It described the images as "some of the foulest and finest specimens of nature around ... the men, women and beasts of Freakdom, united here in a jaw-dropping special" They were removed yesterday afternoon.. A museum director who was the target of a plot to discredit her by stealing a Second World War Enigma encoder told yesterday how she believed she had been "stalked" by the thieves. A museum director who was the target of a plot to discredit her by stealing a Second World War Enigma encoder told yesterday how she believed she had been "stalked" by the thieves. Christine Large, who took over as the first female head of Bletchley Park in 1998, amid strong local opposition, said she believed her family had been spied on before the device disappeared on April Fool's Day last year.She was speaking as the Abwehr Enigma G312, worth £100,000, was returned to display at the Buckinghamshire mansion that housed Britain's wartime Station X, dedicated to breaking Nazi codes.On Wednesday, Ms Large, 46, had watched as Dennis Yates, an antiques dealer, admitted sending a series of letters to her demanding £25,000 for the return of the missing device. Yates, 58, who has three children, was warned by Judge Rodwell at Aylesbury Crown Court that he faced a jail sentence after he admitted handling stolen goods.Detectives said after the hearing that they believed the Enigma machine, taken from an unlocked glass case, had been stolen with the help of inside knowledge.Ms Large started receiving the letters, accompanied by phone calls from Yates speaking in an "Arab and mechanical" voice, five months later, demanding "repayment" and threatening to destroy G312. Speaking at Bletchley Park yesterday, Ms Large said: "Having heard all the information of the blackmail in court, it brought back the full impact it had on myself and my family."The sense of being stalked was there, the sense of insecurity.

I constantly worked late and it's an open site and there were times when I felt threatened and I felt my family were being spied on."Shortly after her arrival and the securing of a 250-year lease on the mansion, Ms Large, a no-nonsense former property developer, was dismissed in a boardroom coup by seven of its 12 trustees. She was reinstated after a Charity Commission investigation prompted the seven trustees to resign for reasons that have never been made public.Referring to the fact that the 10,000 linguists, mathematicians and chess experts who worked at Station X had operated under a veil of strict secrecy, Ms Large said she had herself been forced to remain silent throughout the operation to recover the stolen machine.She said: "I had to fight for what was right and not be cowed or give in to the kind of behaviour that was demonstrated by Mr Yates. In keeping with the traditions of Bletchley Park I couldn't talk to my colleagues or to the trustees Except for a handful of police I had to keep it to myself. It was an incredibly stressful time."The machine was eventually returned to the BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman last October.Yates, of Sandiacre, Derbyshire, was arrested five weeks later while he negotiated for the return of three vital rotors from the machine. He insisted he was merely a go- between acting for a client known as "The Master" who was living in India and who had blackmailed him Yates will be sentenced on 19 October Yesterday he said: "Me and my family were threatened. I have been told if I keep my trap shut I will be all right."Thames Valley Police said that the case remained open and their attempts to find the thief continued.. Barry Shaw, the Chief Constable of Cleveland, was incandescent yesterday when he described the decision not to prosecute a senior detective whose car was clocked speeding as "a misjudgement of monumental proportions".

Barry Shaw, the Chief Constable of Cleveland, was incandescent yesterday when he described the decision not to prosecute a senior detective whose car was clocked speeding as "a misjudgement of monumental proportions". Detective Superintendent Adrian Roberts, the head of Middlesbrough CID and the officer who introduced speed cameras to Teesside, caused controversy when he told traffic police he could not recall who was driving his car when it was photographed speeding in a built-up 30mph area.Chief Constable Barry Shaw said the Roberts affair had caused him "more bitterness ... than anything else I have had to deal with in my time as Chief Constable," which included the failed £5m inquiry into the suspended zero-tolerance officer Ray Mallon.Mr Shaw said the case should have gone before the Crown Prosecution Service. He said: "I cannot find any other way to give vent to my anger and concern. The reason for that is because there is no easy answer to the suspicion posed that the police are looking after their own."A review of the case by Cleveland's Assistant Chief Constable Della Cannings has upheld the decision not to prosecute Mr Roberts, whose white Citroen AX was clocked doing 35mph at Yarm Road, Stockton-on-Tees in April.Detective Superintendent Roberts, 36, whose force currently prosecutes 3,000 drivers a month, was sent a fixed penalty order by post but the ticket was withdrawn after he said he could not remember if he was in the car.Cleveland Police Authority, meeting yesterday, had considered asking the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether Detective Superin-tendent Roberts could still be prosecuted for failing to name the driver but it was advised that because he had been sent a letter indicating no further action, the case could not be revived.Assistant Chief Constable Cannings told the authority the speed camera photograph had been taken from behind and showed a man with short dark hair. She declined to say whether any inquiries had been made to establish how many other people were entitled to drive Mr Roberts' private car.She said she had based her review on documentation rather than detailed questioning of the officers involved and concluded there had been no criminal conspiracy or police misconduct but rather "a bad judgement call on a busy day".Dave McLuckie, a police authority member and local councillor, said he had received hundreds of calls on the issue from irate locals and he felt the law had not been applied.. An Algerian pilot, arrested in Berkshire, trained four of the hijackers involved in the 11 September terrorist attacks on the United States, an extradition hearing at Bow Street magistrates court in London was told today. An Algerian pilot, arrested in Berkshire, trained four of the hijackers involved in the 11 September terrorist attack on the United States, an extradition hearing at Bow Street magistrates court in London was told today. Lotfi Raissi, 27, who was living in Colnbrook, Berkshire – close to Heathrow airport – was arrested on an international warrant issued in the US, after initially being held under the Terrorism Act 2000.Prosecutor Arvinda Sambir said Raissi was wanted in the United States on charges of giving false information in connection with his application for a pilot's license.

The prosecution said he qualified in the United States as a pilot in 1997, attending the same Arizona flight school as four of the hijackers involved in the attacks on 11 September.The prosecution further claimed that Raissi, beside instructing the hijackers, helped make arrangements for them, but gave no details.Ms Sambir told the court "he was a lead instructor of four of the pilots that were responsible for the hijackings. "The one that we are concerned about is the one that went into the Pentagon," she added. She said Raissi visited the US on a number of occasions between June and July this year. On June 23 he visited Las Vegas with his wife and then flew to Arizona with the Pentagon pilot, she said. "We say he was there to ensure that pilots were capable and trained for this purpose." Ms Sambir said when Raissi was arrested by British police log books were found in his house with crucial dates missing. She said there was sufficient evidence to show his relationship with the hijackers went further than association.