.09.2009 11:16
Someone could very easily invent something like this about someone (for whatever reason they have) to make others turn against them. Equally the information could be true, and so everyone needs to be aware for their own security.
The problem for us as readers is that we need to know whether this is information is true - maybe an explanation as to how the emails were obtained, or more proof if it is available as to how the informant was discovered?
Also, if this post is made up, then Matthew needs to speak out about it, and tell us what the truth is. He needs to explain what if any police contact he has had. If it isn't true he needs to tell us more - does he know who has done this to him / what the motive is etc...
Basically we need more information, as I am sure like many - have no way of knowing what is true.
Anon
Spreading the message...
16.09.2009 11:35
watchyourback
It's taken a long time
16.09.2009 12:24
Mr Magoo
Re:
16.09.2009 12:32
Use a bit of common sense!
Concerned Northerner
emmm
16.09.2009 12:43
stu
Hell has no rage like love to hatred turned...
16.09.2009 13:03
Anonymous Up North
Truth
16.09.2009 14:21
I can honestly say that I am not, never have been and never will be a police informant.
I am aware of the faked e-mails and I know who wrote them - they are a work of fiction. They were faked 6-8 weeks ago and used against me as a threat by someone that knew my email password they are not genuine at all - they were written at a period of time when emotions were running high, and do not contain a single sentence of truth - they are not genuine and were used to threaten me- the situation was all sorted.
If any of my actual friends wish to contact me, via email or facebook, then I can provide further details and corroboration.
I have received several messages of support from genuine friends who know that this story is a non-story, just a load of bullcrap put up by someone who is unaware of all the issues involved and thinks that they are being clever.
Well at least I know who my real friends are now - the truth will come out over a short period of time, and some people that have posted here are going to look pretty stupid. I will accept your apologies from the comment posters, but whoever posted the original story should hang their head in shame.
I will not hide, I will not go away, I am innocent of this and the truth will come out in the long run.
Matthew
The emails are written in his writing style
16.09.2009 14:25
someone who knows him
Tony White's Spies
16.09.2009 14:42
Grass Cutter
@someone WKH
16.09.2009 14:51
I know it is nice to have a witchunt, and be a bit of a bully - but I am sorry to piss on your bonfire and tell you that this is not true.
The truth is that the emails are fake, and I know where they came from - close friends know who wrote them.
I am not going to hide - I am not an informant.
Matthew
@someone WKH
16.09.2009 14:55
Matthew
Hang your head
16.09.2009 15:00
Vegan Melody
ER.....
16.09.2009 15:03
But could you tell me why you have an English Defence League shirt on.
Surely that's not a mockery as well is it?
Fancy dress?!
Dave
@Vegan Melody
16.09.2009 15:17
The full story is personal, but I have no doubt whatsoever that my name will be cleared and close friends know where this whole story has come from.
DON'T CARE if I have lost a few 'friends' because they were obviosly not genuine friends in the first place - unlike my REAL friends who actually took the time and trouble to call me up or email me to ask what the hell was going on!
So Yes, Vegan Melody, there are people I can trust and who trust me - you are obviously not one of them - and you will look pretty stupid in the long run.
Matthew
Answer please ?
16.09.2009 16:08
concerned of gipton
@concerned of Gipton
16.09.2009 16:54
contact me to discuss further.
This whole story is a load of bullcrap that has been put up by someone that is trying to look clever, but who does not understand the bigger picture.
The emails are fake and were written by a Third Party in order to frame me and threaten me, but the whole situation was sorted out 6-8 weeks ago.
Until now.
Well - Concerned of Gipton - here is the challenge - If what you say is true then you will know how to contact me - do so,
Matthew
EDL shirt
16.09.2009 16:59
The emails are fake - the whole thing is a load of bullcrap - I know where it all came from.
I am not a police informant and never have been.
But I know who my REAL friends are now.
Matthew
Pizza Express
16.09.2009 17:01
Matthew
Service crew declaring themselves anti-fascist?
16.09.2009 17:12
Leedsman
Shame on you !
