Graham Steele Operations Director Lifecote (Explicit Language)

Graham Steele in his tireless quest to seek revenge on the PCA for losing at court purchased a domain name in relation to the PCA and promptly offered it for sale. I, being the generous type offered £1.00 but was met by the reply

“It’s sold to holland Johnson now f**k off lol lol”

Seeing as we were now on amicable terms I enquired about business and mentioned that I had heard from some of his franchisees that business wasn’t too good lately

“Really??? Who’s that then Richard? Lol  Name someone? Cause my guys make £50-200k a year lol Go on name someone!”

£50-100k a year? Really? Whilst I was pondering this latest claim I received

“Can’t name anyone Richard???  And why are the ones I sacked scared of me????”

Quickly followed by

“Name one Johnson??? Lol”

Maybe I’d hit a raw nerve because there were lots of nervous ‘lol’ (laugh out loud, in case you didn’t know). I enquired why people would be scared of such a vertically challenge man?

“Name them?  Richard go on???  Our turnover is up 75% because I’ve f***ed the PCA lol took their traffic   You can’t cause my guys earn a fortune anyone crosses me and they are sacked.  5 1 lol bet you would bottle it son you ain’t got the guts to meet me nor has anyone they are all scared no one has!”

The conversation quickly digressed to the PCA (I told you he was obsessed) and an offer to meet him. I reminded him that I had offered to meet him once before but he declined.

“You ain’t got the guys Richard to meet me” and “Though so all mouth lol.  Come on meet me. I’m Only small” and “Anytime Richard bet you bottle it”

He just wouldn’t let this drop

“Your bottling lol  All mouth no action  I promise to pay your petrol the moment we meet £50.  I never break my word, come on big boy let’s see if you have the guys!!!”

‘I promise’ and ‘I never break my word’….lol (my turn). Who is Steele trying to kid? And now he wants to know if I have the ‘guys’?

I enquired if he wanted me to bring ‘guys’? A few more pointless emails later and he was back on to the same subject with more nervous laughter

“Your gutless Johnson and scared like everyone lol Come on big boy meet me !!!”

To be honest it was getting a bit boring and laughable. The mans in his 50’s and acting like a teenager with too much testosterone. I tried to change the subject but to no avail

“All mouth no action I will pay your expenses come on meet me!!!!!! “

In desperation to change the subject I enquired if his sidekick, Steve Hawes, (the one who claims to be Triton approved when he is not) liked the fact he lost a £20k job because of my website. At this point I think Steele got really mad

“Now f**k off Johnson your boring me you cowardly c**t.  All mouth no action.  Meet me if you dare”

Charming! They say the bad language is the first refuge of the inarticulate.

“Your afraid, don’t blame you lol those who cross me end up kinda unhappy most bottle it.  Just like you lol”

And so we were back to the playground talk of offers of a fight presumably? A few pointless emails later and all had calmed down.  Steele had even seen me twitter that I was going to Abersoch for a few days and pointed out that he had heard it was ‘cold in North Wales’. I pointed out that he needed a geography lesson!

Then an olive branch it seemed.

“I could tell you how to make a large cash sum; believe it or not I’ve nothing against you Richard.”

Intrigued, I asked for some elaboration?

I recon the PCA or its backers would pay £5k at least if not £10k for:

1. Removal of the blog.

2. An undertaking to refrain from Cyber attacks on its members and the PCA itself.

3. An undertaking not to attack the PCA or its members.

Simple.  

Simple is the word…well to be exact…simpleton. Steele wanted me to go to the PCA and broker a deal where the PCA pay me £10k on a promise from Steele that he removes the blog and stops harassing ordinary, hard working people and businesses.  In other words the PCA pay to stop being harassed! Great plan that…genious! Or is it blackmail?

A couple more innocuous emails passed each way and then

“Well I’m off September or November time, I wont be posting anymore crap from now.  

Let me know before then if you want to agree removing our stuff, if after that I’m afraid I will be gone and unable to remove anything.”

The final olive branch it would seem. An agreement to both remove ‘stuff’ . My ‘stuff ‘is honest stuff and won’t be going anywhere. Steele’s ‘stuff’ is lies and deceit and will be taken down in any case eventually!

NB All words in orange have not been corrected

ISRT Ltd Roger Line

During the investigation into the dirty dealings of Mr Nasty himself, Graham Steele, I noticed the name Roger Line popping up with some frequency.

In fact, when the owner of dampproofingblog.com was found, it was none other than ISRT (London) Ltd contact Roger Line.

