Shaun Parsons
***************
Prudhoe
Northumberland
NE42 6NU
s.parsons@pmpsych.co.uk
Shaun Parsons born 16 August 1963 is a psychologist from Newcastle Upon Tyne. He's currently on his third limited company Parsons Marshall Psychology Ltd with his wife Margaret as the company secretary. According to Companies House, Shaun has used his home address of 4 Halton Way, Newastle upon Tyne NE3 5RQ as his business correspondence address in the past but now choses to hide behind virtual addresses, such as 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PW and 43 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9HA.
Shaun Parsons is a doctor only by virtue of his Ph.D. He is not a medical doctor and his insistence that he is addressed as 'Dr Parsons' is highly inappropiate outside of the academic arena but is consistent with his narcissistic and arrogant traits (he refuses to accept when he is wrong unless backed into a corner). He is a socially awkward individual and lacks the ability to relate to a person. This lack of ability and his apparent demeanor of someone that just doesn't enjoy life makes his job as a psychologist impossible. No subject is likely to be open and honest with Shaun thus resulting in inaccurate risk assessments.
In 2022, Shaun Parsons was asked to carry out a risk assessment of an individual (LM) with 2014 convictions for indecent images and 2019 convictions for breaches. LM denies that he is guilty of either the 2014 or 2019 convictions and since Shaun's risk assessment, the High Court have ruled that Kent Police used false evidence to obtain the 2014 convictions. Evidence has since come to light that the judge in the 2019 trial lied to jurors to obtain guilty verdicts. Shaun was in possession of this evidence and more that proved LM could not possibly have committed the alleged 2019 breaches but he ignored it.
Despite LM's denial of the offences for which he was convicted, Shaun invented some rule: "I am not here to decide facts and that I am actually forbidden from deciding facts...I have to accept the findings of the Court, as well as any previous convictions". There is no such rule, Shaun was well within his rights to explore the possiblity that LM was innocent. Or Shaun could have chosen to refuse the case or he could have requested a fact finding hearing before proceeding with the assessment. Fact finding hearings establish facts, even going behind convictions, for example Bedfordshire Borough Council v LW.
So what if Shaun finds no significant risk with a person? Does he produce for them a glowing risk assessment report? Not likely. He is being paid by local authority social services to find fault with parents and to justify when children are subject to an interim care order. For example, he had no choice but to assess LM as extremely low risk (see paragraph 116 below).
Shaun, undeterred, fabricated something negative to put in his report about LM. Professionals like Shaun can't just make things up right? Well, in his report, he decided to fabricate some allegations of abuse and then even fabricate denials of them by LM. See paragraph 114 of his report below:
LM contacted Shaun Parsons by email about the fictional account in his report, then convinced it was some mixup that could be rectified within a few hours. Shaun did not amend his report, but rather complained to the instructing lawyers that LM had dared to challenge his report. LM then started legal proceedings against Shaun under the Data Protection Act 2018, serving papers at his home/business correspondence address in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 21 September 2022. Shaun ignored the legal paperwork and instead put his house up for sale in December 2022 and made a quick sale on 2 February 2023. He now lives in Prudhoe.
In the family court, Shaun was forced to concede (after mumbling) that he didn't know where the allegations came from. See the excerpt from his cross examination below.
So did Shaun correct his report and remove his fabrications after giving eveidence in court? No, of course he didn't. In keeping with his narcissistic and arrogant traits, he prefers instead to sit on the wrong side of the law and be in constant breach of the Data Protection Act 2018. Shaun has recently decided that his propensity for dishonesty and his negative personality traits are wasted on forensic phychology and as of November 2024 (updating his LinkedIn the same month), has turned his hand to politics, becoming a candidate for the Conservative Party in Prudhoe North and Wylam.