16.09.2009 17:21
ALFie
@Leedsman - Bang on Mate !
16.09.2009 17:29
Glad you spotted the obvious error - this is a set up - the emails are a work of pure fiction.
There is alot more to this than meets the eye.
Matthew
@Alfie
16.09.2009 18:06
Midlands activists sussed me out long ago eh?
What shit - sussed me out for what ??? - for not going to meetings ? for not getting involved ? for working hard and not doing anything political ???
Jump on the bandwagon why don't you - get lost.
No wonder innocent people get convicted for crimes they didn't commit.
I dont even know any Midlands people- so you are obviously talking shit.
Matthew
why are you wearing
16.09.2009 18:44
??????????????
an EDL shirt?
Actual truth
16.09.2009 19:00
The emails were writen 6-8 weeks ago as part of a domestic, and were used to blackmail me into calming things down. I know exactly who wrote them, and I forgave her then.
So now some jumped up twat thinks that he is being clever by exploiting a domestic dispute that was resolved many weeks ago.
I am not a grass and never have been, these emails are fake and I can prove it.
Goodbye all you bullys that have threatened me for something I have not done.
Matthew
Answer the question ?
16.09.2009 19:07
concerned of gipton
Antifa Plant
16.09.2009 19:16
Grass Cutter
Leedsman
16.09.2009 19:19
As Dave, 'concerned of gipton' and 'an EDL shirt?' pointed out: WHY THE EDL t-shirt? No answer explains how he's obviously an informant for AR, anti-fash and the fash (or just fash). Funny to hear the commone excuse "message me or call me and talk about it" though.
Good call on the West Yorkshire AR lot for uncovering this. The reason I know it's you lot is because nobody calls Animal Rights (A.R.) anymore, just a tip ;-)
Lawnmower (a common grass cutter)
What utter bollocks from Matthew
16.09.2009 19:25
And, as everybody else says, what about the EDL shirt? It clearly isn't edited on, it's absolutely perfect in imagery.
Once a grass, always a grass.
Once a fascist, always a fascist.
Don't try to lie yourself out of your actions and be an adult - take responsibility for what you have done and don't try and blame it on others. Or as you said, "The truth always comes out"! The only reasonable thing you've said so far!
Now fuck off!
Animal Libber
@animal libber
16.09.2009 19:52
Have you any idea how many thousands of pounds of my own money I have put into the shop?
I took alot of hard work to get the shop up and running.
Oh and as for being a grass ?? - not guilty my friend - we all know who actually wrote the emails - the pure work of fiction.
Just admit it - you fucked up! - you thought that you had a justifiable victim.
but it all cocked up for you when I turned around and started telling people the TRUTH.
Oh yes - and all you AR people - just be aware of this - I know exactly who made up and wrote the fiction emails.
Do you really want me to tell everyone - right here on the internet - and the cops and the EDL and the ALF exactly who wrote the emails????
push me too far and I will do .
Matthew
Billy Liar
16.09.2009 20:09
I had the misfortune to work with Matthew Gibbons in the finance industry, he is a dirty, sneaky cretin with no morals and is all for personal gain. I feel for anybody who has suffered through his colaboration with the state.
Mr mister
Matthew
16.09.2009 20:12
That's not surprising is it EDL boy!
Animal Libber
Matthew spotter
16.09.2009 21:44
Matthew is the guy in the black bomber jacket and blue jeans with a facemask that apprears between 00:35-0045
Yes - he used to be a hero
C,mon Matt- what is the next one ????
Archivist
We have no way of knowing if "Matthew" in the comments is genuine!
16.09.2009 21:56
I could easily post a message here saying OK I admit it, I am a grass, and sign off as "Matthew".
It sounds like the story could be true, but we have no way of knowing that. As someone else pointed out, a troll from the opposition could easily write similar stories about genuine activists.
anon
Gibbering gibbons
17.09.2009 07:30
Not long ago this arsehole was encouraging young activists in to direct action in his own backyard making a sorry excuse it was too close to home for him to do anything and would have to be in a public place at the time of any actions or some shit.