Now, the ISRT (London) Ltd was another brain child of Mr Steele which died an ignominious death before filing any accounts at Companies House. This was surprising to say the least as Mr Steele had claimed it had £100,000 bond and it would take over from the PCA and all the PCA members would be leaving  to join the ISRT and….well you get the picture!

Not only did we then discover that damproofingblog.com was a Graham Steele creation, but also ‘Dave’ as he called himself in emails was none other than Mr Graham Steele himself. No-one was really surprised at this, but it was nice to confirm ownership.

Anyway, the contact details for dampproofingblog was a Mr Roger Line. For those of you who have not read ‘The Companies (1)‘ under the category ‘Companies Using the Trademark’ of this blog, Roger line was listed as a director of Lifecote Ltd for a short period in 2010 along with a number of other directors.

Roger Line had no ‘paper’ connection to the ISRT (London) Ltd and I did wonder why he would be the contact name provided on the ‘Whois’ register for domain names.

As time went on and I started to dig deeper into the murky affairs of Mr Steele, Roger Lines name kept coming up particularly where domain names were being registered.

For example, Roger Line is the contact for dryzonedampproofing.com, dampproofingstafford.com and dampproofingswanse.com amongst others. It was only when I was checking out the backlinks to the Lifecote Europe Ltd website (the one with the fictitious company name at the bottom) that I happened upon kenwooddampproofing.com.

Kenwood Plc are a damp proofing company who are also a member of the PCA. It has been suggested by ‘others’,  in private emails, that maybe I should focus an investigation on Kenwood in the interests of fairness amongst other reasons. Apparently this will also ‘demonstrate’ that I do not have a ‘phobia’ that this website indicates that I have? Hello…have you been reading the posts?

What I would say in reply to that suggestion is that as far as I am aware, Kenwood plc have never started a ‘consumer’ blog which has then gone on to write its own reviews in order to give other companies bad press. Neither has it taken out a domain in my personal name  and laden it with defamatory statements. Neither has it emailed me and others under a pseudonym spouting foul language and threats. So why would I want to investigate Kenwood plc? I have better things to do with my time.

Those making that suggestion forget one point. This investigation was never about the quality of the workmanship of  Lifecote as I was not party to that information at the time. It was about the man at the top, Mr Graham Steele and his campaign of abuse against me and others.

Back to the point. www.kenwooddampproofing.com a domain also registered to ISRT contact Roger Line is being used by the Lifecote Group as a landing page to forward traffic to its main Lifecote Europe Ltd website. It provides a backlink to help Lifecote Europe gain Google rankings at the expense of riding on the back of the trading of Kenwood plc. There is absolutely no other reason for a company called Lifecote to buy a domain in name of Kenwood.

Not only this but dampproofingblog never missed an opportunity to slate Kenwood plc whenever it had the opportunity. How underhand is that? Slate a company and then ride  on its back to help your own business?

A while back there was a statement on what is the now the Lifecote Europe Ltd website but was then Lifecote Ltd which read

‘Having work done by, or need to contact Roger Line or Jean-Pierre Renaud? Please email us for important information at info@dampproofingnationwide.com‘ Or call a director on 07764 589 804.

I contacted the director and was informed that both people were heading up a new venture. I suggested that they were with a different company now and I received an email which read

They are non operational working on another Lifecote project actually.

Regards

Graham Steele BSc M.ISRT
CEO Lifecote Europe Ltd

‘Actually’ they are not working on any Lifecote project because they are less than happy with you. Notice that Mr Steele is now a CEO and although the website was Lifecote Ltd he replied as Lifecote Europe Ltd. No wonder the industry and public alike are confused!

Anyway, I realised all was not well between the CEO of Lifecote and these two men.

I managed to make contact with Mr Roger Line through an email address and after several attempts I have now received a letter from solicitors acting on his behalf which makes very interesting reading.

I cannot reproduce all of that letter here but it did confirm the following.

My client confirms that the domains in question were not purchased or registered by him and he was unaware of the existence of them until this was brought to his attention…

OK, so Roger line did not know about the websites and so we can only assume that the person using them now, knows about them and maybe put Mr Line’s name forward as some sort of fall guy.

More importantly than that I feel is the question of Mr Roger Line’s involvement as a director of Lifecote Ltd. His solicitor was keen to also point out

…furthermore, Mr Line was unaware of his role as a director of Lifecote Ltd.  He did not agree to this office and made such protestations to Mr G Steele, the correspondence being recorded…

It not only appears that Mr Roger Line’s name was put forward as a contact name for a company he had no paper involvement with in order to purchase domains without being asked but also he was put forward as a director of Lifecote Ltd without being asked and then protested to Mr Steele when he found out what Mr Steele had done.

Another reason to speak to Companies House I feel.