Julian Makey Cambridge News
04/06/2010 10:13
Fathers campaigning for equal access to their children will demonstrate outside the home of Huntingdon MP Jonathan Djanogly.
New Fathers 4 Justice has targeted Mr Djanogly following his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, where he will have responsibility for family courts and legal aid.
The protesters, dressed in superhero costumes, plan to pitch purple justice tents outside the MP’s home in Alconbury on June 12 and hope he will come out to discuss their campaign, which includes an open family court system.
Captain Equality, from New Fathers 4 Justice, who declined to give his real name, said: “We will go round in our usual peaceful, tragic-comic state and we will be asking him to meet us.
“If he doesn’t come out and say something, there will be rooftops involved at a later date.”
Captain Equality, who was involved in a rooftop protest at Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman’s home, said the protest at Mr Djanogly’s home was one of several planned in the run-up to a demonstration at Prime Minister David Cameron’s home on July 24.
He said the group was not linked to the former Fathers 4 Justice organisation, which hit the headlines when members dressed as superheroes climbed buildings to draw attention to their campaign for legal access to their children.
It was wound up after an alleged plot to kidnap former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s son Leo in 2006.
Captain Equality, who said he had a two-year battle for access to his daughter, said: “We want to see the secret family courts brought into the open like magistrates’ courts and Crown courts, where they are open to the public and the media.
“We feel they should bring the family courts into line with the other courts for the sake of transparency.”
He added: “We are campaigning for equality for fathers so they can see their children when they want to.
“We don’t have equality – we are the last in line.”
Mr Djanogly was unavailable for comment.