Its all VERY believable, the EDL shirt puts the nail in his coffin.
Jack
Concerned.
17.09.2009 10:56
It may be an idea for the said groups/organisations to investigate this themselves (which I'm sure will be happening), and release a statement (not through indymedia) stating the truth.
If Gibbons is an informer then he has hell to pay. If this is somebody playing silly buggers then they have hell to pay.
Stay vigilante comrades.
Nazi Hunter
This is a set up and a fix.
17.09.2009 13:22
Matthew
EDL Shirt?
17.09.2009 14:06
You have avoided this question god knows how many times now.
It looks VERY bad indeed.
Just answer the question if your so innocent.....
Dave
Some observations.
17.09.2009 15:37
Matt and Sarah are regular visitors to the Indymedia website so it is highly improbable Matt is still unaware of this story even if he is not the person posting here as Matthew.
Some time ago (I think it was towards the end of last year) Sarah Larkins (Joint owner of Kyi-po and Matt's partner) told me that the shop was not taking enough money for them to make ends meet and that Matt had taken a second job to supplement their income. I asked her what he was doing and she said he was working as a manager at Pizza Express. I thought this odd as it seemed a very unethical thing for a vegan to be doing but had no reason to doubt her word. Either she was lying or the person posting here as Matthew is lying as both cannot be telling the truth. Someone should check this with Pizza Express as we need an answer.
You will notice from the top photograph that Kyi-po sells cigarettes. Matt and Sarah swore they would never do this as they had concluded it would be totally unethical due to the manufacturers having contracts with the likes of Covance and Huntingdon Life Sciences. So how do they justify selling them now?
A few months ago, Sarah Larkins handed a stray pit-bull / Staffordshire terrier type dog to the York dog wardens (Who are the scum of the earth) condemning him to almost certain death. Not something you would expect someone who claims to believe in animal rights to do and the main reason I stopped doing my shopping at Kyi-po.
Passing trade and tourists aside, Kyi-po's regular customers are typical of the sort of people you might reasonably expect to find frequenting a vegan food shop. Educated, middle class and broadly leftist. Just the sort of people who would be outraged by anyone expressing sympathy for the far right. Why then does Matt appear to be hanging around outside the shop in an English Defence League tee shirt? Is the photograph genuine? If so, we need some answers from Matt.
In Matt's defence I will say that on the occasions he served me in the shop he never expressed any sympathy with fascist, nationalist or racist groups. Quite the opposite. In fact, he came across as an old school left wing agitator.
York vegan
Pizza Express
17.09.2009 18:26
Why? People need money. I'd agree if it was McDonalds, but people have to work. I've eaten at Pizza Express and told them not to put cheese on it, am I wrong to have done so?
AR
Racism
17.09.2009 19:40
Poster
observations
18.09.2009 14:07
I have some information to report david, your "infultrator" is a blatent fantasist nutter, whom has been odbvious for a long time.
besides, you'd need paying SERIOUS money to tap that shit. you all know what I mean.
on that note, remember to stay away from his missus (sarah larking of YAFA) if you havent been anyway.
its not acceptable to fuck a grass, she's a loud mouth anyway.
*"David Hall, found himself in charge of coordinating the national operation to police the strike."
rabbit (likes to eat the grass)
@AR
18.09.2009 14:15
As for eating out, I certainly wouldn't want to eat anything that had been made in a kitchen where animal products are prepared and don't feel I've missed anything having never eaten in a Pizza Express.
York vegan
@ York vegan
18.09.2009 15:04
AR
Re: What Bollocks!
18.09.2009 18:20
I find it very sad that many anarchists who saw fit to post are no better then the dickheads who write for papers like the Sun.
No wonder the average person avoid anarchists and other left wing nutters on here with the behavious and attitudes I've seen in this thread.
I can't think of one person who hasn't had the same kind of tactics used here against them on this and other sites in cyber world.
If no one can offer solid evidence them maybe Indymedia should close this thread until some one comes up with the solid evidence one way or the other,
I bet right wing nutters are loving this thread?
