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Malcolm Wesley WREST
Thanks to you both then....Oerlikon for finding it in the first place, ...and you, Zueszor, for being kind enough to locate Oerlikons' link for me....!
Allan may well have coughed up thousands for McKay....that would comprise a "major asset" to my mind.....however at anytime, any individual left the JC's, they were generally isolated, from support (...and of course, continuing to think that they must serve the "cause" even if externally to the JesusChristians, they would not launch a lawsuit against a cause they remained personally invested in) that might otherwise encourage them to take legal action promptly....hence "class actions" would always be problematic.....the point at which they forsook all to "God" (not the period of general servitude) would I think be the point at which anyone single individual might be able to nominate "major assets" handed, lock, stock and barrel over to McKay...
"Consumer Protection Legislation" and the rules pertaining to (partial) dissolution of a business partnership...need to be honed, ever so slightly, in order to give some courts some jurisdiction over those manifestly disadvantaged, by supposed "complicity" in their misadventures......(McKay would claim everyone he misrepresented himself and his organization to, "agreed" to the "donation" of their goods to a "communal purse" (a "communal purse" which never in fact existed.....the lack of legal enforcable proprietary rights, itself, should become a criminal offence, chargeable against the originating organizers of these (effectively) "pyramid schemes" of wealth creation, barely hidden behind a veil of "religion" (such as the JesusChristians)
That's the problem with people taking large sums of money into the cult, they're then trapped. The more money a person takes into the cult the less chance there is of them leaving any time soon. Sadly that may be the case with Allan. He was approaching 60 when he joined the cult so it's more than likely he had a considerable bankroll behind him.
I read somewhere that a gentleman was thinking about selling his house and then handing the money over to McKay. I think he may even have been married at the time and apparently his daughter got involved. Does that ring a bell? Possibly could have been Alan?
There has got to be some way McKay's victims followers can claim back their money. If someone walks in with £20,000 and then six months down the line decides they want to leave then they must be legally entitled to some if not all of that money back.