Two points require clarification.
1. We are unaware of any link to HiDeHo being deleted. The HiDeHo website does in fact have a donations page which asks for help to keep the site advertisement free while at the same time hosting several advertisements at the bottom of the page. Rather hypocritical we thought!
http://forum2.aimoo.com/MadeleineMcCann/Forum_donation.html
2. We have been in touch with Mr Grime again concerning the dogsdontlie website which in reality is a McCann hate site. Martin advises that he is aware of this site but insists that it has nothing to do with him. He also states for the record that neither he nor the Company (GSSI) support this site. We trust this clarifies matters satisfactorily.
Does anyone know who is behind this US site which libels the McCanns and depicts a photo of a headstone with Madeleine McCann on it?
The owner of the site is Stephen B Marsden (Steve, Stevo), who is an Englishman residing in the USA since 2006 and who used a fake name (Brian Johnson) to self publish his libel about the McCanns.
He was an early "colleague" of Tony Bennett when Bennett started his attacks on the McCanns with Deborah Butler who became famous as the face of stalking in the UK. He ran their webpage I believe.
It seemed that even Bennett found the methods of Steve Marsden objectionable as they had a rather nasty online fall out over claims that Bennett had committed fraud and went their separate ways.
One of the methods used by Steve Marsden was to set up a fake web page purporting to be the journalist who exposed Deborah Butler and later went to court to testify about Bennett.
It was a method he had used previously. He cloned the web page of the accountancy company which had dismissed his wife. He even had the gall to go to court over that and claim that as it was a public site he had the right to clone it. He lost of course.
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/west-virginia/wvsdce/2:2007cv00678/41731/95He has since expanded his range of interests from Madeleine McCann and now has an interest in another missing little girl, Aliayah Lunsford.
Spreading information is one thing but making money and asking people to post anonymous information about cases on your page is very different. Its interfering with a case in my view. What is it about these people who think they have a right to piggyback off the suffering of others either to make money or to interfere?
http://aliayahlunsford.info/Looking at the registrant details of that Aliayah site is revealing.
Admin Name:Steve Marsden
Admin Organization:
Admin Street1:1409 Village Drive
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:South Charleston
Admin State/Province:West Virginia
Admin Postal Code:25309
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.3045904400
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:steve@wvdigitalservices.com
Billing ID:CR94889378
Billing Name:Steve Marsden
It looks like he is admin of a local double glazing company site too.
http://stalbanswindow.info.ip4.bz/http://stalbanswindows.com/He has also in the past had a site called weightaminute.info which looks as though it may have been a clone of WeightaMinute.com.
He also registered a Pamwest.info site I wonder if he was cloning a Pam West with this one?
http://www.bulkregister.com/whois/pamwest-info.htmlHe has a thing about MSG too.
http://banmsgnow.info/about/His own site is wVdIgitalServices.com which seems to be a sales site for technology, offers tuning of PCs and also is apparently linked to webpage optimisation.
He is also the admin of the West Virginia Bar Foundation website, the philanthropic arm of the local lawyers organisation.
www.Wvbarfoundation.orgPerhaps all these sites and others like
www.CPWV.info (clone of
www.CPWV.org ?),
www.Enerfab.info (clone of
www.Enerfab.com ?),
www.Usactionnews.info (clone of
www.actionnews.com ?),
www.cpwv.info.
www.hypnotherapy-services.info etc. are just initial drafts of web sites which Steve Marsden created for clients? Perhaps they were an attempt to elicit money from these organisations by selling alternative site names to them?
One site which doesn't fit these categories seems to be an attempt by Steve Marsden who is the owner to damage the reputation of his ex wife and her partner by pretending to be the partner's site. It doesn't name Marsden but refers clearly to his family and his departure to the USA in 2006.
http://andywillows.info/http://dawhois.com/domain/andywillows.info.html192.com has Stephen B Marsden living at Torksey pre 2006, just 6 miles from the location listed in this nasty site which Steve Marsden has created to harass his former wife.
When he was in the UK Stephen Bernard Marsden owned Spidersoft with his wife and was listed as Software Engineer there.
http://www.companieslist.co.uk/02711865-spidersoft-limitedhttps://www.duedil.com/director/902918695/stephen-bernard-marsdenHe was also a director of Website Associates Limited.
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/902918695#dissolved-appointmentsPicture of Stephen Bernard Marsden in 2007/8
Picture of Stephen Bernard Marsden recently.