Anti Fascist And Proud
In the know
18.09.2009 19:57
Stiggers
York Vegan shops in TESCO
18.09.2009 20:09
Tesco being the ones that in their Hungarian stores sell foie gras , in their stores in China sell live turtles that have their heads smashed to pieces on the shop counter, need I go on? Yet York Vegan quite happily gives TESCO his money for items he can easily get elsewhere including in Yorks only fully vegan shop but chooses instead to buy them from TESCO. Sarah pointed this out to "Duncan" on many occasions but he laughed it off & when she asked him what it is he buys there and offered to get it for him , she did buy the stuff in but he left it on the shelves, using the excuse that he already has some! Which in turn says he choose to continue buying it from Tesco!
TESCO of all places !!!
Sarah & Matt didn't want to sell fags and booze but none of their friends or fellow vegans in York went in their shop nor supported them , so they had no choice but to sell stuff the general public wanted, after almost 18m of resisting and having huge York city centre rent bills to pay. And in doing so, I know for a fact that by non vegans coming into their store for booze& fags were introduced to vegan food & have since started buying vegan food and saying how good it is.
They only ever tried their best with the shop but none of their friends support them , all they got was the cold shoulder & grief for opening a shop , a shop that introduces veganism to the general public!
Now their lives have been put in danger all thanks to so called friends for something that isn't even true.
Well done people!
About York Vegan
domestic
19.09.2009 07:46
Her continual relationship with Mr. Gibbons is clear evidence that she is a willing collaborator and fellow informant.
very concerned
Oh yes he did!
19.09.2009 08:45
If Gibbons can lie about something as innocuous as working for PizzaExpress then what else can he lie about? Seems that Gibbons is not the only liar. As VERY CONCERNED has already pointed out Gibbons is not the only one involved in deception.
Larking is as deluded as her boyfriend.
Birds of a feather and all that!
summer sun
@ about york vegan
19.09.2009 08:52
No surely not, they are both too upstanding and honest to do something like that!!!!!
very concerned
@ matthew - 16.09.2009 19:52
19.09.2009 09:19
Yes absolutely nothing. If so, where did your money come from? not from honest work - not from your employment history - working for a pizza chain and a dead end job in the finance industry. Or perhaps the real truth is that the blue giro has paid very well over the years - you GRASS
It is a well known fact that you live in your elderly parents flat sponging off anyone who is stupid enough to pay you the time of day.
Some people seem to have you well and truely sussed. Let me add my sentiments to that of MR MISTER - you are a dirty, sneaky cretin with no morals and only out for personal gain.
I also know you well enough to be certain that you are a GIBBERING GIBBON as recognised by JACK -17.09.2009 07:30. No way is that you in the video. I'm sad to say I also know this piece of shit VERY well, it is absolutely true that he 'couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag'.
You are a GRASS no doubt about it, if not for any other reason than to give your sad life some meaning and pupose and to make you feel self-important. The only thing that I am surprised at is that you have been able to stop yourself bragging about it and trying to get yourself SUPERGRASS status. You are a GRASS and you know it.
billy bob
@ About York Vegan (Aka Sarah Larkins)
19.09.2009 13:07
"They only ever tried their best with the shop but none of their friends support them , all they got was the cold shoulder & grief..."
Yes, and now we can all see why. What a dangerous and poisonous individual you are. I wish someone had warned me that you were unhinged before I made the mistake of patronizing your shop. If these allegations against Matt are true, then all I can say is you really deserve each other.
York vegan
What is happening here?
19.09.2009 16:38
If the e-mails are real (most likely scenario) then Gibbons has been exposed for who he is. Wearing his EDL shirt he looks like a right tool, and we suspect that's exactly what he is, unhinged, keep away from the pair of them.
YorkAR
The EDL shirt. . .
19.09.2009 17:14
The emails could be real, or fake. If real, then Gibbons deserves a kicking. If they are fake, then whoever has fabricated this whole sorry tale and published on Indymedia deserves a kicking - it paints AR and Antifa activism in a negative light - as one poster on here has stated, if this person really cared about these movements, they would never have used them to humilate someone. I suspect the emails are fake and the poster is probably his partner as they have been having domestic difficulties. . .kinda backfired for you hasn't it???
