Kirkby man Ronnie Johnstone today announced that he is to launch a Zillion Dollar lawsuit against Microsoft. Ronnie is aggrieved at having his "lifetimes work stolen by some Yank" and gave Kirkby Times exclusive news of his extraordinary claims.

Below, Ronnie Johnstone, emailing Bill Gates as he has done 5 times a day for the past 18 years.

Ronnie met Bill Gates in the USA in 1993 and showed him his idea for a computer system which was codenamed 'Kirkby 93' Ronnie wrote the code whilst working the night shift in the old Fords Halewood factory. Ronnie explained that "Back then i'd given up drink and drugs so had little to do on the nightshift. I done a few hours work now and again but thought i'd take up a open university course and do it on the night shift". After 4 years Ronnie created a computer system which was so crash prone he discounted it. "I invented Kirkby 95" Ronnie told us with the look of a man who hasn't slept for a week. "I wrote the code back in 92 and showed it to gates in 1993. He simply copied the floppy discs with my code on and has been selling bootleg versions of my operating system for 18 years."

Below, a screen-shot of the original version of Kirkby 95. note how the logo appears to be pretty similar to the Microsoft logo itself!

Ronnie is adamant that he is owed Billions if not Zillions by the American Software giants. "When i look at the millions of copies of Windows that bas**** has sold, it makes me mad" Ronnie admitted. "I was just one of the lads who messed around with computers, i never dreamed in my wildest dreams that a program i wrote would turn out to be a No 1 seller, but Gates refuses to even answer my emails!". Ronnie points to his computer screen and shows us over 20'000 e-mails sent to Microsoft. "The bas***** have affected my health, i've already had 12 nervous breakdowns, gates cost me my divorce"

Below, Bill Gates as pictured leering outside Kirkby Police Station. Could we soon see Gates being questioned on software theft here in Kirkby?

Kirkby Times was also unable to obtain an answer to our email to Microsoft. You can contact Ronnie with messages of support at the Kirkby Times email address.