Charity founder drove ex-employee to suicide bid with harrasment campaign

“I agree with Oliversarmy - how many more people has he harassed using Heartbeat files who has yet to come forward? There were many people named on his websites including a family member of his best friend, again all wished painful deaths. This man is obsessed with death with his comments and wanting to "push the former manager to the edge". Had the former manager actually committed suicide would he have been charged with manslaughter? After all, it would have been due to his acions that the poor former manager felt like he could not cope anymore. I am not expecting a huge sentence due to his health and age but I just hope his previous criminal convictions are taken into account”

“Couldn't agree more with belly1234... David Luckham has seemingly abused his position of power with data protection and still has access to confidential heart patient and children's records. What he has done should defiantly have been sent to Crown Court. Lets hope that logic prevails and he no longer has access to privileged information which he has betrayed.”

“With a maximum sentence of 6 months imprisonment at Magistrates court we can safely assume that a community order is coming, probably with some injunctions to prevent him contacting the victims (again) and a real stern telling off by the bench. What a waste of public money. Should have gone up to Crown Court and increased the sentencing powers.”

“Glad to hear that more people may be coming forward as this is a more substantial issue then first realized, as he has apparently even been trolling his friends family, healthcare employees etc.(although they may not be aware what has been written about them). This horrible man has hidden his identity online whilst sending emails pretending to be children and 'Harassing' a terminally ill woman (already pleaded guilty!). Plymouth Heartbeat should dismiss this person before anything else comes to light, or open themselves up to civil actions. The volunteers of Plymouth Heartbeat give their time freely and should be commended, although David Luckham seldom acknowledges their work and instead takes the accolade for himself. And why is he driving around in £6,000 worth of hearts patients money to drop a heart patient to the hospital once every 2 weeks, or is that because his wife is the chairman? And where are all these 'MILLIONS OF POUNDS' for Derriford Hospital and where are they accounted for?”

“Who else has he been trolling? And to what end?”

“To re-cap, an employee says he thinks there's been some fiddling going on, but instead of thanking him for bringing it to his attention, Luckham goes ballistic and throws a clipboard at him!
What are we to conclude from that?..;)”

“As for the former managers mother, who was ill with cancer, receiving "an e-mail.....purported to be from her two-year-old grandson, saying she would never see him again.", I think you'll find she received more than "an email", it was closer to 40 emails pretending to be a 2 year old child. On top of that the harassment actually started in November 2010, and not January 2011 - the content of the abuse became worse in January 2011 and that is why he has been charged from then.”

“There certainly is a lot more to this than just this report. Please remember that one of the people he harassed was suffering from terminal cancer whilst this harassment was on-going. He also admitted in police interview that he knew she was terminally ill and that he didn't care, he was just trying to do whatever he could to get to the former manager. Its a shame the Herald have not printed the vilest of the emails, just to show just how far, and how vile, this person is.

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“i,m reasonably fit and have trained for years.....but i went heartbeat to offer moral support to someone during training......lets just say its a shame that its so poorly organised and people look over their shoulder.....i dared to train outside of the said plan !!!!! ooo eeeerrr.....some old codge got a right wobble on and abusive......didn't go back !!!!!!

my observation would be that its open to trust .....which also leaves it open to fiddling ..............”

“Certainly seems there is a lot more to the story than the article alone. Several aspects mentioned appear to show more malice than I first imagined. Quite a nasty campaign of hate really. I can easily see how an apology does not really have any worth and does not merit any praise.”