Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:39:14 +0100
To: enquiries@bnp.org.uk, andrew.conran@betty.co.uk,
reader@guardian.co.uk, letters@independent.co.uk,
letters@timesonline.co.uk
Subject: Help
From: "Stephen Gates" <>

Hello,

I have been attempting to contact you for the last 9 months about
the Forgiven drama broadcast on ITV last year.

The drama was in my view a continuation of a six year hate campaign
waged against me by a number of television and advertising
companies in London.

This started in 2002 with Cake Group and their Hula Hoops three
comedy adverts featuring a loser called Steve. This continued in
2003 with a Publicis reworking of the same ad.

During this time I attempted to contact the BBC, especially Radio 5
about this and was politely ignored by everyone except Johnny
Vaughn who broadcast 'Steve you nutter' live on his show
continually.

There are many other instances of this ongoing joke about Steve in
the last six years as well, including MC Steve the worlds worst MC
on the Richard & Judy show. Just to correct this, I was not the MC,
I was a DJ and my MC was a Mr Chris Jarman who has appeared in
Royal Shakespeare Company productions and the West End hit, The
Lion King as well as television shows like Grange Hill and just
recently, The Bill.

However, in 2006 upon moving to my second flat in Kilburn, I was
used to advertise another Unilever product, this time Fairy Liquid.
The resemblance to the inside and outside of my flat is astonishing.

Next in 2007, The Times rang a feature on an Edinburgh festival
play called Special by a company called Fecund. Again, another
Steve but The Times feature had the actor wearing my clothes and my
haircut. The Emily name was used by me to denote Emma Lyons, a
woman I went to school with. It was also a composition of mine
which may have been overheard by a local.

In late 2007 I was poisoned somehow. At around the same time, The
Peter Serafinowicz Show had a joke about Zero TV and Steve from Big
Brother. Along with this, the ITV aired a Betty television drama
about Steve a pedophile who molests his own child. I suspect that
was my next door neighbour being used.

In 2008 you are still broadcasting hateful little adverts,
including a 118.com advert again featuring references to the Moody
DJ cartoon of Select magazine, 1994-1996. The advert suggests
someone gets poisoned with a light bulb. The advert quotes
something I said in the uk.people.support.depression newsgroup
chatroom.

Go to the Nicorette site and you will find another Steve.

Steve is me.

There is actually much more hateful little bile then this. You are
making me wretch hurtfully now, and are damaging my quality of life
very seriously, especially with your silence on the issue.

Regards

Stephen Gates <>