I'll be avoiding the pair of them from now on and I suspect others in the York area will shun them too. Impossible to plan activist activities with people when the trust has gone. . . . . . .
Yorkie
Larking
19.09.2009 22:37
Someone who knows.
Mr Fact
20.09.2009 09:03
Fact: Back to the wall, Gibbons was 'turned' by the state , the other option was a custodial sentence
Fact: At a time when activists were been locked for breathing in the wrong direction, Gibbons kept his liberty.
Fact : The low life turned Grass, scared of the thought of custody.
Fact: He is scum.
FACTS
Update
20.09.2009 11:22
A relative of Matthew
OMG!!
20.09.2009 14:14
YorkAF
This is true.
20.09.2009 14:23
At least one of the minders had a swastika tatoo.
Some of the bodyguards appeared to be very professional and we were told that they worked for a private secutity firm paid for by Sarahs father.
They were both transfered to a private hospital within 20 minutes.
NHS nurse
please stay off the grass
20.09.2009 14:32
stick to the paths
eh?
20.09.2009 14:48
Smokeandmirrors
Re:
20.09.2009 16:40
What the hell is going on inside this person's head? It's a good job no activist will associate with them both, just another bunch of fruitcakes. Anyone remember Suzanne Jaggers?!
York Activist
It's all gone a bit Suzanne Jaggers
20.09.2009 17:23
HalifaxAR
I am infact
20.09.2009 18:01
Suzanne Jaggers
Spade for Mr Gibbons...
20.09.2009 19:45
Even on the fascist shit I've tried to keep an open mind. I know his girlfriend tried to do a hatchet job on his life a while back, who knows maybe she photoshopped EDL logos...
But having Larkin call someone up, saying that Gibbons had killed himself, then a few nights later magically come back to life only to be stabbed by Nazis...
This is not the behaviour of someone who is mature or serious about proving themselves innocent.
I would conclude then that if the original allegations about grassing are FALSE, then at the very least Gibbons and Larkin have since then acted in sch a way as to completely ruin any trust in their honor and sanity and that they are too volitile and dishonest to be of any worth to the Animal Rights movement.
If the allegations are TRUE, then snitches get stitches.
Someone who knows people
to be completly honest
21.09.2009 10:06
their a set of nut cases and they deserve each other as far as I'm concerned.
besides we've all heard of the little girl who cries wolf....
noone
apparently
21.09.2009 10:10
you and your mythical hunt-sab group mate?
I wouldn't count on it...
lol-monster
It runs in the family.
21.09.2009 13:42
www.muenster.org/MS-York/NewsYorker/NewsYorker2.pdf
Genealogist
LARKING AROUND
21.09.2009 14:08
Can't see Gibons being innocent in this though, he was assesed as a troll some years ago.
Not So Funky Gibbons
The truth please.
21.09.2009 15:00
York vegan
i have it on good authority
21.09.2009 15:29
although the information is not overwhelmingly sensitive, it is extremely unlikely anyone else would have known that the encounter happened.
he wrote the emails, therefore logically he's a grass.
its natural to want to defend someone, especially when they have at some point befriended you.
the evidence is pretty overwhelming.
the person accused by Matt and Sarah of posting this has received threats that "EDL skinheads are gonna beat you up", matt seems to have commit suicide, only to be revived to be stabbed in the chest, and I've heard unconfirmed reports they now have a panic button installed in both the shop, and their home.
the cop exists, and works for the correct force, his email isn't posted anywhere, so i don't know how else the poster could have obtained it, and i have friends who've seen this in email format.
domestic gone wrong? - maybe
a police grass exposed - definitely
and btw, why can't we read hidden comments on this post?
