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Medium hits out!

Azrael 5

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Azrael 5
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No link or further detaisl yet but info reaches me meidum Stephen Holbrook has thumped an audience member who called him a fake! Apparently it was on BBC Radio Lacashire Friday morning!!
More news when I get it.Not quite the spirit contact most have in mind!! :D
 
According to this article, the audience member was drunk, threatening and abusive.
Yorkshire-born medium Stephen Holbrook snapped after enduring 40 minutes of abuse from a drunken man.
The heckler shouted "pile of ****ing s****" and as Mr Holbrook told a tearful woman that October 31 was an important anniversary for her and her late husband the heckler bawled out "halloween!".
At the end of the show Mr Holbrook punched the heckler on his head after he approached and started another torrent of abuse. A short scuffle broke out when the heckler retaliated.
Police were called to the Blackburn venue and Mr Holbrook was arrested and cautioned. Last night the ex-hairdresser, 39, who lives in Wakefield, said he was embarrassed to be arrested but the man had deserved it.
"He was verbally abusive, drunk and threatening. I was giving a lady a message from her husband. It was a sensitive moment. I told her a date and she said it was their anniversary. At that point I heard 'halloween' being shouted. It was embarrassing and the crowd were groaning at him. The man ruined it.
"There were people in the audience in tears as they received messages from loved ones and he kept interrupting with disrespectful remarks."
During the show, the heckler was up and down from his seat and left the room in search of more drink, he said.
Mr Holbrook, who has been described as Britain's most accurate medium, said: "I am not a violent man, but it's very difficult when you see someone causing so much distress to people going through an emotional experience."
He said the heckler was not hurt.
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Pity such a good story had to be ruined by the facts:
 
KellyJ said:
From the website:

"Email Stephen and the Team at: info@steveholbrook.co.uk "

Wonderful, an entire team of frauds!
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Email them and this is what you get:

John

Another word from steve -

Dear John

Thank you for your original email, and the ill informed statements in it.

Whatever you choose to write in your article is entirely up to you, and I feel in no way duty bound to explain myself to you, especially with regard to the investigations in which I have been involved, or may be in the future, with the Police. Would you yourself like your details passed on to a 'hack' if one of your family had been murdered? I think not.

Also, where I choose to donate money to charity - that is no concern of yours.

You have obviously no idea of the format that an evening of mediumship takes, and this shows in your ignorance of what I actually do at a demonstration. I'll leave 'cold-reading' to the real fakes, if indeed they are.

Any other emails you send will be ignored for the blatant rubbish they are. I will certainly not be taking any 'tests'. Have a nice day.

Steve
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Bold is mine,as I thought in light of Blackburn was funny.Almost psychic!

ANother
I see it's the same old chestnut - James Randi. Well, we all know he's a showman. Thanks, but no thanks.

Roger
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Or this
Fine - you're welcome at my evenings. Be my guest & be amongst the thousands of people who know the truth in their own minds - or, do you think they can't make up their own minds about any of what they see & hear. They are not idiots by any means - they at least deserve some credit from you surely!!!!

Steve
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Just don't heckle or I'll punch you.See you at Dewsbury Steve! :D
 
JimTheBrit said:
No turning up on the night without a prepaid ticket though and your seat will be allocated on arrival - according to the full-page ad promoting one date in my local free newspaper.
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From previous ones I've been to you just take any seat.Usually in town halls etc,where they dont have seating per se,usually fold up chairs laid out for the event.Holbrook is usually hanging around the door though! ;)
 
The heckler shouted "pile of ****ing s****" and as Mr Holbrook told a tearful woman that October 31 was an important anniversary for her and her late husband the heckler bawled out "halloween!".

"He was verbally abusive, drunk and threatening.
It was embarrassing and the crowd were groaning at him. The man ruined it."
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Anyone know what De_Bunk was doing that night?
 
Almost Monty Python in style that heckle."An anniversary around 31st October"
Picture Terry Jones in a dress "Halloween!"

"Are you Steven Holbrook UK's most accurate medium?"
"◊◊◊◊ off Im Stephen Holbrook Britains' most accurate medium....Uk's medium! "
 
So we have one account referring to drunken heckler and one that makes no mention of him being drunk.

Which is correct? Another account anyone?
 
phaedra said:
So we have one account referring to drunken heckler and one that makes no mention of him being drunk.
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And which says there were four of them.

It appears from the Yorkshire Post article that the source of the claim that the heckler was drunk was Holbrook himself:
Last night the ex-hairdresser, 39, who lives in Wakefield, said he was embarrassed to be arrested but the man had deserved it.
"He was verbally abusive, drunk and threatening. I was giving a lady a message from her husband. It was a sensitive moment. I told her a date and she said it was their anniversary. At that point I heard 'halloween' being shouted. It was embarrassing and the crowd were groaning at him. The man ruined it.
"There were people in the audience in tears as they received messages from loved ones and he kept interrupting with disrespectful remarks."
During the show, the heckler was up and down from his seat and left the room in search of more drink, he said.
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Nobody else is quoted in the article.
 
If the heckler was drunk and abusive then why wasn't he also cautioned under some public order offence? Seems he wasn't.

Mmm. All a bit sus.
 
Never heard of Steven Holbrook. Isn't Gordon Smith suppose to be the UK's most accurate medium?
 
Now how can we believe someone who lies for a profession? Im going to try and track down the mystery heckler this week and get his side of the story.
 
Pal2 said:
Never heard of Steven Holbrook. Isn't Gordon Smith suppose to be the UK's most accurate medium?
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Yet another Monty Python scenario,a la the Crucifixion scene in Life of Brian;
"Im the Uk's most accurate medium"
"No I am most accurate.."
"No I am and so's my wife.." :p
 
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