Man who claims he was created by God ‘offered bleach as a remedy for HIV and Covid’
A person from New Zealand who claims he’s God allegedly offered bleach as a remedy for most cancers, COVID-19 and HIV. Roger Blake calls himself a “living man, roger-william, house of blake”. Bleach isn’t a remedy for any ailment.
Mr Blake has been waging a authorized battle for greater than three years however was kicked out of courtroom on Wednesday for repeatedly utilizing the choose’s first identify.
He confirmed up for the formal listening to at Hamilton District Court after failing to seem in March as a result of the date was “culturally significant”, in keeping with The New Zealand Herald.
The defendant turned up for Wednesday’s listening to and instantly began utilizing District Judge Brett Crowley’s first identify in a sequence of weird exchanges.
Judge Crowley is quoted by the identical publication as saying: “I’m a judge in the district court and you do not call me by my Christian name.”
To which Mr Blake replied: “I’m sorry, Brett.” He continued: “Brett, do you understand that as a living man, I challenge the jurisdiction of this district court … If you cannot prove jurisdiction the matter must be dismissed, do you understand that, Brett?”
Judge Crowley shot again: “Please don’t talk over the top of me, Mr Blake. I don’t talk over the top of you. There’s one person talking at one time.”
The backward and forward carried on regardless of repeated requests for Mr Blake to cease speaking and sit down with the choose warning: “If you cannot stop talking I will have you removed.”
After three minutes of backwards and forwards, the courtroom alerted safety to take away Mr Blake from the courtroom a lot to his disgust.
He mentioned because the choose left the courtroom: “I do not consent to any jurisdiction … You know Brett … You’re ignoring all due process.”
Mr Blake cried “case dismissed, case dismissed” as safety surrounded him and escorted him out.
The defendant was later allowed again in and requested his ideas by the choose on being served 11 witness statements earlier than replying: “I’m not Mr Blake.”
He repeated he was not the defendant within the case and was as a substitute “living man roger william” earlier than recounting his private historical past as a mechanical engineer.
The courtroom additionally heard he was “developing a tourist attraction, known as Ngatea Water Gardens” which boasted turtle ponds, water lily ponds and water tanks.
After an 18-minute-long tirade, Mr Blake requested that the fees “be dismissed, expunged so we can all go home to spend time with our children and have time to do some baking”.
Moments later Mr Blake was speaking over the choose once more and claiming he was a “living man”.
Judge Crowley replied: “I am simply not going to waste any more time discussing whether you are living person, or whether you are legal entity … it’s not relevant.”
Mr Blake mentioned he could not change who he was, including: “I’m created by God. I’m a living man, living men given dominion over everything on this earth.”
He repeatedly denied being the identical Roger Blake charged with the offences.
Mr Blake insisted no crime had been dedicated as there was no sufferer. He labelled the fees as “bogus” and mentioned they’d induced him to lose the previous two and a half years of his life.
Crown prosecutor Paige Noorland suggested Judge Crowley that regardless of attempting to serve courtroom paperwork at Mr Blake’s dwelling, they had been returned.
She advised the courtroom: “We’re in a situation where the defendant refuses to engage.”
Police searched two properties linked to Mr Blake and NZ Water Purifier Ltd, an organization of which he was the director, in July 2020.
The search got here after alleged breaches of New Zealand’s Medicines Act 1981 which bans the sale, distribution, and commercial of recent medicines with out consent and possessing prescription remedy “without reasonable excuse”.
Under the Act, it’s illegal to make therapeutic claims about an unapproved medication.
The trial continues.