Re Lara Saunders
21.09.2009 15:53
Lara was a freind and yes she could be utterly fraustrating, very manipulative and she pissed a lot of people off (including me and in fact I could no longer cope with her problems) but she would also throw her heart and soul into demos when she was well and was an excellent cook. She would often seem eager to please and make reparations for when she was in a bad mood when she was well. The fact is she threw herself out of a window 3 floors up after her boyfreind died in 2003 and had a serious poblem with addictions.She was in her early 30s and I fail to see how this is in any way amusing, she was like all of us an activist who died a horrible lonely death.
Many activists get depressed, turn to drink and/or drugs, get PTSD, commit suicide etc, it could happen to anyone, does an activist who has a breakdown after seeing so much abuse and violence somehow become subhuman, a figure of fun? Whilst I am not suggesting that we all take on all the problems of activists who are mentally ill because this can be overwhelming maybe we should be more sympathetic?
Lynn Sawyer
@ Genealogist
21.09.2009 21:47
serious issues aside - its better than corrie this!! i wonder what the next installment will bring!! is their shop still open? i might pop in for a bottle of white lightening and a tin of mung beans!!!! i dont shop there as I would rather mix with the mainstream than cut myself off into some overpriced vegan eutopian bubble!
York Person
Comment
22.09.2009 09:38
Paul Blanchard.
Former York Labour Councillor and winner of the Peta most progressive politician award.
Paul Blanchard
@ btw
22.09.2009 14:34
York vegan
@ Genealogist
22.09.2009 14:41
York vegan
The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction
28.09.2009 23:51
I can vouch for the fact that Matthew is on here between 00:35 and 00:45
This was in his younger days. I have watched this situation unfold and do not believe a word of accusations against him. I am sure that the accusations come from the over-active imagination of a teenage boy from Leeds who has always wanted to hit the big time in activist circles but never quite made it.
I retired from work several years ago - but I can remember meeting Matthew, he liked to have a drink but was idealistic and full of energy, he always wanted to have his own business, I remember when he was a gardener, and how proud he was when they opened up their corner shop.
Old Labour
ANYTHING that comes from a computer cannot be trusted...
29.09.2009 04:15
This all looks very dodgy to me and could be a set up.
anon
Copwatch
29.09.2009 20:02
Why don't you both just own up to what's happened? And explain yourselves.
PC McTroll
Just doesn't ring true
30.09.2009 14:39
Did the ALCIU hack the emails and gain the info through their own hard work ? - I doubt it.
Was it handed to them on a plate ? - if so then then they are being played and there is almost certainly alot more going on behind the scenes than they and we are aware of.
Were they faked (most probable) ?
It just does not seem to fit, I don't believe that he is a grass, I do believe that there is something wrong here and he has been set up.
Bakunin
ANTIFA Statment
01.10.2009 09:47
25/09: Antifa Statement on Police Informant Matthew Gibbons
Category: General Posted by: Admin
We are releasing this statement in support of the one already issued by the Animal Liberation Central Intelligence Unit (see
When he discovered he could not simply do this by e-mail he appears to have got cold feet. While Gibbons may (or may not) have recruited antifascists locally, he has never been part of the Antifa federation in any way, shape, or form. Nor has there ever been an Antifa England group established in York. In view of Gibbons’ total lack of involvement with us, he has been reduced to simply telling lies to his police handlers. That however, does not make his treachery any the less serious.
We doubt that Gibbons’ recent overtures to the fascist English Defence League are any more sincere than his past overtures to Antifa.
In conclusion, we are fully satisfied that the Animal Liberation Central Intelligence Unit are correct in naming Gibbons as a police informant and applaud their willingness to make this information public. We advise activists in York and elsewhere to give both Gibbons and his partner Sarah Larking a very wide berth.
Antifa England
Aunty Fay
e-mail:
none@moment.com
YAFA info
02.10.2009 21:52
The entire situation was discussed, Matthew was not present so that we could have a free discussion.
There are several points:
We all know that the Antifa statement is not entirely correct, Matthew did not attempt to join Antifa via email, as they claim, he knew that it dont work like that, but we all knew he was setting up his own group of street-fighters under the old York AFA name, deliberatly seperate from Antifa, but possibly with some common ground, but seperate none the less.
