Lawyer denies Telegraph owners are using political, economic or legal power to skew democracy on island, as residents tell Helen Pidd how employee’s newsletter has spread fear and division There are two police officers on Sark , who get no formal training or pay. In the 12 months from September 2010 the pair investigated, among other misdemeanours, 21 bike thefts, four cases of criminal damage, seven assaults, 10 reports of “people acting suspiciously” and 13 traffic complaints – despite only bicycles, tractors and horse-drawn carts being allowed on the island’s dusty tracks. Break-ins are so rare that the front door to La Seigneurie, home to Sark’s feudal lord until the advent of democracy in 2008, still cannot be locked from the outside. It is not a dangerous place– lucky, given that the island’s jail can hold just two prisoners and the two constables can’t even take fingerprints. It’s perhaps odd, then, that one man living in the 600-citizen sovereign state apparently feels so insecure that he is rarely seen without his own security detail

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