We have tried to resolve this situation ourselves and reported it to the British Consul in Alicante. They said they believed us and were sympathetic and suggested we contact a criminal lawyer to pursue the matter. This was because one of the contacts in our hacked hotmail account, which we believe my ex has contacted, is in a relationship with a Spanish National Police Officer, which meant reporting to the police would have little effect. They gave us a list of English speaking lawyers in the area including the firm used by the Consulate. I have contacted four of the firms on the list, each at first were interested but within a short period of time were unwilling to help. The Consul staff said the next thing that usually happens is that they are notified you have been arrested on some ‘trumped up’ charge. Neither Amanda nor I have a criminal record nor have we ever been in trouble with the police.

We contacted a reputable criminal lawyer in the UK who listened and was initially interested, but on mentioning that the three air conditioning remotes had been moved outside by unknown persons, she said “I don’t think I can help you at all”. I tried to contact her four times and her secretary said she would get her to call me back, she never did.

In addition we recently contacted the owners of Daily Paintworks, David and Carol Marine. Whilst they said that this has never been on their radar, 5 years and 4 months, from March 2013 until July 2018, the period that Amanda was a member, has been deleted from Daily Paintworks Facebook page. David Marine says he never deleted this from his Facebook page and that on further research this is Facebook behaviour. It is a chunk in the middle of all the Facebook posts on Daily Paintworks. He emailed me a Dropbox file of the missing 5 years and 4 months and said that there are no comments in this period, “for some reason”. Couple this with the fact that David Marine admits he has not retained any emails from the ’email the artist’ button between all the artists on Daily Paintworks since before 2018, in my opinion, shows the size of the ‘behind the scenes’ smear campaign. For all this information to have been deleted and not available is very suspicious. See attached emails where I asked David Marine to pass on all emails and attachments to the FBI.

I asked David Marine for Ros Patterson’s Paypal details that she would have had to use when subscribing to his site. You have to use Paypal to be a member. He said there is no physical postal address with her account at the time, which again is extremely odd as we thought it is a pre-requisite of Paypal to give a postal address.

My ex has hated Amanda since 1995 when she wished her ‘a long and painful death’. She has now instilled that hatred in Melissa Ferring, Diane Hoeptner, Mike Hoeptner and we believe others that were on Daily Paintworks, and the people who had infiltrated the Flying Club.

There is an ongoing campaign of hatred and interference in our lives, especially against Amanda to the point where I fear for her life. The cards from Melissa Ferring have had a devastating affect on my wife to the extent that she is terrified of leaving our house, she has not been out more than 5 times in the last 3 years. It is only through faith in God, exercise, meditation and a strong will that Amanda has coped with this ongoing situation.

Tom’s actions, instigated by my ex, has had horrendous consequences culminating in Amanda’s name being placed on a Watchlist. From 2013 everything that has happened has been orchestrated by Mike Hoeptner and his criminal associates in Spain, funded by my ex, breaking into our home to search, locate and remove the hard drive to erase the evidence of Tom’s criminal activity. The hacking of our computers was to ensure, should we search for a forensic expert, they would know who and where.

I am totally disgusted with my daughter and Tom as Amanda has been nothing but loving and kind to all of them. I overruled Amanda when Tom was here in August 2015, when she said he is not even making conversation and there is an ulterior motive for his visit, but I never dreamed that my adult grandson was capable of such a thing, but I was wrong. To do that not just to Amanda, but to me as her father and his grandfather is despicable.

Melissa Ferring’s actions have not only had a psychological affect by sending those cards, her forwarding the email with the air conditioning information, has culminated in equipment worth a few thousand euros being ruined.

It is obvious after 25 years, from the lengths my ex is going to, she is not going to stop. Add to the fact that we believe Mike Hoeptner (Mike Miller) is a member of a serious organised crime network and is aware that we have connected all the dots, makes the situation even more dangerous.

All the information on this blog has been reported to Lancashire Police as Hate Crime, as the main culprit, my ex, lives in the UK. Even with all the evidence, we still have not received any positive action, but this came as no surprise after reading the Targeted Individuals website.

By publishing this blog should anything happen to either of us, numerous people will now be aware of who and what is behind it.

We want our life back. I want Amanda to have her life back. She has done nothing wrong. Because we have connected all the dots and Mike Hoeptner and his criminal network have been caught out, her name has been put on a Watchlist to ensure that we are isolated from receiving any help.

We want this stalking, harassment and interference, which is mainly aimed at Amanda to stop. Should the intimidation and interference continue we will be updating this blog with the events and photos of those involved.

Ron Bilson