We know that he has recruited several pairs of hands, and formed a political cell - based on his old links and people that he knew from growing up in York.
It looks like his cell defected to the EDL, thinking that the EDL is a non-racist right wing group, but we are not sure about all the details surrounding this development.
The YAFA meeting refused to convict Matthew and we do think that he has been set up, The decision was taken to temporarily go quiet on this issue, and remain in contact with Matthew and even invite him to the next meeting, which will be a public meeting to continue the discussion and shed some light on the whole situation. - when we have confirmed with Matthew, we will confirm the date, time and location of the next meeting.
York activist
Madness
04.10.2009 18:11
Madness, what are you all on about?
Convict
Thank God!!!
04.10.2009 18:26
Phew
Watch Out - neo-Nazi and State Trolls about
07.10.2009 11:08
There are more trolls on here than an episode of Lord Of The Rings (:
Troll Destroya
"York Activist"
07.10.2009 19:30
What a joke you are.
...
Show us the printouts from the emails
22.10.2009 01:00
As for Matthew wearing the EDL t -shirt...what about these? :
Dave Gardner - Animal Rights activist and BNP.
Charlotte Lewis - Animal Rights / SHAC activist and BNP.
Why are all of the people in SHAC white?
Why were Asian and Black people in London SHAC chucked out for spurious reasons?
Why are all the people in most of AR white?
Is Matthew the only one?
What is really going on?
I think that Matthew has been cleverly set up by the "Animal Rights Central Intelligence Unit" [MI5] whatever the fuck that is.
Anyone can use anyone else's computer that's why the damn things are so dangerous. Handwriting can be faked. The EDL to shirt needs to be explained but thwn let's face it he's not the only one in AR....
anon
I recognise him
29.10.2009 21:47
Gibbo, you monkey ? Call your old mates.
Poacher
He is a Poacher , I recognise him as well
15.11.2009 00:01
Anglian
Boxing Champ
30.11.2009 14:59
He won the title last night.
Skin
latest news
02.01.2010 01:09
Explains why he is not in York very much these days
Bakunin
All very strange...
10.03.2010 08:33
anon
What a load of crap! Matthew is innocent.
10.03.2010 15:42
anon
Sounds like a 'nice' girl
08.04.2010 13:35
I wouldn't want to mess with her. This girl is the real problem here... she has a history of hitting out. Ask Matthew himself! his only porblem is that he upset her. She vented her anger in the only way that she knew how and now he is too scared to get out of the relationship, just in case a similar thing happens again. You have my sympathies Matt. Be strong!
john
Larking at bay!
12.04.2010 07:17
Violent trouble is never far away, when Larking/Ford is at bay!
I agree with John you don't have to look any further than Sarah Larking/Ford to see where the info came from. Anyone who knows her recognises her evil violent ways. Any friend of her needs to watch out, don't upset her or cross her as you are likely to receive similar treatment. She has little respect for the law as her history of violence shows.
Matt is a fool, not for getting involved with her but staying involved with her. What sort of hold does she have over him? only Matt knows. In some ways he is a braver man than me as I would not want in the same town as her let alone a few feet of her!
Paul B.
The "Central Intelligence ALF Unit" [or whatever] is a stupid little boy.
13.04.2010 05:10
Silly little Leeds boy has grassed on his own brother and probably most of antifa and animal rights. He is an embarrassment to animal rights and to Antifa.
As for the rest of it...this whole thread should all be removed.
A agree with Lynn, there is far too much bullying in animal rights that leads to distress and the perpetrators, the bullies, then taunt the people they have victimised.
Each of you who has done so is disgusting.
Leave Matthew Gibbons and his girlfriend alone.
anon
Now we hear the truth
13.04.2010 16:57
bakunin
More on Larking
13.04.2010 21:30
She will stp at nothing to make her point. She often acts in a misguided and ill-judged way. She alwyas has advice for others on every issue whether sought or not, she is always right and will never apologise even when cleraly wrong. She claims the moral high ground so often that she often get vertigo and falls off ending up in the gutter where her real moarls lie - that's she really has any at all. If matthew was as hard as he likes to make himself out to be he would have kicked her into touch long ago. i do not see the appeal that she has for him. She got him caught up in this unsavoury situation and then hid herself. he is a fool she is calculating. She wears the trousers and pulls the strings. there is no doubt in my mind that thte whole thing is true. But matthew is not the perpetrator, he is just an unfortunate tool in a manufactured smear campaign by Larking herself.
My message to Matthew is 'wise up' - have a good long hard look at what is in front of you. Do you really like waht you see?
Mark
This is more like it!
13.04.2010 21:51
To be absolutely sure what i am saying.
1. Matthew and sarah made a failed campiagn against the Blue Bicycle and turned police infromants
2. Matthew did wroie the original e-mails.
3. Sarah fell out and assaulted Matthew.
4 sarah accessed the shared computer and sent the e-milas to people that she knew would be most affected by them
5. Mathhew has always been linked with groups such as the EDL
6. matthew has always been a wannabe and has nevr had any real influnece in any movement he has been involved in.
7, Matthew and sarah get back together.
8. matthew and sarah throw red herrings and sppof postings to cover ther tracks.
'nuf said
Luke
Oh come on now! who do you think we are?
14.04.2010 12:28
If you keep replying to postings then you are not going to be left alone. Your poor attempts at disguising who you are only add fuel to the fire. Your latest outburst is a typical example of why things are still continuing to be posted here. It was your inability to keep quiet in the first place that caused you the trouble that you (deservedly) got. Have you learnt your lesson? NO!
Time is the greatest healer. Let things lie then maybe you and Sarah Larking may be left alone.
DR Doctor
Time to move on
15.04.2010 23:00
Matthew and Sarah have!
They have moved out of the vegan food business and moved into the off licence business specialising in truffles (yum). Ky-Po to Gluggles
They have moved out of the flat in Haxby to move into a flat inthe city centre.
They have moved the RSPCA gerbils into Sarah's gerbil mansion.
As long as they move on from their trivial animal rights campaigning and leave it to those of us that are serious about animal welfare then I will be happy.
Keep moving
Little Miss Vegan
I'm waiting
16.04.2010 18:45
If you want to meet up then please do. You know how to contact me. We can then see if you can follow through on your claims.
Bring it on Matthew Gibbons.
But you know that will never happen because if nothing else this whole thing has shown up to be a cowardly nobody. You have no support, you are on your own. You know the original postings were true, as does your girlfriend as she is the one who passed them on to me. She knew that I would do what is necessary i.e. expose you as a grass. I don't care what has happened to you as long as people are aware that you cannot be trusted. If this has forced you from the Animal Lib scene then this is a victory. You were and still are just a nobody who is full of hot air.
I look forward to hearing from you... with a time and a place.
Luke
It's time
16.04.2010 18:49
Vegan Melody
Leave Matthew Gibbons and his girlfriend alone.
16.04.2010 20:11
If that is what they want then I hope that they do the same and leave the rest of us alone. Do not contact us. Do not ask us for suppport. Do not expect us to frquent your shop. Do not complain when we don't visit your shop. Do not get involved in our campaigns. Do not belittle those who do not agree with you. Do not have anything to do with us.
In fact, leave us alone!
leave me alone
Barmy not army
16.04.2010 20:14
non-poacher
let hear it
16.04.2010 20:18
We are waiting to hear! so let's hear it.
smokescreen
Quack
16.04.2010 20:31
I love Foie gras. How do you know that TESCO sells it in their Hungarian stores? Do you know when they will introduce it their British stores?
I have to travel to France for mine. I could get it from Lewis and Cooper in Northallerton but that is not so much fun.
Matthew, Sarah? Where is my nearest supplier? Please grass them in I'm desperate for some tasty forced fed duck/goose liver.
Sorry, I thought grass meant you were an expert in foie GRAS, Matthew, My mistake.
P.S. didn't I see you in MacDonalds on Saturday Matthew eating a Double bacon Cheeseburger. Ooops now I'm the grass.
duck lover
I agree
16.04.2010 20:49
York veganism